Pubdate: Sun, 02 Nov 2003
Source: Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)
Copyright: 2003 The E.W. Scripps Co.
Contact:  http://www.trnonline.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/995
Author: Susan Mansur Bahr
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/limbaugh (Rush Limbaugh)

BIG DIFFERENCE

To Versel Rush:

Your article was not "fair" to anyone. It was a biased attack on a 
conservative celebrity who, admittedly, is addicted to painkillers, but has 
yet to be proven guilty of a crime. It wasn't "fair" to racial minorities, 
state-run drug programs or public defenders, implying that they are weaker 
somehow and less competent in dealing with society's problems than their 
wealthy counterparts. It was an argument in black and white to further a 
leftist point of view, the very thing you accuse Rush of. Addiction may 
know no color, but there is a huge difference between someone who uses 
drugs to ease physical pain, and someone using cocaine or meth to get high.

Susan Mansur Bahr

Wichita Falls
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