Rush Limbaugh announces
end of his third marriage
Talk-show host had been married for 10 years
A spokesman for Rush Limbaugh would not comment on the talk-show host's divorce.
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET June 11, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he and his wife, Marta, are divorcing.
The Limbaughs “mutually decided to end their marriage of 10 years” and have “separated pending an amicable resolution,” according to a statement released by Limbaugh’s publicist.
It was the third marriage for both Limbaugh, 53, and his 44-year-old wife, who were wed May 27, 1994 at the Virginia home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas officiated the ceremony.
The couple shared a $24 million oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach. Limbaugh often broadcasts his daily three-hour show from a Palm Beach studio.
Spokesman Tony Knight said the divorce was a personal matter and declined further comment.
The past several months have been difficult for the politically and socially conservative Limbaugh, who announced in October that he was entering drug rehabilitation because he was addicted to prescription painkillers.
At the same time, West Palm Beach prosecutors announced they were investigating whether Limbaugh illegally went “doctor shopping” to obtain the pills. The practice refers to visiting several doctors to receive duplicate prescriptions of controlled narcotics.
Limbaugh, who has not been charged with any crime, has repeatedly fought back against the charges and negative publicity he’s received over the matter.
Last month, he took out full-page ads in two Florida newspapers to attack prosecutors for mounting what he called a politically motivated investigation. He also regularly lashes out against prosecutors and reporters and defends himself during his show.
The criminal case against Limbaugh is on hold pending a decision from a Florida appeals court. It will decide whether the seizure of Limbaugh’s medical records, which were taken by investigators in November, violated privacy laws.
Prosecutors say they need the records to determine whether to bring charges against Limbaugh.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
yes, I know it probably is so, but I couldn't resist.
BoTM / JL / MM / HAB / VRWC / Horseman
I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
He must have been more fun and a better husband on the pills then off.
They say, "the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." I suppose it never occurred to them that they are the tyrants, not the patriots. Those weapons are not being used to fight some kind of tyranny; they are bringing them to an event where people are getting together to talk. -Mike Wong
But as far as board culture in general, I do think that young male overaggression is a contributing factor to the general atmosphere of hostility. It's not SOS and the Mess throwing hand grenades all over the forum- Red
I can't wait to hear his dittoheads rationalize this.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
I wanted to make a cruel joke about this, but i wont. I wanted to bring up his numerous bouts of breathtaking hypocrocy, but i decided not to. I als intended to mock his ironic inbility to keep his marrage together even while he blames homosexuals for the downfall of the 'sanctity' of marrage. But again, i didnt. Finally i wanted to round it out with a rousing jibe about his addiction to painkillers because of his 'injury' and the insuing court case, however, i decided not to.
I can't wait until someone calls in about this, and Rush dodges the question and makes personal attacks on the person, simply because they ask about his hypocricy.
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
Le Article wrote:Spokesman Tony Knight said the divorce was a personal matter and declined further comment.
Personal like 'it's only the business of the two people involved in the marriage' kind of personal?
"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." -Richard Feynman
Montcalm wrote:WOW 10 years it was more stable than most celebrity out there.
Mrs Limbaugh: "He's not so bad. A few fistfulls of valium, some horse seditives, and a baggie full of crack and Rush is as quiet as a church mouse."
Oh, really, do tell...
Mrs Limbaugh: "Well, he rarely hits me anymore, now that the Black family moved in next door. Now he just stands on the roof, incoherent with rage, screaming at them in the middle of the night and howling at the moon and screaming 'i am God on Earth' at the pixies he says are chasing him."
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
