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April 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Hiya, folks, greetings and welcome.
Great to have your Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It's a lot of things today.
Ladies and gentlemen, a tremendous amount going on.
It is our 22nd annual Curathon for leukemia and lymphoma.
As we continue in our unbridled efforts to cure the blood cancers.
In addition to that, we're going to do our regular open line Friday, where you get to talk about pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
So let me give you the call-in number for the program first, 800-282-2882.
And the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Now I want to give you another number and make a note of this on your uh on your smartphone or uh piece of paper, whatever.
The donation number today that we are using is 1877 379 8888.
877 379-8888.
Or you can make a donation at Rushlimbaugh.com.
That has been a favored way that people have contributed to the Curathon in recent years.
So 877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com.
And we're going to be using Twitter today.
We've got a hashtag at Rush Limbaugh or at Limbaugh that we want you to retweet.
It's explanatory there, and it will take our message above and beyond the radio program audience.
We've done this now for 22 years, or this is our 22nd year.
And we never we don't go wall to wall with this.
We uh we do the Curathon and we do the radio program all combined into uh one bundle.
And this Hillary Rosen thing, I gotta it just keeps on giving.
The White House has set out what they did.
I mean, this came and Carl Rove is right.
Carl Rove is right.
This came from Chicago.
This was intended.
They tried to weaponize Hillary Rosen, and they ended up weaponizing Ann Romney.
That's what they've ended up doing.
They've turned her into a weapon is being used against them.
You imagine how Obama must feel now.
He's got to feel just like the North Koreans feel.
They launch a missile, I think breaks up in the sky, falls apart, nothing goes the way it's planned.
Obama's gotta be commiserating with the North Koreans today.
Everything falling apart.
So, and and we've got great sound bites on this.
Uh, a TV reporter in St. Louis.
I don't know.
I uh I'm stunned.
A TV reporter in St. Louis actually asked Obama, do you think that it really wise for you and your family to be taking all these vacations all over the place as separate airplanes when so many people in country are not doing well.
And the guy still has a job today.
Uh from last reports, KMOV, TV in St. Louis.
So that's just a minor, very small list of what all's coming up on the program today.
But first, folks, this is the 22nd year of our leukemia lymphoma society curaton, 22nd consecutive year.
We have not missed one.
It's a one-day event where we take the broadcast to you to help in the fight to cure the blood cancers.
And it's amazing what you have done over these 22 years.
Over 30 million dollars has been raised.
One day a year, and not even all three hours devoted to it.
It literally is amazing.
And as as you you um you people in this audience continue to humble me.
And and surprise me and make me one of the happiest people on earth.
Throughout the years you have come through, time and again, surpassing every year with increased generosity.
You have never failed to come through this great cause.
And it is just one of many reasons why you are the best radio audience in the world.
Your steady support has produced tangible advances against killer diseases.
In fact, in the uh in the 21-22 years that we've been doing this, some of the greatest medical advances have taken place.
And they wouldn't have happened without you.
Wouldn't have happened without your money.
Wouldn't that have happened without your donations?
Would not have happened without your great big beating hearts.
And this year is no exception.
And during the programs, we always do, I'll be sharing intermittently during the broadcast some of the advances that have taken place since last year.
Now let's understand what we're up against here.
Imagine you're in a doctor's office, and you hear leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, blood cancer.
Those are words that no one wants to hear.
Especially if it's about one of your children or another loved one.
During the three-hour program today, across this country, 48 people will hear, will be told that they or a child or a loved one has leukemia or lymphoma or myeloma or one of the other blood cancers.
During this next three hours, 48 people, that's over a hundred and forty thousand people in a year in this same three-hour period, eighteen people will lose the battle with blood cancer, one every ten minutes.
That adds up to 53,000 a year.
Many of you might say, yeah, you're right, Rush, but for me, my life's been touched by a different cancer.
Not just leukemia or lymphoma.
And that's totally understandable.
But what you'll also learn today is that the advances made possible by the efforts of the leukemia lymphoma society go beyond treating just the blood cancers.
Some of the drugs that have been developed in the research and development to cure these diseases have been found to be effective in treating others as well, and they are happily shared.
Since 2009, I'm sorry, since 2039 anti-cancer drugs have been approved by the FDA.
Half of those were blood cancer drugs, and five of those now treat non-blood cancers, which is an example of how the RD and the discovery ends up crossing the boundaries.
Fourteen of these blood cancer therapies are being tested on solid tumor cancers, not blood cancers.
Some of the therapies that work with the blood cancer is now being tested on solid tumor cancers, including four for breast cancer, which is benefiting.
Breast cancer research is benefiting profoundly.
My point in telling you this is uh I know you can't give to every cause, and you can't give to uh every malady.
But when you do donate to the leukemia lymphoma society, participate in our curaton, rest assured that the money that you donate ends up in research and development and discovery that leads to knowledge in treating other cancers.
And it's something 22 years ago nobody could anticipate, nobody could imagine.
Your support goes to successful applications beyond the leukemia field that no one could imagine 22 years ago.
Now, yesterday I made mention of uh of survival rates.
They keep expanding.
And on the surface, that's fabulous news.
And it's undeniable.
But when I talk about the progress made against blood cancers, the survival rate figures, I think need to be put in a little personal perspective, a little personal context.
The advancing steps in survival rate give blood cancer patients a real sense of purpose and hope.
If you get diagnosed with a certain kind of blood cancer, and they tell you the survival rate's three years or five, where it used to be much less than that, that alone is wonderful news.
But it's also very sobering.
It is an exceptionally important period of time that people have been afforded.
It's about having that conversation with your child that they're too young to grasp in the next two years.
Imagine that you are 38, 40 years old, you're diagnosed with lymphoma or leukemia, and you have a child who's seven or eight years old.
Can't possibly understand it.
You've got a three-year or five-year survivability rate.
You have time, because of the expanding survivability rate, to have important conversations with your child.
It might be too young at the moment you're diagnosed, but in the three years, five years, sometimes up to ten years.
I've met people who say, all I want is ten years.
I just please give me ten years.
That will get my kids through high school.
I can see them graduate and into college.
Just give me ten years.
People that face these diagnoses do so profoundly maturely and soberly, that this is where the survivability rate really is put into perspective.
A parent diagnosed can instruct a child, for example, in how to face fear.
A lot of people think they know what fear is until they get a diagnosis such as this, one of the blood cancers, or any other terminal disease.
The child who is diagnosed, the opportunity for conversations that otherwise would never happen at that young age must take place because of the survivability rate.
Changes forever.
The relationship that parents have with children and vice versa.
The expanding survivability rate, which is a result of your donation, which is a result of all the research and development, helps people conquer fear, overcome fear, deal with the reality of the situation, to tackle it, to not be afraid of failure because there's no other op there's no other option.
You must fight it.
You must deal with it.
And in the process, you overcome fear of failure.
You've heard people say that have been close to death.
I'm going to live every day like it's my last.
These people do.
People diagnosed with the blood cancers do.
And it is actually an amazing perspective that they end up having and an amazing perspective that they're able to share.
Conversations, like I say with it, that they'll remember the rest of their lives, that their kids will remember they had for the rest of their lives.
Conversations that would not have happened perhaps at all or much later in life.
In those few years of survival, some very important moments still have a chance to take place.
And these survival rates are increasing all because of you.
All because of the generosity that you have engaged in over these 21 years.
It's not Just the RD.
It's not just the advancement in technology and drugs and so forth, but it the human aspect of this that allows families hit with this diagnosis to deal with things that they may have never ever thought they would have to deal with.
Very important moments still have a chance to take place because of the expanding survival rates.
And your donations make possible some critical time, as well as advancing the goal of long-term survival, real long-term survival and cure.
Not just remission, but cure.
And it's slowly getting closer, almost by the day.
Numbers 877-379-888 or Rush Limbaugh.com.
And there will be no other solicitations.
You're not going to be put on a mailing list, and you're not going to be hounded by these people either.
Now we always have some premiums that we offer with certain levels of donations.
So here we go.
A donation of 75 to 99 dollars gets an official Rush Limbaugh t-shirt.
All this information, by the way, is at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's a white 100% comfort cotton t-shirt, full size multicolor Rush Limbaugh 2012 logo on the front.
Only comes in size XL.
Don't complain.
A donation of $100 to $359.
Entitles the donor to commemorative t-shirt plus an official EIB hat.
It's Royal Blue, a six-panel hat, reinforced backing, decorated with the official EIB signature that's mine, and the EIB logo in red and white thread.
And it is adjustable, has a matching Velcro sizing strap.
One size fits all, don't complain.
And a donation of $360 or more.
Yeah, we're talking.
Now you get the you you get an official Rush Limbaugh EIB golf shirt and hat.
It's a waffle knit golf shirt constructed in 100% polyester, features the ultra cool system control like climate cool.
It's accented with uh with a narrow three-button packet, cuffs, square bottom with side vents.
It's uh royal blue.
The official EIB logo embroidered on white on the left chest my signature, and the 2012 year embroidered on the left sleeve and custom sizing is available.
Small to triple X. Don't complain.
I wouldn't complain.
So we're off to the races.
Now, folks, as always, every year, I never ask people to do something I wouldn't do.
I am not one of these telephone MCs that considers the donation of my time to have some sort of monetary value, because it doesn't.
So I always kick it off with my own donation.
And I always mention the number one time, just once.
And I'm I'm gonna uh well, let me take a break.
I gotta gotta break it.
I'm way long here.
Here's the number, 877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com, and we will be right back.
We're back.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Everybody is asking today if Obama's secretary is paying a higher income tax rate than he did.
The Obama effective tax rate, uh not effective, the tax rate he pay 20.5%.
20.5% on an income of 78 or 789,000.
And so the the the everybody's asking the burning questions.
Obama paying a lower income tax rate than its secretary is like like Warren Buffett is.
Well, nobody knows.
But everybody's asking.
Alan Dershowitz says that the charging instrument from Angela Corey is pathetic, that it is beneath the most incompetent lawyer he has ever seen, that this charging instrument, the affidavit, will not even get past the judge.
And people are wondering if Angela Corey didn't do this on purpose as a way of getting this thing punted.
It's opened a lot of doors to a lot of questions.
Folks, as I say, we're gonna we're gonna cram A lot in here today, as well as our annual effort to cure leukemia.
And again, that number is 877-379-8888 or go online at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Now, again, I always kick things off myself because I'm not uh uh an MC that considers there to be any kind of uh financial value to my so-called time here.
I would be here anyway.
So I always always jump started, never ask people to do things I don't do, so I am gonna I'm uh decided during the break I'm gonna I'm gonna kick it off with 400,000.
Which I try to increase it a little every year.
And I think this is an increase over last year.
I look it up, but I think it is.
So we'll we'll we'll start with that and uh we'll see how things turn out.
We'll run up to three o'clock this afternoon, Eastern Time.
We'll take a break and we'll be right back.
You don't want to miss anything today, folks.
None of it.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh open line Friday, E.I. B network and our 22nd annual curaton of the blood cancers for leukemia and lymphoma.
I just got a note.
Rush, I just donated 75 dollars, and yours makes mine piddly.
No, no, folks, don't look at it that way.
There is nothing that's too small here.
Don't look at it that way.
We got 20 million people plus in this audience.
If everybody just gave a dollar, it would set a record.
There's no amount that's too small.
It all adds up.
It's it's cumulative.
Don't be embarrassed by by I realize that that most of you probably can't afford to give anything.
That's what's always been amazing about this curaton over the years.
We've done this during real genuine economic recessions, and we're in one now.
Uh and every year we're blown away in surprise because every year is always up over the previous.
I think there's been one down year.
It might have been uh 2011 or 2001.
I I'm not sure which, but it was a small amount.
But there's no amount here that's too late.
Don't don't be bamboozled by these numbers that get the premium and so forth.
That's not uh nothing at all here to be there's no amount that's too small.
Don't don't think that it's piddling.
People want to know what Obama said to the T St. Louis TV reporter.
Here it is.
Well, let's go to audio soundbite number one.
And it's last night in St. Louis.
KMOV TV, eyeball news, the anchor Larry Connors interviewed Obama in a random act of journalism.
You just this question is not asked.
This question is never asked.
He said the economy is a big issue.
I mean the unemployment, trying to make ends meet, gas prices, food prices going up.
Some of our viewers are complaining.
They get frustrated, even angered when they see the first family jetting around, different vacations and so forth.
Sometimes maybe they think under Color Estate Business, you're out of touch, that you don't really know what they're experiencing right now.
I don't know uh how many viewers you're talking about that say that.
We do hear from some.
Yeah, I've a lot I hear from all kinds of heroes about uh about everything.
Yeah.
Uh but the fact of the matter is, I think if you look at my track record, I'm raising a family here.
When we travel, we gotta travel through Secret Service and Air Force One.
That's not my choice.
Uh I think most folks understand how hard I work and and how hard this administration's working on behalf of the American people.
Wow, that's not very persuasive.
That's not very convenient.
You know, I really don't like this Air Force One.
Secret Service makes me do that.
Secret Service makes Michelle take her own airplane like when we're going to Martha's Vineyard on the same day, but four hours apart.
She took her own 757.
I had to wait for the 747.
But uh the Secret Service makes us do all.
Now, I mean the American people know how hard I'm working.
They know how hard I'm working.
I mean, if you look at my tracker, I'm raising a family here for crying out loud.
I guess that raising a family being president's kind of a tough thing, huh?
Not as luxurious as staying at home and raising five kids and not really knowing what anything is all about.
But a question you just you don't hear it asked.
Same reporter said after the oral arguments in the Supreme Court, many were saying that the plan's gonna be rejected.
You apparently believed enough that you were compelled to say you were confident the Supreme Court would not overturn what Congress has done.
Critics say that you were using this as a bully pulpit trying to intimidate the justices, and that you stepped over like you believe this.
A local reporter in St. Louis asking these questions.
Here's Obama's answer.
The reason we give them lifetime tenure is they don't get intimidated.
Because uh, you know, they understand that uh they're uh immune from those kinds of political considerations.
The point I was making, which is one that uh I think most legal scholars would agree with that although the Supreme Court has the power to overturn Congressional laws that violate the Constitution.
It would be extraordinary for them to step in and overturn a law dealing with one of the biggest segments of our economy that everybody acknowledges is national in nature under the Commerce Clause.
That hasn't been done since before the New Deal.
So he says you you you you can't intimidate them, and then he intimidates them.
You can't intimidate the justices.
They had a lifetime appointment.
You you can't uh you can't intimidate them.
But then he tries to.
And he says they won't overturn something this big.
This is too big.
Biggest segments of our economy, everybody acknowledges, and uh um which uh uh most legal scholars would agree.
Most legal scholars do not agree with President Obama on this.
Let's add up his week.
Not and maybe not just his week.
It's been a bad couple of weeks for Obama.
Yesterday the coordinated phony war on women backfired, just as the North Korean missile did.
But do you know Joe Biden is still out there talking about the war on women?
He didn't get the memo that the war on women blew up on them yesterday.
He's still out there saying it's happening and it's gonna get worse, and the Republicans are gonna get even meaner.
Biden, by the way, gave one and a half percent of his income to charity on his uh income tax.
Employment statistics show that Obama's war on the economy has hurt women the most.
This is incontrovertible news.
We've had it.
This week there was an unexpected soft jobs report, unexpected rise in the number of uh applications for unemployment, gas prices are creeping ever closer to a national average of four dollars a gallon.
Another report out, proving Obamacare adds trillions to the deficit, in addition to being twice as expensive.
His attack on the Supreme Court backfired, according to polling data.
He was caught on a hot mic, covering up and selling out the American people and allies to the Russians, promising flexibility on missile defense after the elections.
Tell Vladimir to hang with me.
I have much more flexibility to get rid of our nukes after I win re-election.
The Zimmerman affidavit, Alan Dershowitz says that the charging instrument here is so pathetic that it won't get past the judge.
Now that depends on whether the judge has a backbone.
More on that as the program unfolds.
Dozens of former high-level NASA astronauts and engineers and scientists have blasted the politicizing of global warming and have denounced the pseudoscience that NASA now peddles.
There's been a revolt inside NASA.
The Buffett rule finally now being called a gimmick by everybody.
Everybody's admitting it's a gimmick, it's not anywhere near serious, it's not gonna raise any revenue, it's not gonna close the deficit.
It's nothing other than a gimmick.
Jack Welch, former GE CEO, all over TV with Cudlow, basically just ripping Obama as incompetent, a lousy leader, nothing but a trickster.
And then Obama in such bad shape that he had to try to invoke Ronald Reagan as someone who would have supported tax increasing class warfare and all of the it has not been a good couple of weeks.
But the real thing that backfired on him was this Hillary Rosen business, and there's no doubt in my mind that this was part of the strategy.
And that it came from Chicago or it came from the White House that this was something Hillary Rosen was charged with doing.
She works at a DNC.
She's in public relations.
And they showed their hostility and they showed who they really are, and it just backfired on them big time.
So it's not been a um a good two way.
But you know, speaking of the war on women, I know this isn't you know, we like to make points here.
I mean, we like to persuade, we like to convince people.
War on women, aren't half of the aborted babies in the country women?
Little girl, female, aren't they?
I mean, statistically that would be the case, wouldn't it be?
War on women.
Anyone?
Brief time out, we'll be back.
Don't go away.
I just asked Snerdley, he doesn't know that did uh President Obama call Ann Romney to see if she's okay after this assault uh by by Hillary Rosen.
He didn't he didn't oh he didn't he didn't oh he didn't call her.
Oh.
Okay, he didn't call Hillary did he call Hillary Rosen.
She says that she's heard people in the White House.
I just was just just asking.
It's our Curathon, folks.
It's the 22nd annual Curaton for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America, the blood cancers.
And the great part of this effort and why your donations to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society are so important is because blood cancer drugs and treatments and therapies funded by the society are providing hope and survival for other cancers and diseases.
You remember Glevec, we've been talking about Glevec for a number of years now.
We spotlighted its development during one of our curathons.
Glevec's initial focus was on a really tough form of leukemia called CML, chronic myeloginous leukemia.
Five year survival rates were less than 50% at the time.
A very exciting recent long-term study at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is now showing a major increase in those numbers.
The study is not under 50%, a solid 60, 7% of chronic myeloginous leukemia patients on Glevec have survived not five, but ten years longer.
Remember, in the previous half hour, I spoke at length about the importance of these survival rates.
It's probably the most human element of this.
Is after you get the diagnosis, the first thing you want to know is what are the survivabilities, and that the news you get changes your life forever, as does the diagnosis.
And how you use those remaining years and how old your kids are.
And if it's one of your kids diagnosed, what do you do in those ensuing years with your kids that otherwise you wouldn't have done?
It totally changes your life.
I don't care how hard some of us might think we have it day to day.
This is something, until it happens to you, you can only try to understand it.
You cannot possibly relate to it.
So when you are told that this drug Gleevec is expanding survivability rates from under 50% to now over 67%, and not five-year survivability, but ten year, then you know success.
That's not all GleeVEC is doing, though.
It is also approved to treat a rare form of stomach cancer with the acronym GIST, GIST.
And he had no idea that was going to happen, but it did.
Blood cancer therapies are pioneering treatments for other cancers, using blood instead of invasive and risky procedures that aren't feasible for some solid tumors.
Uh researchers are able to study primary cancer cells from patients rather than relying on cell lines or animal models.
And this provides a better chance of producing effective diagnostic and therapeutic therapeutic strategies.
For those of you who have had this happen to you or your family or you've known somebody, you know all of this that I'm talking about.
You've seen it.
When when I mention something like effective diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, you know exactly what that means.
It's just words to people on the outside.
But diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, how do we attack this?
What is the best way to go about it?
What is it going to cost?
All of these things people are faced with.
Perspective on life changes immediately.
And they are immediately filled with gratitude and hope when they learn what the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is able to do because of donations like yours.
For example, there are uh immunotherapies where immune system cells are genetically modified to attack cancer and leave the healthy cells alone.
That's just one thing.
Finally, Leukemia Lymphoma Society provides a host of services to patients and families, too.
Many of the people working there have been touched by these diseases in some way.
In fact, do you know that for the 22 years we've been doing this, it's the same group of people.
The same the first day that I did this, I met the core group that we work with every year, same people.
And they've all been touched by it.
Leukemia Lymphoma Society is one of the most efficient charitable operations going, some of the smallest amount of overhead that you could imagine.
Most of these people are volunteers, doing it from their hearts.
They care about it because it's affected them.
And they provide support groups, peer counseling, financial aid, as well as information provided by oncology professionals on the most current disease and clinical trial information.
And believe me, when this happens, you want to know everything.
You want to become an expert in what's happening to you.
You want to be intimately involved in your own treatment.
Lance Armstrong, it's exactly what he did.
Became an expert in testicular cancer when it happened.
This is what happens.
And that's what these support people are there to do.
People with certain blood cancers who find it difficult or impossible to afford uh drug copies or health insurance monthly payments might be eligible for a program Leukemia Lymphoma Society has called the Copay Assistance Program.
Eligibility is subject to available funds, and that's where you come into play again.
It's another reason your support is so badly needed and greatly appreciated, too.
I'd say what makes it all worthwhile is the profound progress everybody's making here.
In expanding the survivability rates, the uh the drug therapies that are taking place, the education that's benefiting other kinds of cancers as well.
Here's the number again.
It's 877-379-8888.
You can also donate at Rushlimbod.com.
No solicitations.
And there are premiums for certain levels of uh donations.
Those premiums are also explained at Rush Limbaugh.com.
But just know that the um people involved here at the end of every curaton, every every April that we do this, are always blown away.
I don't there there are no expectations going into this each and every year.
Nobody expects that each year will surpass the previous year.
Everybody hopes and everybody prays, but nobody expects.
So when it happens, and even if with one year we fell a little short, the degree of appreciation for those of you in this audience, I wish you knew.
Wish you could see the tears.
I wish you could see the joy on the volunteers' faces here that we uh that we deal with.
Maybe we should take some pictures of them and put them up on the website so you know who they are at some point.
877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com.
Open line Friday.
We'll get to your phone calls in the next hour.
Also, the uh number again for our Leukemia Society Curaton 877 379 8888 or donate at Rush Limbaugh.com.
How are you doing this year versus last?
I'm sort of afraid to tell you, folks.
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