Rush Limbaugh Caught in Drug Ring!

[WillyBrandt]

"Talk-radio titan Rush Limbaugh is being investigated for allegedly buying thousands of addictive painkillers from a black-market drug ring.

"The moralizing motormouth was turned in by his former housekeeper - who says she was Limbaugh's pill supplier for four years."

http://www.nydailynews.com/10-02-2003/front/story/122839p-110349c.html

[WillyBrandt]

1. Money Quote

"There were times when I worried," Cline told the National Enquirer, which broke the story in an edition being published today. "All these pills are enough to kill an elephant - never mind a man."

I'd say!

[eleny]

3. ooooooh - a detail!

we like details!

[Democat]

5. Did she say elephant?

[Katie]

8. yep! she said elephant! roflmao!

cant stop laughing!~

[FDRrocks]

15. Eh, if it works faster...

than his former morbid obesity... fine by me.

[Rose Siding]

2. She's a witness and she sold her story?

To the Enquirer? Too bad. Looked like it might have been a CASE!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. yes, and I have my suspicitons too

Now on an earlier thread somebody was sugesting
that key players were being neutralized.

These are games that are being played
at a very high level...

[frank frankly]

9. nb, this is geopolitics, fast and loose

keep taking notes
i know i've been!

[WillyBrandt]

10. you overestimate them

They've been playing a con game the whole time which is collapsing more quickly than we can keep up with.

This isn't planned: this isn't a ruse. This is what happens when the fuckers' fuck-ups catch up to the motherfuckers.

[frank frankly]

4. Limbaugh you're gone

gone
gone

[Renew Deal]

12. Keep kicking that ass...

:kick:

People are seeing that these guys were "full of shit" all along.

[creativelcro]

49. wasn't he going

DEAF a few months ago?? -C

[VolcanoJen]

6. LBN thread, for those who just can't get enough of this stuff.

:bounce:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=143617

[jonoboy]

11. would'nt weight loss

pills been more appropriate..we are the ones that need the painkillers

[Skittles]

31. lol...................jonoboy

you're certainly right about that! :O

[charlie]

13. "4,350 in one 47-day period"!!!!!!

No two ways about it, Limbloat was a STONER. His appetite for opiates was bigger than his passion for fried salty snacks.

[0rganism]

17. Makes me wonder about that "ear surgery" thing

Maybe he was just taking an opium-fueled vacation?

[screaming_meme]

24. Abuse of the drugs Rush took cause hearing loss

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-091001vicodin.story

Which explains his sudden deafness 2 years ago. He got hooked like 4 years ago.

[Suspicious]

37. Hmmm.

That's certainly interesting information. :think:

[Brian Sweat]

42. Hmmm, this would explain a lot if it is true

He claimed he was going deaf, went away for detox and he was all better.

[tridim]

18. That's 92 pills per day

I believe in the real world that's a charge of posession with intent to sell.

Why the b'jesus does this punk need to traffic narcotics? He already makes a quarter of a billion dollars a year!

[Cheswick2.0]

26. that is 92 a day, he was selling this shit

he wasn't just taking it, he was selling it. No one takes that many Oxycontin and lives.

[Booberdawg]

35. Why would he be selling it? That doesn't make sense.

He makes millions. Is it possible to build up a tolerance for 90+ pills a day after 4 years? I just don't buy the selling.

on edit: the article says she provided him 4350 in a 47 day period, that's not the same to say he actually took all of them in that time. So I think this line of thought for selling is off base.

[Caution]

41. he probably procures for friends

he has a nice steady supply and was probbaly doing favors for friends. Either way, most states have threshold laws, meaning a certain amount automatically kicks in a distribution charge and i'm guessing 4000 pills in one month will probably hit that threshold.

[Booberdawg]

44. Okay, I wasn't considering it from a threshold standpoint

[MadHound]

50. Sad to say, but he could have been taking all of those pills

I've known a couple of downer/opiate addicts, and their tolerances were friggin' unbelievable. You could watch them throw down fifteen-twenty Xanex or similar downer, and they would remain concious and functional. To get into that nice downer high/unconciousness going, forty-fifty pills were required. Tolerance finally got so bad that had to start shooting the shit, and one finally died of an overdose-seven Delodads(sp) shot in the jugular. When you get hooked that bad, you start taking more and more just to stay "normal" forget about the buzz.

So perhaps Rush, especially given how large he is, simply has a huge monkey on his back and takes all of these himself. Sad but true.

[SWPAdem]

54. Yep...serious partying for him and his ditto-posse

still laughing......

[Brian Sweat]

52. Opiates suppress your respiratory system.

If you get too much in your system, you will stop breathing completely and die. I don't believe you can ever develope a tolerance with regard to your respiratory system, but I could be wrong. I don't know what he was taking, but I find it hard to believe someone could survive 90 vicodin or percoset a day. Especially, day after day.

[amazona]

38. not selling maybe just having parties

He doesn't need the money. I would tend to assume that he also provided pills for his guests. Let's everybody party! Just the same, it's distribution. If he was black, he'd already be under the jail for life moving this quantity of product for so long.


it's just good manners to entertain your guests lavishly

[drdigi420]

40. he wasnt a stoner

he was a pill head

stoners are generally nice people.

[Booberdawg]

14. Using for 4 years?? In detox twice??

Jesus H fucking Christ on a stick and Holy Nipples of Mary! No WONDER he is such a goddamn ASSHOLE! He's using all the time - he's a junkie! It never even crossed my mind! 4 years!

I guess that just blows the SHIT out of HIS credibility. GAWD! These goddamn moral, holier than thou Republican zealots, I swear. Right down the shitter with Bill Bennett.

We ALWAYS knew what phony bastards they are. Gawd, the shit is just flying fast and furious tonight. Unbelievable. Pigboy is a junkie for the last 4 years - no wonder he acts psychotic all the time. Damn.

Disclaimer - while I, and most likely most of us here, understand addiction to be a sickness, and not an issue of morality, that is not how the likes of pigboy, Bennett, and freeper zealots portray it. They rather see it as a reflection of character, or station in life. So excuse me while I take delight in pigboys self-imposed shame and humiliation.

[Booberdawg]

16. Somebody get Asscroft after him!

:evilgrin:

[amazona]

39. i told my partner so some time back...

I feel a little smug now. To be honest, I assumed that he was on some sort of speed as well. It's a vicious trap, because the speed/coke that makes you lose weight can, for some people, cause sleeplessness and the resulting deep muscle pain and fatique...leading to the use of strong painkillers, which are strongly physically addictive.

No excuse needed for delighting in the scandal. Real people go to prison for abusing and sharing around this quantity of narcotics. Until all a regular Joe faces is some "embarrassment" for being caught with unprescribed painkillers, we have an obligation to call for an investigation and prosecution of drug use when enjoyed by the rich and influential. I am tired of his ilk being above the law. Very damn tired. If more rich drugs users were in prisons, we'd have 1000 percent better conditions in our prisons.

I do have sympathy for decent people like Elizabeth Taylor who get caught up in drugs, but this woman has made many efforts to be honest and to draw attention to her fine causes. She is not pretending to be high and mighty and above it all. Therefore, it is reasonable that we would have a natural sympathy for her affliction. No such sympathy can attach to evil creators of propaganda a la Rush.



forcing one's housekeeper into a life of crime is just tacky

[Brian Sweat]

51. Having been prescribed Vicodin and Percocet and been given Dilaudid

I can tell you that after taking them for a short time, you get really grumpy when you start to withdrawal.

[PurityOfEssence]

19. Hillbilly Heroin, is that appropriate or what? Oooh, what a rush!

Maybe that's where he got his first name, huh?

Some stories just smack of the truth (pun intended) when you hear them.

"His tone was nasty and bullying. He said, 'I don't care how or what you do, but you'd better - better! - get me some more,'" Cline said.

Just plain mean, that's what he is...

[Mikimouse]

20. If this is true, and if there is a god...

Please, please, please let me be his detox counselor (I have been certified since '94 as an intern couselor). Oh joy, oh rapture! OK, Rush, let's talk about the 12 steps! A program of rigorous honesty, you ask? Well, that is certainly something you claim to know a great deal about, isn't that so? ( chewing and spitting out little bits of Limbaugh, while laughing and handing over the Gatorade bottle.) :evilgrin:

[Corgigal]

21. 92 Pills a day?

It's amazing he's still alive. Can anyone really take that much and keep the body functioning? I don't even think cancer patients take anything along those lines.

Rush must have it bad. He has the means to fly to Mexico every few months and get what he needed outside of the country and no one would have been any wiser.

[charlie]

22. Stockpiling

For the time when his connections dry up. Happily, his bulk purchasing puts his crime into the "with the intent to sell" category. Tough rap to beat, especially if his jurisdiction has mandatory sentencing laws.

[WoodrowFan]

23. In Florida

he won't do jail time, he's a rich white republican male! Jail is for poor non-white Democrats in Florida!

On the other hand, doesn't Florida deny felons the right to vote?????

[charlie]

27. He never bothered to vote

for his hero of heroes, St Ronnie. Losing the privelege will only give the lazy bastard an excuse for avoiding the inconvenience of hauling his tired ass out of bed on election day.

[hexola]

53. Say Hi to Noel Bush!!!

I hear they have killer rehab programs in FLA...

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

25. Now people...

let's remember that chemical dependency is a disease and that we should all be considerate of his...

...aw, screw it! Monkey Pile! Monkey Pile on the Lardass!!

[OneTwentyoNine]

28. To damn good not to BUMP

..

[Blue-Jay]

29. This is shaping up to be a good month.

Now if someone can find illegal porno at Hannity's house and the dead body in Coulter's basement, we'll be on our way.

[Skittles]

30. I have sympathy for people battling drug additions

but I have severe difficulites feeling sorry for this racist gasbag, who has so little empathy for those who are hurting. I'm hoping that "what goes around, comes around" teaches Mr. Rush a little humility. I am not, however, holding my breath.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

32. He'll portray himself as a victim

of sleazy drug dealers. Once again, another Republican who eschews 'personal responsibility'.

:eyes:

[WoodrowFan]

34. He'll blame his housekeeper

who is probably a Democrat. :eyes:

[HFishbine]

33. He'll probably claim

that he legitimately needed them but that retail prescription drug costs in this country are just too damn high.

[charlie]

36. That's it

And when the 4350-pill ConcussionPak was offered in the One-Day-Only Half Price Sale, he couldn't pass up the savings.

[Brian Sweat]

43. Can a NY Daily News story based on an Enquirer story be trusted?

[Booberdawg]

45. NY Daily News can be

[neebob]

47. I dunno, but that's pretty heavy

to accuse someone of being part of a drug ring. The tabloids have been sued enough times to make them more careful than that. Plus Rush isn't their typical target, or at least I hadn't noticed him on any covers at the supermarket. I'm betting it's true. There must be a god, or maybe just some rich old Democratic bastard who's had enough.

[Cassandra]

46. It's being covered on CNN

at 10:28AM EST. YIPEE! Says he wasn't the original target, that he just got caught in the investigation.

[neebob]

48. Yesssssssss! nt

[pdx_prog]

55. Not to defend the fat ass but...

I have seen many people who were addicted to Hydrocodone......seems a little weird that he could keep up the pace he is on for so long, yet still not show any signs of dependency.

The other side of my brain really really really wishes that it is true!