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“I have a little bit of understanding of something that had perplexed me for a lot of my life, and that was Lou Gehrig.
“On the day that Lou Gehrig announced that he had his disease that was forcing him to retire from Major League Baseball, he said to the sold-out Yankee Stadium, ‘Today I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the earth.’
“I didn’t understand that. I mean, here’s a guy who’d just been diagnosed with the most terminal of terminal diseases, and I said, ‘This can’t be real. He can’t really think he’s the luckiest guy in the world. This is just something that he’s saying because it will play well.’
“I don’t mean to be insulting Lou Gehrig; don’t misunderstand. I’m just saying, how in the world if you’re being honest can you feel like you’re the luckiest man on the face of the earth?”
“Well, when I got my diagnosis and when I began to receive all of the outpourings of love and affection from everywhere in my life from so many of you in so many ways and from my family — who, man, they have supported me my entire career. Even during times, it would have been understandable and easy for them to say, ‘Rush who? We don’t know this guy.’
“But that never happened. I mean, I’ve been totally supported by virtually everybody in my family. I’ve been propped up. I have been defended. I’ve been made to look better than I am. My lovely wife, Kathryn, has done so much in that regard. She has done so much with RushLimbaugh.com and with the charitable efforts that we have engaged in.
“And all of it has been to my benefit — and yours. It’s for the benefit of people who are the recipients of our efforts. So many people have put me first in all of this, and I understand now what Lou Gehrig meant, ’cause I certainly feel like that. I feel extremely fortunate and lucky.
“And because I have outlived the diagnosis, I’ve been able to receive and hear and process some of the most wonderful, nice things about me that I might not have ever heard had I not gotten sick. Again think, how many people who pass away never hear the eulogies, never hear the thank-yous? I’ve been very lucky, folks, in I can’t tell you how many ways.” //
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Rush made President Bigmouth Bill so angry that that mendacious montebank demanded 'equal time' to refute him. He ended the Congressional majorities Democrats had held since FDRs time. He skewered Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and every other pompous leftist bigmouth who was afflicting our country, including Republiclowns who were supposedly on our side. He stopped Clinton Care. He opposed that wretched Empty Suit (Obama) when almost everyone else was too scared about being called a racist to criticize his awful policies. He savaged Bigmouth Bill's hopelessly foolish and corrupt ex-wife for 30 years. He had insight. He had humor. His voice was ringing and powerful and what a treat it was when El Rushbo went on a verbal tear... the spoken word at its finest. He destroyed the liberal media monopoly and called out their lies at every turn with his mastery of a forgotten medium which he turned into a weapon of clarity and purpose. Rush never betrayed us little bugs who love him. He is a great man. My heart is filled with sadness that he is so ill. He has stood up for freedom in a way few others have.