Conservative hating ACLU strikes again

[VicDaring]

ACLU defends Limbaugh


The Florida ACLU filed court papers Monday supporting Limbaugh's argument that investigators violated his constitutional right to privacy when they seized his medical records in November to investigate whether he violated drug laws when he purchased prescription painkillers.


"It may seem odd that the ACLU has come to the defense of Rush Limbaugh," the state chapter's executive director, Howard Simon, said in a statement. "But we have always said that the ACLU's real client is the Bill of Rights and we will continue to safeguard the values of equality, fairness and privacy for everyone, regardless of race, economic status or political point of view."

Those loony liberals.

 

[Ed]

I suspect that they have hired a new Director of Public Relations.

 

[hgc]

Here's the thread where I said last Tuesday that the ACLU should take up his case. Where's my $1 million?

 

[corplinx]

Does this really fall under the right to privacy or does this fall under due process? I was under the impression that it was a simple warrant issue.

 

[hgc]

Does this really fall under the right to privacy or does this fall under due process? I was under the impression that it was a simple warrant issue.

I think it falls under the 4th Amendment (... secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures...), but I don't know the ACLU's argument. I assume that Florida has a law specifically protecting the privacy of medical records, with provisions for getting at them when the visit to the doctor is part of the criminal activity.

 

[shemp]

The last refuge of a professional a$$hole.

 

[pupdog]

Yikes! In 2002 the ACLU joined Jerry Falwell (in a case regarding incorporation of religious organizations) -- now Rush Limbaugh! They certainly are a menace to society!

 

[Luke T.]

Here's the thread where I said last Tuesday that the ACLU should take up his case. Where's my $1 million?

Dang! I was just going to post to that topic and mention your prescience, but I thought I would check to see if anyone else had heard and started a new topic...

ACLU and Rush Limbaugh. Irony meters must be busting all over the place.

 

[Upchurch]

The real question is, will Rush accept their help?

 

[Hexxenhammer]

The real question is, will Rush accept their help?

And will he talk about it on his show? What will he say?

 

[Upchurch]

From the horse's mouth.

So far, I haven't found anything from the horse's a.... er, Rush.

 

[hgc]

And Bill O'Reilly calls the ACLU fascist and the most dangerous organization in the world. I think he's blown a gasket.

 

[Luke T.]

And Bill O'Reilly calls the ACLU fascist and the most dangerous organization in the world. I think he's blown a gasket.

He made a point last night, as a matter of fact, when someone wrote in saying he said this, that he thinks Al Queda is the most dangerous organization in the world. The ACLU is the most dangerous organization in the USA.

Link to one example.

Hey, if you don't get it by now, you're never going to get it. The ACLU is the most dangerous organization currently operating in America.

Link to another example.

The ACLU, which I believe is the most dangerous organization in America, is on the prowl.

 

[hgc]

He made a point last night, as a matter of fact, when someone wrote in saying he said this, that he thinks Al Queda is the most dangerous organization in the world. The ACLU is the most dangerous organization in the USA.
...

Yes, and I was quoting the fauxnews.com website, from this morning. It was on the front page of the site, where they usually have a little blurb of one of BOR's talking points. When I went back there to get the link to post here, it was gone. I can find no reference to it anywhere on the site now.

I'll assume that he was merely misquoted on the site.

That having been said, to call it the most dangerous organization in America is still evidence of a blown gasket. But then he's engaged in a concerted campaign against atheists, and has practically declared me and people like me enemies of the state. Who's dangerous to whom is definitely in the eyes of the beholder.

 

[Upchurch]

And Bill O'Reilly calls the ACLU fascist and the most dangerous organization in the world.

There's gotta be a joke in here somewhere along the lines of

O'Reilly: Who's looking out for you?
Limbaugh: The ACLU.


(heck, it even rhymes)

 

[epepke]

Dang! I was just going to post to that topic and mention your prescience, but I thought I would check to see if anyone else had heard and started a new topic...

ACLU and Rush Limbaugh. Irony meters must be busting all over the place.

The willingness of the ACLU to defend even rightists should have been obvious since the Nazis in Skokie case.

Trouble is that the right has a short memory. Not quite as short as the left, as oxycontin isn't quite as good as dope at erasing it.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Not conservative hating. They are constitution loving.

 

[peptoabysmal]

The last refuge of a professional a$$hole.

Do I detect a jealous amateur?

 

[peptoabysmal]

This is almost as brilliant a political move as Bush's new immigration proposal, considering it's an election year with a conservative administration that is likely to be staying in office for another four years.

 

[Upchurch]

This is almost as brilliant a political move as Bush's new immigration proposal, considering it's an election year with a conservative administration that is likely to be staying in office for another four years.

Since when has the ACLU ever cared who the president was? They spend most of their time in the courts, not the oval office. Further, why would they be worried about getting into Bush's good graces now when they haven't seemed to care for the last three and a half years? Not to mention all the stuff they're still doing that wouldn't please the current administration.

That makes no sense.