[PornoDoggy]

First of all, I separate the drug thing from the ESPN controversy ... while I would not shed a tear if Rush disappeared from the national scene, I wouldn't wish an addiction problem on ANYONE.

It can't realy suprise anyone that Rush resorts to (and the dittoheads regurgitate) his stock-in-trade "liberal media conspiracy" theory after sparking a controversy for making race an issue in his evaluation of an NFL football player. It's what he does; he's made millions doing it.

And Mikey ... I don't pay a lot of attention to how the left "portrays" dittoheads. From my own personal experience, a lot of them are dumber than a box of rocks - the sort of folks who (today) don't really understand that Saddam and Osama are two different people. Some of them actually are intelligent people - but most of those are intellectually lazy (and there are many on the left who are just as lazy, but we're not talking about them right now). They just don't like to think - they'd rather just say "amen" to predigested little soundbytes. They same sort of folks who prefer Fox news to all the others, I guess.