Before his addiction became known, Limbaugh had condemned illegal drug use on his television program, stating that "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.
Отчёт за авторством профессора геонауки Майкла Оппенхаймера и профессора биологии Дэвида Уилкова, преподающих в Принстонском университете, привёл в пример 14 значительных научных фактов, которые, по их мнению, были искажены в книге Раша Лимбо "The Way Things Ought to Be".