A new careeer for Rush?

[Geekbabe]

October 02, 2003

OxyContin Maker Signs Limbaugh as Spokesman

(2003-10-02) -- Purdue Pharma LP of Stamford, CT, the maker Oxycontin, announced today it has signed talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh to do a series of TV and radio commercials for the popular prescription pain killer.

NewsDay reports today that Mr. Limbaugh may have purchased OxyContin and two other medications without a prescription from a former housekeeper.

"Many people have asked me how I was able to do a successful daily three hour show while loaded up on pain meds," Mr. Limbaugh said. "I'm going to love telling them about the low incidence of side-effects I enjoy while gulping dozens of OxyContin each morning. When I say I do this show with half my brain tied behind my back, I'm not kidding."

A Purdue Pharma spokesman said, "We're excited to have America's number one talk host on board. We have heard that he loves the product, and can't get enough of it. His sincerity about his own use of OxyContin will inspire others to ask their doctors or housekeepers to get some for them too."

Purdue Pharma hopes Mr. Limbaugh's image and influence will help his 20 million listeners to think of OxyContin as something more than its street name -- "hillbilly heroin".

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[AnyMal]

lame joke

 

I thought this thread was going to be about the Band. What a disappointment.

 

[brxndxn]

I'm with the crowd that thinks all these drugs should be over the counter anyway - and pot should be legalized.

Perhaps if there's enough right-wingers getting in trouble for doing the same drugs the left-wingers are blamed of, the drug laws can actually change.

BTW, I'm rightwing Republican... I just think todays' laws are antiquated and they treat the common man like an idiot.

As for Rush, who the fvck cares that he took painkillers? I sure as hell don't. They should be available to him if he wants them. My neck is always in pain since my car accident a year ago. Ibuprofin doesn't do sh!t. I need better stuff.. maybe Rush did too.

 

[rudder]

Rush is going back to ESPN. Higher ups there thought he would now have a much better connection with the athletes.