{"id":7278,"date":"2006-04-29T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7278.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T18:03:29","slug":"the-war-on-rush-limbaughs-drug-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-war-on-rush-limbaughs-drug-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The war on Rush Limbaugh’s drug use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of defiance, Rush Limbaugh still denies that he engaged in what’s known as “doctor-shopping,” or what The New York Times<\/em> describes<\/a> as “illegally [obtaining] multiple prescriptions for a drug from more than one doctor”. Still, Limbaugh<\/p>\n

was charged yesterday with prescription drug fraud and turned himself in to Florida authorities as part of a deal to resolve a lengthy inquiry into whether he improperly obtained painkillers.<\/p>\n

Mr. Limbaugh, who is one of the nation’s most popular radio personalities and is heard on nearly 600 stations, turned himself in yesterday afternoon to the Palm Beach County sheriff on a warrant for fraud to conceal information to obtain a prescription. He was released about an hour later on $3,000 bail, the authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I only regret that there won’t be a trial.<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, which [Limbaugh’s lawyer Roy] Black said would be filed with the court on Monday, the charge would be dropped in 18 months if Mr. Limbaugh continued to undergo treatment for drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Mr. Limbaugh is also required to refrain from breaking the law during the 18-month period, pay $30,000 to Florida officials to offset the cost of the investigation and pay $30 a month for the cost of supervision, Mr. Black said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Limbaugh filed a plea of not guilty in court. Mr. Black said in a statement that “Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor-shopping, and we continue to hold this position.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pardon my Schadenfreude<\/em>, but the thought of a right-wing blowhard like Rush undergoing “treatment for drug addiction” puts a smile on my face. No, it’s not like he’s a crackhead or anything, but you’ve got to admire the unabashed hypocrisy of all these moralizing conservative crusaders who lament the decline and fall of traditional, “family” values.<\/p>\n

Keep on slouching towards Gomorrah, Rush. There’s a special place there for you and your ilk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Speaking of defiance, Rush Limbaugh still denies that he engaged in what’s known as “doctor-shopping,” or what The New York Times describes as “illegally [obtaining] multiple prescriptions for a drug from more than one doctor”. Still, Limbaugh was charged yesterday with prescription drug fraud and turned himself in to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}