Rush Limbaugh 'Resting' Following Chest Pain Scare

By Sam Brand Posted Dec 31st 2009 07:19AM

Rush Limbaugh's Web site posted the following statement late Wednesday: "Rush was admitted to a Honolulu hospital today and is resting comfortably after suffering chest pains. Rush appreciates your prayers and well wishes. He will keep you updated via RushLimbaugh.com and on Thursday's radio program."

According to Hawaii's KITV, the 58-year-old radio host was rushed to a Honolulu hospital after experiencing chest pains Wednesday afternoon. The ABC affiliate reported Limbaugh arrived in serious condition and will not be released until Thursday, at the earliest.

Paramedics responded to a 911 call made from the Kahal Hotel and Resort at 2:42 p.m. Hawaiian Time - 7:42 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. A source tells KITV: "Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived... He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem."

According to TMZ, "the hotel took drastic measures to get the mystery patient – reported to be Limbaugh – out of the resort without being seen."

The site reports that hotel security closed off an entire wing of the hotel and transported Limbaugh to the ground floor via the staff elevator.

Limbaugh left for his usual Christmas vacation on Dec. 23 and is due to return to his show on Jan. 4. Kit Carson, Limbaugh's chief of staff, told The Associated Press that he didn't have any information on whether that schedule would change.

The conservative radio host, who is in Hawaii at the same time as powerful Democrats Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, hadn't, to the public's knowledge, been hospitalized since 2003, when he underwent treatment for an addiction to painkillers. His chronic back problems were reportedly at the root of the addiction. In 2001 Limbaugh was hospitalized after losing hearing in his right ear due to Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease. He has claimed to be, "for all practical purposes, deaf."

He is also a well known cigar smoker. According to the American Heart Association, cigar smokers appear to have a higher risk of death from coronary heart disease than non-smokers.

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Thursday 31 December

By judejaded

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one word: SCHADENFREUDE!

By Dale

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Remember your joy when the wheels turn and it's your health. Maybe you aren't wise enough, or old enough to know, but no one gets out alive, and most suffer. See if your sick feelings of amusement at someone's ill health brings a glow to your heart then.

By John

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You can say THAT again!! Limburger's KARMA is more likely to kill him tham coronary heart disease...but whatever does is it "Schadenfreude" is MY reaction too!

By Chuck

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"In 2001 Limbaugh was hospitalized after losing hearing in his right ear due to Autoimmune inner ear disease."

'Autoimmune inner ear disease' is a funny name for taking almost lethal amounts of Oxycontin on a regular basis. At the time it was well known that this was the cause, but apparently Rush has rewritten history to make him a victim rather than a loser.

By Stormey

Where did you get your medical degree Chucky?

By Hindelsmythe

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Don't worry the dope head just ran out drugs..he'll be back to spewing out his hate, lies and slander with in a few days. So all you fans, just drink some vinegar and look and your collection of dead babies to tide you through

SORRY conservative gullibles; rush taught me NOT to have a 'bleeding heart'....

By dang1067

All I can say is:
"I hope his heart BURST & EXPLODES and he CROAKS & DIES!!!!"

I can't wait for the Honolulu Advertiser to post a headline reading: "Rush Limbo Limbaugh Croaked and is Dead!!!"

By Dennis

You sir are a lowlife douche. No matter how much you disagree with someone politically, wishing them dead is just wrong. You must be one of those tolerant lefties I keep hearing about.

And you're lower! You're beneath inside, shoved way deep in your stinking anuses!

That twisted, lying, cursing, propaganda spreading and slanderous fat-pig RepubliCvnt deserves to croak and die!

By Chris

Careful what you wish for...karma is a b****...and you sound like a perfect person for it.

Yeah, Karma to that fat-pig RepubliCvnt who cursed and wished for the President to fail or be killed!!!

Yeah, Karma to him, and I hope his heart burst and explodes out of his fvcking RepubliCvnt chest!!!

By obamagreatpres

OMFG HES DEAD!!!! LMAOOO IT HAPPENED!!! HE ACTUALLY DIED!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

By Bill Hatton

You are one stupid MF.

By Barbara

You are an IDIOT!!!!

By OneBigAssMistakeAmerica!

First of all, based on the your name of:obamagreatpres it is quite obvious you are a bigger jackass then the "Pres"is! I personally did not think that would be possible. Second of all, apparently Rush Limbaugh hits a nerve with you when he speaks the truth, that you would waste your time writing lies. Besides, Rush and his listeners will not only outlive you, we will make sure "your great Pres" loses the next election, or gets thrown out before then!