Hooked on Rush

BitPig Online ^ | 2003.10.10 | BitPig (B-Chan)

[concerned about politics]

Don't tell me. Let me guess. This author thinks NPR is brilliant.
(Yep. The NPR welfare channel sure is a huge success - NOT!)

[FreedomSurge]

Rush is a giant. Without him there would be no Republican House, Senate or Presidency.

Harkin back to the first several years of his radio show. He was absolutely the furthest right wing broadcaster to affect the nation in a very long time. He moved this country rightward.

Nowadays he may seem tame, but he was the pioneer taking arrows for the entire movement. Do not disparage his impact.

I fear that without Rush the spineless Republicans in DC will become even more spineless.

Hope for his speedy return, and don't fool yourself into believing that you are now somehow inciteful or cool by kicking him while he is down.

[austingirl]

Rush emphasizes that he is only an entertainer - nonetheless, he has a huge audience of politically active Conservatives that make a difference in this country. That is an achievement.

Also, his addiction started post-surgery - he didn't set out to deliberately become a "pill popper". He claims responsibility for his actions and was quite clear about that in his radio show today. I wish him the best.

[MHGinTN]

It's not likely that anyone with a sixth grade education or above will take seriously a post that starts with a false assertion ... Popular radio show host Rush Limbaugh revealed today that he is addicted to illegally-obtained prescription painkillers and is entering a rehabilitation program for substance abusers. But it was a nice try at sliming ...

[B-Chan]

Because some on here will see it as an attack on Rush, yada yada yada.

I didn‘t realize that criticism of Rush Limbaugh was forbidden.

[ikka]

spend hours writing elegies in Elvish for fallen Glorfindel of Rivendell.

Glorfindel was NOT of Rivendell; he was from Gondolin, founded by Turgon. He died while fighting and killing a Balrog.

The Glorfindel from Rivendell was still living at the end of the Lord of the Rings series.

[AmishDude]

Popular radio show host Rush Limbaugh revealed today that he is addicted to illegally-obtained prescription painkillers and is entering a rehabilitation program for substance abusers.

He merely said he was addicted. He said nothing about the charges of them being illegally-obtained. You'd think your fact-checkers could at least get your first sentence correct.

[don-o]

No Zot needed. B Chan is a good guy who has posted well.

We need to know what is being said.

[dhfnc]

He is not a political thinker on the level of a Russell Kirk, a George Sowell, or a William F. Buckley

I disagree with you!

[Ronin]

I agree with a lot of what you said, if not in the rather callous way you said it.

Saying it at this time and place, however, is not very tactful.

But I guess that's OK, too. Rush himself is not known for his tact.

[veronica]

He is not a political thinker on the level of a Russell Kirk, a George Sowell, or a William F. Buckley. Sorry if that doesn‘t go down well, but it’s the truth.

I disagree, and I think the men you listed would agree with me.

[Don Corleone]

At least Rush had the cajones to admit his addiction, and seek help, unlike Beelzebob who snorted his way through 8 years of shame in the oral office.

[ChadsDad]

"...you are now somehow inciteful or cool by kicking him while he is down." ZACTLY! How can these writers live with themselves.

[sirchtruth]

Holy cow! Look how thin Alex is! That's a great pic, haven't seen it before. I love that kit Neil's playing.

To Rush In Rio.

[ChadsDad]

It is in my house. :)

[Califcon]

I agree he is a popular entertainer and a hypoctite..

"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

[B-Chan]

Glorfindel was NOT of Rivendell; he was from Gondolin, founded by Turgon. He died while fighting and killing a Balrog.

The Glorfindel from Rivendell was still living at the end of the Lord of the Rings series.

I'll take your word for it and stand corrected. I like Lord of the Rings, but I’m certainly no expert!

[don-o]

Easy now.

I may be wrong, but I thought that the article posted was informative. If B Chan agrees, he can defend it.

But, I like the hot rhetoric, and if you Rushbots get this post killed - I am out of here for good - with my small monthly

[AmishDude]

Harkin back

Here is the Senator from Iowa showing what Dick Gephardt will look like after the eyebrow transplant.

[ChadsDad]

Where's the hypocritical part?