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April 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 12, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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And this is it, folks, for our final big broadcast hour.
One day a year, we devote a lot of time on the program to the effort to raise money to cure the blood cancers of leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.
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And I always talk about donation.
And I didn't want to lead with that this year.
I never want to make myself the focus of this, but I want to go ahead and do it now because I do want everybody to know that it continues to be a cause that my family cares about greatly and deeply.
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As you ponder it and think about it, well, economic times are tough.
Everybody knows that 90 million people left the workforce for crying out loud.
There are financial pressures on everybody.
Everybody understands that.
That's why it's so profound what you all do every year.
In the midst of all of that, you still set records.
You dazzle everybody that's involved here.
I mean, you would think after 23 years, we'd churned it.
After 23 years, we would have extracted as much as anybody could expect to get.
But every year, you continue to shock, dismay, and surprise everybody.
So this is it, our final big broadcast hour, the 23rd annual curathon for the Leukemia, Lymphoma, Society of America.
Leukemia, Lymphoma, and myeloma.
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Now, folks, I knew this was going to happen.
We talked about the situation involving the parents of Sandy Hook, and all it took was two minutes for me to offer a point of view about it.
Here came a phone call.
How dare you, essentially.
How dare you call them lobbyists?
How dare you this?
How dare you that?
And this is how they've made this a political issue.
The parents are now involved in a political issue, but you can't treat them that way.
That's the, you may even call it the genius of the Democrats.
It's how they shut down any opposition to what they want to do.
But I want to walk you through some things.
Is there anything now?
I'm going to hit you with some logic here, which is, admittedly, for the emotional left is impossible for them to grasp.
Is there anything Adam Lanza did at Newtown that was not already highly illegal?
The answer is no.
Not one thing he did isn't already covered by the law.
Everything he did broke an existing law.
So how many more laws would have stopped him?
He stole the guns that he used from his mother.
He broke into the Sandy Hook school.
He carried guns into a gun-free zone.
Liberals love those.
You may as well beg for somebody to come in with a gun when you say there aren't any guns here.
He murdered kids.
Aren't all of these things already illegal?
Yes.
What more is needed to stop him?
What more can be done with the law with gun control that would have stopped Adam Lanza?
Meanwhile, when it comes to the victims and their families in Benghazi, everybody being told to shut up.
They're not getting driven around on Air Force One.
They're not being flown around on Air Force One.
They're not being escorted by lobbyists to talk to senators.
And that is happening.
A Democrat lobbyist has set up more than 25 meetings on Capitol Hill for Newtown family members this week alone.
So you can call here and you can say you're offended at having these parents whose kids were shot call lobbyists.
But just one Democrat lobbyist has set up more than 25 meetings for these people, just one lobbyist.
One of the quote-unquote strategists for the families is Ricky Seidman, who ran the Clinton Gore campaign, 1992 war room.
One of the strategists for the families.
Now, anybody can go to Washington and talk to their senator.
Anybody can go to Washington and talk to their member of Congress.
How many of you call a White House and say, I want to fly to Washington on Air Force One to see my senator?
How many of you can call, say, Mr. President, I want to do the Saturday radio address for you?
Mr. President, I want you to set me up with 25 members of Congress, not just my own.
You can't do any of that on your own.
This whole issue is being politicized.
I'm already, I know with certain people I'm losing points here, but I can't, folks, I oppose what Obama wants to do with gun control laws.
I oppose what the Democrat Party wants to do.
Now, I'm sorry, opposing it means opposing it.
No matter what, everything they're doing to advance it is political.
I do not have any animus whatsoever for these parents.
Quite the obvious.
My heart breaks for them.
I just wouldn't do what's being done.
I just wouldn't, I wouldn't exploit it like this.
I wouldn't look at every tragedy in this country it happened and say, man, how can I turn this into something I want?
I just don't think that way.
And I'm offended by people that do.
It repulses me that genuine, real human tragedy is seen as a political opportunity by people.
I just admittedly, I'm not a politician.
They are.
But I don't care how they sell it.
I'm opposed to Obama's immigration law.
I'm opposed to Obama's gun control.
I'm opposed to Obama's budget.
I don't care how he sells it.
Am I not entitled to be opposed to Obama's proposals?
I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy.
I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system.
I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.
I'm opposed to all of this.
Am I supposed to shut up simply because of the techniques he uses to get what he wants?
Yes, we are.
That's the ant.
We are supposed to shut up.
That's exactly right.
And if we don't shut up, we're heartless.
If we don't shut up, we have no heart.
We have no compassion.
So in this context, if somebody says, you think the Republicans are going to cave on gun control?
Hell yes, everybody else.
You don't think they are?
Well, maybe not in the House, Senate.
Who knows?
My point is that everything Adam Lanza did is already illegal.
And by the way, none of what is in Obama's new proposals would have stopped him.
There's no new law that is proposed that would have stopped him.
Do you know the Politico is even calling the families lobbyists?
From the Politico Newtown Families colon, victims turn lobbyists.
It's an article by Jim Vandehye and Mike Allen.
And the Politico says that the victims have turned lobbyists.
Now, who turned them into lobbyists?
How many of you get to have 25 different meetings with congressmen in just one week?
How many of you get handled by powerful lobbyists and shepherded around by the most powerful party strategists?
I don't think very many.
You've seen the video Joe Biden was on the Morning Joe show today on MSNBC with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
He's on CNN thanking MSNBC and CNN for all the two networks have done in getting out their message for gun control.
Both Biden and Senator Manchin said, in effect, they couldn't have done it without MSNBC and the CNN.
So the networks are lobbyists, too.
Now, imagine you're sitting there at CNN and you think you're a journalist, and here comes the vice president and senator congratulating you for your efforts in getting the message out.
In the old days, that would have embarrassed the hell out of Walter Crime publicly.
He would have died in his chair if somebody had said that about him publicly.
Privately, toast him, he'll take it.
But publicly to be thanked for helping get out an administration's message like Biden and Manchin did for MSNBC and CNN.
Don't tell me there isn't any lobbying going on here.
Maybe we need to point out again that the only thing that stopped Adam Lanza, you know what it was?
Have you remembered what stopped him?
That's exactly right, Mr. Snerdley.
Armed men, armed human beings.
He heard Adam Lanza heard the cops coming and he killed himself.
Armed men, guns, the only things that stop serial killers.
He chose that school for a host of reasons, but at the top of the list was he knew nobody there had a gun anyway.
Since this guy calls up, you can't call him lobbyists.
How dare you?
These poor people.
I just want to take the time to illustrate it because it just goes to show how they shut down any opposition, which is what they are about.
They don't want to have a legitimate debate on gun control.
They don't want any opposition.
Now, that's the name of the game.
Politics get what you want.
I'm just trying to help people become informed and learn exactly how this process is taking place.
And no, but I just, I just, all I do remember is that if you happen to be involved in Benghazi, you're supposed to shut up and you're not supposed to ask for any information and you're not going to be given any information.
And none of what happened to you is going to be used to change anything politically.
You just shut up.
The video is still responsible for that.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, my memory is profound and my memory is long.
And I want to share with you something from my memory.
Do you remember when George W. Bush released a photo of himself looking out the window of Air Force One, flying over 9-11, flying over New York?
Remember how the left had a meltdown and he was taking political advantage of a tragedy?
Do you remember all the allegations of Bush, all the charges of how Bush was trying to politicize that?
I do.
It's a one-way street for these people.
By the way, Senator Mark Kirk said the real driving force behind the gun deal that was hatched by bipartisan work was booze and boat retreats.
Mark Kirk, Illinois Republican, said to reporters that visits to the Black Tie, a yacht owned by Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, played a large role in the Democrat-Republican come together over background checks and other legislation related to gun control.
It's in roll call.
You guys really ought to go out to National Harbor, see the Black Tie, which has been much of the reason for much of the bipartisan cooperation around here, he said.
Quoted in roll call.
Frequent visitors to the luxury vessel include Democrat Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Elisa Murkowski.
So booze and boat parties helped the Democrats and Republicans come together on gun control.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as I mentioned at the beginning of the program, the program today is about survival.
It's about hearing that moment when you learn that you have been diagnosed with leukemia or lymphoma or one of your family members.
What's the first thing that you think of?
What's the first thing you think somebody would think of?
Oh, gosh, how bad is it?
And how long do I have?
That's what people want.
The first thing they want to know.
And nobody wants to hear these words, especially about your children.
Blood cancers, cancers strike thousands of children.
Adults, too, thousands of children.
But survival today is measured in as little as three and five year periods of time.
Some patients can enter what's called long-term survival, and that's not a cure.
It's different than a cure.
Cure is a word that you don't hear spoken much by people fighting the cancers because of relapse.
Everybody wants to know how long they've got.
And the great thing about that question is that the answer has been changing regularly over the years.
And the answer is always an improvement.
And accompanying the answer is the idea, the possibility that you have a real chance.
Everybody that's diagnosed with one of these blood cancers today has a real chance because of all of the previous effort, work, research made possible entirely by people like you.
I cannot, I wish I knew a way to tell you how appreciated it is.
I know you know it, but I wish I could really convey to you that's all these people do at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
They live it.
It's a disease which touched them, all personally.
And they have the most profound respect and appreciation for everything that you have done over the course of the 23 years here.
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We'll be back with more after this.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's Roger, West Plains, Missouri.
Roger, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Rush, to start off with, I'm a big fan of you, but I do owe you an apology.
In 2007 and 2008, I was an Obama zombie, and I said some very bad things about you, and I'd like to apologize for that.
Well, I didn't even know that you said them.
Well, I said them to just about anybody that would listen to me.
And I have felt very bad about it since I came back to my senses.
I can honestly say that Obama was the first Democrat president I had ever voted for, and I did it because I didn't like McCain.
That's pretty much why I did it.
Well, now there's got to be more to it than that.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have had such rotten things to say about me.
I mean, you had to be under the Obama's spell to some extent.
I did.
I was hypnotized by Obama's voice.
And it just, and if it can happen, and I'm not a dumb guy, I'm actually, I'm fairly intelligent.
I consider myself fairly intelligent.
And I feel like if it can happen to me, it can happen to a lot of people.
I have friends that...
Well, how did it happen?
What...
What happened?
What in the world?
Set aside the fact that he didn't support McCain.
We all understand that.
But Obama's the first Democrat you ever voted for.
It has to be more than you just didn't like McCain.
What was it?
It's honestly the things he said.
I believed what he said.
I believed that he could help the country.
You believed he's going to end bipartisanship.
He's going to make the world love us again.
He's going to create jobs and put America back to work.
You bought into all of that.
I honestly bought into all of that.
I bought into the fact that a black president would end racism.
It just.
Okay, now this is.
The next question I'm going to ask, I'm not trying to put you on the spot.
There's no wrong answer.
I'm not trying to set you up.
I'm genuinely curious.
Were you listening to me during that period of time during the campaign of 2008?
Yes, I was.
Okay, then you heard me trying to tell you when you may not have heard specifically, but I said numerous times, the election of Barack Obama is going to exacerbate race relations.
It's going to get worse.
He is not going to fix the economy.
That's why I said I hope he fails.
Did you hear me say those things?
If you did, they had to obviously make you mad.
You probably thought I was full of it.
You're thinking racism can be ended here with this election.
I thought you were a racist.
I have to admit, I thought you were a racist.
That's why I stopped listening to you.
And it's like I said, I mean, I told my cousin, I said, I started listening to Rush again.
This was last summer.
I said, I've got to call him and apologize for everything I said about him.
What is it that brought you back?
Honestly, Obama.
The things that he's not done, the things that he said he was going to do, the fact that we're almost $17 trillion in debt.
Now, here's another question.
You said you're an intelligent guy, and I believe you.
Does it not bother you how easily you got hoodwinked?
Oh, yes, because I'm telling you, if it was easy for me to predict what was going to happen, and I predicted it.
And if it was easy for me to tell you, by the way, this isn't going to end racism.
It's only going to make it worse.
And I said because any criticism of him is going to be said to be racist.
They're going to make it worse.
It isn't going to solve anything.
You thought I was a racist saying that.
Now, you've obviously come to see that that was correct.
The interesting thing with you is, by your own admission, you're a smart guy.
And it worked on you.
All of that emotional reaching out that emotional hope and change, it worked on you.
And it lasted for three or four years until you saw the light.
Yes, it did.
And, you know, my entire family, nobody voted for him.
Everybody has criticized me ever since for voting for him that first time.
And I defended him to my family.
You know, I said bad things to my own mother because she didn't like it.
Look, I know so many people like you.
You're one of the few to admit it, really, but I'm glad that you called.
You don't need to apologize.
I understand it.
Oh, of course I forgive.
I'm a forgiving guy.
Roger, did you vote for Obama in 2012?
Heck no.
Heck no.
Absolutely not.
Okay.
And I've actually stopped watching the lamestream media.
I don't watch any of it anymore.
Well, you know, I'm not trying to guilt you, but you have to be blamed partially for the state the country's in.
You helped make it happen.
Yes, I know I did.
I know I did.
And I have been trying to atone for it ever since.
Well, this is the first step calling here.
It's a big move that you've made here, and I can't applaud you enough.
And happy to have you back in the fold.
That's Roger in West Plains, Missouri.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me ⁇ our time is dwindling here.
I want to maneuver back into the curathon for just a moment.
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As we get older, it just stands to reason.
I'll talk, I'll personalize it.
I'll make it about me.
As I've gotten older, I know more people who get cancer.
A really wonderful woman in Kansas City passed away this week, actually last weekend, after fighting various forms of cancer for four years, maybe even longer.
It was everywhere, including blood cancers.
Had I not met this woman when I was in Kansas City, her name is Joni Fry.
Had I not met her, I was thinking the other day, all the people I would not have met while I was there, just that one person.
And as I say, she was a wonderful person.
She was, and this is said a lot about people, but she was genuinely one of the nicest people and one of the least egotistical people.
If she trusted you, she'd give you anything.
She would introduce you to anybody.
And she knew everybody.
She was very protective of the people that she loved.
But she had these various forms of cancer for four years.
And every time you'd see her, you'd say, hey, Joni, how you doing?
I can't imagine what it's like to have to answer that question every time you're asked it.
I mean, your circle of friends knows you.
I have a couple other very close friends who are battling various cancers right now.
And you want to call them every week and say, how you doing?
And the changes don't happen that fast, but you still want to show them that you're thinking about them, and you want to show them that you care.
But at the same time, they don't want you to worry.
So they, oh, it's doing great.
Everything's fine.
And the detailed, yeah, I just am going to go to this treatment and that treatment.
And it's everything.
Everything couldn't be better.
It's great.
Hormonal therapy did the other day.
And now moving into chemo and so forth.
It's a very tough thing on everybody, but being asked how you're doing, as often as cancer patients are, has its own built-in pressure.
Most people don't want others to worry about them.
And most people do not want to in any way burden anybody else.
But the questions that people ask, how are you doing?
They're genuinely heartfelt questions, and they genuinely are seeking the truth.
Well, how are you doing?
Everybody wants to hear, doing great, doing wonderful, and so forth.
And as you get older and things start to happen to people that you know and you watch the way various people deal with it, see their various support systems that they use.
I just, I have the most profound respect for the way people who are told they have cancer, the way they deal with it, strong, defiant.
It's what I, when in the first hour, I talked about the people I know anyway, it has really, really focused them.
It's solidified in their minds and hearts how rare life is.
I mean, it's not rare, it's everywhere, but yours is rare.
There's only one of yours.
And you only get it one time, at least on this earth.
You only get it one time.
And every minute that's gone, you can't get back.
And people, some of them start regretting what they think is the wasted time and the hours they spent being depressed or worried about what now are insignificant things.
And it has, there's some things about it that focus people in a positive way to learn to get more out of what's left.
And this is where the research comes in because that three to five year diagnosis contains with it a chance that it'll improve during that three to five years because all the money that's being raised that enables all the research to take place.
And it just has me have so much of a greater appreciation and understanding for the people who have this diagnosis.
And I marvel at everybody I've known who has been diagnosed with blood cancer, some other kind of cancer, they rally and they try to assure everybody else not to worry about them.
My mother was that way.
Joni in Kansas City was that way.
Joni Fry was her name.
People who you know, if I mention their names, fighting it just today, I'm not going to mention their names because they haven't gone public with it.
But you want that three to five years to become six to ten years for them.
So you ask them free, how are you doing?
And they're always looking for different things to tell you.
And if it isn't going well, they don't want to tell you that.
They'll lie.
They'll, oh, man, it's doing, unless it's obvious.
It's really, really good.
I'm doing this and doing that.
And that's rooted in hope in many ways because that's what the desired outcome is.
And what you do with your donations each and every year, enable that hope, you enable that chance.
You enable that three to five years to become six to ten years.
You enable remission.
That's a whole nother ball of wax that we haven't discussed.
You enable the development and invention of new drugs that makes all this happen.
And it's an ongoing process where everything that's happened before gets added to what is new, and it just gets better and better and better in terms of the chance, in terms of the opportunity to help people live longer with this.
So I just want to take a brief moment here.
Thank you again at the bottom of my heart and for everybody else involved here for doing what you've done over these years to enable people who are asked, how you're doing, to be able to honestly say I'm doing better.
I'm feeling good.
I'm going to beat it.
Quick timeout.
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Say, folks, I forgot to close the loop on something here.
And when I was talking about how we always ask our friends and family who are suffering from one of these cancers, how you doing?
They'll tell you that the question has a myriad of effects on them.
On the one, they appreciate the concern, but it's frustrating because a lot of times there's nothing new to tell.
And a lot of times they don't want to recite how they're feeling.
They don't want to talk about it.
I've had people tell me that they get weary, but they don't want to say that.
But how you doing?
How you doing?
I've had people say that the better question is: is there anything I can do for you?
Is there something I can take you somewhere you need to be?
Is there, you need lunch, coffee, what have you?
Because the question, how you doing, partly is rooted in denial.
And the people who have the disease can't afford to be in denial.
They have to face it square on, and they are.
And it's made all the easier because of everything that you've done.
And I really cannot overemphasize that.
And I don't care how much, like the staff here at the Southern Command just donated $10 and are challenging the EIV Northern Command to match it.
That was more than $10.
I'm just kidding.
Okay, folks, all weekend, you can still donate 877-379-8888 or at Rush Limbaugh on Twitter, Facebook.com, Rush Limbaugh.
Folks, I am not going to be here Monday.
Just taking a day off.
Doug Urbanski will be here Monday.
And remember, rushlimbaught.com, available all weekend as you ponder, donating to our curathon to cure the blood cancers.
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