The Award on Drugs

Public Eye, Metro News, October 30-November 5, 2003

One of San Jose's liberal legislators will likely turn down the luncheon invite he received recently from L.A.'s gun-toting, ballistic-missile-loving, three-strikes-law-lauding Claremont Institute. But, Rush Limbaugh will be there.

Drug rehabber Limbaugh, called "a big fat idiot" by at least one detractor and other times referred to as the "Great One," is slated to received the Claremont Institute's "statesmanship award" during the Nov. 21 Churchill Dinner at the Westin Bonaventure in L.A.

Limbaugh turned over a new leaf last month when he announced he would check himself into a 30-day rehab program to defeat his addiction to painkillers. The National Enquirer, which outed him as a druggie, interviewed his former maid Wilma Cline, who professed to be his drug connection. The Florida state attorney's office also reportedly started an investigation.

Following these revelations, the popular radio big mouth was roundly criticized as being a hypocrite because of comments he made in the mid-'90s attacking people who like to get high. It's unclear how recognizing Limbaugh fits into the Claremont Institute's mission "to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life."

The institute's president, currently in D.C., plans to issue a statement on the war on drugs after he returns. Claremont Institute marketing director Melanie Marlowe tells Eye that Limbaugh gets out of rehab 10 or 11 days before the dinner. Limbaugh joins such previous statesmanship honorees as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas and Bill Buckley.

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Rush Limbaugh to Keynote Churchill Dinner on 11/21

November 21, Los Angeles, CA

The Claremont Institute is proud to give nationally syndicated talk-show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh its Statesmanship Award at the annual Churchill Dinner in Los Angeles on Friday, November 21. Limbaugh will be the keynote speaker; fellow radio commentator Hugh Hewitt will serve as master of ceremonies. The dinner will be at the Westin Bonaventure, 404 S. Figueroa Street. Reception begins at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Business attire.

To make a reservation, please contact Nancy Padilla at (909) 621-6825, or RSVP online at https://www.claremont.org/events/churchill_rsvp.html

Rush, I wish you luck in overcoming your addiction. It will take some time and hard work, but I am certain you will come through, since you can afford the best treatment in the country.

However, when you get cured and get back on the air again, try to change your hardened attitude toward the millions of poor folks who abuse drugs and even those who just use drugs casually but end up in prison anyway. Try some real "compassionate conservatism" for a change.

Perhaps you can call upon one of the favorite lines from conservatives, namely, being "fiscally responsible" by not wasting taxpayer money on the drug war and expand treatment options. It sure saves a lot of money in the long run, as you conservatives like to say.

The last few weeks have seen a decided unraveling of Bush policies here and abroad and prompted many Americans to take a second, more critical look at the neo-conservative philosophy that the president and others have been espousing and implementing.

Along with President Bush, this group of right-wing ideologues includes, among others, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz as well as other former government officials and journalists such as Richard Pearl, Norman Podhoretz, Irving and his son William Kristol, Elliot Abrahams, Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, Newt Gingrich, and RUSH LIMBAUGH.

These neo-conservatives now dominate the Republican Party. They have as their primary goal the following: to make the United States an imperialistic, interventionist empire (the preemptive war in Iraq and threatened wars in Iran, Syria and North Korea are examples)....

"These neo-conservatives now dominate the Republican Party. They have as their primary goal the following: to make the United States an imperialistic, interventionist empire (the preemptive war in Iraq and threatened wars in Iran, Syria and North Korea are examples)"

When Saddam invaded Kuwait in '91, that made IRAQ the first-strike aggressor. When Saddam thumbed his nose at the UN for 12 years over the wep inspections, THAT made HIM the aggressor. When he, like all Middle Eastern diktats, harbored terrorists, THAT made HIM the aggressor. When he gassed his own people THAT made HIM the aggressor.

The world is now a better place with that Bumfight reject Saddam caught. The rest of the shit-eating backwards terrorist states now have got the message: fuck with the US and we will destroy you."

But there's no point debating with liberals about this issue. To the liberal, if the US gets involved in other countries' problems, we're 'Imperialist villains.' When we do nothing, we're blamed for being "the sole superpower who failed to take action."

Oh, and where and who are the "arch-liberals?" The " neo-liberals?" (yeah I see ONE link word in the upper left, big deal).