{"id":1525,"date":"2003-10-03T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/03\/he-must-have-been-on-drugs\/"},"modified":"2003-10-03T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T15:44:18","slug":"he-must-have-been-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/03\/he-must-have-been-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"He Must Have Been on Drugs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1332'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"430\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/rush.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"238\" align=\"left\"><em>Rabid<br \/>\n          Rush Limbaugh is really taking heat for, well, just for being Rush,<br \/>\n          I guess.<br \/>\n        Frankly, it couldn&#8217;t be happening to a nicer guy. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>First, on the football front, it took the guy all of three weeks<br \/>\n          to put his foot so firmly in his mouth that ESPN and parent Disney<br \/>\n          pulled<br \/>\n        the plug on his &quot;NFL Sunday Countdown&quot;. Hey, even Dennis Miller lasted<br \/>\n        a whole season on Monday Night Football. He stunk, but he hung in there<br \/>\n        a full season.<br \/>\n      <\/em><br \/>\n      That is no surprise, given that Limbaugh has dropped such gems on the American<br \/>\n      public as once telling a black listener to take a bone out of his nose<br \/>\n      and declaring that a Mexican won the New York Marathon because an immigration<br \/>\n      agent chased him for the last 10 miles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/276\/oped\/Rush_was_wrong_from_the_get_go%2B.shtml\">by<br \/>\n        Derrick Jackson in the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A possible explanation is offered by that bastion of American journalistic<br \/>\n      integrity, The National Enquirer, also written up in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/276\/nation\/Fla_authorities_investigate_Limbaugh_in_drug_probe%2B.shtml\"> today&#8217;s<br \/>\n      Globe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For its story about the drug investigation, the Enquirer had interviewed<br \/>\n      Wilma Cline, who said she became Limbaugh&#8217;s drug connection after working<br \/>\n      as his maid. She said he had abused OxyContin and other painkillers. Ed<br \/>\n      Shohat, a Miami lawyer for Cline and her husband, said yesterday, &#8221;The<br \/>\n      Clines stand by the story.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><i>Rush Limbaugh a pill-popping pain-killer junkie? Who knew? I am forced<br \/>\n      to begrudgingly admit that there is finally something to respect him for.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabid Rush Limbaugh is really taking heat for, well, just for being Rush, I guess. Frankly, it couldn&#8217;t be happening to a nicer guy. First, on the football front, it took the guy all of three weeks to put his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/03\/he-must-have-been-on-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}