The Rush factor
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Hey, I’m just predicting the future here, not speculating on whether or not Rush Limbaugh has influenced the course of American public policy. He may very well have done so for all I know, but I still see Roadrunner coming along in about 3 or 4 days and locking this thing up when it turns into another one of your BBQ pit extravaganzas. 
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Banjo said:
I agree with you about Rush. Something about this REEKS. Most addicts don't take responsibilty for their behaviors until after they are in recovery. He supposedly went through a program, but I wonder if he truly is working the program, or if he's just making excuses for himself. In my mind, if he was truly being stand up, he would stop fighting and would hand over his medical records like a man!
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Hillary Fails First Test
February 14, 2005
RUSH: I'm sick and tired of hearing that Hillary Clinton
is "moving to the center" on certain things,
like abortion or whatever. Let's say it right.
Hillary Clinton, when she does that, is moving
to the right. She's moving on the right.
She's not moving to the "center." The left
and the media don't want to actually say it,
so they say she's "moving to the center."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021405/content/cutting_edge.guest.html
February 14, 2005
RUSH: I'm sick and tired of hearing that Hillary Clinton
is "moving to the center" on certain things,
like abortion or whatever. Let's say it right.
Hillary Clinton, when she does that, is moving
to the right. She's moving on the right.
She's not moving to the "center." The left
and the media don't want to actually say it,
so they say she's "moving to the center."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021405/content/cutting_edge.guest.html
Oceanbreeze said:
Click here to view my recent blog entry, I just did one on Rush. More longer and more detailed on what my thoughts are concerning the subject.
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Codger said:
One thing I enjoyed about being in radio is getting some of the inside entertaing stuff (disc jockeys always make fun of other disc jockeys). Somebody I know played some tapes for me of Rush when he was a normal disc jockey spinning records (has a nice intro to the band 'Chicago').
I'll give him credit. One thing people always talk about is weather and politics. My belief is he originally started talking about politics as there was a niche for it. As a DJ, you want to get peoples attention and get them to listen...his choice was either weather or politics. The other thing to talk about is sex, ala Howard Stern...
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The medical records should not be released. Rush has every right to sue cause i heard theres a think called confidenality. Which means whatever goes bewteen you and your doctor in his office or in examing room remains quiet.If this lawsuit doesnt favor for rush that will mean people might not trust what they say to their doctor nor people might not trust doctors anymore.
ravensteve1961 said:
The problem here is, he's being investigated for doctor-shopping and getting as many prescriptions as he can. The information could be right in these records, which is what we call... "evidence".
It's not like we'll publish his entire medical records in the newspapers or anything. All they need to know is if he actually did do what he was accused of. Otherwise, they can't prove it.
When it come to the legal system, they should be allowed to take a look at it if they wish to if they feel it is relevant to the case.
ravensteve1961 said:
You gotta listen to Rush Limbaugh who is a doctor shopper? He got prescription painkillers from several doctors, You call that responsible? He also claim that he has the right of privacy doesn't want his records out in public? Why is that? Oh He doesn't want to be caught with his pants down that he is committing a crime by going to several doctors and get painkiller medications.
And Rush is from your state hometown, Why aren't I surprised you stand by his side?
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Wrong Cheri,Rush is from Missouri.
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Rush Limbaugh doesn't spread this far out in my country, thanks goodness.
One question for you Ravensteve, how do you know what Rush is spouting on the radio nowadays? As you mention your hearing is pretty bad enough for you to consider getting an CI.
One question for you Ravensteve, how do you know what Rush is spouting on the radio nowadays? As you mention your hearing is pretty bad enough for you to consider getting an CI.
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LIMBAUGH IN THE SHADOW OF HIS OWN WORDS
"Let's all admit something." Rush Limbaugh was on his usual tear.
"There's nothing good about drug use," he was saying. "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."
And this includes zillionaire radio hosts? Hmmm ...
When you have a talk-radio show 15 hours a week, you have an awful lot of air to fill. On this particular day, which was Oct. 5, 1995, Rush was roaring about the scourge of illegal drug use.
Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."
Including zillionaire radio hosts? Well, maybe not.
What a week it's been for Rush! First, he gets chased out of ESPN in a racial furor. Then, he is accused in Florida of buying thousands of powerful painkillers from an illegal drug-selling ring.
OxyContin. Hydrocodone. Highly addictive opiates. A gargantuan number of pills over several years - almost 100 a day on one 47-day binge. His 42-year-old housekeeper, Wilma Cline, says she dealt the closely controlled pills to America's top-rated syndicated radio host. Some were hidden under his mattress so his wife wouldn't find them. Others were passed in a Denny's parking lot.
The story was broken by the National Enquirer, but it's already burst into the mainstream press. Secret tapes. Incriminating e-mails. Twice, Limbaugh reportedly checked himself into rehab - and later relapsed.
What will the conservative listeners think?
What pain, what disappointment, what insecurity could explain something like this? The talker wasn't talking about that yesterday.
Understandably so.
Another public moralist had been caught in a personal jam. And Rush's words were coming back to haunt him.
The constant digs at Bill Clinton not inhaling. The heartless shrug when Jerry Garcia died. "'When you strip it all away," Rush had said of the Grateful Dead guitarist, "Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."
Rush Limbaugh isn't the first prominent finger-pointer to eat his own words. It wasn't so long ago that Bill Bennett was explaining how an anti-vice crusader could also be a degenerate gambler.
And Jeb Bush, the president's brother and Rush's governor, was pleading for leniency and privacy when his daughter got arrested for drugs. Yet he'd been happily sending other Florida youngsters to long prison terms for similar crimes.
Typical.
But there in the dusty Limbaugh archives one glimmer of sanity did appear yesterday.
It came from 1998, just about the time Wilma Cline's black-market drug ring was revving up. Rush was on the radio. He was talking about America's "half-baked" war on drugs. We might all be better off, he said quite plainly, if drugs were legalized - and then regulated like cigarettes.
"What is missing in the drug fight," he said, "is legalization. If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. License the Cali cartel. Make them taxpayers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."
Was he serious? I'm not sure.
But the timing is interesting, you'd have to say. And I'll bet he quotes those words again.
"Let's all admit something." Rush Limbaugh was on his usual tear.
"There's nothing good about drug use," he was saying. "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."
And this includes zillionaire radio hosts? Hmmm ...
When you have a talk-radio show 15 hours a week, you have an awful lot of air to fill. On this particular day, which was Oct. 5, 1995, Rush was roaring about the scourge of illegal drug use.
Even though blacks and whites break the drug laws in roughly equal percentages, he noted, black druggies go to prison far more often than white druggies do. But to the liberal-bashing host, this was no reason to ease up on blacks.
"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."
Including zillionaire radio hosts? Well, maybe not.
What a week it's been for Rush! First, he gets chased out of ESPN in a racial furor. Then, he is accused in Florida of buying thousands of powerful painkillers from an illegal drug-selling ring.
OxyContin. Hydrocodone. Highly addictive opiates. A gargantuan number of pills over several years - almost 100 a day on one 47-day binge. His 42-year-old housekeeper, Wilma Cline, says she dealt the closely controlled pills to America's top-rated syndicated radio host. Some were hidden under his mattress so his wife wouldn't find them. Others were passed in a Denny's parking lot.
The story was broken by the National Enquirer, but it's already burst into the mainstream press. Secret tapes. Incriminating e-mails. Twice, Limbaugh reportedly checked himself into rehab - and later relapsed.
What will the conservative listeners think?
What pain, what disappointment, what insecurity could explain something like this? The talker wasn't talking about that yesterday.
Understandably so.
Another public moralist had been caught in a personal jam. And Rush's words were coming back to haunt him.
The constant digs at Bill Clinton not inhaling. The heartless shrug when Jerry Garcia died. "'When you strip it all away," Rush had said of the Grateful Dead guitarist, "Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."
Rush Limbaugh isn't the first prominent finger-pointer to eat his own words. It wasn't so long ago that Bill Bennett was explaining how an anti-vice crusader could also be a degenerate gambler.
And Jeb Bush, the president's brother and Rush's governor, was pleading for leniency and privacy when his daughter got arrested for drugs. Yet he'd been happily sending other Florida youngsters to long prison terms for similar crimes.
Typical.
But there in the dusty Limbaugh archives one glimmer of sanity did appear yesterday.
It came from 1998, just about the time Wilma Cline's black-market drug ring was revving up. Rush was on the radio. He was talking about America's "half-baked" war on drugs. We might all be better off, he said quite plainly, if drugs were legalized - and then regulated like cigarettes.
"What is missing in the drug fight," he said, "is legalization. If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. License the Cali cartel. Make them taxpayers and then sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."
Was he serious? I'm not sure.
But the timing is interesting, you'd have to say. And I'll bet he quotes those words again.
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Seeing how ravensteve1961 thinks that he's like Rush, I'd have to say that he's being investigated for his similar police-bashing comments and actions in Florida... as ravensteve1961 frequently does.Cheri said:
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Rush was with ravensteve1961 when he slashed the tires of that police car years ago. *whistling*
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U cant believe everything Rush says cuz hes a dopehead just like you cant
believe anything alcoholics says cuz they are drunk..lol!
You'd be surprised when they sober up, they dont remember anything they said when they were fucked up on dope and alcohol! so piss on Rush and on anybody who talk shit about anything cuz they dont know what they are talking about...so who cares what Rush says? i dont! heh!!
believe anything alcoholics says cuz they are drunk..lol!
You'd be surprised when they sober up, they dont remember anything they said when they were fucked up on dope and alcohol! so piss on Rush and on anybody who talk shit about anything cuz they dont know what they are talking about...so who cares what Rush says? i dont! heh!!
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VamPyroX said:Seeing how ravensteve1961 thinks that he's like Rush, I'd have to say that he's being investigated for his similar police-bashing comments and actions in Florida... as ravensteve1961 frequently does.
yeah really!!