Can there be a better poster child for the Radical Right than Lush Limbaugh? I’m not talking about his impotence — there’s no shame in that, unless you’ve built your entire culture around your “strength.” I’m not talking about his repeated drug abuse — we’re all one pill away from that, which is precisely where the Drug Industry wants us. I’m talking about deception, both self- and public. It’s not just hypocrisy, which is what we call flexibility we can’t stand. It’s LYING, endless lying. It’s like Wm Bennett berating us all for our declining morals but having no trouble excusing his own gambling addiction. It’s like Tom DeLay moralizing and genuflecting while filling his own pockets and subverting democracy. This isn’t just “A Culture of Corruption,” this is a gang of out of control thugs and thieves. It’s the Puritans At Tammany Hall. It’s disgusting.

At the same time, the only thing that makes incipient American Fascism tolerable is seeing Conservatives fall victim to it. Gotta check every prescription — you could be an Enemy Combatant in the War On Whatever. Anything you do can and will be used against you. mjh

PS: I don’t really want to know, and yet, I can’t help but think about the missing pills and Lush’s time in the Dominican Republic. Anybody know where Ann Coulter was this weekend?

MiamiHerald.com | 06/27/2006 | Rush Limbaugh halted over Viagra at airport BY CASEY WOODS, The Miami Herald

A Customs inspector going through the baggage of conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh on Monday afternoon found 29 small blue tablets — a supply of the impotence drug Viagra.

Trouble is, the name on the bottle wasn’t Limbaugh’s.

”Limbaugh said it was for his own personal use and that the name on it was his doctor’s,” said Sgt. Pete Palenzuela, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Possession of drugs prescribed to someone else is a second-degree misdemeanor.

Limbaugh, 55, arrived on a private plane at Palm Beach International Airport from the Dominican Republic at 2 p.m. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered the drug while making a routine inspection of his bags. The agents turned the investigation over to deputies from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.