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A Message To Conservatives: "Your Silence About Rush Limbaugh Is Deafening."
MichaelGraham.com ^ | 12/24/03 | Michael Graham

Posted on 12/24/2003 4:20:01 AM PST by suspects

A NOTE TO MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES:

Your silence regarding Rush Limbaugh is excruciating.

I like Rush, too, and given that he and I have the same employer, I'm not exactly improving my career prospects by being consistent. It's a bad habit I picked up after years of listening to, and admiring, Rush Limbaugh.

And if we learned the lessons of Limbaugh (individual responsibility and the rule of law), how can we now agree to "Clintonize" ourselves defending him? A drug addiction is one thing, but blackmail? He's allowed himself to be blackmailed for years--the same years he was rightly pounding the stuffing out of the Clintons? And now he claims he's the victim of a politically-motivated prosecution?

What's next: "The b**** set me up?"

Of all the disappointing decisions Rush has made, these last two are the most disheartening. Consider for a moment what blackmail is: An admission that you know what you're doing is wrong.

The decision to fork over the cash is just that--a decision. It can't be any less difficult to make that decision than to decide to, say, go to your lawyer, spill your guts and spend a month in detox at Charter. So why not choose to do the RIGHT thing?

But that's not what Rush chose to do. He chose instead to continue, for years, to do the wrong thing and then--after he was caught--blame the consequences on the vast, left-wing conspiracy. As Rush himself said very wisely and correctly when Jim Carville made the same argument defending President O.J., "It doesn't matter what Ken Starr's politics are if you're innocent."

Bill Clinton wasn't an innocent victim of political vendettas. He was a perjurer and obstructer of justice who blamed others for his own lack of character and its consequences.

Which means, my fellow conservatives, that Rush Limbaugh is....?

I'm sorry, I can't seem to hear you. It must be that deafening silence again.


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To: suspects
"I did not buy drugs from that woman, Wilma Cline".
281 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:11 AM PST by CMClay
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To: Oztrich Boy
"maybe. but i see it as on the level as having an unregistered gun in NYC.

possession of the item is neither illegal or immoral, it's a matter of not having the goveernment approved paperwork.

Jail time? No."

Why is it people keep trying to relegate this to the level of Jaywalking, or spitting on the sidewalk?

This is no Traffic violation.

Sorry,
282 posted on 12/24/2003 11:46:20 AM PST by Lord_Baltar
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To: Leatherneck_MT
In the eyes of the Law, unfortunately he was.

Wrong. Jesus said that loving your neighbor is the whole of the Law--and he was right. You've confused mere unconstitutional despotic statutes with the Law.

In a free republic, cops, prosecuters, judges, and jurors are sworn to uphold justice, not unconstitutional despotic statutes.

283 posted on 12/24/2003 12:00:44 PM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
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To: VRWC_minion
It isn't nonsensical at all. To lump someone such as Limbaugh in the same category as a street junkie shooting up in some alley or haunting some crack house is totally absurd; worse than ridiculous.
284 posted on 12/24/2003 12:05:58 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: RWG
When Rush commits perjury and/or obstructs justice, I'll get back to you...

Every physician he contacted for prescriptions after her was addicted he lied to. If he wasn't trying to obstruct justice and save his behind why would he pay blackmail

Um...don't look now, but your desperation is showing. Statements made to a physician are not sworn testimony, so it's not perjury. And in case you haven't read up on case law recently, the person getting blackmailed is a victim of extortion.

Dang...wasn't even a very good try you made. Better luck next time.

285 posted on 12/24/2003 12:33:05 PM PST by Prime Choice (Americans are a spiritual people. We're happy to help members of al Qaeda meet God.)
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
"In a free republic, cops, prosecuters, judges, and jurors are sworn to uphold justice..."

Actually, their responsibility is to uphold "the law", not your idea of what justice should be.

286 posted on 12/24/2003 12:35:35 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: suspects
I would like to see the State Attorney's records and see how many " Dr. Shopping" cases he has pursued or any cases involving prescription drugs. This is all payback politics and a waste of taxpayers money.
287 posted on 12/24/2003 12:54:08 PM PST by Big Horn (A waist is a terrible thing to mind.)
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To: CWOJackson
The ability to understand citizens' and government servants' duties in a free republic was bred out of Americans like you a long, long time ago.

If your ability to reason were not also obliterated, you could read the US Constitution and learn that the executive branch is not bound to legislative statutes:

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

...the law of the land, mentioned in Magna Carta, was the common, ancient, fundamental law of the land, which the kings were bound by oath to observe; and that it did not include any statutes or laws enacted by the king himself, the legislative power of the nation.--Lysander Spooner from Trial by Jury

But the only hope Americans like yourself have of ever learning to love your neighbors as yourselves, is if you are scared into it, the same way you were frightened into trading a free republic for the false security of an authoritarian socialist police state where you think you have to obey every dictate of every two bit legislator. Perhaps your thoughtless emotions will save you then, when a libertarian evangelist addresses your basic instincts of fear and greed, and causes you to repent for your crimes against your neighbors--even if only to save your own behind from eternal physical torment.

288 posted on 12/24/2003 1:45:48 PM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
Wrong

This has nothing to do with God's law. This discussion is about Man's law. He lied under oath and perjured himself. These things are facts. He was convicted by a Judge of contempt of court. This is also a Fact.

Loving your neighbor as Jesus commanded us to, has nothing at all to do with Man's physical Law.

What we do between one another is Spiritual. As a Christian, I can forgive Bill for any transgressions against me. As a member of Society, I will hold him accountable for his Violations of the Laws of my Country.

Did not Jesus ALSO say, Give unto Ceasar, that which is Ceasar's, and unto God that which is God's.

Unto God I ask for his forgiveness for my transgressions and violations of his laws and try my best as a fallable sinful man to forgive those who transgress against ME personally.

Unto Ceasar I hold accountable all who Violate Ceasar's laws. Unless and until they come into conflict with God's laws.

Clinton violated both Man and God's laws. By perjuring himself, he lied to a court of his peers. I can forgive lies he told to me (none), but I will not hold him blameless for his lies to a court of this country. Neither will I hold him blameless for his contempt of court.
289 posted on 12/24/2003 1:52:56 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (Those who do not accept peaceful change make a violent bloody revolution inevitable.)
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
"...when a libertarian evangelist addresses your basic instincts of fear and greed..."

You're as much an evangelist as Jesse Jackson.

290 posted on 12/24/2003 1:54:43 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Dane
In case you missed it, we have a "libertarian evangelist"; in our midst. Talk about oxymoron's.
291 posted on 12/24/2003 1:58:37 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
I knew Billy Graham, I sang ( albeit long ago ) in his choir, and YOU are NO Billy Graham...LOSERTARIAN, or otherwise.

Libertarian UTOPIA, is " LORD OF THE FLIES " ;nothing more and nothing less. GOD ( you remember HIM, don't you ? ) ordered mankind, through HIS laws to behave, else they would be punished. GOD doesn't see mankind as inherently good and neither do I. They MUST be " coerced " and even then, they don't behave correctly.

292 posted on 12/24/2003 2:03:28 PM PST by nopardons
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To: CWOJackson
Less so! LOL
293 posted on 12/24/2003 2:04:23 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
An evangelist from Our Church of Perpetual Pleasure; If'n It Feels Good, Do It.
294 posted on 12/24/2003 2:05:59 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Leatherneck_MT
Did not Jesus ALSO say, Give unto Ceasar, that which is Ceasar's, and unto God that which is God's

Caesar claimed to be a God. This is a violation of the Jews' 1st commandment. His image on the coin was a graven image--a violation of the Jews' 2nd commandment. So what part of "Give a false god what he has coming to him" are you confused about?

Unto Ceasar I hold accountable all who Violate Ceasar's laws. Unless and until they come into conflict with God's laws.

It was these conflicts of the imperial Roman occupiers' laws with Jesus' Golden Rule that is the main theme of the gospels' account of the life of Jesus!

Loving your neighbor as Jesus commanded us to, has nothing at all to do with Man's physical Law.

As you pointed out above, it has everything to do with it when there is a conflict. Just as the operators of the Underground Railroad were not bound to tell the U.S. Fugitive Slave marshalls where the escaped slaves were hiding, Clinton was not bound to incriminate himself in front of the sex police (even if he had pushed for the draconian laws himself a few years earlier--just as Rush is not bound to obey the unconstitutional drug laws that he pushed for years earlier).

295 posted on 12/24/2003 2:09:31 PM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
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To: CWOJackson
Yep; not to mention the subsect...Our Church of Contemptuous superiority Complex and Delusion. Their holy sacrements ? Why, passing the bong and hearty slapping one's self on the back, of course.
296 posted on 12/24/2003 2:09:47 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
It's daylight ETOM!

297 posted on 12/24/2003 2:10:53 PM PST by onyx (Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
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To: onyx
I suppose it is somewhere, ETOM. Here, it's been pouring rain ALL day long and gloomy as all getout. But, I do know what yolu mean. LOL

Got an early Christmas pressy ... a laptop, so I'm trying it out. :-)

298 posted on 12/24/2003 2:13:59 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Abogado; CWOJackson
From what I have read, a large percentage of homeless people are vets, with a large percentage of them addicts.

Where did you read this? I'd assume Time or Newsweak or any of the other unbiased sources. This is not true, you should be smarter than that.Then ,of course, tha tmight mean switching off Jerry Springer.

Chief,how many times is this old saw going to be spoken of until people pull their heads out of their rectums?
299 posted on 12/24/2003 2:17:34 PM PST by gatorbait (Yesterday, today and tomorrow......The United States Army)
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
His reference to giving unto Ceasar that which is Ceasars is a general reference to give unto the Govt that which belongs to the Govt. What part of that are YOU confused about?

Clinton WAS under oath. He was bound BY LAW to tell the truth.

Except of course to you liberals who believe that there is no such thing as a lie, just different versions of the truth.
300 posted on 12/24/2003 2:23:12 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (Those who do not accept peaceful change make a violent bloody revolution inevitable.)
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