First up, we have professional pinhead and lying loudmouth Rush Limbaugh. Back in October 1995 he was in fine form, railing against durgs and those who use them:
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. 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, October 5 1995 show transcript
Can you guess what happened to Limbaugh today?. Let him dig his hole a little bit deeper first, before you make your guess:
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.
-- ibid.
Ready to find out?
Today, Rush Limbaugh was arrested on drug charges, specifically fraud to conceal illegally obtaining prescription painkillers. We're not talking about faking a bad back in order to score a few pills from a sympathetic quack, we're talking about serial doctor shopping to the tune of 4,350 pills in one 47 day period.
Limbaugh's mugshot, shopping list
This case has been brewing for a few years; the highlight of course was Limbaugh's October 10, 2003 on-air announcement that he was entering rehab to overcome his addiction to OxyContin and Lorcet. Today's arrest and immediate release was part of a plea deal in which he will avoid incarceration if he continues his rehab, pays a token fine, and stays out of trouble for 18 months.
Hybrid Hypocrisy
Gas prices in the USA have gome from around $2/gal to over $3/gal this year. Everyone has their own opinion as to the reason for such an increase; personally I believe it's no coincidence that over the same period of time Exxon/Mobil made a record three-month profit of $9.92 billion.
The recent public outrage has naturally been followed by an avalanche of politicians attempting to use it to their own advantage.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R) and a few other political hacks held a press conference at a BP gas station in Washington D.C. today. Touting their support for alternative energy sources and hybrid cars, they promised to investigate the matter thoroughly, and proudly pontificated on their own responsible approach to energy conservation.
Such support apparently only exists as a show, however: shortly after driving away from the press conference in a hybrid vehicle, Hastert was caught abandoning it for his gas-guzzling SUV to complete the three block trip back to his office:
1 comment:
Incredible as it seems, lots of people addicted to painkillers don't see them as drugs. "Drugs" means seedy alleys, shared needles, pot pushers hanging around primary schools and teenage girls popping pills at dance parties. Really.
...sisterwoman
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