WHAT Liberal Media?

Get out your chest-high wading pants, the bullshit runs as thick as country music in this profile of Poor, Poor Pitiful Rush on MSNBC-via-Newsweek story. Boo hoo hoo.

I don't have time to disseminate the entire article for you, but be aware of the following key concepts:

1. Rush is addicted to "prescription pain medication." No he's not, he's a junkie seeking a high. He has never had a legal prescription for this stuff himself, and there's no evidence that he ever had pain problems. In fact, he's been quoted on his show numerous times saying that there's nothing wrong with him physically.

2. Notice how often the writer (ass-licking Evan Thomas) refers back to Rush's childhood or to his "kinder, gentler" side that nobody has ever actually seen. We're now supposed to believe that blowhard asshole Rush is just an act. I'll bet the millions of "dittoheads" (which, incidentally, translates into "ignorant white trash" in more than 17 languages!) who parrot his claptrap religiously will be pleased to discover they were fooled by an "entertainer." Can't wait for Baba Wawa to sit Rush and wife down for a "heart-to-heart chat."

3. Apparently it is perfectly okay to be an arrogant, misinformed, malicious asshole and hypocrite ... if you're a Republican. Then, when you are inevitably outed as a two-faced drunk/gambler/adulterer/drug addict/whichever, you can duck into the old liberal standby "all I need is rehab, I'm not like those other drug addicts who broke the law." And your zombie-like followers will just go along with this.

When you read the article, substitute the words "Bill" and "Clinton" for "Rush" and "Limbaugh" and see if you think the article reads the same. Puh-lease.

Update: Some smart feller at the St. Louis Dispatch beat us to the punch.

4. Again, I ask anyone (anyone) reading this: if it came out at your workplace that you had a huge drug habit and had lied and hidden it, while simultaneously breaking many laws to do so, would you have a job tomorrow? Would you have your freedom tomorrow? Yeah, I didn't think so.