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PragerU says injured founder/conservative pundit Dennis Prager will return ‘soon’
The Washington Times ^ | February 18, 2025 | Sean Salai

Posted on 03/02/2025 4:42:09 PM PST by Angelino97

Conservative talk show host Dennis Prager is recovering from a nasty fall in November and hopes to be back on the air soon despite remaining paralyzed from the shoulders down, his media company announced this week.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit told The Washington Times on Tuesday that the 76-year-old pundit “envisions himself speaking publicly” again for the first time since being hospitalized in Los Angeles with a serious back injury one week after Election Day.

“Dennis remains the wise fighter we know, who loves life and adores his country,” Ms. Streit said. “Soon, we will be fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from him again.”

On Monday, she released a video update with Mr. Prager’s son David, who also serves as the company’s chief development officer. He said his father did not sustain any brain damage and was talking, eating and drinking again.

“He’s all there; he’s a hundred percent there,” David Prager said. “When you hear him on the radio, you’ll say he hasn’t skipped a beat, that’s for sure, and God willing that’ll be very soon.”

Ms. Streit confirmed Mr. Prager had two surgeries to repair an injured spinal cord that damaged his breathing after hitting his head in the Nov. 12 fall.

She said in the video update that he has shown “some promising incremental improvement” in physical therapy despite the fact he “cannot move from the shoulders and below.”

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1 posted on 03/02/2025 4:42:09 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

That’s wonderful, but I’ll be honest: I’m actually more fond of the host subbing for him right now! Carl Jackson!

I’m old school and love listening to radio.

MANY have been praying for Dennis. Many many.


2 posted on 03/02/2025 4:43:02 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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I’m actually more fond of the host subbing for him right now! Carl Jackson!

With all due respect to you and Carl Jackson, who I am sure is a nice guy and a great American...

3 posted on 03/02/2025 4:45:41 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Angelino97

It is so frustrating, especially in old age, when a person takes a fall and is so seriously injured.
Get well Dennis! Take care that you’re ok first. Then yes, we need ya!


4 posted on 03/02/2025 5:04:22 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Angelino97

Good Lord hope that paralysis is not permanent.


5 posted on 03/02/2025 5:09:20 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Angelino97

We will keep praying. I know it’s hard the older you get, but I pray for as complete a recovery as possible. I miss his dose of wisdom.


6 posted on 03/02/2025 5:38:05 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
That’s wonderful, but I’ll be honest: I’m actually more fond of the host subbing for him right now! Carl Jackson!

I also like him.

7 posted on 03/02/2025 5:44:13 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Angelino97

LORD bless him and return life to his body, in Jesus Name I pray, Amen.


8 posted on 03/02/2025 6:12:35 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

RE: Carl Jackson.

Agree he is terrific.

Can he be scouted and signed by the rival Dan Bongino network and time slots?

That would be great when we lose Bongino.


9 posted on 03/02/2025 6:40:26 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Angelino97

All those creepy and annoying questions I get from the doctor’s office and annual snoopy Medicare Wellness visit they demand include “have you fallen recently?”

I know people end up in a cast or worse after a fall but I think I’ve never heard of a misfortune like Dennis Prager had from a fall. Sounds like being in a car that was totaled.

My prayers up for him. Hope he can finish his fifth and last book of Torah commentaries. Maybe dictate a lot.


10 posted on 03/02/2025 6:43:54 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Flaming Conservative

Amen


11 posted on 03/02/2025 7:00:40 PM PST by Bigg Red (My long-time tagline has been removed and will be stored on my home page as it has proved true.)
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To: Angelino97

I’m very glad to hear he is making that kind of progress, hope it continues for him.


12 posted on 03/02/2025 7:04:21 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck )
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To: frank ballenger

Kurt Vonnegut died from a fall.


13 posted on 03/02/2025 7:28:57 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Have to watch ourselves.

I’m 78 and may give up skateboarding and roller blading.
Or at least reduce it a little.


14 posted on 03/02/2025 7:32:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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“...annual snoopy Medicare Wellness visit they demand....”

How do they coerce you into letting that happen?

My understanding of those visits is that they are there to get some health care provider bureaucracy get you to have more chronic issues “diagnosed” by the org. so they can then bill Medicare for more $$$.


15 posted on 03/02/2025 7:36:27 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Mine says “you are overdue for your mandatory Medicare Wellness visit.”

Mandatory.

I haven’t pushed against that so don’t know details about what is left of the carcasses of people who spoke up.


16 posted on 03/02/2025 7:40:09 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Well, it is not recommended to piss off one’s doc....


17 posted on 03/02/2025 7:44:56 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Angelino97

To be honest...it sounds very bad. Fortunately, he can breath and eat. But he must be chair ridden...cannot move from shoulder on down....not good.Did he have a TIA and fall? Did he sever or seriously injure his spinal cord? Hope not.
May God show mercy on him.


18 posted on 03/02/2025 8:01:53 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: Paladin2

True.

Two of my late wife’s past doctors lost their licenses. Another suddenly “retired” at around 40-—no one revealed anything more.

One of the disgraced doctors started life fresh in another state, Oklahoma, where he could get a new state approved license. Other was given probation instead of prison time but was out of the profession.

Recent one suddenly announced she was “retiring” and two months later was gone. No one said anything else about it. Wonder if she did something. It was so sudden (around 40 years old and seemed to be happy a few months earlier, not looking burned out.)


19 posted on 03/02/2025 8:39:14 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Getready

How does “neck on down” differ from “shoulders on down”?


20 posted on 03/02/2025 8:43:10 PM PST by Paladin2
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