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Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Now the telephone number to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
We combine the normal elements of open line Friday, including phone calls from you about whatever you want to talk about.
Along with our effort to cure the blood cancers.
What happens here is truly unique.
Well, unique doesn't need a modifier.
What happens here is unique.
One day a year.
And we don't even go wall-to-wall for the whole program.
We don't even do three hours a year.
By the time you factor everything, we probably donate in terms of time, one hour a year to this cause.
And in one hour per year, which is the best way to look at it, you have raised more than.
You have donated more than 40 million dollars to cure the blood cancers.
You in 25 years have donated, and we started small, folks, with we stood 25 years.
This program's only 26 years old.
We started, we were just starting to build the audience.
And it has grown every year.
I think one year we were flat, but every year, other than that, we have grown.
We're ahead right now of last year at the same time.
It's like a horse race, though you never know where you're going to end up.
But we're not we want to break records, but that's not the point.
Uh it's a nice ancillary.
But it's not the point.
The point is the cause to end the suffering and of everybody involved when this disease comes knocking.
And by the way, there's nothing you get.
I mean, nothing you you don't deserve it.
Nobody just is nothing you do that means you're gonna get it.
They tell you, well, you know, you smoke, you're gonna get lung cancer.
If you do this, you're gonna get that.
If you did it, there's nothing.
Have you ever heard anybody say you better stop doing that, you're gonna get leukemia?
You better stop that.
You better not eat that, you better not do that, you're gonna get lymphoma.
Nobody ever says that because there's nothing you do.
Everybody who comes down with this is diagnosed with this is the essence of innocence.
There is no applied or assumed guilt.
It's just everybody's the same on this.
And it's I think it's wrong, by the way, to look at anybody as saying, well, you know, you kind of deserve it, because look at what you did.
I think that's an unfortunate way that some people look at things.
Nobody deserves anything like this.
And clearly with leukemia and lymphoma, you don't do anything to contract it or deserve it.
You just live.
There may be some indicators, genetic indicators in family, but not even that sometimes.
It's out of the blue.
Some children.
The number of children that come down with this disease and the the the survivability rates there are really improved.
And then at the other, how many people in the news do you hear about in their 70s and 80s have been diagnosed with leukemia?
Well, but it's a cancer.
It's just cancer of the blood, and we are engaged in an effort here to wipe it out.
Now, I haven't mentioned any of the premiums yet, but you can see them, and you can learn what you um donate and what you get as a result, all of it with uh with photos and and illustrations of the premiums, as t-shirts, as golf shirts.
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Now, as I say, we combine other things.
Uh, the normal radio program with our efforts to beat the blood cancers.
And there is some news items out there that are somewhat interesting.
The Ayatollah hominy and some of the others in Iran are now doubling down on the fact that Obama is lying and John Kerry is lying about the Iranian nuke deal.
So we're going to touch on that as the program vote.
Mrs. Clinton is going to announce her presidential run very quietly, we are told, on Sunday.
And I think I've got a new slogan for Mrs. Clinton.
No surprises this time.
And you know, put a picture of Obama up there.
No surprises this time, but there's gonna be a surprise.
Martin O'Malley is going to announce in late May, I'm told.
And Elizabeth Warren is out now starting to sound critical of Mrs. Clinton.
Now, as for Mrs. Clinton, she's going to announce her campaign on Twitter and Facebook on social media.
She's going to do it in a very low-key way.
This is an effort to make Mrs. Clinton look hip.
This is an effort to uh attract the millennials and the youths of America who are assumed to get all of their news and all of their information via Twitter on portable mobile devices rather than watching uh television.
And one Democrat familiar with the campaign rollout said that Mrs. Clinton's announcement will feature visits, campaign stops and visits to people's homes in the early states.
And in the early days, I guess Mrs. Clinton really wants to find out what it's like to be dead broke.
Well, she said she would be dead broke.
She and Bill were dead broke when they left the White House, had to steal some furniture from the from the residents.
But that's part of it, and everybody's kind of buzzing here about the way she's going to roll this out with no big fanfare, no big uh announcement, you know, no marching bands and balloons and this kind of thing.
Do you know what Drudge is linked back to today?
We talked about this.
This is like two or three weeks ago.
Drudge has relinked, and of course I printed it out, that piece that ran in Time magazine that claims Mrs. Clinton is at the perfect age to lead because she post-menopausal.
Now, this is a woman that wrote the story.
Don't get mad at me.
This is a woman who wrote the story, a doctor or some kind of let me get her name, Judith somebody.
Well, I didn't put it in this stack.
But it's a female researcher.
Yeah, here it is.
It's uh Dr. Julia Holland.
Hillary perfect age to be president.
Forget politics.
She's biologically primed to be a leader.
This is one of the most sexist pieces.
You know the point of this piece is she post-menopausal, therefore no mood swings.
Those days are behind her.
No more menstrual cycle problems.
You know, it's always been men, sexist men who've been joking over the years.
You young people may not be aware of this, but I'll let you in on something.
Twenty years ago, 30 years ago, when the subject of a female president came up, all of these old, you know, these backwards troglodite guys, you can hear them running around making jokes.
Do you really want to be living in a country where the president is on her period for a will?
Can you imagine and the Russians do something crazy during that week?
Well, that's why this piece is.
You remember those days, Mr. Snurr.
Now, you don't, there's not a guy in the world who would dare say that if he thought he was being overheard today.
But I'm telling you, this is 20, 30 years ago.
This is kind of troglodite men-made jokes like that.
Apparently it's still viable because that's what this Time Magazine piece does.
That's not a concern with Mrs. Clinton.
It's a it's a it's an attempt to counter the fact that she's too old.
She could be 70.
Is that right?
70 when she's elected?
Close to it.
And so there are people.
That's a little bit too old.
Come on, do you really think?
So they're trying to No, no, no, Mrs. Clinton, ideal age, because she got all the potential female problems behind her.
And then they remember they put out a list of words.
The Clinton campaign told the media here the things you the words you cannot say, the words you can't.
Speaking of that, Hillary Clinton met privately with reporters ahead of her campaign launch.
She's expected to announce her intentions on Sunday.
Hillary Clinton's campaign team held an off the record dinner Thursday night in Washington for roughly two dozen journalists and staff members at John Podesta's house.
According to Michael Collerone of the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Said the dinner signals that the Clinton team trying to engage with top infobabes and reporters in the days before her expected announcement.
And it also suggests that the new campaign teams looking at change course from the toxic relationship with the press that plagued the 2008 race.
Podesta, the campaign chairman, a seasoned cook.
Oh, isn't this?
Yeah, they actually mean that.
He made pasta with walnut sauce for the dinner guests, which included reporters in the New York Times, a Washington Post, the Politico, the Wall Street Journal, EAP, and several major TV networks.
A Huffing and Puffington Post reporter attended the dinner, but did not discuss it.
So how about this?
The first official meeting is private and off the record with hand picked members of the press.
You know what this is.
This is Hillary laying down some markers with the media.
This is Hillary setting the tone, dictating the terms of her coverage.
And if you want to be on this inner circle, if you want to stay in this inner circle, you will keep your mouth shut.
You will not question what we spoon feed you, including Podesta's pasta.
You will not question it, and you'll report exactly what we say when we want it reported.
Otherwise, you're out.
That's what I think went on at this at this uh at this meeting.
And uh there's all kinds of other stories of people commenting and opining on this.
Uh some secret emails of the men who may run her campaign.
In fact, one of these stories is from Mother Jones, which is a far-left publication.
And Robbie Mook just took the hardest job in politics, saving the Clintons from themselves.
He's the new campaign manager, and and and Mother Jones kind of lets the bag out of the well, I don't know if they let the cat out of the bag, but toward the end of their story, they mentioned that he's the first openly gay campaign manager in American history.
Nobody apparently knew that, so they had to put it in the story, so that's obviously something that they all consider to be important at the Clement Clinton campaign.
And then there's this at the Washington Examiner, Warren, Elizabeth Warren, challenges Hillary.
I'd like to see her address all of these issues.
She was on CBS this morning, promoting her book.
A fighting chance.
What is this?
Elizabeth Warren is hawking a bo.
Isn't she rich enough?
Doesn't she have enough money?
And by the way, she didn't write that book.
What do you mean Elizabeth Warren has a book?
She didn't do that.
The publisher made that book possible.
And whoever had to cut down the trees made that book possible.
And wherever they got the ink, she couldn't have done that book without any of these people.
She didn't do that book.
Well, she's famous for saying people didn't start their own businesses.
They didn't build it.
Anyway, there's that.
Clorox is in trouble on Twitter.
Uh did I hear who Link?
No, I had not heard Link Chafee wants to.
Are you kidding me?
Lincoln Cheney from Road Chafey, Chiefy, Rhode Island, has formed a committee exploratory.
He's thinking about running against Hillary.
Wasn't his dad a Republican, a rhino?
Oh, that's right, he was too, until he switched.
Now he's becoming he wants to run against Hillary.
Well, see, that's why my slogan, no surprises this time.
Welcome back, my friends.
It's the 25th annual Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curathon, 25th annual.
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Now, in the first 24 years of our association with the lymphoma leukemia society and the Curathon, we have seen so many medical advancements in how doctors can battle these diseases.
Just think it's blood cancer, leukemia lymphoma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, all of this is blood cancer.
And just in the last 15 years, nearly 40% of the new anti-cancer drugs first approved for blood cancer patients are now being tested on patients with other forms of cancer.
Lung, prostate, breast cancer.
I believe I mentioned earlier that one of the great things that's happened in the research projects on the blood cancers is so many discoveries have been made that affect and uh create treatments for other forms of cancer, such as lung or prostate or breast cancer.
And there's so many new treatments that doctors can utilize that work to extend the lives of those who have been diagnosed with lymphoma leukemia.
And all of this happens, all of this has become a reality because of the contributions that you have made to the curaton.
They go toward research and treatment refinements.
And one of the great things that's happened as a result of your overwhelming generosity is that survival rates for many of the blood cancer diseases and for the patients have doubled and tripled, and in a in a few cases they've even quadrupled over a 50-year period of time.
Now, all these advances aside, cancer is still on the march.
And approximately every three minutes, somebody in this country is diagnosed with a blood cancer every three minutes.
And approximately every 10 minutes, someone dies.
Now, this statistic represents nearly 152 people a day, 18 during this program alone every day.
Even though the death rates have decreased since 2000, that one person that dies every 10 minutes means everything to somebody.
That one person is someone's spouse.
That one person is someone's child or parent or sibling, Or friend or co-worker.
That one person is not a stat to somebody.
Not a statistic to a lot of people.
For us, the EIB network, that one person was H.R. Kit Carson.
It's personal.
Yeah, the statistics are what they are.
But every diagnosis and every death is deeply personal.
You know, I thank God for the nurse from Beverly Hills, Florida called the end of the previous hour named Connie, who was telling us how she tells family members and friends to deal with patients, which is a yeoman piece of advice and effort.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Amberback Rush Limbaugh on the 25th anniversary of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curathon to wipe out the blood cancers.
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It's a little bittersweet.
Because on the one hand, what we're doing today is the essence of goodness.
On the other hand, we lost our chief of staff just this past January.
And by the way, this was Kit's baby.
He worked this all year.
It was Kit who stayed in contact, representing the program with all leukemia lymphoma society people.
It was it was Kit who organized much of the coordinating the date every year.
He worked uh tirelessly with the people from the society every year in collecting the data on uh advances in research and survivability.
Uh it was his baby.
He um it was like everything else at the beginning of the program.
This dropped into our lap, and he just adopted it and took it over.
He loved people, he loved getting to know new people.
He loved working with people, particularly on uh on successful projects, and this was one.
Now it's become personal.
That's the bittersweet side.
It claimed him.
And like I say, there's nothing anybody does to warrant deserving this disease.
There's nothing you eat, there's nothing you do, there's no behavior that's gonna make you more likely or you think you're just minding your own business one day, something doesn't feel right, you go to the doctor and bam, they hit you over the head with you've got blood cancer.
And honestly, for us, during the course of the 25 years, it always was a disease that affected others.
And that didn't mean we weren't aware of the tragedy, and we weren't aware of the devastation that results, but as you know, it's always different when it happens to you.
It just it's not it changes.
It it becomes even more important.
It for us, it justified all the work we've done.
It made our commitment to this even deeper.
And everybody involved, you talk about this this oncology nurse that called.
Uh Kit had some of the best nurses at Sloan Kettering in New York.
They actually cried uh when it was known that the disease was going to win.
And uh they just loved him.
Because throughout this treatment cycle he went through, he remained positive and upbeat.
Uh, and even especially in those moments when he was cognizant and uh and aware.
Last day that I saw him, Catherine and I flew up.
He was in a hospital at uh Memorial Sloan Kettering, and it was still football season.
The Patriots had a playoff game coming up, the Packers had a playoff game coming up, it was his team.
Uh, and we're talking about these things, and when it came time to leave, we'd been there a few hours, came time to leave.
He uh looked at us.
His kids had been in the room, his wife Teresa, and he said, This was a good day.
This was a good day.
Because he'd had everybody loves around him.
His family, her family was there.
And there he was, you know, with blood cancer and had a good day.
This was a good day.
And you tear up and you walk out of the room.
But we knew what he meant.
What he meant.
What he meant was that he was fortunate that he knew on that particular day, who everybody was when they were there.
Yeah, it had gotten deeply into his brain.
And uh it was downhill after that.
It's amazing how these things, timing-wise, work out.
But that's the point, folks.
It's bittersweet.
On the one hand, it's all good works, and it it's all well intentioned and supremely good motivated, and on the other hand, totally impacted personally by it.
Which just even though it may not have been necessary, it it helps me personally to understand what everybody going through this experiences and the fear, the unknown, the real, the desire for hope that everybody involved has.
Even up to the last minute, there is a never surrendering.
It's a constant hope that something is going to happen.
And it is servicing that hope that so many good things happen from the leukemia and lymphoma society of America.
It's not just medical research.
It's not just survivability and all the tangible things.
It is the experience they bring and can share helping everybody outside the patient, in addition to patient, but outside the family and friends and so forth, which is really a very important aspect of all this.
Such great work that they do, and it's brought home to us even more how important it is, and how wonderful all of you have been over the course of these 25 years.
877-37988 on the phone, Rushlimbaugh.com if you want to donate online.
Here is Scott in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Yeah, Kit touched my life and my dad's life too.
But the question I want to ask you earlier in the week, the beautiful Savannah Guthrie had interviewed Rand Paul.
Yeah.
And uh there's a whole bunch of pushback.
Everyone, the media was saying how mean he was to the beautiful Savannah.
My question is, will the media be as hard on Hillary and ask those tough questions like they asked uh Rand earlier this week.
No, no, no.
Great point.
That's exactly what this private lunch Hillary had with these reporters was all about.
She was laying out the ground rules.
You remember all these lunches and dinner's the media went to with Mitt Romney, right?
You don't?
Well, they didn't happen.
That's why you don't remember them.
Mrs. Clinton summons the people she thinks are going to be important in shaping coverage.
She summons them to lunch or dinner, whatever it was.
And I'm sure what happened was she spelled out for them the do's and the don'ts and what they're going to have to do and not do if they want to remain in good favor, if they want to remain on the leak list, if they want to remain in the inside.
I have no doubt.
This could be just the exact in fact, Rand Paul is still getting creamed.
Predictably so.
Rand Paul is still getting beat up over the way he mistreats.
He's got a problem with women journalists now.
And do we really want to elect somebody who has a problem with women journalists?
And I'm telling you, folks, all this is an attempt to shift from the race wars to shield Obama to now the gender wars to shield Hillary.
That's it in a nutshell, what is happening.
Mrs. Clinton and her incompetence, and let's be honest, she's not competent.
One of the things that has always, and I mean this as honestly as I can say it.
I have never been one of these dazzled, impressed, or afraid of Hillary Clinton.
Now, afraid I wouldn't like it if she got elected.
That would that would alarm me, but I don't mean it in that way.
I I run into people on our side who's scared to death of this woman.
I've never understood it.
Adults that are 65 and 70 years old, Republican consultants, they're scared to death of this woman.
I don't understand it.
I don't, I don't even understand what has she done that makes her so fearsome.
What has she done that qualifies her?
Everything she's done to me has been a giant botch.
Just as I knew enough about Obama two weeks before he's inaugurated to openly say I hope he fails, because I knew what he was going to do.
I knew his policies were.
I didn't want any of this that's happened to happen.
That's what I meant by hope he fails.
Well, with Mrs. Clinton, I know that she's not good.
She's not accomplished, she doesn't succeed at things.
She botched Hillary care when it was there on a platter for her.
She botched every project the Clinton administration gave her.
She botched Ben Ghazi, Secretary of State.
Do you know what the resume on that is?
You know what the selling point was?
She traveled.
She was the most traveled secretary.
So what?
What does that mean?
What is she the reset with the Russians?
What could somebody point to me the successes?
And this is not based on gender, isn't based on anything other than merit.
I just don't get the merit.
I don't get the automatic qualification for president.
I don't, well, I understand why in her mind and in some Democrats' minds, she deserves it and is owed it as a payback for making sure that her husband was not damaged during his president by staying with him.
I understand all that.
I understand she is deserved something that they owe her something.
But in terms of smartest woman in the world, imminently qualified to be, I just don't get it.
But in light of that, even in light of that, she's not going to get anywhere near the kind of examination that any Republican candidate's going to get.
Cookie, would you do me a favor?
We haven't played this in a long time.
Would you grab the screeching Hillary soundbite that we popularized?
This was back during the Bush administration.
And the Democrats were out dissenting on the Iraq war.
All of those who'd voted for it were out trying to pretend they hadn't voted for it, and Bush had lied to them, and she's out screaming, and some people had raised the question of patriotism and criticizing the commander-in-chief while at war, and she's somewhere and just started screaming, cackling about how dissent is patriotism and how she's not going to sit there and let other people tell her what she can't say and so forth.
It's out of control.
It wasn't measured.
It sounds wild.
It just and you throw all of these things together, and I've just never understood why it is a fate accomplished that she's qualified, that she could be, should be elected, and would somehow be okay to serve.
I've never understood it.
Now I know it's inside the beltway, it's the establishment this, the establishment that, but she's not going to get anywhere near the examination by the media that any Republican is going to get.
In fact, they're going to have to cover up for her.
You know, another soundbite that she's asked about Benghazi and the fact that four people died, and after a month or two had gone by her end.
What difference does it make now?
And that was an honest answer.
She's saying, what do you kill it happened?
Big deal.
All right.
What difference it made now, White Hat?
What difference does it make if I was in?
What difference does it make now?
That's an indication how impersonal and cold she is rather than sensitive and aware.
I just have never gotten it.
I have never understood it.
And I'll tell you this, even if you've if you've seen this yourself, you know it.
You've seen the stories where intimate friends of Hillary describe what she's like in private.
Oh, yeah, she loves to have a beer.
She has so much fun.
She likes throwing darts on the wall.
And they they paint this picture of an utterly harmless, fun, loving, actually hip kind of babe.
And the reason they do is because the public image is Nurse Ratchet.
Cold is exact cold.
Why do you think we came up with the whole mental picture of Hillary Clinton's testicle lockbox?
That was we.
That was us.
We did that.
To illustrate and to create a middle image of how Mrs. Clinton deals with men and keeps them in line.
And because of experience.
During her husband's presidency, we watched all this stuff in the aftermath.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
I'm a little bit long, but sit tight.
We'll be back.
I'm sure Cookie will have that sound bite here in a mere moment, so don't go away.
Here's the sound bite.
This is from uh 2003, April 28th, the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in uh in Hartford, Connecticut.
And this is Mrs. Clinton.
And remember now, all the Democrats have voted for the war in Iraq and they're trying to make people think they didn't, and they're dissenting against the very war they voted for.
And Hillary is tired of being called a hypocrite.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Now I'm telling you that's the real woman, that's the real Mrs. Clinton, and she sounds that way without ever having even been divorced.
Can you imagine?
It could have been pre-menopausal, I'm told, by another woman.
That's not me.
I don't know anything about those things.
It could have been pre-menopausal.
I don't care.
I'm not one of the excuses made here.
I mean, that's we hear Rand Paul is not present.
He loses his temper.
He he doesn't like female journals.
What the hell was that?
That was passion, Mr. Limbaugh.
That was passion.
She's talking about patriotism, something you wouldn't know anything about.
All right, right.
So rigged game it is.
Here's Mike in San Marcos, Scotty Fontaine.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How's it going, Rush?
Negadinos, dude.
Thank you very much.
It's great to have you here.
Okay.
Yeah, you know, I I'm not really sure what's going on here in the with the NFL.
And I I'm not sure that it's not just something particular with the San Diego team.
But uh the NFL wants us to believe that two NFL teams can share a stadium now.
And I'm I'm just wondering what you think about that.
That can be done.
That's done.
They can do it in New York.
The uh the Jets and the Giants share a stadium.
That's not, in fact, I think in LA, two teams are gonna have to share a stadium to help amortize the stadium, help pay for it.
Let's stand.
Cronkey builds a stand.
Cronkey owner of the Rams.
He could build a whole thing himself.
And there are nine different possible configurations of the NFL moving to LA.
And by that I mean could be the Chargers and Raiders at one location, could be the Rams and Chargers at another location, could be the Rams alone, could be the Chargers alone, could be the Raiders and the Chargers, the Raiders and the Rams, could be this nine different combinations here.
Now, the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, said at the most recent owners' meetings in Arizona that there will be two teams in LA next year.
He didn't commit, but he he said that's pretty good thinking.
Two teams in LA next year.
And there were some pieces.
Wait a minute, what do you mean, two teams?
Based on your theory, what are two teams sharing a stadium?
But uh the some of the some of the wizards of smart say gonna have to be.
I mean, if you're gonna have to use that stadium in order to make money out of it, or make money off of it, and so two teams is one of the requirements.
I think there's another reason the NFL is gonna put two teams out there.
Do you know the NFL is gonna charge whatever two teams move there a $500 million transfer fee?
You might think, well, they're gouging it.
No, they're not.
It it partly, but it's also to make sure that if you're gonna move there, you're gonna stay there.