Rush Limbaugh ‘Not Guilty’

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1. CJ1979 Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 1:33 pm

   I guess it’s good news, though I still don’t like it. It’s interesting how things work when there’s actually a charge filed, isn’t it?

   Still, I think that the State Attorney’s office was a bit overzealous (to the point of trouncing the Constitution) through this whole ordeal. It’s my understanding that they obtained his medical records illeagaly, without any kinds of court order or warrant.

   Hopefully this will end soon. (keeping in mind that the charge doesn’t go away for a year and a half)

2. MarkLevinFan Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

   I recently suffered an episode of back spasms. My back hurt so bad that for 2 days I couldn’t tie my shoes or anything else requiring the slightest bending! No amount of non-prescription pain medicine made any difference. Fortunately for me, it was only a spasm and it gradually got better. I can’t image how much pain Rush must have been in after enduring back surgery! Anyone who criticizes Rush for becoming addicted to prescription painkillers should go through the pain I did. Then maybe you’ll understand.

3. DubInDallas Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

   I think that I have the answer to a question that Rush Limbaugh put to his own fans a while back, a question that I have yet to hear another person answer. A lady called and said that Rush sounded “happier” than he did several months earlier. And Rush said that there was no event in his life that happened at time that would account for it.
   The lady also kept saying that Rush seemed “to be taking more calls”- and that was the thing that solved the puzzle for me, at least to my own satisfaction.
   Several months ago, Rush Limbaugh started taking the praise and love of his listeners who called in to his show with a ready “Thank you !” that lets the callers move right into the point that they wished to make. Rush at that time said to his listeners that he was consciously trying to learn to take praise and love and kudos with an easygoing acceptance, an easygoing acceptance that was not readily in accordance with his authentic nature. He said that he was trying to improve the way that he accepted compliments and love- because it happened “so much and so often”. And since then, I have been listening closely to the way he now responds to the simplest “Dittoes!”- and he has a very quick reflexive and reciprocating “Thank You!” that allows the caller to proceed smoothly into the call without having the feeling that they have yet to “sell” Rush on the genuineness of their sentiment.
   The lady who called in with the observation that Rush was happier kept saying that it seemed to her that Rush was taking “more calls”-
   and Rush said no, the number of calls that he has taken on his show had been generally the same, so that couln’t be it.
   What the lady meant by “taking more calls” was the fact that Rush now was taking the calls he took with an easier grace when the excited caller started with the “Dittoes!” - Rush’s consciously- developed skills at accepting love and praise without having always to try to preserve the modesty which is his “first nature”- THAT is why so many people now regard him as being happier himself- his fans now have the feeling that Rush DOES know how much he is known, liked, respected and admired by tens of millions of listeners every week.
   God bless you Rush! You are in my prayers!

4. The False Dervish Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

   What I find disturbing it that the rules of procedure have been ignored and that was permitted by the court!

   The DA ordered his henchmen to swoop down and take Rush’s medical records WITHOUT court approval and to violate doctor/patient relationships. Rush’s attorney argued this point, but even though the judge agreed with Rush’s attorney, he still said it was OK to bend the rules this time.

   Now, there are certain exceptions to the rules that law enforcement can utilize during criminal investigations without first obtaining a warrant. These are called extigent circumstances:

   1) Plain view-where the police clearly see illegal stuff in actual plain view.
   2) Consent-where the owner of property allows police to search his stuff.
   3) Emergency situations(plain view only).
   4) Preservation of Evidence-this is where the police witness evidence being moved or destroyed and can move without a warrant and gather up evidence, or REASONABLY believe that evidence is about to be destroyed.
   5) Hot pursuit.
   6) Incident to LAWFUL arrest (vehicles and persons searches).
   7) Prisoners.

   Now, I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY, so I will stand corrected by any legally trained person if need be. But, as I see it, none of these extegencies applies to Rush’s situation.

   I think that where Rush now resides are hard core lib/Dems including the judges and the DA. Rush is a threat to them, and they want revenge because Al Gore did not win the election, because Kerry did not win the election, because they are not able to set up someone in broadcasting that can rival and surpass Rush. For the lib/dems, Rush is a reactionary! And remember that according to my copy of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND RESTAURANT GUIDE: “The ends justify the means.”

   I think that Rush should have perhaps challenged this stuff via the Florida court of appeals and request the Florida State Attorney General’s to investigate the DA who went after Rush.

   Could it be that, perhaps, in some states, the Constitution and Criminal Court procedure is indeed…written in pencil?

   Just wondering…

5. DubInDallas Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 4:14 pm

   False Dervish, we are facing an all-assault on our freedom of speech- the Liberals know that they are beaten on the radio, and they are only now waking up to the fact that radio is a much more powerful medium than are newspapers- for the simple reason that people are much more readily won by the spoken word than they are by the written word.

   The reason for this is that the speaker can read uninterruptedly from the facial expressions of his audience the precise moments when he is “losing” the audience- and also the moments when he is “winning” the audience.

   The writer of any newpaper cannot see his readers either when he is writing or when the readers are reading. Most people in the world are very lazy within themselves, and they are unlikely to take up and read anything with which they already know that they will disagree.

   When Rush Limbaugh is broadcasting, he has official program observers, and when one of them has an expression that shows that he is “losing” them, Rush then knows that there are thousands of other people out there who are experiencing the same feeling as the observer is feeling. And so then we get Rush’s typical:”What?! What Mr. Snerdley?” And then Rush catches Mr. Snerdley up on whatever it was.

   By this ingeniously simple technique, Rush Limbaugh retains tens of millions of dedicated listeners every week.

   This was not possible before the “Fairness Doctrine” was repealed under the Reagan administration. And now the Liberals- knowing that they are beaten on the radio- now the Liberals are agitating for the reinstatement of the “Fairness Doctrine”- they think that it is “unfair” that Limbaugh and Hannity and Levin can command the respectful attentiveness of tens of millions every single week on the radio.

   And we Conservatives must fight these dastardly Liberals just as hard as we ever did. They are trying to reinstate a “Fairness Doctrine” that essentially amounts to the unilateral disarming of us, the Conservatives whose voice on radio must never be silenced!

6. Long Island Pete Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

   Those with integrity face the music like a man. They try to get something like this rectified and behind them as fast as possible for the good of themselves and the good of their family. Those without integrity try to debate what the meaning of is is.

7. Long Island Pete Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 6:15 pm

   And another thing, lots of you know that I proposed in front of the Great One and it is something I will cherish my whole life. I had the honor of proclaiming my love for someone and a man of great integrity was there to witness it. Mark, you are a man of great moral conviction the way you stand by your friends, Rush and Sean when others attack them. I am proud to call you a friend and if we were in the military together, I would want a man like you in my foxhole.

8. Patriot's Dad Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 9:02 pm

   TO My Friends: We All Have Crosses to Bear & as I Understand “the legal ramifications” surrounding this case…And His “Personal Problems”, IMHO, They Should Have Stayed Right There…Personal…”WE ALL KNOW THE REASON WHY THIS WAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT”…
   I Sincerely Pray That Rush Will Find Peace & Comfort; To Enable Him To Keep On “Keepin” On..

9. Kiwon Says:
   April 30th, 2006 at 8:15 am

   It’s a pretty sad system when someone has to pay $30,000 plus to make a case go away when he is not guilty of anything.

10. Long Island Pete Says:
    April 30th, 2006 at 8:28 am

    Kiwon, what is even sadder is that Rush became addicted to a pain reliever because of a medical condition. I for one can feel his pain because I have 2 herniated discs and chronic sciatica. I have not had to take any pain pills for it. I just take some hops and barley. But these libs come down on him faster than they do for someone who gets addicted to crack, yet the crack addicts are the ones who place the burden on society.

11. trinity Says:
    May 1st, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    I am very happy for Rush that this dreadful ordeal is almost completely behind him, although I do agree with everyone that it’s blatantly unfair for him to have to reimburse anybody for the investigation (read: fishing expedition) itself.

    God bless Rush and all of our conservative, patriotic icons who speak out so untiringly to get the truth out there to counter the BS from the liberal hordes. As far as the “Fairness” Doctrine is concerned, I think any attempt to bring that back would warrant a march on Washington by those of us who know how devastating that would be for this country!

12. DubInDallas Says:
    May 1st, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    I would march on Washington myself if they tried to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine!”

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