WANTS IT BOTH WAYS

Editor, Naples Daily News:

I noticed a reference in the Daily News that Roy Black, Rush
Limbaugh's attorney, has asked prosecutors to let his client off
"without a guilty plea" if he voluntarily enters a drug-treatment
program. According to your article, Black wrote: "The public is better
served by treating addicts as patients rather than criminals."

In the interest of complete reporting, the article might have included
the following quote from Mr. Limbaugh that he made in 1995: "Drug use,
some might say, is destroying this country. .... 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. ... 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."

Those two statements certainly reveal Mr. Limbaugh for the hypocrite
and weasel he is. Don't you think your news articles should reflect
these contradictions so that the public can better understand the situation?

J. Robert Verbesey

Naples