I stand corrected. Thank you for posting these links. I will go back and try to see if there were Rush threads at that time. Not defending myself, but I was not a Rush listener until right before we went into Iraq and I did not lurk on FR until late 2003, so thank you for the info.
Reading through some of the posts on that thread is actually kinda spooky as they have incredible relevance even today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930024/posts
I had previously been very critical of him for being AWOL in the terror war, which he was until some time after he got out of detox.
Here's probably the first time that I seriously slammed Rush here on Free Republic in a thread I started here on June 18, 2002 titled 'Rush Limbaugh, J Accuse':
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/702031/posts