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April 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 20, 2007, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings, my friends.
Once again, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The Limboa Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We are revved up.
I wonder if NBC will fire Alec Baldwin.
The leaked phone message he sent to his 12-year-old daughter.
Have you heard about that?
Oh my gosh.
It's incredible.
He's on one of their shows, I think 30 rock.
It's Friday, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And of course, you know what that means.
We go to the program, go to the phones, and the show is all yours.
It's a it's a huge career risk.
Ladies and gentlemen, that few of my stature in big media would take, and that is turning over the all-important content of the program to rank amateurs.
Lovable, God, we love you.
But nevertheless, rank amateurs.
I am the highly trained broadcast specialist.
You are the rank amateurs.
So uh, you know, Monday through Thursday, we talk only about what I care about.
On Friday, I don't care.
If I'll fake it, I'll act interested if I can.
Whatever you want to say is fine and dandy.
Here's the telephone number, and I've got a couple phone numbers today, so don't confuse this with the phone number for our annual uh leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon, the phone number to call the program 800-282-2882.
I also want you to make a note of this number.
This number is also at uh at uh my website uh www.rushlimbaugh.com, and it is the number uh whereby you can call and make a donation to our annual curaton today, leukemia and lymphoma society numbers 8778.
877-379-8888, or you can donate at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We do this once a year.
We do it for three hours uh once a year, and as always, we do not devote the whole program to it, a sizable portion, but we mix the curaton in with uh with programming.
And I, you know, it's it's it's rare uh that we have had a story in the news to be able to bounce off of the curaton, but uh but but today we do.
The uh the Washington Post.
I wonder who at the at the drive-by media has been listening to me.
This this headline, traffic deaths, a global scourge health agency says.
You know, every time we hear about the deaths of soldiers in Iraq or the uh the deaths caused by by other, you know, normal everyday accidents in the country as well.
I always say, well, my gosh, if we're gonna we'd better ban the wheel because auto accidents kill 50,000 Americans a year.
Well, now some groups gone out there, the World Health Organization have calculated that uh traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24 around the world.
A huge, overlooked and largely preventable public health problem.
Traffic accidents are now being called a largely preventable public health problem.
Okay, so traffic deaths are number one.
What's number two?
What's number three?
Well, number two is HIV AIDS, number three respiratory infections, number four, self-inflicted injuries, number five violence, number six TB, number seven drowning, number eight, fires, number nine, war.
And all of this I have known and made it plain.
But look here, what number ten is.
Number ten's leukemia.
The tenth leading cause of death worldwide between people age ten to twenty-four is leukemia.
Well, today is our annual curaton for the leukemia and lymphoma society.
Now, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization, which is dedicated to uh finding blood cancer research or funding it and finding cures, education as well, patient services.
It all gets rolled into the into the same uh bailiwick.
The work of the lymphoma and leukemia societies international.
Uh, they fund Research here at home and abroad.
Here's what the mission is.
They are bound and determined to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The fight is on for 740,000 patients and their families living with these diseases today, and there are 110,000 newly diagnosed patients every year.
In fact, uh worked up the numbers during this three-hour program today, 18 people will die of one of these cancers.
Leukemia, in addition to being uh in the top ten global deaths, reasons for death, people aged 10 to 24.
Leukemia is the number one cancer killer of children under the age of 20.
It's the most common form of childhood leukemia.
Uh the most common form has an overall survival rate today of 87%.
That's up one percent since our last Curathon.
And that's a point that's going to be made today is that progress on this is quick and rapid, and it's all because of you.
Because of your generosity and your uh and your willingness to donate to this uh to this worthy cause.
Uh and all week I have to I've been getting emails from people who have the disease or are just diagnosed with it.
Uh uh thanking me, but they really mean to thank you, uh, for all of the assistance that uh has come over the years.
People diagnosed today have a far better shot uh at longer survival uh than uh when we began this way back 88, 90, somewhere somewhere around there.
Uh lymphoma diagnosed among about 63,000 Americans every year, 20,000 succumbed to it.
The five-year survival rate in 1974 was uh 47%, it's 63%.
Guess what?
The five-year survival rate is up three percent since our last Curaton last year.
For children, the survival rate is up to an amazing 96%.
And this could not have happened, folks, without you.
It's one thing to come here every year and uh and raise money and and uh try to get closer to a cure.
It's another thing to be able to report genuine, remarkable progress every year because of what you have done.
Hodgkin's disease today, uh considered one of the most curable forms of blood cancers.
Five-year survival rates now eighty-five percent even higher for those under 20.
Myeloma, uh, which is cancer of the plasma cells.
Fifty-five thousand Americans currently have the disease, fifteen thousand new patients are diagnosed every year.
Um, this disease, Hodgkin's disease, or myeloma rather, rarely strikes people under 50.
Uh the five-year survival rate's only 32 percent, especially deadly for African Americans and those of European descent.
Now, hang on.
This this gets even better, though.
Five-year survival and cure rates for these diseases have improved markedly since the 70s, and the research of the leukemia lymphoma society uh has produced quick results.
As a guy named Dr. Brian Drucker, he's one of the first society-funded researchers.
He was responsible for the breakfast breakthrough drug Glevec.
Now, this drug has helped turn certain cancers that might have been fatal into chronic conditions for many patients.
Uh it's been approved for the treatment of three other cancers, and that's another point to make, too, is that all the research that goes into these blood cancer diseases shows promise in other areas as well.
Uh, and and this drug glive has been approved for the treatment of three other types of cancers.
Clinical studies at the UCLA School of Medicine on an agent for those resistant to Glevex shows tremendous promise as well.
Now, get this.
Research by the society has applications beyond the blood cancers, too, as I just mentioned.
You remember bone marrow transplants?
You hear about this all the time.
You watch television, bone marrow transplant transplants are almost normal these days.
They were pioneered by the leukemia lymphoma society and their researchers.
And this year they're going to commit 58 million dollars to research alone.
But here's the interesting thing.
Bone marrow transplants are in fact adult stem cell transplants.
That's what a bone marrow transplant is.
And guess what, folks?
You have been supporting the only stem cell therapy to date that not only shows promise, but has worked.
And this is something I just learned this year.
I did not know that bone marrow transplants were in fact adult stem cell transplants.
Now, on the adult stem cell front, the society's funding research led by a man named Dr. Robert Collins.
It works to prevent a deadly complication that occurs when stem cells from a person other than the patient are used that are described as non-identical.
And your donations and contributions, your generation uh generosity has made the uh testing of this possible.
And it's going to start soon.
This could be another huge uh breakthrough, uh, thanks to all of you.
And look, when you donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, nearly 75% of the money goes directly to research, to patients, and uh support service.
I know these people.
I've known these people since uh oh well, it's gotta be it's gotta be 1990.
The years go by 17th year here, because that would make it uh that would make it 1989 then.
Uh they are some of the finest committed people I've uh I've met.
Most of them have been touched in some way by these blood cancers, their friends, their family, and even some of themselves have been hit by these potential killers, and that's what spurs the work that they do.
Now, as always, ladies and gentlemen, it's been exciting to be uh excited to be part of this.
The amount of money raised is profound when you consider three hours once a year.
And again, it's all because of you.
And as usual, we have exciting premiums for certain levels of donations.
And all of this is explained at Rush Limbaugh.com.
But let me run it through here for you.
Sixty dollar donations, get a one-size fits all uh special edition Rush Limbaugh t-shirt.
You can see it right now at Rush Limbaugh.com.
$300 donations.
Uh get a high quality camel-colored knit golf shirt, and you can choose your size on that.
The uh EIB logo appears on the left breast.
Uh, my signature graces the left sleeve, and you can see this shirt.
See both of these shirts at Rush Limbaugh.com.
They'll take Visa MasterCard, American Express, and Discover Cards.
Uh and by the way, as is always the case, all personal and credit card information given over the phone, uh, over the internet to the Leukemia and Lymphom Lymphoma Society will not be shared with any other entity.
You're not going to be flooded with pitches or advertisements from other charities or other companies.
The online donation page safe, it's secure, it's the easiest actually in the in the most effective way to donate.
The website's going to be up and running all week long to accept your donation.
But uh, as always, best to do it today.
Get it done now while you're thinking about it.
And as always, ladies and gentlemen, I never ask you to do something that I don't do.
As I mentioned every year, we all watch these telethons, and you have these people, and they're good people.
I mean, don't misunderstand, but they're just they're begging, won't you care?
Don't you give money?
And I always wonder what are they doing.
And many of them donate, don't say anything about it.
Others say, well, I'm I'm donating my time.
Every year, um, I I get the ball rolling.
Uh, and I'm going to do so this year.
And the uh so I I've decided that I'm going to get things started here with 300,000 uh from me, uh, and that will get the ball rolling, and we'll be at this uh mixing it with the uh uh regular program content for open line Friday uh up until the program ends today.
Once again, the number, 877-379-8888, or go to RushLimbaugh.com.
Everything that I have explained here about how to donate, uh, see the pictures of the shirt premiums and so forth, it's all right there.
While you're there, you can continue to vote on which host at uh MSNBC should resign to make way for a minority host.
That poll will be up and running uh uh through the end of the program.
We're up to 150,000 votes on this.
It's gonna take a lot to shift it.
It's Matthew's 49, uh Olbermann 47, and Tucker Carlson bringing up the rear at a mere four percent.
Be right back, folks.
Sit tight, don't go away.
And we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
It's open line Friday and a lot other.
A lot of other things going on.
This is our annual leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon.
And uh I'm feeling good about it this year.
The I I think we're gonna shatter all of our records this year.
Just have a feeling about it.
Uh and I st I still can't get over the fact that all of these years, uh, you all have been donating in in in considerable numbers.
I mean, the amount of money that you have donated over these uh 17 years or 16, this or 17th, is uh stunning given the the small amount of time that we devote to it.
Uh three hours, even less than it, actually, uh a year on one day.
But the idea that uh bone marrow transplants are actually adult stem cell transplants, and that's the one area so far where stem cell research is working, and you've been doing We've all been doing it.
We've all been making this happen via the uh leukemia and lymphoma society.
And I, by the way, I want to thank everybody who has sent uh an email note this.
I've been delused with them from people who have uh uh just wanted to express thanks to all of you uh who've been diagnosed this year, or some member of their family's been diagnosed, and they uh uh know that this day is always in April, and and they just sent thank you note in uh un unsolicited.
All right, uh let's move on to some of the news uh that is out.
I have to tell you something, folks.
I I'm embarrassed, once again, by our side, uh, some of the Republicans up in Washington, does it just it just appears that they cannot think strategically.
They have no idea how to circle the wagons around their own.
Everybody on the Republican side, now along with the Democrats wants to throw uh Alberto Gonzalez overboard.
Now, he may be an idiot, I don't know, he may be a weak attorney general.
I think that's why they, you know, Ashcroft was strong and had to get rid of him.
Uh and and now uh uh Gonzalez is weak, we have to get rid of him.
All this concocted stuff over the U.S. attorneys, there's no crime.
There really isn't even any incompetence here in the process of getting rid of the attorneys.
Uh what this is about is that uh Gonzalez may have not remembered what happened when or where.
Uh but whatever the status of Gonzalez, it it it's it's it's beside the point.
Why in the world is it only it seems every time there is a public demand for somebody to resign in Washington, it's always a Republican.
Let me tell you who ought to resign.
Who ought to resign right now in disgrace, and it's not Alberto Gonzalez.
It is Benedict Arnold Harry Reed.
He said this on Capitol Hill yesterday.
This war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.
And yesterday, last night, actually, on the uh on the Senate floor, he added to it.
As long as we follow the president's path in Iraq, the war is lost.
But there is still a chance to change course.
And we must change course.
We are in the middle of the surge.
They don't even, you know, General Petraeus is going to be coming back.
They don't care to even talk to General Petraeus.
I told you, and I've been mentioning the Democrats' own defeat.
They are invested in it.
This is this is Benedict Arnold kind of behavior here.
In the middle of the surge, telling U.S. troops they don't have a prayer, telling U.S. troops they don't have a chance, that they're not capable, that it can't get done, that we cannot win.
The United States of America cannot win.
This from the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, Benedict Arnold Reed.
Now, everybody's out demanding Gonzalez head and a bunch of Republicans who don't seem to understand what's going on here.
Rather than circle the wagons, I mean, look at Janet Reno.
Janet Reno, Waco Invasion, talk about an incompetent boob of an attorney general.
She was not only incompetent, everybody knew it.
And her incompetence actually cost lives.
But nobody on our side said she ought to go.
They circled the wagons around her after some show trial hearings.
The Democrats in Congress, John Conyers, uh made a show of really excoriating her, but she hung in there.
Um the notion that Pat Lahey and Senator Schumer could defend Janet Reno, but find Alberto Gonzalez lacking is the joke of the century.
I was trying to think this morning.
How how many how can you think of any uh Democrat cabinet members been forced to resign under Republican pressure?
They may have been forced to resign because of this or that, but how I couldn't think of any.
Can you think of any Clinton cabinet members, for example, who had to go, maybe Jocelyn Elders, the Republicans, but that that was sort of a disappointment when she went.
That was just a great time.
Jocelyn Elder is one of the all-time great subjects for parody and satire.
But besides Jocelyn Elders, I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Uh I just I I find this shock.
This I I'm on I'm almost stuck for words here, to have the Senate majority leader proclaim the war is lost in the middle of the surge.
All the while his colleagues are trying to lop off the head of Alberto Gonzalez.
If anybody ought to be shamed, if anybody ought to be embarrassed, it's Harry Reid today, Benedict Arnold Harry Reed.
This is stunning to undercut the mission of our troops to undercut the morale like this.
I mean, this I don't know, you people that are under 40, you may not know who Tokyo Rose is.
But Tokyo Rose did the same kind of things over the radio trying to demoralize our troops in World War II, lying to them about how they had no chance and they had no prayer.
And it was pure Japanese propaganda back then.
Well, you could call Dingy Harry Tokyo Harry, but um Benedict Arnold Harry Reed is, I think, a more apt and fitting description.
I can't imagine what the U.S. military feels like.
All these young men and women who've volunteered to offer their lives and sacrifice for this country, and Dingy Harry tells them his party and he had little faith, no faith in their ability at all.
Ha, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Open line Friday.
It's also our annual Curathon for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
That number is 877-379-8888.
Really, just go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
You can see everything involved here.
The premiums, the two shirts, what you have to donate in order to get them.
Anything and everything to do with this is right there at RushLimbaugh.com.
We just got a call.
Uh Mr. Sturdley, screening calls today, told me we got a call from a listener named Alan in Troy, Texas, and he was in tears.
He said, I can't afford to give money this year.
So what he did, uh, he said he's going to put his name on the bone marrow transplant transplant list, and then told Sturdly to tell me.
Thank you.
So I've decided I'm going to add $10,000 to my $300,000 in the name of Alan from Troy, Texas.
So I mean if he's going to put his name on the bone marrow list, and he can't he can't afford to donate this year, and I'm sure that uh economic circumstances will uh will hit some in this way.
But uh I I you know I was moved uh by this, so I'll add, I'll add Larry.
If you're up there, I'll add 10,000 to my to my 300.
And you know what's gonna happen to liberals will now call in, they'll try the same trick.
Well, you know, I can't donate.
Just kidding.
You know, uh on on this day, even money from our liberal listeners is as appreciated as uh as money from uh from anywhere else.
And I don't mean to impugn the liberals in the in this way.
I just but I do say this.
You know, every year this is the um this is a great opportunity.
And I I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but for all of the 17 years we've been doing this, you and I both know that as part of the effort to demonize talk radio.
We sit around and we are we're told that conservatives have no heart, they have no compassion and so forth.
Look at the the numbers, the millions upon millions that have been raised just from this audience alone over the 17 years uh that we have been involved in the leukemia lymphoma society curathon.
So uh it's uh you don't have to donate for that reason.
That's just uh uh one of the one of the nice uh ancillaries uh of this.
So we'll be doing this uh all through the program today, as well as mixing in with regular program content.
Now, I mentioned at the top of the program that I wondered if NBC would fire Alec Baldwin.
Some of you might be, why?
Well, why would they fire Alec Baldwin?
Well, if NBC fired Imus, uh then the head of NBC News should be fired, the star of the NBC alleged hit show, what is it, 30 rock that he's on, he should be fired.
And Dingy Harry, Benedict Arnold Harry Reed should be fired or he should resign.
We have Alec Baldwin, we have Harry Reed, we've got Gonzalez, we have stay tuned.
It's open line for who knows that what's going to happen during these next two and a half hours.
Uh that that is that is going to um you know, where the Democrats demand somebody else quit.
But you remember the the uh the movie when Harry met Sally?
How about how about an adaptation when Harry met Alec?
One attacks his family, the other attacks his country.
Alec Baldwin, one of our leading Hollywood liberal Democrat intellectuals demonstrated what liberals are like when the camera is turned off.
Let me see.
Do we have do we have let me look at the soundlight roster?
I got this.
Yeah, I want you to listen to this.
Have you heard you didn't you don't know?
Oh, Dawn.
He called his 12 year old, you know, he's do he's he's gonna custody fight uh, you know, marital split with his uh with his wife Kim.
Kim, what's her name?
Uh Basinger, yeah, he left this voicemail message for his eleven or twelve-year-old daughter, Ireland, about her father's scheduled morning phone call to her.
Now listen to this.
I'm tired of playing this game with you.
I'm leaving this message with you to tell you you have insulted me for the last time.
You have insulted me.
You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being.
I don't give a d that you're 12 years old or 11 years old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned.
You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone.
This cr you pull on me with this phone situation that you would never dream of doing to your mother.
And you do it to me constantly and over and over again.
I am gonna get on a plane, and I'm gonna come out there for the day, and I'm gonna straighten your out when I see you.
Do you understand me?
I'm gonna really make sure you get it.
Then we get on a plane, I'm gonna turn around and I'm gonna come home.
So you better be ready Friday, the 20th, to meet with me.
So I'm gonna let you know just how I feel about what a rude little pig you really are.
You are a rude, faultless little pig.
Alec Baldwin talking to his 11 or 12-year-old daughter.
Now, the the the day of reckoning is today.
So I'm wondering, well, NBC gets rid of Don Imus, and this is all over the news, by the way.
This is a phone call that nobody heard until what was it?
TMZ, some website.
TMZ got it, and and just like the IMA situation, nobody heard what IMA said when he said it, because his audience is so small, and the people that did hear it didn't care.
It wasn't until these websites like Media Matters, a Democrat funded tax exempt uh group that is uh that is doing the bidding of Clinton Inc.
There's strictly a Democrat front group, they put it out there, and they got another group here, TMZ putting this on a celebrity website, Harvey Levins Bunch.
Uh and now the world knows about it.
Well, what's NBC going to do?
You've got Harry Reed who attacks his country.
You've got Alec Baldwin attacking his family.
He's one of our leading Hollywood liberal intellectuals.
I'm going to tell you, we we we guys and gals in talk radio folks are getting sick and tired of the filth and the degradation and the lack of civility and abuse that happens on TV today and perpetrated by those who are in TV.
It just the the coarsening of the culture that is occurring because of these people on television has got to stop.
There has to be something done about it.
Because we on Talk Radio are getting fed up with it.
Uh well, Harry Reid, isn't isn't he the uh highest ranking liberal in government, demonstrated what liberals really think about supporting the troops.
They want defeat, they own it, and they're gonna they're gonna not gonna stop until they get it.
Um, I I just I you you you look to these guys and you see who they really are, and they tell us who they really are when they don't think.
Cameras are microphones are anywhere near them.
Uh Damon in Silicon Valley, as we go to the phones on Open Line Friday, great to have you.
Uh welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, uh greetings from a fellow golfer and entrepreneur, and I just want to say thank you.
I've been listening to you for 15 years.
You've made a huge difference in my life.
I just want to thank you for being as articulate as you are and uh helping me to get better what I do.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that.
All right, so I'm in my early 50s, and uh, you know, I'm about 15, 20 pounds overweight, and I have been so impressed listening to uh your your journey that you're doing there.
How the heck are you uh getting that weight off?
I'm just restricting what I eat.
It's just it's you know, one thing I've learned, I've done every diet there is, and they all work.
Uh and what they all end up doing, if they work, if you do it right, is they they force you to end up eating less.
Like the Atkins diet.
I did that too.
Uh the Atkins diet is, you know, the low carb diet, the high protein high fat diet.
What actually happens is you go to the state of ketosis in that diet, and that kills your appetite.
So you actually end up eating less.
Um and all the other diets try to mix the nutrients such a way that your appetite will will shrink.
Not so much your stomach.
I think it's somewhat of a myth.
Doesn't take long to restretch it, I've found.
Um But but uh it I'm just I'm I'm I'm doing twelve to fourteen hundred calories a day, some days eight hundred if I'm not hungry at dinner.
Wow.
And if and if there's one thing I'm trying to ride herd on, it would be fat.
I'm not I'm not counting the carbs, although I don't eat anything fried.
Um and I I I don't uh you know, no salted snacks or anything like that.
The calories where they come from is important, but I mean I'm not I'm not eating junk uh to uh to put it that way, and I'm not eating very much uh starch like potatoes and that sort of thing.
Uh oh, you can't drink.
You you cannot consume adult beverages and lose weight because what happens with that, I mean the the the the alcohol gets metabolized as pure sugar, and then that triggers insulin.
And the long and short of that is is that insulin is bad for anybody who wants to lose weight because insulin is actually one of the first processes necessary to gain weight.
So you can't you can't consume adult beverages.
Okay, Rush.
I that's a hard one for me because I I enjoy my cocktails after work, but uh I'll tell you what, you you know what?
I I've I've people say, what are you doing?
And I tell them, Oh, you can't you can't I I could never do that.
Well, then why are you asking me?
Oh, I'm I'm gonna I'm telling you right now.
I don't I don't mean you.
I'm not talking about you.
I'm just saying that uh uh people say, well, is the food that you're eating good?
I say it doesn't matter.
Food is not the focus when you go on a diet.
You have to have the attitude.
You're you're not gonna be able to do it till you want to.
You're not gonna be able to accomplish anything until you want to.
Desire is 80% of achievement.
And until you get to that point, uh you it isn't gonna happen.
And there will be something, uh, Damon, that'll trigger it.
You'll you'll get up one day feeling like garbage or your pants won't fit and you're gonna be miserable.
Something will trigger it.
And uh and then you'll get the commitment.
Uh it could be something in inside your head attitudinally have nothing to do with how you feel that triggers it.
But uh could be a visit to the doctor.
You never know.
But something will trigger it.
Not until you want to are you actually gonna be able to start it and stick with it, because you you need to be on it a week or ten days to show results.
And and the worst part of the diet is the first week getting started because you don't see any results.
Oh, well, if this isn't working, it's easy to say, I'll I'll I'll I'll get off this, I'll try it in a week or two.
And then you use it's self-defeating.
So as a veteran of ten or twelve diets, um I know I know what has to happen, and I don't try one when I'm not motivated.
Okay, here's the trigger.
It's you and uh I'm gonna put down the adult beverages for 30 days and see what happens.
Uh well, you know, in some cases, depending on how much you drink and how much you some people, if they just drop the booze, lose weight.
Yeah.
The calories in that stuff are sky high.
So, and you remember the the thirty, five hundred calories equal a pound.
If you eat that or more, you're gonna maintain or gain weight, and it that reduces as you get older.
But it doesn't take much to get to a thousand calories with uh, you know, start drinking some wine or some or some uh distilled adult beverages.
Uh and calories are calories.
Doesn't matter whether liquid and they're just as hard to lose when you put them on, it doesn't matter.
So uh, you know, it it's that's just something you have to commit to when you go on a diet.
Now I know that see here's what's gonna happen.
This is another thing.
Oh, I'm gonna get flooded with phone calls.
Rush, I uh I have a cocktail every night on my okay, fine.
I'm just telling you what he asked me, not you.
And I'm telling you I've tried it, and I cannot lose weight doing anything.
Whatever diet, if I also consume adult beverages.
Besides, who wants one glass of wine?
That's silly.
One glass of wine, one of anything, I mean, that's that's that's if you're trying to lose weight, I mean that's not eat that's not commitment.
That's trying to fudge.
Now, if you only want to lose ten pounds and you don't care if it takes you a year, then you can do that.
It all depends on what you want.
You know, I want to get this over with as quickly as possible.
Something's happening to me on this diet that's never happened before.
And that is I'm thinking of staying on this the rest of my life because I am not hungry.
I I don't miss the food.
I r I I there's a big bash last weekend.
I went off the diet, and I thought, all right, this is gonna be cool.
And it it wasn't that big a deal.
I even lost a pound over that weekend.
Uh I didn't have all that much, but what I did taste, it didn't if it it it did not have the sense of nirvana to it that I thought it would.
Uh so haven't felt this well in a long time.
Uh so why why why change it?
And that, you know, get in touch with yourself out there, Damon, you get started on this.
You said you only got to lose 15 or 20 pounds.
Hell, I used to be able to do that going to the bathroom.
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This is Matt.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Rush, ditto to the commander in chief of conservatism.
Well, thank you, sir.
I assume you mean me.
That would be you.
I appreciate the the CIC.
Love that, yeah.
Rush, I'm a soldier headed to Iraq.
Uh, I wanted to comment.
You know, it's a bad thing.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Every time this happens, when we get somebody like you who calls here.
Uh I before you say another word, I just want to say to you, on behalf of the American people, and especially in light of the despicable, demoralizing statement of Harry Reed yesterday.
You are appreciated, you are honored, and you are loved, and everybody's prayers will go with you.
Rush, I appreciate the comment, and uh so do my comrades.
Uh, it's a sad day, as I was saying, in this country when the United States Senate Majority Leader doesn't have confidence in me or my comrades.
Uh, we're the ones sacrificing for victory in this war.
Matt, can I tell you that can I tell you the truth about it?
It's just the exact opposite.
He's scared to death you guys will win.
This is what everybody he's scared to death the surge is working.
They're just taking the occasion at bomb blast yesterday and turning that into a domestic political event.
The thing that you have to understand, I want you to tell all of your comrades uh this.
The thing that the Democrats today, you've got to believe me on this.
They are scared to death that you will win.
They know you're the U.S. military, but they have staked themselves so far out on the plank that they're walking on defeat because of domestic political issues.
They can't permit victory.
They they have to undermine victory, however.
If you win, there's no way they can take credit or share in the joy because they have they have they have uh they've purchased defeat, and they're worried you will triumph.
Well, Rush, Rush, I've got a I've got a term me and my buddies kind of throw around.
You know the term uh arachnophobia is the fear of loathing or fear or loathing of spiders.
Uh, we come up with a term arachnophobia spelled with the country Iraq, which is the pathological fear or loathing of U.S. victory in Iraq.
And I should I would uh recommend that you use this term.
Uh it is my belief that Senator Harry Reed is an arachnophobe.
An arachnophobe.
This is arachnophobia.
This is arachnophobia, the pathological fear or loathing of U.S. victory in Iraq.
Yeah, you know, I think you nailed it.
The loathing and fear of victory.
I want you to understand this.
I I I know it's easy to conclude that that Reed actually doesn't have any confidence in you, and I know that it's easy to conclude that the Democrats who join him in this also don't think much of your talent.
And I really don't think that's what they're afraid of.
I think I think they're scared to death that you will prevail.
And uh they can't permit it.
They know you're the U.S. military.
The thing that's outrageous about that is they're frightened.
you just nailed it with this arachnophobia definition.
They are afraid of victory because what it'll mean to them personally in a political sense.
They have no concern here for the nation or for the U.S. military and its reputation, but your reputation is widely known.
Uh they uh they they you're you nailed it.
They fear victory.
They loathe it.
I like that.
Arachnophobia.
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