Same could be said for cigarettes, alcohol, and fatty foods.
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Same could be said for cigarettes, alcohol, and fatty foods.
Smoking, drinking and fatness don't affect the way our government functions.
Neither does radio. The 5% who listen to him hardly make up a voting majority
They don't have to make up any majority to gum up the works and you know it.
Are you denying that any politicians are afraid to be called out by talkradio, which has them digging in on positions that ultimately aren't good for the country? Like trying to prevent the raising of the debt ceiling or extending unemployment or allowing political appointees to be confirmed. Shall I go on?
Have you been paying attention the last 5 years? Seriously.
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I've studied the entire history of this country, and we had things like this happen before. Talk radio can be like a screaming baby. If you give it too much attention, it can control you. Sometimes you're better off letting him cry himself to sleep. I think we're at that point.
lol
The doctors in question treat Kings, Sultans, Emirs, Prime Ministers and the like. Rush is pretty run of the mill for them in their specialty.
Yes. Because it isn't true. I really wasn't targeting you with that comment, but it's good to see you believe that outright LIE, too.
In other words, they wouldn't risk their reputations and licenses by lying for a radio host.
I should have taken "1 hour" in the "Rush hearing loos lie" pool. I would have won.
Those Kings, Sultans, Emirs and Prime Ministers don't live in the same country as these doctors, do they? Rush is a media figure/celebrity here, hardly "run of the mill". Regardless, I'm not implying they're being dishonest. I'm sure they believe what they say, and I'm sure Rush is glad he found them.
Still, pretty uncanny coinkydink there with that autoimmune ear disease surfacing while he's abusing painkillers that can cause hearing loss when taken in excess, wouldn't you say, David?
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It's a lie? For sure? So you're also a physician now?
Doctors have been known to attribute ailments incorrectly. Even good doctors. It happens. Don't you find it curious that plenty of court cases have doctors as experts...on both sides, often saying very different things about the same situation? Unless you believe one side's doctors are just liars, how do you explain that?
Rush is just the victim of a coincidence, that's all. Okay? Withhold common sense.
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Since when is a doctor's license or reputation at stake for giving a plausible explanation for a problem?
If you say so. lol
I don't say so. WORLD RENOWNED doctors do.
The film industry people who also visit that group of doctors are in several instances, much more important in the celebrity stratosphere than a limited appeal radio talk show host who, locally, was getting less than a 3 share.
No, because the effects of oxy on hearing can not be resolved with a cochlear implant, the solution that resolved Rush's issues.
Sounds like Rush's WORLD RENOWNED doctor isn't as completely convinced as you are. Maybe you can call and assure her of your findings.
Read the post below this one for her quotes.
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In her own words to ABC News:
Limbaugh's cochlear implant doctor, Dr. Jennifer Derebery, an otolaryngologist at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, says it is possible that there is a connection between Limbaugh's sudden hearing loss and pill abuse, but she said there is no way to know for sure.
"We don't know why some people, but apparently not most, who take large doses may lose their hearing," Derebery said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "The reason we don't know is that because we ultimately have to have biopsy specimens of the inner ear to tell that. but you can't biopsy the inner ear of a person who is alive because we are going to destroy the hearing," she said.
If the cause of the deafness were painkiller abuse, his treatment still would have been the same, said Derebery. The only way he would be able to hear again is through the use of a cochlear implant, she said.
How do you explain that, David?
As I said, it's quite an uncanny coincidence, wouldn't you say?
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That is a rather typical doctor's response to any question that has no answer to avoid any legal complications.
In other words, "we don't know if such a condition could be cause by drugs, and we can't tell because the person is still alive and can't be cut up".
Or, in essence, a "I can't answer that question because it has no answer".
Except that's not what she said.
She said it IS possible that painkiller abuse could've caused his hearing loss. That's not an evasive or ambiguous answer.
She also said the treatment, including using the cochlear implant, would be the same, regardless of whether his hearing loss was due to drug abuse or the aforementioned disease.
A reasonable person would at least admit that that's quite a coincidence, his "disease" surfacing at the same time as his painkiller abuse.
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