Roy Black statement on Rush

[dancingme]

MIAMI, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney,
issued the following statement today in response to several inquiries by
the media:
While going through routine Customs inspection of luggage at Palm Beach
International Airport upon his return from an international trip, Rush
Limbaugh was detained by customs agents after they noticed a non-narcotic
prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating
physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr.
Limbaugh for privacy purposes. After a brief interview, Mr. Limbaugh was
permitted to continue on his journey.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-26-2006/0004387486&EDATE=

[Gabi Hayes]

1. hold it....where's my checkbook? here!

[dancingme]

2. What's the name of the doctor

and is he a licensed doctor?

[cantstandbush]

20. So now the doctors write prescriptions to themselves and give it Rush?

shouldn't there be some kind of misconduct charges against these docs?

[RagingInMiami]

3. Well, that explains that

Now the media can go back to reporting bullshit terror alerts.

[xultar]

4. They think we are going to buy that!!! It would have been a non story

if it had been his.

Who was Rush Fuckin?

[babylonsister]

6. I honestly don't wanna know! Perhaps he was meeting some new

anonymous lovelies in the DR?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. Rosie and Mary

[oasis]

32. Someone over in the DR has the goods on Rushbo. The National

Enquirer will be sending a reporter on the next flight.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. I have $20 that says...

... that the physician in question has a criminal record in at least three states of selling prescriptions. Another $20 says that an investigation will show no records of this doctor ever seeing Limbaugh in person. And a last $20 on the physician not even having a medical licenses in the state wherein the drug was "prescribed."

[dancingme]

10. Dr. Feelgood

;)

[americanstranger]

25. Is Elvis' doctor still alive?

Just askin'

- as

[autorank]

37. LOL

My thought as well...

[rug]

8. "for privacy purposes"?

Well that worked.

[Biernuts]

13. When I was in the Army, I got the crabs. What I put on the form for

sick call was "Rash". The doctor prescribed the proper cream for crabs without me having to explain to the medic beforehand.

[rug]

17. Thank you.

[Quantess]

30. Thanks for the idea.

I'll call him "Rash Limbaugh"

[Patsy Stone]

9. Lemme just say this...

Anytime you hear that someone's attorney is Roy Black, that sucker's guilty.

[Biernuts]

11. What's chilling is that anything at all was said publically

Forget it was Limbaugh and change the circumstances: "Chuck Schumer was briefly detained by customs after his AIDs drugs were found in a bottle with not his, but his doctor's name on it. After determining it was prescribed for Chuck, but labled in his doctor's name to protect his privacy, he was permitted to proceed."

Now, who is for publicizing this type of information on anybody?

Not me. I don't change my fundamental beliefs just because I may not like the guy. If they can do it to Limbaugh - then they can do it to YOU.

[babylonsister]

15. Great big fat difference; Limpballs is/was a drug addict who lied

about it, claiming his disdain for drug addicts while being one himself. He asked for the attention he's getting.

[Biernuts]

38. Then, since when do we give him what he wants

This is bigger than Limbaugh. Scoring a few cheap points isn't worth opening this pandora's box.

[mac56]

44. Sure it is.

Would the freepers hold themselves back if the roles were reversed?

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

[babylonsister]

46. Trust me, he doesn't 'want' this attention. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

18. police blotter stuff

ANYTHING and everything like that gets covered

it's what reporters do

they have a beat that just looks at records like this, and once they're made public, anybody's fair game

[dancingme]

19. Send Rush to Iraq

since he likes traveling to warm climates.

[Scout1071]

21. He was carryinig an illegal prescription.

I'm pretty damn sure it's against the law to prescribe medication under a false name. And your Chuck Schumer example is pathetic.

[Guaranteed]

39. Exactly. It wasn't in his name. That's going to get noticed...

and, I would expect them to "do it to me."

[Biernuts]

40. Chuck isn't perfect - Let's just say he's a publicity hound and let

it lay. I wouldn't put him in the pathetic column.

But back to the issue - if you wouldn't do it to your friends, don't do it to your opponents unless you intend sinking to that level. Morning news - no charges against Limbaugh.

1. It's against the law to have a prescription drug that hasn't been prescribed for you.
2. As long as the prescription actually exists, you can carry it in a bottle labled "Crack". Not real smart when going through customs, but not illegal.

[progdonkey]

24. in your hypothetical...

Is Chuck Schumer's posession of the AIDS drug in violation of his plea agreement over an earlier drug charge?

Not to mention that a vanity drug such as Viagra (or hardcore narcotics like Oxycontin, for that matter) and an AIDS drug are not even in the same universe. Or that I doubt someone in Schumer's position would ever have trouble obtaining medication, were he HIV+.

ie. Scout's right: your Chuck Schumer hypothetical is pathetic and not analogous to this situation in any way.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

12. Isn't it illegal to have a prescription in someone else's name?

The doctor should be in as much trouble as Limbaugh. If the prescription was in the doctor's name, then 1) the doctor technically wrote a prescription for himself, which I'm guess is illegal or at the least unethical, and 2) Limbaugh was carrying a prescription that had someone else's name on it. "Privacy" my ass - if I tried that excuse I'd be the laughing stock of prison.

Fuck that "privacy" bullshit. More like "I want to keep up the appearance of being clean but I want to keep my illegal prescription addiction."

Think he went to the Dominican Republic for the hell of it, or to get these or other prescriptions? Maybe the doctor is there? And even better - pharmacists wouldn't know who the hell he was.

[xultar]

22. This ain't got shit to do with no Dr/privacy thing. It would have been

a non story and gossip @ that if it was done the legal way.

So, Something is up. No need for a lawyer statement so quickly with nothing....

Something is UP and pun is intended.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

26. Dominican Republic is a sex tourist destination...

So that would explain why someone would take Viagra with him on a trip.

[xultar]

48. Ruh Rho...I didn't know that. Rush is bumpin uglies with a brown person..

[UTUSN]

14. Why is a DEMCRATIC lawyer continuing to defend a FASCIST WINGNUT??/

[babylonsister]

16. Money, and lots of it. nt

[Biernuts]

42. The ACLU considers representing the Nazis their finest moment

It's the legal issue, not the popularity of the defendant

[dancingme]

23. 2 Florida doctors named on the Viagra bottle

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Rush Limbaugh was detained for about three-and-a-half hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.

The 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage was examined by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after his private plane landed at the airport around 2 p.m. from the Dominican Republic, said Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

ICE officials found in Limbaugh's luggage a prescription bottle labeled as Viagra, a prescription drug that treats erectile disfunction, Miller said.

"The problem was that on the bottle itself was not his name, but the name of two Florida doctors," Miller said.

The matter was turned over to the sheriff's office, whose investigators interviewed Limbaugh.

"He said he had the Viagra in his possession for his use and that he did obtain it from his doctors," Miller said.

Sheriff's investigators confiscated the drugs, and Limbaugh was released around 5:30 p.m. without being charged.

However, the sheriff's office plans to file a report with the state attorney's office.

"We believe there may be a second degree misdemeanor violation, which is possession of certain drugs without a prescription, because the bottle does not have his name on it," Miller said.

A doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was "labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes," Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, said in a statement.

Last month, Limbaugh reached a deal with prosecutors who had accused the conservative talk-show host of illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping pain pill prescriptions. Under the deal, a single charge commonly referred to as "doctor shopping" would be dismissed after 18 months if he complies with terms that include submitting to random drug tests and continuing treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/14908131.htm

[Garbo 2004]

29. Well, Roy, that worked out well now that he's in the news for having to

explain why he's seemingly got someone else's prescription with him. Might want to rethink that "privacy" measure. Like if it's legal for one thing. And not a good way to avoid publicity for another. Good grief. Other than that, how was Rushbo's weekend? Wonder if the National Enquirer will pay someone to find out, just for old times' sake.

Has anyone reached Bob Dole for comment? LOL

[dancingme]

31. maybe Rush can find some Viagra in Iraq

but of course he would never go to Iraq.

[SeattleVet]

34. Does this activity violate his probation agreement on his

other drug-related deferred prosecution? If so, he will probably wind up having to stand trial on his original charges (the doctor-shopped pain-killers).

[Hawkeye-X]

36. According to sources, yes it does.

El Drugbo agreed to stay straight and narrow, plus going out of the country is also a probation violation without his PO's OK (as I am in the system, and I know first-hand), and using illegal prescription is a misdemeanor, and it is still a probation violation no matter how El Drugbo or Black spins it.

Hawkeye-X

[Hawkeye-X]

35. And a probation violation

Didn't last long. Off to prison he goes, for 25 plus years.

Hawkeye-X

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Duffus should have gotten it in the DR

folks what happens when a patient comes to the US oh I don't know from oh Mexico? Them fancy bottles with names are non existant down there

Still he has some ahem, 'slpaining to do

[Sydnie]

28. Privacy? Dole went on TV and advertised for Viagra ... I thought

having a viagra script was a badge of honor and solidarity for this crowd?

If he had a script with someone else's name on it, it's illegal. Privacy my ass. My doctor wouldn't do that for anyone ... why would his? :shrug:

[Scurrilous]

43. I don't know why Rush is ashamed to be taking Viagra...

...the NASCAR crowd seems cool with it.

[KharmaTrain]

33. More Questions...

Has anyone ascertained if Rushbo had those drugs issued in the U.S. or was this "script" written in the Dominican Republic? Also is there any mention of quantity?

Sounds like Rushbo tried using the boooosh brothers cocaine smuggling route. :rofl:

[RagingInMiami]

41. The Miami Herald said 29 pills

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14908975.htm

[susu369]

45. Black: "After a brief interview..."

Rush Limbaugh was detained for about 3 1/2 hours at Palm Beach International Airport.

Mr. Black is earning his big bucks.

[maxrandb]

47. The "Real" Truth is horific when your lawyer admits to a crime

in the spin. Think about it. His lawyer is saying that Rush "broke the law", unless falsifying prescriptions is somehow legal in Florida. If a defense attorney (and especially one as good and slimy as Black) is admitting a crime in the spin, it makes me wonder what the "real" truth is.

Liars do this all the time. They admit to a small thing to deflect attention from a big thing.

Rush is toast!