DRMIZER
11-01-2003, 11:46 AM
Rush blamed his addiction on the after effects of an old operation. "I am still experiencing that pain. Rather than opt for additional surgery for these conditions, I chose to treat the pain with prescribed medication. This medication turned out to be highly addictive."
"Turned out to be?" Rush didn't know opium is addictive? And illegal? ".....too many whites are getting away with drug use... 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."
In real life, Rush's lawyers convince authorities not to arrest the multi millionaire radio host because he really planned to kick the habit--this time around. He has failed several previous detox and rehab programs.
Rush stands in a tradition of right wing hypocrites. He demanded that police enforce drug laws--against others, that is. "...Why aren't we going after drugs as fervently as we're going after cigarettes...Tobacco addiction is a 30 year death. Heroin addiction is instant death and yet we're not going after this stuff with the same moral fervor..."
Far right hypocrisy promotes "do as I say, not as I do" as its guiding message. When caught sinning, the rightist confesses, gets reborn and continues to admonish sinners as if he had committed his own sins in a previous life.
Confession and responsibility-taking resonated when Limbaugh mouthed "I take full responsibility for my problem," Rush told his radio listeners in his confession speech on October 10.
Rush diffused the complex issues of addiction and "sin" by asking listeners to use their influence with God on his behalf, so that he could return after detox to continue his arrogant ranting on the air. "I ask now for your prayers. I look forward to resuming our excursion into broadcast excellence together."
Rush took drugs alone and went on the air stoned. But the (LIBERAL-LEFT) media has diluted its language concerning Rush's opium addiction. They refer to "prescription, pain relievers" instead of saying that Rush's drug of choice, OxyContin works like heroin, but in pill form.
OxyContin was designed as an oral medication to mediate severe, chronic pain--as experienced by cancer patients, for example. Heroin users inject their drug, while, Oxy-heads, as the street pushers call them, drop timed-release capsules that last for twelve hours. But Oxyheads quickly learn that by crushing the pills into powder, they get super charged highs a la heroine and sometimes a fatal overdose. The Newsday story reports that in higher than recommended doses, "OxyContin is capable of inducing an intense state of euphoria. Addicts, doctors say, require increasing doses as dependency worsens." According to Wilma Cline, his housekeeper and supplier, Rush popped up to thirty pills a day. She says he "once used almost 100 a day" in month and a half long binge.
Oh, the sleaze of it all! Earlier this year, the ultra judgmental, but equally slimy Bill Bennett explained how God could accept him as a militant crusader against all vice and still allow him to indulge his high-stakes gambling addiction.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, W's kid brother, entreated the public to understand why his family merited special privilege. That occurred when Noelle, his daughter, got busted for drugs--over and over again. Yet he gladly blesses the legal code that sends poor people to prison for using the same or similar drugs. I feel certain he'll make another exception for Rush.
"I am no role model," Rush told his audience. "I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes. They are the role models. I am no victim and do not portray myself as such." He's correct. By law, the cops should nail his fat butt and throw it into a cell and, in Florida where he lives, he could be sentenced to five years in prison.
The cops have already pinched Rush's suppliers, as the law requires, but the cops have yet not touched Mr. Excellence in Broadcasting.
Perhaps Rush will have an epiphany at the detox center and emerge as a compassionate human being. He may lose his audience as a result, but they would find another charlatan who would appeal to that streak of bitter disappointment that runs through sectors of middle class America, one that loves to blame others--people of color, the poor, liberals, the Clintons, the tax man, immigrants and drug dealers--for their own unsatisfied aspirations.
Hey, maybe they'll even have a reformed Rush to kick around, one that pleads to the Ayatollah Ashcroft not to hassle cancer patients availing themselves of medical marijuana.
http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10252003.html
"Turned out to be?" Rush didn't know opium is addictive? And illegal? ".....too many whites are getting away with drug use... 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."
In real life, Rush's lawyers convince authorities not to arrest the multi millionaire radio host because he really planned to kick the habit--this time around. He has failed several previous detox and rehab programs.
Rush stands in a tradition of right wing hypocrites. He demanded that police enforce drug laws--against others, that is. "...Why aren't we going after drugs as fervently as we're going after cigarettes...Tobacco addiction is a 30 year death. Heroin addiction is instant death and yet we're not going after this stuff with the same moral fervor..."
Far right hypocrisy promotes "do as I say, not as I do" as its guiding message. When caught sinning, the rightist confesses, gets reborn and continues to admonish sinners as if he had committed his own sins in a previous life.
Confession and responsibility-taking resonated when Limbaugh mouthed "I take full responsibility for my problem," Rush told his radio listeners in his confession speech on October 10.
Rush diffused the complex issues of addiction and "sin" by asking listeners to use their influence with God on his behalf, so that he could return after detox to continue his arrogant ranting on the air. "I ask now for your prayers. I look forward to resuming our excursion into broadcast excellence together."
Rush took drugs alone and went on the air stoned. But the (LIBERAL-LEFT) media has diluted its language concerning Rush's opium addiction. They refer to "prescription, pain relievers" instead of saying that Rush's drug of choice, OxyContin works like heroin, but in pill form.
OxyContin was designed as an oral medication to mediate severe, chronic pain--as experienced by cancer patients, for example. Heroin users inject their drug, while, Oxy-heads, as the street pushers call them, drop timed-release capsules that last for twelve hours. But Oxyheads quickly learn that by crushing the pills into powder, they get super charged highs a la heroine and sometimes a fatal overdose. The Newsday story reports that in higher than recommended doses, "OxyContin is capable of inducing an intense state of euphoria. Addicts, doctors say, require increasing doses as dependency worsens." According to Wilma Cline, his housekeeper and supplier, Rush popped up to thirty pills a day. She says he "once used almost 100 a day" in month and a half long binge.
Oh, the sleaze of it all! Earlier this year, the ultra judgmental, but equally slimy Bill Bennett explained how God could accept him as a militant crusader against all vice and still allow him to indulge his high-stakes gambling addiction.
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, W's kid brother, entreated the public to understand why his family merited special privilege. That occurred when Noelle, his daughter, got busted for drugs--over and over again. Yet he gladly blesses the legal code that sends poor people to prison for using the same or similar drugs. I feel certain he'll make another exception for Rush.
"I am no role model," Rush told his audience. "I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes. They are the role models. I am no victim and do not portray myself as such." He's correct. By law, the cops should nail his fat butt and throw it into a cell and, in Florida where he lives, he could be sentenced to five years in prison.
The cops have already pinched Rush's suppliers, as the law requires, but the cops have yet not touched Mr. Excellence in Broadcasting.
Perhaps Rush will have an epiphany at the detox center and emerge as a compassionate human being. He may lose his audience as a result, but they would find another charlatan who would appeal to that streak of bitter disappointment that runs through sectors of middle class America, one that loves to blame others--people of color, the poor, liberals, the Clintons, the tax man, immigrants and drug dealers--for their own unsatisfied aspirations.
Hey, maybe they'll even have a reformed Rush to kick around, one that pleads to the Ayatollah Ashcroft not to hassle cancer patients availing themselves of medical marijuana.
http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10252003.html