HoodaThunk?

Via Michelle Malkin we have this from Mark Levin:

Early on, prosecutors claimed they had evidence of over ten felonies. They demanded that Rush plead guilty to some felony—any felony. He refused, always insisting on his innocence. So, they leaked more lies to the media, hoping to intimidate him. They seized his medical records. They gave his medical records to the media. The media took those records and turned them into graphics for television. Reporters and commentators were studying his prescriptions, discussing both the kinds and amount of medicine he had taken. They were beside themselves with glee. Newsweek, AP and the Palm Beach Post, Rush’s local paper, were especially vicious, serving as lap-dogs for the prosecutors.

In court, Rush fought these people every step of the way—all the way to the Florida Supreme Court. He spent millions of dollars defending himself—despite the fact that he had been a first-time abuser, went to rehab, and was clean. And then last October, the lead prosecutor sauntered into court and in response to questioning told the judge—we have no evidence that Rush Limbaugh has committed any crime! None.

So, I am very angry. You will hear commentator after commentator speaking sympathetically about Patrick Kennedy and his addiction to painkillers. You will hear people say that he is addicted, he has a serious health problem, he deserves to be praised for his forthrightness today, and we should leave him alone. And many of these commentators will be the same people who were giddy in their ceaseless attacks on Rush.

I am angry at the double standard, where liberals are regularly treated one way and conservatives another. I am also glad Patrick Kennedy won’t be abused as Rush was. But you can be sure that the next conservative with a problem won’t be treated like Kennedy.

Readers here know I’m no fan of Rush Limbaugh but Levin is 110% correct here. I personally know folks on the Left who howled like a pack of dogs on the trail of a fox when Rush’s drug problem became public. They wanted no quarter offered in any way – they wanted him jailed. Some of those people are also proponents of legalizing some drugs, like marijuana, and steadfastly opposed jail time for people busted with small quantities held “for personal use.” Those attitudes went right out the window for Rush.

In the end, as Levin points out, the prosecutor who pursued Rush for years had to come into court and admit he had nothing. That admission was an event the MSM, by the way, covered as little as possible. To then follow that whole episode with the coddling they’re giving Kennedy throws
the liberal bias of the MSM as a whole into bright light.