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to: Bob Ackley
from: Ed Hulett
date: 2008-09-03 07:30:54
subject: Bernie

Bob Ackley -> Sean Dennis wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Bob Ackley:

 SD>> Hello, Bob.

 SD>> Saturday August 30 2008 at 05:01, you wrote to Jeff Binkley:

 BA>>> One has to wonder if you'd be crowing just as loudly if Rush Limbaugh
 BA>>> had drawn seven years in the slammer for his drug addiction.
 BA>>> Somehow I think not.

 SD>> I think there's a difference between drug addiction and child porn,
 SD>> Bob.

 BA> Both are felonies.

Child pornography is far worse than abusing prescription drugs.

 SD>>  The first you simply destroy yourself and the second you're
 SD>> strongly contributing to destroying other people's lives in a way
 SD>> that can't be undone (and I know about the first from personal
 SD>> experience).

 SD>> Granted, both acts are wrong, but to compare their damage is simply
 SD>> illogical.  Later, Sean.

 BA> I didn't say anything about damage or otherwise compare the two offenses.
 BA> My point was that the law says both are felonies and only one criminal was
 BA> punished.

Show me where Limbaugh wasn't punished.

 BA> Had Limbaugh drawn sixty seconds of jail time the right wing
 BA> would have been up in arms in lockstep support of him - my opinion,
of course.

You don't know what you are talking about. You opinion here, as with most
other subjects is based on fantasy.

Ed

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