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Nancy Waterman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:54 PM
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Matt Lauer, former cocaine user (Drudge)
http://www.drudgereport.com/

MEDIA FLASH: ENQUIRER TO ALLEGED PAST ILLEGAL DRUG USE BY TOP TV MORNING PERSONALITY... // 'MATT LAUER COCAINE DEALER TELLS ALL' -- 'HIS SECRET DRUG PAST EXPOSED', NATIONAL ENQUIRER ALLEGES IN COVER SPLASH, SAY SOURCES.... LIE DETECTOR TAKEN: PASSED, BY 'DEALER-FRIEND'... MID-1980S, LAUER ANCHORMAN IN RHODE ISLAND, STARTING OUT IN BUSINESS; MAN 'SOLD HIM COCAINE 5 OR 6 TIMES'... LAUER NOT COMMENTING ON ENQUIRER REPORT, SET FOR RELEASE THIS WEEKEND..

Should be interesting.

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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:56 PM
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1. This allows conservatives to change the subject away from Rush
Just watch.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:01 PM
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4. Lauer: "former" Limbaugh: "present."
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 07:15 PM by DemsUnite
You are correct, though. This is cover for Mr. Christie.

(on edit: this also throws a bit of a spotlight on our "former" coke addicted Whitehouse resident. Depending upon the public's reaction, it will either help or harm his image.)
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Tuttle Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:06 PM
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8. not to be thick-headed here
what is the significance of "Christie"? Is it "Jeff Christie" and, if so, what's the connection to Limbaugh?

TIA,
Tut-tut
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:14 PM
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11. "Christie and Sympathy"
Bluestateguy has summed it up nicely.
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BrianMan Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:09 PM
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24. Connection
Jeff Christie was Limbaughs "radio name" when he was in Pittsburgh.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:01 PM
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5. it only draws it closer...
becuase you do what they do and reframe the argument. IF IT MATTERS TO YOU THAT LAUER USED DRUGS, WHY DOESN'T IT MATTER THAT RUSH DOES EM?

Plus...Republican's don't have a good sense of TIMEFRAMES
Matt Lauer may have done drugs 20 YEARS AGO
Saddam gassed the Kurds 20 YEARS AGO
The centrifuges were hidden 10 YEARS AGO

Rush is a druggie NOW.
There are no weapons NOW.
Dubya is fucking up NOW.
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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:24 PM
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45. Yeah, but nobody gives a crap
I certainly don't. Seriously, why would anyone give two shits if Matt Lauer did drugs years ago? I fail to see how this is distraction from Lush.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:56 PM
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2. Is Matt a liberal?
If so (and if this report is true), I can just picture the freepers coming out of the woodwork to draw attention from their hero Rush....
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Red State Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:58 PM
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3. This could get really ugly....
I don't know Matts politics but I don't envy him the next few days or so....
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:15 PM
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12. I've seen him in action
He is NOT a liberal. I remember when they were trying to explain the tax cut and had average people describe their circumstances and how much money they would get back. One guy said he wasn't interested in a tax cut and wouldn't help him much in the long run and Matt just tried to convince him it was a good thing. Didn't seem very liberal to me.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:22 PM
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14. I think he likes GE, too much. His boss.
But I don't watch them anymore so I can't really say! When I did, though, it seemed as though he tried to give that "tough" look to the Dems.
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spotbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:17 PM
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13. Um,
The report says he bought it 5 or 6 times two decades ago. No addiction, just occasional use a very, very long time ago. It just isn't in the same ball park, they can try but only deranged freepers will think it similar.

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BrianMan Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:28 PM
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36. Not what it says
The report says he bought it 5 or 6 times two decades ago.

Says he bought it 5 or 6 times from that dealer. Now, answer honestly, do drug users only buy their drugs from one person?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:28 PM
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15. This story seems like it was completely orchestrated.
Last week, Coulter, Scarborough and the like took to the airwaves to defend their icon, Rush Limbaugh. They downplayed his addiction, repeadedly, claiming "there's a big difference between addictions to medication prescribed to and people who do drugs 'for kicks.' and to 'get high.'" Uh-huh. Rush didn't ingest massive amounts of oxy "for kicks" or to "get high." Yeh. If you say so.

Here were a few of their comments last week, from the excellent Washington Dispatch site:

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_6881.shtml

Rush Limbaugh’s remarks about jailing drug offenders is ancient history. “Lisa Bloom, just to put it in proper perspective, what year did Rush Limbaugh make that comment? … When Rush Limbaugh made that statement, it was back in 1995, near the end of the crack epidemic that was ravaging American neighborhood.” (Scarborough)

Rush Limbaugh was experiencing back pain. “acting like this guy was shooting up heroin or even, you know, smoking pot, smoking crack, drinking vodka for kicks, I mean, he had back pain the pain medication he was taking is incredibly addictive. … The pain medication he was taking is incredibly addictive. They spent $100 million a year fighting off addiction charges.” (Coulter)

It was just prescription drugs. “There’s a big difference between prescription drug abuse like this and an addiction to heroin.” (Boortz)

Rush Limbaugh should be praised for doing so well while on drugs. “If this is what he’s like on painkillers, imagine when he’s off them. … Like I say, it is amazing that he can be as entertaining, as funny as he is, and all of this while addicted to painkillers. Whoa. Set him loose once he’s gone through detox.” (Coulter)

Isn't it astounding? And now, they'll point to liberal representative of all that is evil in media Matt Lauer, and say "See? He did cocaine. Big difference."
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BrianMan Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:08 PM
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22. Is Matt Liberal
Is the Pope Catholic?
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:27 PM
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35. And for what reasons
do you think he is liberal?
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:32 PM
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40. He was on a Freeper blacklist
I saw a couple of days ago along with Katie Couric (sic?).
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:01 PM
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6. 20 yrs ago
not even close to what rush has done...hell 20 years ago wasn't bush a drunk and cokehead?
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:04 PM
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7. Hell, if we're goin' back that far...
...I hear tell there's a certain White House occupant who was rather fond of the Peruvian marching powder...
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:09 PM
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10. Touche!
:toast:
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:33 PM
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41. That's what Lauer should say:
"So? The president did it too. <pause> Prolly STILL does it."
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:08 PM
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9. Big Deal! Didn't everyone except me do "cocaine"
in the "mid eighties"? I was too busy smoking pot! :smoke:
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:03 PM
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44. I so agree!
what's the big deal? how does this make Lauer different from about 20 gazillion other folks? I admit I tried coke a few times in the early 80s--but who could afford it? glad I've stayed a pothead these many (35-40) years!
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:31 PM
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16. OFF to JAIL with him! Oh, wait...uh, hmmmmm
I was known to snuff up a bit of tootski a few decades ago...
:eyes:
:D
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childslibrarian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 07:38 PM
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17. clearly a diversion..
Shows how right wing Drudge is that he would even report drivel that happened 20 years ago.....
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:05 PM
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19. kick
(with apologies)
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thinkahead Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:08 PM
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21. Hell, even the President has snorted cocaine
right, Mr. Bush?

Perhaps we could get the President to offer some comments on Mr. Lauer's alleged cocaine use.
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thinkahead Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:12 PM
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26. You want to start talking about
drug using, law breaking families?
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BrianMan Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:13 PM
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28. No
But neither side is exactly clean on this matter and as they say about glass houses...
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thinkahead Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:21 PM
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31. Yes, neither side is exactly clean
and it's going to be fun watching one side figure out why it has been listening to, adoring and believing a man perpetually wigged out on Hydrocodone.
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Tuttle Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:19 PM
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29. Quick! Make sure Neil Bush is still locked in the basement!!!!
We don't want to bring up pResidential siblings do we?

Tut-tut
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Tuttle Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:49 PM
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42. at least Billy Carter's 'round'...
didn't cost the tax-payers $1,000,000,000

sorry folks, I really don't mean to feed the trolls...

BrianMan: I hear yo Freeper mama calling! Bye, bye!

Tut-tut
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:22 PM
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32. Please do hold your breath. Use hydraulic clamps. Leave them on at
least a week.
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:24 PM
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33. The question is this, however. Did he publicly suggest that anyone who
snorted a little coke be sent to prison for extended periods? The drug USE issue is a red herring, as concerns Limbaugh, it is simply the question of hypocrisy.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:28 PM
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37. You sure he didn't want to legalize them
to keep his supply coming?
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:31 PM
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39. Where did you read -that-? It is news to me.
:eyes:
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:31 PM
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38. WTF????
This guy Drudge....somebody oughta look into HIS past.
Asshole.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:51 PM
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43. no hipocrisy involved, just distraction for the right.
as my old german neighbor used to say... "machts nichts." means nothing.
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 10:48 PM
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46. Oh, for God's sake.
That's all I can say. Oh, for God's sake.

I hope all my college friends from many years ago aren't judged for the rest of their lives on the basis of the drugs they tried or the drinks they pounded.

Just tonight on 60 Minutes II, Howard Dean said he's taking a page from Dubya's book; won't comment on his youthful indiscretions.

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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:20 PM
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47. Matt who???
???
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