Why won't CBS give Rush a break?

"I just wonder when the people at CBS will tire of being the laughing stock of the news business."

Well, CBS is in a very tight race with the NY Times....

Limbaugh will have the last laugh when the NYTimes and CBS both go dark.

To paraphrase Forest:

Cheesiness is as cheesiness does.

"Hey Doc, does that Viagra work?"
"Sure it does."
"Well that's great. Can you get it over-the-counter."
"I can if I take two."

Seems pretty much un-American to want to work so hard to falsify the truth to people.

No wonder these days that more and more people won't watch the CBS news. They are a joke to most people.

Seems the ONLY time the press can find possible WMD is if it is possibly in Rush Limbaugh's pants.

CBS will cease to be a laughing stock and become a legitimate news organization just as soon as Katie Couris takes over the anchor chair.............Sorry, someone had to say it

You're all wrong. FOX News is the laughing stock of the media. One cannot even say "Fair and Balanced" without laughing.

Limbaugh is a dirtbag and I hop ehis fate is the same as Ken Lay's.

Typical liberal statement. Hoping for death for someone a liberal disagrees with.

FOX News is the laughing stock of the media.

There must be a lot of people laughing because they are the number one news cable channel. CBS is constantly three in he network news field of three (But hey at least they constantly make the top 3).

Limbaugh is a dirtbag and I hop ehis fate is the same as Ken Lay's.

I know they say you shouldn't take viagra with a heart condition, but I've never read that Rush had cardiac problems, so I am doubtful. It is good to hear from a peace-loving liberal wishing another man dead, though.

Wrong about CBS, they always give the HARD facts.

Whoops.... well maybe not in this case :)

Ryan please we are polite around here,you go first.you scum.

THe liberals wish Rush Limbaugh dead while working hard for the terrorists' bills of right. Amazing!

Limbaugh is a dirtbag and I hop ehis fate is the same as Ken Lay's.

Oh my, can't you feel the love? Next, Ryan will accuse Limbaugh of being a "hater."

But will Lee condemn him and decry his lack of morals?
LOL
I know, I know, I've just spilled Odin's blood all over myself.

So CBS doesn't know the difference between editorializing and reporting. Neither does FOX. Conservative or liberal, you gotta be pretty ignorant to get your "news" from the idiot box.

Anyway, who cares if Limbaugh committed a crime? It's fun to embarass people who are hypocrites or dumb-asses.

Take, for instance, the President of the United States, who falls off bicycles, chokes on pretzels, and mispronounces English words. All of these kind of fit his semi-contrived image of the not-too-smart Amurkan Preznit, though. After all, lots of voters are suspicious of people who are smarter than them. Limbaugh, on the other hand, has erectile dysfunction, quite possibly due to his addiction to Oxycontin, and takes Viagra for it. He's an armchair warrior who got a doctor's note (well, a proctologist's note) and dodged the draft in Vietnam, and now we know he is a drug addict who has erectile dysfunction. I'm happy to see his macho image get washed away by the "journalists" at CBS.

Another well reasoned argument, Matt. Who could possibly disagree with such towering intellect?

You sure showed us.

It's fun to embarass people who are hypocrites or dumb-asses.

You pretty much did this to yourself with your idiotic comments above.

I love how the privacy rights liberals, who are screaming impeachment because the NSA dare listen in on terrorists, see nothing wrong with snooping around the medicine cabinets of conservatives.

What % of men, especially Rush's age, suffer from erectile disfunction? Gee, Matt mind if I have a look in your medicine cabinet?

Wonder where "matt"( he is not a idiot because he says he ain't) gets his "news"?

Can't we ban CBS like Russia just did ABC? Pack you bags and get out, and here I always depended on CBS for news from Russia. Now I know Pravda is more truthful than CBS, what a shock.
Don't worry about Rush, I posted last week that he's a man with a mission and the idiots that work for a country prosecutor aren't smart enought to deal with him. Now if the Feds. will find the worker (sic) that leaked the lies to the media and fire her, he'll (Rush) be about even.

Who was offering an argument, bobdog? Unless "I like watching Rush Limbaugh get publicly humiliated and shown to be as impotent as his own gasbag rhetoric" counts as an argument, in which case I win.

Take a look around my medicine cabinet, Kaffir. You'll find some Tylenol (for when I have a headache), Visine (for when I smoke weed), and lube and condoms (for when I have sex with my girlfriend). Why you'd want to know these things about a stranger you called out on the wienernet is beyond me, because I'm not a PUBLIC FIGURE who moralizes to the pre-marital-sex-hating crowd and ridicules drug users for a living.

I know if Al Gore tripped and fell in a mud puddle, you would watch the video fifty times and write ten letters to America's Funniest Home Videos demanding they replay it until science changes its mind about global warming, so don't get pissy when a liberal delights in the humiliation of this cretinous quasi-human.

Schadenfreude. It's the same psychopathology that gives Somalians mob-joy at ripping apart the bodies of American soldiers and dragging them through the street. It's the same social sickness that puts smiles and laughter on the faces of the Palestinians as they celebrate the murder and maiming of innocent Jews. It's the same soul cancer that infects Muslims who believe that death while murdering those who will not submit to subjugation will win them God's favor. A path to personal and eternal damnation. Have a nice trip, Matt.

Personally I think that Limbaugh has been victim to both an out of control district attorney and a very unfriendly press for his pill problem. And now with this Viagra thing, I feel bad for the guy, even though I can't stand him. Though the irony of not putting your name on the prescription to avoid embarrassment leading to another huge press pile-on is pretty rich.

I agree with much of what you said, Mantis, but the question is not whether you can stand him or not. He annoys me sometimes, too. We don't have to like him. The issue is a complete disregard for his privacy by the local district attorney, the police, and the media. I'm still waiting for the media to break a major story that Limbaugh was (gasp) completely and embarassingly incontinent at one point and had an uncontrollable breast fixation. It was about 60 years ago, true enough, but the public has a right to know.

If you locate and reread the original story, you'll see that this is a completely legal and commonly used practice to protect the medical privacy of public figures like Limbaugh. The Limbaugh story merely makes the case that the practice is reasonable and necessary.

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Matt, if you keep smoking pot, you'll just fall asleep and save us all a lot of bother. Have another hit. And I don't think anyone around here opposes the idea that you have sex; I just think most of us are surprised that anyone would want to be with you when you do.

Yeah matt, leave rush alone, he is a STAND UP guy. Well....sometimes he is a STAND UP guy. At least when he can get it up he is :)

This is great. More Rush more Rush please!!!!

You're right bobdog. What kind of woman would sleep with a liberal? We're all fat and covered in Cheeto grease and live in our parents' basements. History's most prominent stud muffins are all conservatives, like John Wayne, and... umm... let's see... Winston Churchill?

I'm glad that some of you claim not to be, but Limbaugh is part of the anti-sex crowd, and he constantly harps on drug addicts (presumably not as much as he used to) for not taking responsibility for their actions. He's a hypocrite. Hypocrites aren't necessarily wrong, but they are deserving of ridicule. Hence the ridicule.

And good for you, twolanefast! That's a very big word for somebody who apparently believes in a place called Hell. I'm very glad that conservatives never ever engage in Schadenfreude, and never stoop to petty personal attacks.

"I'm glad that some of you claim not to be, but Limbaugh is part of the anti-sex crowd, and he constantly harps on drug addicts (presumably not as much as he used to) for not taking responsibility for their actions."

Provide proof or shut up.

I don't expect quotes to support claims asserting Hillary Clinton's feminiliberalism. Similarly, I don't feel any obligation whatsoever to demonstrate Rush's disdain for people who have made bad decisions and have to face the consequences. Howzabout you find a quote to the contrary instead, Big Mo. I'm not interested in reading Rush's brilliant words right now. It looks bad when I puke on my desk at work.

That's just about the lamest cop-out I've read yet.

So, in other words, you can dish it out, but when challenged to prove it, you can't.

Lame.

Fine. Here's a list of quotes, handily assembled by the fine folks at Buzzflash:

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/10/ana03004.html

Read them if you want to; they are pretty funny, and support everything I have said about that prick. I have a smug look on my face, FYI.

OK, smart ass, now what was the context of those quotes?

Was he reading something? Was he quoting someone esle? Was he saying something as part of a larger point? Was he doing his trademarked "demonstrating absurdity by being absurd"?

If neither you nor Buzzflash can provide the context for those quotes, then your smug grin must look really goofy.

Try again.

Hmm, perhaps you're right, Big Mo. Just kidding. Did you see Colbert's clip of himself sipping a cup of tea while doing a piss-poor racist impersonation of a Chinese guy? "Ooooooh, me rikeeeee tea! You come here pretty Western girrr, you brow on it and make it sweet for me!" He then followed that up with the conservative fall-back of "That clip was taken completely out of context!" Pretty much captures your reply. Satire has a hard time keeping up with the wankosphere these days.

So nice try, but you would have to have some kind of crazy imagination (not to mention a cultish devotion to Rush) to suggest that all of those quotes are some kind of self-reflexive ironical reductio of someone else's idea(s). Admit he's a hypocrite. You'll feel like a hundred pounds were lifted off your shoulders if you give up trying to defend this indefensible jerk.

Uhhh...no. Sorry. Not a hypocrite.

I'll give you a hint: he was talking about people wanting to legalize hardcore drugs like crack cocaine and meth.

Rush got addicted to pain drugs because he was in physical pain, for which he got the proper treatment. He wasn't a junkie seeking legalization of dangerous drugs that have literally destoyed millions of lives.

How does that make him a hypocrite?

And your Colbert analogy was just stupid, and so was his so-called "satire."

Big Mo:

This guy isn't worth your time. Isn't it amazing how liberals claim they're so much more "nuanced" than conservatives when interpreting life situations? There is a HUGE difference between recreational drug use and getting hooked on prescription drugs, as anyone can tell...unless you're a liberal and you have a chance to slam a conservative. But what do I know? I'm not "nuanced".

You meant to say my analogy was "apt", Big Mo, because it was in fact apt. Totally apt.

People that don't like Colbert are the people he ridicules full-time. That includes the wankosphere, the media, and the government (mostly Republians, but he swings his cudgel both ways, as does Stewart). I don't expect you to like being shown what a knob you are. Your opinion of his show has very little to do with the overall quality of the comedy and the underyling message, though.

Have some cocoa, calm down, and apply your energy elsewhere. You can't defend Rush, and your refusal to give up is making you look like a Freeper.

Yeah Tom, there are no parallels between getting addicted to a painkiller with opiates in it and getting addicted to narcotics. None.

Jeebus, you're an idiot. Limbaugh scolds people who don't take responsibility for their actions. He purportedly used his maid to doctor shop for Oxycontin for his recreational use, which is illegal. The recreational nature of this abuse is obvious, because the amount of Oxys he was popping every day would tranquilize a herd of cattle. (And he's not that fat.) The guy spent a few years (how many I have no idea) HIGH AS A KITE. I would bet that the label on the initial prescription instructed him to take one or two a day, not thirty. Why wouldn't he take responsibility for his lack of will power?