The accusers have a point, but they are also being a bit dishonest. I always find it interesting on what was left out by the "...." in the quote. Here is the full quote with underline under what was left out:
"What this says to me 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."
Rush wasn't neccessarily talking about cracking down more on drug users, just cracking down on all races equally for the same crime. There was a call by liberals to release all drug crime convicts because too many of them were black, and Rush was responding to that. I can see some hypocripsy, but I think it is also misleading with the "..." because it is clear Rush is not necessarily just talking about drug users, as the quote in the article implies, but drug crimes people are in jail for. In fact I would guess very few people are imprison soley for drug usage, but I don't know for sure.
Thank you again for your nice post.
This is a common misconception. There are a lot of people in federal prison solely for marijuana use. There have been many arrests in Florida for illegal procurement/use of prescription drugs.