Posted on 10/09/2003 8:14:20 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Mike Walker of the National Enquirer has been on the Al Rantel show for the past two hours discussing the story which his paper broke about Rush Limbaugh's dependence on prescription drugs, obtained illegally through his housekeeper. As Mike said, if this story was erroneous, Rush could sue them out of business. The National Enquirer did all kinds of checking before going with this story. He said they only paid for the story from the housekeeper after she had already gone to the police with her story and evidence.
But the most upsetting thing Mike Walker and Al discussed is the possibility that oxicontin (?) causes deafness and that Rush may have caused his own deafness by taking up to 30 or so pills a day. That is a horrible thought.
My wish is that Rush gets on the radio, comes clean about his addiction, and gets the help he needs. The longer he waits to do this, the worse it will be for him, in all sorts of ways. The police are apparently more interested in busting dealers than users in this sort of situation, but the housekeeper and her husband received immunity with their statements to the police. The claim is that Rush also was receiving UPS deliveries of pills from another source. Whatever the case, he should come clean.
yes, tomorrow is another day and no matter WHAT Rush says, it won't be eenough for the piranhas ( sp ? ) here.
I'm off too. Pleasant dreams; sleep well.
For all I know or anyone else, this whole story is an elaborate smear mastermided by the Klintoon-Gore cool-aid crowd to take out the Big Guy whom they hate for creaming their sorry asses for the last 15 years. The whole story is like some B-Grade movie plot out of a 1940's crime flim. In fact, the story reminds me of a classic frame up where the more the framed guy proclaims his innocence the guiltier he looks.
Did I say something wrong??
Every once in a while the typist mishears the caller and mistypes what he says. Then either Rush stops and asks the caller to repeat himself or else Rush and the caller begin speaking at angles to each other.
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Politics — his business.
Some have called him the most dangerous man in America. A polarizing force? Certainly. The most dangerous? Hardly. The conservative talk show host thinks fast, talks details, and apparently has a lot of fun doing it. There's enough biographical information out there on Rush to choke the trojan horse so we'll spare you the repetition. His greatest power and worst enemy is controversy. For good or bad, Rush forces you to pick a side. His Diligent working combined with nimble, squirrel-like Idealist thinking construct solid and immovable opinions that allow almost no room for compromise.
Rush Limbaugh
But it's his Scintillator Boss in emoting that keeps him from getting TOO serious and TOO radical. It may seem unlikely to you, but if Rush didn't have his Scintillator emoting he likely wouldn't be on the radio and those who find him irritating to listen to now would find him impossible to listen to. It's logic, logic, and more logic, but that Scintillator emoting gives it all a smooth, creamy texture. Add a little laughter and a little play, and his hard and fast ideas don't seem quite as prickly. His Idealist thinking and Diligent in working also come out in his need for perfection and improvement. A long-time advertiser on his show was "Verbal Advantage" which promised to increase vocabulary and therefore personal image. And he works for the EXCELLENCE in Broadcasting network. That's definitely an Idealist word.
Rush has a passion for sports, a desire for conservative perfection, and an apparent desire to live the high life (cigars, elbow rubbing, and a few million attentive listeners.)
You can catch him on the radio...for his own unique brand of divisiveness.
Rush Limbaugh -- Idealist/Diligent/Scintillator
As long as his power base doesn't turn on him he will live happily ever after.
It's good he's going to have to kick his drug habit though - he will sound more lucid and rational.
How do we know that he hasn't ALREADY gotten clean and that's assuming he was hooked in the first place.
I agree. Perhaps he was buying them and was making money pushing them to space aliens. I couldn't blame him for that.
What I think we have here are a couple of con artists/drug dealers that are trying to explain away their large drug buys. IOW, these drug dealers got caught and are trying to explain their large drug buys to be the result of the arm-twisting of one guy--Rush. Bullocks.
So, he's guilty until proven innocent?
Arnie's not subject to possible criminal prosecution for his actions - from what I have heard, the statute of limitations for anything Arnie may have done has expired. We'll just have to wait to see if Rush will eventually come forward or is just trying to let this matter age to the point where any outrage will be muted.
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