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Rush Limbaugh and Pills

by John Cole|  October 2, 200312:59 pm| 4 Comments

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John Hawkins has scooped the mainstream press (again) with a whole history of Rush, pain killers, and hearing loss.

A must read.

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  1. 1.

    bardp

    October 2, 2003 at 1:56 pm

    I don’t know that he scooped anybody – he links to New York daily news and promises to write more after he picks up the latest issue of the National Inquirer.

  2. 2.

    JadeGold

    October 4, 2003 at 6:23 pm

    Scooped? All of his breathless updates come from the mainstream press.

    The moneyshot is when Hawkins claims “There’s more in there, but Rush looks to be in good shape at this point…”

    Good shape? Let’s see. Limbaugh’s addicted to narcotics–they’ve nearly killed him at least once, he’s just cemented his reputation as a racist, a phony and a hypocrite, he’s a target in a criminal probe, he’s a laughingstock, he’s lost his ‘dream job’…and Hawkins deems him to be “in good shape.”

    Whew. I’d hate to see what Hawkins thinks is “bad shape.”

    But I’d not worry about Limbaugh going to prison. Conservatives have a long history of admiring convicted felons: Liddy, North, Hedgecock, etc.

    Not to mention Cole’s fave: Timmy McVeigh.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    October 4, 2003 at 6:52 pm

    Trolling my site now, cute.

  4. 4.

    bardp

    October 6, 2003 at 9:20 am

    Pointing out that there was no scoop = trolling.

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