ACLU SHOWS TRUE SPIRIT OF ORGANIZATION

Could there be stranger political bedfellows than bombastic
conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and the
litigation-happy, liberal American Civil Liberties Union?

The ACLU, a frequent target of the belittling Limbaugh, filed papers
earlier this week in Florida supporting Limbaugh's contention that
state investigators violated his constitutional right to privacy when
they seized his medical records in November to investigate whether he
violated drug laws when he purchased prescription pain killers.

After being outed as a drug addict by a supermarket tabloid earlier
this year, Limbaugh admitted to being addicted to pain medication in
the wake of back surgery and checked himself into a drug
rehabilitation program for the third time in the last few years.

His rehab experience seemed to do little to take the edge off
Limbaugh's hostilities toward those he opposes, however, and he has
already come out swinging against "Democrats" who he says are driving
the investigation into his drug habits, which also reportedly include
the illegal purchase of tens of thousands of pain killers from drug
dealers.

But the cause, not the person, is what is important to the ACLU, says
Howard Simon the executive director of the organization's Florida
chapter. Simon said the ACLU wants to "vindicate every Floridian's
fundamental right to privacy," and thus is climbing into bed with Rush.

Limbaugh may demur, but you have to admire the ACLU for sticking by
its principles. The organization is bigger than the individual.