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Rush Limbaugh’s ‘fans’ say loyalty has limits
OSC News Gazette ^ | 1/16/04 | Carl Hiaasen

Posted on 01/16/2004 1:02:29 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

Dear Mr. Limbaugh,

As president-elect of our local Rush Limbaugh Fan Club, I've been deputized to write this letter regarding your recent legal problems.

Here in Gopher County some of your loyal followers are upset about what they've been reading and hearing in the media, which (as we all know) is run by a bunch of liberal pansies (except for your radio show, of course!).

Anyhow, we were all real sorry to learn about you being a dope addict. Naturally we didn't believe a word of the story until it came from your own lips.

Seeing how you've been so hard-core against drug users on your radio show — saying that they ought to be locked up with murderers and rapists — it must've been hard on you to sneak around all those years, pretending like you were some straight-up, sober citizen.

According to Palm Beach prosecutors, in only six months you got about 2,000 painkiller pills from pharmacies in your neighborhood (and that's not including what you scored on the sly from your maid).

When you do the arithmetic, that works out to at least 11 hits of opiate-based analgesics a day — enough to put any lily-livered liberal in the emergency room, yet it didn't even slow you down!

Speaking on behalf of your devoted radio listeners, most of us never suspected that you were ripped to the gills. You always made perfect sense to us.

Still, we were sympathetic when you explained that you'd been popping pills because your back was hurting and then your eardrums were hurting, and I forget what else was hurting.

Hey, it's a hard job, sitting in front of that microphone. You don't get much exercise, except for the jaw muscles.

Admittedly, we got worried when you went into rehab, since the concept was pretty much invented by mushy-hearted liberals who wanted to help drug users instead of punish them. Thank goodness you were still a diehard conservative when you came out!

But that, Mr. Limbaugh, is when the trouble began.

The authorities in Palm Beach have been investigating a drug ring that allegedly supplied some of your pain pills. However, instead of cooperating with law-enforcement officials, you've recently instructed your attorney to stonewall.

To those who have followed you faithfully, it's mighty confusing. You've always said that you were pro law-and-order, ranting about criminal suspects who complained that their constitutional rights were being violated.

Yet that's exactly what you're doing now, and you haven't even been charged with anything.

Prosecutors want your medical records in order to make sure you didn't scam overlapping prescriptions from different doctors, which is illegal. You say the state attorney's request is an invasion of privacy, and you want the medical files sealed permanently.

It sure is strange to hear you talk about privacy as something so important. Remember all the laughs you got out of Monica Lewinsky's situation?

Imagine what would've happened if the special prosecutors had listened to her pleas for privacy. There would have been no impeachment of Bill Clinton, and America would have been deprived of hours of your laser wit and acid commentary.

Speaking of Ken Starr, why didn't you hire him to be your defense lawyer? A solidly upright, uptight ultraconservative. This Roy Black fellow might be one of the country's best trial attorneys, but are you aware that he has represented murderers, thieves, drug kingpins and — worst of all – one of the Kennedys! You can't get more liberal than that.

Now, you and Mr. Black claim that the authorities in Palm Beach are persecuting you because of your political beliefs.

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

Whoa.

Even for the most dedicated Limbaugh listeners (and here in Gopher County we've been steadfast), this is too much to swallow.

All of a sudden you're the innocent victim of a vast, nefarious political conspiracy — for God's sake, you sound just like Hillary!

Next thing we know, you'll be telling us that Dick Gephardt spiked your Lipitors with Xanax. Or that Howard Dean got you hooked on those OxyContins he is a doctor, right?)

Please, Rush, don't go down this slippery slope. With every passing day you act more like the “whiny wimps” you've been ridiculing all these years.

Here in the land of the right-wing and the righteous, we're loyal but we have our limits.

We can forgive you for being a pillhead — but never for being a liberal.



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To: MeekOneGOP
Ming jpg ping.
41 posted on 01/16/2004 3:03:49 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection (www.whatyoucrave.com)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I'm not clear on the concept. Do we or don't we forgive drug-abusers who go into rehab? Every time I see a Hollywood star (Robert Downy) or a sports figure (Brett Favre) go to rehab, it seems like the courts and the court of public opinion is on their side. And often the judges mandate rehab in lieu of jailtime. So why are we going after a guy who admitted the problem to more people at once then anyone else in history ... then entered the program for five weeks and now is apparently having good success with his continual rehab? How is society benefitted by investigating this case when the cards are already on the table?

By the way, I have listened for many years and I have never heard him call for strict jail sentences in these cases. Looking back on it, it was more of a case he didn't discuss the subject much at all ... just as you might expect.
42 posted on 01/16/2004 3:04:10 PM PST by JohnEBoy
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This one ? ...


43 posted on 01/16/2004 3:09:21 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (Freeper formerly known as MeeknMing)
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To: El Gran Salseron
'fraid that's just what was at the bottom of the letter on the linked website (though I put the @ symbol in, instead of (at). Ahh well, it doesn't shock me. A columnist writing as a 'concerned citizen.' Though I must admit, I don't exactly disagree with all his comments.
44 posted on 01/16/2004 3:09:30 PM PST by kingu (Remember: Politicians and members of the press are going to read what you write today.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Carl can ram it, jam it, and rotate it.
45 posted on 01/16/2004 3:11:02 PM PST by Big Horn (A waist is a terrible thing to mind.)
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To: elli1; Williams
"....... Which would be pretty damned stupid, now don't you think?"

No he doesn't, but he sure can whine.

46 posted on 01/16/2004 3:18:24 PM PST by G.Mason (If they're Democrats - They're expendable)
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47 posted on 01/16/2004 3:37:33 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (You...You sit down! You've had your say and now I'll have mine!!!!)
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To: af_vet_1981
Who is Carl Hiaasen ?

I always thought he was a Dave Barry or Elmore Leonard wannabe.

48 posted on 01/16/2004 3:47:52 PM PST by greyfoxx39
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Pure Barbra Streisand.
49 posted on 01/16/2004 3:52:27 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (No, I don't watch rasslin'. I am from Georgia and sound like it too.)
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To: SeeRushToldU_So

50 posted on 01/16/2004 3:54:12 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (No, I don't watch rasslin'. I am from Georgia and sound like it too.)
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To: Emitter
Is this once a sinner always a sinner thing? Better get in line.
51 posted on 01/16/2004 3:59:24 PM PST by sawyer
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To: ConservativeMan55
Rush Rocks!
52 posted on 01/16/2004 4:23:26 PM PST by blackie
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To: Williams
He obviously isn't going to be man enough to admit he did something wrong.

He already did.

53 posted on 01/16/2004 4:57:59 PM PST by Roscoe
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To: G.Mason
Conservatives don't whine. If one of 'em starts whining, they need to be slapped up the side of the head and told, ''You're starting to sound like a liberal.''
54 posted on 01/16/2004 5:30:30 PM PST by elli1
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To: ConservativeMan55
bttt
55 posted on 01/16/2004 11:55:16 PM PST by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
seminar callers are out in force in talk radio land. It is not just on Rush, ALL radio has been plagued by their insipid formula (I agree but....)
56 posted on 01/17/2004 2:28:50 AM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: elli1
Using your rights in a political criminal case is not much of a game. The only games are comming from the palm beach SA. ((s)unless of course he has been threatened with arkanside. da da daaaaa. (/s))
57 posted on 01/17/2004 2:31:35 AM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: af_vet_1981; Klein-Bottle; Pan_Yans Wife; All
Carl Hiaasen can hardly be considered a Rush fan. He's a little known writer and a editorialist for the Miami Herald. His books are usually left leaning. Pro enviro-extremist, anti-goverment, anti-developmet, anti-capitalist.
58 posted on 01/17/2004 2:46:34 AM PST by Tempest
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
A feeble attempt to make fun of Rush and his loyal listeners.

I found this fools official website (http://www.carlhiaasen.com/) but there isn't an email address.
59 posted on 01/17/2004 3:43:12 AM PST by MizRiz9
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
When I first read Hiaasen I thought he was very, very funny and sharp. Then I caught on to the formulaic template he was using.

Google the guy and you'll see that he's anti-Bush, anti-war and pro-Fidel.

The one thing I couldn't find is the article my sister sent me a few years back about his new home.

Seems that when he hit it big one of the first things the PC enviromentalist did was to build himself a beachfront house.

"PC for thee, but not for me."

Typical leftist.

60 posted on 01/17/2004 3:45:35 AM PST by metesky (TGIF! Time for some alcohol- involved posting!)
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