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You have to give Rush Limbaugh a perverse kind of credit. At least when he is demonizing Barack Obama, fabricating Obama policies, blaming Obama for single-handedly causing the recession and the stock market crash, he doesn't pretend to be fair. Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun," the LA Times reports. Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed." Didn't he think anyone would notice...

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...

Rush has put the original letter to Clear Channel President for sale on Ebay! The letter from Dirty Harry Reid and signed by 41 Democrap Senators is up for bids. All funds received will be donated to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. He has challenged all the signers of the letter to match the donation, since they all are such big supporters of our Military.

HAPPYBIRTHDAYRUSH2007 Born, January 12, 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 35 Undeniable Reasons to CelebrateRush Limbaugh’s Birthdayby Chris Davis(Writer33) It has been three long years since I wrote the essay: Rush Limbaugh is “The Passion.” His continued labors in conservatism have shown that Americans support the conservative ideology, largely because of their guiding principles, not the vehicle behind that ideology. It is the same with Rush Limbaugh. A little over three years ago Rush Limbaugh announced his addiction to prescription drugs. The media, the Palm Beach County prosecuting attorney, and some conservatives were ready to march Limbaugh down the gang...

RUSH: Now, as you people know, I have been prescient on many things. That's what being on the cutting edge of societal evolution is, prescience. I have been sounding warning bells on a series of things for the 18 plus years that I've been behind the Golden EIB Microphone. One of those is feminism, what its ultimate aims were, how much success it's had, and how it's now started to crumble in certain ways; but there are legacies that remain that have caused damage that still survive. One of the things I always said about feminism was that the biggest...

RUSH: I want to take you back to something that I did September the 13th, maybe it was September 20th. It was in September that I posited a theory, ladies and gentlemen. I asked you a question: Who is the most important undecided group in this year's election? Can you guess? They could control the outcome of the election! They could create a landslide for the left or the right. Who are they? Who is this group? What's this group, the most important undecided group in this year's election? It's too important an answer to leave it up to you...

RUSH: Apparently Air America is going to file for bankruptcy this week or next. They'll continue to operate, but I knew that was coming. I've been hearing the rumblings. They're financially bankrupt. They've been morally bankrupt since they started, before they started, but financially bankrupt -- and now the Drive-By Media is just having sort of like a Vagina Monologue moment here with the announcement that Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda and Rosie O'Donnell have mounted a radio talk show network to challenge me. One of the stories here -- I've gotta find this, get the right determination here because...

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:...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is canceling his international travel plans in the near future, saying he doesn't want to be "framed" by U.S. Customs officials after last week's incident when he was detained for more than three hours for possession of Viagra prescribed in his doctor's name. "It takes one time, and I've got red flags up, and I'm not going to put myself in the position of being framed," Limbaugh said today on his national radio broadcast. "With all this partisanship that's out there, I'm just not going to make it easy for people...

UPDATE: Rush Limbaugh 'had no illegal drugs or prescription drug obtained illegally in his possession,' source says... (All that is available at this juncture in time ... )

<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>

I didn't see one posted, so I thought I'd get it started today. Apologies if this has already been posted. I don't have the time to set it up as well as MNJohnnie does.

WEST PALM BEACH -- A Palm Beach County judge ruled Friday that he will review Rush Limbaugh's medical records in private to determine which of them will be turned over to prosecutors investigating the conservative radio host's prescription drug use. [snip]During that hearing, Assistant State Attorney James Martz told Barkdull that the records could show that the conservative radio host engaged in doctor shopping -- secretly obtaining overlapping prescriptions from different doctors in one month. Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, argued that the records should be limited to the time period between March 2003 and September 2003. Prosecutors cited prescriptions Limbaugh...

Rush Limbaugh successfully kept his medical records sealed to prosecutors investigating whether he illegally purchased painkillers - at least for a few more days. Circuit Judge Jeffrey A. Winikoff decided Thursday to transfer the sealed records to another judge, who will decide how prosecutors will review them. Limbaugh has lost repeated court battles to keep the records sealed, but his appeals have successfully stalled the investigation for more than 18 months. It was not clear Thursday when the second judge might issue a ruling. Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, has urged the court to privately review the records before handing over...

The Senate deal is "Mccain the middle finger". But there is a way around this. Rush has some perscriptions.

RIGHT-WINGER BLASTS O'REILLY RABID radio host Michael Savage is whining that he has been banned from the Fox News Channel after he dissed Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. The controversial conservative — who was fired by MSNBC in 2003 after referring to a caller to his show as "a sodomite" who should "get AIDS and die" — recently burned more bridges by calling O'Reilly a "Leper-Con who poses as a conservative" and Hannity "another Republican bootlicker who began as a Rush [Limbaugh] understudy" on his "Savage Nation" radio show. Savage claims that he's been bumped off four scheduled appearances on...

If you're a welfare recipient just getting up, and you may have missed the first hour of the program, once again, we're talking about the judicial nomination harangue going on in the Senate. Roll Call magazine is suggesting that Trent Lott, Republican, Ben Nelson, Democrat, are approaching six senators from each of their respective parties with a deal and the upshot of the deal is that the Democrats would get what they want. They get to cream three of the seven current nominees, the other four would be given floor votes and future nominees would not be filibustered unless a...

RUSH: I got an e-mail here. I was just trolling the accounts during the top-of-the-hour break. "Dear Rush..." This from a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. "How can you say we're winning? Tom DeLay is likely to be forced to resign while McDermott will go free. Bolton will not be confirmed. Bush will never get the ten judges because the weak-spined Republicans will never, ever invoke the constitutional option. The newspapers and media are still as liberal, as always, still exert more influence than you and all the conservatives combined. You guys have helped but the common belief is that you guys...

I know a number of you would like to have an update on our Cure-A-Thon last Friday. We set a record. You people came through. I cannot thank you enough. We set an all-time record. Just as of the close of business on Sunday, the whole weekend, we raised a grand total of over a million dollars, a million sixty-two thousand dollars in three hours on Friday. If you add up the total time in those three hours that we were talking about our Cure-A-Thon, we maybe totaled an hour of the three. You folks are amazing out there, simply...

Listen live streaming at www.wlsam.comRush starts The 2005 Cure-A-Thon today, raising money to cure Leukemia and Lymphoma.Call Rush at 800-282-2882 to be on the show.

John Kerry -- who, as I recall, served in Vietnam, and in his life ran for president -- yesterday "yesterday attacked Republicans for having an 'orthodoxy of view' and overly inserting religion into politics, accusing them of using God as a justification for appointing conservative judges." Now, I have sat here and I have said until I'm blue in the face that the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep people of faith off the bench. They don't want religious people as judges. They just don't, and you know why: Because they're afraid of them. They're afraid of their...

RUSH: We have microphones in the Vatican. Let's JIP it. CARDINAL / TRANSLATOR: My dearest brothers and sisters. (cheers) My dearest brothers and sisters. (cheers) My dearest brothers and sisters. RUSH: He's speaking in a bunch of different languages, for those of you in Rio Linda. There's nothing wrong here. CARDINAL: I announce to you a great joy. (cheers) We have a pope! (cheers) The most eminent and most reverent Lord Joseph (chimes) of the holy Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Ratzinger! (roars) RUSH: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. From Germany, the new pope is Joseph Ratzinger. He...

This is a New York Times story. "As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmation, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as against people of faith for blocking President Bush's nominees. Flyers for the telecast, which have been organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky Mega Church on the evening of April 24th call the day 'Justice Sunday,' and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the...

RUSH: All right, we're going to go to the audio sound bites because at NBC's Today Show, very troubled are they that Jimmy Carter...Can I ask, before I play this audio, just a simple question? Why in the world should George W. Bush take Jimmy Carter anywhere? Why in the world should George W. Bush extend courtesies to Jimmy Carter? Jimmy Carter has his Nobel Peace Prize that he's coveted his whole life for one reason, because he spent a whole year going around the world trashing George W. Bush, his administration; trashed him personally and trashed our foreign policy....

Live Rush thread for cubicle-bound and other Rush listeners today...

"John Bolton is "tough-talking undersecretary of state." He has "often ignited controversy in his dealings with foreign countries," and so President Bush yesterday nominated him "to be the US ambassador to the United Nations and will replace John Danforth." Bolton is a tough talker. He's right out of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick school. She was ambassador to the United Nations during part of the Reagan presidency. I remember hearing her speak once, it was at UC Davis. I snuck in there because I was not a student but I snuck in there, and I'll never forget. She said: "The only difference...

Rush Limbaugh returns to his rightful place behind the golden EIB microphone today. He'll be reporting on his trip last week to Afghanistan.From his reports last week, he met with thousands of our troops, President Karzai and employees of the root of all evil in the modern world: Halliburton.I just hope he didn't find a golf course over there. Otherwise, that's all we'll hear about the first hour :-)

A friend of mine sends me a note. It's actually a story, our old buddies at Newsmax, Carl Limbacher and the boys. "While top Democrats continue to downplay the impact of a historic Iraq elections on Sunday, New York senator Hillary Clinton has taken an early step to set herself apart from naysayers. In a statement posted to her website two days before the vote's smashing success, Clinton said, 'No matter what you think about the war there's one thing we can all agree on for the next days. We have to salute the courage and bravery of those...

I come to the Golden EIB Microphone today, ladies and gentlemen, with just an effervescing and bubbling joy and happiness and pride knowing full well that some in America are devastated today because the Democrats have lost their second election in three months. The Democratic Party lost its second election in three months yesterday in Iraq. There is no question that the sentiments of the leadership of the Democratic Party were with the terrorists and the insurgents who sought to undermine yesterday's election in Iraq. Once again, the American left, much of the mainstream media, the liberal wing of the...

ORLANDO, Fla.--In the aftermath of 9/11, conservatives bottled up their frustrations over some of President Bush's policies. Then they muted their criticism during the presidential campaign. But now it is spilling out in all directions--and the White House had better pay attention. On Friday Rush Limbaugh, a staunch Bush supporter, took two separate opportunities to warn the president that he faced conservative opposition on some key issues that could hurt his chances of passing the rest of his second-term agenda. First was federal spending, which "is surging out of control," according to the Heritage Foundation's new "Mandate for Leadership." The...

Hitler Wasn't Elected, Mr. Turner January 26, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT We're going to talk about Ted Turner next. The Fox people put out a great quote, and I'm going to have to paraphrase this -- and I know it's Ailes. It came from "a Fox spokesman." I know Ailes well enough to know that this is Ailes' quote. He said, "Well, it's understandable that Ted would be saying these things. He's lost his network. He's lost his ratings, and now he's lost his mind." (Laughing.) That's a Roger Ailes quote, folks. But he doesn't know his history. This business...

I have a story here. This is from the San Francisco Chronicle. (shuffling paper) I'm not sure how to pronounce the writer's name. It's G-a-r-o-f-o-l. Oh, it's f-o-l-i. Yeah. So it would be Joe Gar-ofoli? Joe Garof-oli? Joe Garofoli. The headline: "Bush Puts His Own Spin on 'Freedom;' Left's Mainstay Word Recasts Economic Terms." So what this story is going to tell us -- you just wait till you hear it -- is that Bush has stolen a liberal word, "Freedom." Now, if that's true, then you have to once again ask, "Why are they so mad? Why are they...

I watched yesterday's hearings, Condoleezza Rice, last week, a couple weeks ago, whenever it was, Alberto Gonzales, and I came away with two conclusions. Number 1, the Democrats on the judiciary committee over there, Patrick Leahy and the boys, seem more interested in defending the rights of Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists than they do defending this country. And I watch Condoleezza Rice, and I'm listening to their guys go on and on and on, Barbara Boxer and John Kerry questioning her, and I don't hear one bit of news, not a shred of evidence from these people what they would...

Here's the Maureen Dowd column, as promised. I know you people think I've engaged in treachery here by promoting this a half hour ago and teasing you and holding you this long, but I assure you the things I led off this hour with came across the transom in the break at the top of the hour. Show prep never stops here. "Men Just Want Mommy." Maureen Dowd, the New York Times today. "A few years ago at a White House Correspondents' dinner, I met a very beautiful actress. Within moments, she blurted out: 'I can't believe I'm 46 and...

<p>RUSH: Chris in Danielsville, Pennsylvania, as we start on the phones today. Welcome, sir, great to have you with us.</p> <p>CALLER: Hello, sir. Happy New Year.</p> <p>RUSH: Oh, it's a female! I'm sorry, nice to have you with us.</p> <p>CALLER: That's okay.</p> <p>RUSH: Apologize for that.</p>

I got up today and I'm doing research for the program, and I ran across a story and it just made my day because this is something -- I'm not going to call this a Limbaugh Echo Syndrome because I don't want to make it sound like everybody takes their cue from me -- but this is something, ever since this Rumsfeld stuff, when McCain stepped out on Fox News and said Rumsfeld has not got my confidence. He was followed by Hagel. It was immediately picked up by the media, and these guys were made heroes and they were...

NBC depiction of talkradio king Rush Limbaugh passed-out in vomit from drug abuse ignited backstage outrage at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The animated sketch left one senior production source stunned and outraged. "Would we have done this to [Jim] Belushi? [Chris] Farley?" the source said on Sunday from New York. The source asked not to be identified fearing retribution from SNL's executive producer Lorne Michaels. "We've had more fu**ing drug addicts on this show through the years... more tragedy. I have lost count. Did we ever have some laughs about Robert Downey Jr.'s serious drug addiction?"...

More wacko environmental news today. It's just coming out of the woodwork. "Ten percent of all bird species are set to disappear by the end of this century, and with them, the services they provide such as cleaning up carcasses and spreading seeds. This from U.S. researchers on Monday." Now, read this word "carcasses." It reminds me what was happening with these hawks. You know, Pale Male? We had this story yesterday that these hawks up there, you know, they're doing a public service by providing a show for many bird watchers and New Yorkers who love to go into...

Joe Scarborough is right. Sean Hannity is an ignorant bigot, a hate-filled, war-mongering, “chicken hawk” conservative. He is a partisan hack that reads from the Republican Party platform, and lacks the intelligence to have an open mind. His everyday tirade is best known on Hannity & Colmes, but he has become more repugnant on his radio show on 77WABC in New York City. Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida who now hosts MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” says the challenge for conservative hosts will be to prove “that we’re more than just the Pravda of the right.” He adds, “I...

Introduction by Alex SpanosI am delighted to be here this evening because I just love Rush Limbaugh. (Cheers and applause) I love his courage. I love his principles. And most of all, I love that his heart is as big as his compassion and generosity. I have seen Rush give of his time and resources to help others many times over. My friends, he is truly one of a kind. Rush Limbaugh's influence on American politics is unrivaled by any other person in the media world. (Applause) Although he holds no elected office, he commands the attention of millions of...

All right, now, folks, you're going to have to calm down out there. You're just going to have to calm down out there. I am being inundated with e-mails, "What does it mean, these cabinet resignations? Oh no, Rush, how can Bush get anything done with all of these cabinet leaders? Oh, Rush, what's happening, it's all falling apart." Folks, take a time-out here. You know, do what the New York Jets should have done yesterday afternoon with 52 seconds left, let's take a time-out, don't wait till there's eight seconds. What a horrible bunch of clock management that game...

Did you all hear about or see this story today that Bill Clinton had plans to nuke North Korea in 1998 if they invaded South Korea? Now, two things about this. First, let me read the story to you. It's a UPI story. "Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea. As part of 'scenario 5027,' 24 F15-E bombers flew simulation missions at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina to drop mock nuclear bombs on a firing range between January and...

Conservatism Won the Election, Left's Hatred Causing Self-Destruction November 8, 2004 Listen to Rush… (...cover the on-going hatred causing the left in America to fall all to pieces) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT Ladies and gentlemen, I have to fly to Washington after the program today. I'm delivering a speech. I agreed to do a speech about four months ago to a group, the Heritage Foundation, and four months ago they asked me to do this speech analyzing the election. So I rolled the dice and said, "Okay, I'll do it," because I figured four months ago that we were going to...

So let me just ask you a question, folks: Are you feeling pretty good today? I'll bet most of you are. Well, what an afternoon and night and morning it has been. Senator Kerry has called President Bush to concede. Senator Kerry will announce his concession at one o'clock from Faneuil Hall in Boston, right in the middle of this program, ladies and gentlemen -- where that concession deserves to be. Greetings and welcome. It's the Rush Limbaugh program. It's the EIB Network. Our telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is Rush@eibnet.com. Before we go any further, I want...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT Bush is up by three in the Zogby poll today. I haven't seen the Zogby poll today, seen the rolling poll today, the three-point average. Have you seen...? Is the Zogby poll out today? Haven't seen it? Fine. I know he's up by three in Florida. Bush is up by three in Florida, by five in Ohio, up three in Wisconsin, two in Iowa, down only one in Minnesota, down ten in Michigan in Zogby. New Mexico up five. Nevada up four. Down four in Colorado. This is the one that people are not -- I mean, even...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This Teresa Heinz Kerry stuff and the insult at Laura Bush, Charles Krauthammer got closest to this. In fact, he nailed this yesterday. Teresa comes out in an interview and says -- you've all heard it -- that Laura Bush "never had a real job since she grew up," and then there was a little reaction to that. So Teresa apologized and said, (paraphrased) "Well, no, no, no. I forgot she was a teacher and that's very important work," and left out the fact that being a mother is also work, and the Bush administration did not...