{"id":228245,"date":"2017-04-05T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=228245"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:45:36","slug":"they-banned-cigars-at-the-new-york-cigar-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/04\/05\/they-banned-cigars-at-the-new-york-cigar-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"They Banned Cigars at the New York Cigar Dinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So last night was the annual Night to Remember cigar dinner<\/a>. I\u2019ve attended every one of these for like 20 years, however many years it is. I only missed one, and that\u2019s because I had a weather departure delay here, couldn\u2019t leave here in time to get there. Other than that, every one. They\u2019re always held at the Four Seasons restaurant, 52nd and Park Avenue in the Seagram\u2019s building in Manhattan, except the Four Seasons restaurant\u2019s not there anymore.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s moving to a new location on 49th Street \u2019cause of a lease problem with the owner of the building who drove a hard bargain so Julian Niccolini and the gang at Four Seasons had to move. But the cigar dinner was in the same facility. It\u2019s just under new ownership and new operation. So I sneak into town once a year. ‘Cause I get audited. I haven\u2019t been to New York in years to work precisely because just to make a statement. These people audit me every year. I haven\u2019t lived there since 1997.<\/p>\n

\"\"Anyway, I don\u2019t want to sidetrack myself. I arrive just at the end of cocktail hour when everybody\u2019s moving into the dining room, \u2019cause I can\u2019t hear anybody at cocktail hour. It\u2019s pointless to try to talk in those circumstances. It\u2019s nothing but frustrating for me. So I time my arrival. So I land in New Jersey. I change cars twice on the way in to avoid the New York tax authority. And I\u2019m driving up to the building, I\u2019m a little early, so I told the driver, “Go around the block a couple times.”<\/p>\n

And in front of the building on the plaza, in front of the Seagram\u2019s building is a big white tent. I said, “What the heck is that?” It didn\u2019t register at first what it was. And then I saw a lot of people in the tent the next trip around the block. And I said, “Uh-oh. Don\u2019t tell me that\u2019s where the cigar thing is. Oh, no.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Well, surely that\u2019s just the cocktail hour. Surely we\u2019ll be able to smoke at the table, it\u2019s a cigar dinner.” No. I went to the first-ever cigar dinner that did not allow cigars. Unbelievable. Bill de Blasio. Actually, the guy that got this insanity started is Bloomberg. You can\u2019t smoke anywhere in that city legally outside — Central Park, nowhere. I guess they have little cigarette smoker huddles outside bars and stuff. There is the Grand Havana Club and some others, but these are not large enough for our cigar dinner.<\/p>\n

I mean, it was incredible. And this is the city that never sleeps, this is the city where anything goes. First-ever cigar dinner where cigars were not permitted. After dinner people had to go back out to the tent. I\u2019m sure they happily did so. I just couldn\u2019t get over the irony of it. I even made mention of this in my eagerly anticipated remarks. I had a lot of fun with it. It\u2019s like going to a wine tasting and they serve sparkling water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I mean, it was incredible. And this is the city that never sleeps, this is the city where anything goes. 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