Limbaugh Arrested on Drug Charges

[CowPimp]

You're rationalizing it. Just because he may speak out against it doesn't make your situation anymore legal or legitimate. Illegal drug use is illegal drug use.

You can't categorize everything into good/bad and black/white categories. It doesn't work like that. Situations are more complex than that. Yes, I use illegal drugs. However, I am apparently more responsible with it than Rush. I take a bong hit like twice a month on a Friday night. So what? I'm not endangering others in order to get my supply like he did. I'm not addicted and contorl my usage unlike him. Furthermore, I preach about the decriminalization of drug use; Rush preaches about harsh punishment for illicit drug use. I think there is a stark contrast here. I am also do negligible damage to my health. So maybe I am rationalizing it, but I think I have done so successfully. Rush, however, cannot (In my opinion) rationalize his usage of drugs after what he has said regarding other people doing the same.

Seriously, I could give a rat's ass if Rush broke the law. I just have a problem with the hypocracy. I care about what's right and wrong, or more specifically what harms others beside yourself, and the law oftentimes has very little to do with that. This is particularly true when it comes to drug enforcement policies.

 

[lnvanry]

And the right wouldn't know anything about that.

thats not the right....They've been all over FOX and were blasted by everyone.

They come to military funerals and tell the families that their son dies b/c the US has fags

They are to the right as the communist party is to the left.

 

[CowPimp]

One thing that these threads just prove over and over again is just how much hate the left has these days.

Yeah, people are pissed off because there is a lot of shit going wrong right now, and the government is largely controlled by conservatives. I think it's understandable.

On that note, don't pretend that there is no contempt from the right to the left. Also, this particular thread has nothing to do with conservatism and everything to do with hypocracy. I cannot stand hypocracy; it drives my crazy.

 

[lnvanry]

Yeah, people are pissed off because there is a lot of shit going wrong right now, and the government is largely controlled by conservatives. I think it's understandable.

On that note, don't pretend that there is no contempt from the right to the left. Also, this particular thread has nothing to do with conservatism and everything to do with hypocracy. I cannot stand hypocracy; it drives my crazy.

You're right...there would be equal contempt if the left was in office right now from the right...however we don't cry as loud

We are louder and better at smearing though....sometimes it ruins peoples careers and reps permanently.

 

[CowPimp]

You're right...there would be equal contempt if the left was in office right now from the right...however we don't cry as loud

I'm glad people are finally complaining more. It's what we need to get politicians to actually listen instead of just sucking the cocks of lobbyists all day long.

We are louder and better at smearing though....sometimes it ruins peoples careers and reps permanently.

Heh.

 

[Pepper]

On that note, don't pretend that there is no contempt from the right to the left.

I don't. I just seems no one is reasonable anymore. Discussions all turn to just spewing the same old, tired hate. You can't debate any issue anymore b/c it can't stay on topic, it all becomes "I hate your point of view."

I do think the left is better at spewing hate than the right. Just sayin'

 

[Pepper]

For example, take this thread. Busy is not defending Rush, he just failed to jump his shit like Foreman, BigDyl and he gets totally toasted by Foreman. Foreman TOTALLY misrepresented what Busy was saying and turned it quickly into a pissing contest. Not trying to single Foreman out, many people do that.

You say something about Clinton's possible perjury and you get "Bush's lies killed 100,000." Does someone commenting on one person's lies have to mention ALL possible occassions where someone lied? The reply was discussing Clinton, WTF does Bush have to do with it? EXCEPT, you said something about my guy, I gotta say something about "yours." It is immature and totally ineffective.

 

[Decker]

Its hard to put RUsh in jail for a victimless crime.
I feel the same for crackheads and junkies alike.

Prosecute the supplier.

Rush's BIG mistake was the fraudulant doctors notes

That was a big mistake. But the bigger mistake is the trenchant hypocrisy of the man:

Long ago Rush made his choice between treating addiction as a medical problem subject to rehab or locking up the offender as a lawbreaker.

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh

Rush sided w/ the tough-on-crime stance but after he's caught w/ his hand in the heroin jar, he does a 180 and cries like a pussy and wants people to understand his back pain resulted in his 'addiction.' Not so ruggedly individual, is he....Or morally consistent."

Rush's supporters want him to be more than a drug addicted person--that's for weak liberals--so they rationalize that he's still a man b/c he had terrific pain necessitating his drug use. As we've seen that's bullshit b/c he is still an avid golfer to this day...crippling back pain and all.

I agree w/ you 100% about criminalizing drug use--it's a mistake.

 

[CowPimp]

For example, take this thread. Busy is not defending Rush, he just failed to jump his shit like Foreman, BigDyl and he gets totally toasted by Foreman. Foreman TOTALLY misrepresented what Busy was saying and turned it quickly into a pissing contest. Not trying to single Foreman out, many people do that.

You say something about Clinton's possible perjury and you get "Bush's lies killed 100,000." Does someone commenting on one person's lies have to mention ALL possible occassions where someone lied? The reply was discussing Clinton, WTF does Bush have to do with it? EXCEPT, you said something about my guy, I gotta say something about "yours." It is immature and totally ineffective.

That's just a few people on these forums. It just seems like that's representative of the left here because they post so damned much, heh.

 

[BigDyl]

That's just a few people on these forums. It just seems like that's representative of the left here because they post so damned much, heh.

I thought we were cool, bro? I live like 50 miles away you know...

 

[CowPimp]

I thought we were cool, bro? I live like 50 miles away you know...

I'm not talking shit. I'm just saying his comments are representative of only a few people. You have a right to be angry with the right; I am angry myself. You can go about this anger however you want, as will I.

 

[DOMS]

I'm not talking shit. I'm just saying his comments are representative of only a few people. You have a right to be angry with the right; I am angry myself. You can go about this anger however you want, as will I.

Which is why the term "Angry Left" was coined.

 

[CowPimp]

Which is why the term "Angry Left" was coined.

I think angry America is more appropriate. I know many conservatives who aren't too happy right now either.

 

[KelJu]

OMFG!!!!
What the hell is wrong with some of you!
Anybody that doesn???t already know that both sides are completely full of shit, is too stupid to be allowed to live.

 

[KelJu]

Anyone here care to back a bet with me regarding whether or not Rush ever speaks up again about tougher penalties for drug offenders?
I will bet $100.00 that he keeps his mouth shut from now on about that subject.