I'm not quite sure what to make of the news that Rush Limbaugh uses Viagra (and despite his pillhead past, doesn't have enough sense to avoid getting in trouble with the law over it), but I'm sure planning to watch Leno and Letterman tonight to find out what it all means!
Can I just say, though, that a distinguished public servant like Bob Dole taking money for confessing on national television that he has trouble, um, flying his freak flag, was one of the low points in American public life of the decade. I'm serious. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't like thinking about an elderly Republican politician's penile tsuris. I don't want to have to think about anybody's penile tsuris. Just buy your Viagra and shut the @#$% up about it, because I don't want to know.
(And the Hollywood Jesus people are thinking, "Hmm, is there a religious angle on this Rush/Viagra story? is it a tale of sin, redemption and the need to forgive seventy times seven? Is it a pop parable illustrating the miracle of raising the dead? Get Pfizer on the phone and let's see if we can work out a synergy deal.")
Rush's little helper
Tuesday June 27, 2006
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What bothers me about it is that Rush used to tell his audience that he believed in sex within marriage only. When he was unmarried he said that the did not have sex, and never had outside of marriage (he had been married twice at that point). But since then he's been married and divorced again and was dating some woman from CNN the last I heard. I guess he's changed his tune.>
Nope, NO decency and reticence, even from vowed celibates:
June 26, 2006 The much-anticipated first kiss between husband and wife Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman was "above average," according to the man who married them in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday evening.
"I wouldn't say it was the longest [kiss] in history I've seen some long ones but it was not too bad," Father Paul Coleman, the Kidmans' family priest, told "Good Morning America."
"Above average, if you want to know the truth.">
Judy W.
Rush talking about sex? When? I've never heard him talk about sex in the way you are describing and I've been listening to him since '88.>
jb doubtless,
I don't have the dates he discussed it. It was before he married Marta. I heard him say on a couple of occasions that he didn't believe in sex outside of marriage, so he didn't do it.>
He used to harp on it on his old TV talk show, too.>
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