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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (475442)	10/13/2003 2:03:12 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "those who whine hypocrite are out of touch with reason." Limbaugh’s greatest hits of hypocrisy and his sneers at celebrity dopers like baseball player Darryl Strawberry and rocker Kurt Cobain, and virtually every newspaper dredged up this 1995 quote from Rush: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” The penalty for illegally buying large quantities of prescription painkillers in Florida can be five years in jail, and contrary to some published reports, prosecutors do go after users as well as pushers—especially if they want to make an example.... msnbc.com Reason enough?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (475442)	2/15/2004 6:28:47 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

But all those who whine hypocrite are out of touch with reason. You sure say strange things. Read this slowly: The guy both doctor-shopped and used his maid as a pusher to get him THOUSANDS of pills to get high on. And note that he's on the air now, not disabled by pain and presumably not high on OxyContin. As a reminder, because your brain seems not to retain information that it's been supplied, here's why "reason" requires you do acknowledge that Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite. (I mean, as well as being a criminal.) Just one example. (There are so many!) Rush: "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... 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." Oh, here's one more: "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." Limbaugh is a weakling and a hypocrite who demands one standard for himself (very nice treatment)and another (up the river or out of the country) for everyone else.