One of the things that bothered me about Rush was his condemnation of druggies on his program, he belittled them, denigrated them, and was abusive to them when he himself was hiding a drug addiction. That kind of gross hypocrisy destroys any credibility he might have otherwise had in my eyes.
I also found his attacks on Chelsea Clinton to be unfair and unkind, she was kid, he had no reason to go after her.
I listen to Rush almost every work day. It’s the only political radio show on in the AM. I have never heard him say anything about drug or drug users being bad. I remember once way way way back when he made a comment about Daryl strawberry but it was more in defense of Strawberry than against him. Kind of like a leave him alone if he wants help he knows how to get it sort of thing.
Rush could have said stuff about drug users before he himself was caught I suppose. If you have any youtube clips of Rush slamming drug users Id be interested in watching them.
I would assume he said something about Clinton and not inhaling, partly it would make him the first president to have done drugs and partly because he was obviously not honest by saying he didn’t inhale. But either way I think we should expect more from our presidents than talk show hosts or the average Joe on the street.
Now days you wont get a man or woman running for office that didn’t probably dabble in drugs at some point in their life, that’s a given. I understand that. My only reason for bringing it up is because Top Gun keeps bringing up Rush.
I understand picking on Rush more if he was hypocritical. I get disgusted by hypocritical people too.
John Edwards made me sick. He was always going on about the poor and how if elected he would help them. This is one of the richest guys out there who’s mansion was literally across the way from a homeless shelter and never helped them in any way, or any other poor that I know of besides when on camera for photo ops.
AlGore going on about the environment and saying we have to sacrifice more to save the planet while he himself has two private jets a huge mansion and an electric bill in the thousand’s monthly.
And obama… the man who came to Oregon and said "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times”
But he himself keeps his white house at 80 degrees, everyone is uncomfortable because its so hot but he likes it hot, David Axelrod said its hot enough to grow orchids in there. He has a party and serves 100 dollars a point Kobe beef. Another time he flew in a pizza maker from some city he had visited during the primaries so he could have 20 pizzas made.
He has date night with the wife and uses 2 helicopters and a private jet to go to New York to see a Broadway show. He has done the flying around on a whim more than a few times and he has only been president for a few months.
So, I understand about wanting to call someone on hypocrisy. But at the end of the day if Rush is a druggie, so is obama.