Gentler Limbaugh returns from drug rehab to airwaves

[sharonstone]

Rush Limbaugh's return to the radio on Monday was part dittohead and part "Dr. Phil,'' as the popular conservative host spoke openly and emotionally about his addiction to painkillers and promised more in the weeks to come.

Limbaugh had been missing from the airwaves since Oct. 10, spending more than a month in a rehabilitation clinic in Arizona. Limbaugh told listeners that he left the clinic Wednesday with a better outlook on life.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/18/LIMBAUGH.TMP

[mbperrin]

1. He'll be "gentler" after

spending the same kind of time in prison that he so heartily recommended for others!

F**K that piece of shit!

[Norton]

2. Limbaugh is just the same old pig...

he just has two faces now.

[TahitiNut]

3. Duplicate

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[jbm]

4. this part..

where he says:

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"I can no longer try to live my life by making other people happy,'' Limbaugh said during one of several talks about his addiction in the first hour of his show. "I can no longer turn over the power of my feelings to anybody else, which is what I have done a lot of my life.''

<snip>

seems very telling. I'm having a hard time phrasing this correctly,but it strikes me that a person with a sense of their own identity makes that discovery fairly early on in the growth process. The fact that this comes as a revelation to him says something.

[Kool Kitty]

5. Here's a coincidence for you-

my son lost his job today. Why? He's a recovering addict, has been busted twice and through rehab twice. This time, it seems to have worked, and he's been clean for 13 months. Now you know how it is (then again, maybe you don't), if you answer on the job application that you have a drug conviction, chances are you won't even get an interview, let alone a job. He has a part-time job that luckily he had before he got into trouble and they were open-minded enough to take him back after, but it isn't enough for him to live on. So, a friend recommended him for a job and told him not to state the drug conviction when he filled out the application. My son figured the guy should know, and he followed his advice. Well, long enough story short-they did a background check and he was fired today, after about a month on the job. They said he was a great worker but they had to let him go because he lied. So he asked them if they would have even given him a chance if he had told the truth. They told him no, they would not have hired him because of the arrest record.

Which makes me wonder what do you have to do to get ahead or get a chance or rehabilitate yourself, and at least get a job that pays a living wage if no one is willing to take a chance on you? Or do you only have to be a bloated, hate-spewing right wingnut blowhard? Is that all it takes?