Bart
So, it turns out that Rush is a racist bigot
junkie. Somehow this is sort of anticlimactic, I mean,
it's not like
Dr Laura giving up the practice of her religion,
or that the good Dr. hadn't spoken with her mother for years,
or high roller and morals blow hard Bill Bennett
blowing $9,000,000.00 in the casinos of Atlantic City.
I mean it was sort of a given that Rush was a
bigot, he had made many off color racially oriented remarks
on his radio show over the years, His "homeless
updates" theme song, referring to Jessie Jackson as
REEVEERAAND JAACKSOOON, and calling
Louis Farrakhan "Calypso Lewie" were but a few of
the racist slurs listeners of his radio
program could expect on a regular basis.
Which brings us to the Junkie part. As
a regular listener of the Rush Limbaugh radio show I think I can now
put some of the changes in the show over the
years in perspective. When news of his hearing loss broke he
changed formats from a "screened caller" driven
format to a "host" driven format. Mind you, both of these
formats are controlled by the Host, but
the reason given was that his hearing impairment prevented him from
being able to hear the phone callers, and no
doubt that was the case for a while. But I think it is also possible
that in a state of drug induced numbness Rush
just didn't feel like having to deal with the occasional curve ball
that having on air callers presented. I
think this also explains so much of the slurring of his speech during that
time period. If Rush was using 1/10 of
the drugs that his accuser is alleging that she supplied him with it is
a
wonder that he could breath, let alone talk in
complete sentences.
Also the shift in location from the nonexistent
E.I.B.Building in New York City to his Palm Beach private
compound in Florida now take on a different light.
It had to be much easier to scrape Rush up off the floor
and prop him in front of a microphone in the
privacy of the gated community in Florida than in the multi-tenant
building that housed the Rush Limbaugh show in
N.Y.C.
The quantities of controlled substances that
his accuser is alleged to have provided him are enormous.
4,350 illegal pills in one 47 day period
alone. And not just any substance but OxyContin, one of the most
powerful prescription drugs available to control
sever and extreme pain. Commonly called "hillbilly heroin"
OxyContin is most commonly abused by grinding
it into a powder to defeat its timed release properties so
the user gets a bigger drug Rush. Eating
them in handfuls probably gives much the same effect.
Mind you, I listen to the Rush Limbaugh
show because I feel that it is a moral necessity to be knowledgeable
of my enemy. If I am to wish bad things
on Rush I have an obligation to be sure that Rush is truly a bad person.
Abuse of pain meds doesn't make Rush a morally
failed man. Hiding pills under the mattress so his wife can't
find them doesn't make Rush a morally failed
man. Paying off hush money to his maid-dealer for the expressed
purpose to keep his reputation intact, while
maintaining his moralistic "We are better than you because we are
moral and you are immoral " shtick. does.
Yet, something else is tugging at my conciseness,
2 days ago the big news story was Karl Rove's probable
felony of leaking the name of a C.I.A. operative
to the media. Today that story is out of the headlines.
And in Florida we know how they punish republican
drug offenders, remember Noel Bush?
Kevin