Fat Limbaugh: "People who regularly exercise put stress on the health care system."

LOL

Rush is funny.  Some people just don't 'get' it.

It seems some just don't understand the humor.  However, they really think David Letterman's a hoot.... go figure !

"I listen to Rush and others all day as I drive"

Explains a lot about your rampant stupidity and how about you maryland?

I love Rush's show. I regard him as an entertainer and a fellow conservative. I disagree with him method and rhetoric very often but he is not any more offensive than loonies from the left.

Rush often says ridiculous things. Who would not if talking daily for 3 hours? This one was one of them. He did not appear to joke or anything like that. He is right on the fact that people get injured  a lot playing sports. Those injuries do not cause stress on the health care system. Not in dollar amount, not in hospital visits. It was plain silly. Not worth defending something ridiculous.

As long as Limbaugh leads the GOP he should get a better propagandist to write his slander.

Has Rush boy done any jail time for buying, using, and selling drugs? And this fellon is what people allow their children to listen to.

No jack he got off scott free. But there was a crook in the justice department at the time.

He has a point, actually.  If you sit in any emergency room, you'll see lots of injured people who were playing sports.  But the reason for that is not the sports.  The reason is that most Americans stuff themselves all week long, don't exercise all week long, then suddenly put themselves into some game.  Their bodies are not prepared and they get injured.

It does stress the system.

Did you know that the most injured people are cheerleaders?

Well, then...problem solved.  It is the cheerleaders who are ruining the country's health care sysem.  Hmmmm--Bush was a cheerleader.

Personally, I think cheerleaders should wear helmets and kneeguards. 

In Bush's case, he should wear a gag.

Wilka

While reading your post, I kept thinking that it was a joke--too outrageous to be believed. Then I thought, "No, this soulds just like something Limbaugh would say."

As for me, exercise makes me feel tired, and a hamburger makes me feel good. 

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I heard some sad news a week ago. A former co-worker, female, around 80 pounds overweight, died suddenly of a heart attack. She was 35 years old.

Limbaugh's statement was moronic. the hospital bills from athletic injuries here in the USA are dwarfed by those piled up from smoking and obesity and lack of exercise. It's a fact. We suffer from too little exercise, generally, not too much. But he would not understand that concept of lies versus facts, it's alien to his thought process. Limbaugh and his ditto heads figure Rush said it, must be true.

Okay, it was sad.  She died of a heart attack.  No more insurance, no more medical bills.  How did that cause a burden on the system?

Desert,

Yeah, but I'll betcha that last one was a DOOZY!...When my hubby died in '01 of a massive heart attack, the bill, which insurance covered 100%, was over $250k, for less than 24 hours of ICU. for the record, he was no heavy, 145# to be exact, had no history of heart trouble, and his cholesterol and b/p were normal.

Funny how dope addicts like Limbaugh fail to mention the strain they put on the health care system by doing drugs and then have to be rehabilitated or housed in a ward for most of their life on the public welfare scam.

I am so glad Limbaugh is the leader of the GOP and Palin is running in the next presidential election.

Me too, Jack...More fodder for my favorite pundits.

I'm amazed at 2 things-how much $$ he makes & that anyone even listens to a word he says!!

Th' self-righteous, sactimonious, fat-headed Bloviatin' Blowhard of EIB strikes again?  What a bag-o'-buffalo chips.

Hey, Chuck, what's that hanging out of your mouth in your picture?  Looks like a cigarette to me, but maybe a sucker?

It's a Crooks cigar.  The photo's from 1968 (but I didn't quit smoking until two years ago).

After going through what I have over the past several months, I am more convinced than ever that EVERYONE should exercise at least 3 times weekly, even if it's merely taking a 30 minute walk.

I was able to be released from the hospital EARLIER because of the body's conditioning.   My recovery time was also surprising to the doctors -- very quick.

People certainly have the right to listen to him, but tell you what: if you ever find yourself in a position where you're being told you're going to die, and one major reason is because it is believed that your body is too weak to withstand surgery, you are going to wish you had gotten out, and did those walks several times a week.  I already KNEW my body was stronger than the doctors believed, and the reason I KNEW that was because of being dedicated to an exercise regimen, prior to falling ill.

Heavens to Murgatroid!  What horrible advice he has given.

As far as putting stress on the health care system, to the contrary, I SAVED the system money with my shorter hospital stays . . .trying checking the average cost of one day's stay in the hospital, and then tell me his statement rings true.

I think he says these things SOLELY for the ratings.

When I had my knee replacement I shocked everybody by walking over 100 feet my first try. Used the walker just a few days and the cane too. WHY ? cause I do weight bearing exercise 3X a week

Same here, Viviian.   A few hours after my surgery, they were shocked to see that I was able to get up and walk around.   You condition your body, and the body doesn't forget.  Plus, I knew that getting up, out of that hospital bed, and walking, aka EXERCISE,  according to the doctors --  would cause me to recover faster, and I did.

Pay no attention to this guy; he isn't making sense.

Ya know that is kind of funny . With a family history of diabetes I am over 50 a little over weight and I am NOT diabetic . One of the reasons being because I do exercise. The other I don't eat junk.

Oh and most of the people in ER when I was called in where car accidents, drunks, and heart attacts.

If you listen to Limbaugh, you need to be very intelligent to understand the sarcasm. 

Limbaugh doesn't DO sarcasm.  He DOES do ridicule.  He's mean, evil and rotten, and he needs smackin' around.

Here, here, Charles !  You have to at least 'know' the person you're listening to.  Most don't get past the words ..

Most people have more sense than to waste the electricity listening to the brain dead dope addict, remember the TV add with the fried egg and the sentence "this is your brain on drugs. Well every time Limbaugh speaks it proves the add correct.

Maybe he could enlighten us to how much it cost for his surgery to repair the damage he did to his ears from his drug abuse! Sounds of silence THERE?

so the drug use had no causitive effect altho it has caused the same hearing loss in lesser humans? Talent on loan from GOD but hearing restored by the grace of the Medical profession! What is your medical report with your obvious close proximity to the subject......on his anal cysts?

Did you know that some companies limit the kinds of things that top executives can and cannot do in their spare time because the rate of accidents is so high...for sports accidents?  It's true. 

Life and home owners  insurance also limit what you can do. It is those private companies that are holding us down.

Wow.  America would not be what she is today without private companies.  Free markets are what made us great.  You think you prefer companies that are run by the government?  That hasn't worked so well for Amtrack.

Exactly, Charles. 

The medical community says that exercise it the best thing we can do for good health.  Why would Rush say such a thing?  Does he really have so little regard for the health of the American Public or at least for the health of his listeners?

Listen up people!  Limbaugh was being facetious!!  It's his humor!!  Why can't you understand that?  I guess some people really should NOT tune into Limbaugh because they are not equipped with the brain large enough to understand the commentary. 

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Sorry Barbara.  He fooled me.  (Not the first time I have been fooled.)  Was he also being facetious when he accused Sotomayor of being a "reverse racist"?   It's so hard for me to tell since I failed to complete the dissertation on either of my two attempts to get a PhD.  My brain has probably shrunk a lot since then as I have been doing computer programming and in that field one must say exactly what one means because the computer will do exactly what you tell it.  I am fooled by sarcasm frequently, too.  :-(

Rush just incites people to 'think', which most don't want to do.  Sotomayor IS indeed a reverse racist, but it doesn't matter.  She's a shoe in for Obama's kingdom.

Desert,

I used to listen to Rush as I returned from lunch eachh workday.  From what I observed at that time, he was not trying to get people to think.  People who inspire thought generate a diversity of opinion and ideas, not "ditto-heads."  Inspiring thought produces people who come up with their own ideas based on their own experience and generates diversity.  That is the opposite of what Rush does.

If you look over my comments (there are quite a few of them) you will find me supporting and opposing all sorts of political positions.  You will find comments that sound liberal and comments that sound conservative and comments which defy categorization on the current popular political spectrum.  That is thinking.  That is not parroting.  That is what I encouraged my students to do when I was a college professor.  I encouraged them to think for themselves and was very disappointed when they tried to give me only what the book said instead of showing they had thought things through for themselves.

I believed the subject to be on fat people and those who are active getting hurt on the slopes.  Yep, you have to have a brain large enough to figure that one out! 

Strange.  The quote from Rush does not use the term "fat" or "overweight" or anything else about those who are getting injured other than that they are participating in exercise.  My brain isn't fat enough to read "fat" into what he said.  :-)

Rushie Poo is one or the rudest, cruelest humans I have ever had the displeasure of listening too. Sarcasm of no

I don't get you guys offering apologies for Rush, that he needs to be understood. If it was humor it was not funny. If it was serious, it was not factual. It was crap.

Oh yeah, by the way, my former co-worker who died at age 35 from a massive coronary- no she did not cost you and me any money, she only broke the hearts of her family. The husband of the other co-worker, recovering from the removal of a lung fron cancer, big money spent on that one. Chronic illness is where the real money is, and yup we all pay for that. Yet I have heard from conservatives that tobacco addiction is actually a positive thing, because it kills people before they grow old and have to be given social security. I think that statement was meant seriously. It's hard to be sure sometimes.

You forget that those 'fat' people and out of shape people ALSO contribute to the healthcare system with their money, and how they spend their money is none of our business.

People do stupid things every day and leave behind broken hearted people.  Hikers, mountain climbers and on and on.

People get lung cancer working in the mines, being around asbestos.

They suck up more than they contribute. Jus like when they buy an airplane ticket and spill over to the next seat(s).

If you are Rush, fat and wealthy, you are fine. Buy 3 seats or fly with a private jet, pay your damn medical bill in full, don't even need insurance.

You can't defend moribid obesity when it comes to health care. Health care is a pool where everyone should attempt to be responsible. We will always have fat people, it's life. We cannot create excuses for all fat people and tell them it's not their faults to keep eating pizza, lasagna, and ice cream.

Rush earned his money and he can darned well do whatever he wants with it.  The problem is, other people want Rush's money to use as they see fit.  I say baloney.

There will always be 'poor' people and 'victims'.  It isn't the people who make money's fault that there are poor people and bottle fed 'government' babies.

No one asks for anyone to create excuses for other people.

Here's to pizza, lasagna, ice cream and much bread !  And here's also to living healthy and working towards it !

I wonder if the libs think that Dave Letterman is funny and the comments he made about Willow Palin are funny or do they borderline on sexual abuse of a minor?  It's always different standards for the libs in my opinion, and they get a pass. 

I would certainly hope he was joking! I'd be concerned about someone's IQ if they seriously thought that

Sarcasm.

Facetious.

LOL. The guy was serious on this one. He really believes it. See the remarks of Marylin up there. They are backing Rush up.

"He has a point, actually.  If you sit in any emergency room, you'll see lots of injured people who were playing sports."

Is Marilyn one of the dumb one who did not get it was a joke.

People who exercise are the problem. People who don't save us money according to them.

These people take pride at being ignorant.

Rush was not joking. He is raising a legitimate discussion here as Marylin pointed out. I believe Rush is wrong on the basis that those people create more strain (instead of stress, very different) on the system than other folks who don't exercise.

However, many folks who don't know what they are doing are getting out there, being silly and running back to the ER. The main question is, is that better than sitting around, get fat and go to get treated for high blood pressure and diabete. I, and the medical community, believe that we would rather have folks get treated for an ankle sprain than high cholesterol.

Still Rush pointing out that those folks create strain on the system is correct. His point that those create more strain than others is incorrect. However you cannot discount the strain that Sunday athlete and obssessive running creates.

You could even go so far as to say that fat people will be targeted by the Obama administration and forced to lose weight through programs paid for by the thin people.  I wonder what the libs would say about that? 

Are you serious? How stupid is that.

Rush talking about fitness.

Why don't we have a National debate on fitness hosted by the American Association of Fat People. Nothing wrong about our friends who are vertically challenged, but c'mon. Don't get the fat guy who only breaks a sweat reaching for a donut to tell us who causes strain on the health system.

What did you expect him to say? "People should not look half as large as me?"

The guy is a joke. Keep talking Rush. Don't forget to tell them you are the leader of the  republican party.

morbid obesity seems to be the driving force between type two diabetes. Any ideas how many hospital stays, insulin comas, amputations, etc., that causes? The size of that problem makes Sunday athlete stress fractures look trivial. The cost of the insulin and delivery methods and other medications alone is astronomical for chronic diabetes in the USA.

Rush Limbaugh is a fool.  Smart, no doubt... but a buffoon and a fool.

"If you listen to Limbaugh, you need to be very intelligent to understand the sarcasm"

Well, therein lies the fatal flaw...anybody that would listen to this idiot isn't terribly intelligent, imo.  These are, by description, people who rely upon somebody else to tell them what to think each day.  These are the morons who the criminal BA was able to cower into gleefully surrendering their constitution in exchange for a false sense of security.  These are the morons who listen to the hate and vitriole spewed by the likes of the obese drug addict, and then shoot fellow human beings, thinking that they're somehow being "patriotic Americans."  And, these are the morons who continue to support a political party that is utterly bankrupt to the core. 

"I wonder if the libs think that Dave Letterman is funny"

He IS funny, unlike the obese drug addict.  RepubliCONs simply aren't funny, except when they're trying to be serious.  THEN, they're frigging hilarious, until they start crafting legislation. 

"America would not be what she is today without private companies.  Free markets are what made us great. "

 There is no such thing as a "free market."  That's a rightwing myth.  Markets do not exist without public infrastructure.  How "free" have those wall st investor banks been for us?  I think it's high time people stop supporting this ridiculous myth, and start recognizing the horrific damage that unchecked crony capitalism has wrought upon this pseudo-democracy. 

Free Market, in itself is an oxymoron. That's a canard. Nothing they do is free as in price, or free of consequences (good or bad).

This discussion underscores that some people deserve healthcare and some don't. We need a CZAR to make this determination. Fairness and efficacy would be preserved if said CZAR is appointed by one of the good people like OBAMA.

Really Charles, admit it that yer just scared a Health 'Tsar' <sic> would get a better costume than you have! LOL

Rush is smart enough to make a boat-load-lot of money by insulting people, stirring them up to divide them from others, and bolster up the "Me, not you" crowd mentality.

I can see why he does it.  What I can't understand, really, really--is how anyone could listen to him for more than 10 minutes, and remain a well-adjusted, reasonable, kind and loving person. 

If he was my child?  I'd be so damned ashamed of him.  Some people are here to create hate, division, bigotry.  And they get paid to do so.

Wilka

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