Well...they took a shot.
Apparently on Jan 11, 2011, the comedy-drama Harry's Law, starring Kathy Bates, premiered. I never saw it until today, July 18, as it is apparently in reruns.
The plot is that a black man has just been arrested for abusing cocaine for the third time. Thanks to the third strike law, if convicted he will spend a considerable amount of time in prison.
Kathy Bates, as lawyer Harriet "Harry" Korn, gives an empassioned plea to the white prosecutor and the multi-racial jury, pointing out the sentencng disparity between black and white drug addicts and saying that "Rush Limbaugh didn't spend any time in jail at all."
Of course what she doesn't mention is that Rush Limbaugh was being investigated, not for using cocaine, but for using some prescription prescribed pain killing drug. He wasn't taking it to get a buzz, but rather because of incapacitating back pain. There is a vast difference between someone who is addicted to cocaine - a drug that has long been illegal (and yes, there are plenty of rich white folk who do that, I'm not saying they don't) and someone who is addicted to legal painkillers that they took legally. And if Rush was "doctor shopping" to get these painkillers, they were for pain, not for any other reason.
So the two cases are not at all equal, and to try to imply that they were...the scriptwriter really did Rush a disservice.
But then, lots of Liberals still refer to Rush as a drug addict, conveniently forgetting that what he was addicted to were legal pain killers, not illegal drugs like cocaine or heroin!
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