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April 18, 2008, Friday, Hour #3

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	Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
	You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America.
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	It is Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	I got the most amazing polling data here from ABC.
	I will share it with you in mere moments.
	Our final hour of Open Line Friday today, ladies and gentlemen, and that's, of course, when we go to the phones.
	The program is all yours, meaning you can talk about whatever.
	Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
	We're also cruising now into the final hour of our annual Curathon, Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curathon, where we're attempting to wipe out the blood cancers.
	And once again, uh the generosity being demonstrated by those of you in this audience is over awing.
	It is overwhelming to us.
	We've got uh Pam and Larry from the Leukemia Society who have been with us.
	Well, we've been with them for all 18 years.
	18 years we've been doing this.
	And uh they're up in our New York studios uh chronicling the uh and tabulating the donations as they come in, and we're so far ahead of last year uh that it's it's spooky.
	It is it is scary, and it's it's heartwarming at the same time.
	The phone number uh to donate 87, by the way, this these numbers, this phone number will be active throughout the weekend, uh, as is always the case.
	Uh and the website will also be accepting donations through uh throughout the weekend.
	877 379-8888.
	So you don't even have to act now if you if you're if you have to ponder it because uh you'll be able to contribute long past the end of today's program against 877-379-8888 or RushLimbaugh.com, Visa MasterCard American Express, and you will not be solicited by anyone.
	I want to tell you a little bit about the society.
	Haven't done that yet today.
	The Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
	Oh, if you talk about commitment, I've known these people for 18 years now.
	And these people are soldiers.
	And then like all of us, they're in the midst of a surge.
	Uh and this they're they're you, people just like you who've been touched personally by these diseases.
	Family member was afflicted or a friend, somebody they loved.
	There's 68 chapters of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society in the United States and Canada, and they're filled with people just like you.
	Uh providing public and professional education, patient services for people and families facing these diseases, uh, advocating for them in government, uh, in the health care and insurance industries to guide and access quality cancer care, get patients into uh clinical trials, which is a huge thing to do.
	That that takes a lot of work, uh, and so many people want to get in on the clinical trials for new drugs and treatments and so forth, and they do yeoman's work in getting that done.
	The uh society knows the toll that these diseases exact in a very personal way, and they're there in so many ways for the patients and the families, and you would never know them if you ran into them anywhere.
	They're just like they're just like all the other people that make this country work.
	They're laboring in anonymity, they're not seeking fame, they're not caught up in pop culture.
	They're they're they're they're blessed by a commitment that uh is the result, as I've said, of being personally touched by this.
	Now, you uh many of you fortunately may not have a personal link to these blood cancers.
	But you should know that the advances made in this war have been deployed in other campaigns.
	Bone marrow transplants, to name one, are a direct result of advances in the fight against blood cancers.
	Bone marrow transplants are adult stem cell transplants, by the way, something that I really enjoy pointing out.
	Uh on the adult stem cell front, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is funding research led by Dr. Robert Collins that 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 generosity has made that testing possible.
	And that testing is going to start soon.
	Could be another big breakthrough, thanks to people like you.
	The Leukemia Lymphoma Society does so much, but their biggest mission is to put your dollars to work in the laboratories in testing.
	And under the microscope, 75% of your donation today goes to a scientist or a technician developing the latest weapon to take the fight to these blood cancers as well as patient and support services.
	Now, as is always the case, we have uh premiums that we're offering.
	Uh one of them is a one-size fits all 20th anniversary t-shirt, EIB, 20th anniversary t-shirt.
	It's coming up August 1st.
	And for a $70 donation, you get a t-shirt.
	For a donation of $325, you get a special edition EIB golf shirt.
	It's light blue with the white piping and lettering.
	It's got my signature on the on the left-hand sleeve, and you do get your choice of sizes with this shirt.
	Visa MasterCard, American Express, all welcome.
	And when you when you go to my website and donate, you will be in an entirely secure area.
	Not even Interpol could get in, folks.
	None of your information will be shared or passed on to anybody outside the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
	You will not receive solicitations or be harassed by telephone calls at all.
	The success stories are numerous.
	Let's take a look at a Hodgkin's lymphoma.
	Hodgkin's lymphoma.
	1,070 people died of this disease last year, but 138,000 in the United States are living with it.
	And the long-term survival rate on Hodgkin's lymphoma has increased.
	It was 40% in 1963.
	It's now 86%.
	That's a new high this year.
	Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
	18,000 Americans died of this disease last year.
	405,000 are living with this disease.
	Long-term survival rates up to 64%.
	That's a new high as well.
	I mean, this is genuine progress that is being made.
	Myeloma, this is this is a tough one.
	It's very stubborn.
	It used to have a five-year survival rate.
	Used to be 10%.
	It's up to 34% now.
	The five-year survival rate from 10 to 34%.
	And work is continuing here.
	So in addition to all the progress made in the blood cancers, there are ancillary benefits to this research as well that help people who uh contract other forms of cancer other than the blood cancers.
	As I said at the top of the hour, your uh your donations are running way, way, way ahead of last year.
	And uh everybody's very moved by that because we all are aware of the uh rising costs of basic staples in life, such as food, gasoline, and uh and the like.
	It's uh always appreciated, but I think this year you have uh you have Pam and Larry and all the people and me uh sort of sitting here in a in a dazed, stunned appreciation for this because it was totally uh it was totally unexpected.
	So thank you very much again.
	We'll take a quick timeout, and I'll tell you about this ABC pulse about ABC posts about global warming.
	Uh and it's a poll.
	Well, I'll just tell you now, what the heck?
	I'm not gonna tease you.
	I'll tell you right now, this is a this is uh question number three in this poll.
	Thinking ahead to the November presidential election.
	What's the single most important issue in your choice for president?
	And you go down the list, and you get here to global warming, and zero.
	Nobody in the ABC poll listed global warming as the single most important issue in their choice for president.
	Number one is the economy and jobs.
	Number two is uh Iraq terrorism, national security.
	And that's it's 41 for the economy, 18 for the Iraq War, national security, and there's a see uh seven percent is uh health care.
	Stop a thing of that.
	Stop and think of that.
	Health care.
	Only 7% of the respondents in this poll say it's the most important issue.
	Electing a president.
	Immigration is at four.
	Ethics, honesty, corruption in governments at four.
	Abortion is at one.
	Morality, family values, two percent.
	Global warming, zero.
	Back after this.
	Charlie Wrangles tax plan.
	You make it, and we take it.
	Great to have you back on Open Line Friday.
	Rush Limbaugh.
	You know, I have always said, and I not just on this program, but the people in person, when I was young, I hated being young.
	I wanted to be older.
	Every year, well, like when I was 15, I wanted to be 21.
	When I was 21, wanted to be 25.
	25 wanted to be 30.
	And the reason, when I was 16, when I was 12, I wanted to be 18.
	I always wanted to be older, because I looked around, and the older people were the ones that were happy.
	And I said, that's me.
	I want to, and lo and behold.
	I got a little story here from the Associated Press Medical Writer.
	News flash for rock stars and teenagers.
	It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age.
	The golden years really are golden.
	That's according to eye-opening research that found the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active and the stereotype and a lonely senior.
	You know, at uh at the Early Bird Special would suggest.
	The uh the two go hand in hand.
	Being social can help keep away the blues.
	The good news is that with age comes happiness, said the author of the sturdy uh study, Yang Yang, uh University of Chicago sociologist.
	Yang Yang, the author of the survey said that life gets better in one's perception as one ages.
	A certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches, pains, deaths of loved ones, and so forth, but older people generally have learned to be more content with what they have than younger adults, said Yang Yang of the University of Chicago.
	And this is partly because older people have learned to lower their expectations and accept their achievements at Duke University aging expert, Linda George.
	An older person may realize it's fine that I was a school teacher and not a Nobel Prize winner.
	I think I think you just get older and you appreciate the whole concept of life.
	You just get one.
	Uh and and you depends on how old you are when you learn that and intellectually understand it.
	I mean, life's like anything else, you take it for granted, but there's only one, and you never know when it's going to end.
	And a lot of people, when they finally figure out there's only one, that's when that generally takes age.
	That's when you start appreciating it all and trying to get the most out of it.
	However, you define that.
	And I just I love to see this confirmation I was right, and I'm probably the only person that you have ever heard say, I couldn't- I'm 57 now, I'm looking forward to 60.
	I mean, the history of my life is that every year has been better than the year before.
	I mean, there's bumps in there, of course, but you look back on an unbalanced, there's not a thing I would change.
	Now see, Snerdley's looking at me like he doesn't believe anything I'm saying.
	You don't believe me, or I'm I'm well, I'm I'm sure at some point, you know, when I'm 75, I'm probably well, actually, I will be looking forward to being 80, hoping to get there.
	See, this is the point, Snerdley.
	This is the he's in there.
	You are the only person I know that's wanted to get older.
	It's all in the mind.
	It's all in the mind.
	Remember, most days I still feel like I'm 18 to 20.
	You know, other than the level of responsibility I have learned to accept as an adult and the leader of Operation Chaos.
	Umperation Chaos, this is from the Politico.com, Roger Simon.
	You know a candidate is really feeling the heat when he starts complaining about the kitchen.
	You know a candidate's having problems when he starts complaining about the process.
	Wednesday night in a debate in Philadelphia, Barack Obama complained a number of times about the presidential campaign process, and how some people spend way too much time obsessing about some of the things that he and others have actually said.
	Okay, so I guess from Barry's point Of view, we've gone from being bitter to being obsessed.
	Wasn't it Obama who first told us that words matter, that words mean things.
	And then he complains when we use his words to define him.
	My friends, this guy does not have the temperament.
	This guy is an he comes from an entitlement mentality.
	Obviously, he is an elitist, and an elitist is an attitudinal thing.
	It has nothing to do with how much money you have or don't have.
	Uh elitism is popular exactly as I've defined it.
	If you're an elitist, it means you look down on other people.
	Arrogance, condescension.
	You have contempt for other people.
	It makes you an elitist.
	And you don't want to be held to the same standards.
	Because you're above it, and that's Obama.
	He does he resents being held to the same standards as anybody else who's running for the White House or who is in politics.
	Because he got away so long with all this messianic appeal where he wasn't saying anything.
	Uh and there was this instant this this almost cult like devotion.
	Now that's gone.
	The magic is gone.
	There's no magic.
	There's just reality that's set in, and he's he's he resents it.
	He does not like it.
	He does not like being held to these standards.
	He's super delegates, you're gonna have to do the doomsday option.
	And you know it.
	You know it.
	You just biggest obstacle is how do you do it.
	Because no matter no matter if you get look at if you only get rid of one of them, you're gonna deal with anger like you haven't seen before.
	But if you get rid of both of them, on the pretext that neither of them can win because you've had such a great campaign and you've it's just really torn the party apart.
	We've got to unify the party.
	Then you might be able to get away with it, and that's what you're gonna have to do.
	Otherwise, you guys are toast.
	And they know it at the superdelegate, and so does so does Dr. Howard Dean.
	Diane in Lake Worth, Florida, right down I-95 here.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Hale, Commander in Chief, Operation Chaos.
	Thank you.
	It's an honor to speak to you today.
	And I would like to echo the sentiments of Gary.
	I think he was from Michigan, and you as well.
	I have a grandson who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2005.
	And I'm so nervous.
	Did I say he was five and a half?
	No, you didn't.
	Oh, he was five and a half.
	And um we're still fighting the fight.
	And if all goes well, he should be hopefully without any relapse, be finished with his rigorous chemotherapy in May.
	And um the You know, this is a good point.
	One of the things I have failed to mention today is the number of children that are that are stricken with this disease.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	It would surprise people.
	People that can associate cancer with uh, you know, advanced age.
	Right.
	Um and um, you know, it's like Gary said, it's devastating to the family.
	It's you know, your whole world is changed in one moment by one word.
	But I do have to say the the lymph leukemia lymphoma society has been there.
	They offer workshops for the family, they have special dinners that you can take the children to.
	It's only leukemia patients.
	Um they have connections to where you can send a leukemia patient to get away from everything, you know, at camps, etc.
	It isn't only the research, although the research is the most important thing.
	And um it's hard going through, you know, because you always sit on that corner, you know, is the relapse coming or is it not?
	But, you know, with God's blessing, he's gonna be finished in May, and hopefully he'll get a clean bill of health.
	Uh absolutely.
	But you know, you never know what's going to happen with these things.
	No.
	And it's uh when you're talking about a five and a half year old child.
	Yes.
	You go you go through all of something.
	There's nothing fair about this, you say.
	Why, why, why my grandson?
	What what what how could this possibly happen?
	Well, you have to realize, uh, and I can tell just the sound of your voice and the things that you've said, there's a tremendous amount of love for him and his uh uh in his whole family, and the uh you whatever, you know, his hope for the best with his with his prospects, but he's very fortunate because the uh whatever, whatever life he has is going to be filled with love from you and your family, and don't ever forget that.
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a prophet.
	Commander in chief, Operation Chaos USA.
	Here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Final half hour here for our Curaton for Leukemia and Lymphoma.
	Margin of uh of uh donation over last year continues to expand.
	It's just it's unbelievable.
	Telephone numbers 877, and then the number of donors is up by 2,000.
	As uh as well.
	Uh 877-379-8888 is the number.
	If you want to use the telephone, you can donate uh via website at www.rushlimbaug.com.
	Ladies and gentlemen.
	I have pointed out in recent past that there never seem to be any tell all books written by former members of the Clinton administration, but when they are given a chance to walk away, they do, such as Bill Richardson has endorsed Obama, a number of others, uh, who maybe not even been in the administration, but well, some some which were, but then others that were very close to them when they were in the White House, abandoning them for Obama.
	Uh John Lewis, civil rights activist marched in Selba with Dr. King.
	He vominosed a long time ago.
	And now another defection.
	The former Labor Secretary, Robert B. Reich, has announced that he is going to endorse Obama.
	Just I'll tell you what people get a chance to flee these, it means they don't fear him anymore.
	Sam, well, but Sam Sam Nunn.
	I mean, you didn't Sam Nunn, you I would uh I would never associate Sam Nunn with a Clinton sycophant.
	Um but you know, this Robert B. Rice was a labor secretary for crying out loud.
	Like Richardson did a bunch of things.
	And both these guys were hung out to dry during the Lewinsky thing.
	You know, Clinton sent these people out there to attest uh to his uh honesty, veracity, and all that.
	I ha you know, folks, it is so much fun.
	It's not just the Democrat candidates that are tearing each each other up.
	Now the drive-by media.
	The drive-by media is ripping itself to shreds.
	All the other networks are ganging up on ABC and Charlie Gibson and Stephanopoulos for basically running a Republican campaign against these Democrats.
	It's just it's amazing to watch this all fall apart.
	And of course, the uh everybody knows that any if if there had been similar questions, which there have been to a Republican candidates in debate, nobody would be acting like their feelings are hurt here, and nobody would be acting like the media had jumped the shark, and nobody would be saying that the media was unfair and that they went overboard.
	We Republicans have learned that's the lay of the land.
	That's what happens.
	But we're getting the impression here that the Democrats never attack anybody, and all of a sudden now they're attacking Obama.
	This is what this is not right.
	And they're saying that Clintons are now acting like Republicans by attacking Obama on frivolous issues, as if they never attack anybody.
	Here's an ad that a Democrat front group has uh has out now, savaging Senator McCain on his uh his age.
	This ad is uh by Steve Rosenthal, who is a former political director at the AFL CIO and the executive director of Americans coming together, which is a far lefty group.
	Listen to this Democrats never attack anybody, right?
	The Democrats never do the politics of personal destruction.
	With all this Obama Hillary, Obama Hillary.
	I forget.
	Isn't there another guy running too?
	Yeah, John Sidney McCain.
	But no one's really paying attention to him because he's kind of old.
	He did say he's older than dirt.
	Well, not as old as dirt, but he's older than a lot of things.
	Um he's older than my father.
	Well, he's older than my grandfather.
	That means John McCain is older than FM radio.
	John McCain is older than the Golden Gate Bridge.
	And the Lincoln Tunnel, too.
	McCain is older than plutonium.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	John McCain is older than McDonald's.
	And Burger King.
	And probably a whole bunch of other fast food restaurants, too.
	John McCain is older than Coconut Can.
	John McCain is older than what the hell is that country.
	Indonesia.
	And Pakistan.
	And Iceland.
	I got it.
	The dude's older than Velcro.
	And he's older than nylon.
	He's even older than Color TV.
	Oh my God.
	John McCain is older than Dick Freakin' Cheney.
	You have to admit it's funny.
	See, we can laugh at this stuff.
	We can laugh.
	They cannot laugh at themselves.
	There's no room for humor in being critical of a Democrat.
	Not at all.
	Here's Brenton Twin Oaks, Ohio.
	I'm glad you waited, sir.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	Mega Aerudite Ditto's Thank you.
	Uh I just want to call and tip my hat to you.
	I mean to call the President of the United States to say thank you and have him return your call.
	I mean, that puts you in very rare fight air.
	And uh it's a testament to your parents, your upbringing, and your hard work.
	And uh I you know, you in American history and American folklore, especially the number of times you've been mentioned on the congressional floor and the mainstream media, you're right up there with Will Rogers, Edward R. Murrell, so on and so forth.
	But anyway, the the main reason of my call is I've had the luxury of time in the last six months to do a lot of reading, and I've read a lot about William F. Buckley.
	And I was thinking back, I'm about seven years younger than you, and I versus voted in 1976.
	Um from 76 until eighty is what I call the wilderness years because as conservatives, all we had was uh the National Review firing line and the weekly address by uh Ronald Reagan.
	And I've noticed that some of your younger callers, they sort of don't appreciate how good we have it now with you.
	Uh just the mere fact that i your name is brought up everywhere.
	Uh I mean that's uh I I was just wondering if you take some time and sort of uh tell your younger uh listeners what those years were like, 76 till 1980.
	Yeah, you know that's a good point.
	Even before that, I mean if you you go back to 1964 and prior to that in the Goldwater election, uh, which really was the birth of Ronald Reagan when you when you get right down to it.
	Exactly.
	Those those were those were you know, the early years they were dark, but they were exciting because uh it was new and it was uh it was intellectually energetic.
	But what the the the the y I know you're hearing uh some of the college students that call here and others who are complaining their their point of reference, you know, most people's historical perspective begins with the day they were born.
	Uh uh maybe when they're five years old, when their first memory they have to study to know what happened prior to that.
	Correct.
	But they know what happened since they've been born, and so they they they look at they're comparing what they see as the circumstances into which they're born, a powerful conservative media, or a powerful liberal media, a Democrat Party aligned with the media, they are seeing genuine reprobates attain power in the Democrat Party.
	They are seeing the American people buy into full-fledged hoaxes, such as global warming, and they're wondering how can this be?
	Because they they they're they're worried really about the overall intelligence and uh uh ability to learn of the American people.
	They don't understand how this stuff can can so easily be sold, and that's what they're complaining about.
	Every college professor they run into is a socialist.
	Yeah, and who hates the country, and they don't understand that.
	And so uh it is it would be wise to help people tell these young people how how far we have progressed uh uh versus where we were in those four years that you mentioned.
	You left out that Jimmy Carter was the president than that, didn't he?
	Exactly.
	That was the worst.
	That was the absolute we had a misery index to tell ourselves how bad it was.
	Yeah, and he was scolding us for his problems.
	That's precisely.
	Yeah.
	And uh it's just uh you it's it's just amazing that uh conservatives tend to be of good cheer.
	I've read about that about William F. Buckley, of you, of course.
	And the liberals are just so pensive and so angry at everything.
	Did they ever laugh at a nonpolitical joke?
	I don't think they're ever happy.
	I mean I really I by definition they can't be.
	The world view through a pair of eyes in a liberal skull has is pretty bad because they're seeking perfection.
	And anything that's short of perfection, it makes them mad, it depresses them and so forth.
	And you know, they they they see things through a different lens.
	But by definition, liberals can't be happy.
	Yeah, this is not the United States of Utopia, it's the United States of America.
	We try to form a more perfect union.
	And don't forget, you know, who are the primary enemies of liberals are anybody successful independent of government.
	That's correct.
	U.S. corporations, um, uh in individuals uh who uh who have not used liberal prescriptions in order to attain their success in life.
	They hate anything uh like a religion that uh prescribes boundaries and uh you know black and white look at what's right and what's wrong.
	Exactly.
	Uh and of course, this week we've featured the vicar of Christ in town in the country for a week, and they have seen thousands and thousands show up to worship with the vicar of Christ.
	That just that makes them mad.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the things that a couple of military jets flying over to Super Bowl will make them mad because that's the military.
	They can't even go to Super Bowl without being happy.
	Or the Blue Angels.
	Oh blue.
	That's just a waste of precious Yeah.
	Well, Rush, uh, just so you know there's millions of us who consider you part of our family, and thank you for all you've done.
	Thank you, sir.
	I appreciate your call.
	I will take a brief time out and be right back after this.
	Talent on loan uh from uh God.
	It's open line Friday, and we're down to the uh the last few minutes here of the uh live portion of our Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curathon.
	Remember now the telephone number and uh the website, uh both uh available for donations, will be up and active all weekend long.
	Uh you know not you do not have to get your donation in by the end of the program today.
	Uh this is important too because some people listen to this program on our podcasts uh that won't be going out till 3 30 or 3 45 Eastern time this afternoon.
	Uh and that'll be the first they hear of it, and they may not hear it till they download it and get on the exercise bike tonight or uh or tomorrow sometimes.
	There's a lot of portability with the program these days, so some people aren't even going to be here about this uh until the weekend.
	So that's why we keep the phone number active as well as the website donation page uh as we attempt this eighteenth year to wipe out leukemia and lymphoma.
	And once again, we we continue to increase the margin of uh donations from this year to last year.
	It really is stunning.
	Uh and it's beyond our expectations.
	Now, I I don't I don't want to belittle our expectations.
	You know, you try to factor realism here into things, and there is a reality out there, and that is that the price of staples is uh much higher this year than it was last year.
	I mean, things that are necessary, food and gasoline, uh and and other items as well.
	And you you we we figured that would have some kind of an impact.
	What has happened this year is that thousands more have donated uh than last year, which is just an excellent sign, and the average donation is up uh still around twenty-five dollars, but the the numbers of dollars that we are ahead over last year is stunning.
	I can't thank you enough, folks, uh, for making this happen.
	Uh not because of its a record and not not because it it continues growth, but because of what's going to happen with the money.
	Uh you've heard two or three calls today from from people whose families have been recently affected by this because of a recent diagnosis.
	And it does stop you cold.
	It changes everything.
	Uh and and you know, uh those of you that have had other kinds of cancer, you know, or any disease that is potentially fatal.
	Uh the doctor comes out and tells you to just you ha you have to hear one word and bam, uh everything changes.
	And when that happens to people, the people that are there to help, and not just with research and testing, but the people are there to help are the leukemia lymphoma society.
	Uh sixty-eight uh offices around the country and in Canada, and they've set up a number of programs to help families and patients uh deal with this.
	They really do great work in addition to all of the research that is uh that is funded.
	So your your your participation this year has uh uh it's brought a lot of people up in New York into tears.
	We're not expecting this.
	And it has continued to uh uh tell me just how fortunate I am to have all of you as as members of this audience.
	You know, Jackie Gleason used to say when he's when he moved his TV show from New York down to Miami.
	He said, The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world.
	Well, y you know, I I don't know about other people's audiences.
	But I I can tell you that um there cannot be a better one uh than than you.
	Uh we do this once a year, and uh at the time we're doing it this year is right in the middle of a very heated uh presidential campaign.
	And we've got you know the Pennsylvania primary coming up um next week, next Tuesday.
	And I haven't had one complaint that I've heard on the phone or from email from anybody about the amount of content or programming time we've uh we've taken away today by talking about the uh the curaton because you have come to expect it, and then to see your participation in it increase the way it has this year.
	Uh you know, kudos to you.
	Thank you so much.
	Uh you you don't know how grateful I am to be uh uh hosting a program that has people like you in this audience, as the audience.
	I also want to say before uh let me give you the phone number again, one more time.
	It's uh glasses on to get this right.
	877-379-8888, or the website rushlimbaught.com and remember that credit card security is not a problem.
	You won't be solicited.
	Nobody outside of Leukemia Lymphoma Society will see your information.
	They don't sell it to anybody, and they won't give it to anybody.
	Uh I also I want to thank President Bush uh for calling in the program.
	He he had uh he named an appointment uh right at twelve noon today.
	I I I I sent a couple people at the White House an email last night.
	It was late at night.
	I'm in the middle of listening to the battle hymn of the republic for for an hour.
	And I I uh it stirred my soul that whole ceremony.
	I said, I I want to thank President Bush, but I don't want to do it publicly.
	I sent an email off to these people.
	I said it would be possible to get the president for two minutes.
	Just two minutes.
	I just did I told him what I wanted to do.
	And one wrote back and said, I doubt it.
	Busy day heading to Camp David in the afternoon.
	The other one said we'll make it happen.
	And uh about I don't know, 10 30, 11 o'clock, got an email that uh be on the lookout for a call from the president between uh 12 06 and 12 50.
	And he called in right at like 1210, 1212, something like that.
	Uh and I just I wanted to thank him again for the the ceremony at the White House lawn on Wednesday, but also for calling the program.
	Uh it's you know, when you when you want to express gratitude to somebody, it's easy to do it, but you don't know if they can hear it, such as this program.
	It was a privilege to be able to thank him personally and uh and publicly.
	And also want to thank the Army band and chorus for changing my life along with the Pope and the President of that whole ceremony and Kathleen Battle uh on on Wednesday.
	If you're if you're a parent of one of the members of the band in chorus, you've got to be really, really proud.
	Uh back in just a second.
	Don't go away, folks.
	All right, that's it for us.
	Remember, though, donations throughout the weekend for the leukemia uh lymphoma society curathon.
	Been a great day here, folks.
	I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and we'll be back at it fully revved on Monday.

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