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CHENEY:  Hello Rush.  This is Dick Cheney.  I\u2019m a big fan of your show, as you know, and I\u2019m sending good wishes to you as you mark your 20th year on the air.  This great achievement testifies to your hard work and to the high standard of excellence that\u2019s become your trademark.  You are without question one of the great names in broadcasting history.  I\u2019m proud to know you, proud to call you a friend, and I look forward to listening for many years to come.  Congratulations.  Keep up the great work.RUSH:  Ah, this is cool.  I just get goosebumps as I hear these accolades and these tributes.<\/p>\n

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BUCK: Hey, this is Joe Buck from Fox Sports calling to congratulate Rush. You know, they say you can really judge how a person truly is when the cameras and microphones are off. I can say hosting my own children\u2019s hospital golf event here in St. Louis, Rush, at his own expense, six years in a row paid for himself to fly in, he was a part of it, he was great to everybody involved. He is truly a genuinely good guy. And so I want to say congratulations to a guy who might be as sickly involved with the game of golf and as obsessed as I am. Here\u2019s to 20 more, man. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

RUSH: Joe Buck, Fox Sports, he\u2019s their number-one announcer for baseball and the National Football League. I got to know him through his dad, Jack Buck, who I admired tremendously. Thanks Joe, very, very much. Appreciate it.BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

THOMAS: Hi, Rush, this is your friend Clarence Thomas. Virginia and I congratulate you on your great, great career, and thank you for all you\u2019re doing and for giving us just such great information and entertainment and laughs and everything else. You\u2019ve been a great friend and a great patriot. We wish you many, many more years and we hopefully will see you soon and spend a lot more time together. Congratulations, my friend. Bye.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Wow, Justice Clarence Thomas. You know, he\u2019s become a very close friend, and he\u2019s one of these people I wish everybody could know him the way he is rather than the way he\u2019s constantly portrayed. He\u2019s one of the happiest, the most jovial, most intellectually engaged people. Since the Anita Hill stuff, I\u2019ve never seen him in a bad mood. I have never seen him less than jovial, and his wife Ginny, these are just two of the nicest people. I\u2019m honored to be able to count them among my friends.<\/p>\n

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WILLIAMS: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s America\u2019s Anchor… Uh, hang on a second. Well, anyway, it\u2019s the anchor of NBC Nightly News in New York. An interested listener, let\u2019s put it that way. It\u2019s Brian Williams, congratulating you on a great run. I know you\u2019re just getting warmed up. Go get \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was going to call himself America\u2019s Anchorman and he stopped himself, because he realized he\u2019s not. (laughter) Brian is another one of these guys people don\u2019t know about. He is hilarious in private. He is as funny as you can be. It\u2019s a shame that in the solemn world of the presentation of the news in the Drive-By Media, he does not get to demonstrate that.<\/p>\n

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HUTCH: Hey, Rush, how you doing? This is The Hutch. Just wanted to call and congratulate you on 20 years. That\u2019s come from the only true black friend you have. And don\u2019t even go down the road about Bo Snerdley. He works for you. You pay him. He has to smile at you. But I am the man who does it for free. Hey, bro, congratulations, and when I get my jet certification, I\u2019ll even fly your jet for free \u2019cause that\u2019s the only way we gonna hang out. Love you. Have another great 20 years, and I hope I\u2019m here to hear every one of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Hutch. I met The Hutch on a salmon fishing trip with Paul Westphal and Howard Slusher up at Vancouver Island and he\u2019s become a close friend, former linebacker of the National Football League for the Cowboys. He was a mike linebacker, by the way, the Dallas Cowboys, the Seattle Seahawks, and of course the San Diego Chargers.<\/p>\n

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STEYN: This is Mark Steyn. Congratulations, Rush, on a fabulous 20 years. But it\u2019s just the beginning. Take it from a foreigner: Queen Victoria was on the throne 64 years. You\u2019re just getting warmed up. Here\u2019s to the next 44. Congratulations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. That\u2019s an interesting perspective. Mark Steyn. The tributes and the accolades continue. I must say, at the beginning of the week I was rather embarrassed and a little tingly. (laughter) I\u2019m getting used to it now<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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