{"id":26120,"date":"2007-07-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:03","slug":"first_iphone_giveaway_winner_tom_l_of_north_platte_nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/03\/first_iphone_giveaway_winner_tom_l_of_north_platte_nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"First iPhone Giveaway Winner: Tom L. of North Platte, Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Let me remind you again what we\u2019re doing here with our iPhone giveaway. Today we\u2019re going to announce the first winner. We have ten iPhones. We\u2019re giving away one of them each day starting today. We\u2019ll take tomorrow off because it\u2019s the Fourth of July. We\u2019re running a best-of show. In fact, hang on a minute. I have just been sent the name of the first winner. Let me print it out. While waiting for the printer to belch out the name of the first winner, here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. We have ten iPhones, and you can register to win one simply by signing up for a free e-mail newsletter that we send every afternoon after the program. It\u2019s called Rush in a Hurry. It\u2019s a little tidbit, little summary of what happened on the program. It will give you a little flavor what the full updated website later in the afternoon will look like. There are some links in it that you can go to for stories that were covered or monologues delivered, and it\u2019s free. There\u2019s no obligation whatsoever. We\u2019re not going to give your e-mail address to solicitors. We\u2019re not going to use it for that purpose. We\u2019re doing this to highlight a feature of our website, which we\u2019re very proud of. We had 155,000 signups yesterday on this. If you\u2019ve already registered, don\u2019t do it again. You don\u2019t need to. If you registered long ago and if you\u2019re a registered subscriber of the free newsletter, Rush in a Hurry, you don\u2019t need to do anything else. You are as eligible as anybody who signed up yesterday. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/><a href=\"\/\/home\/newsletter.guest.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"100\"\/><\/a><\/line><BR\/>Now, we\u2019re giving away these iPhones. They\u2019re eight-gigabyte iPhones. However, they cost money to operate, obviously. We are a class act. We do not give away things that cause our winners to go out and have to spend money. So here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing. For everybody who wins an iPhone, we\u2019re buying you a two-year service contract with AT&amp;amp;T. We will send you a check, roughly $1500, that will cover the cost of a two-year contract, which is mandatory. You have to sign up for two years with AT&amp;amp;T when you get an iPhone. So you\u2019ll get the $1500 check, you\u2019ll get the iPhone, you\u2019re going to get a year subscription to Rush 24\/7, and if you\u2019re a current subscriber, we\u2019ll extend your subscription by a year so that you can make full use of the podcasting capacity of the site in conjunction with the phone. The phone works with iTunes and our podcasts of each day\u2019s show, which are available soon, like an hour after the program at the latest. If things are working right, podcast gets downloaded, get it at iTunes, download it to your iPhone or your iPod, in this case the iPhone, and it\u2019s all there. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>I finally got a chance to play with mine a little bit yesterday afternoon and last night, and everything I had heard about this &#8212; well, I\u2019d heard all the hype, and it is worth all the hype. But the one thing I heard bad about it was the phone aspect, &#8216;Ah, it\u2019s a lousy phone. It\u2019s not as good as other phones out there,\u2019 and of course it\u2019s got AT&amp;amp;T service, which is not the best. I have to tell you, now, this is just me, and just where I live, this is the best sounding phone I have. Now, I\u2019m deaf, and I wear a cochlear implant, but this phone, and I don\u2019t know why, but just the speaker in this phone, people sound clearer on this phone to me than any land line phone I\u2019ve got or any other kind of phone. I\u2019ve always got at least four bars of service, which is better than any other service I\u2019ve had down here other than Verizon. I\u2019m not going to tell you the worst, not into rapping people here, but some of them &#8212; (interruption) yeah, we live on an island. We don\u2019t have a cell tower on the island. We have to rely on cell service from across the intracoastal waterway. But for me it\u2019s been a delight, it\u2019s been fun to learn to use. We think that you will like it, too, if you happen to win one of these ten. <\/p>\n<p>Here I have it, right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. We\u2019re only going to mention last name initials, not full last names, but the first winner, Tom L. of North Platte, Nebraska, listening to us on the mighty KODY AM 1240. Tom may be hearing about this for the first time. We\u2019re trying to get a hold of him by e-mail as we speak. We\u2019ll have another winner on Thursday, and eight more after that for a total of ten. And again, there\u2019s no charge to this, it\u2019s a free newsletter that you register for, and that puts you in the pot, the drawing. You are immediately eligible whether you signed up a year ago for this or yesterday or today. Whoever the ten of you are that end up having one of these phones, you\u2019re going to really dig it. The hype about it is hard to believe. There are some things that are going to be different for you like the virtual keyboard is going to take some time for people to get used to, but that happens. I\u2019m typing with two thumbs now after only one day. The first day you start out hunt and peck with your index finger. I\u2019m two thumbs now, and you just keep typing, it knows when you make a mistake, gives you the choices of the words you meant to type, hit space bar, bam, uses the one you want, you keep going. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let me remind you again what we\u2019re doing here with our iPhone giveaway. Today we\u2019re going to announce the first winner. We have ten iPhones. We\u2019re giving away one of them each day starting today. We\u2019ll take tomorrow off because it\u2019s the Fourth of July. We\u2019re running a best-of show. 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