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Specter on Rush Limbaugh show. He sounds pretty confident that there was filming in SB 36. Besides that, the guy seems like he's tough as nails and won't give up until Matty Walsh speaks.
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Specter on Rush Limbaugh show. He sounds pretty confident that there was filming in SB 36. Besides that, the guy seems like he's tough as nails and won't give up until Matty Walsh speaks.
Senator Specter on Battling Cancer
March 21, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We're gonna talk in a couple minutes with Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, about his new book. It's Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. Senator Specter, welcome to the program. It's nice to have you back with us here.
SEN. SPECTER: Rush, thank you very much for the invitation. It's a great pleasure to talk to you and your listeners. Thanks.
RUSH: The title of the book is Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate. You were battling more than cancer in the Senate. I've read the summary of the book. It's 11 to 14 pages here. It is incredibly detailed about the process you went through when you were diagnosed. It was lymph cancer. But that was not the first health crisis you had. You had a brain tumor, am I correct about that?
SEN. SPECTER: Rush, that's right. I had a brain tumor. The doctor gave me three to six weeks to live, once. I was really shocked, and I sort of blurted out in the chain of consciousness -- it happened back in June of '93 -- I said, "Oh, my. My wife and I were going to go away for the weekend to celebrate our anniversary," and the doctor looked at me and said, "Go, and have a good time," believe it or not, and I thought to myself, Rush, "This guy must be crazy." I said, "Give me my films. I'm going to see another doctor," and I had it removed, and it was benign, and I found out that you couldn't tell for sure until you took it out, froze it, sliced it down, and looked at it under a microscope. So that in telling people this story in my book, Never Give In, I want them to know they sometimes need to get a second opinion and not lose hope until they do so.
RUSH: What year was the brain tumor?
SEN. SPECTER: That was 1993.
RUSH: 1993.
SEN. SPECTER: Yup.
RUSH: And here we are 15 years later.
SEN. SPECTER: Yeah.
RUSH: You were given three to six weeks. When was the lymph cancer discovered?
SEN. SPECTER: It was discovered mid-February of 2005.
RUSH: 2005. Now, that was the same year that Peter Jennings was diagnosed with lung cancer.
SEN. SPECTER: That's right.
RUSH: And he was going through cancer treatment, chemotherapy at the same time you were.
SEN. SPECTER: Right.
RUSH: And I remember, Senator Specter, once he made his appearance announcing to his audience on World News Tonight that he had been diagnosed and that he was undergoing treatment. We didn't know at the time what stage his lung cancer was, but we knew he was going to be getting treatment for it, and he assured the audience he'd be in when he could, but we never saw him again. His disease was devastating. But during the period of time there were people, Ted Koppel, friends of his that would speak to him and somebody came out and quoted he had so much admiration for you because you were going through chemo at the same time, and you were at work every day, and he didn't understand how you could do it.
SEN. SPECTER: Well, Rush, I wrote him a note and told him that I was staying on the job and, as tough as it was to drag myself out of bed, I was doing it; I urged him to do the same thing. And he put on his website a thanks for notes that he'd gotten and mentioned me and said that he tried my approach, but he simply couldn't do it. So he had a tougher time. But I had written to him, and he was a courageous fellow.
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RUSH: Lot of football fans in this audience. Since the Super Bowl we've heard very little about this guy in Hawaii, Matt Walsh, that claims to have videotape of the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams walk through the Saturday before their Super Bowl. What's the status of that?
SEN. SPECTER: Well, the status of it is that there has been an exchange of correspondence between Walsh's lawyers and the NFL lawyers. I've seen the letters. Walsh's lawyer let me see them on a promise of confidentiality, and I believe an objective and fair reading of those letters is that the NFL is discouraging Walsh from coming forward.
RUSH: Really? Because their statements are just exact opposite.
SEN. SPECTER: Well, the NFL says they're trying to encourage them, and I issued the challenge to the commissioner a couple of Saturdays ago, and they put out a Sunday release that they were making substantial progress. Well, we've had almost two weeks since that Sunday release, and nothing has happened. I believe those... Listen, I think the NFL has a duty of integrity. They have an anti-trust exemption, which gives them a preferred position. They are role models. If you can cheat in the NFL, you can cheat in college or high school or sixth grade math test. I think ultimately, Rush, if we get enough fire under it, they're going to have to show those letters -- and when they do, they're going to have to change their tune and let Walsh testify, because those reports are looking pretty strong, but there was filming for the 2002 Super Bowl.
RUSH: Senator, ten seconds, enough time to thank you for your appearance here. Congratulations on your book. It's extremely well done, and congratulations on your recovery from the disease. Thank you very much for your time, today.
SEN. SPECTER: Great talking, Rush. Thank you.
RUSH: You bet.
END TRANSCRIPT
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SPECTER TO LIMBAUGH: “THERE WAS FILMING”
Posted by Mike Florio on March 21, 2008, 5:54 p.m.
Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) is promoting a book (which, frankly, should make reasonable people wonder even more about his motives for getting in the middle of the NFL’s business). And thus Senator Specter is doing the kinds of thinks that people who promote books do — he’s seeking out opportunities to talk about the book on radio programs.
On Friday, he appeared on Rush Limbaugh’s show. A full transcript of the interview is available at Limbaugh’s web site.
At the tail end of the interview, Limbaugh asked Specter about the status of the inquiry into the Patriots’ cheating scandal.
Here’s the exchange:
“RUSH: Lot of football fans in this audience. Since the Super Bowl we’ve heard very little about this guy in Hawaii, Matt Walsh, that claims to have videotape of the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams walk through the Saturday before their Super Bowl. What’s the status of that?
“SEN. SPECTER: Well, the status of it is that there has been an exchange of correspondence between Walsh’s lawyers and the NFL lawyers. I’ve seen the letters. Walsh’s lawyer let me see them on a promise of confidentiality, and I believe an objective and fair reading of those letters is that the NFL is discouraging Walsh from coming forward.
“RUSH: Really? Because their statements are just exact opposite.
“SEN. SPECTER: Well, the NFL says they’re trying to encourage them, and I issued the challenge to the commissioner a couple of Saturdays ago, and they put out a Sunday release that they were making substantial progress. Well, we’ve had almost two weeks since that Sunday release, and nothing has happened. I believe those. . . . Listen, I think the NFL has a duty of integrity. They have an anti-trust exemption, which gives them a preferred position. They are role models. If you can cheat in the NFL, you can cheat in college or high school or sixth grade math test. I think ultimately, Rush, if we get enough fire under it, they’re going to have to show those letters — and when they do, they’re going to have to change their tune and let Walsh testify, because those reports are looking pretty strong, but there was filming for the 2002 Super Bowl.”
Those last eight words are, in our view, the bombshell. Specter said on Limbaugh’s show, which is heard by millions throughout the country, that “there was filming for the 2002 Super Bowl.”
Was there? The Boston Herald reported that there was. The team has denied it. Walsh has said nothing.
Maybe Specter misspoke. Maybe he meant to say “that” instead of “but”.
Or maybe he didn’t.
Either way, it’s a bold claim from Specter, and it makes us even more anxious to hear what Walsh has to say. Because one way or the other this thing isn’t going away until we hear from Walsh.
