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April 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
And good afternoon.
Well, it's it's afternoon in some parts of the country.
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And it's nighttime in other parts.
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It's great to have you with us, my friends.
The award-winning, thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds rush limbaugh program on the EIB network.
It is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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We got a lot to do today on Open Line Friday, as uh is always the case.
Uh you know the uh phone number to call the program.
That's 800-282-2882.
Uh our email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
This is also uh a very special day for us because this is our fifteenth uh anniversary of uh participating and conducting the radio curathon for the leukemia and lymphoma society.
Uh together uh we have raised countless millions of dollars uh over these years.
Uh we've done it in good economic times and we've done it in uh in hard economic times.
The uh uh people at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society uh uh constantly in awe of all of you uh for all that you have uh been able to do, the outreach that you have made, the contributions and donations that you have made.
You are uh uh one of the uh, if not the most loyal audiences in all of media.
I don't care whether it's movies, television, uh radio, music, or whatever.
Those of you in this audience have uh proven to be among the most loyal, uh, and and I can't tell you uh how deeply appreciative and in awe of that uh I am myself.
We had uh meeting yesterday.
We you've heard about the Allen brothers people, the uh uh well, you know them as the hot dog people.
Uh they are officially coming on board as sponsors on the fifteenth of May, and I met I met the uh the two principals, the father and son who uh own and operate the uh the company yesterday.
Uh I someday I'm gonna tell you what what what you did to their company when you when I when I uh talked about their hot dogs that I served at the Super Bowl party.
Um you'll you'll be stunned when I get to it.
But but uh the nevertheless w they they also shared that they were they were just stunned with the outpouring of interest from all of you.
We as we tell all of our new clients the the bond of loyalty that uh all of you have with this program and your your sophisticated understanding of uh how this program works and and uh how it uh stays on the air and so forth is probably uh uh uh the highest among other uh media audiences well.
So I wanted to mention all this and thank you in advance for the years past and uh get you uh up to speed on this year because it's our fifteenth anniversary for the Leukemia and uh Lymphoma Society Curathon.
This this started fifteen years ago, and and uh tell you how it started.
I was I was doing my uh syndicated program out of the studios of our New York flagship WABC, and back then, the uh uh leukemia Society of America, as it was known then, had a uh series of day-long curatons on the ABC owned and operated stations.
They would do one uh they might have done them the same day, but they were not linked, they were done individually on each station in San Francisco and in New York and Dallas, uh, and I think uh in Washington, and it came to me and said, Look, if if if uh you're not you're not technically part of the local WABC crew on this day, but we give you an 800 phone number, will you plug our curaton a couple of sure?
Um and it has evolved now that this is it.
This program is it now for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the and the Curathon, and we are uh happy and honored to uh be an exclusive uh radio participant with them on a national basis.
Now I'll tell you about the leukemia, and by the way, here's the phone.
I want you to write this down.
We've got a link to their uh website at Rush Limbaugh.com.
You can donate online and uh if you'd rather do that, uh, all your credit card information guaranteed to be kept secret.
Nobody will know, not even the National Security Agency will be able to find out with Bush's domestic spying program.
Uh your credit card information.
We've taken steps to insulate this uh from the CIA and the Washington Post.
So you'll be you'll be totally safe.
Their number is 877-379 Rush.
877-379 Rush, that Rush is 8888.
Now the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, this is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and education and patient services.
Their work is international.
They fund research at home and abroad.
Now their mission is to cure.
And that's what we're trying to help accomplish today, to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma.
And improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The fight's on their 740,000 patients in their families living with these diseases today, as well as 110,000 newly diagnosed patients every year.
And during the course of this three-hour broadcast, 18 people will die of one of these cancers.
Leukemia of all the cancers is the number one cancer killer of uh children under the age of 20.
And the most common form of childhood leukemia has an overall survival rate today, has risen to 86% since last year, since our last curatons.
Progress is being made, documented uh amazing progress.
Lymphoma diagnosed in 63,000 Americans every year.
20,000 succumbed to the disease.
The uh five-year survival rate has risen from 47% in 1974 to 60% today.
And for kids, I mean the survival rate's now up to an amazing 96%.
Hodgkin's disease, today considered one of the most curable forms of blood cancers.
The five-year survival rate is now 85%, even higher for those under 20.
The the five-year survival and cure rates for these diseases have improved markedly since the 70s.
The leukemia and lymphoma society's research has uh has produced quick results.
Dr. Brian Drucker, one of the uh first society funded researchers, was responsible for the breakthrough uh drug Gleave, about which uh more I'll be telling you during the course of the program.
A lot of information I want to pass on to you.
But the bottom line is you know what we're doing here.
Um we're attempting to continue to fund research and patient services for the people affected by this uh uh dreaded series of diseases, blood cancers.
And your participation, as you know, is appreciated beyond anybody's ability to express it.
As usual, folks, we have a couple premiums that we're throwing in here.
Sixty bucks uh will get you a special Rush Limbaugh t-shirt available only during the Curathon.
It's one size fits all.
And if you uh if you can come up with $300 or more, that'll get you a special uh ill rushball golf shirt.
It's another one-of-a-kind shirt for the Curathon, and these are sized.
These are available uh in small through uh double X2X, and you can choose the size that you want.
All major credit cards are accepted.
Uh and as I say, your personal information uh will not be shared with any group.
So, two ways to go about this, 877-379-8888 or uh Rush Limbaugh.com.
Go there and you can log on uh and click on their uh link to their website and donate that way.
Now, as always, uh ladies and gentlemen, I um uh never ask you to do things that I don't also do.
One of the things that's forever grated on me, I've been watching, not going to mention any names, because there's so many of these.
You watch a telephone on TV and uh you have all these people just just imploring you to uh care and to give.
And I've always watched these and I've always well, what are you doing?
What are you everybody exhorting everybody else to give money?
What are you doing?
And uh many times the answer is, well, I'm donating my time to the cause.
Well, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Uh we'll donate time here too.
But I always uh lead off with a uh a contribution myself.
In fact, I made my contribution this year a couple of uh of months ago.
Uh and uh so I'm on board.
You think I uh I I I'm be uncomfortable mentioning the amount, but it's in six figures, and it's uh it's on par with what I have uh donated uh each year for the past five or six.
So I'm in there with you folks, leading the way, asking you to join us all day long today.
We'll be punctuating the program.
We're not gonna go wall to wall with This.
There are other things, big issues out there.
Iran and nukes.
Washington all a tizzy.
This gas business is getting to be absurd now.
It's it's it's almost as absurd as the port deal was absurd.
Uh it's just it's embarrassing to watch this.
It's just, as I mentioned yesterday.
But nevertheless, we're going to be talking about a lot of things, audio sound bites to intersperse with your phone calls.
So here's the number, 877-379-8888.
Call that number.
And by the way, you 60 bucks, 300 bucks.
We gas prices are high.
Everybody understands the additional economic pressures on people, despite the fact the economy is roaring.
Even greater news on that today, too.
But it doesn't take 60 or even 300 because there are so many of you.
If every one of you just sent in a buck today, we would set a one-day record.
It's all it would take.
Everybody just sent in one dollar.
One dollar, five dollars.
It's um every every donation is uh appreciated as much as any other because they all add up.
We'll take a break and be back and continue with all the rest of the program right after this.
It's open line Friday with America's Anchorman, America's truth detector, America's Doctor of Democracy, America's harmless lovable little fuzzball.
Remember 800-282-2882 is the number to call for the program.
The uh leukemia and lymphoma society uh contribution number 877-379-8888.
Now, you know, open line Friday, uh Monday through Thursday.
This program's totally devoted to what I care about.
But on Friday, when we go to the phones, it's your show.
Whatever you wish to talk about is what we talk about.
Let me give a quick one here to get started.
Chris in Omaha, you're up first.
It's great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, it's Chris calling from the Heartland here, Megadiddos.
Thank you.
How are you?
Good, sir.
Hey, I just wanted to call this morning.
You know, when my wife and I got this morning, she turned to me and she said, You better call Rush today.
And we've longtime listeners and big supporters of you, and we've got two little boys with leukemia.
And uh, you know, it's been uh it's been a long road for us, but I just want to let you know that the things that you're doing and the things that uh you know all of the listeners have been doing over the years are definitely uh making a difference.
Well, they are.
And I I I I'm it's very it's it's uh uh gratifying to hear from you.
Uh uh, you know, it's the the I think the people the audience who donate uh appreciate hearing from uh people like you because you're actually on the uh the the end of the stream here.
You're the one that uh you and your kids and your family are the ones that all this is aimed at and people and people like you.
And uh so people I think uh relish the opportunity to hear uh about the success.
How are your kids doing?
You know, Rush, they're doing really, really well.
Uh our eight-year-old Connor is gonna be done with everything all of his treatment in August.
And it's been a long road, but um, you know, like I said before, the things that you do, the things that everyone is doing to pursue, you know, this disease and other types of cancer is uh is working.
And you know, it there will be a day uh coming soon where you know these cancers will just be a chronic disease.
And uh, you know, it's just uh I can't say enough about uh about what you're doing here.
It's awkward near and dear to my heart.
And um uh the things that people are doing, the the donations that are made, I would just encourage folks to you know open up their pocketbooks today and to this because uh it's uh it's making a difference.
Well, uh thank you, Chris, very much for the uh for the phone call.
The uh the audience is doing a lion's share of the work here.
Uh it's it's not it's not difficult to sit here and and uh tout the successes of the leukemia lymphoma society because they are many.
In fact, the uh research into blood cancers has had so many ancillary effects uh on other types of cancers and diseases.
So the research in this uh field has been quite productive.
Uh but you're very kind, and I'm sure everybody uh uh appreci hearing appreciates hearing from you.
Wish you the best.
Uh and it sounds like that you have uh some good news to uh to cling to, which uh which makes everybody uh feel better.
Once again, that number's eight seven seven three seven nine eight eight eight eight, or just go to rushlimbaugh.com and find it.
It's a very easy to find her at the top of the page to the uh society, the leukemia lymphoma society, and you can donate online in that way.
Let's get to some news out there, folks, because there's a lot of it.
Uh we've got a big day coming up on Monday.
Pro-immigration activists say a national boycott and marches planned for May 1st will flood U.S. streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it debates reform.
Such a massive turnout could make for the largest protest since the civil rights era of the 1960s, though not all Latinos nor their leaders were comfortable with such militancy.
They fear a backlash in Middle America.
It'll be two to three million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone.
We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix and Fresno said that George Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue.
And from California, California State Senators on Thursday endorsed the boycott of schools and jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.
It was a 24 to 13 vote.
It split along party lines.
The California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one day protest the great American boycott of 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy.
Nobody disputes that.
They're going to try to educate us racist xenophobes, exactly right about uh what it is that makes the country work.
Nobody's upset with immigrants.
Uh but this is just stunning.
This is to tell you.
Um, in fact, I was talking with somebody the other day uh playing golf, and somebody asked me, have you seen there's a movie out there?
Have you seen a movie?
Uh I forget the title of it, but the movie is about what would happen if uh all of the illegal immigrants in California weren't there.
The state would fall apart, the state would would cease to function.
The state would go to hell in a hammer.
I said, Who produced this?
I've never heard of this.
Um I wish I could remember the name of it.
So there's a there's a there's a push here, folks.
When you get a state Senate, the California State Senate uh supporting this with an official resolution, a boycott of schools and ever it this is greatest illustration you could find of just uh how frightened politicians are of this in an election year.
And it's a party line split here, and it tells you the Democrats, what are they looking at here?
They're looking at votes.
Pure and simple.
Uh, this this is this is gonna be a an amazing year because we've got some of the most ludicrous, ridiculous, embarrassing pandering behavior by politicians I have ever seen on a host of issues.
From this gasoline business to illegal immigration to the ports deal, you n it it's it's it's not stopping.
It's only going to get worse.
Uh it it's a it's a constant barrage, daytime insult to our intelligence, and it's all made to order for the drive-by media.
These are, I mean, we we're we there's been a bunch of drive-bys happening here at the uh at the same time.
Oh, and let's not forget this.
This got people royal today.
Uh, British music producer Adam Kidron says that when he came up with the idea of a Spanish language version of the national anthem, he saw it as an ode to the millions of immigrants seeking a better life.
But in the weeks since he announced the tune, which features artists such as Ycliffe Jean, hip hop star Pitt Bull, and Puerto Rican singers Carlos Ponce and Olga Tannin, it's been the target of a fierce backlash.
Some uh really uh uh uh internet bloggers and others are infuriated by the thought of the Star Smangle Banner sung in a language other than English.
Would the French accept people singing La Marseille in uh in English as a sign of French patriotism?
Of course not, said Mark Cricorian, who is head of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies.
Uh now we hear all this talk that they're a little bit worried about a backlash.
They can't possibly be worried about a backlash.
All this talk that some people are might be able to a few of them worried about a backlash, but uh this is this is an in your face, just like the first one was.
We demand to be exempt from your laws or else.
And we have the power behind us because the Democrats are with us.
Uh, We'll be back after this.
That's right, my friends.
Learn it.
Love it.
Live it.
It's open line Friday.
It's the 15th anniversary of our leukemia and lymphoma society Radio Curathon, the 15th year that we have done this.
Telephone number if you'd like to donate 877-379-8888.
Now look, folks, let me hit you between the eyes on something here.
I know that there are economic pressures out there that you are feeling.
Gasoline prices for one thing are up.
I could sit here and I could be a tough guy.
And I could say, I don't care about any of that.
I'm not going to accept that as an excuse.
But I'm not going to say that to you because I'm a compassionate and warm-hearted guy.
The important point is it doesn't take a lot.
There's so many of you in this audience, as I said a moment ago, if you just pony up a buck or five bucks, how hard is it to go to phone call, go to the phone or go to a website and commit to a dollar or five dollar, ten, whatever.
You don't have to do thirty.
You don't have to do uh sixty or three hundred or whatever.
We have golf shirt premiums for sixty and three hundred dollar donations.
Uh, but uh it's it's this this is going to be strengthened numbers this year uh in order to eclipse last year's uh effort.
877-379-888 to cure leukemia.
I just want to tell you one more thing here about the um uh ancillary uh effects uh that that uh are deriving benefits from uh research into leukemia and lymphoma.
Uh the the uh Dr. Brian Drucker, as I told you, one of the uh first society funded researchers was responsible for the breakthrough drug Glevac.
Now, this this is a drug that has helped turn certain cancers that might have been fatal into just chronic conditions for many patients.
It's been approved for the treatment of three other cancers now.
And since last year, since our last broadcast clinical studies at the UCLA School of Medicine on an agent for those resistant to Glevec is uh showing tremendous promise.
So you can see research by the society has applications beyond blood cancers too.
Remember, bone marrow transplants, those were pioneered by researchers for the leukemia lymphoma society.
Uh, and this year the society will commit fifty million dollars uh to research alone.
Seventy-five percent of every dollar collected gets distributed to research.
Seventy-five percent.
It's one of the greatest uh and most efficient charitable organizations that you can contribute to.
Uh and I've got to know these people uh the the same people that have been there for fifteen years.
They've all been affected personally by this disease.
They have either lost family members or currently have family members who are suffering the disease, or they themselves are uh or are have, and they have uh uh decided and a long time ago to donate their time to this because it matters and they care.
Uh this is uh it's not just a job to them.
This is uh it's become their life's calling.
And it's been a it's been a sheer pleasure to get to know them.
I marvel at people committed to anything.
Uh the level of commitment these people have is uh uh it's infectious.
Uh gotten to know them quite well.
And uh they're just fine people.
You can't go wrong uh by helping out this particular program, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America, 877-379-8888.
Mexican lawmakers, in case you haven't heard this, Mexican lawmakers issued a declaration of support for immigrant protest planned on Monday, said they're gonna send a delegation to LA to show their solidarity.
We need to revive the limb laws.
You try this down in Mexico, you are in jail.
You try, you can't, you would not get past your first flyer posted on a phone poll, announcing your protest without some authority.
Federale coming to round you up and throw you in some stinking rotten jail.
The Mexican lawmaker delegation uh issued late Thursday by all the political parties in the lower house of Congress, contrasts with the position of Mexico's foreign department, which has said that it will discipline any consular officials who take part in the uh protest.
The delegation of lawmakers is gonna meet with the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villarigosa.
The only thing we're looking for is to end this dehumanizing uh situation and get the recognition of the migrant labor force, said Federal Deputy Maria Garcia.
People who go looking for work should not be treated like criminals with the risk of being tried in federal courts.
Well, interesting for you to say that.
Try it in Mexico and see what happens.
You do just that, and uh and you are in jail.
Now some politics of this.
Here's some things that you will not see in the drive-by media.
There's a Rasmussen poll.
And they went out and they constructed a poll based on uh uh a third party candidacy uh driven into a third party candidacy by the immigration issue.
A third party candidate who promised to build a barrier along the Mexican border and make enforcement of immigration his top priority, beats the generic Republican nominee by nine points, thirty to twenty-one.
Runs practically even with the generic Democrat nominee who gets thirty-one percent.
The uh border-centric third party candidacy uh actually takes more votes from the Democrat side than the Republican side, but it draws heavily from both parties and is heavily from moderates as from conservatives.
So they Rasmussen went out there and just did a generic poll and made up a third-party candidate who had immigration, border security, and offense is his number one priority.
And uh that candidate beats the generic Republican nominee by nine points, uh, and uh is scores practically even with the with the Democrat in the generic poll.
So uh we'll see if the word of this Rasmussen poll spreads uh to both political parties and see if it does how it affects them since they're also poll-driven, particularly in an election year.
Darren from George Mason University in Washington.
Welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks a lot for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh, I just wanted to bring up today, I want to ask you and get your opinion on you.
This week, the Senate and the House debated uh the bill, the president sent for the emergency supplemental to fund Iraq and Hurricane Katrina relief.
And the Senate uh beefed up that bill by almost fifteen billion dollars, of which there was fifteen million in there for pork for seafood marketing.
And um I mean, I really think the Republican Party has really abandoned its principles here in spending.
And do you think is the Republi the base of the Republican Party, are they really upset over this out-of control spending?
I read it in the paper, but I don't think I believe it.
Uh uh You don't you don't believe the Republican base is that upset over the spending?
Correct.
Uh well, it's hard to really know.
I mean, the um uh I I know that it's not just that.
The Republican base is upset about a lot of things, and if you combine them, uh you you have you have some real concern.
They're upset about immigration.
Uh they are they are upset uh over the spending, of course.
Uh they're they're upset over uh a couple of other things.
And I uh it's still early, and I think pr predicting vote turnout based on what's happening now is is risky because there are going to be profound things that happen between now and uh in November, things that will make what's happening today uh be forgotten.
It's an election year.
Whatever politicians figure out of their big problems, they'll try to fix it uh somehow, somewhat like they're trying to with gasoline prices, they're trying to with illegal immigration, like they're trying to uh uh just uh come up with words and phrases that solve everybody and and uh not solve, but but uh satisfy everybody, but don't actually accomplish anything.
I think that you know you talk about that bill.
There's an aspect of that bill that that upset me more than the 15 million because we knew that's gonna happen.
I mean, it these are these are this these guys are who they are.
Republicans in the Senate decided from the the the uh uh the Iraq funding bill to take one point nine billion of it and send it to Hurricane Katrina relief.
And it set up like an either-or situation.
I'm I'm scratching my head and say can't folks we can't do both.
We can't do both at the same time.
We're funding the war to rock the war on terror.
We got to take from that in order.
Now, why do that?
I'll tell you why do that, because this is this is a bunch of Republicans trying to appeal to these mythical moderates and liberals who are getting all over Bush on Katrina, and the Republicans don't want to be anywhere near Bush on Katrina, so they're trying to distance themselves by from Bush by saying, we'll take money away from the war because we know you hate the war and you don't believe in it, and we'll give it to Katrina relief.
1.9 billion, chump change, a symbolic effort.
The idea that we can't do both in this country uh with the amount of money we've already committed to spend on Hurricane Katrina is just outrageous.
I just Mark, uh uh.
I I uh hate to tell you here, but uh I I'm sorry, not Mark.
You what you need to do is really uh understand that it's an election year and there's going to be far more of this.
Uh Darren, yeah, that you know far more of this inexplicable stuff that'll make total sense when you put it in the uh spectrum in the context of it being a uh political year.
I gotta go quick time out.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
Well, it's not a surprise, but the uh the uh International Atomic Uh Energy Agency led by Mohammed Al-Baradai has confirmed that uh Iran has accelerated its uranium enrichment.
Now, this is the UN saying this, it's not George W. Bush, it's not CIA, it's not Valerie Wilson, it's not Joe Plame, whatever Valerie, what Joe Wilson, it's nothing.
This is a UN saying this.
Uh and of course, uh uh Amadini Jad uh said, we don't care if you come up with any resolution, we're gonna ignore the hell out of you.
We don't give a damn what you say, we don't give a damn what you do.
Screw you, screw the U.N., screw France, screw Germany, screw Israel, screw United States, screw Bush, screw all of you.
This f this is not it's funny, but it's not.
This guy actually thinks he is in office to preside over the destruction of Western civilization.
And and and bring back the twelfth Imam, uh, which got missiles point, he's yeah, they've got missiles that get to Europe and they're pointed there.
These are not nuclear tipped, but uh but uh but they're there.
So this is a um uh serious, serious, serious thing to deal with.
It will be interesting to watch as always.
Uh one more thing here before we get back to your phone calls here on Open Line Friday regarding the uh Curathon Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Curaton.
I also want to uh thank all of you in the audience for another thing.
I know that whenever I drift away from the quote unquote issues.
For example, if I discuss a fun day on the golf course or give you details of a fun thing I did on the vacation, I get uh I get hate mail.
I'll I'll not I'll not hide that fact.
I get hate mail from supporters saying if you're gonna keep talking about this, I'll I'm gonna tune out and oh, I'll be back when you finish.
Stick to the issues.
Blah, blah, blah.
Well, uh I want to thank you for indulging our efforts here to uh come up with a cure for the dreaded blood cancers related diseases that we do once a year.
When you stop and think of this, I want to give you an idea of just how powerful you are.
We have raised well over in 15 years.
No, this is our fifteenth year, so in 14 years, we have raised, I forget the exact number, but it's it's uh for some of it it strikes me as a little over fifteen million dollars.
Uh what's amazing about this is we do it one day a year.
And we don't even go all three hours wall to wall with it.
The amount of time that we uh that we uh spend on this in the course of the three hours may add up to 45 minutes, 30 to 45.
It's over 14 million dollars in uh in fifteen years.
And of course, the amounts were much smaller at the beginning.
They've ballooned and become huge in the last five years, over 14 million dollars here.
Uh and and one day a year.
Three hours a year, less than three hours a year.
Do you realize uh th there are there are other fundraising organizations that that will not believe that?
They will spend an entire year or or month raising that.
And that is a testament to all of you, and the fact that you are uh willing to stay tuned to the program this one day a year when we uh make this effort and combine it with our normal uh uh award-winning presentation uh on the program is very gratifying to me.
I have yet to receive, I will now since I'm a mention, I have yet to receive an email during a curaton.
Hey, Rush, shut up and get back to the issues.
These are desperate times.
I've never Now I will, since I've said I've not.
But uh anybody who sends me one of those now, I will know you're joking, and I will not believe you.
Uh it it has been an exciting time to be part of all this.
And we were talking about this last year.
All the hard work and dedication, along with your generosity, has really started producing results.
And get this, as it turns out, many of the breakthroughs that we're starting to see today that I've detailed for you in this first hour began about the time we became a part of the fight against blood cancers fifteen years ago.
Uh your donations were part of the seed money that led to these advances.
Uh so much progress has happened, the cure gets closer every day, and it's all because of you.
It's 877-379-8888.
It's a simple phone call.
And by the way, this number's active throughout the weekend, is it not?
I think as it always is, the numbers active through the weekend.
Uh 877-379-8888, or just go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
And if you go to Rush Limbaugh.com, you can see the fantastic premiums we're offering with uh minimum donations of sixty dollars or uh three hundred.
Uh Mark Bethesda, Maryland, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Uh good afternoon from the People's Republic of Bethesda, Maryland.
Um the reason I was calling is about this national anthem thing in Spanish.
Doesn't sit too well with me.
Um these people are coming to this country and they're already they've already aggravated enough people by what's going to happen on Monday with this whatever it's called, May Day thing.
And I already heard some chicken plants, I think either here or in or are in Arkansas are going to be shutting down for the day.
Yeah.
And now I only wonder what would Theodore Roosevelt have said, and I know the quote, I don't know, I've heard the quote and read the quote over and over.
It seems like they don't want to become Americans.
I would not have a problem, however, I'm not saying to them give up their culture if they wanted to play first the American national anthem in English, and if they wanted to play the Mexican national anthem, that's fine.
That's still part of their culture.
Yeah.
Uh well, you you hit the nail on the head here uh with something, uh, Mark, and it's this.
Uh immigration has always been a specific thing, and there's a formula, and it is this.
People come here from faraway lands for whatever reasons to seek a better life.
In seeking a better life, they seek to become Americans, which means assimilating and acculturating into the great American culture.
They have not come here just for jobs to send the money home.
They have come here to become Americans.
The problem here is that the as these protests indicate, and as the Star Spangled Banner indicates in Spanish, and as a number of other indications are obvious, uh this this aspect, this wave of uh illegal immigrants do not really indicate they want to become Americans.
They don't want to be immigrants, they want to be legal so they can get jobs.
Uh the country is just a job market to them.
And it's a big distinction because without the acculturation and the assimilation, uh we're just gonna end up balkanizing the society.
And when they choose May One, uh Soviet May Day, uh to go out and protest and basically shout and in and get in our faces, and then uh uh purposely try to cause a backlash and demand to be exempted from our laws.
This is not immigration that's going on here, and that's it's that's that's I think we do this a disservice by referring to it as an immigration issue.
It's not that.
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