Sunday, October 12, 2003
RUSH JOB: SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET SMACKED
I pulled the following off of a blogger site, and this was one of the commentors, titled: What would Rush Do?
When determining how judgemental and moralizing I should be toward others, I always ask myself, "What Would Rush Do?"
Sep. 23, 1993: "If there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it [...] If there were a gun here, it couldn't fire itself. I've got to reach for it and pull the trigger [...] we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say [...] ."
Dec. 16, 1994: "So we're not going to get on--we don't fault these animals for a lack of discipline, but we get on human beings who are fat for lack of discipline and you know it and I know it. But here's the thing that struck me about this. We have alcoholics and drug addicts in our society, don't we? And what do we say about them? Well, they can't help it. Why, it's genetic. Why, they have a disease. Why, put one thimbleful of scotch in front of them and they can die.' We totally exempt them from any control over their lives, do we not? Some athlete will spend two years snorting lines of coke. 'He can't help it.' You know, it's--it's just--it's not--it's--it's genetic. These people--they're predisposed to having this addictive syndrome. They--they can't help--yeah, like that line of cocaine just happened to march into the hotel, go up to the athlete's room and put itself right there in front of him on his blotter."
Oct. 5, 1995: "What this says to me is that 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 in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting [black] people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
Oct. 15, 1995: "Another Democrat--another--folks, these people are taking it really hard, you know, these Democrats [...] getting drunk. Here--a guy who had been cited, who had been recognized for his great work in alcohol and drug abuse is drunk on the highways. This is just--it's tragic, but it's just--it's outrageously funny. And he is just the latest in a series of Democratic legislators in Minnesota accused of crimes including shoplifting, spouse abuse and insurance fraud. Conflict resolution, Democrats and all their good social works, and still, look at what ha--it just--it's--it's hypocrisy. ...
[Hm.]
Jan. 15, 1996: "... There were a couple of drug convictions out in--I think it was a Colorado court. And these guys had--had done some really bad stuff, and there were mandated federal sentences for the crimes they had committed. And the judge apologized to the criminals while sentencing them because he thought it was too severe. He apologized and the community was outraged. So we've gone from a judge sentencing a mother who makes her child beg six months in jail, to judges apologizing for getting dope dealers and crack dealers and drug salesmen off the streets with too severe a sentence."
Oct. 21, 2002: All she [Maureen Dowd]'s got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it's showing on her columns."
Aug. 18, 2003: "Mandatory minimums are totally constitutional. And these tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?"
[Limbaugh faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in jail if it can be proven he was in possession of 28 grams or more of OxyContin. That's just 175 of his "little blues," or 160 mg blue OxyContin pills.]
Sep. 23, 2003: "To Ted Kennedy, whose liver is said to be shaped like a Chivas Regal bottle, what Bush said and what's best for America and the Iraqis doesn't matter."
(Date unknown): "When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."
[Attention, Marconi people.]
Posted by Steve G. at October 12, 2003 04:37 AM
I pulled the following off of a blogger site, and this was one of the commentors, titled: What would Rush Do?
When determining how judgemental and moralizing I should be toward others, I always ask myself, "What Would Rush Do?"
Sep. 23, 1993: "If there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it [...] If there were a gun here, it couldn't fire itself. I've got to reach for it and pull the trigger [...] we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say [...] ."
Dec. 16, 1994: "So we're not going to get on--we don't fault these animals for a lack of discipline, but we get on human beings who are fat for lack of discipline and you know it and I know it. But here's the thing that struck me about this. We have alcoholics and drug addicts in our society, don't we? And what do we say about them? Well, they can't help it. Why, it's genetic. Why, they have a disease. Why, put one thimbleful of scotch in front of them and they can die.' We totally exempt them from any control over their lives, do we not? Some athlete will spend two years snorting lines of coke. 'He can't help it.' You know, it's--it's just--it's not--it's--it's genetic. These people--they're predisposed to having this addictive syndrome. They--they can't help--yeah, like that line of cocaine just happened to march into the hotel, go up to the athlete's room and put itself right there in front of him on his blotter."
Oct. 5, 1995: "What this says to me is that 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 in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting [black] people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
Oct. 15, 1995: "Another Democrat--another--folks, these people are taking it really hard, you know, these Democrats [...] getting drunk. Here--a guy who had been cited, who had been recognized for his great work in alcohol and drug abuse is drunk on the highways. This is just--it's tragic, but it's just--it's outrageously funny. And he is just the latest in a series of Democratic legislators in Minnesota accused of crimes including shoplifting, spouse abuse and insurance fraud. Conflict resolution, Democrats and all their good social works, and still, look at what ha--it just--it's--it's hypocrisy. ...
[Hm.]
Jan. 15, 1996: "... There were a couple of drug convictions out in--I think it was a Colorado court. And these guys had--had done some really bad stuff, and there were mandated federal sentences for the crimes they had committed. And the judge apologized to the criminals while sentencing them because he thought it was too severe. He apologized and the community was outraged. So we've gone from a judge sentencing a mother who makes her child beg six months in jail, to judges apologizing for getting dope dealers and crack dealers and drug salesmen off the streets with too severe a sentence."
Oct. 21, 2002: All she [Maureen Dowd]'s got now is bourbon for mouthwash, and it's showing on her columns."
Aug. 18, 2003: "Mandatory minimums are totally constitutional. And these tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?"
[Limbaugh faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in jail if it can be proven he was in possession of 28 grams or more of OxyContin. That's just 175 of his "little blues," or 160 mg blue OxyContin pills.]
Sep. 23, 2003: "To Ted Kennedy, whose liver is said to be shaped like a Chivas Regal bottle, what Bush said and what's best for America and the Iraqis doesn't matter."
(Date unknown): "When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks."
[Attention, Marconi people.]
Posted by Steve G. at October 12, 2003 04:37 AM
