Re: 12/7/04 - [MTXX] Rush Limbaugh recomends Zicam
Rush Limbaugh recomends Zicam
Zicam Works
December 7, 2004
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Calm down in there, Mr. Snerdley! Snerdley is laughing and it's hard for me to maintain my composure. Oh, he's having a coughing spasm in there. I got rid of my cold. You know what I did to get rid of my cold? I knew I had a cold coming on yesterday, so I got some of that Zicam stuff. You ever heard of that folks, Zicam? Somebody alert the sales staff to turn on the radio and listen to this so they can get a client out there. I'm going to count down from ten so somebody can call the sales staff, well, they're out busy selling. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. All right, ten seconds, hopefully a member of the sales staff is listening. Zicam, it looks like the end of a one-ended Q-Tip, a cotton swab, and what you do is massage the inside of both nostrils with the cotton swab that has the gook on it that has the magic in it. It's zinc-based, that's why it's called Zicam. What you do is you rub it in there, and then you hold your nose after do you that on both sides. Hold your nose for ten seconds, you can talk, you can do anything you want, but you just have to hold your nose for ten seconds and then voila you're supposed to have the zinc in your system that's supposed to attack the evil common cold virus.
Well yesterday I had this little tickle in my throat which was causing some of you to think I sounded like I was choking, and it felt like it. I mean, all of a sudden I choked up and couldn't speak, had to cough. I put some of that in yesterday afternoon. I'd given Snerdley my last two because he's had a cold for like two years, but I asked him for one back and I put it in there and I feel a hundred percent. I'm not making this up. I know the story sounds like it's less than serious, but I'm being dead serious and this is the second time in the past three months I've tried this stuff, and it works. If you do it early enough. Now, I don't think it will get rid of Snerdley's two-year cold. You're supposed to use at the first sign that you think you're coming down with a cold. Don't be a hypochondriac about it, because you don't want to run around constantly swabbing the inside of your nose; people will talk. But -- (laughing) -- it works, I'm telling you, first time you put it up there it works. See, it has for me. Zicam, the official cold remedy of the EIB Network. All right, now, somebody in the sales staff could record that, take it to the media buyer and, bam, we got a new client. That's how business works. I combine business and content in the same masterful presentation.
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RUSH: Let's go to Monroe, Michigan, and Laurie. Hi, Laurie, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush!
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I'm a health care professional, I'm a registered nurse.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: And I do want to let you know that use Zicam with caution. There are people who abuse Zicam and they permanently lost their sense of smell with it. And they haven't pulled it off the shelves --
RUSH: How much, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Pull it off the shelves, they can't do that.
CALLER: Well, I know, they haven't done that yet, and they are looking into these cases --
RUSH: How many people, and how often did they use the stuff?
CALLER: Well, that's what they're looking into. But the people that I've read about have used it according to the directions on the packaging, so you want to use it with caution, because we don't know if some of these people had extra sensitivities, we don't know really the case, but --
RUSH: Oh, man, you know --
CALLER: -- be real careful with it.
RUSH: Isn't it just the way this is --
CALLER: I know.
RUSH: -- they finally come away with something that works on the common cold and they're going to pull it off the market. I can't believe this.
CALLER: I think they really don't want to pull this off the market. Zicam is saying --
RUSH: Yes, they do. Yes, they do. They don't want anything on the market that works. All they want is stuff on the market that they've got to pull off because it kills you.
CALLER: Well, the people who produce Zicam say that the permanent loss of smell is not related to the Zicam, but the doctors who have seen these patients are saying there's got to be some kind of link to it. So just use it with caution. We love you here in South Rockwood, Michigan, and we don't want you to lose your smell.
RUSH: Thank you -- (laughing) -- my sense of smell.
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Your smell, too.
RUSH: Thank you, Laurie, I appreciate it. I love you for that, appreciate that, thanks so much. Folks, these alarmist claims out there, anything you buy over-the-counter, have you taken out the warning packet that's in there and read the possible side effects of what can happen when you take a Dristan? It's everything from heart palpitations to cold sweat to nausea to diarrhea to hospitalizations. It's incredible, all these liability warnings out there. There's nothing I think you can buy over the counter that doesn't have this long list of potential maladies that could befall you if you take this particular product. Sense of smell, I haven't heard this by Zicam, but we'll look into it. Let me ask you, how many of you people would give up your sense of smell if you never got a cold again? Well, okay, if you couldn't taste then you'd lose weight. You have to look at these things positively. There's a win-win in practically everything that can happen to you out there. All right. I appreciate, Laurie, our medical report today, registered nurse from Monroe, Michigan.
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