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April 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on a big day for all of us.
25th annual curathon for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society of America.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
One big exciting broadcast hour remains.
The number to be on the program is 800-282-2882.
But if you want to donate, and I always get, I don't know what the word is.
I don't tear up, but I get close to it.
I get overwhelmed.
I get really humbled.
Or awed, I guess, that's the word, because we are you, say you, we're all ahead in every category over where we were last year, and we have been since the program began.
And I have to tell you, I'm always surprised.
You never, you just never failed to come through, all of you in this audience.
And I don't take it negatively when I say I'm surprised.
25 years is a long time for anything.
And for you people to outdo yourselves every year, we're up in numbered donors.
We're up in total donations.
We're a little down in per donor donation, but that's okay.
In fact, that's actually good.
The point has always been that you don't have to give everything in the world.
You don't have to give a lot.
If everybody just ponied up a buck, we would set a charity record.
I mean, even bigger than the records that we've already set here.
And so it's all working just dramatically well.
And I find myself once again tongue-tied in my ability to say thanks and express gratitude.
But I'm going to find ways to do it as the program unfolds.
I have some more information to impart to you about the great work that they're doing at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society and all the research and the progress that's been made.
And I want to remind you again to donate on the phones 877-379-8888 or online at rushlimbaugh.com.
And at rushlimbaugh.com, you'll see all the premiums, the t-shirts, the caps, the golf shirts and stuff that we're offering for various levels of donation.
And I want to assure you that everything you donate and your name and address, everything that you fulfill as a donor is private, and you're not going to end up on a mailing list.
I want to shout that from the mountaintops.
Your name is not part of a list that then gets sold or shared with anybody.
You can trust the fact that donating at rushlimbaugh.com is not going to result in a whole bunch of other solicitations.
It's not going to result in one additional solicitation.
But I want to go through some of the things in the news out there, ladies and gentlemen, that deserve some comment today before the program ends.
I've alluded to this one a couple of times.
Clorox Bleach is in big trouble on Twitter.
Can you imagine why?
Is there anything in the news that might give you a clue as to why Clorox is in trouble on Twitter?
It all has to do with Apple's iOS 8.3 and 300 new emoji characters, emoticons.
On some of those new emoticons, if you hold your thumb or your finger on one of the faces, five different shades of racial skin emoji pop up.
In other words, they have added racial emoji.
They have dark, they have black, they have tan, they have light, they have olive, they have white, and they have blonde.
Not on all of them.
There now are lesbian emoji.
There are it's just two girls holding hands in skirts.
They've added gay emoji.
I don't know if they've done bisex.
I don't know how they would do that, but I'm sure somebody who knows says it's there.
But it's the racial emoticons that have been added that have gotten Clorox in trouble.
Well, now start to put two and two together.
Okay, you've got, on the one hand, you've got different racial shades, skin color of emoji emoticon.
On the other hand, you've got bleach.
Well, here's what Twitter is a Twitter because Clorox posted a tweet that they've had to apologize for.
Clorox apologized for a seemingly harmless tweet about emojis that sparked outrage on Twitter.
What Clorox basically did was say, without referencing anything else, where's the bleach?
Clorox tweeted, new emojis are all right, but where's the bleach?
And a lot of these literal idiots on Twitter thought that what Clorox was saying, well, these new racial emoji, we need to bleach them out.
All Clorox was saying, in addition to these new characters, emoticons, there's all kinds of things.
There's footballs, there's telephones, there's flags, different dollar and Euro signs, but there's no emoticon for bleach in the entire roster of emoji emoticons.
Clorox was simply asking, where's the bleach?
They just were asking why bleach wasn't included among the hundreds of other household items that Apple has added to the list of emoji.
But on social media, offense was taken.
One person named Nicole tweeted, you need to clean up your PR person.
Put some bleach on your distasteful marketing ideas.
Black emojis were added today.
Saying this implies you'd rather the emojis only be white by adding bleach.
Clorox was taken totally aback.
Clorox hadn't the slightest idea that anybody could react to their tweet that way.
But there's just, there's 10 or 15 people out here on Twitter that comprise the sewer.
And they are just, see, I knew you were going to bring up Michael Jackson.
So I knew you were going to just waiting for you to bring up Michael Jackson, bleach and all this stuff.
Now watch us hit.
Is there a Vitiligo emoticon?
That's what you really mean, right?
No, there's not a Michael Jackson emoticon.
Okay, moving on, University of Michigan is caved and will play American Sniper.
Now, we knew that yesterday.
What we didn't know is what they're going to offer as a replacement to students who were distressed and upset that American Sniper was going to actually be exhibited on campus.
Do you believe this, by the way?
University of Michigan Ann Arbor announced that they were not going to make the screening of the movie American Sniper available on campus because a lot of students are offended and upset by violence and the insult to Muslims.
Don't know how many, but it was a relative few, and they got the university, a bunch of PC pansies, to cancel it.
Well, this caused the new football coach Jim Harbaugh to also take to Twitter and say the football Wolverines are proud to watch American Sniper.
We are proud of America.
We are proud of Chris Kyle.
And if you don't like it, too bad.
This no doubt caused a nationwide reaction against the university's decision.
So they reversed themselves.
They're going to air the movie.
And it was met with outrage.
So the university says, I kid you not, Michigan University.
This is not some romper room preschool.
Michigan has said that they are going to also show Paddington Bear, a children's movie about a young bear from England in search of a new home that'll be shown to provide students with another option.
The students who'll be too traumatized to watch American Sniper are going to be able to watch Paddington Bear.
A children's movie about a young bear from England in search of it.
I just, and it was just yesterday we're talking about the free fall and what's happening to higher education.
The Ayatollah Hami, Hamini, Ali Hamini is his name, seemingly out of nowhere, said yesterday that Iran will not sign off on any final nuclear agreement unless military sites are declared off-limits to foreign inspectors.
Where do you think the nukes are going to be?
Also added is the requirement that the U.S. will have to drop all economic sanctions against Iran on the day the agreement is signed.
The State Department responded yesterday saying that it intends to gradually pull back sanctions in a phased manner upon verification that Iran has met specific commitments.
So here, look in a nutshell.
The Supreme Leader, the Ali, the Ayatollah Ali Homini, has announced that Iran will not agree to any deal that permits inspectors at military sites, which is insane since the Iranians will naturally put their weapon program on military sites.
The next story: State Department struggles to explain Rouani and the Ayatollah Hominy claims that the U.S. is lying about the facts of the Iran deal.
Again, in a nutshell on this story, the State Department spokeslack, this is not Marie Harth.
This is a guy named Rathke.
What is his name?
Jeff Rafke.
Maybe they put Marie Harth on the sideline for a while here.
I wouldn't blame him.
She's out there blaming Obama for all this mess.
So anyway, they got a new spokesman out there, and he has admitted that the this is big, folks.
He admitted, the State Department spokes flak admitted that the fact sheet John Kerry trumpeted and that the news media cheered was a total farce.
The Iranians didn't agree to any of it.
Obama's big announcement out there in the Bergdahl Garden, none of it was true.
The Iranians haven't agreed to any of it.
The State Department admitted this yesterday.
So the whole thing was nothing but a charade to hoodwink the Democrats in the Senate into thinking that Obama had hammered out a good deal so they would vote against the Corker-Menendez bill, which we said was the objective at the time.
And in fact, some senators, like Dianne Feinstein, were fooled.
Ms. Feinstein said the deal is better than they ever thought it would be, but there isn't a deal.
Not only is there not a deal, the Ayatollah Hominy is saying that Obama and everybody lied about the deal.
Our State Department pretty much confirms that.
The Ayatollah Hominy then said, and if you want a deal, we're not going to allow inspections in any of our military bases.
Who do you think we are?
And you've got to lift sanctions immediately.
We're getting snookered.
And it's exactly what I said yesterday.
Folks, don't doubt me on this, please.
It's just like Obamacare.
Barack Obama doesn't care about the details.
That's for minions to work out.
That's for time to work out.
The problems, he doesn't care.
All he cares is Obama got health care.
He wants the historical reference in the headline.
First president ever, after 50 years of trying, who did it?
Barack Obama got national medicine, socialized medicine, national health care, whatever.
The details, don't bother me with it.
Same thing, deal with Iran.
After all these years, and all these great presidents, supposed great presidents, who's the guy that finally got a deal with Iran and nukes?
Barack Hussein Obama.
What are the details?
It doesn't matter.
In fact, the details are not desired.
And that's what's going on here.
It's nothing more than Obama making legacy claims for history and so forth.
And I'm telling you, the details are irrelevant.
Here, grab soundbite number 12.
You know, Obama went down to Jamaica and he threw out a greeting to his choomgang buddies.
Where, grab number 11.
Snurdily perplexed when he looked at me on that.
You don't know what a choomgang greeting is?
Well, you want to hear it.
This is Obama.
He's in Jamaica, University of the West Indies.
And after he was announced, this is how he greeted the audience.
Greetings, Massive!
Wagwan, Jamaica!
Big up, Yui!
There you go.
That's a choom gang greeting.
Wagwan, Jamaica.
Big up, Yui.
People on the inside know what he's saying.
And here he is.
This next soundbite, this is yesterday afternoon in Kingston, Jamaica.
Once again, Obama talking about Cuba and his decision to normalize relations.
This is it in a nutshell.
We don't want to be imprisoned by the past.
When something doesn't work for 50 years, you don't just keep on doing it.
You try something new.
And we are as committed as ever to supporting human rights and political freedom in Cuba and around the world.
But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation.
And the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
And I also believe that this new beginning will be good for the United States and the entire hemisphere.
So here again, what he wants is all these great presidents.
We had Kennedy.
We had Johnson.
We had Nixon, Kissinger, not a president, but Secretary of State.
We had Jimmy Carter.
We had Ronaldus Magnus.
We had George H.W. Bush.
We had Bill Clinton.
We had George W. Bush.
And none of them were able to succeed with any of this.
They didn't get health care.
They didn't fix Iran.
And they didn't normalize the relationship with Cuba.
I, Barack Hussein Obama, did it.
Even though there's no change and maybe situations are being made worse by Obama, the news is going to be, and the historical reference is never going to be first president ever to get an agreement with Cuba, with Iran National Healthcare.
That's what he wants.
Details irrelevant.
In fact, Drudge has a headline: Raul Castro bullying Obama in person, bullying Obama, telling Obama what's going to be and what isn't going to be.
They're side by side in Raul Castro's defining terms.
But the problem with that is he's not bullying Obama per se.
He's bullying America.
Obama is letting him get away with bullying America because Obama doesn't.
He just wants the buzz, the PR.
He wants it's the first black president and therefore first president make a deal with Cuba.
First guy to solve Iran.
First guy, national health care.
This is the objective.
Do not doubt me.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the 25th.
I still can't believe that.
25th annual Leukemia Lymphoma Society Curathon, 877-379-8888 to donate on the phone.
And it's very simple online, rushlimbaugh.com, right there at the top of the homepage.
Everything you need to know, including all the great premiums that are available at various levels of contribution.
Better than I can describe them, they're right there at rushlimbaugh.com.
And you can also donate totally secure.
Now, the mission of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, obviously to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, myeloma, and to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.
They get no government funding.
Absolutely zero.
They rely on people like you.
Generosity of individuals and foundation and corporate contributions to advance the mission.
Now, you in this audience joining me in contributing more than $40 million in the past 24 years with actually less than one hour a year devoted to this.
By the time you take everything out, we probably spent an hour on this program.
It's an hour a year, $40 million.
There isn't an audience anywhere in media that's even close to you.
You help fund research that has brought hope, improved chance survival, improved quality of life for patients and families.
And there's not a cure, but there are advances in treatment that have expanded survivability rates, helping people, particularly children, to live longer.
There have been more birthdays celebrated.
There have been more anniversaries shared.
People's lives, even after contracting the disease, have had more joy, more time together with family because of your great efforts while the fight goes on.
25th annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Curathon.
Cure the blood cancers here on the EIB network at rushlimbaugh.com.
Easy to donate there.
By the way, we are, as I mentioned, we're up in every meaningful way.
We're up in number of donors.
We are up in total donations.
Last year was a record year.
And we're a little bit down in per capita, but that's cool.
That's fine.
That's actually ideal.
The more people donating, it doesn't require a lot.
That's, I mean, if everybody in this audience gave a dollar a buck, we would set a donation record.
Now, that's obviously not going to happen, but it illustrates the point.
And, you know, have you heard people say they want to make a difference?
Do something to make a difference?
This does.
This actually does.
And you know, the odds that you're going to run into somebody someday in your life if you donate to this cause, try to cure the blood cancers.
At some point, the odds are good you're going to know somebody somehow, maybe directly, indirectly, at a distance, you're going to know somebody affected by this disease.
And when that happens to you, it brings it all home.
The blood cancers are a little different because there's nothing you can do to avoid them.
They do not discriminate.
They are not, there isn't one group of people more susceptible to them than others, like there are in certain diseases.
There's nothing you can do in a preventative way.
I mean, don't eat that or don't drink that or keep your weight in control.
None of that matters.
If your number's up, your number's up.
And dealing with it, if you donate and if you help, you will make a difference.
You already have.
You are making a difference.
One of the ways is the patient services program.
Patient services program.
Now, this is not research.
This is nothing that leads to a cure.
But the society is all-inclusive.
The patient services program is designed to help patients on their journey.
And it offers a variety of programs, including every bit of information about the disease.
Patients want two things: they want the doctor to be entirely honest with them.
They want the nurse, everybody in the medical side, they want total honesty.
They want honesty from family members.
And they want hope.
Now, I know this now because I've been with people who have the disease.
Now, I know this from first-hand personal experience.
As far as Kit was concerned, he loved talking about it.
He was not, he didn't have the attitude, and I'm not going to talk about it.
I don't want to be negative.
He didn't mind, you had questions, he'd be glad to answer them.
No matter how deep, no matter how shallow, whatever the questions, if you want to know how he was dealing with it, what kind of thoughts he was having, what's he going through, he'd tell you.
Patients want honesty from everybody they're dealing with, and they also want hope.
They want to believe that there's hope that medical research is at a point where it can help them.
They want honesty combined with hope.
And it is this ongoing research and the patient services program that helps patients, helps families provide this hope.
It is a key element.
Nobody has made a direct correlation or direct link to a positive mental attitude and getting better.
But it can't hurt.
A positive mental attitude cannot hurt.
Whereas a defeatist attitude can hurt.
Defeatist attitude can lead to the patient not being vigilant.
And it can really sadden the family.
So patient services tries to keep everything realistically positive.
And even when the medical news is not what people want to hear, the hope is where that slack is picked up because everybody involved is hoping.
Maybe for a miracle, maybe for whatever it is, however they categorize it, they're hoping for dramatic improvement.
They're hoping for the disease's spread to stop.
They're hoping for anything that would constitute good news.
Because what they're ultimately hoping for is just a little more time.
Every patient and every family involved in this.
The honesty coupled with that is crucial.
And everybody who's been involved in this will tell you that those things are accurate.
And the more honesty, the better.
The Patient Services Program offers, in some cases, financial aid, family support groups, referral to other local community resources that offer assistance.
And all of that is free because of donations made by people like you and me.
The Information Resource Center stands out among health organization call centers because of the depth of individual attention that's offered.
This started in 1987.
More than 1 million callers have benefited from this.
It's staffed with master's level healthcare pros.
And their hours have been expanded now from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
This is the Information Resource Center.
Leukemia Lymphoma Society exists to fund cures and its advocacy and policy efforts committed to ensuring sustainable access to the best available treatments for all blood cancer patients.
Yeah, it's expensive.
Not everybody has the kind of insurance going to cover it all.
Everybody does their best to see to it that patients receive the best.
When you make a donation to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society at 877-379-8888 or at rushlimbaugh.com or on our Facebook page and yes, even our Twitter page for today.
When you make a donation, you are dedicating dollars toward funding blood cancer research and providing education and as I just said, patient services to people in need.
Thanks to your generous support, there are more tools now to deal with these cancers.
But the fight is ongoing and one way you can keep that fight going is by participating today, by sharing what you can.
The website is the easiest and quickest way that you can be involved.
And we're set up today to take donations at rushlimbaugh.com or you can call 877-379-8888.
And I want to remind you that if you, no matter you call or go online, your information, personal data is secure and will not end up on a mailing list.
You will not be hounded by anybody as a result of participating today.
Here's Mike in Wilmot, Wisconsin.
Thank you for calling, sir.
It's great to have him.
Glad you waited.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Great.
Thank you, sir.
I've got a story I wanted to share with you and your listeners.
Last year on July 11th, my 10-month-old grandson was diagnosed with acute monoblastic leukemia.
10 months?
What were the symptoms?
Why would anybody even look for that?
Well, he wasn't feeling well.
We thought he had the flu.
We took him to his pediatrician, and they took a blood test.
And that same day, they shot him up to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
And surely enough, that's what he was diagnosed with.
And Went through four bouts of chemotherapy, spent eight months in the hospital, ended up having a bone marrow transplant that came from umbilical cord stem cells, and just got his 100-day workup, and he is disease-free.
100% of his bone marrow is donor bone marrow.
And 10 years ago, the stem cells from umbilical cords wasn't even available.
So I just want to encourage all your listeners to you know, I am glad you mentioned that because I neglected to mention the bone marrow transplant.
That research has provided more weaponry, more ammunition for other cancers in addition to the blood cancers.
The bone marrow transfusions or infusion, the transplants have just been phenomenal in fighting this disease.
And you mentioned the embryonic or the umbilical cord stem cells.
They are not embryonic.
That is a significant difference.
The cord stem cells are a major, major difference as opposed to embryonic.
And they are proving miraculous.
But in addition to Glevec, you are absolutely right.
The bone marrow transfers or I'm having a mental block.
Transplants are just phenomenal.
They're in some cases, they're miraculous, like in the case of your son.
But that, at 10 months, what in the world did you think?
What were you feeling?
At 10 months?
I mean, if you go from thinking maybe it's the flu to some sort of early pediatric fatigue to leukemia.
Devastating.
Devastating for the family.
A 10-month old baby, it was a nightmare.
But the research works, man.
And I just want to encourage all your listeners to dig deep because it's doing great things.
10-month baby.
I mean, that's the essence of innocence.
I mean, everybody is, but a 10-month baby.
Your baby had no idea.
At what age did your baby actually find out what all had happened?
Or has he yet?
This is actually my grandson.
Oh, your grandson.
Yes.
And, you know, he's oblivious to the fact.
He thinks this is normal for him.
But his young parents, my son and my daughter-in-law, just lived through hell.
And I tell you, if it wouldn't have been for the umbilical stem cells, our little guy might not be with us today.
Yeah, that's its own story.
It's not embryonic.
That was a big cultural dispute and fighting ground.
But the cord cells, that's a different matter.
And there's magic in there, as well as the bone marrow transplants.
I'm so glad you reminded me of that.
Mike, I appreciate it.
I got to take a quick time out.
But before I go, again, the telephone number is 877-379-8888.
And of course, rushlimborg.com, right at the top of the page.
By the way, the website remains open for donations after the program ends, as does that phone number.
877-379-8888.
If you haven't been able during the course of the program or you're still pondering it, you have time throughout the rest of the day and maybe into the weekend even.
Here's Isaiah in Aurora Grande, California.
He's 13 years old and is a proud, happy reader of the Rush Revere series.
Hello, Isaiah.
Hi.
I'm so glad to finally talk to you.
Thank you very much.
You're waiting a long time, huh?
Yeah.
Yes.
I really liked the third book.
I liked it the most out of the series, but they're all really great.
And my brother's fifth grade class recently got a fun performed a fundraiser to get 30 copies of the third book to read for their social studies.
A fundraiser got 30 copies of the book for the class?
Yeah.
No kidding.
That is just, that's incredible.
What do you like about the third book better than the other?
I know you like the other two.
I heard that.
But what do you like best about the third one?
Well, I'm just like, I really, I'm really interested in the American Revolution and what went on and stuff.
And it was very informative compared to a more biased view from different perspectives.
Yeah.
13 years old here.
Future of America right here on the EIB network.
Isaiah, that's great.
I can't.
I appreciate it very much.
In fact, hang on here.
Is it your school or your class that you say got the 30 copies of the book?
My brother's class.
His brother's class.
But we're hoping that other classes will be able to get them too.
Okay.
Well, look, hang on here.
So Mr. Snerdley, get your name and as we'll send some other things out there as well.
I'm going to send the audio versions on CD of me reading all three copies.
You'll particularly like the third one because it too is the best, in my own estimation.
So hang on, Isaiah.
Don't go away.
Folks, we're down to the last couple of minutes here of active mentions of the 25th annual Leukemia Lymphoma Society curathon.
And I want to thank you all again for indulging.
I know not all of you donate.
And I can imagine that not all of you are comfortable hearing about this.
These are tragic stories, tragic events, tragic things that we're discussing today.
Some of you may not want to subject yourselves to it, but you do.
And you allow us, you indulge us to spend one day, one program a year devoted to this effort.
And your patience is appreciated greatly.
I want you to understand that I'm totally aware of a big news day like this and the desire you have to hear whatever is happening, what we think of it, and so forth.
And yet your patience is profoundly appreciated in allowing us to take time to try to further the research and the effort to find a cure.
It's real life here that we're talking about.
It's not theoretical.
And it's killer diseases that everybody involved is trying to arrest.
And to everybody, not just those of you who've donated and continue to donate, but to all of you who are here and participating just by listening, being part of it, your awareness being raised, you are going to encounter at some point in your life, if you haven't already, somebody who contracts this disease, and it's going to take on a very deep and personal meaning too.
It's going to change your perception of things.
All of you, every day in this audience, we have a great respect and profound appreciation for, and today especially, and I just personally thank you for everything that you've done.
We've exceeded last year in every meaningful way, which continues to just humble me and awe me.
One more time, 877-379-8888 on the phone, rushlimbaugh.com on the web.
Okay, the website will be taking donations for leukemia and lymphoma all weekend, as will the telephone number be active for most of the weekend.
877-379-8888.
Once again, the bottom of our hearts here, thank you all very much.
I hope you have a great weekend, and we will be back on Monday.
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