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Originally Posted by djplong
Having had family members addicted to prescription painkillers, I have some compassion for him.
He, or at least his public persona, however, had none.
It is his hypocrisy that I have no respect for.
If he'd come out and acknowledged just how hard it can be and recanted at least some of the statements he'd made, he'd be a bigger man in my eyes (and I used to listen to him during my commute every day back in the 1990s).
*To my knowledge*, he's never done that.
I haven't listened to him in a long time, largely because it seemed to me that he was getting increasingly nasty and the humor seemed to take a darker turn over a LONG period of time.
Now he just seems a caricature of his former self. But, to his defense, he DOES have several hours a day of time to fill and he's been doing it for a very long time.
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Most people have no comprehension of difficult situations which they have no personal experience in. It's easy to be steadfast and righteous when you have no clue to the enormity of the problem. Many people criticize another's actions in a situation that they themselves have never found themselves in.
That's Rush's story on prescription painkillers. You never hear him voice anything but sympathy and encouragement about this subject on the extremely rare occasion he might even address it now. Not that it matters to the "Rush haters" who won't let it go because it's a justification for the unreasonable hate in their heart.
I would link it if I had access to transcripts of his show, but I don't and have no way to search.