{"id":9352,"date":"2014-05-15T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-15T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:19:14","slug":"thank_you_to_everyone_for_making_me_the_children_s_choice_book_awards_author_of_the_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/15\/thank_you_to_everyone_for_making_me_the_children_s_choice_book_awards_author_of_the_year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You to Everyone for Making Me the Children\u2019s Choice Book Awards “Author of the Year”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to your harmless, lovable, little fuzzball host, Rush Limbaugh, well-known radio raconteur bon vivant, and now children\u2019s book Author of the Year. The awards were handed out last night by the Children\u2019s Book Council, and I want to take a moment here to thank everyone in the audience, particularly the young people who voted. This is an award where the readers determine the winners. <\/p>\n

Kathryn and I flew up after the program yesterday to New York for the awards banquet, the event. This is the seventh annual. It\u2019s relatively new, and it\u2019s combined with the children\u2019s literacy project, and what a great evening. It was a wonderful event, and I had, honestly, to make sure you understand, no expectation of winning this thing. When they announced my name I was momentarily frozen. We were sitting in the front row with a couple people from Simon & Schuster, the well known publishing house. Mitchell Ivers and Jean Anne Rose, they were there with us. It was just a really, really nice event. <\/p>\n

I have to tell you, there were so many immigrants that came up to me before the event started, when everybody was being seated and during the event, and they were telling me what coming to America meant to them. One of them was the photographer, one of the official photographers for the event. There were a lot of people that were working the event that came up and wanted me to understand how much America had meant to them, and it was really great. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019ve got at RushLimbaugh.com and over at our Facebook page, we have posted the video of my acceptance remarks. They gave every award winner two minutes. It\u2019s a children\u2019s book event, and if you want to hear a funny story, it\u2019s scheduled to run from 6 to 8 p.m., basically. They do dinner at 6, 6:15, and then at 7 to 7:15 everybody\u2019s supposed to be seated. Well, we landed right at 6 o\u2019clock. So we hustled off the plane, got in the car, and my security guy Joseph Stalin\u2019s phone rings. I hear him say, “Yeah? Really? Oh. Well, is it still on?” <\/p>\n

I said, “Oh, no, what\u2019s happened?” <\/p>\n

So he completes the call and said what happened. He said, “There\u2019s a fire in the building and they\u2019re evacuating everybody.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Oh, no! They think I\u2019m there already.” <\/p>\n

It turns out it was a minor little smoke thing in the basement of this building. It was near Chinatown and Little Italy in lower Manhattan in an old, giant building that used to be a Bowery Bank branch. It was really decked out, tastefully, really, really well done. The ceremony had some kids singing songs before it and afterwards. The presentation of the awards was really well done. Two years ago this is the last place I would have ever expected to be. Two years ago the last thing I would have ever expected to have done would have been writing books aimed at children ages 10 to 13. But you know the story, they\u2019re actually for everybody, the books are, but primarily children\u2019s books. <\/p>\n

So I want to play for you the video of all this, as I say, at RushLimbaugh.com that we\u2019re also posting at TwoIfByTea.com<\/a> and our Facebook page. We\u2019ve got the audio here for you and I want to play the introduction, the intro of me and winning the Author of the Year award, is what I won. It was presented by the executive director, Robin Adelson of the Children\u2019s Book Council and Every Child a Reader. She\u2019s the executive director and here is her presentation listing all the nominees and the winner.<\/p>\n