Rush is an Asshole (You already knew that!)

Rush Limbaugh is really an asshole. He is a drug addict, and a pompous windbag. According to the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/#a005761 and Media Matters, Limbaugh said that Cindy Sheehan's story "is nothing more than forged documents." Limbaugh is a heartless fool.

From the August 15 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left.http://mediamatters.org/items/200508160009

I just want to remind everyone that once an addict always an addict. Limbaugh is an arrogant bastard and we cannot forget his story about his hearing loss, which was caused by his drug abuse. Limbaugh has no right to criticize anyone. See this article: http://www.freep.com/news/health/oto17_20031017.htm
Here are some excerpts from this very informational article that was published in the Detroit Free Press on October 17, 2003:

'Rush Limbaugh's entry into a rehabilitation program for addiction to prescription painkillers underscores an important message to the millions of Americans who take the drugs: Chronic abuse may cause hearing loss.

The link between hearing loss and high doses of painkillers like Vicodin, Lorcet and OxyContin is not yet well-known in medicine.'

And...

'Limbaugh reportedly was taking as many as 60 OxyContin pills daily, as well as other drugs, including Vicodin and Lorcet. This latest foray into rehab is at least his third in recent years.

Limbaugh's initial diagnosis of hearing loss came in 2001. Doctors at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles said he had autoimmune ear disease, a type of hearing loss associated with fluctuating hearing, dizziness, ear fullness and sudden loss of hearing. The same facility is among the few to study the link between hearing loss and prescription painkiller abuse. The clinic has identified at least 29 people who developed hearing loss after Vicodin abuse.

Spokesmen for Rush Limbaugh Syndicators, which produces Limbaugh's daily radio show, and House Ear Clinic spokeswoman Christa Spieth Nuber did not return calls about whether Limbaugh previously had acknowledged his drug abuse to his doctors.

That leaves open the question of whether Limbaugh might have halted further loss of his hearing if he had told his doctors what he acknowledged publicly last week.

He also might not have needed a cochlear implant -- a surgically implanted device that restores some hearing, some doctors say.

"If he would have been honest, and that's a guess on our part, and if he had some hearing left and stopped abusing certain medications," his hearing loss "might have stopped right there and not required a cochlear implant," said Dr. Michael LaRouere, a hearing specialist with the Michigan Ear Institute, a Farmington Hills facility affiliated with Providence Hospital and Medical Centers of Southfield.'

This is the type of person who is trying to smear a Gold Star Mother, Cindy Sheehan.