Hawaii – Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.
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Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, sources said.
Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition. He will not be released from the hospital on Wednesday night, sources said.
He was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week. The country club is next to the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
Officials with the Rush Limbaugh Program released a statement Wednesday night.
“Rush was admitted to and is resting comfortably in a Honolulu hospital today, after suffering chest pains. Rush appreciates your prayers and well wishes, and he will keep you updated via RushLimbaugh.com.”
The radio show host had been in the islands during the holidays. Coincidentally, his visit comes at a time when two of the nation’s most powerful Democrats, President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are also staying in Hawaii.
In 2001, Limbaugh received a cochlear implant after he suddenly lost hearing due to autoimmune inner ear disease. Limbaugh underwent treatment in 2003 for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone.
May hashem help him & have a refuah shleimah we need him
I hope he has a speedy recovery. His opinions are great for this country.
Raboisi, Jews should pray and say tehilim for this great man. Defender of freedom and Israel.
I always knew they were gonna get him some day. When u get to powerful……………..
A Bruch for Kelal Yisroel… What will all Yidden listen to if not Rush???
Please Daven El Rushbo Ben ???
He is an amazing talk show host his lines are so good specially his openings let recover quickly I need him
Omg! Wish him a speedy recovery!
Hashem should help him and give him a complete recovery. He is a good messenger of Hashem, a righteous gentile, a friend of the Jews.
Must be all that oxycotton he was on!
Does anyone know his name to be mispallel for him the yiden need him
Rush Ben Mildred Carolyn
obama was seen rushing away from his compound…..
Who cares??? He won’t get to poison all those naive brains in the chasidishe community! Trust me, he HATES people like you. People who suck the government dry with every possible program out there. You are too naive to realize that you are hardly on the same page as him. You sit there and nod your head with agreement to everything he’s got to say, yet you actually do the exact opposite. So you’re either incredibly naive or a good ole hypocrite!
Of all the commentators, he is the most indispensable. Let’s hope and pray he has a speedy recovery, so he can return soon to champion the causes in which we believe.
Guys.. Don’t kid your self. He is a goi and go’I’m don’t like yidden. We don’t need him to protect us, we have hashem.. I hope he has a speedy recovery.
too many prescription pain killers can do a job on the heart
Oy! We must add a name: Rush Yankel l’refuah sh’leimoh.
He’s a lying extremist right wing corporate hack. Nonetheless I wish him a speedy recovery, hopefully with long term laryngitis
Pretty ironic that this occured in Obama’s “claimed” birthplace – wait for the conspiracy theories…
Feel better soon!
Its easier to find out Rush Limbaugh mothers name then Obama’s mothers name
The people calling for Rush Limbaugh to die are the same people who ask to control your healthcare !!!!
He just has a big mouth, many yidden can use a break from three hours a day of goyishe hashkafa, although he may be better than the libs but a rabbi he ain’t …
He deserves a complete recovery for the chesed he does, trying to help people see the truth of American politics.
it’s funny how everyone seems to have forgotten that Rush was one of the biggest supporters ofthe movie the passion of the C—-, which was just a modern packaging of thousand year old Christian anti-semitic rant about jews being JC killers, and he supported the arch anti-semite mel gibson, until gibson got drunk and publicly spewed his venom.
But refuah shleimah anyway, big guy.
I take it this is not a close family freind that Obama is going to rush to visit
Hmmm…. Medicine for his back? Sounds like a relapse of his good old addiction. It takes some Mesilas Yeshorim to break bad midos!
I like the man, though he is a showman, and some things he says are hyped up a bit.
I also think he was misquoted. I think he said the administration is a pain in the back for which I am taking pain meds.
RUSH watch those meds. Take a lesson from Michael Jackson. Unlike Michael you are not replaceable.
And keep away from Hawaii, it is dangerous to be so close to your adversary.
I enjoyed listening to Rush long ago, but eventually got tired of his ranting and raving. I agree with most of his opinions, but when he started out, he had a sense of humor. Now all he does is blame the world’s problems on the Clintons. The worst thing is, and my feelings are bolstered by the above comments, is that the frum community have become his chasidim, quoting him all day without thinking for themselves. Nevertheless, of course, I wish him well.
Doesnt He Live In Florida? What Then Is He Missing In Florida That He Needs Hawaii?
I’m making an appeal on his behalf! Please mail me cash for keren el rushbo.
I was looking forward to hearing him again on the air I hope he has a speedy recovery so I can hear him again when he returns from his vacation.
Ill save my prayers for those worthy who really need it.
i listen to Rush and respecct him, however, he is pompous and thinks he is god! Here we see once again that we all are only Bosar Vdom, and there is a g-d in this world who runs the world…we dont have control of anything. This applies to the m ighty Rush too!
It is a shanda that so many of us are idolizing this egomaniac. He is nothing more then a entertainer who happen to have conservetive viewes (but doesn’t realy live up to its values) and a flisig tsingel. Time to stop the addiction of listening to this hatemonger.
Hate hearing the diatribe against Rush, especially from frum people who should know better. Who should we trust in the media – Matthews, Friedman,Dowd,Olbermann, Maddow,Cohen, Krugman, Klein, Hennison, Rich,Helen Thomas,Page, Herbert, Alter,Clift. NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times, Newsweek, TIME, Huffington Post, the three major TV networks?
Rush is a mensch who is extremely bright and manages to be entertaining. He sees events before they happen and peels away the nonsense from the foolish media spin of liberal politicians. I listen to him daily and I’m astounded at how much I’ve learned.
The silliness and attempts to be clever here are misguided, insipid, and in horrible taste.
I think the chest pains was a conspiracy conducted by the liberal obama administration. Proof being, that it happened to Rush and not one, I repeat, not one leftist media talk show host. This is absurd, and I encourage everybody to talk to your elected official that represents you. Your voice must be heard. Let them know that you will not take this sitting down.
He is vital to our freedom in this country, lets all daven for his quick recovery.
I wish him a speedy and painless recovery.
We should never wish pain on anyone just because they are controversial.
However, to those who think he is a great friend of the frum community, why not call up his show and tell him how the frum community lives a nearly 100% socialist lifestyle – most don’t work (or have no education so they work for pennies), then take section 8, welfare, and food stamps from the government to support themselves. Then tell him you are a conservative. After 10 minutes of laughing at you and mocking you, he would organize a protest outside your house.
His support for E”Y has nothing to do with Jews. He’s be perfectly happy to see all the Jews driven out and replaced with xians. He is no fan of Jews AT ALL.
Is the president going to be mivaker choleh?
May Hashem give him a speedy healthy recovery, and watch over him.
Not News: An overweight mesomorphic smoker who habitually yo-yo diets has chest pains
News: Rush Limbaugh has a heart. Until now medical science assumed it was just an organ for pumping bile.
one should daven for gilad shalit much more important than that sheigetz oisvorf. when you give din vecheshban you will have to justify davening for rush one second when you could of used it for a yid
Rush Limbaugh is a blessed man.
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;”
GENESIS 12:3
I am going to indulge and speculate on Rush’s conditions this is what I think happened.
Rush had chest pain, when to the hospital which confirmed a heart attack was admitted to hospital within 72 hours they do an angiogram, where they discover blocked arteries he undergoes successful surgery either stent or bypass, otherwise he would already be out of the hospital.