I used to know a guy who was heavy into prescription narcotics.

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Eventually I read about him in the paper, he died of an overdose of Vicodin.

But he acted a lot like Rush Limbaugh is acting like right now.
Memory loss, strange things he'd say out of the blue, mood swings, the works.


Rush Limbaugh peddled three conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during his radio program, claiming that the Obama administration is "engag[ing] in a cover-up" of the attack, is forbidding the FBI to investigate in Benghazi, and is jailing the maker of an anti-Muslim movie as punishment for creating the film.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/09/28/one-limbaugh-show-three-conspiracy-theories-abo/190213

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1. Apparently there is a cohort that does not believe that people have a right not to be harmed

by Limbaugh's speech.

I can understand their point that those who would do the harm are not the same group as those who would be harmed and therefore those who would be harmed are being held hostage by fascists who will harm innocent others in the pursuit of power, in this case, the power to control what is said and what is not said. This fascism is especially galling as it increases oppression when the whole reason for freedom of speech, in the first place, is to maximize the most freedom for the most people. Defeat of that principle should be regarded, amongst the proponents of free speech, in terms of what, exactly and precisely, they can do to maximize the salutary effects of free speech, i.e. free more people with free speech, rather than say that the pathological effects of free speech, i.e. more oppression through violence or other means, do not matter.