Rush Pleads Not Guilty

On Friday Rush Limbaugh announced an agreement with the state attorney in Palm Beach County that ends the two-and-a-half year investigation into “doctor shopping.” Rush gets to plead not guilty to a single charge, and the state attorney, liberal Democrat Barry Kirschner, gets to pin a trophy up on the wall.

The lefty media seems to think that Rush has got special treatment. Here’s David Sweet in the Huffington Post.

All right, the world's most famous doctor shopper is free already on a $3K bond, having the good fortune to have ready access to the that kind of scratch... Lots of folks in that situation would have trouble meeting the bond... But not Rusty L., probably the wealthiest broadcaster in the hate-for-Jesus kingdom.

The good thing about lefties is that they haven’t a clue about Rush Limbaugh. Don’t know what he believes, and don’t know what he does for a living.

But in NRO they have a different take. Write Andrew C. McCarthy and Mark R. Levin:

A long, transparently politicized nightmare of an investigation is over for Rush Limbaugh today.

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We are former federal government attorneys. We’ve collectively spent decades in law enforcement and believe passionately in its professional, non-political, non-partisan mission. Thus, it’s with outrage that we note that, rather than quietly dropping this embarrassment of an investigation, the state attorney, Barry Krischer — a politically active liberal Democrat — has insisted on filing a charge which he well knows will never be tried. Insisting, that is, on further media churning of an allegation of doctor-shopping that he’ll never prove.

As Dan Rather used to say in happier days: It goes with the territory. But as Hugh Hewitt writes:

Rush Limbaugh [is] the most innovative and successful radio talk show host in history, the most powerful brand on air from 1990 forward, and, as the story proves again, the new media voice most hated by the old media monopoly he -- almost single-handedly -- broke.

And that is why he is such an irresistible target for the left.