Limbaugh won't be prosecuted, attorneys wager

PalmBeachPost.com ^ | Saturday, October 4, 2003 | John Pacenti

[Hildy]

No "regular" citizen would go to jail for this, nor have it splashed front page on the daily news. Capiche?

[xzins]

I saw no proof there that Limbaugh had used drugs.

I heard 3rd person allegations of things some other suspects said they had.

Show me what these accusers have. Let me decide.

Until then, there's simply no evidence.

[Hildy]

Although I'm waiting to hear what Rush has to say about this...I don't doubt that it could happen. Drug addiction does strange things to people. ESPECIALLY when they really are in pain.

[ejo]

"rank hypocrisy?

Why would someone, as you say is 'worth millions' stoop to riding into mall parking lots to obtain medications to alleviate his aches and pains from a felons. I believe this couple had a plan in mind from the get go. Only Rush will clear up this matter when he himself will get all the facts.....Looks like the opposition has declared 'war' on the conservatives. ..God Bless you Rush and keep up the good work.

[DouglasKC]

gee, you mean a guy that’s worth at least 250 million dollars is gonna walk away from drug charges that would send the average American to Federal prison for many years, forfeiting all he owns?

Gee...you are going to believe the National Enquirer who paid people who have produced no evidence except in their own imagination?

Listen, the story makes no sense. Limbaugh has a gazillion dollars. He could buy and sell doctors to write him legal prescriptions if that were his desire. He has absolutley no need to meet a criminal and her boyfriend to get prescription drugs in a parking lot when he could easily obtain them from a doctor who is on his payroll. Barring that, there are a milliion ways he could get them without enlisting the aid of people whom he knows could go to the LEFTIST press at any time.

[solitas]

Rush has been very careful not to deny these charges too so that makes me think there is something to them, not just the story from the maid.

I have to agree with you on that one: when simpson was accused he cried "not guilty" non-stop. same with the Ramseys. same with scott Peterson.

If you KNOW you're not guilty you have no reason NOT to say it to any and all that will listen. RL, meanwhile, carefully hedged his answers on his show the other day and it makes One wonder

If someone IS innocent they have nothing to hide and will proclaim their innocence. If someone has something to hide and falsely proclaims innocence, and is THEN found-out (i.e. Robt. Blake) it swings an awful lot against them for "lying in the court of public opinion"...

IMO, his words on his show say he's hiding something.

[DouglasKC]

I hope Rush sues her, the Enquirer, and the Daily News for libel per se. Since actual malice can be inferred from the wording of the stories, he would probably win (and the defendants could not prove substantial truth because their evidence is inadmissible).

He should sue them for a billion dollars or give them the choice of plastering the front page of their newspapers with an article approved by Rush exonerating him.

[BlazingArizona]

Rush should receive neither special treatment nor extra punishment due to his celebrity.

But I'm hoping that now we have a new enlistee against the War On Some Drugs.

[Cogadh na Sith]

He's not been charged with anything because he's not done anything. How can you walk away from charges that were never filed?

[smith288]

If he can go for that long without popping any pills & his performance is not noticably affected, then how many pills a day could he really have been taking?

Not sure if he was taking them. Perhaps storing them...

What I want to know is...Where did "walking man" go? Plenty of questions to him posed on thie thread he has not answered.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Rush has railed against drug users and said that they all should be thrown in jail. He has railed against trail lawyers as well. Now he has hired a famous trail lawyer to defend himself against drug abuse charges.

Of course, he is being victimized by drug sellers now to save their own skin.

Drug sellers who managed to retain a very elite lawyer high up in the liberal establishment.

[Wolfie]

Meanwhile, some poor bastard 70 year old store clerk faces 10 years in prison for selling 10 bottles of cold medicine to an undercover cop.

[weegee]

I wouldn't expect Rush to take a break from broadcasting either (Art Bell seemed like he was so annoyed by the matter that he was going to retire).

Re: the name... No relation to Indiana. It's a handle named for a photographer who used it as his nickname (his real name was Arthur Felig).

[Consort]

Why don't you wait for all the facts, and then go into the attack mode.

[cp124]

Take a walk back to the CBS website.

[svtkevin]

One, she claims she wore a wire on her last two deliveries to Rush and has handed over these tapes to authorities.

Two, she claims that she first started delivering pills to Rush in 1998. The initial press release on Rush's hearing problem, http://www.hei.org/news/factshts/rlprconf.htm announced that "he has suffered rapidly progressive hearing loss since May 2001, which we are currently treating with medication at the House Ear Clinic.". The question was also raised at this press conference at the time if Rush's hearing problems could be attributed to drug use. The reply was "Several reporters mentioned other causes of hearing loss, such as overuse of medications or over-exposure to high levels of sound through earphones used during radio broadcasts, and asked if any of these had caused Rush Limbaugh’s hearing loss. His physicians explained that overuse of medications is not a factor in Mr. Limbaugh’s case, and while noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is common among professionals in radio broadcasting, Mr. Limbaugh does not demonstrate the symptoms of NIHL."

If the allegations are at all true, then 1998 would seem to be well before he experienced any issues with his hearing, or any pain associated with the ear implant. Also, it would possibly bring to question whether his hearing problems were related to the use of this class of painkillers.

Three, his housekeeper also reported a $200,000 payoff, $80,000 for money Rush allegedly owed her after she left her job in 2001, plus an extra $120,000. It will remain to be seen if the money can be traced.

Sorry for being so long-winded, but finally, four, I am a little curious as to why Rush has not filed a libel suit against the Enquirer.

[weegee]

A defense attorney is a trial lawyer, by definition.

But when people speak of tort reform they discuss limits on lawsuit abuse in suing companies/individuals (caping settlements, attempts to end frivolous lawsuits with things like "loser pays", etc.); reigning in prosecuting trial lawyers. This is a defense lawyer.

[cp124]

He has had numerous chances to deny them yet he has not. Not the actions of an innocent man. If I was accused of this and it was untrue I'd certainly deny it.


Then you would be stupid for not listening to your lawyer.

[Ferret Fawcet]

Looks like the opposition has declared 'war' on the conservatives. ..God Bless you Rush and keep up the good work.

My thoughts exactly. The Dems are desperate and this is just the type of behavior that is to be expected of them, especially close to election time. I would not be at all surprised if this whole mess is eventually traced back to them. I hope Rush nails their @sses to the wall.

Keep the faith, Rush. I'm prayin' for ya.

[Darnright]

>IMO, his words on his show say he's hiding something.

So, in your opinion, what do the words, "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky", indicate?