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This is an editorial here from the Investor's Business Daily: "Cap-and-Trade for Babies." It's coming, folks. They're going to offer young couples carbon credits for only having one child. The theory is that human beings are polluting and destroying the planet. Now, Paul Ehrlich wrote about this back in the seventies in The Population Bomb. It's been totally disapproved, discredited. This has been part of the militant environmental extreme for years, and here now the people who can make it a reality are running the country... But like everything else in the militant environmentalist wacko community, I believe this is...

Media Bias: Not long after pro football welcomed a convicted felon back on the playing field, Rush Limbaugh is dropped for his opinions from a group seeking to buy an NFL franchise. Won't someone throw a flag? When even Keith Olbermann says back off, you know the politically correct critics of the conservative icon and megaradio talk host's proposed part ownership of the St. Louis Rams are guilty of piling on. The prospect of the leading conservative voice in America participating in the purchase of a football team sent the liberal elites into cardiac arrest and into a frenzied campaign...

Since the NFL is another political arm of the White House, I propose renaming the professional football franchise in St. Louis the "St. Louis Rahms".

(spoken) Rush Hudson Limbaugh Hmmm, mmmm, mmm. Rush Hudson Limbaugh Hmmm, mmmm, mmm. (Music starts) My parents turn Rush Limbaugh on the nearest radio, He tells me that the left is wrong and stuff I need to know, We turn it off when he is done ‘cause there’s no other show, Rush, keep broadcasting on. Glory, glory hallelujah Gore and Clinton couldn’t fool ya’ Barack Obama can’t control ya’, Rush, keep broadcasting on. In 1951 he was born in Miss –our-ri (like mis-ery), Now he’s on the radio conducting EIB, He’s on the air from 12 to 3 from sea...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

FORUM: Keep listening to Limbaugh By JULIE GILBART -- Murrieta Sunday, April 5, 2009 I applaud Larry Coonradt for listening to Rush Limbaugh's CPAC address (Forum, March 19). My advice, though: Keep listening. Yes, Limbaugh expresses distrust of an authoritarian government ---- as should any citizen who cherishes his liberty. Born to freedom, Americans tend to believe it's the natural order of things, when in fact, as Ronald Reagan observed, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ... It must be fought for, protected ...." No one knew this better than the Founding Fathers, about whose writings...

You can’t help but admire Rush Limbaugh’s talent for publicity. His radio talk show is probably—reliable figures only go back to 1991—in its third decade as the number-one rated radio show in the country. And here he is in the news again, trading verbal punches with the president of the United States. Limbaugh remarked on Jan. 16 that to the degree that Obama’s program is one of state socialism, he hopes it will fail. (If only he had said the same about George W. Bush.) The president riposted at a session with congressional leaders a week later, telling them, “You...

Chris Matthews is so obsessed with Rush Limbaugh's influence within the Republican Party, that he repeatedly dared, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," GOP strategist Todd Harris to speak ill of the radio talk show host as he mockingly challenged: "Would you live in a country where he wrote the Constitution?...Would you live in a country where he wrote our rights?...Say something nasty about Rush Limbaugh!" After playing a clip of a "Saturday Night Live," skit – in which two Republicans argue over who is smarter, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh -- Matthews asked his guest panelists Harris and Democratic strategist Steve...

The main stream media has done it again. I was blogging at the Republican National Committee elections on Friday, and I asked newly elected Chairman Michael Steele if the RNC would stand behind Rush Limbaugh in the midst of the attacks the radio host was getting from Democrats. The Washington Post referred to my question and Steele's response. Here is what Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post wrote: Asked about the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh and his back and forth with President Barack Obama, Steele was careful not to wholly embrace the controversial conservative talk radio host. "Rush will says...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts. "There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats," the official said. "We shouldn't...

Although Rush Limbaugh doesn't actually work from a bunker, he does have a bunker mentality. His studio is on the third floor of a (purposefully) anonymous building 100 yards off the white sands of Palm Beach, Florida, and about a mile from his gated mansion (the one next to Chuck Norris's). Along with the Gulfstream jet (cost: $54 million), fleet of sports cars and eight-year contract, worth $400 million, this mansion is his reward for being the most listened-to talk-radio host in America, a title he has held for 20 years. But it is also his compensation. Professional Right-wing controversialists...

At the end of a ceremony that mixed personal remembrance of Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. and allusions to the difficulties of constructing the building named in his honor, family members and dignitaries cut the ribbon at Cape Girardeau's new federal courthouse. The building is a fitting tribute to Limbaugh, said his son, retired U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr. His expressed hope is that his father's devotion to the law will inspire the attorneys who practice there. "He lived it, he breathed it," Limbaugh Sr. said. "He loved it and it was his virtual life." As he spoke of...

20th Anniversary: The Virtual Limbaugh Museum of BroadcastingAugust 1, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: By the way, before we move on, we have inaugurated something today that the website people, Koko and the crew, have been working on for months, and I guarantee you: You have not seen anything like it. It's at my website, RushLimbaugh.com, and it is the virtual Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting. Now, if I may say so, my website, as it is, is a gold mine. My website is cutting-edge. It is encyclopedic. There is more information available there on current events, history, anything you want, highlights...

At Hearing, Official EIB Clown Attacks Official EIB ClimatologistJuly 22, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The official climatologist of the EIB Network, Dr. Roy Spencer, a brilliant independent climatologist and scientist, former NASA, he's now at University of Alabama at Huntsville, testified before Senator Boxer's committee on climate change research, and they had the following exchange. SPENCER: In conclusion, I am predicting today that the theory that mankind is mostly responsible for global warming will slowly fade away in the coming years, as will the warming itself, and I trust you would agree, Madam Chair, that such a result deserves to...

THE ATMOSPHERE in the studio on the morning after our dinner at Trevini was relaxed, even festive. When I arrived around 11, Limbaugh was at his computer, wearing shorts and doing prep. Augusto, his personal chef, was there, preparing lunch, signaling an occasion. Limbaugh skipped the meal, explaining that he doesn’t eat close to show time for reasons of “burp prevention.” Snerdly, Dawn and the engineer joined me in the dining room, which looks as if it were decorated by Nancy Reagan’s fussy aunt. Limbaugh’s program that day was, as usual, a virtuoso performance. He took a few calls, but...

For the next hour I sat behind the glass panel of the control booth and watched Limbaugh at work in front of the “golden E.I.B. microphone.” Unlike Howard Stern or Don Imus, he has no sidekicks with him in the room. He does, however, keep up a running conversation with an unheard voice. I always assumed that this was just imaginary radio shtick. Now I saw that the voice was attached to a human interlocutor, Snerdly, who banters with and occasionally badgers Limbaugh via an internal talk-back circuit. After the broadcast, Limbaugh waved me into the studio and offered me...

Dear Rush, Over the last few months I've tried to call you countless times, but for some reason your line always seems busy. So please understand my use of this format, as I am obligated to reach out and answer the question you have asked your students at the Limbaugh Institute of Higher Education. Time and again you have asked "Who will speak for the Conservatives?"...

Dear Rush, Over the last few months I've tried to call you countless times, but for some reason your line always seems busy. So please understand my use of this format, as I am obligated to reach out and answer the question you have asked your students at the Limbaugh Institute of Higher Education. Time and again you have asked "Who will speak for the Conservatives?"....

I don't have the ping list, so unless someone who is better at this than I am wants to host a better Rush thread, here 'tis!

This is the LIVE RUSH Thread.Welcome all.

Didn't see a thread posted and of course we MUST have a Rush Thread!!

Welcome faithful. Should be a very, very interesting show.

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Welcome faithful. Rush is going to have his hands full cleaning up this past weekend's "mess". Should be a fun show.

Stand-in pinger still here. Welcome. Should be a great show after the "Hawkeye Cauci" and the spin every pundit has put on it.

Substitute Pinger for the Rush Thread. Should be interesting today with the "Hawkeye Cauci" tonight.

Ping to the faithful. Happy New Year to all. Have not heard from CC27, so pinging the list. Hope all is well in all your corners of the world.

Jason Lewis sitting in today. Happy New Year to all.

Jason Lewis(?) in for the big guy on the day after Christmas.

CC27 still unavailable and I'm stand-in "Pinger". Welcome all. CC27 should return soon.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  RUSH:  We're truly honored today, ladies and gentlemen, to have with us at our microphones Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas.  His new book is out today, My Grandfather's Son.  It is a powerful, motivational, inspirational memoir, and I'm so happy that you're doing all of this, Mr. Justice Thomas, because, as a member of the court, you can't say much other than what you write.  It's the protocol -- and I have so long wanted people to get to know the man that I know and that so many people who know you know, because...

RUSH: What are we going to do about Mississippi Senator Trent Lott? What are we going to do about Senator Lott? You remember when he got into trouble with the Strom Thurmond comment? We're out there defending the guy. The White House threw him overboard. All kinds of Republicans were throwing him overboard. Talk radio came to his defense. Trent Lott is now one of the engineers of the Senate immigration bill, the amnesty bill, and they're trying to bring this thing back. The amendments are being kept under wraps. By the way, I understand Lindsey Grahamnesty, senator from South...

ree stories today, my good friends, on happiness -- which, as I say, stuns me, given the fact that I thought everybody was delirious after the elections. I haven't heard of any Post-Election Stress Trauma, such as after the '04 election a bunch of south Floridians needed to go get counseling over the fact that Bush won. They needed counseling after the Bush election victory. I haven't heard of anything marginally like that at all, yet apparently there is a lot of misery, and so all the stories on happiness are out. The three headlines are: "Researchers Seek Routes to...

No one should be forced to watch that commie uh, I mean Katie, in order to hear Limbaugh, so here you go!

Rush Limbaugh delivered the "freeSpeech" segment on Thursday's CBS Evening News. Anchor Katie Couric set up him up: “With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 coming up, the topic tonight is the war on terror. And there may be no one more opinionated on the subject than radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.” Limbaugh began: “My friends., it's time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do....Now, this threat is not just go away because we choose to ignore it.” He soon zeroed in on the problem:...

Rush Limbaugh is scheduled to appear on tonight's edition of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric," delivering a 90-second commentary. Apparently this was an upsetting piece of news to millions. No, not liberals who consider Limbaugh to be the Anti-Clinton. It was the far-right crowd that was upset. According to Limbaugh himself, many of his die-hard conservative fans criticized him when they first heard via the Drudge Report that Limbaugh was going to appear during Couric's ridiculously overhyped first week. (I half-expected Couric to levitate midway through her first broadcast and then to change the weather on command, a...

This is an FYI for those of you who cannot tune into the CBS Evening News tonight to check out the 1 minute and 30 second commentary by Rush Limbaugh. The video will be posted at Michelle Malkin's new Hot Air website shortly after the segment airs at around 6:50pm EDT. I received an email back from Ian Schwartz of Hot Air (Ian, formerly of the video blogs, 'The Political Teen' and 'Expose The Left') confirming that they will be posting it right away. The Hot Air website - http://www.hotair.com/

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let me deal with a rumor that circulated over the Internet. It hit the Drudge Report, I forget, I guess it was sometime Saturday or Sunday, the rumor being that I am helping to launch or welcome Katie Couric to the CBS Evening News tonight or this week. The reporting on this was somewhat confusing and sketchy based on how you read it. I had people e-mailing me all weekend long who were taking different things out of it. It's amazing to study this. This is a little aside, but it was an amazing thing to study...

RUSH: This is hilarious. This is on the House floor. This is last night. Just listen to this. This is a portion of remarks made by Harlem Congressman Rangel talking about Hezbollah. This is the man who would be the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee were the Democrats to win back the House in this year's election. RANGEL: If we do have crown princesses and kings and -- and -- um, presidents unable to go to the ranch and discuss whatever they do, why not take advantage of this opportunity to tell the Arab countries in the region...

<p>Rush Limbaugh's attorney has issued a statement announcing a settlement of the Florida prosecutor's investigation into alleged doctor shopping by Rush Limbaugh.</p> <p>Details have been read by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Basically, the charge of doctor shopping is dismissed, with some conditions.</p>

RUSH: We'll go to Scott in Monterey, California, one of the absolute most beautiful spots in the world, and maybe the most beautiful to play golf. Yes, Scott, welcome to the program. CALLER: Great honor to speak with you, Rush. RUSH: Thank you, sir. CALLER: I need help convincing my new bride -- very beautiful and very intelligent -- need help convincing her, persuading her that volcanoes are spewing more contaminants into the air than cars or anything else man made. She's listening at home, by the way. Can I say hi? RUSH: Yeah, you better, after this. CALLER: I...

*** Make sure to watch the Golf Channel interview below that aired on Game Central last Saturday night ... Tiger Woods for President someday??? ... Rush says probably not. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT (from his Monday Jan. 23rd radio show) Hey, greetings, folks, and welcome! Rush Limbaugh back in the saddle once again after a week away in Palm Springs, California, the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. I want to thank... I tell you, the people out there, I told the people when I left that one of the reasons I was excited to be going out there was that those are my...

Earlier today, a few of us were talking about the satirically campy exchanges that occur all too often on Hannity's radio program. jaop As much as Willie Cunningham is loved, he should be flogged for introducing Hannity to the phrase "great American". On average, how many times per show will Hannity and a guest call each other "great Americans"? We counted 9 during the last hour of his show; pre-Christmas vacation. It's been a point of curiousity, besides .... good-golly, geez, it's such a swell topic for pals to talk about! Kinda of like a bad joke gone stale i.e....

Better Late then Never I hope

The legal team for Rush Limbaugh had a pretty good day in court yesterday. Though anyone that just peruses only the headlines wouldn't believe it. The AP feed for the story read like this in most media outlets: 'Judge Allows Subpoenas of Limbaugh Doctors.' Wow that sounds bad for Rush. And it really sounds bad for anyone that wants there medical records kept private. Until you actually take a look at the ruling.

Today on the Mike Fleming Show there were two guests. Conservative Cartoonist-Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael Ramirez and satarist Paul Shanklin from Rush Limbaugh fame. Mike ask "Arnold" (read Shanklin) for his comments on the potential threat of violence posed by the Crips if Tookie were executed. Off the cuff ... Arnold: "You've got to deal with them in the same hard way you deal with unions, like the teacher's union. When the union got angry they stopped doing their thing and working. I think it'll be a good thing for the city if they (Crips) stop doing their thing too...

I have never posted a vanity before and I promise this one will be my last one for some time to come. This vanity is in response to FReepers who suggested that I discuss my experience as a caller on the Rush Limbaugh Show today. Here is how the unforgettable experience went: The Screening Process During the second hour, I called the program's number (800-282-2882) on my cell phone but did not get through immediately. Kept trying redial on my phone for about 5 minues before I got a lucky break (just as the program was going into a commercial)....

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