Posted on 10/02/2017 3:32:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: You know I don’t do television very much, but every time I do it I must admit to being surprised by some of the feedback I get. And let me tell you what some of the surprising feedback I’ve gotten is. Snerdley walked in here today. He said, “You won’t believe this.” I said “I bet I will.” He said, “I have a friend, African-American, who knows who you are, never listened to you on the radio ’cause you’re all these horrible, rotten things. Saw you on Hannity, can’t believe what a great guy you are, can’t believe you think exactly what she thinks!”
She was blown away. She was stunned, ’cause it was nothing like what she had been led to believe or thought, combination of led to believe or thought on her own. Is that pretty much accurate? Did she say she was gonna start listening now? Blown away. Look, it’s 29 years. I guess false impressions and images have a long life span. But I’ve run into a couple of reactions, not from the actual people who had them, people like you telling me that they knew people who of course knew who I am. I’m almost too famous to go on TV, to tell you the truth. And they know of me, but they don’t know me, and they watched it, and they were stunned. Isn’t 29 years long enough to learn the truth about anybody?
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RUSH: I was gonna do this first thing out of the box here, but the event and incident in Las Vegas sidetracked me, but I wanted to take a moment here and thank from the bottom of my heart Sean Hannity. He was here, his whole crew was in here last Thursday and they were here for about an hour and a half. And everybody, kind of like a reunion, the commie babe makeup artist from my TV show, Debra, was here. And my niece who is on Sean’s staff and, as he says, is a — well, she’s just knocking it out of the park, he says, and we’re all so appreciative of that.
But the things that he said about me during the course of that interview I didn’t realize at all ’til I was watching it. When you’re in the middle of being interviewed, you’re aware of it, but your attention’s all, “Okay, where is this going? What’s the question from this gonna be?” And it wasn’t ’til I watched it on Friday night and noted how overwhelmingly well he treated me, I’m not used to it. I’m not used to all of the nice things that he said, and I just wanted to take a moment here and offer a sincere thank you to Sean personally and to the whole Fox crew that were here.
Now, people have asked about the ratings. You know, folks, I’m not the one to tell you. But they were really, really, really good. Sean’s average total audience — I don’t think this counts DVD replay, DVR, I’m not sure. I think it’s the live audience for the 9 o’clock show. Might be including the midnight replay, but I don’t think so. His average audience for the week was 3.4 million, and Thursday night we had 3.75 million. It was the top night of the week.
I don’t know what Friday’s numbers were. The week is considered Monday-Thursday because Friday is not a school night, as they say, people are out and about, smoking weed, getting drunk, debauchery and that kind of stuff, not at home as much. But it was good. Everything about it was just first class and it was enjoyable and it was fun, and I just wanted to offer sincere thanks to Sean. He said some incredibly supportive and nice things. Yes, they had the added benefit of being true, and they are never said. Snerdley sitting here coaching me on what to say. “Yeah, nobody ever says it, either.” Except Sean did. That’s the point.
So I think it exceeded — I don’t know what expectations were ratings-wise, but I think it exceeded them. It was the high for the week, which everybody’s gratified by it. I don’t know if you can tell, but I’m kind of a little nervous being the one to say so. It’s been published, but in trade publications. And in the trade publications they acknowledge, they can’t ignore that I was there, but that’s about as far as they go, ’cause in the trade they’re not happy with the result. They’re not happy with Hannity being number one over MSNBC, and they’re really not happy that I had anything to do with it, to whatever even small degree.
I saw part one of his interview and it was like I was watching 2 old friends chatting. Both men are so relaxed.
I agree that Trump’s tax plan would be better if he lowered the top rate. Soaking the rich leaves less money for them to hire someone.
Rush’s point about spending cuts on the Fed budget is long overdue.
I would like to see the Fed workforce take a 15% cut.
Yes! Great programming by Sean, for The Communicator!
Another thing. A FIRST.. FOX kicked CNN’S butt last night, ALL night, in Las Vegas!
That coverage was unmatched. CNN had a couple of foreign girls stuck in-studio unable to function, rookies in suits, in the field but miles from the action.
FOX was on the ground, breathlessly reporting, working their way to the venue, finding off duty responders and concert witnesses with first hand engagement, blood all over them from the venue, fleeing scene, evacuating victims, pronouncing the dead, filming the hundreds of LE and ambulances descending onto the Strip. Incredible!
If one has any fair amount of logic and rational they will like Rush .
I heard first about it when I turned my TV on around 4:30 a.m Fox and Friends First was on. At that time the death toll was 20 and the injured were 200. Not long after that the death toll had doubled
I watched both interviews.
I think it is because Rush knows that Hannity has his back and Hannity knows rush has his...
You could accomplish the same effect by lifting the amount of the bracket just below the top rate applies to and avoid the rhetoric of “tax cuts for the rich.” Right now the top rate applies to the earnings above $418,400. Keep the “top rate” the same, but say, for example, lift it to apply only to earnings above $999,999 per year. You could even use this as a gimmick to actually increase the top rate and say increase the amount it applies to $2 million or something which would still be a substantial tax reduction to those in the top bracket even if the top rate is increased.
I know that’s being purely political gimmick but it would ultimately accomplish the same thing, and you obviously have a media that isn’t going to have an actual discussion of the benefits of lowering taxes on the top earners who will go out and spend more on “luxury items” without bothering to explain the fact that the people who build and sell those things are middle and working ‘class’ Americans dependent on them doing so for the own livelihoods.
I remember that before Sean went national with his own radio show that he would many times sit in for Rush when he was gone...and once there was a time where Rush came back early and Sean was there for the first two hours and Rush came back on for the third hour...that was pretty interesting.
They actually have known each other for a long time - I remember an episode of Rush’s old TV show where Sean Hannity was in the audience and Rush pointed him out as a talk radio host in Atlanta...that was before Sean was on Fox News and had his show in New York City.
On a side note....who are the ladies in the picture? HOLY MOLY!!!!
I was in bed watching Frasier recordings when I switched to regular programming to go to sleep. Wow.
FOX was showing like hundreds of police cars taking up two lanes all screaming into down town Las Vegas. Adam Housley who covers terror all over the world was reporting on an adrenalin high. Amazing engagement of the scene, sweating and moving into the trouble and not stationary.
I watched all night it was so compelling, until 4 AM. I was exhausted as if I were there! Civilians were awesome responders.
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