Rush Limbaugh: "I thought it was the big one'

 

In an interview airing tomorrow morning on Fox News Channel's FOX & Friends, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh tells Gretchen Carlson (former Miss America) that he was a "perfect fit" for judging this past weekend's Miss America Pageant.
 
"I have always been intrigued by it, I grew up watching it ... I decided to do this and only then did I find out the work commitment is. Folks, this is a big time serious thing. There is nothing frivolous about this…very serious, these women have devoted their lives in most cases to this."

 

He said the "vast majority of them are confident and poised when they speak, and that is one thing I was looking for. … We interview each one of them for ten minutes and that is fourteen hours over two days and there is nowhere for them to hide." And, he added that some of them "know more about various political issues than elected people I have talked to on the phone. I have really been impressed."

How is he feeling these since his heart scare over Christmas? 

"I feel great," Limbaugh says in the interview. "It was a scary thing and I thought that it was a heart attack. I thought it was the big one, and, I've always wondered when people said they've had chest pains what it felt like. Now I know."
 
But they gave him a battery of tests and found "nothing." He said, "There was no blockage, there is no disease, no coronary things wrong and the cholesterol is in the low end to normal and the chest x-ray was clear. So, they couldn't figure it out. The best guest was they think I had a viral infection in one of the arteries that caused the spasm."