Posted on 02/06/2020 11:06:24 AM PST by simpson96
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Melania at the SOTU *ping*
I’ve not listened, as I’ve said before, to a lot of Rush because I’m just not a talk radio or talk show kind of person.
But I have read many transcripts on here and he is a sharp and astute guy who clearly loves the country and I will pray that he recovers and doesn’t suffer.
I liked seeing Rush get it, but when he stood up with his mouth open like it was a big shock.... that was some hammy acting. I read he was getting it several hours before the SOTU speech. It wasn’t like he just found out right then.
It’s supposed to be realville.
Oh well.
He remembers everything and can put words together better than just about anyone. Reading his transcripts is never boring.
Wonderful photos. Rush hugging Melania, and very humbled and tearing up as she placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Prayers for his recovery. Our medical experts have come a long way in fighting many forms of cancer, including lung cancer. Sure is a warning to the younger smokers, of tobacco AND of marijuana— smoking anything vegetative creates the carcinogens that lead to this. Just stop.
Prayers again, for Rush.
If someone actually told him in a crowd he would not have heard, but the stupid media blurts out everything do he may have read it.
I was going to add they are one of the few things that I can actually read more than 5 minutes :)
I get engrossed in them and that doesn’t happen very often!
He may have heard about it ....but likely didn’t believe it would happen...just some rumor. So when it did happen, at the SOTU no less...he might have been truly shocked
Very nice set of pixs...
I did agree with you at first, but since have heard his surprise was not that he was to receive the medal, but that he was to receive it at the SOTU...The ceremony is usually at the White House...
May explain his reaction...Either way, well deserved...
I am glad Tiffany was there.
Rush is deaf. His cochlear implants do NOT enable him to hear in a clapping/ noisy/ multiple voices environment. He likely had NO idea what was being said to him once all the clapping and cheering started.
Id’ cut him some slack ;-)
Dunno about you, but I don't think any of us are getting out of life alive. I have an expiration date. You have an expiration date. Doesn't matter what you do or don't do. That expiration date ain't changing. Plenty of folks out there who have never touched the stuff. Interestingly enough, there has yet to be a link established between marijuana and cancer, other than the fact that it helps those going through chemo treatment far better than anything else out there. Don't like cigarettes and weed? Don't smoke them. Its that easy.
I would be willing to believe he knew it was coming, but not live on national TV.
Bump
Agreed. Rush, like President Trump, doesn't have a phony bone in his body. Right then and there, by the First Lady, no less....
I heard that his family kept him away from social media prior to the SOTU. In addition, the news came out two hours before the SOTU—if Rush was busy prepping before the SOTU, it is very likely that he was not paying attention to any news.
His surprise looked completely genuine.
Thank you! :)
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