AP Kills Limbaugh Painkillers Story ?????

[Frodo]

The Associated Press
Saturday, January 3, 2004; 5:06 PM


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Please kill the story Limbaugh-Painkillers, V9991. Rush Limbaugh has not been charged with doctor shopping.



A kill is mandatory.

Make certain the story is not used.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52369-2004Jan3.html

WTF???

[truthisfreedom]

1. link?

[Frodo]

5. Sorry about that. May not last long

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52369-2004Jan3.html

I added the link to the original post as well.

[opihimoimoi]

2. OH OH Stealth moves in the Darkness

Rush is gonna get help from the Feds.

[private_ryan]

3. huh?

if this some inside communication please xplain

[Gloria]

4. WOW, I must have seen this story just before it was killed!

It was definitely in the Palm Beach Post...

It's all about how the law against doctor shopping has only been used once. It details how the guy died before the case could be resolved. Apparently, one of his doctors is also a doctor that Rush used.

It says most people are charged with possession, not the doctor shopping charges.

It quotes Rush saying this proves the charges against him are political.

The prosecutor says the law is on the books for a reason.

That's the gist of it.....

[Frodo]

6. Some of it saved here for history

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=296812&mesg_id=296812

[truthisfreedom]

8. that article is still here.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_f36f5467153060d100b9.html

Charge in Limbaugh drug case rarely used, court records show






By John Pacenti, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 3, 2004



WEST PALM BEACH -- Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh says prosecutors are unfairly targeting him with a prescription fraud charge known as "doctor shopping" because he is a famous political conservative.



In fact, a records search by the Clerk of Courts Office revealed only one case in the past five years in which Palm Beach County prosecutors charged a defendant with illegally acquiring overlapping prescriptions.



That case never went to trial because the defendant, Michael Schlosman of West Palm Beach, died. Schlosman received painkillers from one of the same doctors who treated Limbaugh.



A case of doctor shopping was transferred from St. Lucie County this year, while another was transferred from Martin County, according to records.



Doctor shopping, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, is duping at least two doctors into prescribing the same controlled substance in a 30-day period. Records from a pharmacy near Limbaugh's $24 million Palm Beach mansion showed the radio show host obtained more than 2,000 pain and anti-anxiety pills in a five-month period in 2003 from four doctors.



If the law against doctor shopping is rarely used in Palm Beach County, it could lend weight to Limbaugh's argument that the investigation is politically motivated.



"The Post's research confirms what we have been saying all along. Rush Limbaugh has been singled out for special prosecution because of who he is," said Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, in a written statement. "We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard."

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[salin]

14. Please edit for copywrite reasons

since the link is good - folks can find the original story. Thanks.

[truthisfreedom]

16. copyright.

if the story disappears now, there will be no record.

[salin]

18. ah - but someone has a screen saved

I hope both of the palmbeach article - and of the AP little missive.

[0007]

44. Rush saying this proves the charges against him are political.

My God! What's wrong with us? This man Rush Limbaugh is very famous. Can't treat a famous person this way.

Not only was Rush doctor shopping but he was meeting his maid in Denny's Parking lot to get more drugs.

Yes, Rush only wanted to deaden his pain. It must have been one hell of a pain.

[MidwestTransplant]

55. Hmmmm

is that like how nobody is every charged with a crime for civil purgery about sexual relations?

[NV1962]

7. News kills happen

...once a major snafu is uncovered. Have seen a few of those land on my desk.

Bet that someone's rear is glowing now, at AP's.

That, or it is a deliberate Peter and the Wolf strategy... Retracting Rush L's charges often enough to discredit the real deal upon arrival.

:tinfoilhat:

[shawn703]

9. Strange!

Don't think I've ever seen something like that before

[pasadenaboy]

10. SOMEONE SAVE THIS BEFORE THE WP deletes it!!!!URGENT

Someone set up a mirror. I would but I don't know how.

[Vadem]

11. Somebody needs to grab this one! BPilgrim? others?

If I knew how to do a screen grab, I would do it. Get this one, someone.

[Vadem]

13. Got it! My son came in just in time to do a screen grab! n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

20. Recorded for posterity at this link:

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/limbaugh.htm

I'll keep it up for a few months at least

[TreasonousBastard]

30. I don't know what browser...

you're using, but I assume it works pretty much the same in all of them. Opera goes:

File > Save as ...

Or:

File > Save with images as ...

It's actually very simple, and you don't need to do a screenshot, Even the links should work, since you saved the entire page in html.

Open the saved file again to see that everything was actually saved. Sometimes there's wierd code in there and what you want might be hotlinked, Java'd or something else to screw up the save.

(Just remember what folder the page was saved in.)

Most pages viewed are also cached somewhere on the hard drive. That's a little trickier, though, and not always easy or dependable for later viewing.

[nolabels]

12. If it don't go along with the party line of the US PRAVDA it's gone

Eff the AP and the rest of all that trash run by or being thumbed down by the various Intelligence services. I get my news the old fashion way, I look for it. Check these treads out if you don't think they want to manage what you know

AP has pulled all the coverage of Gore's speech
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=147357

We all know the media sucks, but who believes they engage in covert...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=729470

You've been indoctrinated into a Psychological Civil War
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=606496

[truthisfreedom]

15. i've just done a search at news.google.com for doctor shopping

and the recent AP article does NOT claim that rush was charged.

why kill an article for something it doesn't say?

go look for yourselves.


http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=doctor+shopping&btnG=Search+News

[grasswire]

17. someone send this screen shot on....

....need to get it to josh marshall and a few other people.

How to capture a screen shot again?

[ProudToBeLiberal]

19. I think you press print scrn button

then you paste it in notepad or paint

[TeeYiYi]

23. You can copy this one . . .

TYY

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. GRABBED IT AND HERE IT IS: (link)

http://www.knology.net/~rareandfirsts/limbaugh.htm

[Vadem]

22. Billy, you got the wrong one! Go to the beginning of the thread...

it is from the Washington Post. It is still up! GET IT!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

29. Damn... Sorry, it's down.

[dobak]

25. That is not an AP story - that is not the one they killed

[truthisfreedom]

28. this is an AP story, basically the same one. is this the one they killed?

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7627244.htm

Posted on Sat, Jan. 03, 2004

Rush Limbaugh Lawyer Slams Investigation
Associated Press


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Palm Beach County prosecutors investigating Rush Limbaugh for his prescription drug use have filed "doctor shopping" charges against only one person in the past five years, according to a review of court records.



Limbaugh's lawyer said the review by The Palm Beach Post in Saturday's editions offers more evidence that the conservative radio commentator is being unfairly targeted.



"Rush Limbaugh has been singled out for special prosecution because of who he is," Roy Black said in a written statement provided to the newspaper. "We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard."

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[truthisfreedom]

26. look, the point here is, the AP "kill" order seems to indicate that the

reason for the kill is an inaccuracy about rush not being charged with doctor shopping... yet the article in question makes no such claim! someone show me where this article says rush is/was charged yet.

[dobak]

24. screenshot...

[Vadem]

34. Great, Dobak!! Good work! At least we have it now for posterity...

Do you know how to email it to Billy_Pilgrim via PM?

[magidon]

40. Font?

Ooh, I dig that text font! What is that? I want to switch to it!

[madfloridian]

27. I saved both the full story and the kill page.

:hi:

[Vadem]

31. Fantastic!!! Good job, Madfloridian! n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

32. If you'd like, you can email it to me and I'll put it up.

[salin]

35. I just checked the first link (on the opening page) - its still up.

try it again.

[MetaTrope]

33. They've got a lot of cleaning up to do

Check out http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newsclusterurl=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/3/162755.shtml&filter=0

[Guaranteed]

36. WTF is right

What the hell is the Post doing putting that up on their site? Frickin WEIRD.

[Just Me]

49. I'm with you,...WHAT IS "THAT" DOING "THERE"?

Did someone like, totally f-up, or what? Bizarro!!!

[Just Me]

50. Whoops,...I shoulda' scrolled down to Newsjock,...

,...someone made a "boo boo".

[Newsjock]

37. An inaccurate version of the story was killed, not the whole story

I was at work while this whole silly thing transpired. It's not a conspiracy; it's not censorship -- it's just some (really) bad reporting that the AP corrected as soon as it could.

It all began at 16:34 EST, when the AP moved a story that began like this:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Rush Limbaugh is only the second person charged with "doctor shopping" by Palm Beach County prosecutors in the last five years, according to a review of court records.

Then, at 17:03 (29 minutes) later, the "bulletin" moved:

BULLETIN KILL

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ Kill BC-Limbaugh-Painkillers. Rush Limbaugh has not been charged with doctor shopping. A writethru will move shortly.

Four minutes later, at 17:07, a corrected version moved:

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Palm Beach County prosecutors investigating Rush Limbaugh for his prescription drug use have filed "doctor shopping" charges against only one person in the past five years, according to a review of court records.

So, honest to goodness, this isn't scrubbing history or anything sinister -- it's correcting a factual error, and a whopper of a factual error at that. The AP is obligated to get the bad report out of circulation as quickly as possible, but in this modern world, the wrong version made it onto many websites.

This isn't worth a whole lot of our energy. Someone at the AP screwed up big-time, and yes, I'm sure their butt is rather sore tonight.

[Fridays Child]

38. Thanks for the clarification.

:hi:

[Vadem]

39. Thanks, Newsjock, for the explanation...However, in these times

we take nothing for granted from the WH or the media. At least, we now have it recorded in several places if it ever needs to be brought forth again.

[truthisfreedom]

41. ah-hah! no wonder i couldn't find a reference to rush being charged.

look at my post above... the one starting "look, the point here is..."

[nibbana]

42. Ask AP for yourself: [e-mail]

[e-mail]

[dusty64]

43. Strangely enough

it is still there.

[Timefortruth]

45. Was Gary Condit charged with anything?

Since when has that been the standard? Rush is under criminal investigation, this is just more liberal bias I suppose.

[trapper914]

46. Exactly

Rush's lawyer is comparing apples to oranges. How many cases of doctor shopping have been investigated in Palm Beach County. If that number is incredibly low, he might be able to make his case.

Still, even if it were the case, it doesn't mean Rush is being singled out because of politics. More likely, it's because he's famous. If the prosecutor doesn't follow up on the doctor shopping claims after they made national headlines, he could be accused of not doing his job come election time.

[bfusco]

47. Double Standards

Is it the same way that someone is almost never criminally prosecuted for perjury in a civil suit? Rush seems very selective in who and how the law applies.

[doubleyoi]

58. also rich vs. poor "justice"

when you think about it, "doctor shopping" is a crime that screams wealth. Poor drug addicts can't doctor shop. Maybe the reason that nobody gets hauled off to jail for this is that its exclusively a crime of the rich, and they're not exactly running around ratting each other out. Rush was always at a bigger risk because of his fame. He knew it, he ignored it, and some maid screwed him over for tabloid gossip, then the police were pretty much forced to act. Sorry Rush, don't bend over for the soap.

[leesa]

48. Funny. It's so rare that cops and DAs are described as 'liberals'

When a GOP member has his nuts in a legal vise, somehow his fellow wingnuts all become raging libruls out to get them.

[Thunder Road]

51. It's like the smug crap they throw at us...

when they say that a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged. Apparently a Liberal is a Conservative who feels his Constitutional rights are being threatened. Of course, if that were truly the case the entire country would be liberals right now, except most of the sheep don't realize how their rights are being slowly but surely chipped away by Attorney General Crisco.

[Thunder Road]

52. It's like the smug crap they throw at us...

when they say that a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged. Apparently a Liberal is a Conservative who feels his Constitutional rights are being threatened. Of course, if that were truly the case the entire country would be liberals right now, except most of the sheep don't realize how their rights are being slowly but surely chipped away by Attorney General Crisco.

[Thunder Road]

53. oops sorry, it told me the post hadn't been successful

for some reason because the browser window was open? didnt mean to post twice

[catzies]

59. That's okay, Thunder Road, and welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Just Me]

54. OMG,...that is so, so true,...

As long as no one interferes with their privileges, all is well. But, the minute anyone holds them responsible for their actions, everyone is a "librul" or "enemy" out to get them.

[proud patriot]

56. Remember when Chandra Levy was missing and Condit was never

charged with anything ? I do

They never killed that story , in fact
it cost Condit his Job .

I believe he is suing now .

This is more of the "liberal media" bias

[CatWoman]

57. Rush, Rush, Rush