Currently under investigation for illegally obtaining prescription painkillers, Republican demagogue Rush Limbaugh has the audacity to state to his national radio audience that the investigators have political motives for the investigation. "Limbaugh compared the search warrants for his medical records to the demands that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean release political records from his years as Vermont governor," says the story from NewsMax.com. Rush also used the occasion to ponder the hypocrisy of why his doctors are being investigated, but Dean's political record is not being investigated. "'A lot of people think he should release his political records. ... Nobody's demanding he release them. There aren't any search warrants being issued for his political records," Limbaugh said from his South Florida studio. "I bet you what, if I had been treated by Dr. Dean, I bet you Democrats in certain parts of this country would be demanding his records'," Rush is quoted as saying in the NewsMax article. Funny thing is, the media are demanding Dean's records (once again, Rush is proven wrong). In a December 8 Newsweek article by Michael Isikoff (headlined "What's in Howard Dean's Secret Vermont Files?"), it is noted that people want Dean's political records, but they "are locked in a remote state warehouse -- the result of an aggressive legal strategy designed in part to protect Dean from political attacks." Even the supposed bastion of the phantasmic "liberal media," The New York Times, calls Dean out: "There is no good explanation for why Howard Dean's office sought to have nearly half of his gubernatorial records sealed away in Vermont," says an editorial written on December 5.

So, to summarize: Rush is comparing an investigation into his criminal activities to an investigation into someone's political activities. Then, he (incorrectly) states that Democrats aren't questioning Dean about his own past as governor of Vermont.