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OXYCONTIN! OXYCONTIN! OXYCONTIN! OXYCONTIN!
oxycontin! oxycontin! oxycontin!
Call 'em OCs, call 'em hillbilly heroin. Ladies and gentlemen, I L. Rushbo frankly do not give a damn. I call it none of your pesky liberal business. I also call it absulute love and cannot fathum how they got so much perfection into such a little pill. Yee haw!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Stalinist left have tried to convince us there is no God. Well, we here at the golden EIB studios are proud to show you the truth of God, as witnessed by this masterful creation pictured below.
As just about every listener knows, Rush admitted to his pain killer addiction. Since this became public, Rush has frequently cited "back surgery" as the reason he began to take drugs such as Oxycontin. There does however appear to be some inconsistencies with this story.
In order to bond with his listeners, Rush regularly shares aspects of his life. But prior to the news about his drug addiction, how often did he discuss having had back surgery? For that matter, do you any of you recall an extended absence from the show in 98 or 99, the period when the back surgeries would had to have occurred?Rush frequently discusses his golf progress. Clearly he is an eager enthusiast and shares this with his loyal listeners. Rush sometimes goes on ad nauseum about his game improving, lowering his handicap, mastering a course, etc. Golf talk has been a regular part of the show for quite a while now. But how well does this square with having had endured two back surgeries?Not many orthopedic surgeons would recommend golf as part of a strategy for maintaining a spine that endured two surgeries. Doesn't it seem odd that someone who suffered post-surgery pain so great that it lead to drug addiction would 1) become an avid golfer who stoops, bends, twists and 2) discuss golf at length but never the two back surgeries?
In light of the risk faced by Rush in terms of loosing listeners' trust, his public opposition to recreational drug use and those who participate, it seems odd that Rush would not release at least that portion of his medical records which confirms the two back surgeries he has given as reason for taking drugs in the first place. Something just does not add up.
I invite any of you who can document an extended medical absence in 98 or 99 and confirm any on-air discussion of back surgery prior to the fall of 2003 to do so. Any verifiable transcript, properly dated article, etc. would be helpful towards clearing this up.
I got busted! See, those fraudulently obtained Oxys I was getting for years and years and years turned out to be illegal.
Whoa! My maid revealed to investigators that at one point, she had obtained 4,350 of those wonderful little buggers in one 47-day period! Opiate tolerance on loan from God!
But, when you are a big fat hypocritacal mouthpiece for the NeoCons with a known penchant for selling out your spine to the hightest bidder any day of the week, you tend to get get off with a slap on the wrist.
Rehab + $30,000 = out of court.
It is only when people like Rush Limbaugh feel the deep pain of incarceration
that outrageous drug laws will come to an end.
Ladies and gentlemen did I mention my fondness for chemically triggered erections? I'm just your lovable little fuzz ball horn dog with a little little limpbaugh doing me no good. So...
Limbaugh detained after luggage search produces pills - Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Did he break the law?
Let me tell you about real patriotism folks. Let me tell you about a man who would lay his ass on the line at any time for his country, especially at a time of war. Folks, take a look at these links and see more about what I'm talking about here.
Disqualified from the Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst . A pilonidal cyst!
And if you want to see what one looks like that's on an actual person and not a drawing, click here , or here .
timeline
12 Jan 1951 Rush Limbaugh born, Cape Girardeau. Weight: MO, 7 pounds 6 ounces.
5 Jun 1969 Graduates Cape Central High School, Cape Girardeau, MO.
24 Nov 1970 Receives a military classification of 1-Y (fit for service only in time of war), thus avoiding the draft. There is some dispute on the reason for this, but Franken cites Limbaugh's brother recounting an unsusual medical condition: "Limbaugh avoided the draft because of a pilonidal cyst at the base of the spinal cord in which excess tissue and hair may collect, causing discomfort and discharge. As disgusting as this sounds, there is no evidence that Limbaugh's cyst contributed to the breakup of his two marriages." But this conflicts with a transcript of Limbaugh's radio program:
CALLER : And Rush, you never mentioned how you dodged the Vietnam draft.
RUSH : I didn't.
CALLER : Yes, you did. You claimed you had a boil on your butt --
RUSH : No. You see, that's part of popular mythology that is out there that I have not whined nor complained about, Greg. But that is just a bunch of Internet B.S. and hyperbole. Never happened. Was not the cause; wasn't the case.
1971 Moves to Pittsburgh to work for KQV, then is fired.
24 Sep 1977 Marries Roxy Maxine McNeely, sales secretary at radio station WHB in Kansas City, at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau. The marriage lasts about eighteen months.
Mar 1980 Roxy McNeely files for divorce, citing "incompatibility".
10 Jul 1980 Divorces Roxy McNeely.
1983Marries Michelle Sixta, a Kansas City Royals stadium usherette, at the Stadium Club.
Dec 1988 Second wife leaves him, Christmas weekend.
4 Jul 1989 Limbaugh's program begins broadcast from New York City.
14 Sep 1992 Debut of television talk show, 192 stations.
Oct 1992 Weight: 310 pounds (Orange County Register) or 260 pounds (People).
23 Sep 1993 "He says that, 'I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of drug abuse. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you're making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that.' What he's saying is, that if there's a line of cocaine here, I have to make the choice to go down and sniff it. And I don't know how -- how to do it, but if I was going to do it, I'd do it. If there were a gun here, it wouldn't fire itself. I've got to reach for it and -- and pull the trigger. And his point is, that we are rationalizing all this irresponsibility and all the choices people are making and we're blaming not them, but society for it. All these Hollywood celebrities say the reason they're weird and bizarre is because they were abused by their parents. So we're going to pay for that kind of rehab, too, and we shouldn't. It's not our responsibility."
9 Dec 1993 "If [Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders] wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them." Rush Limbaugh, admitted drug addict, inexplicably still lives in America.
16 Jan 1994 The Chicago Sun-Times quotes Rush as telling his listeners: "You know the Clintons send Chelsea to the Sidwell Friends private school... A recent eighth grade class assignment required students to write a paper on 'Why I Feel Guilty Being White.' ... My source for this story is CBS News. I am not making it up." CBS News denies ever reporting such a story. It also turns out that the Sidwell School (28% of whose student body is composed of minorities) never assigned any such essay, not even (as Rush later alleged) "Should White People Feel Guilty and Why?"
19 Jan 1994 Rush tells his television audience: "This (Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence) Walsh story basically is: we just spent seven years and $40 million looking for any criminal activity on the part of anybody in the Reagan administration, and guess what? We couldn't find any. These guys didn't do anything, but we wish they had so that we could nail them. So instead, we're just going to say, 'Gosh, these are rotten guys.' They have absolutely no evidence. There is not one indictment. There is not one charge."
23 Feb 1994 "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen." (TV show.)
10 Mar 1994 Upon receiving an article clipped from a newsletter from Johnson Smick International, Rush Limbaugh deems it worthy to share the unsubstantiated claim with his radio listeners: "OK, folks, I think I got enough information here to tell you about the contents of this fax that I got. Brace yourselves. This fax contains information that I have just been told will appear in a newsletter to Morgan Stanley sales personnel this afternoon... What it is is a bit of news which says... there's a Washington consulting firm that has scheduled the release of a report that will appear, it will be published, that claims that Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park." No such report is ever actually issued.
29 Apr 1994 Rush tells his listeners: "It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema."
13 May 1994 Rush tells his television audience: "Now I got something for you that's true. 1972, Tufts University, Boston. This is 24 years ago -- or, 22 years ago. Three-year study of 5,000 coeds, and they used a benchmark of a bra size of 34C. They found that the -- now wait, it's true -- the larger the brasize, the smaller the I.Q." No such study was ever actually issued.
18 May 1994 Rush asks his listeners: "Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the constitution was written?" Then: 850 million acres. Now: 730 million.
27 May 1994 Marries third wife Marta Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old aerobics instructor he met on Compuserve. The two are married in Justice Clarence Thomas' house, with the ceremony officiated by Thomas himself. Also in attendence were William Bennett, James Carville and Mary Matalin.
16 Dec 1994On his daily radio show, conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh declares: "We have alcoholics and drug addicts in our society, don't we? And what do we say about them? 'Well, they can't help it. Why, it's genetic. Why, they have a disease. Why, put one thimbleful of scotch in front of them and they can die.' We totally exempt them from any control over their lives, do we not? Some athlete will spend two years snorting lines of coke. 'He can't help it. You know, it's -- it's just -- it's not -- it's -- it's genetic. These people -- they're predisposed to having this addictive syndrome. They -- they can't help.' Yeah, like that line of cocaine just happened to march into the hotel, go up to the athlete's room and put itself right there in front of him on his blotter."
5 Oct 1995"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
May 1996 "I've warned to skip some topics like: Newt Gingrich's first wife. Bob Dole's first wife. Phil Gramm's first wife. Dick Armey's first wife. Rush Limbaugh's first wife. Rush Limbaugh's second wife. Rush Limbaugh's third wife." Al Franken, White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
Jan 1999 Al Franken publishes his book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.
1999 Limbaugh enters detox. Wilma Cline
20 Nov 1999 Appears on CNBC's Tim Russert show describing his weight loss: "I got to 325 at my highest. And--and I've--I--I lost the weight in two stages, and I'm now at 215. So that's--yeah, 110 pounds." His secret? Pasta. Lots of pasta.
8 Oct 2001 Announces to his radio audience that he is "for all practical purposes, deaf".
Jun 2002 Limbaugh enters detox a second time. Wilma Cline
7 Mar 2003 Limbaugh repeats as fact the unfounded and quite ludicrous claim that German Foreign Minister Joshka Fischer was a member of the Bader-Meinhof gang, also known as the Red Army Faction. rushlimbaugh.com
1 Oct 2003 Limbaugh resigns from ESPN over racial remarks he made on the network.
2 Oct 2003 Reports surface that Limbaugh is being investigated by the Florida State Attorney General's office in Palm Beach County, for his abuse of Oxycontin, Lorcet and hydrocodone prescription painkillers. The source for the story is Wilma Cline, a former housekeeper and also alleged source of the drugs. She claims to have obtained Limbaugh 4,350 pills over a 47 day period. An unnamed source at the State Attorney's office confirmed the story to the New York Daily News.
10 Oct 2003 To radio audience: "I am addicted to pain medication."
17 Nov 2003Rush Limbaugh returns to the air after a well-publicized monthlong rehab.
18 Nov 2003 Authorities tell ABC News they are investigating Limbaugh for money laundering violations, involving "30 to 40" just-under-$10,000 withdrawals from US Trust bank, structured to avoid Federal currency reporting requirements.
6 May 2004 Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh dismisses the photos taken of naked prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, saying: "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation."
31 May 2004 In an interview with Time magazine, Rush Limbaugh declares himself a longtime fan of the ACLU after they filed an amicus brief on his behalf in his prescription drug case: "In a situation like this, I think it's safe to say I welcome its support, and I don't find it hypocritical at all, because I am not anti-ACLU. If the ACLU wants to go after, say, nativity scenes or this sort of thing, I may take issue, but there are other areas where I've supported things it has done."