Rush Limbaugh found with Viagra is detained at Palm Beach airport

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[Caipirabob]

Rush Limbaugh was briefly detained Monday at Palm Beach International Airport when customs agents inspected the conservative talk show host's luggage and found Viagra that belonged to two Florida doctors, authorities said.

"He was not arrested," Palm Beach County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Pete Palenzuela said.

Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, issued a statement through a spokesman saying that agents found a "non-narcotic prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes."

Limbaugh, 55, of Palm Beach, and three others arrived on a private jet from the Dominican Republic to the General Air Facility at PBIA on Monday afternoon, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service said.

Agents searched the plane during a routine customs inspection and found a pill bottle that was not in Limbaugh's name, said Jennifer Connors, a Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman. Agents confiscated the medicine and called the Sheriff's Office, which took over the investigation.

"Mr. Limbaugh was cooperative. He gave a statement that he had a bottle in his possession and that it was Viagra," said sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller, who noted that the prescription was filled in Florida.

[Caipirabob]

Everyone and their cat knows that there is no greater threat to world peace and international security than a rogue Rush Limbaugh with a legal prescription of viagra in his suitcase. Saints protect us....

What an unbelievable mountain of crap these liberals are down here. I hope Rush owns them all by the end of the week.

Liberal nightmare Rush Limbaugh...not incarcerated and on the loose again...

[hershey]

Boston CBS affiliate hot on this story at five am. "Alleged drug arrest".

[Caipirabob]

I love watching liberals get their bubbles burst. It's the tears man, the tears of abject misery and defeat. They taste delicious!

Per the article:

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During that time, Limbaugh can't own a gun, can't use "intoxicants to excess" and must remain gainfully employed.

If Limbaugh successfully completes the terms of his 18 months of supervision, the felony charge will be dismissed and his record will be clean.

It was not immediately clear whether Monday's incident would affect the agreement with the State Attorney's Office. However, a spokesman for the office said that, generally, a person on drug offender probation is prohibited from possessing narcotics and that Viagra does not fall in that category.

[familyop]

Hmmm. I wonder if he'll have grounds for a suit.

[dirtbiker]

However, a spokesman for the office said that, generally, a person on drug offender probation is prohibited from possessing narcotics and that Viagra does not fall in that category.

So basicly, this is one BIG non-story. The only reason this piece was even written was because...he's Rush Limbaugh....

[BroncosFan]

Move out of Florida, Rush. NYC would be glad to have you back. Failing that, screw 'em all and build a studio back in Cape.

[DainBramage]

To be honest, Rush made his name embarrassing liberals for years. The news coverage on this is goes-around-comes-around.

Ted Kennedy would get the same treatrment from Rush.

[Pro-Bush]

Try searching before posting.

[Caipirabob]

I did under "Limbaugh" using the title/date option. The last article at the time I posted this was from yesterday and not sourced from the Sentinel.

[Pro-Bush]

Easy goes it, no harm. Rush is a big target ain't he.

[Caipirabob]

Rush is a big target ain't he.

Sure is, but I think watching the libs unravel over this all week will be kind of fun. : )

[Pro-Bush]

The Libs are getting off as we converse.

[elcid1970]

But unlike Rush, Ted Kennedy wouldn't get treated this way by the media.

And Rush never caused the negligent death of anyone.

[Dallas59]

I guess Rush answered one of those Emails...

[Hardastarboard]

must remain gainfully employed

My G-d, he's fabulously wealthy! This is one of the terms of his probation? I would think the libs would want him unemployed.

[DainBramage]

He's tough. To be honest, millions of men who use Viagra will most likely sympathize with him, not laugh at him.

[edpc]

Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes.

Well.....not anymore.

[CzarNicky]

I thought Rush had a private plane what is he doing going through an airport screen?

[IrishMike]

And this is news ?????

[SkyPilot]

"Hey Rush, you got any of that buddy? Can I have some?"

[dirtbiker]

To be honest, Rush made his name embarrassing liberals for years.

Rush made his name pointing out and making public the embarrassment of liberals...by doing the job the MSM won't...

The news coverage on this is goes-around-comes-around. Ted Kennedy would get the same treatment from Rush.

Yes, but Rush is being treated like this from the MSM, not Al Franken. Teddy would get a free pass from the MSM....

Rush broke no laws, violated no probation, wreaked no cars, killed no secretaries. This story only exists because....he's Rush Limbaugh....

[SkyPilot]

"If you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hours, please seek medical attention."

[dirtbiker]

I thought Rush had a private plane what is he doing going through an airport screen?

Customs. He was returning from the Dominican Republic.

[napscoordinator]

I don't think so. Embarrasment does not allow for a lawsuit. They pretty much said the story that had happened.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

'BZ is at its worst in the morning. 1150 is actually pretty good conservative talk, Bob Bennett morinings, Hew Hewitt in the afternoons. (Howie Carr can be awfully monotonous.)

[napscoordinator]

He's tough. To be honest, millions of men who use Viagra will most likely sympathize with him, not laugh at him.


Although, Leno and Letterman will have a field day tonight.

[browardchad]

What an unbelievable mountain of crap these liberals are down here.

Oh, yeah.

Rush, armed with deadly Viagra = evil.

A militia living in a warehouse wanting to kill as many Americans as possible = disadvantaged minority group whose multi-culturalism must be worshipped.

[lula]

Liberals can get away with:

Drowning women in cars

Caught accepting bribes

Receiving favors in the oval office

Slugging uniformed police

Stuffing top secret documents into socks

I could go on.......

But let a Conservative be caught transporting Viagra for his own use and it's Headlines to be splashed all over the news. Can you say "Agenda"?

[GOP Poet]

OH MY GOD !!!! Rush Limbaugh is having sex! Arrest him! This sort of behavior is only acceptable for Hollywood celebrities and liberals. Publish it in the headlines! And while you're at it publish that he also had two aspirin in his bag that weren't prescribed by a physician. Oh yeah, aspirin doesn't need a presciption . . . oh well mention it in the front page story anyway. PA-LEESE!

Why is it that all I can see is Rush shaking his head with a little bit of a smirk on his face, already composing his thoughts for his radio program this week regarding this incident. If they weren't hassling him so much it would actually be hilarious how they will do anything to get him down there in Florida. They consistently violate Rush's privacy rights. This is just sad and ridiculous.

Rush is a trooper and he had the gonads to admit defeat and get help. God bless Rush. Staying clean is tough enough a day one day at a time, but I guess God wants Rush to be even stronger than he is. My prayers are with you Rush.

[elli1]

...found Viagra that belonged to two Florida doctors, authorities said.

Two?

[GOP Poet]

Well said. Oh and let's not forget . . . drunk driving 'to go vote' at 2 in the morning--oh, he wasn't put in jail--they just gave the 'poor fella' a ride home--after all he just accidentally took some sort of allergy medicine. What-Eva!

[OBXWanderer]

Move out of Florida, Rush. NYC would be glad to have you back. Failing that, screw 'em all and build a studio back in Cape.

Taxes, man, taxes. Why the h*** you think Tiger moved from California to Florida?

[Alas Babylon!]

Ever listen to Rush when he does his liberal pansy voice? Well here's what he'd say the liberals would say in that voice:

"Limbaugh is a hypocrite. He went after Clinton about sex. Is was only about sex, not lying to the American public to get our boys killed. Conservatives hate sex! So now Limbaugh is found with viagra! So he has sex! And he went after Clinton for lying about sex. So Limbaugh is a no good rotten hypocrite! All these conservatives are sexually repressed, always talking about morality but they have sex too and try to make it look like they're better than democrats who aren't afraid to have sex and talk about it publicly. They have sex. Everybody does. But conservatives lie about it, but are morally corrupt like us because they do it too. Now he's been found out to use viagra so it means he had sex!"

[t1b8zs]

read the story

[IrishMike]

.........But let a Conservative be caught transporting Viagra for his own use and it's Headlines to be splashed all over the news. Can you say "Agenda"?



Absolutely, and can you say "media Bias" ?

[Non-Sequitur]

Hmmm. I wonder if he'll have grounds for a suit.

On what grounds? You're not supposed to be taking someone elses prescription drugs.

So Rush needed so much Viagra that he had to get it from not one, but two doctors? Whatta guy! Those CNN babes must be better than they look on TV.

[ikka]

To the MSM, this is "hard news". Surely the scandal will grow and lengthen.

Then they will dig up a quote from the great English man of letters, Doctor Johnson.

[Blueflag]

Customs ...

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Wasn't Buddy BJ's dog and then shouldn't 'buddy' be capitalized? And I'm sure Monica's expression is due to her realizing what she has just done by proxy. I don't know what BJ relations with his dog has to do with Rush's imbroglio with the press.

[Blueflag]

ACtually no. The CBS local affiliate was way over the top on this. The newspaper simply 'went tabloid.'

[foreverfree]

I didn't know Viagra was an illegal drug, like maryjane? Since when did it become so?

ff

[Solamente]

If I was Rush, I'd get on the air today and say the Viagra was not for sex - but in the event the taildragger gear failed.

[GOP Poet]

So true. Lower taxes AND year round sun. I'd move there myself if it wasn't so darn humid and slammed by hurricanes. Rush has some fine homes down there. Those Dems are so envious of him. He is living the good life.

[TankerKC]

...a rogue Rush Limbaugh with a legal prescription of viagra in his suitcase...

It has always been my understanding that it is illegal to take prescription drugs that are prescribed for someone else. The viagra was prescribed to his doctor (or two doctors, in some stories).

Anyway, Rush had to know that he was under scrutiny, so why bother. Take a few tabs down and come back with none.

[mewzilla]

Everyone and their cat knows that there is no greater threat to world peace and international security than a rogue Rush Limbaugh with a legal prescription of viagra in his suitcase. Saints protect us....

That said, what the heck was he thinking? Rules are rules, and the ones regarding flying with prescription meds are there for a reason. If he was worried about embarrassment, he should've left the Viagra at home.

[Raycpa]

The NYT and MSM is more concerned about invading the financial privacy of terrorists overseas transactions than with Rush Limbaughs medical privacy.

[BinaryBoy]

I wouldn't be surprised if a liberal at the airport saw Rush and decided to call in a hoax report of drug smuggling.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Agents confiscated the medicine and called the Sheriff's Office, which took over the investigation.

He's lucky. This could've resulted in a stiff sentence.

[taildragger]

PBR,

The good news is Rush probably paid for his Viagra via his tax deductible contributions to his HSA as opposed to GM retiree's or SSI recipients.....

[detroitdarien]

The one thing WJC doesn't need, I'm guessing...