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<\/p>\nRUSH: What a week. What an incredible week. I mean, from beginning to end. And it\u2019s still going. And there is still winning that\u2019s happening today. Just incredible. And I\u2019m gonna tell you something, folks. One of the things I\u2019m gratified about — you know, I don\u2019t like to brag, and I don\u2019t like to say, “notice me.”<\/p>\n
But everything happening to the Democrat Party today, if you go back and you look at excerpts of the award-winning broadcast, go to RushLimbaugh.com, you\u2019ll find that I predicted this implosion of the Democrat Party. And that\u2019s exactly what it is. I mean, you got people writing, “Well, what happened to the Democrats this week is unserious.” It\u2019s worse than unserious.<\/p>\n
What happened to the Democrat Party is that they have lost their entire moral foundation. Excuse me. I\u2019ve gotta a cold coming on here, and I\u2019m not gonna worry about hitting the cough switch as often, so just bear with me here. I mean, they have lost their entire moral foundation, and they lost it four years ago.<\/p>\n
This is what happens, let this be a lesson to you, folks, in your personal life, this is what happens when you become consumed with hatred. Hatred is a poison. It destroys you because hatred can never be requited, hatred can never be rewarded, hatred can never make you happy. Hatred means you\u2019re requiring something painful or bad to happen to other people. And that\u2019s just not the way to happiness. That\u2019s not the route to success of any kind. And it\u2019s where the Democrat Party is. And I\u2019ll break this down, and I\u2019ll explain it in great, great detail as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n
The telephone number, if you want to be with us today is 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n
So the last time I was here and we were together was Monday. And I have to tell you, it feels like it\u2019s been two weeks with everything that has happened since then. But it hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s just been one week. And the last thing that I did on Monday was inform all of you of a medical diagnosis, advanced lung cancer. And I told you Monday that I really wished that I could not announce it, because I don\u2019t like making things about me.<\/p>\n
And I promised you that I was not going to live every aspect of this on the air. Millions of you have been through it. It\u2019s nothing that millions of Americans aren\u2019t experiencing or haven\u2019t experienced. So you don\u2019t need me sharing all of the details with you. And I wouldn\u2019t want to do it anyway because there\u2019s a lot of factors involved, including privacy and distraction.<\/p>\n
And, by the way, folks, I\u2019m gonna be hopscotching through much of this first hour as thoughts erupt in my fertile gray cells. I don\u2019t have anything written here. I don\u2019t have any monologue scripted. I haven\u2019t made any notes to make sure that I don\u2019t forget anything because I\u2019m not worried about forgetting anything. I\u2019m very confident that I\u2019m gonna get everything said here today that I want to say.<\/p>\n
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Despite living in the public eye, I really am a private person for just a host of reasons, most of which that\u2019s just who I am. I want whatever I\u2019m known for to speak for itself during these three hours and some other things. I\u2019m not interested in being in the news all the time, for whatever reason. Of course, I can\u2019t help it, I am in the news all the time. But it\u2019s not something I seek.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, it has been one of the biggest blessings — you know, I understand now what Lou Gehrig, when he was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s, he\u2019s announcing his retirement. This is after he has been the Iron Man, played in all these consecutive games, the record wasn\u2019t broken until Cal Ripken Jr. came along.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s standing at home plate at Yankee Stadium, and he said, after having announced, the world knew, that he had ALS, everybody knew what it was, that it was fatal and there was no chance of recovery, and there still isn\u2019t, by the way. And Lou Gehrig said, “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on earth.” I\u2019ve seen that black and white film replayed numerous times in my life.<\/p>\n
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And, don\u2019t misunderstand, I know he meant it. But the first two or three times I heard it I had trouble processing. How in the world can anybody feel lucky after having been told that you have a disease from which there is no recovery and that it\u2019s fast? And there was a part of me that said, “Okay. This is something that famous people are supposed to say. He\u2019s been very successful in life. He was uniquely talented to play baseball and all that.” And I thought, “Okay. Clearly there is a portion of Lou Gehrig that thinks he has to say this.”<\/p>\n
And now I know that\u2019s all wrong. Now I know that there was nothing forced or phony or public-relations-related about it because I feel the same way. I cannot thank all of the people that I have heard from since Monday, and they are still getting a hold of me. There are people I had no idea they knew how to get a hold of me. And the sentiments, the thoughts they\u2019re expressing are just incredibly nice and supportive.<\/p>\n
And to have this kind of support and to know it, to be fully aware of it, yeah, it does make me one of the luckiest people alive. I\u2019m trying to respond to everybody. I haven\u2019t even made a dent in it. I haven\u2019t had a whole lot of time to, but I\u2019m going to try. Some people have written three or four times.<\/p>\n
And other people are suggesting, “Hey, I know this treatment, I know this hospital, I know this treatment place. You need to call.” I thank you for all of that. I am just inundated with so much love and support, more than I ever knew. And it\u2019s really true, when I sit here, think about how lucky I am that all of this has happened to me.<\/p>\n
Now, I know many of you want to know the story of the State of the Union address on Tuesday night and how that all happened, and someday I hope to be able to tell you the entire story. I can\u2019t tell you the entire story now without divulging medical details that I, frankly, don\u2019t want to give. I don\u2019t want to give people an opportunity to start investigating and writing about and pronouncing opinions and this kind of thing. People know enough about what I have.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s late stage. It\u2019s advanced lung cancer. But there\u2019s good news associated with the diagnosis and the treatment. So we are where I am to have the first procedure that will set up the beginning of treatment. This is Tuesday, and it is scheduled for 5 o\u2019clock in the afternoon. We took no clothes, Kathryn and I. We just… We went Grub City with shorts, T-shirts. I mean, the whole week\u2019s gonna be in the hospital.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no reason to take a coat and tie. There\u2019s no reason to pack a whole bunch of stuff that you\u2019re never gonna use. “Light” was the byword. The procedure was gonna be 5 o\u2019clock in the afternoon. I\u2019d have to show up for it at 12 noon to do the prep, talk to the doctors and so forth. At 9 a.m., the phone rings. I\u2019ve got the number in my address book. So it\u2019s the White House. I answered the phone, and they said, “Can you hold for President Trump?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Yes.”<\/p>\n
“Rush! Rush! How you doing, Buddy? Great to hear from you! Hey, look, what are you doing later today?”<\/p>\n
I said, “Well, I have a serious medical procedure that\u2019s gonna start — all this — at 5 o\u2019clock.”<\/p>\n
“Well, look, what\u2019s the doctor\u2019s name? I want to call him and have him delay it for a couple days \u2019cause I need you down here tonight.”<\/p>\n
I said (chuckles), “Uh… (chuckles) Mr. President, um… I\u2019m stunned.”<\/p>\n
He said, “Look, your health comes first; there\u2019s no question. But can\u2019t they just do half of what they\u2019re gonna do and then send you down here? Believe me, you don\u2019t want to miss this. It\u2019s gonna be great. It\u2019s gonna be great. You don\u2019t want to miss this.”<\/p>\n
Well, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s up. He told me he wanted me to be his guest at the State of the Union, that he was gonna mention my name, recognize me. I hung up the phone and for the next hour and a half, I agonized — I literally agonized — over what to do. Kathryn and I are both sitting in the hotel room. As time is marching on, we\u2019re faced with the possibility of having to ask an entire medical team to broom their schedule and reschedule to accommodate this.<\/p>\n
But we haven\u2019t told \u2019em yet. We\u2019re discussing the logistics. Now, there\u2019s something else. Earlier that day, I had sent EIB One to take my nieces from New York to Cape Girardeau, and it wasn\u2019t gonna be available to me until 4:30 in the afternoon. So I\u2019m putting that in the equation. I mean, there\u2019s no way to even get there even if I want to, unless we charter. We could do that. But no clothes, no shirt, no tie, no socks, no dress shoes.<\/p>\n
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Zip, zero, nada.<\/p>\n
Kathryn\u2019s saying, “You\u2019ve got to do this! You can\u2019t not do this.”<\/p>\n
I said, “How are we gonna do it?”<\/p>\n
She said, “Leave it to me.”<\/p>\n
An hour and a half later, I called the president back and tried to tell him no. Remember, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen. I have no idea. I just… He\u2019s told me, by the way… I should say, he has told me that he\u2019s gonna present me with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but a couple weeks from now in the Oval Office. I had no idea at this particular time on Tuesday morning that this was gonna happen at the State of the Union, and he didn\u2019t tell me during all these phone calls.<\/p>\n
So, I called him back around 10:30, intending to be as persuasive as I could, to thank him and just say that there was too much here to overcome to get down there, including the medical schedule. The doctors and everything have been scheduled. This story, if I could tell it — and someday, I\u2019m gonna be able to give you every detail here. But for people that do not know Donald Trump, this story will explain him, his essence, his attitude toward life.<\/p>\n
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There simply is nothing you can\u2019t do. There\u2019s nothing that can\u2019t be done, and there\u2019s not a single obstacle that can\u2019t be dealt with — and it\u2019s not even hard. It\u2019s not even… He didn\u2019t have to stop and think for a moment about this. Now, granted he\u2019s got presidential power. If he wants to clear us into Reagan National, if he wants to send a car for us and get us from the airport to the White House, he can do all of that — and he did, and he was willing.<\/p>\n
But the fact was that this is what he wanted, but not for him, you see? It was for me, and he wasn\u2019t going to let me talk myself out of it. Part of me is not wanting to create any problems for him. I mean, he\u2019s got so many more important things to do than deal with logistics, and I told him. He said, “You think I\u2019m gonna do it? I\u2019ve got people here! What do you mean? I\u2019m gonna call a guy here; in an hour, all this will be done. All you gotta do is find a way to get the clothes.”<\/p>\n
So Kathryn… (chuckling) This was amazing too. Kathryn got in gear and (again, without divulging too much), we went and met the doctor. We kept the appointment at noon to discuss what was gonna happen. We signed the papers, get as much of the procedure out of the way as we could, and then tell the doctor, “Hey, I have been summoned to Washington. Can this be moved to tomorrow?”<\/p>\n
“Sure! It\u2019s not a problem. In fact, show up at 5:30 tomorrow morning before anybody else gets here. We\u2019ll get it started; we\u2019ll get it rolling.” Everybody was just as cooperative and helpful as they could be. We get back from the meeting with the doctors in about two hours, and in our hotel room is 15 sport coats of different sizes, four or five different ties, a bunch of shirts of different sizes, and all I had to do was try on various things and find an outfit that fit. I did have…<\/p>\n
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I take it back. I did have a pair of slacks \u2019cause it was cold where we went; so I wasn\u2019t wearing slacks and shorts, wasn\u2019t able to. But I did wear slacks. The slacks come from the suit. We were even looking at sending the plane down to Florida to get my suit and a tie, but I couldn\u2019t because it was on the way to Missouri. So, anyway, Kathryn had arranged for a bunch of stuff to be delivered from local retail outlets, including for her.<\/p>\n
She had nothing, either, nothing that would be suitable for the House Chamber. (interruption) Pardon me? (interruption) Yeah, it was stuff off the rack. What are you gonna do? There was no time for a tailor. There\u2019s no time for a seamstress. Yeah. That\u2019s why there were 15 different sport coats, Mr. Snerdley. That\u2019s why there are four or five different shirts with different neck sizes, sleeve lengths.<\/p>\n
I told \u2019em what I wear, but you never know from manufacturer to manufacturer, brand to brand. Nothing\u2019s consistent in clothes. There was only one of the whatever it was, 10 or 15 — only one that fit. There was only one that I could button. The sleeve length was perfect but only one that I could button. (interruption) What do you mean? You\u2019re used to what “over here on the other side of the glass”? (interruption) Oh, you\u2019re used to off the rack?<\/p>\n
Look, I don\u2019t have a tailor either! What, you think I have somebody who makes me suits? When\u2019s the last time you saw me in a suit? It was in December and that\u2019s an off-the-rack suit. I haven\u2019t bought a suit in 10 years \u2019cause I don\u2019t like clothes shopping precisely because nothing does fit off the rack. I got better things to do than sit there and be measured three or four times to get it right.<\/p>\n
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What was somewhat miraculous about this is that Kathryn got enough delivered that something worked. When I saw the ties, I said, “These are the dullest ties. I don\u2019t wear invisible ties like these!” They said, “I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry, but this is how they interpreted what you said you want.” It turned out to be perfect! The tie turned out to be the perfect color for what was to come later. Anyway, I gotta take a break.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s still a lot to this story, and there\u2019s more than I can tell you today about Donald Trump and who he is and why he\u2019s unbeatable, folks. He\u2019s indomitable. These clowns, the Democrats, still have no idea what they\u2019re up against. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea. There\u2019s nobody — there is nobody in the Democrat Party, there\u2019s nobody in American politics — that even comes close to the personality and the overall attitude towards life of Donald Trump. Incredible.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, look in this story, we\u2019re not even at the White House yet. I still have a ways to go in explaining what all happened here on Tuesday. But there\u2019s not enough time in this segment. I kind of went overboard in the first one, so bear with me here. I just want to reiterate something. You look at what happened in Iowa, and I\u2019ll give you a little… I told the president… There was a meeting.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m jumping ahead, but there was a meeting in the Yellow Oval Room. Teddy Roosevelt loved the Oval Office so much, he had an exact replica built in the residence. It\u2019s yellow, and it\u2019s the same dimensions as the Oval Office in the West Wing. The entire Trump family is there, and the subject of the Democrats\u2019 meltdown in Iowa, in the Hawkeye Cauci, came up. I said, “Mr. President, don\u2019t you find it a little ironic?<\/p>\n
“These people are running around the last four years claiming you cheated with Russia, you\u2019re gonna cheat in 2020, and look what happened. These people, Silicon Valley is running their operation, and they can\u2019t even count votes. When are they gonna blame Russia for this? When are they gonna blame you for this?” He got a big laugh out of it. What a bunch of incompetent, arrogant…<\/p>\n
More on this in a minute.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Half my brain tied behind my back still, just to make it fair. The EIB Network and Rush Limbaugh wrapping up — oh, by the way, it\u2019s Open Line Friday, so when we get to the phones about a quarter \u2019til three this afternoon, whatever you want to talk about will be fine — no. I hope to be able to get to phones much sooner than that.<\/p>\n
This experience that Kathryn and I had — and look, folks, I\u2019ve known Donald Trump for years. And I\u2019ve been really fortunate the past year to play golf with him a number of times when he\u2019s down here, down in Florida. And I\u2019ve gotten to know him personally. I know Donald Trump — when I saw him come down the escalator. I\u2019ve known Donald Trump from the moment he got into this, and I knew he was gonna win two weeks after he got into this, and I never had any doubts about it.<\/p>\n
And I fully, totally understand the Democrats\u2019 discombobulation with it. They have no idea what they\u2019re up against, they still don\u2019t. The deep state, all these people that have tried to run Donald Trump out of town, they have no idea, folks. They literally, I don\u2019t think, know anybody like him. Which is a shame. They don\u2019t know people like Donald Trump. They may even have disdain for people like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
If you look at Donald Trump\u2019s life, he\u2019s lived a full and complete life. And not everything has been what we would characterize as exemplary, but that\u2019s the point — he\u2019s lived. He has gotten everything life has to offer, and he\u2019s not finished. And he attacks it each and every day. And he has no — what\u2019s the word? — he\u2019s got no self-doubt.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t let what other people might think of what he wants to do to stop him from doing it or from saying what he wants to say. He\u2019s just a unique personality. And the fact that the political establishment, some in both parties, don\u2019t understand it is not hard to understand because there is a way of doing things, the standard operating procedure in electoral politics. And you can see the contrast.<\/p>\n
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Watch any Democrat during the Hawkeye Cauci, the lead-up and then that night when the vote mess happened, and listen to any of them talk. Every speech, even the hand gestures are rehearsed, focus grouped, the words that they say are focus grouped, practiced. None of it is real. And all of it is pandering. Every bit of it is pandering.<\/p>\n
Mitt Romney epitomizes the pandering. Romney is pandering to other losers. For some reason Romney thinks this is his route to victory. He hasn\u2019t the slightest idea what his future is. But it doesn\u2019t include victory, not even close. And he\u2019s gonna find out sooner than later.<\/p>\n
But, in this day, this past Tuesday, there was simply no way it wasn\u2019t going to happen. And he never made a demand. I want to try to be clear about this so that as many of you as possible understand the personality. There was no demanding. There was nothing offensive. There was nothing belittling. It\u2019s a unique person that is able to persuade people to do what they want and make them happy they\u2019re doing it even when they don\u2019t think they can.<\/p>\n
In Donald Trump\u2019s world, there simply is no “can\u2019t.” Especially when it comes to trying. So we tell him late in the afternoon on Tuesday that we\u2019re going to accept the invitation. He\u2019s thrilled. He was ecstatically happy. But as I was to learn later, not for himself. He was \u2013 (sniffling) pardon the sniffles here, folks. I told you I\u2019ve got a little bit of bronchial congestion, a chest cold is coming on.<\/p>\n
At any rate, he\u2019s on the phone and saying, “Look. Of course, of course your health comes first. There\u2019s no question. You gotta put your health first. Can\u2019t the doctor take some of it out now and then go get the rest of it tomorrow? What\u2019s his name?” But there was never a demand. There just wasn\u2019t any way we were gonna be able to decline it. That just wasn\u2019t gonna happen. We figured that out and then all the logistics fell into place.<\/p>\n
And we arrived in Washington and were picked up and taken to the White House. We were met by Hogan Gidley in the communications shop, and went to the library in the White House, which is off the diplomatic entrance area, the elevator to the residence, where the first lady was posing for photos with all of the people who were being recognized in the gallery that night.<\/p>\n
And we were last in line on purpose because after we posed for the photo with the first lady, we were then escorted to the residence to meet the Trump family in the Yellow Oval. Again, that is a room in the residence. It\u2019s not far down the hall — if you keep walking past it you run into the Lincoln Bedroom and the Queen\u2019s Bedroom. And it\u2019s the exact dimensions of the Oval Office in the West Wing. Teddy Roosevelt loved that room. He had it made for the residence, the exact measurements with the predominant color being yellow.<\/p>\n
So we were escorted into the room by Mrs. Trump, and we chat with her for two or three minutes, and then the Trump family began to come in, Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric, their wives, spouses, and then the president came in and sat down and started talking about the award and the medal and what it means and how special it is and how thrilled he was that we were able to make it.<\/p>\n
And, folks, I don\u2019t know if I should — I\u2019m gonna go ahead and tell you this. I realize that it\u2019s gonna open the floodgates of a bunch of people in the media, but, at this stage, I don\u2019t care. I never have cared, and I\u2019m not gonna start caring now what they say. One of the reasons I was reluctant was I just wasn\u2019t sure I deserved this. I mean, it\u2019s the highest civilian honor that the country awards.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s the exact same award that Congress gives, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, it\u2019s the exact same thing. There are different requirements. Military people who qualify are awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor with sometimes a ceremony at the White House. But this is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And there was a part of me, I\u2019m a radio talk show host, and I sit here behind this microphone and I talk. And this is, by the way, nothing new.<\/p>\n
I remember when I was at the National Review 50th anniversary dinner in Washington — some of you will remember this story — I\u2019m sitting at Mr. Buckley\u2019s table, and a man walks up to me who has been severely wounded in battle. And he asks if I could come over to his table to meet others at his table who also have been wounded. So I did.<\/p>\n
I got over there, and I was listening to these guys who have nearly died defending the country, telling me how much they enjoy listening to my program and all that. I said to these guys, “You know… (sigh) I don\u2019t know, guys. You\u2019ve faced bullets, almost died. I sit behind a microphone in an enclosed room and talk.” The leader of the Wounded Warriors said, “Sir, we all have our role,” and I\u2019ve never forgotten that.<\/p>\n
And I remember when I started questioning, “Gee, is this something I really have earned or deserved?” I remembered that statement from that really severely wounded warrior. “We all have our roles.” And then I said, “I can\u2019t react to this in a way that diminishes their appreciation. I can\u2019t sit here and say, ‘Oh, come on, guys. You know, I\u2019m not worth this.\u2019 I can\u2019t do that. It means everything in the world to them that they came over and wanted to tell me this. So, you can\u2019t phony up the humility and act that way.'”<\/p>\n
I gutted it up, and I told them how much I appreciated it, how stunned I was, how much it meant to me to know that they were out there, and it was a great evening. So, it\u2019s the same thing here. I decided, “Okay, drop this business. The president wants to give it to you. That\u2019s all that matters. You\u2019ve gotta do it.” But I\u2019m jumping back in time because that was one of the items when we were deciding whether to do this or not, and I didn\u2019t tell Kathryn.<\/p>\n
Kathryn\u2019s hearing this for the first time, I think. I may have said, “Do you think I really deserve this?” I don\u2019t know, but I don\u2019t think I did. So, we get there, the president\u2019s talking, and we have the joke about the Democrats in Iowa. He\u2019s sitting on an ottoman, a footstool. We\u2019re on sofas facing each other. He\u2019s on an ottoman by himself. No ties. He\u2019s got his jacket on and a crisp, white shirt unbuttoned.<\/p>\n
I said, “You know, I couldn\u2019t do this. Whenever I used to do anything like this like a big speech or Rush to Excellence Tour, I had to be alone with no distractions. I couldn\u2019t have a bunch of people around me.” I said, “Now, one of the reasons is none of it was scripted, and I ad-libbed everything. So, I needed to make sure my brain was working and not distracted.” He said, “Nah, we love this. We love it. This is historic. We\u2019ve got such a great story to tell.”<\/p>\n
You know, Donald Trump is not ashamed of his accomplishments and achievements, \u2019cause they\u2019re real. He does have his own version of humility. You have to know how to spot it. It happens at every rally. Donald Trump will tell everybody in the world how much he appreciates their support, one way or the other. It could be 30 seconds, could take him two minutes.<\/p>\n
But everybody at a Trump rally knows that he appreciates them and doesn\u2019t take any of their support, their presence for granted. So then, after this and the joking about the Democrats and my suggesting that maybe the Russians were behind this disaster in Iowa, it was time to leave — and this was something I never knew. I never knew how all of this happened. All those guests sitting up there with the first lady in the gallery, I never knew how it all happened. But now I do, and I will tell you when we get back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So the way they get everybody over — and I\u2019m truncating this. They\u2019ve got a couple of buses, minivans. They\u2019re very nice. Don\u2019t misunderstand “minivan.” They put all the guests in, and the guests are the tail end of the caravan. It is a massive caravan, more SUVs than I\u2019ve ever seen in a row, and we left the White House about 8:15 to get over there, and they hustle you into the gallery, and you sit down.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never been in the gallery. Oh, I have in the Senate, never in the House. I have seen the House Chamber from floor level. You\u2019re not allowed to go out there if you\u2019re not a member, and it was pretty full by the time we got there at 8:30, and all the Republicans are just… They\u2019re looking up and they\u2019re waving, thumbs up. It was so inspiring and gratifying and there was just a…<\/p>\n
If you can imagine an envelope or like a wave of warmth that just swept over me sitting there. Every Republican congressman, every senator, every… I\u2019m looking down there. And then to see the Democrats not doing a thing and they\u2019re dressed in all white and so forth. It was just a moving, moving night, and I\u2019m sitting there. I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re there, can\u2019t believe it happened, can\u2019t believe it all came together — and then, it happened.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You have no idea what this is like. Of all the things you think might happen to you in life, this is not one of them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HOWIECARR-e1581112668193.jpg\")
And Howie Carr said, “Why not just say, \u2018I disagree with Rush Limbaugh\u2019? Why does every disagreement have to be kind of perverted into a race conversation? Okay, they disagree with Rush. Fine. Why do they have to call everyone they dislike a racist every time?” That\u2019s Tucker Carlson asking Howie Carr.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PENCERUSH-e1581112651292.jpg\")
PENCE: I reached him shortly after he and Kathryn left the Capitol, and he was very moved, and told me that he was going to spend the rest of his life trying to earn it. And I said, \u201cRush, you\u2019ve already earned it. Everything you\u2019ve done to uphold the values and ideals that have made this country great.\u201d<\/p>\n