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Ann Coulter Defends Rush From Leftist Hypocrites
NewsMax ^ | Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003

Posted on 10/16/2003 12:57:06 PM PDT by yonif

Noting that "liberals have finally found a drug addict they don't like," "Treason" author Ann Coulter is lashing out at Rush Limbaugh's critics.

In her syndicated column Wednesday she wrote that leftists who can find excuses for some of the worst human beings such as the "Lackawanna Six – those high-spirited young lads innocently seeking adventure in an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan ... could find no excuses for Rush Limbaugh."

The acid-tongued Joan of Arc of the right pointed out that after many years of telling Americans that Limbaugh was "a has-been, a nobody, yesterday's news," all of a sudden he was a front-page story.

Coulter observed that Rush's addiction to painkillers was a far bigger story for the mainstream media than his remarkable near-$300 million radio contract, the biggest such radio contract in broadcasting history. When he signed it two years ago, she recalled, "that was it." She could find only 12 mentions in a LexisNexis search.

In contrast, in just the past week "LexisNexis has accumulated more than 50 documents with the words "Rush Limbaugh and hypocrisy."

She blames the media's obsession with the painkiller story on leftist hypocrites' opportunity to accuse conservatives of hypocrisy.

Noting that because "liberals have no morals," they are able to castigate those people they don't like for failing to live up to the very standards that they themselves scorn. It is, she wrote "an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites."

Of course, would-be "liberals" are proving their own hypocrisy by failing to be the bastions of tolerance, openness and fair-mindedness that they claim to be.

After observing that unlike a certain impeached ex-president, Rush wasn't toting a 10-pound Bible into church "before rushing back to the Oval Office for sodomy with Monica Lewinsky" or "enforcing absurd sexual harassment guidelines while dropping his pants in front of a half-dozen subordinates."

So-called liberals, she suggests, never called Clinton a hypocrite because nobody took seriously the idea that he respected women or believed in God.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coulter; rush
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To: Arrowhead1952
Beauty and brains--AND SHE'S SINGLE. Not only is she the Joan of Arc of the right, she's the Lorena Bobbit of conservative critique (no one can cut far left down to size like she can). I always look forward to anything she has to say.
21 posted on 10/16/2003 3:16:55 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Americalover
As one who understands addiction, we aren’t doing Rush any favors pretending that his addiction was for medicinal purposes

Are you privy to information the rest of us do not have? No one has demonstrated that his drug addiction was to "Recreational" drugs. His complaint was one of "pain" for which the drugs were "prescribed". He became addicted to them on that account. Unless you have proof that is incorrect you owe him an apology!

22 posted on 10/16/2003 3:40:36 PM PDT by Don Corleone
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To: Don Corleone
I also like these phantom tapes....

Its conviction by assumption.
23 posted on 10/16/2003 4:17:11 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: jimt
Are you an expert? How would you know what Limbaugh's pain situation was? Bret Favre admitted to taking fifty Vicodin a day and being an addict. There is no bigger hero in Wisconsin and everyone here understands what great pain will force people to do. I've never been in chronic severe pain, so how am I or you to judge the amount of medicine other people who are in severe pain take.
24 posted on 10/16/2003 4:30:36 PM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Don Corleone; Americalover
Such an odd phenomenon, isn't it, seeing people post in a manner that suggests that they would feel better about Rush' plight if he's 'just addicted to prescription pain pills'.
25 posted on 10/16/2003 4:37:02 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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To: RonF
The difference between him and the guy on the street is that he had the resources to avoid having to commit violent crime to feed his addiction.

No.

The difference between him and the guy on the street is that he is going into rehab before he lost everything, not after. As for finding 10 addicts and paying for their treatment, I bet that Rush not only does that, but founds some sort of drug rehab clinic.

I would be far more interested to know what drug was being intrevenously injected into Clinton during his first days in the White House. The White House staff physician who was first ordered to administer it refused to do without knowledge of what was in the hypodermic needle. He was summarily fired.

Did you make any cryptic comments about that at the time?

26 posted on 10/16/2003 4:40:00 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: driftless
"...so how am I or you to judge the amount of medicine other people who are in severe pain take."

I'm thinking that since Rush checked himself into a 30-day rehab (3rd time's the charm?), he might have thought that he was taking too many. YMMV, however.

27 posted on 10/16/2003 4:40:02 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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To: jimt
And when you're buying it from your housekeeper and doing 100 pills a day it's not "medication to combat debilitating pain."

From a call in M.D.: "100 pills a day is incompatible with human life." I don't think the maid is preaching Gospel.

28 posted on 10/16/2003 6:24:58 PM PDT by SpinyNorman
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To: yonif
BTTT
29 posted on 10/17/2003 12:31:22 AM PDT by Dajjal
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To: Clintonfatigued
Beauty and brains--
AND SHE'S SINGLE.

BAAHAAAAAA...... And I'm married.....

30 posted on 10/17/2003 4:40:12 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Ban dumbocRATs forever!)
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