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On New Year’s Day, Rush Limbaugh spoke about his health conditions in a press conference outside of a Hawaiin hospital, two days after being admitted with chest pains. Limbaugh announced that he did not have any heart problems, yet Fox News, as cablers are prone to do, showed the speech live as a breaking “alert,” despite the lack of overall substance.

The age of Twitter has spawned new rituals, among them the watchdogging of reaction to the death or illness of polarizing figures. Rush Limbaugh’s chest-pains scare from last night was no exception. We’ve got a sampling of each for you, including some very good behavior by the left’s most visible media figure:

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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been rushed to a Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, and is reportedly in serious condition, according to local reports. Limbaugh has had a rather dramatic fluctuation of weight gain/loss, most recently shedding 90 pounds from Spring to late Summer of 2009. ABC News is now reporting that Limbaugh is “resting comfortably.” Coincidentally, the Hospital where Limbaugh is resting is the same where Barack Obama was born.