{"id":400077,"date":"2021-06-01T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=400077"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T19:55:19","slug":"the-justice-thomas-rush-knew-goes-viral-teasing-tmz-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/06\/01\/the-justice-thomas-rush-knew-goes-viral-teasing-tmz-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Thomas Rush Knew Goes Viral Teasing TMZ Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: Thank goodness we\u2019ve got Justice Thomas, truly a constitutionalist. Rush loved Clarence Thomas &#8212; and I do mean loved. Last week Justice Thomas was approached by a TMZ reporter after leaving a restaurant and Thomas poked a little fun at him. I think Rush would have loved this audio showing how down to earth and approachable he was. Here\u2019s a bit of how it sounded.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: (outdoor noise) I\u2019m just a civil servant. (big laugh)<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: Oh, no, he&#8230; (busts up laughing)<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: Juh&#8230; (laughing) Lance, Lance, Lance Ito. When Lance Ito retires, he gotta be looking for some, some work a little bit. No?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-400088\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060121-Justice-Clarence-Thomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060121-Justice-Clarence-Thomas.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060121-Justice-Clarence-Thomas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060121-Justice-Clarence-Thomas-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>JUSTICE THOMAS: But you\u2019re a funny guy.<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: What do you do? You just sort of stand around and photobomb people?<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: No, no. I\u2019m Colin with TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: I know you! I\u2019m just giving you a hard time.<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: Okay, man. We love your work, though, man.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: You crack me up.<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: Did you go to NYU?<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: No, my sister did. Great school.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: Was she in law school there?<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: No, she did&#8230; She did journalism also, but she &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clarence Thomas is awesome. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kTCFDUsIaP\">pic.twitter.com\/kTCFDUsIaP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1398080557246865410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: Yeah, it\u2019s a wonderful school.<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: So you go around bothering people? (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: No, no!<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: Actually, we find interesting people.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: (big laugh)<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: What did you&#8230;? What did you have to eat? I know you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: No, no no.<\/p>\n<p>COLIN: No, no, no! Come on, man!<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: (big laugh)<\/p>\n<p>TODD: I love that man! (laughing) I love that interaction. And, by the way, reporter, you got filibustered, you got owned, and you got outcharmed. Beautiful! Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, he gets a bad rap by the Drive-Bys. Started back during his confirmation all the way through today, and he doesn\u2019t ask a lot of questions on the bench. So they think he\u2019s either stupid or uninterested, neither of which could be further from the truth. What they don\u2019t show is he\u2019s a regular, down-to-earth guy you might find at Walmart or flying coach on a plane. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2009\/06\/03\/a_great_story_on_clarence_thomas\/\">Here\u2019s a little bit of Rush talking about our regular guy, Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is one of the greatest stories. Two kids from Maryland high school being recruited by Nebraska University. They fly out there; they go through the recruitment; they see the place. On their return flight home, in coach, is a black man, huge Nebraska fan, and they talk to him throughout the flight. They have no idea they\u2019re talking to Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-382226\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-021921-Rush-Clarence-Thomas-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-021921-Rush-Clarence-Thomas-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-021921-Rush-Clarence-Thomas-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-021921-Rush-Clarence-Thomas-2-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>When they found out who it was, they went to their school, and they asked the school to have Clarence Thomas come give a speech, commencement speech, which he did. We have two sound bites here. It\u2019s Terrence Stephens, the high school graduate here, his reaction to meeting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENS: I was amazed that this guy knew so much about us as football players and as people. And that was &#8212; that was &#8212; that was&#8230; That was shocking in itself. So I was definitely &#8212; I felt honored to be known by somebody of his caliber and &#8212; and &#8212; and of his strength. But he was just a regular old guy. He was &#8212; I mean, he was sitting in coach, which really shocked me.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sitting in coach, just a regular old guy. Here\u2019s Justice Thomas and a portion of his address to the students.<\/p>\n<p>JUSTICE THOMAS: These young men had no idea who I was when I formed my first impressions of them. To them, I was just another stranger. They were wonderful ambassadors for your school and for their fellow students.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And that\u2019s Justice Thomas doing the commencement speech that these two kids wanted him to give after they met him on the plane. For most of the trip back to Maryland they had no idea who they were talking to, but he knew that they were football players, that they\u2019d been recruited by Nebraska, that they were being looked at by Nebraska. He\u2019s a huge Nebraska fan. He\u2019s sitting back in coach, and you know what, aside from what\u2019s obviously great about this story is, when the kids go back and ask the principal or whoever, &#8220;Get this guy to come speak,&#8221; they did. That\u2019s what\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: And Rush scrutinized people like he scrutinized Justice Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: Thank goodness we&#039;ve got Justice Thomas, truly a constitutionalist. 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