BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts Hospitalized
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jul 29, 2007 3:27pm
Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to a hospital in Maine on Monday after falling while on vacation, the Supreme Court told NBC News.
Roberts, 52, fell at his summer home between 2 and 3 p.m. ET off Port Clyde. The court said he was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
An emergency medical technician said Roberts was conscious and alert during the ambulance ride, NBC News' Pete Williams reported.
UPDATE: MSNBC is now reporting it as a "seizure" described as "isolated, idiosyncratic". It is apparently not the first time Justice Roberts has suffered from such seizures.
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whommmm!
the conservative majority has lost his head?
frist too!
an act of god?
Watch what you say here, you may end up on the O'Reilly factor.
Is it fatal?
It's Clinton's fault (Tm).
Who cares. They go to Maine, they fall over.
Maybe he slipped on his own slime
Brownie goes from Arabian Horse Sh*t sniffer, to data mining expert
Of course, Roberts was sober as a judge at the time of his fall.
I certainly hope the twit will be ok? Maybe it will knock some reason into his neocon head. One can only hope.
I'll keep him in my prayers.
[Blogwhore]
everyone thought it was brennan who had his foot on a banana peel
Perhaps this is a sign from your god for you to resign, Mr. Chief "Justice."
Oh no, what if he knocked his VP-chip loose?!?
I hope he is unable to return and further destroy our nation. He must have been in the shower trying to get the dirt off of himself. He must know that it is in too deep and will take more than a shower for him to come clean.
Was he eating a pretzel or riding Segway at the time?
If for some reason he can't serve anymore, just IMAGINE the hard time Bush will have installing his replacement THIS time.
How nice he can call an ambulance "as a precaution." How many of you could ride by ambulance as a PRECAUTION? Most Americans only ride in an ambulance out of dire necessity. I thought that was what ambulances were for.
This weekend, a friend of mine thinks she had a heart attack. Mild, if so? I guess. But she couldn't walk or talk above a whisper. Good thing her dying husband had nitroglycerin tablets, and she took one. After awhile, she felt better. But she couldn't go to the hospital. Why? She had no health insurance, and just the cost of an ambulance ride would have broken her financially. She owns a home and they probably would have snatched it if she couldn't pay.
So, she is waiting until the health care from the new job kicks in. Hopefully, by then, whatever it was won't be a "pre-existing condition" and therefore not covered. By the way, why do so many jobs make you wait months before the health insurance kicks in? "Back in the day," if you got health insurance through your job, it started immediately.
I think it's Karma for letting the criminal Republicans like Tom delay off the hook and giving Bush all the power.
That's what happens every time you overreach to the right...
I am a tinfoil hat guy, but I gotta say it looks like he's been "warned" about the upcoming Miers' contempt case. If he's been considering ruling in Congress' favor, he probably won't now...
And the press will say he "fell". Hope he's ok...
Bill-O, if you can read this, you're too fucking close.
Bet everything's paid for by his insurance company. I don't think my insurance company pays for "just a precaution" ambulance ride.
"Dave Says: If for some reason he can’t serve anymore, just IMAGINE the hard time Bush will have installing his replacement THIS time."
Yeah...unless the Democrats get "duped" and/or "tricked"...again...
Funny, Schumer just states the Dems won't get "duped" again on Supreme Court nominations...and then less than a week later, Roberts goes to the hospital! Anyone find that a huge coincidence?
That's like when the Senate OK's a $50 million dollar bounty on Bin Laden, then a "new" (lol) Bin Laden video comes out the next day. Lots of coincidences lately!
Does anyone know where Jeff Guilulli (sp) and Tonya Harding are and who they are working for now?
Gary @ 4:
Good. Then he can quote me saying this: "Bill OReily can kiss my fat hairy backside."
Shell5960w @ 24 -- Sorry about your friend. It's tough to have to deal w/insurance, whether you have it or not.
If you haven't seen Sicko, it's time you and your friend go. It'll make you mad as fire. These rich people like Roberts take healthcare for granted. Cheney has a doctor on staff just for himself. Must be nice.
I think they make you wait so if you're gonna come up sick, it'll be on your dime & not theirs. And if someone dies in the meantime, so much the better.
I haven't had insurance in about 12 years. Was turned down for a Health Savings Account, and I'm not unhealthy! They only want to insure people who are in perfect health cuz it's more $ in their pockets.
Is there such a thing as a health-insurance Co-op? I don't know how else you'd get around these money-grubbing insurance companies.
Harriet Myers chance at the Supreme Court again?
Wouldn't it be ironic if his corporate insurance friends deny him medical coverage, due to a pre-existing condition?
Oh my! The Chief just fell down!
They don't know how bad he was hurt but, he was wide awake on his way to the hospital.
The Chief Justice has fallen!
I don't guess this guy would be covered by the Coulter threat
Chief Justice tumbles at Maine summer home
According to the article he had some sort of unexplained seizure in 1993 and his friends blamed it on stress.
Ok that's a new one. Never heard of stress causing seizures.
It was Gods will!
I guess it's kinda hard to not fall when you're always going around leaning that far to the right!
I'll save the mods some time...
Here's what I think of this guy: [deleted]
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Maybe he fell off that lofty pedestal he climbed up on.
Touch this site monitor and God will get you......................I promise..
Must be nice to have all that tax payer covered medical for all those X-rays and MRI's and the week long stay just to make sure his eminence is really OK.
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....or just maybe he tripped over Gonzales supenis.
So was there a rimshot, and canned laughter at the same time?
Justice has fallen?
Either he's sicker than they're letting on or he's pathetic.
A 52-year-old falls and needs an ambulance?
He must have fallen off of his "high and mighty christian pedestal", it must have been a long fall :)
E in MD @ 46:
A seizure?? It has to be a malfunctioning VP-chip!
I twisted my ankle.
Call the Medivac!
There isn't a damned thing wrong with him to warrant a news flash.
If he were appointed by a Democrat Pat Robertson would be on the 700 Club right now claiming God sent a warning shot over the court's bow to not rule against the lord's word.
It was a warning shot. Baby Jesus knows what he's doing.
Breaking News: Some Guy Falls
ugh.
Ruthless People @ 66:
Ain't that the bloody truth!
Find out who was at his house when he "fell"...
It's a good thing Roberts has the best health care money can buy with out tax dollars. So he can get well fast, back on his feet, back on the bench, and hand down more rulings against the rest of us.
Does this news mean that there is an early fall in Maine?
Did the weather turn cold too?
Are the leaves changing color ?
I always liked the fall in Maine. ;)
Strawberry @ 68:
I would say not bloody enough but site monitors busy enough deleting posts as is.
See, what happened was, Roberts was riding his bike and it was his first time without training wheels. Apparently, Dubya wasn't there to told on and steer for him. So him fall and him get boo-boo.
Get well soon, Justice Roberts. We need you to witness the reversal of some of your most recent erroneous interpretations of the Constitution.
Judy --
I saw Sicko the 2nd day it was out. (I live in the real world.) But my friend lives in Oklahoma, where the show isn't in movie theaters for 75 miles. And with a dying husband, she can't go .....
You can be sure I told her about it, though!
Shell5960w @ 24:
Sorry to hear about your friend...
I had to take my son to get 6 stitches in his leg a few weeks ago... $1400.
My employer cant afford insurance so it is straight out of my pocket. I cant imagine what the full works of a heart attack would have cost...
Shell5960w @ 75:
But I'll be there is a Christian church on every corner telling her if she has faith in the lord everything will be all right.
How's that tax payer-funder health care that I don't have, Your Honor?
Gerald Gibson @ 76:
This is what I call taking a non-issue about a worthless justice who "fall down and get boo-boo" and turning it into REAL news.
"...taken to the hospital as a precaution."
That's the difference between the haves and the have-nots.
We gotta make all of us "haves".
Thanks for sharing those stories.
Take him to a Christian Scientist.
Ruthless People @ 77:
....between sermons of how if the congregation don't vote Republican they're all going to hell.
I marvel at the logic of posting these stories in the first place on a left wing blog.
Is the community really expected to post mature, serious, thoughtful comments when given headlines that are more like straight lines delivered by a comics straight man?
"C and L would like to let you know that the minority leader of the house fell into a vat of cow manure while visiting his home district. No snickering out there. I heard that. Now."
Madam Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
Is BillO also watching what is said on his own site? Every time we write that we care what he thinks of comments here, doesn't that give him power? Not trying to stir the pot or anything, just asking the question that is on my mind. :)
Biggus Diggus @ 78:
and you won't have it if he has anything to do with it.
pissed off patricia @ 83:
If Roberts thinks Karma's a bitch now, wait till he comes back in his next life as a cockroach with a can of Raid pointed at him.
...and he can' get up! Maybe he should resign. He was most certainly an abortion made in heaven.
The definition of Comedy and Tragedy:
Comedy is when Justice Roberts falls down and has to go to the hospital.
Tragedy is when I get a papercut!
Apologies to Mel Brooks
Gerald Gibson @ 76:
You can't afford to die in this country.
There's always a first time...
What with all the deleting going on, I'm guessing most folks around here just aren't losing any sleep over Judge Roberts little mishap...though they're losing their comments and perhaps the graveyard humor that went along with it...perhaps... Don't know, never saw any of the snark... Perhaps some were even wishing him ill will... tsk tsk...for shame.....(snicker)
Poor poor Chief Judge John Roberts, so put upon and misunderstood in his very important muckity muck job and role, and now he goes and stubbs his toe or something and just can't get any sympathy here in blogland.. such a shame.. pity really.. Poor guy set up for life with from here to eternity full on health care service...(pretty sa-weet if you can score it), a job that pays pretty decent wages so I hear.. wages provided 'forever' whether working or not, with auto-cost of living increases etc, and a job that by its' nature has the potential to change peoples lives significantly, and given his past performance... Probably not for the better...
And people just aren't fawning all over him... Huh, go figure...
Maybe he shouldn't have hitched his wagon to George Bush...Just a thought.....JD
I say we go over to the DailyKos and post rude comments for Bill'O to read. Just for shits and giggles.
Hope he fell on his head - someone needs to knock some sense into the douchebag.
The confirmation process of this bozo showed just how weak-willed the Democrats were at the time, and scalito's confirmation a while later confirmed it. Somehow, I don't think they have gotten stronger in the intervening period.
Roberts will give the court a bad name for many years to come - given his activist bent.
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Chief Justice Roberts, isn't socialized health care just AWESOME? I'm so glad that my tax dollars are hard at work protecting your lily-white fanny while all of us peons have to console ourselves with dreams that one day we may have health insurance, too.
Get well soon, we're giddy with anticipation to see what horror you inflict on us next.
I hope he has that insurance that pays you when you miss work.
oh my Lawd! I will get on my knees and pray, but only the lawd knows what I'm praying for.....
Remember all of Bush's falling episodes and the desperate spin to explain that these were NOT due to inebriation:
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL...47/ 68167310.jpg
and this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ ...BushPretzel.jpg
and this?
http://www.depresident.com/galle...-crash- bush.jpg
and this?
http://bottleofblog.typepad.com/ ...drunk_diff.html
What about when he crashed his bike into a police officer and injured the guy so badly, he had to go the hospital?
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/...566/ detail.html
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Must be nice to have a summer house.
I am sure he will have a speedy recovery, and be able to pee on the constitution again in no time!
An emergency medical technician said Roberts was conscious and alert during the ambulance ride
I am glad to hear that Chief Justice Roberts did not lose consciousness. I pray that he fully recovers from any injuries, and that his judgment remains impeccable.
John Roberts' tumble today at his Maine vacation home might be the perfect metaphor for tenure as Chief Justice. Advertised by even some of his detractors as a first-rate intellect with an ideal judicial temperament, Roberts' unsettling term is bringing a firestorm of criticism from friend and foes alike. Worst of all, he's losing the American people.
For the details, see:
"The Fall of John Roberts."
So does this mean that "Dick" Cheney will be assuming the Chief Justice position too?
He was foaming at the mouth. Rabies?
This is news because they need to remind wingers what is at stake in an election:
Just because they have a seemingly solid majority for a seemingly long time with justices, this is not guaranteed, so the flock had better get out and vote every time, and not get complacent just because it seems they hold all the cards.
That is what this news gets across.
I'm very disappointed to hear that the state of Maine would let such a nasty fascist into their fine state!
Mr. NeoCon @ 103:
The man never was conscious. You can tell by his voting record.
Someone is suggesting on another site that Roberts has epilepsy.
Did they get him to Bush's "Health Insurance Safety Net"......the ER?
Did he fall from grace?
I don't seem to agree with much of the Chief Justice's legal philosophy, but it's beyond crass to cheer his misfortune. I wish him a speedy recovery, and an even speedier conversion to a more compassionate approach to jurisprudence.
jeez, how many people are going to fall (har har) for making rash (though understandable in some cases) remarks toward someone whose cheerleaders will obviously be looking over these sites for ANYTHING to use against us. It reflects on our own character...get well Roberts...then RESIGN!!!!
Where can I go to offer some incantations?
Relax! Nothing damaged but his liver.
MSNBC is reporting it was a seizure.
MSNBC is reporting that the fall was caused by a seizure. Apparently he had one in 1993, too.
I'm so thankful this doesn't happen to Deomcrats as often. I'm speaking in general health terms.
George Bush with his polyps and facial lesions, Dick Cheney with his pacemaker and 5+ heart attacks, Dennis Hastert with his gall bladder, Arlen Specter with his cancer, brain tumor, heat surgery, and Hodgkin's disease, and now add John Roberts' seizure...
What an unhealthy bunch.
as a human being I hope it isn't very bad.And hope for a complete recovery..... in about 18 months.
I think somebody is about to get a little visit from Fredo.
A sign off on the uber-unitary executive could be announced in the morning.
I hope that he will be alright. My thoughts and warm wishes go out to his wife and two young children...
I hope his recovery takes enough time to restore him to full health.
Different Anonymous @ 105:
Yes, at this moment Dick is in his bunker getting fitted for his judges robe.
He's got plenty of battery power to keep his ticker going so he can assume the role for life even after 2008.
He better make a speedy recovery because Shepard Smith on Fox News is reporting that the FBI and the IRS is searching Senator Ted Stevens(R-Alaska) house regarding a corruption investigation by the justice department's public integrity department.
Uncle Ted may need his help.
I had a seizure, of unknown cause or origin, 6 years ago. It was pretty scary. Mine was so severe and violent that I blew out both shoulders requiring hours of reconstructive surgery. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
why in the hello would someone that has random bouts of dropping out of the loop due to neurological problems be a problem to the administration if he will do their bidding until he drops?
it unbelievable that this person was nominated known to blackout? for CJotSC?
One can only wonder what FDR would have been like without polio. Maybe this will give him a more egalitarian perspective, who knows? Kind of hard for him to deny, now. Maybe with his free time he will ponder unenumerated rights as unenumerated in the 9th amendment.
I think God is trying to tell the Republicans something important and life shaking.
dan @ 101:
Are you kidding? Must be nice to have a house at all.
according to pat robertsons way of looking at life.
god hate self righteous right wing bastards
why else would he do this? it's logic people, get on board!
Seizure? The Chief Justice was drunk off his ass. Well, it is his vacation after all.
Take a picture of Roberts and send it to Frist.
Now Roberts has less brains than the monkey Man who put him there.
Best wishes for the jerk's recovery.
But, I knew he was a little "off" the first time I saw him. Its in the eyes. A crazy sort of light.
Just a thought. If Roberts failed to disclose the fact that he suffers from eplileptic seizures during the confirmation process, is he lible to be impeached and removed from the bench?
After Bush's reign is over of course.
"Did you all hear about Chief Justice Roberts? Today he was walking on the dock of his Maine vacation home when he suddenly made a sharp turn to the right and fell down".
-rimshot
Roberts is an asshole, but no one deserves to suffer seizures (or so it has been reported). Best wishes for recovery, and please resign immediately after.
I say this as a committed leftist who hates Fox News. :p
Wow. Best wishes CJ Roberts...I hope he makes a speedy recovery. Guys, you all should be a bit more compassionate, he's a human being.
Salmineo @ 44:
and he cant get up!!!
We all have to offer our sincerest sympathy for the man.... we hope we would offer the same for any of us in similar positions!
I have to wonder, though, if his seizures might be alleviated by treament derived from stem cell research. Hope he comes to the correct conclusion on this one.
I'd hate to see his obit read: "Premature death could have been prevented by helath care he prohibited while a member of the Supreme Court."
I heard Alberto Gonzales has already been seen rushing to his hospital...
Maybe that's how we're gonna get our government back - by default. The GOP apparatchiks who don't end up getting indicted will become incapacitated. Hey, ya take your victories anyway you can get them.
Best wishes to Justice Roberts on a speedy recovery. But, of course, better wishes to Justice Stevens for continued good health and the wisdom and strength to hold fast against neocon lunacy. And oh yeah, SUCK IT BILL!
Capabilty Jones @ 135:
I wondered if no one could see that but me.
Dave M @ 142:
LOL
Liberal Submariner @ 126:
The recovery had to hurt...I had my right one fixed....lotta pain.....the pharmacutical s did come in handy
I hope he has a long recovery....like 18 months long
Seizures are not good when they start suddenly in adults. They may be due to mass lesions in the brain. At least, Roberts knows that he has health insurance that we taxpayers provide. That's a whole lot better than the 40million plus Americans who have no health benefits and would be left on the ground to recover or die by people like John Roberts.
Roberts had foaming at the mouth when he had his seizure, which was NOT benign, since he fell 10 feet. If one has a second seizure the diagnosis becomes "epilepsy".
Ancient people thought epileptic seizures were caused by evil spirits or demons that had invaded a person's body.
The problem with Roberts is that he already has demonstrated an evil disregard for certain people (as far as racial segregation) so the ancient definition of epilepsy holds in his case. It's hard to wish evil well.
Roberts seems to be a nice guy and has a family, I hope he recovers quickly. Do you think he will stay on his position? By the way here is the full story on Chief Justice Roberts and his Seizure from VOA News appearing in today's issue of HULIQ.
Pray for save health! John Roberts has a seizures that are assuming accute! Are seizure caused by allergies also? Could have happen from food, dust, animal dander or unknown reasons?
[...] 20. “I hope he is unable to return and further destroy our nation. He must have been in the [...]
The headline on drudgereport says that Roberts was foaming at the mouth.
It did not indicate whether this was due to a seizure or political beliefs.
;)
Anonymous @ 133:
Whatever, ya crybaby propagandist scaremonger troll. Shall some of us visit righty sites and find similar posts and list them for you? Re-posting venomous, anonymous posts is a waste of time.
By the way, pick a handle. It isn't difficult, for the rest of us anyway.
I am so ashamed of you, my fellow bloggers out there, I know what you all were hoping.
What's Black & White and red all over?
Did ya ever notice that while he may have former vice president Dan Quale's look, Bush got Quale's brain.
Bonkers @ 132:
No, Anonymous, they only want YOU. Now, how do you like your buns spread?
Justice itself had a seizure the day this bastard was put on the court.
cleo @ 126:
Is it leeeesssions or is it Legion as in We Are??..hmmmmmm?
Thank god the medical community doesn't know anything.
purvis ames @ 109:
How anticlimactic, he could simply have been on a bender.
congressive @ 51:
Only dems get off-ed by getting shot or engine trouble in mid-flight or other assorted "accidents". To be a rethug just about guarantees longevity.
spud @ 63:
Aw c'mon. It's not just funny, it's downright poetic!
This was just god testing his rapture plans. They are quite ready yet, so back to the drawing board.
Dave M @ 119:
Bada Bing, Bada Boom.
Capabilty Jones @ 112:
It's almost like he doesn't blink nearly enough.
Only in the Roberts court does corporate advertising = free speech. The health industry might be inclined to search for a cure except there's more money curing old geezers who can't keep their erections.
ootpoot @ 131:
*snort* *milk sprays out of nose* LOL!!
Bet I'm paying for a much better health care plan for Roberts than I have for myself.
Is this what the insurance company claims is a pre existing condition and refuses to pay for?
Bush and Cheney and Roberts just used that "best in the world, American health care" ,. We hear so much about but never have the ability to qualify.
Brawlin_Dem@148,
Don't torture yourself! If Roberts bites the big one Slit Cruelmouth will pick another one from that bouquet of hydra heads that are just if not more desperately immune to goodness than Roberts.
Unfortunately, Cujo Roberts will survive to see another day.
A seizure, you say? I wonder, could it be, I don't know, perhaps, hmmm, Satan?
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