Did Limbaugh truly ever have a cochlea implant or was that detox?

Maddy McCall

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:22 PM
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Did Limbaugh truly ever have a cochlea implant or was that detox?

I don't know if you guys remember, but Rush had a hard time talking before his surgery--he slurred words and generally seemed incoherent on his show before he supposedly had ear surgery.

Could it have been the drugs that were making him slur--thick tongued--and then he didn't really leave for surgery, but to go to detox?

Remember, he was miraculously cured...was his hearing cured, or was it really his drug addiction that was dealt with during that "time off" of his show, when he had a guest host?

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judge_smales

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:24 PM
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1. Gonna have to wait for the book

And you just *know* there will be one. :-(

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CO Liberal

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:24 PM
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2. My Wife Heard On the TV......

...that his addiction helped lead to the autoimmune problems that resulted in his deafness.

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Maddy McCall

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:27 PM
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6. That sounds like bullshit to me...

I have known people who have had addictions to painkillers as a result of REAL injuries. They got over their addiction and had no ill effects to their hearing.

Sounds like bull to me.

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papau

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:25 PM
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3. A search found no hospital that had done it - so it seems unlikely that

a cochlea implant was ever done.

Now does this mean he lied?
Nope - not under US Media rules for GOP speech!

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Hubert Flottz

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:25 PM
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4. Several times I thought he was on acid!

Larry Flynt and I will be Preying for him!

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slackmaster

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:30 PM
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8. People on the RW boards were commenting about his slurred speech

I would not be surprised if the cochlear implants turned out to be a big lie.

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Jack The Tab

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:26 PM
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5. VERY good question...

I remember that very well! The excuse for his incoherence was his ear and supposedly he was going to have surgery. Well, I remember when he came back, they wouldn't talk about it, and a lot of people alluded that the whole surgery was a sham.

I think you hit it right on the head!

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Maddy McCall

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:02 PM
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9. Thanks, Jack...

I remember too. He stuttered and stammered and slurred his words and generally sounded out of it for the couple of weeks before his supposed ear surgery.

I would like to see proof that he had the surgery...interesting, isn't it?

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Drifter

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Fri Oct-10-03 02:29 PM
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7. I heard the only thing they found ...

was perhaps a visit to the local LipoSuction emporium. No wonder he had such dramatic weight loss.

He went from Really Fucking Fat to just Fucking Fat.

What a loser.

Unfortunately, his followers will us this as an excuse to praise him for being honest, taking responsibility, and overcoming this affliction. What they won't admit is that they have been duped and lied to for the past 4 years.

Cheers
Drifter

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mlawson

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:09 PM
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10. I never bought the deafness story.

It just seemed too fishy to me. Too bad the media doesn't 'out' him for this -- his credibility would be totally gone. But we know why they won't.

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radwriter0555

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Fri Oct-10-03 04:17 PM
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11. It was stomach stapling and liposuction. That cochlear implant is PURE

FICTION.

Never happened.

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