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::Well, perhaps since you threw the [[Red Herring]] out there, you would tell us who he criticized/attacked/judged, in a like situation, over drug dependency? --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]<sub><small><small>/Admin</small></small></sub><sup>[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</sup> 20:56, 2 March 2009 (EST)
::Well, perhaps since you threw the [[Red Herring]] out there, you would tell us who he criticized/attacked/judged, in a like situation, over drug dependency? --[[User:TK|'''₮K''']]<sub><small><small>/Admin</small></small></sub><sup>[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</sup> 20:56, 2 March 2009 (EST)
:::I'll respond since I was requested to. This [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1159 link] to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting provides a concise summary of not just one, but multiple statements Limbaugh has made in the past attacking drug abusers. Considering that Limbaugh worked out a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid a trial and only have to undergo rehab, this statement highlights why I consider him a hypocrite on this issue:
:::::''"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.''
:::::''...We are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.... This country certainly appears to be tolerant, forgive and forget. I mean, you know as well as I do, you go out and commit the worst murder in the world and you just say you're sorry, people go, "Oh, OK. A little contrition."... People say, "I feel better. He said he's sorry for it." We're becoming too tolerant, folks."''
:::So because he's a prominent media figure who was sorry for his actions and could do good for others if allowed to cure his condition with rehab, he deserved that break instead of jail time. Interesting how his epiphany about contrition and tolerance seemed to coincide with him being a defendant. As for the contention that he was a victim who was driven to continued abuse once he was addicted to painkillers:
:::::''"I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."..."''
::: Basically, this is a man who had no sympathy for trying to understand the situations of others before condemning their use of drugs, and it was only when he was caught that he asked for the double-standard of a plea bargain for his situation, when "true" conservatives are supposed to accept personal responsibility for their actions. If people here want to brand entertainer Heath Ledger a drug abuser because he tragically used legally-obtained prescription drugs in a way that led to his death, why is there a reluctance to brand entertainer Rush Limbaugh a drug abuser because he admitted an addiction to ''illegally'' obtained drugs he was abusing? Isn't that the type of moral relativism that's frowned upon here? --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 09:36, 3 March 2009 (EST)