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.

[CWOJackson]

You want comedy you've come to the right place. Granted, naming names would be ludicrous but he says he can backup his claim that active duty Marines (plural) are some of his pushers. I figured he could at least make up some names to go along with the claim he made up.

[pageonetoo]

If you actually think it would be a good idea to start naming names...

He knows I wouldn't. He is just perturbed because I refuse to play his games. He knows I will not respond to him, any more. I repeat, His previously avowed intent, on all of these threads, is to be a disrupter... He is trolling, just to get attention to himself, and to distract us, from the real issues. You will not get an answer from cwo. You will get a personal attack.

I don't see any thing he posts, as very educational, or credible.

[CWOJackson]

Hey, it was your claim that you could back up your wild arsed claim that active duty Marines are selling you dope. Of course I don't expect you to...but hey, that's they way you work.

[CWOJackson]

What the heck...credibility is just a word you throw around easily...like Marine.

[CWOJackson]

LOL!

Nice freep-mail...and still no backing up your ludicrous claims. Ah yes, credibility...a word to carelessly throw around...like making accusations about the honor of active duty Marines.

[beezdotcom]

Ah yes, credibility...a word to carelessly throw around...like making accusations about the honor of active duty Marines.

LOL! Credibility...a word used by someone who posts so rapidly and rabidly as to suggest frothing at the mouth! This is getting fun!

BTW, I've never known Marines who needed defending in such a way, being very self-reliant and all that, sticks and stones and so forth - but I'm sure the ones who desperately need your efforts are indeed a credit to the Corps! Why not call them in to join the party?

[CWOJackson]

LOL! You should ask your buddy there. He could get some of his Marine pushers to come on line and defend him.

And no sweat about defending the Marines. You know, that whole duty and honor thing.

Well...you probably don't know, so don't worry about it.

[beezdotcom]

He could get some of his Marine pushers to come on line and defend him.

What a laugh riot you are. Based on what I've seen you post in this thread, you would probably blame a story like this on space aliens, since you're clearly unable to deal with the mere possibility that a Marine could do something like this.

To deny the human nature of Marines is to deny the greatness of the things they DO achieve...but you probably wouldn't understand that.

[CWOJackson]

Naw, no one accused space aliens...just Marines. Like I said, it's an honor thing...don't try figuring it out.

[beezdotcom]

Yep...don't try figuring out that Marines in recent history have indeed been tried and convicted for drug trafficking, despite all the news stories to the contrary, because that would require a certain amount of honor on your part. Sorry, I can't explain honor to you, you'll have to ask a Marine to show it to you...yup!

[CWOJackson]

Of course the are always a few bad apples...and these days they're sorted out and dealt with very quickly. Drug pushers aren't much tolerated in the Corps and they receive little sympathy from their peers when they're caught. But hey, fortunately the Corps doesn't have many like his imaged suppliers.

And as I said before, don't try to struggle too much with the whole honor thing...it's obvious the concept is just too difficult for you to grasp.

[patriot_wes]

"What are the chances that this little lesson in libertarian karma will jolt Rush into telling all of his ditto-heads to sneak on juries all across America and vote not guilty in every drug and income tax case they can find?

Now here is dillusion folks!

[Mike4Freedom]

Of course you wouldn't...fortunately you aren't the arbitrator of our laws or our society.

The constitution is the final word on the validity of laws. Under the restrictions of the tenth amendment, the Congress is forbidden to enact laws on any subject not listed in Article 1, Section 8 or one of the amendments. Try as you might, you will see no authority to regulate drugs in there. This used to be clearly understood, as it was admitted that an amendment was needed to prohibit alcohol. Apparently, a few more generations of public schooling caused that knowledge to disappear from the public mind.

The privileges and immunities clause of the 14th amendment forbids state legislatures to outlaw any consensual, victimless activity.

That is the constitutional argument against the drug war and should be dispositive. The moral and practical cases are equally compelling and supportive.

[Mike4Freedom]

I particularly liked the stupid question about what would I do if red cars were made illegal.

The red car question is not a stupid question at all. If I may give another example, what if congress passed a law saying that it was illegal to eat hamburgers (maybe with some long term health story as an excuse)? Is that then the law of the land that everyone must obey? Of course not!! It is not within their power to control what you eat. Even if they had valid scientific evidence that it was harmful, they could legally only publish that information and give suggestions. They could not make it a criminal act.

Of course, I bet that our current congress thinks that they do have that authority but are afraid of the consequences of that particular action. Nevertheless they do not have the authority (see tenth amendment) and the law could be challenged in court. If the supremos nevertheless said that it was valid, we still would have another line of defense, the jury system.

Every juror, on every jury that must decide a hamburger possession case could simply refuse to convict and end the nonsense. Of course our public schooled jurors are unaware of this and believe the lies told to them by the whole legal system. If they knew this, the drug war would have been over decades ago.

[beezdotcom]

But hey, fortunately the Corps doesn't have many like his imaged suppliers.

You're improving...you've brought things more current than the 60's and 70's now...we may just make an honorable man out of you yet!

[fishbabe]

i don't have to pat her on the head...the doctor keeps her in prozac to deal with that and oh,yes,she lives with the reality that the man she helped put away for doing that to her is out of prison....for her, reality is a lot more ugly than prozac land.....

[fishbabe]

and by the way,the good doctor has kept her on prozac for twenty years...shes been off it twice,and tried to kill herself both times...like i said,for her reality is much uglier than prozac land....

[dcwusmc]

But even if I SHOWED him honor, duty, loyalty to country and to the Constitution, it would be like trying to teach a pig to sing. It wastes my time and annoys the pig who'd rather do piggish things.

[beezdotcom]

Well, now, 'bout dang TIME one of you guys showed up! I'd now like to see how the discussion unfolds....

[RightOnline]

"and by the way,the good doctor has kept her on prozac for twenty years...shes been off it twice,and tried to kill herself both times...like i said,for her reality is much uglier than prozac land...."

So what is your point? One individual who underwent a horrific experience stays on Prozac.........so therefore, any street junkie just needs to be "understood"? Those like Limbaugh who were prescribed pain meds legitimately and got hooked are to be lumped into............

S**t, I said I wasn't going to try to explain something this incredibly basic to a so-called adult. If you don't get it, grow up. Sheesh.......................sometimes I worry about this country.