My Name Is Rush L.

American Spectator ^ | 10/14/03 | Lawrence Henry

[Rebelbase]

"I find it odd, truly odd, that Rush, whose voice I've listened to for many, many years never once said anything about back surgery "

I too find that odd. I could have missed dialog on the subject but I've not heard any FReepers say "I remember him talking about his back surgery".

Has anyone heard anything prior to the drug allegations?

[RightOnline]

Excellent. Bump.

[Non-Sequitur]

STILL waiting for the liberals 'compassion' to come forth for Rush... how can they have compassion for the whole world when they don't have it for one man?

Don't hold your breath. But why is it surprising? Rush is getting as much sympathy from the libs as he would show to them if the situation was reversed.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I had a skin cancer removed from my ear last winter and I didn't mention it on this site. I didn't even get my prescription for pain pills filled. I don't get to listen to Rush much now days so I can't say I heard it before.

But I maintain that, 1. He has admitted to the PUBLIC he has a problem. 2. He is in rehab. 3. He is STILL RIGHT.

[The Mayor]

Rush asked us to Pray for him, and that is what I am doing.

I've been sober for 11 years now, God answers our Prayers.

[Conspiracy Guy]

What I don't understand is why does anyone care for Liberal " I feel your pain " Compassion anyway. The Conservatives vs Liberals is a cultural war with our future as a nation at stake. Rush is one of us. Right now he is wounded due to his own mistake. Do we expect the enemy to say "Oh poor Rushy, we feel his pain, give us a big hug"? Or do we plan to help our wounded comrade so that he may rejoin the fight? I see too many so called Conservatives ready to shoot the wounded comrade as if he were a lame horse. Medic !! Somebody pass me some ammo.

[Crawdad]

Dude, we're everywhere.

[Rebelbase]

I agree with your three positions.

I still find it odd that no one has heard Rush mention anything along the lines of the surgery/recovery he has had to endure.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I could only offer hearsay.

[Arpege92]

It is certainly amazing to see and hear of stories like this. People who have abused their bodies with drugs and alcohol for years, and to come out of that destructive pattern as a more whole and better person than they were before the chemical abuse even started.

I'm with Rush 100%!!!!!!

[Sally'sConcerns]

and friends of Lois too.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I second that.

[Hatteras]

AA is for quitters...

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Flurry I emailed your poem to Rush, great job!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Morning Rush - that was nice of you....

[Nov3]

There evidentily are tons of us judging from the Rush threads. It must piss off the moralists big time. I mean I have heard here that AA is a cult full of immoral weaklings. Since a lot of freepers are evidentily in recovery from the "code" words in their posts, FR must be full of immoral, weaklings. (If the moralists are right.)

[Nov3]

AA is for quitters...

LOL

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks. I've had a lot of people ask how to get a note or card to him. If you know how post a vanity. I'm sure there is something on his website but save us lazy folks some surfing.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Morning Rush - that was nice of you....

Well thank you Tex, I am nice like that.

[aruanan]

My Name Is Rush L.

This entirely misses the point. The difference between someone who becomes addicted to painkillers through medical treatment for physical pain and someone who relies on drugs or alcohol as a means to blunt psychic pain is significant. In the first case, given enough enough of the drug and great enough pain, it's virtually certain that a physiological dependence will begin. This is simply a matter of pharmacology. If you can eliminate the physical pain, you can wean someone from the drug with no long-lasting consequences, with no need for any variety of _______ Anonymous. In the second case, a psychological condition preceeds the drug use. This condition may itself be caused by constitutive deficiencies or excesses of neural transmitters and the drug use serves to counter them or at least to blunt some of their more serious effects. In this latter case, rather than the former one, absent a successful treatment of the underlying cause, which, being psychic or an idiosyncratic biochemistry, is less likely than the physical to be remedied, the individual is more likely to be subject to relapse.

It's the superficiality of the liberal that thinks, "pain is pain and drugs are drugs, so any instance of one accompanying the other is the same as other instances."