Posted on 07/03/2008 1:09:36 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Thursday’s "Today Show" gave yet another demonstration that the mainstream media can’t get over the success of Rush Limbaugh. NBC correspondent Michael Okwu, reporting on Limbaugh’s new contract, which the New York Times has indicated is worth $400 million, "reminded" viewers of three past "controversies" involving the talk radio host: his 2003 resignation from ESPN after remarking on the sport media’s coverage of NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb; how Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox, "accusing the actor of exaggerating symptoms of Parkinson's Disease;" and the legal trouble he faced in Florida related to his addiction to prescription painkillers.
On this "doctor shopping" issue, Okwu remarked, "In 2003, Florida authorities charged Limbaugh with illegally-deceiving multiple doctors, in order to get overlapping painkiller prescriptions. He pled not guilty and the charges were later dismissed, though Limbaugh admitted he was an addict."
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You must not be from the Philadelphia area. My father and step-mother can’t stand the way he plays....
Rush was right about Michael J Fox, however. Fox obviously didn't take his medicine in order to exaggerate the symptoms of his Parkinson`s. IIRC, this came at the time Fox was lobbying Congress for more federal funding for the disease.
And instead of the media showing compassion for Rush`s addiction to the prescription drug oxycontin, the liberal establishment used Rush`s problem to beat him over the head with. Not nice at all.
Let’s just get down to the truth here....NBC sucks big time and El Rushbo doesn’t. Nothing else to be said here.
Has anyone seen a recent definition of the term “Liberal” and how that mind set applies today? I can’t figure them out except they are wrong and extremely dangerous to our freedom. Their mind set is foreign to freedom loving people.
Yep, real class.
“McNabb was never as good as the Drive-By Media made him out to be.”
Neither is Obama. One might suspect the media has an agenda!
Who knew there was such a thing as “Corporate Penis Envy”?
Any way you look at it, even financially, Rush’s is bigger than theirs.
I would know right away, because Rush would be talking about it.
I haven't watched network TV in years.
So every time he opens his jaw and shuts it, I would guess he earns about $700.00 dollars per jaw revolution. Too funny!
Makes my legs feel a tingle.
Joe Theismann was a good (great QB). Dan Marino was a good (great QB). McNabb was/is an average QB. John Elway was a good (great QB). Johnny U. was a good (great QB). A number of other examples abound.
BUT, Rush NEVER said he was not a good QB. He said McN was not up to the level to which the media had lifted him.
I have a crippled back (inoperable) and take Percocet. My prescription allows 4/day. I take 1/2 a pill 5-7 days a week. When my back is in anger, I absolutely have to take a pill or lie down. The pills are the only salvation.
Even with the Percocet, I can only walk 50-100 feet without excruciating pain.
Am I hooked? I think so but you do what you must.
Michael J. Fox himself said he was off his medication.
It was a propaganda ploy for sympathy.
He wanted to ABORT BABIES FOR SPARE PARTS. Genetic cannibalism. No evidence it is more successful than using adult stem cells. No mention that adult stem cells were an alternate process being studied, one that may be having success.
Nope, wanted to sway the public on the matter. Put yourself in a political ad and expect to be critiqued.
Who’s Micheal Okwu?
Who’s Micheal Okwu?
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