Posted on 06/28/2006 5:41:14 AM PDT by pissant
Edited on 06/28/2006 6:13:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I feel bad for the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.
The way things are going, it might make good sense to create a prosecutorial unit called the Right-Wing Pundit Office of Aggravated Mopery.
Things used to be simpler before national scolds like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh moved here and began exhibiting their boundless hubris and flexible personal virtues in our midst.
It's so much easier for prosecutors to deal with the real business of the day: street crime committed by people with dead-end lives, little education and rotten futures.
That's the bread-and-butter of state court ó not highfalutin Palm Beach gasbags with self-administered personal exemptions to the law.
I'm sure Barry Krischer and his staff of prosecutors would be thrilled if Coulter and Limbaugh would either just sell their homes or try being the model citizens they pretend to be.
For Coulter, that would mean using her actual address on her voter's registration. For Limbaugh, it means an end to being so creative with his meds.
Monday, two months after Limbaugh accepted a probation offer to settle a doctor-shopping case involving his addiction to prescription pain pills, he was detained at Palm Beach International Airport for having 29 Viagra pills prescribed to his doctor.
I guess Limbaugh doesn't only have a bad back.
This is what happens to a guy who spends 14 solid years obsessing about Hillary Clinton.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office turned the matter over to prosecutors. Maybe there's a plausible explanation.
So far, Limbaugh is playing it for laughs.
"I'm trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane," he said, then launched into his second one-liner: "I told the doctor, I was worried about the next election." This, you can be sure, is only his opening gambit. If Krischer's office pursues the case, you can bet that Limbaugh will dust off his recently retired witch-hunt defense. It's all so tedious.
Coulter, who came to Limbaugh's defense in his previous prescription caper, wrote a piece last December called "Why Can't I Get Arrested?" "What's a girl to do to become a 'person of interest' around here?" Coulter wrote. "Mr. Krischer, where do I go to get rid of my reputation?" Two months later, she voted in the wrong Palm Beach precinct — using the address of her Realtor, rather than disclosing where she really lives on the island.
Voting in the wrong precinct and having somebody else's prescription are, technically speaking, criminal acts.
But going after Limbaugh and Coulter is such a chore, such a thankless task of trying to get people who ought to know better simply to behave like grown-ups and take responsibility for their actions.
Instead, Coulter has hired former federal prosecutor Marcos Jimenez, a lawyer from the Miami firm that helped George W. Bush in the 2000 Presidential Recount, to clean up her voting irregularity; and Limbaugh has gone back to veteran criminal defense attorney Roy Black, to mop up his prescription troubles.
I know it's not easy being Coulter or Limbaugh. Painting people such as combat veteran John Murtha and 9/11 widows as traitors is tough work.
But it would be awfully adult of Coulter and Limbaugh to exhibit a little more compassion to the local prosecutor's office. Just a little personal responsibility is all it would take. Is that too much to ask?
I love the smell of Liberal whining in the morning.<p:
Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh should both move out, and lead a national boycott of their county. See how much revenue they could actually cost them.
Me and you both!!!!
"....Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh moved here...."
ya never know, do ya?
And we get it every moring. 365 days a year.
I'd move out of that rathole.
There is a point to this. I would suspect anyone who thought about Hillary for a long time would need Viagra to ever "perform" again.
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
"This guy sounds like Arianna Huffington."
He probably looks and dresses like her as well.
yeah, it really is tough when you have to twist the law and reasoning so frightfully to transform normal human behavior into crimes.
but it isn't a thankless task, because that is what the msm is all about...criminalizing conservatives using every cheat and trick they can, then cooing over the results and clucking at the "criminals."
I don't want to lose Rush, so I wish that he would just operate with a little more smarts. There is no sense in giving the enemy so much ammunition.
Hello? Do the name "Kennedy" and the word "rape" ring a bell?
And there's the rub.
These weak kneed leftists feel their sacred grovelling bed had been invaded by unbelievers.
They had best have their black booted thugs seeking out and destroying all vestiges of similar corruption, before they are turned on and found out of power.
I am amazed at the level of TOLERANCE (sarcasm) exhibited by these LIBERAL hypocrites .
They don't seem to have much else but Bile.
The "witch hunt" defense usually works great if you're a communist, or Sacco & Vanzetti...
Well, never in the courtroom, but it works great with revisionist historians.
I bet he dresses like her too.
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