Trump says he will award Rush Limbaugh with Medal of Freedom

[Gefn]

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told network anchors during a private lunch Tuesday that he will award Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom, one day after the prominent political radio host announced he has advanced lung cancer.

According to a person familiar with the discussion, Trump informed anchors he will bestow Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the coming months. Limbaugh has been a staunch ally of the President's for years, and dined with him at his Palm Beach golf club over the holidays. Once, during an event in the Rose Garden, Trump praised Limbaugh as someone who "can speak for three hours without a phone call."
Trump wished the conservative radio talk show host a speedy recovery Monday after Limbaugh told his audience he is beginning treatment, which will require him to miss the show some days.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/rush-limbaugh-donald-trump-medal-of-freedom/index.html

[PeteS in CA]

Was this at the pre-SOTU lunch from which CNN was excluded? Maybe Jim Acosta shouldn't have jackassed Ivanka in Switzerland a week or two ago.

[NavyCanDo]

Well deserved.  Outside of politics Rush was a true philanthropist using his show and his own pledges to give 15 million to fight Leukemia and lymphoma, and another 2.1 million to the children of fallen Marines and Police Officers.

[libertybele]

Well deserved.  Outside of politics Rush was a true philanthropist using his show and his own pledges to give 15 million to fight Leukemia and lymphoma, and another 2.1 million to the children of fallen Marines and Police Officers.

He truly as done a lot for this country and deserves to be honored with the Medal of Freedom.

[jmyrlefuller]

He would join the late Paul Harvey in that honor.

[Free Vulcan]

I respect Rush for his smarts, style, + talent as a radio personality, but in the early 90's when Clinton had just been elected + the Dems controlled Congress, he was a critical figure.

We didn't know what Clinton, his commie wife or Congress was going to do. There was a lot of big talk that they were pretty much going to take over.

There was no Fox News, no internet, no one but Rush, standing in the gap, hammering out greatly needed info 5 days a week.

In not sure without Rush if the GOP would have won in '94, or even have half the freedom we do today if Dems had been allowed to run amok.

He did a great service to this country just by speaking up in those dark days, and he has my undying gratitude for that.

[Elderberry]

Limbaugh Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

http://www.drroyspencer.com/category/blogarticle/
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

Last night at the State of the Union Address, President Trump awarded radio talk show host and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. If you haven’t heard, Rush was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

I cannot think of a more deserving recipient of our country’s highest civilian honor. Rush has been the most influential modern advocate for political conservatism and free markets, influencing millions of people not only here in the U.S., but in other countries where freedom is highly valued, if not by their government, then at least by some of their people. For over 30 years on his daily 3-hour radio show, he has done it with good humor, never straying from his principles, while still being entertaining.

His adherence to his principles has meant he does not always agree with Republican politicians, who sometimes stray from those principles. I recall standing around his pool table and him telling us how a senior adviser from President George W. Bush’s administration would fly down to his Palm Beach residence to pressure him into changing his position on some issue, which he refused to do.

Rush has always said that people who disagree with him usually do so, not because they have listened to him and dispute his views, but because of what the media says about him. He has inspired millions to stop waiting for the world to do something for them, and to start doing for themselves with hope and good cheer. He is the one who suggested I write my first book, Climate Confusion.

Some claim he is just an entertainer who doesn’t really believe all of what he says. But I can tell you from spending time with him, and from hundreds of conversations with him, that he is the real deal. His relatively modest upbringing and overcoming numerous obstacles in his personal and professional life have led him to mentor others in all walks of life, encouraging them to excel and to never give up. At least twice, he has taken time from his busy day to talk me down off the ledge when I was discouraged about criticism I receive in my work.

So, congratulations to someone who has helped to make America stronger, and who has inspired so many people around the world. This is a well-deserved honor bestowed upon a modern American treasure.

[Bigun]

I respect Rush for his smarts, style, + talent as a radio personality, but in the early 90's when Clinton had just been elected + the Dems controlled Congress, he was a critical figure.

We didn't know what Clinton, his commie wife or Congress was going to do. There was a lot of big talk that they were pretty much going to take over.

There was no Fox News, no internet, no one but Rush, standing in the gap, hammering out greatly needed info 5 days a week.

In not sure without Rush if the GOP would have won in '94, or even have half the freedom we do today if Dems had been allowed to run amok.

He did a great service to this country just by speaking up in those dark days, and he has my undying gratitude for that.

  

IMHO that metal has never been awarded to anyone more deserving of it than Rush.

[thackney]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients