Limbaugh lurches to the left

St Peterburg's Times ^ | December 29, 2003

[Alissa]

Didn't Rush Limbaugh used to be pro-law and order?

Now that the once conservative commentator finds himself on the wrong side of a police investigation, he and his lawyers are accusing prosecutors and other members of the law enforcement community of concocting a vast, politically motivated conspiracy against him.

Not even the most linguini-spined liberal would have the gall to spew such irresponsible nonsense.

Limbaugh recently completed treatment for an acknowledged addiction to prescription drugs, and Florida prosecutors are investigating evidence that he may have broken the law by going "doctor shopping" to acquire his massive supplies of OxyContin and other painkillers.

A West Palm Beach judge ruled last week that prosecutors had established sufficient cause to examine Limbaugh's medical records, but Limbaugh's lawyers succeeded in getting the records resealed while they appeal the decision.

Either way, the judge and prosecutors have agreed that Limbaugh's medical records will not be made public. By all accounts, police, prosecutors and the courts have have taken great pains to protect Limbaugh's civil rights.

But Limbaugh claims that his problems stem from a massive conspiracy on the part of his political enemies in law enforcement.

"The Democrats still cannot defeat me in the arena of political ideas," Limbaugh said on his Tuesday radio show. "And so now they are trying to do so in the court of public opinion and the legal system."

Limbaugh used to defend the legal system - and he used to ridicule citizens who claimed that their constitutional rights had been violated by police and prosecutors. But now Limbaugh, who is fortunate enough to be able to afford the representation of celebrity attorney Roy Black and a team of defense lawyers, has joined the conspiracy nuts.

The people who have been hunting for someone to host a new left-wing radio talk show may have found their man.

[ClintonBeGone]

in the hundreds of botched drugs raids on wrong houses commited every year.

Certainly you can cite at least 100 from the past year, can't you?

[headsonpikes]

It seems that all the elitists...

And all the TV-blitzed trailer trash, too - after all, this is a democracy!

Hypocrites Unite! You have a world to win and nothing to lose but your scruples and common sense!

[Paul C. Jesup]

Certainly you can cite at least 100 from the past year, can't you?

Do a web search, or better yet, check out the FR archives.

Also how does it feel to brown-nose tyranny?

[Paul C. Jesup]

And all the TV-blitzed trailer trash, too - after all, this is a democracy!

You know Jerry Springer is fiction.

Hypocrites Unite!

They already have, it is called government.

[ClintonBeGone]

Do a web search, or better yet, check out the FR archives.

I'll take that as a 'no, I can't back up my bogus claims'.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I'll take that as a 'no, I can't back up my bogus claims'.

No, I am just not going to do your work for you, Clinton.

[ClintonBeGone]

Also how does it feel to brown-nose tyranny?

No one in this country causes more fear among the law abiding population than the dopers and the violent people that engage in the trade that supplies them. Government doesn't make neighborhoods unsafer than crack houses, crack heads and the violence that comes with drug use.

[ClintonBeGone]

No, I am just not going to do your work for you, Clinton.

I'll take that as a 'you really busted me you SOB. Stop rubbing my nose in it. I, as a pro-druggie, am entitled to make up bogus statistics as long as they reinforce my viseral hatred of the government'.

[Protagoras]

Many here can't resist the temptation to attack the messenger.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Sounds like you're upset because even in his most drug induced stupor, Rush didn't adopt the WODruggies plank.

Provide examples on how every one who is anti-tyranny is a drug user.

[aruanan]

Now that the once conservative commentator finds himself on the wrong side of a police investigation, he and his lawyers are accusing prosecutors and other members of the law enforcement community of concocting a vast, politically motivated conspiracy against him.

Not even the most linguini-spined liberal would have the gall to spew such irresponsible nonsense.

Not when the Clintons had someone like Janet Reno flacking for them. Though in this case Rush didn't say anything about a "vast" conspiracy against him. But it's evident, given the facts, that there have been political motivations at the bottom of choosing to pursue a rather minor thing by letting those guilty of major crime (blackmail/extortion) off the hook in exchange for their help.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Government doesn't make neighborhoods unsafer than crack houses, crack heads and the violence that comes with drug use...

How do you explain that before there was a war on drugs, there was almost no drug-related crime?

[Paul C. Jesup]

No one in this country causes more fear among the law abiding population than the dopers and the violent people that engage in the trade that supplies them. Government doesn't make neighborhoods unsafer than crack houses, crack heads and the violence that comes with drug use.

The Clintons, their thugs, corrupt politicans, socialist reporters and ego-driven bureaucrats causes me much more fear that drug users ever could.

[WKB]

I support Rush BUT hasn't even he said himself
"IF you haven't nothing to hide then what's the problem?"
or words to that effect.

[ClintonBeGone]

The Clintons, their thugs, corrupt politicans, socialist reporters and ego-driven bureaucrats causes me much more fear that drug users ever could.

I've read that drugs do tend to increase ones paranoia.

[ClintonBeGone]

How do you explain that before there was a war on drugs, there was almost no drug-related crime?

Do you disagree with my point?

[bimbo]

I only have one question for Rush about this mess: "What are you doing living in Liberal South Florida?"

[Alissa]

No - that doesn't sound like something he would say. I can't imagine Rush would agree with any kind of privacy invasion without strong probable cause.

[ClintonBeGone]

Provide examples on how every one who is anti-tyranny is a drug user.

I'll use you as an example of someone who attempts to camouflage his pro-drug desires by wrapping them in words that have special meaning in our country's history. It's rather despicable.

[Jim Cane]

The left is the home of HATE and hypocrisy.

And Tommy Chong is in jail for selling bongs, not drugs.