NY Daily News: Rush Limbaugh in Pill Probe -- Talk radio star had drug habit, maid sez

NY Daily News & Drudge ^ | October 1, 2003 | Tracy Connor

[GeronL]

It makes no sense, I don't think it is even possible for a human being to take that many pain killers at a time a survive

[eddie willers]

I don't believe he would put ANYTHING like this in an email.

Rush was computer savy long before most of us and surely knows that an email is on a server somewhere and can never be "erased".

[Pro-Bush]

I love Rush like a Father, but if this is true, Rush should resign from the EIB network. This is a hard thing to say.

[AHerald]

But it bothers me that his lawyers had no comment.

Same here. Not a good gut feeling when I read that sentence.

[Timesink]

One, I presume that WABC does random drug testing of its employees, of which Mr. Limbaugh is one.

I sort of doubt that Rush has technically been an ABC employee for a very long time now, but in any case, Disney only drug tests its employees upon hiring. After that, never again.

[Diddle E. Squat]

She's home free now. She'll get immunity for testimony. There's got to be some basis to the story, else she would be sued from here to eternity. Yeah, it may be highly embellished, maybe even the email's could have been a setup. But the detox, blood tests, etc. can probably be tested. It doesn't look good.

Am reminded of how the Bush admin kept their distance from Rush back in 1/01. Perhaps just a coincidence, and done so for the 'new tone' and philosophical differences.

Hard to assess just how much damage will be done, how much is hyperbole, how much is a setup, how much is self-inflicted, etc. I could easily see a scenario where, if the charges are true, Rush has to clean up his act, but comes clean, and survives and eventually emerges strong as ever. Unfortunately, I can also easily see other, worse scenarios.

[Yaelle]

My heart is breaking. It sounds totally credible.

[Finalapproach29er]

Definitely on the Clinton's payroll. Payback by Bubba. Rush is lucky; many of Bubba's critics weren't so lucky.

[GeronL]

from where will we find out the truth? the MEDIA?

[dinok]

"Maybe those vacations that Rush took were his trips to detox? I have known a few otherwise good people who got addicted to pain killers. Pretty sad."

Pretty sad indeed. I'm finding the e-mail thing surprising. E-mail is traceable and non erasable. You would think Rush would know about that.

[MJY1288]

I agree, That many pills a day would kill a person, even a 500 LB lump of human dung like Michael Moore couldn't survive that many pills

[nopardons]

Finally, someone nailed this and it was YOU !

There are more than enough doctors, " sleazy " and otherwise, who would have supplied him with these pills ( either as free samples and/or scrip ), so asking a maid, to give her husband's pain pills to him ( what about her husband's pain ? Guess she didn't give a damn about that ! ), is more than highly unlikely.

[Consort]

They were just waiting for Rush to give them an opening...and he did.

[lainie]

I'm with you. Something's fishy in New York. Trading email with a housekeeper about Rx drugs? nah.

[sheik yerbouty]

Another demonrat hot, steaming load..

[24-7Freeper]

It has not yet been established how much of this is true.

Unfortunately, that won't matter to the press... this will sell newspapers, generate ratings and spike stories like "Kuwait Foils Biochem Arms Smuggling From Iraq"....

[GOPrincess]

"Rush was computer savy long before most of us and surely knows that an email is on a server somewhere and can never be "erased"."

Exactly. Are we to believe he has been so blinded by addiction he's lost all common sense when he's not on the airwaves? But on the airwaves he's the same sharp thinker he's always been?

I don't know what's going on, but I'm going to bed tonight feeling unsettled.

[Pukin Dog]

This is a hard thing to say.

Apparently not hard enough. The way some of you are ready to drop off the bandwagon and give any credence to this slime is unbelievable.

Rush Limbaugh is the one of the most important Conservatives of our lifetimes and I will stand by him no matter what. Im sorry that some of you have such short memories.

[lora_one]

Yes --- we'll know. He has always been straight with us---or so I hope.

[Lancey Howard]

Man, my eyes are going.
I thought the headline said "maid sex".