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No, So 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.640 I wanted to tell that story before you started asking 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:51.280 me questions because it is so hilarious in retrospect. At 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:56.079 the time, it was very traumatic for everyone. But if 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:01.000 you remember what happened when I first started, they wanted 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.120 me to sit in the studio to absorb all that 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.160 I could of the atmosphere, and I sat to the 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.200 right of you for a few years. If you remember, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.440 you were screening calls, and then I sat to the 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.560 seat next to you. Then there was Mike, Mamone and 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:21.359 Kit in the room typically, and this one day Rush 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.080 was remotely broadcasting. I think he was in California, but 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.480 as long as he was there, it didn't really matter 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.720 where here was. I don't remember where it was, but 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.160 he was broadcasting remotely. And at the time you would 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.400 speak to him by pushing a button on the board 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.040 every time you wanted to add or he had a 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.600 question for you, so you would keep up your repartee 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.240 that you usually did well. I used to have comments 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.920 that he invited me to also make comments and I 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.000 would tell you, because you were right near the microphone, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.800 and I would tell you my comment, and then you 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.640 would tell Rush I comment. And after a while, I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.240 think you got tired of it, and you said, hey, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.680 why don't you push the button yourself if you have 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.400 something to say to Rush. So, fortunately, James, this was 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:17.440 during an advertisement, an advertising break. I had something to 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.400 say to Rush, and I pushed the button and I 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.719 went to make my comment, and all of a sudden, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.880 Kit and Mike and You started standing up and scrambling around, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.880 and it was like the e R pushing buttons and 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.799 redoing this and doing that, and I was like, what happened? 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.960 And you said to me that I had cut Rush 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.240 off from his entire e I V network of five, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:51.080 the main field. So fortunately you all scrambled and you all, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:56.440 you know, got the connection going again during the advertising break, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.479 and so Rush basically as you, Hey, what the hell happened? 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.919 And you did not throw me at underbus. I'm still 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.400 grateful for it. You said, oh, yeah, there was a 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.240 satellite uploop glitch of some FOD and you covered me. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:15.479 And as far as I know, Rush never knew what 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.320 really happened. That you had some woman in the studio 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.960 basically pushed the wrong button. So, okay, let's talk about 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.640 um you for a minute. When did you first hear 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.120 Russia Lamball? When did you first become aware of that 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.839 there was this guy on the radio Russia Lumba. Well, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.719 it is a really cool story. Actually, I was the 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.640 one of the four issue editors at the Reader's Digest, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:45.000 and it was my job to choose all the material 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.280 for one full issue. There were four of us and 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.920 we rotated, and so I was working on I believe 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:59.479 it was the possibly May issue, and I was in 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.760 charge of picking all the stories. And there had been 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:06.960 I believe, in Atlantic profile of Rush Limbaugh, and that 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.120 was the first time I had ever heard his name. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.800 It was a wonderful profile, very positive, and I thought, man, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.640 this will be just perfect for the issue. It a 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.360 round it out. It's different this this guy has such personality, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.919 and it's radio, which we didn't have a lot of 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.720 material on, so I scheduled it for that issue. When 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.760 I was putting together and one of the editors who 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.320 was working underneath me, whose job it was to edit 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.520 it condense it. Of course, we condensed everything at the 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.080 Reader's Digest, she brought it in finished ready for my keen, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.520 and she said, by the way, you should listen to 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.919 this guy, because I said, Wyn, he sounds so cool. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.080 She said, nothing competes with hearing him yourself. And that 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.160 woman's name was Susan France, and I later hired her 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.440 for the Limball let or believe it or not, but 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.000 she was the one who introduced me to the idea 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.279 that you had to hear him. And I went out 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.000 on my lunch break, turned on the radio in my 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:14.200 car and I was immediately hooked. I know everyone has 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.760 those same experiences. And from that time I spent every 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.320 lunch hour in the editorial library at the Reader's Digest 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.160 secretly listening to Russia show as much as I could. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.640 So it actually was, you know, necessary for me to 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.920 work for him, because it was kind of unethical to 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.640 be paid by the Reader's Digests and spending an hour 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.800 listening to the Russia Limbo. So how did it come 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:46.400 about that you became the Limba letter the edit Tricks 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:52.200 of the Limb, as Rush calls you of the letter. Well, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.040 right after that, I think a month or two after that, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.880 I heard through the grapevine that Rush was starting a publication, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.680 and I thought, man, I'm made for that. And I 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.640 saw an advertisement in the New York Times. That's how 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.400 we found there was no online applying for jobs or 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.360 searching for jobs in those days. This was the early nineties, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.920 and so I read the New York Times. I was 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.120 in publishing, and that's where the want ads were for 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.160 the publishing world. And so I saw this little two 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:32.480 line um ad wanted editor for new publication combines humor 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.920 and conservative politics. And I knew, I'm like, okay, there's 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.960 only one person on the planet who combines humor and 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.320 conservative politics. And since I already had gotten win that 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.360 there was a new publication starting, and so I sent 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.640 to the company. I sent a two line letter that said, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:59.000 I hear you're starting Excellence in Publications and I am 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.600 very interested, and I gave my contact information. So they 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:08.080 called me and I had an interview. You know what's fun. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.600 The second interview was with Rush himself, and I did 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.480 not know it at the time, but it was because 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.200 of something I didn't say in the interview process that 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.000 I got the job. I didn't ask anybody about benefits. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.880 I didn't ask any aboue about vacation time, I didn't 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.199 ask anybody about anything other than what they wanted in 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.480 the job itself. And I learned later that that was 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.199 just a bug a boo that Rush had that he 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.920 couldn't stand people who just wanted to know as soon 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.600 as they were being interviewed, what are the benefits and 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.640 when's my vacation? And so the fact that I didn't 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.480 ask those what put me in the plus column. Yeah. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.640 I remember the day you first that you were first 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.199 introduced to the staff. Beautiful dark haired woman comes in 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.120 and I'm like, Wow, who's that. That's That's the person 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.280 that's going to start the Russ lumbab newsletter, and and yeah, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.560 and so you hung out with us in the studio 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.520 a while and then out rolls issue number one, and 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.160 issue number one I still half of the limbo letter, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.520 and it was what it was like, four pages. I 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.840 think when it first was it four pages? It wasn't. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.720 It was eight eight pages. They started with basically two 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.480 color news print eight pages. And you know, to me, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.680 they had given me a few months to sit in 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.280 the studio and absorb Rush as much as possible. And 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.080 my job was to try and contain lightning in a 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:38.000 bottle basically is to distill that down somehow into eight 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:42.360 pages every month a daily radio show about the news. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.320 So that was a you know, my greatest professional challenge, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:51.120 I think, was to figure out a way of containing 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.640 him into print and you know, as much as it 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.400 is possible. And that's why I immediately said, well, eight 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.559 pages is never gonna be enough, and we bumped it 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.319 up to well and then to sixteen, which is what 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.680 lasted its whole life, and then we went full color 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.199 because it had to be to contain Rush. So it 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.439 was a real interesting thing to figure out a way. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.360 And I noticed that he talked big picture as well 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.320 as news, and so I was trying to every month 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.480 hit on for the cover story, help him, you know, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.440 basically convey his main theme of that month. So there 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.640 we're big picture items that would fit in a monthly publication. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.160 And that was the fun of it, is to write down, oh, yes, 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.840 he's talking about this important subject, education or whatever it was. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.320 And then you know, the smaller items we could do, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.000 the news items, the funny things, and the stupid quotes. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.080 So we try to combine both humor and substance. And 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.320 he always wanted to do original research in the newsletter, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.960 So it wasn't a duplication of what was on the radio. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.880 Know it all all right? Tell us what it was 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.120 like working with Rush? First time you met him, it 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.200 was the interview? What about after that? What happened? How? 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.320 How did you What was your relationship like with Rush? Well? 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:15.160 Rush was wonderful. I mean, I'm going to get choked up, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:20.120 but I loved him and he was the best boss 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.800 ever because he, as I think you said earlier, he 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.600 would choose self starters and people that he felt would 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:34.280 be independent, work independently and just let us go. And 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.160 so he was not a person who looked over the 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.640 shoulder or micromanaged. He trusted us and that trust was 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.760 such an honor and it really got the best work 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.920 out of all of us. I think we all wanted 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.720 to please him, and we all wanted him to be 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.200 approving of what the work was, and so we gave 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.080 it our very best every single day. And also we 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.840 knew that's what he was doing, so he set the 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:06.720 tone for excellence. You know, basically the entire team wide, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.040 and everyone worked well together because of that. We all 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.800 had the same mindset. But you know, if you don't mind, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:19.800 I have a memory of a pretty funny thing where 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.880 I think I got my nickname at a tricks and 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:28.480 this was in He wanted to do a reprint not 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.600 only of the thirty five Undeniable Truths of Life, but 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.960 also update them. So we had a new thirty five Undeniables. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.640 But as I was talking to him, he was standing 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.040 in my office. I had the office next to him 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.760 at the time, and he came in and were discussing it, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.800 and I corrected him on uh, the number twenty four. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.800 Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women of 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.800 access to the mainstream of society. And I said to him, hey, Rush, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.720 you just worded that wrong. You've got too many words 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.200 in there. It should be Feminism was established to allow 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.920 you don't need the sow as to it's just superfluous. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.760 And so he looked to me after kind of giving 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.840 me that one eyed look, and he said, let me 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.680 tell you. He says, you have three hundred and twenty 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.520 five radio stations and then you could write it however 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:32.640 you want. And I looked at him and I said, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.480 point taken. And I immediately he laughed. He was he 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.080 was being very funny, but he had a boy and 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.800 I laughed and he left, and after that he started 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.880 going atriss. So I think there was a little bit 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.960 of dominatrix soon because I had argued with him and 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.640 I wanted to correct his ridic So I got a note. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.080 I got an email here from the edit Drinks and 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.960 the limb Ball letter that's the most widely read politic 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.840 the newsletter in America. Dear boss, I sadly think your 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.560 caller is right. I think Hillary is going to be 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.800 on a higher platform to make her look equal to Trump, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.520 a podium, and she's got dictionary definitions here, as though 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:23.080 I don't know what these things are. A podium. A 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.280 podium is the raised platform on which the speaker stands 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.000 to deliver his or her speech. Podium derived from the 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.720 Greek word as a podiatrist. A lector is a raised, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.080 slanted stand on which a speaker can place his or 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.720 her notes or secret teleprompter. Electorn is derived from the 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:46.680 Latin word electus, a past participle of the verb legear, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.560 which means to eat vegetables. The word elector comes from 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:58.760 the same source. So I was confused anyway. It's a 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.760 long way of saying that the corner might have been 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:06.600 right that they're gonna have her jacked up. Each week 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.880 One Russia Limbaugh, the man behind the Golden E I 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.160 B Microphone. We delve into Russia's biographical journey with the 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.080 help of his friends, colleagues, and family members. Today we 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:23.080 welcome one of America's most loved actors and patriots, Scott Bao. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:29.160 The Life of Russia Limbaugh, Chapter ten, narrated by Scott Bayo. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.920 On November fourth, two thousand and eight, America made history 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.560 by electing its first black president, and known for his 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.880 signature cutting edge analysis and insight, Russia. Limbaugh was quick 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.360 to explain how Barack Obama was able to convince so 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.080 many Americans to vote for him. In fact, Russia was 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.480 very detailed as to why Obama's election victory was so decisive. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.960 The main reason Obama was elected was a bunch of 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.320 people in this country very distressed and fed up but 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.360 the ongoing allegation that they and the rest of the 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.200 country were bunch of racists and bigots, and they believed 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:09.240 that if they participated in electing the first African American president, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.240 that they could do away with that charge. They could 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.679 do away with that notion that idea. I firmly believe 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.080 that the vast majority outside of the Democrat but the 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.760 vast majority of white votes for Obama were made with 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.439 that hope. After eight years of conservative leadership on the president, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.359 George W. Bush Rush was eager, willing, and ready to 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.480 resume his role as chief conservative critic in opposition to 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.440 the Obama regime. As he frequently labeled, and it fits 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.720 what the hell else is it? But not a regime. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.600 It didn't take long for Rush to start making waves 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.399 with only four little words just before inauguration, they I 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.320 hope he fails. I wanted Obama to fail so that 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.960 my country would not. I wanted Obama's liberal agenda, his 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:57.199 socialist community organizer agenda, to fail. I did not, and 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.400 never have and never will want a are it could 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:05.120 have failed, Never, no way. I wanted America to be saved. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.000 Rush soon found plenty more to criticize and what became 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.520 the signatures of the Obama administration. From Obamacare to the 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.560 closing of GIBMO. They ran nuclear deal to Obama's border tactics, 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.320 and much much more. For Rush Limbaugh, the Obama years 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.760 were chock full of policies and bad politics to dissect 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.280 for tens of millions of listeners daily, and throughout Obama's 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.000 two terms in office, rushed to great pride in telling 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.520 his listeners that he had no doubt the president was 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.280 one of them. As he often explained on air, not 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.240 only was Obama paying attention to him, he was fixated 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.560 on him. The Republicans are only concerned about what's on 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.040 Fox News or what Rush Limbaugh saying, and Democrats are 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.200 looking at the New York Times or Huffington Post. So 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.439 Obama comes into office telling Republicans that they can't listen 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.040 to Rush Limbaugh anymore and get things done. That's just 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.680 not how it happens in Washington. And he's leaving office 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.280 having failed to remove one of his and impediments from 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.399 his equation, and that would be me. So after eight years, Obama, 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.320 he comes into office with me living rent free in 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.320 his hand, and I'm still there. It could be said 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.400 today that during the Obama administration, Rush Limbaugh was at 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.040 his best, staunchly defending conservative principles and standing up for 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.080 America and its exceptionalism. But in the end, whether at 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.400 his best or even on a bad day, a few 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.119 could touch Russia. Limbaugh the Obama chapter was but just 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:40.480 eight years of more than thirty of unprecedented broadcast excellence. Unforgettable. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.480 That's the impression that you, the Russia Limbaugh audience made 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:49.440 with your support for Russia's last charitable effort while Rush 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.400 was still with us through the Stand Up for Betsy 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.399 Ross campaign. Your generosity resulted in a five million dollar 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.960 donation to the Tunnel to Towers found a. 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Although those years, well, 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.439 you know, I don't know if you remember the Nightline appearance. 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:35.720 I think it was April of and he had been 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:40.240 on along with Carville and some other you know, one 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.240 New York Times writer, and it was a town hall. 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:48.719 It was supposed to be about Hillary and healthcare. And 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.280 this was before the midterm elections where the Republicans took over, 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.040 as they used to quote the Republican takeover. So this 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.359 was still in the honeymoon phase of the Clinton administration. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.119 And Ted Copple really liked Rush at that point and 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.880 had him on. He was the only one who wasn't 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:11.359 physically in the town hall I think Iowa. And he 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:16.239 was supposed to talk about healthcare and Hillary Care, and 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:20.479 he was the first person up and he immediately changed 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.600 the subject, did not talk about anything other than all 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:28.200 the lies that these people that Clinton's had been promulgating 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:33.240 about Whitewater, and he started talking listening them. He rattat, 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.040 you know, the billing records, Whitewater, and went on and on, 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.720 and the rest of the group was there to talk 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:45.960 about healthcare, and they simply just ignore, basically what Rush 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.000 had said. They didn't respond to it. And the next 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:51.680 day we were all you remember this, We were all 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.280 standing in the hallway before the show, and I said 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.720 to Rush, Hey, Rush, did you notice that you basically 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:04.800 accused them on television, national television of being liars and 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:09.320 they didn't defend her. And he did what you and 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.080 I used to call that sponge thing. He would look 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.639 so intently at you when you were talking, and he 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.600 wouldn't necessarily say anything. And this was the first time 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:24.240 I had experienced it, and he had this piercing look, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:26.439 and he listened to what I had to say, and 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:30.159 he didn't respond. He just walked down the hallway to 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.480 the studio. And then he kind of used that as 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:36.639 his jumping off point. And then a few days later 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.359 there was the Pretty and Pink conference because Hillary knew 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.840 she had not been defended by her own people on 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:47.080 national TV, and so that was the first time I 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:52.080 knew he was probably the best listener that I have 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.760 ever encountered in my life. He had the ability, and 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:01.119 even after he lost his hearing, he had the ability 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:07.159 to absorb information, filter it into this amazing creative mind 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.960 he had, and be able to then transform it and 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.520 bring it out as the Rush take, because he would 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:17.399 take things that we all would suggest or give a 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:19.639 line or whatever, and he would make it into something 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:23.879 miraculous and amazing. And to watch him do that, live 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:30.439 that ability to spontaneously think on ninety different levels at once, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.280 I tell you that was We all have talked about 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:37.760 how much we love him and his generosity and his character, 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.480 and all those things are true. And the thing that 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:45.480 I also appreciate so much as his mind, the most 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.280 brilliant human being that I have ever been in the 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:53.880 presence of, and yet very very gentle and kind and 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:59.000 of all good character. But his brilliance was aside. To behold, 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:01.800 we will never ever ever be in the presence of 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.920 someone as brilliant as him. Again, you made a reference 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:06.240 to it, and I want to just get you to 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:10.200 expand on it. The Sponge Rush had this uncanny ability 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:16.479 to absorb information like nobody else. He could read something 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.280 and and pick out points that and and find points 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.400 in it and talk about points that no one else 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:24.600 saw in an article. It could be a sentence and 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:29.760 he could then launch into an original take from that 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:33.600 that would turn into a monologue. He would talk to 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:37.480 people and and something a sentence that they would say. 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:41.760 He could develop an entire line of thought that no 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:45.000 one else in the media would have. This guy he 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.600