[paulklenk]

It is not lightly that I post a Lucianne column here at FR, but this is so well written and so true, it deserves to be read by all Freepers.

Please ping all your lists to this thread.

Thanks.

[Support Free Republic]

Aww man! Enough of the fundraiser posts!!!

Only YOU can make fundraiser posts go away. Please contribute!

[Sir Gawain]

Only hours after the news broke, Katie Couric thought Rush Limbaugh's drug problem was funny. So funny as a matter of fact, that she made up a story about sitting next to him on the plane and asking for an aspirin - you get the rest. She told it with a baby-girl hair flip. It wasn't funny.

Any links to this?

[duckman]

"Response from the left will probably follow the line of Newsweek's cover story today..."

I just saw this article on my MSN home page. It was really disgusting but expected. They, Newsweek, even found two of Rush's old girlfriends to interview. I guess we will have to put up with this till the left gets tired of 'High Fiving' itself.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Libs were very touchy about Mrs. Dukakis and her substance abuse issues. Geeting addicated to pain killers or tranquilizers is very common especially among celebs.
Making light of JFK's or Rush's health problems or medication regimen
or anyone else's real health problems lowers civility for everyone. As a hard-hitting pundit, Rush makes an easy target. That doesn't make it right. The mental health history of John Kerry's family is something perhaps he should think about when joking about someone' else's health.
Liberals cannot hold themselves up as models of tolerance and compassion when they make sport of a sick, aging man in pain (whoever he is).

[Tacis]

My theory on this is that the degree to which a "journalist" takes pleasure in Rush's problem, is a measure of how much of a neocommunist, ultra-left wing clymer slug that person is. Proof of my thesis can be found in the fact that Newsweek, the rag that is not offended by the fact that Eleanor Clift claims to work for it, has Rush on the cover.

[Humidston]

BRAVO LUCIANNE!!!!!!!!!!

[THEazeasy]

A very nice and thoughtful article.

[Ready4Freddy]

"Only hours after the news broke, Katie Couric thought Rush Limbaugh's drug problem was funny. So funny as a matter of fact, that she made up a story about sitting next to him on the plane and asking for an aspirin - you get the rest. She told it with a baby-girl hair flip. It wasn't funny.

During the Democrat debate last week, John Kerry thought Rush's pain was funny and took a shot. That wasn't funny either.

Were those incidents during the stonewall / deny period, or after Rush had 'fessed up?

[bluejean]

VERY well said.

[flutters]

What a great article. Thanks for posting it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Think what the Clinton years would have been like without Rush. None of that is diminished by his current problems.

AAUUUUUUuuuuUUUUUuuggggHHHHHhhhhhh!!!!!

I can't even bear the thought.

Rush's friends will still be his friends when this is all over, and who cares about the rest?

[Allan]

Bump

[SuzanneC]

Thanks, Paul. YaYa - I know you've seen this.

[Lucky2]

I've always found Lucianne to be a class act. This article just proved it for me. God bless you Rush, my good and faithful friend.

[DustyMoment]

Since this is a Lucianne article, we must curb our tongues lest we be censored and booted off. (/sarcasm)

I have to agree with the poster that stated that if the situation were reversed and this was all about a Dem instead of Rush (especially if the Dem was Teddy Chappaquiddick, either of the Clintons, Daschle, Kerry, you get the picture) I might . . . MIGHT be less sympathetic.

By the grace of God I have never experienced the kind of pain that requires pain killers the like of OxyContin and others to which Rush was addicted. I have no way to understand what he or anyone in that situation goes through. I have stated previously that I don't know how I will react when Rush returns to the air. He is someone to whom I have looked up for years. He has helped me keep my moral compass centered and has guided me through the lies, manipulations and fabrications of the left.

I honor him for owning up to the problem and taking steps to address it once and for all. I wish he hadn't waited until someone else announced it and dropped the hammer on him.

I want to see Rush well, healthy and drug-free as much as the next person on this thread. I will listen to him when he comes back. However, I am still sorting through my feelings about the whole episode and don't know if he will have the same effect he once did.

The sick jokes are inevitable. They are geared to make us mad. If we let them make us mad, we will lose our focus and make big mistakes. Rush is getting what he needs right now, none of us can do anything about that. We can help him, however, by making sure that the leftists don't get a free ride in his absence. We can make sure that he knows that when he returns to the golden EIB mic that all of his words and all of the hours he has spent on the air weren't for naught. We can show him that we have learned the lessons and are ready to learn more.

[massadvj]

They can't help themselves and frankly, we couldn't either if Al Franken got picked up in a motel with an underage boy or an overage goat.

Good line. May it be so.

[Cyber Ninja]

We are lucky, too, that there so many strong conservative
voices that will sit in while Rush is recovering.

The yappy crap herders will carp their carps for now.

Rush will be back and his words of truth will burn in their ears once again.

And no pills can ease that kind of pain.

Fight on Rush, we’re with you buddy!

[weegee]

Richard Roeper (from Ebert & Roeper movie reviews):

Rush takes responsibility -- but will he learn forgiveness? (BARRRRRFFFFFF!!!!!) -RICHARD 'DOPEY' ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

I'm going to tell you something most of Limbaugh's opponents will probably never admit. The dark truth is, a lot of us grinned from ear to ear when we learned Limbaugh might have some kind of substance-abuse problem.

A cheap laugh at other peoples' misery.

[Libertina]

Nicely done, Lucianne.