The "It's not a ruse!" diet ruse, was officially out in the open.
Are you still not convinced that Rush Limbaugh misreported that he used his amazing, so-called, Conservative, Republican, willpower and self discipline, to lose that weight? Check out this irony. About eleven months later, on yet another mystery filled, week long trip to Hawaii, Rush has a . . . what? A heart attack? Nope.
One week later, after a full recovery and a battery of cardiological tests that turn up negative, Mr. Limbaugh, holds a press conference about his "It's not a ruse!", "it's not a heart attack" episode. The cardiologists are completely, and totally, stumped. Hmmm? Don't they say that GERD attacks feel like a heart attack? And, don't they say that Lap-Band's can cause GERD? Just sayin'.
Here's the kicker. In the midst of that press conference, Rush Limbaugh gives to the watching world, a clue to when his supernatural weight loss really began. See if you can catch it.
From the January 6, 2010 Rush Limbaugh Show, "Rush on His Healthscare in Hawaii".
"The shoulder was just excruciating. So called the doctor back here and asked, "Can you find somebody...?" The next step was to get a spinal epidural shot in the actual nerve rather than go back to the oral prednisone, methylprednisolone. So I was gonna do that when we got back from Hawaii. And on Saturday it was just (long sigh). You know, I'd run outta methylprednisolone. It was agony. So I called the doctor here, "Can you find somebody out here to give me the spinal epidural? I can't wait 'til I get back." So we found somebody, a great doctor, who came to the hotel on Sunday to evaluate me. I filled out all the forms and couldn't do this until Tuesday, which was week ago yesterday. So went into the hospital, Queen's Hospital, same one I went to when you found out I was there at the same-day surgery department. And I had the spinal epidural at about eight o'clock in the morning and then flew over to Kona to play golf with some buddies immediately after that and had no reaction to it whatsoever."
Did you spot it? Limbaugh: "So [I] went into the hospital, Queen's Hospital, same one I went to when you found out I was there at the same-day surgery department"?
Am I dreaming? Or, did Rush Limbaugh just admit that his staff has discovered, "found out", that Rush had made a previous visit to the Queens' same-day surgery department? Gee Rush, would that have been, some time around, say, the 2009 Pro Bowl? Right before you started that whole supernatural weigh loss thing that you did? What was up that you couldn't tell your staff, pilonidal cyst flair up?
Now that Mr. Limbaugh's 2009 weight loss shenanigans are off the grid, and behind him, Rush is back to his "healthy food sucks", "exercise doesn't help weight loss", and "God-duh wants you to eat whatever you want to eat" bandwagon.
Limbaugh's views on nutrition and exercise are in direct opposition to First Lady Michelle Obama's plan to help reverse America's childhood obesity epidemic. The First Lady would like to see Congress pass the School Nutrition Bill that would require school lunches to be healthier, and place new limits on junk food vending in school lunch rooms. She also understands the beneficial role that exercise plays in maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing the risks of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Not surprisingly, Limbaugh, the titular head of the Republican Party, and a big fan of laissez faire (unrestricted/unregulated) capitalism, is dead set against making school lunches healthier. We can't have the children of America eating properly, now can we? After all, what would happen to the stock of Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC, Doritos, and . . . Twinkies?
Let's get a sense of what Rush "Supernatural Weight Loss" Limbaugh thinks might be a better way to tackle the childhood obesity crisis in America. Enter Professor Haub's "Twinkie Diet".
From the November 8, 2010, Rush Limbaugh Show:
" See, I Told You So: Twinkie Diet":
"I'm gonna have fun with this story on CNN. Ladies and gentlemen, those of you who have been here for a while know how I love stirring the pot, the conventional wisdom when it comes to diet and exercise. I just love it. I absolutely love it because the conventional wisdom on diet and exercise is all wrong. It's been all wrong for all time. A nutrition professor lost 27 pounds eating nothing but Twinkies. He lost 27 pounds, and his cholesterol went down. The bad cholesterol went down, the good cholesterol went up, triglycerides came down. All he did was eat Twinkies. When he got tired of Twinkies he went and got some Little Debbie stuff and then some other Hostess Cakes. He ate nothing but desert essentially and lost 27 pounds, and I am going to relish explaining this to you as the program unfolds today."
Mr. Limbaugh - almost never missing an opportunity to slam the Obama Administration - is true to form with this discussion of the Twinkie Diet. He deftly segues to, you guessed it, Michelle Obama's efforts to curb childhood obesity.
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