Rush never inhaled:
Firebrand radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was charged Friday with fraudulently concealing information to obtain prescription drugs, but prosecutors will drop the charge after 18 months if Limbaugh remains in treatment for drug addiction, his lawyer said.
Limbaugh also agreed to pay the state of Florida $30,000 to help cover the cost of the investigation into the conservative radio personality's alleged "doctor shopping," a felony in Florida.
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The single charge will stand until Limbaugh has finished 18 months of drug treatment. Then, under the agreement with the Palm Beach County state attorney, the charge will be dropped, [Limbaugh attorney Roy] Black said."As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two-and-one-half years," Black said. "This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse."
During the investigation, authorities seized prescription records from several drugstores from which Limbaugh obtained 2,000 pills over six months, prosecutors said.
Last year, Black said Limbaugh was prescribed eight hydrocodone pills a day for seven months, "which is not excessive and is in fact a lawful dose."
Hydrocodone is a potent painkiller that can become addictive.
Mmmm...sweet, sweet hydrocodone.
Sorry, where were we? Here's some things Rush previously had to say about the scourge of drugs in society:
"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."
"Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...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."
Limbaugh had no problem with the ACLU, whom he'd previously vilified, coming to his defense either.
I haven't listened to Limbaugh since I moved to D.C. in 1995 and had nothing but an AM radio to entertain me on my two-day drive in the U-Haul. I was soon faced with a choice: drive off I-30 into a river near Fulton, AR, or turn the radio off. I opted for the latter, and am generally happy I did so.
With stories like these, I generally err on the side of hoping the person in question gets the help he needs. Not so much here. Limbaugh has waged a 20-year campaign of disinformation in this country with little or no check on his lies. His influence may be lessened, but his legacy is set, and would best be capped off by forced retirement from the airwaves, a brief stint in the "Wayland Flowers and Madame seat" on Hollywood Squares, and an anonymous, bitter death.
Which means we can look forward to a post-rehab book and attendant publicity tour in about a year.
I think you mean KEEP RUSH HOOKED.
But otherwise, I salute your efforts.
There ARE two liberal locally-produced talk radio call-in shows in Houston:
"The Other Side," hosted by Glenn Urbach at 9:00-10:30 PM Thursdays on KPFT 90.1 FM
"The Radio Rebel," hosted by John Truitt at 9:00-10:00 AM Sundays on KIKK 650 AM
Both programs don't screen calls and welcome ALL points of view, so you won't be left out, cut off or shouted down. It's talk radio for the rest of us.
I actually have a bottle of the stuff from my C-section a few years ago, I'd be willing to donate it to such a worthy cause :-)
Poor Rush. He's always stuck up for the little man and the downtrodden. We should give him the same pity he gave every one else.....and laugh derisively and dismiss him as the sorry ass dopehead he is.
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
The fact that Rush Limbaugh is not in jail right now is just a symptom of the bleeding heart, lily-livered, gutless liberal prison system that coddles criminals and is afraid of cracking down on drug users for fear of hurting their feelings.
Oh, wait. You mean Limbaugh's a rich white man and not some other-colored junkie from the ghetto or barrio? Oh... well, then I guess it's okay, huh?
Hopefully this goat-f*cker's cell mate will be a nice bull who likes long showers and the view of the sunset from the weight room.
Clearly the answer is for lots of Rush-hating people to get some hydrocodone and anonymously mail Rush the pills. "Sweet, sweet reds!" the note could read. "Here for the taking! blessed relief! Consume us, Rush!" Then we could, like, bake it into muffins and stuff and send that his way.
It's time for liberal America to band together and Get Rush Hooked.