Probably the worst feature of the Rush Limbaugh drug case, in which he and his attorney Roy Black
are mind-bogglingly trying to portray Rush as the 'victim' of (take your pick or mix 'n' match): Jealous
Democrats, excruciating back pain that didn't stop him from golfing; law-breaking overzealous
prosecutors; or his greedy housekeeper, (who allegedly extorted money from him to keep silent
about his gargantuan appetite for OxyContin); is that Limbaugh is unlikely to ever be charged with
a crime or, if charged, see the inside of a jail cell, and he has confessed his drug use.

Contrast this with poor old Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong) who was caught selling legal
water pipes over the Internet and is now doing 18 months hard time in a California prison. Chong's
only crime was semantic; he called his water pipes 'bongs' (ChongsBongs.com) and therefore was
subject to some obscure federal law unearthed by the anti-drug zealots of John Ashcroft's Justice
Department proscribing the sale of bongs as illegal drug paraphernalia. The law is so rarely enforced
that the prosecutor in Chong's case had never heard of it. She admitted in court that the trial was
not solely about selling bongs, but also because Chong's film career had been dedicated to making
the anti-drug laws and the agencies enforcing those laws look silly and incompetent.

Let's see, the family man without any drugs is in jail for ridiculing the drug warriors and using the
wrong word to sell his wares; the loudmouth who has admitted to being a junkie for years and
cravenly had his housekeeper illegally score drugs for him so that he wouldn't take the rap
if she was caught is free to make a good living spewing right-wing venom on the radio.
What's wrong with this picture? Would this have anything to do with their politics, you think?

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