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March 26, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2007, Monday, Hour #3
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We have, yeah, we got some Chuck Hagel sound bites here.
Snurdry and I just talking about this.
Can't figure it out here.
Can't figure out what the political upside for Chuck Hagel is and all this rap that he's gotten into.
Now talking about the president might be impeached or could be impeachable.
I just can't figure it out unless he's running for the Democrat nomination.
I don't know what Chuck Hagel's up to.
I literally, you know, and I'm one of the brainiest political analysts out there.
And this is senseless.
I cannot detect an intelligent motive for this.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
But we got some more audio soundbites here on the whole Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards situation.
Let's go to Slay the Nation.
The host, Bob Schaeffer, was talking to David Brooks, who is the conservative columnist at the New York Times.
And Bob Schieffer said, a very unusual occurrence in a campaign last week.
John Edwards and his wife come out.
She says that her cancer has come back, but he's going to keep on with a campaign where you surprise David Brooks that this became something people sort of talked about.
I found out rather odd.
Bob, how could you had a press conference, Bob?
What's everybody supposed to do about it?
Schieffer found it odd.
Everybody was talking about it.
I was saying, I don't want to talk about a woman facing really sobering odds in a political sense.
I thought nobody's going to talk about that publicly.
Well, I'll talk about it privately.
But everyone's talking about it publicly.
The idea that this is impact, that is going to have.
Yeah, political analysis on someone's really horrible disease.
And there's a new world where everything's open.
Yeah, he's right about that.
It just sounds surprised at it.
I have been warning you people that has been happening for many, many moons.
MySpace, YouTube, everybody in the world out there wants to be known.
But we're going to talk about it privately.
What's the difference of talking about it privately and publicly?
You can talk about it at your cocktail parties, but don't go on television to talk about it.
But I mean, despite all of that, the question from Schieffer still boggles the mind.
Were you surprised, David?
People sort of talked about it.
I found that rather odd.
I mean, is it the whole point that people were supposed to talk about it?
Isn't that what a public press conference is for?
Is to provide news, generate conversation.
I'd say sometimes I sit here and I marvel at the blockheadedness of these people who claim to be the first and foremost guarantors of our Constitution.
Now, on the Today Show today, Meredith Vieira interviewed Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry.
And Meredith Vieira said, hey, Teresa, you know to some extent what it means to be called a distraction because back in 2004, I mean, you're a very outspoken lady, and sometimes your words were used against your husband.
So what do you think the Edwards are up against here in terms of the political arena?
Elizabeth is facing terrible odds.
She's a brave person.
I've lost people in my life suddenly.
And all I can say is not just my late husband.
Not having had time to say goodbye was very hard.
Yeah.
And so I would make certain choices.
Everybody makes their choice.
Oh, okay.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry, I'm interpreting this as that she's saying she would do something different than what the Edwards have done.
And by the way, I warned you people, well, I told you back in the 2004 campaign, when this woman shows up, she will not stop talking about her first husband, who was John Hines.
And there's Lurch sitting there.
Lurch is sitting, and he's always sitting there when she does this.
She can't get it.
She refers to him as, by the way, this is the first time I've heard of her late husband.
I'm sure she said it before.
Usually she just says my husband with Lurch sitting there.
All right.
Let's talk about the Iranian situation, shall we, with the Brits.
There's a fascinating story today, or actually yesterday from the Los Angeles Times, capture of British sailors all too familiar.
By the way, Scott Ott of Scrappleface had a great idea to solve this crisis.
He suggested that, well, what he suggested, Dick Cheney suggested that we trade Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the British hostages.
That all it would take is an executive order, presidential executive order, and Karl Rove could handle that so that Bush need not be bothered with the details.
And that there would be a little poetic justice here in trading Jimmy Carter to the Iranians for the 15 British hostages.
Anyway, this L.A. Times piece, capture of British sailors is all too familiar.
Iran also seized three servicemen in 2004, but this time raises added alarm.
And let me read to you one of the quotes here from the story.
One of the 2004 detainees, Marine Corporal Christopher, said the captives were treated fairly well and were subjected to no physical abuse.
But they were subjected to mental abuse, he said.
There were the mock executions.
Basically, they were taking us from one of the rooms to the toilet, and when you turn your head, hear the cock of their weapon and them laughing, and then they'd carry you on.
A televised clip showed the men walking blindfolded through the desert, and they were later forced into a ditch.
There they heard the cocking of weapons from the edge as if the pit was intended as their grave.
Now, what is this referred to here in the Los Angeles Times?
Why, this is referred to as mental abuse, is it not?
Why is it what we just heard described here called torture?
The Iranians paraded the Brits that they captured in 2004 on television blindfolded, which, by the way, that is a violation of the left's precious Geneva Conventions.
You don't blindfold prisoners.
We never hear any criticism of the Iranians or Islamofascists in the way they conduct their prisoner of war tactics.
Now we have the distinction between mental and physical abuse.
Mental abuse, that's fine.
The word torture, which actually applies here, is never used in this L.A. Times piece.
But it gets even better, ladies and gentlemen, because today on the view, Rosie O'Donnell implied that the captured Brit soldiers, the 15 of them, are a contrived Gulf of Tonkin for war with Iran.
Today on The View, Rosie O'Donnell discussed the Iranian seizure, and she gave out false information on national TV and implied that this may be a hoax so as to provide the president with an excuse to go to war.
But interest is her quote, but interesting with the British sailors, there were 15 British sailors and Marines apparently went into Iranian waters.
They were seized by the Iranians.
And I have one thing to say, Gulf of Tonken.
Google it, okay?
Now, Rosie may have missed the news here, but there's a fisherman, an Iraqi fisherman, who was witness to this and said that the Iranians absconded the British soldiers and the Marines in Iraqi waters, that they had not crossed into the waters of Iran.
They were not therefore in Iranian territory.
This guy's identity is being protected in order to protect him.
But you have to ask.
I mean, this woman, Rosie O'Donnell, is no different than the most embarrassing wacko caller we can imagine here.
And if somebody who said the things like Rosie O'Donnell says on The View called this program, she wouldn't last.
We don't tolerate kookery here, even on Open Line Friday, where the rules are somewhat relaxed.
And this woman is arguably now the leader of the program.
And everybody says, well, a lot of people say, I can't believe Barbara Walters is putting up with this.
I can't believe Barbara Walters.
I think Barbara Walters lost control of the show.
It's supposedly her show and so forth.
But look, folks, it's this simple.
When you have a major network like ABC television that has this kind of show on with this host, and this is by no means the first utterance of sheer insanity, if you don't do anything about it, you must want it to air.
You must want this kind of stuff on your network.
That's the way to look at this.
To sit there and say, I can't believe they're not doing anything.
Of course, they're not doing anything about it.
This is why she's there.
Learn it, love it, live it, whatever.
Get used to it.
Yeah, I just thinking about Rosie O'Donnell and you, you lesbians out there, a question for you.
How do you feel?
Because I know a lot of you people on the left out there, lesbians, you group yourselves into groups, obviously.
How is it do you lesbians feel that Rosie O'Donnell is the most prominent spokesman, lesbian spokesman out there?
I would think somebody would make a move to do something.
But I'm telling you, as far as ABC is concerned, that's how they want the program to air.
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We have another Elizabeth Edwards soundbite here.
She was in Cleveland making an appearance.
And this is what she said about telling her children about her cancer.
When we told our children, you know, about this, you know, yes, this could kill Molly.
Anybody at the table going to live forever?
You know, raise your hand if you're going to live forever.
No, we aren't.
So, maybe this conversation about our own mortality allows us to think about how it is we want to use that unknown number of days each of us has.
And if that conversation starts and people start thinking about, you know, how is it that I can do something better for my family, do something better for my community, do something better for my country in those days.
Okay.
Now, I don't have kids, so I have to ask the question.
And I can only ask the question to those of you who have had cancer, who've been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Do you sit them down and tell them, you know, we're all going to die.
You're going to die.
I'm going to die.
We're all going to die.
And we've got to use whatever unknown number of days left we have to do something better for my country and better for our family.
I just, I don't have kids.
I don't know if people with kids talk to them this way.
So I merely ask the question out there.
Melissa in Charlotte, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Well, thank you, sir.
Yes.
When I first heard about this, I guess it would be on Thursday.
I could listen to about, I don't know, five minutes before I got pretty irritated with the whole spectacle of it.
My mother has metastatic breast cancer, stage four, and has been on chemo for almost six years.
The part that irritated me, and it did her, as I spoke to her this weekend about it, was that there are lots of people that go to work that have cancer and that are on chemo.
They go every day.
And they were making her out to be some hero that she was going to go and give some speeches and be on the campaign trail, even though she has cancer.
And I resented them putting her above ordinary Americans.
So you're talking about John Edwards.
You're talking about the media and some political analysts.
I mean, because he puts himself out to be for the regular Joe Schmo person, and that he's for the regular guy like his dad who worked in the mill and came home with cotton in his hair and everything.
And this just shows you that he's not in touch with the American people because there are lots of people, not just cancer, but with other diseases that have to go to work.
They have no choice but to go to work.
Well, you know, this takes us back to the Bob Shrum comment on it with the grab that bite.
I've lost it where it is in the roster.
I don't know what number it is, but grab that.
Let's listen to this again.
Let me know when you've got it ready to go in a machine.
Because I think what you heard there, Melissa, what you were hearing was a drive-by media sympathetic to Democrats.
And of course, when something happens to Democrats or liberals or when liberals or Democrats say something, of course, it's more powerful, more profound, and more brilliant than anything anybody else has said.
Their problems are bigger.
Exactly.
Well, but they know better.
They just have a greater sensitivity than your mother, for example.
Your mother.
You're right.
Your mother may have been going to work for six years under chemo with cancer, but your mother doesn't know anything.
Elizabeth and John Edwards are the arbiters now, and that's what you probably were irritated by.
It is.
But here, listen to the Shrum bite again because I want to ask you a question after this.
So listen to it along with me.
Now, America's different.
And I believe that today people got more education about cancer and how to deal with cancer in one day than they have very often over a long period of time.
Whatever you think of Edwards, whether people vote for him or don't vote for him, whether they vote for Obama or Hillary, there's going to be a tremendous education in breast cancer and cancer generally, how to deal with it.
Yeah, right.
Now, your mother has cancer.
You said for six years, metatastic breast cancer, chemotherapy.
Did you learn anything from this press conference?
Well, no, they didn't even tell you what drug she was on.
They didn't.
Well, I know that's my question.
My point.
But you and your mother are blithering idiots, you see.
You don't really know what you've been through because you haven't had anybody smarter than you tell you.
I mean, she's had it.
She probably found out about it for a week.
So what is, and I was just like aghast that, what do you mean I'm learning something?
I could not figure out what I was supposed to have gotten from her saying, I have stage four cancer, but we're going to go out on a campaign trail.
Well, it's like you said.
I mean, I think if they were trying to impart a lesson, let's grant them the benefit of the doubt.
Well, yeah, boy, you're tough.
Let's pretend they were.
They tried to set an example.
We're not going to change our lives.
Life is going to go on as normal despite this.
We're not going to cower in fear.
We're not going to hide from it.
We're not going to act like it's beaten us down.
Aren't you saying the same thing about your mother when you say other people go to work when they get cancer, that these people are not special?
Aren't you saying, could that not be?
You know, people are always telling us that whenever a celebrity gets anything, any kind of a disease or some sort of problem, whatever it is, they go on television and look at the awareness they're bringing to X and so forth.
And that could be, I think, what they're saying about this.
Well, and I get, and they should have said it in a way, instead of making themselves appear bigger than everyone else, they should have said, you know, if they want to bring awareness, fine.
Say, you know, she has cancer.
She is going to be doing chemo.
We are in awe of other people.
And I'm not talking just about cancer.
Multiple sclerosis is a, you know, a disease that debilitates.
But say once again, often Parkinson's, if you want to go to Michael J. Fox, you know, and all that.
Once again, though, you're talking about the media.
You're really not talking about the Edwards.
You're talking about the media.
And the media is slavish to these people.
The media, Bob Schrum's comment, that's why I replay it so often, because nothing else matters.
Nobody has ever gotten sick until a Liberal Democrat gets sick.
And nobody's ever faced these kind of challenges until a Liberal Democrat has, and then speaks about it.
And only then are we, the plebes and the hoi polloy, able to learn anything about it.
Our own life experience is insufficient and irrelevant.
Screams of joy or maybe panic at the very mention of my name, serving humanity with talent on loan from God.
You have to say, God.
You say talent on loan from God just doesn't have the impact.
We are at 800-282-2882.
If you missed today's morning update, you have to hear this.
There's a new crisis that's emerged out there, and it's threatening the education of millions of America's college students.
And basically, is this, the price of birth control is without warning, it's skyrocketing out there.
And students, of course, are bearing the brunt of this.
The cost of oral contraceptives.
And I think back, and I've always said when I got older, I was not going to be an old phogeo.
Sometimes I just can't.
I cannot imagine in the 50s, 60s when I was in my teenage years, even hearing a story about this, about this.
A crisis on campus has nothing to do with education.
No, it's rising contraceptive prices.
And of course, with students bearing the brunt.
Now, you might say, well, students, why aren't the parents bearing?
I'll explain that if you'd be patient.
The cost of oral contraceptives, and for those of you in Rio Linda, pills, birth control pills, has doubled, sometimes it's tripled in some cases at student health centers.
And of course, this has health officials concerned that Cheapskate students are going to start using less preferred methods or stop using birth control altogether.
And what they're really afraid of is the students will stop having sex.
Because if they stop having sex, then you can't push condoms and birth control and a number of other things.
Plus, you can't sell as many cigarettes.
So this guy at Indiana University, Hugh Jessup, he's the executive director of the health center there, is among the concerned.
He said, it's a tremendous problem for our students because not every student have a platinum card.
He says here that women are paying $22 a month for birth control that only cost $10 a month a few months ago.
He said, some of our students have two jobs and they have children.
Some of the students have children.
How can that happen?
Stop and think for a moment.
How can this be?
How can the students have children if they're able to afford all this birth control?
Now, if you look at the numbers here, no comfort is provided.
39% of undergraduate women who use oral contraceptives, according to an estimate by the American College Health Association, is expected now to fall because of these price increases.
Now, in case you wonder why the price has gone up, the answer is Congress.
The short version is that because of all the attacks on big pharmaceuticals that have been worked into deficit reduction packages and so forth, legislation, the end result here is that they eliminated discounts that filtered down to colleges.
There's no fix for this.
I referenced this at the top.
There is no fix for this because female students can't go ask their parents for birth control money because we just learned they are the parents.
So how do they, if they don't have enough money now, how can they ask themselves for more money?
They're the parents on our college campi.
And this is a crisis.
I mean, this could bring American higher education to its knees in more ways than one.
Who's next on this program?
Lakeport, California.
John, thanks for waiting and welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, good morning.
Great honor to talk to you.
First time caller and Gulf War I veteran.
Very proud to be talking to you today.
Well, great to have you with us, sir.
Thank you.
I wish we'd got it done back then, you know.
Well, I'm actually calling about Ahmedina John.
Are you talking about it?
Whoa, You mean got it done back then?
You're talking about Saddam?
I'm talking about Wolf War I, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Absolutely.
It seems like we got cut short there and have suffered ever since.
But I was calling about Ahmedina, John.
Are you open to a conversation?
Sure, you want to talk about Mahmoud?
Go ahead.
Just the fact that they're not pointing out the point.
His religious beliefs point him to the need to have a war.
He wants a war because he believes that his Armageddon will create the chaos that will result in that 12th Imam rising to power and them ruling the world at the end of that whole deal.
Now, the 12th Imam is holed up in a well.
Honest to God here.
Honest folks, the 12th Imam is holed up in a well and is trapped in it.
Get out until the terrifying end days.
No, it's not an oil well.
It's just some kind of a well.
They didn't have damn oil wells back then when the 12th Imam got trapped in it.
But the reason they don't, they don't.
Actually, they, you know, there's a story.
I think, let me find this because it dovetails with what you're discussing in a way that I think will make some sense.
But have you seen this story out of the Philippines?
Gay cops told not to sway hips.
Gay cops, yes, Philippine police.
Don't worry about this.
John, it's not going to take away from your valuable call time.
Philippine police on the defensive on Friday after gay cops were warned that they could be fired for swinging their hips or engaging in flamboyant behavior.
Chief Superintendent Samuel Pigdilillo said that the Philippine National Police does not have a policy that discriminates against gays and lesbians.
In short, all its policies are issued for everybody regardless of sex or creed.
But being a uniform service, there are rules of conduct that apply to everybody for which violations may result in being fired or other sorts of discipline.
It can't swish.
They can't sway.
It's don't ask, don't sway.
Anyway, listen to this, Donna.
This is from the Wall Street Journal from yesterday by Catherine Kirsten.
And the title of this is Sharia, Sharia Law, Islamic Sharia Law in Minnesota.
And let me summarize this because I don't want to take the whole time to read a lot of it.
In Minnesota, there are those who follow Sharia law and are seeking special accommodation for these particular religious beliefs.
It's like this judge in Germany last week.
Anastas de Gosh said that a Muslim man can beat his wife because it's in the Koran.
A Muslim man living in Germany can beat his wife because it's in the Koran.
Now, multiculturalism run amok because it's Germany.
And Sharia law is not the law or the law of the Quran is not the law in Germany.
But this is total capitulation.
This is being done out of fear.
And in Minnesota, the same sort of thing is in the process of developing.
They're seeking special accommodation for their religious beliefs, the Sharia Muslims.
And what I find funny, you ask why don't they talk about Mahmoud and his religion?
They don't talk about any other religion other than Christianity in this country.
If liberals look at evangelical Christians, the so-called Christian right, or any of these people who live what they hope is a godly life in public, why are they a threat to the Republic?
Why, these people are dangerous.
Why, even some Republicans want to get them out of the party.
We've got to fix this abortion problem.
We're never going to win elections.
We've got to shut up these hicks that live in the South.
All these Christian right people are destroying our party so we can have liberals criticize religious people in this country left and right if they're Christian.
But in Minnesota, if Sharia law is going to be the law, you don't dare criticize is discriminatory.
And in Germany, if an Islamic man wants to beat his wife up, it's okay.
So you ask, you know, why doesn't anybody explore what Mahmood's foreign policy might actually be based on in terms of his religion?
They're afraid.
It's just simple fear.
They're afraid of being critical or afraid of look at that.
Look at the Dutch cartoon scandal.
There was a.
Everybody, after there were protests and riots all over the world about the publishing of those cartoons, the world cowered in fear.
So there's your answer.
Short and simple.
Am I back on?
You never were off.
Oh, okay, good.
I didn't want to.
I'm sorry.
I didn't want to speak out of turn.
Well, no, you just understand that I'm the reason people listen to the show, and you're being dutiful here, and I'd appreciate it.
But it's your turn now.
Well, I would segue to Edwards then and wrap this up for you and let you run with it.
You had said earlier, of course, that when you say something on something, that's all it needs to be said.
And I say you did exactly right in comparing Edward's wife with President George Bush's wife, Barbara.
And Barbara, forgive me.
But in any case, my point there is if you could do us a service there, it would be to track the news that from here to the presidency, you know, depending on how long he stays in the race, how many times when Edward's name is brought up in the news, his wife's name is brought up alongside.
We know that and put it in your stack of stuff, you know, so he can look at it.
You don't need me for that.
Nobody's going to even need to calculate that.
Well, I mean, maybe in calculus.
You're probably going to get as tired of hearing about that as you do, Anna Nicole Smith, after a while.
If they're not careful, they're good at.
I'm just kidding.
Okay.
Very good.
You're sharp, John.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Love you, Rush.
Have a great day.
You bet.
I think that guy did that whole call without taking a breath.
So excited to be on the program.
Hey, programming note here, ladies and gentlemen.
We may not, even though I had sort of committed to it, we may not get to the incredibly boring and dull Chuck Hagel soundbites.
Yeah, remain calm out there.
Do not do anything drastic.
We can always get to them tomorrow if necessary.
I have to share this with you.
Just always check websites during the break here.
Some online website called the Dunfirmline Press.
It's got to be some wacko little cult paper in the UK, has a story that has really got a great lesson, the unintended consequences of actions taken by those who want to save us from ourselves.
In this case, the unintended consequences of the smoking ban.
Now, in order for you to appreciate this, and you'll be able to see it because we'll link to it on the website later.
But for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, I want to zoom in because you have to see this guy.
He's the focus of the story.
I'm not going to be able to hold it here steadily while I do the story, but just got to look at that guy and keep the memory of that face in your mind as we tell you what the story is about.
He's a regular at a pub, and he goes in and he has his adult beverages or whatever.
He has been barred.
He's been thrown out of this pub because he breaks wind.
The guy cannot stop breaking wind.
Management at the bar, a guy's name is Stuart Laidlaw.
And they say that his bouts of flatulence are so over the top that people in the bar, in the pub, have almost been sick after exposure to the, well, the foul smells.
This guy's, he's 35, won't work.
It won't work to tell him his termites.
He's 35 years old.
He's fury.
The name of the pub is Thirsty Kirstie's.
And the guy is livid.
He's the first person to be barred from the pub for breaking wind.
Now, the owner says he's been in there for years breaking wind, and nobody knew it because you were able to smoke.
But now that they've banned smoking, people who have been taking in the guy's wind all these years are for the first time in their lives able to smell it.
And so he's been banned.
And so see, unintended consequences of banning smoking has made this, caused this guy public humiliation.
People had no clue what was happening because of the cigarette smoke that used to be in there.
The title of the story is, well, we're going to title this on the website, Gone With His Wind.
I wouldn't let the guy in if he smelled like Dracard Noir Cologne.
Just on the base of his list.
Bright-eyed, this guy looks like he's on something from the moment he gets in.
All right, Kathy in Williamsville.
Williamsville, what?
Oh, New York.
Glad you're waiting.
Yeah, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you.
You know, I have five kids.
I think these people are lunatics.
Who?
What?
The Edwardses.
They're going to spend their last couple.
Either one of them are going to spend their last couple of years on the road giving stump speeches.
And, you know, it would be a blessing if they had five or six years as a couple with their kids.
They might.
They might.
What she has, she's got a 20% survivability rate over the next five years.
She might make it.
There might be a miracle.
Wait a second.
A miracle might happen.
You don't know.
But then her child's going to be 10 or 11.
And the feminist response to this rush has been: if she made any other decision, then it would be a step back for women.
I was shocked.
Wait a second.
That doesn't surprise me, but I'd like to know who said it.
Well, I heard Geraldine Ferraro's interview on Fox.
Okay, well, that's horrendous.
Then that's just another bunch of people looking at this through a political prism.
So she has become not a human being to them.
She's become a symbol for the feminist movement.
And if she were to step back, it would set the cause of sisterhood back.
Well, that's what they said.
I mean, they're so messed up as a group.
It's absolutely shocking.
All right.
But don't the Edwards have the right?
It's their lives.
If they want to spend it.
By the way, they're okay financially.
What if they're taking the kids out of school and traveling with them?
I don't know that this is true, but what if the kids are with them on a campaign trail?
I don't know.
You know, a six and eight-year-old kid, they want to play.
They want to have a childhood.
Do they want to be on a campaign trail?
It's just that it's very.
Well, they may want to be with their parents now.
Yes, they should want to be with their parents, but little six and eight-year-old kids want to play and have friends and go to school and be normal.
And there's going to be nothing normal about that.
You people are tough out there.
That's all I'm going to do.
Very tough.
Well, you know, I don't know.
They're just a little bit harder.
I tell you what, I really do believe, and this is an object list.
I believe that your anger is not so much with the Edwards and is the way that they're being portrayed by the media, and all their decisions are being lauded as the smartest decisions that anybody could make.
And that's being forced on you.
And they're not the ones doing it.
It's, you know, they're willing accomplices in the media that are doing it.
I think of all the people that have called here today to talk about this, I think most of their anger, if you really get down to the nut of it, is directed at the media, the Bob Shrums of the world, and telling the ordinary average Americans, and you average Americans know who you are, that you don't know diddly squawk and you're being lectured to about it when many of you have faced these same circumstances and resented.
I think that's a large part of this.
This is Wendy in Lansing, Michigan.
Hi, Wendy.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi, Rich.
I just wanted to make a comment.
I have had breast cancer at the same time.
My first husband had brain cancer, and I took care of him for eight years, and we raised a young son during all this.
And my sincere opinion is that the Edwards are in denial, and it's going to change over time.
They did the same thing with Christopher Rees and his wife, Dana.
They jumped all over them and were holding them up as some kind of a token of bravery.
And they'd make comments like, we're going to have more kids and just go on with life as usual.
And if you notice on interviews they had years later, things changed and reality's going to hit.
And I really think that they're going to pull out.
You do.
Or things are going to be changed.
She's in denial.
It's like this has just hit her full in the face.
And it's like she hasn't really even had time to think about it.
Now, according to your theory, how long is it going to take for this realization?
Oh, it depends on the person.
And it depends on the people around you who might be pushing her.
Like you said, you know, the media and other people are saying you can't quit.
Give me more.
Give me more.
Pretend I'm a lawyer leading a question.
What is it that would force reality to smack them in your thought?
You got 30 seconds here, not to press you.
What would force them to have reality smack them upside down?
Oh, her kids, things her kids say, you know, her being if she has to go on chemo or radiation, how sick she gets, or how the whole thing is just going to come crashing down.
I'd be really surprised if it didn't.
She'd say, you know, I have to make a choice.
I can see why you say that, but I think you're dead wrong.
Okay.
I think there's going to be something else that does it.
Unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we are out of time, so I'll have to tell you tomorrow.
Well, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence now in the can on the way over to the museum, housing all artifacts soon to be on display at the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
See you back here tomorrow, folks, in 21 hours, all revved up and ready to go.
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