God, I thought it was liberals that resort to name calling. If you don't like my point of view, that's fine, but to resort to childish charges like missing a brain and calling me a slug, that's pretty low. I listen to his show all the time since I am a traveling sales rep. You all can play cute games like he wasn't charged with a crime, or what law was he breaking, but when it comes down to it, Rush admitted his drug addiction after it was exposed through the tabloids, and he went into treatment. To answer some of your questions, Rush admitted it himself that he has gone to rehab twice. Out of all the years I have listen to Rush, I don't recall him ever announcing on his show that he was taking time off for back surgery. That is why I made the assumption or theory that maybe he didn't have back pain. Want to point counter point, we'll do it, and I won't call you any names.
That is entirely beside the point, don't you think? The point might possibly BE that Rush took the pain pills in lieu of having to have the back surgery. I've heard the back surgery makes other pain seem like a walk in the park, and I don't blame him for avoiding having it performed. I would. The pain pills relieved the pain enough so that Rush could keep working without having the surgery. I also suspect that Rush is a workaholic. (Ergo, how he went from having no money to being quite well off. He EARNED it.)
"Out of all the years I have listen to Rush, I don't recall him ever announcing on his show that he was taking time off for back surgery."
So you don't know squat about back pain either and you just felt the need to let everyone know. What a whiner.