I never got thru to the program on the phone ... but I did on his fax machine.
He would occasionally give out his fax number and also had on one occasion mentioned a problem he had with it at the time: he was using his Mac to receive faxes and something about his set up (again, at the time) meant that after the fax was printed his printer would keep spitting out paper till the paper magazine was empty ... so Rush would have to get up and stop it manually at the next commercial break.
Knowing this I knew a hand written note faxed at the beginning of a commercial break would be essentially immediately physically noticed by him and if timely enough therefore likely to be read.
On the particular occasion then President Clinton had issued a statement about why he would not return money given to his campaign from the porn industry. His cryptic reply was that if he gave back the money then other money given would have more influence.
Rush was puzzling over this and laboring with the view that it was other money given to his campaign.
I faxed that the other money was money given to political rivals, that if Clinton didn’t have more money whatever it’s source then that would be less money for him to have and spend period. He was, I further pointed out, giving a reason why he should accept money from anyone period, no matter what they were doing.
After the commercial break he referenced the meat of my fax.
I once emailed him an idea that I had that was related to the general topics of that day. This was circa ‘93-’94. He read my email and talked about the subject for five minutes or so.