Att'y Roy Black: Rush Was in Constant Pain

NewsMax ^ | 10/13/03 | Limbacher

[RS]

"The distintion will be lost on the left!!"

Interesting... so the Right now is the champion of delving into the reasons behind why a crime is commmitted ...
... are we to assume that the Right now feels that certain crimes should NOT be prosecuted, sort of like medical Pot ?

[skip_intro]

That's been bugging me all along. I remember him talking about playing 36 holes in a day.

I can't imagine doing this with chronic back and neck pain, drugs or not. I'm afraid that there is more to this story than has been revealed so far.

[ancient_geezer]

His detractors claim he was involved in his drug problem when he made his statement about jailing drug people - IN 1995.

Could that be related to why his detractors don't seem to be able to find this?

1) Legalize all drugs so we can control their sources by holding them accountable to claims of safety & efficacy.

2) Treat all addictive drugs the same as tobbacco.

 

Transcript Of Rush Limbaugh On Legalizing Drugs
March 12, 1998

RUSH:

** Based on the reality of how we're going after cigarette smokers, The thing that we cannot do in the drug fight right now is regulate because it's illegal.  Drugs are against the law and so the manufacturers are illegal.  They're not even on shore they're down there in Columbia and the Calli Cartel and they're working to poison the brains and minds of the future of America.  And so what we do is to try to keep those drugs from getting in.  And I agree with you that it's a half baked effort. 

** But what are we doing with cigarettes.  Well we are punishing the manufacturers We're suing them left and right we're going to cause them to settle out of court for $368 billion.  We're gonna let them keep making them but then we're going to have the price go way way up so that we ostensibly say by virtue of that we don't want anybody to smoke cigarettes anymore and we're going to try to price it out of most peoples existence but we're going to raise those prices and most of that money will be taxes and we're going to use that money for health care programs for our kids and so forth. 

*** It seems to me that what is missing in the drug fight is legalization.  If we want to go after drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes let's legalize drugs.  Legalize the manufacture of drugs.  Licence the Calli Cartel make them tax payers and then sue them.  Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it.  Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs. 

**** Because it seems to me, flippant as though it may sound to you, that what gives us the power to do what we're doing, what gives the government the _power_ to do what it is doing, state and federal, in cigarettes is that it's a legal substance regulated by uh the federal government.  And they don't have any such power and control over drugs because it's illegal. 

**** So let's legalize them and then go after them the same way. 

[gatorbait]

I certainly can't answer your question, but maybe his meds allowed it?
Bingo,but even then it provided a modicum of relief.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Absolutely. Marta is surely hurting too and can use all the prayers she can get.

[Howlin]

When was his back operation?

[concerned about politics]

It will also be lost on the libertarian members of this forum.

My mom got Osteo(sp?) Arthritus before she passed on. When her kidneys gave out, they put her on dialisis. They made her lay flat on her back, and she couldn't stand the pain. She asked for the doctor to drug her up and let her die. He did.

[Humidston]

Very interesting find, Ancient Geezer!

[RS]

"Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs."

Did you not realize Rush's sacasm when you read it ?

[Humidston]

I don't know, Howlin. But Roy Black says this started in 1997. I'm not sure if the pain killers began then or the surgery...

[Howlin]

I just don't ever remember him being gone for any length of time.

[blastdad51]

go back and reread my post

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Who is anyone to judge?

Another side...

How many ex-athletes are living in pain beyond most people's comprehension, yet dealing with it? How many back problems are there? How many knees or shoulders were operated on/should have been? Consider all of the devastating arthritis?... People get by in pain without all of the meds.

Rush said he was no victim, I found that to be very meaningful.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[Humidston]

I know. I've been racking my brain. Somewhere around the mid '90's I'm guessing, but at that time I really wasn't much of a regular listener. Maybe someone else would know.

[mcg1969]

And what is that evidence of? Truthfully, I've known people who have had multiple back surgeries. And of course, immediately after the surgery proper they needed to be relatively immobile---but they were not stuck at the hospital. I can't say this for sure, of course, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did his radio show while convalescing. It's not like we had the dittocam back then to check up on him.

[LRS]

Why, this bond is forfeit;
And blindly by this the Dopers may claim
A pound of pot, to be by them cut off
Nearest Limbaugh's heart...

[Howlin]

I asked a simple question.

Try not to look so damn defensive.

[Howlin]

What surprises me is that I don't remember him talking about; and lord knows, he talks about everything that happens to him!

[ancient_geezer]

Sarcasm? The best sarcasm always has the grain of truth in it my friend.

The position of legalization of drugs is solid, as long as the worst drugs are illegal there can be no substantive control over them anymore than there was over alcohol in prohibition.

As far as law suits etc? Hold drugs to truth in advertising and the same standards as tobacco. Works for me.