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.
Bull. Most emphatically disagreed with that, including those on this non-representative site. They were disgusting, unprofessional, illegal, ineffectual, and damaging to both the moral standing of this country, and to the causes for which it fights. Granted the unpublished ones, probably represent even more serious felonies, with even more attendant damage. And you know what? It appears the brass looked the other way. Kay mentioned it, others mentioned it, but nobody cared, because they thought it was generating information, however illegally obtained. The brass is in big trouble. Stay tuned.
Now why would the Arab world be showing these pictures to democrat voters?
I disagree with your assessment of Rush, but hey -- if Bill Buckley's your cup of tea...(snore...)
The problem, Rush tries to con people into believing he's more knowledgable than he really is.
Two examples from within the last two weeks:
Rush made a big thing about trying to discredit somebody because they wrote that Iraqis were Arabs.
Rush said that Iraqis weren't Arabs.
Rush is dead-wrong, the majority of Iraqis are Arabs.
Rush went into a riff about how he was amazed that anyone would be dumb enough to characterize the words 'infer' and 'imply' as being synonymous.
He said that even dictionaries made this mistake.
But Rush neglected to mention that he lifted this directly from the opening scene of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel "Gambit".
Sometimes Rush shovels bullbleep to his audience.
I posted to you because the very last time I noticed your name, it was being used in reference to a derogatory comment about Limbaugh.
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