Subject: Re: When John Kerry was in Viet Nam where was Anal Cyst Limbaugh?
From: Richard Rongstad

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Name: Rush Limbaugh

Born: 1951

Employer: Yack Radio

Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

Notes: Where to begin ... a joke about the Hindenburg? No, let's go
right to the reason he had to stay home from the war - the world's
most famous anal cyst. He's denied it, but
http://www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm, the Urban Legends
Reference Pages, has got the goods on him.

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Imagine? Ole draft-dodging Anal Cyst Limbaugh screeching about
decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry? Goodness.

Harry

Harry, did you notice? Rush Limbaugh is not running for President.

Limbaugh is a talk radio personality for gosh sakes, an entertainer.

Check again Harry, I don't see that Limbaugh denied the cyst.

I am a Vietnam War veteran and I appreciate what Limbaugh
has to say about John Kerry and I agree with most of it.

I appreciate the work of Snopes and other truth finders that
explore myths and legends. But Snopes also seems to have it
in for the highly controversial Limbaugh and the Snopes effort
to dissect the Limbaugh legend seems to go a little farther
than the evidence allows. Snopes had to resort to words such as
"Technically... unlikely... probable".

I found Snopes criticism of Limbaugh for deflecting questions
about a "boil on your butt" to be particularly unconvincing.

Still, all in all Harry, you say Snopes "has got the goods on"
Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, what irrelevant goods. Snopes has pablum on
Limbaugh, it's basically boring, and Limbaugh doesn't deny the anal
cyst. What Snopes found is that Limbaugh's high school injury
to the "football knee" is ambiguous, the pilonidal cyst problem
is clear.

I can see why draft boards would reject men with pilonidal cysts,
because after the cyst is removed, the patient is down for the
duration until healing is complete, I'd guess about a month in
an ordeal of daily Sitz baths, examinations and treatment,
because the wound must heal from the inside out. The military
tries to avoid inducting such cases because of the expense
involved and the periodic non-availability of the inductee
and future liability with veterans claims.

Stop wasting your time Harry, and attack Limbaugh on something
substantial, like his waffling on free trade and NAFTA.