No. Steele didn't say that he just found out how valuable Rush is. What Steele said was that he mispoke.
Look, if you don't trust Steele that's one thing. But like Steele, you should try to get things accurate.
How do you misspeak when you say someone’s views/speech/show/whatever are incendiary and ugly? What was he really trying to say when those words just misspoke out of his mouth—that Rush is insightful and inspiring? I think Steele got things accurate—accurate as in what his brain really thinks.