{"id":214524,"date":"2016-09-28T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/28\/my_weird_memory_of_shimon_peres\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T18:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T22:13:05","slug":"my_weird_memory_of_shimon_peres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/28\/my_weird_memory_of_shimon_peres\/","title":{"rendered":"My Weird Memory of Shimon Peres"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Oh, I see where Shimon Peres has passed away. I met Shimon Peres on my trip to Israel in 1993. I was there for five days, well, actually six days, and it was the equivalent of a college semester in terms of what I learned. But that guy, it was weird. It was weird. Well, we show up. I had an entourage. I didn\u2019t figure out until afterward that he had been told the left-wing version of who I am. ‘Cause it didn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n

He started ragging on Reagan. He started taunting me, taunting me about Reagan, and he was making comments about people destroying trees, which was an early allusion to climate change, and he kept undoing his belt. We\u2019re sitting there, the meeting started out with 20 people in the room and then about 15 left, it was five of us and him. He kept undoing his belt and reattaching his belt, while seated. I didn\u2019t look around. I noticed it. Didn\u2019t comment on it.<\/line><\/p>\n

I think the whole visit was a tease based on who he had been told I was. They probably told him I was Netanyahu\u2019s illegitimate son or something. It was strange. When we were meeting with him in his office, while we were just getting up to leave his office, a car alarm — and this is a very secure set of offices where the prime minister was. Rabin was the prime minister at the time. Yitzhak Rabin, pronounced “robin” there, and a car alarm starts, and they hustled us away until they got that straightened out, then we left.<\/p>\n

Later in the day our group is over at the Knesset and we\u2019re leaving the Knesset — oh, I\u2019m leaving something out. We were told when we were leaving that it was Shimon Peres\u2019s car that the alarm had gone off. Okay, big deal. When we were leaving the Knesset later the same day, five o\u2019clock in the afternoon, Shimon Peres walks in. And one guy traveling with me walked up to him, “Hey, buddy, did you get your car alarm fixed?” And I said, “Oh, my God, don\u2019t do this to me.”<\/p>\n

And Peres looked at him and just said, “Apparently, you are more informed than I. I have no idea what you\u2019re referring to, buddy.” I said, “Oh, my God, oh, gee.” And we hightailed it. It\u2019s now one of the funny talking points of the trip. And ragging on the trees, provoking Reagan and undoing belt buckle. And there was serious discussion at the same time. I mean, the whole meeting wasn\u2019t that.<\/p>\n