Of course, the really interesting part of this story is all the shit Limbaugh has said in the past, ripping on drug addicts and the "liberal apologists" who defend them by saying things like "they're sick" or "it's a disease".
If you can stomach reading the transcripts of this blow-hard, here are a couple (courtesy of Atrios) that deal specifically with his hypocritical feelings toward OTHER addicts.
One
And another. (This one is good, because Rush seems to defend fat people, but lambastes addicts.)
Atrios has got others around those if you want to scroll around and see more.
As Dr. Drew Pinsky said:
--I think we should wish [Limbaugh] well. Who wants this disease? It's the disease that comes upon [people] often accidentally. These are common medications that are prescribed. If you have a history of alcoholism or addiction in your family and you're prescribed that for a period of time, eventually that switch gets thrown in this disease, and you're off to the races. --
Yes, we should wish him well, as we're compassionate people (ie. damn liberal commies). But we should also remind both him and his midless minions of all the HATEFUL filth he's spewed at people suffering from the same "disease" over the years. An inteligent person could learn something from all this.