{"id":3695,"date":"2016-04-11T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-11T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:10:28","slug":"record_breaking_eib_network_cure_a_thon_raises_more_than_3_million_for_the_leukemia_lymphoma_society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/11\/record_breaking_eib_network_cure_a_thon_raises_more_than_3_million_for_the_leukemia_lymphoma_society\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking EIB Network Cure-A-Thon Raises More Than $3 Million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Before we get started with the election coverage and everything else that\u2019s gonna make up the content portion of the program today, an update on the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society radiothon that we did on Friday. I don\u2019t have the final numbers in yet. I think they\u2019re still being tallied, but it was another record amount donated. And, folks, it is phenomenal. Let me put this in perspective for you. <\/p>\n

The final number\u2019s gonna come somewhere north of $3 million, in our 26th year of doing this. That amount of money generated essentially in a three-hour radio program, but it wasn\u2019t three hours because we didn\u2019t go wall-to-wall content on the radiothon. I bet you, if I went and tabulated it, we probably spent 45 minutes total, because we did the rest of the program as well. And, of course, we had our obscene profit time-outs and local news breaks. It\u2019s even more phenomenal when you look at the — we had more donors this year than we did the previous year. We always make a note of that. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Per capita donations were up. And, as I said going into it on Friday, I\u2019m always anxious about this because we\u2019ve done this for so many years, and every year you in this audience triumph. You outdo yourselves from the previous year and there\u2019s so much appreciation for it that it\u2019s impossible to explain or properly thank you. But let me just try again, because it\u2019s overwhelming and all of us here are truly humbled by it. <\/p>\n

I remember when my first book came out, it was going gangbusters and it shocked everybody \u2019cause nobody knew who I was. Well, starting to, it was 1992. And the publisher had arranged a book party at 21. This is back in the days when the New York establishment, the elites, showed up at events I was going to be at \u2019cause they weren\u2019t yet aware of who I was. They were curious. “Who is this guy? Who is this guy that\u2019s never written a book before that is outselling some of our dream authors in their whole career?” So they come and they show up and they ask me how I\u2019m doing and what I think of it and so forth. <\/p>\n

This one guy from TIME magazine or Time-Life, maybe, maybe not particularly the magazine, came up to me. He was nice, but it was clear he thought he was talking down to someone, looking down his nose. He thought I was a pretender to the literary world and he said, “So, how does this make you feel?” <\/p>\n

And I said, “Humbled.” <\/p>\n

He looked at me with this crazy expression on his face. “Humbled? You have a book that\u2019s selling millions of copies and you\u2019re humbled?” <\/p>\n

I said, “Yeah.” <\/p>\n

“What do you mean, humbled?” He had no idea. <\/p>\n

I said, “I\u2019m humbled that I write a book and so many people would go out and buy it and read it.” <\/p>\n

“Humbled? You should be exalted. You should be strutting around here like you own the room, and you\u2019re humbled?” <\/p>\n

I said, “Yes, I\u2019m humbled.” And he didn\u2019t get it. And that should have been my first indication of the kind of people that make up that elite world in establishment circles. The idea of humility in a situation like that totally escaped the guy. He was a nice guy, from what I\u2019m told. He was not mean. He was not rude. He just had a different set of values. Humility to him was not a virtue. It was a weakness. <\/p>\n

Nora Ephron asked me the same thing once at a dinner party in New York. It was a dinner party where I was the circus act and didn\u2019t know it at the time. “Who is this?” It\u2019s like they\u2019re able to invite an exotic animal from the zoo to come to dinner. Oh, I can\u2019t wait to tell the stories of some of this stuff when some of these people pass away. You wouldn\u2019t believe the stories. One dinner party, I\u2019ll just give you an example. There were about 30 people there, and me and one other circus act. <\/p>\n

I had a handler, and the 28 people who were the normal attendees of these kind of things kept telling stories of how they\u2019d all slept with each other. I\u2019m sitting here listening and they\u2019re laughing and yukking it up and they\u2019re getting detailed and specific. They\u2019re married.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking after a while, you know, this is a put-on. They are seeing what they… They hope I\u2019ll go nuts, walk out of here in anger or whatever, \u2019cause I\u2019m a conservative animal from the zoo here. So they were just really laying it on, and they were talking about the drug use that they\u2019ve done. It was clear that they were trying to get a rise out of me. I didn\u2019t believe 90% of it, because at one point one of the esteemed guests — a former member of the Nixon administration — finally called a halt to it and said, “I\u2019m getting very nervous with this. <\/p>\n

\"large\"“I think we should stop.” And my handler, who they seated next to me, I jabbed him in the elbow and said, “See? I told you this whole thing is they\u2019re putting us on here.” Yeah, I couldn\u2019t be accepted to show up alone. They gave me a handler who was also conservative but that they knew. You know, like a lion tamer. Just like a lion. You invite the tamer, too. Anyway, I\u2019m humbled by what you all do here on our Cure-A-Thon. I really, really am. And so grateful for it, and I\u2019m so honored to be a part of it. So are all the people at Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.<\/line><\/p>\n

So, thank you once again from the bottom of our hearts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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