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June 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Say, folks, I think we have a new acronym for the President of the United States.
It's no longer POTUS.
It's A COTIS, ass kicker of the United States.
You believe that?
Oh, I'll tell you what, this guy, President Obama, is giving Marxist professors a bad name.
Well, reality always gets in the way of Marxism, and it is here.
Anyway, folks, great to be back with you, Rush Limbaugh, Cloud 9, here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushball at EIBnet.com.
So everybody has been saying, what are you going to say about your wedding on the radio?
And I said, I really don't know.
I'm going to figure out what to say when the microphone goes on.
You know, I never plan things.
We do things improv here.
The first thing I want to address is why didn't I say anything about it in advance?
You know, you and I in this audience for over 20 years, almost 21 now, 21 years in August, have had a familial relationship.
And I read some of the emails before Catherine and I left on the honeymoon.
We left on Monday of last week, a week ago yesterday.
And there were some emails, not a whole lot.
Why didn't you tell us?
Why did you keep this a secret?
Folks, there's a very simple answer to this.
For one, we wanted to not have this take place in public.
We don't want any kind of a circus atmosphere associated with any of this.
Whether people believe it or not, I do not seek media attention, particularly in my private life.
I want no part of it.
We did a damn good job of keeping this thing undercover, under wraps, up until the day before the thing was to take place.
And if it weren't for Zeb Chaffetz's book, other people of the media would not have known what was going on.
The fact that Zeb Chaffetz in his book, Rush Limbaugh, An Army of One, published the wedding date, you know, some media people went out and got the book and said, whoa, what is this?
And so the lid was blown.
But even at that, we did not provide any details because, folks, seriously, there's no desire here to live this marriage, this relationship in public, to have constant media attention to it.
This was a private affair for Catherine and me and 400 of our friends and associates.
And I have to tell you, I have people have telling me, the people who were at the wedding on Saturday night have never seen me happier while I was waiting at the altar for Catherine, and it took her forever, which I didn't, she took one step at a time.
One step, pause, one step, and I'm saying, come on, come on.
And I'm hopping up and down up there at the altar.
And everybody says, you have never looked happier.
Right, Snerdley?
You never looked happier.
Never looked more radiant.
This was such a memorable affair.
Nobody who was there will ever forget this, if I say so myself.
I'm getting a bunch of echoes now from members of the highly overrated staff who were invited and who were there.
But we have not, a lot of people say, where's the pictures?
Same thing.
We did not allow cameras.
We allowed no cameras in some, no personal cameras, no personal video phones.
The only pictures there are are those taken by the four or five professionals that we hired to run around at the luau that we did on Friday night prior to the wedding on Saturday.
and then during the wedding, the reception, dinner, and the after-dinner concert.
And we haven't seen the pictures yet.
We just got back last night after stopping in Detroit to pick up sheepdog number two.
We left Las Vegas at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, got back last night after stopping in Detroit to pick up Wellesley.
Wellesley is 13 weeks old.
Detroit's where the breeder is.
Yeah, Detroit's where the they have these beautiful dogs in Detroit outside Detroit, if is the, yeah, our wedding is the least transparent wedding ever is the way to look at this.
So we've got Wellesley now, 13 weeks to go with Abby.
They haven't met yet.
That'll happen this afternoon at 5 o'clock.
We pick up Abby from kindergarten.
Yes, kindergarten.
Abby goes to a school.
We haven't seen Abby in about 10 days.
So it's going to be, I can't wait for it.
I cannot wait for Abby and this little sheepdog, Wellesley, two females.
Pumpkin met the puppy last night, everything fine until the sheepdog started barking, and then Punkin ran for the hills.
But it's just fun.
Folks, it's fabulous.
No, the dog does not know how to read.
What do you mean does a dog know how to read?
No, you mean Abby, kindergarten.
It's a daycare center that we call a school.
Just for the fun of it.
It's cultural enrichment for the dog.
Anyway, we have our own terms for what we do with the animals here, but we love them.
Now, folks, a lot of you want to know about Catherine.
Why didn't you say anything about this?
Again, you know, I've been on the radio here for 20-plus years, and a lot of what I've done in my private life has been lived in public.
And I just decided, no more.
We want to try to be as normal as we can.
Now, we know that we're not going to be able to live anonymously, but we can forestall some media attention by not seeking it.
And we didn't in this case.
But I have known Catherine for four years, six years.
I met Catherine when she was running the foundation for Gary Player.
And she, part of the job, was to put together celebrity golf tournaments for Gary Player at various places.
And one of them was up at Wayne Heisinger's course in Palm City at the Floridian.
And for the first three years I went up there, I never met Catherine.
It was always email invitations.
And I came to find out that she didn't even want to invite me, that it took a friend of hers.
You got to get Rush Limbaugh.
She said, Rush Limbaugh.
And she only knew of me as I was portrayed in public.
So the first time I actually saw Catherine was at one of these golf tournaments, and all the celebrities were sitting on white folding chairs near the sand trap where Seve Biasteros was putting on a sand trap demonstration and botching it.
Sevey Biasteros could not get out of a sand trap to save his life.
It looked like me.
And we're all kind of looking at each other.
So I'm sitting next to Patrick Duffy of Dallas, and I'm the last one on the right side of the row.
And I hear it, I feel a tap on my right shoulder.
Well, when that happens, you look to the right.
When I looked to the right, there was nobody there.
So I looked to my left.
Tap on the shoulder.
Hi, I'm Catherine.
So I looked to my left finally, and there she is in white slacks, long flowing blonde hair.
And I saw her from the rear first.
And she's congratulating everybody else in line, saying hi to everybody.
And one thing led to another.
She ended up working for the National Football League, liaising with the local host committees for Super Bowls every year.
And it just built over time, over six years.
And folks, I know many of you have followed my life since we got to know each other.
And I think, well, no, I know I got it right.
Like Winston Churchill said, never, never, never give up.
If you're out there thinking all this kind of happiness is going to elude you, forget it.
It will.
It'll either slap you upside the face or you'll find it one way or the other.
But I hope that you find as much happiness as I have.
I would love to tell you some of the details about the wedding, but I wouldn't know where to start and I wouldn't know where to stop.
Well, okay, Snerdley's saying, start with the ceremony.
But before I get, and yes, we're going to talk about Obama and the oil spill.
We're going to get to all that in due course, folks.
Remember, I'm chomping it the bit here to get to all this because this is outrageous, what we're being set up for here.
But this wedding has been in the planning stages or was in the planning stages from last September.
And there were certain things that we both agreed to that we wanted.
We wanted to put on a grand two-day party in our hometown here for our friends and associates.
And we wanted to do this and just blow it out.
And we wanted everybody to have the best time they've ever had.
Catherine planned the entire thing.
Every detail.
I mean, you've heard that Elton John performed at the wedding.
This is all true.
And I'll tell you about that in just a sec.
You know, it is very instructive.
It is very instructive to find out that all of these supposed tolerant, loving, open-minded people on the left have given him such grief for performing at our wedding.
He has really caught hell for this.
He doesn't care.
We've been in contact with him, but he doesn't care.
It was amazing what he did.
The performance that he put on for us, it was 75 minutes.
It was specifically tailored to our circumstances.
And how we secured Elton John is an interesting story in and of itself, which he told the assembled guests after his first song.
He got a standing ovation when he came out.
He got a standing ovation after every tune.
He did an encore.
He darted offstage after what we thought was his final song.
And I knew he was coming back.
He bounced right back.
And the final song was, Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
It just had people enthralled.
Very intimate, 420 people in a decorated ballroom, making it look like a lounge.
People were on sofas, cocktail tables and chairs and so forth.
But to give you an example of the detail, while the concert was going on, all of our guests staying at the Breakers, the hotel, which is about 95% of them, we placed a CD of Elton John's greatest hits on the pillow in their bedrooms with a personal note from us to each one of them.
And people who were local, people who did not stay in the hotel, when their cars were fetched by the valet, they were presented the Elton John CD in a personal note, the greatest hit CD.
Every possible imaginable detail that you could conceive was taken care of and dealt with and executed flawlessly.
This whole weekend was the product of months of preparation, and the execution was just amazing.
And I've had people come up to me who guests there, former producers for major networks, movie theater studios and so forth.
I've never seen a production like this.
There has never been a wedding that we have been to, and there never will be.
Anytime anybody goes to a wedding from now on that was at yours, Rush, they are going to never forget yours.
And it was memorable.
Well, we wanted to make everybody a part of it.
We wanted everybody to feel they were there because we love them.
Everybody there was there for a reason, because they mean something special.
Even you, Snerdley, everybody there because they meant something special to us.
And I really, I'm not trying to ladle this on to make you feel like, oh, what did I miss?
I'm trying to share it with you after the fact.
We did not want any news of this in advance.
We didn't want any prying eyes.
We just didn't want a circus atmosphere, which is the only reason why there was no advance notice of this from me.
It was just, folks, it was just my desire, I don't get to do this very much, to just have a couple of days as a private citizen with nobody knowing who I am or what I'm doing except the people who know us and love us.
I got to take a quick time out here.
We got a lot to do.
There's more to say about you.
Is that enough, Snerdley?
Is that enough, Catherine?
Should I go?
Oh, I haven't talked about the ceremony.
Ceremony, the hutch.
The hutch.
Yeah, we had the color guard there.
One of the guests came up to me the next morning in a hotel.
We're having breakfast.
You know, you just blow everybody away.
Here you are married by an African-American preacher.
You're serenaded by a gay, openly gay, popular music icon, and they say you're the bigot.
It was a magical weekend.
I will never, I will never forget this.
And I just, you know, all I had to do was show up and say, I do.
I had to show up at the rehearsal dinner.
I did a few little organizational things, but this was a production totally 100% conceived, inspired, and executed by the bride.
Even while she was doing bride stuff, she was doing all this.
I've never seen anything like it.
And I never had one moment of doubt that it was all going to come off.
I've got confidence in Catherine.
Everything she says she's going to do is going to happen.
I'm striving to have her look at me that way now.
That anything I say is going to just...
Anyway, quick time out.
We'll be back.
I'll tell you about the ceremony and we'll move on.
And I'll tell you how the Elton John thing came about since everybody is people who weren't there are commenting on why he did it.
It's been amazing to see.
And all the criticism he's gotten from his side of the aisle when we just elected a president who was all about unity, we were told.
We're supposed to join together post-partisanship.
Well, here was some giant big-time unity on the evening of Saturday, June 5th, and who the hell's mad at it?
The left.
Yeah, it was a party, but it was a meaningful wedding.
It was a heartfelt ceremony and so forth.
And everybody involved had a wonderful time.
Yeah, these people have to run around and try to denigrate Elton John for deigning to do this.
It's very instructive, folks.
Very instructive about the left and who they really are and what they're all about.
But sit tight.
We're coming back right after this.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone broadcast excellence from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All right, the ceremony.
We had, as Snerdley describes it, one moment you're crying with joy and emotion, and the next minute you're laughing yourself silly.
And that roller coaster kept going up and down.
We had four songs from Broadway Musicals, The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, and a performed by genuine Broadway singers, Rob Evan and Lisa Vorman, and they just, they were fabulous.
And they were, she sang at the, at the dinner, and we actually brought out a color guard, saluted the military.
Catherine's father's graduate of the Naval Academy with Senator McCain.
He finished much higher than Senator McCain.
And he didn't know this, but we dedicated a portion of the wedding dinner to him with anchors away after the color guard.
And Lisa Vroman sang, God Bless America.
That was just, this is what Snerdley means.
One moment you're crying and the next moment you're laughing.
Simply can't believe it.
Catherine and I wrote a paragraph to each other that the Hutch, Ken Hutchison, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson flew in from Seattle to perform the ceremony, read to the audience.
We did not read them to each other.
He read them.
And during the vows, for example, the Hutch would say, he repeat the vows and say, for richer and poorer.
And I would say, for richer and richer and richer and richer.
He said, for better or worse.
And I said, for better, for better, for better, for better and worse.
Whispered it, I was mic'd.
At the end of the paragraph, well, my paragraph to Catherine started out, we've come a long way since you imposed the buddy rules.
And a lot of people, what were the buddy rules?
It's kind of self-explanatory.
And my last line was, may our select comfort mattress setting be the same forever.
And the place was just going nuts.
And meanwhile, the Hutch said, you know, these rings are a token.
And there's three tokens up here because I'm one of them.
He said, I'm the only black guy here that has not been paid to be here, which was not true.
But people are looking, what in the world is going on?
And I looked at the audience when he said this.
I said, I'm sorry, folks.
I should have warned you.
And they're laughing and then they're crying.
Catherine escorted down the aisle by both her brother John and her father because they both mean so much to her.
They walked her halfway down.
Her father finished.
I couldn't wait for them to get to the altar.
They got to about 10 feet and the process was so slow.
So I finally just went out there.
And I got rid of the father and I grabbed Catherine.
I took her up to the altar and we started the ceremony.
And I couldn't take my eye off of her during the whole thing.
I never, from the time she started walking down, I had people telling me you were bopping up and down up there waiting for this giant smile on your face, which was true.
All of that was true.
I was delirious.
And at the time the Hutch said, and I now pronounce you husband and wife, I went, yes, yes, two different times.
And then we took our tour back down the aisle where we went for photos and everybody else went for the cocktail reception, which of course is the bride and groom you never get to because you have to do the photos and all that.
Yeah, I know we were supposed to be outside in the courtyard, but it was very hot and humid, so we did it in a circle room.
It was a gorgeous, every venue, every venue was just perfect and well done.
But it was a major, major production.
And everybody who attended will attest to how flawless and seamless and huge and big and unique and surprising and unexpected it all came off.
And it all happened because Catherine did it.
It was just amazing, folks.
Executing a signed host duties flawlessly is zero mistakes.
I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the wedding weekend because, frankly, folks, is one of the happiest weekend, probably the happiest weekend of my life.
And I would much rather relive it than talk about Obama and what he's going to do to damage and ruin this country.
We got all year to talk about that.
But I'm only going to have one occasion to tell you about this.
And this is it.
Now, a lot of people told Catherine.
In fact, I just got a note from H.R. up in New York that he and his wife, Teresa, said, she looked like Grace Kelly.
I said, nope, Grace Kelly looks like Catherine.
And we don't know if we're going to release a picture yet.
I mean, this is all part of Snerdley.
Snerdly, you've got to release a picture.
We're thinking about it, but again, it's not something that we have affirmed.
In fact, Coco, the website, just, well, you got a picture?
I said, nope, not yet.
He wrote back, okay, okay, okay.
We haven't seen him yet.
We were supposed to see him last night, but we haven't because we've been, well, understandably busy in the evenings and some of the afternoons, ladies and gentlemen, for the past 10 or 12 days.
But Catherine looked radiant, just beautiful.
I couldn't, I mean, she shows up way at the end of the hallway, between all the rows of people.
I'm going to go, whoa.
And people could see me at the going, whoa, whoa.
And they're ultimately looking at her and looking at me for my reaction to it.
But she was more beautiful than I've ever seen her.
And that's saying something because she's beautiful every day.
Now, the Elton John stuff, let me tell you how this happened.
We told you that we put this whole thing into motion last September.
In fact, we didn't even announce the engagement.
We got engaged October 3rd in Pittsburgh at Lamont.
Pittsburgh has ties for both of us.
It's my first town away from home, my first place I attempted to succeed and didn't.
And so closing the loop in Pittsburgh, I may not have succeeded there, but I sure as hell did last October 3rd.
Lamont's on Mount Washington.
It overlooks downtown Pittsburgh in the stadium.
This was a it was a Saturday night.
The next night, we were with Al Michaels and the NBC crew for the Chargers and Steelers.
And we're on the sideline.
Lynn Swan comes over and says hello.
And Catherine's got on the engagement rock.
You know, people are blinded by the light looking, what is that?
Oh, no, it's nothing.
It's nothing, is it?
Little disguise.
And it was just funny.
So we started putting it all together.
And Catherine's first request, her first hope was to have Elton John.
Now, when your bride-to-be says, I really would like to get Elton John, you try to think of a way to make it happen.
And I think, okay, how?
How am I going to do this?
Who am I going to get to broach?
I have since met his agent, Howard, Howard Rhodes in Los Angeles, Michael Hewitson, another with his staff.
We've made some really great new friends in this whole process.
So in the process, starting the planning and trying to figure out how we can get Elton, we also had a couple of standbys that we were going to contact in case we couldn't get Elton.
Then last December, we went to Hawaii.
As you know, there was a health incident, medical emergency for me.
And it amazes me that that is still being reported as a heart attack, even though I, with the doctor standing next to me, conducted a press conference, which pulled all the reporters off of Obama.
He was there at the same time.
And I said it was not a heart attack.
The doctor said, it wasn't a heart attack.
We don't know what it was, but there's no arterial damage, no coronary disease.
There's no blockage.
Get an angiogram.
It was actually good, a giant picture of health.
But while we're there, we're staying at the Kahala Hotel on Oahu.
And when we had checked in, the general manager, Thomas Pauley, had told us that Elton John was in the suite right above us.
So we still hadn't resolved this.
So I went out on our little patio deck, because his is right above, and I started singing Elton John songs, standing there hoping he would hear.
And I'm singing, Little Jeannie, and whatever Elton John songs I could think of, and didn't hear a word.
Then the medical emergency happens.
Back from the hospital after a couple, three days there.
And the general manager of the Kahala, Thomas Pauley, says, Elton John was asking about you.
And I said, well, was he hoping I didn't survive?
No, no, no.
He wanted to know if you were okay because he knew you were staying here.
So light bulb went off.
And I said, Catherine, write him a note.
Write him a note and get Thomas Pauley to deliver it.
And say whatever you want.
And she did.
So she puts this note together explaining how much we both admire his music, his career, his talent, his achievements.
She puts in two or three paragraphs about me that she wanted him to know.
They're unlike the media portrayal.
I had to come back home to resume work.
She stayed in Hawaii for a couple of more weeks to be with her mother and her father over there.
And I'm checking my emails one night about a week later, and the subject line from an email from Catherine says, in all caps, we got Elton with two exclamation points.
And I wrote him back, how did this happen?
She told me what had happened, and it transpired that he had gotten her note, and somehow his agent had heard about it, and somebody had talked to him, his agent or somebody, and said, you won't believe this.
And he told this story before performing for us on Saturday night.
He said, you won't believe this.
And he described the offer.
And the agent said, well, I know you won't want to do it.
How do you want to handle it?
Oh, no, no.
I do.
I most certainly do want to do this.
I'm just ecstatic here because this is something from the get-go that Catherine said she hoped would happen.
And here it was.
It was going to happen.
And at that time, I didn't touch it.
Laid off of it for a couple of minutes or a couple of weeks, actually, and then wrote a note to Michael Hewitson, who was one of Elton's confidants, and thanked them profusely for accepting the gig, how honored we were for it.
And Hewitson wrote back and said, this is going to happen, Rush.
This really is going to happen.
Elton is actually looking forward to this.
So I'm sitting there going, I don't believe this.
It's actually happened.
During the whole process, this was in January.
He moved some tour dates that he had for that weekend in Serbia.
He rescheduled them for some time later in order to be able to do this.
And I tell you something funny about this.
Three weeks before our wedding in his performance, I get this note from American Express.
I'm a black card member.
And it's an invitation on Sunday night, June the 6th, for an evening with Elton John in New York at the Time Warner Center or Carnegie Hall over.
And I'm looking at this and I said, you mean to tell me that I could have gone up to New York and taken Catherine and hear him free of charge the next night?
I looked at this and I said, this is unbelievable.
So I wrote Hewitt's in a note, I can't believe this.
You guys are going to New York after, oh, yeah, we're going to be coming in from Atlanta.
We'll do your gig.
We'll fly back to Atlanta late Saturday night and head to New York for the American Express show on Sunday night.
We met Elton backstage prior to the performance.
He walked in, gave me a hug, gave Catherine a big hug, invited us to dinner at his home in London, was dead serious about it.
And we had just the greatest chat with him backstage.
And he told Catherine that she reminded him of somebody in his life.
It was very beautiful.
And we just had the greatest time.
He could not have been friendlier.
There was, you know, I asked him, you're 63.
I said, I can't believe the schedule you keep.
I mean, you're in Morocco one night, then you're in Egypt.
They let you in.
I mean, you're touring.
you're doing Vegas.
Do you ever get Tyson?
No.
What would I do?
What would you do if you quit?
Just play golf?
And I said, that's true.
He said, Rush, we're doing what we love.
There's no reason to stop.
I'm enjoying every minute of it.
So he goes out, he does the performance, comes out, sings a song, and then tells the story that I've just told you about how it happened.
Now, we did get worried on the Friday before the wedding because it leaked out as a rumor that it was Elton John.
And so I sent Elton's camp an email.
I said, okay, it's leaked out here.
No problem, Rush.
No, we're going to be there.
It's not a problem whatsoever.
We can't wait to get there.
We're looking forward to it.
And the crowd, we had really, in our invitations and the conversations, all of our guests had been making bets as to who the entertainment was.
I mean, it was Paul McCarthy.
Vince Flynn said to me the week before the wedding, look, my Secret Service contacts have told me that after the White House, Paul McCartney is booked on a plane to Palm Beach.
And I said, well, he's welcome to come to Palm Beach, but he's not invited to our wedding.
Everybody was trying to, I mean, you should, it was Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Rolling Stones, and nobody, nobody in the weeks leading up, nobody guessed it.
Not one person guessed it.
And Flynn said, I know somebody's guessed it, and you're just lying.
You know, you're just using stone.
I said, Vince, nobody's guessed it.
Then Friday night at the Luel, I'm talking to Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, and he guessed it.
And I had to put on my stone face, and I just started laughing.
I said, Mr. Justice Thomas, what in the world would make you think it's Elton John?
And he just started his big belly laugh and so forth.
So I'm, gosh, I hope I pulled off this poker face.
Then it leaks.
What was it, Friday morning?
It leaked to Saturday morning, whatever it was, it leaked in the newspaper.
And a lot of the guests were somewhat disappointed that the surprise had leaked out, but not all of them knew it, which stunned me.
They were still taking bets that maybe it was a feint, that it was a head fake, that was part of our plan to keep the entertainment secret.
H.R., he read it in the paper.
He didn't believe it.
A lot of people didn't believe it.
So it came time to leave the dinner and dancing and go into the Ponstérion Ballroom, which was set up for Elton's performance.
Single piano with a synthesizer.
It was amazing, by the way.
One-man show of what he was able to do with a piano and a synthesizer keyboard.
But regardless, we had the stage obscured by drop screens, drop curtains.
And they told me, you announce it when the curtains fall, when you see the curtains fall.
So I've stood up there, microphone in hand, curtains drop.
I said, ladies and gentlemen, Sir Elton John.
And the room stood up en masse, standing ovation.
He came out.
Could tell he was a little surprised that he got a standing ovation from this crowd.
It was, and he did, and after every song, he got a standing O. What did he do?
Ten songs, I think, in the 75 minutes.
I think it actually went an hour and 20 minutes, supposed to be an hour and 10.
And it ended, then the after party began, went on at about 2 o'clock.
And that's when all the guests said, you know, this has never stopped.
Every moment, every venue has been bigger than the preceding one.
This has been the greatest thing we've ever been to.
And I have to tell you, folks, it was for me, too.
It was the greatest weekend of my life.
It was just, and I'm saying to Catherine, I said, I'm at heart, I'm just this little hick kid from southeast Missouri.
And look what happened here this weekend.
I got you.
I had 400 of our closest friends and associates here to see it.
Elton John showed up.
And then, of course, we left and we tracking all of the really snarky comments that he was getting from people supposedly friendly with him on his side of the aisle.
It was very, as I said earlier, it was very, very instructive to watch this.
The people who want unity and who want togetherness.
And he said he came out.
He told the people, you might be surprised to see me here.
He said, why do you think I'm here?
Because I want to build bridges.
I want to build bridges.
I don't want to erect walls.
Another standing ovation when he got that.
He was clearly having a great time.
He was applauding himself after each song.
He got up from the piano, walked the full length of the stage, greet everybody, clapped for himself.
People were waving candles like it was an outdoor concert.
People standing up in the aisles and dancing.
Once in a moment, lifetime thrill.
And that's what it was supposed to be.
Something once in a moment.
And it was.
And Catherine and I, well, I know it's true for her too.
I've never been happier.
I know it's true for me, and I can tell the same thing with her.
But she did a most remarkable job of putting all this together from the Broadway singers to, she's the one that secured Elton.
Her letter to him while we were in the hotel.
There's no question about it.
Clearly he fell for her.
And he was smitten with her backstage before the concert, as is everybody who meets her.
Very, very true.
Quick timeout, folks.
Next segment's going to be real short because this one was so long, but it was worth it.
And welcome back.
We'll get to your phone calls in the next hour.
And to give you, look, you can figure out what we're going to be talking about as the rest of the show unfolds, the BP oil spill, the Obama administration, and Obama's personal reaction to it.
Folks, I hope you remember that about a half a week, maybe a week before I left, I told you they want this disaster.
I told you that this is something that's going to play right into their hands.
He's going to use this thing to push cap and trade.
He has devastated the Gulf oil business by eliminating all offshore drilling until the so-called cause for this thing is found.
It's a disaster in and of itself, the way the President of the United States is dealing with this.
It's a crisis, and they are going to make full use of it.
This speech from the Oval Office tonight is not about the oil spill.
It's not about BP.
It is about Obama.
The whole purpose for this is Obama's plummeting approval numbers and an attempt to get them back up.
We have learned so much about early offers of assistance from foreign countries that were rejected because the paperwork wasn't done correctly or so forth and so on.
The Bob Etheridge situation yesterday.
I have many, many, many things to say about that.
And we have a general stack of stuff that has accumulated in my absence that, of course, until I say something about it, it really hasn't been said.
So all of that, plus more, including your phone calls, when we get back at the top of the next hour.
Some confusion, email.
Rush, who performed your wedding ceremony, Clarence Thomas or Reverend Hutcherson?
It was Reverend Hutcherson.
Somebody who was uninformed did leak that it was Clarence Thomas.
That performed the ceremony was not the case.
It was Reverend Hutcherson from Seattle.
The Hutch.
You've heard him on the program as we discuss football.
My Uncle Steve performed the first half of the ceremony as someone out of state, a federal judge out of state.
He was not allowed to solemnify, but we wanted a family member as part of the ceremony.
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