Being rush limbaugh

Last week Hannity & Colmes, and CNN's Wolf Blitzer ran Rush's extended verbatim account of his being in the Kobe Club, a Manhattan steakhouse at the same time as Bill Clinton.

Help us with this: 1) Are we nuts, or did nothing whatsoever actually happen in this story as told by Big Pants on his show? 2) is this bragging, or complaining? 3) why does anyone listen to this shit?

RUSH LIMBAUGH: I'm looking at this woman, talking to her. She's looking at me, not aware of anything else going on in the restaurant, and all of a sudden I become aware of a looming presence at the table. I'm seated at a booth, a half-moon kind of booth, and I'm facing the entrance to the restaurant, toward the back.

This looming presence, I look up, and, golly, if it isn't former President Bill Clinton. He's got a big smile on his face, and I look up, and I imagine I was somewhat startled. I looked up, and I couldn't hear what he was saying because of the noise in there. So I'm turning my head, my left ear to him so I could hear a little bit more, and he said, "You're looking great. You're tan, fit, you look very good out there." I reached out my hand, "Mr. President, it's a pleasure to meet you." We shook hands and so forth, and he hung around for I guess two or three minutes, maybe five. I lost track of time. Then he and his party went and sat at a table behind me and to the left.

The woman I'm with is saying, "Whoa! Does this happen to you all the time?"

"Ah, yeah, constantly. I can't go anywhere."

So about ten minutes later I become aware again of another looming presence at my table, and I look up, and it's former President Bill Clinton. A second time, he has stopped at my table. The first time he stopped while walking in. The second time he actually left his table, came to my table, and he's got another guy standing with him, and the guy looks familiar, but I can't place him. I can't hear the introduction.

So I'm shaking hands and so forth, and this man is going on and on and on about how excited he is to meet me. He wanted to meet me, and the former president brought him over. When the former president told him I was there, he said, "I have to meet Mr. Limbaugh."

It turns out it was the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, and so we chatted for a while, and while I'm chatting -- now, this is hilarious. While I'm chatting with Villaraigosa, I kind of slid to the right in my half-moon booth, and as I did that, that created some distance between me and my guest. I'm talking with Villaraigosa, and when I'm talking to somebody in a very loud place like this, I have to devote full attention. I had to turn my head to my left, away from the action behind me, to hear what the mayor was saying. At some point during the conversation with the mayor, I looked to my left, and the former president was intently chatting up the woman that I was sitting with. He had leaned down, and his elbows and arms were on the railing of the booth, and they were in intense conversation.

I chatted up Mayor Villaraigosa some more, and then he left and they both went back to the president's table. Then they left. They left I guess about five minutes before I ended up leaving. As they left, the president had a friend with him. The president didn't come back to the table when they left but Ron Burkle was also in the president's group, and he stopped to say hello. So I stood up and said, "Hello, Mr. Burkle." I'm very familiar with Ron. He's a big Los Angeles guy and so forth, and then they left. I guess it was ten minutes, as I say, or so after that, I left. As I get to the front door, there is a photographer out there in the street and the flash is going crazy, taking pictures, and I said, "Whoa! Why didn't I think of this?" I knew this was going to happen. Clinton is up the sidewalk a little bit, chatting with somebody, and when I walk out the door, the photographer sees me and aims his camera at me and starts flashing pictures away.

Now, the former president is probably about ten feet up the sidewalk, and I decided I'm going to go up, shake his hand and say good night. Because I'm a gentleman, I'm not just going to walk out there and ignore him. So I did. I walked up. I asked him what he had to eat.

He said, (Clinton impression) "I had chicken. I had fish. That's what we had."

I said, "Well, you were good. You were good."

"You gotta be good, man, gotta be good."

So I said, "Nice to meet you," got back in a car, and drove off.

I got home and I sent an e-mail to some friends. I recounted the story pretty much as I've recounted it for you, and I told them, I predicted, "Now, you wait 'til this hits the papers. When it hits the papers, it will be the other way around. I approached the former president, and all of this sort of stuff -- and I did, outside the restaurant." I walked out and the photographers were there. In fact, I said to the woman I was with, "Okay, let's give them a picture." She didn't want to be in the picture. She just made a beeline for the car, but I walked up and said good night to the former president. By the way, all this was like two old friends getting together. It was idle chitchat and smiles all around from the mayor of Los Angeles, from Ron Burkle and from the president himself.

There was no tension about any of this. It was a good time, and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it -- especially when I looked over and I saw the former president intently chatting up the woman that I was with. (Laughing.) It was cool. So, anyway, somehow Matt Drudge heard about this today. So he's had it blurbed on the Drudge Report for I guess an hour or two. He said that he's been talking to "sources close Clinton" who said, "No, the former president didn't approach Rush. That would never happen. Rush approached the former president." I predicted this. Somewhere in Clinton, Inc., that's the story. I did approach him outside the restaurant when I was leaving to say good-bye. I'm not just going to ignore him on the sidewalk there. They had photographers taking pictures of that, I'm sure, but I was minding my business. I didn't even know he was going to be there. I was minding my own business like always, bothering nobody, sitting in the restaurant. When he stopped at the table, that starts this whole story. Then he brought the mayor over, and then Burkle came over, and it was amazing.

By the way, there were people in there taking cell phone pictures of me. The lady I was with had to excuse herself to go to the restroom, and at that point four or five people in the restaurant came over and wanted pictures and autographs and this sort of stuff. When my guest came back those other people then stopped coming over. But there are witnesses to this, is the point. There are countless witnesses. What was that, Mr. Snerdley? There is no "rest of the story." What kind of rest of the story do you think there would be? There is no rest of the story. No, no, no, no, no.

Comments

[joanie]

Magister Ludi, where are you?

[Tommy008]

Rush is amazed that Clinton would offer a handshake and be such a magnanimous friendly fellow, since Rush knows that by rights Clinton shouldn't be speaking to a man who has spoken of him in such vicious , mocking ways. Anyone who had treated Rush in a similar manner would have received a total snub job by him. Clinton is proving that despite his faults he's a much bigger man then Limbaugh, and this has to be eating this big fat toad up inside. Rush can't stand it that Bill has made 40 million dollars from his speaking tour, and moves now in his same social class of multimillionaires. He loved it when he could sneer at Clinton when he was only making a low six figure salary. People like Rush consider such earners as peons.

[Duffman]

"why does anyone listen to this shit?"
..and one could say: why does anyone write about this shit?
By focusing on 'Limbaugh' and/or 'Dori Monson' - we're playing right into their hands. It baffles me?? I'm sure respectivly each's entourage tunes in to i.e. 'Drudge' and/or 'BW' to see how successful they've been in 'stirring up the pot' and then (probably like OBL is doing somewhere) laughing all the way to the bank -at how manipulative they've been. There's only one thing these guys fear: 'being ignored'! :)

[Duffman]

"Magister Ludi, where are you?"

..in Castalia..indeed withdrawn from life's big problems

[Duffman]

..and in my opinion, Rush's days are numbered!

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[sarge]

Rush is so transparent. He's just thrilled he got to see Clinton up close. Even if he hates his guts.

[Mike]

I love how the woman who was with him didn't want to be seen with him! Hilarious.

[sparky]

Stephanie Miller talked about this the other day..said witnesses said Rush was giggling and gushing like a little girl....I wonder if Big Dog was playing mind games with him...?

Other than that, I dont recall seeing anything about this in the general media, probably because ..,,,you know...

[chucks]

I can not stand Clinton either. However, if I were sitting in a steak house, with a woman, trying to score a little and he were to come up to my table, I would treat him with the respect he deserves as former POTUS. Hell, I would treat that woman he lives with with respect as well. As a soon to be former candidate for the office of POTUS and having lived with him, she deserves a medal of some kind.

[Duffman]

chucks writes:
"As a soon to be former candidate for the office of POTUS and..."
WADR chucks :) YES, but only because she WILL be POTUS! Ya know..she has yet to turn it up to '11' !

ps: Sooooo sorry, SigAlert

[Duffman]

"..witnesses said Rush was giggling and gushing like a little girl..."

..somewhat sexist remark isn't it?

[Tommy008]

I caught the end of Dori's show today, where he seemed to be gleeful an all thrilled-like that the "lib" Seattle mayor's son, who is a pit boss at a state Indian casino, was indicted for involvement in a cheating conspiracy. Dori was asking whether this reflected on Greg Nickells, kind of the "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" sort of thing. Shame on you Dori. Is there no level you will stoop to? The Dillard Montrose episodes will continue- with a vengeance..

[darryl]

How sweet.

Rush lost his Clinto-virginity.

We'll see if he is ever again able to work up the vinigar and attack Bill.

[joanie]

chucks: , I would treat that woman he lives with with respect as well.

How do you know he doesn't? I don't hear her complaining.