Limbaugh Detained Again for Illegal Prescription Drugs

[JPhillips]

Wonder if this leads to jail time.

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_177194808.html

Limbaugh Detained At Airport

Joy Purdy
Reporting

(CBS4 News) WEST PALM BEACH Sources have confirmed to CBS4 News that conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been detained at Palm Beach International Airport for the possible possession of illegal prescription drugs Monday evening.

Limbaugh was returning on a flight from the Dominican Republic when officials found the drugs, among them Viagra.

Limbaugh entered a plea deal back in April in a previous case where his charge of fraud to conceal information to obtain prescriptions was dropped under the condition he continue undergoing treatment for addiction.

Limbaugh had admitted to being addicted to pain killers on his radio program and had entered a rehabilitation program prior to that arrest.

[Maple Leafs]

Stuff like this bugs the ex-reporter in me...
Limbaugh was returning on a flight from the Dominican Republic when officials found the drugs, among them Viagra.
Really, what's the purpose of the Viagra mention? It seems like the bigger question would be whether there were painkillers in there. Why single out Viagra? Is it just to get people to pay attention because somebody's weiner may be involved?

[JPhillips]

Yeah, its not very well written. They also fail to mention that Limbaugh initially removed himself from treatment claiming he was cured.

While its hard for me, I have to say that I feel sorry for Limbaugh in that he's clearly an addict and he can't stop his self destructive behavior. He probably needs to sink quite a bit farther before he'll see the seriousness of his problem.

btw- I wonder if his break-up with Daryn Kagan had anything to do with his drug problem?

[sovereignstar]

Stuff like this bugs the ex-reporter in me...

Really, what's the purpose of the Viagra mention? It seems like the bigger question would be whether there were painkillers in there. Why single out Viagra? Is it just to get people to pay attention because somebody's weiner may be involved?

huhu.. you said weiner

[Barkeep49]

According to Limbaugh's lawyer they were a OK drugs

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://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060626/lam109.html?.v=37

[kcchief19]

Just out of curiosity, is that legal for a physician to do -- prescribe narcotics in the physican's name for a patient, even for privacy's sake? And if it is for privacy's sake, why does Rush Limbaugh get privacy protection that Joe Blow doesn't? I'm sure there are lots of people taking Viagra that would prefer people not know that they are.

[ISiddiqui]

That struck me as odd as well. After all, then anyone could hold pills issued in the physician's name. It seems like a way to get around the law to me.

[kcchief19]

Stuff like this bugs the ex-reporter in me...

Really, what's the purpose of the Viagra mention? It seems like the bigger question would be whether there were painkillers in there. Why single out Viagra? Is it just to get people to pay attention because somebody's weiner may be involved?
I don't necessarily disagree with your complaint. I would infer that the reason Viagra was cited in the story by name was that it was the only drug name indicated by the source -- which looks like that may be the case.

Of course, the original item was for a CBS station ... much as I love my TV guys, I think the worst writers in journalism work in just about every TV newsroom in the country.

[WSUCougar]

I just find Limbaugh's hijinx so ridiculously ironic.

[ice4277]

Meh; on my "Who Gives a Shit" scale of 1 to 10, this is about a .2

[Flasch186]

i have read that it was ONLY Viagra and nothing else on him....that gets a big, "good for him" for trying to fix his erectile disfunction. Couldn't care less about this one....although, I think he should've served jail time for the first one involving his maid, et al.

[Grammaticus]

i have read that it was ONLY Viagra and nothing else on him....that gets a big, "good for him" for trying to fix his erectile disfunction. Couldn't care less about this one....although, I think he should've served jail time for the first one involving his maid, et al.
He was using Viagra on his maid? :eek:

[King of New York]

Rush L. is one of my least-favorite human beings, but I suspect that this story was run, and Viagra mentioned explicitly, simply for the purpose of embarassing him--and however much I disagree with him about most things, that's way out of line. We'll see how this one plays out.

[flere-imsaho]

I disagree. The man's made a living out of doing things specifically to embarass other people, so this article is just karma.

[WSUCougar]

I wonder if he uses any medicinal creams that state "Apply liberally" in their directions?

[st.cronin]

I disagree. The man's made a living out of doing things specifically to embarass other people, so this article is just karma.

Like what? I don't listen to his show, are you talking about his radio show, or does he do media stunts?

[Grammaticus]

I disagree. The man's made a living out of doing things specifically to embarass other people, so this article is just karma.
Does that mean the people who wrote the article will have bad Karma for writing a mean spirited article? Or does Karma stop after it satisfies the original behavior?

[PSUColonel]

I disagree. The man's made a living out of doing things specifically to embarass other people, so this article is just karma.


liberal :rolleyes:

[JPhillips]

My question now is who was he visiting in the Dominican? It must have been a fun weekend if he needed to bring the Viagra.

[timmynausea]

I would say things like calling Chelsea Clinton a "dog" on both his TV and radio show when she was 13 years old would qualify as a stunt that was mostly to embarrass someone.

Another one that comes to mind is the "overrated black quarterback" thing with Donovan McNabb.

[rexallllsc]

Like what? I don't listen to his show, are you talking about his radio show, or does he do media stunts?

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
hxxp://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
hxxp://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
hxxp://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

[flere-imsaho]

Does that mean the people who wrote the article will have bad Karma for writing a mean spirited article? Or does Karma stop after it satisfies the original behavior?

Karma's not necessarily a zero-sum thing. ;)

[flere-imsaho]

liberal :rolleyes:

Oh, so nice to see you again, babycakes.

[stevew]

Who opened up the box? Jeez.

[st.cronin]

Like I said, I don't listen to his show, so that stuff doesn't register with me.

[Bonegavel]

I like Rush and listen to him whenever I can but I agree that he should've been thrown in jail for the oxycontin stuff.

I am a live-by-the-sword-die-by-the-sword kinda guy and I used to think Rush was too.

Like liberals are so fond of stating, even with his problems it doesn't detract from his overall conservative message. If he's having problems, I hope he gets them resolved. However, if anything with these perscriptions is illegal, he deserves that the full weight of the law be thrust down upon his head and neck.

[flere-imsaho]

Like liberals are so fond of stating, even with his problems it doesn't detract from his overall conservative message.

Huh?

[John Galt]

Who opened up the box? Jeez.

I thought he was in the "banned" category and not the "penalty box" one. Either way, I see he is right back to trolling political threads.

[Bonegavel]

Huh?

Wha?

[flere-imsaho]

Wha?

Why would liberals say that Rush's behavior doesn't detract from his overall message?

[Bonegavel]

Why would liberals say that Rush's behavior doesn't detract from his overall message?

I meant that they are often fond of stating that regardless of a person's personal life, it doesn't take away from what they do in their public life.

[stevew]

I thought he was in the "banned" category and not the "penalty box" one. Either way, I see he is right back to trolling political threads.

Yeah, i'm definitely thrown for a loop here.

[Flasch186]

Does that mean the people who wrote the article will have bad Karma for writing a mean spirited article? Or does Karma stop after it satisfies the original behavior?

interesting point...Perhaps Dalai Lama will chime in on this.

[flere-imsaho]

I meant that they are often fond of stating that regardless of a person's personal life, it doesn't take away from what they do in their public life.

Like when Henry Hyde led the attack on Clinton for his adultery when Hyde himself had an affair much earlier in his career?

Like when John Bolton's first wife divorced him in part for his deviant sexual practices, but it's OK for him to be the U.S. representative to the UN?

Then there's Newt Gingrich & Bob Livingston, of course. Not to mention Bill Bennett.

What about Jim Bunn from Oregon, who won his seat in Congress with a lot of support from the Christian Coalition, and then promptly ditched his wife and five children, married a staffer, and put her on his state payroll for almost $100,000/year?

Then there's Scooter Libby, who we could either castigate for his public service (perjury) or his private acts (writing novels that include bestiality and other deviant sex acts).

How about Ed Schrock? Two-term Republican Congressman from Virginia and a darling of the Christian Coalition. Opposed gay rights and co-sponsored the FMA. Declined to seek a third term after being caught on tape soliciting for gay sex. Married, with kids, btw.

Dr. Laura: Promotes "family values"/estranged from her mother. Promotes "saving oneself for marriage"/admits to premarital sex. Opposes adultery/committed adultery. Opposes divorce/is divorced.


I could go on, but you probably get the picture. It's good to know that while liberals merely say it's important to keep the public and private separate, the conservatives have gone out of their way to prove it.

[Eaglesfan27]

Just out of curiosity, is that legal for a physician to do -- prescribe narcotics in the physican's name for a patient, even for privacy's sake? And if it is for privacy's sake, why does Rush Limbaugh get privacy protection that Joe Blow doesn't? I'm sure there are lots of people taking Viagra that would prefer people not know that they are.

I believe (but am not sure) that it is illegal. I do know that I would never knowingly write a prescription with any name but the person it was intended for. It's definitely an ethical violation if not a legal one.

[jefflackey]

So, they went through his stuff and found some Viagra that was in a bottle that wasn't in his name. And for Viagra he gets detained and on the news?

Give me a freaking break. I travel a LOT, including a lot of international travel, and I have never had a customs official look at my precription bottle of Fiorinal (which contains codeine and is for my migraines) and even ask about it. I had a bottle of prescription antibiotics that was in my daughter's name, that was empty, that I had in my bathroom bag because it was a good size to hold my travel cache of Excedrine, ibuprofen, and sinus pills. No one has ever, in 23 years of travel, said "Oh, this bottle has another name on it." Hell, you can buy frikken' Viagra on the internet with some hack doctor questionaire.

[Bonegavel]

Like when Henry Hyde led the attack on Clinton for his adultery when Hyde himself had an affair much earlier in his career?

Like when John Bolton's first wife divorced him in part for his deviant sexual practices, but it's OK for him to be the U.S. representative to the UN?

Then there's Newt Gingrich & Bob Livingston, of course. Not to mention Bill Bennett.

What about Jim Bunn from Oregon, who won his seat in Congress with a lot of support from the Christian Coalition, and then promptly ditched his wife and five children, married a staffer, and put her on his state payroll for almost $100,000/year?

Then there's Scooter Libby, who we could either castigate for his public service (perjury) or his private acts (writing novels that include bestiality and other deviant sex acts).

How about Ed Schrock? Two-term Republican Congressman from Virginia and a darling of the Christian Coalition. Opposed gay rights and co-sponsored the FMA. Declined to seek a third term after being caught on tape soliciting for gay sex. Married, with kids, btw.

Dr. Laura: Promotes "family values"/estranged from her mother. Promotes "saving oneself for marriage"/admits to premarital sex. Opposes adultery/committed adultery. Opposes divorce/is divorced.


I could go on, but you probably get the picture. It's good to know that while liberals merely say it's important to keep the public and private separate, the conservatives have gone out of their way to prove it.

right, and where are these folks now?

[SFL Cat]

Like when John Bolton's first wife divorced him in part for his deviant sexual practices, but it's OK for him to be the U.S. representative to the UN?

Most libs didn't seem to be bothered by Clinton's escapades enough to deny him being the leader of the free world...

While I don't think it damages the ultimate message, I do think a lot of people who ride these types of horses do lose credibility (and rightly so). In most cases, it's hard to take a hypocrite seriously.

[Dekanth]

My question now is who was he visiting in the Dominican? It must have been a fun weekend if he needed to bring the Viagra.

This is a great question. The DR is known for its sex tourism and child prostitutes.

[ISiddiqui]

This is a great question. The DR is known for its sex tourism and child prostitutes.

On the radio this morning they were saying he was going down there to do some missionary work and laid some pipe in the rural villages ;).

[Grammaticus]

This is a great question. The DR is known for its sex tourism and child prostitutes.
And cigars

[molson]

I don't understand the hypocrite comments people make about Limbaugh (not involving this case, but his addictions in general), and others in the public eye in these situations. A drug addict can't take a stand against drugs? Why not? It seems they more than anyone know about the dangers involved. Same with smokers and adulterers.

[flere-imsaho]

So, just out of curiosity, was PSUColonel's ban only a temp one?

[rexallllsc]

I don't understand the hypocrite comments people make about Limbaugh (not involving this case, but his addictions in general), and others in the public eye in these situations. A drug addict can't take a stand against drugs? Why not? It seems they more than anyone know about the dangers involved. Same with smokers and adulterers.

When you make fun of drug addicts, and then turn out to be one - oh yes, that's hilarious.

Limbaugh and his ilk are a pathetic joke.

Edit: sp

[JPhillips]

Molson: No, he's not a hypocrite because he is against drugs. He's a hypocrite because he's for punitive sentences for drug abusers. Well except for him, he's for no punishment when it comes to his drug abuse.

See the difference?

[wade moore]

So, just out of curiosity, was PSUColonel's ban only a temp one?

PSUColonel was never banned, he was boxed for 31 days.

[Cringer]

On the radio this morning they were saying he was going down there to do some missionary work and laid some pipe in the rural villages ;).

That's a great line.