Rush: "I'm tired today for some reason. Hope it's not obvious"

[Junkdrawer]

Actual quote. Slurring words. Tripping over his tongue constantly. Really. Won't say where he is. Ditto cam off.

[Zero Gravitas]

1. Did he take more pills than usual?

Or is he going through withdrawal?

Can't say that I feel particularly sorry for the hate-mongering schmuck.

[Selwynn]

3. I can (nt)

[DrBB]

2. The obvious explanation, of course:

Oxycontin withdrawal. Broadcasting live from the rehab ward.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Anyone REALLY know he's live?

It's amazing what you can do with recording devices these days...digital editing and so on. I wouldn't put it past Mayes & Hicks to have a Rush double on stand-by to "protect their investment" :puke:

[NoKingGeorge]

65. Hannuty must be using technology

He read an email about how could he support a pro-choice (arny) candidate. In answering he seemed to have been asked a question about compassion for pigboy. He went off on where's the compasion, I know a doctor (of course he would not 'know' a store clerk, this acn get anybody yada yada yada. But had nothing even remotely to do with the email. You could tell he had response #4 mixed up with question # 3.

[loudnclear]

5. It's called, drug withdrawl!

How complicated can that be?

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. gee I might actually tune in to see if he goes into on-air DTs

did I say "see" I meant "hope"

[TheBlob]

7. Anyone know what Oxycontin detox is like?

Given the amount he's rumored to have been swallowing I'm guessing he wouldn't be able to go through withdrawal without it being obvious.

[Snow]

9. You sure as hell don't do it cold turkey

even with medical supervision. It's a synthetic opiate, so it's like that kind of withdrawal. By all accounts, alcohol and cocaine withdrawal are really the big nasties, followed closely by nicotine. By comparison, opiate withdrawal isn't quite so bad, unless you try to do it in one fell shebang, in which case you not only feel like dying, you very possibly could. Stroke is a distinct possibility.

[hang a left]

20. Have you ever seen someone kick heroin before? It is pretty bad.

You can't die from it though like kicking alcohol. But they flail around and convulse and puke. I would think that they wish they were dead. I am sure he is having a medical detox with drugs. They load you up in the beginning, so you are pretty loaded, then they taper you off slowly. Maybe he is still using.

[rppper]

77. just to clarify something......

cocaine has NO detox....no side effects that could kill you, just cravings. opiates and sybthetic opiates, along with alcohol, can be deadly. coke will kill you if the coke isn't cut down or if too much is used, but in the detox/rehab i work at, we only observe the patient for 24 hours unless they are a very heavy user, and then it is only a 72 hour detox, generally with no anti-anxiety grugs for the cravings. we do use clonidine to keep their blood presure in check, as most any substance withdrawl will cause it to rise, but even this is rare....

opiates, alcohol and benzo withdrawl is a whole different story. the effects of withdrawl are potentialy deadly....stroke, seizures....the detox from any of these 3 start, at least in our facility, at 5 days. stats are checked every 4 hours and they are additionaly checked by sight every 15 mins. heroin, opiates and methadone withdrawls are a terrible sight to watch...nausea, diarrea, cramps, hot/cold flashes, sweats and craving to boot. alcohol DT's are a close second with the shakes and seizures.

i sincerly hope el-rushbo 'aint trying to do this on his own...those sound like some of the symptoms...he is out of his league here...but a fool with an ego the size of his, there is no telling....

"aaahhhrumph...friends, i am gonna kick this monkey on my own...don't need a detox...i am EL-RUSHBO...i am tough as nails...with talent and cajones on loan from gaaawwwdddd...blah, blah, blah...."

perhaps he is trying to martyr himself to his millions of listeners...dieing on air would do the trick i guess....

hey limbaugh...take this advice from a liberal in the rehab field....stop fucking around and get help before you grab your chest and die in front of god, mr. snerdly and your millions of ditto-head-numb-skulls.........

[Junkdrawer]

78. Towards the 2nd and 3rd hour he made strange burping like noises...

from time to time. Sometimes it sounded like he was catching his breath.

[ender]

81. the idiot is trying to kick it himself.

stupid stupid man.

Rush - get ye to a hospital - stat.

[0007]

85. More people have died from alcohol withdrawnal

than anything else.

[Mari333]

15. My son did it

He was on Oxys for a couple years....I watched him as he thrashed in pain, leg shakes, insomnia, horrible sweating, and I tried to get him into rehab...too much money for him at too young an age..Hes hopefully off of them now, and I made him move out on his own after he almost ODed..just couldnt take it anymore...
I pray to god he isnt taking them anymore..got hooked after a doctor prescribed drugs to him for degenerative disc disease..
Its a horrible thing to watch..I took 2 weeks off work to sit with him...very very ugly..

[NoKingGeorge]

58. Monday had the sniffles.

I heard him say Monday that he had the 'sniffles'. Said something like , seem to have the sniffles,sorry if its bothersome, then went to break. This was around 1226 Eastern if anyone has tape.

[Snow]

87. That's another opiate withdrawal symptom, I believe....

[Junkdrawer]

8. Yesterday, after he said he was lurking this site, I chided him...

for being "on the lam". (Since the drug revelations, He started broadcasting from NYC because the Palm Beach state attorneys office wants to talk with him as soon as he gets back to Florida. I'm sure the lovely Marta would also like a word with him.)

I think he’s still in NYC and I think that, like all addicts, he has trouble regulating exactly how much drug produces the desired effect without over dosing.

Rush, get treatment. And, yeah, it's obvious.

[The Backlash Cometh]

84. I bet he won't come back to Florida until he's sure he can pass a blood

test. Maybe the authorities will play fair on this one, afterall?

Naaaawwwww. I'll have to see it to believe it.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Damn. I'm at work with a radio, but no tape recorder.

Slurring about one word a minute. Sometimes more.

[Junkdrawer]

11. "Broadcast Eshelence, and an hour more to go"....

:evilgrin:

[Junkdrawer]

17. "Civical, Civical , ptewie, Civil Disobedience"

And his tone is that of a belligerent drunk. MUCH more than normal.

[ReadTomPaine]

12. For crying out loud, the man should take off a few weeks.

Tho I'm glad he's not.

[donotpassgo]

13. The 'Pray for Rush' poem...

Rush to Judgment on Rush

For many years he’s been our voice,
The loudest of us all.
The vipers tout that he has slipped,
But we can’t let him fall.
Let’s wait and see the truth come out,
Before we judge old Rush.
Don’t let the TV vultures turn,
His image into mush.
So send a card or make a call,
To voice your true support.
If he has broken any laws,
He’ll have his day in court.
So let me close with how I feel,
And then I’ll sit back down.
Rush is right and tells the truth,
Unlike that Couric Clown.


OMG this is priceless...can't freepers write a poem WITHOUT rhyming?

[Wickerman]

38. If he has broken any laws,

If he has broken any laws,
He’ll have his day in court.

Not, he'll accept his punishment like a responsible and ethical man. No, he'll have his day in the easy on the criminal couts system, and he'll hire the most expensive legal team he can find that will tie everything up in procedures for so long that the case will die 5 years after Rush OD's.

[AlinPA]

14. Turned on KDKA for weather; heard him slur words.

In only about 2 minutes he slurred words three times. I hope he runs out of Oxycontin and climbs a wall. Bastard right wing rPIG.

[caledesi]

16. OMG! You have to hear him! Go here:

http://www.premiereinteractive.com/rushstream/

He is slurring words, stumbling...it's too much. Get the hook! The guy is obviously high as a kite.

[darknemus]

19. Listening now..

Also, if you listen on WJNO off that link, I'd suggest you stay on and listen to Randi Rhodes coming up at 3 PM - good stuff.

(Oh my god, Rush does sound bad.. its really scary.. he sounds like he's slipping into being basically, trashed)


-darknemus

[caledesi]

32. Thanks. I have never heard Randi Rhodes, but heard good stuff

about her.

[deek]

62. Can't listen unless

turn off firewall/antivirus? I don't think so....

[charlie]

67. I used the Chicago feed

http://www.wlsam.com/listenlive.asp

through WMP.

[Kahuna]

18. ROTF! I was listening to el rushbom but I missed that one..

:crazy:

[darknemus]

21. Good god, he's seriously like, trashed on the air..

Listen to his pitch / tone / speed of speaking change. Its amazing - he speaks pretty much like I would after about 6 shots of some fine tequila. This is definitely freaky. But, quite amusing :)

-darknemus

[PATRICK]

22. They are all stressed and losing it

lately. Overdose of truth. Some have lost jobs and reputations and boatloads of sponsors.

Sounds like the healthy season is breaking out in the body politic. Lots of fevers, possibly fatal for dissemblers.

[darknemus]

24. He sounds lost.. I mean just LOST

I'm not exaggerating. I've heard Rush many, many times. Oh my god.. its a really surreal experience to hear him this f'ed up sounding. Amusing, yes - but definitely surreal.

-darknemus

[caledesi]

35. I have only heard him once or twice, but today is shocking!

I cannot believe that he is on the air in this condition and station is allowing it to go on. It's pathetic.

He is so "out of it."

[anti_shrub]

23. What are the freeps saying about this?

I know we have secret agents over there, how are they spinning the fact that their idol is slurring like Otis the town drunk?

[darknemus]

25. Anyone just hear him say

"Phyllis, you are a brilliant woman"? - He sounded like a guy leering at a barfly at 4 AM in the morning. and now he's dragging out words.. "I have to admit, there is reason to think thisssssssss"

-darknemus

[caledesi]

37. Trolled freeperville and nothing yet. "Rush is fine; he was framed."

LOL! Seriously, they haven't touched this one yet, but I will keep trolling. I don't want to miss this one.

OMG! He's back and worst that ever....he's slurring every other word.

He is so f*cking stoned.

[Clark Can WIN]

26. Thanks man

This is freakin' hilarious.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[darknemus]

28. I am really surprised they're letting him stay on the air.

Because there really isn't much of a way to spin his current spiraling. And he's making these weird noises on the air.. his breathing & just general.. vibe seems all off.

-darknemus

[blm]

27. WITHDRAWAL symptoms.

He should be in a hospital.

[caledesi]

42. I don't think it's withdrawal...I think he's stoned out of his mind.

The cadence of his voice...so sick. I am still shocked that he is allowed on the air.

Tired? I don't think so.

[Rex]

29. He knows the end is near for his career.

Pigman wrote just one to many checks that his ass can't cash IMO. He (to use a Beatles term) "though he was bigger than Jesus". I still don't think he will do any hard time behind bars, but if he does I hope it's in state and not federal prison. :evilgrin:

[darknemus]

33. New Rush words :)

Absoly = absolutely

ridiclus = ridiculous

thisssssssssss= this

agonahahv = is gonna have

isu = issue

whiv = with

thas wha u seee = that's what you see

some poyn = some point

ridiclus = ridiculous, again

these guysh wan vhotes = these guys want votes

Seriously, this is a running commentary, and I'm not exaggerating.. he's trashed.

-darknemus

[caledesi]

53. Good one DN! Yup, the druggie has a new vocabulary now.

[caledesi]

44. I think he will OD on purpose. Serious here. He is going down

and he knows it. And remember, he has been in rehab TWICE already and went back to using.

Memo to Pigboy: Your 15 minutes are up.

[jab105]

30. What's with the sighing?

Didn't he cream AL Gore for sighing in the debates?

[Zero Gravitas]

31. Drunk?

He sounds drunk.

[ender]

72. he may well be drunk...

alcohol masks some of the nastier withdrawal symptoms reasonably well. he may be trying to kick this by himself.

ugh... i feel bad for the guy... if his habit is 1/10 of what was reported, he should be in a hospital.

[DemNoir]

34. I havnt listened to him in years

But had to tune in after reading this and you guys are so right! He is stoned to the bone man!

[darknemus]

39. OH MY GOD!

its getting worse. He has no idea how slow he's talking / speaking. And its not an issue with the stream, as I've got him on live on the radio behind me. His speech pattern keeps changing mid-sentence.

Siegfried from Siegfried & Roy sounds more coherent and more understandable than Rush right now.

(He played a quote from Siegfried..that's why I mentioned that)

-darknemus

[anti_shrub]

36. I hope someone was able to record this

For those people who don't access to radios/PC speakers....

[Clark Can WIN]

40. Oh my god.........................

Do you know......... do you know.......... do you know?

Sounds like a SNL skit.

[darknemus]

43. He's rambling

I've heard him say 'A tiger is a tiger' about 20 times now. He keeps repeating himself.. its almost sad...

(note I said 'almost' :) )

What the hell is this "many things are what they are" - sounds like Stephen Wright comedy.

-darknemus

[darknemus]

45. Ok.. scary

He just came back from his last break with the SAME rambling after the commercial "A tiger is a tiger and a tiger does what a tiger does" - the SAME exact thing he was saying before the commercial break.

Like, verbatim

-darknemus

[Clark Can WIN]

48. That's it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He sounds like drunk girl.

[Spider Jerusalem]

61. Yep...a tautology is a tautology is a tautology...(n/t)

[caledesi]

46. Wonder if SNL will parody this one? It's ripe for a bunch of yucks!

[Stupdworld]

41. Oxycontin 3:16

captain codone away!

[eleny]

47. Tigers snakes and liberals?

Oh, jeez. He's a caricature of himself, anymore.

When you start talking about Siegfreid and Roy and weave it into snakes and liberals - what can I say. His synapses are shrugging their collective shoulders and have stopped firing.

[caledesi]

49. This is priceless...listening to a meltdown on radio. Where is Wonk?

Wonk baby...you must make an MP3 of this. No one should miss this one.

[eleny]

50. Well, we can all say that we were there the day he lost it

eom

[darknemus]

52. I would have really thought

The 'powers that be' would have yanked him off the air and blamed it on something like 'Rush isn't feeling well' or something, rather than let him bury himself like that. He sounded, honestly, high. Rambling, repeating himself, slurring his words, change in speech cadence, non-linear sentence structure, etc, etc.

Rush Limbaugh has become Harry Caray after about 10 budweisers.

-darknemus

[caledesi]

56. Yeah eleny. "Where were you when Rush lost it?" LOL! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

59. Shit man, I'm at work and the keyboard is now soaked with tea...

careful with that stuff...

[anti_shrub]

51. Why don't his producers try to help/stop this?

If for no other reason, to keep their meal ticket from having such a public, Hindenburg-esque flameout.

[oasis]

71. "Pigboy=Hindenburg".....that's a dandy

:-)

[TacticalPeek]

83. One's a flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other's a zeppelin.

:)

[lumpy]

54. The blow-hard worm is squirming ?

Now if he would be reduced to using sign language we'd all be better off.

[Junkdrawer]

55. OK folks. He normally posts audio clips around 7:00 - 7:30 PM...

Let's see if ANY make it to:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com

Otherwise, I'm hoping somebody recorded this for posterity.

[eleny]

57. I cannot listen to Sean

Please post if he addresses Rush. I suppose he won't, though. But just in case, can you please post a word for me? Gotta go!

[anti_shrub]

60. His producers should have kicked out the power plug

As soon as it was obvious Rush wasn't in on-air shape, they should have either just stopped the show for "technical difficulties", or just had it be an all call-in show and had one of the guys who fill in hosting for him on the phone to help field questions.

The only thing I can think of is that Rush was afraid to skip a show while the drug story was out,for fear of losing the fundy portion of his audience (which is probably a good chunk of it), so he ends up spending three hours sounding like Gary Busey on a bender.

[Junkdrawer]

63. I think he intimidates his crew - he listens to no one...

And did you hear that belligerence? Would you want to question a drunken boss while they were drunk?

McCarthy went this way. I remember hearing tapes of him drunk and ranting.

[darknemus]

66. You know, if I was a Freeper

and able to conjure up some form of rational thought (a talent most of them seem to lack) - I would be screaming to get Rush off the air until he sorts through his 'demons' (ooh, scary word!) - They have to realize that this is going to make them the laughing stock of folks, and get people scanning the dial a bit more. And, if they, god forbid, wind up on some liberal talk show... well... it might snap the trance.

-darknemus

[BigBigBigBear]

64. Are you kidding?

Rush is everybody's meal ticket. He's gotten to where he is because no one says no to El Rushbo.

Until ESPN said no. Witness the result.

[rocktivity]

68. Has he at least admitted to having or having had "a problem"?

I can live with his not wanting to say anything that might incriminate him LEGALLY. But if all he's said is that he doesn't want to say anything until he has "all the facts" (???), how do we know if he's clean or getting clean NOW? I think admitting that much would do more good than harm.


rocknation

[darknemus]

69. He hasn't acknowledged it at all

But his slurring tells me all I need to know :)

-darknemus

[monobrau]

70. Anybody record it?

Damn, I missed it. Did anybody get a clip?

[Junkdrawer]

73. His site has a subscription option where you can listen...

to the latest show 24x7. I say we take up a collection and get Wonk (our resident streaming audio guru) to post it at his site.

[Junkdrawer]

74. WEST COAST DUERS: RECORD RUSH IF YOU CAN....

Please.....

[Spider Jerusalem]

75. Rush airs 12-3pm, EST (9AM-12PM PDT).

No time delay or rebroadcast.

[Junkdrawer]

76. Someone in the midwest or west said they did a one hour tape delay...

It was posted on a thread a day or two ago. But I guess they can't call in. :shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

79. A little kicky-poo...

:kick:

[Clark Can WIN]

80. kick

:dem:

[Wickerman]

82. I'll kick this

it was so deliciously pleasant to read, that I do believe the evening shift might want to catch it.

And yes, this is me, a man who works with substance abuse, watching and listening to the chemical imploding of a human being and loving it. In true Repuggly spirit I won't accept responsibility for my hatred, I'll just say that Rush has worked so hard to earn it.

[Junkdrawer]

86. He may be trying to detox himself with alcohol (timeline)...

He went to Philly Wed. night last week. The story broke Wed. night around 9 PM on Drudge. He made that keynote speech to the broadcasters Thurs. morning, then spent the rest of the day looking for a lawyer. Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Today(??) he broadcast from "high above NY in EIB towers". Unless he brought a huge stash with him, I'll bet he's out of pills and feeling the effects. Probably using booze to counter the withdrawal symptoms.

He either gets help TONIGHT, or convulsions begin soon.

[9215]

88. Don't go Jimmy Swaggart on us Limpy, just go.

I remember when the front page of the Seattle Times had a pic of Swaggart crying for having committed some infidelity or something.It was years ago, then before his hanky was dry he was back on the TV saying the same old shit.

[roguevalley]

90. I think he's afraid to go off the air because people will believe he's

detoxing or too stoned. But since he seems to be
calling the shots, he may not realize how bad he
sounds because junkies never see themselves
clearly.

[west michigan]

89. an interesting read....

....what are the odds for a guest speaker tomorrow???

[Junkdrawer]

91. Depends if he's in withdrawal or just using...

If he's using, he'll cut back a little and be back.

If he's in withdrawal, he might be dead by tomorrow.

[anti_shrub]

92. Listen to the audio link on the tiger story

Even my non professional ears can tell there's some heavy editing thats been done.

[angka]

93. come on, man! i need a bump!

he could probably use a cold sweat though.

[Dr Fate]

94. Rush has sad many times that drug abusers belong in jail...

...at least in this onecase, I agree.

[0rganism]

95. Hmm, isn't it about time for him to have another "operation"?

I can't believe he's on the air these days. Scrapin'.

[Oilwellian]

96. Sounds like you guys were...

witnesses to the unfolding of a Shakespeare tragedy. I can't stop crying. Really.