Worked out okay for him the last time...
Seriously? He's done it before?
Sure he has. Back when he was popping oxycontin like tic-tacs, he had someone working for him (I believe it was a maid) getting him pills from outside sources. I say it worked out for him because I don't think he served any sentence (he got the charges dropped). It probably doesn't show up on Wikipedia because of typical wiki-wars that occur over details like that. TSG has a brief description of what I'm talking about. Everyone else involved with the trafficking and selling of the drugs Rush was taking got charged, Rush got his dropped.
I remember hearing all sorts of details about this when it was new news (his maid apparently went to tabloids for paid tell-alls), and I'm surprised that a simple google search only finds accounts of the more sanitized version.
I think it was a hoax to get personal attention and to use as anti-healthcare bill propaganda. The guy has intense chest pains requiring hospitalization, but, doctors can find nothing. It's very suspicious
I'd pay good money to see Limbaugh and Beck fight to the death. And the winner has to fight O'Reilly.
Panic attacks are often mistaken with heart attacks by the sufferer.
I think it was a hoax to get personal attention and to use as anti-healthcare bill propaganda. The guy has intense chest pains requiring hospitalization, but, doctors can find nothing. It's very suspicious
It's not unknown for people to go to the hospital with chest pains and have nothing wrong. My father did it twice in his lifetime. Sometimes the pain is something altogether different that is minor and misinterpreted as a heart issue. Other times it can be all in the mind of someone who is just having a major stress out fit.
Wow ... it seems the argument of defending rude behavior by pointing to other rude behavior will never die.
Back when I used to do a good deal of spelunking I gave myself a muscle tear in my chest (not all that hard to do when stretching and crawling around). I swore I was having the grand daddy of all heart attacks (I didn't yet know it was a muscle tear) --- the pain was very intense and quite scary.
I also find it interesting how the tone from Limbaugh haters went from "I wish he dies" to "It was a publicity hoax" when news of his condition reversed. The pure vile that spews forth from them comes out in full force no matter which way the valve is turned.
Wow ... it seems the argument of defending rude behavior by pointing to other rude behavior will never die.
I don't think it's a hoax. I think Limbaugh's an idiot propagandist for claiming "there's not one thing wrong" with the American health care system. **** this guy.
Another thing for the holier-than-thou right-wingers bitching about how the left's mean-spiritedness... the other day I stumbled upon the Ted Kennedy thread where the usual suspects gleefully posted the same old hack jokes, caught up in the unrestrained euphoria of the conservative blogosphere. Whatever, I don't really care about grave dancing (even for old white guys who can't dance), but Limbaugh's ripe for death wishes because he possesses a meanness that's uncommon even in the political world. So, yeah, **** this guy. I'm not sitting here wishing he gets lung cancer because... Jesus, I only get three wishes.
OK I don't like Rush but I certainly don't wish him dead
Despite what I wrote earlier I agree with you. I don't want him to die from a heart attack. In fact, I'd like him to live to be 100. But I would like him to suffer a stroke soon that causes permanent and incurable locked-in syndrome.
You have two ways to prevent an individual from gaining support:
1: Use your respectful, detailed, and rational arguments to expose the superiority of your side, in turn exposing the deceitful, rude, loud and poor arguments of the opponent. You win, with your dignity standing tall. It's what Mandela or King would do.
2: Watch while the individual dies, and laugh from your sofa. You win, for a short time (before Sarah Palin begins her new radio show with "Look at the callous nature of the left, and they want to say how we should take care of our citizens?"), with no dignity, and no respect. It's what Hannity or Galloway would do.