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To: shhrubbery!
I wonder who will be the first person who supports the War on Drugs to explain why Rush shouldn't be convicted & possibly imprisoned. Rush himself has said as much about drug users.

Quotes, please.

"There's nothing good about drug use. 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.

-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

Good enough?

315 posted on 10/10/2003 1:36:26 PM PDT by gdani
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To: gdani
1995?

Do you have any more recent quotes?
322 posted on 10/10/2003 1:40:30 PM PDT by k2blader (Haruspex, beware.)
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To: gdani
Not to mention, no one knows yet whether or not Rush violated the law.

What he's said so far is that he's addicted to prescription pain pills, is checking himself into rehab, and can't comment much further due to the current investigation.
358 posted on 10/10/2003 1:56:36 PM PDT by k2blader (Haruspex, beware.)
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To: gdani
Good enough?

No, because he was obviously talking about the drugs that our nation has decided should be flatly illegal, not drugs accepted as beneficial for medical use, unless you really think it makes sense for him to have been saying, "there's nothing good about medicine use" and "medicine use, some might say, is destroying the country".

Whether you agree with the policy or not, our country (and all countries, AFAIK) draws a sharp line between prohibited drugs and prescription drugs, and so do most people (including myself).

509 posted on 10/10/2003 6:02:49 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: gdani
Good enough?

Nope. I'd give you half a point if you could source that quote with a link -- but only half.

Your single eight-year-old quote, even if accurate, is pretty paltry. It is ambiguous, too, because in the context of the full quote, it appears Rush is talking about illegal drugs used recreationally (i.e., to get high), not prescription painkillers.

If you could come up with more recent comments by Rush, e.g. if he had said Winona Ryder or Darryl Strawberry should be sent to prison (which I doubt he said), I'd give you a full point.

534 posted on 10/10/2003 8:56:32 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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