Rush Limbaugh got busted by Customs for carrying a bottle of Viagra through the airport because it was labeled as being prescribed to his doctor.
Of course, the official “cover story” for this is…
A doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was “labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes,” Roy Black, Limbaugh’s attorney, said in a statement.
So of course, ditto-heads everywhere are going to say that Rush, being a celebrity, deserves to have his privacy.
To which I ask, where is my privacy?
If I were to go to my doctor and get a prescription for Viagra, my doctor wouldn’t say, “Gee, let me put my name on your prescription because it’s embarassing for you…”
Actually, thanks to laws on the books designed to protect a patient’s right to privacy, Rush (and his doctor) had no valid excuse for trying to cover up his Viagra prescription.
So what we have here is a guy who plea bargained a deal for abusing prescription pain-killers who may now find himself in trouble with the law because he couldn’t trust the law to protect his privacy? Or maybe Rush is still “doctor-shopping” and playing games to get prescription drugs to satisfy other needs, such as Viagra, now that he can’t medicate himself into binary-thought complacency.
Too bad. Maybe we should take a page from Rush’s own book on how to deal with druggies:
“I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you’ll find that he’s very much right…‘I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don’t buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that.’… What he’s saying is that if there’s a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we’re blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they’re weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we’re going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn’t. It’s not our responsibility. It’s up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right. We’ve got more – right after this.â€
- Rush Limbaugh, 9/23/93
“There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. 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. What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.â€
- Rush Limbaugh Show, 10/5/1995
“[He’s] another dead drug addict.â€
- Rush Limbaugh on Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95