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One pops pills. Another gambles. Another lets her mother die alone. Yet these are Bush's virtue-mongers It was America's "virtuous majority" (as they conceive themselves) who made George W Bush president. He keeps these core voters sweet by appointing aggressively virtuous subordinates - men whose sole claim to office, as Bill Maher puts it, is that they "read the Bible and f*ck their wives". (Maher, you'll remember, lost his talk show on the ABC network for saying that the 9/11 bombers, whatever else, were not "cowards"). What, Bush was asked, was the first thing he would do on taking over...

Quentin S. -- a young black man with little money -- is a drug addict, like most of the offenders who show up in the drug court of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris "Dee" Downs. When he was arrested for possession of marijuana and cocaine, she sentenced him to a regimen of drug treatment and random drug tests. But when Quentin repeatedly failed those tests, Downs sentenced him to a year's incarceration in a state-run detention center, where he is receiving drug treatment. After his release, his probation will require outpatient treatment for a year, as well as intensive...

So liberals have finally found a drug addict they don't like. And unlike the Lackawanna Six – those high-spirited young lads innocently seeking adventure in an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan – liberals could find no excuses for Rush Limbaugh. After years of the mainstream media assuring us that Rush was a has-been, a nobody, yesterday's news – the Rush painkiller story was front-page news last week. (Would anyone care if Howell Raines committed murder?) The airwaves and print media were on red alert with Rush's admission that, after an unsuccessful spinal operation a few years ago, he became addicted...

Rush's drug use no joking matterJoe Conason - The New York Observer 10.15.03 - As a man with firm and simple opinions about almost everything, America's most successful radio personality told his listeners years ago what society should do about unfortunate people like Rush Limbaugh: send them to prison. Back in 1995, arguing against liberal leniency toward dope fiends, Mr. Limbaugh endorsed the boilerplate ideology and draconian methods of the drug war with baritone bombast. "Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country," he intoned. "And so if people are violating the law by...

In the ongoing grudge match between liberal and conservative icons, there is little room for sympathy. On Saturday, award-winning film director and progressive liberal Michael Moore gave a sold-out speech at the University’s Sports Pavilion. Interestingly, amid sympathizing with University strikers and the many victims of President George W. Bush’s doctrine, Moore showed little sympathy for diametrically opposed Rush Limbaugh and his admitted drug problem. In the press conference held before his speech, Moore addressed a question about Limbaugh’s admitted addiction by saying Limbaugh was an “ugly, mean-spirited bastard” who was the “leading hate speech advocate of the past decade....

<p>Somewhere in a parallel universe, where we are the same people but things have happened in slightly differently ways, Rush Limbaugh greets his loyal listeners this morning.</p> <p>"Lots to talk about today. You all know already that Bill Clinton, our former president, has admitted an addiction to prescription drugs.</p>

There are devils and demons in all of us.  Whether they are ancient dwellers in our souls and consciences or recent visitors to our lives, they are there.  You cannot deny that you have your own.  Some have the faces of white lies or dirty little secrets, a past embarrassment or a remembered moment in your life that you wish had never happened and that you could take back if you could turn back time.No one is perfect or will go through their whole life without devils and demons or moments of despair and disarray.  We're all equal in this...

Isn’t it despicable that the self-described “compassionate” Leftists are treating Limbaugh’s use of prescription pain-killers to that of recreational users? News reports from every medium are barely mentioning the pesky little fact that Rush Limbaugh was taking pain-killers because -- shock, horror! -- he was in pain! And Limbaugh continues to suffer with spinal pain as a result of disc injuries and an unsuccessful operation performed on his back that left him in agonizing pain, which is now extending up to his neck. According to Rush Limbaugh, himself, after his initial, unsuccessful operation and a discussion with his doctor, he...

"Moore held Limbaugh to his own medicine"In the ongoing grudge match between liberal and conservative icons, there is little room for sympathy. On Saturday, award-winning film director and progressive liberal Michael Moore gave a sold-out speech at the University’s Sports Pavilion. Interestingly, amid sympathizing with University strikers and the many victims of President George W. Bush’s doctrine, Moore showed little sympathy for diametrically opposed Rush Limbaugh and his admitted drug problem. In the press conference held before his speech, Moore addressed a question about Limbaugh’s admitted addiction by saying Limbaugh was an “ugly, mean-spirited bastard” who was the “leading hate...

'There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. ... 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." -- Rush Limbaugh, Oct. 5, 1995, on the Excellence In Broadcasting network. Rush Limbaugh's fans often tell me I don't have the right to criticize "El Rushbo" because I don't regularly tune in his program. Granted, I often go weeks without listening to Limbaugh, but I do check out his show from time to time,...

Did anyone else hear the ludricrous statements that Ken Hamblin made on Rita's show just now? Among other things, he said that "Rush was given the keys to the kingdom and let us down." Then he proceeded to puff himself up, making a total jackass out of himself as far as I'm concerned. I videotaped the whole segment and would replay it and transcribe it, but have to run out for a while right now.

Rush to jail? Posted: October 11, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com So Rush has publicly admitted he's "addicted to prescription pain medication," confirming details of a story broken by the National Enquirer last week. If he was true to his word, following his broadcast yesterday, the nation's top talker checked himself into a 30-day drug rehab program to shake his monkey. Beyond his personal support of the drug war, the most intriguing aspect of Rush's current problem is that, since Nixon declared war on "public enemy No. 1" in 1972, conservatives of various stripes have been the biggest...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh stunned listeners of his nationwide radio show by announcing on the air that he's hooked on painkillers and is checking himself into rehab. Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press that Limbaugh was being investigated for by the Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office. "Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me," he said Friday. "You know I...

Ed Asner: 'Hannity's next ... just like we went after Limbaugh' Posted: October 10, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In the news this week are several reports of an exchange between syndicated talk-show host Mike Gallagher and actor-turned-leftist-poster-child Edward Asner. The account goes like this: Mike Gallagher approached Asner at a recent cocktail party promoting the new film "Elf" in which Asner stars as Santa Claus. As Gallagher introduced himself, Asner asked his profession. When Gallagher replied "radio talk-show host," Asner replied, "I love going toe-to-toe with you guys.'' ''I know,'' Gallagher replied. ''I've heard you on Sean Hannity's show.'' ''Hannity's...

In the news this week are several reports of an exchange between syndicated talk-show host Mike Gallagher and actor-turned-leftist-poster-child Edward Asner. The account goes like this: Mike Gallagher approached Asner at a recent cocktail party promoting the new film "Elf" in which Asner stars as Santa Claus. As Gallagher introduced himself, Asner asked his profession. When Gallagher replied "radio talk-show host," Asner replied, "I love going toe-to-toe with you guys.'' ''I know,'' Gallagher replied. ''I've heard you on Sean Hannity's show.'' ''Hannity's next, you know,'' Asner responded. ''Huh?'' said Gallagher. ''Hannity's next,'' said Asner. ''We're going after him just like...

Mike Walker of the National Enquirer has been on the Al Rantel show for the past two hours discussing the story which his paper broke about Rush Limbaugh's dependence on prescription drugs, obtained illegally through his housekeeper. As Mike said, if this story was erroneous, Rush could sue them out of business. The National Enquirer did all kinds of checking before going with this story. He said they only paid for the story from the housekeeper after she had already gone to the police with her story and evidence. But the most upsetting thing Mike Walker and Al discussed is...

The most widely heard complaint regarding Rush Limbaugh's observation that African-American quarterback Donovan McNabb received more favorable press coverage than he deserved goes something like this: Right or wrong, Limbaugh shouldn't have interjected McNabb's race into the argument. But if Rush's critics really mean what they say, where were they two months ago when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton declared in the midst of a speech on civil rights that she was glad she grew up in the segregated suburbs? Addressing the American Constitution Society on Aug. 3, Mrs. Clinton criticized Republicans for idealizing "the 1950s white suburbs for...

By Hunter S. Thompson Page 2 columnist Gambling on football has never been really Good for you; but on some days, it can be serious Fun. That is how it works for some people; and on Monday night, I was one of them. I won big on Indianapolis, and came dangerously close to winning a mysterious woman from a visiting gambler. She almost went crazy when he said he would leave her here as collateral until he could pay off his losses in cash, which has been standard gambling procedure out here in the sporting West for 200 years, and...

<p>Any day now I expect to hear a big, on-air confession from Rush Limbaugh concerning those allegations that he abused prescription drugs. But I fear he will be confessing to the wrong sin.</p> <p>The confession I expect to hear will be along the lines of, "Yes, I am a drug abuser." What I'd prefer to hear is, "No, I'm not a conservative."</p>

Rush is suddenly silent Bucks County Courier Times Rush Limbaugh, the most successful conservative radio personality ever, must come clean over allegations of drug abuse, or he's toast. I say this sadly, since I'm one of Rush's 23 million fans. Allegations that he illegally obtained and used huge amounts of addictive pain pills like OxyContin, the "hillbilly heroin," can't be papered over with "let's stick to the issues," as Rush told his listeners yesterday. Unless he proves the allegations are false, he is no better than those goofs on the left whom he regularly derides as "long-haired, dope-smoking, maggot-infested" wackos....