Limbaugh lawyer: Radio host was being blackmailed by

[MoonAndSun]

ex housekeeper

<http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/22/limbaugh.hearing/index.html>


snip>WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- An attorney for Rush Limbaugh charged Monday that the conservative talk show host was being blackmailed by the Florida couple whose allegations triggered an ongoing investigation into his purchases of painkillers.

During a hearing over whether prosecutors should have access to Limbaugh's medical records, attorney Roy Black said Limbaugh paid "extreme amounts of money" to Wilma Cline, his former housekeeper, and her husband, first for pills and then for extortion. Black alleged that the Clines had threatened to go public with information about Limbaugh's drug use unless they received $4 million.




Mods: this is a different headline then the other LBN going on. Delete if you think it is a dupe.







So pigboy is blaming the housekeeper now, no surprise here.

[Booberdawg]

1. Pigboy is the model of personal responsibility

:eyes:

[grytpype]

2. How does it make any damn difference if he was being blackmailed?

I guess this is the usual Repug tactic of "smear and defend," but it is especially unconvincing in this case.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

32. It doesn't. Rush is providing something for the freepers to believe in

no matter how slim.

"I was framed" is a simple, cliche mantra easily injected into the right-wing psyche.

[NJCher]

3. anybody can make that threat

Let's see him prove it in a court of law instead of the media.


Cher

[ET Awful]

4. For some reason I'm reminded of . . .

the guy who called the cops after someone stole his pot.

Hey Rush, if you weren't buying illegal drugs, they wouldn't have anything to blackmail you on.

I know he doesn't expect sympathy.

[yowzayowzayowza]

5. Peur Bay Bee!!!

I thought the same thing: this sounds alot like a tacit admission of guilt.

[MoonAndSun]

8. I'll be very curious how pigboy is going to spin this tomorrow

on his show to his brain-dead ditto heads. Will the sh** hit the fan now? Naw, his ditto fans are too brainwashed to even have a coherent thought in their piggy brains.

[lancdem]

7. I never heard that pot story

that's pretty funny. This is similar indeed.

[Cannikin]

9. He's all smoke and mirrors...

Now we're beginning to see that he is indeed the same kind of person he professes to hate! Passing the buck, expecting special entitlements, not accepting responsibility..yet.
He wasnt himself today. He had no fire. His callers made better points than he did. He didnt even raise my blood pressure.
It's as if his spell is broken. 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'



Merry Christmas everyone.:hug:

[LatteLib]

6. CNN took a poll on whether Rush is being unfairly targeted

22% said NO
78% said YES

[Mikimouse]

10. Last time I looked, it was the other way around

78% No
22%Yes

[LatteLib]

13. Thanks for fixing my mistake, Mikimouse.

My dyslexia is showing! Sorry for posting it backwards, I goofed BIG time.
:crazy:

[Cannikin]

11. I believe that figure is backwards..oh, somebody beat me to it!

77% right now say he is NOT being unfairly targeted.

[twilight]

16. where is the link to this poll?

I went to cnn.com and there is now a poll here about whether you think the terra lerts are helpful - 33% YES; 77% NO (LOL!).

Where's the pigjunkie's poll? I'd love to have an opportunity to vote on this! :D :D :D



:dem: :kick:

[MoonAndSun]

17. Here it is twilight.....on Anderson Cooper's site

<http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/>

[twilight]

19. thanks!

Is Rush Limbaugh being unfairly targeted?

Yes 23% 410 votes

No 77% 1406 votes
Total: 1816 votes



:D

:dem: :kick:

[LatteLib]

20. Here is the link

http://www.cnn.com/360

[twilight]

21. thanks I found it!

:D

:kick:

[loudnclear]

12. Nothing like blaming the messenger.

If they were blackmailing him, he was paying which means it was more important to him to keep on using drugs than worrying about the money being paid for blackmail. And of course, he never reported the blackmail to authorities, did he?

Folks, this is what happens when some people have more money than they should have or can ever spend in a lifetime. Too much money makes one "lazy and shifless," cancers on society, liars, cheats, thiefs, politicians, and media entertainers.

[LatteLib]

15. Well said, loudnclear!

>>Folks, this is what happens when some people have more money than they should have or can ever spend in a lifetime. Too much money makes one "lazy and shifless," cancers on society, liars, cheats, thiefs, politicians, and media entertainers.<<

This is the way he should be elaborating on the situation on his show tomorrow. His writers should be copying this for him tonight. Especially since he seems to gleen so much useful material from DU.
BTW, is he on methadone now?

[0007]

14. If you're gonna go that route Rush, then junior labeled you a terrorist!

Your a threat to the citizens of United States of America Rush.

The 911 terrorist, Moussaoui, sez he was being blackmailed by Atta.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Hell, maybe he's being blackmailed to say

all those mean things he does about the left.

[area51]

18. Nice try, Pigboy (Limbaugh). Won't work.

n/t

[number6]

23. Hey, ! >>pigboy<<

:hi: :hi: have a nice day eh :hi: :hi:
:smoke:

[porkrind]

24. Free Republic

Check out the insightful Feeper commentary on Limbaugh's drug problem:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1045123/posts

It's pathetic.
:dem:

[MoonAndSun]

25. And this is one of their better threads.....

most of them can not put 2 coherent words together. I am surprised that there was not one post blaming Bill or Hillary for pigboy's problems. But that will be coming soon, I am sure.

[Sterling]

26. Is everyone there below age 10?

My god what a bunch of morans.

[CO Liberal]

27. Their IQs Are Below 10

:dunce:
Typical
Freeper

[DemoTex]

29. I checked it out and added a scathing anti-Ru$h post at Freeperville.

See if you can figure out who I am over there. Beware of coming here, from there, with so few posts. I, at least, in my alter-ego, have enough posts in the darkland to get away with guerrilla attacks on the lame-of-mind.

Otherwise, Porkrind, if you are for real here: Welcome. However, we will see. Time will tell.

[PaDUer]

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[truthisfreedom]

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man, oh man. merry Christmas, everybody! rush is mired in a complete mess of his
own doing, and is going to be completely preoccupied with this nightmare for a long
time to come. and the conservatives will want to distance themselves from him
further and further and further and further and further...


who wants a junkie for a friend? nobody. what a loser. if he was being extorted,
blackmailed, he should have kept records, made tapes, copied emails, and gone to
the cops. but noooooo.... he couldn't, because he was a needle junkie. and the
sickest part of all? he wasn't even addicted to something worth being addicted to. he
was a hillbillly heroin oxycontin idiot. what a complete and total schmuck. what an
unfortunate, deluded wreck of a man.

[Manix]

31. ...seeing this scumbag doing the "perp walk" would be the best

Xmas present of all time!!