The current predicament of right wing talk show idol Rush Limbaugh symbolizes the hypocritical double standard of that group.  Analysis of Limbaugh and his legal problems demonstrates rightist cognitive dissonance at its most conspicuous.

Limbaugh's recent difficulties with the law stemming from a drug addiction problem have prompted faithful right wing followers to distort logic and reason to accommodate their unswerving loyalty to a badly tarnished idol.  

When media attention about Limbaugh's drug problems had reached zenith I had a conversation with one faithful follower doing his utmost to avoid reason.  I recalled those occasions not many years before when, at the very mention of Bill Clinton and his problems with Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky, this same person would beam with unbounded glee.

The source of any Clinton criticism or its liability never mattered.  The important thing was that Clinton was being accused.  Accepting all negative accounts came as an article of faith to this fervent Limbaugh enthusiast.