’)They’ll say anything to defend Leader Limbaugh. Anything.
This example is National Review’s Jim Geraghty* who takes issue with characterizations of Leader Limbaugh as a pill-popping oaf. Geraghty says, wouldn’t that justify calling President Obama a “cokehead” for his previous drug use?
But here’s the difference – President Obama did this when he was a young kid. He has made it quite clear that it was a stupid thing to do. In fact, he lectured youngsters on how stupid it was.
When Rush Limbaugh was busted for his addiction to Oxycontin he was, to take a phrase from Cedric The Entertainer, a grown-ass man. A grown-ass man who had spent decades, at that point, pointing to himself as a moral better of anyone else in the world.
In Geraghty’s world of moral equivalence, the stupid actions of a youngster are just the same as the self-described leader of the Republican party.
Well, maybe he has a point.
* I’d also like to point out that this is the ad copy used to sell Jim Geraghty’s book “Voting To Kill: How 9/11 Launched The Era Of Republican Leadership”
From “security moms” to neo-Jacksonian bloggers, people across the country are confronting the post-9/11 era with white-knuckle anger and relentless determination. Voting to Kill captures this zeitgeist, showing why terrorism was the defining issue in 2002 and 2004, and will be in 2006 and 2008, as Republicans rev up instinctively hawkish Americans to vote and campaign as if their lives depend on it.
Geraghty’s book was released in September of 2006, two months before anti-war Democrats swept to control of the House and Senate, and two years and two months before an anti-war Democrat was elected to the presidency by a margin of over 10 million votes. So if you want someone with their finger on the thud-thud-thud pulse of the American people, Geraghty is clearly your man.
instinctively hawkish Americans
Who the hell is he talking about?
“showing why terrorism was the defining issue in 2002 and 2004, and will be in 2006 and 2008″
Wow. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
NIKKEI 1989 38,957
NIKKEI 2009 7,200
GodDamn those Japanese Democrats straight to hell!
Farris? Farris?
Also, Limbaugh’s drug problem is more recent (by about twenty YEARS) than Obama’s.
Crutches
Looks like it’s not just nicotine that Obama is addicted to.
Obama can’t break the teleprompter habit, either.
Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual – not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events large and small.
After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no luck.
Hey, Oliver, in case you didn’t hear, the maker of Oxycontin was fined most of a billion dollars over its lying about and concealing just how incredibly addictive the stuff was. So, wouldn’t that make Limbaugh a victim of Big Pharma?
Oh, that’s right, conservatives can’t be victims. Besides, Limbaugh took his lumps and didn’t whine. Unlike, say, Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) (and we only wish he was “dry”). Or countless other prominent Democrats whose battles with substance abuse have been lauded as “courageous” and “inspiring.”
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Jay Tea says: “Hey, Oliver, in case you didn’t hear, the maker of Oxycontin was fined most of a billion dollars over its lying about and concealing just how incredibly addictive the stuff was. So, wouldn’t that make Limbaugh a victim of Big Pharma?”
Yes. But he is still a hypocrite.
“Oh, that’s right, conservatives can’t be victims.”
Which strawman’s ass did you pull that out of?
On the other hand, I have heard conservatives say you should regulate the pharmaceutical industry as much.
Lest we forget:
“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.”
-Big Pharma, 1995.
“Oh, that’s right, conservatives can’t be victims.”
Well, according to Ann Coulter, anyway.
Limbaugh took his lumps and didn’t whine.
About WHAT? He whines for three hours a day every damn day. This is the most industrial whiner on the planet. Nobody gets paid more to whine than Rush Limbaugh, and nobody enjoys doing it more.
Which of his opposing attitudes about drug users (before and after the bust) do you subscribe to? Do you think that anyone who wasn’t a rich celebrity would have skated away from that charge, which included money laundering? He actually was found guilty, and his sentence was whatever is less severe than noogies, I think it was a stern look from a magistrate and a promise not to pull wings off of flies.
Then of course there was the time he was caught smuggling boner pills into and out of the Dominican Republic, even though he left his girlfriend at home. He didn’t even take his golf clubs on a quickie vacation to the sex-tourist capital of the Third World.
Wait. Women can’t stand him, so there is no “girlfriend.” Where do you suppose he was putting the results of his “hard” drugs?