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Just Answer The Question, Mr. Limbaugh
By Doug Newman

The recent flap over Rush Limbaugh's remarks on ESPN about black professional quarterbacks, and his ensuing resignation as a football commentator, will merely amount to one more pathetic episode in the annals of political correctness.

Of far more profound importance will be the emerging story relating to allegations about Limbaugh illicitly purchasing thousands of addictive painkillers. Other than former drug czar Bill Bennett -- who fell from grace earlier this year when it was revealed that he had gambled away several million dollars - no one was a more enthusiastic promoter of the war on drugs than Rush Limbaugh. Indeed, the New York Daily News referred to Limbaugh as a "moralizing motor mouth."

According to his former housekeeper, Wilma Cline, Limbaugh was addicted to several potent prescription painkillers. Over a four year period, she and Limbaugh had numerous secret meetings in support of his habit. Over one 47-day period, she claims that she bought 4350 pills for Limbaugh. Limbaugh went through detox twice. (For further details, please click on this piece in the New York Daily News.)

If this is true, Rush had a serious jones.

Had the object of this probe been Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy or the-e-e-e Revvvrennnd Jacksonnnn, Rush would have more fun with the subject than a human being should be allowed to have. He would fulminate about how it exemplified the unspeakable depravity and Babylonian decadence inherent in the genetic blueprints of liberals. ...

...To hear Rush tell it, liberals give all sorts of mealy-mouthed answers when accused of wrongdoing while conservatives let their yes be yes and their no be no. Rush has built an empire lampooning the hypocritical behavior of liberals over the years. Now he is acting like one....