{"id":398765,"date":"2021-05-21T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=398765"},"modified":"2021-05-24T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:16:54","slug":"dans-bake-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/21\/dans-bake-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big EIB Anniversary: The Limbaugh Letter Team Celebrates Dan\u2019s Bake Sale of 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Coming up in this next hour, we have two special guests joining the program from Team EIB who were at Dan\u2019s Bake Sale. They\u2019re gonna give you perspective on that day that wasn\u2019t reflected in the mainstream media. One aspect of that has to do with the crowd size. Here\u2019s Rush talking about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here comes Dan\u2019s Bake Sale. And the billing leading up to it is of a conservative Woodstock, Rushstock \u201993, Rushfest, a right-wing love-in. I\u2019m sure you heard all the terms. Let\u2019s talk about what it was. It was all of that but in the most positive sense. I flew in about 12:30 local time, which was an hour and a half after the bake sale began.<\/p>\n

I landed at Fort Collins Loveland in EIB One and from there took a helicopter over to the community airport in Fort Collins, the little metro airport there. And they flew me over I-25 because when we got on board the helicopter, said, “You won\u2019t believe this. There\u2019s traffic backed up 25 miles. There\u2019s a 25-mile traffic jam. There\u2019s seven miles of buses trying to get in there.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I said, “Whoa.” I began to worry, is everybody trying to get in gonna be able to? Are we gonna have some disappointed people \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna get in there? Is this place too small to handle the crowds? So they are flying me over, and I got my video camcorder going, folks. And we videotaped this. This traffic is stopped on an interstate highway in Colorado.<\/p>\n

This is not like an interstate highway pouring into a major metro area like the Bay Area or Los Angeles where it is common for traffic to stop on an interstate. This traffic was stopped all to get off at an exit to go into Fort Collins. We then choppered over the bake sale area. And when you see the aerial view of the people down there and then look at the — say the crowd was 20,000, you\u2019re gonna find that the estimate there is way, way low. Senator Hank Brown of Colorado was there to meet me.<\/p>\n

And he said this is a bigger party than a Broncos game up at Mile High Stadium. And what\u2019s the capacity up there? It\u2019s 78,000. There are people who didn\u2019t get in. I feel so badly about this. My good friend Tyler Cox, who\u2019s the operations director at our Fort Worth affiliate, they chartered a jet at the last minute, and they flew into Cheyenne, Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\"\"And when they got to the highway that was gonna take \u2019em to Fort Collins, the highway patrol said, stop, you can\u2019t get there, and they turned \u2019em back, and they went back to the airport, never even got near Fort Collins. So there have to be some disappointed people there. Three buses of people got turned back. Tom Sullivan chartered a jet from Sacramento, as you know, from KFBK. And had they not had a driver who knew the back route, backwoods roads into Fort Collins, they would not have made it.<\/p>\n

They would have been stuck in that 25-mile traffic jam. So, this is definitely more than 20,000 people. Also, folks, you gotta remember, this is an eight-hour event. And so taking a count at any one time is going to be mis — I think — represented, and it\u2019s gonna be understandably low. People are moving in and out of the place all the time. We didn\u2019t know how many people were coming, and so we don\u2019t have a figure that we have to, in terms of our own PR, say was indeed there.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t know anything. We were as… I\u2019m telling you, nobody does things the way we did this. We rolled the dice. We rolled the die. We didn\u2019t know what was gonna happen. We just have faith in this audience. I have so much faith in the people of America who are this audience. I understand the kind of people who are this audience, and I cringe when they are misrepresented, when they are maligned, and when they are impugned by a media, which has not done the proper investigative reporting to find out anything about this show and including who listens to it.<\/p>\n

\"\"So I was not afraid to suggest to thousands to come to a central location and have a good time. The reason that I am trying to focus on the numbers is simply because what we do here is we relentlessly pursue the truth. And I am not accusing anybody of falsely estimating the crowd or purposefully creating a number that\u2019s smaller than what it is.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just hard to know, because so many people were moving out. And I don\u2019t think anybody has ever done a capacity check on the Old Town Square in Fort Collins anyway. You really don\u2019t know how many people squeezed in there. I\u2019m telling you, folks, it was sardine city in there. I mean, if you were claustrophobic, especially when I was on stage speaking, then you were going to have problems.<\/p>\n

BRETT: That is just such an awesome story. That\u2019s an amazing line right there. I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s ever done a capacity check on the Old Town Square in Fort Collins anyway. That was a momentous moment. It was a momentous time in EIB history. And we\u2019re coming up on the 28th anniversary tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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