CNN confirms Limbaugh/drug ring story

[newsguyatl]

just wanted to give a heads up here that CNN has just internally confirmed the drug ring story on rush and is efforting more... will probably report on it soon... so mainstream is chasing this story now, too.

good riddance rush....

[Skidmore]

1. Cool....so when are they

going to bring O'Really and Insanity and a few more of these jerks down?

[schultzee]

2. Goody! There was a freeze block on Limbaugh sites at 11P.M

on Bellsouth.

[schultzee]

3. Goody! There was a freeze block on Limbaugh sites at 11P.M

on Bellsouth.

[BenFranklinUSA]

22. What's a freeze-block?

[hedda_foil]

4. Thanks, newsguy! This is just TOO cool.

The propagandist-in-chief falls with a giant thud just when he's needed most to cover Rove and Cheney's butts.

[DoctorMyEyes]

5. breaking now!

thanks for the heads up!

[Khephra]

6. There can't be many stories that I like that push Bush out

of the spotlight when the shit is hitting the fan, but this is one of them.

Rush is a MAJOR piece of the entire RW propaganda machine. This damages their plans past Bush and Jebbie.

[dbt]

10. Unless it's a well-planned distraction!

And with the current Reptile Colony in the White Haus, that must always be considered a viable theory.

:freak:
dbt

[Caution]

14. there is no way they planned this

Rush Limbaugh is one of their most powerful propaganda machines. His downfall will demoralize and alienate their base (particularly on a drug charge). This is a huge disaster for the right-wing if this story holds up.

[AP]

15. It's not a distraction. It just compounds the problems for Bush. It's like

the media protection and the veneer of morality is crumbling around him. Rush is the biggest mouthpiece for this administration, and now he's going to be distracted by having to address a problem like this.

Of course, if he gets Jeb Bush to adopt him, maybe they can sweep it under the carpet like they do for Jeb's other kids.

[sendero]

19. Well....

.... I kinda doubt that. I don't think that bringing Rush down is in the interest of the repugs. I don't think they had much say in this.

And, I can handle two stories at once, and I think the news can too. The traitorgate scandal is not going to fall down the memory hole that easily IMHO.

[dbt]

26. I hope you are all correct!

All I am saying here is that nothing is beyond the BFEE, no matter how far-fetched it may seem at first. Yesterday's tinfoil has become today's reality a few times too often for me!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Khephra]

30. I'm with the rest of them in thinking this isn't a distraction, BUT

IF IT IS...

Then that means we're getting close to the top...MUCH closer than we had imagined. The RW wouldn't have given up a faithful servant like Rush unless there was no other choice.

Either way--distraction or disaster--it's horriffic for the RW.

[KoKo]

32. Good comment there, Keph.........to the top.....this is big stuff......

Someone is very angry....WE,.the people......and some very high up people with influence who have "HAD ENOUGH!"

[Dover]

81. I've never seen a distraction created by Bushco that hurts

themselves. That would be like shooting yourself in the foot.
No, I think it's more likely that there is a movenment to throw a broad net over this regime and it's footmen....and it is succeeding.

But it's always good to keep peripheral vision when a big story hits because some opportunists will inevitably use it to their advantage and pick our pockets while we're watching the parade go by. Pick pockets and corrupt politicians are opportunistic more than big planners.

[ProfessorGAC]

40. It's Not A Distraction! It's Reinforcement of Total Corruption

There's no way they want this in the WH. This just points to the intellectual dishonesty of neoconservatism. Limbaugh taking big heat will not distract from the problems at 1600. It will exacerbate them, since Rush was their most well-known cheerleader.

The guilt by association tag is a hard one to shake, and they know it.
The Professor

[thebigidea]

11. oh what a glorious feeling, I'm haaaapppppy again

Rush Limbaugh - sounds like a Phil Dick novel now. Schizoid hate broadcaster with insatiable drug appetite, even a weird phildickian name.

[quispquake]

27. Dickian indeed!

I was thinking the same thing...where's Phil when you need him???

[Khephra]

31. He's still around...in the universe next-door

The Black Iron Prision is shaking at its foundation today.

:evilgrin:

[Barrett808]

101. With our own Ferris F. Fremount in the White House

Just need my own can of Ubik now.

[Hokie]

7. You must have inside information

I have not seen this reported on CNN at all this morning. It is obvious now that Rush quit ESPN because he knew this was going to hit the fan soon.

I think the NFL also put pressure on ESPN to fire him. The folks in the league office were surely pissed over this. They have had their own porblens trying to put the race issue behind them and they certainly did not want this in the headlines the rest of the season.

On edit:

Just saw the breaking news on CNN. Sounds like they do have the goods on poor Bush Bimbo.

[TacticalPeek]

65. Yesterday, one or both sides in the Flush/ESPN flap negotiations

must have known the drugs would hit the fan today, which made the bum's Rush a no-brainer.

[stlsaxman]

104. heheheh Bush Bimbaugh nt

[realFedUp]

8. so newsguy, was this the big story

you couldn't talk about? or was it the leak? or
was it the front page of the LA Times this morning
on Arnold?

:-)

[The Magistrate]

9. Excellent News, Sir

Nothing on earth like the turn of Fortune's wheel.

[0007]

12. Just when the freepers were

beginning to like CNN. Holy Cow!

[jbfam4]

42. Senator Bennett

has spoken out at least twice against CNN on the Senate floor. Both times he has made the remark that if you watch CNN we have lost the war, but if you watch FAUX we have won it.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. Considering the numbers of pills reported...

Can you comment on whether SoFla authorities will be pursuing charges along the lines of "possession with intent to distribute" or something similar?

In this day and age, getting caught with 4 ozs of weed will get you that charge. In fact, getting caught with 2 JOINTS, in the state of NJ has gotten some people that charge, as a lever in plea bargaining. Just pile the charges on and let the lawyers sort it out with the judge. PID would seem to be quite appropriate in light of the reports of 5000+ pills over a month.5 period.

[underpants]

23. Yeah I thought the same thing (ready for a stunner?)

In Virginia plastic sandwich bags in your domecile will get you "intent to distribute". No scales need to be present.

I new a guy who got busted with 1/2 a joint about ten years ago. Intent was tacked on because of the baggies and he lost his driver's license (he was in his girlfriend's apartment)for a year and had to go to alcoholics classes (In va. called ASAP). He could only drive (legally) to work, church, or meetings.

[Wickerman]

16. From Pig Boy's website

I'm posting this quick, then I am going to shower, perhaps in a Haz-Mat shower. Yes, I took the heat for y'all and ventured onto his site:


"I am unaware of any investigation by any authorities involving me. No governmental representative has contacted me directly or indirectly. If my assistance is required in the future, I will, of course, cooperate fully."
-Rush Limbaugh (aka, pigboy)

Too bad Rush, too sad, Bye now!

:hi:

[TacticalPeek]

68. Ah, the life of the exempt.

:mad:

[Hokie]

17. Has Faux News run this yet?

They will have a hell of a time spinning this. A "national treasure" disgraced. What a tragedy.

[FuseONE]

21. Ordinarily, I'm not one to take pleasure....

in others misfortunes, but damn....this sure is fun.

And 4300 pills? in 47 days? That's an insane amount of drugs. I promise you, he wasn't taking them all himself....if that amount is right, it would be criminal of the authorities not to charge him with distribution, although I doubt of course, that he was mixed up in selling them....so what was he doing with them?

And since the National Enquirer got sued awhile back and lost a ton of money, they are far more careful about what they say....I'd be willing to bet that much of this actually has merit.

[amazona]

47. rich people have parties

I'm surprised so many people are unknowing about this. Rich people actually have parties and put out drugs in crystal bowls. I've attended some -- not many, I'm not a party person. But you know...just like you put out chips and dips, you put out the drugs.

life is one big frat party for some

[Maeve]

37. Yep! Fox link here

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98871,00.html

Reported by Caution in GD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=454464

[ignatius]

18. Good bye, hate mongeror. The world will be better off with your

mouth closed. I hope all the hate and fear you have created over the years haunts you for all eternity.

[10digits]

20. CNN

Not a good source. Conservative News Network.

[Caution]

24. actually they are a great source

they just have been spinning things badly. When it comes to reporting news they typically do a very good job, i just disagree with their analysis of the news. That and in general the one thing they are most guilty of is omission and ignoring important stories.

[Homer12]

25. This better no out-the Leak story for to long

...maybe they are outing Rush (Bushco) to buy them time from the media.

Rush is now a liability, he was never part of the country club anyway. Sorry Rush, you've got Jim Baker syndrome.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

36. Strategic

At a time when the Bush Team needed every conservative mouthpiece "on message," their biggest megaphone is out of commission. Even if this bumps the Traitorgate for a news cycle or two, it will be worth it.

[GinaMaria]

28. It was reported on

my local ABC news affiliate this morning. They talked about the pain killers and his comments about McNabb. They also had Al Frankin on. He had the anchor in stitches. Great way to wake up.

[GinaMaria]

49. clarification

it was on the ABC local television news, not radio. Sorry for any confusion. I think it was Hosea Sanders who interviewed Frankin. He seemed to enjoy the interview.

[Individualist]

29. What a beautiful week this is

It's hitting the fan for both chimpy and slimeball.

[AP]

33. Considering Rush's show's advertisers, any surprise he has drug problem?

?

[joe1991]

71. hehe here's one of them

http://209.69.26.128/rushsplashpage.html

[catmandu57]

34. And the winner of the how many downers can you drop contest is

Tahdah: THE PIGBOY, I hope this slime does hard time and gets assraped daily. The rightwing has lost a bishop, maybe a rook today.

[Coventina]

46. Yeah, THAT'LL irritate his anal cyst!

oh dear, I'm probably going to hell for that one!

:evilfrown:

[MaraJade]

35. Hopefully. . .

This fracas will get him removed from the radio as well. Any
so-called moral authority that this blowhard claimed to have is
now gone with the wind. Figures. Typical rightwing thinking;
namely that rules and laws apply to everyone except them.

[mac56]

41. "One rule for us, another for the rest of you losers!"

The Republican mantra, dont'cha know.

Just remember: if you buy drugs you support terrorism. Right, Rushbo?

[shamanstar]

57. his listeners love him so much

i dont know if they will turn their backs on him. his listeners might not even hear the whole story... rush could spin it himself and maybe make these idiots forget everything hes said about drugs being bad. i dont know... it could blow over- maybe he could be off the air for a little while but people are addicted to his hate speech.

[wabeewoman]

66. You nailed it shamanstar

I was just talking to my repug brother and he was feeling sorry for Rush and talking about how bad pain can be. The kicker was that it was ok to be addicted to medical drugs but not to recreational drugs. Of course, I had to comment on the splitting hairs and hypocracy. Ahhh, the brains of right-wingers. They must be twisted every which way!

[Hawkeye-X]

92. Cool.

I had to take that test. Click on the image to take it.

[Nottingham]

38. Rush obviously is of no more use! & too big for his breeches

He is expendable :bounce:

If he is a drug addict ....he is in his own hell ...

Karma!

:bounce:

[zbdent]

39. Wait, I'm confused - if Rush gets canned (for whatever reason)

from his radio show,

Then does this really debunk Global Warming, if Hell really has frozen over?

[MnFats]

43. He's got to be doing more than painkillers...

...if you've ever been on serious pain meds, the LAST thing you want to do is blab for three hours a day. mostly you just want to sit there and stare out the window or sleep.
to do that three-hour radio show daily, he also has to be doing some form of speed or a lot of cocaine....mark my words. I been there, dudes (not a junkie! I'm talking about major injuries/surgery!)

[amazona]

48. yes, i think we realize that, but it is a good point

I have long believed that he was using drugs in addition to cosmetic surgery to get the weight off. Painkillers without speed or coke and he would have blimped back up to goodyear size.

I just think it is so telling that when he found out about his damn housekeeper's husband pain, his only thought was how to lean on this lady to steal her husband's drugs.

Conservative compassion in action.

I hope the woman makes a million out of this fracas. She has earned every penny.


rush isn't a pimple on the butt of human decency

[NoKingGeorge]

53. Cleaning lady got 120,000$ payoff from lawyer.

The go between said she got 80,000 he owed her (for drugs? wow) and she got 120,000 as a payoff from his lawyer.
Man, lawyer payoffs, $80,000 drug bills, 4000 pills a month ,tapes, should the Philly police be boarding his plane right now to look for illegal drugs ???

[hang a left]

59. A hair folicle test of his pubes (sorry about the visual)

Will let anyone know what he has been doing for about the last 9 months. Maybe someone should ask him to submit to one.

[nini]

97. OH SWEET JESUS!!

how would you like to be the guy that has to get that sample???

[AntiCoup2K4]

88. Diet pills most likely

I believe the Enquirer article makes references to him combining the pain pills with diet pills, which would be a form of speed. And would also explain his recent weight loss. As much as I hate to admit this, Mush was actually looking healthier there for a while.

[lightbulb]

102. He lost weight AND his hearing

Could this by why he's going deaf? Very plausible...

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-091001vicodin.story

[Norbert]

44. What was he hooked on anyway, ephedra

I learned last night that Rush is a proponent of legalization of drugs. Go figure.

I just hope this don't distract from the Treason-gate story.

[Greyskye]

50. Say what?

Rush is in favor of drug legalization? Seeing as that is 180 degrees opposite the standard party line, I'm having a hard time twisting my brain around that one. Do you have any sources for this?

Thanks!

[Patriot_Spear]

45. TBTM should have some fun with this! Boycott Booster!

Time to relaunch the boycott!

[underpants]

51. RUSH isn't on the radio today! Tom Sullivan??is guesting

I guess he can't face the music from the ultrfiltered dittoheads.

[tlcandie]

52. Not holding my breath here...

<awaits Jebbie to step in and grease someone's palms> I just can't see it happening here in Florida with Jebbie on board. After all, he did get his big bro the pResidency illegally. I think he can clear Limpey of this rather easily. :shrug:

[ignatius]

73. Now don't forget Jeb signed the get tough law that throws first time

drug offenders, cept his daughter of course, in the pokey.

[trapper914]

94. He's at the NAB today

Surprised he's not doing his show from there, but that may have been the plan all along.

[Oreegone]

54. YAHOO LINK ...HE'S DOWN AND OUT...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kr/20031002/lo_krnewyork/rushlimbaughinpillprobe

In June 2002, Limbaugh told her he was going to New York for detox a second time.

After he returned, "I went to talk to him, and he cried a little bit," she said. "He told me that if it ever got out, he would be ruined."

She claimed that a lawyer for Limbaugh gave her a payoff - $80,000 he owed her, plus another $120,000 - and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the E-mail records.

[Flubadubya]

56. "The moralizing motor mouth....

was turned in by his housekeeper"... OH SO SWEET!!! Boy do they have him pegged. Bwa hah hah!!

[rocktivity]

67. This is the NY Daily News story--Thanks, Oregonne

I've been trying to get into the NY Daily News site all morning--the hits must be strafing their server.

Well, it's pretty straighforward--and undeniably damning.

It started (in 1998) after (housekeeper Wilma Cline's) husband...hurt himself in a fall, and Limbaugh asked...casually, 'Is he getting any pain medication?' I said, "'...the doctor gave him hydrocodone'...To my astonishment, he said, 'Can you spare a couple of them?'"...When the doctor stopped renewing the prescription in early 1999, Limbaugh allegedly went ballistic...

In one (e-mail), Limbaugh pushed Cline to get more "little blues" - code for OxyContin, the powerful narcotic nicknamed hillbilly heroin, she said. "You know how this stuff works ... the more you get used to, the more it takes"...After four years of drug deals that included clandestine handoffs in a Denny's parking lot...She...wore a wire during her last two deliveries to the conservative commentator and gave the tapes to authorities.



Here's his stash:

- Hydrocodone
Anti-cough agent and painkiller similar to morphine. Side effects include anxiety, poor mental performance, emotional dependence,...

- Lorcet
Side effects include dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, dizziness, tiredness, muscle twitches, sweating and itching.

- OxyContin
...(Also) known as hillbilly heroin...Side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, sweating, muscle twitches and decreased sex drive...


rocknation

[ronnykmarshall]

86. This is even better

"His tone was nasty and bullying. He said, 'I don't care how or what you do, but you'd better - better! - get me some more,'" Cline said.

Why do I keeping thinking about this:

[Hawkeye-X]

93. Rate it a 5.

Make it the top news story of the day.

That'll make the freepers/dittoheads go nuts.

Hawkeye-X

[donotpassgo]

55. THE FREEPER RESPONSE "ITS A WITCH HUNT"

"All of this, spinning out of control. Anyone feel like we're all the target of the great witch hunt?"

But I thought witch hunts don't exist??????? Jackass.

[donotpassgo]

58. On that note...

To read their HILLARY and THE MEDIA are out to make us the new U.S.S.R and kill Jesus and feed white middle class Christians to the lions, makes me hate these mongrel conservative morons even more.

YOU ARE THE PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY

-Your ideological speak and spell is a racist bastard
-You compromised your thinly veiled Facist beliefs to elect a celebrity with principles you hate.
-A member of YOUR WHITE HOUSE compromised national security to kill dissent
-Your savior David Kay turned up diddly squat


And with the White House, Congress, and the SCOTUS firmly in republican hands, YOU STILL BLAME THE GREAT HILLARY/MEDIA/JESUS HATER conspiracy.

I will take great pleasure as your brains melt from the hell your hubris is bringing to bear. And cant wait to b---- slap you Repugs once you decide to start your middle class revolt on the eeevil liberals.

Rant over

[Flubadubya]

61. Witch hunt my foot....

Clinton was the target of a Witch Hunt. These dingleberries are just the recipients of their own karmic retribution. They'll just have to live with it, 'cause it's only natural. :evilgrin:

[donotpassgo]

62. BUT CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON

...CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON! MEDIA CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON ATHEIST CLINTON CLINTON CLINTON!

[Junkdrawer]

63. Nah, the house just landed accidental like...

All together now:

Ding-Dong! The witch is dead
Which old witch
The wicked witch
Ding-Dong! The wicked witch is dead
Wake up you sleepyhead
Rub your eyes
Get out of bed
Wake up! The wicked witch is dead
He's gone where the goblins go
Below, below, below
Yo ho! Let's open up and sing
And ring the bells out
Ding-dong! The merry-o
Sing it high
Sing it low
Let them know the wicked witch is dead

[regnaD kciN]

89. It must be...

...that ol' Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy!

:evilgrin:

[Junkdrawer]

60. So, newsguyatl - Has the big "October" story broke yet....

enquiring minds want to know...:evilgrin:

[lebkuchen]

64. Gosh, do you think GEICO will finally drop Rushy as a sponsor?

Lord knows, I've tried to get through to this company.

[TacticalPeek]

69. Eschaton is piling up a bunch of tasty Flush transcript drug bits:

Way to go, Atrios!

atrios.blogspot.com

Simply delish!

:toast:

[truthisfreedom]

70. time for the ol' anal cyst boy to get the "bum's rush" just like any

hate mongrel.

[Junkdrawer]

72. I'd say a Joe McCarthy ending is far and away the most likely..

conclusion to this 15 yr. tragedy.

[Flubadubya]

74. Nah... this is what he'll do...

He'll pull a big, public Jimmy Swaggert style 'mea culpa', "please forgive me, I couldn't help myself, but now I'm reformed - (please don't deprive me of my million-dollar plus salary) - "it'll never happen again." Kissy-kissy-smooch-smooch. :puke:

That's how I think it will go.

[Junkdrawer]

77. He's an addict. They either get help or die an inglorious death...

And to get help, the ego has to go....

[regnaD kciN]

90. Does that mean that, fifty years from now...

...Ann Coulter, Jr. will publish a liberal-bashing book on how Rush was really right all along?

;-)

[Junkdrawer]

95. LOL - "Before the drugs turned him into the slobbering shell...

the liberals want us to remember"....Yeah, something like that.

[chromotone]

75. WHAT!!! He went to his housekeeper to get the drugs?

Didn't he have Noelle Bush's cell phone number?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/29/noelle-bush.htm

[Senryu Sid]

76. Sid Saw it Coming Two Years Ago

Greg Jungheim
Chicago

http://www.senryusid.com/

[Unknown Known]

78. No matter what happens now, Rush has lost face

and from how CNN is reporting this story, it sounds like there's more to come from this. They say he is not the target of the investigation, but if that were true, he would have been the one wearing the wire - not his housekeeper.

Last night when I heard he resigned from ESPN, I thought it was peculiar because this is the kind of controversy Limbaugh relishes. In fact, it's the kind of thing he would say on purpose to create attention.

[Unknown Known]

79. No matter what happens now, Rush has lost face

and from how CNN is reporting this story, it sounds like there's more to come from this. They say he is not the target of the investigation, but if that were true, he would have been the one wearing the wire - not his housekeeper.

Last night when I heard he resigned from ESPN, I thought it was peculiar because this is the kind of controversy Limbaugh relishes. In fact, it's the kind of thing he would say on purpose to create attention.

[TacticalPeek]

80. Of course, the Cyst would never sully himself

with nasty old commie trial lawyers, now would he?

I'm sure he can do just fine by himself with that mind on loan from God, though it begins to look like God is calling that loan.

[truthisfreedom]

82. i just visited the rushlimbaugh.com site and laughed at the ad at the top

"poor diet? lack of sleep? time to take your stresstabs! click here for a free coupon!"

hahahaha. time to take your "stresstabs" pigboy.

[bvar22]

83. I've always wondered how

...RUSH (appropriate name) was able to live with himself.....now I know.....lots and lots of opiate based drugs can quell a guilty conscience.

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, was also addicted to opiates. I demand urine screens for Hannity, O'Really, the entire Faux News staff, Coulter, Savage, North, and all of the other screaming, whining, NeoCon propagandists.

Now we know!!!

Bye rush!!!Hope the door hits you in your pompous, hypocritical ass.

[Roy]

87. No thanks bvar22...................

Don't want no URINE from ANN COULTER, bite your tongue!!!!
eeeeecccccckkkkkkkk

Probably give the same effects as the blood of "THE ALIEN" from the movie

[Oreegone]

84. Sent out the article I posted and got the following excellent response

Think I'll write a book called, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiotic Pill Popping Bigot." ~Kristina

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

85. The Repubs Will Attribute This To Youthful Indiscretion

that he committed before he matured and turned 50, like the Bush alcohol/grass/coke extravaganzas that took place in his youth before he turned 45.

[sensate]

91. favorite scapegoat

Rush will just find some way to blame it all on Clinton.

[RamboLiberal]

96. Brokaw on NBC news reported Rush has hired Roy Black

on the drug probe. Black is a criminal defense attorney, so looks like Rushbo may be facing charges.

[caledesi]

103. Roy Black is a great defense lawyer - makes me sick bec

Rush has $ he will get probably get off w/ Roy Black, but how many black people are going to jail every f*cking day for a minor drug-abuse.

[frank frankly]

98. he is gone

EIB gone

[NNN0LHI]

99. Reuters and AP links. Authorities confirmed he is being investigated

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031002/us_nm/media_limbaugh_dc_8

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=551&ncid=716&e=9&u=/ap/20031002/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_mcnabb_limbaugh

[DemonFighterLives]

100. Just want to get in here

To share in the bashing of the Limblob. Maybe his anal pimple was hurting him. That's where his brains are, don't ya know. Poor bastard. I have a hard time feeling sorry for him, but he obviously must have a problem and needs to get well and stay away from the airwaves please. Mega dittos on that account!

[truthisfreedom]

105. he's expected to be broadcasting tomorrow according to drudge

who may end up replacing him... hahahahahaha.