The Bongino Brief - Feb 20, 2021
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Feb. 20, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show
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| Dan Bongino. | |
| Welcome to the Bongino Brief. | |
| I'm Dan Bongino. | |
| You know, I don't like to repeat things I said on Fox, but given the tragedy of losing Rush Limbaugh, the godfather... | |
| It's important, I repeat again, that people have asked me often, you know, what do you think made Rush so popular? | |
| And I always give the example of the French expression we've pulled into English, you know, the je ne sais quoi, right? | |
| The je ne sais quoi, I use it all the time. | |
| And I think the direct translation, I don't speak French, is I don't know what. | |
| And what it means is it's a way to sum up the X factor. | |
| Like, what made Rush Limbaugh so great? | |
| And the answer is nobody could tell you. | |
| If they knew it, they'd be Rush Limbaugh. | |
| What was it? | |
| That he was, you know, that he was funny? | |
| A lot of people are funny. | |
| Levin can be hilarious. | |
| Limbaugh was funny. | |
| So it wasn't just that. | |
| A lot of radio hosts are funny and have no audience at all. | |
| Was that he understood conservatism? | |
| We all understand conservatism. | |
| Was it that he told cool stories? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'd like to think we all tell cool stories. | |
| What was it? | |
| Was he, as he said all the time, the big lovable fuzzball? | |
| Was that it? | |
| Remember that? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| Genesee Quah. | |
| But Rush had the Quah. | |
| Whatever the Quah is, Rush had the Quah. | |
| If I knew what it was, I'd bottle it and sell it and I'd be a trillionaire. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I know he was special. | |
| And I know he's not replaceable. | |
| He will be replaced, but he's not replaceable. | |
| There's a difference. | |
| All right, just here's a quick video. | |
| This is just worth playing again today. | |
| The great President Donald J. Trump giving the great Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | |
| This is just a minute of that, and it's just worth checking out again today. | |
| Take a look. | |
| Almost every American family knows the pain when a loved one is diagnosed with a serious illness. | |
| Here tonight is a special man, beloved by millions of Americans, who just received a stage 4 advanced cancer diagnosis. | |
| This is not good news, but what is good news is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet. | |
| Rush Limbaugh, thank you for your decades of tireless devotion to our country. | |
| (Applause.) | |
| And Rush, in recognition of all that you have done for our nation, the millions of people | |
| a day that you speak to and that you inspire, and all of the incredible work that you have | |
| done for charity, I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country's | |
| highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | |
| (Applause.) | |
| I need you to watch that. | |
| I need you to watch it. | |
| Just watch the video version of the show. | |
| Either you're listening to me on terrestrial radio or some digital platform, audio only. | |
| Watch the show. | |
| Rumble.com slash Bongino. | |
| Not because I need the views or the clicks. | |
| That's all secondary nonsense. | |
| I want you to watch Rush's face. | |
| It's not an act. | |
| Rush just was so uncomfortable with public attention directed at him. | |
| He was a very private guy. | |
| He really doesn't know how to respond. | |
| He doesn't get up and do a dance and take a victory lap. | |
| He's almost uncomfortable with all the attention, so he does gestures that I think I or other people who are kind of uncomfortable with public attention would do too. | |
| You give them the salute, the bow, whatever. | |
| You don't know what to do. | |
| The thank you. | |
| And people keep clapping because it's Rush Limbaugh and you just want them to stop because you're so uncomfortable with the attention. | |
| That was Rush. | |
| That was Rush. | |
| Here's one more. | |
| One of the greatest speeches I've ever heard. | |
| 2009 CPAC. | |
| I lived in Maryland. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| I kicked myself in the teeth forever for not going to see this live. | |
| I could have drove right down. | |
| I think this was in National Harbor at the time. | |
| Matter of fact, I know it was. | |
| No, not National Harbor. | |
| It was in the other one. | |
| They used to have it in downtown DC and they moved it to National Harbor. | |
| This is Rush, 2009 speech at CPAC. | |
| I was watching from my dreadfully laid out living room in Saverna Park that purposely made you uncomfortable. | |
| I think the designers quietly hated me. | |
| But I watched this and this was just one small snippet of that CPAC speech, which is the stuff of legend. | |
| 2009, Rush Limbaugh, CPAC. | |
| For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I am Rush Limbaugh and I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. | |
| I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. | |
| And I want any force Any person, any element of an overarching big government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element, or that person to fail. | |
| I want you to succeed. | |
| This is really weird. | |
| Like I'm telling you, this is the goosiest of goose bumps. | |
| That's one of probably 200 applause lines in there. | |
| That speech. | |
| Totally off the cuff. | |
| He's not even looking at notes. | |
| That'll just blow your mind. | |
| 2009 Rush Limbaugh CPAC. | |
| Just an amazing speech. | |
| The Dan Bongino Show. |
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