Why does Limbaugh skate on drug abuse, insulting MJ Fox, and calling Iraq vets "phony soldiers"?

Question

Is there anything this shock jock can say or do to upset a neo-con?

MJ Fox and Rush Limbaugh's insult ( first 2:15 )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6yrdInw6s

Answer 1

I guess you are so uninformed its laughable..stop drinking the liberal kool-aid

Answer 2

Most of the things R. Limbaugh says are disgraceful. The Michael J. Fox thing was one of the most disgraceful. I don't hold the drugs charges against him because the man says he had severe back pain. Fair enough.
But his debate tactics are arrogant, annoying, and condescending. I can't believe he gets so many listeners. Maybe a lot of them are only listening to him like he's a spectacle at the local circus sideshow.
As he has divided America like no other person in history, I think R. Limbaugh is one of the worst Americans that ever lived. He says that if you're not on-board with right wing beliefs, you're worthless trash and a traitor and a supporter of terrorists.
Above all this man is an actor. He has more in common with a pro wrestler than he does with a politician. He's playing his act to his audience (who for the most part aren't very intelligent) and they lap it up.
But he says disgraceful and insulting things about anyone who aren't right wingers, and it's about time the senate is calling him on it.

Answer 3

First of all he didn't skate on the drug charges. How's this for an example, Brett Farve of the Green Bay Packers was addicted to the exact same pain reliever as Rush but did anyone set out to ruin him, no the press idolized him for being so brave. Fox manipulated his medication to appear worse off then he really was and the so called vet was a phony so what really is your beef?

Answer 4

I am not a Rush fan though I am a conservative. I find anyone that trashes a person that has a disease to be despicable.
The "fake soldiers" was aimed at one particular soldier which I happen to believe was a media plant to twist the view of the war in Iraq.

I have no problems with stem cell research as long as the stem cells are collected from the umbilical cord of the baby and not from a baby that is delivered except for the head then has it skull pierced and brains sucked out (Partial birth abortion). Anyone that thinks I am making that up please take a look at the link below

Answer 5

Alright I just watch your link posted. That was a typical liberal newscast. When you put yourself in the spotlight like Fox did by begging for votes. Of course he should be called on it. He movements did seem almost like acting (the man is an actor).
Rush did not skate on drug abuse. He did his debt to society.
Why not ask why Hollywood actors that are drinking and driving and not paying there debt. It is apples and oranges.

If you get the chance LISTEN to Hannity's radio broadcast today.(just the 1st 20 minutes) He has these libs on soundtrack dogging our troops. Calling them rapist and murders. Where was your outcry then. Or when the lib say the war is lost. Where is the outrage.

Rush is an educated man. making lots of money I do not believe he would make a claim he can not back up.

Answer 6

He skates on it because the left is not as organized or ruthless as the right. The right condemns and condones anything that portrays them in a bad light and for some reason the left allows this to continue time after time. Limbaugh is laughable and only someone of questionable intellect would take him seriously and as anything but entertainment.

Answer 7

Please people, don't condemn moveon.org if you are not also going to condemn the swift boat vets. General Petreas did not see combat, so he is not a war hero. Get that clear. I agree that the drug abuse and Micheal J Fox bits are old news, but are only examples of what the drug addled gas-bag says every day on his show. The thing is, he knows it's just an entertainmnet show. These righties are following his word like gospel and that is worse than anything Rush can say.

Answer 8

LOL.... low expectations that are consistently met? Earlier today, in response to a die-hard Rush supporter, I did a Google search on "Rush Limbaugh" and "lie". Now granted, I'm sure there are lots of duplicates... but 2,200,000 does seem like a lot:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=lie&hl=en&num=100&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=rush+limbaugh&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=off

Answer 9

Rush has some truth on the "phony soldiers"!
They are not fighting a REAL war, not for a REAL morality and certainly not for AMERICA.
In a sense he slipped with the truth despite his venomous tong!

Answer 10

I don't understand why you are not upset that MoveOn.Org out right insulted General Petraeus. Anyway,here's from Rush's site regarding the smear.

"He was never in combat to witness the horrors he claimed to have seen, but don't look for any retractions from the left. Don't look for any TV ads about this guy from the left, not from the anti-war left, the anti-war Drive-By Media, or the Arabic websites that spread his lies about the troops, because fiction -- fiction, ladies and gentlemen, fiction -- is what serves the purpose of the anti-war left, from Tom Harkin to Harry Reid, to these groups that prop up phony soldiers, like Jesse MacBeth, groups like the New Republic, which run phony accounts from soldiers in Iraq lying about what they've seen, these are the heroes to the anti-war left. Fiction is what serves their purpose. The truth is just too inconvenient. The next ruse the left is saying: "He couldn't have been talking about MacBeth because he used the plural. He said 'phony soldiers.' He didn't say phony 'soldier.'" Again, this is a willful and missing of the context of this program. We have discussed many of these phony soldiers over the course of the past few months. We discuss them constantly. MacBeth was just the latest. I have a press release here from the United States attorney's office, the Western District, State of Washington, September 21st of this year. Headline: "Northwest Crackdown on Fake Veterans in Operation Stolen Valor -- Phony vets scam more than 1.4 million and damage image of honorable veterans.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100207/content/01125109.guest.html

Answer 11

Wow, Ian (above) really doesn't get it, does he? The difference between Rush Limpbaugh and Brett Favre is that Brett wasn't mouthing off that people who use illegal drugs should be "sent down the river."

IT'S THE HYPOCRISY, PEOPLE, NOT THE ORIGINAL SIN.