Posted on 07/11/2007 6:48:36 PM PDT by Graybeard58
In 2003, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh admitted his addiction to prescription painkillers and underwent 30 days of inpatient treatment. Though he was a first-time offender and got hooked while treating severe back pain, he was persecuted by the mainstream new media and liberal politicians and hounded by prosecutors. After dragging out their inquiry for 30 months, publicity-hungry prosecutors decided they couldn't convict him of "doctor shopping" and agreed to let him off with a $30,000 fine to cover the cost of their investigation.
On July 4, the spawn of a pothead from way back was stopped after California police clocked him going more than 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway. Al Gore III, 24, told police he had just smoked pot, and a search of his car turned up marijuana and four pharmaceuticals for which he had no prescriptions.
After a brief celebrity-arrest frenzy, the media turned sickeningly sympathetic. "Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore's son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America's youth," swooned The Associated Press "... 'Al Gore's son is just like everyone else's,' said Dr. Donald Misch, director of health services at Northwestern University."
That, of course, is hyperbole on the stilts of exaggeration. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health says just 2.6 percent of Americans 12 or older use prescription drugs illegally in any given month. Rather than being just a typical son, Al Gore III is spoiled-brat pothead who has had more than a few scrapes with the law.
He was just 13 in 1996 when he and several classmates at his exclusive prep school were caught smoking pot. While the other kids were expelled, he was only suspended because he was the vice president's son. In 2000, Al III was busted for driving 97 in a 55-mph zone in North Carolina. In 2002, he was ticketed for DUI near a military base in suburban Washington, D.C. In 2003, he was charged with pot possession in Maryland, but unlike the Limbaugh prosecution, his case ended quickly with court-ordered substance-abuse treatment.
Prince Al III was lucky his latest arrest occurred in Hippie Heaven where people who possess and abuse drugs get their wrists slapped by the "Drug Court." He's also lucky he's not a conservative talk-show host; rather than endless ridicule, he can look forward to piles of pity from the left-wing journalists and politicians.
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Demonstrating once again that this is NOT a private matter. Gore da Turd is a public menace.
I am sure his father is proud of him for at least driving a Prius...
We don’t want sympathy from leftist journalists because we ignore what they have to say (at least we should).
When that RI Kennedy crashed in DC and blamed it on a late session of congress, that is par for the liberal course, that is what they do consistently.
When Rush or Vitter makes mistakes, they are ananomalies, not the “status quo” and they never should be, we all mess up, but we also should have the Character to stop.
In addition to comparing Al’s spawn to Rush, you could also compare his treatment by the LSM to the treatment of the Bush daughters when they were in college. It makes a BIG difference if your daddy’s got an ‘R’ after his name.
Imagine the sickening rationalizations by the press had he killed one or more persons in his impaired escapades on the highways. In no time at all it would be simply a tragedy of wrong place at the wrong time. So sad, time to move on.
I don’t recall Rush getting nailed (multiple times) while driving shiat-faced down public highways at high speeds. Only elitist libs and their offspring are allowed to endanger the lives of the proletariat.
Follow the money. Maybe the Prius was a gift for Al Gore Junior (as opposed to Al Gore III) for pimping greenie weenie issues.
“Demonstrating once again that this is NOT a private matter. Gore da Turd is a public menace.”
Agreed.
A damn apology to us here in So Cal should have been offered.
Effing Gores. Too good for that of course.
‘Al Gore’s son is just like everyone else’s,’
Sorry. If that were true, more of we Moms would eat our young, LOL!
No matter what ‘little chits’ my boys could be at times, they NEVER pulled cr@p like this. The “swift boot to the backside” style of parenting does work. Wish more parents would try it.
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