Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers and thrill seekers, uh conversationalists.
And those of you watching the market plunge.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
This is Friday.
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A veritable smorgasbord.
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Today is also a very important day for us here.
It's our 20th anniversary of our radio curaton for leukemia and lymphoma, the leukemia lymphoma Society of America.
This is the 20th year that we have dedicated ourselves to the cause of fighting blood cancers.
And I'm going to get into that very quickly in just a second, but there's a piece of news out there that's a very teachable moment.
And I want to start with this.
The stock market is down about 148 points in the last hour.
Now the reason the market is down is because the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a part of the regime, this is the teachable moment.
The SEC has filed civil charges against Goldman Sachs for essentially profiting on the subprime mortgage crisis, knowing full well that the housing market was going to bubble up and crunch, and they were playing both sides, profiting on both sides of it.
The suit from the SEC basically shows that Goldman Sachs and others knew that the housing market was going to crash.
They kept selling these these mortgage back securities on the one hand, and then they bet against them on the other hand.
They were going short.
This was not the result of any unfettered capitalism, folks.
This was not unfettered capitalism.
This crash is the result of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, Franklin Range, Jamie Garellick, and all these other liberals, and their elitist buddies on Wall Street who knew what was going on in the subprime mortgage crisis, gaming the system to enrich themselves.
They created from Clinton, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd on, they created an unsustainable mortgage situation, and then other liberals enrich themselves by betting against it.
Uh at Goldman Sachs, and that's what this suit is all about.
Now you might say, why today?
Because there's a story out there that Goldman Sachs is fully in support of the financial regulatory reform bill.
My friends, here's the teachable moment.
Obama wants this story out there.
He wants Wall Street to be thought of as a bunch of thieves, as a bunch of creeps, as a bunch of elitists, so he can get his financial regulatory reform bill passed.
And lo and behold, what happens?
The SEC, an arm of the regime, launches a civil suit against Goldman Sachs.
Uh this is and the the other teachable moment of this is it's the government always screwing things up.
This is this is the liberals in government working with the liberals at Goldman Sachs to profit from all this, and then they enrich themselves, and then what do they do?
They blame the free market for it.
They end up blaming capitalism for this.
This was an inside hit job all the way.
And so now Goldman's gonna have to take a little pain here, and it'll be the public face of evil, mean, greedy Wall Street, so that Obama can get uh some energy behind his financial regulatory reform bill, which he desperately wants.
So that's the teachable moment today.
Now here's a number I want you to write down.
This is the uh number to call to donate to cure leukemia lymphoma.
It's toll-free, 877-379-8888.
877.
Just write this down.
I'll be reminding you during the course of the program.
877-379-8888.
Or you can donate online at Rush Limbaugh.com and have no fear of the security of donating online.
We, Northern Leukemia Lymphoma Society, will share or sell any of your information to any other organization that will then solicit you.
You have my guarantee, my personal guarantee, which is worth a lot, and I don't offer it very much, but I do hear.
You'll information will be safe and secure.
And well, in the recent years, uh, I guess the vast majority of our contributions have come from online.
Now, we uh we rededicate ourselves to the cause of fighting the blood cancers today.
This is the leukemia lymphoma society Curathon today, special day here at the EIB network 20 years ago.
This program participated in its first curaton, and since that day, you have answered with millions and millions of dollars.
We ran the numbers.
We are averaging the way this works, we have a three-hour program one year of one day of the year that we devote to the curathon.
And of that three hours, we figure that a total maybe of 45 minutes to an hour is devoted to the Curathon because we also do the radio program.
We don't groom the program and go wall-to-wall curaton.
We have raised 25 million dollars in 20 years.
Basically, we're averaging more than a million dollars from you per hour.
Over 25 million dollars over 20 years, uh with basically an hour a year.
That's how m uh marvelous all of you are.
And whether, you know, every year we've topped the previous year's levels, despite tax increases, uh, despite recessions, despite 9-11, despite donor fatigue with hurricane Katrina.
Even last year, in the um in the midst of this latest recession, uh, sorry, jobless recovery, uh using the uh regime's terminology.
Uh, even last year in the midst of this uh economic downturn, we broke the previous year's record.
Now, one of the reasons that uh that I know that you've continued to support the leukemia and lymphoma society is because it works and is working beyond what you or I could imagine when we started this.
Let me give you briefly the history of how this all came about.
Twenty years ago, it was my basically uh we're in our first year, maybe second year, and we're doing the program on a WABC in New York, and had my own studio there in the corner, and uh when the Curaton Day came around, it was all the ABC Owen Owen stations owned and operated in San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, New York, and they were brooming their whole broadcast day to raise money for leukemia and lymphoma.
I was a syndicated program on from noon to three, and they tiptoed into my studio.
Would you mind giving a we got a toll-free number?
Would you mind giving uh uh your toll free number to your audience?
Uh just you won't have to broom the whole show.
We know you can't do that, but could you just mention it now?
And I said, sure, we'd be happy to.
The upshot of it is, and this is simply it's it's numbers.
It's it's it's a numbers game.
The upshot of it is is that the curaton is now here exclusively.
Uh that's how large it got.
Uh this is not to diminish the other ABC stations, they still participate.
Um it's just this has this has replaced the ONO wide uh fundraising effort because you all have just been so magnificent.
As I say, regardless of economic circumstances or cultural circumstances, you have always beat the previous year.
And it's because the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is working.
Over the years that you you you've heard us uh talk about treatments, technologies, therapies developed on your watch in the last 20 years.
The progress is amazing.
It's all the result of your generosity and the work of dedicated people that have given victims of these diseases outcomes that they couldn't even imagine.
And every year, you know, I'm struck by the number of people I know or know of who in their 60s and 70s contract one of these blood cancers.
Very close friend of ours, just two weeks ago, no, a month ago now, informed me of uh such a circumstance.
And it never ceases to make an impact on all of us when when we learn this disease striking.
It strikes children too, uh, as as you well know.
Now, the success in beating back the blood cancers, while it's remarkable, I mean, every year, 138,000 new cases of leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma strike people in the country.
One person dies from the disease every 10 minutes.
So that's 52,000 people a year lost to these diseases.
Right now, 900,000 patients are fighting back against the blood cancers, these killers, right now, and we are here to help them.
When you look at the progress that we have made in the last 20 years, you just don't want to quit.
We look forward to it each and every year.
We look forward to sharing the experience uh with with all of you and giving all of you an opportunity once again to demonstrate the true genuine compassion, the genuine compassion and charity that you in this audience have.
Now, leukemia is still the biggest killer among children and young adults.
Long-term survival rates now are now at an astonishing 88%.
And nowhere near that 20 years ago when we started.
Lymphoma, just as deadly for young adults, but long-term survival rates there are 86%.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma affects 430,000 people a year.
Long-term survival rates now apply to 65% of them.
So major progress is being made.
You contribute, you donate because you know that it's working.
The numbers 877-379-8888, or you can visit Rush Limbaugh.com to donate online.
As always, we have premiums.
And I remind you, your information will not be shared with any other charities or business organizations, marketers, or anybody.
You're not going to be contacted by anybody else because of your participation in today's Curathon.
So for 70 bucks, you will get a special edition EIB t-shirt with the golden EIB microphone radiating brilliantly on the front.
It's a one-size fits-all shirt.
Trust me, it does.
For $100 donation, special edition EIB t-shirt, as well as a premium Rush Limbaugh golf hat.
This is a fully adjustable, not with one of these cheap plastic bands across the back either.
Nothing cheap about this.
Navy blue has a red star and my signature across the front in white.
And for $340, you get a high-quality uh climate cool type golf shirt, moisture wicking, quick dry technology, special uh edition shirt, white with a navy-colored EIB logo on the uh on the left breast and my signature on the sleeve.
Now these are made to order.
You can specify small, medium, large, XL, or double XL when you call or go online.
And finally, as always, ladies and gentlemen, I never ask you to do something I haven't or won't do myself.
And as such, I'm going to make my annual contribution of 250,000 to get us started here as we kick off our 20th anniversary to cure the blood cancers.
The leukemia and lymphoma society Curathon is now on at 877-379-8888 or visit rushlimbaugh.com.
You know, a couple days after the health care bill had been signed into law, Obama ran around all over the country and say, hey, you know, I'm looking around, the earth hadn't opened up, uh, no armaged out there, the birds are still chirping.
I think the earth is opened up.
God may have replied, this volcano in Iceland is grounded more airplane.
Airspace has been more affected than even after 9-11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud over Northern and uh and Western Europe.
Paris Airport, they're telling people to head uh to a train station to catch trains out of France, and when people get to the train station, they're telling people there aren't any seats until at least April 22nd.
Basically a week from now, it's got it's got everybody just uh in a in a shutdown.
Uh Earth is opened up.
I don't know whether it's a rebirth or Armageddon.
Hopefully it's a rebirth, God speaking.
Every year, folks.
This comes under the title of Recent Progress.
Every year, there are exciting new advancements in therapies in the fight against the blood cancers.
This year is no exception.
You were here.
You were part of this program when you first heard about the drug GLEVEC, which is giving 95% of patients with one of the toughest blood cancers there is, CML, a five-year survival rate.
Glevec also has caused remission in other forms of leukemia.
Well, there's a new immunotherapy project for the most common form of adult leukemia, CLL.
Eventually, the cancer cells become immune to treatment.
So these cells are extracted, they're genetically modified to prod the body's immune system to destroy them, and then infused back into the patient in phase one trials.
The first two patients now have no detectable cancer cells eight months later.
This research, due largely to people like you, who have funded it, have made it possible.
Phase one trial, the first two patients who've had this new trial, have no detectable cancer cells eight months later.
Ten more patients are needed to complete phase one trials, but these are the same type of amazing results that Glevec had when it was developed.
This is a new frontier in cancer therapy, and like other advances in the fight against blood cancers, these breakthroughs can have applications beyond leukemia.
Do you know bone marrow transplants are a direct outgrowth of research into leukemia and lymphoma and the and the blood cancers?
And you know how valuable they are.
So our phone lines are open as the website is available for your donation as we engage in our 20th year here, 877-379-8888, or visit rushlimbaug.com.
Let's go back April 24th, 1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible, and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other.
They spread hate.
They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.
You ought to see, I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.
It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.
That was Bill Clinton blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing on April 24, 1995.
Yesterday we had the tea parties and the drive-by media, I'm sure to its great chagrin, is filled with stories about how festive and how peaceful and how unthreatening all of the tea parties were.
The fizzled, the effort to infiltrate these uh Tea Parties fizzled.
They have stories on that they probably do not like having to report.
And ladies and gentlemen, it's very clear that these citizen uprisings, genuine grassroots citizens' uprisings, are far more powerful than an attempt to drum up fake opposition to them from the White House.
Yet, Bill Clinton, back in the game, expanding that threat via this soundbite.
There was this rising movement in the early 90s that was basically not just a carefully orchestrated plot by people of extreme right-wing views, but one that fell into fertile soil because there were so many people for whom the world no longer made sense.
They wanted a simple, clear explanation of what was an inherently complex, mixed picture, full of challenges that require not only changes in public policy, but personal conduct and imagination about the world we were living in.
So demonizing the government and people that work for it sort of fit that.
And there were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our economic problems was the federal government itself.
So there you have it.
Bill Clinton once again trying to re-birth His empty threat from 1995 starts out tracing the plot that started in the 80s to demonize government.
I have a question.
We got two more sound bites of uh the president here specif specifying right wing talk radio, but I have a question.
How come that we're supposed to draw on the basis of no evidence?
A connection between conservatism and terrorism, conservative ideology and terrorism.
Where is that connection?
And yet we are told we must reject, despite tons of evidence, the connection between Islamist ideology and terrorism.
So we can't call Islamists fundamentalists terrorists.
We can't even use the word, but we can have ex-presidents and current presidents running around trying to associate conservatives with non-existent terrorism at peaceful tea parties.
Somebody needs to explain this to me.
Hey, we're back.
El Rushmo serving humanity.
Open line Friday, the 20th anniversary of our Radio Curathon.
As we battle the blood cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma.
And we are setting records already.
We're almost up three times just in the first half hour of what we were last year and last year was a record.
This is unbelievable.
We're up almost three times what we were, not counting uh my my starter donation, which is now a pittance compared to what you all have kicked in here in the first half hour.
877-379-8888, or go to RushLimbaugh.com to um to donate.
Now, look, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society does more than just fund research.
They provide patient family services, support groups, financial aid for the uh extended treatments.
They connect people to specialists for the information they need.
The reason why, and this is the uh what struck me about this charity from the first day from the get-go.
The people that I work with at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society more often than not have been touched personally, either themselves or members of their family by these blood cancers.
They're friends.
They are doing this out of the goodness of their heart.
Uh, they're volunteers.
And it's easy to see why they put so much of their heart into this and on the line.
And of course, the vast, vast majority of donations go to actual research and uh patient family services, not to administration.
So for one day, uh, we're raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated not only to funding blood cancer research, but also education and patient services to people just like you.
The work of the society is international.
They fund research here and abroad, and they are outstanding in all that they do.
A lot of uh important, wonderful charities out there, but what I really love about the leukemia lymphoma society is that they are advancing every year.
The progress they're making, survivability rates and new drugs is impressive.
Hard work, generosity of people like you.
Thanks to that, we have got blood cancers on defense now.
We're moving the ball each and every year.
It's slow, but it is sure.
877-379-8888.
All right, Bill Clinton.
By the way, these uh statements were this morning at uh at uh the the big left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress.
So he we've played the soundbite where he starts out tracing the plot that started in the 80s to demonize government.
Next soundbite, Clinton says, right wing talk radio has made money off of anger aided by the Internet.
When I became president, it's hard to remember this.
There were only 50 sites on the world wide web.
Among those who first saw its potential and made use of it were those who used the internet to do all kinds of interesting things, including share information on how to make bombs.
We didn't have blog sites back then, so the instrument of carrying this forward were basically the White Ring Radio talk show hosts.
They understood that emotion was more powerful than reason.
They got much bigger listenership and more Advertisers and more commercial success if they kept people in the white heat.
For 99% of them, it was just that.
Turn on the radio, listen to somebody, say something you agree with, vent your anger.
They just can't get away from it.
We are living in their heads rent-free.
We are in their heads and on their minds.
They, and I'm I'm I'm going to throw the Clintons in there.
Uh they're out to destroy Western civilization, folks.
Why why do you think the Tea Party people are so reviled?
Why is it that we can sit there and accuse non-violent Tea Party people of committing terrorist acts?
I mean, that's what Clinton's doing.
He's predicting that Tea Party people are going to blow up a federal building again.
And in the process, I am I'm going to state right now.
If there is a future incident, such as Oklahoma City, the blame is squarely on the shoulders of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who I'm sure is coordinating Clinton's uh appearance on this.
Bill Clinton, with what the soundbite you just heard, just gave the kooks out there an excuse to be violent.
He just offered them an opportunity to be violent, lest we forget the politics of the militia members that the FBI took down recently.
One was a registered Democrat, the rest were not affiliated by party.
Of course, the New York Times has reported national security secrets.
They are responsible for any terror terror attack on this country.
They have published all kinds of battle plans.
They have given up our military secrets in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet they sit here, Clinton and Obama, and try to blame me and us on the radio for something that has not happened while setting the stage for it to happen.
And let's not forget this.
This is the president who pardoned and released a bunch of Puerto Rican terrorists on his last week in office, the FALN gang.
He also pardoned the weather underground terrorists, and he's now lecturing us on violence that hasn't happened, a peaceful Tea Party movement.
We cannot even say Islamic terrorists in the same word in the same sentence, we cannot associate radical Islamism with terrorism, but the president can go out and Obama can go out and try to associate the Tea Party, genuine, peace-loving middle American citizens of this country with future acts of terrorism.
The Tea Party's, you know why they're hated?
I'll tell you why they hate it.
If you're a member of the Tea Party, if you participated in one yesterday, why you're hated, why you're feared.
This regime and the Clintons, everybody else knows that all you want to do is defend what's left of this country and try to rebuild it.
That's what they know you want to do.
Frank Rich, the New York Times, he put it this way: the America that is no more.
The Tea Party people want to revive the America that is no more.
Now, we know that militant Islamists hate Western civilization.
And by the virtue of some of the policies of this regime, we can figure that some aspects of Western civilization are not too pleasing to the people running the country right now.
So here you have Clinton predicting something, ignoring violence that has happened, and not being able to categorize it properly or identify the people who engage in it, but now trying to impugn the terrorist bunch, the Tea Party people, with future acts of domestic terrorism.
This is really sick.
It is despicable, and it's indicative of a bunch of people who know that they are in the minority and can only hang on by virtue of authoritarian control over people.
We have one more soundbite from our disesteemed distinguished former president.
Doing things when you are mad is by and large a prescription for error.
The only thing I'm saying is, have at it.
Go fight, go do whatever you want.
You don't have to be nice, but you've got to be very careful not to advocate violence or cross the line.
The Boston Tea Party involved the seizure of tea and a ship because it was taxation without representation.
Because even the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had been largely self-governing, had it stripped from them.
This fight is about taxation by duly honestly elected representatives that you don't happen to agree with that you can vote out at the next election.
And two years after that and two years after that.
That's very different.
Somebody tell me uh what what have I missed?
Somebody explain to me what Tea Party person has advocated violence.
What what what have I missed here?
What what what Tea Party has engaged in uh in acts of violence?
And by the way, uh President Clinton, the uh fight is about taxation by duly honestly elect representatives that you don't have to we have had a number of pieces of legislation, including the recent health care bill rammed down our throat.
This regime is governing against the will of the people.
There's nothing democratic about what happened here.
Bribes and kickbacks to members of Congress in order to get their votes for this thing.
Uh let's go back also to uh April 28, 2003, in Hartford, Connecticut.
The Tea Party people are peaceful.
They are festive, described that way even by the regime's media.
Festive in good cheer, they're not taunting anybody, they're not menacing anybody, they're not threatening anybody.
All they are is dissenting.
They disagree with the direction.
The regime is taking the country.
Back in 2003, Mrs. Clinton went nuts at the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner, some weeks of Hartford, Connecticut.
You remember this.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
She sounds angrier than any Tea Party person I have ever heard.
That is shocking.
For those of you who can hear, uh, I apologize.
That's a shock to the system, but that's Mrs. Clinton.
I don't hear any Tea Party people talking that way.
So all this outrage is selective, and all of this being orchestrated by people who know that they are in the minority, attempting to quell opposition to this regime by virtue of intimidation.
In the process, Mr. President, Mr. Clinton, unwittingly or purposely, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you have just set the stage.
You have with this comment, you have just set the stage for violence in this country.
Any future acts of violence are on your shoulders, Mr. Clinton.
You just gave the kooks in this country an excuse to go be violent.
Nobody on the right's doing this.
Nobody on talk radio is advocating anything of the sort that you are predicting.
You, sir, are predicting it.
Maybe the regime wants something like that to happen.
Wouldn't doubt it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbo.
It's both open line Friday in the 20th anniversary of our Curathon on the radio to cure leukemia and lymphoma.
We start with Jennifer in New Hampshire.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Well, Rush, this is quite a day in my life.
I have wanted to speak to you probably for twenty years now.
Well, then this is your your lucky day and mine too.
I absolutely um adore you.
Want to thank your wonderful, generous audience.
Um and you're the heart of it, Rush.
Um, it's your big heart that this is why it's so successful.
Um, let's see, before no, this isn't gonna be a really long story.
Um I know you're a busy man.
Uh when I was twenty-seven, um, I was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin's disease.
Mm-hmm.
And um, well, uh stage four only because I was a just kind of ignorant um about uh uh health issues, and I was running around with my little daughter.
I had a two-year-old and um just ignored some symptoms, and by the time they found it, it was stage four.
But being that it was Hodgkins, I know the the reason that the cure rate is so high is because of the wonderful progress that they made.
And um, it was a year out of my life of just doing uh the chemotherapy and uh radiation, and I brought you with me though, Rush.
I want to tell you that.
You came with me.
I tried to schedule everything around your show, but what's the other thing?
Well, no doubt that was a highly contributory to the uh success of the treatment.
Absolutely.
It kept it has to be, has to be.
Absolutely, you're a very positive person, and it's very contagious, and um I honestly wouldn't change a thing about my experience, although of course I would rather have not gotten sick to begin with, but I do believe that all things work to good.
How are you doing with that's right?
There is good to be found in everything that happens if you uh Louis, how are you doing now?
Oh, I'm wonderful.
Um it was a year out of my life, and I'd say I haven't even had a visit in quite some time since um I'm just living my life.
I even had two more children after that, and they told me that wouldn't be able to happen.
So I want people to know out there that you're changing lives of families and um future families that maybe wouldn't be, so that's an excellent point.
That does happen.
You all in this audience are and have changed lives, and it's rare instances like this when you hear the evidence of it.
Most of the time uh you donate anonymously and you don't know where the money goes.
You trust that it goes to research, you know that it does, but you never see the uh the end result of it or hear about it very much.
But you can be confident uh that it happens.
There are countless stories just like Jennifer's here.
Again, the phone number if you want to contribute.
We know it's tough uh economically.
I always say every year size of this audience, if everybody just gave a dollar, wow, we would set an all-time record.
We figure in every 15 minutes of this program there are five point two million, maybe five and a half million people listening over the course of the three hours, it's twelve million.
And then when you add up all the non-dupes over the course of a week, which is called a CUME, it's about twenty to twenty-five million, depending on vagaries of ratings, uh books and PPMs so forth, but uh it's it's a large number, and and if everybody just donated a buck, uh it would be astounding.
I'm I don't I was asked just a moment ago, do you expect Vice President Biden to uh contribute to that?
I doubt it.
I'm looking at his tax return, there's not a whole lot of charitable giving there.
I uh some I asked I was asked the question sturdy.
I'm not I'm not trying to impugn anybody here.
Um well, I don't know, Gore gave two hundred and thirty-five bucks.
Uh I think Biden gave a little bit more than that.
One one percent, I think is what Biden donated.
Uh not really sure.
Uh 877-379-8888, or you can donate at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Ken in Detroit.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush, I just wanted to let you know I attended a great tea party yesterday in the uh city of Plymouth, Michigan.
Yep.
And the keynote speaker was a uh black Baptist minister, and uh his message was overwhelmingly supported, applauded, and uh we had a great time.
And uh I think uh all these false accusations of racism and the uh Tea Party movement can be uh shredded, done away with.
Oh, they were never accurate uh in in the in the first place.
Well, that's why I said these were all false accusations.
And they're gonna but they're not gonna stop.
They're gonna keep on.
That's what Clinton is ratcheting it all up because nothing happened yesterday, because nothing that they wanted to happen, none of what they predicted that the Tea Party was capable of happened yesterday.
So what happens?
Clinton comes out this morning and has to predict that because of me and others on the radio and now the internet, and because of these uncontrollable mobs in the Tea Party, we can look forward to more domestic terrorism.
I mean, this it's it's just infuriating to associate peaceful people with acts of terrorism that have not happened, and yet we cannot associate real terrorists with acts that have happened because we might offend them, but we can go ahead and offend decent American citizens who simply are trying to save what's left of their civilization back in just a second.
Next time you hear the Tea Party impugned, never forget this from 2003.