Same thing Rush says all the time, “Your career is taking off, and the producers call, building this whole rapport —they flatter the heck out of you, you go on, and then it’s a whole ambush, you have one purpose, and that is TO BE A TARGET...”
Well, we all knew it of course, but this means that he is really, really taking off. And they feel they have to try and assasinate him.
Rush is right, and that he recognises what they’re up to and won’t be seduced speaks well for him.