G-Man. Your anger is completely bewildering to me. What is angering you exactly?? You certainly are upset about something judging from your angry tone. Is it that i'm posting about Limbaugh in the 1st place. Nowhere did I present glee or spite. I've only reported on what is already common knowledge in the media. I also asked that if perhaps this may change some of the exreme attitudes on the drug problem that the far right seems to champion.

Also I should add that the criminal justice system doesn't make the distinction between a dealer and an addict. Both do the time

Here's a good peice by the Drug Policy Alliance that actually recommends treatment for Rush.

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Drug Policy Alliance Says Rush Limbaugh Should Not Face Criminal Prosecution For Alleged OxyContin Offenses]
Drug Misuse Should be Addressed in Doctor’s Office, Not Prison Cell

Alliance Calls on Limbaugh to Oppose Incarceration for Thousands
You accuse me of not being the useful sterotype of the meek John Lennonish "thoughtful, tolerant, compassionate liberal" because of the simple fact that i start a thread on Rush Limbaugh's diffuculties with the law and drugs. Would we rather post barricades and turn people away from these revelations? [nothing more to see here folks move along"]
I don't think I ever presented myself as "compassionate" or any of that other stuff. I myself certainly have no use for the sterotypical "liberal" who is against all war and is only interested in 'peace and love, man', so expertly caricatured by neocons and their hatchet men on AM radio. I've said before that to the far right, a "liberal" is anyone opposed to the far right and the neocons. On at least one occasion I stated that since the far right seems to beleive they are on some "culture war" with perceived "liberals" and other assorted enemies of the state, that perhaps we should push back equally hard rather than stand there like retards turning the other cheek and playing fair in the face of nearly 10 years of mean spirited attack and distortion from people like Limbaugh himself. Ironic.
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With his heartland pieties and scorn for “feminazis” and “commie-symps” like “West Wing” president Martin Sheen (“Martin Sheenski” to Limbaugh), he is the darling of Red State, Fly-Over America.
I think you guys can take what you dish out, can't you?
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Al Franken (author of “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot”) hit the airwaves to relish Limbaugh’s greatest hits of hypocrisy and his sneers at celebrity dopers like baseball player Darryl Strawberry and rocker Kurt Cobain, and virtually every newspaper dredged up this 1995 quote from Rush: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.”

‘I Am Addicted to Prescription
Pain Medication’
True Confessions: Limbaugh built an army of admirers with his hard-right rants. But off-air, he was a lonely man who may have broken the law to feed his addiction. The real Rush

By Evan Thomas
NEWSWEEK

Hypocrisy sucks, don't it?