You Go, Roy!

Rush Limbaugh's attorney went on the offensive Monday:

Rush Limbaugh's attorney mounted an offensive Monday, accusing Palm Beach County prosecutors of smear tactics and likening his client to any ordinary American with chronic pain.

''This nation is full of people who take medication every day and will do so for the rest of their lives,'' said Roy Black, speaking in a news conference in Miami.

Discussing the prescription-drug abuse allegations in unprecedented detail, Black reasoned that the quantity of medicine Limbaugh is accused of ingesting -- 1,800 pills in 210 days -- works out to roughly 8.5 pills a day, ``certainly not an outrageous amount.''

The State prosecutor's office released confidential plea negotiation documents pursuant to a public records request by the conservative Landmark Legal Foundation, headed up by the ultra-conservative Mark Levin. (We used to debate Levin on cable during the Clinton impeachment days. We find his views insufferable.)

Michael Edmondson, spokesman for the Palm Beach County state attorney, said prosecutors were confident they'd done the right thing. Prosecutors consulted the Attorney General's Office and the Florida Bar in response to the Jan. 15 public records request by the Landmark Legal Foundation, which sought all available documents in the case. They concluded the state public records law required releasing the plea dealings, even though doing so violates ethical rules for lawyers.

'The way the Florida public records law works is, anything that is not specifically exempted under the law is permitted,'' Edmondson said. State law trumps any ethical concerns, he said.

But he offered nothing in writing to back up that account. And Limbaugh's legal team produced documents Monday that seemed to contradict it.

No matter how you feel about Rush, Roy is right. And we're kind of curious as to why Landmark is going after Rush--it's like eating one's own.