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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:57 AM
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Will Rush Lamebrain Commit Suicide?
Think about it-

He's been publicly outed as one of the top three hypocrites of the decade; he's a pill-popping junkie whose addiction cost him his hearing; he's facing months of rehab at the end of which he has re-emerge to face a skeptical, if not downright hostile public; AND he has to do it all without the drug crutch he's been leaning on for the past five plus years.

Is there a dead pool on Rush yet? I'd like to get in on some of that action.
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birdman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:59 AM
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1. Apparently an overdose won't do it
He seems to be immune to those.

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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:51 PM
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71. Bets?
If he gets at all cleaned up, and then relapses (which is real likely, especially given who he is) his body won't be able to handle his old best friend like it used to. My money's on at least hospitalization from an overdose in the first year.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:00 AM
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2. That kind of ego is not likely to give in suicide.
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:01 AM by havocmom
If he turns up as a suicide, look deeper for the cause of death.

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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:03 AM
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5. Otoh, What He Told the Housekeeper
When he put in an order before going into rehab, he told her he "want to go out with a bang" or somesuch. Sounds suicidal.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:10 AM
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11. Or it means paaaartay!
He did go out with a bang this time. Remember how looped he was the day before he confessed?
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nannygoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:25 PM
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54. Maybe he's going to pull a Jim Jones and take some
dittoheads with him!
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:42 PM
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63. wow- you think he could pull it off?
RepubliKKKans are not really known for being 'joiners'; look at the collective congressional military record for repukes- the least number of vets in US history.
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soupkitchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:01 AM
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3. Well, they say that suicide is the highest form of self-criticism
But Rush has always seemed blessed with the ability not to criticize himself.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:02 AM
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4. I have NEVER listened to his programs. It feels wonderful to
say this, but by the same token I was not really aware of the hate and filth he spread as seeds for willing repugs to plant and cultivate.

I don't think he will commit suicide. In Latin America they have a saying "mala yerba nunca muere." Translated: a bad weed never dies.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:03 AM
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Maybe the drugs will push him over the edge...
A tragedy if it occurs- but one we'll have to endure... (/sarcasm)
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:03 AM
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6. nah, he'll emerge unscathed---no need for suicide
unless his wife drives him too it. sounds like he's a henpecked fellow
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OldSoldier Donating Member (982 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:03 AM
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7. No way!
The Freepers and Dittoheads will forgive Rush and welcome him back from his trial against Prescription Pain Medication.

I know this because they forgave Jim Bakker--check out http://www.jimbakkershow.com. If they can forgive that crook, Rush is a wash.
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javadu Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:05 AM
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8. This is Sick
I don't care what your politics are, this is one of the most disgusting posts I have ever seen on DU. We are supposed to be better than the freepers. I hope that most of us are, but this post saddens me.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:07 AM
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9. Cry me a river...
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:08 AM by Patriot_Spear
Let Rush swim in the ocean he's made... Thanks for your opinion, but this is cosmic justice at work.

I didn't make him take those drugs- according to Bush*- Rush is a 'terrist'.
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callous taoboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:57 AM
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48. rush
can go fuck himself.
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Iverson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:07 AM
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10. basically agree
I despise Limbaugh, yet I do not wish for the death of my political enemies.

In a time of pre-emptive invasions and generally low regard for life, our humanity is crucially important.
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Paxton_Free Donating Member (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:10 AM
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13. Agreed.
If we resort to wishing death on talk show hosts, no matter how effed this guy is, we are no better than those we are fighting.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:12 AM
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16. Nobody forced him to be a junkie...
If he dies, it'll be by his own hand. Would I miss him- Hell No.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:11 AM
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14. I don't agree, and my humanity is just fine- thank you very much...
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:21 AM by Patriot_Spear
Compassion for those who have made a career out of deying that simple act to others is the equvilant of Beaten Wife Syndrome- of course your entitled to your view, but Rush is a breeder of hate and intolerance and I for one will not wring my hands over the exposure of this vile hypocrite.
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Iverson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:14 AM
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19. It is not "beaten wife" syndrome.
It is a carefully thought-out position that refuses to legitimize the despicable tactics of despicable people.

By the way, I was speaking to the issue, not attacking you personally. Maybe some misguided irritation prevented your seeing some ground in between compassion (of which I have very little for Limbaugh) and wishing death upon him. There are other choices, you know.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:19 AM
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24. I merely speculated on the pressures he's under-
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:19 AM by Patriot_Spear
In my view, suicide is a real possibility; more irony for 'self-responsibility'.
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:12 AM
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15. I've alerted it
it's in extremely poor taste.
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:15 AM
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20. Nope
and I will gladly defer to Moderator/Admin decision on the issue.
It's still completely lame for someone who purports to be a liberal to be musing about someones suicide. No matter who they are.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:17 AM
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22. Hey, we don't all wear flowers in our hair, some of us fight back...
For years we have enabled the right by not standing up to them- I'm not going to be a hypocrite myself and say that I don't feel some small sense of Justice that he was outed.
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:18 AM
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23. But surely you can see the difference
between being glad he was outed and fighting back...and talking about him committing suicide?
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:20 AM
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26. Of course I can, but I believe it's a real posibility...
Perhaps my post was a bit crass- but certainly not beyond discussing.
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Evil_Dewers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:35 AM
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39. I don't wear flowers in my hair
or play the tambourine chanting Kum-ba-ya either.

I'm sick of these mamby-pamby librul bedwetters. Yes, people generally deserve compassion--unless they have spent the last 15 years spewing lies and drumming up hatred and made hundreds of millions of dollars doing it.

I have no doubt that Tim McVeigh (a Rush dittohead) bombed the Murrah building partly because of Rush's hatred of Clinton. McVeigh was a weak person and a coward who believed Wormtongue's lies and deceit.
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:03 PM
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52. Good for you neither do I
suggesting a Dead Pool is still lame.
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:26 AM
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30. I seconded that alert
Suicide cheerleading puts you on his level. Is that so hard to see?
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:28 AM
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32. Cheerleading? That's rather hyperbolic, don't you think?
Junkie takes a huge fall publicly- is it that far out of the realm?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:30 AM
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34. Nope
To quote your original post:

"Is there a dead pool on Rush yet? I'd like to get in on some of that action"


:puke:
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:35 AM
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38. I'm not Bill Bennette.
Odds are odds...
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Boudicea Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:32 AM
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36. Whether it's a possibility or not this post
appears to advocate someone's suicide and I think that's wrong.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:37 AM
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42. Advocate? No. Speculate- yes.
Symantics really- I honestly wouldn't feel to bad if he shuffled off this mortal coil- bit that's just my opinion.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:58 AM
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50. Dead on
Some of our compatriots seem willing to get in the sewers to win; i'm not sure any victory won down there is worth winning.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:01 PM
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51. The only players who wear white at a football game...
...are the one's who never play. Call it a sewer if you want- I call it the chickens coming home to roost.
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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:38 PM
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61. He's not your political enemy...
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 12:40 PM by RapidCreek
He's your mortal enemy....and if the little fucker was given a pretty uniform, put in charge of a gas chamber and given the authority to select the folks would be "showering" in it....you would be one of the first issued a pair of flip-flops. He is not a politico, he is a latent homicidal megalomaniac, an anti-American, anarchical, terrorist, every bit as dangerous as Osama Bin Laden....perhaps more so.

RC
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Iverson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:32 PM
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65. Let me be clear.
I do not go around wishing death upon people.

Your semantic distinction could be correct. Your analysis could also be correct. That is not enough to make me legitimize Limbaugh in any way.

I appreciate that you and others may construct your questions differently. However, this is a matter of core values. I cannot be logically argued into wishing death upon Limbaugh or others, because I did not arrive at that position logically, and I don't feel like changing.

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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:36 PM
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70. Ok that's fair
RC
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:19 AM
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25. We are discussing the tendencies of a media mouthpiece
and whether he might be overly distraughtand in danger of harming himself. No one has suggested they wish him harm. A couple suggest that karma might just be biting him on the arse, but hey, he made his own karma.

Welcome to DU. But a warning: this is pretty tame stuff so far. If this offends you, fasten your seat belt before reading other threads.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:23 AM
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28. No kidding
Geez, people, take a look at what you're writing here. He should be in jail, yes, but I don't think we should be wishing that he kills himself.
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Evil_Dewers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:29 AM
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33. We are better than the freepers...
Only Rush the hypocrite deserves this kind of mockery from us. Most of the freakers are willing to take him back no questions asked. They are hypocrites as well. Drug abuse bad--except when Rush uses. Sexual behavior bad (Clinton), except when a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, muscledheaded RINO married to a Kennedy does it. And it seems that most of the freakers are/were drug addicts as well, if you read the pro Vulgar Pigboy threads at freerepublican.com

Unless he's on methadone, right now Rush is vomiting, crapping diarrhea (which usually comes out of his mouth, not his anal cyst ass) suffering cold chills and intense pain. He's screaming for his mommy and wishes he was dead.

Fuck him. The world would be a better place without him. Sometimes you got to thin the herd, and I'd love to see Rush the drug addicted elephant's tusks mounted above my fireplace.

You think Rush can pull this off?

Step 8: We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 9: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

First of all, that is an awfully long list. Secondly, can you imagine Rush asking for Bill Clinton's forgiveness? Or Rush making amends by admitting he lied/distorted Clinton's record and was wrong to personally attack him?

No way. His "career" is built on hate.

Good riddance to Rush.
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Timefortruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:40 PM
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62. Didn’t we get really pissed when Ann Coulter suggested
we all die or be killed? Turn about really isn’t fair play. What I hope happens is that Rush comes to terms for his reasons for self-hatred while in rehab. When or if he does he will have to speak the truth.

It would drive the dittos crazy that Rush had to get sober to start telling the truth. Think about it, they have been worshiping at the feet of a severely addicted junkie, Rush needed to get totally wasted to spew his venom. If he speaks the truth as a sober man what does that say about his followers.
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:10 AM
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12. The Words Hypocrite Hypocrisy Would Have To Be Deleted...
from the world lexicon and replaced with the words Limbaughcrite Limbaughcrisy. He absolutely rails against suicide (assisted or not.) I bet you can find more of his quotes on suicide then on drugs.

Jay
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:13 AM
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18. I doubt suicide but
He's a deadman walking now. If by any chance he stays out of prison after his third rehab, it's only a matter of time before the monkey crawls onto his back again.
If he goes into a twelve step program there is no way for him to honestly complete it, he'll die in an alley like other junkies who couldn't come clean and face themselves.
The other hate mongers will climb all over themselves to take his place, there's blood in the water, the pigboy is history.
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maha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:17 AM
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21. I hope not. Then he'd be a martyr.

The libruhls made him do it.
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readmylips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:21 AM
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27. Limballs is too coward...
He'll come out smelling like a rose like his buddy bush and Ahnuld. What about his wife, what's with her? I didn't think he was still married. When Elvis was taking all those drugs that killed him, Priscilla knew about the drugs all along. But if Limball falls in his bathtub and checksout...I'll have a tall glass of French Champagne. Amen! Good Riddens!
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KFC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:54 AM
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46. Suicide is cowardly
It takes guts to face life's difficulties.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:56 AM
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47. you're right... n/t
n/t
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coda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:24 AM
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29. Inappropriate thread.
Without question. :thumbsdown:
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:27 AM
Response to Reply #29
31. Don't read it then.
'nuff said.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:30 AM
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35. I agree.
It's nasty.
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:33 AM
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37. Very mean to suggest a dead pool. It's one thing to point
out his hypocricy and have a few laughs at it, but I would never wish the suffering of addiction or suicide onto anyone. This is as mean as when Rush made fun of Kurt Cobain's death.

If you have ever seen a friend or relative die fron alcohol or drug addiction, you know it is one of the most sad and tragic things that can happen to a person.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:36 AM
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41. I have seen this- sorry I just don't agree.
your opinion is yours, not mine.
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gully Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:35 AM
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40. NO, he'll milk his situation for ratings....
:nuke:
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janekat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:47 AM
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43. Many people who are caught in a scandal such as his - do become suicidal
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:53 AM by janekat
Please note that I am not wishing this on him. Suicide affects the person's family and friends severely.

Rush will also have the problem of severe "withdrawl" symptoms after going off the painkillers.

Another problem - most addicts/alcoholics use their "drug of choice' as a "coping mechanism" - to help them cope with either stress, depression or mania. They are not good "copers" and that is why they turn to drugs in the first place. He will no longer have his drug to help him "mask" the pain of depression or stress - or to help "calm" him from a manic episode.

In addition, most Psychs who deal with addicts - do NOT like to give them any type of drug - including anti-depressants. This will be an added cross to bear.

It will be very tough for him. He will also have the "glare" of the media on him.

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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:48 AM
Response to Reply #43
45. What would say the odds are- 50:1?
20 million annually is a lot to live for...
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janekat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:14 PM
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53. Depends on his ability to cope and upon his support system
also his wife. My guess is that his support system - if he wants one - could be strong (all of his obsessed fans who will wish him well). His wife is most likely a co-dependent person - since his problem was SO BIG and went on SO LONG and she didn't leave him - so she will not be much of a help. She will need MASSIVE doses of al-anon to be of any help.

However, he does not seem to have a history of being someone who turns to others for help - so THAT is not in his favor. I wonder if he is one who believes in "therapy" and/or psychiatry.

Usually, when someone commits suicide they have been in a depressed state for some time. They feel as if there is no hope - no light at the end of the tunnel. When they come out of the depression - that is when they'll commit suicide. People in the throes of depression do not have the energy or the mental capacity to plan a sucicide.

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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:48 AM
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44. He may not use a gun
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 11:51 AM by bushwentawol
or suck on a gas pipe. But I could see him going on vacation and od'ing.

As for this thread being below our standards, I don't buy that that at all. Jeff Christie made a C-H-O-I-C-E to be on drugs. He can choose to get off. But in the meantime he should be in jail. Fat chance of that happening though. 25 mil a year buys you a whole different brand of justice. God if only Jonathan Wilson's buddies had something on him. Or maybe they do.


I'll throw a couple bucks into your pool. Now who else in the news today has done massive amounts of drugs and sacrificed their health?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:58 AM
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49. If the good die young....
Rush has another 150 years left...
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nannygoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:26 PM
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55. That must be why so many white, evil repukes live to be so old
I swear to God, their evilness must provide them with some kind of natural chemotherapy.
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:27 PM
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56. kooky rush = gay?
http://sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=419

A 46 year old music store owner from the St. Louis area, Elliot Sanders, is claiming that while a college student at Southeast Missouri University in 1971, he had an affair with Rush Limbaugh. Sanders claims that he and Limbaugh, the well known talk radio star, had an affair that went on for about 3 months in the fall of 1971...

When asked when he thought Limbaugh "went straight," Sanders replied, "What are you talking about? I mean, he's been married four times now, do people really not get why he doesn't stay married? I guarantee none of those marriages was ever consummated."

hehe
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dfong63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:27 PM
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57. can't we think of better possibilities?
maybe Rush will undergo some kind of conversion. maybe he'll see the light, like David Brock ("Blinded by the Right") or Arianna Huffington. a kind of rebirth. wouldn't that be better than a mere suicide?

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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:30 PM
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58. I heard a saying about "monkeys" and "butt" that seems to apply...
I wouldn't bet the house on that one...
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:32 PM
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59. Folks, this is ridiculous
you actually think Flushie gives a shit? No matter what else may happen to him in this life, he's got it made. He's not crying.
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Patriot_Spear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 12:35 PM
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60. Wow- that makes sense... Disclaimer at bottom of post
...this will be the last time I agree with Terwillger- as the poles will revesre, gravity will fail and we'll all be flung into deep space. Thank you.
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Iverson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:36 PM
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66. counterpoint
It's not Limbaugh that I care about. I think it's pretty clear to all that he is unethical and offensive in the extreme. When I argue that it's not a good idea to go around wishing death upon people, it is you and me and other civilized human beings who I'm looking out for.
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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 09:22 PM
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72. That's not the way you do it
Recovery involves spirituality (not religious hoodoo, but actually love and respect for all living things). It's not easy, no matter what you may hear or think. Most people going through treatment not locked up will relapse within ninety days. Those who do make it are the ones ready to be honest, open-minded, and willing. Does that sound like the Pigboy?

I don't wish ill for anyone, I just wish for him to do what he needs to do. If a relapse and overdose is what he needs to do, so be it.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:14 PM
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64. Too Scared it would hurt like hell!
Rush is poultry!

Wish he would just vanish like Saddam and Osama!
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:38 PM
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67. Oh, come on, this is disgusting...
We're talking about a human being. Regardless of politics, blow-hardedness, hypocrisy, hatemongering, etc etc etc. He's a fucking talk show host. He didn't order troops into Iraq or destroy the economy. He sits behind a mike and postulates about crap. Big effing deal, how much damage has he really done to the Left?

We're talking about a human being with a drug addiction. Advocating for his suicide and talking about a death pool is wrong. Forget about morals--have some ETHICS.

Cat
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 01:53 PM
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68. The other day I agreed with you whole-heartedly, but not today
I can't believe this thread has not been locked yet. I know they have received a number of alerts. My brother suffered from drug addiction and committed suicide and I can't tell you how offensive and hurtful this thread is.

I would hope wishing someone's death, no matter how much we hate them, would not be something tolerated on DU.

And what's up with moving it into the Lounge?
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 02:15 PM
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69. I wouldn't wish him any harm...
I hope his recovery is successful, unlikely as that may be in 30 days. However, I also hope it is a recovery for him in other ways. This might be the ideal opportunity for him to take stock of his life and how he spends it, and maybe come to grips with the fact that he is in the business of lies, distortion and character assassination. He might then make ammends to those he has damaged the most, particularly his loyal listeners.

Now THAT would be a recovery!

If we hope for his demise, we become him.

Regards,

Dave
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 09:28 PM
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73. Why not? It's the ultimate act of selfishness

n/t
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