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Limbaugh's school of hard knocks for other guys
Palm Beach Post ^ | Sunday, May 9, 2004 | Frank Cerabino

Posted on 05/08/2004 9:01:04 PM PDT by new cruelty

Rush Limbaugh is a slow learner.

That might explain why he looked at the sadistic photos from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and likened them to some college fraternity high jinks.

Boolah, mullah! Boolah, mullah!

Most reasonable people expressed disgust by the sight of the bound, nude, hooded men in American custody being forced to degrade themselves sexually.

And Limbaugh surely would have, too, if it had been under the previous administration.

But Limbaugh's a referee without a whistle these days. So here's how he excused the inexcusable:

"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation, and we're going to ruin people's lives over it, and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time," he said on his radio show.

Limbaugh added: "I'm talking about people having a good time. These people, you ever heard of emotional release? You heard of need to blow some steam off?"

I knew he was an apologist. But I just figured that in light of his newfound expertise in the realm of investigatory zeal run amok -- something he claims to have learned the hard way in Palm Beach County -- he might have temporarily burst through the wall of his professional limitations.

But, like I said, Limbaugh is apparently a slow learner.

And yet, there's hope.

There used to be a time when he thought that the problem with drugs was that we weren't locking up the people who got caught. This was during the days when he thought the American Civil Liberties Union was a flaky impediment to justice and criminal defense lawyers were an evil bunch of liberal simps who were out to subvert the truth by freeing the guilty on procedural maneuvers.

He has been educated through experience in that regard.

Caught in cross hairs of justice

Ever since the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office declined to respectfully turn a blind eye to Limbaugh's years of prescription drug abuse, he has become a champion of the drug addict caught in the cross hairs of justice. He talks of the pain of addiction, the need for treatment and the unfairness of prosecutors pursuing people with a personal problem.

If you go to Limbaugh's Web site these days, it's full of tales of horrific miscarriages of justice and calls to end investigatory techniques that we, as Americans, shouldn't stand for.

There are warnings about the "threat to the rule of law." Harassment we can't condone. And a horrible "fishing expedition" for information that should chill us to the core.

No, none of that is about the sadistic abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison.

It's all about Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer's having the nerve to document Limbaugh's drug abuse through the use of his medical records.

Oh, the horror!

From Limbaugh's bellowing, you'd think Krischer was breaking chemical lights and pouring the scorching phosphoric liquid over the naked talk-show host's... oh, never mind.

Besides, that's just "people having a good time."

All those naked Iraqis must be guilty of something, right? There can't be any innocent civilians rounded up by overzealous authorities. That never happens.

And as for the guilty -- well, the rights of people behind bars is just a left-wing abstraction.

For now. The slow learner better hope this isn't the next awakening in his education.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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To: MarylandPines
MarylandPines wrote: Rush has never claimed to be an intellectual. He's never really cared for them, and if you actually gave much attention to his show over the last fourteen years, you'd know that.

No, but he tries to give the impression of being more intellectual than he is.

Sometimes he can be downright juvenile.

For instance, on his TV show one time Patsy's restaurant sent over a very large platter of calamari.

Rush ended up throwing handfulls of it at the camera and audience.

That was the kind of stuff that kids in junior high school do, and it was embarassing to watch.

141 posted on 05/08/2004 10:47:11 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: Torie
"I am who I am."

The actually quote is: "I am that I am." -- The Burning Bush To Moses.

Btw, how do we know "who" or "what" you are? Your Home Page is a bit...ambiguous.

142 posted on 05/08/2004 10:48:24 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Torie
Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow [shallow?] man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings. The man has no depth. He bores the hell out of me.

That pretty much sums him up as far as I'm concerned too.

Though once in a great while he does say something witty--it's just not worth listening to the other endless hours of his droning on and on and on.

143 posted on 05/08/2004 10:48:28 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Torie
"Rush is a very bright, articulate, informed, but swallow man, of limited wisdom, who panders to his audience for ratings. The man has no depth. He bores the hell out of me."

Thank you for sharing this with us all. We do appreciate the crumbs of wisdom that fall from the table of the intelligentsia. I'll scuttle on back below stairs.

144 posted on 05/08/2004 10:48:39 PM PDT by Khurkris (Ranger On...A target rich environment)
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To: quidnunc
For someone who doesn't like Rush you sure do know a lot about his shows. If you don't like him why do you listen or watch ?
145 posted on 05/08/2004 10:49:19 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: Mr. Mojo
The media only wanted us to win WWII because Hitler turned on their precious Stalin. They all thought ol' Adolf was a peach up until that point.
146 posted on 05/08/2004 10:49:22 PM PDT by MarylandPines (If Bush is stupid, then that would make most liberals brain-dead.)
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To: quidnunc
I don't remember that one at all---but I know he was a huge fan of Patsy's at one point.
147 posted on 05/08/2004 10:51:05 PM PDT by MarylandPines (If Bush is stupid, then that would make most liberals brain-dead.)
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To: A Jovial Cad
You've set the pins up; I've merely rolled the ball down the lane ;-)
148 posted on 05/08/2004 10:51:15 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: ride the whirlwind
We pretty much agree. The media is evil, Rush is calling out their tactics, and they are trying to silence him by misrepresenting him(like they misrepresent everything else.) Unfortunately he slipped up, and gave them a soundbite in which to distort and peddle their slander, and it will be effective in undercutting him for a bit.

The good guys never win every battle.
149 posted on 05/08/2004 10:51:40 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: OregonRepublican; Torie
The only talk shows I enjoy are Bob Grant and Randi Rhodes.

LOL.

It's true, though.
150 posted on 05/08/2004 10:51:47 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: avenir
Excellent post.
151 posted on 05/08/2004 10:53:08 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: John Lenin
No, I think that the stories have been overblown. What happened was bad, but it is being handled by our military and it is not as bad as other atrocities committed against our own troops/people.

But that does not mean that what our MPs did is the equivalent of a Yale frat stunt. Not by a long shot. Rush simply made a bad rationalization against the Blame America First crowd's overplaying of this situation.

152 posted on 05/08/2004 10:54:52 PM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: F16Fighter
Btw, how do we know "who" or "what" you are?

My corpus of 20,000 posts on this very site over what, six years, might be a start. I have opined on about everything imaginable, except that boat person son who was sent back to Cuba affair. I am a virgin on that one.

153 posted on 05/08/2004 10:54:55 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Torie
Snarky. Snarkmeister. The snarkster, the snarkinator, snark-O-rama.

"Har har", as Nelson Muntz would say. = )

154 posted on 05/08/2004 10:55:31 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Diddle E. Squat
*Sheesh, its 'with us or against us' in the war on terror, not on every aspect of every single issue discussed...*

Agreed on that point, but have you followed the entire thread? I didn't just post that out of the blue because I got some patriarchal urge to pull out a flamethrower. It had nothing to with "suburbs" or "mushy middle majorites," I can assure you.
*Sheesh*, indeed.
155 posted on 05/08/2004 10:55:36 PM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
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To: Torie
How can Rush in your words be "very bright", informed, but of limited wisdom"?
156 posted on 05/08/2004 10:56:02 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: John Lenin
John Lenin wrote: For someone who doesn't like Rush you sure do know a lot about his shows. If you don't like him why do you listen or watch ?

I do like Rush much of the time, but I try not to be a damned fool about it.

I started to get annoyed and then furious with Rush when he was hooked on those pills, though I didn't know what the cause of his apostasy was at the time.

I just knew that I didn't like him as well as formerly.

Now that I know what the problem was I tend to let bygones be bygones.

But I wish he would get a backbone about some of those hot-button issues he tends to avoid.

157 posted on 05/08/2004 10:56:10 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: F16Fighter
By the way, I did not mean to quote the Bible. That is a weak spot for me. I should read it someday, cover to cover, before I depart this mortal coil.
158 posted on 05/08/2004 10:57:18 PM PDT by Torie
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To: jla
Anyone besides me see anything contradictory about this statement? I did - see #156
159 posted on 05/08/2004 10:58:56 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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To: GreatOne
If you take every word literally you might believe what you just typed. The analogy may have been comical but it's not too far off, especially with the 20 year olds we have today who grew up on a diet of web porn and violent movies and TV shows.
160 posted on 05/08/2004 10:59:16 PM PDT by John Lenin
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