Any Updates on Rush?Things have been awfully quiet!

[romantico]

You know the day he comes back to work is gonna be declared a holiday to the Freeps!ANy word on how he's doing? Just curious if he's been sneaking off after curfew to the bars or if he's allowed to smkoe his cuban cigars.Anyone?

[leftofthedial]

1. yeah, he's a fat lying hypocritical piece of excrement

who deserves to die broke and anonymous in a puddle of his own puke and urine in an alley next to a dumpster.

And that's the latest on the worthless fuck.

[romantico]

3. I heard he's up for the lead in the play the center is producing

Perhaps he's doing a radio show inside.I just don't think 30 days is gonna do it.What a hoot if he gets out rehab & continues his habbit.Although, it will be sad I can see El RUshbo doing this then trying to sue the center for fulfilling their part of the bargain!

[Bertha Venation]

5. leftofthedial...

...don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

[leftofthedial]

19. sorry, but I had to tone it down for the kiddies

who might be reading.

[CO Liberal]

2. The Latest: "Does Clear Channel's Rush Limbaugh Have AIDS?"

Just found this through Google. - Wayne

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Does Clear Channel's Rush Limbaugh Have AIDS?

by CONSPIRACY PLANET

In his column, "From Bush to Rush: Which Lie Did I Tell?", political analyst Al Martin writes that "people have been commenting on the physical appearance of Rush Limbaugh. Here was a guy who was 100 pounds overweight all his life. Over the last 18 months, he has lost 200 pounds. And commentators are saying he looks just like an AIDS patient The amount of weight he's lost, the sunken in look. He's also mentioned he doesn't have any appetite, can't eat anything anymore and can't keep things down."

This blockbuster column published on Al Martin Raw: Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence (www.almartinraw.com) questions the many lies that Rush has told in his bid to remain as the top mouthpiece for the Bush Cabal in the media.

"If he does have AIDS, it's highly unlikely that gay activists would embrace him," Martin continues. "But Clear Channel is definitely easing him out. You can tell that the process has begun because everybody on the right is singing his praises.

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http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=97&contentid=985

[CatWoman]

6. Rush flew over the cuckoo's nest

a detailed account from one of his fellow patients :D

The new Admission comes in. Everyone at Mercy Drug Treatment stops what they're doing. The cokeheads quit their card game. The heroin-laced male prostitutes stop sleeping on the couch. And me, sitting in my easy chair, wearing flip-flops over white socks and a green gown, I turn away from the World Series.

The Admission is as big as a house and as pale as the morning clouds that used to hang over the fields on which I played, before the addictions took control. He looks at each of us. He laughs, brash, as if he knows everyone is listening.

"Well, if this ain't liberal-commie heaven. Name's McLimbaugh -- R.P. McLimbaugh. Now, who's got the drugs?"


http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/news_rocketscience.html

[Guaranteed]

20. LOL!

Classic!

[CO Liberal]

4. Limbaugh may just think he died and went to "feminazi" hell

Another One - Wayne

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Limbaugh may just think he died and went to "feminazi" hell

It’s true that Rush Limbaugh won’t be going through cold, nasty, state-funded drug treatment like his poorer fellow addicts–that is, in the states that still have treatment slots open, as Republicans, spurred by people like Limbaugh and his armies, have consistently put the kibosh on government-funded drug programs. And yes, as a loaded, white alleged buyer of illegal drugs he probably won’t go to jail the way a street addict would, though the maid he allegedly got to buy illegal pain pills for him may be put in the can.

But after researching the place that Limbaugh reportedly checked into for drug treatment, I’m convinced that if the treatment is successful, he could be transformed into a being that is barely recognizable. In this case, that can only be a good thing. After all, if Limbaugh has been on synthetic heroin for years, foaming at the mouth and railing against liberals, a detoxed Limbaugh might be defanged as well. (Makes you wonder what Ann Coulter is on, eh?) That’s not to mention that the treatment center that sources told the New York Post he’s entered is, for him, the belly of the beast.

Previously, Limbaugh put himself into overnight detox–twice, we’re told–at the sterile, business-like, highly secretive Addiction Recovery Institute in Manhattan. The rehab facility he’s rumored to have checked into now for 30 days, Sierra Tucson–which will neither confirm nor deny that Limbaugh has checked in–is just outside of Tucson in the Sonora Desert, a setting with a "quiet beauty, inherent strength, and enduring ability to inspire," as described on the facility’s website. For a guy who has railed against "anti-people New Age mystics," the "treatment modalities" at Sierra Tucson are certainly enough to make his hair stand on end. It’s also likely that Limbaugh is being treated alongside the very Hollywood types he has railed against for years, people who check in to discreet, upscale rehab centers in the desert but tell themselves–and their friends–that they’re doing a spa vacation.

"Sierra Tucson utilizes many different types of therapeutic modalities to access underlying issues," the website of the roughly $1000-a-day treatment center explains. "Each modality is designed to unearth vital information from different angles and pathways into one’s self." (That is all supposed to happen before you head on to the adjoining Miraval Spa, a posh resort and sister company to Sierra Tucson, where you rest up at after you’ve done your 30 days in the treatment center.)

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Link to story: http://www.nypress.com/16/43/news&columns/signorile.cfm

[radwriter0555]

7. Well, so far he got that tummy tuck, some lipo and had his neck

tightened up a wee bit there.

[Bertha Venation]

8. what does it matter?

Isn't the guy entitled to try to get his shit together in peace? I've got no love for the asshole, but IMO give him a chance to heal. He may be an asshole, but he's a human being.

[Bandit]

9. So was Hitler but I wouldn't feel sorry for him either.

Rush is lower than any human on the planet. He gets no sympathy from me.

[Wapsie B]

11. Not after he sold his soul

to the dark side.
"but he's a human being"

Even if he did a Lee Attwater on his deathbed I will shed not a tear. Lucifer can have his eternal soul.

[mac56]

13. Welcome, Bertha

What you're describing is "empathy". A sense of "there but for the grace of God go I." Limbaugh has shown precious little of that any time during his career, particularly toward those he is now one among (people with addictions, alleged criminals).

You'll pardon me if I observe that karma is a bitch. I'd be more charitable toward him if he'd been more charitable toward other unfortunates in the past.

[Bertha Venation]

14. I hear what you all are saying

It's not that I can't see it from your P.O.V. And it's not that I don't agree on some level. It's that I've been there. I wasn't evil or on drugs, but I was WAY f*cked up by the radical right, I was one of them. Maybe when he gets his shit together he'll come out (so to speak) too.

And TY for the welcome, Mac56. Sorry my boys of summer beat your boys of summer in the ALCS last year. O8)

[mac56]

15. I hope you're right.

It's hard for me to imagine he'll be able to keep up his anger and hatred once he's been confronted in treatment. Even though the radical right did a number on you - and I'm glad you're past all that - Rush had a "bully pulpit" from which to spew his garbage, one that you (I'm guessing) and I don't.

Are you talking about the Angels beating the Twinks in 2002? The Halos went on to make us proud.

[Bertha Venation]

22. Angels v. Twinkies

Yepper.... more than a year later, I still can't believe it. I guess it's that way for all lifelong fans of teams that rarely amount to much.

[belle]

17. I love the idea of him being in his own personal New Age purgatory, myself

I hope he wakes up to wind chimes and has Enya forcibly piped into his room to soothe him to sleep. I hope his every morning and afternoon consists of him sitting in a room of terribly terribly gentle, earnest people who insist that he really get to his FEELINGS, and assure him that it's all right to cry. And don't let him finish the session until he does. I hope every time he even begins on one of his trademarks rants, he's greeted by a gently hurt look and a reminder that he's spreading "negative energy." I hope they're "encouraging" him every evening to contort his poundage into uncomfortable pretzel shapes, all the while chanting "OM" and gagging on his least favorite flavor of incense. Oh, it's a glorious vision.

[NoKingGeorge]

16. Damages MY Country and you want compasion?

For the disservice this POS has done to MY Country he would have been hung by the fore fathers. If his uneducated followers ever understand this assholes betrayel-for-money-scam he will understand Karma's wrath.
He is in rehab because it is the first step his lawyer advised towards getting him in shape for court nothing more,nothing less..




on edit I took out 'dies hungry and alone',( I don't know why.)

[villager]

10. "Rush's Rehab Hell"...

...or some such headline in the new National Enquirer! Just saw it last night, but my groceries were checked too fast, so I didn't have time to read it! Next time...

[Cat Atomic]

12. He deserves our forgiveness and support.

We should embrace him and...

Oh, fergit it- I'm not even convincing myself.

Fuck Limbaugh.

Anyway, you know what really cracks me up about the situation? Listen to any of his fellow right-wing salesmen. They say the left is terrible for criticizing Rush, because we're supposed to be the good, forgiving people.

What the fuck does that make them? The evil, cruel people? I mean yeah- of course it does- but when did they start admitting it?

Also- to anyone with sympathy for Limbaugh, it shows you very clearly that these people see your sympathy as a WEAKNESS, not a virtue.

[belle]

18. It means...

"We liked it better when you didn't fight back."

[skip fox]

21. I dislike this man's opinions intensely, but I hate to see anyone

trapped by an addiction or other illness. I hope he gets off Oxy and onto a better view of humanity.

I say this even though I realize he could be the man responsible for W.'s victory (and thus, Iraq, cutting funds to states, renewed star wars spending, etc.) in such a tight election, and he maybe even responsible for the destruction of our planet (calling depletion of the ozone layer by human industry "junk science").

But even if he doesn't become a better human, I'd still not like to see him addicted, if only that he would be more rabid in his opinions.

[Bake]

23. The odds are against the slimeball

When the news first broke, all the networks had their narc experts on, and they all said that the relapse rate for abusers like Pigboy is like 85%. I'd say he's hooked for life, and Clear Channel knows it. I can't imagine they really want to risk him embarrassing the Right again, but then I've been wrong before.

I hope to see him eased into retirement so the wingnuts can all worship his memory, just like they do St. Ronnie.

Bake

[catmandu57]

24. He's cooked

I don't know, nobody does the level of sincerity the pigboy has about getting clean, but, I happen to agree that this is a move done by and for the lawyers.

The only reason this sick son of a bitch is in a rehab is to try to save his fat ass,(no offense to fat people). He'll never be able to follow a twelve step program, and if he tried he'd have to give up his three hour hate fest or go right back into the snake pit.

If he is really trying to get clean, he'll give up the hate and will be of no use to his handlers and followers. I would imagine that there is a great push to find a replacement now.

Personally, I hope the maggott chokes to death on his own vomit ass bubba is ass raping him in prison.

[thebaghwan]

25. Reason is that they haven't got his head out of his ass yet.

Actually I figure he probably is on the downside of the D.T.s. Here's is to hoping he has a gay M.D. and a "feminazt" nurse.