Posted on 12/06/2009 10:30:34 PM PST by Story Balloon
In a refreshing interview with William Shatner Mr. Limbaugh talks about health care and what makes a person a conservative. Mr. Shatner describes a moment during his life where he almost becomes suicidal over tinitus. He asks Limbaugh about his own hearing issues.
Here's the 8 minute clip of their interview. Click here for the video
I met William Shatner at Stanley’s restaurant in Los Angeles last month. I had a chance to speak to him while we waited for our tables.
Was he ‘down to earth’ or the typical celebrity?
He was very down to earth and very cordial. Our conversation was the new re-vamped “Star Trek” movie. He was very pleased with the film.
Shatner was very good.
I can attest, tinnitus is terrible. I have that AND permanent labyrinthitis, which drastically effects your balance, like being intoxicated, but without the pleasureable symptoms, just all the bad ones. I cannot, for example, operate a car.
So he was Denny Crane ?
He was personable. He listened well. I liked it.
He’s one of those guys that you just never know what they’ll be saying or what they’ll be wearing.
He is more personable in person.
Exactly. He may not have agreed with Rush on the Health Care issue but he did a real-and-for-true interview and let Rush do most of the talking.
Pretty good, actually. He established common ground with El Rushbo as being a fellow sufferer of hearing problems and drew him out on that. I had never heard Rush go into detail about his hearing affliction and what it’s like with the implant.
The part about him being totally deaf for a month and having to rely on a stenographer was illuminating. A talk-radio host going deaf? What a nightmare!
I wasn’t a Rush listener back then but I remember Don & Mike making fun of his Marlee Matlin speech at the time. I had always thought you could talk just fine if you went deaf in adulthood. Now I know better.
Thank you. I didn’t get to see it earlier.
Bump for later
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Thanks for the links!
No worries. It was a great interview.
Shat got tinitus filming “Arena” years ago. I wasn’t enough to get roughed up by a big lizard.
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