In what world do you live in? Do you think Michael Jackson's Invincible sold 10 million records because of the fine lyrical and production values? Sorry. In showbiz. The more controversial and big freak show you are. The more you get risk and get paid.
In what world do you live in? Do you think Michael Jackson's Invincible sold 10 million records because of the fine lyrical and production values? Sorry. In showbiz. The more controversial and big freak show you are. The more you get risk and get paid.
Looking back at my old post, I think that's likely the one thing I disagree with.
I think he would likely garner more constant listeners if slightly less controversial...I think he'd gain more than he'd lose. I don't necessarily think now though that he'd make more money being less controversial, becuase I think its his hyper controversial nature which spurs media attention, political attention, and the spikes in listernership at times which helps make him a household name and thus good to sponsor.
I know this may shock and amaze some people, and I know there'll be people screaming "Its hypocritical" and maybe it will be...
But being addicted to perscription pain killers you started taking for pain is viewed differently in the mind of the vast majority of Americans than dropping acid or snorting coke.
"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country ... and we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs ... and so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
the issue isn't how things are viewed in the minds of the vast majority.
your argument is an appeal to popularity.
hypocrisy is hypocrisy. period.
Hypocrisy is hypocrisy. Not arguing against that. What I'm stating though is that hypocrisy doesn't necessarily impact sales or popularity. Whether its hypocritical that (it seems to me) a majority of people view addictions to perscription drugs less serious than addiction to coke doesn't change the potential fact that they do. And because it seems they do, Rush's listenership likely is hurt far less that he's was a "drug addict" to pain killers rarther than a "drug addict" to blow.
You can say its a hypocritical view by the american public, and I'd agree, but it doesn't change the business affects of it.
I know this may shock and amaze some people, and I know there'll be people screaming "Its hypocritical" and maybe it will be...
But being addicted to perscription pain killers you started taking for pain is viewed differently in the mind of the vast majority of Americans than dropping acid or snorting coke.
I don't doubt that Limbaugh believes what he claims to believe (for the most part). I'm sure he truly is conservative and truly does have doubts about Obama. However, the outrageous WAY in which he often expresses himself is done for the purpose of making money IMO. The same goes for Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, or Arianna Huffington.
Do you think Rush Limbaugh believes in what he says or he just fakes believing in what he says for the money?
Those people typically feel sympatheitc to the guy who's addicted to painkillers while they demonize the blow addict. They don't take into account the fact that in the end, it's all teh same thing. OxyContin is an opiate, just like Herion is. They don't say things like "Rush was an Opiate addict, just like a herion Junky is."
It's hypocritical, but the reason for their sympathy is they don't realize that prescription drug addiction is no different from non-prescription drug addiction. Abuse is abuse.
I think if you listen to his show for a while you wouldn't need this poll.Do you think Rush Limbaugh believes in what he says or he just fakes believing in what he says for the money?
He doesn't hide the fact that he is trying to make money. But if you listened to his show, you'd know that.While I'm sure he believes a lot of what he says, the majority of what he does on his radio show is all about money and ratings and his overblown extremism, name-calling, etc. is simply to line his pockets with the cash of the conservative audience who has bought into his line of baloney.
OMG, you've never listen to his show? :shock:What does he say? :roll:
i disagree.....
why does a heroin junky decide to start using heroin, how does he go about doing it?
why does a person with severe pain get perscribed pain killers?
the addiction is scientifically the same, but i do not think people who get perscribed medication and suffer the side affect of addiction are in the same boat as someone who chooses to do recreational drugs and get addicted.
now not you. but it seems the same people who say "addiction is a disease" are the same people who do not extend that same statment to Rush because of his politics. this is not only hypocritical, but very telling of thier character or more likley there lack there of.
Name a journalist that isn't. Get real!Limbaugh is an entertainer. He is in it for the money. Like Ann Coulter he needs to keep his name fresh. He has the base but wants to expand. I am thinking he is seeing the beginning of the end of his empire. He is a pompus fool.
While I'm sure you believe in what you do, the majority of what you do is all about money.While I'm sure he believes a lot of what he says, the majority of what he does on his radio show is all about money and ratings and his overblown extremism, name-calling, etc. is simply to line his pockets with the cash of the conservative audience who has bought into his line of baloney.
Tucker,
Reading your longer of two posts, I do agree to an extent with what you say. I disagree however with the addiction part.
It is much more common than you think, however many people once the perscription does run out are indeed "addicted", most just deal with it because frankly, they do not realize that the feeling of crap are withdrawal, or secondly, thier fear of the law, embarrassment, and doctor shopping over powers the addiction..
Peoples bodys also react differently.... It may take you a lot longer to become "addicted" to somthing than I.
There is also the factor of Doctors not really willing to open a dialogue with patients regarding addiction.
I was once perscribed Diladid for pain from a broken femur from a skydiving accident. I couldn't handle the diladids at all, made me quite sick frankly, it was if I remember correctly, I had like at least a 3 months of perscriptions of taking one every 4 hours......
seemed like an awful lot to me....
read this. I just looked it up again.
Dilaudid (Hydromorphone Hydrochloride) Drug Information: Uses, Side Effects, Drug Interactions and Warnings at RxList
Opioid analgesics may cause psychological and physical dependence. Physical dependence results in withdrawal symptoms in patients who abruptly discontinue the drug. Physical dependence usually does not occur to a clinically significant degree until after several weeks of continued opioid usage, but it may occur after as little as a week of opioid use. Physical dependence and tolerance are separate and distinct from abuse and addiction.
1 week, I had again iirc 3 months worth.
Also I remember the doctor telling me not to "just stop" but at the end I would have had to be weened off of them....
To me that sounds like it would have been addiction for anyone....
The terms “addiction” “dependence” and “alcoholism” are interchangeable. They are characterized by impaired control over drug use - in other words, the question to the user is: “Did you continue to behave in a manner that has previously caused problems for you?”
Physical dependence and tolerance are separate and distinct from abuse and addiction.
“[He’s] another dead drug addict.”
- Rush Limbaugh on Jerry Garcia, 8/11/95
“There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up. What this says to me 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.”
- Rush Limbaugh show, Oct. 5, 1995
“I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you’ll find that he’s very much right…‘I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don’t buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that.’... What he’s saying is that if there’s a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it….And his point is that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we’re blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they’re weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we’re going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn’t. It’s not our responsibility. It’s up to the people who are doing it. And Colangelo is right. We’ve got more - right after this.”
- Rush Limbaugh, 9/23/93
The terms “addiction” “dependence” and “alcoholism” are interchangeable. They are characterized by impaired control over drug use - in other words, the question to the user is: “Did you continue to behave in a manner that has previously caused problems for you?”
Tucker, while I agree that he did take responsibility for his addiction, he had made comments about addicts that made him look hypocritical in light of his own situation.
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