Limbaugh arrested

It's about time!

It's about time!

It's about time!

It is about time.

I really didn't mean to say it three times, but there it is.

He won't suffer much. They only go after the poor.

If he goes to jail at all, it will be to a country club jail.

Arrested?????

There is nothing in this story that says he was arrested...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-28-limbaugh_x.htm

Neither does this article...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/linbaugh.arrest.ap/index.html

Neither does this one...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193657,00.html

But,even if he had been,he did nothing wrong....

(Pausing to let the left lose their collective minds)

Now I will explain.
The charge is being dropped,he was not convicted of anything,he will do no jail time,he only paid a small fine.

Does any of that sound familiar?
Those are almost exactly the same words used by the Left to defend Bill Clinton after he was fined by a federal court judge.

I am only bringing him up because if you truly believe that Clinton did nothing wrong,for the reasons listed,then you must also believe Rush did nothing wrong.
After all,the left keeps saying that everyone must be treated equally,so lets see you apply the same standard here.

He won't be going to prison...there has been a deal:

Limbaugh Reaches Settlement in Drug Case
By BRIAN SKOLOFF Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Friday, April 28, 2006


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.


Rush Limbaugh and prosecutors in the long-running prescription fraud case against him have reached a deal calling for the only charge against the conservative commentator to be dropped without a guilty plea if he continues treatment, his attorney said Friday.

Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant filed Friday charging him with fraud to conceal information to obtain prescriptions, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Jail. He and his attorney Roy Black left about an hour later, after Limbaugh was photographed and fingerprinted and he posted $3,000 bail, Barbera said.

Prosecutors' three-year investigation of Limbaugh began after he publicly acknowledged being addicted to pain medication and entered a rehabilitation program. They accused Limbaugh of "doctor shopping," or illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions, after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion.

Limbaugh, who pleaded not guilty Friday, has steadfastly denied doctor shopping. Black said the charge will be dismissed in 18 months if Limbaugh complies with court guidelines..........


...........Limbaugh spokesman Tony Knight said the commentator signed the agreement Thursday, and that it called for him to enter the not guilty plea. "It's not in the system moving toward trial. It was all a formality. It's a concluded deal," Knight said.

Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the state attorney's office, said prosecutors had not yet received the signed agreement.

"I am not disputing the facts, the conditions that Black represented, but until his client signed the agreement, we don't have a full agreement," Edmondson said. "I am sure it's just a timeline issue."

He refused to comment further.

As a primary condition of the dismissal, Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years, Black said. Among other provisions, he also has agreed to pay the state $30,000 to defray its investigative costs, Black said.

The warrant alleges that sometime between February and August 2003, Limbaugh withheld information from a medical practitioner from whom he sought to obtain a controlled substance or a prescription for a controlled substance.

Prosecutors began investigating Limbaugh in 2003 after the National Enquirer reported his housekeeper's allegations that he had abused OxyContin and other painkillers. He soon took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program and acknowledged he had become addicted to pain medication. He blamed it on severe back pain.

Before his own problems became public, Limbaugh had decried drug use and abuse and mocked President Clinton for saying he had not inhaled when he tried marijuana. He often made the case that drug crimes deserve punishment.

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if 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," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995........

...........Limbaugh reported five years ago that he had lost most of his hearing because of an autoimmune inner-ear disease. He had surgery to have an electronic device placed in his skull to restore his hearing. But research shows that abusing opiate-based painkillers also can cause profound hearing loss.



FULL STORY




(And, just to make you laugh:

O'Reilly claimed right wing doesn't "smear"
Summary: Bill O'Reilly asserted that while "on the left, it's all about the smear," "the propagandists on the right" are "not smear merchants"; "they're not trying to smear anybody." He also said, "[M]aybe I'm naïve," but "when I tune in to [the] programs [of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Ingraham], I hear ideology."

On the April 26 edition of The Radio Factor, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that while "on the left, it's all about the smear," "the propagandists on the right" are "not smear merchants"; "they're not trying to smear anybody." Later in the show, a caller challenged O'Reilly's assertion, asking why O'Reilly does not consider attacks on liberals by fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity and nationally syndicated radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham to be "smear tactics." O'Reilly replied that "maybe I'm naïve," but "when I tune in to their programs, I hear ideology." O'Reilly explained that unlike liberal "smear merchants," the three conservative pundits "keep it in the issue area." Citing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) as an example, O'Reilly stated that he's "not hearing" conservatives "try to tear him to pieces and injure him personally."................

Full story )

dlowan, right he wont do time. If he stays clean for 18 months.

Actually, that is not really accurate.


The charge will not be pursued if he continues in rehab for the agreed upon time.

He has paid $30,000 towards the cost of the prosecution which, while not technically a fine I suppose, is not small...at least for most people.

Thus, the charge (the rest appear to have been plea bargained away, as is common) will not be tested in court if he behaves himself.....a reasonable outcome for an addict, it seems to me, and a common and common sense action for a court to take.

The irony here is that this man was howling out against drugs and those who take them, while being an addict himself.

Even the far right ought to be able to see why this makes drug charges against this idiot more of note than they are for those who do not make it part of their public stance to call for very harsh penalties for users.

Otherwise, I would consider this a private matter that ought not to have been exposed so publicly, and where gloating and revelling in his discomfiture was as untoward as the right's mean spirited orgasms over revelations about Clinton's private life.

Edit: Actually, it was wrong to just say "the right's" up there. I should have said "a proportion of the right's"....since I think many on the right were as appalled at the Clinton witch burning/lynch mob mentality as those on the left were.

I guess learining from previous mistakes is not a conservative value.

Has anyone else heard that the "treatment" Limbaugh will receive for 18 months will be with the same doctor from whom he received many of the excessive amount of Oxycontin prescriptions?

That's news to me. But, it makes perfect sense in the present scheme of things, where foxes get assigned to guard hen houses.

shades of Bill O'Reilly settling with an *extortionist*:

So typical that MM is in constant denial of reality.

poor mysteryman.

What am I denying?
Please show me in any of the links I posted where it says he was arrested?
I even included CNN,the lefts favorite site.
Please show me where the word "arrested" was used,even once.

the usa today article says,



and here's the definition of bail from the american heritage dictionary:



http://www.answers.com/bail&r=67

if he wasn't arrested, while did he have to post bail?