[aruanan]

Rush Limbaugh, Oct. 5, 1995, on the Excellence In Broadcasting network. Rush Limbaugh's fans often tell me I don't have the right to criticize "El Rushbo" because I don't regularly tune in his program. Granted, I often go weeks without listening to Limbaugh, but I do check out his show from time to time,...

Try 8 years, given the reference above! Anyway, there's a big difference between "having a nose like a Hoover" and becoming addicted to a prescription drug in the course of medical treatment for chronic pain. In the quote above, Rush was referring to the former. As far as the latter is concerned, there's about as much moral baggage involved as in getting a stroke as a consequence of open heart surgery. Both are understandable risks run for legitimate reasons. Leave it to a liberal to be incapable of acknowledging, much less understanding, the difference.

[Kay Soze]

Agreed:

"Gary Bauer, president of the conservative organization American Values, drew a distinction between a crack addict and Limbaugh’s brand of addiction. “From a moral standpoint, there’s a difference between people who go out and seek a high and get addicted and the millions of Americans dealing with pain who inadvertently get addicted,” Bauer told NEWSWEEK.

How many made fun oo JFK. And he was a presidnet on anti-psychotics during the Cuban Missles crises!

Factoid:
-The upper 1% of wage earners pay 37.4% of all taxes and account for only 20.8% of all income in the US

-The top 10% of wage earners pay 67% while earning only 46%

-The lowest 50% of wage earners paid only 4% pay while earning 14% of total income

[ Stock bubble burst reduced tax revenue because the tax base is too heavily dependent on the rich as they pay almost twice their share. ]

[Catspaw]

Anyway, there's a big difference between "having a nose like a Hoover" and becoming addicted to a prescription drug in the course of medical treatment for chronic pain.

What difference is that? Is Rush any less addicted, or is he a higher class of addict because his drug of choice was an opiate rather than cocaine?