Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized in Hawaii but “resting comfortably”

(HMG) – Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized in Hawaii after suffering chest pains. According to Hawaiian station KITV, paramedics responded to a call at the Kahala Hotel in Honolulu at 2:41 PM and transported Rush to Queens Medical Center. Limbaugh, 58, was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, and told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, the station said.  Limbaugh underwent treatment in 2003 for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone, that he said he got hooked on after spinal surgery left him in constant pain. A statement posted on Limbaugh’s website said he was now “resting comfortably.”  Limbaugh, seen by some as as the unofficial voice of the US Republican party, is broadcast on some 600 radio stations across the country and heard by more than 14 million people every week.