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RUSH: This is last night on The O\u2019Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel. Bill O\u2019Reilly had on Juan Williams to talk about the nation\u2019s loss of Jon Stewart and The Daily Show. Yes, the nation\u2019s in mourning, and everybody\u2019s trying to figure out how we\u2019re gonna cope. (interruption) Well, I mean, depending on where you go, yeah, that\u2019s the attitude you get. The left certainly is. And Juan Williams is brought on to discuss why. O\u2019Reilly wanted to know why.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly said to Juan Williams, “Say I get run over by a bus tomorrow. I think the media would just mist over. Right, Juan? Wouldn\u2019t that happen? Why would I not get the same treatment that Jon Stewart\u2019s getting?” Now, I don\u2019t know — (laughing) I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t like commenting on other people that do this. I really don\u2019t. It\u2019s been a policy of mine to avoid any kind of contrived rivalry, fight or any of that sort of stuff. But to bring somebody on, “Why would the media not cry over my leaving like they did Jon?” Anyway, he asked the question and my guess is he didn\u2019t like the answer. Here\u2019s what Juan Williams said.<\/p>\n

WILLIAMS: His numbers, in terms of ratings, are not that good. His impact goes beyond the ratings in terms of liberal media. I mean, you start to think about the impact he\u2019s had on everybody from Jimmy Fallon to Stephen Colbert and then you saw MSNBC and all the rest. They tried with people like Bill Maher. They tried with Al Franken, now the senator from Minnesota. They could never find somebody to go up against the likes of Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) That\u2019s why I played you the bite, folks. That\u2019s why I played you the bite. (laughing) So Juan Williams told O\u2019Reilly, yeah, they did everything they could. By the way, I am getting a lot e-mail. I wasn\u2019t gonna mention this, I really wasn\u2019t, but I\u2019m gonna mention it now. I have gotten a decent, a fair amount of e-mails from people who — I\u2019m uncomfortable saying this. I really am. Well, because my parents taught me manners and so forth. But people have been sending me e-mails and asking me, “How come your name never gets thrown in as having done The Daily Show before The Daily Show even existed?”<\/line><\/p>\n

In fact, God bless him, John Podhoretz. He had a tweet, somebody sent me his tweet, John Podhoretz sent a tweet out there, he said, “What is all this folderol” or some such thing. “Rush Limbaugh was doing the Jon Stewart show while Jon Stewart was still doing stand-up.” That\u2019s what I thought. Podhoretz. J. Pod. Somebody sent me that. I don\u2019t go to Twitter. I have spies that go to Twitter for me, among them, my brother, but he\u2019s not the one that sent me that. A friend of mine in Kansas sent me that tweet from J. Pod.<\/p>\n

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This is illiterate, provincial nonsense. Rush Limbaugh was Jon Stewart when Jon Stewart was a stand-up comic. http:\/\/t.co\/Gi2CVwr3B3<\/a><\/p>\n

&mdash; John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 15, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n