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RUSH: Folks, I have you tell you: I had a great time yesterday. It was the annual Ernie Els charitable outing at PGA National right up the road here. This is the fourth or fifth year for this. Ernie Els has an autistic child, and he began a charity called Els for Autism<\/a> and that\u2019s what this tournament does is raise money for it. His co-conspirator in this is a good friend of mine, Marvin Shanken, who is the publisher of Cigar Aficionado. As I mentioned before, it is one of the best and finest male lifestyle magazines that you will ever run across.<\/p>\n

It started out as devoted to cigars and the finer things in life that you can do with cigars (Lewinskys excluded). We would never… When I say “Marvin,” I say “we” because I\u2019ve been a devotee of Cigar Aficionado since its founding. I was the first human cover on Cigar Aficionado, not a caricature or a drawing. Marvin\u2019s a good friend. Of course there was a cigar fad because of Cigar Aficionado<\/a>, and like all fads, it leveled off, and Marvin adapted the magazine to include even more men\u2019s and male lifestyle aspects to it.<\/p>\n

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He did that while maintaining all the in-depth, best coverage of cigars there is anywhere in the world. He has maintained it, and it\u2019s a tough thing to do. I mean, who would have ever started a magazine about cigars in the first place? It\u2019s a beautiful, big four color magazine. This not some chintzy little newsletter-type thing, you know, with two or three pages on typewriter paper. This is a full-fledged, four color, fully advertised and supported magazine on cigars.<\/p>\n

Who would have ever thought it possible? It was his passion, along with wine. He also publishes The Wine Spectator. So I got to know Marvin 20 years ago now or whenever I got into the cigars. It was that long ago. I\u2019ve been a lot of places, done a lot of things and always played with Marvin in the Els for Autism tournament. He\u2019s a fun guy. His nickname is “The Shot Maker.” Rudy Giuliani was in our group. Our fourth yesterday was Rory McIlroy, number one in the world at 23 years old.<\/p>\n

He lives in Palm Beach Gardens and Monaco.<\/p>\n

I have to tell you, he was just great. He\u2019s 23 years old. I took him aside, and I told him. He was entirely humble. He was not distant, did not act like he didn\u2019t want to be there like some people in his situation do. I\u2019ve done that. There are plenty of places I don\u2019t want to be (chuckling) and I let people know when I\u2019m there. (interruption) What are you laughing at, Snerdley? (interruption) What do you mean, “No”? (interruption) Snerdley says, “It\u2019s not the kind of thing you should admit.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, it doesn\u2019t happen much because I\u2019ve reached a point in my life where I don\u2019t have to do what I don\u2019t want to do. Boy, folks, you do not know… Speaking of freedom, you do not know what kind of freedom that is to not have to do things you don\u2019t want to do. That\u2019s worth taking time to appreciate each and every day. But even at that, even at that, there are things I don\u2019t want to do that I have to do. Sometimes. Rarely. And I\u2019m just joking. I don\u2019t act like a bad guy, but a lot of people do.<\/p>\n

A lot of people, when they don\u2019t want to be someplace, act like it. They\u2019re off putting. They put out a vibe, “Don\u2019t approach me. I\u2019m here because I didn\u2019t have to be.” But Rory was a great. I took him aside and I said, “You\u2019re 23. I wish that I had had the worldliness and the level of maturity and knowledge how to deal with performance pressure and all that at age 23 that you do.” Now, he had a meltdown a couple of weeks ago on that course during the Honda Classic.<\/p>\n

He just got fed up with the way he was playing and walked off and had to do a press conference the next week down at Doral to explain, and he chalked it up to youth and all that. But it was entirely pleasurable. He hit… Folks, for you golfers out there, I think it was the 16th hole. It\u2019s a dogleg right second shot, for those of us long enough to make the second shot. I say “those of us.” Not everybody. He was in a trap. He was in a bunker probably 185 yards out.<\/p>\n

He took a club out (I didn\u2019t see what it was), puts it to within five feet, and got back in the car. I said, “What did you swing?” He said, “An 8-iron.” An 8-iron! Folks, your husband, when he goes out play, an 8-iron goes maybe 130 yards — and this guy who\u2019s five nine and 80 pounds, I\u2019ve got a picture of us standing together. You could see how we measure up. You know, I\u2019m big guy, but I\u2019m not tall. I\u2019m not massive big. I\u2019m an average-size guy. But for these guys, size doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Lauren Silberman<\/a> said after her failed NFL kick tryout: “It\u2019s not the length that matters. It\u2019s the technique.” But he was a great guy. It was fun to be with him. Most of the golf pros are. Most of the PGA Tour pros are. He was accommodating to everybody. We even had our own little mini-gallery following us around. The public was admitted but nobody showed up because nobody knew it was happening. It\u2019s a private event. But it\u2019s always a good time. It\u2019s always a fun time.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got comfort stations every three or four holes. You\u2019ve got the fine adult beverage manufacturers. You have the fine cigars every three or four holes, whatever you want. These guys are there exhibiting their products. They had Grey Goose Orange in giant, giant bottles that you can\u2019t buy, of course. They\u2019re not for sale. But it\u2019s always a great time, a great cause, Ernie Els and his autism charity. So that\u2019s where I was. That\u2019s what I was doing. Oh, folks, one other thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna make an observation; I hope you understand.<\/p>\n

To me, this was uplifting. I\u2019ve been out to this course, I\u2019ve been out to this tournament, I don\u2019t know how long, however many years it\u2019s been going on. It seems like five years, and it may be longer because time flies. I had more people come up to me yesterday than ever before thanking me for what I\u2019m doing, which tells me that there are… By the way, we\u2019ve got polling data to back this up. There are more and more people out there who are becoming high-information voters who are starting to figure something out, and they\u2019re not happy with what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to take a singular event like yesterday with more people than ever coming up to me, but I\u2019m just telling you: I think what it means is that there is a golden opportunity for somebody on the Republican side to pick up and score big with just a little leadership. People are hungering for it on our side. They are thirsting for it. (interruption) No, I\u2019m not gonna post the picture of me with McIlroy. I didn\u2019t get his permission to do that, and who knows what kind of hell would descend on him if that happened.<\/p>\n

No, these guys can\u2019t go political. In fact, he was leaving to do a Nike commercial after the tournament. He was speeding out of there to go do that. So, no. That picture will remain something in my private collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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