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Bill O'Reilly: Limbaugh targeted for destruction
WND ^ | 29 June 2006 | Joe Kovacs

Posted on 06/28/2006 6:04:09 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is coming to the defense of his radio competitor Rush Limbaugh, claiming authorities in Palm Beach County, Fla., are "out to get" the conservative talk-show host, and are maliciously targeting him for prosecution.

"He is an American," O'Reilly said of Limbaugh last night on "The O'Reilly Factor," "and I believe powerful people in his home county are trying unjustly to harm him."

On Monday, Limbaugh was held up for more than three hours at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities found a bottle of Viagra pills in his possession prescribed to someone else.

Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, issued a statement noting a doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was "labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes."

Though Limbaugh was not arrested, O'Reilly noted it was unusual authorities checked the shaving kits of people flying on private planes, and that the story was leaked to the press almost immediately.

"This is malicious, and this is unnecessary," said O'Reilly. "I only can conclude that in Palm Beach, where Mr. Limbaugh lives, they're out to get this guy."

O'Reilly said he had no vested interest in coming to Limbaugh's defense, having met the fellow broadcaster only "once for about 10 seconds," but he ripped local officials for trying to destroy the most listened to man in the history of radio.

"It was a malicious, cheap, cheap tactic by the Palm Beach authorities, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves," he said. "If I were Limbaugh, I'd move right on out of there. I'd get out of there. ... This is a political persecution. That's what this is."

As WND previously reported, the state attorney's office is reviewing the case after being supplied a report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

"We believe there may be a second-degree misdemeanor violation, which is possession of certain drugs without a prescription, because the bottle does not have his name on it," sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller told the Associated Press.

On Limbaugh's radio broadcast yesterday, he made light of the whole affair.

"I've been racking my brain. I'm trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane," Limbaugh clowned. "I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election, not ... .'"

Former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas is well-known for his use and endorsement of Viagra, a male sexual-enhancement drug.

In April, Limbaugh and the Florida state attorney, Democrat Barry Krischer, reached a settlement in a long-running prescription-drug investigation of the conservative radio giant, who termed the matter a political witch hunt as well as a "fishing expedition" by prosecutors.

Under the agreement, a single charge of doctor shopping was to be dismissed in 18 months if Limbaugh continues to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and a half years for back pain.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: billoreilly; destruction; florida; palmbeach; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; witchhunt
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To: Aussie Dasher

Don't worry about Rush. He can take care of himself.

I liked the way he turned it all into a joke about Bob Dole.


61 posted on 06/28/2006 7:36:35 PM PDT by Palladin ("Governor Lynn Swann."...it has a nice ring to it!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

The question that interests me is, who precisely are these "authorities" at the airport who searched his luggage?

Doesn't customs normally have that responsibility? Don't they belong to the federal government? Who put them up to it?

It's the same question people had when Elian Gonzalez was chased into the closet where he was hiding. Who, exactly, was that guy holding the gun on him? I think we have the right to know these details.


62 posted on 06/28/2006 7:38:07 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Under the agreement, a single charge of doctor shopping was to be dismissed in 18 months if Limbaugh continues to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and a half years for back pain.

A charge to which Limbaugh pleaded NOT GUILTY. (Just adding a little more FACT which WND saw fit to omit).

If the PB DA had anything whatsoever of substance on Rush, he'd filed charges so fast it would've made our heads spin. As it was (and is with the Viagra, I believe) the Palm Beach DA had squat.

63 posted on 06/28/2006 7:39:36 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (It takes ideas and optimism to win elections. The DemocRATS have neither.)
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To: Rosamond

My doctor often gives me samples of prescription drugs that he wants me to try out before he prescribes them on a longer basis. So I can plan on being held at the airport and reported to the AP if I have some in my bag???

I don't think you have anything to worry about - samples aren't the issue. IF you have medication that appears to have been prescribed to someone else, that could be a problem.

64 posted on 06/28/2006 7:40:23 PM PDT by retMD
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To: Palladin

Yes, that was masterful. Viagra on loan from....Bob!


65 posted on 06/28/2006 7:40:52 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Arizona Carolyn

He reached an agreement with the prosecutor that if he stayed clean for a period of time the case filed would be dropped. That's not a plea, nor probation.


66 posted on 06/28/2006 7:41:17 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Rosamond
So I can plan on being held at the airport and reported to the AP if I have some in my bag???

If you tell jokes to the customs people and a lot of people know you, you can get on the AP.

67 posted on 06/28/2006 7:41:34 PM PDT by BobS
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To: conservative physics
I would listen to Rush even if he were broadcasting from federal prison.

I'll second that.
68 posted on 06/28/2006 7:41:38 PM PDT by VA40
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To: BobS
Or,

"Doing battle with the idiot prosecutors with half my...uhhhh.....brain! tied behind my back."

70 posted on 06/28/2006 7:48:12 PM PDT by Erasmus (Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail: "Bring out your vote! Bring out your vote!")
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To: Aussie Dasher

I wonder why Rush doesnt get his own prescription of Viagra?
Has he learned nothing from his first run-in from Oxy-Contin abuse?


71 posted on 06/28/2006 7:49:13 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: netguy
Hey, Mr. nutguy troll......I see by your profile page you signed up tomorrow to bash Rush tonight.

Nice trick.

Leni

72 posted on 06/28/2006 7:50:36 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: woofer2425

and sharks, don't forget the sharks.


73 posted on 06/28/2006 7:51:37 PM PDT by Shimmer128 ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." -- Thomas Mann)
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To: Spanaway Lori

"Did anybody see the Weasley Boy on O'Reilly tonight? I almost blew out the TV, but the gun wasn't loaded."

Tivo taped the O'Reilly show for me, which is an improvement, because it had been taping Jon Stewart which infuriated me.

I know, I know, but it's kinda interesting to see what it does. Anyway, I watched the interview with Tony but was gonna fast forward to the Rush stuff.

Was Wesley worth watching??? Don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question.


74 posted on 06/28/2006 7:55:00 PM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

So there is a real story out there for someone to find. that is - who set up this conspiracy. Probably money exchanged hands to kick this off.


75 posted on 06/28/2006 7:56:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Gay State Conservative
I suspect that there are enough laws on the books now such that every single one of us violates half a dozen every day - without knowing it.

Throw a battery in the trash - a felony. Pick up the wrong kind of feather on a walk in the woods - a felony. Repair your electric socket, hang a lamp in the wrong place, step on a rare flower, feed a squirrel, get rid of a squirrel, drain a pool of rainwater, use a radar detector in the wrong state, take an antihistamine and drive, use the wrong words to express yourself in earshot of a complainer, they've got you. Pretty soon, I understand, possessing vitamin C in doses greater than 100 mg will be a crime.

76 posted on 06/28/2006 7:56:34 PM PDT by GregoryFul (cheap, immigrant labor built America)
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To: Cicero
I am curious about this, too.

Also, since this was a private jet, did someone see Rush's name on the passenger manifest and decided to stir the pot?
How did the press get the story, and did the "authorities" tear the entire plane apart or just Rush's belongings?

This reminds me of the Bush twins being branded criminals for ordering Margaritas in a restaurant. Some kitchen worker called the press, not the cops.

Bill O'Reilly is not granstanding on this issue. I think after what happened to him with that blackmail artist(who did not go to jail, she was paid millions for her blackmail) he is probably more sensitive to the issue of a news celebrity being a target of an unfair witch hunt. When I watched this last night, I got the same sense of outrage he usually reserves for lousy judges who let pedophiles off with probation. I don't think it's jealousy. I think it's commiseration.
77 posted on 06/28/2006 7:57:02 PM PDT by ishabibble
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To: beezdotcom

It's probably a short-life story, but even the sports shows the DP listens to were talking about it yesterday.

It got huge play, and it is an absolute disgrace the way Rush was treated.

They just did it to embarrass him about the Viagra. I mean that is one of the most prescribed drugs. It's totally taken by tons of guys, although they may not want to admit it.


78 posted on 06/28/2006 7:58:45 PM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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To: VA40
Yes I saw Weasley Clark. Did he really say that "the Bush administration has never given the troops in Iraq their full attention". I swear I heard him say that. Among other things he was just disqusting. Why does Fox put this guy on, I could just as easily watch CNN. I turned the channel and took a break.

Well, it WAS O'Reilly, and he talked to this "General" (not the guys who served with him)with the utmost respect (and I suppose that's what he HAD to do) Fox puts these guys on so we can SEE WHO THEY ARE.

I'm NOT a TV personality, OR a politician OR anybody who has to grovel before the likes of WEASLEY Clark. He's a self-serving, greedy, power-hungry CREEP who would rather sell his country down the river than actually have to GROW A SPINE.

79 posted on 06/28/2006 8:00:07 PM PDT by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: netguy

Sorry. I'm gonna ignore you.


80 posted on 06/28/2006 8:03:15 PM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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