Posted on 12/05/2003 1:42:39 AM PST by j.cam
Funny how the partisan Democratic, liberal journalists in the AP and the rest of the liberal media are not pointing out that the man who is going after Rush Limbaugh, Barry Krischer, the Florida State Attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (which includes Palm Beach County), is a Democrat. The liberal media are letting people assume that because the Florida Attorney General, Charlie Crist, is a Republican, and because Governor Jeb Bush is a Republican, the Florida State Attorney for Palm Beach, who is going after Limbaugh, is also a Republican.
We saw the liberal media do the same thing during the Democrat Gary Condits scandal. Before the liberal media were exposed by conservative media like Rush and the Media Research Center, the liberal journalists were leaving out Condits political affiliation and implying he was a conservative Republican. According to the MRC:
"Normally, a 'Republican' or 'Democrat' label is presented nearly every time a member of Congress is cited, as in 'Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA).' But since May, the three broadcast networks have practically erased the 'D' from Condits political identity, detaching the scandal-plagued politician from the rest of his party.
"From May 14, when Chandras mother, Susan, appeared on Good Morning America to plead for her daughters safe return, through July 11, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs aired a total of 179 stories about Gary Condit 121 full-length reports or interviews, plus 58 brief anchor-read items. MRC researchers reviewed each story, and found that Condit was labeled a 'Democrat' only 14 times, or in fewer than eight percent of stories. Six of those labels, or almost half, came paired with adjectives such as 'conservative' or 'right-wing' which distinguished Condit from other members of his party." http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/reality/2001/fax20010712.html
There is no sign of Krischer's political affiliation when the liberal media discuss his persecution of Rush.
Even ultra-liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz states that people are not prosecuted for what Limbaugh did. On October 10, 2003 on CNNs Wolf Blitzer Report, Dershowitz told the liberal Wolf: generally people who illegally buy prescription drugs are not prosecuted where as people who illegally buy cocaine and heroin are prosecuted. http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/10/wbr.00.html
Dershowtiz added that Rush should not be singled out: don't single him [Rush] out. http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/10/wbr.00.html
The persecution of Rush Limbaugh is another Democratic witch hunt, just like when the Democrats put Linda Tripp on trial after the Clinton scandal even though they had no case against her: http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/12/14/51514
They indicted Tripp on July 30, 1999 persecuted her for about 10 months, and then dropped the case on May 24, 2000 because they had no case.
12/5/2003
Where have you heard this. I haven't heard this. Can you cite a credible source?
You're kidding, of course?
This has nothing to do with wrapping up a "drug investigation". It has everything to do with wrapping up Rush.
DAs in South Florida can get take down a score of drug dealers every day. But it's not every day a partisan Democrat DA can become a hero and icon to millions by taking down the biggest Truth Dealer in the country and doing a huge service to his Party.
"Drugs" is the excuse. "Destruction" is the purpose!
Still not an exorbitant amount
Nice research. Maybe you should have posted it later in the day when everyone else can see it.
According to Dershowitz, not only Rush, but law enforcement makes a distinction.
It seems only now with Rush's situation have liberals become unable to understand the distinction. Now that is hypocrisy.
Hey, perhaps you can give it a bump during prime time. ;-)
No. That is not bribery. That makes her an accomplice. Look up the word "bribery." According to you, hit men are victims of bribery because people pay them to kill people. Drug dealers too. In fact, any hired criminal is a victim of bribery. Bribery??? Are doctors who write fake prescriptions because people pay them victims of bribery? Are you a liberal shill?
You say, He also became paranoid and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the e-mails. A vindictive prosecutor could try to make that into a case of extortion."
How? There is no extortion there. Look up the word extortion. And I'd hardly call it paranoid to destroy computers with that kind of information on it (if your story is true). Look up the word "paranoid."
You say, It probably wouldn't fly, but it would cause trouble.
So now you are saying that no one made those allegations yet, but someone might wrongly make them. LOL. Why, then, did you say: "Some of the allegations, however, involved bribery, blackmail, threats and/or extortion." ?
And what about your claim that there are allegations of threats and blackmail? Did you make that up too, or did some poster on a liberal site you frequent make that charge?
Also expect stories such as Rush once had ____(insert your favorite STD). Or maybe Rush had himself tested for HIV! Probably not true but the tabloids will claim that they are found in the medical files.
As far as the bribery, the housekeeper said that Rush gave her $120,000 in hush money:
She claimed that a lawyer for Limbaugh gave her a payoff - $80,000 he owed her, plus another $120,000 - and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the E-mail records.
Here is the link (it's from a NY Daily News story):
http://www.nydailynews.com/10-02-2003/front/story/122839p-110349c.html
Is the housekeeper credible? Don't know, but it is clearly an allegation of bribery. And yes, if true, it makes her an accomplice. And if true, it doesn't make Rush any less of one.
I may be misreading "payoff" for "payola"; to me, overpaying on a transaction such as that amount to the same thing. I was mistaken on the threats and extortion.
Let me reiterate: I think Rush has been through the wringer enough; I don't think he committed any crimes, but I don't know all of the accusations and all of the details and neither do you.
But IF he is guilty, we Conservatives have to insist he pay the price. Just as we would insist on a Kennedy or on you or me paying the price.
Jeb Bush's daughter charged with prescription fraud
By Deborah Sharp, USA TODAY
Tallahassee police via Reuters | |
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter, Noelle Bush, after her arrest early Tuesday. | |
The daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested Tuesday in Tallahassee on charges of trying to fill a fake prescription for the popular tranquilizer Xanax.
Bush and his wife, Columba, issued a statement that they were "deeply saddened" by the incident involving their middle child and only daughter, Noelle, 24.
They asked the media and the public to respect their privacy "during this difficult time so that we can help our daughter."
A Walgreens pharmacist suspicious about a call-in prescription notified police at 1:15 a.m. when Noelle Bush showed up at the drugstore's drive-through in her white Volkswagen to pick it up.
She was charged with prescription fraud, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $5,000 fine. Noelle Bush has no known criminal record and was released without having to post bond.
Experts say punishment for a first offense is usually drug treatment or probation.
Noelle Bush has been cited for about a dozen traffic violations and was involved in three automobile crashes since 1995, according to The Associated Press.
Xanax is legally prescribed for stress and anxiety. Noelle Bush reportedly told police that she was panicked about starting a new job on Tuesday.
Jeb Bush had said previously that one of his three children used illegal drugs during his first failed campaign for Florida governor in 1994. That episode prompted Jeb and Columba Bush to get involved in several drug-prevention groups, and Jeb Bush appointed a state drug czar after he was elected governor in 1998.
Police believe Noelle Bush called the pharmacy's voice mail system to issue herself the prescription, posing as a "Dr. Noelle Scidmore."
Police impounded the phone messages. The pharmacist told police that Bush called twice as Scidmore and twice as herself asking if the prescription was ready. The calls initially made him suspicious because the first call from "Scidmore" failed to specify the quantity of pills. The pharmacist called a colleague of the real Dr. Scidmore, who told him the doctor no longer practiced in Tallahassee. He "said it was a fake and to bust her," pharmacist Carlos Zimmerman told police.
In addition, the telephone number originally left as a call-back number turned out to be a second line at Noelle Bush's home, according to the police report.
She lives in Tallahassee, where she attended Florida State University last year but is not currently enrolled. She studied art and graduated from Tallahassee Community College in 2000.
The arrest echoed similar high-profile family struggles, from the recent marijuana abuse by England's Prince Harry to underage drinking by President Bush's twin daughters. In May, Jenna Bush was charged with using a fake ID to try to buy a margarita, and her sister Barbara was charged with underage drinking.
The twins performed community service, attended alcohol-awareness classes and paid $100 fines. The charges were dropped. A second drinking episode for Jenna Bush brought a $500 fine and a license suspension.
Illegal use of the sedative Xanax is popular among some young people, particularly in combination with the party drug Ecstasy. It can help prolong an Ecstasy high or soften the crash that often follows. The practice is known as "parachuting" among users, says Joe Kilmer, spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami.
"I wouldn't say it's a 'hot drug,' but it is a drug we see with some regularity on the club scene," Kilmer says.
A survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found illicit use of Xanax-like drugs is more popular among young people than other groups: Only 2% of the general population reported misusing such prescription drugs, but 4% of those ages 18-25 did.
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