MSNBC Piling On Rush Limbaugh

Biased MSNBC ^ | 10/13/03 | cp124

[cp124]

‘I Am Addicted to Prescription Pain Medication’

True Confessions: Limbaugh built an army of admirers with his hard-right rants. But off-air, he was a lonely man who may have broken the law to feed his addiction. The real Rush

By Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK

Oct. 20 issue — Rush Limbaugh has always had far more followers than friends. Bombastic and clowning on air, shy and bumptious off it, Limbaugh could count on 20 million “Dittoheads” and talk-radio fans to tune in five days a week. But it’s hard to find many people who really know him. He was a lonely object of mass adulation, socially ill at ease, at least occasionally depressed and, for the past several years, living in a private hell of pain and compulsion.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979355.asp?0cv=KA01

[cp124]

Piling on continues. The backlash will be breathtaking. MSNBC was doing better when they were trying to attrack conservative viewers.

[abclily]

And where is Mrs. Rush Limbaugh?

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[TheConservator]

What's that mean?

[theDentist]

Standing by his side. Good enough for you?

[cpprfld]

Does this mean, someone actually watchs MSNBC.

[rhombus]

The piling on seems to revolve around Rush's supposed attitude toward illegal drugs. However, I don't recall a lot of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" speeches that the left wing media is not remembering. However, I could be mistaken. Anyone else?

[Sunshine Sister]

I read this stuff and it makes me want to say blah blah blah because that is what it is. It's worse than nonsense!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[bvw]

You misunderstand. To the feminized cult of victimology this is the highest veneration. They're making him Saint Rush.

[finnman69]

This is on par with the typical MSNBC journalistic excellence which gets breathtaking viership levels typically under 200,000.

LOL

[GreatOne]

I particularly find it amusing at how these a--holes whom Rush has been (rightly) trashing over the years are the ones jumping the hardest. It's nothing more than their taking advantage of Rush's dilema to get revenge for their pedantic writing being attacked. I would hope that one of Rush's replacements would point this out and fire back on the show.

[leadpenny]

I don't get the "piling on" and "biased" comments in your post. Is it because MSNBC has the Newsweek article linked? Is it because MSNBC is talking about Rush?

I tend to watch MSNBC in the morning and I find them as fair as anything else on the tube. Has FOX not covered the Rush story?

[myself6]

Please remember that Rush's fate is held in OUR hands not the hands of liberals. We, the listeners, will determine if Rush lives or dies on AM. The liberal media knows this, the liberal trolls on FR know this and they are attempting to "sway" your opinion of Rush since they themselves are powerless to remove him.

Remember this when you are reading a thread like this or listening to some "report" about Rush. YOU the "listener" are the target of the leftists PR. Whether or not you choose to be their willing dupe is up to you.

[AppyPappy]

The only one they have found is from 1995

[Huck]

I actually thought this piece was OK. Nothing new, really. It is well known that Rush does better with non face to face communication. Look at how he met his wife. He is solitary. The overeating. All of that paints a picture. It's not that surprising, really.

[Capt. Tom]

The piling on seems to revolve around Rush's supposed attitude toward illegal drugs.

Rush circa 1995-"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."

[BCrago66]

Duplicate post.

[dennisw]

I don't remember either Rush Limbaugh talking about drugs very much. He rarely talks about gays and the gay agenda. Many of these liberal critics are projecting the harshness of other conservatives onto Rush

[bvw]

He was wrong, I hope he comes to realize that. Drugs MUST be legal. Regulated, heavily taxed. But somehow available to sane adults at some price.