[RS]

"Unless there is something much more serious from a criminal nature, he won't do any time and will likely get a slap on the wrist at worst. "

"And Rush has effectively demonized the Palm Beach prosecutor, ..."


Since the Palm Beach Prosecutor is the one who decides if he gets a slap on the wrist or goes up on multiple felony charges, just what was Rush's strategery here ?

[joesbucks]

Rush and his PR entourage has worked very hard and very effectively to win in the court of public opinion. It wouldn't have taken much for his fans. Rush could have stood naked in Times Square, kissed Hillary, groped Ted Kennedy, had the lights read I love Barbara Boxer, been completely serious about it and have his fans state "he was simply illustrating the absurd with an absurdity". With the public, it's much harder, but they have been effective in pretty much taking the buzz out of it. By their varioius legal battels and PR moves, they have pushed this out so as to have the public basically forget it ever happened. It will be, what two years in the Fall that he admitted his additition problem?

While there may be varoius degrees of legal standing for what the PBC prosecutor can do and will do, Rush has virtually pigeon holed the PBC prosecutor. Almost any move by the prosecution team could backfire on them. The whole time, Rush will be using any move as judicial and prosecutorial abuse. It may be. But, it also could simply be the law. Frankly, the PBC prosecutor is in the same situation a married man is. Even when a man wins an argument in a marriage, he loses. Same situation with the PBC prosecutor.

Frankly. if I was the PBC prosecutor, I would be trying to work a plea deal. And part of the deal would be an on air apology from Rush stating that he has manipulated the proseuctors ability to bring forward a case under lawful conditions (if such is the case), that it was wrong to hold court in the court of public opinion rather than a court of law and that what he has done is what he has condemend others for during the many years of his show.