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April 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends.
It's uh it's a just it's a sheer thrill and delight to have you with us here on the EIB network today.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
This is Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules for openline Friday, Monday through Thursday, we talk about what interests me, but when we go to the phones on Friday, it's your show.
Whatever you want to talk about, feel free.
Telephone number 800-282-288-2, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, big day for us today.
This is the 15th year, our 15th anniversary of hosting the Curaton for Leukemia and Lymphoma, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America.
We do this once a year.
We do this in less than three hours a year.
In our 15th year, we have uh we've raised over 14 million dollars.
And I I have to tell you, uh I am so I'm so proud of you people.
I was really not expecting this to be a banner year because of all of the drive-by doom and gloom that's out there, particularly on the economy and this and this latest rise in the gasoline price.
Uh I know it's put a crimp in a lot of people's budgets.
And the uh uh the fact is that uh our first hour uh as I'm I'll get the numbers here shortly, but it may track even ahead of last year, which was a record uh year.
Uh and I I think that the uh uh efforts that you're making here uh uh deserves some acclaim.
And I want to do it in uh in this way.
And by the way, let me give you the the uh ways that you can donate today.
877-379-8888.
Uh that's the phone number.
Uh, or you can simply go to RushLimbaugh.com.
You can see the fantastic premiums are offering with certain levels of uh contributions, and you can donate there online.
It's just click on it, but donate now.
Donate here, whatever it is.
Click on it, says donate now.
It's a yellow button.
Click on it, and it's easy.
And I'm thinking we're I've been told that uh online uh hits and donations this year are up twenty percent over last year.
Uh and now our I think it's if I read it right, the uh uh it's 20% higher than phone uh donations.
Credit card information will be kept uh totally secret.
It's the NSA will not find out about it, CIA will not find out about it.
Uh Dana Priest, the Washington Post will not know your credit card information.
There will be uh no leaks.
But here we are.
We find ourselves in the midst of a an intense drive-by media, Democratic Party inspired doom and gloom.
If you allow yourself to live in that media bubble, if you allow yourself uh to have your day shaped and formed uh by the news every day.
Uh it's gotten to the point that a Democrat liberal think tank uh get this.
It's called the Center for American Progress.
They released a new study recently, understanding mobility in America.
Let me give you the gist of this.
America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a ragster riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world.
Now that, folks, is patently ridiculous.
It is patently ridiculous.
We do not see Americans dying to leave this country to go elsewhere to find prosperity and economic opportunity.
This is absurd.
This is frankly uh that cannot be even uh uh have a pretense of accuracy in however they derive this data in their silly report.
Now, this study claims that 99% of American kids born to poor families will never make it to the wealthiest five percent.
Minorities, of course, are hardest hit.
Only 32% of white families will remain in poverty compared to 63% of black families.
Now, I don't I don't want to analyze this paragraph by paragraph, but uh today, because time is of the essence today.
But that that's a that's that's a hanging curveball waiting to be knocked out of the ballpark.
If that's true, and for the purposes of analyzing it, I'll stipulate it's true.
We'll do this next week.
But if that's true, there's a simple reason for it.
But they conclude here the American myth or the American dream is a myth.
But in order to believe that, folks, you have to buy into the liberal mindset.
America in decline is liberalism's central tenant.
In war, they see us defeated.
They say our institutions and traditions are inherently discriminatory and oppressive and corrupt, and that's why they have no problem trying to tear them down.
Now, President Bush calls this the soft bigotry of low expectations.
And believe me.
That's pretty accurate in a sense, soft bigotry of low expectations.
You go out and tell people you got no chance, we don't expect anything from you.
And what are you going to get from them?
Zilch, which is exactly what liberals want.
They want victims.
That's why they like illegal immigrants.
They want victims.
The American economy, contrary to this silly, stupid survey, is producing success story after success story after success story.
In all sectors of life, this country continues to rise and achieve and set records.
And it remains that shining city on a hill.
It remains the beacon of light and hope all over this planet.
And yet the Democrats, the Liberals can't put up with that because they need victims in order to remain in power.
Let me tell you what this survey is.
It's not the soft bigotry of low expectations.
This is the hard bigotry of liberalism, folks.
For generations now, liberals have wiped out achievement ideals.
They accept low school standards.
They disdain the competitive drive.
They attack and tax and punish individual achievement and accomplishment.
They preach victimhood.
They torpedo aspiration.
They tell you you have nothing to aspire to, and they're doing it again with this silly report.
And yet somehow, despite all of this, America survives.
It not only survives, it prospers.
Now they're trying to convince a prosperous nation that we're all a bunch of losers.
We just don't know it yet, but we're all a bunch of losers.
Well, let me tell you something, folks.
They are the losers.
And I, for one, am sick of their stupid studies trying to convince our kids that they have no chance when their parents are hoping just the opposite.
Liberals once again working at odds with parents.
Everybody knows that parents want a better life for their kids than they had for themselves, regardless of the nature of that life.
And here come a bunch of pointy-headed intellectual elites dousing cold water on hopes and on dreams, actually telling people in the United States of America, they don't have a prayer.
And that they want to have a prayer, they got to go somewhere else in the world.
People outside America, as we see, daily are risking their lives to access, even illegally, the very real rags to riches American dream.
Now, there's no question if you want to fail here, you can.
And you don't need to go to the library to find a book called How to Fail because we all know how to do it.
Everybody fails at something or three now and then during the course of their lives.
You can fail if you want to.
But if you want to achieve, you can do that too.
You can achieve whether you're black, you can achieve whether you're white, yellow, or purple, and the evidence is all around us.
It's all over the place.
Now the reason I wanted to talk about this is because what you're doing today by running ahead of last year's donations is putting the lie to this myth that there is no opportunity, that there's no chance for rags to riches success in this country.
And I I I can't tell you when I and I, you know, f I don't I don't get emotional very much here on this program, but I I can I cannot tell you how proud I am, because I didn't know what to expect going into this today, with all this doom and gloom out there.
I had no idea what to expect with all the uh the drive-by media hits on the economy, which is they say it's not as good as everybody says it is.
They're trying to make people think we got soup lines, gas prices.
But here you are on our fifteenth anniversary of the leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon, you are running ahead of last year, which was a record year when, yeah, we had the drive by media doing negative hits, but We didn't have such pointed assaults on the uh pocketbook as the uh spike in gasoline prices and so forth.
So you all are doing the Lord's work out there, and I just wanted to thank you, and I wanted to tell you how proud I am of you.
And as always, uh uh uh I've made my own contribution today.
I'll tell you what it is.
Uh just just so you'll know.
Uh, and our a running tally does not count my we don't we don't count mine until later.
Uh my uh my uh I I gave up two months ago, I got started early, and I gave the Leukemia Lymphoma Society uh two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which is uh about the same amount as last year and the year before.
Uh because I don't ask anybody to do something that I haven't done.
And I believe in this organization.
I love the people that I've gotten to know who uh uh have committed their lives to it.
Uh I've met a lot of people uh and known a lot of people who've had uh various blood cancers, and the success rate that uh researchers are having in uh prolonging life uh cure rates uh uh is is profound.
I'll share some of that with you under the uh course of the program today, but I just wanted to thank you because you in this audience by your daily virtue and existence here put the lie to this silly notion that the opportunities in this country are finished and over.
You um you're the people that make the country work, not these pointy head intellectuals at the Center for American Progress, or not a bunch of think tank people anywhere else, and not a bunch of elected officials.
It's you who make the country work, it's you who are the economy, it's you trying to pursue excellence, however you define it, with whatever degree of ambition you're willing to apply, you who make the country work.
Uh thank you, and I'm I'm honored beyond my ability to express it to have you in this audience.
We'll be back in just a second.
Remember, folks, we still have two uh excerpts of my newsletter interview.
We don't do this very often, but we're gonna do it today.
Two excerpts of my newsletter interview with uh the director and writer of United 93, which premieres tonight nationwide, Paul Greengrass, uh coming up uh soon for at least one of these.
We've got uh two of them to go.
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This is Dave.
Uh uh glad you waited, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Good, good.
Uh Rush, I almost fell out of my chair yesterday.
I'm watching Fox News on on TV, and I watched these senators come out uh to tell us that they're gonna give us a hundred dollar rebate uh because of the gas prices.
Yeah, yeah.
Um these these are our political giants.
These are the guys that uh that we all look upon to to get us out of time and trouble.
And I can just picture them sitting around this big, huge mahogany desk, and this is what they came up with.
It's laughable.
I cannot believe that's exactly what they came up with.
Uh let me let me add my perspective to this.
I saw the president in the Rose Garden today, and he was talking about the economy and uh first quarter growth.
Folks, wait till you hear the news on this too.
First quarter growth was what, 4.6 or 4.8%?
Which which was it?
4-6.
You won't believe the the uh 4.6 is astounding.
And one of the news services reports this as uh uh uh less than expected.
Uh underperforming expectations.
I I'll get to that in due course.
And we talked about this hundred dollar repo.
Well, the president was was talking about how he thinks oil companies ought to do more expiration, and I said, Where?
I'm shouting at my own president.
Where the Brian was in here.
He saw where are they gonna explore?
They they're not allowed to explore anywhere.
They can explore off the coast of Cuba, and they can explore off the coast of Mexico for those two countries.
Where can where can they explore?
It is 4.8% first quarter growth, and it was portrayed as less than expected.
Uh uh with moderate inflation, there still isn't any sign That core inflation is going up.
So now we come up with this hundred dollar rebate plan.
Somebody has set the price for buying us off, folks.
This is an election year.
Somebody in Washington, and I'm sad to say, is a Republican, thinks that we are upset over gas prices and that for a hundred bucks they can buy us off and we'll cool down.
For a hundred bucks.
This is so mixed up and just plain wrong, it's unbelievable.
If they would have asked, they would have never heard me say these high gas prices suck, but for a hundred bucks I'm willing to forgive and forget.
Why didn't somebody ask me if I was upset about gas prices, and if so, what I was upset about?
Because the last thing I would have said, yeah, I'm upset, but you can buy me off for a hundred bucks and I'll still vote for you.
What kind of insult is this?
A hundred bucks, folks.
They want to buy us off for a hundred bucks.
It's absolutely absurd.
This is the kind of stuff I'm telling you, you're going to get more and more of it as this.
Can you they want to buy us off?
That's all it's a f it's a bribe.
A hundred bucks.
That's all we're worth to them.
100 bucks and we'll shut up.
100 bucks will go away.
100 bucks.
And we'll vote for them.
Here's what I would have said if somebody asked me if I was upset about gas prices or what I was upset about what to do about it, I would have said, let the oil companies drill for oil on our land or under our seas with no restrictions now.
Clean up the regulations, let the oil companies build some refineries, a bunch of them.
I would investigate Senator Schumer for his role in illegally taking Maryland Lieutenant Governor Steele's credit report.
This may be off the point a bit, but it makes more sense to investigate Schumer than investigate oil companies for succumbing to supply, demand, and congressional lunacy.
Look at the obstacles they have.
They got to put up with supply and demand problems, and then a bunch of lunatics in Congress who want to investigate the oil companies.
And you can bring those old fat execs in all day and all night, and you're not going to produce an additional drop of oil by doing it.
And you're not going to produce an additional drop of gasoline by doing it.
All you're going to do is make people think, yeah, yeah, get even with them.
But the price is still going to be what it is, and the supply is still going to be what it is.
Next thing I would suggest is that every member of Congress take a course in hysteria management.
There's not an anger management problem in the country.
There's a hysteria management problem big time.
It's a tsunami after tsunami after tsunami of hysteria.
I a couple other ideas, but you get the point.
I'm about this hundred bucks.
I am guessing that a hundred bucks could not even pay for two strippers to attend a lacrosse stream party.
And yet they think they can buy us off with a hundred bucks.
You think you can get a couple strippers to show up at a party for a hundred bucks?
There is no way, folks.
And a hundred bucks sure would not get me to attend a congressional insult-a-thon.
So instead of buying us off and treating us like we're a bunch of whores.
You know, just solve the problem.
Guys, how about solving the problem?
Don't try to buy me off.
Don't try to buy us off.
That's not the solution.
Just makes us even madder.
Have some guts and do your job.
That's my advice to the people who think I'm not better than a cheap hundred dollar bill.
Uh, Dawn in Tampa, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
I'm just fine.
Um, I think that we should give amnesty to everybody that has been here for five years as an illegal alien, following uh three simple steps.
The first, they should receive uh back wages up to minimum wage.
So if they worked here for five years for two dollars an hour, they should be paid minimum wage by their um employer.
The second is they should pay pay taxes then on those back wages, and the third is their employer should pay the FICA that was due for those five years.
After that, boom, you're done.
No language, no two thousand dollars, nothing.
Just three simple stuff.
Democrats would love that.
You have just with your idea, if I heard you right, you have just created a giant group of victims that only get paid a minimum wage.
I can hear the sad swan song and the violins playing after all this happens, and the Democrats say, How can we treat these people?
It was your idea.
No, how can we treat these people as We must do something.
Um that's that's um that's a bit risky for me.
Well, but on the other hand, do you think that takes away the employer's argument that they're here because we need them here financially?
Uh because you're legalizing paying them very little.
Is that what you mean?
No, because you're forced to pay them minimum wage.
So whether you're paying them minimum minimum wage or a citizen minimum wage wage, that takes away the incentive to have illegal.
That's a close call because the reality of the situation is that the business community is gonna fight that tooth and nail and and uh they've they've got a very powerful lobby.
They uh uh they contribute a lot of money to the parties.
Anyway, uh I have to run.
Thanks for your uh your ideas, though.
I appreciate it.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
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Fifteenth anniversary of our curaton for leukemia and lymphoma.
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And again, I uh I'm just I'm moved beyond words.
Well, I'm never beyond words, but I'm moved.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, by the fact that you are outpacing yourselves last year in terms of donations and by quite a lot.
Uh as I said, we didn't know what to expect.
Uh and we're we're all thrilled.
Um you you can't possibly know the appreciation people have.
One got uh I got an email.
Somebody remembered last year that that um uh I offered if somebody would match my donation, yeah, we would fly them in here and and and let them watch the show and and go to dinner.
Did that ever happen, Rice?
Yes.
Yeah, two uh two couples uh ponied up uh last year and uh we did this.
I didn't make a big to-do out of it because uh I wanted to maintain privacy for uh those people just as you and your donations are uh are always private.
Nobody'll know who you are and how much you've given.
Uh but uh two people one from uh a couple from uh Washington store, actually Oregon and Washington, that area, and another couple from uh San Diego.
Uh uh both had had had uh in fact one of the couples had lost a child uh to the uh to the disease.
And that's that's uh I mean all death is devastating, but that's that's especially so.
Um they were we just had the had the best time.
They were here uh all day for the program, went out to a uh nice dinner at a private room in a super secret restaurant unidentified.
Uh you'd never know what's there if you drove by it.
And uh just had a fabulous time.
They came in the next day and uh uh waved goodbye and and flew back out.
So I don't know if I'll do it again this year, but uh I might.
Uh we uh we had so much fun with them.
You never know what you're gonna get.
Uh and I frankly, you know, I didn't expect anybody to to do that to uh to match the donation, but two two couples did.
Um as you know Flight 93, United 93 uh premieres tonight.
Uh we interviewed, I interviewed Paul Greengrass, the writer and director for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
Uh by the way, um I had a a fun time on KOA Denver today with April Zessbaugh and Stefan Tubbs.
Uh did a about ten minutes on uh United Three 93.
April had seen a a preview of it.
Uh I want to thank him for it was a great time.
I enjoyed it very much.
Made me feel at home and and made me feel welcome.
So I want to play the first of two bites here from the uh Greengrass interview.
We're not gonna play the whole thing, obviously, because if we did that, you'd have no reason to buy the newsletter.
Uh and that's not what we're about here.
But I do want you to hear this uh because it was a fascinating interview.
Uh Mr. Greengrass and and admitted uh liberal uh had a great conversation with him, got along famously well.
Um this is um it's self-explanatory, so Mike just hit it.
Here's what I honestly think, Rush.
I think it's the truth is we've been having an angry and passionate debate, haven't we, in your country, in my country, in your about what are we going to do?
And that debate began shortly after nine eleven.
And the truth is we don't all agree, do we, about what we should do.
You know, some of us think we should do this, some of us think we should do that, some of us think we shouldn't do this, some of us think we shouldn't do the other.
But I think we all agree that whatever it is that's happened in the last five years, it goes back to the events of those two hours on the morning of nine eleven.
Because that is when we all realized that we face a very real and a very frightening danger.
I don't think we all do.
That's the point.
I don't I don't I'm convinced that a significant number of Americans really don't believe that yet, which is why I'm eager for them to see your movie.
Well, you might be right.
And you know, the thing about the film from my point of view is what I wanted to do was to make a film that would tell the story of nine eleven, because that's a pretty good place to start.
You know, just try and weave it together, the story of the air traffic control, the story of the military command centers, the s the failures of communication between the two, uh, and and through the middle of it, this one aeroplane with a group of ordinary men and women.
There was nothing exceptional about those people.
They got on a routine commuter plane, and what happened was that at about half past nine, because of a quirk of fate, because that aeroplane was delayed on the ground, it was the last plane of the four to take off, and it meant that by the time that aeroplane was hijacked, nine eleven was basically all over.
I mean, the two towers have been struck.
American seventy-seven was minutes away from striking the Pentagon.
And what that meant was this, that that group of ordinary men and women actually were the first amongst us to enter the post-9-11 world.
Because at a time when we were looking at the television and thinking, what is going on?
Clearly, something terrible, probably terrorism, but we didn't know.
Those people knew they could see what they were dealing with, and they were the first people to grapple with our dilemma.
Our dilemma is what are we going to do?
We can't avoid this thing.
We have to find an answer.
And in situations of unimaginable fear, those people thought their way through that problem and made decisions and elected to live or die by the consequences.
Now that's a story of extraordinary bravery and courage, and wherever you are on the political spectrum, whatever you believe about what's happened over the past five years, we can go back to that story and share the uh sense of courage, the inspiration, and hopefully learn some wisdom from it.
And yes, you're right.
We can't avoid it.
And you know, I feel it in my city, London.
We were bombed last summer.
I had I was about a few weeks into thinking about making this film when the London bombing occurred on on the underground on the subway.
And that's when I knew I wanted to make this film.
We can't avoid this issue.
We have to find an answer.
And until we find an answer that we all agree with, I don't think we're going to make much progress.
That's it.
You you've said a mouthful here, and I've got some questions about your whole answer.
I've been taking notes, but about that last observation, the answer speaking personally, and I hope everybody the answer is in your movie and what those people did when confronted with the legitimate threat.
They didn't put their heads in the sand.
They didn't say, Oh, let's be nice and maybe they'll this won't happen.
Ignore it.
Because they knew what had happened previously, just like we know what happened.
Yeah, and they and they dealt with it.
I mean, it is inspirational.
There's no question.
You have no sympathy for the terrorists in this movie, and I'm I want to thank you for that.
Well, that's very kind.
I mean, listen, it's interesting, isn't it?
Because you know, you and I might not agree about many things, Rush, but but we're agreeing on this, and that's an interesting thing, you know.
And I really but people say, Oh, well, you know, we don't want to show the trailer, and is it too soon?
And I say, you know what?
It's time we went together back to this experience.
Because we may find that we agree about more than we think at the moment.
That's Paul Greengrass, uh writer-director of United Ninety Three, uh, an excerpt from an upcoming interview in the uh Limbaugh letter.
Uh we have one more excerpt of that interview uh in the next hour.
We'll share it with you.
First of Cochomo, Indiana.
Jeff, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
You bet, sir.
Um little chapter about these uh marches that we've been seeing, the upcoming marches coming up with the uh uh immigration issue.
Uh don't understand why more people don't see this for exactly what it is.
It's black mail.
When you say we're going to shut down your social services, we're going to shut down uh your retail, we're going to shut everything down, we're going to make the floor shake underneath you in Congress by protesting in the streets because we demand our civil rights.
Uh that's simply blackmail, Rush.
And those people are not entitled to civil rights under our Constitution.
They're criminals.
They're here illegally.
They they crawled under a fence, they walked across a river, you know, they did whatever they needed to do, and uh you know.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question, Jeff.
When you say you don't understand why more people don't see this for exactly what it is, uh blackmail, who do you think doesn't see it for what it is?
Who are you referring to?
Well, I really don't think uh that uh people in general.
You know, it's a funny thing about America sometimes with certain hot button topics.
Uh people just don't seem to want to talk about it conversationally.
And and I haven't had a lot of people, and I'm out in public daily, and and I haven't met a lot of people who have just said, you know what, this immigration thing really bothers me, Jeff.
Uh it's like they don't want to talk about it.
But what troubles me even more is I don't think our elected officials really want to attack it head on.
Because honestly, Rush, I'm the kind of guy that writes my congressman and my senator uh when when something bothers me.
And uh I've already written to Senator Bye, and I've already written to Representative Burton.
And uh, you know, I I don't see news bites or sound bites of the of these gentlemen, you know, stepping out in the forefront and saying, hey, you know, we've got a real problem here.
Uh you're not and you're not gonna see it.
You're you're not you're not gonna see it, Jeff.
Uh uh this is it's part of what's madly.
I think you'd be surprised uh at how many people are upset about this.
Maybe be afraid to say something about it because it is being cast as a civil rights issue now.
There's more people that are scratching their heads and and and and inspired to action on this, and they have been for a while, than you know.
And if this thing comes off Monday as they are talking about it coming off, if it comes off as uh as large, if they if they succeed in shutting down cities, and that's their stated objective.
If they succeed in boycotting all these uh uh enterprises, work and business and so forth, believe me, at some point the American people may be slow to action, maybe slow to be motivated, but at some point there's gonna be a tipping point or a uh uh the jump the shark moment, as it's as it's called in uh in entertainment.
The jump the shark moment in a TV show is when a TV show does something so silly and so stupid it never recovers.
And it actually has roots in an in an actual show.
It was uh it was happy days.
And Fonsey.
They had Fonzi out water skiing with his greasy hair and his leather jacket.
And he actually saw a shark out there in the water, he jumped the shark, jumped over the shark.
That was the that was the last, that was it for Happy Days.
It never recovered from that silly episode.
So the jump the shark moment, and every every instance in life has a jump the shark moment, and uh I think it's already happened in this in this case, but you're not gonna hear politicians address it.
You know, it's amazing.
You have the port deal, and we saw them react the way uh they did there, but they see that this is about votes, new votes ten, twenty years down the road.
They are afraid to anger uh any of these new voters, and they're basically telling citizens, you know, screw you.
We know that you're not going anywhere.
You know you got to vote, uh, and you're gonna vote for us and against us.
But these are new, these are new prospects, and we're gonna go mine these prospects.
Screw you, citizens.
Our interest is with these illegals and the oppressed and and so forth and and so on.
Just bide bide your time out there.
Uh there's uh oftentimes things percolate underneath the surface before the bubbles reach the surface.
And it may be where we are here.
This is uh Star Spangled Banner in Spanish, changing the lyrics around.
Uh if uh if if nobody officially speaks out against this, uh you might have a third-party candidate uh erupt over this.
Any number of things are uh are possible.
Jeff, I'm glad you call once more, folks.
The uh telephone number, 15 year anniversary to cure leukemia and lymphoma on this program, our curaton.
Phone numbers eight seven seven three seven nine eight eight eight eight, or go to rushlimbaugh.com.
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You see pictures of our wonderful premiums that we are uh offering.
And uh again, we're running way ahead of last year.
We're tracking way ahead of last year in terms of donations.
Uh and that's that's just that is it's just great.
It's fabulous.
Uh given all of the uh doom and gloom pressures and portrayals that the drive-by media features each and every day.
Quick time out, back with more in just a sec.
And we're back on open line Friday little news here, uh, ladies and gentlemen from Durham, North Carolina.
The national chairman of the new Black Panther Party for self-defense, Malik Zulu Shabaz says that uh his group intends to march at Duke University on Monday to deal directly with lacrosse players about charges of rape of an escort service dancer in a team party.
Uh Duke's campus cops coordinating with the Durham Cops to uh prepare for the Black Separatist Group, which has a reputation for coming to protest armed.
Uh Shabazz, a Washington lawyer, leader of the new Panthers, and he'll be in Durham to rally with local black leaders and monitor progress of the criminal case.
He said we uh we're going to conduct independent investigation.
We intend to enter the campus and interview lacrosse players.
We seek to ensure an adequate, strong, and vigorous prosecution.
I'm all for this.
About time somebody showed up.
Al Sharpton uh hadn't gotten there yet.
And the uh uh Reverend uh Dax, hmm.
Where's he?
Uh there's a vacuum, there's a void, and it's being filled by Malik Zulu Shabazz of the new Black Panther Party going in for justice uh in uh Durham, North Carolina.
Dan in St. Louis.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you so much, Rush.
This is just a real privilege to get uh to talk to you.
You know, there's been uh numerous times I've wanted to call about various topics, and I thought, you know, I'll never I'll never get through.
Well, I'm this is so this is the very first time I've gotten through, very first time I've called, but I wanted to just take this opportunity to personally thank you for my daughter and my family for what you do for the leukemia lymphoma society.
When my daughter was seven, Martha, she uh was diagnosed with ALL T cell leukemia, uh, went through two and a half years of chemotherapy, she had 10 spinal and twelve cerebral radiation treatments.
She was one sick girl for a very long time.
Uh she's sixteen now, uh, I should say that, and she's doing fantastic.
The um leukemia.
Oh, that's fabulous.
That's that's that's fabulous.
Yeah, well, yeah, thank you so much.
Uh leukemia lymphoma society is one of the most fantastic organizations out there.
Their local chapters in particular, they have so many things that they do.
I you know, I realize that there is a a tremendous nationwide um research effort, which I I truly believe that that my daughter was a recipient of the millions of dollars that are donated from uh people like your your listeners.
Um that that have enabled my daughter uh to be here today.
But they do so much more than even that.
They have uh in their local chapters, and you're you're you're well aware of this.
I guess I'm just saying this for for your listeners and trying to encourage them, I guess, uh, to continue their wonderful participation uh is they have they have so many things that they do for the families also.
You know, when when a child uh has cancer, the entire family has cancer.
I mean, it's it's it's a devastating thing.
Yeah, you know, and and and you're right, it's it's one of the uh one of the unheralded and unknown things that the uh leukemia lymphoma society does.
Patient services, family services.
Because uh these these uh these treatments and and they're they're time consuming, they are uh expensive, they uh they're they're things that that you cannot avoid, you have to do them.
Uh it changes everybody's priorities?
And the uh society, Leukemia Lymphoma Society, is there uh to assist not just in the research and treatment of the actual disease, but in the the human aspects uh that uh uh are involved after such uh a shocking diagnosis.
I'm glad that uh you called Dan, and I appreciate all the great news uh about your sixteen-year-old daughter.
But I'm told that the uh it's it may be tough for some of you to get into the website.
That's amazing because we got a server farm that is unrivaled.
Uh, it must be busy out there.
Keep trying and be patient.
All right, folks, sit tight.
Another exciting hour of broadcast excellence straight ahead of you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
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