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WAPT is reporting that conservative talk darling Rush Limbaugh has been arrested:

Officials in Florida said late Friday that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was arrested on prescription drug charges. A spokeswoman for the state attorney's office said Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities at about 4 p.m. Eastern time. The conservative radio commentator arrived at the jail with his attorney, Roy Black, and was released an hour later on $3,000 bail.

Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single-count charge of "doctor shopping " -- or illegally deceiving multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions -- filed by the state sttorney, which will be dismissed in 18 months.

Limbaugh maintains he's innocent. He has acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain.

He took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program in 2003.

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87689

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Look, he's smiling like Tom Delay in his mug shot.

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DonnaLadd

Date

2006-04-28T20:10:53-06:00

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87690

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Of course he's smiling! He's drugged up. He's also laughing at all the suckers that bought his bile throughout the years.

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kaust

Date

2006-04-28T22:37:00-06:00

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87691

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I didn't realize this was still on-going. The only headline I would have liked to see even more would be "Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham charged with operating a meth lab." But that's my twisted liberal half creeping thru. I do hope Mr. Limbaugh, who is obviously a sick individual with a drug addiction problem that I pity him for, is able to kick the habit with therapy, and maybe admit to being such a hypocrite in his past views on punishing drug users. This may have been a witchhunt designed to embarass him publicly, but his addiction is serious and he really needs to take responsibility and be held accountable for breaking the law to feed his habit, IMO.

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Jeff Lucas

Date

2006-04-29T00:29:06-06:00

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87692

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The other, more important, question begging to be asked here ... Is the development of large jowls a fashion "Do" for Republicans facing jail time? Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Lori G

Date

2006-04-29T10:45:25-06:00

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87693

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I think jowels make Republicans look more trustworthy, less likely to use their maids to buy illegal drugs. There is always the risk, however, that the jowels may become a liability. For instance, look at Richard Nixon. I think the reason why most Americans knew he was lying when he said "I am not a crook" is that his jowels were flapping around like curtains in a hurricane. I think we have to remember that Limbaugh probably built up quite a tolerance during his drug days. So if a doctor prescribes him oxycontin, he can hardly receive adequate therapeutic relief for his back pain from that dose along. Is it really wrong then that he went to other doctors to get even more prescriptions for oxycontin? I would imagine that with his higher tolerance, even five or six doses of oxycontin would impair him no more than two or three would an ordinary man. What then is the problem? I think we all know that the liberal press has it out for this man. He practically invented Republican talk radio, which insiders affectionately call "the noise machine." They're certainly not going to let him get away with that. I'll bet you good, clean American dinero that half the members of Congress also have multiple prescriptions for oxycontin, (maybe not as many as Limbaugh, but you know, two or three). But do they investigate themselves? No. It's just so obvious that there is a double standard at work here.

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Brian Johnson

Date

2006-04-29T17:18:04-06:00

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87694

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Rush is definitely a hypocrite for abusing drugs while simultaneously calling for stricter drug enforcement. And yet... And yet... I'm very concerned that I not become just as much of a hypocrite for being too hard on him when my own position is that we shouldn't throw the book at drug offenders. If I believe that the kid who gets picked up for drug possession is treated like an inpatient rather than a criminal, then I have to want the same for Rush. Besides, his opinion of the ACLU has already gone up considerably as a result of his own experiences as a drug offender. Wouldn't it be great if he learned even more from this experience? They say a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. Rush has now been arrested. I wonder... Cheers, TH

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Tom Head

Date

2006-04-29T18:02:51-06:00

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87695

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The only reason I have sympathy for this idiot is because I have a work associate with a similar problem, someone who is otherwise a great guy, normal and law abiding who got addicted to a prescription med and used a few connections to feed his habit. I heard it cost him dearly in terms of his family and respect in the community when it finally came out, and he was looking at drug rehabilitation as part of his punishment. Rush and the ACLU...allies? The day that happens look for the apocalypse around the corner.

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Jeff Lucas

Date

2006-04-30T07:56:46-06:00

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87696

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I wonder how Chevy Chase, and Kelsey Grammer got their pills? I know of a woman here in town who had run up credit cards without her spouses knowledge getting meds offline! And she would be the first to tell you that she wants all crackheads and herion users locked up. People are a strange lot when it comes to addictions, there feelings about addictions, and (especially) what an addition is either for them or for someone else. And if a prosocuter ever wants to look at your medical records in hopes of finding a crime or something wrong then you better hope the ACLU finds your case important enough to help with too!

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pikersam

Date

2006-04-30T09:41:21-06:00

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87697

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they will of course be bringing in the Christ comparison in the right wing pulpits this morning.....Trial before the Sanhedrin pressand the easter comparision. Crucified in the press buried and I suppose he'll raise himself...and then go on sucking on the blood of inuendo, public fears, and the angry White Men that have sustained him for so long.

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ATLExile

Date

2006-04-30T14:03:19-06:00

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87698

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I would love to see his hypocritical behind go to jail, but he won't. He's a good rightwinged Republican - say one thing and do another. He'll loved by millions just like him. He'll apologize for being a dipstick on his death bed some day.

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Ray Carter

Date

2006-05-01T10:30:37-06:00

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87699

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I do listen to him when I'm in the car (back and forth between Air America and Him, interesting practice on perspective) . But it's like He has become so arrogant and pompous. Very predictable in his reponces now and very much jaded.

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ATLExile

Date

2006-05-01T11:45:56-06:00

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87700

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I used to listen to him for several years, because I'm a ideological "mutt" who does hold a few conservative views. I now wonder if it really was to satisfy the sadistic part of me that enjoys throwing things at the radio listening some of the ridiculous garbage he spews 3 hours a day. I don't think he is completely wrong on all issues, but he clearly sees things from a priviliged, elitist, and right-wing point of view in which Republicans can generally do no wrong, all liberals and Democrats are evil, and in which this administration is one of the greatest in American history for having the "balls" to invade Iraq. Between him and his moronic protege Sean Hannity, who basically regurgitates Rush's spin and makes even more pointed attacks on liberals, I pretty much got over my interest for conservative talk radio, other than the local stuff like Ben and Kim.

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Jeff Lucas

Date

2006-05-01T11:54:28-06:00

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87701

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Looks like another Kennedy is in hot water. Further proof that anyone can become a victim of his or her own addictions, even the ones designed to help. But I suspect there may be more to this story. Can't wait until more facts are in.

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Jeff Lucas

Date

2006-05-05T15:22:59-06:00

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87702

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Yeah, the Kennedy Kurse of privilege strikes again. Sorry, I'm not trying to be cruel, but the Kennedys are certainly an example why enabling B.S. just creates problems that get passed down and passed down. Me no like Kennedys.

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DonnaLadd

Date

2006-05-05T15:26:52-06:00

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87703

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Well at least they didn't find a pair of panty hose in the car glove box. Oh sorry, different Kennedy and a bridge was involved not a retaining wall. I would have thought that at least a judge should have been given the option to send him to rehab and not own his own. Nope these dide are a long way from John Fitzgerald Kennedy....a long way.

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ATLExile

Date

2006-05-08T14:31:37-06:00

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87704

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So what? People don't have faults all of a sudden. Lets look a Susan Sarandon's case history.

Author

Bonnadrag

Date

2006-07-21T15:36:15-06:00