Rush Limbaugh Takes a Hit (CNN calls on Professional Rush-Hater Al Franken as a Rush "expert"!!!)

CNN ^ | October 2, 2003

[YaYa123]

I don't think Rush will be able to discuss the drug thing on his show....I think he will have a lawyer who won't let him. And if the rumor Dan Abrams was insinuating on his MSNBC show tonight is correct, that lawyer will be Roy Black.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The stories this week are a "blitzkrieg" by the Dims.

Just the beginning. They attack GW, then Rush, then Arnold, then Rush, then Arnold. Then GW. They desperately want to derail the recall, mortally wound Rush (in time for the 2004 election season) and then go after GW tooth and claw(and, I hear, even fomenting violence ala the 1970's). Their IMO insurmountable problem is that most informed and intelligent people now understand that they have been, and are still, liars.

[Brimack34]

I am so embarresed that Fkuc head is from my state: As I have said. J. Lange, A. Brown, G. Keillor, G. Killborn.-- MN. Sucks shti When I see him I will kick his ass. MN. by the way.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

From CBS Sportsline

if ESPN is going to come down on Limbaugh for his comments -- you know his resignation was forced with a foot out the door -- they should watch closely what Bryan Cox says, too. Cox has said several times that Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking isn't nearly as good as people think and that the only reason he gets the props he does is because he's white. Isn't that the same thing Limbaugh said, yet nobody said a word? Both were wrong.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Frankin has the intellect of a sophomoric drunkard. Years of drug use have left far too much damaged brain tissue, IMO.

[88keys]

You're right...all Franken wanted to do is bring the issue back to "racism"...

Not to give him too much credit...I suspect that the ESPN story is all there really is to the story. The "drug ring" allegations seem to be just that..."allegations", based on "hear-say" from the housekeeper (who clearly was involved in some sort of drug-dealing), and her "evidence" obtained by "wiring" her own self, rather than having the FBI oversee and verify her "encounters" with Rush...

[Timesink]

You ought to post that CBS Sportsline column as a separate thread.

[JohnBovenmyer]

There have been many comments on various threads there implying that Rush could have been on pain pills because of his autoimmune inner ear disease. I question the unstated assumption that this disease causes pain! I don't recall Rush ever saying his condition was painful. I don't recall reading pain as a disease symptom in any of the stuff that came out either on his website or FR when that story was fresh and I tried to read all that stuff. I wouldn't expect the steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs he took for this to cause pain as a side effect. The implant shouldn't be very painful. It's not my branch of medicine, but I guess there might be some inflammation and edema from the attack on the cochlear hair cells, which in that closed space could produce pain, if the cochlea had pain nerve fibers. The outer and middle ear certainly have pain nerves, but I don't know about the inner ear. I'd guess that it, like the brain, doesn't. Are there any lurking Freeper ENT docs and can they confirm my hunch? If we can rule out pain from his ear disease than there is a big hole in the druggie story.

[Dolphy]

What a perfect summary of my hatred for the left. First CNN invites Franken, which is sort of like inviting Al Gore to discuss a personal crisis facing Bush. Then, Franken, despite the opportunity to take the high road and maybe show himself to have the heart he claims the right lacks, piles on.

[Duramaximus]

THE AL FRANKEN TALKING DOLL

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Franken's comments on black atheletes are infinitely more racist than any Rush has ever uttered. Per liberal 'Rat doctrine, victimization is in the eye of the victim--unless the victimizer is a liberal 'Rat. What a flock of sheep our society is to allow this sort of BS to prevail.

[Timesink]

They desperately want to derail the recall, mortally wound Rush (in time for the 2004 election season) and then go after GW tooth and claw(and, I hear, even fomenting violence ala the 1970's).

You know, I was just thinking this morning that it's as if we've reached the point where we're getting all the verbal violence of 1968, but none of the physical violence.

My next thought after that was, "I wonder how long it will last until the Democrats start getting physical."

[Ichneumon]

Rush Limbaugh Takes a Hit

...but he didn't inhale?

Am I the only one to see the headline as a smirking "drug joke" by CNN?

[MinuteGal]

I listened very, very carefully to Bill O'R on his show tonight. Although fully afire and at his arrogant best, his actual words betrayed him as a chickensh** on the Rush issue. He was really damning Rush with faint praise, really faint.

If he had been in my back yard, I'd have stuffed him with poultry seasoning dressing, trussed him and put him on a glowing rotissiere spit.

You're learning who your strong and staunch friends are, Rush.

Leni

[ampat]

"And I guess, Rush thinks the blood goes from the bone, from their head so that's how they have trouble calling plays and stuff and remembering the whole playbook and stuff. "

Am I crazy or did Al Franken just make an incredibly racist remark in his interview with Paula Zahn? If I'm right, will the media leave Franken alone ? Will the NAACP call him on it?

[JohnBovenmyer]

After checking my saved files I've partially answered my own question. Back in 10/2001 Rush did mention having pain in his left ear. When he turned up the hearing aid enough his ear drum would hurt even though he still couldn't hear anything. I trust Rush knew to turn off the hearing aid to solve that pain. I couldn't find any other mention of pain by Rush. Today RightOnTheLeftCoast mentioned here that he has a (probably different) inner ear disease that is very painful and received a cochlear implant himself from the same doctors as Rush. So the inner ear can hurt, but I still don't know if it hurts in Rush's disease.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

It could also be a football pun (actually, "Rush is Sacked" would be better, but Rush wasn't officially fired).

[abner]

I truly expected Franken to be in a drunken stupor by this evening. Too much celebrating with champange with Babs & Martin Sheen over this whole Rush thing.

[RightWingAtheist]

Franken certainly "nose" his "lines" when he's interviewed live.