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April 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 12, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Welcome once again, ladies and gentlemen, all across the fruited plain, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists.
It is time for the award-winning thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, more powerful, impactful, and influential than ever before.
Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network.
And even though we're dispensing today with the open line Friday musical introduction, I just want to let you know that when we do go to the uh the phones today, it is open line Friday.
Whatever you want to talk about is hunky dory, fine and dandy.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Let me give you a telephone number.
I want you to make a mental note of or write it down.
We're going to be giving it out frequently throughout the busy broadcast today.
It is our toll-free number to cure the blood cancers.
I'd like to officially welcome you to our what is this 23rd annual now?
The um 23rd annual radio curaton with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America, the objective to cure the blood cancers.
And the telephone number that you can use to donate is 877-379-48.
877-379-8888.
We have also, of course, Rushlimbaugh.com, our website as well, is a place to donate.
And we have uh we've also added Twitter and Facebook, our Twitter and Facebook addresses this year.
We have a couple of Twitter addresses at Rush Limbaugh or at Limbaugh.
Either one of those will get you to the official L Rushboat Twitter location.
And Facebook is Facebook.com slash Rush Limbaugh.
23rd anniversary.
Now there are other things going on in the program as well today.
I want you to give you a little overview of what's coming of the regime.
I can't believe this.
The regime has publicly announced that the Norks have nukes.
And the regime is admitting they have been blindsided by this.
Can you they're admitting that they were surprised that the North Koreans have nukes?
Why thought everybody knew or suspected, at least strongly enough, to act on the assumption that they did.
Have nukes.
In addition to that, ladies and gentlemen, the uh TMZ network is very, very concerned over this Jay-Z rap video.
They convened a panel discussion of noted entertainment journalists to discuss whether or not the Jay-Z rap video actually is harmful to President Obama.
I kid you not.
There are further developments on the bugging.
I'm not kidding you.
There are further developments on the bugging of Mitch McConnell's office.
It's now being recognized for what all that stuff we heard yesterday about a couple of innocent little Democrat activists hanging around in a hallway overhearing a conversational hallway that's now no longer operative, and it has been acknowledged that what they did was uh under the table above board illegal.
They may be reluctant to use the word illegal.
The New York Times is doing everything it can to bring pressure on every major league sports or sport to go ahead and announce all the participants who are gay.
Just get them to come out.
New York Times uh is is on this mission to uh to to get this to happen.
Why?
Well, the New York Times gay agenda.
I mean, they've they've been leading the the gay political agenda for the longest time.
It's just why they want gay marriage.
Why do they want anything?
They just they're tired of living in the shadows.
Speaking of living in the shadows, immigration.
We have uh audio sound bites from a San Antonio television station.
Would you believe, folks, that all the discussion of amnesty, the upcoming amnesty, all that has led to an increase in the number of illegals trying to get in the country?
Amazing, isn't it?
It literally shocking that all of this discussion of amnesty is leading to an increase in people crossing the border.
And guess what?
The TV station down in San Antonio, and we have the audio coming up.
Border Patrol agent is loading up one of the captured illegals trying to get in the country, and the captured illegal said to the border patrol agent, I don't care, go ahead and capture me.
Obama is going to let me go.
It's reminiscent of 2009 after Obama was inaugurated and they had all those town hall meetings.
Don't worry, Obama's going to fix my kitchen.
Don't worry.
Well, the illegal arrivals crossing the border in Texas are not sweating it because Obama is gonna let them go.
Gun control, we're we're we're gonna try to incorporate as much of the things that we normally talk about into the program today, but our focus today, ladies and gentlemen, is about survival.
Survival.
For 23 years we have been doing what we can, and you have been phenomenal, folks.
Good economic times or bad economic economic times, it has not mattered.
You have continued to shock and surprise everybody involved with your your generosity and your love and your compassion.
The amount of money that has been raised here in less than three hours a year, one day, less than three hours a year, phenomenal.
There's no other fundraising effort with anywhere near this kind of efficiency.
And all of the efforts that you've made are paying off in various areas.
And that's why the theme of the show today is about survival.
Now imagine you're in a doctor's office, and you hear leukemia, lymphoma, myeloa, blood cancer.
These are not words that anybody wants to hear, especially if they are about your children.
Blood cancers strike thousands of children, thousands of adults in this country.
Survival in this battle is measured in as little as three and five year periods of time.
Some patients can and do enter what's called long-term survival.
That's entirely different than a cure.
Cure is a word that you really don't hear spoken much by people fighting these cancers.
We use it because that's our objective.
But it is tricky, as everybody knows.
A cure is what this program is after.
A cure for the blood cancers is what the leukemia and lymphoma society is after.
This is a battle that goes in fits and starts, breakthroughs, setbacks, and it's unending.
Never stops.
A doctor once said our goal is a cure, but we don't use that word.
Now that's not to say that a cure is impossible.
The most common form of childhood leukemia is curable now, but so many of the blood cancers are not.
Leukemia lymphoma society fights every day to prolong life, to improve outcomes, to allow patients to live as much life as possible.
Now I mentioned earlier that the survival rate, battle measured in in three and five year periods of time.
That doesn't sound like much.
And it isn't until it happens to you.
Till it happens to you, to a member of your family, then three to five years is a blessing.
And your entire attitude on your life changes.
Everybody goes through life with the rigors, the ups and downs Of each and every day.
So few people, and it's understandable, and this is not a criticism, it's just the way it is.
So few people ever really stop to consider how precious a human life is until you get the diagnosis that yours or a loved ones is about to be curtailed.
And again, that's not a criticism, but it's a reality.
Life is busy.
There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost.
You can't get it back.
And so many people get bogged down with.
In the big scheme of things, which at the time seemed huge, petty little depressions, disturbances, they all seemed big at the time when they happened.
Be they problems you're having with relationships with people or your boss or you're having self-doubts about your career or what have you.
We all get mired in these things.
And we all think about ourselves.
We all focus on ourselves.
And we all think about how we feel.
Now, what can we do to make ourselves feel better?
It's natural.
It's the way life is lived.
Then all of a sudden you're at the doctor.
And you hear leukemia.
You hear lymphoma, myeloma, blood cancer.
And then the next thing you hear is three to five years.
And that time period changes dramatically the way you look at it.
At that moment, you determine that you are going to make the most of every day because now you are told that it's finite.
Even though we all know our lives are finite.
Until it happens to you, somebody you know and love, this kind of prognosis, diagnosis, three to five years, it's heartstopping.
You go through all kinds of emotions.
You get depressed, feel sorry for yourself, and after you go through that, then you feel blessed.
That they're telling you, even with leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, blood cancer, you might have three to five years, and it could be even more than that, depending on the status of the research.
And then three to five years become crucial.
Three to five years become a blessing.
They become so important.
And people change their perspective and get rid of the petty distractions in life and start focusing on making every moment matter because a sense of focus descends with a diagnosis like this.
Very important moments still have the chance to take place for the patient and for the family, like a chance to see a recital or a school play or a graduation, the birth of a child or a grandchild, little league or soccer game.
For parents, it's a chance to still have long talks, meaningful talks that the son or daughter may not be old enough to appreciate now about fear, about loss, about never giving up, about being the best you can be, facing reality head on.
You have no choice when you hear three to five years.
You have no choice, you have to face it.
It's amazing the people who are diagnosed, how they step up.
It's amazing how their families step up after the initial shock, after the, oh, how sad.
Everybody goes through that.
Then everybody steps up and you start having these conversations with your kids that you may have been putting off.
You didn't know the proper way to do it.
You kid think you're just an old fuddy duty nerd.
You know what the kid's life is like, but you don't have time to worry about that anymore because you've only got three to five years to tell them what you really want them to know.
You've got three to five years tell them how much you love them.
You've got three to five years to tell them what their future holds.
You've got three to five years to tell them how to best be what they want to be.
You've got three to five years to soak in as much of their lives and yours as you can.
And all during these three to five years, you never give up, and you hope that three to five becomes six to ten.
And you hope the six to ten becomes twelve to twenty.
And you hear about all the research that's taking place via the leukemia lymphoma society, and you begin to think three to five years could be more than that.
You ask the doctors, is it possible it could be more than three to five?
The doctors are going to be honest with you.
Whatever the answer is when you say, could it be more than three to five, you'll find out what the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is doing.
You're going to find out what the latest research is in what they tell you you have been diagnosed with.
You're going to do everything you can to make those three to five years even longer.
And you're going to do everything you can to make sure those three to five years matter.
It's an amazing thing to see.
Human nature in this way.
And those of you to whom this never happens, but you know people to whom it's happened.
You've seen this.
You realize how much they all of a sudden become interested in the research and the fundraising, which enables the research, makes it possible.
And that's where people like you at the end of this train really make it all possible.
Your donations here and ever every other places everywhere during the course of the uh year.
Enable that three to five years to maybe be four to six.
You never know.
But that's the objective.
The objective is to make three to five years never uttered anymore.
Now the doctors say we're not near that.
We're not nobody's dangling false hope here, but everybody does end up thinking positively, getting involved.
Now, in addition to funding research, leukemia lymphoma society has uh also spent over 120 million dollars in copay assistance to qualifying families with financial difficulties.
They're acutely aware of just what families battling this disease are going through.
Huge number of people there have been touched by these diseases.
Everybody I know leukemia lymphoma, and they've been there since the beginning, all 23 years.
They've all been touched by it's why they're there.
That's why they do what they do.
They've been touched by it.
Some of them have been given these great prognoses and diagnostics and forecasts, and they won't want to share that with as many people as possible.
And they are all part of the world's largest voluntary nonprofit health organization dedicated to wiping out these killers.
Nonprofit, voluntary.
Everybody involved here at leukemia lymphoma committed to this war, and they're winning.
And they report more progress every year we do the Curathon, and you too can invest in this fight against blood cancer and help save lives.
Again, it's 877-379-8888.
Rush Limbaugh.com's the website at Rush Limbaugh at Limbo on Twitter and Facebook.com slash Rush Limbaugh.
Let's get started, folks.
We'll be back in just a second.
We'll be back in just a second.
As usual, ladies and gentlemen, we are offering premiums this year for donations.
quality of premium determines uh determined by the size of the donation.
I'll spell that out for you in the next segment, but I just I want to remind you, as I do each and every year, that I do not consider my time to be worth anything toward the advancement of a cure.
Anybody could sit here and give out the phone number and ask you to call and donate, and it's not going to help find a cure.
So I never ask people to do things I don't do.
Sometimes these TV telephone people make it look like they're devoting so much time to the cause, and you never find out whether they actually support it or not.
Well, I do.
I always lead off with a donation, which I'm going to do this year.
A little bit different, though.
I'm not going to announce the specifics of my donation.
Just trust that I'm right in there with you leading the way.
I may announce it at some point during the broadcast today.
But uh I'm right in there with you.
contributing what it's going to take to get to a cure, and that's money.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, and the 23rd annual Curathon here on the EIB network, exclusively here to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma.
The telephone number is 877-379-888.
Over the years, it has been fascinating to watch how people donate.
The uh used to be almost exclusively telephone, and then the website began to become uh most popular, and it's it's uh it's nip and tuck between the two.
Rushlimbaugh.com, go there, it's all set up.
Simple as pie.
We've also set up uh donation pages at Twitter and Facebook.
We got a couple Twitter pages at Rush Limbaugh or at Limbaugh.
Those are the two real ones.
A bunch of frauds and phonies and fakes out there, but don't go to them at Rush Limbaugh at Limbaugh, and our Facebook page, Facebook.com slash Rush Limbaugh.
Now here's a quick summary of the premiums.
For a donation of between $75 and $99.
And by the way, when I go through these, I feel a little sometimes I feel a little guilty because the floor here is $75 to get a uh a premium.
And I every I really want to make a point that this these categories here are not structured so as to say the minimum that they care about is $75.
That's not the case at all.
That's just the starting point where it makes sense to award a premium as a portion of that donation.
But if if five dollars is the max for you, or even one dollar, doesn't it's perfectly fine.
And it's as appreciated as any other donation is.
The size of this audience, if everybody just gave a dollar, we would set an all-time charity record for anything.
If everybody just gave a dollar.
So the numbers of people we're talking about here every year in this audience, you who who donate, is incredible.
The multiplier effect is is uh is high.
So don't let these amounts put you off.
75 to 99 dollars official rush t-shirt.
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This is a bright red six-panel hat, reinforced backing, decorated with the official EIB signature, 2013 a logo in uh red and blue thread.
It's the rush signature.
It has adjustable matching Velcro sizing strap and uh one size fits all.
That's for 100 to 374 dollars, a t-shirt and a hat, and for 375 dollars and up, the official L Rushbow EIB golf shirt and hat.
This is a 100% polyester ultra cool.
You know, the the um fabric that doesn't sweat, doesn't get wet, dries out very quickly.
Uh manages perspiration, three button placket, cuffs, square bottom with uh with side vents, custom sizing here, plus the hat, the size of small to triple XL.
Now, all of this, I I don't want to spend a lot of time mentioning the premiums a couple times, but all of this is explained at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh and again, the phone number to donate is 877-379-8888.
I'm gonna start with Bob in Chicago.
Bob, you're up first open line Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Great to be on, Rush.
Just want to let you know I've been listening to you probably twenty years.
And uh just want to say you're doing this country a great job.
You're keeping people uh basically informed.
And I I turned on your show today.
I was a little late, and I when I turned it on, I heard you talking about something.
I'm like, okay, what's he talking about?
Raising money?
And then you said lymphoma and leukemia, raising money for that.
I was diagnosed with uh non Hodgkin's lymphoma two days ago.
Uh wait, what wait, wait, two days ago?
Yes.
Wow.
Yes.
Yeah, and when I turn on your show, I'm like, I'm wait for I'm late for Rush.
I jumped in the truck with my dog Charlie, he always drives with me to work.
And um I'm listening to you.
And when I heard you say non or lymphoma, blood diseases, and then you're raising money.
Wow.
Two days ago, yes, I was diagnosed with uh non Hodgkin's lymphoma lymphoma, follicle B. What were your symptoms?
You know what?
There really weren't any.
I've been I guess I've had this for a while.
Um I had a bump sticking out of my neck, and I was watching it because I lift weights all the time, and I always I thought maybe I did something to my neck, so I went to a doctor, we were watching it, and all of a sudden they just started popping up underneath my chin.
Yeah, what I'm saying.
What what is what is your diagnosis of prognosis?
What did they tell you?
Well, right now I have to it's called wait and see approach because I'm not actually sick.
I do have cancer.
I'm not actually sick.
I had body scans and all that, and my lymph nodes inside my body are cancerous.
They said they don't want to poison me yet with the liquid with uh the chemo because I'm healthy and strong.
He told me to keep lifting weights, keep going to work.
When you start feeling sick before a certain period of time, come in to see me.
But it's called wait and see.
I thought that was kind of crazy, but he says if you're not sick now, we don't want to knock it down now and make you sick with the chemo.
So I'm supposed to go back in three months and get a body scan, and if they've grown larger, now it's time for chemo and all the fun stuff began.
Did you expect or you were you were you um you had a lump, so were you expecting, were you at all mentally prepared to hear this, or were you surprised?
No.
Uh you know, I look at it this way.
The Lord's in control, no matter which way, he's in control, I'm fine.
Uh I have no fears of death.
I trust in the Lord Christ, and uh it's all good to go.
But I uh I actually get sad not for me, I get sad for my wife who's crying in the room when I was diagnosed with my kids.
It's kind of sad when you wake up in the middle of the night and you see your son staring at you.
Yeah, that's the the the the next day you wake up the next day and you remember what you heard.
Right.
Um that's that's a toughie.
That that I remember when I was losing my hearing.
It's a nothing like what you're going through.
But the the the day I was officially told you got something more to go on there, just genetic destruction.
It was one thing to hear it that day dealing with it.
They're waking up the next day, remembering that I was, you know, you're gonna be deaf here if it it's a it's an entirely different mindset you have the next day, at least it was for me.
Right.
I kind of thought maybe something was going on, but when people my daughter works at a hospital, and when she saw that, she said, Dad, you better get that checked out.
So I did.
And we're watching it.
But I guess it's a slow-growing cancer.
Um I probably had this for a year or so and I didn't know it, and it just started coming out of my neck.
Well, you I'm gonna tell you something.
I don't know any of the specifics.
I'm not even gonna pretend that I know anything about what you've got, but I can tell you this that there are all kinds of people that are working around the clock to make sure to do what they can that the way you are right now stays the way you are.
It doesn't worsen it if it does, there are ways to deal with it.
And that's what we're here uh doing today is trying to generate Resources to continue that work.
Bob, best of luck.
Um, and I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you're able to uh to get through.
877-379-8888.
Curing leukemia, the objective here today, 23rd annual Curathon here of the EIB network to cure the blood cancers, Rush Limbaugh.com email address.
I had a email sent to me uh this morning.
So, Rush, here's a personal story, might be of use today in bringing all of this to life.
Last summer, my high school friend's wife started to feel sick.
It's only a few months before the big 40th birthday they had planned out in California.
Diagnosed with two aggressive forms of leukemia.
She fought with all the tools that the good people leukemia lymphoma society have helped develop.
She endured a bone marrow transplant, but unfortunately it didn't work.
During this time, she moved back to New Jersey with her husband and her two small boys to be closer to the treatment that she needed.
She spent her last months living in a hospital, but on Monday morning this week, she lost the fight.
She wasted away to well under a hundred pounds.
Never got the 40th birthday party.
She didn't live to see 41.
Her boys are barely in preschool.
She never know what a wonderful person her mother was.
They won't.
And she was the kind of person that you could talk to at an event where you didn't want to talk to any of the other people there.
Like a high school reunion, she was the one that you would talk to when nobody else interested you.
And those kind of people are rare.
Her funeral is tomorrow.
It's been kind of uh leukemia week for me, Rush.
And I'm sure that all the research that you and the audience have supported the past 23 years are responsible for giving her those extra months.
So at least she could have a little bit more time to say goodbye.
So I get a number of these on our Curathon Day.
And don't share a whole lot of them with you, because you know the drill.
But now and then I think it's important to personalize this in order to facilitate what we are all about here today, which again is continuing a record breaking.
So it's phenomenal.
I think we've only had one down year.
And I don't remember.
Then yeah, 9-11 year.
That was the only year that we've been down.
Every other year we have we've beaten the previous year.
That's why everybody involved here is just overwhelmed and shocked that that continues to happen, no matter what the economic circumstances are.
Again, the the number here, 877-379-888 or Rush Limbaugh.com.
And if you go to Limbaugh.com, Rush Limbaugh.com have got all the details, all of the uh premiums, the gifts that are offered at certain donation levels, everything is explained there.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Curing the blood cancers here on the EIB Network, our 23rd annual Curathon to hopefully wipe out someday, leukemia, lymphoma, and all the other blood cancers.
And we're going to do the um other parts of the program as well.
We'll mix it all together.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program's 800-282-2882.
I mentioned that a television station, San Antonio, W O A I. It is not T, and I thought this was weird.
I had these two stories at WOAI TV.
It was our radio affiliate down there.
WOAI Radio in San Antonio.
Here's the audio soundbite.
This is during the uh correspondent Jim Forsyth's report, Brooks County Rancher, common ordinary everyday citizen, Linda Vickers, talking about what a border patrol agent recently told her while detaining an illegal immigrant.
He was loading one up and he said the illegal in Spanish told him Obama's gonna let me go.
Well, that shouldn't surprise anybody.
I mean, all we're talking about here is amnesty and and so-called border.
By the way, the border security push, there's a little confusion about this.
I folks, I have to tell you, uh, I'm I'm being inundated with details from the offices of various members of a gang of eight.
And then I have a New York Times story here, which says that Chuck Yu Sumer is all on board for border security, but get this.
This is right from the New York Times.
The bill allows a period of ten years for the Department of Homeland Security to make plans and use resources to fortify enforcement at the borders and elsewhere within the country before it sets several broader hurdles that could derail the immigrants' progress towards citizenship if they're not achieved.
Now, everybody thinks that border security, well, we're being told border security is going to happen first, and if it doesn't happen, the rest of the bill doesn't happen.
But apparently now the the some factions here are pushing for 10 years to secure the border after everything else in the bill being agreed to.
Now, this is all still up for grabs, I think.
I don't think any of it's etched in stone.
There will be some hearings on this, don't know how many.
Uh but we'll just have to wait and see.
I I see this this.
The bill allows for a period of ten years.
Well, all this talk of amnesty, for one thing, is uh you you know darn well it's gonna increase the influx of people trying to cross the border.
And then all this talk of border security, that's gonna increase the influx.
There's gonna be people trying to get in and beat that, which is what's happening.
And these guys are being caught.
This is what the rancher down in San Antonio told our affiliate down there, WOI.
He said, Well, well, Obama's gonna let me go.
Not worried about it.
Just one.
But how commonplace must it be?
Uh last night on the syndicated TV program TMZ, we have a portion of the executive producer Harvey Levin, who's a good guy.
Harvey Levin and his staff talking about Jay Z and his open letter rap tune about his trip to Cuba and Obama.
So basically, Jay-Z wrapped about his recent trip to Cuba.
He's saying Obama did something shady that got him to Cuba.
This is not a good thing for Obama.
It's a rap song.
But here's the problem.
Harvey, Jay-Z has a song where he says, Welcome to Havana.
Smoking cubanos with Castro in Cabanas.
Do you think that Jay-Z has ever smoked a cigar with Fidel Castro in the cabana?
I wonder if he also had 99 problems.
Yeah, but a bitch ain't one.
Seriously, look at her.
Still, whether there's some truth to all this or it's just some lyric, it's press the White House don't want.
Do you realize what you're hearing here?
You are hearing on TMZ a McLaughlin group style discussion of whether or not Jay-Z told a truth in his raptune about having cigars for Castro.
Castro doesn't smoke cigars anymore, by the way.
At least not in public.
He gave it all up publicly so.
And and the debating the impact on Obama here, and it isn't good.
I mean, this is no different than the Fox All-Stars every night, 6 o'clock on special report with Brett Bear, except it's TMZ and a serious for the low information audience discussion of the impact of Mr. Z's latest raptune on Obama.
Uh, and they weren't through.
They they kept talking about it.
If you're Jay Z, you have to think about it.
You can't be like, oh, let me start running my mouth and say something about Obama getting peached.
Because everybody knows they're close.
He accidentally brags about his relationship with the president, though.
So why would he do this to screw up the president?
Because everybody's talking about the presentation.
Because he's talking down to the media crazies who are going so wild about this.
He is condescending to us.
It's a great.
They're all that they're a wow moment there, all assuming that this is not good for the one.
By the way, the UK Daily Mail, and I've got it here in the stack.
Official research shows that Vast majority of young people are much more concerned with nukes out of North Korea than they are with Jay Z. Kid you not.
Here's a phone number again to cure the blood cancers for our curathon today, eight seven seven, three seven nine, eight, eight, eight, eight, or go to Rush Limbaugh dot com.
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Okay, Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary, says, No, wait, they mean it, wait a minute.
The Norks do not have nukes.
We've got the sound bites, we can play them for you if you want.
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