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April 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Happy days, folks.
Greetings to you.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the whole gang on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we're gonna get to your calls.
We're gonna do it all.
You talk about multitasking.
This is it.
We are curing the blood cancers today.
We're doing open line Friday.
We're talking about the top news items of the day.
We're telling you what to think about that stuff.
And we are saving America.
All in three hours here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the most talked about radio talk show, the most talked about host.
By the way, folks, if I had a daughter, she would look like Ann Romney.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282.
800-282882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
So we are doing our 22nd annual Curathon today for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America.
Leukemia lymphoma.
Trying to speak too quickly here.
As we um forge ahead in our effort to cure the blood cancers.
Telephone number to donate is 877-37988.
And you can use RushLimbaugh.com as well.
And at no solicitations, nobody gets your name or address, nobody's going to be hounding you, including these people.
It's just the way it's insisted upon here.
Everybody, well, how are you doing, Rush?
How are you doing?
Because we we've we've somehow managed to always do better each year than the previous year.
People want to know.
And I'm afraid to tell you.
Snerdley, why will you be afraid to tell?
Well, If if if I if I say, well, we're lagging a little bit behind, and you if I say, well, you're so far ahead you won't believe it, then people.
Well, I don't need to do anything.
So I'm I'm um but you know, I always always fall down on the side of real.
Mayor of Realville.
And we're up.
Uh are you ready?
Oh, tell them at the halfway point.
All right.
All right, I'll tell them the halfway point.
But I I can barely hold this in.
Uh, and I'm still not sure if the number they've given me there is right because I don't know.
Um, I've got the actual dollar numbers, and it's it's just you all do not have the slightest way.
Well, no, I just slightest.
You you you don't have the ability to comprehend just how much uh you all are appreciated and how much you all are loved as people and as a radio audience.
You just you don't there's no adequate way to tell you.
But you're let's just put it you are coming through today in an unprecedented fashion in this curathon today.
And it's so heartwarming uh I can't begin to express it to you.
What are we doing here?
We're trying to cure the blood cancers.
Leukemia and lymphoma, the diseases, their toll, and the progress.
Let me tell you more specifically what is being fought here and where we're going.
Leukemia, of course, is cancer of the bone marrow and blood.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under 20 than anything else.
I don't know if you knew that or not.
It's a shocking statistic.
When I first heard it, I was I was astounded.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under 20, while one-third of cancer deaths uh for children are from leukemia.
The disease kills ten times more adults, despite the high numbers of children.
Hodgkin's lymphoma.
This is cancer of the lymph system.
In the U.S., There are about 160,000 people living with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
About 8,800 cases were diagnosed last year.
And Hodgkin's lymphoma is now considered one of the most curable forms of cancer.
The five-year survival rate in 1963 was in the 40s.
Today it's 86%.
Unparalleled success.
Non Hodgkin's lymphoma is also cancer of the lymph system.
In the United States, there are about 503,000 people living with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
There were 66,000 new cases diagnosed last year.
The five year survival rate in 1963 was 31% today, it's 70%.
Now these survival rates, I probably emphasize these a little bit more this year than I have in the past.
And I'll tell you why.
This disease has hit us this year here at the EIB network.
And for all of you in the audience who have experienced the disease somewhere in your circle of friends or your family, you know how it changes your perspective.
It's not it's impossible for it not to.
And it's like anything else in life that has never happened to you before but happens to other people.
When it happens to you, your perspective totally changes.
And the things you learn about it increase.
Your desire to learn about it increases.
And as such, one of the things that really hit me as a result of us here being touched by it personally has been the survival rate aspect.
More on that as the program unfolds.
I hit that pretty heavily in the uh in the first hour.
But the survivability rate and the expansion of those survivability rates, because of the research that's being done in drug therapy treatment and so forth, those survivability rates are everything when you are diagnosed with this disease because it's cancer.
And there's no cure.
That's what everybody's looking for.
There is no cure.
And so the question becomes when you're diagnosed.
Everybody hopes and prays for remission, but beyond that, what is the survival border?
What do I have here?
You want to know what you have left to work with.
Because you've got family, depending on the ages of your kids, the survivability rate is everything in how you relate your relationship with them.
And everybody else in your family as well.
Myeloma, that's cancer to plasma cells.
An estimated 75,000 people in the U.S. have myeloma.
There were about 20,500 cases diagnosed last year.
The five-year survival rate, 1963, was in the low teens.
Now it's up to 41%.
So in um in Hodgkin's lymphoma, we got a survival rate of 86.
Non-Hodgkins is 70, myeloma 41.
All these used to be in the teens, 20s, 40s, 31% for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Now, these numbers are daunting.
You have to know, though, that the progress that's been made against them is in no small part from donations to the society that you have made.
And as I alluded to before, the a big part of the increased survival rates has taken place just in the last 20, 30 years, and this is our 22nd year, you have had a hands-on role in all of these improvements and increases.
It's a sad shame that there's no way to have a personal relationship to these successes other than you know that it's happening.
I hope that's enough.
It's it's something that you can take credit for.
Or not take credit, you can be assured that your donation works.
It's working profoundly.
Now, the total population with leukemia in the late 70s had a five year survival rate of 34.4%.
Today, leukemia survival rate is 56.5%.
And it's increasing, it's climbing.
Children uh with the most common form of leukemia are now up to a long term survival rate in 91%.
So while we're talking about killer diseases, the fact remains that the news about their treatment is astoundingly positive.
Profoundly through the roof.
And you do it.
Now, Leukemia Lymphoma Society has fundraisers throughout the year.
They have many such programs and plans.
But this one is known for its intense power in less than three hours, one day a year.
Your contributions and donations have a percentage contribution that is remarkable.
Everybody has the this continued amazement and appreciation for all that you do.
Again, there are premiums that are that are given away with certain levels of uh of donations, and all that is explained.
T-shirts, golf shirts, caps, this kind of thing.
It's all at rushlimbaught.com.
You can see it there.
And you can also donate there as well as at our number 877-379-8888.
Okay, I gotta take a break here.
We'll come back.
Uh look into some of the news, take some of your phone calls, multitasking as it's never happened before.
We're back.
Open line Friday, 877-379-8888 to cure the blood cancers for the leukemia and lymphoma society, or uh donate at Rush Limbaugh.com.
All right, Alan Dershowitz, uh, ladies and Professor Dershowitz from Harvard says that the arrest affidavit that Angela Corey, the state attorney uh submitted is irresponsible and unethical, that it is political posturing.
She he said, I think what you have here is an elected public official who made a campaign speech last night for re-election when she gave her presentation and overcharged.
Uh this woman was gleeful.
This this woman was acting happy as she could be.
There's nothing about Zimmerman in this charge document.
And I've talked to a lot of legal beagles, and my dad was a lawyer, I understand this stuff, and and uh it qualifies me.
And all of the knowledgeable people are talking about how really incompetent or pathetic this this affidavit is, and how it it we it should not get past a judge.
Some are even theorizing it.
That's the point.
Have the judge throw it out, have the judge take the heat rather than Angela Corey.
And that and that way, when you when you go after recharge it and go then go back to the grand jury.
Um, essentially calling Angela Corey Mike Knife, is essentially what he was doing.
We're gonna get to your phones here in a second, but you gotta hear.
You have to hear Wolf Blitzer last night on C and in a situation of audio soundbite number five.
He had Hillary Rosen on, who was a Democrat National Committee strategist.
She works in the White House, she works for the re-election of Barack Obama, and here this is a montage of Wolf Blitzer talking to and interviewing Hillary Rosen.
I see you smiling, but I don't know why you're smiling.
How should you have phrased what you wanted to say?
Because this was an awful way of saying it.
Look into the camera.
If Ann Romney is watching you right now, talk to her.
I didn't hear an apology.
Here's what I don't understand, because you're an excellent and very astute political strategist.
Why bring Ann Romney into this conversation?
Should conservatives or Republicans go after Michelle Obama.
Democrats are quickly throwing you, as you well know, under the bus.
Democrats are going after you like that.
One thing for the Republicans to be slamming you, but for all these Democrats, and you've worked so closely with them over the years.
I think someone could organize a little face-to-face time between you and Ann Romney to talk about this in person.
That would probably be helpful, don't you think?
Hillary Rosen.
Thanks very much for coming in.
Goodbye.
Thanks for c look into the camera.
Anne Romney's on the other side.
What do you have to say to her?
Tell her.
The only thing you didn't say is, could you cry a little?
That's the only thing Wolf didn't say.
They are shocked.
Folks, they know this is a big hit.
Grab audio sumbite number eleven.
This is Carl Rove.
He was on with Greta last night, and she said, yeah, she certainly uh is an experienced mother.
She knows the challenges of raising a family and households.
She's she's had health challenges.
I didn't see this as an attack personally on Ann Romney, Carl.
I think there are people in Chicago who are happy that Hillary Rosen has said this thing and has injected this into the case.
They've done her under the bus already.
They should have called up Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Chairman whom they instructed to put Rosen in as a senior advisor and say publicly fire her as a senior advisor.
But they don't do that.
Why?
Because one of the persons who has who has coined the phrase war on women and used it probably more than anybody, any other public figure is Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
It was personal, it was mean, it was nasty, and her apology is half-hearted.
And I suspect there are guys in Chicago sitting in that headquarters who are saying, God, we were smart to get that 140-word tweet out.
And isn't it great?
We got our shot in and we s we were able to distance ourselves with it.
That's see, Rove is saying that's exactly what they wanted to do.
They wanted that shot out there.
They wanted her saying that.
They wanted it on the they wanted people thinking about Anne Romney that way, and they'll take the heat because they personally got out of it.
And it's okay, they'll throw Hillary under the bus, but there's a wink and a nod because they're not really throwing her under the bus.
She's one of them.
She's in the tribe.
They're not getting rid of her.
She's going to be intimately involved in Obama's reelect.
All of this, throwing her under the bus is strictly for show.
Rove is exactly right.
By the way, I haven't heard Rove that animated about anything.
I can't tell you in a long time.
Last thing was that mad was he was mad at me.
Really?
He was he was fired up there.
Normally he's soft-spoken, reasonable, uh, but he firing both barrels there.
That's like he did at me on immigration.
Okay, we go to the phones.
We're going to start Lake Worth, Florida.
Not far from here.
This is Tony.
I'm glad you waited.
And welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
What an honor.
Um something interesting before I start.
You know, I've tried to call your show so many times, never got through.
And today it's your curaton, and I happen to have CLL leukemia and got through.
So there has to be some special meaning in that.
I wanted to thank you personally and your audience and maybe put a face on this disease and let your audience know how grateful people like me are for what they do.
That's that's that's very very nice of you, Tony.
It's uh one problem with throwing around all these numbers.
Numbers on radio tough to follow.
It's up to a talented host to make sense of them, and I certainly uh qualify.
However, when you when you start talking about the numbers of millions of people with cancer, it's a statistic.
But one person, when you know them, then it's a tragedy, right?
And that's you.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Well, Rush, you know, my like you said earlier, my whole life changed on a dime during a routine blood test.
Um, which led to a bone marrow, uh, which discovered that I had this.
Did you have any symptoms at all?
Why did you why did you get the bone?
None.
None at that time.
So just a routine blood test is part of a checkup.
Routine blood test.
Yes, many people rush with CLL find out through a routine blood test uh um early on.
That's that's the way it's usually detected.
And um you're being treated, Tony.
How are you being treated?
Uh well most CLL patients go into what they call a watch and wait for a period of time, and you feel like as that time is going by that you're hoping that something will turn out positive.
And what happened to me was I'm a patient at M. D. Anderson in Houston, uh, wonderful hospital, and a couple of months ago, my leukemia started to give some red flags to the doctors there, and they decided to put me into a clinical trial uh on two drugs together that have never been combined before.
Uh one is Rituxinab and the other one is called Revlomed.
Um I'm going into my third month so far.
So good.
Um my white count was eighty thousand or better, and just in two months, it's down to thirteen thousand.
Well, that's the clinical trial is giving some hope to me.
Uh congratulations.
I would we love hearing this kind of of stat.
Uh and it's it's a testament to the to the great work that's being done throughout the country because of the leukemia lymphoma society.
Thanks, Tony.
We'll be right back and continue.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Open line Friday, where we are multitasking, doing everything we normally do, plus raising money to cure leukemia and lymphoma.
It's our twenty-second year of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curaton.
The number to donate's uh 877-379-8888, or you can go to RushLimbaugh.com and donate there.
You can donate multiple times.
And don't worry about solicitations.
And we've got premiums for certain levels of uh donations, all explained there.
T-shirts, golf shirts, EIB cap signature, Rush Limbaugh stuff.
It's all there.
You can see it.
We got graphics and photos of the stuff at uh at Rushlimbaugh.com.
And we are um we're at the halfway point here.
And everybody's been asking, so how are you doing?
And I've been holding back.
But it's really astounding.
We are w we're twenty-five to thirty percent ahead of last year.
Uh it's mind-blowing, folks.
Because as I said, there are never any expectations going in.
Nobody assumes anything.
We do this every year as though we've never done it.
We we start every year as though it's the first time, as though we have never spoken to you about this, as as if we haven't raised a dime, except that we know you've donated and we acknowledge it, but I'm talking from the attitude that we take into this.
There are the point is that nothing is taken for granted.
Every single dime that comes in here today is as appreciated as it was twenty-one years ago.
And is it will be in the next ten years.
And uh like I said, the same people that I met twenty-one years ago when we started this are still the core people that we deal with every year, and mostly they're volunteers, and mostly they are people who have been personally impacted by one of these blood cancers.
And I want I want to mention again the importance of the increase in survival rates that I just mentioned in the last half hour.
I gave you the details of those.
They're really great.
Anywhere from the high teens up to 70 percent, the low thirties to uh 86% uh from the 40s to 56 percent, depending upon the the blood cancer involved, and the survival rates anywhere from three to five years, in some cases up to ten.
So what you do, and we as I said we've we've personally been uh those of us at the EIB network have personally been touched by lymphoma in the past year.
And we've all thus uh had the education, the emotional attachment that happens when it's personal.
And so the survival rates are what take on an entirely new meaning.
Give you an example.
Let's say that you are 40, 42 years old, father, and you're diagnosed with this.
But it's been three months since you began to f feel the symptoms.
There were weird things like your hand shook, couldn't sign a piece of paper, couldn't sign your name, uh, couldn't make notes on a piece of paper, what have you.
Didn't know what it was, go to doctors here, doctors there.
I think it's gotta be something neurological, do all the tests.
One doctor doesn't take it far enough.
Fortunately, another doctor that you see, so you know what?
Let's take a look at cancer.
And after three months of trying to figure out what's going on, and during those three months, there's there are days where it's better, think it's getting better, and then it comes back, don't know what's going on, scary as it can be, missing work because of it,
and then you're told it's lymphoma, and you're told that it's your brain stem and your lungs, other parts of your body, and you say, Oh my God, uh the first question you have is how long do I have?
And you hope you have a doctor who'll tell you the truth.
The doctor says, We don't know until we do all the tests and figure out exactly what's going on here.
And you say, just give me ten years so that my kids can graduate high school.
Have them get to know me as they're closer and older and can appreciate who their dad is.
You say to the doctor, just give me ten years.
So the diagnosis indicates that it's one of the um one of the blood cancers, lymphoma, and they immediately begin treatment.
And the survivability rate is all you're concerned with here.
You're not you, I mean, you hope and pray for remission.
You know there really isn't a cure, but you just want 10 years.
But if you're told it's three to five, then you deal with that.
But it forever changes the relationship that you have with your young kids.
If you're 60 and this happens, the same thing happens, it's just the the years that you have are comprised of different things.
But in this instance, you have a 40-year-old man, wife who works, and two kids who are not old enough to understand this yet.
The most you can say is daddy's got a blood problem.
That's why you want the years.
You want them to get old enough so that they know who you are, and so that you can impart fatherly wisdom.
So see them graduate, and therefore the survivability rates become the primary focus.
How long do you have?
This everybody diagnosed with this disease.
This is what they go through.
Then they start the treatment, and that's a whole different state of mind, depending on how rough it is, depending on what has to be done.
But the survivability rate, an exceptionally important period of time that people are afforded after diagnosis.
It's about having the conversation with your your child that, as I say, they're too young to grasp in the next two years.
But if you've got five, that's good.
Ten, you see them graduate, maybe.
But it's those important conversations that teach you how to deal with fear.
I I remember when I was in Sacramento, colleague was diagnosed with fatal disease, and took me to dinner to tell me I had no clue.
Dinner, he started up by saying, I want to tell you what real fear is.
You don't know.
I don't care how frightened you've ever been, you don't know what real fear is.
This is the same thing that happens to people diagnosed with one of the blood cancers.
And you learn how to face it.
You learn how to face the fear.
You learn how to always believe in yourself and your doctors and the people treating you.
You learn how not to be afraid of failure because there's always the next attempt, The next medical attempt.
And you seize every opportunity that's presented you that you otherwise might have put off, taken for granted, because there was no urgency, but now there is.
You have conversations with people that you might never ever have without this disease.
Reveal parts of yourself, learn and share parts of yourself that you never ever would share with your children, your loved ones, and so forth.
Because in these few years of survival, there are very important moments that still have a chance to take place, and you want them and you cherish them, and you'll do anything you can to get them.
That's why the work that the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is doing with Glevec and some of the other drugs.
You just heard our first caller talk about the clinical trial he's in.
All of this is made possible by the amount of money that is raised here and other places throughout the year.
But your donations directly affect.
It's not an abstract thing.
Every dollar that comes in here helps real people deal with the real human aspects of this.
So you should know that it isn't abstract.
It's not statistical.
It's tragic, these diseases.
They are tragic.
And the survivability rate increases are a direct result.
The last 20 years that coincide with the years we've been doing this curaton.
No question that your donations and these advances are related.
They're linked.
And that's why we do it every year.
Because it improves people's quality of life and gives them more years than they otherwise would have.
And you can't, give it where we are, do better than that.
Except find a cure, which is ultimately what all this is aimed at.
So that's why we're doing it.
And that's why what you do when you donate is so appreciated each and every year.
Telephone numbers 877-8888, or you can donate at RushLimbaugh.com.
Be back after this.
It's open line Friday, and we go back to the phones.
Worcester, Ohio.
This is Randy.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, thanks, Rush.
A great honor talking to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Just want to say if Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney's fight isn't allowed to talk about the economy because she doesn't have a job, then Michelle Obama shouldn't be able to tell us what to eat because she doesn't have a degree in nutrition.
Yeah, you that's that's another good analogy here.
But I want to say something about I want to expand on Carl Rove's point.
The analogy would be this.
In a trial, a lawyer will make an observation or ask a question of a witness that is improper, and of course, the opposing council, objection, Your Honor, and the judge will say, strike that.
The jury will pay no attention to this outrageous allegation.
That's exactly what's happened here.
The thought has been put in people's.
May Hillary Rosen put the thought out there.
That's what they intended.
The DNC and Axel Rodney's guys, yep, they backed up.
They sent out their tweets, and then they got out of the way, and they started dumping on Hillary Rosen.
Hillary Rosa says she's been called by the White House.
Not you don't know who, but she's been called.
She's been told to hang in there.
The pup publicly they're throwing her under the bus.
But she's a player.
Folks, she is one of the Democrat establishment players.
She works with a PR firm, strangely enough, with Anita Dunn.
And Anita Dunn was in the regime.
She was party administration.
Anita Dunn is the one who went over to the National Cathedral or somewhere over there and made a speech praising pres uh Chairman Mao, if you recall.
That's her uh that that's that's her partner in business is uh Anita Dunn.
And so she's she's gonna be in there.
She's gonna be strategizing for the Obama re-elect.
But the great thing about this incident, as I said yesterday, was how revealing it was, what an absolutely wonderful, teachable moment it was about the Hostility, the hostility that people on the left have for people like Ann Romney.
In fact, let me expand.
I have a theory.
I could be a little off on this.
But I think Mitt Romney and Ann Romney may be the stereotypes of everything Obama and people like him resent in this country.
Just the way they live, just who they are.
I think they are highly resented.
Now, this may not be a politically correct observation.
But when you look at Obama's life and his friends and his associates and his enablers, what do you find?
You find the Reverend Wright's and the Bill Ayers.
And you find the uh forget the guy in Hawaii, met a mental block on his name who instructed it.
Frank Marshall Davis, who was a member of the Communist Party, was a genuine radical, who told Barack Obama, they ain't never gonna let nothing happen to you, boy.
You're black.
You ain't going nowhere in this country.
That's the way he was raised.
Then he was coddled and cared for and so forth.
But his fear is radicals, agitators, radicals, people unhappy, people that don't like this country, those are his friends and associates.
So can you imagine somebody more likely to arouse resentment in Obama than somebody like Mitt Romney, who is as white bred as anybody you could find in this culture.
And I don't mean racially, I'm talking about plain, ordinary, just dull, boring, all those things that white bread is.
He's the quintessentially successful guy.
Romney, straight laced, he doesn't consume adult beverages.
He's an investor.
He's a businessman.
He's a Republican.
He's a guy who makes money while he sleeps with his investments.
He doesn't have any union ties.
He donates millions of dollars to charity.
He doesn't appear to be outwardly angry at anybody.
And he's certainly not angry at his country.
I'm going to watch Obama as the stress of the campaign builds.
And I'm I won't be surprised if I find Romney ahead in the polls over time now and then, sporadically.
And if Romney begins to pull away, who knows?
Let's see if Obama becomes a version of Jack Nicholson.
A character in a few good men.
You can't handle the truth.
Obama wants to blow his stack just like Colonel Nathan Jessup.
He wants to tell the truth.
Either way, I don't give a damn about what you think you're entitled to.
So I just, I think they look at the Romneys, and what they see are the kind of people that this country has been run by since its founding, who set things up in their favor from the get-go.
This this kind Hillary Rosen is saying she's never worked a day in her life.
You know what that really means?
Born lucky.
Never had any hardship.
Nobody ever discriminated against her.
Same thing with her husband.
Doesn't view them as people who worked hard to get where they are.
They just sort of swerved into it.
And they're kooky, they're nerds, they're not hip.
Just I think that the problem the stereotype of exactly the kind of people, without a racial component, is race doesn't matter here, not what I'm talking about, that Obama and people in his circle just instinctively don't like.
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