Opinion

A political pill-popper

Rush's dirty secret

By Andre Sirois

Posted on Oct. 30, 2003, at 12:00 a.m.

You know society is crumbling when media pundits Matt Drudge and Bill O’Reilly are sympathizing with a drug abuser. When these two hard-nosed pushers of rightist ideals exhibit sorrow and loss for someone addicted to legal heroin, apocalypse is upon us. Just as the locusts are about to sweep in and as those mythical horsemen gallop along leaving a cloud of doom in their paths, Rush Limbaugh emerges clean from rehab to save America. If you believe this then get in line as I knock you down just as Limbaugh has done to anything that isn’t white, rich, and avaricious.

Seemingly coming out of nowhere was Rush Limbaugh in the ’80s, a decade of Reaganomics, political bamboozling, and the fine continuum of post-Vietnam political welters. Some said he was the son of Reagan as he got on the air and spit opinion and farces into the ears of Americans – opinions clearly lobbying conservative agenda through glib and usually malicious dialogue. He represented a new age in radio, however – an age when the mindless listened and fell in love with racism, fascism, and hypocrisy.

Several weeks ago Limbaugh admitted on the air that he has been addicted to Oxycontin for five years, a drug that the Drug Enforcement Administration claims is a legal equal to heroin. People were quick to laud Limbaugh’s weight loss, but I think dropping beef is usually made easier through the mass consumption of Oxycontin. Before this diatribe continues you must understand that some people deem Limbaugh to be a windbag, while I think, that combining his drug habit with his Eurocentric ideals, Rush is a douchebag.

Hypocrisy has never been illegal and if it were the entire Bush Administration would be upstate with the constant worry of a shank, where they’d get their next fix, and eerie of the next time they’d be made into prison princesses. He’s a hypocrite. Big deal, you say? He’s a hypocrite who banks more than $20 million a year and is a political voice heard by millions. Rush is guilty of using an illicit drug habitually and contributing to the whole black market for such chemicals. Although he has made remarks about legalization, it is only so that conservative administrations can save money on a drug war, one in which his friends – think Bush and Reagan – had a hand in implementing. In October 1995 Limbaugh said on his radio show, “There’s nothing good about drug use…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.” Wonder if he’d wish this upon himself?

He also said, “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 this stuff.”

It is clear that this man is sick, but why shouldn’t he suffer the same outcome of most drug addicts? Well, he’s white, he makes lots of money, and he clearly supports the conservative defamation of Americans. Even if he went up-state it’d be to a low-security rumpus room where he could smoke cigars and smack cognac glasses with Arthur Anderson, the ghost of Nixon and numerous other political puppets and puppeteers.

We all know that Limbaugh is a racist. He said on his show that African American opinions don’t matter since they’re only 12 percent of the population, criminals composites look like Jesse Jackson, and that a dissenting caller ought to take the bone out of his nose and call him back. We also can’t forget his latest foible at ESPN. It’s not only African Americans who he attacks but also gays and all other minority groups. All I can picture is Limbaugh and the current administration at the White House bumping lines and swilling beers, then jumping into very large Suburbans and attempting to drive over minorities in the streets in the name of the “white power structure.”

Although the proverbial douche himself may escape the hands of the law he has now been brought down to the level of the street vermin and lefties that he has so castigated for almost two decades. Maybe if Limbaugh gets lucky in rehab he’ll run into the Bush daughters, find a couple hits, and engage in the dirtiest threesome that rightist America has ever seen. Limbaugh is more guilty than other pushers and abusers since they practice what they preach and he has been lying to the masses. In lieu of his political ideologies, I say we lynch him.

Andre Sirois is a graduate student in communications.

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