The New England Journal of My Ass

Saturday, April 29, 2006

"This might be the oxycontin talking, but..."

From MSNBC:
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.
During the same show, he commented that statistics that show blacks go to prison more often than whites for the same drug offenses only illustrate that “too many whites are getting away with drug use.”

Meanwhile, how many thousands of kids don't get to go to college becuase this windbag hypocrite ranted for so long about denying financial aid to kids with their own addictions, or maybe were just dumb enough to get caught with a joint at age 15?