For Limbaugh, Laughter Best Medicine: 'Told Doctor I Was Worried About Next 'Election'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

June 27, 2006

If the mark of a person at ease with himself is the ability to have a chuckle at his own expense, then Rush Limbaugh is a supremely serene man. In the wake of the incident in which he was detained at the Palm Beach International Airport when it was discovered he had in his luggage a vial of Viagra with a prescription not in his name, you might have imagined that Rush would have begun today's show with an indignant denial of wrongdoing. He might have explained in tedious detail that in fact the prescription had, with personal privacy in mind, been written in his doctor's name.

But no. Rush opened by poking gentle fun at the situation, and even, in the process, at himself:

"I want to know how Bob Dole's luggage was substituted for mine."

And then: "I had told my doctor that I was concerned about the next election, not, er . . ."

Concluded Rush, undefensively: "It is what it is."

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Rush/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[Enchante]

What we need is a better ELECTION........

[cripplecreek]

I called it last night.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656090/posts?page=13#13

[YaYa123]

It was brilliant!

[rovenstinez]

Here in Mexico it is pretty much an over the counter drug. I've known people stock up on it to take back to the USA, and give them away to friends, like cigars when a baby is born.

[Michael.SF.]

Now watch them attack him for making a racist comment poking fun at asian accents!

[Gay State Conservative]

If you experience an election that lasts for four hours or more....

[reagan_fanatic]

"We pray for MacArthur's erection"

[Caipirabob]

He's right, there is a large problem with election disfunctionality here in Palm Beach County.

[Minnesocold]

No one excels like Rush for comebacks! Thanks for the ping.

[Quilla]

... call your nurse.

[YaYa123]

PS

don't tell anyone, but I didn't "get" the election.

HAHAHAHAH That reads funny!! I mean....I didn't catch the joke in the "election" reference

[lilylangtree]

Who's his girlfriend? Liddy Dole?

[RightWhale]

Is Viagra a dangerous narcotic that possession without prescription is a misdemeanor? It's patented, so possession for resale might be a problem, but this seems kind of ridiculous.

[rface]

Concluded Rush, undefensively: "It is what it is."

great response to a now dead issue. DUmmies will continue to make it a point of conversation.....like, 20% of their threads, over the past 12 hours, but it is a non-issue.

Great job, as usual from the King.

[SE Mom]

Vintage Rush...

[dirtboy]

If you experience an election that lasts for four hours or more....

We all needed prompt medical attention after Florida in 2000.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The perfect squelch.

[Spyder]

Sounds like he watched the original SNL. I remember Gilda as Emily Litella doing a piece on Presidential Erections, how we don't need to know this "stuff," that it should be kept personal (little did she know what was to come a few years on). Chevy promptly jumped in, "Ah, Emily.... they were talking about Presidential Elections." Emily.... "Well, that's different then. Never mind."