Why aren't Liberals yelling about Pat Kennedy's addiction to Oxycontin like they were with Rush Limbaugh?

Question

Rush isn't even an elected offical like this guy is.Why do they continue to support him?

Ok Liberals, you just admitted you like electing drug addicits to office..Thanks for clearing that up!

Answer 1

I love how the liberals answering this question make it sound OK because their guy doesn't have an audience as big as Limbaugh's. If you all don't want to sound like hypocrites denounce Kennedy just as you denounce Limbaugh, don't try to rationalize it.

Oh and Kennedy has a pretty good say in where your tax money is spent, has the ability to introduce new laws and is subject to the same lobbyist pressures that everyone else in Congress is. Do you want a drug addict making real legal choices that effect your life?

Answer 2

Kennedy is on the Appropriations Committee and he knew that being a Liberal and making decisions while being stoned no one would be able to tell the difference. The thing with Kennedy he went to rehab and came out just as addicted as when he went in. I wonder if the cops looked in the back seat of the car he crashed to see if there were any young women there.

Answer 3

No, it is no longer in basic terms a "double" standard; it extremely is a "triple" standard: one for conservatives, one for liberals, and one for Kennedys--they might in no way do any incorrect! Why might Patrick Kennedy even think of of resigning? His father, Ted, is a assassin and has in no way paid for that. Daddy replaced into there, partying, whilst his nephew or cousin or whoever raped the lady in Miami, yet have been given away untarnished. Daddy knew approximately the different cousin who murdered the neighbor woman two decades in the past and did no longer do something approximately that. Daddy taught Patrick the thank you to be an addict and a inebriated and the thank you to think of he replaced into above the regulation!!! the place is daddy in all of this? Has he mentioned something or long gone to be by his son's area? Or did he go away his son in the proverbial gutter like he left Patrick's mom after ruining her existence and turning her right into a inebriated besides? Patrick discovered his father's training nicely!

Answer 4

if you really don't know, the answer is this. Only conservatives are worthy of ridicule in the liberal media. If Rush gets addicted to a pain killer, he should be scorned and labeled as a hypocrite. If it happens to a liberal then, well, we should be compassionate and understanding. Or if a conservative administration is involved, we should take the biggest non-story in history (the val plame story), and turn it into some sort of national scandal. But when someone from a liberal administration (sandy burglar) gets caught stealing papers from the National Archives in order to change what history says about the administration he worked for, well, it's barely worth mentioning. But hey, we conservatives can take it. We are, after all, the ones with the brains. We'll just keep going to work and raising our families, secure in the knowledge that we are the ones that make this country great.

Answer 5

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)

There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods, which become consumed by them. 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.

--Rush Limbaugh TV show (10/5/95)


I don't recall Pat Kennedy saying anything like this, do you?

Answer 6

I find no reference to an Oxycontin addiction, but there are references to back pain for which he took Oxycontin at one time. No other reputable source, that is one without screaming red headlines that begin with slurs and alien baby rapes links his name to Oxycontin. I'm not saying that this won't change or isn't possibly true, I just couldn't find it in anything sane. His last one person accident had to do with either alcohol or ambien a prescription sleeping pill with weird side effects.
To the best of my knowledge no matter which pill Kennedy may have an addiction to he hasn't spent years debasing other people with the same problem and telling them they should be in jail. You can't work on a problem like that until you admit its your problem, not your housekeepers or your doctors. As usual its the hypocrisy that rankles, not the weakness itself.
They support him because they aren't looking for poster boys to replace Christ in the pantheon, they are just looking for good, effective representation. When they have had enough they will not elect him anymore.

Answer 7

Pat Kennedyhat Ted's mom? How is an addiction of a PRIVATE PERSON the same as an addiction by a prominent, PUBLIC political commentator who spouts off about how bad addicts are...the same...it's not the same...one never speaks in public and the other makes his living in it....at least Rush could have been honest about it...if a private person isn't honest about something, it only hurts them...if a blowhard lies about his vast personal issues and blasts people for doing the same thing he has done.....well it's call hypocrisy where i come from and it's a shame he's still on the air nothing his garbage

Answer 8

Becasue they need his money and get it by selling him hillbilly heorin! Or they are all banging it togehter at the peace march or when they protest a heros funeral, rush is an entertainer, Kennedy is an elected public servent there is a difference

Answer 9

Because Limbaugh is a lying hypocrite whose main job is to be an apologist for the worst "president" in our history.

Whereas Pat Kennedy is a human being.

Answer 10

This is what Rush said about Drug Abusers:

We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs, we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec. 9, 1993

"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them.
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993

"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. 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.

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995

Isn't Rush a hypocrite?