So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Limbaugh stated his addiction to painkillers resulted from several years of severe back pain heightened by a botched surgery intended to correct those problems. " For example a sportswriter construed the comment as racist against himself and other sportswriters.

S. He currently lives in Palm Beach Florida from where he broadcasts the The Rush Limbaugh Show the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.