[Apologetics] RE: Thanks!

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 jmurf80 at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Did you all see the funny news article about family values spokesman Rush
> Limbaugh getting caught at an airport with a bottle of Viagra.  The bottle
> had someone elses name on it.  What's a single CHRISTIAN man doing with
> Viagra?  You just could not make this stuff up!

While your insinuation would dissappoint, but not suprise me, you should
know that Viagra was developed to treat general circulatory disorders.
It was prescribed without fanfare for many years until the accidental
discovery that it could also effectively treat impotence thrust it into
the limelight.  Thanks to this popular misconception, if a doctor
prescribed Viagra to treat my disease, I wouldn't want the neighbors
to know either.

I am inclined to assume that the media is misleading us yet again.  When 
Rush was addicted to prescription pain-killers (a *very* common side effect)
for a very real and painful condition, a liberal prosecutor claimed
to have evidence of criminal activity.  After years of hoopla in the
main stream media, including publishing Rush'es complete medical records in 
the press, and unprecedented prejudice against the defendent in such
a common complaint in the form of "fishing expeditions", the prosecutor finally
admitted to the judge that in fact he didn't have any evidence.  A total of
four licensed physicians prescibed a total of 2000 pills (or mg or whatever the
unit was) in response to their patients' very real complaint of pain.  No crime
was commited, except the crime of wasting the time, money, and reputation of an
innocent man on baseless accusations (although Rush can afford the money part).
The dramatic conclusion to this highly publicized case was not publicized in
the main stream media *at all*.

While they may have gotten lucky and found a real skeleton in the closet,
of the Televangelist variety, the motivation of the MSM is hatred of a 
conservative icon, not truth.

I am skeptical.

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