Letty wrote:Actually, snood and edgar. I wasn't comparing them, just observing that people who have high profiles can usually get away with stuff that the average citizen cannot. It seems to me that I read somewhere that Rush had been accused of money laundering, too.
I don't know....I think that is a two edged sword.....
One thing that happens to them is that stuff that would usually be private...like Limbaugh's drug addiction...becomes a major hoohah, picked over with rather disgusting delight by all and sundry.
As I said above, I think only Limbaugh's rather stunning hypocrisy makes this anything but a private matter, really. I mean, zillions of addicts doctor shop, and the world doesn't know about it.
Who in hell would have given a **** about Clinton having an affair if he hadn't been president? The reality is that president or not it was nobody's business but his, Monica's and Hillary's...but look what happened.
When it comes to real criminal stuff, well, when they are rich they can certainly, as rich people generally can, get off stuff more easily because they have better lawyers.
I also think that, for every prosecutor who wants to make a big killing in the media by getting a celebrity, there is at least one who is put off by the idea of making a public balls up of a case, and being hated and publicly vilified. I do wonder if there is more so in both cases in the US, where I gather the top prosecution jobs are politically fought over.. (here, they are appointments via a selection process, not voted upon.)
I really do feel for them when a vulturous media and gormless public get their jollies feasting revltingly upon minor stuff, or upon frankly mendacious crap.
