Rush was RUDE today!!!!!!

Rush Limbaugh | 4/29/04 | myself

[theDentist]

Sounds like Kerry.

[John Lenin]

For christ sakes, lighten up!

[Ignatius J Reilly]

Rush spouting his opinion at the risk of seeming rude or insensitive is new?
I bet he pisses some person or group off at least weakly

[RobFromGa]

It's very easy to poke fun at kids with these disabilities...Hanity does it. Rush does it. Most FReepers do it.

I have never heard them make fun of the kids, only at the ridiculous quasi-medical mumbo jumbo that causes these normal bored kids to get drugged out of their minds so they can be good little automatons. Many ADD kids, can sit and play a video game for hours, or any other thing they are interested in.

They make fun of the system, and criticize the parents who fall for the lies and allow their children to be zombies for the comfort of the teachers.

[ApesForEvolution]

In 95+% of cases it doesn't exist, and when it does, it could a)be avoided and b)be handled through nutrition, parenting, etc.

Harsh, but true...the society is so drugged up it's any wonder it functions. The pipples' priorities in this nation are way out of whack and the children suffer because of it.

[Howlin]

I think he was mocking the companies that now market anti-depressant drugs as anti-shyness drugs

Oh my....do they really do that?

[LADY J]

Maybe I missed something - but I did not hear Rush being rude.

He had a late caller who has Aspergers that did not get on the air. Rush asked his screener to get the phone # and permission from the caller to be on the show tomorrow.

[ApesForEvolution]

Amen. Lord knows no one wants to hear about personal responsibility, due diligence, priorities, shatty parenting, etc...

[MineralMan]

""I bet he pisses some person or group off at least weakly"

Sometimes even strongly. Seriously, Rush should stick to politics. I have friends with a child with this condition. It's real, and it's no fun at all.

I've stopped listening to Rush. I can't imagine a group he hasn't ridiculed at some point.

[Phantom Lord]

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia (sp?) when I was young. It was corrected through diet and exercise.

I have no doubt that if I was a child today, it would have been diagnosed as ADD and I would be on drugs.

[JennysCool]

They are filling up scarce classes that teach skills like how close to stand next to someone at a party, or how to tell when people are angry even when they are smiling. Others, like Mr. Miller, have decided to disclose their diagnosis, hoping to deflect the often-hostile responses their odd manners and miscues provoke. In some cases, it has helped. In others, it seemed only to elicit one more rejection.

Sounds to me like just another new payday for the psychology / drug industry by scaring / pandering to yet another group.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Geez, I've got most of these symptoms! Except "overly sensitive to loud sounds" - playing in a band 20+ years cured me of that! And all this time I just thought I was a geek.

[Fierce Allegiance]

never had a kid with true ADHD, I take it?

[ApesForEvolution]

lololol

[ApesForEvolution]

Got that right...

[ApesForEvolution]

It's the panacea thingy...

[hobbes1]

They say genetic, the one thing all the books say, is that it is common to find a relative who, while not having it, has what they call a ghosting of the same symptoms....

[Phantom Lord]

I think he was mocking the companies that now market anti-depressant drugs as anti-shyness drugs

Oh my....do they really do that?

With more and more parents realizing that the vast majority of ADD/ADHD diagnosis are a fraud, and the sales of ritalin and similar drugs declining, drug companies are now promoting "Adult ADD/ADHD" to tap another market.

Are you living with Adult ADD? Take The Test

[JennysCool]

The fact that you have to say true ADHD says a lot. There are a lot of false diagnoses out there -- made in the interest of money or convenience -- and everybody knows it.

[Irene Adler]

He makes fun of restless leg syndrome too, which I have, and which is a genuine sleep disorder, when it's severe, which for me, it is. If my current meds didn't work as well as they do, I'd be just about crazy for some undisturbed sleep.

So what! That's Rush.