Limbaugh admits it

Just heard him with my own ears. Addicted for 5 years, went through rehab twice...

He's going to rehab for the next 30 days

www.drudgereport.com

LIMBAUGH: I AM ADDICTED TO PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDICATION... 'WILL ENTER 30-DAY TREATMENT CENTER'... 'I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY PROBLEM'... 'I WANT TO ASK FOR YOUR PRAYERS'... I'LL BE BACK.

Rush Limbaugh Official Statement
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031010/laf041_1.html

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Rush Limbaugh today issued the following statement on his radio program:
"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life. So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

MORE AT LINK ABOVE.


Here's the current discussion about this topic in GD:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=512293

Regardless how you feel about the schmuck, addiction is a b*tch.

if he continues with his abusive, lying talk show. He can go to rehab every other month but it ain't going to get him sober if he does not change his behavior.

He can't do it...He continued to use even after he lost his hearing! He just does not have consequences which would motivate him enough. He has so many secondary gains from his show...it feeds his snake/disease.

Mark my words folks.....he'll tinker with the methadone and be right back at it.....then his wife will leave him if she has any sense and a good liberal divorce lawyer....

I'm enjoying this...... :)

to an extent, but today it's really bad.

REALLY bad.

I fear you are right.

Geez, I bet they make him give up those cigars!

It's pretty funny.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/998915/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

I find those cheering the drug addiction of another to be sick, vindictive, petty little people. You are shameless asses to be rejoicing. Rush will probably end up being fine. I hope he that he is back on the air soon, just to spite the assholes who call themselves Democrats who are giddy over his situation. You make me sick. Compassionate? No, you people thrilled over this don't deserve to be called Democrats. You are acting more like Stalinists, seeking to stifle others speech and rejoicing at rivals misfortune. You make me ashamed to be a Democrat.

NOTE WELL: Above only intended for those happy about Rush Limbaugh's illness/drug addiction.

And I'm a proud 'shameless ass' that is doing so.

Rush for decades has been hyping the hypocrisy about how drug legalization, especially for non-addictive drugs like marijuana, would only lead to the demoralization of our country.

Normally my heart goes out for anyone fighting a drug addiction. But Robert Downey Jr, Charlie Sheen and the countless other hollywood names who have noted run-ins with severe drug abuse did not spend hours on end on the radio preaching about the HORRORS of drug abuse and how anyone who uses is the scum of the earth WHILE they were strung out on the drugs of choice

This is no different then Mr Moral's himself Bill Bennett preaching family values while losing over $6million at the casinos.

Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite and deserves every rejoicing comment posted here in this thread. I too pray that he can get clean from this highly addictive drug he is using, but I also pray that he learns what a hypocritical, racist, sexist bastard he is and uses his radio time to do good instead of creating hate!

Get off your high horses, your post is typical of something Rush Limbaugh would say.

Hip shooters are a strange breed.

I volunteer to buy them.

And don't forget those twelve steps, especially when you have to make ammends to all those you wronged while under the influence!

he's a criminal and should spend some time in jail. But he won't. They deal has already been struck.

nice job flying under the radar.

buh-bye

what's that mean?

Get it, now?

I find such visceral hatred to be strange. I hate nobody, I may hate the message, but never the individual.

Gee what a saint you are! How could I have ever argued with such a holy individual! :D

When it's a poor minority, it's a crime.

Seems like your post came from the ass, "fromthehip."

Mark Souder will probably say that it is a sickness and that he needs everyones prayers.

But if it was someone of "no consequence" then he would say they should be incarcerated.

I have never said that drug use is anything but an illness. Obviously it must be, and to those who impugn my Democratic credentials, I can point to three family members who currently, or in the past, have held elected office as Democrats. So piss off. I, unlike many others here do not take pleasure in the pain of others. I disagree vehemently with Rush, but I have never wished him ill, nor rejoiced at his illness. Where have the true Democrats gone, have we turned into a vindictive party? By the way, only to senior staff will I reveal the names of my relatives who hold office. However, I can tell you that one is Chief Judge of a circuit in Illinois, another is deceased Chief Judge and was a legislator in another area of Illinois, and that one is a city councilman in Ohio.

the names of my relatives..." Are you on drugs? Get over yourself and your self-righteousness. Rush has nearly destroyed our country with his visciouness, He deserves every bit of what he mught get on this board.

named Rush Limbaugh can ruin the United States, you've got issues. His listenership is probably less than five million daily. There is no way.

...eom

:eyes:

to be indignant?

Rush spent 20 years creating hate and division. I have barely spoken to my brother (the one who figured out our connection to the Bush family through my Walker relatives) in over the past decade because my brother and his wife are diehard Rush fans who believe the crap that comes out of his mouth.

Rush spews HATE - whether it's sexism, racism, nationalism or just another opportunity to blame Clinton for whatever ails him it all sums up to one thing - HATE!!!

I hope Rush doesn't think 30 days in rehab is going to cure him of whatever ails him. He is addictive to a highly potent opiate drug that can be more powerful that heroin. Addicts can get themselves clean but they need therapy and ongoing support through a counsellor and NA/AA in order to keep clean. Maybe under the guise of an opiate haze he actually was able to spew the hate that he had on his show everyday. I'm hoping that he'll come to terms with the damage that he has done.

and the drugs are related. That's probably why his employer didn't fire him after he relapsed after the first and second rehab incidents--Rush was addicted to the narcotics, the narcotics produced the hate and paranoia, and the audience became addicted to the hate and paranoia.

His drug addiction actually made money for the EIB network!

Now it may well be that Rush was hateful and managed through the use of the narcotics; that could be true as well, but it doesn't get EIB off of the hook in profiting that way, either.

Think about it. Why on earth would any network allow a guy who relapsed on narcotics TWICE to keep broadcasting to so many people?

$$$$$$

No stretch to believe that Rush was extremely angry--frightened, perhaps--at the loss of control he felt over his addiction. He did a marvelous job of externalizing the problem and devaluing others with the same burden. Didn't get him off drugs, though.


Now, he's probably moving to the "dry drunk" phase where he will say alot of the right things, minimalize his responsibility, never really embrace the concepts of true sobriety, but will stay angry and blaming. What will be harder for Rush about coming truly clean and sober is that getting past that blame-and-anger mentality will mean shameless acceptance, poor ratings and, ultimately, rejecting the very persona that has made him so attractive to so many.

How sad.

Sort of reminds me of David Brock's plight in letting go of his anger, leaving the right wing behind and coming out of the closet. (Book: Blinded by the Right)

Where does that leave me (like I'm so worried about about what a troll thinks of me!)

Tut-tut

Then again we are the party of the donkey - welcome to our team!!!

:dem:

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. Rush's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!


morally, ethic'lly

Spiritually, physically

Positively, absolutely

Undeniably and reliably Dead!


This is a day of Independence For all the Munchkins and their descendants!

It's not because he's addicted I'm dancing on his grave.

It's cause he's a big, fat hypocrite Nazi windbag demagogue!

Yeah!

how we have progressed. Seems only yesterday you were calling Clinton a cokehead etc. The point is not the "drug taking." It's the hypocrisy. How long has Rush spewed the worst hatred and bigotry all the while talking about morals.

He is STILL not being honest. Read his statement. "prescription drugs?" <like he was Elvis or something & had 20 docs giving him pain killers>. Don't lie again Rush, NO doc was writing prescriptions, you were getting them on the black market. That's a crime you know? And remember, "when you do drugs, you help terrorists." I think he should be reported to Asscroft!

edit: typos

http://www.whiterosesociety.org/

The whole show was great! Near the end he read a freeper post I sent him too. Hilarious stuff.

smoke-but-did-not-inhale remarks.

NO MERCY!!!!!

Democrats have always been sympathetic to people who have drug related problems. We don't treat them as criminals. Rush has made huge bucks ($24MM a year?) to spread lies and divisiveness.

When are you people going to understand that he declared war against us and has been a big proponent of incarceration for people with less problems than he has?

What you refuse to accept is the truth....he was lying to you and the dittoheads that listen. He was doing exactly the same thing that he was telling his audience was so bad in others.

He deserves to reap what he has demanded of others on his show...jail time. He's a high paid, truth twisting , junkie lowlife.

His pain is that pinprick of a conscience that he has dull by consuming mass quantities of narcotics.

Like all the righteous, moralistic blowhards on the Right, he is a money making hypocrite...period.

We're shameless? Bite me.

Do you think it's just fine for that creep to lambast drug addicts, even saying they should be deported, while he is in the same boat? After all this scumbag is the most widely listened to radio personality in the country. Bottom line, are you saying that he can demonize people engagaing in the same illegal behavior as he and get off scott free, while they are sent to jail? If so here's a big :thumbsdown:

I have absolutely no compassion for the man. This is Christmas morning, an Oreo milkshake and a drug-induced orgasm, all rolled into one.

Carville once said, "When your enemy is drowning, throw him a brick."

Limbaugh deserves this. He brought it on himself, and he's a vile hypocrite. Besides, the freepers have spent the past week accusing us of viciously inventing these allegations.

Thank you Jaysus.

Rush Limbaugh would sell his grandmother for a radio rating point. No one here is rejoicing but if they were he would deserve it. Karma is a bitch.

The man has no one but himself to blame. He most likely won't be fine because he doesn't have the character to beat this. He is a lying scumbag with a huge unearned ego and a ridiculous sense of entitlement. Damn right I want to shut him up. He is poison to Anerica and Americans. It's just that his listeners are too fucking stupid to realize it. Oh well, what can you expect from a republican?

The entire left has been waiting for this prick to fuck up in a way even he can't get out of. That day has happened.

Hopefully he will soon be gone and we can begin to repair the damage he caused.

My hardon still hasn't gone away, ten hours later. Rejoicin' am I.

does not deserve sympathy or understanding he deserves every fucking ounce of derision & contempt that any true Democrat would naturally feel towards such a vile shit of a human-being.

Save your holier than thou lecture for someone worth while for fuck-sakes.
The man is strait out Scum of the worst kind.

So feel ashamed if you must.

"There's no truth whatsoever to these allegations"..."I've known Rush for years", etc, etc, bs, bs...

//Two reasons for the lack of sympathy. First, the vast majority of those in prison on drug charges took the drugs to get high, not because they had a pain problem. Second, most of them have robbed or mugged or hurt other people in their quest to get high.//

So at which link in the chain is theft not involved ? Pharmacuticals are subject to strict accounting ya knucklehead

//Hopefully Rush will see his way through this and Americans can re-evaluate the Drug War. Is Rush any different than a crack head on the Lower East Side or a junkie in Hell's Kitchen?
Since this story broke a week ago, I have been vilified for just suggesting that Rush might have a drug problem, that he might have bought narcotics illegally, that his hearing loss might have been caused by drug abuse, and that his stance in support of the War on Drugs might be hypocritical.
For saying that, posters here have called me a drug addict, a drunk, a liar, and a Democrat.
I wonder if they'll show up to apologize for slandering me now that they have been proven wrong?
Good luck, Rush, and get well soon.//

Use the Force, Luke!

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scramblin Freeps not on drugs:

Unfortunately, I agree this reminds me of the Bennet threads. Bennet laost his moral authority, and has not been taken seriously since. I fear this will also be true with Rush. I don't think Sean Hannity -- our best relief pitcher -- is up to replacing Rush. I think the biggest talent might be Laura Ingrahm, but she's probably not ready for national roll-out, either.
ANY junkie takes it to get high. You think Rush took 100 pills a day because he was in pain. Maybe at first. But once the drug takes over, it takes over, it becomes an end in itself, the end all be all.
My brother died at the age of 48 after long, long battles with addiction. I saw it first hand. You just don't know how awful a road Rush is on. Truly awful.
As for robbing and mugging. Right. A junkie will do ANYTHING, absolutely ANYTHING to get the drug. It's their Categorical Imperative, their Unbreakable law. //

//Rush is just LUCKY. He's already got the money to buy his drugs, loads of it. But he isn't any different at bottom from any other junkie. He is no longer in control of his life. He lives for a highly addictive drug. He can say that he wants to get off, but believe me it's a long road. Most junkies that I have known through the ugly journey of my dear brother -- who was a great guy, in his own right -- have to hit utter rock bottom before they turn their lives around. And many never do, it's an endless spiral into darkness.
the only difference between RUsh and the rest is his dough and his celebrity.
I hate to say this. the man has been through detox twice. he's lost his hearing. he will probably loss his show and his celebrity will be repalced by noteriety. He may end up in prison.
But you know what? that may not be enough.
You should have more and deeper sympathy for the down trodden who lack anything like Rush's resources. Many of them fight the good fight against this sort of thing a lose. Some survive. But it is truly horrible. Truly.
Have you ever seen the movie Requium for a Dream. It tells the honest story about what addiction is like.//

//His surgery pain is not an excuse, and if Rush meant it when he said he is not a victim
He says he's not a victim but uses the back surgery excuse at the same time? RB, if you are in recovery, you can smell that...
And he does not sound good on the radio today at all. He's wavering in and out of a buzz.
These are facts. Rush has verified some substance in the accuser's story.
Too bad.
Too human.
This is serious injury to conservative media credibility.//

I agree - the bile he puts out, from the mindset he occupies, probably will doom him to failure. His ego will probably not allow him to submit the way you have to when you REALLY admit and face the fact that you have a serious problem.

*

Quotable Rush:

On Kurt Cobain: "Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, was a worthless shred of human debris."

Such a nice, kind, compassionate man.

I heard that it was five.

. . . if losing his hearing wasn't enough to get him to stop, he hasn't hit bottom yet. And won't until the consequences effect his pocketbook.

TYY

if it is just words

But to have the will power that he claims to have he has failed.

He deserves it.

...not all drug users. Just pro-drug war drug ABUSERS like this lying hypocrite.

He deserves to be in prison- he deserves to have his teeth kicked down his throat by a former crack-head cell mate with a life sentence.

I am only advocating for Rush the same "solution" that he has basically advocated for others for years and years...

how many lies did he sprew while being high???

How many lives did he effect...these ditto heads took him as god....they believed every damn word he said....

I hope he falls and never gets back on the band wagon..about how high and mighty he is and the pig party he defends

his drug induced rantings helped get us where we are today. Thousands may still be alive if that junkie hadn't been given a mike.

This man inspires a great deal of hatred and it's pretty much justified, but I hope he is able to overcome his addiction.

Having been addicted by doctor's cross medicating many years ago, I know what awaits him. It takes courage to admit the problem and stiff resolve to get healthy. It remains to be seen if he's got the guts to make it.

I wouldn't wish addiction on my worst enemy and I wish him luck.

and unsuccessful.

Rush was bitching about the high taxes he pays. Hey, better the government get that money than drug kingpins who fund terror.

Freepers head spin: But Rush sounded lucid.

Only to a freeper.

eliminated funds for the very successful drug treatment program here in PA. If Rush wants to take responsibility and redeem himself, let him put some of his millions into treatment for the poor that is no longer available. He's lucky he's not facing jail like a poor oxy-dependent addict would be.

on advice of his lawyers. That is what any jail house defense attorney worth his salt would tell you to do. It is supposed to show the judge that he has surrendered to his addiction and admitted his problem, it is supposed to be beneficial to the perp in the sentencing.

Spot on, you two!

:-)

What is the likelihood of him being revered as a god by the treatment center?

at least from his fellow addicts. Nobody can get into heavy duty truth telling like an addict in recovery.

What can we say? We know Rush and his lying ways. LIAR

Can't even make a statement of contrition without throwing in a whopper.

have loads of "compassion" for drug addicts..well, Jeff Christy anyway, who did the "nobel" thing by admitting his addiction (well after the reality of it was established) Just as they now embrace extra martial affairs and sexual battery. I predict hypocrasy at a level never seen before!

yet he has been hiding and lying for 5 years.

Cheers
Drifter

parse parse parse

except for the 5 years of lying when he was getting away with it.

"By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define further
deviancy downward. We have a duty to pass on values to our
descendants, values that will maintain the standards of behavior and
ensure the survivability of the American way of life. And drugs are
no different. You end up destroying more than yourself."
-- Rush Limbaugh Playboy interview, December 1993

"The problem with legalising drugs is it's another abbhorrent example
of human behavior that we've suddenly decided hey we can't handle it,
we've given up.

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

He wouldn't admit it if there wasn't hard evidence out there somewhere.

Good catch.

:hi:

:loveya: Kef!!

:hi:

is all that is required of him and asscroft’s directive on clamping down on pleas will be waived because it was never meant to be applicable to white repugs.:eyes:

is currently IN JAIL for selling glass bongs. "What irks some observers is that the law used to convict him is not only obscure but has not been enforced — at least in California — for as long as anyone can remember."


http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/lifestyle/cl-et-macgregor10oct10,0,7596805.story

This late Friday show revelation also means that he no longer has any credibility on a whole host of issues. Well, not that he did before.

This will get buried for the long weekend and then POOF...

Gee, I wonder why.

Try pulling your nose hairs and see how fast your eyes start watering.

there could be mandatory jail time for this first-time offense.

... not his doctor's advice. Publicly announcing it is also his lawyer's advice -- it's called damage control. Rush is a undoubtedly felony abuser. If he were black and poor, he'd be looking at 10 years.

Rush is going for his third strike. There's no way no how that 30 days in rehab will be enough. Six months would be marginal for a drug as addictive as oxycontin and an addiction that's gone on as long as 5 years or more. Rush is a hard-core addict. What few brain cells he has are turned to the "dark side" and he'll need far more personal discipline than he's ever com close to demonstaring.

And the cold, dark gaping maw of soullessness that is his abyss is staring right back at him.

hiding out in NYC hoping his lawyer could get them to drop charges. Now he's going to hideout in rehab for a short 30 days and hope that-will-be-that.

I don't think anyone should be able to write their own sentance for breaking laws that, if almost anyone else broke, would have landed then in state prison for 30 yrs. mandatory minimum.

NOT

oh my... ugly ugly ugly....

poor guy.

is he using it as an excuse? is he a victim?

according to his own gasbag, if he's a drug addict then he should be in jail with NO REHAB

against ALL OTHERS BUT THEMSELF all the time.

It's usually that's because that's the very thing THEY are doing themselves.

Billy "Dice" Bennett
Jim "Boy Toy" Bakker
Rush "dittohead/pothead" Pig Boy
BunkerBoy and his wifey pickles
Annthrax Coulter
James Dobson
Pat(ty) Robertson

The list is endless.
Almost all repukes in general.

That's no small feat for the party of denial.

Now if only he'd look into WHY he abuses. It's hard to spend your life convincing people that lies are truths and good is bad and not have it affect your brain.

He needed some kind of balm to ease the flow of lies and hypocrisy. I give him no credit for admitting it though. During Monica Rush said "he only admits/apologizes now because he has to." Same goes with Rush. He's following the advice of a PR firm but he would be more than happy to deny if he could.

The only option for him was to come off as a victim/hero and tell all of his adoring, ignorant fans that he is heading straight to rehab. He also used the excuse of disk surgery or some darn thing; there are plenty of people who have had disk surgery who don't wind up committing crimes to get drugs.

And this guy plays a lot of golf. I don't know how someone with 2 herniated discs in his neck can swing a golf club, much less play it consistently, even with "pain medication."

and then blames back surgery and back pain for his addiction.

"with liberty and justice for all."

just:
People with black hair
poor people
people not named Bush
wingers

He did the crime, he should do the time.

(Not likely, but wouldn't that be sweet?)

this wasn't just 20 pills he took, he was getting TONS of this stuff

throw away the frikkin key!

and throwing away the keys,well I really didn't mean it.

Will the ditto-heads desert him now that they realize they have been blindly following the drug-induced ravings of an addict, the sort of person they have been told to hate and despise and that belongs in prison?

You lurking dittoheads were believing the lies of a junkie.

:-)

Let's see if the media spins this as "Poor Rush, he's in our prayers," or "Rush: Crazed Drug-Addicted Lunatic Rants Uncontrollably Under the Influence For Five Solid Years."

Now, why didn't I figure that out more quickly?

He saw the Clinton could lie about a blow job, so he figured it was OK for him to abuse fraudulently obtained prescription drugs.

it must have been Clinton's all powerful penis that made him an addict!

Then we need Clinton and his wife to do more in public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made a lame joke today in front of a couple of co-workers, something like "I'm rushing like Rush on oxycontin." And I could tell the winger guy got pissed.

I get the feeling not having to recant (or admit you're wrong) until you absolutely have no choice is the way it is now days.

Once a dittohead, always a dittohead. They can't change. It isn't in their nature. A dittohead has a HUGE cavity in his or her skull and the fierce wind there keeps them from thinking. Rush will not go to jail. He is far too valuable to the Bushies.

I've watched my brother and mother make allowances for these people while condemning others for the same conduct.

*shakes head*

Unbelievable.

I think that religious fundamentalism plays a large role in all this because it decreases a person's ability to think critically.

funny how boil ass and governor groper are all pure angels up until they get caught.. only THEN are they sorry.

hypocrits!!!!!!!!!

Hi All,

For years Rush Limbaugh has inflicted his brand of hate and venom.

He has corrupted the minds of untold millions.

He has mocked our democracy and political process.

He has demonized and denigrated whole groups of Americans.

He has profited from the suffering of others.

He has squandered the public trust.

Is this man worthy of our sympathy?

I think not!

Feed him to the lions!

I sure don't like the man, but I woudn't wish the hell of detox on anyone, though apparently you would. He needs help for an addiction - you need some help with your anger management. Seek it out soon.

But I still want him off the airwaves and I want his fans to admit he's a hypocrite and spews oxycontin-induced hatred.

ones without a pot to piss in who've felt the full affect of Rush's "compassion" and his vision of our US criminal system.

You want me to feel bad for a $24mm/year junkie? Someone who has propped up the corrupt politics of the Republican Party? Someone who has provided cover for his political benfactors while destroying the reputations of good, honest Americans?

You "ProgressiveOne" have a lot of nerve to make your "holier than thou" post here. If you cared at all about progressive issues, you'd understand that this man has done more damage to Progressive, enlightened politics than any other person in this country.

Yeah, I want this blowhard to get clean....in prison where he so rightfully belongs. See my compassion?

it is the only way out. It should be hell and that hell might be the only thing that saves them. Or you could just wait and mourn when they die, which they will.

the man is one of the people directly responsible for the destruction of constructive political discourse in this country.

he is at the forefront of the people responsible for creating the right wing hate machine that now lurks among us. spawned worse with the likes of the Savage weiner. spewing hate and intolerance 5 days a week.

and now we're supposed to feel sorry for the brownshirt f#%$. well boo-hoo-hoo. I hope he ends up in prison being made to squeal like the pig he is.

I hope Coulter or Savage go down ugly next...

Go down ugly. I like it...

He says "I'm addicted to prescription pain medication". Problem is he has no prescription. What does that make him?

The powerful narcotics he took were legal only with a triple signed prescription.

That's about it.

No, I thought not.

If he does get clean, he won't rant and rave to the extent that he did before, and that's what his audience loved. He gave them regular doses of hate and paranoia.

for each incident?

Of course it won't be would. It should be but it won't be.

You remember that sick commercial? "If you do drugs, you are helping the terrorists." Where is John Asscroft?

although I cannot stand him I do wish him well. My mother and other some other relatives have had painkiller addictions and it all but destroyed their lives, families and nearly cost them everything. I wish this on nobody. As much as I loathe Rush, I hope he ends up ok in the end. Believe me, I still gloat a little over his ESPN mishap and it wouldn't hurt my feelings to see him do jail time were he to be found guilty, but I cannot in good conscience wish the torture of addiction on another human being. Well, it is a stretch calling him human but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. :)

Some folks do get hooked by starting out for a valid medical reason.

Others have jobs that require low self esteem like whores, rw talking heads, etc.
His self loathing must be incredible.

Not only does he not show compassion for others, but he actively tries to get folks to turn their hate on one another while spreading lies for the folks who pay him.

Many people are dead, or live worse than they should, throughout the world and the United States indirectly because of this man's propaganda.

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:23-25)

This guy has more drugs than a Walgreens.

We are talking about Florida where Jeb Bush's daughter got off.

Good theater makes for good news, American style.

If the local prosecutor is a whore, let the camera show the lipstick and mascara.

... is beyond me. Everyone remotely interested in him (and plenty who are not) is well aware of this, he should have just sought help.

:evilgrin:

Think about it - this thing came out late last week. He probably had about a 5-7 day stash of drugs. But now he's lost his main drug connection and he's been outed as a dopefiend. Probably got tough for him to get quantity of drug to keep him going ESPECIALLY if the cops had the goods on him.

He had to confess - going cold turkey on a major opiate addiction is NOT pleasant.

his show IN rehab, he'd probably jump at it. Can't have him off the airwaves for too long, now, can we?

I'm trying VERY hard to feel SOME sympathy for this low-life, out of consideration for some of the posters here who've known people in rehab, or have been there, themselves (and I'm not meeting with much success, I might add). Their views are worthy of respect and honor. Neither of which Rush has earned, I'm afraid. One can only hope that this might humble him a little and teach him a thing or two about compassion and cruelty. But I won't hold my breath...

Rush is lying! He said his doctor prescribed the medication. That is not true. He illegally got them via the internet and drug suppliers. He was never prescribed the medication. Don't believe him.

A Drug Against War
TELEVISION, RELIGION
SOCIAL DESTRUCTION
SEX AND DRUGS
VIOLENT SEDUCTION

CRYSTAL DAWN
ECSTATIC EXPLOSION
PARENTAL ADVICE LEADS TO MENTAL EROSION

STRONGER THAN NEVER EVER BEFORE, KMFDM IS A DRUG AGAINST WAR.


:hi:

Welcome, my fellow KMFDM fan! :hi:

nt

while he's in multi-millionaire rehab center/resort/spa.

Equal justice under the law my ass.

God bless amerikkka.

and our "wartime" leader (who started the war in the first place on lies to ... oh, why bother yelling into the whirlwind?)

Interesting development... }(

If he was addicted to it and other narcotics, and if (as has been discovered by his own doctors) the combinations of these drugs cause hearing loss, then it is reasonable to assume that the drugs were probably to blame.

And be guilty of accessory?

I doubt they did, because Rush then wouldn't have had to resort to procuring them via the Denny's parking lot.

Edit: They probably knew or suspected about his addiction, but that wouldn't make them a parties or accomplices to anything.

Oh... my... goodness!

"I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes..."

I have back trouble, too. L3-L4 and L5-S1, bad disks. *I* don't eat "Hillbilly Heroin" like Effin' Tic-Tacs...

Goddamm RIGHT I'm saying I'm BETTER than Gush Pfleghmball!

I could have told you he was a druggy. Just listen to him. He has to be on some kind of dope. The party of Morals, Family Values and the RULE of law. HA HA HA

a thread where I was going to openly wonder what bad RW news they were going to push out this Friday night in the hopes that people will miss it.

Looks like we've got a winner.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031010/laf041_1.html

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Rush Limbaugh today issued the following statement on his radio program:
"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life. So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

MORE AT LINK.

Watch for the influx of freepers to show up anytime soon, telling us what a bunch of hypocritical louts we are for holding Rush personally accountable for his illegal drug habit.

Gonna be a long weekend, mods. I wish you well.

GONE. Tigers and tattoos. Those silly voices he usually does, but times ten, with slurs.

It's crazy that they let him on the air!

He wavers in and out of it. Occasionally, when he's really on a roll, he'll say "what?" to somebody in the studio and then make an attempt to straighten up...but then he goes off again.

He's a junkie.

No different than that gaunt, nervous street kid you privately pass judgement upon, when he hits you up for spare change.

Yet, you'll hang on every deluded word that oozes from Jeff Christie's mouth...

A good 12-step program would do him a world of good. If he is capable of really being honest with himself.

He needs to slay the monster that is Rush Limbaugh, and accept the man that is "Jeff Christie."

"My name is Jeff..."

(Coming out of the closet might help too.)

Such an event - if it were to ever occur - would be sublimely karmic.

...dollars to donuts he finds Jebus in rehab....
Welcomed back with open arms...

and bunkerboy can regail him how he went COLD TURKEY ALL BY HIMSELV AND JEBUS - no stinkin rehab needed!

Problem solved.

At least they each have "drinking buddies" now!

Paging Pickles Bush. Paging Pickles Bush. Your car is waiting!

Maybe he can get Driver's License number 00000000002 to go with georgie's 00000000001!

Who will he apologize to first? I nominate Chelsie Clinton.

he will be in rehab with a whole ward full of socialists, environmentalists, pro-choicers, his main therapist will be a woman (poor soul) and football will be off limits because it is too violent.

him to be on any NFL connected program because of his drug problem?

Which one of us is Liberty?


To: Cinnamon Girl

As a conservative who has known Rush for many years, I will only offer this: Rush does not abuse drugs of any sort and any rumors that he has are simply not true.

I have discussed at length over the past week the rumors and the press story and unfortunately for the Enquirer, Rush will ultimately be very wealthy and a news editor of sorts come 6 mos. from now.

The bottom line is that there is an agenda here, and we are trying to figure out exactly why and what we are dealing with.

182 posted on 10/10/2003 12:43 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all --- (Rush will be vindicated!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/998556/posts?page=182#182

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To: longtermmemmory

Of course they are scared. Se my previous comments on this issue. I have known Rush for years and we have spoken at length on this over the past week. The allegations are baseless and Rush will be vindicated.

At this point, bear with us and keep the faith!

185 posted on 10/10/2003 12:47 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all (Rush will be vindicated!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/998556/posts?page=185#185

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To: PRND21

Obviously you do not know Rush and misunderstood the show.

Let me slow it down for you.

The charges are false and have no basis or truth.

Please keep your chin up and don't believe everything you hear.

Remember, you are not a mindless ball of mush. Act accordingly!

188 posted on 10/10/2003 12:50 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all (Rush will be vindicated!) To 154
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/998556/posts?page=188#188

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it is sort of creepy reading through their messages and seeing the number of people who are now waving their hands in the air saying 'I was an addict' as a way to offer hope to Rush supporters that yes, he too can kick the habit.

Addiction is a disease. Why don't all these Freepers help us institute laws that allow us to treat it like a disease?

Yesterday he should have been pulled from the air. It was so blatantly obvious he was trashed. Trolled freeperville to get their "take." NOthing...absolutely nothing.

a freeper. They'd be better off using and drinking IMO

"indescretions" like killing someone while driving drunk, when Pickles, bunkerboy, and the heartbreak kid were first planning their coup.

You got me! (just kidding!)

Love your tag line, evil_dewers!

Tut-tut

PS: isn't Liberty the turkey that bit W's dick during the pardon photo-op?

I actually thought up that haiku today.

Man, I wish I could find that picture of that turkey pecking at Shrub's dick. I lost it when I bought a new computer.

Love the haiku!

To: longtermmemmory

Nice! That's remains to be seen!

However, despite what I have read here tonight, tomorrows show will have one striking revelation.

204 posted on 10/10/2003 1:00 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all (Rush will be vindicated!) To 184
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/998556/posts?page=204#204

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To: Fred Mertz

You're great! No consistency in message and simply willing to buy in.

I am not his therapist, but I do think Rush can make his own decisions on the subject.

Are you a listener? Have you ever spoken to the man? I am just curious as to the basis for why you are so adament that you are right. Your belief is that Rush abuses prescription drugs and has purchased them via a housekeeper for the past 10 years.

I am curious. . . Besides the Nat. Enquirer, what are your sources?

210 posted on 10/10/2003 1:06 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all (Rush will be vindicated!) To 205
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/998556/posts?page=210#210

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To: Fred Mertz

No gig here. Just a guy who knows the man and I guess has a reason to want to protect him.

Radio is a great thing and talk radio is an even more powerful thing. Rush has touched me personally over the years and to a certain degree taken on a "grandfatherly" quality.

I am just a little curious, would you lay down in the face of false accusations against your family, if someone was attacking with no regard to truth and consequence?

When allegations are proved to be false, what normally happens? People say things like "yes he got off, but is he really innocent?"

The bottom line is that my gig is that the accusation often times in larger than the actual TRUTH. People believe what they want and perception is reality.

Perhaps, I am taking a play out of your party's handbook in saying that if you repeat it enough it must be true. If the left is going to be slanderous, I am going to speak on his defense!

214 posted on 10/10/2003 1:14 AM EDT by Liberty - Constitution for all (Rush will be vindicated!) To 211
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/998556/posts?page=214#214

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This guy is "Touched" alright!

I wonder if he is "speaking on his defense" tonight?

As they said "Rush will be vindicated!", lets throw in a "WMD will be found" and "Things are improving in Iraq" for good measure!

Interesting that he keeps calling them "prescription pain killers." The thing is, Rush didn't have a prescription. For him, that makes them "illegal drugs," no different than the smack any other junkie would buy on the street.

Such incredible hypocrites.

obtained drugs the WHOLE TIME he was crucifying clinton and making up lies about hillary. he's a complete piece of crap and he needs to be shut down permanently.

someone needs to start a serious campaign contacting his sponsors and reminding them that a junkie was pushing their products using his drug-addled brain to make up LIES and work to DESTROY our country while being paid hundreds of millions to do it.

I guess he plans to go out to rehab again "with a bang."

He's absolutely LOOPED.

But then again that's common knowledge.

with all due resect to you DUer's who have gone, or know someone who has gone through the experience of addiction. But if this jagoff claims he has been addicted for 5 years, you can bet it's been a lot longer than that. I too have had friends become addicted (methamphetamine), and can understand the outpouring of sympathy for this scum because of that. But I will bet your friends or family members didn't have a platform to spew their hatred and vitriol on the level that shitheel did. This man (and I use that word in the loosest sense, because I assume he is in possesion of male genitalia) deserves zero (0) sympathy, and that is exactly what he'll get from me and mine. Rot in hell, BIATCH!!

There is no separation, doing the drug IS the lie . It is IMPOSSIBLE to go through day to to day activities without lying to cover your ass. Secretivity is the name of the game, there are others that know your dirty little secret that you have to be honest with on some points, but every junky lies to their dealer, and every dealer lies to the junky....In the shuffle you lie to yourself. It s the nature of the beast, It's a line you cross to reach the dark side. There is no rehab for the lies....OH the Freeps will pray for their glorious leader to get well.

But everytime he opens his mouth , there will be that nefarious creep of doubt....everpresent , inescapable.....Is he really well?
He is saying what I want to hear, isn't he?

I have no sympathy.

He starts off with a bullshit lie: "You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life. So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication"

If he was so honest, why didn't he tell his devoted dittoheads that the whole time he was higher than a kite. The truth is he got busted.

.

to a ADDICT who is OUT OF HIS MIND! :bounce:

How does it feel

Oxycontin is synthetic heroin.

A 6 year drug addict is apparently INDISTINGUISHABLE from the average, sober hate radio personality. Rush has always been a hate radio GOP shill and Democrat attack dog, before and after the addiction.

What does this say about the conservative mindset? IMO, volumes. That is, assuming there aren't many other conservatives addicted to Oxycontin.

...believers.

Read my sig line. F---- him. Compassion and prayers, my ass. HE LIED TO YOU FREEPERS. HE'S BEEN AN ADDICT FOR YEARS AND WOULD NOT HAVE TOLD YOU SHIT IF HE WASN'T OUTED. SEND THE BLACK CRACK DEALER TO JAIL, BUT PRAY FOR HIM? F- YOU!!!!!!!!

Rant over

This is in response to all of the "well, you have to give him credit for admitting it" posts.

He admitted it for the same two reasons that Ahnuld admitted his illegal behavior:

1) It was the most politically effective to admit it. This is another typical conservative tactic: the general assumption, as bizarre as it is, is that the political thing would be to hide it, and that by admiting it, he is picking the moral thing over the political. And that's absolute bullshit. It appeals to the conservative crowd aching to show itself as "compassionate", contrary to their savage ideology. As I'm writing this, I'm hearing Bill Press on MSNBC saying "it takes a big man to admit he is wrong". Rush is clearly scoring political points by doing this.

2) Also connected to 1). He is simply cornered, too many people know about his problems, and there is too much proof out there that the problem is real. He simply has only two options -- to admit it and score moral points, or to hide it and be proven wrong. This wasn't a choice but a neessity.

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I think I'll save mine for the poor souls who will be in rehab with him. Can you imagine having to be locked up with the Pigboy for 30 days? Cruel and inhuman.

I believe everyone deserves a second/third/sometimes even a fourth chance. He who is without sin cast the first stone. All that nonsense does mean something to me.

I pray that Rush commits himself to rehabilitation and realizes that it was more than physical pain he was numbing himself to. He was numbing himself to the pain of others. I hope this process drains the hate from him.

"holier than thou" moral shit. I hope the right cannibalizes themselves to death over this one.

On MSNBC, they just ran a call-in bit from Steve Malzberg, a host on WABC radio in NYC, the same station that broadcasts Rush. Mahlzberg did all the usual blah blah-I've known him for years, he hasn't seemed right lately, knew he had problems yada, yada, yada. Then Malzberg sez-"At least he came out and admitted his problem, he didn't lie, he didn't SHAKE HIS FINGER IN OUR FACES AND SAY THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, like some people I know and whose name I won't mention." If you know anything about this POS Malzberg, he never misses a chance to take a swipe at Clinton. He's revolting.

...that's very big of Rush.

He needs PRISON !!!! Send him up the river. That son of a bitch.

and being a voice for the lack of compassion for the drug user is worse than wagging the finger.

for the last 5/6 years.

I know because there have been people in my life I care for deeply who are also addicted. It slowly takes hold of a person, usually for legitimate reasons to begin with, and then it destroys lives, families, marriages and will eventually lead the addict down to the path of no return. Addicts left untreated end in three ways- prison, insanity, or death.
All the money in the world won't protect this man for the personal destruction he will face at the hands of his own addiction. Unfotunately, because of his lack of compassion or empathy for others, his narcissism is likely to continue beyond that of detox or whatever "treatment" he recieves. My condolences to his wife for putting up with this. If I were her, I'd take the settlement and run.
I have compassion for him on a human level, but I also recognize the ironic power of Karma.

person, who cannot kill even a bug. Yet, George Bush* taught me the meaning of "hate". While I don't hate Rush, he is totally irrelevant to me. I have no compassion for him. He can just go away.

...quantities of drugs? Aren't they usually charged with "possession with the intent to distribute"? Doesn't that mean that Rush should be doing the same amout of time as anyone else in this particular situation?

isn't Rush a heck of a name for a dope addict!

They freepers radio listeners won't be able to get their Rush
and so will they develop withdrawals :bounce:

a junkie without a gun to his head. All the time he was
excoriating other suffering people, he was toking and
joking over email with his connection. He's a hypocrite
who happens to be addicted to a heroin drug.

I don't have compassion. I would like him to get over
the pull of his addiction because I want him clear eyed
and well to stand trial for drugs. Then I want him to
get ten to fifteen in a federal prison. Sock em and lock
em.

Bye, Rush.

Maybe longer. If rehab actually works for him (and I hope it does--I'd hope that for anyone), his show may never be the same.

NOT. Great catch on the name. Maybe Rush will blame his addiction on his parents naming him Rush.

That's only my prediction. But it's based on what happened to a family member of mine. He was caught red-handed selling oxycontin to an undercover FBI agent. He entered a plea and served no time.

He was a poor guy with no money and no connections, and he only got probation. So I don't see Rush going away for this.

But if anything….it’ll allow some to have fun pointing out the hypocrisy in asscrofts new directive…

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3179634,00.html>

Ashcroft Reducing Plea Bargain Discretion
``It's a direction for the way we prosecute criminal behavior at the federal level,'' Ashcroft said Monday after a speech in Cincinnati. ``If you violate a federal law, punishment will be uniform.''


With limpballs, you can bet that discretion will be wide open in how his plea is handled.

I think I need to have a beer. Better yet, make that a straight shot of good tequila.

Let's take a moment to reflect and honor this woman.

While Rush goes to his cushy rehab, she'll probably do time.

they were addicted to his lies. he was addicted to opiate pain-killers that ravaged his brain, conscience, and ears.

He did the right thing. I did not expect that at all. There's a lot of addicts out there that refuse to get help even with prison staring them in the face.

I was expecting a long drawn out trial where Rush slurred rants about his innocence, and then have the trial turn out to be a sham with Rush getting probation and community service and continuing to slide downhill.

I wish him luck with his rehab. I refuse to wish something like an opiate addiction on even those I detest. Maybe he'll learn something from the addiction counselors in the next 30 days. I doubt it, anything is possible.

We'll be waiting when he comes out of rehab to see if he has.

Rush wish for drug addicts.

"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."


Unless they are "Compassionate Conservatives" then they need rehab and prayer.

I won't wish serious disease or death on people. It is something I refuse to do, no matter how corrupt they are.

Serious disease and death to tiolet licker RUSH. He is a fucking ASSHAT of the first degree and I have NO sympathy for him.

Fucking liar and scumbag. Good riddance to tiddy bowl tongue.