Rush Limbaugh Attacks Another Female Journalist

Conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh has a long history of misogyny and most recently he attacked female journalist Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host and one time congressional candidate in Virginia who now hosts Rising with the Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti for Hill.TV.  Limbaugh recently told his audience that Ball had posed nude when she was 14 or 15 years old and shared the pictures on social media.   The problem?  That was a baldfaced lie.

Ball was alerted to Limbaugh's slander and she responded by telling her viewers, "it is not your job to be the moral police or to shame me or any other young woman out there who may have nude photos. If they want to run for office, if they want to be political leaders, they still can and I wanted to make sure that I was able to put that message out there."

It’s amazing someone like Rush Limbaugh thinks he has the right to comment on other people’s looks or even their history. The thrice-divorced radio host was once arrested for doctor shopping to support his prescription drug habit.

Prosecutors seized Limbaugh's records after learning that he had received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his house in Palm Beach. 

Before Limbaugh was arrested, he was a longtime proponent of prison time for drug charges-- saying on his show, "If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."

Once he was charged with prescription fraud, Limbaugh suddenly wanted drug treatment and fines to be sufficient for a drug crime. Prosecutors agreed and eventually dropped the case if he continued seeking treatment.

That isn’t Limbaugh’s only brush with the law.  He was once detained at the Palm Beach airport after a trip to the Dominican Republic with four buddies. Customs authorities discovered he was carrying a bottle of Viagra that was not in his name.  That case was also eventually dropped.



News alert to Rush:  if you're going to slander fellow journalists, be prepared for your own (actual) checkered past to be paraded in public.