Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

You would think that there would come a time where serious conservatives would come to the realization that Rush and Hannities success at lining their own pockets while revving up the extreme element of the base comes at the cost of losing rational and more contemporary conservative voters!
I mean, the only people who buy into this garbage are the uneducated, unemployed and rarely sober who either are ineligible to vote or too dysfunctional to even make it to the ballot box!

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"Cryptic" doesn't explain Limbaugh's remarks. "Stupid" is more on the mark.

Given his personal history, it would have been interesting and maybe useful if Limbaugh had mentioned what a tragedy it is when anyone's life is diminished or taken by drugs.

I've rarely seen a man so averse to taking the moral high ground. I suppose there must not be much money in it.

I mean, the only people who buy into this garbage are the uneducated, unemployed and rarely sober who either are ineligible to vote or too dysfunctional to even make it to the ballot box!


Posted by redneckville

Sounds like people who voted for your messiah.

Hope and change and no new taxes.


SUCKERS

BTW, Limbaugh and Hannity are fucking IDIOTS.

I am interested on how MJ is in anyway connected to our presidency.


I am interested on how MJ is in anyway connected to our presidency.


#5 | Posted by roman

Given his addiction to drugs, he is much closer connected to Rush.

Why can't Rush die from heart failure?

#6 | Posted by Manypaths

Wanting someone to die is just wrong.

I am sure you would be all over someone who wanted your messiah to die of a heart attack.

Given his personal history, it would have been interesting and maybe useful if Limbaugh had mentioned what a tragedy it is when anyone's life is diminished or taken by drugs.

It's not a tragedy when a person dies due to drug addiction. Drug addiction and alcohol addiction are not diseases. People that are addicted to drugs or alcohol made personal decisions to use those substances and to continue to use those substances even after knowing what they're doing to themselves.

It's a tragedy when someone loses a battle with a disease that could be cured if we'd spend more money researching medicine than we do researching ways to kill each other.

"Why can't Rush die from heart failure?"

Must...resist...obvious...answ er....

It's not a tragedy when a person dies due to drug addiction. Drug addiction and alcohol addiction are not diseases.

Yeah, you're right, that's why insurance companies pay for the needed treatment.

Yeah, you're right, that's why insurance companies pay for the needed treatment.

A result of namby pamby political correctness.

"No one has done anything wrong. They're suffering from a disease. It's not their fault."

Horse shit. I've lived through the affects of drug and alcohol addiction. The person I watched throw their life away did it twice, both times due to poor choices on their part.

They pay for treatment because it is cheaper than paying for the ensuing complications.

I also do not believe that it is a disease.

Good people wasting lives away for reasons they rarely fathom is about as good a definition of tragedy as I know.

I can get on my high horse and crow about my superior choices in life as good as the next man, and often prove it.

But the simple fact is: There but for the grace of God go both you and I.

#13 | Posted by Zed

True

Good people wasting lives away for reasons they rarely fathom is about as good a definition of tragedy as I know.

I can get on my high horse and crow about my superior choices in life as good as the next man, and often prove it.

But the simple fact is: There but for the grace of God go both you and I.

I'm not on a high horse crowing about superior choices. Political correctness has allowed drug addicts and alcoholics to use the "it's a disease" bullshit as an excuse to continue their activity. After all, it's a disease. "I can't help it."

It's like saying fat people who constantly over eat and stuff their faces with fast food, sodas and other junk are "sick".

I smoked pot in college. I drank alcohol. Then, one day, I quit. I quit because I'd had my life and others torn apart because of drug addiction and alcoholism, and I didn't want to continue down that path. It was a simple choice. Some people make it and don't end up killing themselves with drugs or alcohol. Some people don't make the choice. Sometimes they only kill themselves, other times they take a few people with them.

Next thing you know pedophilia, being a serial killer, etc. will be a disease.

I've seen people become addicted with the very first drink, as an example, with madness following almost immediately.

It's still not clear to me how much choice was involved in all this. Yes, first use could have been avoided. But no one expects the shotgun behind the door.

Drug addiction and alcohol addiction are not diseases. People that are addicted to drugs or alcohol made personal decisions to use those substances and to continue to use those substances even after knowing what they're doing to themselves.

Wow, just wow.

I'm not one for using the "it's a disease excuse" to justify one's activities, but to completely deny the fact that there is tangible, quantifiable biochemistry going on in people's brains that lead to addictive behavior is sheer idiocy.

Yeah, making the initial choice is stupid (particularly if it's jumping back off the wagon...), but you're kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here if you deny that chemical addictions can have a powerful affect on an individual.

deny that chemical addictions can have a powerful affect on an individual.

I'm not denying anything of the sort. I'm pointing out that a person makes a decision to get high or get drunk.

If they can't come up with the will power to get help when they know they're addicted, that doesn't mean they're afflicted by a disease. It means they made poor choices and put themselves in a bad situation.

I refuse to jump on the PC bandwagon and excuse the behavior of people I know personally who ruined their own lives because they made poor decisions.


I am interested on how MJ is in anyway connected to our presidency.


#5 | Posted by roman at 2009-07-01 07:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't listen to Limbaugh and certainly am no ditto head.

That said, upon reading the story, I think the connection Limbaugh was trying to make was that the Reagan years were good for the country, the country "languished" in the Clinton and Bush years, and he hopes it doesn't expire during Obama's years in office.

Using the MJ analogy as political commentary is in poor taste.

I think the connection Limbaugh was trying to make was that the Reagan years were good for the country,

chemical addiction

me too

what the fuck does reagon have to do with it

limbaugh is an entertainer just like sponge bob

Mac,
I suppose 1972 is the year you were born,well as an old fuck, you haven't been around to know shit.No offense but you'll agree with me someday


Mac,
I suppose 1972 is the year you were born,well as an old fuck, you haven't been around to know shit.No offense but you'll agree with me someday

#22 | Posted by bruceaz at 2009-07-02 07:32 AM | Reply | Flag:

As Job said to his comforters, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you."

Let me enlighten you.

MACV = Military Assistance Command Vietnam

1972 = the year I began my tour of duty in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese Second Military Region Headquarters staff; my second tour in country. My first tour was 1967 - 1968.

So, your assessment that I haven't been been around to know *expletive* is inaccurate.

Why do people resort to profanity, anyway? Is it that they feel their comments lack profundity without it?

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