Fear Not, Dittoheads: Rush Says There's Nothing Wrong With His Ticker

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Jan 1st 2010 06:12PM

Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday tests showed nothing was wrong with his heart after he was hospitalized with chest pains. Limbaugh, 58, was released from The Queen's Medical Center two days after he was rushed there 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, adding his best guess was he had a spasm in an artery.

Limbaugh said he was not taking painkillers. In 2003, he acknowledged an addiction to painkillers 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 during his short news conference at the Honolulu hospital.

One appeared to be aimed at health care reform, when 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 American health care system," Limbaugh said. "I got no special treatment other than what anybody else that would have called 911 and had been brought in with the same kinds of symptoms."

Limbaugh called his health scare a "blessing in disguise."

"It takes things like this in life maybe to prepare you for the eventuality that you are getting older, you're not as young as you were, and not as invincible as you once thought you were," he said.

Limbaugh said when he first felt the chest pain, he walked around, sat down then quickly called for help. He was in the hospital within 20 minutes.

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Saturday 02 January

By danzillo4

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Controversey and outrageous statements (Howard Stern)create interest...We must remember Limblows uncle and a cousin were appointed to federal judgeships by Reagen and GW Bush..Ya think its a payback?

By lisa

he's so worried that we will out he is really a liberal gay man that he had an anxiety attack. the guy is a pig!!

By joe

By dittodorks

NICE PUBLICITY STUNT RUSH

By matt

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And his tax dollars pays for you SHEESH to sit on your kester all day and watch Opra you foul welfare rat

Go get a job you BUM and pay for your own insurance

By Debra

Plenty of people who have jobs and work hard have no insurance - it's not because they don't want it - it's because they can't afford it. What do you say to them?

By Cissy

Funny how Limbaugh can have a "heart attack scare" when he obviously HAS no heart.

By jd

The next positive thing out of this wind bag's mouth will be the first ever. So let's all hope his heart is fine and that his voice fails! He produces nothing, and has been paid tens of millions to stir up the uninformed and uneducated. He has the most useless job on the planet.

By JBF

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Obama ordered one of his secret service agents to "take out" Limbaugh while they were both vacationing in Hawaii. The agent used poison (potassium chloride) to mimick a heart attack however, Limbaugh is taking a potassium depleting diuretic and it saved his life. Another example of how Obama can't do anything right.

Sunday 03 January

By go rilla

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I wish a killer nurse had done thier job on that fat f.c k drug addict. He should be dead.

By igor Lampinski

His chest pains came from his lover being on top.

Just wish they would tell us his name>

By garth

Anne Coulter. She's better hung than Rush.

By L R

Well he missed the opportunity to celebrate with Teddy* he has been sober 131days.

By R

I so glad hes ok, this country NEEDS guys like him who arent afraid to speak the truth. He dont lie he just says it like it is and alot of people cant handle the truth , you gotta lie and tell them what they want to hear RB

By Dan

What kinda health Care coverage does Rush have? He is fortunate enough to have affordable health care coverage. Probably one of the elite plans you could have. But what about the average person?

"I don't think there's one thing wrong with the American health care system," Limbaugh said. "I got no special treatment other than what anybody else that would have called 911 and had been brought in with the same kinds of symptoms."

Easy for him to say. Wait till the average person if they were fortunate to have any coverage at all got the bill.

By George

The fat bast-rd went to Hawaii to find Obama's birth certificate and when he found that Obama was actually born in the USA his ego couldn't
take it and he had a panic attack.

By iiliil111

He's going on wife #4. Is a drug addict and a criminal. What a role model. His followers are like the rats the pied piper had following him. They are sad people without a brain who wouldn't know how to wipe their azz if some Rethuglican talk show host didn't tell them everyday. . He laughs all the way to the bank at them.

By Lori walker

Now when you read some of the dumbest stuff on here about Rush and what he does or has taken and don't know the facts You see why That dope smoking, fascist, biracial, socialist, narsasscitic flop eared disaster is in power Some just voted for him because he's a muslim They don't care that he wants to take this entire country down Neve vote if you can't understand how this country was built We need our country back so all you immature, pickle headed baboons stay away from the polls next year Voting is for adults If you just want to feel good go to Vegas

By sherry

Looney Lori Its time you and your kind retire. I suggest you go back to school, you appear very uneducated and totally misinformed, probably by your idol, Limbo, the drug addict fat slob

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