Is Rush Limbaugh abusing pain pills again?
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu area hospital for chest pains. The 58-year old Limbaugh is in Hawaii on vacation playing golf. KITV, the Honolulu ABC affiliate, reported that Limbaugh told paramedics that he was on medication for a back problem.
Does that mean he is back on pain pills?
In 2003, Limbaugh went to drug rehab for an addiction to prescription pain medication. This was after the National Enquirer ran an article detailing Limbaugh’s abuse of the addictive pain medication OxyContin, as well as other pain medications.
In 2006, Limbaugh settled a federal criminal case for doctor shopping. That’s when you go to different doctors seeking prescription pain medication and you don’t inform any of the other doctors that you are already being prescribed pain medication. It’s what addicts do to get more pills.
I know of no other pills someone could take for a bad back other than pain pills or perhaps muscle relaxers, but muscle relaxers don’t do anything if the pain is due to a disc problem. Furthermore, if Limbaugh still has a bad back, why is he playing golf? Bad backs and golf don’t mix. I’m no expert in addiction, but I would think you’d want to avoid the things that got you hooked on pills in the first place. In the case of Limbaugh, that would be playing golf.
One of the main reasons I hate golf is how much it would hurt my back. Plus, I really sucked at it.
I wish Barack Obama was an anti-war activist in the 60’s
I went out today to run a few errands and I forgot to grab my XM radio from the computer room. This meant I had to listen to old fashioned terrestrial radio. One of the shows I listened to today was the king of AM talk radio, Rush Limbaugh.
As luck would have it, Rush was railing again liberals, communists, socialists, progressives, and President Barack Obama. While talking to a caller, the subject turned to an organization called the SDS. I had never heard of the organization before. Rush said that it stood for the “Students for a Democrat Society”. He said it was an anti-war organization. He said that Abbie Hoffman, the Chicago Seven, Tom Hayden, and Barack Obama were all former members.
Barack Obama?
When I got home, I looked up SDS on Wikipedia. It stands for “Students for a Democratic Society”, not “Democrat” as Rush said. Also, I highly doubt Barack Obama was ever a member. Wikipedia states that the SDS broke up in 1969. In 1969, Barack Obama was 8-years old and lived in Indonesia with his mother and her husband.
How does an 8-year old boy living on the other side of the world participate in an anti-war organization for college students? Remember, this was long before Al Gore ever invented the World Wide Internet Web.
I wish Rush Limbaugh was right. I wish Barack Obama was involved in the anti-war movement in the 1960’s. If he was, maybe he wouldn’t be going on national TV tonight announcing that he was sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. As if that is going to fix anything.
He could send six million more troops to Afghanistan and it wouldn’t fix anything. At the end of the day, it’s still going to be Afghanistan.
Doctor Rush Limbaugh talks about HN1N1, AIDS, and how he’s three times smarter than Kathleen Sebelius
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh spoke about the “hype” of HN1N1 virus and in doing so, claimed that AIDS in Africa is “hyped” too so that “they” can get some of that sweet AIDS donation money. Dr. Rush claimed that everything in Africa is called AIDS (near the 2:00 mark). He makes the argument that if simple colds and the regular, less lethal flu are classified as the swine flu, the money will flow.
And who exactly would be making money off of the supposed hype of the HN1N1 virus? My guess is that it would be the pharmaceutical companies that are working in overdrive producing enough of the vaccine. It is the pharmaceutical companies that would me getting rich because of a false fear over the threat of a HN1N1 pandemic.
So does that mean Rush is speaking out against the pharmaceutical industry?
Rush then goes on to speak about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and how his IQ is three times higher than her IQ and that he is much more “informed, educated, and smart” than she is. That’s interesting in that Rush is a college dropout while Sebelius not only graduated college, she went on to earn a Master’s degree.
How exactly is Rush better educated than Sebelius?
I actually find most of what Limbaugh has to say about any given topic quite entertaining. Though I disagree with 99.99% of the stuff he says, I cannot help but admit that he is a master as what he does. Nobody comes close to his level of skill at talking into a microphone for three hours a day. I think most of what he says is quite harmless. The problem is when he talks about something such as the HN1N1 virus. The swine flu is not something to fool around with. In 1918, a massive swine flu pandemic took place and an estimated 50 to 100 million people died worldwide. If even one person heard his rant about the supposed hype and then decided not to go and get a swine flu shot, that is one person too many.
Rush Limbaugh tells CNN reporter Carol Costello to go sit on a fire hydrant
CNN reporter Carol Costello did a segment yesterday as part of an ongoing series on political talk radio and she started with the king of political talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. This of course irritated Limbaugh. Not only did he refer to Costello as his “stalker”, he encouraged her to go sit on a fire hydrant to improve her day.
Whatever that means.
And to think he’s surprised that the NFL doesn’t want him to join their cabal of team owners.
The ironic thing is that Limbaugh used to date CNN news reporter Daryn Kagan, who left the cable news network in 2006. Kagan used to work with Costello at CNN. Did Kagan perhaps tell Limbaugh something personal about Costello involving fire hydrants?
It just seems like a weird comment to make, even for a recovering drug addict like Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh will not be an NFL owner
Right wing conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from the group of investors that want to purchase the St. Louis Rams. Evidently this is some kind of victory for civil rights activists because some of them balked at the idea of someone like Rush Limbaugh, who’s made several racially insensitive comments over the years on his popular radio show, owning a football team.
The difference with Limbaugh and every other rich white guy in his late 50’s is that Limbaugh says what he says in public.
Even though I’m a tree hugging liberal, I’ve always admired Rush Limbaugh. Not because I agree with his politics, because I don’t, but because he’s very good at what he does. If you are a fan of talk radio, you cannot help but notice that he is the best at what he does. There are many other right wing radio talk show hosts on the air, but none are as good at what they do as Limbaugh.
Does Limbaugh say some outrageous stuff that borders on racism? Perhaps, but that’s his job. He’s a conservative talk radio host that talks for a living. He has a massive audience and he knows what they want to hear. Is he a racist? Maybe, but why would a racist want to own a team that plays in a league where most of the players are black? If Limbaugh is a racist, maybe the thing he needs to do is to interact with more black people, something he would easily be able to do if he was a part owner of an NFL team.
President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Hardcore teabagging Republicans already believe that President Barack Obama is just like Adolf Hitler because he wants every American to have access to quality health care. How on earth are they going to take the news that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
They are probably drawing little Hitler mustaches on his face at this very minute.
I’ll admit that I like the man and that I voted for him to be president. In fact, we still have an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on both our cars. I think he’s doing a somewhat good job as president. Granted, he hasn’t started pulling combat troops out of Iraq like he said he would, but I have faith that he will get around to doing what he said he would do about Iraq.
I’m just not seeing what he’s done to warrant winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Read the full article »
Sonia Sotomayor
I’m not very impressed with president Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. I get the impression that she was picked to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter not because she’s a capable judge or because she would make a great Supreme Court justice, but because she’s a woman and because she’s Hispanic.
I think it’s just as wrong to hire someone because of their sex or their racial make-up as not hiring someone because of their sex or their racial make-up. The fact that she’s a woman or that she’s Latnia should have nothing to do with choosing her as a replacement for Souter.
I can’t help but think it had a lot to do with Obama choosing her.
And there’s the problem with her saying something stupid about thinking that a “wise Latina woman” would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived a certain type of life. I think that’s just as overtly racist as saying that a “wise white male” would more often than not come to better conclusions than a Latina woman would.
One of the reasons I think Rush Limbaugh is an idiot is because he says stuff like that.
The only factor that should be considered when choosing a new Supreme Court justice should be their knowledge of the law. That’s it. Nothing else should matter.
The last time I looked, the Supreme Court doesn’t have any Asian justices. Does that mean the next judge should be Asian? How about a Native-American judge? How about an Albino judge? When will the pigment-challenged have a voice in the most important court in the land?
When will it end?
Roscoe Bartlett refers to Democrats as the enemy
Area Republicans gathered at the Clarion Hotel & Conference Center on Saturday for the Maryland GOP spring convention where they talked about how awful Democrats were and how courageous Rush Limbaugh is.
From Hagerstown’s newspaper of record, the Herald-Mail:
As Democrats strengthen their federal control, U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., said he feels ambivalent.
Even while outnumbered, Republicans can fight full bore for their causes. Or they can be content to watch Democrats overspend and make bad policy decisions, benefiting the GOP, Bartlett said.The conventional wisdom, he said, is “when your enemy is committing suicide, you shouldn’t interfere.”
And I thought Roscoe Bartlett’s enemy, like all Americans, was al Qaeda. I should have realized Bartlett would put his political party before his country. Silly me.
Bartlett told the crowd that he was with Rush Limbaugh. He said that Limbaugh had the courage to not say that he wanted Barack Obama to succeed.
It should be no surprise that Roscoe Bartlett would think that a draft-dodger like Rush Limbaugh is courageous. Rush Limbaugh avoided military service during the Vietnam conflict by claiming to have an “old football injury”, and then claiming to having a pilonidal cyst on his buttocks. Roscoe Bartlett avoided military service during World War Two by claiming he wanted to pursue a career in the ministry, though ne never actually did.
This is the man that once called for higher gas prices. He failed to report roughly $1 million in property sales in official documents. He also bowed to Reverend Sun Myung Moon at a crowning ceremony held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter what Roscoe Bartlett says or does. The people of the 6th district of Maryland will continue to reelect him to the U.S. House of Representatives every two years.
I am worried about Rush Limbaugh
I guess Rush Limbaugh sat down with Sean Hannity and the two talked about how bad things are now that we have a socialist from radical Islamic jungles of Hawaii as our president. Rush reportedly said that he hopes president Obama fails. He also made some kind of weird reference to bending over and being sodomized.
I don’t really understand the reference, but I don’t watch Fox News.
When I saw the clip on the news, I was surprised just how bad Rush Limbaugh looked. He looks unhealthy. He looks puffy and pasty. He looked much better when he was an out of control drug addict. Maybe he should go back to inhaling Oxycontin and Vicodin like it’s Pez candy. Sure, his drug addicted resulting in his loss of his hearing, but at least he looked halfway human.
He looks really bad. This should be Rush’s golden time. Instead of having to spend his three hours a day on the radio excusing the blunders of George W. Bush, he’s got a charasmatic black liberial president to set his sights on.
Rush needs to turn that frown upside down and maybe get a little Sun. He lives in Florida, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at his pasty face.
If this photo does not make you gag, nothing will
Here we see Rush Limbaugh gorging on the face of his girlfriend, Kathryn Rogers. The way he is sucking on that cheek, it’s as though someone told him that she has ground up Oxycontin on her face.
Is it just me, or does it look like Miss Rogers has a rather large Adam’s apple for a woman?
Transcript of Rush Limaugh saying that soldiers who dissagree with the war are phony soldiers
LIMBAUGH: Another Mike, this one in Olympia, Washington. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER 2: Hi Rush, thanks for taking my call.
LIMBAUGH: You bet.
CALLER 2: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am a serving American military, in the Army. I’ve been serving for 14 years, very proudly.
LIMBAUGH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER 2: And, you know, I’m one of the few that joined the Army to serve my country, I’m proud to say, not for the money or anything like that. What I would like to retort to is that, if we pull — what these people don’t understand is if we pull out of Iraq right now, which is about impossible because of all the stuff that’s over there, it’d take us at least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then Iraq itself would collapse, and we’d have to go right back over there within a year or so. And –
LIMBAUGH: There’s a lot more than that that they don’t understand. They can’t even — if — the next guy that calls here, I’m gonna ask him: Why should we pull — what is the imperative for pulling out? What’s in it for the United States to pull out? They can’t — I don’t think they have an answer for that other than, “Well, we just gotta bring the troops home.”
CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what –
LIMBAUGH: “Save the — keep the troops safe” or whatever. I — it’s not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.
CALLER 2: No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they’re willing to sacrifice for their country.
LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined –
CALLER 2: A lot of them — the new kids, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you’re going these days, the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you’re going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.
CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.
Rush Limbaugh and phony soldiers
A lot has been made of late about something stupid conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said about members of the military that favor leaving Iraq. He referred to them as “phony soldiers”. This comment has got a lot of people upset. So much so that Limbaugh has even gone back and edited the transcript of his show to change the context of what he said.
This is something Limbaugh doesn’t normally do when he says something stupid.
I’m having a hard time understanding all the outrage over this specific comment. Granted, it sounds as though Limbaugh is dishonoring those who serve their country, both past and present, but how is that newsworthy? Why is it so hard to understand that Limbaugh doesn’t have respect for members of the military? What would make anyone think that Limbaugh cares about the troops?
I would think that if Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would be outraged that so many of them have been killed in a war waged over false pretenses. The last time I checked, George W. Bush went to war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) and he had ties to al-Qaeda. Things that turned out to be not true. If Limbaugh cared about the troops, he would want them to come home, especially now that it’s clear they were sent to wage a war under false pretenses. If Limbaugh really cared about the troops, he would speak out against the idea of a never ending war. Instead of speaking out against it, he advocates it.
It seems to me that Limbaugh is being criticized for simply being Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh said something stupid. That’s just what he does.
Dick Cheney once again pretends that Saddam Hussein had connections to al-Qaida
Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his kooky assertions that al-Qaida was somehow linked to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before the United States invaded:
Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-Qaida planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al-Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June,” Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview. “As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq.
Granted, he said these things on The Rush Limbaugh Show. It’s not like you normally find a whole lot of truth on that particular radio program. It’s just that even Cheney has to realize that most people know he is lying when he says stuff like this. Even people that listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch Fox News.
What’s especially ironic about Cheney saying this yesterday was that yesterday the Pentagon released a recently declassified report that disputes the assertion that Saddam was in cahoots with al-Qaida.
Dick Cheney is such a silly goose. If he wasn’t such a warm and lovable soul, he would certainly face criticism from people who value the truth. People that are into facts. He tends to get a free pass on not telling the truth because he is so damn likable.
Iraq didn’t have an al-Qaida problem until George W. Bush invaded.
John Kerry responds
John Kerry quickly responded to the right-wing smear machine.
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq . It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq .”
My favorite part was where he said, “doughy Rush Limbaugh”. Rush is off the drugs and is getting fat again. That’s funny.
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