Tuesday, June 27, 2006

It's a context thing again.


Apparently, sometimes personal privacy is a good thing (emphasis added):

Rush Limbaugh was detained for about 3 1/2 hours at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.

The 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage was examined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after his private plane landed at the airport around 2 p.m. from the Dominican Republic, said Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office...

"We believe there may be a second degree misdemeanor violation, which is possession of certain drugs without a prescription, because the bottle does not have his name on it," Miller said.

A doctor had prescribed the drug, but it was "labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes," Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, said in a statement.

Rush's Viagra-related privacy: Critically important.

Your personal privacy, according to Rush? Not so much.

AFTERSNARK: I'm betting Daryn Kagan is infinitely grateful about having bailed just in the nick of time. That CNN water cooler gossip can be so cruel, you know.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rush Limbaugh with Viagra.

Great. As if we needed him to be a bigger dick.

Anonymous said...

No.

No, I don't want to even think about it.

There are some beings who are simply not permitted to have a sexual identity in my mind. They must, MUST, forever remain androgynous automatons.

No.