| − | The ACLU rushed to the aid of talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he was under investigation for 'docotr shopping' to feed his prescription narcotics habit. The ACLU argued that the privacy rights of the drug addict and self-proiclaimed 'Republican kingmaker' were being violated by an overzealous states attorney who was a Democrat. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html</ref> | + | The ACLU rushed to the aid of talk show host Rush Limbaugh when he was under investigation for 'doctor shopping' to feed his prescription narcotics habit. The ACLU argued that the privacy rights of the drug addict and self-proiclaimed 'Republican kingmaker' were being violated by an overzealous states attorney who was a Democrat. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html</ref> Despite making statements such as the one Limbaugh made on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995; "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," the ACLU defended the narcotics-addled hypocrite anyway. |