He was NEVER the smartest in any room, not even an insane asylum!
His "success" was solely due to his audience was even dumber than he was. And before you say I have no proof of just how dumb your MessiahRushie was, here is a perfect example of how it is a blessing not to know how dumb you are:
May 19, 2011
RUSH: Mark my brilliant words on this. That’s how this stuff starts. Now, the question is: is CO2 even a pollutant? Is it an air pollutant? Because if it is, then all the water vapor on this planet is a pollutant. The vast majority of CO2 that’s in the atmosphere comes from water vapor.
March 01, 2012
RUSH: To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it." It's a blessing! You know, the worst thing would be to be dumb and to know it -- and there's evidence all over that the dumb do not know they're dumb.
Now you being a DittoTard would not know just how DUMB his "BRILLIANT" words were!!!!!