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. 
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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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