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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, Ebob, a special edition of Open Line Friday.
It's our annual curathon for leukemia and lymphoma, ladies and gentlemen.
And we're all sitting here with the knots, lumps in our throats.
We are breaking the breakneck pace of last year in 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.
877-379-8888 is a number to donate by phone.
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 all the information you need there to donate with the credit card, Visa, MasterCard.
What is it?
Visa MasterCard, the Discover Card, and American Express are all accepted.
I want to be honest with you.
Every year, ladies and gentlemen, the way we do this, I sort of struggle with the mix of time, the amount of time we donate to the Cur-A-Thon and the amount of time we donate to normal program content.
We've never gone wall to wall with the Curathon.
We've always mixed that effort along 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 hold you as an audience as long as possible, increase the number of donors.
And so in my mind, anyway, there's a trick to it because I don't want to drive people away by spending too much time on the fundraising, yet it's so important.
And the success that we've had, this is our 17th year, is so profound that it's well worth the time.
So one of the things that I was thinking about last night, getting started with this today, was that actually the timing of the Cur-A-Thon today is excellent.
This has been just a horrific week in any number of ways.
And I was thinking last night that the Curathon and our effort to 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 compassion.
It's something that can fill hearts with joy over the notion that they've contributed to something worthwhile.
It's a nice time out, a nice break from all of the angst and the chaos and the tumult that has occurred this week.
And 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 at the same time, to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
740,000 patients and their families live with these diseases today, and there are 110,000 newly diagnosed patients every year.
And it's sad to say, but during the program today, 18 people will die of one of these cancers.
I'm always stunned when I hear of 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 1% 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 worldwide between people aged 10 to 24.
Traffic deaths, traffic accident deaths are number one.
HIV AIDS, number two, respiratory infections are three.
Self-inflicted injuries are number four.
Violence is five.
TB6, drowning seven, fires eight.
War is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide.
Guess what's number 10?
Leukemia.
Leukemia is the 10th leading cause of death worldwide.
And the research that you've enabled with your donations is leading to survival rates increasing like 1% for leukemia in children under the age of 20 since last year's curathon.
Lymphoma, 63,000 Americans are diagnosed every year.
20,000 succumb to it.
Now, the survival rate for lymphoma is up to five-year survival rate from 47% in 74 to 63% today.
And that 63%, that's up 3% since last year alone.
And for children, the survival rate 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 of the plasma cells, 55,000 Americans currently live with this disease.
There are 15,000 new patients diagnosed every year.
Very rarely do people under 50 come down with myeloma.
Five-year survival rate on that's only 32% now, and it's especially deadly for African Americans and those of European descent.
So that's the mission.
The battle here is 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, 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, might have been fatal for many patients.
And now this drug has turned people's lives around.
Clinical studies at UCLA School of Medicine on an agent for those who are resistant to this drug, Gleevec, shows tremendous promise as well.
The thing I, I don't know why I didn't know this, but I didn't know this until last night.
Bone marrow transplants, bone, we hear about them all the time on television.
They're a common feature in television shows, entertainment television shows that deal with hospitals and medicine.
Bone marrow transplants were pioneered by Leukemia Lymphoma Society researchers.
They're going to commit $58 million to research alone today or this year.
And do you know what a bone marrow transplant is?
It's actually an adult stem cell transplant.
So all of us here have been supporting, you and me, we've been supporting the only stem cell therapy to date that not only shows promise, but works.
And 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.
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 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 generosity here, folks, has made that testing possible, and it is going to start soon.
This could be a huge breakthrough, 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 with the same people that I've been working with.
This is our 17th year, and they have, well, they're all committed to it, many of them, because they've been personally affected, either themselves or family members who've contracted one of these 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 endured this week 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 produce measurable results.
As it turns out, many of the breakthroughs that we're starting to see today began about the time we became a part of all of this 17 years ago.
So your donations over these years were part of the seed money that led to these advances.
And they are confident that they're getting closer and closer to a cure as the survivability rates dramatically increase.
Now, as always, we have premiums that we offer with certain levels of donations, $60 donation, one-size-fits-all special edition Rush Limbaugh t-shirt.
You see this at RushLimbaugh.com, $300, a high-quality camel-colored knit golf shirt, size of your choosing.
And the EIB logo is right on the left front.
My signature is on the left sleeve.
You can see this shirt at rushlimbaugh.com, the Take Visa MasterCard American Express, that's GoverCard.
Nobody else will know.
You're not going to get bombarded.
You're not going to 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 get it done.
You're breaking records from last year.
Last year was a record year, and you're ahead of last year.
We all are.
And as I said in the last hour, I never ask you to do things that I don't do.
I'm not going to sit here and point fingers at you and say, you donate.
As I always lead it off, and this year was $300,000 for me.
We got a call from a man in tears.
He was from Troy, Texas.
Is that where he was from?
Yeah, his name is Alan in Troy, Texas.
He called in tears.
He said that this year he couldn't afford to give any money.
So what he had done was put his name on the bone marrow transplant list.
And he told Mr. Snerdley to thank me.
And of course, it's the other way around.
So I'm going to add $10,000 to my $300,000 in Alan's name from Troy.
And yes, he will get a shirt.
He qualifies for getting a shirt because his donation is more than $300.
So again, the telephone number is 877-379-8888 or make it simple.
Go to rushlimbaugh.com.
In case you weren't with us in the first hour, we had a call from a soldier who's deploying to Iraq in three months.
And he was just angry and upset at Harry Reid proclaiming defeat, saying, the war in Iraq is lost.
In the first hour, I think everybody's talking about Gonzales needs to resign.
Harry Reid needs to resign.
Benedict Arnold, Harry Reid, sabotaging victory.
And I told this soldier, what you have to understand is, 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 this turns around swimmingly and goes well, they are lost.
And they fear their 08 election chances will be down the tubes as well.
So they somehow have to ensure defeat.
And Guy said, well, there's a term for these people, arachnophobes.
Arachnophobia 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 costs of the Iraq war is very likely after President Bush vetoes the current Iraq spending bill.
This according to John Murtha today, House Democrats named their conferees at the beginning of this week and defeated a Republican effort to instruct them.
Conferee is going to 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 the troops, but not a hard date, rather than the firm 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 arachnophobia, what the soldiers' word is.
Two months.
Iraq spending bill, very likely.
Two months.
They want to make it look like they're supporting victory, but two months.
And then the president's going to 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 DittoCam, 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.
Do 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 going to end up with the most of it.
She's going to get the most of the fun because they're out there threatening people.
On the Republican side, you know, they're doing their bad.
They're demonizing Rudy.
Rudy Giuliani is now a draft Dodger, and Fred Thompson's lurking out there.
So now they're talking about, well, you know, Fred Thompson, you got an abortion problem.
They have a trial lawyer problem.
They're already bombing.
As things stand today, it's an 80% chance she's the next president.
So I found it interesting that in the New Orleans Times-Picayune today, 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 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 have to make it look like she's got a challenge out there.
They've got to make it look like she can overcome a challenge.
She can get in a fight, get dusted up, and prevail.
This business of 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 the 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, Clinton was in New York City yesterday speaking at the National Action Network Convention, rallying behind the Reverend Sharpton.
He was there to offer up his support and respect for Sharpton, but his real motive, this is Marcia Kramer at Channel 2 New York, his real motive was likely to help sway the outspoken civil rights leader toward an endorsement of his wife, Hillary Clinton.
This is Bill Clinton.
Because, you know, Jesse Jackson's out there endorsed Obama, and Sharpton's sitting out there just waiting to see what happens.
And Bill's in there.
In fact, they headline 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.
But this is among all voters, which this time in the campaign, I guess it's interesting.
She's at 68% approval with Democrats in a Gallup poll.
She's got 45% favorability, down 13 points since she announced in the USA Today Gallup survey.
So there's all kinds of conflicting news.
And then this story by Donald Lambrou 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 you raise, you're never going to get close to her is in terms of fundraising when it's all said and done.
By the way, the Brett girl, John Edwards, said yesterday he's going to reimburse his campaign $800 for his two haircuts in Beverly Hills.
He just went and got two haircuts out there at Beverly Hills, 400 cuts each, $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, spa treatments and all the, come on.
You know, folks, you get all these people out there.
You know, 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 curathon?
Zip Zero Nada.
When you walk into a barber shop, you reach with the money in your, or a stylist salon, wherever you go, you get the money out of your pocket and you pay up.
How in the world?
How do you, you pay these, they send you a bill?
Does the stylist send a campaign to Bill?
This was a clear effort to avoid paying 800 bucks out of his own pocket.
Anyway, he's been caught now.
But the interesting thing is that the Brett girl needs to be quaffed and spotted like this before he shows up 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 cur-a-thon 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.
Back to the phones.
Diane in Lake Worth, Florida, right down the road from us here.
Hi, Diane.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
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 I just, I'm speechless that you and your listeners are doing this.
A lot of breakthroughs have come, and they give him 87, 90% chance of cure rate.
That's great news.
It is.
It's great news, and that's the case with more and more people who get diagnosed with this stuff.
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, won't have to suffer with blood cancer.
Yeah.
Well, and not only that, but there are so many ancillary benefits here in other areas that the research into the blood cancers benefits as well.
Look, folks, you know all of this.
I mean, I go through the statistics here and the increases of survivability rates and all of this, and it's great to chronicle it.
But the bottom line is that the research has improved and has led to such discoveries that the survivability rates and the cure rates for some of these cancers are just increasing rapidly.
You know all of that.
You know what this is.
We've been doing it.
This is our 17th year.
People say, what's the total you've raised?
It's just north of $17 million, which if you average it out, would come to $1 million 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 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 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 have been in the last three or four years, what with the size of the audience and everything else.
I don't want to retrace our footsteps in history, how this all started, but it used to be 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 worked out to be better off that way.
But if it's a tremendous amount of money that has been raised from just this one little radio show in just such a short period of time, it's, you know, people that deal in money and finance and this sort of thing look at the efficiency of raising.
How much does it cost to raise money?
Because in a lot of ways, 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, we've got the phone lines, we've got the 877 and the processing of the donations and so forth.
But I mean, there's no large upfront cost here.
In addition to 75% of everything donated going directly to research and patient and family care.
So the efficiency, when you take a look at this nearly $17 million that's been raised since we started, the amount of time it's taken to do it and the little upfront cost, it's stunning.
It is really stunning.
And it's a testament to you.
And we all want to feel good about ourselves.
And this is one of these things that when you do, it'll give you a little inner glow because it's working.
Progress is being made.
And in some cases, with some of these various forms of blood cancer, it's rapid.
Curtis in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next at Open Line Friday.
Hey, Rush, what a pleasure.
Cornhofker Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I just wondered if the actor Baldwin had donated to Senator Barack Obama's campaign a few weeks ago, and if he was going to return that because of the verbal violence that Mr. Ooh!
Ooh, I love this.
I love that.
He's talking about Alec Baldwin's phone call to his 11-year-old daughter.
To say something about this, by the way.
In fact, Mike, grab that bite.
It's number 14.
If you haven't heard this, this is Alec Baldwin.
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 11-year-olds be outraged and offended by that by now?
11-year-old daughters?
Well, but it is your greater point.
It's verbal violence.
You had Obama out there talking about the verbal violence on the radio.
And what my point is, is that 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.
But that having been said, I want to play this by thanks for that, Curtis, because that's a brilliant connector.
The verbal violence.
Here's Alec Baldwin, I guess on April 11th, left this voicemail message for his 11 or 12-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 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 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 going to get on a plane and I'm going to come out there for the day and I'm going to straighten your out when I see you.
Do you understand me?
I'm going to really make sure you get it.
Then I'm going to get on a plane.
I'm going to turn around and I'm going to come home.
So you better be ready Friday the 20th to meet with me.
So I'm going to 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 is what it is.
The one thing, though, I want to mention here, and I'm probably going to get in trouble because people are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to this.
I can't tell you the number of guys that I've known over the years, don't know any now in this circumstance, who are going through vicious custody fights in their divorces and their kids.
The kids live with the mother, and the mother is literally poisoning the kids' minds 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 recipient of it, and they get so confused and so forth.
This is not to excuse Alec Baldwin.
Whatever he's trying to accomplish here, he failed.
This is not going to bring his little girl around to him no matter what his wife is saying about him to her.
This is not going to accomplish anything.
But 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 liberal as is normal.
We could be finding out who he is.
But that's just an example of verbal violence that Barack Obama was so upset about.
And the guy raised a good question.
Has Baldwin donated to Obama?
And if so, should Obama return the donation?
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 presidential race.
Here's Betty in Springfield, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
Megan Ditto.
Thank you.
I loved you for years, ever since Sacramento.
Well, you used to live there?
No, no.
I live where I live right now, but I've been listening to you since Sacramento.
Okay, you listen 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've gone out in there and done a couple remotes, and I bet that's what you heard.
Okay.
But, Rush, I have three short points to make about the Virginia tech shooter.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm very 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.
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, we have to be destroyed.
And I don't think he was mentally ill.
I think he was simply a suicide bomber, a shooter in this case.
Well, you know, the mentally ill, it can be kind of tricky because I understand what you're saying because he wasn't, it was his acts that, you know, the sane will look at what he did and say, gosh, you've got to be insane to do this.
But if you look at his behavior that day, it was normal.
He got it, made plans.
He went to the post office between episodes.
He addressed the stuff to NBC, got it set 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.
And some people would say this is cold and calculating, not insane.
That's a matter for the mental health people.
But there will be, you know, people are going to 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 is the ultimate terror act, whatever the motivation.
I think it's not really complicated, but 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 even want to think about the concept of evil.
As Barb Oakley said yesterday at the New York Times in a column, they'll talk about evil in the abstract in college 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, people...
No, no, no, it's not evil.
It's got to be because people 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 behavior like this.
I just, it's one of these things so extraordinary doesn't happen every day, and that's why the reaction to it has been what it is.
But I think, 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 manifest itself.
But there's an opportunity at any rate for good to happen here in terms of training students how to deal with these kinds of situations.
It happens again.
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 timeout, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
This is what it's like when you're on a diet.
I just got a note from Mark Levin.
He says, Hey, I just ate a box of milk dugs last night.
You get that on your diet.
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 food do they have.
And it doesn't matter.
I can handle it.
We just had the call from the woman in Springfield, Illinois theorizing on the shooter at VTech.
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 was Cho taught to hate.
And here's the pull quote.
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.
He 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 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.
Marx is celebrated, a number of other things.
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.
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.
This is James Lewis' opinion, but we'll link to it so you can read it because it's eye-opening.
John McCain on the campaign trail asked about Iran and started singing Bomb, Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.
Many people have not heard this.
We have what he sang.
And people are getting, they're up and Bill Schneider thought the CNN.
Wow, this is an unsettling moment.
It was 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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