Rush Limbaugh, sex tourist?

[norml]

Rush Limbaugh, sex tourist?

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 9:10 AM on June 27, 2006.


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As Melissa noted earlier in PEEK, from a CBS story: "Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription."

He was reportedly returning from the Dominican Republic at the time which, as Terrance Heath notes, leaves a big, gaping hole in the story.


What was Rush doing in the Dominican Republic? Why was he returning from a country known for its thriving sex trade, with a bottle of Viagra that didn’t have his name on it?

From a 2001 Wired.com article:


the Dominican Republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world, thanks in part to Internet sites that extol the country as a "single man's paradise."


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Among banner ads for Viagra, members can shuffle through pictures of dull-eyed prostitutes engaged in flagrante delicto with the members/amateur pornographers.


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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/38192/


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=Dominican+Republic+sex+tourism&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web

[LisaM]

1. What's the age of consent there? I know that in Chile it's TWELVE

I saw this on the Canadian news the other night (they are trying to raise the age of consent there, it's quite low, something like 14) and they listed some other countries. I remember that in Chile it was 12, and in Spain, 13.

[acmejack]

5. That is ridiculous

this is a sad place we live in. Men like rush make it more so. Was he down there buying young girls? The mouth of the Right, that paragon of the moral majority, the leader of the howling mob that screams of OUR moral shortcomings was down there as a tawdry sex tourist?

[Dr Fate]

8. What makes you think this about young girls as opposed to boys?

???

[wakeme2008]

9. Why do you assume it was for an under age GIRL

with Rush I would bet it was for a boy... OK I will be nice to him a Man...

[Botany]

10. i betya that it was the boyz that brought Rush to the D.R.

http://www.globalgayz.com/g-dominicanrepublic.html

He is a living lie .... a gay junkie ..... who lectures people about values.

[Fridays Child]

2. Whether he's a sex tourist, per se, is unconfirmed. However...

...because Viagra is not a long-acting medication, the fact that he took it with him to the Dominican Republic means that he intended to have sex while he was there.

[ray of light]

3. was Darral Kagon with him (spelling wrong)

They were a couple in 04 you know. (I don't know if they still are.)

[Fridays Child]

11. They split up, from what I've read.

But Daryn Kagan forever lost my respect.

[ray of light]

14. mine too! I'd rather get bit by a rattle snake than ever allow Rush

near me!

[The Brethren]

4. No doubt

if anyone ever asks him why he was there...he'll either ignore them or say he there was to relax and do some personal "research."

He's repulsive!

[oscar111]

7. Corporate economies with their harsh poverty are why such trade exists

... they need the money. Rush is a big prop for such economies.

[The Brethren]

12. He certainly is

A huge, hypercritical prop with money to burn.

One of the ironies is, if he ever got caught doing something in the DR that would be illegal here..and maybe even tank his career, it would be legal there. Even as dumb as he is, I'm sure he stills know that.

[Pierre.Suave]

6. Wheres the outrage

from the christian right (wrong)????????

[norml]

13. One Former Dittohead's Thoughts on the Rush Story

One Former Dittohead's Thoughts on the Rush Story (12 comments )


Did something happen with Rush Limbaugh in the news recently? Hmm...I must've missed it. Oh wait...there it is. Wow! That can't be good. That brings up a whole host of questions, none of which the mainstream media are going to ask. The one question they will ask is "what affect will this have on Rush's listeners," and the answer is "none at all." I was a big fan during the first 'Rush in Rehab' incident, and it didn't affect me in the least. Frankly, I was more disappointed in his allegations of a 'liberal sports media' propping up an 'overrated Donovan McNabb' than I was about the drug thing. Now THAT was just stupid.

But Rush's handling of is initial drug problems was brilliant. Step 1--Find a Scapegoat. From the word 'go' Rush would blame a partisan D.A. with a personal axe to grind as being behind the doctor shopping charge. Step 2--Admit No Guilt. Rush would assure the audience that he had done nothing illegal. That he had an addiction to prescriptions that he had acquired through proper channels. Step 3--Own the Problem. Rush did his last show before going off the air for a month to explain that he had a problem. It wasn't a 'disease' or a 'weakness,' it was a failure. As such, he was going to overcome it.

Rush's stroke of genius came at the end. Most folks who go into rehab do so from a position of weakness. They say things like "I apologize to my friends and family...I'm sorry I let everyone down...I need help." Rush goes into rehab from a position of strength by saying "I don't want you folks to think I'm a hero." Initially there was no danger of the dittohead nation considering Rush as a hero. But after he said it, that's exactly what I thought. "Rush is so selfless. He's really walking the walk here. He's taking personal responsibility for his actions. He really IS a hero."

I'm not exactly sure how he'll do it, but this time won't be any different. If I had to guess I'd say the dittohead nations' reaction would be, "He had someone else's name on his Viagra prescription. Big deal. I'm sure all celebrities use pseudonyms for their prescriptions to protect their medical privacy." It seems that medical records are the only records Rush considers sacrosanct when it comes to privacy rights. No matter how he spins it, though, Rush will come out of this looking like a hero to his audience. That's what the mainstream media will cover, and they won't ask any of the following questions:

Maybe the rules for 'probation' are different, but I thought you could only leave the state for business purposes and only then with permission. How did Rush get permission to take a vacation out of the country?


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-derych/one-former-dittoheads-th_b_23919.html