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Posted on 07/05/2006 1:01:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is canceling his international travel plans in the near future, saying he doesn't want to be "framed" by U.S. Customs officials after last week's incident when he was detained for more than three hours for possession of Viagra prescribed in his doctor's name.
"It takes one time, and I've got red flags up, and I'm not going to put myself in the position of being framed," Limbaugh said today on his national radio broadcast. "With all this partisanship that's out there, I'm just not going to make it easy for people to frame me."
Limbaugh says he has canceled a planned golf trip in Spain in August.
"I am not going to involve myself with United States Customs for the next year and a half until this so-called probationary period evaporates. I tell you the election cycles of '06 and '08, especially '08, I think it's going to be one of the most vicious and filthy of our lifetimes."
Limbaugh's "probationary period" stems from a previous, unrelated case of a probe into alleged "doctor shopping" for prescriptions for back-pain medication.
But the host is fuming over the way federal and local officials handled his arrival on a private plane last week at Palm Beach International Airport.
"There's an inbound list [of private passengers] and they know who's coming in that day. It's required by law. So, somebody in there knew I was coming in and from what I was told from people that were there during the time that I was there, mine was the only luggage that was searched. In fact they didn't search the luggage, they just searched my briefcase and the little white bag and they made me open my computer. ...
"I had this bottle of Viagra in my briefcase. I've had it in there since December, [and] forgot it was even in there. There were 30 pills prescribed, and when they counted them out, there were 29. And yet, everybody thinks I loaded up on the stuff for a trip to the Dominican Republic."
Limbaugh said he was being very restrained when he described the actions of the female Customs agent.
"She pulls out this bottle and says with 25 people in the room, 'What have we here?! Viagra!' she shouts. 'And look, it's not your name on the bottle! This is a crime! This is a violation of law!' She's shouting this all over the Customs Office, and the whole room has come to a dead stop."
Limbaugh says it wasn't until the case was turned over to the Palm Beach County sheriff's office that he was able to finally leave the airport, noting, "What happened is that somebody, and I assume it's at Customs, leaked this. How else is this discovered? ... I think this was leaked before I got out of there. It was in the news before I actually was in the car on the way home."
Limbaugh will not face any charges for carrying the non-narcotic drugs, as Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for State Attorney Barry Krischer, a Democrat, today said it is generally not illegal in Florida for a medication to be prescribed in a third party's name if all parties are aware and the doctor documents it properly.
"This was unreal, this experience was totally unreal," Limbaugh said, as he went on to attack news organizations that are trying to link this incident with his previous dispute over pain-relief prescriptions to which the host had become addicted.
"If my name had been Valerie Plame, I will guarantee you this story would have been written differently and it would read differently, and there's be all kinds of, 'Who in the government is leaking the identity and the details of this? He's an average, ordinary common citizen!' But of course, that's not the angle with me."
"I understand they hate me, folks," he said. I expect them to want bad things to happen to me, and I expect them to not like me. I have targeted them for 18 years. It's quite natural that they do this."
Still, Limbaugh was able to keep his sense of humor about the situation, saying, "I have always been able to rise above it all, and this is just another example," and, "If this story persists for over four hours, then please call your local editor or physician."
You know who I think of when I read this article? Miss Ballbricker.
You said "Actually, he's guilty of keeping a prescription drug in a bottle that was not properly labled. "
He's NOT guilty of anything of the sort!
Looks like US Customs Agent Ann Asenio was the official who spoke with Rush about the prescription, based on the report at TSG.
Customs, have their own laws, which transcend ordinary folks...they have unlimited search and seizure, no warrants signed by a judge, no knocking on the door before entering...body searches done on the spot....no police force anywhere, has the power that one Customs agent has....
Why not? I've heard two different Florida attorneys on Fox News explain that in Florida it is LEGAL, for privacy purposes, to have a prescription in your doctor's name as long as the prescription is properly documented -- which it apparently was. So what's the problem?
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There certainly IS a leak going on there!!
Fantastic and so is your click here Webpage!!
I love to sit and watch them
"Limbaugh: I won't be 'framed' by U.S
Poor rush, such a victim..........."
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Hint of envy there?
Funny - I never thought about the "leak"
A subliminal joke?
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Could not tell on "Preview" - But that is what I intended it to look like posted
I don't get this "problem" with Rx drugs and Customs at all. You can walk into Mexico at any border town, go to the Pharmacia and buy most any Rx drug you want, without a Rx, and walk right back into the States. I've done it. I started to hold the bag out to the U.S. agent as I came through and he just gave me a very bored wave to be on my way.
That is funny, it must have been a A subliminal messageto you so you thought of doing the drool!
It came out perfect
What's more pathetic than a woman with penis envy? A guy with Rush envy. A woman can get an addadictomy operation. No man can ever become Rush. ; )
Seriously.
I mean, I don't even think at a pharmacy the clerk would be able to announce over the loudspeaker that she needed a price check on Viagra. And this was at a public airport!
He still can renew his membership, pardon any pun. He needs to keep it over American airspace at all times.
All the windows are down. Rush must be entertaining within.
Nice plane!
Right!
Better not carry samples in your luggage?
As I said, the Law is an Ass.
Yup, and Rush has friends in high places...............
I would think it cheaper to buy go commercial and buy some clothes, then to fly a private jet to Europe...but anyway, it gives him stuff to talk about and get his troops worked up.
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