As a Palm Beach County resident, I seemed
always to be offended when I would here the Vulgar Pigboy,
Rush Limbaugh snidely say after quoting
a fact or figure involving numbers or an action that involved relatively
simple thought, "For those of you in Yorba
Linda California or Palm Beach County, Florida, that means..."
Of course I knew why he was attacking Palm
Beach County. He was making fun of the fact that Palm Beach
County was ground zero during the election
debacle of 2000. He was simply AMAZED at how the voters in
Palm Beach County were too old or stupid
to figure out the infamous "butterfly" ballot which actually had the
candidates listed out of order and some
candidates names not even on the ballots in some precincts. Of course
Rush also didn't mention that here in Florida,
Secretary of State Katherine Harris (R-Racist, Citrus Pageant Queen)
had compiled an eroneous felons list with
96,000 names of people that were denied the right to vote in Florida's
2000 presidential election.
Many of those people on the felons list
later were found by reporter Greg Palast to have been included falsely
and many had never even received as much
as a parking ticket. But verifying those facts before the election
were not important to Katherine Harris
or to Governor Jeb Bush, our state's highest elected official. Ironically
almost three years later that same fraudulent
felons list has still not had much done to correct it or verify it.
Is it any surprise that the vast majority
of voters on the famous fake felons list are registered Democrats?
So untill the list is purged, in Florida,
Democrats begin all political races with a major defecit before the voting
even begins. Has Rush ever bothered to
impart that little golden nugget of info to his dittoheads? I don't
think so.
One can remember during the 2000 election
recount that Rush would constantly squeal on his show about the
fact that the votes had been counted over
and over and Gore needed to concede because he clearly was the loser.
During that time the Vulgar Pigboy constantly
belittled the voters of Palm Beach County for their stupidity, inability
to count correctly and would constantly
make fun of our elderly citizens for overwhelmingly voting for Pat Buchanan
for president over Al Gore. Of course
Rush did not mention that on the ballot, Pat Buchanan's name was not in
the
order by party affiliation as required
by The Florida Constitutuin. The Florida Constitution states that
the party of
the Governor of the State of Florida appears
first on the ballot followed next by the party with the highest number
of registered voters in the state and so
on and so forth. However that is not how Theresa LePore, the Supervisor
of Elections decided to design the ballot.
The candidates names were listed out of order in many of Palm Beach
County precincts, candidates names were
totally absent from the ballot. Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan
was
as shocked as the rest of America that
a prominent Jewish Democratic retirement community Century Village in
western Palm Beach County would have a
voter return giving him over 10,000 votes. He was certain that the
vast majority of those votes were intended
for Al Gore because Mr. Buchanan just couldn't imagine elderly
New York Jewish voters voting for his ultra-conservative
political stance. Mr. Buchanan may not be my hero,
but at least in this matter he was honest.
Did the Vulgar Pigboy report that Buchanan
got these votes off the backs of confused elderly Jewish people
because the ballot itself listed Buchanan's
name above Gore's name? No, not even a mention. I would say
those 10,000 votes would clearly have put
Al Gore securely over the threshold needed to win the election
fair and square. Many of the Century
Villagers were retired factory workers from the Northeast, Veterans
of World War II, Holocaust survivors.
And there was the Vulgar Pigboy squealing with delight that people
from Palm Beach County were too stupid
to vote.
So imagine my surprise when I turned on
my television this morning to find that the Palm Beach County
State Attorney, Barry Krischer is investigating
one Rushton H. Limbaugh of Palm Beach, Florida, for a
llegedly buying thousands of prescription
painkillers from a black-market drug ring, as reported by the
New York Daily News on October 2, 2003.
The newspaper says that Limbaugh has been implicated
by his former housekeeper, Wilma Cline,
who says she was his pill supplier for years. Cline stated that
Limbaugh, who has railed against "welfare
queens, feminazi's and chickenheads, played the theme from
the television show "The Jefferson's" at
the mention of Senator Carol Mosley Braun's name, says that
all police sketches of wanted men resemble
the Reverend Jesse Jackson" for years on his nationally
syndicated daily radio program was hooked
on the prescription drugs OxyContin, Lorcet and hydrocodone.
She also stated that Limbaugh has been through
drug rehab twice. In one period alone, Cline stated that
she purchased for Limbaugh 4,350 pills
in one 47-day period. Cline alleges that Limbaugh sent her
various e-mails directing her what to buy
and in what amount. In one e-mail, Cline says Limbaugh urged
her to buy more "little blue pills" which
most likely resemble the habit forming highly restricted prescription
drug, Oxycontin. According to Cline she
has saved e-mails between herself and Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm not at all surprised that Limbaugh
who urges rednecks to hate blacks by his comments on the air
could be capable of putting his stellar
career at risk by perhaps being faced with a drug addiction.
He's been out of touch with the average
working stiff, whom he claims to champion for years.
He claims to be the voice of African Americans.
The only contact that someone like The Vulgar Pigboy
might have with minorities is when he waves
at the Mexican lawn care professionals manicuring 12 foot
hedges on his palatial 30,000 square foot,
$30,000,000 mansion with two elevators that happens to be
located on the playground of the rich,
Palm Beach Florida. Say, is it possible that The Island of Palm
Beach is located in Palm Beach County,
FL ? Why yes it is located in Palm Beach County, FL.
If one wanted to take the initiative to
verify that Limbaugh does indeed own property of this magnitude
in Palm Beach County , all one need do
is to do a Google search and type in the words, "Palm Beach
County Property Appraiser." There
one would be directed to the website which lists all the names and
addresses of property owners in Palm Beach
County. Type in the name Limbaugh, R H, and or Limbaugh,
Marta (his third wife) and you can see
all the specs on The Vulgar Pigboy's pricey pig pen on the Island
of Palm Beach. Did I mention that the Island
of Palm Beach is located in Palm Beach County, FL ? Just checking.
I lived in Palm Beach in November of 2000.
I lived about 10 blocks south of Limbaugh on Nightingale Trail
in a small cottage behind a small estate.
The place I lived in was small, expensive but comfortable. It just
so
happens that the polling place that I was
required to vote at on November 7th, 2000 was the parish hall of
St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church in Palm
Beach. I remember signing in at the front desk and hearing this
hubbub at a side door into the parish hall.
So I look up and who do I see walking in the side door of the
Parish hall with his two young piglets?
Why it's the Vulgar Pigboy, Rush himself. Come to cast his vote for
the soon to be selected pResident, King
George II. Rush didn't have to wait in line or sign the book we had
to sign. He was ushered ahead of
us all, made his mark on the ballot and then zipped off to his palatial
pig pen in his $180,000 custom Mercedes
convertible 560 SLK. In his defense, by November 2000,
Rush had slimmed down considerably.
He looked tan and fit. I was surprised at how tall and broad
a man he is. He's truly a massive
mound of meat.
But you know my friends, the one thing
that kept coming to my mind every time I'd here him squal on his
show in the following weeks about the stupidity
of Palm Beach County voters, I kept thinking to myself,
Rush is a Palm Beach County voter too.
He has never, ever admitted this fact on the air in his life.
As a Liberal Democrat, I have compassion
for Limbaugh if he has an addiction. As a Democrat I am
held to a higher standard than a conservative
Republican like Limbaugh is. I wouldn't expect that he would
have the same compassion for me if I were
in the same situation. But I can't hate him for his addiction.
That is what makes me a better person than
him. Rush Limbaugh has built his mansion in Palm Beach
on the backs of his dittoheads. He's made
a career out of insulting minorities, promoting class warfare
and basically hating people for their ethnic
background or their income potential. He can dish out criticism
but he can't take it, ever. That's
why he quietly hangs up on callers and or refuses to take calls from people
who, like Bart or me who could really give
him the red ass. Perhaps he has other addictions too.
Like lying.
He can't possibly believe the filth that
spews from his mouth. And after calling Clinton a murderer and
a rapist, accusing Hillary Clinton of having
Vince Foster murdered, blaming Clinton for 9-11-2000,
a person clean and sober may not be capable
of these things.
Perhaps the powers that be will take the
time to look into the soul of an honest person, who does the
right thing when nobody's looking, who
works for the same company, (Clearchannel Communications)
and who has consistently beat "The Three
Hour Hate" as she calls Rush, in the ratings and in market
share whether she's put on the air the
same time as Limbaugh, West Palm Beach's Randi Rhodes of
WJNO's the Randi Rhodes show? Could it
be because Limbaugh has threatened to take his one
trick hate show to a competitor if Randi's
liberal talk show is syndicated? Why yes, according to
Randi Rhodes that's the deal. Check out
Randi's show at www.therandirhodesshow.com . She's on
the air Mondays through Friday from 3pm
until 7pm. You can get the show via streaming audio also.
Randi is a big Bartcop fan to boot.
It just proves brilliant minds think alike. Even though Rush has
done everything to grind his heel into
her back, impede her career and to hold her down, she's not
on the air gloating about The Three Hour
Hate's drug problem. She is urging her listeners to lay off
him and not to judge. Hard to believe
but thats a liberal for you. We don't say "don't do anything
bout a problem, roll over and take it up
the butt and shut up. Rather we try to engage people on
both sides of the fence in debate, and
win them over fair and square with the merits of our arguments,
not by lowering ourselves to the slime
that the conservative media slithers in, but trying to save them
from sinking further in the quicksand that
is conservatism.
It is never proper to make fun of someone
who has a drug problem, even if Rush, like Bill Bennett,
the bookie of virtues, does. If Rush
does indeed have drug problem, like Bill Bennett's gambling
problem and Newt Gingrich's adultery problem
or Dick Morriss's toe sucking problem, I hope he
will get help at Narcotics Anonymous or
one of their affiliates.
But seeing as Rush has been through rehab
twice, it's possible that like Noelle Bush, Governor Bush
of Florida's daughter who also had a drug
problem and tried rehab twice (actually was found to have
drugs in the rehab center her second time
around, but her Daddy helped her get out of that conviction)
that three times in rehab will be the charm.
I hope he makes it through this disgusting
situation or I fear that God will be forced to take back that
loan of talent he gave to Rushton H. Limbaugh.
He may have to stop him from "having more fun than
a human being should be allowed" and return
to Rush "the other half of his brain that he doesn't have
tied behind his back just to make it fair"
so that all of Rush's organs can detox all at once. While Rush
is in rehab, please read and listen to
Bart and Randi.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Dean
West Palm Beach, FL