Friday, October 03, 2003

In Newsday, Ellis Henican hoists Rush Limbaugh on several of his own petards. Quite delightful. Here's one from 1995, about racial sentencing disparities in drug cases:

"What this says to me," he told his listeners that day, "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."

Thanks to the good Roger Ailes for this one. (Roger thinks it may not be fair to chastise Rush for words he uttered about drugs at a time when he hadn't succumbed to them. I disagree. If you suddenly discover that a certain class of people doesn't consist exclusively of moral degenerates when you yourself find yourself in that class, maybe you were wrong all along to be such a mean-spirited son of a bitch.)

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