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