High court gives Limbaugh 30-day extension for appeal

[DoYouEverWonder]

December 8, 2004


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? The state Supreme Court gave Rush Limbaugh an extra month Wednesday to argue prosecutors illegally seized his medical records as part of a probe into whether he sought multiple prescriptions for painkillers.

Florida's high court extended Limbaugh's deadline for filing his written arguments from Dec. 20 to Jan. 20, but said that date is final.

Limbaugh argues prosecutors violated his privacy when they seized his medical records. The state 4th District Court of Appeal ruled against Limbaugh, but last month it asked the Supreme Court to consider the case.

The DCA wants the Supreme Court to decide whether patients should be notified before their medical records are seized or inspected. The high court is seeking the opinions of prosecutors and Limbaugh's attorneys before it decides whether to consider the case.

Limbaugh has maintained the investigation is politically motivated and that he's committed no crime.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/gen/ap/FL_Scofla_Limbaugh_Painkillers.html

I guess Rush is just lucky he's not poor and black, because he'd be in jail now instead of still on the air spewing his hate.

[The Zanti Regent]

1. we know he will be set free!

After all, this is Florida, where Joe Scarborough killed his intern and got away with it

[stevedeshazer]

2. El Fatbo gets a pass

Mega fuckin' dittos. :grr:

[Bono71]

3. I usually don't revel in the misfortune of others, but I love

(no really, LOVE) the fact that Rush was busted for drug possession and is a hillbilly heroin addicted wingnut.

I love it.

I revel in it.

It is proof that there is a God (by the way, thanks for that one, G).

Now about Pat Robertson...

[Dr.Phool]

4. If there was a god

Limbag would have OD'd

[Voltaire99]

17. LOL! Great post, Dr. Phool. (n/t)

[bluestateguy]

5. I'm I the only one who thinks this fat fuck will walk scot free?

And then he'll gloat, and go right back to bashing the ACLU, a group that has stuck their neck out to defend him.

Perhaps the ACLU will learn a lesson from all this too: not to defend people, who, if they had their druthers, would destroy everything the ACLU belives in.

[FredScuttle]

8. I prefer an ACLU that defends the Constitution across the board

rather than an organization that cherry-picks which civil liberties they'll care about and which kind of folks on whose behalf they'll work.

It's called integrity....perhaps the GOP can learn from it.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. The current GOP deems there is no profit in integrity

...only in PRETENDING to have integrity or in accusing others of NOT having it. And they're not interested in learning anything except how to grab more and more and more.

[stevedeshazer]

18. You are not the only one

I doubt he'll mention his newly-found ACLU friends anytime soon. My modest bet is that Il Fatbo will waddle away as a free Fatboy after relinquishing a smallish fraction of his actual worth in both wealth and girth due to some type of phony community service.

But I respectfully disagree that the ACLU should not defend the rights of the three-hour hate-monger pusbag. Rights is rights, and we should all be free to pontificate, convicted felon in Florida or no.

Jezus, will HIS vote count if he is actually convicted?

I am offering a $1000 reward for any real, verifiable picture of Rush Limbaugh doing ANY form of community service, be it picking up trash along a highway wearing a Federal Safety Orange Neon vest, or serving up turkey and mashed p'taters at the Salvation Army.

[Downtown Hound]

6. Welcome to the war on drugs Limbaugh

where you can have your house seized and sold for growing a single marijuana plant, get sent away for twenty years to life because your boyfriend used your phone to sell drugs, be a competent worker but lose your job because you smoked a joint in your off hours and failed a piss test, or be denied the right to a college education and to participate in sports if you are a minor and get caught doing what you were doing every day.

This is what you supported Limbaugh. And I believe you once said that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona was "an American Hero." Well Rush, I truly hope that you experience what he has inflicted on thousands of people just like you, except they're not obnoxious, hypocritical, war-mongering fascists to boot. Let's see you on a chain gang, in a striped uniform, painting over graffiti in 100+ degree weather. I'd personally drive down to wherever you're doing that and take pictures of you. It would make my day.

[Gregorian]

7. Poor little Oxymoron.

Well, Chong was rich and white. But he wasn't a repub. Justice is not served in America.

[Bridget Burke]

16. Tommy Chong was (and is?) rich, but....

Since when is Chong a "white" name. His father's people came from China & his mother was Scotch/Irish. He was born in Edmonton & raised in Calgary, where he formed The Shades (Western Canada's first R&B band); supposedly the band name referred to the band's diversity.

Then he split for Vancouver & eventually met up with a cat from East Los.

[FlyByNight]

9. I guess crime does pay...

at least for a month more anyway. Good thing Limbaugh is rich, white and republican or else he'd be treated like the rest of us.

Fucking hypocrite. I sincerely hope he relapses.

[Okieprogie]

10. We should all be on Limbaugh's side....

If the fat POS of loses, we all lose. What the prosecutors did was flat out wrong. And, if you don't care about the principal of the matter, then for selfish reasons you should care about unchecked political power as the Republicans are controlling more and more state, local, and federal government.

[Straight Shooter]

11. Whatever benefits rush receives from his status will never trickle down

Extremely wealthy people get away with murder by paying off all the right people. They get away with embezzlement. Hell, they get away with drug smuggling and starting wars, overturning governments.

No way is rush's treatment going to have one damn thing to do with anyone else's sentencing, unless it's another rich white Republican.

[Okieprogie]

14. ridiculous.

Rush will get off because he is rich. yes. but he will set the precedent that you can't just grab everyone's medical records. If the rich white man doesn't set the precedent, then you can bet that the rest of us won't be able to defend ourselves.

[melnjones]

19. glad to see some people

actually think these things through:-)

[PsN2Wind]

13. Bulls**t

We want for Rush Limbaugh exactly that which he has said was appropriate for drug abusers. If I were to defend him I would be as big a hypocrite as he. Well not physically as big.

[Bigmack]

15. I just posted re: Novak...

.. wanted to see him in the slam with a pervert roommate.

That's not even a START of how I feel about Limpballs.

I'd dream of him coming out of prison with a size 19 asshole!

Hate Russ? Bet your ass! That man has caused more hate in this country than the KKK. I just want to return the feeling.