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Monday, December 08, 2003
Sure, but does Rush know all the words to Paranoid?
Chris Ruddy who bears a passing resemblance to a certain drug-addled radio hatemonger (no, not Paul Harvey) compares the travails of Rush Limbaugh with his spirtual twin, Ozzy Osbourne. No, really:
Late last week, rocker Ozzy Osbourne admitted to a 42-pill-a-day addiction to prescription drugs.
Few could be surprised about the revelation. On his MTV show and in other public appearances the aging rock star has appeared incoherent and intoxicated.
Justifiably, California state authorities are going after the pusher. In this case, the state medical board is going after Osbourne’s doctor, though the physician denies any wrongdoing.
Still, no one is suggesting that Osbourne should be prosecuted for his prescription drug addiction, an addiction that started with normal medical treatment.
Another sensational case that should have been treated similarly is that of Rush Limbaugh.
His prescription addiction case should have been written off weeks ago as nothing more than a case of prescription drug addiction.
But the Limbaugh story has legs – long ones
[snip]
Ruddy then lays out Rush's case in the kind grabbing at straws detail that you might expect to hear from your average latenight $29.99-an-hour-saw-him-on-TV-with-an-800-number lawyer. But this part was kind of fun:
So much of Rush’s problems have been clouded in charges and countercharges, bogus reports and the like.
They all start with the housekeeper, Wilma Cline, first portrayed by the National Enquirer as a victim of Rush.
But it seems to me that she was much more of a classic enabler – a person who encourages another’s addiction.
In helping feed Rush’s addiction, Cline collected cash from him. She also kept very careful records of her activities almost from day one. Was this to blackmail Rush? To sell her story to the National Enquirer? Or to help the police?
We do know that Cline first came to the tabloid some two years ago seeking to sell her story about Rush.
When the paper’s editors told her she didn’t have a story until there was an official police investigation, she came back to them when that investigation was triggered.
Wow, 20 million listeners, $25 million per year, and the guy gets shoved around by his maid.
Kinda pitiful, isn't it?
But wait, there's more.
Bonus Rush stuff, like:
Rush in High School
Rush with his wife
Marta "Whalerider" Limbaugh after the surgery and the tanning bed and the augmentation and....
Rush's cat, Punkin
The things you can find on the Internet...!
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