America owes talk host Rush Limbaugh a debt of gratitude, Libertarians say

LP Press Release ^ | October 16, 2003 | Libertarian Party Press

[noprob]

Absolutely right!!

He did admit on air to an addiction... After a charge that his housekeeper was getting the junk for him..

No charges... figures??!?!?!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Classy

[Lady Heron]

Ye you are correct, it needs a barf alert.

[Petronski]

Yeah
Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag
Got to find just a kind or losin' my mind
Outside in the night, outside in the day
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way
Outside in the night, outside in the day
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way
Lookin' back
Lookin' for some happiness
But there is so a loneliness to find
Turn to the left turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs lookin' behind
Lookin' for some happiness
But there is so a loneliness to find
Turn to the left turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs lookin' behind
Lookin' back on the track for a little green bag
Got to find just a kind or losin' my mind
Outside in the night, outside in the day
Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way
Lookin' back on the track for a little little green bag
Got to find just a kind or losin' my mind
Lookin' for some happiness
But there is so a loneliness to find
Turn to the left turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs lookin' behind
Lookin' for some happiness
But there is so a loneliness to find
Turn to the left turn to the right
Lookin' upstairs lookin' behind.....

[CWOJackson]

Criminal charges are usually dependent on real evidence, not the claims of someone who sold a senational story to a tabloid.

[BearArms]

So, how many folks here believe Rush should be sent to prison, if the allegations against him turn out to be true?

[Wolfie]

That's not even the right stuff:

[Tall_Texan]

"Republican and Democratic politicians have written laws that have condemned more than 400,000 Americans to prison for committing the same 'crime' as Rush Limbaugh," Seehusen pointed out.

Apple and Oranges alert! 400,000 Americans are not in prison for abusing presrcibed pain medicines or getting such pain medicines through the black market. This drips with disingenuity.

[noprob]

Yeah.. no spell checkers here...

Although I didn't mean it that way... It kinda works huh?

[ilgipper]

wow. for a moment I thought the LP was going to offer something worthwhile about how Rush has advanced so many of their beliefs. Once again, they have disappointed me.

[over3Owithabrain]

I've just lost any remaining respect I held for the Libertarian Party.

You mean their lame-ass response to 9/11 didn't do that for you?

[Liberty Valance]

What a crock of over-reaching crappola

[cryptical]

*ping*

[Lady Heron]

So, how many folks here believe Rush should be sent to prison, if the allegations against him turn out to be true?

He should be treated like any other first time offender. If that means jail so be it, but I doubt it would means that for other first time offenders. I have heard no person(including himself) asking for special treatment for him.

[mrsmith]

Dave's not here man...

[noprob]

Yes, i suppose you think marijuana, and cocaine are worse than Rush's drug of choice..

Do you know what your kids call that drug? "Hillbilly heroin"

Did you know it can cause hearing loss?

Drugs are drugs are drugs... Cigarettes and alcohol included..

[k2blader]

Can you provide evidence of anyone being jailed for becoming addicted to prescription pain medications?

Please read the question carefully.

[kidd]

...condemned more than 400,000 Americans to prison for committing the same 'crime' as Rush Limbaugh...

Any stats on how many of these are first time offenders, with no intent to sell, for addiction to a prescription drug and in the absence of a history of crime?

Just the stats please, if you have them.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Good point.

[ClearCase_guy]

The entire nation owes radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh a debt of gratitude, Libertarians say, because his ordeal has exposed every drug warrior in America as a rank hypocrite.

I'm afraid this is as far as I got. Let's alter this, just a little:

I once saw on the news that a member of the xyz minority group had stolen money, therefore, his crime "has exposed every member of the xyz minority as a thief".

This whole "every drug warrior is a hypocrite" BS is deplorable.