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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I think it's a serious point, folks, what the Democrat Party is doing. The Democrat Party is... Well, I'm not gonna have enough time to say it the way I want to say it. But they're focusing on the lowest common denominator, the worst in all of us, and trying to make them the voting majority. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: When you strip it all away, that's the nub of things. I think that's what really bothers me. The Democrat Party and their willing accomplices in the media are not only appealing to, they are designing a country...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Tim in Jefferson, South Dakota, I guess. Welcome to the program. Great to have you. CALLER: Well, thank you for taking my call, Rush. I really appreciate it. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: On this health care plan I've got a question. I make around $52,000 a year, and I will end up paying $455 a month per month for health care on the Obama plan. RUSH: Have you run that out for 12 months what that's gonna cost you a year? CALLER: Over $5,000 a year. RUSH: Yeah, and you make 52, five grand a year for...

A caller just proposed, what I think is a really good idea. The House send the bill back to the Senate and says, "Ok, we'll give you Obamacare. BUT...nobody gets exemptions. Not the unions, not Congress, not any of Obama's friends. No one." This put the Rats on the defensive, as they try to explain why they'll shutdown the govt. rather than take away obamacare exemptions for a privileged few.

RUSH: We got a new kitten. We waited an appropriate amount of time. We went out and got a new kitten, a new Abyssinian, a tawny. And this little cat -- I'm going to have to send some pictures up to Koko over the weekend. This little cat -- Punkin was an adult cat as a kitten. It was the most amazing thing. This little kitten is a kid.

Soon after completing his 21-hour filibuster on the Senate floor calling for Congress to defund ObamaCare, Sen. Ted Cruz told Rush Limbaugh on the Wednesday edition of the conservative icon's radio talk show that he had “all but begged” reporters to devote half of what they wrote about his marathon speech to the substance of ObamaCare. The Texas Republican said that instead of stating that the program “is the number-one job killer in the country, how millions of Americans are suffering, how it's forcing people into part-time work, how it's threatening millions of Americans' health insurance,” members of the press...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Since it came on the air, Fox News has been entirely, totally, thoroughly, excitedly, eagerly supported on this program and people there were defended countless times -- endlessly. And, look, I don't expect that to purchase anything. Don't misunderstand. I don't mean I expect to buy like-minded treatment, but I really don't expect the kind of -- I don't even know how to characterize it. I mean, Brit Hume actually picked up liberal talking points about me, the Republican Party, and people being afraid of me. Monday night. I'm not even gonna set it up. Just hit...

>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Tom DeLay. Tom DeLay's nickname was "The Hammer." The Democrats thought that was very bad. He was nicknamed "The Hammer" because DeLay had magic when it came time to corral votes on the Republican side in the House of Representatives, starting back in 1995 when the Republican freshman class was sworn in and they assumed control of the House for the first time in 40 years, Tom DeLay was the whip. Tom DeLay got the votes. He was nicknamed "The Hammer," and because he was so good, he was unapologetically good, Tom DeLay did not worry about...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The other day also we had economic news not good about the widening gap between the rich and the poor. We had the news that the smarter are getting wealthier and the stupider are getting poorer -- I mean, it wasn't good -- and that the wealth gap was wider, much wider today between the top 1% and everybody else than five years ago when Obama took office. We have more details on this, and one of the fundamental aspects of the story we had was the median income. We pointed out the median income in the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, for all of you Democrats who are back on your gun control high horse, I have one word for you: Colorado. You remember what happened in Colorado. Two Democrats thought to be in safe districts were recalled in Colorado over their efforts at renewed gun control on the innocent and the law-abiding. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Here we are, back at it as promised yesterday, another three hours of broadcast excellence, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The shooting in Washington is...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Listen to this from the New York Times today: "President Obama woke up Monday facing a Congressional defeat that many in both parties believed could hobble his presidency. And, by the end of the day, he found himself in the odd position of relying on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, of all people, to bail him out. The surprise Russian proposal to defuse the American confrontation with Syria made a tenuous situation even more volatile for a president struggling to convince a deeply skeptical public of the need for the United States to respond militarily in...

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It is entirely understandable that Barack Obama's way of dealing with Syria in recent weeks should have elicited responses ranging from puzzlement to disgust. Even members of his own party are despairingly echoing in private the public denunciations of him as "incompetent," "bungling," "feckless," "amateurish" and "in over his head" coming from his political opponents on the right. For how else to characterize a president who declares war against what he calls a great evil demanding immediate extirpation and in the next breath announces that he will postpone taking action for at least 10 days—and then goes off to play...

RUSH: Senator McCain had a town hall meeting in Phoenix. It didn't go very well because the people that showed up don't want any part of this, and they don't want any part of Republicans agreeing with this. I'll tell you, the Republican voters all across this country are beside themselves. If there was ever a time for an opposition party to be pushing back, standing up, trying to stop and teaching the American people just what kind of administration we have, it's now. Instead, we have a Republican Party that appears to be docile, silent -- and if they...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: All right. So here's the deal. Last week, Obama reverses himself and says that he's not gonna go into Syria. Remember, they're using nerve gas. John Kerry goes out there, 1,500 people, 2,400 people, a lot of kids, nerve gas, sarin gas, got the proof. Look, I'm gonna get into all the hypocrisy. Yes, Kerry dining with Bashar back in 2009 and talking about what a great guy Bashar was. The bottom line is this administration is as incompetent as Jimmy Carter. There's only one difference. If there were anybody else running this administration right now, this...

Rush finally breaking open the whole setup - syrian rebels mixing chemical weapons into conflict to draw U.S. into war to take out Assad. FINALLY!!

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Okay. Folks, I'm sorry. I'm gonna apologize to you here in advance. I'm doing my best to separate my obvious bias against this administration. I just watched Kerry speak. He's still going. I just watched John Kerry from a State Department set that I have never seen. It looks like the dining room in his Beacon Hill home, with a crystal chandelier and everything. It's just amazing. He's giving us the evidence of Bashar Assad using chemical weapons on his own people. I'm sorry, I just... He may be saying the truth, but this guy has a...

>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You know, the global warming crowd is back. What was it, the UN, the IPP, UPP, we PP, whatever the group is. The climate science group says there's 95% certainty now that the undeniable global warming is undeniably caused by human beings. That was last week. It is a hoax. All of it. I don't know how else to say it. All of that is just wrong, and these people know it's wrong. The factual data contradicts virtually every claim they make -- and yet, I have to tell you: As I mentioned before, I read high-tech...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support. When I, a year ago, issued this ban, if you will, of MSNBC sound bites -- I'm not playing them anymore; I'm not gonna air any MSNBC bites -- I got little snarky notes from members of the staff telling me, "Boy, it was really great what was on MSNBC last night, but we can't use it." Well, let me tell you what's happened as a result of...

Grover Norquist is strongly opposed to letting conservative talk show hosts moderate the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates. Norquist, a conservative leader who heads the anti-taxation Americans for Tax Reform, told The Hill Tuesday the Republican Party should instead incorporate Republican officeholders into its debate format. Having conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin or Rush Limbaugh host debates would be “not useful,” Norquist told The Hill. Talk radio hosts, he said, are primarily entertainers who would draw attention away from the candidates themselves. He also said the radio hosts, despite their popularity, did not necessarily represent the Republican mainstream. He...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Kate, Carson City, Nevada.  Hi, Kate.  Glad you called.  Welcome to the EIB Network.  Hello. CALLER:  Well, hello, Rush.  How are you doing?  I am Kate from Fairfield.  RUSH:  Oh. CALLER:  So I'm your first Kate before Kathryn came along. RUSH:  Well, welcome back.  Great to have you here again. CALLER:  Well, thank you, dear.  Listen, I am so angry, and I know this isn't about Syria.  I just want to say real quickly, you're right.  Obama has known what he's doing from way back in the eighties and nineties and don't let anybody say otherwise.  But...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So, "Rush! Rush! Rush! What are we gonna do about Syria?" Folks, you're missing the point if you think this is about Syria. This is not about Syria. The issue is, "What do we do about Obama's red line gaffe?" Obama said that if the Syrians did X, it would be crossing a red line. Well, they've done X. According to John Kerry (Lurch), they've done X. So now the real issue as far as Washington (that would be "Warshington" for Newt and everybody else in the media) and the Democrat Party is: How do we deal...

Rush Limbaugh's now-official move to WOR (710 AM) on Jan. 1 could be the first in a series of dominoes that reshape New York talk radio. That will be especially true if Sean Hannity joins him and gives WOR the afternoon combo — Rush from noon-3 p.m. and Hannity from 3-6 p.m. — that propelled WABC to the top of city talk radio and has kept it there this whole century. Widespread reports have Hannity wanting to get away from Cumulus, which owns WABC. Hannity’s current syndication deal is through Premiere, which is a division of Clear Channel, which owns...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, let me tell you something. You know, privately there are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back. I mean, this regime does not take internal criticism at all, just like they try to eliminate all conservative opposition. Likewise, if anybody in the Democrat Party goes public with the slightest disagreement or problem with what Obama's doing, it could be curtains for them,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail from Greta Van Susteren, and I thought, "No, no, no, no, I just did her show. She can't be asking me back." And it wasn't that. Her e-mail was, "Man, oh, man, do you live rent free in Obama's head." And I said, "What's this?" So I read further, and she just assumed that I knew what she was talking about, and I didn't,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The economic news. "Incomes Have Dropped..." Get this now, this is from the Weekly Standard. Listen carefully to this. "Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the 'Recovery' as During the Recession." According to Obama and the official recession agency out there... the recession ended in 2009, and that's when the recovery began. But -- as you know and I know -- there hasn't been a recovery, but in official Washington vernacular the recovery from the Bush recession began in June of 2009. This is a powerful statistic. Incomes have dropped twice as much during Obama's recovery...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I got in here at the usual time after working very early this morning, late into last night on show prep and stuff, and at about ten o'clock I get an e-mail from Greta Van Susteren, and I thought, "No, no, no, no, I just did her show. She can't be asking me back." And it wasn't that. Her e-mail was, "Man, oh, man, do you live rent free in Obama's head." And I said, "What's this?" So I read further, and she just assumed that I knew what she was talking about, and I didn't,...

President Barack Obama argued some Republicans secretly side with him on wanting to avoid a government shutdown, but they're afraid they may face backlash from the conservative right. "Sometimes they say to me privately, 'I agree with you, but I'm worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the Tea Party back in my district,' or, 'I'm worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on the radio,'" Obama said in an exclusive interview with CNN "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo.

And then, finally, now what we've got is Republicans talking about the idea that they would shut down the government.... Nobody thinks that's good for the middle class. So the question is ultimately, if you are putting the American people first, if you are prioritizing them, then this shouldn't be that difficult. And I've made this argument to my Republican friends privately, and, by the way, sometimes they say to me privately, "I agree with you, but I'm worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the Tea Party back in my district," or, "I'm worried about what Rush...

Industry sources very close to the negotiations confirmed to Radio Ink late last night that Rush Limbaugh will not be leaving Cumulus stations when his contract is up at the end of this year. The one exception will be in New York City where Limbaugh will switch from WABC to Clear Channel's WOR-AM. A deal between Cumulus and Limbaugh, who is syndicated by Clear Channel owned Premiere Radio Networks, was struck when Premiere agreed to unbundle Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, according to sources. This negotiation became very public with Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey making statements that the talk format was...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I hope -- I hope -- that people appreciate what a public service that we provide here at the EIB Network.  And one of the many things that we do here is keep people from being bored.  The one thing that will never happen to you if you listen to this program every day is, you will never be bored. It's safe to say.  Never, ever.  We keep and save people from being bored.  In fact, this whole week -- and there's gonna be more of it today. It may even become an ongoing...

RUSH: I've got people e-mailing me about Punkin, my cat, and I would not have been able to describe this or tell you about this any earlier than today literally without losing it, but we had to put Punkin to sleep a week ago.  She was 16 years old, and the first cat that I'd ever had, and ended up being the best pet that I've ever had.  I'd always thought that cats were these aloof creatures that couldn't care less if you were around or not.  And to strangers and so forth, they might be.  But when a cat...

The Washington Post´s article detailing the fourth amendment abuses by the NSA got some push back from the administration who attempted to "edit" the article before publication. The internal audit referenced in the article was obtained by the WaPo from Edward Snowden. The details of the audit indicated repeated and growing privacy violations by the NSA, violations which included obtaining thousands of American citizen´s communications records and using methods of information collection that were later deemed unconstitutional by a court. The Post was able to interview John Delong, NSA director of compliance for the article and they were initially

What’s the hottest topic in Chicagoland? Nope, it’s not Chicago’s horrific rate of (illegal) gun violence,not the “flash gangs” on “Muggers Mile,”or even it’s robust effort to become the “Next Detroit.” It’s the 2016 Republican Presidential primary “debates.”(SNIP)Ok, so not everybody in Chi-town is consumed with fear that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and “The Great One” Mark Levin (RSL) might be chosen to head the R-word debates.Butt I can tell you that everyone occupying our Organizing For Action (OFA) Headquarters sure are.  MSM talking heads are helpfully passing the OFA’s official talking points on to Republicans in order to  “warn”...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The UK Telegraph asks today if I am editing the New York Times. Yes, they do. The UK Telegraph, that's the lead story in a big story. The New York Times, for some reason, has done a thorough expose on the Clinton Global Initiative. They have ripped the Clinton charity to shreds in the New York Times. I'm telling you, I don't want to make too big a deal out of any one of these things, but there are a lot of little, bitty things starting to align. Is Rush Limbaugh editing the New York Times? This...

Rush says every week that the Friday show is for whatever the callers want to talk about, us "rank amateurs." The Friday shows seem no different that the Monday-Thursday shows, where Rush talks, we listen and then he usually tries to squeeze in a few calls.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: A fascinating little story here, folks, a column by Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post. It is headlined: "Why No One Should be Surprised that Jay Leno Asked President Obama 'Real' Questions." Now, yesterday on this program, about 24 hours ago, I observed that I think this was the first time in my lifetime that a president of the United States had gone on a late-night comedy show to address the American people about something of potentially great consequence. Shutting down 21 embassies for a week in the Middle East is not an insignificant thing. And I...

Did Valerie Jarrett Issue the Order to Stand Down in Benghazi? August 06, 2013 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: There is a somewhat shocking report that I came across today at a website run by Doug Ross. It's called the Conservative Report. Doug Ross maintains here that Valerie Jarrett gave the orders to stand down in Benghazi. Valerie Jarrett, who constitutionally is not in the chain of command and cannot do that. And that's why this, if true, is a bombshell. Valerie Jarrett nixed the raid on bin Laden three separate times, remember, and the adults had to come in and basically...

Valerie Jarrett, Commander in Chief Confidential sources close to Conservative Report have confirmed that Valerie Jarrett was the key decision-maker for the administration, the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11/2012. The chronology of the evening of 9/11 are as follows: At approximately 5 PM Washington time, reports came in through secure-channels that Special Mission Benghazi was under attack. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey summoned the President,and briefed him on the crisis, face to face. Subsequent to that brief meeting, President Obama proceeded to the White House to...

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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT GRETA: Rush Limbaugh On the Record, and you'll hear Rush say things you have never heard him say before. But first, in our one-on-one interview, Rush Limbaugh tells us what he thinks of President Obama's "phony scandal" campaign. BEGIN CLIP GRETA: Let me ask you, talking about the scandals, President Obama says the scandals are phony. Why do you think he says they're phony? Because he believes it, or is there a strategy? RUSH: No, there's a strategy. You know, I've been troubled by something with Obama. You know, I playfully call it the "Regime," 'cause I know...

"Rush 'On the Record': Greta's exclusive sitdown interview with radio talk show icon Rush Limbaugh in an OTR special!.....Talk show radio icon gets personal about balancing career and family in a never-before-seen portion of Greta's interview"

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first day of the 26th year of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, a network named after the talent and ability of the host. That comment dedicated to all 24- and 25-year-old women. The door just opened (with staff entering). I thought we'd already done everything. It's the 25th anniversary of the Excellence in Broadcasting. August 1st of 1988 is when this program began on a national scale. (Staff singing Happy Anniversary to Rush.) Thank you all very much. Ah, that is a gorgeous looking "macaroni" cake. That is gorgeous. The whole...

Rush limbaugh Greta | Rush Limbaugh joined Greta Van Susteren for the full hour Tuesday night, and Limbaugh spent the first segment of the program bashing President Obama, sharing the "Limbaugh Theorem" for how the president governs, and taking the "slavish media" to task for not holding him accountable. He also had some choice words for Republicans capitulating too much to the Democratic agenda. On the "phony scandals" controversy, Limbaugh admitted he was stunned that the president was able to survive 2012 with the bad economy on his back. He came up with the "Limbaugh theorem" to explain why so...

GRETA: Tonight, Rush Limbaugh goes On the Record. In a rare interview, Rush tells us President Obama likes scandals. Now, our one-hour interview with Rush Limbaugh. Talking about the scandals, President Obama says the scandals are phony. Why do you think he says they're phony? Because he believes it, or is there a strategy? RUSH: No, there's a strategy. You know, I've been troubled by something with Obama. You know, I playfully call it the "Regime," 'cause I know it irritates 'em. But it is, it's like a regime. And I've been troubled, I've been amazed. Here is a man...

First of all, for all of you who do not like Michael Savage, I really don’t give a damn. I like him. Many others on this website do too. You don't like Savage's politics? fine. I think he is wildly entertaining. Hell, he makes my teenagers laugh out loud all of the time. I don’t particularly like Rush or the Wall Banger. So this is not a bash Savage thread. Please do that somewhere else. So here goes....Recently we’ve noticed a bit of a difference in Savage. First, he gets on the Trayvon bandwagon. Note that he doesn’t say Trayvon...

Top Anthony Weiner aide Barbara Morgan apologized yesterday after calling a former campaign intern a “bitch” and “slutbag.” She thought the interview was off the record. Politicker reported: Anthony Weiner’s spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, issued an apology tonight after a profanity-laced interview with Talking Points Memo, in which she described a former campaign intern as a fame hungry “bitch” and “slutbag” who “sucked” at her job. Ms. Morgan said that she believed the conversation, in which she also threatened to sue the young woman, was off the record.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, I just... it hasn't even been an hour yet. I told Greta Van Susteren that I would sit down for an interview with her here in the studio for her Fox television show. She has been asking me for the past week, and I said, "No." And she kept asking, and I said, "No, I don't like television." I said, "No, I don't want to be on TV." And finally I get up at seven in the morning and there are two e-mails from Greta saying, "Please, please." I had to do it,...

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will likely remain giants in the talk-radio industry and simply move to other stations in large markets not affiliated with Cumulus Media, predicted the publisher of an online magazine about the talk-radio marketplace. "All of the hoopla about Rush and Sean's radio careers coming to an end are really coming from political opponents, not from the radio industry," says Talkers.com website editor and publisher Michael Harrison, responding to media accounts in Politico and elsewhere that the radio megastars will be dropped by Cumulus stations at the end of the year. --snip-- Harrison said Cumulus will...

Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh may be setting up shop at new radio stations in the near future. According to a report on Politico.com, Cumulus Media is planning on dropping both talk show hosts at the end of the year. If Cumulus goes through with their plans, that means the nation’s top two conservative radio personalities would be removed from more than 40 stations. The company declined comment to the political website. "Cumulus is not in a position to comment about negotiations with talent under contract, no matter what the rumor of the day might be," a rep said. Sources...