so now that we know rush uses viagra (perhaps illegally), i thought i'd look back to see what rush used to say about viagra.
rushlimbaugh.com is locked up behind a subscription wall, which theoretically prevents non-subscribers from reading his prose or listening to his streaming audio files. and that's cool—if he can make money selling subscriptions, bully for him. but the implementation isn't very secure: if you try to click an article and you aren't logged in, you are taken to the actual article page, but then a javascript spits out html which redirects you to the login page. in other words, if you're a little savvy, it's fairly simple to avoid the html redirect and view the articles. and if the article has a link to an audio stream, you can even listen to the stream.
rush doesn't mention viagra all that often. sometimes, he uses it as a metaphor ("Tax increases to Democrats are like a lifetime prescription to Viagra.") most of the time, he uses it to mock democrats for their ideas about health insurance:
Now, it's one thing if you talk about health care. It's one thing if you're talking about education. You can have arguments about those issues. This, we're talking national security and they're treating national security the same way they do food stamps! They're treat national security the same way they do any little silly social concern and that is, "Do whatever damage to the country possible. We'll fix it our way when we get our power back," but they're messing with national security on this one, not some of these, you know, social issues like what are we going to do getting everybody health care, getting everybody a condom or getting everybody Viagra, whatever they want. "We'll handle that, when we get our power back." It's just unseemly, you leftists.
rush also proudly states that he doesn't take viagra ads on his show:
In a business where erectile dysfunction ads are taken by almost every show, you will not hear garbage and gunk on this program, particularly if it's a product about which I am going to speak.
but when does rush actually speak about ED products? i could only find one place where rush seems to offer up an opinion on viagra itself. rush has a section on his site called the love stack, which you shouldn't visit unless you have a strong tolerance for rush limbaugh talking about sex. one of the items in the love stack is titled USA makes love and war. the piece is short, and sadly it doesn't have an accompanying audio stream, but here's what it says:
My friends, the United States remains the world's sexual superpower. Yes, they do studies on this kind of thing, and apparently our country ranks number one - again. And people wonder how it was that Clinton got away with his Oval Office shenanigans?
This is the most oversexed country in the world. Just look at Viagra sales, and that will tell you everything you need to know. Reuters reported that according to a poll conducted by a leading condom manufacturer, and they would be in a position to know, "Americans are making love more often and with more partners than any other nationality."
The individuals questioned averaged having sex about 124 times a year, with an average number of 14 sex partners during their lifetime. I guess next to Wilt Chamberlain that's nothing. And for Bill Clinton it's more like 14 partners in a week, not a lifetime.
Second place went to the Greeks and Japan still remains in last place, with its citizens averaging 36 sexual encounters a year.
So this is just another example of that great old capitalistic U.S. productivity, folks. It's just up and up and up, shows no signs of stopping, even during a recession.
viagra sales are an indicator that we are "the most oversexed country in the world". i wonder if rush was already taking viagra back then (nov 2001).
update: taylor marsh notes that the dominican republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world. who did rush hook up with down there?¶
