DON'T PICK ON RUSH; HIS OWN WORDS JUDGEMENTAL ENOUGH

To the writer of the Nov. 9 letter "Spare Limbaugh hateful columns? He
asked for it": Stop picking on Rush. The poor man got hooked on
painkillers after an operation. He's admitted it. And he's taken
responsibility for it. Give the guy a break.

People love Rush like we love all sinners. But while we love honest
sinners, we can't help but ridicule humbugs. What we fault the man for
is not his drugs, nor hiding the fact from his audience -- it was none
of their business. It is the confession that we find pathetic and
fraudulent. Mr. Limbaugh says he does not consider himself a "victim."
Yet describing his drug-taking as an "addiction" and asking for
listeners' prayers makes it sound as if he had been struck by polio.

As I have heard him say many times, "people who take illegal drugs
(taking prescription drugs without a prescription is taking an illegal
drug) should be put in jail for a long time." I say no more.

ERNEST W. BERGERON, Royal Palm Beach