Skinny Rush. Pic at link....

[monmouth]

http://www.page2live.com/2009/08/04/the-incredible-shrinking-rush-limbaugh/

[Eric J in MN]

1. "more vegetable and salads"

Tell that to any Rush Limbaugh fans you know.

They will be disgusted that he's eating "more vegetable and salads."

[Deja Q]

7. HE is a vegetable.

SHE wants him for something green and isn't related to his small root...

[malaise]

14. probably diabetes n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

2. Bariatric surgery. Good pain killers post-op. n/t

[tj2001]

3. Still a pig

apologies to pigs

[Why Syzygy]

4. If he's on the diet mentioned, he is consuming a lot of aspartame.

http://quickweightloss.net/products.php?product=pudding.chocolate



I looked into that diet years ago and could not follow the program since I have problems with aspartame. bleh

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. maybe his pilonidal cyst is flaring up?

good for him... why do I care?

[cdsilv]

9. 79lbs in 5 months? - he'll never keep it off - if he lives....n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

6. Another possibility. After 50 years, surgeons reopened his anus. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Call me when he's down to 90 and ready for the wooden box.

Until then, I couldn't care less.

[wtbymark]

10. "most people, don't do meth"

:sarcasm:
from the radio add

[Avalux]

11. He's had a lot of work done to his face.

I don't know if he's on a diet or had gastric band surgery or what, but he's definitely had a facelift.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Preparation H industrial strength, most likely.

[nini]

12. when was the video taken that KO shows all the time?

That wasn't that long ago was it? He looked massive in that - and he's this thin in just a few months???


He was more than 300 lbs in that video. unless he's only 5' 4".


hmmmmmmmmmm

[Judi Lynn]

33. It wasn't long ago. Last year. Rush made some desperate attempt to get Keith to stop showing it.

At the time K.O. was only showing it every few nights, but when they got handed a snotty insult from Rush concerning the video image, and a demand they stop playing it for a month, they started showing it immediately every night. As they should!

Limbaugh was invited to speak to the RNC, and before he started speaking he thrilled them all by bouncing around. Odd idea, clearly.

Here's what was mentioned one night on the show, from a clip of Limbaugh speaking on his radio program:

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I challenge you on, MSNBC! Thirty days without anything mentioning me. No video of me, no guests commenting on me. Let‘s see if you can do it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30869101/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

The fact they DID keep showing the video most likely is the reason he has suddenly dropped some tonnage, because, as you noticed, it hasn't been very long at ALL since that video was taken.

Here's the clip from the K.O. show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mdqnSsXFLA

[tridim]

13. Robot body, no doubt about it. nt

[Ian David]

16. Crystal Meth. Plus, he lost his sense of taste from using Zicam. n/t

[Lex]

17. Gastric Bypass. Won't admit to it (a la Star Jones on The View).

nt

[NJCher]

18. Weight Schmate

That's not the story here. The story is that Rush has a beard, AKA as "the comely West Palm Beacher Kathryn Rogers."


Cher

[SmileyRose]

19. I'm glad he finally got the surgery.

Whatever it takes to be as healthy as he can. And I truly mean that. I want him to be berated for the disgusting stench that is his soul, not the poundage.

Quite honestly the belittling of Rush for his weight on the DU bothers me.

[Ex Lurker]

20. I'm thinking Type II diabetes, and an ultimatum from his drs

lose weight or die.

[Sheepshank]

21. I didn't realize

he has one of those implants for hearing.

Huh, ya learn somthing new every day.

[Maru Kitteh]

25. He abused drugs so badly he went deaf. Many people don't know that can happen.

I'm guessing it was a surprise to old Rush, too.

[sharesunited]

22. Brain liposuction and he'll be a new man.

[Deja Q]

27. You're presuming he has a brain to begin with? Needs a brain injection, he does...

:rofl:

[Maru Kitteh]

23. "mush lintballs" from the comments thread! That's a riot.

Oh, and that ain't nothin' but a gastric bypass.

[MilesColtrane]

24. On the dope again.

[Maru Kitteh]

26. Unlikely that is the cause. Rush's pets are metabolic retardants. This is the result of surgery.

[MilesColtrane]

28. Sure opiates retard your metabolism, but they also kill your hunger.

Not too many fat junkies out there.

[Maru Kitteh]

29. Logically, that's stupid.

Rush, the world's most hyperkinetic self-propelled asshole is on so many downers he's developed the appetite of one of the Olson twins? Gimme a fuckin' break.

I'm not saying he isn't doing drugs. I'd be shocked if he ever quit.

This, is gastric bypass. He'll never admit it because he's the kind of asshole who thinks (and says) that such a surgery represents a "moral failure" or "lack of willpower" for those who receive it.

Fucking hypocrite to the end, he is.

[MilesColtrane]

30. It may sound stupid to you, but it's a fact that opiate addiction suppresses your appetite.

Junkies rarely eat because they're not hungry. If they do eat and they do enough shit to get off, they throw it up.

The opiates suppress a number of basic drives. The opiate user experiences reduced aggressiveness, reduced appetite, and reduced sex drive. Males usually become mostly, if not totally, impotent; they experience difficulty in achieving or maintaining an erection and are often incapable of orgasm. Contrary to the myth of the violent and rapacious addict (the "sex-crazed dope fiend"—see Chapter 13), the heroin addict is more likely to be passive and sexless. It is when the heroin is not available and withdrawal begins that the addict may become violent, and it is during withdrawal illness that the heroin addict often becomes very sexually active as the sex drive reasserts itself.

The opiates curtail the passage of food through the digestive system by slowing or stopping the contractions of the stomach and intestines and decreasing the excretion of digestive juices. It is for this reason that the opiates have long been used in the treatment of diarrhea. The heroin user, of course, develops constipation and, in heroin addicts, this becomes a chronic condition. Nausea and vomiting are also often produced by heroin. Even experienced heroin users will suffer some nausea every time they take heroin.

[Maru Kitteh]

41. Yuh huh. That explains why he was darn skinny when he got busted.

Oh wait. He wasn't skinny.

Add to that a lack of other observable symptoms, symptoms that would, at the level of drug use you are arguing for, be damn impossible to hide. His behavior is generally reprehensible, but not at all unusual, for him.

Occam's Razor: “Of several acceptable explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest is preferable, provided that it takes all circumstances into account.”

90 pounds in 5 months? = Bariatric surgery.

[lame54]

31. quick - somebody send him a Hickory Farms package

[Nyquil Man]

32. No way you lose that kind of weight without getting some jowls.

I remember when the Huckster lost all that poundage. He looked like Droopy Dog.

[VOX]

34. 79 lbs. lost in 5 mos.? Only by Lap-Band surgery + Lipo + Face/neck/body lifts & tucks + Photoshop.

A nearly 80-lb. weight loss in 5 months by diet alone is impossible -- the calorie deficit necessary to achieve such a mark would be staggeringly unhealthy to attempt, if not downright dangerous.

If the photos aren't photo shopped (which I seriously doubt), there's been Lap-Band surgery; a ton of liposuction in the belly/rump/thigh areas; definitely some lifting of the face, neck, and body (79 lbs lost so quickly would leave a *lot* of loose, stretched skin); and the obvious diet and exercise.

Unfortunately, this gives false hope to some poor (literally) suckers who are hoodwinked into believing that these results are achievable by diet alone.

[MrScorpio]

35. This man sure does a whole lot of work just to sport a beard

Awful lonely in that closet

[whistler162]

36. Let see root canal without novacain or look at Rush...

Thanks but I will take the less painful option,

THE ROOT CANAL!

[JSK]

37. Here's a good diet:

Just look at that link and those pics a few times a day. You won't be able to keep anything down.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[piratefish08]

38. the fucking blowhard will do anything for a prescription...........

[DailyGrind51]

39. He doesn't resemble Hermann Goering anymore!

[Buns_of_Fire]

40. No more "Mr. Bouncy-Bouncy"?

:bounce: As insufferable as he was as a larger person, I wait to see what a "lean and hungry" rushboll is going to inflict on the world.

[spanone]

42. he should stop eating altogether, until then he's the prick he's always been

[Tripper11]

43. I don't think it's him...the reason

He's smiling. That douchebag has nothing to smile about because he's a miserable sore loser rethug.

Something ain't right..seriously.