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<\/a><\/p>\nI think he\u2019s a great analyst, one of the funniest men I\u2019ve ever heard. You\u2019ll hear a bit of that for the first time on radio.<\/p>\n
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TODD: Chad in Edwardsville, Illinois. Chad you\u2019re on the Rush Limbaugh program, Todd Herman as guide host. Welcome.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Todd. Dittos and prayers to Kathryn and the EIB team. I\u2019m so very thankful for Rush and also that my Grandpa Jim and Grandma Betty turned me on to the program at such a young age. One of my very earliest memories of Rush — and this is before I was old enough to even know who he was — is hearing the EIB tone from the radio that they had in their kitchen when I was little.<\/p>\n
TODD: Mmph. (chuckling)<\/p>\n
CALLER: Still to this day, my grandpa wears Rush\u2019s ties any chance he gets.<\/p>\n
TODD: I love it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. So, two questions. I was wondering if you could play anything from Rush\u2019s response to 9\/11.<\/p>\n
TODD: We need to do that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was in eighth grade at the time, and didn\u2019t get a chance to hear his thoughts on that.<\/p>\n
TODD: Great idea. Great idea!<\/p>\n
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CALLER: And then also, early last year he had mentioned that there was more to his Medal of Freedom story, and he would tell it at a later date, and I wasn\u2019t sure if he ever got to expand on that. But I was just really interested in what the rest of the story was and really enjoyed his story with President Trump.<\/p>\n
TODD: I am so glad that you brought that up, Chad. I heard Rush expand somewhat on that. I remember listening, and it\u2019s one of those pull-the-car-over-and-sit-and-listen moments when Rush discussed some of the rest of the story. And then I did ask Kathryn about that, about Rush\u2019s evident surprise when he was given that medal and how extraordinary that was for all of us who knew him all these years.<\/p>\n
The reason I\u2019m glad you brought that up is I, to this day, am disappointed that more conservatives I don\u2019t think truly understand what Rush did with his freedom, and how that aspect of the Maha\u2019s life is perhaps the most important in times such as these. And let me see if I can explain it this way, Chad.<\/p>\n
People are so conditioned to not step outside of the norms of communication, that when someone asks you how you\u2019re doing, and let\u2019s say that, you know, you just had a death. Let\u2019s say, you know, “Rush died.” Someone says, “How you doing?” We\u2019re so conditioned just to say, “Good.” But if we break out of that condition and would say, “I\u2019m not doing real well. I lost — lost a friend.”<\/p>\n
Sometimes people will gloss past that and go, “Oh, okay. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re well.” They\u2019re not even listening. Rush made people listen because he refused to stay within the bounds of what had become… He was never an unacceptable communicator. But he refused to stay within the bounds of what had become politique. Even when we had a sitting president of the United States attempt to take out his radio show, he refused to back down.<\/p>\n