Paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing, KITV reported. The station, citing unnamed sources, said the 58-year-old Limbaugh was taken to The Queens Medical Center in Honolulu.
Kit Carson, Limbaugh’s chief of staff, told The Associated Press from Milwaukee that he wasn’t able to provide any information.
Queens spokeswoman N. Makana Shook said the hospital was unable to comment on the report.
Emergency Medical Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic said paramedics took a male of unknown age to an area hospital from the Kahala Hotel and Resort. He said he had no further information.
Limbaugh was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week, KITV said. The country club is next to the Kahala hotel.
For privacy reasons, hotel spokeswoman Sheila Donnelly Theroux said she was unable to acknowledge the name of any guests.
As recently as November 2009, Americans said in a poll that Limbaugh was America’s most influential conservative voice. His three-hour weekday show is heard on some 600 radio stations across the country, and more than 14 million people listen to him at least once a week.
Stay tuned for further updates. Will keep my readers posted as possible. I luv you guys, and we MUST stick together as TRUE CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS! That’s why Rush believes in us, and why we believe in him.
Like many others, I was disturbed by President Obama’s initial public statement about the Ft. Hood terrorist attack. You know, the one where the mention of that mass slaughter was preceded by a near 2-minute talk with a “shout out” to a group of Native Americans? Does he have that little regard for the soldiers who were slaughtered by an Islamic terrorist?
As I listened to him, I realized that what he was saying didn’t match…what he was saying. I think you know what I mean. It was the same measured tone with which he pretty much discusses anything, reading from the teleprompter or not. He shows no emotion, barely any inflection (unless he’s talking to an SEIU or ACORN crowd), and is just plain cold. I, for one, don’t buy the “soaring oratory” skills others ascribe to him. Anyway, back to my point.
Since he’s gotten the August assessment on Afghanistan from General McChrystal back in September, he has yet to make any other decision about what he’s going to act on, other than decide he wouldn’t decide for several more weeks. Why is he taking such a long time? His supporters are saying he’s being “thoughtful” and “thorough” about making that decision, but what about the guys on the ground now? They are the ones that need the backup! I guess he’s not too concerned about them, much less Gen. McChrystal’s request for 40,000 more troops. According to the assessment, McChrystal said “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.” How much more dire of a warning could Obama have received.
Now today, even after his initial “benchmarks” including the election in Afghanistan, as well as much politicking back home about that monstrosity called a health-care bill, we hear that Obama is rejecting all current troop recommendations he’s received from his security team? He’s going to go back to square one? What the hell?
I have friends over there, and they’re getting really pissed off about this. They need help…they need boots on the ground so they can help secure the areas in which they operate, and train the Afghan troops and police so they can eventually handle it on their own.
After hearing an interview Obama did with Jake Tapper of ABC on Monday night, it struck me – I now know how he feels about our troops. He thinks of them as “expenditures.” Yes, think about that and let it sink in. He thinks of our troops as an asset that costs this country money. Money he doesn’t want to spend. What? Don’t believe me? I heard this clip on Rush’s show Tuesday, and Rush expressed his own outrage at it, but I didn’t put two and two together until this morning’s news about turning down all the proposed plans.
Here is a portion of the transcript of that interview. I want you to read and re-read Obama’s second point when answering Jake:
Jake Tapper says, “You are about to make a final decision about the new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. What variables play into your decision making that would cause you to not just take General McChrystal’s recommendation and implement it?”
OBAMA: These are not only eh, enormous burdens that we’re placing on our y-young men and women — and that’s the thing I think most about.
OBAMA: It’s also expensive.
OBAMA: Every thousand troops we spend that’s costing us a billion dollars. Uhh, i-if you send 40,000 troops you’re looking at maybe $50 billion per year above and beyond the costs that we’re already spending.
Are you kidding me? The “enormous burdens that we’re placing on our young men and women” is what he thinks about most? Does anybody believe this? My friends over in Afghanistan don’t believe him, and I damn sure don’t either. His real reason for not sending the troops is actually the cost. Our troops “cost” too much. Their safety “costs” too much. Our national security “costs” too much.
Mr. Obama, how much value do you ascribe to the troops that are already over there, and getting killed in record numbers? Do they have such little fiscal value to you that you won’t “spend” more “troops” (read = money) on them? Our guys are being ambushed, blown up by IEDs, and killed in raging gun battles, all the while you dither and ponder your political future. Obama, you have to know that a lot of Americans see and understand that you fear your political future over our troops, and we are beyond angry at this point. We, like the troops over there, are pissed off. Politics should never be your first order of concern when it comes to matters of our security or the support of our men and women who wear the uniform for this country. I used to think you merely had an abject disdain for them, but now it’s come to this: they’re just an “expenditure” which depletes money from your budget that you’d rather be spending on your Marxist agenda.
Mr. President, although you are the Commander in Chief of the most exceptional nation on this planet, that doesn’t mean you have to be an exceptional jackass. And yet that’s what we’re discovering you to be.
Check HotAir’s post of this for some excellent commentary.
Today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Rush Limbaugh was on to talk about several things including the Obama administration, Sarah Palin, his past battle with addiction, and many more things. I though this was a brilliant interview, and one that I will watch again and again in the future. For those of you who doubt Rush or his power, keep on dreaming – he IS that dominant.
If Rush weren’t so content at doing what he does, I think he would make a fine public servant.
Today on Rush Limbaugh’s show, he had a caller named Marie from California. Marie said she was frustrated by not getting answers from ‘higher ups’ so she called the Los Angeles field office of the FBI to find out what the hell was going on with ACORN. According to Marie, both times she spoke to the FBI, they told her that if she wanted to know what was going on with ACORN, she should watch Fox News and listen to talk radio. Rush said “woah, woah, WOAH!” wanting to clarify what he’d just heard.
Marie again said that on her second conversation, the FBI told her that if she wanted to know anything about what was going on with ACORN, she should specifically watch the Glenn Beck show. They said that they at the FBI all watch Beck to find out what’s going on with ACORN, too.
Glenn doesn’t believe Marie, I don’t thing Rush did either, but it’s still funny nonetheless.
Left or right, Democrat or Republican, this is information EVERYONE needs to know! Forget the Fairness Doctrine… this is more insidious! And the FCC “Diversity Officer,” Mark Lloyd is an admirer of Hugo Chavez???? And what in the hell did our country do to STOP the anti-Chavez revolution? This raises more questions for all of us. Please – go ASK BOLDLY and SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR!
Last week on Greta, she played some of Rush’s radio show video where he lambasts the White House and the DNC on their offensive tactics against grass-roots efforts trying to get their concerns heard at townhall meetings. Also at question is Linda Douglass of the White House, spearheading a ’snitch’ campaign to get Obama followers to report any “fishy” emails with “disinformation” about the Healthcare bill by forwarding those emails to flag@WhiteHouse.gov.
How Orwellian does this sound to you? Where is the liberal hue and cry about THIS regarding regular folks’ privacy like it was during the discussion of the Patriot Act? Why, there is none, that’s obvious. It’s perfectly ok to collect data for your “dear leader” if he’s of your party, so this email harvesting crap is just fine for the left. What a bunch of shyster, hypocritical idiots. Payback is coming, and it will begin happening as soon as 2010. Don’t doubt it.
…and hilarity ensues.
I don’t agree with Stewart’s political views, but when he’s funny, he’s really funny. Check out this latest video of his recent discovery of Chatroulette.
I didn’t know Brian Williams had that good a sense of humor! I needed this laugh today.
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From the ZDNet blog today:
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses three efforts underway to ensure the security of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure. This includes the development of National Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan, which will facilitate a coordinated response to cyberthreats from the federal government, local city [...]
I guess the Dem’s honeymoon is truly over. Jon Stewart is officially going after the dems. In this episode, he takes on Nancy Pelosi, David Paterson, Charlie Rangel.
Finally…Stewart’s finding his bi-partisan sweet spot.
h/t StoryBalloon
Last night, Sarah Palin appeared on Jay’s 2nd night back into the Tonight Show foray, and she was pleasantly confident and comfrortable. Heck, she even did a standup comedy routine. Check out both clips here:
I think she did fantastic, don’t you? The more she appears on TV, the more comfortable she becomes…and that’s a GOOD [...]
Wow… just wow. Glenn introduced us to a fabulous new ’social’ group today. They are all members of The Brecht Forum. Who are they you ask? The Brecht Forum website offers several neat-o commie options, touting the New York Marxist School. Amazing. Simply. Amazing. On their “About Us” page? Here’s the ‘fun’ stuff:
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