(NEWSMAX.COM) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who repeatedly urged forgiveness after President Clinton committed felony perjury five years ago, said late Monday that top conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh should be prosecuted for illegally obtaining prescription painkillers.
"Here in the case of Rush Limbaugh, he has bought excessive amounts of an illegal substance," Jackson claimed on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." "Will he be able to stand for rehab without prosecution?"
The fading civil rights leader said that perhaps Limbaugh's plight would force America to liberalize its drug laws. Otherwise, he added, "If the law remains the same, he'll face prosecution as other Americans do."
At one point, Jackson seemed so eager for legal action to commence against the conservative talkmeister that he imagined Limbaugh was already behind bars.
"Rush Limbaugh is sick," Jackson told Scarborough's panel of guests. "And that's why he went to jail."
Apparently irked by the civil rights leader's repeated attempts to conjure up images of Limbaugh in the dock, fellow panelist and former NYPD homicide detective Beau Dietl complained that Jackson "had more skeletons in his closet than a haunted house."
Shortly after Limbaugh went public about his addiction in early October, Florida state's attorney James Martz announced that the talk radio megastar wasn't the target of his probe and that the evidence directly implicating him in illegal drug buys was flimsy at best.
