Get Rush – That’s the Game

Newsmax ^ | Monday, Dec. 8, 2003 | Christopher Ruddy

[mr.pink]

...but how do you feel about this investigation?...

I feel smart people should never hand their enemies the sticks that their enemies will then beat them mercilessly with.

I figure Rush had to have known this story was going to break big at some point. He made what could be a fatal mistake by not controlling the situation himself.

His enemies are only doing what enemies will do, and his enemies play a particularly rough brand of payback.

[Atlas Sneezed]

They want Rush off the air leading up to the 2004 elections. The prosecutor will time things to see to that.

[Tribune7]

I feel smart people should never hand their enemies the sticks that their enemies will then beat them mercilessly with.

I can see that point, although human weakness is human weakness.

I believe Rush when he says he got addicated to relieve pain rather than to have a good time or escape life or to indulge in fashion.

So, I'm going to cut him slack and take every chance this gives me to point out the hypocrisy of the leftists. (note tagline.)

[Jim Cane]

More than were killed by 5 gallon buckets.

Should read: "More than were killed by 5 gallon buckets?"

[Hemingway's Ghost]

And I can respect that opinion, but how do you feel about this investigation -- which I do believe to be politically motivated and supported by our shared enemies -- into his personal drug use?

Why should anyone be concerned with anyone else's personal drug use, not just Rush Limbaugh's personal drug use? What business is it of anyone? Rush didn't commit any crimes other than the ones government concocted in order to prosecute the War on Drugs.

This is the whole flippin' point of every single W.o.D. thread on FR.

[Tribune7]

Why should anyone be concerned with anyone else's personal drug use . . .

Concerning the govenment's concern, I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't see a point in punishing addicts or responsible users.

On another level, however, I'm a Christian. This means I feel an obligation to dissaude people from doing things that pointlessly hurt themselves, and I have no problem extending this obligation to society in general. Would you want to be addicted to OxyContin? How about someone you care about?

If we are discussing coercion and physical force, we are going to be mostly in agreement.

If, however, you are saying there should be no warnings, criticisms, restrictions on sale/distribution, then we are going to be in disagreement.

[gcruse]

Still, no one is suggesting that Osbourne should be prosecuted for his prescription drug addiction, an addiction that started with normal medical treatment. Another sensational case that should have been treated similarly is that of Rush Limbaugh

And another hero bites the dust.  Chris Ruddy, that lion of Whitewater reporting, is being disingenuous to protect one of 'ours.' Osbourne was prescribed his stuff by one doctor.  That's why they may go after the doctor.

Rush doctor-shopped, which is illegal in Florida.  This is based, not on a search of Rush's records, but on the records of the doctors themselves, which Chris skips right by.  Chris used to be an investigative reporter.  Do you suppose he forgot how?

he had been advised by his bank to withdraw less than $10,000

I don't believe banks are into advising celebrities to skirt money laundering laws.
This is another CYA from Rush that won't wash.

Rush's truth detector failed him completely on Vince Foster's case and Chris's objectivity batteries are similarly dead.  The only honest man left in media died of revulsion in 1992.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

On another level, however, I'm a Christian. This means I feel an obligation to dissaude people from doing things that pointlessly hurt themselves, and I have no problem extending this obligation to society in general.

What you do of your own volition is of no consequence to me, and I wish you all the happiness and success in the world if you feel you have to preach to others in order to feel fulfilled. Personally I prefer to mind my own business, not the business of others.

My problem is with people with a mindset like yours who've made the obligation they feel into cold, hard law, with all the coercion and physical force that goes along with it. You realize it's that kind of notion that perpetuates the War on Drugs, don't you?

[Tall_Texan]

I must have missed the occasion where Osbourne expressed the view that illegal use of drugs should be vigorously prosecuted and the illegal users should be imprisoned.

I must have missed the occassion where Rush Limbaugh expressed the view that illegal use of drugs should be vigorously prosecuted and the illegal users should be imprisoned.

Care to cite it?

Don't bother trotting out the media-abused 1995 TV comment. It's point was about the disproportionate number of blacks in prison, not about drug abuse.

Cite something else. I'm waiting.

[Protagoras]

Rush smears liberals, they smear him. This ain't beanbag.

[SuziQ]

Those thoughts may have percolated down to the local prosecutor in Palm Beach

Where the political and electoral machinery is DEMOCRAT, and are still smarting from the election of 2000. I believe they are hoping to take Rush out as a factor in the 2004 election.
Dream on!

[Tribune7]

Personally I prefer to mind my own business, not the business of others.

Someone offers you OxyContin, truthfully saying it will make you feel good. Would you also like to be informed that it is powerfully addicting?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Someone offers you OxyContin, truthfully saying it will make you feel good. Would you also like to be informed that it is powerfully addicting?

Nothing personal, but you'd have to be pretty brain dead not to know that oxies are powerfully addictive. I think I could figure out that one on my own.

[Tall_Texan]

I also wonder if Roy Black will be to Rush Limbaugh what Kendall Coffey was to Elian Gonzalez.

[an amused spectator]

It's even more embarrassing that a smart guy like Rush, who knows he's in the liberals crosshairs, none the less allows himself to be so easily trapped.

It's called "Law Shopping".

It was used on Linda Tripp, Billy Dale, Jim Robinson and many other enemies of the Democrats.

To amuse myself, I like to ponder the differences between Rush's "Doctor Shopping" and Hillary's "Cattle Futures Bribe".

Apparently, more people are "outraged" by "doctor shopping" than by a pol's wife stealing money from them in the market.

Go figure. ;-)

[Tribune7]

Nothing personal, but you'd have to be pretty brain dead not to know that oxies are powerfully addictive. I think I could figure out that one on my own.

My question was "Would you also like to be informed that it is powerfully addicting?" Your answer was that you would know it automatically. By osmosis?

People get hooked on these drugs every day, to their very real and stated regret.

[Tribune7]

Apparently, more people are "outraged" by "doctor shopping" than by a pol's wife stealing money from them in the market.

Great point

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Your answer was that you would know it automatically. By osmosis?

No, by reading, by paying attention, by asking questions, etc.: all the things required of a vigilant citizen. Do you honestly think Rush had no idea Oxies were addictive?

[Tribune7]

No, by reading, by paying attention, by asking questions, etc.: all the things required of a vigilant citizen.

Really?? So, a vigilant citizen will never get fooled?