Limbaugh: Tests Show No Ailments

Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that tests show nothing wrong with his heart after chest pains hospitalized him earlier this week.

Limbaugh said at a Honolulu news conference that he was being released from The Queen's Medical Center, where he was rushed Wednesday during a vacation. Doctors said he did not have a heart attack or heart disease.

"The pain was real, and they don't know what caused it," Limbaugh said.

Asked whether he was taking painkillers, Limbaugh said no.

His medical problems have attracted attention in the past. In 2003, he acknowledged an addition to pain killers for severe back pain and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter rehab.

Limbaugh couldn't resist a few political comments in the short press conference at the hospital. He said he got the best health treatment in the world "right here in the United States of America."

"I don't think there's one thing wrong with the United States health system," Limbaugh said.

Caller after caller to his show Thursday sounded their well-wishes, asked to simply say "ditto" — a traditional Limbaugh catchword — so they could get on with questions and comments on social and government issues on the national talk show. Friday's show was a Best of Rush special.

Americans in a poll last month called Limbaugh America's most influential conservative voice, and more than 14 million people hear him at least once a week, making him the nation's highest-rated broadcaster.

[maddog0802]

I loath and detest Rush Limbaugh. But I would never sink to his level of childish hatred and wish that harm would come to him. Remember his brutal schoolyard-bully mocking of physically crippled Michael J. Fox? That was inexcusable and totally beyond the pale of civilized behavior. We liberals need Rush to remind us how ignorant, petty and hateful (most) Republicans are. Thank God their party has crippled itself!

[noloyalisti]

daffy64, thanks for that clarification, you are correct. I guess Limbaugh and Cheney are just sick and twisted, corrupt, power mongers with mental illness. I just can't believe we can somehow glorify these people and put them in positions of power where they can do so much hate and evil.

[info-hunter]

Rush Limpr*d would have to have a heart to have an attack.

[noloyalisti]

See, this is the result of Reagan stopping mental illness from being a real ailment.

Limbaugh is a primitive, violent animal. How come hate mongering, murder and war loving morons like Limbaugh and Cheney have to stay alive to torment and torture and kill. There can't be a higher power running things, there just can't.

[tnnstime]

What an evil, hatefull, an shamefull thing to wish upon anyone. Absolutely disgusting!!!!!

[daffy64]

There can't be a higher power running things, there just can't.

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Well I think there is a "higher power" but God gave us the ability to chose between good and evil (remember the whole "Adam Eve, and the apple" parable?)

The fact that hateful morons thrive sometimes is no indicator that God isn't alive and well in some people.

Just not Mr. Limbaugh.

[daffy64]

It's hard to believe that someone as "svelte" as him could have heart problems.

[actornaught]

correction: If you've never furtively rubbed your own snot into your hands in front of thousands of people....

[actornaught]

I like the part about the 'conned defending rush by parroting his own narcissistic claims about himself. Hilarious lack of logic!

If you made it to your sophomore year in college, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you've never been fired from more than 3 mediocre jobs, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you've held onto a marriage for more than 7 years or have been divorced less than 3 times, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you've never been strung out on hard drugs until you lost your hearing, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you don't yo-yo diet or can execute some nominal athletic event, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you've never frutively rubbed your own snot into your hands in front of thousands of people, then done some kind of awkward hand waving rolly polly polka, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

If you've never disgusted uncounted millions with your bloviating self promoting hate speech, you've accomplished more than limbaugh.

Geez, and i only call him an 8-time loser, gotta correct that...

[erb0087]

by Sholomy January 3, 2010 8:37 PM EST
Rush donates more money to charity than you and will see in a lifetime.
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"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."

[goobicus]

Rush is a typical rabble rouser and America is becoming the land of the willfully ignorant.

[kamsack50]

Thank God!
Now everyone calm down and let's get back to normal again.

[bankersvox]

We are glad that he is OK .