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RUSH: Kerry Kennedy found not guilty of driving while impaired while she was driving impaired by a jury. She was found not guilty. <\/p>\n

She crushed up some Ambien, she took it, and she was driving while impaired, barely awake, but she wasn\u2019t. The jury said, “No, she didn\u2019t mean it.” I saw a legal analyst on CNN today. “It wasn\u2019t because she was a Kennedy! No, no, that had nothing to do with it,” he said. “It was a brilliant defense. She said she was on the way to work. Nobody gets drunk on the way to work! Nobody takes Ambien on the way to work. <\/line> “That allowed her to credibly say it was a mistake. She was headed to work and then the gym, and nobody crushes up a bunch of Ambien before they do that,” and the jury said, “You know what? That makes total sense!” This is the New York Times: “After nearly 20 months of buildup, the misdemeanor trial of Kerry Kennedy ended on Friday in a breakneck blur, as jurors took one hour to find her not guilty of driving under the influence of a drug.”<\/line><\/p>\n

The first thing the legal beagle on CNN said was, “It\u2019s not because she was a Kennedy!” Well, then there\u2019s your reason. It was because she was a Kennedy. They get a pass. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Boy, you should see my e-mail! <\/p>\n

I am being besieged by what I can only describe as the Ambien advocates. By that I mean, I can\u2019t tell you the number of people saying, “Hey, I\u2019ve taken it, and, you know what? She\u2019s right. I don\u2019t remember anything!” People told me some of the strangest stories. “Rush, they caught me nude throwing food on the floor at three in the morning after I\u2019d taken it!” I got e-mails all over the place here, folks, about this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never taken it, but I\u2019ve got all kinds of people say, “Hey, hey, hey, hey! It\u2019s totally believable what she said. She could not remember anything after she took it. She rear-ended that semi, whatever happened, it\u2019s totally understandable, \u2019cause I\u2019ve taken Ambien and people told me I\u2019ve been doing weird things.” Okay, I\u2019ll back off. I have no desire to make this program about Ambien. No calls about Ambien \u2019cause I don\u2019t want them.<\/p>\n

I just think it\u2019s a great country when you\u2019re driving under the influence and a jury says, “Nope, you weren\u2019t.” It\u2019s a great country. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I just want to remind you on this Kennedy family and Ambien business. You might remember Patrick Kennedy and if the specifics of this. He was either late at night in Congress, in his office and heading home, or he was at home and told his girlfriend that he had to go to the office at, like, two in the morning. In the process, he ran his car into a concrete abutment out there in the nation\u2019s capital and nearly took some people out. <\/p>\n

I was thinking it was late at night or very early in the morning, under cover of darkness. I forget all the details. I didn\u2019t bother to look it up during the break. I\u2019m just doing this off the top of my head. Anyway, it was a devastating accident. He blamed Ambien for it. He blamed Ambien, and then I think went to rehab somewhere, Ambien rehab. Where do you…? Ah, never mind. <\/p>\n

As I say, I don\u2019t want to make a big deal this Ambien stuff \u2019cause it\u2019s something that it\u2019s got advocates. I can\u2019t tell you the number of e-mails, “Hey, Rush, go easy here, man! I\u2019ve taken it, too.” Okay. Okay, fine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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