Mike Walker on the Al Rantel Show: "If We're Wrong, Rush Could Own Us"

790am KABC Radio

[wardaddy]

I said alleged.......I'm just giving you my take on the possibilities of drug use hypothetically.

A topic with which I have firsthand albeit old knowledge.

I fear Rush has something to tell.

I listened today and he did sound bad. I listened to the legal mumbo jumbo last week and was disappointed.

I like Rush....I have no desire to see our enemies feast on his bones but if he was a dopehead buying huge quantities of illegal dope then he will have to answer.

I know some of you don't feel that way, fine.

I find out W is screwing around like Clinton, I'd be pissed too. I expect Rush to walk his talk...human or not and I hope he did...at least more so than his non-denials look so far.

[Yaelle]

He did that "24-hour detox" under anesthesia. It may be more than 24 hours but no more than a weekend. Famous people do it because they can remain anonymous. I am not sure if it ever really worked permanently for anyone, though.

[PRND21]

25 years ago I was a lefty and a dope user....

Dude! You might have been the First Libertarian! ;)

I wish Rush good health.

[nicksaunt]

You may be right, most addicts are extremely bright people, and can go through enormous extremes to hide their disease.

There may be a problem, I just don't think so.

nicksaunt

ps. Yikes, that is a lot of Lortab.

[Wacka]

You're confusing the Enquirer and the Weekly World News. All tabloids are not the same. There's a spectrum.

They are owned by the same compnay! The one that had the first anthrax outbreak.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Alcoholism/addiction is a progressive disease that will get worse over time. I venture to say that unless your friend stops his "after hours" drinking, he will eventually become a full blown alcoholic. The progressiveness of addictive diseases then takes over the alcoholic/addicts life, leading them unable to function and conduct normal tasks, such as keeping a job, etc. If the addiction does not stop, the person will die and many of them do.

Nick, I offer respectfully, that a "functional alcoholic" is someone who goes to work every day, pays his bills, eats dinner with the family almost every night, and then downs enough alcohol to kill the average person. This IS full blown alcoholism. It's the kind that goes on for years and years and years. The alcoholic I know blew his first marriage, but has been married to his second wife a long time. She is an enabler. She says she doesn't like his drinking, but doesn't know what to do. What finally happened to him, is that, after several threats from heart doctors, after several heart attacks, after giving up chain smoking, and after eating a strict diet, AND STILL NOT GIVING UP THE BOOZE, the doctors finally put him on medications, probably a combo of anti-depressents and some other stuff so that they could give him his heart medicine which they could not otherwise do because the combination of alcohol and heart drugs would kill him. So to this day, he hasn't admitted his problem, and is only not drinking, apparently, because of the pills he's been given.

[Yaelle]

What bothers me most is that Rushbo allegedly paid hush money.

Yes. Ironically, it is his own paranoia (though rightful guilt it was) that got him in trouble. When he cried with the maid about how he would be finished if this got out, she realized that if he really did get in big trouble, WHO WOULD LOOK THE GUILTIEST? She would! That is why she and her husband went to a lawyer, who immediately told them they had to go to the authorities. She did the right thing, something that the Rush we know and trust on the air would agree with.

Sadly, the drugs were speaking louder to him than his own instinctive, G-d given morality. G-d speaks with the still, soft voice, and opiates speak with a bullhorn.

[wardaddy]

My lefty credentials ranged from NORML to Enviromentalist to ACLU.....I even subscribed to Prairie Fire....now that is pretty bad.

I started waking up early though...before I quit smoking pot actually. A transition from around 21-27.

I came of age in the late 60s and early 70s and went to college from 75-80....different times.

Today, I'd probably be more likely to be a pot smoking dark conservative with a dose of libertarianism and subscribe to Reason.....were I a youngblood.

I'm pretty hard right now on everything but pot and personal piety.

[wardaddy]

Why has Bluebell embargoed Tennessee?

[autoresponder]

Please be polite and type his full name:


F. John Kerry



Way South of the Borders 1984

[SwordofTruth]

The charges are false and have no basis or truth.

If this is the case, and I hope that it is, then why didn't Rush say it was false at the earliest possible moment. If he is innocent, then what does he have to fear by telling the world that they are lying and he didn't do it?

[Cinnamon Girl]

I hope you are a friend of Rush's and I hope everything you say is straight up, and it would be thrilling to see him crush the Enquirer and make all the liberal pundits eat it. But Rush should know that a lot of us out here are very forgiving and supportive, if he did have an addiction problem.

And I've noticed a lot of lib nuts screeching about what a hypocrite this would make Rush if it were true, because they claim he's always declaring how bad drugs are, but I don't recall him talking about drugs, so I'm not sure what they're talking about.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"25 years ago I was a lefty and a dope user...."

Dang man, you slap knocked those closet doors off the hinges. All kidding aside, while I never was much of a lefty, in my past, I too have used legal and illegal drugs to get a buzz. So, let me ask you this.

Don't you agree that someone with Rush's money and popularity can easily obtain prescription drugs, legally or illegally, without having to approach the maid? Heck, if he ran out of doctors willing to write him scripts, he has the means to set up a personal pill smuggling ring. Not that hard with a private plane, small airstrip, and friends in Mexico.

[Timesink]

I've noticed Rush having trouble with some words; however, I believe it is because of his hearing loss. As far as his attitude ever since this evil hit last week, he seems to be not at all worried about it and seems to be extremely upbeat and ebullient.

Rush always has had trouble with some words since his surgery, and always will have trouble with some words, until there's another big improvement in cochlear implant technology. The implants are amazing works of media technology, but they are nowhere near perfect. Many (most?) implant recipients say they end up hearing everything as if it were coming out of a cheap AM radio that's a bit out of tune, and the implants aren't that great at distinguishing background sounds from voices. Here's what Rush has to say about it, from a January 2003 interview:

About 18 months ago, an autoimmune attack left Limbaugh deaf for three months. Following a cochlear implant - an electronic device which stimulates nerves in the inner ear - his hearing is much improved, though still impaired. Now, during each show, a stenographer types out what every caller says so that he can read their words on a computer if his ears fail him.

"A one-on-one conversation like this is easy," he says. "But this air-conditioning unit - you can probably barely hear it - sounds like a jet engine to me. I don't hear enough of the high frequency spectrum to be able to detect a melody any more. I thought my career might be over and I wasn't ready to quit. I had been taking for granted that I could get up every day and do this, and now it was about to be taken away. It rejuvenated me, gave me a 16-year-old's type of energy and enthusiasm."

Rush continues to have than in-house closed-captioning system for his show to this day, and that's why Rush still "has trouble with some words": Sometimes the implant just doesn't allow him to hear a given caller's voice properly (everyone's voice has different intonations and other vocal qualities), so he has to wait for the captioner to finish typing the words onto his computer screen before he can respond.

[Yaelle]

Al always has a fascinating show. Interviewing the guy from the Enquirer was interesting, too. They have been right on so much of the time, and ahead of the other media. Their fact-checkers are pretty thorough. Not that I would be proud of this type of journalism, couldn't live with myself if I did that for a living, but they are more upfront than the L.A. Times, that's for sure.

[Yaelle]

Then please tell him there are at least 365 islands off the state of Maine.

Um... Could we pick a warmer island? Just a suggestion...

[woofie]

Im pretty deaf myself and I dont notice any difference in Rush

[Yaelle]

I agree with Nachum, Rush does not fit the profile for an addict.

He must have had some problem with alcohol in his past, though, so maybe he does have that kind of addictive personality. Remember when he drank Snapple, and talked about how he did not imbibe what he called "adult beverages"? And then in recent years has gone back to mentioning that he does share adult beverages with so-and-so?

He also has had bouts of depression, according to another poster on these threads who communicated with him. There's nothing like depression for wanting to self-medicate.

[woofie]

Ya got any comments?

[Humidston]

See my post 255, Yaelle. Of course the decision would be up to the Big Guy with the buckazoids. He can buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants. ;-)