press release ala rush limbaugh

Roy Black, attorney for Rush Limbaugh, released the following statement today:

"We have been informed that this afternoon the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office will announce that it has seized the medical records of four doctors who treated Rush Limbaugh for serious medical conditions and the pain resulting from them.

"In fact, what these records show is that Mr. Limbaugh suffered extreme pain and had legitimate reasons for taking pain medication. Unfortunately, because of Mr. Limbaugh's prominence and well-known political opinions, he is being subjected to an invasion of privacy no citizen of this republic should endure.

"Let us make our position clear: Rush Limbaugh is not part of a drug ring. He was never a target of a drug investigation. He became addicted to a prescription drug during legitimate medical treatment. He has publicly admitted this problem and has successfully sought treatment which continues today.

"We won't speculate on why the State Attorney's Office is handling Mr. Limbaugh's case the way it is. But what should be a responsible investigation is looking more and more like a fishing expedition."

From the Horse's mouth

Okay, I don't get it. Now Rush is saying that because he had at one time been using pain medication and that at that time had become addicted to them, that that legitimately absolves him from the criminal blame of having then shopped for doctors to get more of the drugs that he had found himself addicted to... Am I getting that right? How does that clear him of the fact that he was doing something illegal? Because whether or not you become "accidentally" addicted through legitimate treatment doesn't mean that you're suddenly in the clear for then feeding your addiction through illegal means.

When Rush went on the air and announced that he had a problem, he said that he wasn't going to make excuses for himself. This sure sounds like one to me...