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You say: “The stories said he payed off the housekeeper. That's bribery at the least.”

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?

I was mistaken to try and reason with you. Your blinders make you unable to see your own hypocrisy. And if you are willing to live with it, that's your call.

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.