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.
That argument would cover a lot of people in jail on similiar charges. I have no problem with actual harm being required to place criminal charges, but we know that's not the law.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Exactly what I was thinking.
He may have paid blackmail only to conceal his addiction, which is not itself illegal. In that he is not like the former Thief Executive and the Hildebeast. True, things would have been better if he had told his housekeeper to shove it and then outed himself, early on. But addiction distorts perception and willpower. Add to that the false invincibility of celebrity, and blackmail seems not so outrageous.
Silence is best until facts are known. Rush said that much about Michael Jackson's present difficulties...innocent until proven guilty. Until more is known, silence is not a sign of hypocrisy or moral cowardice; in reality, it evidences moral courage with the refusal to abandon a person who may be suffering only deliberate defamation.
I may not have cared much for Rush in the past, but I fully support him in this matter now, I hope that he is innocent and can prove it, and I also hope that if this investigation is nothing more than malicious political persecution, I hope Rush can obtain retribution for his suffering.
The question was who have they harmed?
Of course, no one was hurt by his use of many pain killer drugs. But that is true of millions of other drug users as well. People were hurt by the climate of punishment for harmless actions that Rush supported for most of his career.
Which person is weaker of spine?
Well I'm always sorry for pain no matter what the cause physical, emotional, intellectual,. but it is not up to me to judge (nor you). Don't get me wrong, I think the arrest of Al Gore's son is silly too (and maybe only because he is Al Gore's son). It was also nonsense to chase the Bush girls around to see if they had a beer while they were in college (drinking at 21, another stupid law). The war on drugs is pure Federal Gov't idiocy. However, that being said, it is really hard to believe that the case against Rush is not politically motivated and after hours of listenting to Rush I never knew what an anti-drug crusader he was until the left-wing media decided to tell me... over and over and over. Methinks they doth protest too much.
Which person is weaker of spine?
Well I'm always sorry for pain no matter what the cause physical, emotional, intellectual,. but it is not up to me to judge (nor you). Don't get me wrong, I think the arrest of Al Gore's son is silly too (and maybe only because he is Al Gore's son). It was also nonsense to chase the Bush girls around to see if they had a beer while they were in college (drinking at 21, another stupid law). The war on drugs is pure Federal Gov't idiocy. However, that being said, it is really hard to believe that the case against Rush is not politically motivated and after hours of listenting to Rush I never knew what an anti-drug crusader he was until the left-wing media decided to tell me... over and over and over. Methinks they doth protest too much.
- blame Rush's problems on a vast left wing conspiracy
- hire political thugs to imtimidate people who brought charges against him
- use every dirty media rag (including Hustler magazine) to dig dirt on other people's sins to cover up his own
- lie to a grand jury, the American people, and Congress
Oh wait, that didn't happen.
Themselves as a starter.
Indeed you are right. We were bated by a challenge posted by a liberal who claimed to be a conservative. The can of worms is now open.
By the way, did Clinton ever admit guilt for what he did unlike Rush who has admitted to being an addict of legal PRESCRIPTION!!! drugs for a legitimate, extremely painful medical problem?
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