RUSH LIMBAUGH UNMASKED!
Secret life of addiction, crime & racism radio king hid from America
TALK show titan Rush Limbaugh played a big role in shutting down the federal government by ranting illegal immigration is destroying American values — yet his private life is full of shameful secrets including dirty divorces, drug addiction, arrests and charges of racism! Now, an extensive GLOBE investigation rips the lid off the shocking skeletons in the 68-yearold media mogul’s closet and exposes how the most powerful man in politics helped shutter the
U.S. government by calling on Republicans — including President Donald Trump — to play hardball until Democrats agreed to fund construction of a $5 billion wall along the Mexican border. Just days before the government closed in December, furious Limbaugh raged on his radio show — which reaches 13.75 million people a week - Trump was "elected to bulldoze through" Democrats' objection to border security and their opposition to “any limits on illegal immigration.” He demanded GOP legislators and the White House refuse to support any funding bill to keep federal agencies operating unless the legislation financed building the wall. Trump and the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate listened!
GOP insider Larry Ward, who heads the Constitutional Rights PAC, insists, “Rush was just emphasizing what he and every good conservative believes — that we need a border wall” to protect America! But liberal radio talker Brad Friedman, who hosts the BradCast, slams Limbaugh as a “liar, phony and con man” who blankets the media with lies about the dangers of illegal immigrants. Some critics even charge Limbaugh’s support of the wall is rooted in
Conservative crusader helped shut government to build Mexican wall
racism — not the defense of American values. He’s been accused of bigotry before.
He’s caused a firestorm by saying “all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson,” a noted civil rights activist and Democratic Party leader. Amazingly, Limbaugh even told a black caller, “Take that bone out of your nose,” triggering outrage with an obvious reference to old stereotypes that portrayed Africans as barbaric cannibals.
In October 2003, loudmouth Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN’s NFL pregame show after making racially charged comments about the Philadelphia Eagles’ Donovan McNabb, saying the star “got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve” because “the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.”
He didn’t appear to learn from that gaffe. On his Jan. 19, 2007, radio broadcast, Limbaugh let loose again, saying, “Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons.” But the unlucky-at-love talker insists he is not a racist.
Limbaugh — who crushes the scales at an estimated 245
pounds — has been married FOUR times. He wed wife No. 1, Roxy McNeely, a secretary he met at a Kansas City radio station, when he was 26.
They got hitched in September 1977, but Roxy dumped him 18 months later, citing “incompatibility.”
Rush then fell for college coed Michelle Sixta, an usherette at the Kansas City Royals baseball stadium, where he worked announcing games.
They married in 1983, but she walked out five years later.
In 1990, Rush, then 39, met Marta Fitzgerald over the internet.
He wed the 35-year-old aerobics instructor, who’d been married three times and had a son and daughter, in 1994.
Their ten-year union was distant at best, and he filed for divorce in June 2004.
While Rush has hushed up his divorce settlements, he’s admitted to buying homes for his ex-wives.
After his third divorce, he vowed the next time “I lose my mind” over a gal, “I’m just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.”
Still, in 2010, the unrepentant Romeo wed current wife Kathryn Rogers, a 25-years-younger beauty, and Rush’s wedding gift to the now 42-year-old hottie was a nearby condo where she spends “quality time” AWAY from her hubby, according to insiders. In 2017, insiders say a $470 million divorce loomed that would have gutted his fortune.
“There was no prenup,” an insider confirmed. “Kathryn could walk away with an insane amount of money.”
But they worked things out, says a source, and now, “Rush dotes on her and gives her anything she wants. Whatever Kathryn says goes.”
Meanwhile, childless Rush — who often rages against crime — opened himself up to charges of hypocrisy in 2006 after U.S. customs officials at Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport caught him with 29 100-milligram Viagra pills as he returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, a country notorious for its sex trade.
The prescription on the bottle was for Steven Strumwasser — not Rush. The talk star dodged being busted by saying Strumwasser was his physician and the Viagra was in the doc’s name to protect his privacy.
But three years earlier, Limbaugh had also been caught in a drug scandal. His housekeeper, Wilma Cline, claimed she illegally supplied him with thousands of painkillers over four years.
Pill-junkie Rush was busted for "doctor shopping" to get prescription hillbilly heroin, OxyContin, and hydrocodone, downing 30 pills a day.
Before he was exposed, Limbaugh said, "People who are caught doing this stuff ought to be sent away. They ought to be punished.”
But he got off with a slap on the wrist!
He was booked into Palm Beach County Jail, but was released an
hour later. Charges were dropped after he agreed to pay $30,000 in costs and undergo 18 months of therapy. He spent “five intense weeks” in rehab for his addiction to painkillers. Rush insisted he was “not a
phony” because he dropped his usual tirades against addicts during his own battle with drugs! Now, the star, who has lost his hearing,
is at the center of another controversy. However, insiders predict he’ll weather this storm, too.
“Rush is the king,” notes author and talk radio expert Brian Rosenwald.