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Posted on 10/03/2003 6:09:59 AM PDT by Walkin Man
Limbaugh In The Shadow Of His Own Words
Ellis Henican October 3, 2003, 12:31 AM EDT
"Let's all admit something." Rush Limbaugh was on his usual tear. "There's nothing good about drug use," he was saying. "We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies.
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them.
And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
And this includes zillionaire radio hosts? Hmmm ...
When you have a talk-radio show 15 hours a week, you have an awful lot of air to fill. On this particular day, which was Oct. 5, 1995, Rush was roaring about the scourge of illegal drug use. Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do.
But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
Including zillionaire radio hosts? Well, maybe not.
What a week it's been for Rush! First, he gets chased out of ESPN in a racial furor. Then, he is accused in Florida of buying thousands of powerful painkillers from an illegal drug-selling ring. OxyContin. Hydrocodone. Highly addictive opiates. A gargantuan number of pills over several years — almost 100 a day on one 47-day binge.
His 42-year-old housekeeper, Wilma Cline, says she dealt the closely controlled pills to America's top-rated syndicated radio host. Some were hidden under his mattress so his wife wouldn't find them. Others were passed in a Denny's parking lot. The story was broken by the National Enquirer, but it's already burst into the mainstream press. Secret tapes. Incriminating e-mails.
Twice, Limbaugh reportedly checked himself into rehab — and later relapsed. What will the conservative listeners think? What pain, what disappointment, what insecurity could explain something like this?
The talker wasn't talking about that yesterday. Understandably so. Another public moralist had been caught in a personal jam. And Rush's words were coming back to haunt him.
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"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
Rush's own words, wonder if he has changed his mind?
I'm going to check the Limbaugh books I have to see what pops up next.
He is right about drug abuse.
I hope he gets right with G-d, his family, the state, and his listening audience.
With 4,000 pills in 47 days I'd say he's superhuman, or the life of the party. Can you say "intent to distribute", the law would for anybody else.
Have you known any junkies? Lived with any? Seen how they behave? I have, and I can tell you, they don't act rationally. I am not saying Rush is a junkie--time will tell--but if he is, don't expect him to be rational about it. That's not how it works.
Well Rush, you've been "getting away with it"...shouldn't you also be "sent up the river"?
Does your solution include the elite as well, or do we have different laws based on percieved political status?
If these (drug) allegations are true, Rush is the biggest hypocrite of all time. Even worse than Bennett.
Don't you mean that he should be sent to jail for drug abuse (if true)?
Why should Rush get a free pass, while some kid with a quarter oz. of reefer is sent to jail?
He just said he hadn't been contacted by any authorities yet and would cooperate if asked.
He didn't say he was innocent.
This guy is projecting his own limp-wristed cowardice onto Rush. I have listened to Rush long enough to know that he will stand up and take responsibility.
To my mind, getting hooked on pain pills is not morally equivalent to recreational cocaine abuse.
Admission and repentence are another factor.
I have every confidence in Rush. I have always known, like everyone else, he is fallable.
There is an old story about Charles Spurgeon. A woman approached him and began accusing him of all sorts of things. She had a list a sins that she believed he had committed and was determined to rub them in his face. Spurgeon listened patiently until the woman and finished and then in a calm voice responded, "Ma'me, you do not know the half of it."
We are all sinners. That does not disqualify us from talking and promoting what is right. Humility and repentence, not self-righteousness, are what is called for in a fallen world.
Ain't that the truth!
I'm sure if these charges are true that Rush with all of his millions will escape the fate of your average junkie caught with a massive amount of dope.
I'd be willing to bet my life on it.
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