Conservatives - Altering the rules when convenient

The Miami Herald ^ | October 23, 2003 | JOY-ANN REID joyannreid@hotmail.com

[trebb]

Typical "liberal" blather. I find it amazing that someone standing chest-deep in dung can criticize someone else for having stepped on a turd.

[trebb]

Typical "liberal" blather. I find it amazing that someone standing chest-deep in dung can criticize someone else for having stepped on a turd.

[DJ Frisat]

This one made my blood boil -- to the extent that I fired off an email response to the author. In it, I challenged her to two things:

1) To honestly -- yeah, right -- tell readers in her next column how much/often she has listened to Limbaugh's radio program, and

2) Call him on-air when he returns to host the show. I'm sure she'll get bumped to the top of the call list. And I'm equally sure that she lacks the guts and intellectual honesty to put words into his mouth in that forum.

[trebb]

Typical "liberal" blather. I find it amazing that someone standing chest-deep in dung can criticize someone else for having stepped on a turd.

[elfman2]

"The right wing operates its own code -- a kind of moral Talibanism where the punishment for sin is death (as in the death penalty) or if the crime is noncriminal, ridicule, ouster or impeachment."

There’s a tiny bit of truth in that pile of garbage, just enough to score some points.

If the money pored into drug enforcement was diverted into rehab and anti-drug promotion programs, I wonder if there would be more use.

Are the root causes of recreational addiction always that much different than the root causes of medical addiction? There’s an old saying that an untempted virgin can’t boast of her chastity. In Rush’s upbringing and social circles, do you think that he was ever that tempted by drugs? If not, then he can’t boast of his moral superiority over those that were.

All fell to a common weakness, expressed in different type and circumstances. The most promising among us who promote drug laws have no clear claim to moral superiority, just as incarceration has no clear claim to greater effectiveness than rehab and anti-drug promotion programs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I challenged her to two things:

"......2) Call him on-air when he returns to host the show. I'm sure she'll get bumped to the top of the call list. And I'm equally sure that she lacks the guts and intellectual honesty to put words into his mouth in that forum. "

Isn't it telling how they feel so "brave" when Rush isn't on the air to challenge their assumptions? Here's another coward.

Rush, Recall And Reunion***That's the nasty beat Limbaugh dances to. He harvests all the heartless thoughts of a nation. He liberated intolerance in Middle America and put a fine point on it for the rich. He made it OK to kick the underdog.

Limbaugh was the overdog.

Now, his network will try to keep the Limbaugh franchise alive during his rehab. (What is Limbaugh, after all, but a franchise?) To hold the audience on Monday, it featured guest Ann Coulter's deadly and yet commercial mix of blond intolerance. ***

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[michaelt]

This woman thinks differences in state laws constitute a double standard? It's part of our federal system.

And why would Al Franken necessarily get the book thrown at him while Rush wouldn't? Where is her evidence? Franken has admitted to cocaine use. Did he spend any time in jail, or the tabloids? No.

I could go on, but how does such drivel get in major newspapers?

[CWOJackson]

Most people recognize that there is a clear distinction between those who become addicted to a substance through a regime of prescribed medication, and those who get addicted to drugs through recreational use of an illegal substance.

Legalizing drugs has no bearing on Limbaughs situation, other then it would have made it cheaper and easier to continue his addiction. His situation is that a powerful and narcotic pain medication was prescribed. Perhaps more careful monitoring and aftercare is needed in his type of situation, but that is more a medical, not a legal matter.

Recreational drug use is in no way related to the situation he finds himself in, other then both users obtain their drugs from people willing to sell death for a profit. Pushers aren't a medical problem, they will remain a legal problem.

I know there is a lot of effort out there by some elements to attempt to use Limbaugh's situation to somehow bloister their efforts to legalize drugs. Drug legalization wouldn't have prevented Limbaugh's problem, it would only create many more like him.

I seriously doubt that Limbaugh himself would be in favor of that.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rush is in rehab to learn he can live without drugs. Pain control for an untreatable back problem destroyed more than it helped. Some say his hearing. Is there something he can take to allow him to live without pain? I don't know. However, I don't believe Rush will come back and call to abolish drug laws.

[Noachian]

Someone should tell this columnist that Conservatives shoot high for their goals, and when they miss the mark they have a long way to fall.

Liberals set their ideals at street level, and stumble their way through life wondering why anyone would want to go higher.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don't these people have an original idea? SSDD.

[Maria S]

"Where are the normally vocal if not shrill FreeRepublic drug warriors on this Limbaugh situation? "

Where were the Clinton lovers when his half-brother, Roger, said "My brother has a nose [for cocaine] like a Hoover?"

[CWOJackson]

I have to agree. If anything, Limbaugh will come back as the voice from the belly of the beast not an advocate.

[Tamzee]

She compared apples and oranges at every point throughout the column... instead of a coherent argument she wound up with fruit salad.

[BillM]

It seems to me that the left pursued Bush's daughter unmercifully. On the other hand, their hollywood idols get a pass on possessing hard drugs and illegal handguns. They are synonymous with hypocrisy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great post on the differences. Clarity!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They are synonymous with hypocrisy.

Yes, they feel just fine sending their children to private schools while denying vouchers to parents trying to get their children out of rotten schools.

[sauropod]

Hey Joy-Ann!

Rape is not a family value!

Better put some ice on that!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You're just a mean-spirited conservative.