Rush Limbaugh poised to return to the dial (Nov. 17)

[Newsjock]

http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=224935

Rush Limbaugh will return to the radio airwaves Nov. 17, MediaDailyNews has learned. The move follows the conservative radio talk show host's well- publicized stay in a treatment center for substance abuse.

... The talk show host's name came up Tuesday morning during a conference call discussing third-quarter earnings at Clear Channel Communications, the huge radio station owner that also owns the Premiere Radio Networks unit that produces Limbaugh's show. A Clear Channel executive said that Limbaugh should be out of the rehab hospital within seven to 10 days and that a full recovery is expected.

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[trotsky]

1. Gee, that's fine and dandy.

Now what are they going to do about his BREAKING THE LAW?

[Warpy]

9. You nuts?

Not a goddamned thing, of course. They're too busy chasing Courtney Love and making sure Tommy Chong's pipes aren't menacing the social order.

Look for a stark change in his rhetoric. He'll be allied with the dingbat element in the DEA. Since HE had a problem with dope, nobody should be able to get pain control, not even people who have been on it for years and been responsible with their treatment.

Our esteemed Drug Czar has already called for a ban on all opiates except for dying cancer patients. I want to be around when he has that cardiac bypass!

[Beaker]

44. The day they ban opiates is the day I leave the country.

This is the first I've heard of that- do you have a source or a link?

[jeanmarc]

35. Rush should turn himself into the State Pen

I mean he should. After all, when I wanted the taxes to remain as they were for the rich, I was told that I should send my tax refund check back to the treasury. ;)

[lebkuchen]

2. What else is he skilled at?

besides selling tupperware and Amway products?

[kayleybeth]

3. Oh Joy

I can hardly wait. :puke:

[The Zanti Regent]

28. MEANWHILE>>>TOMMY CHONG IS STILL IN JAIL

Once again, Rush is protected by the power of the MAGIG (R)™

[Westegg]

42. chong/rush

I agree. Tommy Chong is still in the pokey and Rush gets to go back, as if nothing happened? Beyond madness.

Free Tommy Now! (I ain't kidding.)

[joeunderdog]

47. And unlike pot, you can't GROW Oxycontin.

It HAS to be stolen. People are often killed in the robberies that occur to secure the stuff. The drug is ugly in so many ways.

Rush is an accessory to these violent crimes and the erosion of society, the likes of which he describes and abhors so passionately.

[SideshowScott]

4. Must be nice to be rich enough to afford treatment

While he screams that our tax money should not be used to help those who make less than he does but have have the same problems with drug depeancy....I its amazing how the right wing had coddeled rush when lashing out with a vengnace at others with the same problems..Lock them up and throw away the key they say..Right now there are MILLIONS who are in jail for things that Rush has been publicly guilty of. Why should he get off scott free?

[Hawkeye-X]

5. We can all pretend to have right-wing feelings

and call Rush and bypass his screeners and chew him out for betraying America by being addicted to hilbilly heroin.

And also taunt him if he can share his supply of Oxycontin to "us right-wingers" who feels Rush's pain (hint, think Clinton)

Hawkeye-X

[Galley_Queen]

6. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=654733

[realFedUp]

18. It is a dupe but the other is in GD

So, technically we don't shut it down.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. Cure for opiate addiction finally discovered!

A) Get a radio show, and a whole lot of like-minded listeners.
B) Amass a personal fortune.
C) Rant about others' moral failings.

Had the Chinese followed these three simple rules, they could have saved themselves from the SCOURGE of DRUGS!

[loudnclear]

8. It must be nice to be able to afford the drugs you need...

NO ONE rehabs within 30 days from the kind of drug usage that Rush was doing. NO ONE! Remember that.

[shanti]

37. exactly!

his "rehab" is a farce.

[Westegg]

43. rush in a rush to rehab

I totally agree. No one can get that monkey off their back in 30 days. What a joke. Rush was probably playing the "rehab game," telling them what they wanted to hear.

[otohara]

10. Anyone Else Would Have Been Fired

Pretty sure in his contract it says, no drugs, no purchasing of illegal drugs

[plcdude]

11. who do we write

to question why he would be allowed to continue his show? This is outrageous but not a surprise. He needs to be arrested and charged like any other citizens who breaks the law as he has.

[robbob]

12. Rush Limbaugh "returning to the dial"?

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

[jus_the_facts]

13. the news just gets worse and worse and worse and worse....

.....that piece of shit hasn't recovered from SHIT...yet is allowed to continue to spew it....forgive me for wishing the END IS NIGH!:puke:

[jayfish]

33. "The End Is Really Fucking Nigh"

From "28 Days"

Jay

[jus_the_facts]

34. trippin' irony.....

....haven't even seen that yet! :crazy:

[jayfish]

36. When You Do...

look for it in the form of graffiti. Just the first thing I thought of when I read your post. It seemed fitting.

Jay

[0007]

14. Will the first caller ask this schmuck Limbaugh...

If that funny mexican movie star should be in prison for selling bongs and water pipes? (Was it Cheech or Chong who went to the joint?)

And if he Rush Limbaugh is rehabilitated now from his drug habit is there hope for that funny little mexican man to be rehabilitated from selling his water pipes?

And there should be a law against a hypocrite selling his two for nickle and one for a dime jive to us red blooded dope smoking American people.

[opihimoimoi]

16. Recovery from a Lobotomy???

Rush is a danger to this world.

Mo bettah ma kay baby time. Poho poi.

[bluestateguy]

15. Damn

I long for the day when fatman will be permanently silenced.

[Name removed]

17. Deleted message

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[haymaker]

19. He needs more than soap.

hehehehehe

[rooboy]

20. Clear Channel? Shouldn't that be 'Clean' Channel ? n/t

[donotpassgo]

21. Im taking bets on his eventual relapse.

odds are 2:3

[Beaker]

46. he won't have a relapse, he'll have a prescription

odds are 1:1

[truthisfreedom]

22. it's time to start making those calls to his sponsors.

from buzzflash.com:
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/con03145.html

October 14, 2003
What You Can Do To Speed (Pun Intended) Rush's Retirement

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

Contact his radio network and complain, letting them know that you will not stand for their support of a hypocrite who supports terrorism through his use of illegal drugs:

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

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

Call his show and ask his guest hosts whether they support law-breaking, terrorism-supporting hypocrites (and remind them of their past statements regarding the vile nature of drug addicts):

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

Show Fax Number
1-212-563-9166

[e-mail]

Call his advertiser -- particularly Mission Pharmacal, which makes the pain reliever Thera-gesic (apparently not strong enough for Rush) -- and ask them whether they want their products associated with a pill-popping racist:

AutoZone
[phone]

Bose Wave Radio
508-766-7781

Mission Pharmacal
(makers of Citracal)
[phone]

General Steel Metal Buildings
1-888-98-STEEL

Hotwire Discount Travel
415-343-8444

Lending Tree
[phone]

Life Quotes
1-800-670-5433

Red Lobster
[phone]

Select Comfort
763-551-7460

Mission Pharmacal
(makers of Thera-gesic)
[phone]

Overstock.com
[phone]

And, finally, contact the White House, John Ashcroft and/or your U.S. Representatives and urge them to launch an investigation to into the links between Bin Laden, Saddam and Rush's drug dealers.

BuzzFlash readers, please add any suggestions you have to this list. We must unite to end the threat that deviants like Limbaugh pose to our great nation! BuzzFlash Reader

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

[kayell]

25. When I first saw that I thought of his NA sponsor

Can you think of a more miserable person to sponsor?

[leesa]

41. Thanks for the list. I have already called 7 of them

It is important that we not let the conservative hypocrits play the game of justifying Limbaugh's escape from punishment for a Federal Crime that he insisted be punished with jail time.

[loudnclear]

23. The world was a much better place without Rush on the air

Oh, well...

[Desperadoe]

24. Oh Goody

Another 30 day wonder. This should be really good, so get ready for the fun.

The success rate for a 30 day rehab is about 1 out of 15 actually make it for 6 months and then it drops off quite sharply. The odds are a little better if it's your second rehab.

His chances at success are diminished even further because he is returning to the same lifestyle that got him into the shit originally. No change of employment, in his case, means that there will be no change in lifestyle habits and no change in friends and associates. We won't even mention that 30 days was nowhere near enough time considering the nature of his addiction and his drug of choice.

If you hang out in the barbershop, you will eventually get a haircut.

[snippy]

26. I want to hear a shittohead say: Oxydittos Rush !

[truthisfreedom]

29. heh

nice.

[Malva Zebrina]

27. Heh

that is all I have to say. Heh--this bloviating, pipsqueak--this drug addled, hysterical, pompous , boil inflicted, ass of a very frightened man, will return to his hate broadcasts.
this really needs to be protested somewhere. Or at the least needs to laughed off the planet. This piece of despicable, sleezy and slimy crap is actually being allowed to return to his hate radio--in the same way, in the same personna, he did when he was on those incredible amount of drugs? I venture to say that he will, as soon as he returns, be right back on those pills.

[Endangered Specie]

30. Dont bother him...

And let him pop his pills.

The more pills he pops...
the sooner he cashes in his chips.

[kainah]

31. So what kind of shape will he be in?

Unless he's a lot more controlled than all his history indicates, there is no way this is going to be a very easy time for him. I would think he'll have a very, very hard time being his good old boy self while craving the drugs. So, if he wants to be good again........

[yankeeinlouisiana]

32. Mark your Calendars!!

n/t

[BuckeFushe]

39. Call in the first day , clog the lines, DON'T give in to the Dittoheads

call him on everything he's ever said to anyone. Here's the phone number

800-282-2882

[area51]

38. riiiiiight

MediaDailyNews said:

" ...and that a full recovery is expected."

Sure, and lardbutt thought that also the two previous times he's detoxed. }(

[leesa]

40. The King of Hypocrits. What filth Clear Channel is!

[Demonaut]

45. KBCO Boulder COLO owned by clearchannel

used to be one of the most progressive radio stations in the US but no more.