-Caveat Lector- Rush Limbaugh's Selective Outrage Excellence In Spincasting
By: Ted Lang He unabashedly spins himself as the "Doctor of Democracy," as "Maha Rushie," and America�s "Truth Detector." He operates under the banner of "Excellence in Broadcasting." All these accolades were indeed on the money when it came to exposing the cynical constitutional farces and bordello politics of legal intellect and pubescent sexual deviate Bill Clinton. But Clinton�s gone! Would that the damage Clinton engineered against the Constitution, our morals, our political institutions and culture were gone as well! What has President George W. Bush done to reverse any of this damage? The tax cuts? How do these stack up to what will be required of our children and grandchildren, and yes, even ourselves, in terms of the taxes that will have to be paid for Bush�s war in Iraq and his unasked-for socialized medicine prescription drug scam? Why are the innocent being punished via Bush and the Supreme Court�s campaign finance suspension of the First Amendment for targeted groups, the largest being the NRA? Rush Limbaugh has consistently offered brief words of astonishment at these non-Republican actions, but then goes right back to carrying water for Bush and Republicans the same way his nemesis, "B.S." [Barbra Streisand] has pined for Clinton and Democrats. This past Christmas week, on the December 23rd airing of his show, Limbaugh shared with listeners his outrage over the selective, and according to him, deliberate "news leaks" to the mainstream media of false allegations and inquiries involving his prescription drug addiction. Limbaugh protested that these falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims made concerning his alleged wrongdoing were probably released by the Florida State Prosecutor�s office to smear him by giving ammunition to his enemies in the mainstream media. He alluded to how this was being done enabling Democrats to attack him. I do not specifically recall him pointing an accusatory finger at Democrats, but the way Limbaugh has consistently aligned liberals, Democrats, and "their mainstream media" is now established fact seconded by best selling authors Goldberg, Coulter and Lott. The mainstream, establishment, corporate media is comprised of the left-liberal New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe as well as network TV news, Time and Newsweek magazines, and of course, CNN ["Communist" News Network]. Limbaugh is indeed correct in ascribing to these liberal communicative outlets the type of malice that would take advantage of such "leaks." Limbaugh whined he had been accused of being a drug addict, of illegal drug trafficking, laundering money, and "doctor shopping." But Limbaugh expressed the greatest outrage when the prosecutor seized his medical records. "This is a fishing expedition!" he boomed. Sound familiar? "They�re going to go through my personal medical records to see if they can find something I did wrong!" Limbaugh did do something wrong within an hour of this bombast; he continued to shill for Bush and Ashcroft�s USA Patriot Act, which unleashes such very same "fishing expeditions" upon others by suspending the Fourth Amendment. And most Patriot victims have nowhere near the money or status to defend themselves on a level comparable to his! I cannot repeat often enough that Limbaugh has been a shining light of truth in the eight years of unconstitutional horror of the Clinton administration. But education is an ongoing process as is life itself. Limbaugh hasn�t "moved on" except to join Bush in "moving on" by ignoring Clinton�s damage and accepting it. If Bush and his Republican administration had properly requested Congress to declare war instead of just usurping presidential power thereby nullifying the rules of the Geneva Convention, Jose Padilla could have been openly charged with sedition for training with the enemy. Instead, the Bush administration has found it necessary to invent a new term, "enemy combatant," to deprive Padilla of his constitutional rights as regards right to counsel, right to face and question his accusers, right to a speedy trial, and right to trial by jury. Once again, political expediency and constitutional shortcuts repeat the crimes made possible by the Clinton administration, except now, they are on a much larger scale. And we understand the incriminating evidence against Padilla and the need to protect ourselves. But another unconstitutionality being used on the heels of a prior one is no way to run a republic. Limbaugh again resoundingly supports the Bush administration�s horrendous destruction of the Bill of Rights. Once such bad precedents are established, does it really matter if our tormentors are Democrats or Republicans? Is it possible Mr. Limbaugh can ask such a question of himself? Hmmmm? -------------------- Ted Lang is a columnist for the The Patriotist and the Sierra Times He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. Ted Lang can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published in the December 29, 2003 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright � 1997 - 2003 Ether Zone. ----------------------- -iNFoWaRZ "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. October 5, 1995 show transcript. "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. October 5, 1995 show transcript. "It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country." -- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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