Rush arrested....to plea bargain

[doc9464]

Wish the sorry SOB had to experience some real jail time to make him deal with what life is like for drug addicts that get themselves into the prison system for whatever reason. This way, the SOB will never learn from his crimes.http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...83429.story?coll=sfla-home-headlinesClip:WEST PALM BEACH -- Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, with his attorney saying he has reached a deal with prosecutors that will eventually see the charges dismissed if he continues treatment for drug addiction.Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office. The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and left an hour later after posting $3,000 bail, Barbera said. The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescriptions, Barbera said.Black said his client and prosecutors reached a settlement on a charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney, which Black said will be dismissed in 18 months if Limbaugh complies with court guidelines.As a primary condition of the dismissal, Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years, Black said.Limbaugh entered a plea of not guilty in court Friday on the charge and Black maintained his client's innocence.

 

[Arbitorn]

Ya can't just say you think he should do some time, eh? Ya gotta call him a name. Where is the tolerance for a different view? Where is the understanding and acceptance of someone who sees things differently than you? Why must you put them down for the way they think? Liberal bumper stickers say "Mean People Suck" and "HATE is not a family value" but so many anti-conservative posts on this radio board spew hate and meanness while trying to make a point. It's so childish. It gets old.

 

[jcolletta275]

You forget, Arbitorn, that liberals are very open-minded... when whoever they're talking to agrees with them. When different minds think differently, liberals see the other side as being intolerant.

 

[doc9464]

Ya can't just say you think he should do some time, eh? Ya gotta call him a name. Where is the tolerance for a different view? Where is the understanding and acceptance of someone who sees things differently than you? Why must you put them down for the way they think? Liberal bumper stickers say "Mean People Suck" and "HATE is not a family value" but so many anti-conservative posts on this radio board spew hate and meanness while trying to make a point. It's so childish. It gets old.

I assure you this liberal doesn't have either of those bumper stickers you attempt to stereotype with. This liberal knows how to fight back. Your comment on Rush is laughable. Your faux outrage at my comment just shows the hypocricy of those who either lean right or declare themselves as right wing. You have the nerve to complain when Rush, Ann Coulter, Hannity, et al. have called liberals, democrats, and other left-leaners everything from terrorist to baby-killers to perverts. Your comment is outrageously inoperative.Now to the real point you completely looked over. 'Rush Limbaugh spent a lot of his time on the radio maligning drug addicts and those unfortunate enough to get involved in the life destroying spiral drugs lead to. He then gets deeply involved in his own spiral and oh what a shock, the rules change now..... Rush is a person deserving of sympathy. Not on your life. Thats why this plea bargain is a travesty. This man takes up to 30 oxycontin pills a DAY! Thats higher than a space shuttle orbit. Even after having gotten addicted, he is unapologetic for his savaging of other addicts. This makes Rush a SOB and anything else one can call him. His being rich should not allow him to escape the fate of others who suffer addiction but yet have to endure the agony of prison time. He should not escape that. He won't learn unless he experiences it.I think the judge missed or choosed to ignore the irony of letting him get away with this.

 

[dampier]

Now to the real point you completely looked over. 'Rush Limbaugh spent a lot of his time on the radio maligning drug addicts and those unfortunate enough to get involved in the life destroying spiral drugs lead to. He then gets deeply involved in his own spiral and oh what a shock, the rules change now.

It's another case of someone checking into the Hypocracy Hotel, and Rush has the penthouse suite. The only people who are *upset* morally with Rush are those who feel that drug abuse is a choice and some indication of moral weakness. In other words, his core audience. But when it strikes close to home, it's amazing how forgiving a lot of his peeps get. Prescription drug abuse is a serious issue and treatment is the best option - never jail IMHO. What is outrageous about Rush is that it's Pretend Land over there. Let's pretend this never happened. He has condemned and maligned people who did precisely as he did and said they should go to jail. But when it happened to him, the tune changes as long as we are talking about him. For a guy who claims to be so much smarter than most, he sure proved just how much he isn't. I've been on addictive pain meds in my past and... sit down for this one people... I READ THE LABEL AND FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY MY DOCTOR. Ohmygod. I guess that makes me smarter than Rush right there. I'm also smart enough to realize that sending my maid out to some parking lot with a cigar box stuffed with cash means I have a problem. Apparently Rush didn't. Or more likely he thought the rules don't apply to him.The conservative morals condemnation crowd always gets tripped up by their own personal imperfections. Usually this happens in the evangelist community when they get caught with a hooker or secretary. They do an on-air mea culpa teary repenting, and about 1/3rd of the time they survive. Rush's pals in Congress play the "it's a liberal conspiracy against me" card until they are found guilty, then it's time for "Pretend Land" where fellow conservatives just don't talk about "it." These people then usually become pundits themselves, and anyone bringing up their past shocks them. Just ask Ollie North when Randi Rhodes brought out his own past record leading to him to storm out of the studio. Like you can't talk about that.Rush is still in denial.When he went for his arrest and booking, he wore a turtleneck (in south Florida yet) and did a Tom DeLay "smile for the mugshot" in hopes of making it look like he was just getting his photo shot on casual football Sunday. Then we get to hear his lawyer deny up and down that Rush was ever under arrest. That led to a news release from the Palm Beach authorities saying he was very much under arrest. His plea bargain was re-christened a "pre-trial agreement" like a plea bargain doesn't come from a pre-trial agreement.One more day on the air casually chatting about how wonderful his mugshot came out, and then back to the seven second delay and heavy call screening to make sure the issue just goes away.And within a few weeks, we'll hear more about how white collar drug users need to see the inside of a jail cell. And his callers, living in Pretend Land too, will quickly agree. "Those kind of people" are the dirtbags... not our Rush.The inevitable fact here will be that those living in denial of their own addictions are often bound to repeat them. So don't be surprised if there is a another "drug shocker" headline in his future.

 

[fred flintstone]

Face it, the reason some of you HATE Rush is because he is better at what he does than anybody else - and more successful. Most of the posts here are not about the opinions he broadcasts or about the quality of his show (to which his bashers probably don't listen anyway), they are personal attacks on HIM. Such posts descend to the level of Rush's inferior and particularly viscious immitators like Gallagher and O'Reilly.And Phil, you were the one who kept saying the Gloria Wise Scandal was irrelevant and over-blown. Well, so is this. It is easy to apply different standards of behavior when it's "us" and when it's "them."

 

[dampier]

Face it, the reason some of you HATE Rush is because he is better at what he does than anybody else - and more successful. Most of the posts here are not about the opinions he broadcasts or about the quality of his show (to which his bashers probably don't listen anyway), they are personal attacks on HIM.

I think it's not so much about him but about his on-air holier than thou routine being called hypocritical.I have always acknowledged Rush's ratings come in part because he has done good shows in the past. I think that the glory days are over, especially now that he's taken to simply making excuses for the current administration. Face it, talk radio is more entertaining when you are railing against something, not finding new ways to agree with the people you support.

And Phil, you were the one who kept saying the Gloria Wise Scandal was irrelevant and over-blown. Well, so is this. It is easy to apply different standards of behavior when it's "us" and when it's "them."

Uh, reread my post where I say treatment is the best option for him. I don't blame him for being hooked on prescription meds and I would never support jail for anyone who has found themselves in this situation. But he is ripe for criticism as long as he continues to be in Pretend Land and doesn't tell his listeners that he was wrong to have questioned the morals of those caught up in addiction, because it happened to him, and that treatment and support are the real answers. He'd have my support 100% for that. I may disagree with his politics, but I'd support someone coping with an addiction without giving it another thought. Dare I say... it takes a village.

 

[fred flintstone]

I have always acknowledged Rush's ratings come in part because he has done good shows in the past. I think that the glory days are over, especially now that he's taken to simply making excuses for the current administration. Face it, talk radio is more entertaining when you are railing against something, not finding new ways to agree with the people you support.

Amen.Wonder who will be the last talk show host/flack to bail out on Bush. AP/Ipsos this morning says coservatives are turning on Bush. How soon before self-preservation triumphs over "access?"

 

[jondavidvox]

Perhaps if Rush hadn't inhaled....Regardless of the fact that Rush has led the American Conservative Movement while as high as a kite for 2 decades, he is still the greatest radio broadcaster of this, or any other time....Including the great Edward R. Murrow, who was alcoholic. For all intents and purposes, AM radio was dead before Rush definitively proved that superb on-air radio talent matters more to media success than egocentric, and incompetent management boobs. (You know, the ones telling today's talent that they suck at every turn, for the sole purpose of padding their bottom-line driven bonuses, and nothing more.)The lesson here is that those who preach character, must attend their own....Including those dancing atop Rush Limbaugh's disgrace.Jon-David WellsFearless Broadcaster

 

[fred flintstone]

He is still the greatest radio broadcaster of this, or any other time

He's good. He's not that good.For one thing, he's neither unique nor original. To quote Sir Issac Newton, Rush stands on the shoulders of giants.And he has not led the American conservative movement. He doesn't qualify as a true conservative - nor as a leader. He's a flack - a shill - for the administration and the RNC.And nobody claims he was "high as a kite for two decades."Radio is a business characterized by bad management and mistreatment of employees. Welcome to the world of radio. The sad part is how desperate so many people are to work in radio that they put up with it - and are so resistant to the idea of unionizing.