A Message To Conservatives: "Your Silence About Rush Limbaugh Is Deafening."

MichaelGraham.com ^ | 12/24/03 | Michael Graham

[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.

[wardaddy]

Corner Market in Belle Meade could probably run one down for you. They ran down some super rich duck pate mousse for me that was just shy of foie gras and exponentially cheaper last year.

Be nice though....I think they are liberals...lol


You should have seen me in the bookstore in Hillsboro Village yesterday when two Red Diaper Babies go cranked up...my youngest daughter ushered me out promptly before a homicide ensued..lol

Merry Christmas Neighbor!

Dude!

What's in yer lap I hear?

[EDINVA]

"Addiction is addiction.

"Is there low class addiction and high class addiction?"

Class entered into this HOW?

You posted a photo of a jail cell, indicating where you thought Rush Limbaugh would be joininng inmates. The question is not one of class except perhaps in your mind. Rush has admitted his addiction and taken steps to overcome it. (frankly, I pray he is successful) It is now a legal issue. The question is: how many prescription drug addicts end up in the slammer?

[pageonetoo]

The following is quoted from the story on another thread, about a woman in CA, who did not cut her hedges:

 Mrs. Leibrand's case highlights a troubling trend: the expansion of criminal law far beyond its historically accepted limits. Throughout English and American legal history, criminal laws were limited to intentional acts that caused or attempted to cause real injury. The bad intent (mens rea) and the harmful act (actus reus) were essential, fundamental elements of a crime. In areas beyond the reach of the criminal law, civil law remained free to protect people from negligence and nuisances.

    The tendency to criminalize all kinds of activity also overburdens our criminal justice system. Making trivial offenses, such as "felony failure to garden," into criminal acts further strains an already overworked system. Police officers who are dutifully arresting grandma for inadequate pruning aren't available to track down car thieves or investigate homicides.

    Overcriminalization also leads to selective enforcement and unfair prosecution. Police and prosecutors generally exercise their discretion to focus resources on enforcing more serious and reasonable criminal laws. But selective enforcement of bad laws leaves the problem festering beneath the surface until some disgruntled neighbor or overzealous prosecutor decides to ruin someone's life. And Mrs. Leibrand's case is hardly unique: More examples are on the Web site overcriminalized.com.

This writer hits it, spot on!

[Mike4Freedom]

The question is: how many prescription drug addicts end up in the slammer?

A more crucial question is how many doctors end up in the slammer for writing "too many" prescriptions for pain killers. That is the more dangerous since one doctor in jail scares hundreds of others into undertreating pain for all patients.

One more severe consequence for the War on Drugs-untold suffering by sick people.

[CWOJackson]

"You're improving...you've brought things more current than the 60's and 70's..."

Wish the same claim could be made for you but I doubt you can improve yourself...but it is refreshing to know that you identify with the 60's and 70's. That's about your speed.

[CWOJackson]

"...it would be like trying to teach a pig to sing..."

So your music teacher gave up on you. Damn, oh well, you might try yoddling.

[CWOJackson]

Sure, the red car question might not seem stupid to those trying to create weird twisted logic to support their vice. To normal folks it's just plain stupid.

[fishbabe]

my point is stop your bitching about how bad his back pain is....my friend would LOVE to have severe back pain,if rush takes on her problem and looks over his shoulder,every waking moment,of every waking day wondering if the man who tried to kill him is going to come back and finish the job.... severe back pain is terrible BUT, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, he has to deal with the problem without drugs now, why couldn't he deal with it like this before he got hooked???????are you going to tell me that rush didn't know that buying drugs from a dealer was wrong?????he didn't realize what he was doing??????he didn't understand what was happening?????THE END RESULT OF HIS ADDICTION TO DRUGS WAS THAT,HE KEPT DRUG DEALERS FINANCIALLY SOLVENT BY BUYING DRUGS FROM THEM......

[RightOnline]

You ignore the catalyst for such addiction. Completely ignore it.

Also didn't realize your friend was a "he". So he's afraid some guy is gonna take him out?

You'll hate this...................but tell him to grow a spine.

[Mike4Freedom]

To normal folks it's just plain stupid.

Not stupid at all to thinkers. If I may paraphrase for those not imaginative enough to understand--Can congress pass any law it likes, no limits, no constitutinal standards to restrict what they can do?

And if they do, what options are available to reverse it?

[CWOJackson]

Of course it's not stupid to you and yours...I said it was stupid to normal people.

[Conservative til I die]

When I was dealing with cancer last year, my doctor was nice enough to prescribe me with a 100-ct bottle of some heavy duty Vicodin and while I did need them occasionally for the sore back that comes from the exhaustion and other bizarre side effects of treatment, I got into a nice routine of popping them every night before bed for a nice, numb, nighttime experience. Recreational use indeed. I was bummed when the prescription ran out.

[Conservative til I die]

You know, that whole duty and honor thing.

That's rich, coming from you. A person who could defend cops pulling guns on high schoolers (not found to have drugs btw) and shooting people (no drugs on them either) in the head for no discernible reason, and who has yet to answer a question in the year or so I've been on these threads with anything but a deflection or a personal attack.

[Conservative til I die]

Hah, Marines selling drugs. Next you'll tell me there are corrupt cops out there. CWO, say it ain't so!!!!! Government employees would never do such stuff, right!?!

[Conservative til I die]

You make good points but CWO sees the Constitution as something to piss on, so it's all for naught, as they say.

[Conservative til I die]

It's been made pretty clear that Rush is cool beans because he's rich, white, purchased a "respectable" drug and is a menmber of the GOP. IF he was Al Gore Jr or DuShawn Johnson from the Cabrini Green projects he'd be up the creek.

[CWOJackson]

"A person who could defend cops pulling guns on high schoolers (not found to have drugs btw) and shooting people (no drugs on them either) in the head for no discernible reason..."

I've discovered your problem. Everything is either all in your head or pulled out your butt.

[Conservative til I die]

To normal folks it's just plain stupid.

The normal folks here all understood the question. The red car was an intentionally arbitrary and yes, ludicrous example. It's called illustrating the point. But we can change it to hamburgers, cigarettes, alcohol, or a million other examples.

You're the one who isn't normal, and is incapabale of even comprehending the question, which of course, is the reason you just don't get it.

[CWOJackson]

"...CWO sees the Constitution as something to piss on..."

LOL! Actually, I support and defend the Constitution...it's the pro-doper ideas of the Constitution that I piss on.

[CWOJackson]

By normal I'm referring to the traditional definitions...not the Soros kind. Granted, I'm sure all libertarian dopers consider themselves normal and to about one half of one percent of the nation they would be correct. To the rest of the nation they're just entertaining.