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Originally posted by Peryn
[B] and that quote about him popping pills, in context he is talking about drugs the doctors have prescribed to try and counter the hearing loss. He is not saying "i like pain pills". He is simply saying that they have him on a huge variety of medicine to try and aid his hearing.
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Did you even read what I posted? His hearing was damaged BY HIS PILL POPPING AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS SAYING THAT HE HAD NOT POPPED PILLS BEFORE.
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Also, when has rush pleaded for sympathy because of his hearing loss? This is a big question. In that article, he hints at what we know know now, that he may be responsible for his own hearing loss. But he does not ask for any sympathy. The big claim about him being a hypocrite is that he wants sympathy and leaniency in a situation where he never gave any to others. But i ask you, when has he asked for sypmathy or leniency toward his case and toward his decisions?
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When he said that he was holding back some of his statements on advice of his lawyers. As a felony drug abuser, he should turn himself in right now and plead guilty to any crimes he is charged.
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Also, people are scrutinizing him because he didn't come out about it until he got caught. what a coward he must be. Well, thats the nature of the beast so to speak. The nature of an addiction is to deny and hide it as long as possible. When was the last time you have heard of someone going around admitting to their family, all their freinds, and everybody they know, and even dont know, that they are addicted to drugs and need help? This has probably never happened. If it has happened to youm then when was the last time that you knew someone who did that withOUT getting caught first? Or withOUT trying to get help and failing first? An example. Lots of us know alcoholics. Many know people who are genuinely addicted to the bottle. Now, have any alcoholics come up to you and said "im an alcoholic. I have problems and need help. I messed up, but please pray for me to get better"? If they have, chances are, that someone else caught him, found him out, and explained to him that he has a problem. You wouldn't hold that against THEM would you? no, but since Rush is popular and you disagree with many of his ideas, you suddenly hold him to an unrealistically high standard.
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Rush is the one saying drug abusers should go to jail. Not me. Rush. I didn't see where he was offering sympathy to addicts.
He's also quite the golfer for someone with crippling back pain:
http://www.golfserv.com/gdc/news/article.asp?id=15650
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As for the quote from 1995, i do not know all the facts. Had he had his back surgery then? I didn't find a date from a quick google, but i am curoius if he had had his operation yet. i am not positive, but i believe he was still heavily overweight, and unoperated at that time. In which case, it is kind of irrelavent as it doesn't apply to his beliefs or state of mind while he was taking teh pills.
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Show me where he changed his mind of softened his position. So you're saying after he started popping pills he changed his mind and thought "hey, buying thousands of illegal pills and committing felonies in a denny's parking lot is actually ok." Am I following you here? And the fact that he supposedly did so, even though there is no evidence to show that he ever changed his mind, somehow vindicates him, since instead of being a hypocrite he is now a drug addict who thinks drugs are great?