MSNBC Piling On Rush Limbaugh

Biased MSNBC ^ | 10/13/03 | cp124

[cp124]

‘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

Oct. 20 issue — Rush Limbaugh has always had far more followers than friends. Bombastic and clowning on air, shy and bumptious off it, Limbaugh could count on 20 million “Dittoheads” and talk-radio fans to tune in five days a week. But it’s hard to find many people who really know him. He was a lonely object of mass adulation, socially ill at ease, at least occasionally depressed and, for the past several years, living in a private hell of pain and compulsion.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/979355.asp?0cv=KA01

[cp124]

Piling on continues. The backlash will be breathtaking. MSNBC was doing better when they were trying to attrack conservative viewers.

[abclily]

And where is Mrs. Rush Limbaugh?

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[TheConservator]

What's that mean?

[theDentist]

Standing by his side. Good enough for you?

[cpprfld]

Does this mean, someone actually watchs MSNBC.

[rhombus]

The piling on seems to revolve around Rush's supposed attitude toward illegal drugs. However, I don't recall a lot of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" speeches that the left wing media is not remembering. However, I could be mistaken. Anyone else?

[Sunshine Sister]

I read this stuff and it makes me want to say blah blah blah because that is what it is. It's worse than nonsense!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[bvw]

You misunderstand. To the feminized cult of victimology this is the highest veneration. They're making him Saint Rush.

[finnman69]

This is on par with the typical MSNBC journalistic excellence which gets breathtaking viership levels typically under 200,000.

LOL

[GreatOne]

I particularly find it amusing at how these a--holes whom Rush has been (rightly) trashing over the years are the ones jumping the hardest. It's nothing more than their taking advantage of Rush's dilema to get revenge for their pedantic writing being attacked. I would hope that one of Rush's replacements would point this out and fire back on the show.

[leadpenny]

I don't get the "piling on" and "biased" comments in your post. Is it because MSNBC has the Newsweek article linked? Is it because MSNBC is talking about Rush?

I tend to watch MSNBC in the morning and I find them as fair as anything else on the tube. Has FOX not covered the Rush story?

[myself6]

Please remember that Rush's fate is held in OUR hands not the hands of liberals. We, the listeners, will determine if Rush lives or dies on AM. The liberal media knows this, the liberal trolls on FR know this and they are attempting to "sway" your opinion of Rush since they themselves are powerless to remove him.

Remember this when you are reading a thread like this or listening to some "report" about Rush. YOU the "listener" are the target of the leftists PR. Whether or not you choose to be their willing dupe is up to you.

[AppyPappy]

The only one they have found is from 1995

[Huck]

I actually thought this piece was OK. Nothing new, really. It is well known that Rush does better with non face to face communication. Look at how he met his wife. He is solitary. The overeating. All of that paints a picture. It's not that surprising, really.

[Capt. Tom]

The piling on seems to revolve around Rush's supposed attitude toward illegal drugs.

Rush circa 1995-"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. 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."

[BCrago66]

Duplicate post.

[dennisw]

I don't remember either Rush Limbaugh talking about drugs very much. He rarely talks about gays and the gay agenda. Many of these liberal critics are projecting the harshness of other conservatives onto Rush

[bvw]

He was wrong, I hope he comes to realize that. Drugs MUST be legal. Regulated, heavily taxed. But somehow available to sane adults at some price.

[Mears]

I personally can't stand Rush,a bit too pompous for me,but I'll be damned if I'm going to kick a horse when he's down.

Why can't he just be left alone?If anyhting can be learned from this is that if we judge others,as Rush did,it could come right back at you some day.

[dennisw]

I actually thought this piece was OK. Nothing new, really. It is well known that Rush does better with non face to face communication. Look at how he met his wife. He is solitary. The overeating. All of that paints a picture. It's not that surprising, really............

Rush is out playing golf a lot. Out at chartity tournaments and at home. He flies out to football games. Rush Limbaugh is hardly a hermit, hardly an isolated loner.

[Republican Wildcat]

It's quite easy to attack someone when they are not able to defend themselves.

[doc30]

The only one they have found is from 1995

Judge the quote by who dug it up - Al Franken

[davisfh]

"MSNBC Piling On Rush Limbaugh"

As I pointed out on another thread, the leftists are simply engaging in selective criticism. If this were a Hollywood type and not Limbaugh, they would be weeping, moaning and good wishes gushing forth. But because it has happened to someone they despise there is no sympathy.

Rush will overcome this. He is a strong and determined man and I have complete faith that he will be back stronger and better than ever.

[Huck]

Well, what do I know anyway? I saw a show about him on Biography or A&E and the info was more or less the same. Maybe he has changed in recent years, with his new wife, his move to FLA, his new interest in golf. It was my impression the loner thing was true about him for many years. But it's not as if I have researched the subject. I should just clam up.

[Agnes Heep]

You have to understand where these people are coming from. To their way of thinking, conservatives are a bunch of old Mrs. Grundys whose sole occupation in life is to keep them from having fun, which to a liberal means taking drugs, having promiscuous sex, and not having to answer for the consequences. When a conservative slips up, they think it validates their position. The logic goes something like this: if taking drugs is bad, and Rush Limbaugh takes drugs, then taking drugs must be good.

[riri]

Rush Limbaugh is hardly a hermit, hardly an isolated loner

I know, I was thinking the same thing. Also, most famous people live that way. It is part of the cost of being famous. Also, let's keep in mind living in seclusion for someone as wealthy as Rush means living on a palatial estate with every luxury and desire filled. These people are just a bunch of morons.

[bigeasy_70118]

Does this mean, someone actually watchs MSNBC?

Friday, I was flipping around waiting for a pizza to get delivered and the baseball game to start. Somehow, Hardball has infilitrated my TV set, and Chris Matthews actually asks David Gergen, "How can Bush recover from this defeat (Arnold getting elected) in California?"

Then Gergen answers the question as if Bush himself came up with the idiotic slogan "No on the Recall, Yes on Bustamonte."

I was acutally kinda p-ssed off until I realized that myself and Chris Matthews' mother were the only two people in the United States watching this nonsense.

[dennisw]

No need to clam up ..... I'm just giving a different perspective of the Rush Limbaugh who is sociable.

[riri]

I think the logic goes something like this ---"See, everyone really does do this stuff and everyone really is weak therefore it is OK that I -------(fill in the blank-take drugs, have promiscious sex, steal, gamble compulsively, eat too much, whatever)

[Huck]

Thanks. But a lot of times I really SHOULD just clam up :) It is an ongoing mission of mine to learn how to just be quiet unless I actually know what I am talking about. As the Good Book says:

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

I'm still working on it.

[Born Conservative]

[cp124]

Yes...MSNBC and Newsweak are linked.

[oyez]

The piling on seems to revolve around Rush's supposed attitude toward illegal drugs

Didn't Elvis have an "atitude" about illegal drugs. After dying ffom an OD, he's more popular than ever.

[oyez]

But somehow available to sane adults at some price.

It would be a price, alright.

Gambling became legal in parts near here and bankruptcy and broken homes skyrocketed. People that would have never gambled if gaming were illegal took up the vice.

[Yardstick]

However, I don't recall a lot of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" speeches that the left wing media is not remembering.

I don't recall many of those speeches either. IIRC Rush never said much about drugs. He seems to stay away from some issues: homosexuality, religion, WOD. I think this is a case of the Left projecting what it thinks Rush says about things, rather than what he has actually said. The hypocrisy charge would be much stronger if Rush had been an anti-drug crusader, but he was really very quiet on the subject. I think they're going after a charicature here. Rush has never been what people who don't listen to him -- or who can't view him objectively because they hate him -- think he is.

[bvw]

Okay, I modify my comments. If a state wants to ban drugs or forms of gambling, fine. Up to the point ALL states ban drugs -- then I WOULD support Federal overruling, and requiring that somehow the states allow any drug, subject to tax and regulation but NOT completely banned.

Gambling is NOT drugs. I'm not in favor of banning it, nor am I against banning it completely.

[abclily]

It was a straight forward question. Hadn't heard any mention of her lately. He used to talk about her a lot. His health problems must not be easy for her either.

[abclily]

Plenty good enough for me. Guess she will need our prayers also. Or am I allowed to say that on this site?

[chudogg]

I don't get the "piling on" and "biased" comments in your post

You admit listening to Rush. This article just called YOU a DITTOHEAD!

[an amused spectator]

Evan Thomas (DNC-MSNBC). Now there's a real surprise - a tried and true DOB (Defender of Bill) unloads on Rush.

I have nothing to say to these people - they are not worth talking to. (paraphrased from Dances With Wolves)

[Yardstick]

Please remember that Rush's fate is held in OUR hands not the hands of liberals. We, the listeners, will determine if Rush lives or dies on AM. The liberal media knows this, the liberal trolls on FR know this and they are attempting to "sway" your opinion of Rush since they themselves are powerless to remove him.

I totally agree. It looks to me like the media's strategy is to portray Rush as an introverted couch-potato loser -- to puncture his all-competent, hyper-achiever mystique that, no doubt, lots of conservatives admire and like to associate themselves with. They want to damage the relationship between Rush and his conservative "base", because, like you said, it's the condition of this relationship that will ultimately determine the outcome of this whole thing.

[theDentist]

Obviously you can.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[riri]

If they were smart, they would try to make it look like Bush and Co. went after Rush for beng cirtical of the Bush Whitehouse. Now that would split the conservatives, if they could pull it off.

[JohnG45]

You say you watch MSNBC in the morning and find them as fair as anything on the tube? Please get your head out of the sand.

Take Imus for example. Nine out of ten of his "guests" are nothing more than liberal losers, whiners and plagiarists.

[driftless]

A more correct name for MSNBC should MSDNC.

[Tree of Liberty]

Drugs MUST be legal. Regulated, heavily taxed

So you believe that taxes should be punitive? In my view, taxation should only take place in order to fund constitutionally necessary functions of government, not to inhibit a legal activity.

If an act is so egregiously despicable that you would punish those that undertake it, work to make it or keep it illegal. Don't be half-@$$ed about it.

[leadpenny]

At the risk of getting off topic on this thread, "Imus in the Morning" is the only adult programming on cable (except, maybe, for the talent of John Stewart and the writers on the Daily Show). He is the best interviewer in the business. Did you ever wonder why the likes of O'Reilly and Matthews keep coming back to his program? Because they know he is right when he critisizes their style of interviewing. Beyond all of that - watch and listen to whatever you want to. If you don't like something - don't watch it. I can't stand the style of Matthews, Hannity, O'Reilly and some others, so I avoid them. Keeps my blood pressure down.