Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Mac user Rush Limbaugh reached an agreement with the Palm Beach County Prosecutor’s Office, ending their three year investigation of his alleged doctor shopping. Every story I read seems to contain this quote from Rush, spoken during his 1995 TV show, with the intent of pointing out some supposed hypocrisy:

Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. … And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

Let’s see… He didn’t sell any drugs. He didn’t push any drugs. He used drugs, but not drugs that are illegal. He didn’t import any drugs. Nor is he accused of any of those things. So far so good.

He was suspected of violating the law, so he was accused, but since the Palm Beach County prosecutor obviously doesn’t have enough evidence to charge him and proceed to trial, likely because no crime was committed, he can’t be convicted, hence, he can’t be “sent up”.

Where’s the supposed hypocrisy here?

Had the prosecutor enough evidence to convict Rush of doctor shopping, you can bet everyone involved would be preparing for trial. What better example to parade through the media than alleged conservative hypocrite Rush Limbaugh? Because of the agreement, the prosecution gets to save some face, and Rush gets to have the prosecutor off his back.