[pageonetoo]

"But to beat on Rush is not the most sporting thing to do."


I learned a couple of phrases in my youth...

"What's good for the goose, is good for the gander..."

"...that's like the pot, calling the kettle black..."


This is life, not sport, and to call Rush a hypocrite is just making an accurate assessment of his life, and words. He has been one of the most vocal critics, at times, of those who use drugs illegally. Yet, he expects special treatment, because he is Rush Limbaugh, "with talent on loan from God..." If that does not qualify him as hypocritical, I have sadly misread the definition!

I did not say anyone should not listen to him, I just don't think they should encourage him to continue this lie...
And, I believe he does owe an apology to his listeners. He denied, denied, denied, until the truth became known! Only then, after GETTING CAUGHT IN HIS LIES, did he 'fess up, and seek help (so he could justify his actions). Again, IMO, that IS hypocritical.

[Sam Cree]

I haven't heard him ask for special treatment.

[Sam Cree]

I haven't heard him ask for special treatment.

[mhking]

I learned a couple of phrases in my youth...

So did I: "Don't beat a man when he's down."

He's been a critic of drug abuse and abusers in the past.

Since that point, he himself has become an abuser.

This is certainly a statement of fact.

If you'll note, his criticism ceased once he began to have a problem himself.

But that point aside, he is merely human. He has erred, and is seeking to end that cycle of behavior -- no matter HOW he began to seek help.

Now, if he did not learn from this experience; if he did not change his earlier opinion of drug abusers who are caught in the same cycle that he has been caught up in, then perhaps I could find hypocracy in his actions.

But we have not seen that same criticism presently.

He has said that he would address the issues once he can; I presume that would be once the police investigation has concluded and his lawyer permits him to speak of it.

I can respect that. I can respect a man who admits his past errors and sins and sets out to correct them.

It seems that you (and many others) find him hypocritical, simply because he got caught up by his addiction and did not seek help until his addiction was exposed by others. He does not walk on water. It is sad that there are many who criticize him because he doesn't.

And to go back to the original arguement, no, I don't "get my thoughts" from Rush. On the contrary, I disagree with somewhere around a third of what he says. When I disagree with him (or with any other conservative for that matter), I make no secret of it. But I do not take that opportunity to use that disagreement as an excuse to bludgeon them with it.

[chaosagent]

"He has been one of the most vocal critics, at times, of those who use drugs illegally. "

If this is true, how come the only real quote his detractors could come up with was from 1995, and even then he was really talking about how blacks were being prosecuted disproportionately from whites.

[Sloth]

He has been one of the most vocal critics, at times, of those who use drugs illegally.

Source?

[Stewart_B]

Entry Word: hypocrite

Function: noun

Text:

one who affects virtues, qualities, or attitudes he does not have

Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, lip server, pharisee, Tartuffe, whited sepulcher Related Words: pietist; actor, attitudinizer, bluffer, charlatan, faker, four-flusher, fraud, humbug, impostor, masquerader, phony, poser, poseur, pretender, quack, sham

[Tall_Texan]

I find it hypocritical when someone condemns another as "judgemental". Are they, themselves, not being judgemental when judging somebody as judgemental?