I'm sure that sounded like a great idea at the time- get Rush discredited, thrown in jail and up to his armpits in legal problems just before launching her vaunted national talk radio career and taking the world by storm.
Didn't work out too well. Randi better hope Rush isn't 1/10 as vindictive and mean spirited as she paints him to be.
It's amazing how Air America dropped the ball. I guarantee that 100% of the Air America hosts oppose the War On Drugs. I guarantee that Al Franken and Randi Rhodes have used more drugs recreationally than Rush Limbaugh ever used medicinally.
So when Rush admits he is addicted to painkillers, the only thing these clowns do is use it to attack him. These are the people who say they have a really, really important message and that the message isn't being heard. This was the best chance these people will ever have in their lives to make the case to mainstream America that drugs ought to be legal. And they fritter it away to launch into personal attacks. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
That's probably about the only thing they got right.
Yep. Kinda makes you wonder how they've lasted more than a week. Here from their website is evidence they don't know West/Central from East.(Yeah Minnesota is Central, but just barely)
West/Central
Anchorage, AK KUDO 1080
Honolulu KAOI 1110
Minneapolis - WMNN 1330
Portland, OR - KPOJ 620
Riverside, CA - KCAA 1050
Sacramento, CA KSQR 1240
Santa Cruz, CA KTEE 93.7 FM
San Luis Obispo, CA KYNS 1340
West Palm Beach, FL - WJNO 1290
How is this possible? Without the moral compass of Absolute Truth, he considers himself and others like him to be the standard of conduct. Using this standard ("everybody cheats, lies, steals, etc."), he projects his values onto the conservative side to see how we line up.
Obviously, our core values are not in line with his. So, in extremely convenient fashion, he simply determines that the other side is living in hypocricy -- they must live one way in public and another way in private, because "no one could ever truly be that virtuous."
He then takes it a step farther. He reasons that since he is being open and honest about his lifestyle, he is actually far superior than the ones who, in his mind, are putting on a facade (think of Bill Clinton's "We saved the Constitution" declaration).
But it gets even worse, because you'll notice that there is an unhealthy rejoicing at finding skeletons hidden in someone's closet. This is because he's uncovered the greatest "sin," and the fact that one of the opposition has fallen because of it is good news, indeed.
As an added bonus, he can feel better about himself because his preconcieved notions about the other side are coming true. Without Absolute Truth, his personal conduct does not matter -- if someone else is exposed, it makes his transgressions acceptable.
A good example of this is Bob Livingston's resignation over adultery DURING THE IMPEACHMENT DEBATE OF BILL CLINTON (who committed perjury and obstruction of justice). Who was the one who uncovered this evidence? None other than Larry Flynt.
Here's what he had to say: "I'm happy if my efforts had anything to do with it. I think right-wing radical bullies like him are more of a threat to our unique form of democracy than anything else" (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june99/flynt_1-5a.html)
And so it doesn't matter about the drug use of Randi Rhodes or Al Franken. Their lives make no difference to them, but they will do whatever they can to expose hypocricy (while being blind to their own). They rejoiced at the Rush Limbaugh case, and you're right, they missed a golden opportunity to discuss major policy decisions.
They're so blinded by their goal of personal destruction that they're destroying themselves. The Truth stands by itself, and it always will. While justice has decreed judgment on the tyranny of liberalism, freedom and liberty are putting her to death.