BRZEZINSKI: The Obama campaign just e-mailed me, 65 — 66,500 attended the rallies, 2400 volunteers, 1300 in Iowa and 650 in New Hampshire, 2300 in South Carolina. But here we go: 68% of the folks who signed up for the rally had never communicated with the campaign before, 1300 supporters volunteered the day of the rally. More than 6900 signed supporter cards for the first time. You know, and as Lee pointed out, they were showing up at five in the morning.
RUSH: Yeah, yip yip yip yahoo, so 29, 30,000 people show up in South Carolina for The Oprah and Obama. But let’s go back to August of 2000. My good friend John Carlson was running for governor on the Republican side in the state of Washington and asked me to come out and join him and Bill Bennett at a campaign rally in Puyallup, and we did, and we had 40,000 people, 40,000 people for a statewide candidate, a gubernatorial candidate, John Carlson, as opposed to a presidential candidate headlined by The Oprah. Here’s my introduction to the stage by Bill Bennett and what happened when I entered.
BENNETT: With no further ado — (cheers and applause), ladies and gentlemen, America’s best voice, the voice of America, the man who has changed many minds, the man who runs America’s conversation, Rush Limbaugh. (Wild cheers and applause.)
RUSH ARCHIVE: Thank you, everybody, thank you so much. Thank you.
RUSH: Forty thousand people in a minor league baseball stadium in Puyallup, Washington, and since we’re talking about me, I just want to play — by the way, Bill Bennett, that was a great introduction, and he got a big one himself, too, when he walked out. Here is just a portion of my remarks that day.
RUSH: And the sea of humanity that was out there, it was one of the most — it was nuts. It was one of the most incredible events I have attended. Forty thousand people. So while they’re going on and on and on about how breathtaking and how unique this Oprah and Obama rally was, know full well that there have been larger ones attended by me and Bill Bennett.
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