Maybe we should expect Limbaugh to be the target of comments and jokes because he's a massive hypocrite on the subject and has, in the past, called for users to be punished as harshly as dealers.

When?

If Rush was a left winger, then liberals would be saying "oh poor Rush, he has an illness and needs help...", but instead they are glad to see him get in trouble for something.

When Rush announced the problem he was having on the air I was kind of jolted by his admission. Rush is only human and this type of thing happens to millions of people, after surgery you get injected with Demerol and Morphine and I can tell you from experience that pain meds are extremely addictive. I was addicted to pain meds for a few months until I quit taking the pills, it wasn’t easy to do, but I didn’t want to live my life dependant on pills like a “junkie.” The problem for Rush is that on top of his pain med problem, he is Rush Limbaugh; therefore he isn’t allowed to mention race or have any type of human failing because he is a conservative. I think this shows a side of rush that makes him even more interesting than before, I wish him good luck in his recovery and hope he gets back to the microphone with his incredibly insightful and witty political observations soon.

I do not believe this story has received nearly the amount of attention it deserves. Here you have a right wing talk show host that bashes anyone that uses drugs when he himself is an adict. He has held himself to a higher standard than the rest of the population and should be revealed to be the hypocrit he is. The EIB acronym should now be Excellence In Bulls***.

The current event concerning Limbaugh’s drug habit does raise the question of hypocrisy. How can Limbaugh engage in the bashing of Ted Kennedy for his drunkenness, when Rush is using pills? We certainly have the pot calling the kettle black. I am willing to forgive Rush for his shortcomings because his ideology and way of thinking is much like mine. If the Clintonistas can stand by their guy when he’s too busy raping people and playing with gullible interns to address matters of national security then I can stand by Rush in his much more innocuous pain killer dilemma.
As for all the liberals who are taking pleasure in bashing Rush for this pill problem I say this, you guys are experts on drug addiction so why not come with advice for conservatives about Rush’s problem? Why not explain to conservatives how this happens and make yourselves useful in sharing some of the life experience that you actually do have.

"We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs, we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec. 9, 1993

"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

"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

Here are the Liberals, so full of compassion for all of these issues such as drug and alcohol dependence, until a conservative becomes a casualty of the problem, then they become pit bulls.

Millions of people that you would never associate with drug addiction become addicted to pain meds after surgery, it is not uncommon. Brett Farve, one of the greatest quarterbacks had a back injury and became hopelessly addicted to the pain meds; did I lose respect for him or start digging up ten year old quotes of his? I was glad that he took personal responsibility for his problem and got treatment, that’s how I feel about anyone in that circumstance.

So Ted Kennedy and Rush did have something in common, the difference between them is that Rush is going for treatment.

For cryin' out loud!!! This isn't an issue about liberal v. conservative. It's not about who's going for treatment and who's not. It's about the fact that Rush is a humongous, fat pig of a lying, selfish, self-serving hypocrite.

I feel better now......

It makes you feel good that a conservative is addicted to a drug he originally got hooked on from treatment for medical problems he does have? So much for bleeding hear liberalism. Liberals are just as cold hearted as they accuse conservatives to being when it comes to conservatives like Rush Limbaugh.

Rush is a massive hypocrite and his "chronic back pain" excuse doesn't wash when you think back to all of the golf outings he's talked about.
I think all drugs should be legalized...and I think hyporcites like Limbaugh ought to be shot at dawn.
Here's an idea Limbaugh...you do your thing and shut up about what other people do. Mind your own business. It's hard to have sympathy for a loud-mouthed shill for the neocons...it'd be easier if the guy was a little more humble and frankly a little more conservative.

>> a loud-mouthed shill for the neocons>>


I don't know when exactly this became the favorite buzz word of the liberals. Obviously it is a derisive term, but what does it mean?

NEO: Means new.
CON: Short for conservative? Short for conserves? Who knows?

Conserves are like preserves, so are they calling us "new jelly"? If so, that's the best insult you can come up with?

A synonym for conservative is traditional. Aren't new and traditional antonyms? So that makes no sense either.

Maybe they mean it like neo-nazi; the old nazis disappeared and after an absence of a couple generations another group took on the name. If that's that's the case, what happened to the old conservatives? As far as I know, there has been a continuous string of conservatives throughout the years.

Maybe they mean that we were just recently converted to conservatism, hence "new conservative". But I've been a conservative my whole life, so that makes no sense either.

So in other words, how does throwing that particular prefix on our label even make any sense, let alone come off as an insult? Apparently there was nothing inherently offensive about being a conservative, so they had to find some way to spice it up. Personally, I don't need to come up with a nifty new prefix, calling someone a liberal is insulting enough all by itself.

TonyO you seem to be the sort who overuses/misuses the word "liberal"...a dime a dozen (and even cheaper amongst the Ditto-Idiots. If I'm a "liberal" I'm a liberal who opposes affirmative action, wants to deport illegals, favors gun rights and owns several handguns, supports the REAL conservative foreign policy of Buchanan and Ron Paul, and believes in real free-market capitalism and opposes overregulation...

What is a neocon? If you are incapable of finding that out on your own...I see why you entrust Limbaugh to simplify for you. A neocon tends to buy into the PNAC/AEI brand of neoliberalism/neoconservatism. He tends to put Israeli interests before American, tends to be in favor of globalism and of selling American sovereignty out. A neocon is a traitor. You very likely are indeed one of them.

And by the way, young Tony...a neocon is NOT a conservative.