I asked Limbaugh about his Dominican Republic trip and Viagra

[kpete]

JULY 6--Rush Limbaugh was traveling with four other men--including the producers of the hit show '24'--when he was detained over a mislabeled bottle of Viagra found in his luggage during a Customs search. A Department of Homeland security passenger manifest shows that Limbaugh and his four buddies flew from the Dominican Republic on a Gulfstream IV jet owned by Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates his radio program. Limbaugh returned to Palm Beach, Florida on June 26 with Joel Surnow, '24''s co-creator and executive producer and Howard Gordon, another of the Fox hit's executive producers (Hollywood agent Jeffrey Benson was also part of the Limbaugh quintet). With all those guys in tow, it is unclear what Limbaugh needed with those 29 100mg Viagra pills. The passenger manifest was among several documents released today by the Palm Beach County State's Attorney in response to a TSG open records request. Included in the material released were a copy of the handwritten statement Limbaugh provided investigators after he was detained upon the discovery of the impotency drug. An affidavit sworn three days later by Limbaugh was also released. In that document, Limbaugh explains that the Viagra 'was intended for my exclusive use' and that the drug had been prescribed in the name of his drug treatment doctor, Steven Strumwasser, 'to further maintain and protect my privacy.'

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party




Rush: Starting in Arlington Virginia this is Seth. Welcome sir, nice to have you on the EIB network, hello.

"Seth": Thank you Rush. I'm lookin' at this and I'm seeing two adults exchanging ... well, actually seven if there were six women ... exchanging pictures in a consentual way. And i guess it's none of my business. It was none of the reporter's business. It's none of anybody else's business. How is this different ... I mean you're talking about how "smart" everybody is, you talk about how smart you are every day ... but, how is this different from you going to, you know the sexual tourist destination of Dominican Republic with a bottle of viagra and having that sprayed all over the headlines. How did you like that? Why is this different?

Rush: Well, but ... what you describe about me isn't true. And I guess what you're suggesting here is that getting caught having sex affairs is only stupid when republicans do it.


"Seth": No, what I said ..


Rush (who by now has killed Seth's call): No, this ... you know you are, you're repeating internet rumors based in hatred and misinformation and typical brainlessness on the left. NONE of that took place. But it's people like you who present the rest of us with the greatest challenge we have in saving the country. Because general, glittering jewels of collosol ignorance like you, and your hate-filled partisanship ... are primarily responsible ... people just like you ... are primarily responsible for the precarious poisition this great nation finds itself in. Because you can't be counted on for genuine, decent citizenship. You can't be counted on to protect this country when it's under assault internally. You seek your jollies in false victories over your political enemies while your country is in the process of going down in flames. Its people like you that try to make excuses for reprobates like Weiner, and Clinton and so forth while immersing yoursellf in lies to make yourself feel good that present a problem for the rest of us. Feel sorry for ya. You're probably capable of much more than you're immersing yourself in. I gotta take a brief time out, we'll come back, we'll continue ... right after this.

AUDIO:
http://truthticker.com/?q=node/8
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/07/982936/-I-asked-Limbaugh-about-his-Dominican-Republic-trip-and-Viagra-(now-w-audio-link)?via=siderec

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. *Ahem* Rush...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/13564675

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Rush Limbaugh could see a deal with prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case collapse after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in his bag at Palm Beach International Airport. The prescription was not in his name.

Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Miller said the alleged violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor. The sheriff’s office was investigating and will soon turn the case over to the state attorney’s office, which had no immediate comment Tuesday.

Under the deal reached last month with prosecutors, Limbaugh was not to be arrested for any infraction for 18 months in exchange for authorities deferring a charge of “doctor shopping.” Prosecutors had alleged the conservative talk-show host illegally deceived multiple physicians to receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions.

[Doctor_J]

33. Rusty was still married to his 3rd beard at the time too

Too bad he cut you off. Good job

[yurbud]

44. Did all of his wives divorce him at exactly the ten year mark?

That makes it look like their marriage really were ''contracts.''

[yurbud]

45. the GOP loves closet cases for one reason only: you can control them with the fear of exposure

[Ohio Joe]

2. That is freakin great!

:thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

3. Rush at his best - arguing with inanimate objects

Whether it's a dead phone line, a photograph or a piece of audio/video tape, Rush can argue the socks off it. A real live person who can answer in real time? Not so much. So Rush can say, without fear of contradiction from a disconnected phone, that "NONE of that took place." Sure, you can have a police report. You can have a contemporaneous newspaper story. You could even have a videotape of the event. But none of it exists in the cocoon of Rush's studio, and none of it will ever intrude as Rush scores point after point in his "debate" with an inanimate object.

And his fans love him for it. Only the good Lord above knows why.

[The Doctor.]

40. Because they are morons.

It's that simple.

[hfojvt]

41. Well Rush lied.

Just like Weiner. And just like Weiner, his fans believed him. A police report? How do I know that's not photoshopped? A media story. Sheet, the media gets things wrong every day.

But unlike Weiner's lies, the media will not hound Rush, making him repeat and add details to his cover story. The media will not pay other people tens of thousands of dollars to tell their side of the story. Thus since Rush will never hold a press conference where he sobbingly admits that he lied, Rush gets to keep his credibility in the eyes of his fans.

The same, however, cannot be said of Sanford, Vitter, Ensign, Craig, or some of the televangelists whose names escape me (besides Bakker, that guy in Colorado who was having sex with a male prostitute).

[StClone]

53. Spitzer, Grayson, Siegelman and now Weiner.

Every person has a flaw but why are the ones that are so effective at attacking the Right/Wealthy/Powerful the people that have their flaws exposed on national scene then discredited? It's been a pretty effective operation!

Moore and Thom Hartman are on their list to bring down I suspect.

[Gman]

4. and as soon as they cut to commercial

he went totally ballistic!

Good job!!

[brucefan]

5. Ha!

I knew it had to be a DUER

[underseasurveyor]

6. HAHAHA Oh my, you're a brave one to call

into that gasbags show.

Hey isn't that what sarah calls a 'gottcha'? :rofl:

[classysassy]

7. Rush's show sucks

and so does Rush according to Jose Chavez boy ho.

[eShirl]

8. K&R

[Donnachaidh]

9. "You seek your jollies in false victories over your political enemies while your country is in the p

Wow -- Mr Pot - Mr. Kettle is on line two....

Love ya Kpete!

[sufrommich]

10. Hey, your call made headlines at HuffPo. Cheers! nt

[ejpoeta]

11. it's only an internet rumor if there are no facts. like in theweiner case...

it was only an internet rumor for the week that there was no actual facts to back up breitbart's claims yet the media kept pushing it along anyway. once weiner fessed up it became a fact. now, in rush's case, there were actual facts and reports to back it up so it was not internet rumor. that's the difference.

also.... if you need to cut the caller off before you make your point so that they cannot even counter your point... that says a lot....




edited to fix spelling and also added a point at the end since i had to edit for spelling anyway.

[Ganja Ninja]

12. "I gotta take a brief time out"

and go fire my call screener. :rofl:

[malaise]

13. K & R

:rofl:

[Octafish]

14. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

Professional Liar, Exposed.

[JohnnyLib2]

15. You are my heroine forever!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :loveya: :loveya: :applause: :applause: :rofl:

[DainBramaged]

16. And his sheep shall never waver

thanks for the laugh, too bad he killed the call.

[Volaris]

17. holy FUCK... project much, asshole?

I swear they all want to be as good at this kinda stuff as smart Progressives are, but "like a bad archer, (they) keep MISSING THE MARK." ...They just aren't smart enough to know how hard it is to pull off when you have no brains and no soul...
"...REPROBATES....."---what an absolute asshat hahahaha


Thanks man, that made my day=)

[UTUSN]

18. Congrats & I'm taking credit for posting abt the brilliant call as it happened!1

Plus, my paraphrases were pretty damn close to the transcripts that surfaced a couple of hours later!1

Bwah-ha-HAH, caller ZAPS Limbosevic to the MAX, intelligently and with precision!1
Tue Jun-07-11 01:19 PM
Original message

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1248168

[UTUSN]

56. Was it kpete in the O.P. who was the actual caller?!1 n/t

[piratefish08]

19. RUSH - if you are reading this - you are a vile, filthy, lying, hypocritical pile of shit.

When your heart explodes, and it will, I will stop whatever I am doing and dance.

Have a nice day Pig.

[Generic Other]

20. Everything you say rubs off me and sticks on you!!

What a funny exchange. Yay for K-Pete!

[fascisthunter]

21. so sad.... excellent post!!!

[Brickbat]

22. Whenever they say "I gotta take a brief time out, we'll come back," I always feel kinda sorry for

the screener, because you know he's catching it.

[RoadRage]

23. K&R

Love the hypocricy.. love that you called him out on it.. nice work!

[w8liftinglady]

24. ((sniff))...I am so proud!

Thank you for putting that hypocritical prick in his place!

[xchrom]

25. Recommend

[Nitram]

26. well done!

How did you get by the screening?

[BobbyBoring]

27. I heard it live!

WTFG!

Just a wild guess, but I assume you got cut off when he started his one sided rant?

[SnowCritter]

28. Hey, Rush! Project much!?

What a douche-nozzle!

:puke:

[SpiralHawk]

29. For a Republicon Draft Dodger, Rush sounds especially weasly about his sex 'thingy'

One gets the feeling that -- as with virtually all of what overpaid multi-millionaire DraftDodger Limbaugh (R) claims -- it just ain't even close to the truth. His listeners are such Suckers. Rush better hope they never wise up to how he cravenly manipulates them.

[Vanje]

30. Well done!

Rush's response to Seth's call demonstrates alarming grandiosity.
He clearly equates your calling him out, as "calling out" your nation. Thats fucking weird that Rush equates his Viagra-bloated sex-tourist drug-addled self, with the USA,....... scary.

[chervilant]

31. BOOM!!!!

Pwned, pwned, pwned, pwned, pwned! Poor widdle Rushie, had to go and kick a puppy after that call!

[chervilant]

32. Just in case anyone else wants to have your courage and call

or contact Rush, or his sponsors:

(From http://www.topplebush.com/boycott_rush.sht...) :

This is our current list of Rush Limbaugh advertisers as of 01/31/11. We have tried to keep our list updated as sponsors come and go but cannot guarantee the complete accuracy of this list.

ProFlowers
Email
Web contact form
Sales or Service: 1-800-580-2913
Phone: [phone]

Sleep Train (Mattress Center)
4350 Warehouse Ct., Ste 100
North Highlands, CA 95660
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web contact form


eharmony
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
[email protected]
Web contact form
Email
626.795.4814
FAX [phone]


CARBONITE, Inc.
617-587-1100
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
[email protected]
Direct Dial Office: 617-587-1100 EXT:1115

Sleep Number Bed
Select Comfort Corporation
6105 Trenton Lane N
Minneapolis, MN 55442
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
800-438-2233
[email protected]


Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
Online contact form
800-289-5888

Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone [phone]
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)

AutoZone Inc.
901-495-7185; Fax: [phone]
P.O. Box 2198, Memphis, TN 38101
[email protected]

Blue-Emu
Jennifer Golleher
<[email protected] >
1-800-432-9334
http://www.blue-emu.com /

LegalZoom
800-773-0888; Fax: [phone]
Site has a Web Form

Citrix Online (GoToMyPC)
6500 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
[email protected]

American Forces Network
Contact Us: @MyAFN.net

Mission Pharmacal Company
10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Telephone: [phone]
Bennett Kennedy - Citracal Product Manager

Life Quotes, Inc.
32045 Castle Court
Evergreen, CO 80439
1-800-670-5433
[email protected]

Lending Tree
[phone]
Online Contact page

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Employers and other information you might find helpful:

Clear Channel Communications (parent company of Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.) 200 Basse Road San Antonio TX 78209 Phone [phone]

Lowry Mays, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]

Mark Mays President and Chief Operating Officer
[email protected]

Randall Mays, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer [email protected]

Lisa Dollinger, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communication Public Relations [email protected]
[email protected]

International Email

Advantage Website
www.clearchanneladvantage.com
Email - Lori Wellinghoff
Phone 1-REACH-OUT-70 (1-732-246-8870)

Radio Station Listing
Phone [phone]

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. (Rush's immediate employer)
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks CA 91403
Kraig Kitchin http://www.premrad.com /

Members of the press, please contact: Amir Forester, 818-461-5404 [email protected]

Main: [phone] Fax: [phone] Toll Free: [phone]

WBAL Radio (airs his show)
3800 Hooper Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
no website contacts found
Main Call-In Line 410-467-WBAL Toll Free
Call-In Line 800-767-WBAL
Antonen, Mel - [email protected]
News Department - [email protected]

Citadel Broadcasting Providence WPRO (airs his show) 1502 Wampanoag Trail East Providence, RI 02915 Business Phone: [phone] no website contacts found

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Contact Information:

Show Call-in Number 1-800-282-2882

Show Fax Number 1-212-563-9166

If you would like to contact Limbaugh at his PRIVATE email addresses, you might do so on AOL/Compuserve at: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]

Rush's public email address is: [email protected]

[lpbk2713]

34. You overlooked his biggest sponsor ...

... done by accident I'm sure. :hi:

[chervilant]

36. lol

Actually, Rush seems to consider himself the de facto leader of the GOP, which is why I didn't list the GOP as one of his 'sponsors.'

Thanks for the levity. I need lots of laughter in these dark times.

[Irishonly]

35. K&R

You done great!!:yourock:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

37. Kicking this one back up!! K&R!!! n/t

:kick::kick:

[Cowpunk]

38. Ha! I knew it.

I tuned in to Limbaugh on my lunch break yesterday just as he was giving the typical damage control rant, that we see above in the OP. "Sound's like Mike Stark's been at it again", I thought.

Bingo!

[robertpaulsen]

39. The sheer quantity of projection in Rush's response is just astounding.

How much of what he accuses the caller does Rush do on a daily basis?

But it's people like you who present the rest of us with the greatest challenge we have in saving the country.

Check.

Because general, glittering jewels of collosol ignorance like you, and your hate-filled partisanship ... are primarily responsible ... people just like you ... are primarily responsible for the precarious poisition this great nation finds itself in.

Check two.

Because you can't be counted on for genuine, decent citizenship.

Check three.

You can't be counted on to protect this country when it's under assault internally.

Check four.

You seek your jollies in false victories over your political enemies while your country is in the process of going down in flames.

Check five.

That's five counts of projection in one response. But just replace (in bold) a couple words and you have more:

No, this ... you know you are, you're repeating internet rumors based in hatred and misinformation and typical brainlessness on the right.

Like when you repeated the Breitbart rumors based in hatred and misinformation and typical brainlessness about Shirley Sherrod, Rush?

Its people like you that try to make excuses for reprobates like Larry Craig and David Vitter and so forth while immersing yoursellf in lies to make yourself feel good that present a problem for the rest of us.

Immersing yourself in lies to make yourself feel good only presents a problem for the rest of us when doing so earns you $20 million a year and the undying admiration of a radical fringe that takes your fascist solutions seriously.

[nonperson]

42. GREAT JOB! And Rush had to take a timeout to scream at his phone screener!

I'll bet the poor bastard was fired on the spot. But they worked for Rush Limpdick so they deserved whatever they got. I just wish Rush would finally get what he deserves.

[think4yourself]

43. Didn't he have to enlist his favorite liberals

The ACLU ?

:rofl:

[Darth_Kitten]

46. K & R -

Rush, you repulsive hypocrite.

[kenichol]

47. Good on you. You got to speak the truth, if only for a second nt

[kenichol]

48. & now I'll know to state the date and/or name the newspaper or tv station

...when I call in and repeat the truth...knowing he will kill the call as soon as he can.

[Bennyboy]

49. Everyone on the left ought to be calling him and asking

all day every day. Give them the big dittos and then let him have it. jsut flood the airwaves with this stuff.

[JazzQuipster]

50. Limbaugh is a coward...

...who hides behind his microphone. He's only truly comfortable in the controlled atmosphere of his radio studio and if he does venture out into television, or makes a public appearance he goes where he knows he will find a receptive audience. His insecurities are readily apparent in his bombastic ego which he uses to mask his fears. As far as I know he has never had a liberal guest on his program to spar with, someone with whom he could debate from an alternate viewpoint. While he does take phone calls, they are mostly from his adoring "ditto-head" fans who fawn all over him. On the rare occassions, like this, when he does take a call from a liberal, his normal M.O. is to quietly ditch the caller while he responds with a long-winded monologue leading directly into a commercial break. I doubt if most of his listeners even realize that the caller was dumped and can't respond.

If you want to see why Limbaugh stays in the confines of his comfort zone, there's a great clip on youtube from probably 20 or more years ago when he guest-hosted Pat Sajack's late night talk show in front of a live audience. The audience turned on him and shut the show down! It's great fun to watch. Just search "A bully gets bullied" and I'm sure you'll find it. Enjoy!

[barbtries]

52. sure enough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w

i'm going to watch it when i get home. not sure i'll make it through almost 11 minutes, but i'll try.

[Red State Rebel]

51. Um, I've been to the Dominican and NOT as a Sex Tourist

That implication bothers me. There a lot of resorts and beaches there to visit. We stayed in a beautiful place in Bayahibe and I never once heard anything about the sex trade.

[Ikonoklast]

54. Using Teh Google got this...

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&source=hp&q=dominican+republic+sex+tourism&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=d2da7bf6259b98f9&biw=1046&bih=675

[Sportsguy]

55. Outstanding!!!!!

Breathtaking actually! Kpete, you rawk!:yourock: :headbang:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

57. Durn...I'm too late to rec...

Well done! :applause:

[2banon]

58. ooops... I see a data entry error on the date

it was confusing me so it might confuse others.. (or not)

it's says July 6..

I'm thinking you meant to key in the month June?? :shrug: