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eauclaireliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:18 PM
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Freepers and Rushbo
Freepers going apeshit over a Enquirer article about Rush's supposed "drug dealing."
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Abe Linkman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:22 PM
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1. His followers talk about "taking pain pills"
They don't talk about him allegedly buying prohibited drugs. They talk about his "medical need" but not about the fact that it's a crime to buy narcotics on the street. It's a crime, stupid! (but it shouldn't be)
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:03 PM
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11. Morphine Is A Legally Prescribed Drug
NT
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:23 PM
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2. They don't like it when the shoe's on their foot
"All of this, spinning out of control. Anyone feel like we're all the target of the great witch hunt? Regardless of what you have done or haven't done, you will get nailed."

A great witch hunt. Yeah. right.

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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:28 PM
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5. I wonder
Are any of them insightful enough to realize that what they're feeling for the last 2 days is what Democrats felt for eight YEARS? *thinks* Nah! :P
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:00 PM
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9. A great witch hunt. Yeah. right
  
WITCH HUNT part III of 'Fear'



The night is black
Without a moon
The air is thick, and still

The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill

Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right ---
Confident their ways are best

The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will

Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat, and burn, and kill

They say there are strangers, who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us ---
Must rise and save us from ourselves

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand

Ignorance and prejudice
And fear
Walk hand in hand

(Peart)

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:33 PM
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15. Great lyrics, and from Rush. How ironic.
Welcome to DU, slaveplanet. :hi:
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 01:58 AM
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28. thank you
Thanks for the greetings-Been lurking but I had to post today....so many things are going out mainstream that I've known for a while....If you like that RUSH
Lyric , check out Part I & Part II of fear (The Enemy Within and the Weapon)...Very Peartainant to this admin and it's propaganda matrix.

No puns intended -it's all serious business-
SP
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:17 PM
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27. Hi slaveplanet!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:25 PM
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3. LOL
To: Skooz

I don't see the big deal. Ozzy Osbourne did drugs and he got to have a show. Bush is trying to get free prescription drugs for all the seniors --- at least it sounds like Rush was paying for his own. An awful lot of people are pill poppers.


5 posted on 10/02/2003 10:19 AM PDT by FITZ
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:27 PM
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4. You realize that these aren't real people.
They're 'pod' people from outer space. x(
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:32 PM
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22. Huh?
"Bush is trying to get free prescription drugs for all the seniors." :wow: Since when? I must have missed that one.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:36 PM
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6. Former LAPD chief Daryl Gates refered to drug addicts as scum
but when it was discovered that his son got hooked, Gates' comments about his drug use showed a hell of a lot more sensitivity.
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kayleybeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:42 PM
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7. Not to mention the David Kay report
They are really upset about Kay's remarks on WMD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/993940/posts?q=1&&page=51

I almost feel sorry for them (almost). Not a good week to be a FReeper.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:27 PM
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21. F Them
Their brains will melt because logic is not programmed into them.

They'll melt down and blame Hillary and CNN and the Entire half od the country that hates Jesus. Some fruitloops might get off of their fatasses and try to start the 'impending revolution'

I'm really serious about this. There's lots of 'the revolution is coming' talk from their side. Awwww poor fat white conservative middle America. Everything is going soooo bad for them. It makes them sooooo angry that more and more people are feeling less and less needy of being saved by the Protestant version of Jesus and Liberal America is forcing them to actually have to interact with the blacks and Mexicans they've worked so hard to avoid.

Rant over.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 04:43 PM
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8. OMG!
There is ONE 'insightful' freeper!

"To: jsbankston

Very Funny. A leader in America's Social Conservative Movement Finds himself in crises and all you can offer are jokes and not prayers or condomnation of the liberal media for outing Rush in his time of trouble.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Talk about hypocrisy. I feel for Rush, I really do. But to blame the media for doing to Rush what you would cheer if it were done to a prominant liberal, stinks. We need one standard applied across the board, and it should start with us. We should be the first to practice what we preach."
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monobrau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:23 PM
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13. They do exist
I have no problem with someone who disagrees with me when they take a stand on principle. It's the hypocrisy and the lies I can't stand.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:02 PM
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10. Tasty Morsels:

Anyone feel like we're all the target of the great witch hunt?

Sadly the more details the worse it sounds.

I don't see the big deal. Ozzy Osbourne did drugs and he got to have a show

If true, he is finished, at least for a while. I hate to see it, but remember our cause and our beliefs are not based on one man. I do agree the attacks are coming in large waves and right now things are dark.

Liberals are the Borg, and Hillary is their queen. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

This is a sad day for conservatives. Rush was the first conservative I heard while I was struggling in the murky waters of college.

he Clintons fired the White House doctor and brought in their own for that very reason.


Too busy at the DU underground today?


...and....

What if it's his wife who needs the drugs??
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monobrau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:27 PM
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14. The wife
"What if it's his wife who needs the drugs??"
This was my first thought when I heard the qty of pills involved.
If this has been going on for 4 years, the wife knows about it at the very least.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:11 PM
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18. Absolutely she knows.
She doesn't have to testify, though.
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EFF BrandyWine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:12 PM
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12. It is interesting to read some of the posts in freeperville...
Edited on Thu Oct-02-03 05:17 PM by EFF BrandyWine
One poster, proclaims that the celebration is like "Christmas, Easter and the 4th of July..." then goes on to add, "although on DU it would probably be more like Kwanza, Earth Day and Black History month all rolled into on."

I have tried to figure out why he-she-it would consider that combination to be an insult????

So for he-she-it, and those who share his/her/its philosophy, I make this statement to all the freepers:

"We enjoy our splendid diversity. The holidays you mention are indeed celebrated by people on DU and we could add a few more holidays that honorable, decent and noble people share. The people who post on DU are liberal...oh don't make faces...the word means generous, kind, caring. We are not regressive or repressive.

That seems to make you unhappy but that's life! So now your hero Russell Limbaugh has turned out to be an idol with clay feet. How sad. Just think; your standard bearer for the great conservative movement can dish it out but can't take it. He resigned because he knew he'd be fired. You know he's a racist...he doesn't try to hide it so why should you? At least he's honest and you're not.

As for the drug thing, that remains to be seen. If he purchased illegal drugs then he should be prosecuted. That is the law and moral people believe in the law."

Thank you for your attention.
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Langis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 05:38 PM
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16. look they have some critical thinking skills!
"This one is simple. It's not as transparent as the LA TIMES article about Arnold, but it's just as calculated.

The National Enquirer is owned by American Media, Inc. American Media, Inc. recently acquired Weider Publications.
http://www.writenews.com/2002/112902_americanmedia_weider.htm

Joe Weider is a friend and supporter of Arnold which is why the rags that American Media owns have not done any negative stories about Arnold.

This story breaks on Rush (a McClintock supporter) timed perfectly to take the spotlight off of the attack on Arnold that we all knew was coming."


That board is great!
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:06 PM
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17. It's funny because he pontificates about the superiority of
conservatives. It's called hypocrisy. Those people just don't seem to get it.

If some regular Joe is caught buying illegal drugs, why condemn them? People are not perfect.

If you make a career out of marginalizing those with no voice; the poor, minorities, etc., if you suggest again and again that people without money are morally flawed, that power is purity, and all the other corporatist garbage that Rush Limbaugh spews... well then your own corruption is not only newsworthy, it's hilarious.

I hope it destroys his career. Do I want him to recover...? I could be politically correct and say "yes", but I don't really care. Call me a jerk.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:12 PM
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19. Do they know he's Jeff Christie according to Cigar Aficionado?
I don't remember if there was any lingering confusion over this, but I just stumbled across Cigar Aficionado's piece on Rush, and it says that he in fact DID work under the name Jeff Christie.

Eh, doesn't really matter now, does it.
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MoonAndSun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:24 PM
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20. they criticize the maid for having a lawyer who defends Dems...
Edited on Thu Oct-02-03 06:26 PM by MoonAndSun
In Florida, it is illegal to record conversations surreptitiously unless authorized by law enforcement.

This maid must have been working with the local County Attorney in order to wear a wire, otherwise she was committing a crime.

The fact that she admitted to this recording on the advice of her high-power attorney who has defended big-name Democrats before suggests that the local County Attorney has been working on this for a while, and she probably has immunity.





wait till they find out Rush has hired Roy Black who defended William Kennedy Smith!!!LOL

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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:56 PM
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25. I wonder if they thought Linda Tripp was committing a Crime?
:shrug:
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:36 PM
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23. Yo, freeps, it's called the Rule of Law. Get used to it.
The Rule of Law, you pieces of shit! A razor-sharp sword that cuts both ways! Oh, you didn't know that? I'm sooooo sorry!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Bake
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angka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:42 PM
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24. a hahahahahaha
the freeper says:

Anyone feel like we're all the target of the great witch hunt? Regardless of what you have done or haven't done, you will get nailed.

two words for you, dipshit—BILL CLINTON.

if there's any justice, el rushbo won't be the last...
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:59 PM
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26. Is it just me or does Rush look like Sebastian Munster these days?
I think it's the dark eyebrows.
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