Judge considering when to open Rush Limbaugh's medical records

[DesEtoiles]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-531limbaugh,0,2410324.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

By JILL BARTON
Associated Press

May 31, 2005, 12:09 PM EDT

WEST PALM BEACH -- Rush Limbaugh's attorney urged a judge Tuesday to limit the medical records that prosecutors can review for their investigation into whether the best-selling commentator illegally purchased painkillers.

Attorney Roy Black said the records, which were seized in 2003, should be reviewed by a judge before they are opened to prosecutors. ``We're talking about privacy matters and privileged matters,'' Black told the judge, saying prosecutors should not see ``things that have nothing do to with the items that they are investigating.''

Limbaugh had hoped to keep his records closed to prosecutors entirely, but he lost at the Circuit Court and appellate court levels. The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

Prosecutors seized the records after learning that Limbaugh received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contend that Limbaugh engaged in ``doctor shopping,'' or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.

[William769]

1. He wants to hide his sex change

From alien to human.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I think that species-change operation

failed.

[dbt]

2. Dear Rush: if you have nothing to hide, don't fear the investigation.

Remember that one from the Clinton days? How about this one: "You can't have it both ways!"

:rofl:

[Tempest]

6. By his own admission, Rush is guilty

Rush, 1991: "The Kennedy's know he's guilty, why else would they hire
Roy Black?"

[SlavesandBulldozers]

31. exacfly

hahahah.

I love the Rush Limbaugh doing drugs story. It's such blissful karmic mosaic christian justice. To me it is the proof of a higher justice

That was when I discovered DU i just realized. DU was all over that story and I stumbled across it on the Top 10 Conservative Dummies.

[SmokingJacket]

3. 2,000 in six months... wow!

That's more than 10 a day, of the powerful stuff. He's a big guy, but that much oxycontin could knock out a hippo.

And that was just the one pharmacy!

[Rose Siding]

4. I didn' t realize they were all from the same pharmacy

Is it weird that the druggist didn't question those amounts? I wonder if there are any laws about that.

[Inland]

7. I can't buy two packages of DayQuil, but Rush gets all his scrips

filled no questions asked.

[maxrandb]

13. They Don't Track That Kind of Stuff

Now if he was a woman trying to get birth control pills....

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. That's why he went suddenly deaf

eom

[MADem]

24. He could be going blind too, if he is on the Viagra! n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. ROFLMAO

That would be perfect justice.

[SmokingJacket]

33. You're probably right. nt

[SlavesandBulldozers]

34. yep

soon he will be completely deaf. but he has had decades of practicing talking without listening that he's perfectly suited for that. plus, I mean he's had a lotta fun partying so he must be at peace with it much like Keith Richards must be comfortable with whatever comes his way.

Funny thing, Keith probably STILL has better hearing than pigboy. . . oh sweet justice.

[Supersedeas]

74. and yet he really is abusing the system with these frivolous lawsuits

as the rest of the Corporate Media remains oddly quiet about the Limbaud celebrity trial.

Strange, ain't it.

[napi21]

8. Well, he's dumber than I thought! What moron would do something

illegal like this, and leave the whole trail at one pharmacy?

Beside that, what in the world other things are in those records that he wants to keep hidden? Penile implant? Other causes for his going deaf? Something else that is an illegal activity? Hmmmmm

[warrens]

28. I think what is in those records is this:

No back surgery, doctors' notes with clear lies from Limbaugh, and clear evidence of doctor shopping. Hence their request to only consider ILLEGAL drug purchasing. That would not be in the medical records. It's total BS and the judge is not going to fall for it.

[TankLV]

36. HIV

Just assuming.

Strange how nobody dares ask the question.

Now how did he get THAT?!?!

Inquiring minds want to know.

[MADem]

45. Someone who is so secure in his own hubris that he believes he is

...above the law. The ole "You can't touch me, I'm FAMOUS" delusion!

[gratuitous]

9. Gee, law enforcement certainly is solicitous of Mr. Limbaugh's privacy

But I'm sure they show the same deference and care to all the poor junkies and crankheads who can't afford the likes of Roy Black to defend them.

Right?

[Journeyman]

14. The law, sir, is entirely even handed. . .

Consider, if you will, that "the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Tip o' the hat to Anatole France.)

[maxrandb]

11. More Liberal Media?

"2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion"

How come we never hear anymore about him buying these pills out of the trunk of some car at the local Denney's? I mean that is how this whole thing came to light isn't it? I don't think the pharmacies turned him in. Wasn't there some woman who wore a wire and sold him large quantities of drugs out of a car?

Funny! IF it were you or me, we would be in jail by now.

Wasn't he pushing to get Kerry to sign his SF-180? Wasn't he calling for the release of Bill Clinton's Medical Records so we could read about the "distinct" curve of the 'clenis'"?

Wow, documenting Republican hypocrisy certainly is a full time job!

[symbolman]

23. Yeah

It's actually more like 30,000 Oxycontin or some ridiculous figure like that, his maid turned him in because he was making DRUG DEALS in a parking lot.

Wonder why they aren't talking about that in the article.. more media bullshit, minimizing his CRIME.

Are they afraid the Judge is going to open up his med records and have Limbaughs shriveled tiny penis fall onto his desk?

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. WTF is there to consider?

Anyone else would be convicted and in jail by now.

[hughee99]

16. You know, we say this all the time...

That "anyone else" would be in jail by now, but we all know that famous or wealthy people, regardless of their political affiliation never go to jail for this kind of shit. Famous people have to actually get caught red-handed at least 5 times (see Robert Downey Jr.) before they even get the token "30 days". I'm not saying that it's right, but that's how it is.

[Binka]

20. America Land Of The Best Justice One Can Buy

Got money?

[deacon2]

44. Binka - that is one beautiful kid!

Just had to say it. Reminds me of my two blondies at that age.

[MADem]

25. Unless you are Martha Stewart, then you get excoriated! n/t

[hughee99]

41. If Martha had a drug problem, she would have been better off n/t

[msanthrope]

15. Dealer Weight, my friends.....

Rush had too many pills for one person. I wonder who he gave the surplus to?

[Mark E. Smith]

17. Is Posting Them On DU An Option The Judge Is Considering?

As an interested 3rd party we should be given the option of reviewing the material as early as possible.

[area51]

18. "Judge considering when to open Rush Limbaugh's medical records"

How about yesterday? :evilgrin: Remember, to vermin like Rusty Limpdick & cohorts, obeying the law is soooo important. That's why nazis like Rusty don't break the law. </sarcasm>

[B3Nut]

27. "Dittoheads don't break the law!" he bellowed...

...at a caller who offered up "75 mile-per-hour dittoes" from a cell phone. This was several years ago, and back in my ditto-head kool-aid daze. What a hangover...

TP

[okieinpain]

19. you know these records should probably be marked Top Secret

after all limpballs is a national treasure.

[David__77]

21. Be prepared for this! Letters to the editor, etc.

When the moment arrives, it's time to help foster a political offensive against him.

[DesEtoiles]

22. And what ELSE is Rush trying to hide besides the oxy?

Now his attorney is begging to limit it to just prescriptions.

What else is Rush hiding?

[DoYouEverWonder]

43. More anal cysts probably?

and a few bouts of syphilis?

[Ian David]

47. Did Rush Limbaugh supply diet pills to anorexic Terry Schiavo pre-coma

Perhaps Rush CONTRIBUTED to her demise?

Let's talk about it for 8 weeks and let the public decide.

[RamboLiberal]

29. This poor schmuck got 25 years in Florida for doing what Rush

and Noelle did. This guy was featured on Nightline a couple of weeks ago.

Here's a bit of legal information that may interest Rush Limbaugh: Under Florida law, illegally obtaining more than 28 grams of painkillers containing the narcotic oxycodone—a threshold exceeded by a single 60-pill Percocet prescription—automatically makes you the worst sort of drug trafficker, even if you never sold a single pill. Even if, like Richard Paey, you were using the drugs to relieve severe chronic pain.

Although prosecutors admitted Paey was not a drug trafficker, on April 16 he received a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years for drug trafficking. That jaw-dropping outcome illustrates two sadly familiar side effects of the war on drugs: the injustice caused by mandatory minimum sentences and the suffering caused by the government's interference with pain treatment.

Paey, a 45-year-old father of three, is disabled as a result of a 1985 car accident, failed back surgery, and multiple sclerosis. Today, as he sits in jail in his wheelchair, a subdermal pump delivers a steady, programmed dose of morphine to his spine. But for years he treated his pain with Percocet, Lortab (a painkiller containing the narcotic hydrocodone), and Valium prescribed by his doctor in New Jersey, Steven Nurkiewicz.

<snip>

Unable to find a local physician who was comfortable taking him on as a patient, Paey used undated prescription forms from Nurkiewicz's office to obtain painkillers in Florida. Paey says Nurkiewicz authorized these prescriptions, which the doctor (who could face legal trouble of his own) denies.

http://www.reason.com/sullum/042304.shtml

[Ilsa]

30. That poor man. He's really suffering.

I think Rush should take his place.

[msanthrope]

38. Yes, this is exactly what I meant in my above post......

Rush is automatically at "dealer" weight. This should be interesting. I wonder if he will cop a plea to give up the names of the people he gave his "extras" to.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

32. hey pigboy!

How far can you go before you've gone too far?

[splat@14]

35. Have Geraldo do it... he'll make a show out of it. n/t

[Catrina]

37. If Geraldo does that, I hope he includes

Rush's opinion on those who do drugs and the drug laws themselves!:-)

Rush Limbaugh On Drugs:


"There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. 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 Show, 1996

......

"By legalizing drugs, all you're going to do is define further deviancy downward. We have a duty to pass on values to our descendants, values that will maintain the standards of behavior and ensure the survivability of the American way of life. And drugs are no different. You end up destroying more than yourself."
Rush Limbaugh's Playboy Interview, December 1993

......

"The problem with legalizing drugs is it's another abhorrent example of human behavior that we've suddenly decided hey we can't handle it, we've given up."
Rush Limbaugh Show, 1999

......

"We're going to let you destroy your life. We're going to make it easy and then all of us who accept the responsibilities of life and don't destroy our lives on drugs, we'll pay for whatever messes you get into."
Rush Limbaugh Show, 1993

......


"I'm appalled at people who simply want to look at all this abhorrent behavior and say people are going to do drugs anyway let's legalize it. It's a dumb idea. It's a rotten idea and those who are for it are purely 100 percent selfish."
Rush Limbaugh Show, December 9, 1993

.......

"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 Show, October 5, 1995

.....


"If (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them."
Rush Limbaugh Show, December 9, 1993

http://www.unknownnews.net/031215a-lr.html

[rocktivity]

39. More...

http://www.campchaos.com/show.php?iID=201

:headbang:
rocknation

[Ian David]

40. Meanwhile, Rush is availing himself of help from his nemesis The ACLU

Limbaugh to get legal boost from group he's often ripped

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

By JOHN PACENTI
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

<snip>

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked a state appellate court if it could join in conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh's fight to keep prosecutors from unsealing his medical records.

With permission from the 4th District Court of Appeal, the ACLU, a liberal advocate of constitutional rights, will file an amicus curiae - or friend of the court - brief to help Limbaugh, who is under investigation in Palm Beach County for alleged drug prescription fraud. The ACLU contends that unsealing Limbaugh's records would be an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. So does Limbaugh, who is appealing Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Winikoff's decision to allow state prosecutors to review the records, seized Nov. 25 with court-approved search warrants.


<snip>

In his book, See, I Told You So, Limbaugh provides a list of words in a chapter titled "Politically Correct Liberal Lexicon." For the ACLU, he writes, "official guarantor of all constitutional rights." That's followed by, "Acquittal: What ACLU tries to get in all criminal cases."

In 1995, Limbaugh and the ACLU squared off in federal court when a radio network wanted to run a parody of Limbaugh's program called After the Rush. Limbaugh's producers sued for $15 million to keep the show from using "Rush" in the title. The ACLU sided with the network, claiming it was a free speech issue. Limbaugh's lawsuit was dismissed.

More:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/news/limbaugh/011304_limbaugh.html

[Catma]

42. Wonder

how long it takes him to insult the ACLU for helping him and then bitch more when the ACLU pulls their help because he insulted the ACLU

[jazzjunkysue]

46. What? You mean they're not already classified? A security risk?

They'll release the records with the numbers blacked out.

[Judi Lynn]

48. Limbaugh tries fresh medical record tack:-

Limbaugh tries fresh medical record tack:-
PALM BEACH, Fla. | June 02, 2005 9:27:11 AM IST


Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh wants to limit medical records available to Florida prosecutors investigating him for prescription drug abuse.

Attorney Roy Black argued for the limit in Palm Beach Circuit Court Tuesday, but Circuit Judge Jeffrey Winikoff did not rule immediately on which of the sealed records in his possession prosecutors could see.

Black told the Miami Herald the seized records contain embarrassing details about surgery performed on intimate parts of Limbaugh's anatomy that are unrelated to the case.

The argument followed the Florida Supreme Court's April rejection of Limbaugh's appeal to keep the records sealed.
(snip/...)

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=84962&cat=World

[cornermouse]

49. Yuck.

[smokeyjoe]

62. I didn't know they could implant 'nads, but

I guess anything's possible with our new medical technology.

[ET Awful]

50. So Rush, why don't you want anyone to know about that male enhancement

surgery you had?

I mean, everybody already knows you've been trying to compensate your whole life, why try to hide it?

[truthisfreedom]

51. why do i feel ill just wondering what the hell this is about?

eww! close-ups of anal polyps? rectal reduction surgery? anal tightning?

[Cooley Hurd]

52. I really hate to say it, but that was my first thought...

...something to do with the butthole's butthole.:puke:

[rfranklin]

59. He had genital warts in his anus excised, causing unbearable pain...

but knowing that his audience desperately needed him to guide their thoughts daily, he took dozens of Oxycontin each day to get through his four hours of brilliant commentary.

Now, who could convict knowing that?

[kanrok]

69. I'm guessing impacted feces

Just a hunch.

[Lochloosa]

70. LOL

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[wallwriter]

73. I thought the impaceted feces always ended up

on his radio show...

[wakeme2008]

53. This is making Rush look worse and worse all the time.

The DA does not want to know about Rush's anal surgery. He wants to know about his doctor shopping...... The DA is not going to release non drug use information.....

[BlueIris]

54. It's so hideous whenever an anti-choice, pro-Bush hypocrites cling

desperately to every last smidgeon of what's left of their own privacy rights when it's their--er, asses, on the line. What a fat, lying, worthless piece of shit. Mind you, I'm not fan of anyone's medical records getting searched for any reason--but, in this instance they're evidence in a string of felonies he commited so I think I'll enjoy watching him squirm. Pig.

[BR_Parkway]

55. Afraid we'll find out about the anal cyst that got him deferred from war

was a big fat lie?

Or would the records bring facts to light about the rumored early encounters with men when he went by the name Jeff Christie? Contract a little STD, the health dept wants to get in touch with those who have touched you, some names in there that you don't want us to see Rush? Like Bob or Adam and Steve?


(partner works in public health, that is the only reason I know what STD investigations are like, thought I'd clarify that one)

[BlueEyedSon]

56. Just send the guy to jail (over the drugs) already.... who cares about the

rest???

[joeunderdog]

58. He's getting the OJ treatment for his defense.

Most of us would've served our time already. One technicality and appeal after another. They are micromanaging the process and escaping scrutiny of the facts thus far. Granted, they are losing many of the battles, but they could win the war in wearing down the prosecution until they say UNCLE and cut a deal. That's where this is going.

[ClintonTyree]

57. Where's that good old "accountability" he's always....

spouting off about? :shrug: I hope he's not trying to escape justice like all of those other drug dealers and such he's always crowing about being a pox on our country.
Be accountable, Rush! Set a shining example for all of your listeners, be a real man!
I know, I know, the drug laws don't apply to rich white men, only to poor minorities. :eyes:
I want to see this lying, pompous ass clown put in jail so bad it makes my hair hurt. We'll see what the boys in the slammer think about your "anal cysts", it may be a turn-on for them. Nice rich, fat, white boys are ALWAYS a treat in prison. You know what they say....the bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'. Your fat ass is going to draw a LOT of attention, Rush! Don't drop the soap Rusty!

[mtnester]

60. Surgery to remove polyps, etc, aren't "embarrassing" to those who have them

We got pictures of the one they took from my hubby, a "mushroom" type that if left alone, would likely morph into a cancerous one within 5-10 years, and believe me, he was glad to see it gone! Found during a routine, "I am over 40 exam"...so the exams do catch things...get them done if you can.

So what type of surgery on intimate parts could be construed to be embarrassing for a man? I can only speak from a womans point of view, but maybe breast reduction surgery? Guys..help me out.

As a woman who has given birth, not too much in the way of surgery would be embarrassing for me, maybe a third nipple would have been weird, but in our household, it would have been dream comedic material, something we could all, including the affected person, have a laugh about at an unexpected moment.

[DoYouEverWonder]

61. Isn't Rush a christian?

Instead of looking for loopholes, shouldn't he just tell everyone the truth and then beg for the lord's forgiveness?

[BlueEyedSon]

63. LOL!!! Not THAT kind of Christian, silly!

[FlaGranny]

64. Penile implant?

That's the first thing that comes to mind. Everybody already knows about his pilonidal cyst and sinus.

Edit: Not anal warts.

[BlueEyedSon]

65. Does oxycontin abuse result in erectile problems? nt

[FlaGranny]

66. Really don't know about that.

Could be. Drugs for high blood pressure cause it. Prostate surgery can cause it too.

[noamnety]

67. it can cause impotence

http://www.drugs.com/enc/drugs_that_may_cause_impotence.html

[Enraged_Ape]

68. Tell me again why this turd isn't in the slammer already

Like any other junkie who's been caught redhanded.

Oh, I know, because It's Okay If You're A Republican (tm).

[0007]

71. Ya think the Gov'nor is trying to influence the courts for this

deaf cretin (wooly bully) that has a rotten coccyx but a golden voice for the corrupt?

[fishnfla]

72. Well Black just set a labelled Pandora's box on the table

"The assmunch had surgery below the waist and above the knees"

Lets all speculate now! What a dumbass!

[trekbiker]

75. removing O'lielly's fallafel from his rectum???

let em report and we'll decide..