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Friday, October 10, 2003

David Irving comments:

WHAT is it with media personalities and drugs? They hit the big time (The appropriate named "Rush" Limbaugh was being paid over $20 million a year, the last time the media mentioned his pay check) then happily lose their way; they drift over the horizon of sanity with a goofy, chemically- induced smile on their face.
   Getting that kind of moolah presupposes a certain amount of gray stuff between those earphones. Alas, money, gray stuff, and actual intelligence do not always go hand in hand. The powdery white stuff beats the gray stuff every time.
   As witness the sad case of Michel Friedmann, TV star and leader until recently of Germany's growing Jewish community (and isn't that phrase in itself a Chinese puzzle, if not the first faint strike of a knell -- "Germany's growing Jewish community"?)
   Friedman too was earning in the millions, and found it impossible to resist whatever the allures of the white powdery stuff are. Everybody around him must have known it, but nobody was telling. Not till he was caught white-handed. Makes you wonder who else has got the habit.
   Thank God the current U.S. President is addicted only to pretzels, not, ahem, "pain-killers."
   One pretzel's narcotic content is presumably low, and I am sure each one is carefully sniffed by a full time Secret Service pretzel-sniffer or his dog, before it is handed to the chief on his sofa, in case Yasser Arafat should agree for once with Conrad Black's odious assumption -- namely that it is quite de rigeur nowadays to liquidate presidents or their sons. George W of course qualifies as both.

  I COMMENTED during Bill Clinton's presidential campaign that the media had a habit of showing sound bites of him only when he was sniffing, as though they were trying to tell us something -- willing to wound, but afraid to strike.
   The same trick is now being played with Britain's young Prince Harry down in Australia; watch how often the television cameras show him flicking his nose.

Rush Limbaugh

Limbaugh Admits Addiction to Painkillers

 

NEW YORK (Oct. 10) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his radio program Friday that he is addicted to painkillers and is checking into a rehab center to 'break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me.'

'You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life,' Limbaugh said during a stunning admission aired nationwide. 'So I need to tell you today that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.'

'Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me,' he added.

Limbaugh gave up his job as an ESPN sports analyst Oct. 1, three days after saying on the sports network's 'Sunday NFL Countdown' that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a Black quarterback succeed.

The reports of possible drug abuse surfaced at about the same time, first in the National Enquirer. The tabloid had interviewed Wilma Cline, who said she became Limbaugh's drug connection after working as his maid. She said Limbaugh had abused OxyContin and other painkillers.

Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office.

'At the present time, the authorities are conducting an investigation, and I have been asked to limit my public comments until this investigation is complete,' Limbaugh said Friday.

Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County state attorney's office, said Friday his office could neither confirm nor deny that an investigation was under way. Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, did not return a message seeking comment.

Limbaugh said he started taking painkillers 'some years ago' after a doctor prescribed them following a spinal surgery. His back pain stemming from the surgery persisted, so Limbaugh said he started taking pills and became hooked.

'Over the past several years I have tried to break my dependence on pain pills and, in fact, twice checked myself into medical facilities in an attempt to do so. I have recently agreed with my physician about the next steps.'

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