Posted on 10/16/2003 8:59:33 AM PDT by TBP
Liberals are revealing their true colors yet again in the happy dance they are doing over Rush Limbaugh’s admission that he is addicted to prescription painkillers and his trip to rehab. With a few notable exceptions, such as liberal commentator and radio talk show host Alan Colmes of Fox News’s “Hannity and Colmes,” the self-proclaimed Party of Compassion is gleeful over the problem that Limbaugh is experiencing.
Liberal mean-spiritedness has shown up in many ways of late, including the scuttling of Miguel Estrada, demands to impeach President Bush for his military policy, their fervent scandal-mongering in the Joseph Wilson affair, and many other egregious examples. But because Rush Limbaugh is such a prominent and enduring spokesman for conservatism, they seem to be taking special glee in Rush’s troubles.
Senator John Kerry, one of the Party of Compassion’s Presidential wannabes, made an insensitive joke about Limbaugh’s problem in the recent Presidential debate. “There are two ways you can have lower prescription drug prices,” Kerry said. “One is to hire Rush Limbaugh’s maid. The other is to elect me President.” Fellow radio personality Don Imus, a former cocaine addict and alcoholic, warm-heartedly called Limbaugh “a fat, pill-popping loser and an undisciplined slob.” The ever-so-tolerant left-wing comedian Al Franken, who previously wrote a book attacking Limbaugh, called him “a dishonest demagogue.” CNN anchor Aaron Brown boasted of “the permanent smirk that seems to be attached to my face” due to Limbaugh’s problems. Such displays of liberal compassion bring tears to my eyes.
And it is not just liberal commentators and political leaders who are throwing parties over Limbaugh’s situation. Their followers are being even more cruel. At the liberal website Democratic Underground, one poster wrote, "I pray your rehab is excrutiatingly painful... and unsuccessful.".” Another wrote, “He doesn't deserve sympathy from any of us.” Yet another wrote that Limbaugh’s problems “make me very happy.” Others have written similarly tolerant messages.
If conservatives were to say these things about a prominent liberal, liberals would be rightly outraged and they would be screaming as loudly as they can that conservatives have once again been proven to be hard-hearted people with no compassion for others. Well, I would advise them to look in the mirror.
Let’s suppose that something like this happened to Bill or Hillary Clinton, for example. No one has been more disgusted with the policies and the conduct of the Clintons over the years than I have. But they are still fellow children of God who deserve our prayers and our compassion, even as we work overtime to defeat them in the political arena. There are certain things that decent people don’t want to see happen even to their worst enemies. So why the celebrations in liberal America?
Rush Limbaugh has said he is not a hero and he is not a victim. He has taken personal responsibility for his problem, as he rightly should, even though it stems from a prescription for medication prescribed for post-surgical pain. Why can’t the self-proclaimed Party of Compassion find any compassion in their hearts for a fellow human being in his time of suffering? Are they so blinded by ideology and power that they cannot see what they are doing?
Perhaps these liberals need to find a rehab facility where they can regain their compassion, as Rush Limbaugh is regaining his freedom from dependency.
It is the face of hatred, and there is plenty on both sides to go around. There are plenty of nasty Liberals that I wish nothing but bad news upon and I dont think it helps us to think that somehow we are above it all; that we dont have as much animosity for them as they have for us.
Should a wayward bus manage to flatten Al Franken or Michael Moore, who here would shed a tear? Yeah, some of you would, but not me. Sorry. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Rush may be a drug addict, but he is MY drug addict and therefore he has my support.
I dont have a need to feel that I am somehow a better person than the other guy by suggesting he has hatred and I dont.
It is sad to watch their childlike (animal like?) antics in this situation. I remember that when Kerry announced his prostate cancer, I said a prayer for his recovery, despite the fact I think he is an arrogant ass.
I guess compassionate conservatism is the only kind.
Yep.....see my screen name.
I will say that. I don't wish ill on Micheal Moore, Al Frankenstein, or even the Klintoons. I just wish that they would go away and leave us alone. I will fight with all I have to do damage to tehir ideas and drive them into a quiet retirement, but I don't wish them harm. To wish a fellow child of God harm is unseemly. Should a wayward bus manage to flatten Al Franken or Michael Moore, who here would shed a tear?
Shed a tear? Maybe not, but they would have my prayers, even while I go on trying to defeat their stupid, anti-people ideas.
Do the words "my brother Bill has a nose like a vacuum cleaner" sound familiar?
And Rush was the first commentator I ever heard that actually got that message through to America. It had been said before, but his was the first voice to rise above the noise and say it where it was heard "from sea to shining sea".
They'll never get this genie back into the bottle. Even if Rush retires permanently, which he won't.
Unless it's another liberal!
I agree. Rush made his career largely on attacking liberals, and he certainly knows the old axiom "what goes around comes around."
I'm sure he's tough enough to take it, why can't his fans?
Instead, they're donning halos and whining about how mean the liberals are.
Hey people, you would do the same to one of them, now suck it up and move out!
See, to liberals, apparently, it's hate speech to take them to task for their insensitivity but it's compassionate to celebrate Rush's problem.
Hey people, you would do the same to one of them
I can only speak for myself, but no, I wouldn't. I contacted Wellstone's office after his death, for example, to express sympathy, and (as one of the first people who spotted the signs using Wellstone's name less than 24 hours after his death and trying to blame conservatives for it) I denounced the lack of compassion shown by the left in politicizing Wellstone's death -- and I am one of the people who sent it to Rush, Sean, and others. That deeply offended me, even though I disagreed with virtually everything that Wellstone ever said. I wanted him out of office, but I didn't want him to die like that.
Why can't liberals manage even the slightest degree of that kind of compassion for Rush Limbaugh? Tey're teh ones who are always lecturing the rest of us about compassion, after all. Where is theirs?
Oh, that's right. Liberals don't hav any.
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