Rush Limbaugh
First EIB Radio Monologue Following Drug
Addiction Treatment
delivered 17 November
2003
"
All
right, ladies and gentlemen, I must tell you: I'm nervous. I have butterflies in
my stomach. I've been anticipating this moment since...last Wednesday afternoon."
"I spent five intense weeks, probably the most educational and informative five
weeks on myself and about me that I ever have spent, and I would have had no
idea how to do this myself."
"Now...I've thought back and forth how much of this to
talk about, and I am just going to feel my way along on this...There are some things, though, I do want to
tell you, and I think in the course of the coming days a number of the things
that I have learned about myself and a number of the things that I want to share
with you will just come out in the normal course of conversation and executing
broadcast excellence flawlessly, as I am known for and still habitually capable
of doing."
"I have to do what's best for me if I'm to succeed
at this. I can no longer anticipate what I think people want and try to give
that to them. I can no longer try to live my life by making other people happy.
I can no longer turn over the power of my feelings to anybody else, which is
what I have done a lot of my life...."
"Great to be back, folks, the EIB Network and El
Rushbo back after this."
