To Betty Sembler

[Anonymous]

In reference to Yahoo's "Limbaugh Seeks Help for Pill Addiction":   http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 9&ncid=716

Dear Bette,

Now that your right wing propaganda man Rush Limbaugh has been busted over DRUGS in FLORIDA, the state that you reign over so supremely, what are your recommendations going to be for him that you convey to Jebby? I just love watching your little empire on its infant stages of a total collapse. It gratifies me to no end knowing that Bradbury is ruining you and the Smelly ass putz of a husband of yours ~ LMAO, and now your propaganda man falls silent. Shoulda done ya homework Bette. All them fascist laws you made possible in the State of Florida are now coming back to bite you in the ass. We are ALL watching you here Bette, all the victims of your hell camps known as STRAIGHT, INC. Bette, we're watching you. Do yourself a favor and don't try and get Jebby to let poooooooooor Rush off Bette. It will only look worse on you, we WILL find out your tag-team was behind it and hold all those you DARE to influence with the blood money you suck off our parents accountable in court.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, darling. ... You can dispense sheer bitchery with the best of them.....Betty's sinking

[kaydeejaded]

[ This Message was edited by: kaydeejaded on 2004-03-03 08:41 ]

[Carmel]

I find it interesting how even the media coverage on this is a bit sterile, and not as sensationalized.  I get the strong distinction that it is an attempt at making the whole thing strangely "legitimate" if you will.  Poor Rush, he had surgery, he was in pain, blah blah....and it seems that because he was forced to take medication, that the evil pills grabbed hold of him and took over.  Sad thing that, this is why you just say no kids....etc.

Usually the media has a field day ripping these sort of things to itty witty pieces, why are they being soft on Rush?

[Froderik]

Sad thing that, this is why you just say no kids....etc.

Huh?  ::

[Anonymous]

You know....as if those are the kinds of things they are attempting to get people to say or think...."So sad for Rush"...."Just say no,kids"...etc.  get my drift? Rather than taking the perspective of the typical media thrashing,  it seems that the whole things smacks of pity.

[Antigen]

On 2003-10-12 06:44:00, Carmel wrote:

"
Usually the media has a field day ripping these sort of things to itty witty pieces, why are they being soft on Rush?"

If he had taken a stand against the government's war on pain management, they would be ripping him up. But, instead, he's confessed his sins at the alter of NA and will now proceed to step two. He'll do his stint, be very contrite and come out a hero for having worked his program. Just watch.  :roll:

To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=FF7485&aid=10247' target='_new'> Thomas Jefferson Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

[Froderik]

Ok, I'm with you. The wording there threw me off a little. Thanks.. :smile:

[ClayL]

Because if you are loud mouthed and nasty to Rush, you will then look like Rush. Not Fat and Intemperate, but like a Sanctimonious Ass. I think this is the mainstream media's way of telling Rush he should have shut up a long time ago.

CL

[ClayL]

On 2003-10-12 12:32:00, Antigen wrote:

But, instead, he's confessed his sins at the alter of NA and will now proceed to step two.

Ginger:

Isn't this step 5? I can't imagine Rush humbly asking anything! So much for step 6!

CL

[Anonymous]

Well Rush is back on the air as of today Bette, are you fixin' to have him acquitted of his "drug crimes" in Florida? He says according to your hometown paper The St. Petersburg times, "In the past, Limbaugh had decried drug use and abuse on his bluntly conservative show, arguing that drug crimes deserve punishment."~

Here is the link to that Bette: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... CTION=HOME

We are watching how you deal with Rush Bette, better let Jebby know that. What's good for the chain ganger on the side of the Florida interstate picking up trash is good enough for Rush Bette. We'd hate to see you deliver hypocrisy Bette.

[Antigen]

An excerpt from the Rush Limbaugh broadcast today:

All right, ladies and gentlemen. I must tell you, I'm nervous. I have butterflies in my stomach. I've been anticipating this moment since last Thursday - actually, since last Wednesday afternoon. Last Wednesday afternoon I was discharged from the treatment center which, by the way, was not in Tucson. We succeeded in fooling everybody on that. It was in Arizona but it wasn't in Tucson, and it was an intense four weeks. I'm going to tell you the truth; I didn't - well, I did read a newspaper two or three days, but didn't watch much television, kept track of no news. That would have been counterproductive to what I had to do.

I spent five intense weeks, probably the most educational and informative five weeks on myself and about me that I ever have spent, and I would have had no idea how to do this myself. Now, I've thought back and forth how much of this to talk about, and I am just going to feel my way along on this. I planned nothing. I have nothing written down here. There are some things, though, I do want to tell you, and I think in the course of the coming days a number of the things that I have learned about myself and a number of the things that I want to share with you will just come out in the normal course of conversation and executing broadcast excellence flawlessly as I am known for and still habitually capable of doing.

But I came to realize a number of things while I was away, and at the top of the list is how much I love all of you, how much I appreciate all of you, and how much this and other aspects of my life mean to me. And I know that a number of you - you ought to see the mail I've gotten, the e-mail and the phone response. The volume is beyond my ability to describe. You wouldn't believe it, and if I told you how much it is, people would think "hype." But it's so voluminous; it's so amazingly supportive that it is - it's just gratifying. I have a tremendous amount of gratitude for all that you have done for me over the course of my life.

You know, I've always told you people at holiday time, Thanksgiving or Christmas, because many of you have shared with me how much this program has meant to you over the years and I've always said to you that no matter how much it means to you, you have no idea how much it means to me, your being there - and that is as true as ever, if not more so. What I endured was a wonderful process. It's something that, at some point, I think what I went through in these last five weeks is as important as the first grade, and maybe the second grade. It's something that I don't have any regrets, but, yeah, I wish it's something I could have done 30 years ago.

I thought I was going into a treatment center to be treated for an addiction to opiates, to painkillers, and I was - but it's so much more than that. It is about so much more than that. I tried to treat myself twice for my addiction. I detoxed myself twice and tried to do it by force of will, but this is something someone cannot do alone. It's something that requires several things to change in my life - and those things are good. These things are quite necessary, and I have to put this recovery that I am in first and foremost. It's something that is new a priority for me. I cannot turn it over to anybody else. Nobody can do it for me.

It's something that I must do, but I can't do it alone, either. It's an amazing thing. Those of you who have gone through this and those of you who are in successful recovery know what you have gone through to succeed and what's ahead of you, and you know what's ahead of me, and it's not something that I want to spend a whole lot of time talking about to those of you who don't. Although, as I say, over the course of the coming weeks and days, I think it will just naturally be a part of me, these five weeks and the things that I learned about myself. You just will witness it. I don't want to sit here and start telling you, you know, "This is going to happen and this is going to happen and this is going to happen."

I think you'll just be able to decipher it and understand it as it is happening. Now, one other thing. Ladies and gentlemen, I know that because of some comments that I got many people feel and think that when you go to a rehabilitation center for addictions or other things, that the people in there turn you into a linguini-spined liberal, and that's not true. No effort was made whatsoever. There's no ideological reference whatsoever in these things. It has nothing to do with that. So I am who I am. Nobody made any attempt to change me in terms of my core and this sort of thing, other than as it relates to the problem I have, the addiction. But that's, again, something that I deal with myself, and there's a part of it that will be shared.

But, again, I'm really struggling. I want you to know that I've got mixed emotions. I'm so excited about what I've learned, I want to tell you all about it. And there's another part of me that says, "No, that's not what you want." And so that's it. I have to do what's best for me if I'm to succeed at this. I can no longer anticipate what I think people want and try to give that to them. I can no longer try to live my life by making other people happy. I can no longer turn over the power of my feelings to anybody else, which is what I have done a lot of my life. I have thought that I had to be this way or that way in order to be liked or appreciated or understood - and in the process, I denied myself who I was and I denied the other people I was talking to and relating with who I really am, and that isn't good.

You can boil it down to one real simple essence: I can't be responsible for anybody's happiness but my own, and if I allow somebody else the power to determine my happiness, then...well...that's something I don't want to do. I can't do any longer. I put myself first. Doesn't mean be rudely selfish. It just means I can't depend on other people to make me happy. I have to do that myself. I'm the only one who has control over that. And I have to admit that I am powerless over this addiction that I have. I used to think I could beat it with force of will. I used to think that I would be different, but I'm not.

I'm just like anybody else who has an addiction. I'm powerless over it, and I have to continue to recognize that and make sure that the things that I've learned continue to be practiced. It's a challenge, but it's exciting. The things that I have discovered about myself and anybody who went through what I've went through would discover about themselves is just sort of like being reborn here at age 50. Have you ever wished that you could take what you know at whatever age you are, 50, 45, 30, and go back to being a teenager? Well, that's what I guess is a good way to tell you what's happened to me, in the sense that the things I've learned - I can now not relive things, but it's going to give new meaning to the future.

What say we find out where he was, learn some of the lingo from his particular cult and then spend every Friday morning calling in and confronting him? C'Mon, it'll be fun!  ::rocker::

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
--Thomas Paine

[Froderik]

Sure, why not? If you have time for that sort of thing...I have to admit, I have always had a big weakness for prank phone calls...

[ClayL]

You know, if he hadn't been such a shit head to crack heads and such, I'd say, "Give him a break, please." Rush, however having been a real shit-head, deserves to sleep in the bed he's made for himself. Gotta watch those opinions, they're likely to bit ones ass.

CL

[Anonymous]

Rush is about the greatest american politico since Ronald Reagan.  His truth about the war on drugs and the scumbags that deal it and the poloicies of the american president are right on!!  I know this will upset people, but I think Rush would be a great VP candidate if Cheny were to die.  Just my humble opinion.