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April 28, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2006, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you, the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know what?
You know what open line Friday means, folks.
When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
800-282-288-2, the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
Have you seen they're polling Hillary Rodham Clinton?
She does better when she's uh Well, as it goes, is there the approval numbers are higher with the name Rodham.
If you poll Hillary Rodham Clinton, her numbers go higher than if you just poll Hillary Clinton.
Now that there must be a sign of desperation here if they're if if they're if they're getting into that degree of specificity.
Uh uh, folks, it's great to have you with us.
All right, I'm trying to understand an email note I just got.
It's confusing.
But the bottom line is is that we are outpacing ourselves this year over last year in our leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon.
This is our 15-year anniversary.
And the uh uh we have we have uh we've passed the we'll soon pass the $15 million mark, and that's incredible because we do this in one day.
Actually, in less than three hours a year.
Uh, we do this.
And we don't go wall to wall on the program.
And with the uh economic news that's uh just I'm talking about the news.
The economy's roaring.
Everything is is is good.
Gas prices are up.
Uh, we were all a little bit uh curious to see how we would do this year, because we've never had a year that was down over the previous year, and this year you're outpacing yourselves incredibly, and uh the vast majority of the uh don't not a vast majority, but a lot of the donations.
Uh it's interesting to note two cultural shifts are coming in at Rush Limbaugh.com.
There are two ways to donate.
Both are easy.
877-379-8888, or go to Rush Limbaugh.com uh and just hit on the yellow button there.
Uh donate now, and you can see the the premiums that we're offering with uh uh sixty dollar contribution uh and three hundred dollar contribution.
Now, this is the last hour, uh, and I I have to stress to you that that uh we are all amazed at the efforts that you are making.
It is just incredible.
Uh fifteen years of doing this and every year is better than the previous.
And it just again uh confirms for me the depth of uh of loyalty that those of you have in this audience uh for this program and the things that uh we get involved in.
This, of course, is very meaningful one.
This is this is real-world stuff.
Uh leukemia, lymphoma, blood cancers.
The Leukemia Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization.
It's dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services.
Uh they do international work, uh, they fund research at home and abroad, and the mission's very simple to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma.
Uh, it in the process improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
740,000 patients and their families are living with these diseases today, as well as 110,000 newly diagnosed patients every year.
Now, during this program, 18 people will die uh of one of these cancers.
We haven't gotten the point where everyone is saved.
Uh leukemia, number one cancer killer of children under the age 20.
The most common form of childhood leukemia now, however, has an overall survival rate that's risen to 86% since last year.
Lymphoma is diagnosed in 63,000 Americans every year, 20,000 succumbed to the disease.
Uh the five-year survival rate's risen from 47% in 1974 to 60% today, and this is incredible for children.
That survival rate is up now to an amazing 96%.
Now, Hodgkin's disease.
Hodgkin's disease today is considered One of the most curable forms of blood cancers.
The five-year survival rate is now 85%, even higher for those under 20.
Myeloma, that's cancer of the plasma cells.
Fifty-five thousand Americans currently live with this disease.
There are 15,000 new patients diagnosed every year.
This disease rarely strikes those under the age of 50 myeloma.
The five-year survival rate's only 32%.
It's especially deadly for African Americans and those of European descent.
Now here's this sums up the battle.
The five-year survival and cure rates for these diseases have improved markedly since the 1970s.
The leukemia lymphoma society's research has produced quick results.
And I talk every year about Glevec.
Glevec is a drug that has helped turn certain cancers that might have been fatal into chronic conditions for many patients, now been approved for treatment of three other cancers.
So research by the society has applications beyond blood cancers, too.
Bone marrow transplants, remember those?
Those were pioneered by researchers of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
And this year, uh the Society will commit $50 million to research alone.
75% of all money donated goes directly to research, to patients, and support services.
Now, I've I've worked with these people for fifteen years at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
They are committed.
They're some of the finest and most committed people I've met.
Most of them have been touched in some way personally by these diseases.
Their friends, their families, even themselves, they've been hit by these potential killers, and that's that's what spurs the work that they do.
It's been an exciting time to be part of all this, folks.
We we were talking about this last year.
All the hard work and the dedication, along with your generosity, is really starting to produce results.
Get this.
Many of the breaks or breakthroughs that we are starting to see today began about the time we became a part of this 15 years ago.
And your donations provide the seed money that lead to these advances.
Progress is happening at a rapid clip.
The cure gets closer each and every day.
And we uh again uh talking about the uh loyalty and the support that all of you have uh contributed to this program, sponsors and such uh uh endeavors as the Curathon here just blow me away.
I've I'm constantly in awe of it.
It seems not no regardless what's going on in the in the country or in the world, whatever the economic circumstances, uh you are always there.
And as I say, I I've uh I've made my own donation.
I did so a couple months ago to kick things off, so I'm in there with you, uh, and I'm proud to be, but it's uh it's all of you who make this happen.
This is to me quite quite a great contrast because if you if you live inside the media bubble, and by that I mean if you get up every day turning in the news and let that determine your mood and your outlook and your opinion of what's going on in the country, you'd have to be pretty depressed, which is their objective.
You'd have to be pretty pessimistic.
And yet, you're not.
I know you're not.
I talk, well, you get you get upset about certain things.
I can hear it on the phones and read it in the email, but uh here we have a respite from that.
We're actually talking about something that's good.
Uh uh we're talking about positive things that are being accomplished.
I'm happy to share those with you.
I'm happy to tell you that you are fundamental part of it.
And it's just a it's a great break from the constant reaction to all of the doom and gloom pessimism and fighting that out.
I don't mind doing it.
I love doing it, but the fact is that you all need a break from it.
We all do now and then uh during the normal course of events, not just on the weekends.
And this is an uplifting day for all of us here because it's uh it's it's it's work that leads directly to the improvement of people's lives.
We are in the in the purest sense.
This is all about people helping people.
And uh nobody asks, where's the money going?
Uh is it going to a bunch of people I may not like to get it?
Nobody has any questions.
There are no races, there are no religions, there are no creeds, there are no ideologies here.
Uh people don't raise these questions.
They simply want to help.
You do.
And uh you have you have made this fifteen years what it is, and now that you're outpacing it, I'm I uh you know I wonder, should I say we're outpacing ourselves?
Because would that maybe say to some people, well, okay, I can slow down and I don't need to get no folks.
Let's continue to set records here.
Remember, it doesn't take sixty or three hundred or whatever.
It five bucks.
There are so many of you in this audience.
And how hard can it be to go to Rushlimbaugh.com.
You might take a while to get in.
I'm told that there's some um odd stuff happening out there, I think, internet wide.
I've even had uh uh uh not a tough time getting in, but it's been slow loading, uh our website has, and I'm sure that's because of all the activity because the the uh numbers of uh of donations we are collecting through the website today now larger than via the phone.
So there probably is a lot of traffic.
If you're encountering uh difficulty getting in, be patient.
Uh the uh mechanisms to donate will be operating throughout the uh the entire weekend.
The telephone number is eight seven seven three seven nine eight eight eight eight, or just go to rushlimbaugh.com and when you go to rushlimbaug.com uh you can see the fantastic premiums that we are offering with uh certain levels of contribution.
Thanks again, folks.
I I can't I can't tell you how proud I am of uh uh all of you and and uh uh how happy I am to have the opportunity to be part of this with you.
Back uh after this as we move on with the rest of today's program.
Okay, back to the phones at 800 two eight two two eight eight two, Mike in uh Amarillo, Texas.
Great to have you, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh, appreciate you taking my call.
Yes.
Uh first off, I'd like to say congratulations on your uh successful charity work.
I think it's pr pretty neat.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh very nice of you to say I really appreciate that.
Well, uh we're well deserved, and uh also appreciate you uh doing God's work.
I'll tell you, you do a great job in educating uh a lot of us.
One of the uh things I did want to mention was the hundred dollar fuel rebate that they are considering.
And uh get your thoughts.
Uh wonder if uh that's gonna be uh considered taxable income.
Uh you know damn well it would be.
I mean, the the this this the more I think about this, the more like a slut I feel.
I mean, I mean to think that we can be bought off for a hundred bucks.
I my don't buy me off.
Don't I can't be bought off.
I don't have a price.
You can't buy me off.
Snerdley's asking me, okay, what's my price?
You know, I don't do I don't I I've never had a lap dance.
Brian tells you you get a couple lap dances for a hundred bucks.
You can't you can't probably couldn't hire a stripper for a lacrosse team party for that.
I know you couldn't.
This is so silly.
They have just told me what they think I can be bought off for.
All of us.
We are such an itty about gas leave.
They send us a hundred bucks, and by the way, it'll be income.
You have to uh you have to pay you have to pay tax on that.
Yeah, the government will get at least twenty bucks of it back.
So uh what, Mr. Snurler?
What don't even suggest snurly saying you send out a check for five hundred, they'd get some votes.
Uh I'm I'm sad to say that you're probably right.
Some people could be bought for five hundred bucks.
But the idea that they're trying to buy us off for a hundred bucks.
What was it?
Didn't it didn't James Carville when they were when they were uh uh talking about the Paula Jones episode, didn't didn't James Carvel say, yeah, it's amazing what you found out when you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer pocket.
It wasn't Carvel who said that.
Yeah, drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer pocket.
Look what you gotta get.
Big hand be I've hand you uh bumpkin.
Where's my gumbo?
But this was a Republican idea, folks.
It uh some some some Republican senator came up with this idea.
Speaking of the uh speaking of the economy, two two small but illustrative examples.
Uh the GDB growth rate was four point eight percent in the first quarter.
That's astounding.
That is real growth.
And the headline, and this is uh Dow Jones News.
Headline U.S. first quarter GDP rises slightly below expectations.
The U.S. economy roared out of a soft patch on its fastest run in nearly three years during the first quarter, powered by consumer and business spending.
Gross domestic product increased.
The story is all about the great news.
The headline, U.S. first quarter GDP rises slightly below expectations.
And that's because some experts out there were expecting a growth rate of five point zero percent.
Then there was the uh we we talked about this earlier in the week.
Uh a couple days ago.
The Wall Street Journal had a headline, Republicans SAG in new poll.
This was the generic ballot poll that the NBC News Washington Post uh uh uh poll came out with.
The truth of the story was that Republicans gained a net of seven points on the generic congressional ballot.
They went from a thirteen point deficit uh in March to a six-point deficit in April.
The Republican deficit on the generic congressional ballot is now the smallest it's been since July of two thousand five.
Uh and and uh it it yet they report that Republicans are sagging in the polls.
We we don't let them get away with that uh here, uh ladies and gentlemen.
Uh by the way, I I I know I guess I'm getting upset over nothing over this hundred bucks because I'm not even gonna get it.
Because I'm not entitled.
The hundred bucks is only going to go to low income households.
Is that I thought it was for everybody, but it's only low-income households.
100 bucks to low income households.
Uh so the the evil rich uh the upper middle class I mean ever nobody gets it.
Just the the the uh the low-income households.
What's low income defined by or as we know?
If I mean for the purposes of this program.
It's under a so if you make less than 125 grand, that's low income now, huh?
I can't believe that.
125 uh Dawn gave us that.
Dawn wants to get in the show prep business now.
Um, if it's 125 grand, 125 grand.
Interesting definition of low income.
Back when Mondale wanted to raise taxes on the rich, it was 70,000 and above.
Now for the purposes of gasoline, it's a hundred and twenty-five thousand or less.
It's maddening.
Uh uh, Paul in Winnipeg, Canada.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thank you.
I'm on my last day of a four-week tour in Canada, you know, with the Hapler Mobile Design Center, and I used to suffer EIB withdrawals when I was in Canada, but you told me once nobody ever died from them, so but I now have uh 247 and I go on my wireless uh laptop, and there you are, no matter whether I'm here or Mexico or wherever.
But the reason I called, I'm going to throw out a challenge to my long all trucker driver friends and uh people that listen on multiple stations.
I'm on four hundred and ninety-one stations at the moment, and I'm contributing four hundred and ninety-one dollars.
And I want everybody else that listens on multiple stations to uh contribute a dollar for each station.
That's an excellent idea.
That's a fabulous idea.
You're the guy that's traveling the the northern hemisphere, visiting every market where this prate uh program has an affiliate, right?
Right.
I'm I've been to 491 so far.
And I'm striving for all of them, but I don't know if that'll ever happen or not.
They're getting harder and harder to come by because you know there's not many that still left out there.
There's a hundred or so, but I hope to reach five hundred by the end of the year.
Uh well, that's only eight to go.
What do you sound like you're slacking off?
It's harder and harder to come by now, you know.
Because everywhere I go, I've been there already.
Well, you've still got you've still got a hundred to go.
Yeah, I can uh I can do it over the next uh six, seven years.
I probably get them all.
Now, actually, if you go to Charlotte and Atlanta, you'll kill two birds because we're on an AM and FM in both those markets.
Yeah, yeah.
Well I've uh I uh work out of North Carolina, so I've listened to the Charlotte stations already in Atlanta, and uh I'm gonna be in Mexico in October, so I'll give you a call when I'm in Mexico.
I bet nobody ever called you from Mexico.
Um not that we know of anyway.
Well, I'll call you because I'm with the 24-7 uh thing I can get you on my little wireless internet laptop that I carry with me, and uh so I'm never out of touch.
I don't have to go through them withdrawals anymore.
Well, as I say, nobody ever died from them.
It just it's painful, it's nerve wracking, but look, you survived.
Yeah, I'll I'll make it, sure.
Sure.
Good.
Give up the good work and um and uh everybody out there that's listening on multiple stations, come up with a buck for each station.
Paul, thank you so much.
That's uh that's that's very nice of you, and I appreciate the call.
I appreciate uh uh effort that you're making out there to uh combine his work with uh with EIB.
I remember when he was uh going into Cape Girarde, Missouri, uh my hometown.
He wanted a name of a restaurant uh to go to.
So uh gave him that, set him up.
Uh he's still out there plugging away and four hundred and ninety-one bucks for the leukemia lymphoma Society of America Curathon here on the EIB network from uh Paul.
Maybe by that time by the time you get to Mexico, we'll have a pirate station down there in Warez, uh just right across the Rio Grande from uh from El Paso.
We're gonna try to pull that off back after this.
Stay with us.
Thank you.
Gracias.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh EIB microphone.
Listen to this.
As of 2.15 this afternoon, our total number of pledges, both via the telephone and rush limbaugh.com, surpassed the mark of the entire three-hour program last year.
So at 2 15, it's about uh that's Eastern time, a little over 15 minutes ago, we exceeded the number of pledges in all three hours last year.
Uh it's it folks, this is amazing.
It it literally is amazing.
We are in stunned awe here, all of us, uh, watching these totals come in.
Uh thank you, thank you so much.
Here again, the number, eight seven seven three seven nine eight eight eight eight to contribute via the phone and rush limbaugh.com if you want to do it online.
Credit card info totally protected, totally secure.
NSA will not get it, CIA won't get it, Washington Post won't get it, Dana Priest won't get it.
Um we have uh here's here's the breakdown in this hundred bucks from the New York Times.
The one hundred dollar payment would not be tied to gasoline consumption.
It would be sent to taxpayers at the end of the summer, going to single filing taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes below a hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, and to couples earning less than two hundred and eighteen nine fifty.
Uh the finance committee estimated that at least a hundred million taxpayers would uh qualify.
Senate Finance Committee.
Hundred million taxpayers are qualify.
Now, how many of these people do you think have never driven a car?
How many people have never driven a car are going to get a hundred dollar rebate?
And it's not tied to how much gas you consume, it's the end of the summer.
So here we are.
We're almost at the beginning of May.
May, June, July, August.
So by that time, five or six hurricanes will have wiped out five or six more cities, and uh the press is gonna be skyrocketing.
And a hundred dollars will mean diddly squat.
And yet people will be running around, can't wait for my hundred dollar check.
Oh, I can't wait for it.
All right, I gotta go back.
Final excerpt for my interview with Paul Greengrass for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
He's the writer director of uh United 93, which premieres tonight.
You should see it.
It's not too late.
It's not it is not too soon.
It is, if anything, too late.
But the time is right.
Uh we've got the interview coming up soon in the next three or four weeks when the issue comes out.
We seldom do this, but because of the timeliness of the uh premiere tonight, I wanted to share with you just some excerpts of the uh interview as it was recorded.
You talked about the portrayal of the of the hijackers.
One of the things those four young actors were very thoughtful and and and I thought did a fantastic and very difficult job because they managed to make those young men what they were unexceptional.
Nobody noticed those men in those airplanes that day.
Nobody looked at them and thought you look suspicious.
They were entirely unexceptional, but yet capable of of immense violence.
Exactly.
But here's the thing.
I think what they've managed to do on uh in this film, and uh it's something uh I'm I'm I'm so proud of them for doing it.
They convey something I think's really important for us.
There were two hijacks on the morning of nine-eleven.
There was the hijack that we know about, the hijack of air of the airplanes with the innocent people that flew into the buildings and all the terrible death and destruction that occurred as a result.
But there was a second hijack that took place that day.
The hijack of a religion by a bunch of young men who twisted and perverted it in order to create a creed and an ideology to justify the slaughter of innocent people.
And that's a a hijack that is still out there today.
It's still going on today, and it's going to be very hard for us to work out what to do to deal with that.
Well, see, I I I think when I'm being repetitive, but I think what to do about it took place on United 93.
But you know you talked about the the the actors who played the uh the hijackers and the terrorists on the plane, and and your purpose wasn't to make a statement here, and you were not trying to calculate uh reactions that people might have to the ground personnel in Rome, New York and at the air traffic center.
But let me tell you something, when I watched the movie, and I was very curious to see how this was all going to be done.
I mean, there's I didn't I I was frustrated at the inability of the ground personnel to figure out what was going on and do anything about it, but I was angry at the hijackers, Paul.
Yeah.
You conveyed that.
And that's where the anger belongs.
Nobody else is responsible for that that day.
But of course.
Of course, you know.
Um, we're responsible for their actions.
They were.
And you and you didn't hide that, and you didn't sympathize with them, and you didn't give them reasons in your movie that might explain why they were doing this.
It was just cut and dry.
It was it's really, really well done.
But let me I've got a sp a couple questions about the ground perspective.
It happens more than you would know.
But isn't it but isn't it interesting, you know?
Isn't it interesting that we can have this discussion?
You know, there's a lot of common ground, and and we have to build on that.
That's Paul Greengrass, the uh producer or the director and writer of United Ninety Three, which opens tonight uh in countless uh theaters and cineplexes, multiplexes uh all over the country.
John in uh uh my near Illinois, welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Yes.
Ditto.
Uh glad to finally talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I have a question about cigar band etiquette.
Yes.
Uh I have a debate with a friend of mine who's a big liberal uh about leaving the cigar band on when you smoke a cigar.
What did the liberal say about that?
He said to leave it on.
I say take it off.
My point is you don't need to be, you know, showing people, hey, look, I got my cigar here, I bought this expensive cigar I'm smoking, and his point is leave it on to let people know you're smoking an expensive cigar.
Liberal says that?
Yes.
A liberal wants to brag about how expensive his cigar is and show off and say, Look what I have that you don't.
Uh, he's a doctor, he has a Mercedes.
Amazing.
Well, there is there is no one answer.
This is it's a it's a total personal preference question.
Um a lot of people will leave the band on uh because they love the look of it.
I mean, it's the some of these cigar bands are just they're they're like the opus X from uh and I don't want to leave anybody out here.
Uh uh the Opus X band is just it's it's a work of art.
The Fuente Fuente Opus X. And you have uh uh the Ashton VSG.
I mean, I I I start going down the list with these.
The um uh uh uh the I s well right now I've I've got a La Flor Dominicana double lighter chisel going.
And it's a great looking band.
And I um uh I leave them on, I take them off.
It it's a lot of people leave them on uh so that their fingers will not become uh nicotine stained.
Uh huh.
Uh and they they use the band as uh installation for that, and also as a point where to stop smoking it, uh if it lasts that long.
So it's personal preference, it really is.
There is no single uh answer in cigar etiquette as to leave the band on or take it off.
Okay, in fact, uh the uh m my my best advice is leave it on because sometimes you can destroy the cigar trying to take it off.
If you if you try to slide this the the band off and it's on tight, you might rip the wrapper leaf.
If you try to pick it away and unglue it, uh part of it part of the glue might have attached to the wrapper leaf, and when you take the band off it pull some of the wrapper off at the same time, you don't want that to happen.
Uh the because the rappers re get the flavor, and if that comes off, you can't smoke the cigar.
Okay, well, this is great.
I can tell him now that Rush Limbaugh agrees with him and he agrees with Rush Limbaugh.
There you go.
And you will have ruined his day.
And he'll probably he'll probably uh start taking cigar bands off now.
Could be.
All right.
Thanks, uh, thanks for the call call out there, John.
I appreciate it.
Mike in Boston, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
For us, L T L F T C longtime listener.
Hey, uh I spent a lot of time and money trying to get into the best graduate school in the country, and I've learned a lot from this uh whole immigration debate.
I now understand that the more practical approach would have been to pack all my bags, move into Harvard University, and become an undocumented student and stay there until they gave me a diploma.
And then I could leave and show up at Ted Kennedy's office and move in with there until I became become an undocumented stock worker until I got the ideal job I wanted.
Very ingenious of you, sir.
In all seriousness, my my wife came from China, and we waited two years for her parents to be able to come and visit and see our first child.
There's a lot of people around the world, asylum seekers, people in desperate needs in a lot of different countries, and by letting people strong arm their way into the country because of their proximity, uh, we really give an unfair advantage.
We let some people step on on others.
I wonder if we could do the same thing with our tax policy instead of uh distributing it to an expensive administration.
Hey, we can just dump all the funds on the White House doorstep every year, and those who are closest and the first ones there can pick them up and run away with it rather than trying to give it to the poor and needy people that need it.
You uh you you don't know how how right you are.
Because folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
We do have limits on immigration.
Yeah, big time limits.
And I went through this.
I've read the uh the actual numbers.
Uh if you are educated, highly educated in certain types of uh businesses, uh medicine, uh computer high technology, uh these kind of things, uh you are limited.
We limit uh the number of people with those skills in that education level to sixty-five thousand a year.
Uh and uh yet on the other end of the scale, we're we're not making really too many serious efforts government-wise, to stem the tide of people who don't even have high school diplomas.
Now, as a believer in markets, as a believer in markets, can one find an answer to this apparent confusing disparity.
If we're going to have immigration, why wouldn't we want the best and brightest to get in in greater numbers?
Well, because we don't want that many best and brightest competing with our own homegrown talent for the pick of the litter jobs.
Uh but but on the when I'm just giving you the theory, not mine.
I'm just giving you the theory.
Then you get but uh the jobs that Americans won't do.
The uh the the low rent jobs out there that don't pay much while you got we gotta have those jobs filled.
Uh we just have to do it.
And there's a certain kind of person that's gonna do it, look forward to having it.
And it isn't gonna be one of these highly educated, uh very accomplished uh immigrants.
Uh in fact, you remember um we've had TJ, what's his name from the semiconductor?
TJ Rogers.
Uh uh has a semiconductor company out in California.
I assume he still does if he hasn't sold it and gone off now to Hawaii.
Uh and and uh the he he called about, he talked about this to us a couple times about the limits they because uh they're the best.
I mean the the some of the best people and and the brightest people he can get are not allowed to come in.
And then we had people call us, yeah.
He just wants to get them because they're cheaper than uh than um than Americans, and he maintained that wasn't the case.
Uh he's he's so it's look, it's a it's a it's a giant mixture of contradictions.
You think we don't have any limits on immigration, and we sure as hell do, and we police them like crazy depending on who you are.
But then when we have no limits and we don't seem to care, uh that that's a certain uh class of immigrant that and that's what all this is about this weekend or May Yeah, what is it, May 1st?
Monday.
Yeah, big day on Monday, big shutdown, big it's it'd be an excellent shopping day.
Uh schools won't be as crowded, uh, emergency rooms won't be as crowded, hospitals won't be as crowded.
Uh It's a great in fact it'd be a great day to look for a job, too, folks, uh, because a lot of people will be going to be taking off work uh to go uh participate in this big big time march.
And actually, it's going to be safer on the roads because you're gonna have a lot fewer uninsured motorists out there because they're all going to be on the protest march.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Have you heard about the story that the uh a bunch of uh uh congressmen showed up at a at a at a rally at a DC gas station to hold a uh a gripe session on rising gas prices, and they showed up in their Yukons, their Chevy suburbans, and their Lincoln Town cars.
Now, is there a mixed message here uh or or not?
Dana Milbank, Washington Post reporter, took an informal poll of staffer and congressional cars parked along Delaware Avenue by comparing cars displaying Democrat stickers versus those displaying Republican stickers to see which cars got more miles per gallon.
Did Democrats beat Republicans by five miles per gallon?
They were unable to find out how many miles per gallon uh uh the Senator Burr in North Carolina's VW thing got.
Uh it just it's ridiculous.
And now uh oil prices uh is down uh to below 71 dollars, and the gasoline price has leveled off.
Uh at it says here two dollars uh national average at uh two ninety-two for regular unleaded, fifty percent higher than the prices were in February, but not yet reflecting the declines in the futures and the uh wholesale market.
So here is uh Steve in Independence, Kentucky.
Hi, Steve, welcome.
Yes, sir.
Truly an honor and a pleasure.
Uh you are the conscience of America.
Thank you, sir.
Uh if I could, a quick hello to my mom and dad in Lake Placid, Florida, big fans of yours.
Um, with the draft coming up, um, could we look back instead of forward?
I grew up in Miami, a big Dolphin fan.
You're a big uh Pittsburgh Steeler fan.
Absolutely love Dan Marino.
Um how did Pittsburgh pass on him if they had taken him with their defense and running game all those years?
A lot of teams passed on Marino in the first round because I forget there were a bunch of rumors out there about uh I forget what they were, but uh uh uh people were stunned that he was still available for Miami to take.
Uh if the Steelers had had uh Marino, uh I mean, who knows what the uh uh changes would have been, but it would Marina was a better quarterback than anybody they had during that same period.
So there's no question it would have changed the dynamic of the team.
Uh Steve, thanks much.
I have to run here.
I want to just say one more thing here about our fifteen year anniversary uh for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Uh records have been set today.
Uh we didn't know what to expect starting today.
What with the uh constant inundation of uh negative news and the uh the high gasoline price now that is uh crimping a lot of uh people's wallets and lifestyles, but you triumphed, folks.
Uh we did it together.
Uh we're setting records here in the the donation channels are gonna be open throughout the weekend.
The number is 877-379-8888, or you can go to Rush Limbaugh.com, just click on the donate now button right at the top of the page, bright yellow.
And uh there you can also see what our super duper premium items are for sixty dollar contribution and three hundred dollar contribution.
Doesn't take that though to make a difference here.
And uh, you know, we had a call yesterday from a woman in San Diego want to know what she could do but to make a difference to the gas price.
And they really not much.
She wanted to know if she should join a boycott.
A lot of people say we want to make a difference.
Uh I'm not a big fan of that term, but in this instance, uh, since it means something universal to people, I will use it.
Uh you have made a huge difference today, and you're you're I'm sure this is not the first year uh that any of you, most of you have donated.
It's something that you uh you do every year.
We appreciate it.
Uh the people at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society uh asked me to pass along their their deepest gratitude, uh, and I offer you mine as well.
Uh you're just the best.
You are the best audience in all of media, bar none.
And that's it for us, folks.
Uh, thanks so much again for all of your uh support and uh participation in the uh leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon.
I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Uh website phone number that I've been giving you is still open for donations throughout the weekend.
And we'll be back and see you Monday with eagerness.
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