Replying to a message of Jeff Binkley to Bob Ackley:

 JB>>>>> Former talk show host sentenced to more than seven years in
 BA>>>> prison

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

 JB>>> You're equating child pornography to overuse of prescription
 BA>> drugs ?

 BA>> No.  I'm merely noting that both are guilty of felonies and only one
 BA>> drew jail time.

 JB> How can one be guilty of a felony and not do time ?  Was he convicted
 JB> or not ?  Let me help you with the facts.

 JB> http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/28/182904.shtml

No help at all, I don't do Internet.  In any case I don't believe Limbaugh was even
formally charged, let alone convicted - an obviously political decision.

 JB> Again you want to compare the two "crimes" ?  Had Rush
been convicted
 JB> of  the crime, I would have suppored him getting the appropriate
 JB> sentence.   Do you for Bernie Ward ?

I know nothing about Ward's case, the local fishwrapper hasn't mentioned it
and as I noted above, I don't do Internet.  If the man's victims were under
age 16, seven years isn't enough, if they were 17 or older it's too much.
My opinion, of course.

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