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This might surprise you, I don't actually listen to Rush, and I don't necessarily expect you to read Michael Moore or Al Franken - to each his own.

That being said, which one of these quotes from 1995 was I not supposed to post:

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." -- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.

I thought cyncooper's point was that this was the one time in 13+ years that Limbaugh discussed the drug issue.

The discussion was centered around a story that blacks were being disproportinately arrested for drug abuse and "black leaders" wanted the prosecution of blacks to be throttled back. Rush's point was that this is a backwards way of addressing a problem. If one portion of society is being given a free ride on a crime law the answer isn't to stop pursuing prosecution for the portion that is being hit, but to find out why some are given a free ride and rectify it. The focus was not on drugs, but on equal administration of laws. The excerpts are being taken completely out of context.

Rush rarely speaks about drugs. Well, he does now. But before this rehab, he avoided the subject. And it was evident to listeners that this wasn't a subject he wanted to discuss.