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RUSH: Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. I am the famous and well-known Rush Limbaugh. Not “right-wing radio talk host Rush Limbaugh;” just the famous and well-known Rush Limbaugh. And I have been doing this a long time. And that means I have a lot of perspective and I bring a lot of experience. And I’m going to share and apply it to practically everything we do today as I do each and every day. Greetings. Great to have you with us. If you want to be on the program, the telephone number is...

The Associated Press 1/21/2004, 5:12 a.m. ET WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Three medical organizations have asked a court for permission to support Rush Limbaugh's attempts to keep his medical records sealed. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Florida Pain Initiative and the National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain want to file a friend-of-the-court brief in the conservative radio show host's drug case, arguing doctor-patient privilege is at stake. The groups would join the American Civil Liberties Union in supporting Limbaugh's legal fight to keep his records private. "If medical records suddenly become tools of law...

Florida prosecutors have accused number one talk radio host Rush Limbaugh of "doctor shopping" in their investigation into Limbaugh's misuse of prescription painkillers. But on Friday, the top talker's attorney Roy Black returned fire, saying that the Palm Beach state attorney's office is engaged in what amounts to allegation shopping. "[This investigation] started out [alleging] he's part of a drug ring, or drug trafficking," Black told NBC's "Today Show." "Then, supposedly, he does money laundering. Now they've gone all the way to say doctor shopping." "Every week it is something new," the celebrated lawyer told NBC interviewer Lester Holt. Black...