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, 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 NSA quarrier, the NSA, Choire, 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 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 what they'd be Rush Limbaugh. What was it that was, you know, that he was funny? A lot of people are funny, Lytvyn could 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 remember the. I don't know. I have no idea. Janice Equa. But Rush had the choir whenever the choir is, Rush had the choir. I knew what it was, I 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.

It's a difference. All right, this is a quick video, this is just worth playing again today, the great president, Donald 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 for 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. 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. I need you to watch that. I need you to watch it.

Just watch a video version of the show, either you listen to me on terrestrial radio or some digital platform audio only, watch the show Rumbold Dotcom slash Bonjean or not, because I need the views of the CLECs. That's all secondary nonsense. I want you to watch Rush's face. It's not an act, rochus. Was so uncomfortable. With public attention directed at him, he was a very private guy, that it's not an act, 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, public attention would do to you give them the salute, you know, the bow or whatever, you don't know what to do. Thank you. And if 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, two thousand nine CPAC, I lived in Maryland. Let me tell you something. I kick myself in the teeth forever for not going to see this live. I could have drove right down. I think this was a national harbor at the time. Matter of fact, I know it was no, not National Harbor. It was in the other one. The the they used to have it in downtown D.C. 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 Savannah 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 two thousand nine Rush Limbaugh, CPAC. For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I'm 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 see. I'm telling you, that's one of probably, again, goosebump it out here. This is really weird. Like I'm telling you, it's a chase of goose bumps. That's one of probably 200 applause lines in there.

That speech totally off the cuff, only even looking at notes that'll just blow your mind. 2009, Rush Limbaugh, CPAC.

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