El Rushbo's Living Will (EIB Superstar Makes Sure He's NOT Misunderstood When the Comes Alert)

RUSH: Back to the phones, and we'll go to Clarkston, Michigan. This Don. Welcome to the program, sir. Nice to have you with us.

CALLER: Yes, sir. Do you have an advance directive, sir, an advance medical directive?

CALLER: No, sir. I was just wondering because I think the only way we're ever going to solve this problem is if everybody has an AMD. I just don't see any other way to solve it. Everybody has to have one, otherwise people are going to continue to rely on the court system to decide life or death.

RUSH: Well, yes, true. But the medical community is going to be more and more involved as well, if those circumstances such as your advanced medical directive, your AMD or the living will is not in force. But, you know, I've learned a lot from this case. You know, I had a basic little living will before this case happened, but I have made changes. I've got one of these directives. But I got real specific with it. For example, anybody named as a beneficiary in my will who participates in the removal of a feeding tube gets cut out of the will. I have made it very plain. I am going to try to be in as much control over myself as I can before this circumstance, were it to happen to me, would happen to me. I'm not going to allow family members who for whatever reason -- I don't care if they're compassionate for me. It's so well defined, and as medical advance takes place before the time of my passage to eternity, I will update it to reflect those advances in medicine, because this is just too (interruption). What are you laughing at in there, Brian? "Before my passage to eternity?" Well, it's what I believe. This has just been too instructive for me. Megan, Kansas City, Missouri, you're next on the EIB Network.

CALLER: I have a comment on -- or I have an opinion, rather, on -- why Jesse Jackson is saying what he is saying and I think it has to do with because of his ethnicity and in the past having the three-fifths compromise and how people have viewed black people as three-fifths of a person, he might have a special interest.

RUSH: I think you've got a point. I think that's one of the reasons why the Congressional Black Caucus is concerned about this.

CALLER: I also have maybe an idea for the Democratic Party if they're considering these people less than people. If they can get a whole bunch of them together maybe they can do the three-fifths compromise again for the Democratic Party.

RUSH: (Laughing.) You never know. You know, this does touch a lot of nerves that people don't have the willingness to publicly express, like the Congressional Black Caucus. It comes as news to me that they hold this position. They've not been (interruption). Is that hard to find, Mr. Snerdley? No, I'm not surprised, but what I'm surprised is that nobody knows it. What I'm surprised is that the press is not trumpeting this. What I'm surprised is that the CBC and its leaders are not standing up and proclaiming their position on this. I mean, they have it within their group when they take their caucus votes and this sort of thing. But yeah, you know, when you go back and look at the history of slavery in the country, the founding of the country, black people were considered three-fifths of a person, talk about personhood being denied. So this has some chilling effects on certain members of our population. John in Pittsburgh, you're next and welcome to the program, sir. Hello.

CALLER: I listened to the sound bite, Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer in the last hour --

CALLER: -- and here's what I find really bizarre about this. When you point out to people who want to let Terri starve, by their own arguments she's not suffering at all. You say to them, "Well, she's in no pain. If she's not aware at all of her own existence then how exactly is it merciful to let her die?" They sort of shift the argument around, shift their position and say, "Well, it's not about her physical suffering really, it's about her dignity. She should be allowed to die with dignity." And here you have this smarmy, creepy lawyer, Felos –- a complete stranger to Terri, not even a medical person, by the way -- discussing her urine output at a press conference beamed around the globe to millions of people. I guess that's their definition of dying with dignity, though.

RUSH: (Laughing.) Well said, dying with dignity. Yeah, kidneys are beginning to fail. He's sending a signal to people who are informed as to how death will occur in this case, that it's getting closer. That's what he was doing. But don't leave out the fact that he paints this picture of her room with the flowers and the music. Of course, she doesn't know it. She's a vegetable. She's a nonperson. A little stuffed cat there, tabby cat in her arm. It's meant to be a picture of peace and serenity for us, and we will project and think, "Oh, wow, I would love to die with music playing and I would love to die with flowers around. I would love to die with a pet tabby cat animal in my arm. What a wonderful room! What a wonderful situation," and then it sort of argues against the fact she doesn't have any clue, according to what they're telling us. So this is, you know, none of this is being done for her. It's all being done to paint a picture so that people who go in the room can come out and tell us what they saw.

Well, since we subsidize farmers, ball teams, universities, Congressional junkets, Hillary and Bill Clinton's Secret Service protection, the salary of Nacy Pelosi and a host of other weirdos, etc. etc., I don't particularly care if my tax money goes to some people who are disabled and need feeding tubes.

I cannot begin to put into words the despair I have for my country and fellow citizens if I am to believe the polls.

Thug judges, crud laws, and dud legislators.

Michael Schiavo could have let her go to her parents and live his own life but he is such a control freak that he must control her to the very end by demanding that her feeding tube be pulled and allowing not one ounce of water to touch her parched lips.

I can just see him and his fiendish lawyer cracking open a bottle of champagne and toasting each other as Terri breathes her last labored breath of life.

I'm weary. The ghouls in black...next time they have someone place their hand on the Holy Bible to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God....I wonder if they are ready to do the same or have the men in black robes become so full of themselves that they do not answer to God, just us the lowly peons.

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