Rush Limbaugh Jokes About Viagra Find

[SoFlaJet]

Entertainment
Tuesday, June 27, 2006



WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Investigators were trying to
determine Tuesday whether Rush Limbaugh violated a deal with
prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case when
authorities found he had a bottle of Viagra that was apparently
prescribed to someone else.
Limbaugh, 55, was detained for more than three hours Monday at
Palm Beach International Airport after he returned on his private
plane from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials
found Viagra in his bag, but his name wasn't on the prescription,
Palm Beach County sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller said.
Limbaugh's lawyer, Roy Black, said the prescription was written
in Limbaugh's doctor's name ``for privacy purposes.'' The
conservative radio host was released without being charged and
investigators confiscated the Viagra, which treats erectile
dysfunction.
Limbaugh joked about the search on his radio show Tuesday,
saying Customs officials didn't believe him when he said he got the
pills at the Clinton Library and he was told they were blue M&Ms.
He later added, chuckling: ``I had a great time in the Dominican
Republic. Wish I could tell you about it.''
It is generally not illegal under Florida law for a physician to
prescribe medication in a third party's name if all parties are
aware and the doctor documents it correctly, said Mike Edmondson, a
spokesman for the state attorney in Palm Beach County. He would not
discuss specifics in the Limbaugh case Tuesday.
The sheriff's office was continuing its investigation and would
soon turn the case over to prosecutors, Edmondson said. The alleged
violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor if Limbaugh's doctor
doesn't confirm the prescription.
Under last month's deal with prosecutors, authorities will
dismiss a ``doctor shopping'' charge if Limbaugh doesn't get
arrested for 18 months, among other terms. Prosecutors had said he
illegally deceived multiple doctors to get overlapping painkiller
prescriptions. Limbaugh denied the charges but admitted he was
addicted to painkillers.
This latest case may simply be dismissed if prosecutors can
confirm with Limbaugh's doctor that the prescription was indeed for
Limbaugh, said Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney in Florida.
``It's perhaps a little embarrassing but not highly
incriminating,'' Coffey said.
In addition, possession of Viagra is in a ``completely different
universe than a matter that would involve Schedule Two (controlled)
substances such as OxyContin'' Coffey added.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Viagra is not
considered a controlled substance because ``it's not something you
can be addicted to,'' said DEA Investigator Maria Gilbert.
The Food and Drug Administration oversees regulations concerning
non-addictive drugs that are not considered controlled substances,
Gilbert said. A telephone call to the FDA was not immediately
returned Tuesday.

[Redstone]

1. Yeah, right. Who actually JOKES with Customs people?

If you believe him, I got a great deal for you on a bridge in Brooklyn.

Redstone

[BlackVelvet04]

6. My husband........

When the comment was made to my husband (who was driving my car with VA tags on it in Arizona) by a Border Patrol agent that my husband "was a long way from VA" my husband replied "so are you". :-)


When asked at the border what country he was from my husband replied "Virginia". The customs agent got ticked off and said "that's not a country", to which my husband replied "you're obviously NOT from Virginia."

Neither agent found him amusing.

[Redstone]

10. As I said...

Redstone

[Mandate My Ass]

2. DEA: "viagra not something you can be addicted to"

unlike Limpy's fascination with the Clenis.

Imitation is hte sincerest form of flattery. Although Limpy doesn't measure up, the attempt is, ahem, admirable. ;-)

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Lack of Moral values.

GOP, bringing back moral values to the White House.







:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[shain from kane]

4. New definition of doctor shopping - find one, pay enough money to talk

him into putting his name on your prescription bottle. Doctors are whores.

[imax2268]

5. Rush says...

"I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."

No thanks Oxyboy...I don't want to hear about your romps with little boys...

[plcdude]

7. B.S.

"It is generally not illegal under Florida law for a physician to
prescribe medication in a third party's name if all parties are
aware and the doctor documents it correctly" So a doctor can write a prescription to a third party and then give that prescription to anyone else and that is perfectly okay? I think not. Why have a prescription procedure if you can do this? That is fraud pure and simple.

[peaches2003]

9. Never heard of such a thing!

Like I can go to my doctor and tell him my daughter wants some valium and he'll write the prescription in my name. Give me a break! Must be a law Jebbie got passed for Noelle I think her name is.

[Minnesota_Lib]

8. "I had a great time in the Dominican. Wish I could tell you about it."

Sam Seder played the audio of this quote on Randi's show this afternoon. Rush gave a "I've been a baaaaaad boy" type of knowing chuckle after this statement.

Hey, Rush, I bet we know why you can't tell us about your "wonderful" Viagra-enhanced visit to the DR. My guess they were all around 15 years-old or younger males, right Pigboy?

[Redstone]

11. Guaranteed.

Redstone

[MADem]

12. Sometimes a cigar is NOT a cigar

You know how some of these kids slice open cigars and put something else in it?? Then, they seem awfully delighted to be smoking that cigar, don't they?

Wonder if they'll test those diamond shaped blue pills to find out if they really are what he says they are? Really, when you think about it, what a clever way to smuggle drugs--get a prescription for something, and have your illegal drug made up to look like that prescription! It would require a little effort and organization, but it sounds like something Tony Soprano, or any clever front-line manager with larceny in his heart in a pharmaceutical factory, could manage. Of course, most of those factories are in Puerto Rico, but that's not too far for someone to smuggle the goods in a small aircraft if there's both a will and a market for it...