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For Limbaugh, Laughter Best Medicine: 'Told Doctor I Was Worried About Next 'Election'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/27/2006 9:40:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

June 27, 2006

If the mark of a person at ease with himself is the ability to have a chuckle at his own expense, then Rush Limbaugh is a supremely serene man. In the wake of the incident in which he was detained at the Palm Beach International Airport when it was discovered he had in his luggage a vial of Viagra with a prescription not in his name, you might have imagined that Rush would have begun today's show with an indignant denial of wrongdoing. He might have explained in tedious detail that in fact the prescription had, with personal privacy in mind, been written in his doctor's name.

But no. Rush opened by poking gentle fun at the situation, and even, in the process, at himself:

"I want to know how Bob Dole's luggage was substituted for mine."

And then: "I had told my doctor that I was concerned about the next election, not, er . . ."

Concluded Rush, undefensively: "It is what it is."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: adulterer; bobdole; elections; fornicator; funinpillform; humor; littlebluepill; pervert; rushlimbaugh; sinner; viagra
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We should all send Rush a pair of baggy pants just for fun.


21 posted on 06/27/2006 9:49:49 AM PDT by dirtboy (When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
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To: Quilla
... call your nurse.

My nurse is 70 years old.I might call Katherine Harris or Laura Ingraham however.

22 posted on 06/27/2006 9:50:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative
If you experience an election that lasts for four hours or more....

Call your friends and brag!

23 posted on 06/27/2006 9:50:17 AM PDT by gogeo (The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Beautiful! A brilliant way to disarm a silly non-situation.


24 posted on 06/27/2006 9:51:33 AM PDT by subaru
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To: Spyder
I loved the ones she did about saving "Soviet Jewelry" and our "natural racehorses".
25 posted on 06/27/2006 9:52:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
A customer walks into a bakery and says to the man behind the counter:

My doctor told me that to cure my impotence problem to eat rye bread. I want 10 loaves of rye bread!

Man behind the counter: It'll get hard before you eat it!

Customer: In that case give me 20 loaves!!!

26 posted on 06/27/2006 9:52:26 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rush has a built an audience of 20 million and kept it. The MSM crowd on the other hand sees their pie cut into smaller and smaller slices. A twit like Olberman will undoubtedly delight in ridiculing Rush on his show tonight, but he is on the MSM endangered species list with one pathetic viewer for every 100 Limbaugh listeners.


27 posted on 06/27/2006 9:56:03 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Gay State Conservative
Did she also do "euthanasia" or does that simply fit the shtick?
28 posted on 06/27/2006 9:57:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("I'm all in favor of a dignified retirement: Why not try it on Kerry as a pilot program?" M. Steyn)
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To: FlapperFiver
What is an unmarried man doing with Viagra, anyway?

Practicing?

30 posted on 06/27/2006 10:01:37 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: FlapperFiver

maybe he's a prepared bachelor eh?


31 posted on 06/27/2006 10:02:30 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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What is an unmarried man doing with Viagra, anyway?

Since when did it become solely a "Married Man's" drug?

32 posted on 06/27/2006 10:03:20 AM PDT by Bommer (Attention illegals: Why don't you do the jobs we can't do? Like fix your own countries problems!)
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He's using it for what married men wish they could use it for.


33 posted on 06/27/2006 10:03:31 AM PDT by em2vn
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Enjoy your short stay here at FR!


34 posted on 06/27/2006 10:03:44 AM PDT by IGOTMINE
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'd laugh if he tried to use it and nothing happened because it was the phoney Chinese viagra. Which is made out of sheet rock dust and has made its way into the pharmacy outlets.


35 posted on 06/27/2006 10:03:58 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: gogeo

Not content to lose even after they chad their chance, Democrats ensure that elections go on for weeks or even months. Personally I find that hard on the circulation.


36 posted on 06/27/2006 10:04:37 AM PDT by rod1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Priceless!

Contrast that to Patrick Kennedy a few weeks ago....

CC&E

37 posted on 06/27/2006 10:05:20 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Coming soon: A great new tag line!)
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For the record, I just heard a replay on CBS news. Rush's first line was:

"I've been racking my brain. I'm trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got onto my airplane."

38 posted on 06/27/2006 10:06:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
How about those "youths in Asia"?

CC&E

39 posted on 06/27/2006 10:06:52 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Coming soon: A great new tag line!)
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

He got them at the Clinton Library gift shop - they told him they were blue M&Ms...


40 posted on 06/27/2006 10:08:35 AM PDT by relee
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