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April 20, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 20, 2007, Friday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, folks.
Nice to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, a special edition of Open Line Friday.
Let's kick it off.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, Eba, the special edition of Open Line Friday.
It's our annual Curathon for Leukemia and Lymphoma, ladies and gentlemen.
And uh we're all sitting here with the Knox lumps in our in our throats.
We are breaking the breakneck pace of last year, terms of donations and donors.
And there are not the words to thank you.
So we'll just say thanks, and we'll keep going for the next two hours, trying to rid the world of these vicious blood cancers.
Let me give you a telephone number for that.
The easiest way is just to go to my website.
We have lots of servers.
We can handle whatever load you put on it.
It's RushLimbaugh.com and uh all the information you need there to donate with the credit card, Visa MasterCard, what is it?
Uh Visa MasterCard, the Discover Card, and American Express are all accepted.
I I want to be want to be honest with you.
Every year, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the way we do this, I sort of struggle uh with the the mix of uh time, the amount of time we donate to the uh curaton and the amount of time we donate to normal program content.
We've never gone wall to wall with the uh with the curaton.
We've always mixed that effort along with uh with regular programming.
And to me, it's always been a struggle to come up with the perfect mix because the idea here is to is to hold you as an audience as long as possible, increase the number of donors.
Uh and so there's a in my mind anyway, there's a there's a trick to it.
Uh, because I I don't want to drive people away by by spending too much time on the uh on the fundraising, yet it's so important, and the success that we've had, this is our seventeenth year is so profound that it's it's uh it's well worth the time.
Uh so one of the things that that I was thinking about last night getting started with this today was that uh actually the timing of the curaton uh today is excellent.
This has been just a horrific week in any number of ways.
And I uh was thinking last night that the curaton in our effort to uh raise money to cure these blood cancers comes at just a great time because this is something productive.
This is something that is filled with uh with compassion.
Uh it is it it's something that can fill hearts with joy over the notion that they've contributed to something worthwhile.
It's a nice timeout, a nice break from all of the angst and the chaos and the tumult that has occurred uh this week.
Uh and I it couldn't come, as far as I'm concerned, at a better time.
Now, here's the mission of the leukemia and lymphoma society.
It's to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma, and uh at the same time to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
740,000 patients and their families live with uh these diseases today, and there are 110,000 newly diagnosed patients every year.
And it's sad to say, but but during the program today, 18 people will die of one of these cancers.
I'm always stunned when I when I hear of uh someone my age, I'm 56 or a little older, coming down with leukemia.
It happens frequently.
I'm just I'm stunned because I always think of leukemia as a young person's disease, and it is the number one cancer killer of children under the age of 20.
It's the most common form of childhood leukemia, but in young people it has an overall survival rate today of 87%.
That's up one percent from last year.
And I mentioned this in the previous hour.
The Washington Post has this story on traffic deaths.
Now they throw traffic deaths in with all the other leading causes of death.
Uh worldwide between people age ten to twenty-four.
Traffic deaths, traffic accident deaths are number one, uh, HIV aids number two, respiratory infections are three, self-inflicted injuries are number four.
Uh violence is five TB six, drowning seven, fires eight, war is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide.
Yes, what's number ten?
Leukemia.
Leukemia is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide.
And the uh research that you've enabled with your donations is leading to survival rates increasing, like one percent uh for leukemia in children under the age 20 since last year's Curathon, lymphoma.
Uh 63,000 Americans are diagnosed every year, 20,000 succumbed to it.
Uh the survival rate for lymphoma is up to uh five-year survival rate from 47% and 74% to 63% today, and that 63% that's up 3% since last year alone.
And for children, the survival rate uh with lymphoma is up to an amazing 96%.
Hodgkin's disease is now considered one of the most curable forms of blood cancer.
The five-year survival rate for that's 85%, even higher if you're under 20.
And myeloma, which is cancer, the uh plasma cells.
Uh 55,000 Americans currently live with this disease.
There are 15,000 new patients diagnosed every year.
Very rarely do people under 50 uh come down with myeloma.
Five-year survival rate on that's only 32 percent now, and it's especially deadly for African Americans and those of uh of European descent.
So that's that's the mission.
The battle here is uh survival rates, and then on to cures.
Five-year survival and cure rates for these diseases have improved markedly since the 1970s.
The research of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society produces quick results.
Dr. Brian Drucker, uh one of the first society-funded researchers, was responsible for the breakthrough drug, Glevec.
That's helped turn certain cancers that might have been fatal into chronic conditions, meaning you survive it.
Uh might have been fatal for many patients.
And now this drug is has turned people's lives around.
Clinical studies at uh UCLA School of Medicine on an agent for those who are resistant to this drug, Glevec, shows tremendous promise as well.
The thing I I I don't know why I didn't know this, but I didn't know this until uh last night.
Bone marrow transplants, bone we hear about them all the time on television.
They're a common uh feature in in uh television shows, entertainment television shows that deal with hospitals and medicine.
Bone marrow transplants were pioneered by leukemia lymphoma society researchers.
They're gonna commit 58 million dollars to research alone today, uh, or this year.
And do you know what a you know what a bone marrow transplant is?
It's actually an adult stem cell transplant.
So all of us here have been supporting all you and me, we we've been supporting the only stem cell therapy to date.
It not only shows promise, but works.
This is not to be critical of any other stem cell research.
It's just that this works, and as an ancillary unknown benefit, we've all been contributing to it.
Uh and on the adult stem cell front, the leukemia lymphoma society is funding research led by Dr. Robert Collins, which he's working to prevent uh deadly complication that occurs when stem cells from a person other than the patient are used that are described as non-identical.
And your generosity here, folks, has made that testing possible, and it is going to start soon.
This could be a huge breakthrough, uh, all thanks to you.
75% of the money that you donate goes directly to research, to patients, and support services.
Like I say, I've been I've been with the same people that I've been working with.
This is our seventeenth year, and they have well, they're all committed to it, many of them uh because they've been personally affected, either themselves or family members who've contracted one of these uh blood cancers.
And it's an exciting time to be part of all this.
This could not be a better day to take a break from all the chaos and tumult out there that we have uh endured this week uh as Americans, and to reflect here on all the hard work and dedication.
Along that's made possible by your generosity, not along with your generosity.
It's made possible by it, and it is starting to uh uh produce measurable results.
Uh as it turns out many of the breakthroughs, breakthroughs that uh we're starting to see today began about the time we became a part of all of this 17 years ago.
So your uh your donations over these years uh were part of the seed money that led to these advances.
Uh and they are confident that they're getting closer and closer to a cure as the survivability rates uh dramatically increase.
Now, as always, we have premiums that we offer with certain levels of donations, $60 donation, uh one size fits all special edition rush uh limbaugh t-shirt.
You see this at Rush Limbaugh.com, 300 bucks, a high quality camel colored knit golf shirt, size of your choosing.
And the EIB logo is uh right on the left front, uh, my signature's on the left sleeve.
You can see this shirt at Rushlimbaugh.com, the Take Visa MasterCard, American Express, that's Governor Card.
Nobody else will know.
You're not gonna get bombarded, you're not gonna get one solicitation as a result of donating.
The website will be up and running to accept donations all weekend long.
Today's the best day, though, to uh to get it done.
Uh it it's it's uh you you're breaking records from last year was a record year, and you're you're ahead of last year.
Well, we all are.
Uh uh, and as I said in the last hour, I never ask you to do things that I don't do.
Not gonna sit here and point fingers at just say, you donate.
As I I always lead it off, uh and this year it was $300,000 from me.
We got a call from a man in tears.
He was from uh Troy, Texas, is that where he was from?
Yeah, his name was Alan in Troy, Texas.
He called in tears.
Said that this year he couldn't afford to give any money, so what he had done was uh put his name on the bone marrow transplant list.
And he he told uh Mr. Snerdley to thank me.
And of course it's the other way around, so I'm gonna add $10,000 to my 300 in uh uh in Allen's name from Troy, and yes, he will get a shirt.
He qualifies for getting a shirt because his donation is more than 300 bucks.
So again, the uh telephone numbers 877-379-8888, or make it simple, go to Rush Lindbaugh.com.
In case you weren't with us in the first hour, we had uh we had a call from a soldier who's deploying to Iraq in three months, and he was he was just angry and and upset at uh at Harry Reid proclaiming defeat, saying the war in Iraq is lost.
I you know, I uh the first hour I I think everybody's talking about Gonzalez needs to resign.
Harry Reid needs to resign.
Benedict Arnold Harry Reid, sabotaging victory.
And I told this soldier, uh, what you have to understand is they don't it's not that Reed and the boys don't think you can win.
It's precisely because they know you can, and that they can't permit.
They're too far gone now, domestically, politically, invested in defeat.
They own it.
If if we if if this turns around swimmingly and goes well, they are lost.
And they fear their oh eight election chances will be down the tubes as well, so they somehow have to ensure defeat.
And uh guy said, Well, there's a term for these people.
Ignoc uh arachnophobes, arochnophobia is the fear and loathing of victory in Iraq.
And I thought that was brilliant.
And lo and behold, this just hit in the Hill newspaper.
A two-month spending bill to cover the cost of the Iraq war is very likely after President Bush vetoes the current Iraq spending bill, this according to John Mertha today.
House Democrats named their conferees at the beginning of this week and defeated a Republican effort to uh instruct them.
Conferees gonna meet Monday, though much of the work in the conference report has already been done.
It's expected to include an advisory date for the withdrawal of troops, but not a hard date uh rather than the firm's September 2008 deadline that included in the House version of the bill.
But this is a great illustration of what I'm talking about in terms of Irachnophobia, what the soldiers' word is, two months Iraq spending bill, very likely.
Two months.
They want to make look at make it look like they're supporting victory, but two months.
And then the president's gonna have to go back and do it all over again.
Earlier this week, I don't know when it was, might have been Monday or Tuesday.
I looked you straight in the eye.
Well, for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam and those of you listening, I looked you straight in the eye too.
And I said, as things stand now, as things are today, there is an 80% chance that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
And there are a number of reasons for this.
Among them, all this talk about how afraid of Obama she is.
You think Clinton Inc.
is really worried about a guy With so little experience getting into these foxholes, they're not worried.
This fundraising business, I don't care what happens, she's gonna end up with the most of it.
She's gonna get the most of the fun, because they're out there threatening people.
Uh on the Republican side, uh, you know, they're they're doing it, they're demonizing Rudy.
Rudy Giuliani's now a draft dodger, and uh Fred Thompson's lurking out there, so now they're talking about, well, you know, Fred Thompson, you got an abortion problem, may you have a trial lawyer problem.
They've already bombed as things stand today, there's an 80% chance she's an ex president.
So I found it interesting that in the New Orleans Times Pickyune today, um, there's a story on James Carville's attitude.
And here's what he said.
I think Hillary's chances are not better than 50%, but right now that's higher than anybody else.
Now, my guess is that when they found out that I said that she's got an 80% chance, they said, uh oh.
We can't let that stand, especially if it's coming from limbaugh, because you know, uh this is one thing people will believe, you know, from liberals don't believe much of what I say, but when they hear that, they might.
And they have to make it look like Hillary is not the candidate of inevitability.
They may have to make it look like she's got a challenge out there.
You gotta make it look like she can overcome a challenge.
She can get in a fight, get dusted up, and prevail.
This business of invet inevitability is not going to elect her because most of the American people don't like this feeling that somebody's just entitled to that office.
They got to go out and earn it, work for it.
Getting a getting a foxholes out there.
So this 50%, less than a 50% chance that she's going to be president from Carville, I think, and it's not in my ego speaking, this is pure political analysis, I think is a direct result of my claim that she has got an 80% chance.
Now, you know, Sharpton's action network national, whatever it is that he's having in New York, uh Clinton was in New York City yesterday speaking at the National Action Network Convention, rallying behind the uh the Reverend Sharpton.
Uh he was there to offer up his support and respect for Sharpton, but his real mo this is Marsha Kramer at uh Channel 2 New York, his real motive was likely to help sway the outspoken civil rights leader toward an endorsement of his wife, uh Hillary Clinton.
This is Bill Clinton.
Because, you know, Jesse Jackson's out there endorsed Obama, and Sharpton's sitting out there just waiting uh to see what happens.
And Bill's in there.
In fact, the headline in this story, Clinton's butter up Sharpton for endorsement.
What are they getting ready to roast him?
Clinton's butter up Sharpton.
In the New York Post today, Hillary's popularity ratings go negative.
Uh, but this is among all voters, which this time in the campaign, I guess it's interesting.
She's at 68% approval uh with Democrats in a Gallup poll.
Uh she's got 45% favorability down 13 points since she announced in the USA Today Gallup survey.
So there's uh there's all kinds of uh of conflicting news.
And then this story by Donald Lambert in the Washington Times, Hillary's pressure bruises fundraising.
One of the most frequent complaints among longtime party contributors is that no matter how hard they work or how much they raise for Mrs. Clinton's candidacy, they will never be given special access to her campaign's high command.
If you're not part of the original Clinton family, you're never going to be part of her inner circle.
What this translates into is why invest in her campaign when whatever you do, you'll never be part of it, said a former senior Democrat Party campaign official who is uncommitted in the races.
I'm hearing this echoed all over the place by Democrats, especially outside Washington.
But beyond the threats, no matter how much uh you raise, you're never gonna get close to her, is um in terms of fundraising when it's all said and done.
By the way, the Breck girl, John Edwards, said yesterday he's gonna reimburse his uh campaign uh $800 for his two haircuts in Beverly Hills.
Uh he he he was got two haircuts out there, uh Beverly Hills, 400 cuts each, uh 400 each, and it came from his campaign war chest.
Sure, that was just an oversight.
Sure it was just an oversight.
Come on.
Yes, spot spa treatments and all that.
Come on, uh you know, folks, you got all these people out there, you know, you're you are so much more honorable than these people.
How many of you are going to your campaign war chest today or some other source of funds that you have access to to make your donations to our Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curaton?
Zip zero nada.
When you walk into a barbershop, you reach with the the money in your or a stylist salon wherever you go, you get the money out of your pocket and you pay up.
How how in the world how do you you pay these they they send you a bill?
Does the stylist send a campaign to build this is th this was a clear effort to avoid paying eight hundred bucks out of his own pocket.
Anyway, it's been caught now.
Um but the interesting thing is that the Breck girl needs to be quaffed and spod like this before he shows up in uh in public.
All right, your phone calls are next when we come back, so don't go anywhere.
Thank you, and welcome back.
Open line Friday special edition.
It's our annual Curathon for leukemia and lymphoma.
Just go to RushLimbaugh.com to make your donation and you'll see what the premiums are there.
877 379 8888 if you'd rather do it on the phone.
Uh back to the phones, Diane in Lake Worth, Florida, right down the road from us here.
Hi, Diane.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
Um I want to say thank you so much to your listening audience and to you.
I'm a grandmother who has a grandson who has leukemia.
And um I I just I'm I'm speechless.
Um that you and your listeners are doing this.
A lot of breakthroughs have come, and they give him um 87, 90 percent chance of cure rate.
That's great news.
It is.
It's great news, and it's it's it that that's the case with more and more people who get diagnosed with this stuff.
Uh and you're right, a lion's share of this is because of the people in this audience.
Absolutely.
We need the research, and that's where it's going, and that's where it really does need to go to the research so children, adults, whatever, don't won't have to suffer with blood cancer.
Yeah, it well, and not only that, but there are so many ancillary benefits here in other areas that the research into the blood cancers benefits uh as well.
Look, folks, you know all of this.
I mean, w we're we I go through the uh the statistics here and the increases of uh survivability rates and and all of this, and it's it's great to chronicle it.
But the the the bottom line is is that the research uh has has improved and and has uh led to such discoveries that the survivability rates and the cure rates uh for for some of these cancers are are are just increasing uh rapidly.
You know all of that.
Uh you you know what this is.
We've been doing it uh this is our seventeenth year.
People say, Well, what's the total you've d you've you've raised?
It's just north of 17 million dollars, which if you average it out would come to a million dollars a year in less than three hours once a year.
Now, I need you to stop and think about that, just how powerful that is.
You know, most uh things like this will take place over a weekend or two or three days, and they'll go 24-7 with it or at least 18 hours a day.
We do this uh in one radio show every Friday in April, and we don't even devote the whole three hours to it.
And of course, in the early years the donations were not as large as they uh have been in the last uh three or four years, what with the size of the audience and uh uh everything else.
I don't want to retrace our footsteps and history how this all started.
Uh but it it used to be a a nationwide thing with a lot of ABC radio stations involved in it.
They do their thing separately now.
We do ours separately just because it it uh it it worked out to be better off that way.
But if it's a tremendous amount of money uh that has been raised from just this one little radio show in just such a short period of time, it's um the the you know, people that deal in money and finance and this sort of thing look at the efficiency of uh raising.
How much does it cost to raise money?
Uh because in a lot of ways you have to there are expenses to raising money, and you have to subtract that from the total you raise.
There aren't any expenses here.
Nobody's being well, if we've got the phone lines, we got the 877 and the processing of the of the donations and so forth.
But I mean, there's there's no large upfront cost here.
Uh in addition to 75% of everything donated going directly to research and uh patient and family care.
Uh so the efficiency, when you we take a look at this uh this this uh nearly 17 million dollars that's been raised since we started it, the the amount of time it's taken to do it and uh and the little upfront cost, this is this is it's stunning.
It is really stunning, and it's it's a uh testament to you.
And we all want to feel good about ourselves, and this is one of these things that uh when you do, uh it it'll it'll it'll give you a uh a little inner glow.
Because it's working.
Progress is being made, and in some cases, some of these uh various forms of blood cancer, it's rapid.
Curtis in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next in open line Friday.
Hey, Rush, what a pleasure.
Corn Husker Diddle.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I just wondered if the the actor Baldwin had donated to uh Senator Barack Obama's campaign a few weeks ago.
And if uh he was gonna return that because of the verbal violence that uh Mr. Ooh!
Ooh, I love this.
I love that.
He's talking about Alec Baldwin's phone call to his um eleven-year-old daughter.
I want to say something about this, by the way.
In fact, Mike grab that bite.
It's number it's number fourteen.
If you haven't heard this, uh you have this is Alec Baldwin.
Uh again, a messy, messy divorce.
I don't know what the status of it is.
Custody battle with his wife or ex-wife, Kim Basinger.
Wouldn't all eleven year olds be outraged and and uh offended by that by now?
Eleven year old daughters.
Well, but but it is th your your your greater point, it's verbal violent.
You had Obama out there talking about the verbal violence on the radio, and we and what my point is is that you know the the we we guys and gals in talk radio, we're getting sick and tired of all the filth and degradation, the verbal violence, the lack of civility and abuse that's on TV today or perpetrated by people who are on TV.
They keep focusing on us.
Exactly.
Um But that having been said, uh I I I want to uh play this by thanks uh for that, uh Curtis, because that's a brilliant connector, the verbal violence.
Here's Alec Baldwin, uh this uh I guess on April 11th, left this voicemail message for his uh eleven or twelve year old daughter, Ireland.
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 eleven 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 come 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 twentieth, 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.
All right, now that is what it is.
It it is what it is.
The one thing though I want to mention here, and I'm I'm probably gonna get in trouble because people are gonna get have a knee-jerk reaction to this.
I can't tell you the number of uh guys that I've known over the years and don't know any now in this circumstance, who are going through vicious custody fights in their divorces and their kids, they don't they don't you know the kids live with the mother, and the mother is literally poisoning the kids' minds uh against the father.
You've all heard about this, you know that it has and it works the other way around.
I mean, the father can poison the mind against that.
This all hits vicious, vicious stuff.
The kids end up being the uh uh recipient of it, and they get so confused and so forth.
This is not to excuse Alec Baldwin there's n I mean whatever he's trying to accomplish here, he failed.
This is not gonna bring his little girl around to him no matter what his wife is saying about him to her.
This is this is not gonna accomplish anything.
But it it is an indication of just what it must be like in this custody fight for him to lash out at the kid, or this could be as a liberalness as normal.
We could be finding out who he is.
But uh that that's just an example of verbal violence that Barack Obama was so upset about.
And I the guy raised a good question, is Baldwin donated to Obama, and if so, should Obama return the donation.
I mean, This would be easy enough to learn.
I mean, these donations are public.
And I don't know who Baldwin sidled up to in the uh in the uh presidential race.
Here's Betty in Springfield, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
Megan Diddles.
Thank you.
I loved you for years, ever since Sacramento.
Well.
Well, well, well, well.
But you used to live there?
No, no.
I I'm I live where I live right now, but I l I've been listening to you since Sacramento.
That okay.
I you listened to me shortly after I left Sacramento because I wasn't syndicated in Sacramento.
Now our station there, 50,000 watts could have reached Springfield, Illinois at night, but I wasn't there at night.
Oh, well, I heard you somehow out in Sacramento.
Well, I m I've gone out in there and done a couple remotes, and I bet that's what you heard.
Okay.
But Rush, I have um three short points to make about the Virginia tech shooter.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm very um concerned about this.
My first point is I submit that if we strip away all the mental illness garbage that we're hearing about this guy.
What we're going to see is a suicide bomber.
Um my number two point is that he had an agenda, just like they all do.
Kill as many filthy Americans as you can.
And my number three point is his agenda was driven by hatred of America, just like all of them.
We're too rich, we're too decadent.
Uh we have to be destroyed.
And I don't think he was mentally ill.
I think he was simply a sh suicide bomber, uh shooter in this case.
Well, you know, the mentally ill, it can be kind of tricky because you I understand what you're saying, because he wasn't it was his acts that m the you know, the the sane will look at what he did say, my gosh, you gotta be insane to do this.
But if you look at his behavior that day, it was normal.
Other than what he did.
He got up made plans.
Uh he went to the post office between episodes.
Uh he addressed the stuff to NBC.
Got it sent off.
He was able to record it, get the pictures and the video clips assembled and send it off to him.
He casually and purposely strode to the area of his targets and then let loose with the trigger.
Uh and some people would say this is cold and calculating, not insane.
Um it's that's that's a matter for the mental health uh uh people.
And uh but there will be um you know people are gonna resist any notion that this had anything to do with, say, Islamic type terrorism, but there's no way to describe this other than to say it was a terrorist act.
This this is this is the ultimate terror act, whatever the motivation.
I f I think it's it's not really complicated.
Um but we all we all try to find explanations for behavior we don't understand, and all the things that you mentioned are applicable, but I think at the root of it is just had an evil guy.
And a lot of people don't they don't even want to think about the concept of evil.
Uh uh as as Barb Oakley said yesterday in the New York Times in a column.
They'll talk about evil in the abstract in college c classrooms all over the country.
But real life evil is hardly ever encountered, confronted or dealt with as a real life issue.
And when evil shows itself, uh people No, no, no, it's not evil, it's gotta be because people don't want to they don't want to face the concept that there is evil walking around among us.
But sometimes it's the most simple explanation where people are looking for complicated explanations for uh behavior uh like this.
Uh I just I I it's it's one of these things so extraordinary it doesn't happen every day, and that that's that's that's why the reaction to it has been uh has been what it is.
But I think there's as I've always said there's good in everything, and sometimes it takes a while to see it, and sometimes it takes a while to uh manifest itself.
But there there's an opportunity at any rate for uh good to happen here in terms of uh training students how to deal with these kinds of situations.
It happens again.
Uh it's a long shot that that'll happen, but it's possible.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Betty.
We got to take a quick time out, folks, to be back and continue right after this.
This is this is what it's like when you're on a diet.
I just got a note from Mark Levin.
It says, Hey, I just ate a box of milk dogs last night.
You get that on your diet.
Box of milk.
I said, no, but I got a whole jar of them in the room where my theater is.
But I never go in there.
They're not on the diet.
People do that to me all the time.
Tell me what foods they have.
And it it doesn't matter.
I can handle it.
Um we just we just had the call from the from the woman in Springfield, Illinois, theorizing on the uh shooter at V Tech.
I just found an amazing piece.
I'm going to link to this at Rushlimbo.com because it's too long to go through the whole thing.
But his headline here uh was Cho Taught to Hate.
And here's the here's the pull quote.
Uh whatever Cho learned in his classes, did it enable him to rage at his host country, to hate the students he envied so murderously?
Was he subtly encouraged to aggrandize himself by destroying others?
Was his pathology enabled by the university?
Or to ask the question differently, was Cho ever taught to respect others, to admire the good things about the country in which he lived and to discipline himself to build a positive life.
And that answer is readily available on the websites of his English department at Virginia Tech.
James Lewis writes the piece here, says, This is a wonderful world, a wonder world of PC weirdness.
English studies at VT are a postmodern Disney world in which nihilism, moral and sexually boundary uh sexual boundary breaking and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated.
They show up in a lot of faculty writing, not by all the faculty, but probably more than half.
And then he says, just check out the websites, and he's got the links to the websites for the English department that this guy attended.
Uh Marx is celebrated, a number of other uh things.
Here, here's if you go to the English department's official front page reaction to the murder a few days ago.
This is what it says.
We don't understand this tragedy.
We know we did nothing to deserve it.
Uh but neither does a child in Africa, dying of AIDS.
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory.
Neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water.
Neither does the Appalachian infant killed by a boulder.
Dislodged because the land was destabilized.
In other words, we didn't do anything here.
This isn't our fault.
It's greedy capitalism's fault.
Um this is James Lewis' opinion, but we'll link to it so you can read it because it's uh it's eye-opening.
John McCain on the campaign trail uh asked about Iran and started singing bomb bomb bomb bomb around.
Uh many people have not heard this.
We have what he sang.
Uh and people are getting they're up on it.
Bill Schneider saw the CNN.
Why, this is this is an unsettling moment.
It was a little unfortunate.
And McCain's out there saying, Lightened up, and good for him.
Good for him.
But here's the song.
John McCain, that's the song everybody in the drive-by media is all upset about.
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