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When has Rush NOT taken responsibility?

When he started screaming "persecution" instead of saying "I know I did wrong, I'll cooperate fully with the investigation" or go straight to the prosecutor for a plea bargain. It'd be hard for the prosecutor not to accept it from a non-violent, first-time offender who is otherwise clean.

Rush has to fight four times the battle any ordinary citizen would just because he is Rush Limbaugh.

He also has a thousand times the resources of the ordinary citizen to fight it. By the math, it looks like he has it easy.

When he started screaming "persecution" instead of saying "I know I did wrong, I'll cooperate fully with the investigation"

What are you talking about? That's EXACTLY what he did first when all this first came to light. He "started out", saying he knew he did wrong (not in those exact words, but he admitted to his addiction, and took full responsibility) and said he would co-operate fully with the investigation. He didnt start screaming "presecution", untill after all of these allegations (Doctor shopping, money laundering, etc.) were leaked to the press and it was clear that the DA is on some sort of political mission instead of actually investigating some sort of crime.

or go straight to the prosecutor for a plea bargain.

Wouldn't you love that. Have an innocent man plea bargain (read: plead guilty to a lesser charge) for a crime that he didnt commit. Plea bargain for what? If he did nothing illegal, then there's nothing to plea bargain. If Rush hasn't been committing the crimes that the accusations leaked to the press says he has, then he should fight this with every fiber in his being, give the DA nothing ,including a plea bargain.

It'd be hard for the prosecutor not to accept it from a non-violent, first-time offender who is otherwise clean.

It depends on who the prosecutor is and what his motivations are. It seems this prosecutor wants to bury Rush under the jail even if Rush walked into his office with an offer of a plea bargain.

Rush has to fight four times the battle any ordinary citizen would just because he is Rush Limbaugh.

He also has a thousand times the resources of the ordinary citizen to fight it. By the math, it looks like he has it easy.

There are many cases of people with less resources, pleading guilty to mopre serious crimes that they didn't commit.

"In New York's Central Park jogger case, the confessions of five Harlem youths were key to their convictions. They were questioned for 14 to 30 hours before confessing - but the interrogation was not videotaped. They were exonerated in December after DNA proved that another man had raped the jogger."