[steve-b]

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.

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.

[FairWitness]

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.

So, how a person feels about a law should be the reason to apply, or not apply, the law to that person?

[maeng]

Double standard! Does not matter what one "thinks" about the subject.

[Tribune7]

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.

So, you're not an advocate of prosecuting people for illegal use of drugs, you're just an advocate of prosecuting people for expressing political views with which you disagree.

[mr.pink]

I find it amusing that the El Rushbo defenders (Ruddy in this case) have no problem using Ozzy as a comparative.

Pretty embarrassing IMO.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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.

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.

You also missed dogs that didn't bark--Rush evading the drug issue from the time he realized that he was in a glass house himself. That's what he says he did, and as a faithfuI listener I cannot doubt that that is the truth. What would you do if you found yourself in a similar position?

Pulling up an isolated, and old, quote cuts no ice with me. But my opinion doesn't count; I'm just a hypocritical Republican who thinks that Social Security shouldn't have been instituted in the first place--but who cashes a Social Security check every month, and is glad to have it.

[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.