Limbaugh Should Stop Whining

[reprehensor]

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/7609062.htm

"It is also laugh-out-loud funny to hear Limbaugh complain about police having access to his medical and bank records. At one time, such records were considered private. But no longer. Any time they want, police can now snoop into our bank and medical affairs, as well as our e-mail, credit card accounts and library books. It's all part of John Ashcroft's Patriot Act - which Limbaugh gleefully supported."
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If Rush was a REAL MAN, he would take his medicine like one.

[H2O Man]

1. The Road to Recovery....

....has many wrong turns. I worked with MICA (mentally ill chemical abusers) for over a decade ...severe personality disorders tend to have the hardest time admitting that they have to take responsibility for their addictions .... Rush is pointing at everyone to the left of him, which will result in his going right back to his addiction ... the road to recovery is narrow indeed, and does not allow for self-righteousness. While I do not like the man, or agree with anything I have heard come from his mouth, I do feel sorry for him. Addiction is a tough disorder, especially when it is layered on top of so many other fears and hatreds as Rush lives with. I hope that people will not take any pleasure from his suffering. Better to ignore him the same as you would any drunken stubble-bum ranting and raving on a street corner in your community.

[reprehensor]

3. Well, you can ignore him then...

Perhaps at your peril;

http://www.cursor.org/stories/fascismintroduction.php

Maybe he's just another right wing hypocrite;

Heritage Foundation raised 'several million' in Hong Kong
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23435

Here is a joke!
Q: What is the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
A: One is a Nazi gas-bag, and one is a dirigible.

[kcwayne]

4. How many drunken stubble-bum ranters

do you know that make 200 million a year for demonizing liberals? Consider how much damage Rush has done to democracy, and how much he will continue to do since his followers don't take his addiction as evidence mental instability, but have embraced him as a victim.

It is very difficult to have sympathy for him. A Greater Good argument in regards to Rush is that it would be best if he were to sink back into addiction to the point of incapacitation, so that this pathetic mouthpiece of right wing propaganda recuses himself from public debate. Would you feel sorry for Goebbels? Humanitarianism has its limits, and Rush goes beyond mine.

[reprehensor]

6. I don't know any.

Plus, ignoring the homeless is probably something a conservative is more apt to do.

'They have to help themsleves!'
'Not with my tax dollars!'
'It's their own fault!'
'Free Health Care?! That's socialism!'

Etc, etc, etc...

[Dr.Phool]

2. limbaugh for Dean!!!

I think if the good doctor gave him a couple of prescriptions for Vicodin or Oxycontin, He'd endorse him in a second.

Just another creative way to capture the moron-american vote:toast:

:kick:

[reprehensor]

5. Good idea!

The pathetic thing is, you're probabaly correct. I think the tubby bugger would endorse ANY presidential candidate who would offer him a presidential pardon, prescription or no.

[salinen]

7. Limpcysts

has been a great influence in the civil war now raging in America. I despise the idea that if the enemy has a drug problem, they need forgiveness. I'm sure Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Popes, and Saddam, probably had some sort of addictions.

[Caution]

8. Drug use <> Evil

Sorry but that is just another part of the BS rhetoric that is spewed out by the religious right and the conservative agenda in order to continue on the path of control.

For every evil drig user out there I can show you an equally good one. Drug use may not be the most desirable thing in the world from a health standpoint, but it cerainly has nothing to do whatsoever with morality.

[kcwayne]

10. Drug use is immoral when it harms others

When an expectant mother who is addicted to heroin or cocaine passes the addiction onto her child, there certainly is moral issue at play. That child has no choice in its addiction, the mother's choices have superceded the child's rights to a healthy existence.

When drug use drives one to commit crimes such as theft or murder to obtain the means to feed the addiction, then there certainly is a moral issue at hand.

When drug or alcohol abuse leads one to abuse their spouse and children either physically or mentally, there are moral issues at play. If one has made to choice to lead an interdependent life, where others are depending on that person for love or financial support, then the choice to let substance abuse interfere with those commitments is an abrogation of responsibility.

All drug users are not evil or immoral. However, the statistics on harm caused by drug users is compelling. For the last decade Jesse Jackson hase been speaking about the fact that the leading cause of death of black males between the ages of 16 and 30 was another black male, and the cause was usually related to drug consumption or distribution.

Republicans think this is a criminal prosecution issue and have built alot of jails to house all the people they are arresting. This is clearly ineffective, and largely because it is a moral issue that no amount of criminal prosecution will address. As Mr. Jackson says, it is immoral that a society would spend more on incarceration than it would on eduction or creating opportunities for this group of citizens.

In short there are public and personal morality issues at play in regards to how drugs are allowed to impact society. Since the consequences of abuse and addiction on others are high, it is impossible for a society to approach this issue as merely one of personal choice. Every law is too wide for some cases and too narrow for others. But that is the price of living in society.

[kclown]

9. From Yesterday's Chicago Tribune

Rush Limbaugh has spent his radio career excoriating the personal and political choices of others, but when he returned to the airwaves in November after admitting to prescription pill addiction, he opined that "you can't change anybody else's behavior. All you can do is change your own." But if he can't change anyone else's behavior, doesn't that mean he's out of a job?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-0312310210dec31,1,216950.story

[jbfam4]

11. part of Bill Press article

"OK We'll know Rush Limbaugh is really cured of his problem when he stands up like a man and admits: "I was wrong. Drug addiction is a medical problem, not a criminal problem. It makes no sense to put nonviolent drug offenders in jail. Every drug addict deserves a chance at rehabilitation, just like me,"

Press mades a lot of sense, but will we ever hear these words coming from Rush? I doubt it. He thinks all the dems are after him to get back at his America held hostage by Clinton talk.

[Skittles]

12. and just how do REAL MEN "take their medicine' ???

most men I know whine like f***ing babies when they're sick

[opihimoimoi]

13. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!