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I'm not a regular Rush listener, but it's obvious that the Democrats have set an extremely high priority for knocking him off the airwaves. Just as Drudge was their Public Enemy #1 during the Monica scandal, Rush is their Public Enemy #1 as we approach the 2002 election. With him out of the way they could do a LOT more spinning of the news. Directly or indirectly Rush reaches a lot of people, and makes it much more difficult for the liberal media to peddle their lies unchallenged.

I must admit I've been very surprised at the way many Freepers have reacted to Rush's problems. He is not a deliberate drug addict, he's a guy who got hooked on prescription pain killers. He didn't go out and buy crack cocaine or heroin. What happened to him could happen to anybody. I don't think people understand the dangers of getting addicted to legitimate medicines, and the difficulty of dealing with the problem. I happen to support the policy of keeping addictive drugs like coke, heroine, and (yes) marijuana illegal, but that's quite another matter from using pain killers because you are suffering from terrible pain, and then getting addicted to it. Add to that a criminal housekeeper and a criminal Democrat prosecutor, and my sympathies are entirely with Rush.