Another quotation

"If this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal." - Rush Limbaugh on the shootings at Virginia Tech

Mr. Limbaugh is one of the people responsible for attempting to make the word 'liberal' into an epithet and to attempt to equate anyone who has 'liberal' leanings with criminals and murderers. If you are concerned about social justice or ecology, well, you must be a mass murderer, too! This, coming from a man who used his conservative celebrity and connections to prevent himself from being convicted of the serious crime of using fraud to obtain prescriptions to feed his narcotics habit - a crime that would have netted the average joe jail time - 2,000 narcotic painkillers from 4 doctors over 6 months! <sarcasm>But of course that's likely fine as he's not a 'liberal'. Then it would be a crime. As a Republican, this was just an error in judgment.</sarcasm>

Here's some news on Mr. Limbaugh:
First, his criminal endeavours:
Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges

Rush Limbaugh illegally purchased hundreds of prescription pills a month and sought a quartet of doctors to fuel his drug addiction

His opinion on sickness?:
Rush Limbaugh attacks Michael J. Fox: ' …he was either off the medication or he was acting. He is an actor, after all.'

Even in China: Limbaugh: Fox 'exaggerating' Parkinson's

And don't forget race:
Limbaugh: A Color Man Who Has A Problem With Color?

Let's face it, he's no big deal. A talk radio host who uses his shock techniques to guarantee his fringe (and, sadly, mainstream) audience their thrills. Most of his time in the news hasn't been for criminal behaviour, rather simply because of his arrogance, his intolerance, his urban red-neck schtick. He's a man who has as much to say as Howard Stern and who should be taken just as seriously - a man more mocked than mocking.