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NNN0LHI

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:08 PM
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Rush Limbaugh Seeks Court Hearing to Keep Seized Medical Records Private

I am all for privacy but doesn't this guy always say you don't have to worry about privacy if you don't have anything to hide?

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Rush Limbaugh asked a court Monday to hear his claim that investigators violated his privacy by seizing his medical records and asked that the records not be released.

The conservative radio host cannot be treated for his medical conditions because the state seized his charts and files last month and intimidated his doctors, the court petition said.

Prosecutors have said they are investigating whether Limbaugh obtained and used prescription painkillers illegally. Typically, such records would not be released until a criminal investigation ends and charges are filed.

Limbaugh's rights have been scrupulously protected during the investigation, Palm Beach State Attorney spokesman Mike Edmondson said Monday.

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Mikimouse

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:14 PM
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1. Oh yeah? What about the people whose

lives he has destroyed over time. I say, let's get those records before a grand jury right now! At least the records seized by the State Attorney are real, as opposed to the BS the guy makes up as he goes. Perhaps we should ask Scott Ritter how he feels about this 'invasion of privacy' HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA! Sweat, Pig!

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hlthe2b

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:18 PM
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2. 'think ya forgot to post the link....

Edited on Mon Dec-15-03 10:19 PM by hlthe2b

more hypocritical crap from the HEAD HYPODITT...

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pinto

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:20 PM
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3. the oxy moron has a right to privacy, as do we all, imho n/t

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Bandit

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:46 AM
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24. Funny he sure didn't feel that way about President Clinton or Dean

It is sure funny how they squeel when the same tactics they advocate for against Democrats are used against them. Hypocrites that Jesus ranted against are the Republican Party.

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BenFranklinUSA

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:27 AM
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27. Ditto... Ooops ;)

Seriously though, med records should only be in play for elected officials. imnsho

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:29 PM
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36. As long as they don't violate laws.

Prescription drugs are legal only when they are prescribed by a doctor and used as prescribed.

Illegally used prescription drugs are no different from illegal drugs such as cocaine, meth and pot.

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LiberalFighter

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:28 PM
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4. Link is here

Limbaugh seeks to keep medical records private --USA Today *12/15/2003

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NNN0LHI

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Mon Dec-15-03 11:41 PM
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17. Thanks for watching my back LiberalFighter. I got lost in the lounge

Here is the actual AP/TBO link from where I found this story.

Don

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA481S99OD.html

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Torrey Pines

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:30 PM
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5. Group Therapy

Unfortunately, they probably don't have notes for the group therapy sessions. I'm picturing Rush sharing his feelings with some biker junkie. ;-)

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LiberalFighter

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:34 PM
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6. That is BS

Can't be treated for his medical conditions because the charts and files were seized?

I doubt that the doctors don't have the information that they need. Either copies were made or they don't need them because the treatment is not complicated enough.

How many treatment centers were the medical records sent to so that he could be treated? Did he bother to send his medical records to the other doctors that prescribed the drugs? If he had they would not had prescribed the drugs. Can't have it both ways!!!

As for intimidation... you think it might be because the doctors did something wrong/illegal and that is why they might feel intimidated? They have a lot at stake if they interfere in the investigation. Like losing their license, going to jail, losing their practice.

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DemoTex

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:35 PM
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7. Screw Oxy-Ru$h's medical records. Go for the throat.

Banking. Money laundering. Get the fat bastard while he is high. He has to be high. Why would a multi-millionaire AM-radio "host" raid a little website like DU if he weren't totally pumped up on his drug du jour? Eh, Ru$hbo?

BTW Ru$hbo: Look elsewhere for love. We hate your fat, malformed ass here. Sorry you missed the 'Nam. Given what I know about you, your name would have been on the wall.

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delete_bush

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:48 PM
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12. You wouldn't be talking about a

about a rear entry wound, American caliber, would you?

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DemoTex

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Mon Dec-15-03 11:09 PM
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14. How long would Ru$h have lasted on YOUR Fire Support Base (FSB)?

He would have been fragged on my watch very soon; fat, squirrely, unreliable fuck that Ru$h is/was. Incoming to the Ru$hbo hootch. Watchout now!

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Mountainman

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:41 PM
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8. Rush is probably not in a 12 step program

From someone who is living the 12 steps:

step 8
Made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possoble, except when to do so would injure them or others.

step 10
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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The Zanti Regent

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:45 PM
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9. Kick Him When He's Down!

Think of how many lives Rush has ruined!

How many people has he deliberately hurt!

How many dreams has he broken?

He's down, it's time to move in for the kill!

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reknewcomer

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:45 PM
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10. We should all hand over our medical records

After all none of us have ever taken drugs without a prescription. Hand them over now!

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:55 AM
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25. I've got no problem with anything on my record. If anyone cares, that is!

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:19 PM
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34. You must think that Rush didn't do anything wrong

I haven't taken any drugs without a prescription.
I haven't attempted to obtain prescription drugs from multiple sources using the same prescription.
I haven't lied to my doctor by not providing information critical for the doctor to make the proper diagnosis and treatment.
I haven't lied or withheld information about treatment received from another doctor.

Rush Limbaugh has!!

And most of us obtain prescription drugs under a doctor's care.

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Cheswick2.0

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:40 PM
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37. you forgot one

I'll bet you don't buy hundreds of pills in a Denny's parking lot. Pills that were obtained in robberies where sometimes pharmacists are shot and killed.

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AngryAmish

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:48 PM
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11. What a jerk!

I initially thought that he was seeking to bar release to the public. However, I read the article and the fat greasy scumbag is seeking to keep the police from reading the records. Rush is responsible for more death than most middling tyrants. Screw him, the murderer.

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TacticalPeek

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Mon Dec-15-03 11:08 PM
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13. Medical rights? Privacy rights? Where is that in the Constitution?

Edited on Mon Dec-15-03 11:08 PM by TacticalPeak

Thank God for the Patriot Act and tort reform, to save us from nuisance lawyering like this.

:evilgrin:

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dweller

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Mon Dec-15-03 11:09 PM
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15. Aww, Rush...what..uh.. comes around... how does that go?

:nopity:

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sasquatch

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:58 AM
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18. I tell you how it goes

Right up the ass:evilgrin:

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Oreegone

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Mon Dec-15-03 11:38 PM
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16. He is pissed

They are tracking down all his "legal" drug dealers. He is really cut off the drugs now...wink wink...nod nod....know what I mean?

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loudnclear

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Tue Dec-16-03 01:08 AM
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19. But didn't he want pictures of Clinton's private parts

on the internet?

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jonoboy

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Tue Dec-16-03 01:23 AM
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20. maybe we'll hear about those anal warts now

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Dr Fate

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Tue Dec-16-03 01:25 AM
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21. Most conservatives maintain there is no right to privacy...

More hypocrisy from the draft-dodging needle junkie...

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denverbill

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:08 AM
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23. Yep. Right to privacy is an activist liberal judge's emanation.

A penumbra from the Bill of Rights.

Get over it Rush and freeper friends. Your own boy, Jeb, and his conservative buddies in the Florida legislature passed this law only last year. I don't recall any mention of disapproval back then. Of course, that's when you figured it was only going to be used against blacks and poor people.

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:24 PM
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35. But they want privacy when it involves

contributors to republican election campaigns.

Just like Tom DeLay's special charity for children "Celebrations for Children Inc" which does not have to reveal their contributors. Yet contributions will be used for Repugs.

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snippy

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Tue Dec-16-03 08:32 AM
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22. Did Rush ever question why Clinton did not release his medical records?

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UTUSN

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:17 AM
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26. Great LIMBOsevic Graphic Thanks to caledesi

Hi, LIMBOsevic:

And as for "compassion", since the wingnuts accuse us of not showing it to wingnut defilers, as LIMBOsevic's pal Dr LAURAsevic used to say (haven't heard her in a year or so): Before forgiveness, the offender has to ACKNOWLEDGE having done wrong and TAKE STEPS TO REPAIR the harm. There's been NO acknowledgment from LIMBOsevic.

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kclown

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:46 AM
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28. Jeff Christie! If Rush is going to send the dittoheads here

let's give them an education.

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BiggJawn

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:54 AM
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29. "Party of Personal Responsibility"...SYeah, RIGHT!

Hey, Gush-Bo! haven' I heard you and your buds on many an occassion telling us that there is NO Constitutional Right to PRIVACY?

Deal with it, you sorry sack of shit.

BTW, I think you ought to take the rest of the week off and spend it reading that "Big Book" the NA people gave you while you were sitting in your shit in the Noel Bush "suite". Read the "Twelve Steps", especially the first 3....

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tom_paine

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:57 AM
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30. Hey Rushbo...we know your anal cyst was faked, you gutless wonder!

But we didn't know you visited the doctors on several occasions for a deteriorating syphillis condition, which I'm sure you got from the toilet seat...

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jor_mama

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:04 PM
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31. Hey, isn't that Donovan McNabb in your profile

Damn, too bad he's just an overrated black quarterback. I was trying to figure out why his team has won 9 straight games.

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plcdude

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Tue Dec-16-03 12:39 PM
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32. my contribution

to those who come here at the request of Mr. Limbaugh please check out this and think for yourself, just trying to be fair and balanced.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rushsearch1.html

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OldSoldier

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Tue Dec-16-03 03:33 PM
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33. I hope there's a "typo law" in Florida

I read in one of those "news of the weird" things about a guy whose drug bust was thrown out because someone in the DA's office left a letter out of the name of the drug he was accused of having, and there was no law against having the drug listed in the search warrant.

On page 3 of this warrant it says "The CLINES advised they have been selling Rush LIMBAUGH large quantities of Hydrocodone, Oxycotin..."

Rush is addicted to a drug Purdue Pharmaceuticals calls OxyContin.

I hope that N doesn't get this thrown out...

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rustydog

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Tue Dec-16-03 10:58 PM
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38. Lying Bastard

When medical records are subpoened, COPIES are supplied to law enforcement or defense attorneys. the original record is kept in the health care facility the care is given.
So, Rush-bo can still get medical care...Man he even lies in court documents. I believe that is perjury.

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