Limbaugh team putting the spin on radio pundit's addiction

New York Daily News ^ | Dec 12, 2003

[george wythe]

Rush Limbaugh's spin team came up with a secret plan to save their boss after the conservative commentator admitted he was addicted to painkillers, the New York Daily News learned Thursday.

The plan involved taking up former Sen. Bob Dole's offer "to help" the embattled radio jock - and suggesting he write a supportive letter to Newsweek magazine.

The Oct. 13 memo to Premiere Radio Networks' president Kraig Kitchen, obtained by the Daily News, also recommended doing a survey of Rush's listeners to gauge their reaction to Limbaugh's embarrassing admission.

"If results are positive, we can use PR with stations, advertisers and media," the memo states. "If not, we don't have to publicize."

It also urges "Kraig to send memo to Congress" with updates on "coverage, advertiser and affiliate feedback."

Confronted with her memo, Limbaugh spokeswoman Keven Bellows said the Congress she was referring to was the senior management team at the Premiere Radio Networks.

As for Dole, Bellows said he offered to help after Newsweek did an unflattering story about Limbaugh's addiction and the criminal investigation of his alleged suppliers.

Dole did not return a call for comment.

Limbaugh has not been charged with a crime and repeatedly has denied being the target of Florida investigators probing a black-market painkiller ring. He went into rehab for five weeks in October after admitting on the radio that he was hooked on drugs.

Fearing that Limbaugh, who once called for jailing junkies, might be branded a hypocrite and lose the loyalty of his right-wing listeners, his team sprang into action.

"Post a Call to Action on Rush's (Web) site telling his audience that the best way they can support him is to stay tuned to his local station," Bellows wrote. "Let the station know they are listening to the program."

In addition to providing addresses "for Rush's fans to send letters," Bellows recommended getting the message out that Limbaugh's advertisers would stay loyal to the show.

"Assuming an outpouring of protest," the memo states. "We will alert the (Wall Street Journal)."

Limbaugh was his usual liberal-bashing self when he returned to the airwaves last month - with his audience apparently intact.

A short time later, investigators in Florida's Palm Beach County - where Limbaugh lives in splendor - seized his medical records and suggested he went "doctor shopping." It was the first sign Limbaugh could face criminal charges for buying black-market drugs.

Next week, a judge will decide whether the medical records should be made public.

Bellows said the records show that Limbaugh's addiction stemmed from his numerous medical problems, and they want them made public.

Also yesterday, the National Enquirer reported that "the police web is tightening around Rush Limbaugh" and that he could be arrested in days.

Limbaugh's lawyer, Roy Black, yesterday called the tabloid story "a pure fabrication" and a "thinly veiled attempt to destroy Mr. Limbaugh's reputation and career."

[jagrmeister]

The liberal media is pleasuring themselves over Limbaugh's misfortune. It just shows you how laughable the notion is that liberals are compassionate. When you think of the state of a liberal's heart, I'm reminded of the pictures of the lungs of a life-time smoker.

And all this is about legal prescription drugs. What a joke.

[RayChuang88]

These dog droppings have been trying for 15 years to bring Rush down. It isn't going to happen.

And the Governor and Attorney General of Florida (both Republicans) will ensure that the Palm Beach County attorneys are NOT going to start a case against Limbaugh for political reasons.

[Tall_Texan]

Of course, they might vote not guilty even when they intended to vote guilty. It depends if the jury ballot is a butterfly ballot.

LOL...that's priceless!

[mc5cents]

Just another redefinition in the language

Orwell was way ahead of his time. Imagine, it was 1948 and he had it nailed.

[ConservativeMan55]

[ConservativeMan55]

atramentous_conservative Since Dec 13, 2003

[M Kehoe]

Detectives developed profiles on the suspects, who visited two or more doctors within a 30-day period, Ryan said.

I think that most of the people I know have done this. Sure, not for the prescriptions, but how does the detective determine prescriptions written and for what? Heck, some people I know have visited three different doctors in 30 days.

Now I know they're all felons. Some are my family. Bummer.

5.56mm

[tubebender]

Let's keep our eyes on newbie A/C...

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm keeping my eyes on him. He's been cooking for a few minutes and is about ready for a ZOT!!!

[Hildy]

really. They were doing their job. To make it appear nefarious is absurd.

[Rome2000]

Rush Limbaugh's spin team came up with a secret plan to save their boss after the conservative commentator admitted he was addicted to painkillers, the New York Daily News learned Thursday.

And what is the "Daily News" excuse for their secret plan to undermine our republic?

Remember what happened to the LI Press.

The NYDN loses readers everyday.

It's unions don't really care and management can always work for the NYT or CNN.

Unfortunately, a job in a Democratic administration seems less and less likely.

[Rome2000]

Premiere Radio Networks' president Kraig Kitchen

The nefarious Kraig Kitchen received a "memo"

Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot speak to the "Kitchen" memo, but believe me when I say that communists often mix their rhetoric with "Kitchen" innuendo.

[Brian Allen]

<< .... Limbaugh's "addiction" stemmed from his "numerous medical problems ...." >>

Bullsh*t.

Mr Limbaugh's so-called "addiction" [A BS word coined by those who refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions -- and other "psychologists"] is the DIRECT CONSEQUENCE of Mr Limbaugh having criminally chosen a course of action that led to the development of even worse habits that those quite clearly already bad ones that he has demonstrated that he started out with.

Everything else that descends from Mr Limbaugh's original criminal action and/or that seeks to defent it is as flawed -- and is as "fair game" -- as was Mr Limbaugh's original criminal choice.

This is a very worthy piece -- and a great post.

Thank you.

Blessings -- Brian

BUMP/PING

[Always Right]

Is "Doctor Shopping" illegal?

Yes, Florida passed a new law last year. It essentially makes it illegal to visit a 2nd doctor and obtain a similar prescription within a 30 day period unless you disclose your old prescription to the new doctor. I am certain there are some people who commit this 'felony' and are not even aware of it.

[Brian Allen]

<< If [Mr Limbaugh]n keeps up the job he's been doing since he got back, there will be no need for spin. He's rocking. >>

Mr Limbaugh, having so publicly proclaimed the direct consequences of his own criminal choices to be something called "addiction," is also doomed.

Whatever chances he might ever have had for becoming recovered from the bad habits, criminal behavior and diseased state that are a few among the direct consequences of his actions, were lost to his public trumpeting of those consequences -- and to the psychobabble gooblygook he was programed, brain-washed and instilled with in the [Abjectly-fraudulent] "treatment center" to which he exposed himself during his much-vaunted couple of weeks or so off the air.

I wish Mr Limbaugh -- "just another [Doomed] doper" [to paraphrase none other than Mr Limbaugh] -- a high-times retirement.

Soon.

[headsonpikes]

Over here.

They're slagging El Rushbo again.

The persecution of this man is morally repugnant.

Who among us has not been a hypocrite to some degree, Mr. Allen?

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Doomed? Dream on.....