Kennedy Mills and Limbaugh
A Tale of Double Standards
May 8th, 2006
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Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In on Fraud Charges, Reaches Settlement
“Friday, April 28, 2006 WEST PALM BEACH,
“Limbaugh was booked on a single charge that was filed Friday, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Jail. He left about an hour later, after Limbaugh was photographed and fingerprinted and he posted $3,000 bail, Barbera said.
“The radio giant's agreement to enter a diversionary program ends a three-year state investigation that began after Limbaugh publicly acknowledged being addicted to pain medication and entered a rehabilitation program.”
Read the rest at: Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In on Fraud Charges, Reaches Settlement
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By Michelle Malkin May 08, 2006 09:43 PM
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What's in a Name? Plenty If It's Kennedy
By Howard Kurtz
Monday, May 8, 2006; C01
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It's hard to imagine that Patrick Kennedy would have gotten elected to Congress a dozen years ago without his last name.
It's equally hard to imagine that the media would be going wild about his late-night car crash and prescription drug addiction if he weren't a Kennedy.
The only lingering mystery is why national news organizations didn't pounce earlier on the
The answer in large measure is that Kennedy hasn't been a very important House member. But given the journalistic obsession with the Kennedy family and its tragicomic soap opera, he does seem to have gotten an easy ride -- except in the
While Kennedy, the 38-year-old son of Ted Kennedy, was widely reported to have held a news conference Friday, it was nothing of the sort. He read a statement designed to elicit sympathy, saying he was going into rehab, and took no questions. This amounted to an age-old damage-control technique: changing the subject.
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Read the rest: What's in a Name? Plenty If It's Kennedy
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Patrick Kennedy & Double Standards
By Mark Levin on the Mark Levin Blog, National Review Online
“I don't wish anyone ill, except our nation's enemies. It's a good thing that Patrick Kennedy is going back into rehab. But I am very angry.
“For nearly three years we witnessed the persecution of Rush Limbaugh, who became addicted to painkillers resulting from back and neck problems. We witnessed leaks by prosecutors who spread lies about him being involved in money laundering, drug rings, and doctor shopping. But the media happily repeated them. Some mocked him.”
Read the rest at: Patrick Kennedy & Double Standards
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By Michelle Malkin May 05, 2006 04:33 PM
Nope, I didn't say it. Here's the call from a commenter at--yes, it's true--The Daily Kos:
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By Michelle Malkin May 05, 2006 03:04 PM
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Ex-sportscaster Mills sentenced to house arrest
He pleads guilty to stealing prescription painkillers from neighbor
By Annie Linskey
Sun Reporter
Originally published May 5, 2006, 9:58 PM EDT
Former WMAR sportscaster Keith Ross Mills was sentenced Friday to nine months of house arrest for stealing prescription painkillers from his next-door neighbor in Linthicum, a woman with cancer.
Mills, 48, pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary before
At Friday's hearing, the neigbhbor, Ladye Parsons, testified that Mills' actions had disrupted her sense of security. "I haven't beaten cancer," she said. "I'd like to know that I can die at home and pain-free."
Afterwards, she said the sentence was "more than fair."
Mills, who has been battling addiction to prescription drugs for several years, apologized to Parsons in court, saying he did not mean to make her feel unsafe and adding: "If I need to move out of my house, I will."
After his arrest in January, Mills lost his job at Channel 2, where he had worked for 18 years. Addressing the judge Friday, he said: "I have been humbled by this experience -- embarrassed, humiliated, but humbled more than anything."
Drew Berry, WMAR's general manager, did not return repeated phone calls Friday.
Parsons went to the police in early January to share her suspicions that someone had been stealing money, jewelry and medications from her home since October 2003, according to charging documents.
Parsons said she initially dismissed her own concerns, believing that her treatment for cancer was making her absentminded. She has lost a breast and a kidney to the disease.
After consulting friends and family members, she had a surveillance camera installed in her home and on Dec. 6, 2005, the camera recorded Mills sneaking into the house, emptying pills from a bottle, leaving and the returning to apparently wipe his fingerprints from the bottle, ac cording to Assistant State's Attorney Scott Messersmith.
Police set up a sting, hiding in her bedroom on Jan. 25. They arrested Mills when he entered the house and took nine pills, including OxyContin.
Addiction to prescription pain medications is one of the fastest growing reasons for which abusers are seeking treatment in
Almost a third of people seeking treatment for painkillers in
Immediately after his arrest, Mills attended a monthlong drug treatment program at the Cross roads Centre, an inpatient facility located on
"I can't promise that I won't relapse. I can promise that I will work every day and every second to stay on top of this problem," he said in court.
His sentence also included a five-year suspended prison term, five years of probation, random urine tests and no contact with Parsons. Mills may leave his house to seek employment and attend counseling.
In September 2004, Mills was charged in
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