Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital That Gave Rise To ‘Birther’ Conspiracy

[jefferson_dem]

Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital That Gave Rise To ‘Birther’ Conspiracy

Conservative radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital yesterday with chest pains. After paramedics arrived and treated him at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, Limbaugh was transferred to Queen’s Medical Center where he reportedly arrived in “serious condition.” KHON2 reports:

Sources say the 58 year old was suffering chest pains before an ambulance arrived at the hotel.

Honolulu’s Emergency Services Department confirmed a male fitting Limbaugh’s description was taken from the hotel in serious condition.

As an avid golfer Limbaugh travels to Hawaii just about every year and earlier this week was seen in Kona on the Big Island and at the Waialae Country Club on Oahu.

While unfortunate, Limbaugh’s hospital visit is rife with irony. The ailing radio show host was sent to the same medical center that a United Press International reporter misidentified in an article published in 2008 as the facility in which President Obama was born. Though the error was corrected to accurately indicate that Obama was born in the Kapi’olani Medical Center, the mistake fueled “birther” conspiracy theories that Limbaugh then dedicated significant airtime to promoting. Since then, Limbaugh has gone as far to state that Hawaii “morphed into Kenya one day in 1961 and reverted back to Hawaii the next day.”

Meanwhile, some of Limbaugh’s right-wing colleagues have spent the past week slamming Obama for vacationing in Hawaii over the holidays, which “to many Americans seems like a foreign place.” Last month, Limbaugh was voted the nation’s “most influential conservative voice.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/31/limbaugh-hospital-hawaii/

[Uben]

1. Did he have proof of citizenship?

They should have insisted he provide them with a birth certificate before treating him. Oh, the irony, had he died because he could not prove citizenship in time. I'm sure Limpballs would want them to verify his citizenship before treating him, seeing as how he hates immigrants so, and believes they should die because they were not born here.

[Ian David]

2. Isn't drug-addiction a pre-existing condition?

This missed bit from the Hawaii media suggests Limbaugh is back on pain meds.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=104390&mesg_id=104390

[MNDemNY]

3. May death come on silent feet.

[davidpdx]

4. How can Limbaugh allow himself to be treated in a state

that according to RW conspiracies allowed Obama to get US Citizenship as a Kenyan? Oh no, he's part of the cover up. That's it! Get Orly on the phone. And tell her I need an appointment to have my teeth cleaned too...

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

12. You'd let Orly clean your teeth?

She'd be asking "is it safe?" the entire time she was scraping on you.

[Clio the Leo]

5. I have this vision of him sneaking around in his hospital robe...

.... like in a movie or something ... breaking into "Secure - Hospital Personnel Only - Confidential Records" rooms trying to crack the code. :)

[nykym]

7. More likely

breaking into the narcotics room for more of his fav.

[thereismore]

6. How about some deather conspiracy for a change? nt

[Gman2]

8. I'll restate my sentiment.

Die Quickly. And count your blessings, that there is presently an estate tax holiday. Yippee.

[Gman2]

10. And it goes for Reagan too. The father of welfare queen stigma.

[izzybeans]

9. I won't believe it wasn't cocaine related until I he produces his hospital records. All of them.

"Some people say", Rush does cocaine, until proven otherwise how will we know? :joke:

[safeinOhio]

11. He needs to release the

complete toxicology report. What is he trying to hide?

[CakeGrrl]

13. Predictably, conservatives will disparage ANYTHING

related to, supported by, or associated with President Obama. Now it's a 'war on Hawaii'. Hopefully most of them will be certifiably BSC by the end of the President's second term.

:evilgrin: