Posted on 12/04/2003 11:04:54 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
What's next? Many captains of industry and managers of most mutual funds seem to be crooks. Now we learn that America's premier right wing talk show host is a junky. Rush Limbaugh is back from five weeks in detox doing business at the same old stand: spewing bile and defaming liberals and Democrats 15 hours a week. The interesting thing about this episode is that Rush sounds no different now than he did before detox, when he was high as a kite most of the time. Maybe drugs aren't so bad after all. It would be ironic indeed if Rush turns out to be the poster boy for legalizing drugs. The difference between Rush and the average junky is Limbaugh could easily afford $100,000 a year for drugs. He didn't have to rob liquor and convenience stores to support his habit. So, maybe it is thinkable that admitted addicts buy their drugs at a pharmacy where they could be assured of reasonable prices and predictable quality and purity. Rush's experience raises many questions: will he be tested periodically like professional athletes? How often? Will he tell us the results? I think it is a felony to purchase prescription narcotics on the black market as Rush did. Jeb Bush's daughter Noelle was prosecuted in Florida for attempting to buy drugs much milder than Oxycontin with a forged prescription. Rush poses as a role model for young conservatives. What sort of example has he set? Limbaugh richly deserves prosecution.
An your proof that Rush did anything illegal is?
Ah, the old unnamed sources routine. And you believe this? I want to see something documented. Beyond that, if Rush wants to have that much cash at home it's his business.
Spot on!!!!
I'll return it in a week or two!!
You're an old pro, huh? Where did I assert facts that Rush is a criminal? That's right, nowhere.
It's enough for me know he's a self-confessed opiate addict, and has been a junkie for years.
Does the fact that Rush was high on opiates while discoursing on the air affect his standing with dittoheads even a little? His alleged criminality aside, doesn't his opiate-addled brain mean anything to you? lol
You can project your anger, frustration and disappointment elsewhere, but the truth will out.
I experienced a little incident in Vietnam that put me in the hospital for 14 months and eleven surgeries. During this time they ( the medical staff) saw fit to give us guys in a lot of plaster SECONOL (sp) around 10pm each night. I had no idea what SECONOL was nor what it did. I only knew I was getting some sleep at night.
This continued all through the 14 months and upon discharge was given a prescription for additional SECONOL, upon leaving the dispensary I had a jar of red pills the size of a mayonnaise jar. I continued to use this drug, except I wasn’t taking one each night, by now I was taking 4-5 a day, and not even thinking about nodding off. This continued through about an additional 6 months till a new doctor refused to write a new script......I replaced the Reds with Vodka.....It was a very low time in my life. I realized what was happening to me a attempted to straighten myself out, I had many ups and downs and it wasn’t till I met a wonderful gal who is my current wife did I have the caring and support to kick it altogether. That was 35 years ago.
I had no intentions of getting hooked on boose and pills, it just happened.
I have walked in those moccasins, so I’m not going to rush to judgment on Rush .
Everyone makes mistakes. He's owned up to his and sought treatment. I suppose you think he should serve jail time. I don't.
Limbaugh plays the radio persona of a conservative; in his personal life, he's anything but.
Your suppositions are your own. If you'd read my earlier comments on this very thread, you might not have made such a foolish remark.
Your focus on Rush's legal situation and whether he should be incarcerated reveals more about your own thoughts (fears?) than mine.
I'm withholding my opinion on that angle, awaiting further and official allegations.
Rather than make a reckless supposition, permit me to ask you forthrightly, do you think Rush should get a pass for any laws he may have broken?
Are you speaking for yourself or all opiate addicts? So when a junkie says he wants to "get high", he's lying right?
You might be thinking I'm a prude high up on a horse with no experience in hard drugs and drug addicts. You might be wrong.
Let's see ...
That's where you tell people what to think, not how to think, right?
The sad fact is that many chronic pain sufferers become junkies. Another sad fact is that many junkies claim chronic pain to obtain drugs and justify their addictions.
A final sad fact is that there are infinite combinations within individuals of varying degress of physical and/or spiritual pain accompanied by varying legal/illegal abuse of legal/illegal substances.
But a junkie is as a junkie does.
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