Rush Confronts Sneak Attack Caller

Talk radio megastar Rush Limbaugh could have bleeped out the crank caller who called him a "pillhead" on the air yesterday.

But instead, the top host - on the air just a week after returning from rehab - took the opportunity of "Mike from Miami's" broadside to explain to his audience why he's not a hypocrite.

After saying he wanted to talk about the latest machinations in Congress, the sneak attack caller blurted out, "How do you equate hypocrisy and addiction, pillhead?"

The insult prompted Limbaugh to warn crank callers,"we are prepared here." Later in the show he returned to the topic of "Mike's" outburst.

"It's not hypocritical because my behavior doesn't determine the value of right and wrong - nobody's does," Rush told listeners, in quotes picked up by the New York Post's John Mainelli.

"If I were to admit I'm a hypocrite, then I'm going to be disqualified from being able to say what I think is right and wrong. I'm not going to let anybody take that away from me," the top talker explained.

Limbaugh noted that "Mike's" attack mirrored a commonly used liberal ploy.

"They try to say that people who didn't serve in the military can't talk about defense," he said, explaining that critics would like to use his story to try to exempt themselves from moral judgment.

If the top talker's performance yesterday was any indication, the ploy won't work.

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