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On Today’s Show... Show Highlight: "Obama talked about how when French President Sarkozy came to the United States, he was 'a rock star.' You want to know why Americans loved Nick Sarkozy? He praised this country in a way few American politicians will! Obama could learn from this. Liberals have so much guilt, if they say one thing good about us they feel like they have to say five things bad." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Gerard Baker in the UK Times: He Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World Obama plagiarized the only halfway memorable line...

RUSH: Cookie is working on a couple of audio sound bites and Drive-By Media reaction to the Messiah's speech in Germany. I have an idea what she's going to send. I never know what she's going to send unless I specifically asked for it. But Cookie is so good I seldom have to ask for it. I get what I want anyway. Now, one thing about this speech. I'll wait until we get the bites and see if what I'm expecting in these, citizen of the world stuff. When he started talking about that, that's when the red flags went...

On Today’s Show... Show Highlight: "Obama was pimping Reagan in Berlin. He's tearing down a whole bunch of walls now -- walls that do not exist! These are imaginary walls, and he wants to tear them down. It was insulting." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Presidents Kennedy and Reagan gave speeches against communists, and praising freedom in Berlin. No Democrat could have given that speech. An appeaser like Obama who wants to talk to our enemies couldn't. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "Obama says we have to 'remake our world again.' What an arrogant thing to...

Beginning this weekend, with exclusive columns by Pat Boone and Greg Laurie, WorldNetDaily launches several days of tributes to talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh, commemorating the 20th anniversary of his national radio program Aug. 1.

On Today’s Show... The Drive-By Media see Obama as historic, and they want him to make history so they can say they were there when it happened. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) The Official EIB Obam-Uh criticizer on The Messiah dissing our troops, and giving props to Mookie's boyz and the Sunnis for the victory won by the Bush-Petraeus surge. Pearl of Wisdom: "Obama seems to think history in the Middle East started yesterday. He's making a fool of himself. This is not presidential. This is pathetic, embarrassing ignorance coupled with arrogance." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » The...

As I suggested a few weeks ago, Sen. Barack H. Obama is not going to have an easy time of it. For one thing, Sen. John McCain is a much tougher candidate than has been suspected. Looking over his career, one will note that McCain learned politics before ever entering politics. As a young Navy liaison to the Senate in the 1970s, he worked effectively with Democratic and Republican hawks to reverse the post-Vietnam military decline. He, having managed the largest fighter squadron in the Navy, has management skills of which he can boast, as Sen. Obama cannot -- despite...

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 26 first, Mike. I didn't know we'd get to this this early. I asked Cookie to put together a little montage here of all the stuttering around that Obama did in his press conference today and I want you to hear this because -- and we didn't repeat anything here. It goes 46 seconds, and we're doing this because we hear constantly, "What a great orator and a great communicator! Ohhhh, this man is smooth!" Just listen. This is a great illustration here of what happened when you take the teleprompter and your prepared...

On Today’s Show... Show Highlight: Obama can't, uh, get, uh, more than -- than two words, uh, you know, out when he's, uh, off the teleprompter. We played a 46-second montage of his uhs and ums, along with his many vapid responses. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Podcast Special: When Rush learned the Uh Montage was only a fraction of the supposedly eloquent Obama's stammers, he ordered them all strung together. It took over two hours to edit and runs 7:34 -- with no repeats! It was too long to play on air, so we've prepared this special podcast....

A very early ping. Tom is out of pocket and I'm pinging and running off to the doctor. I've been quietly recovering from surgery but lurk most days on the thread. Step up to the plate you big hitters. You know who you are.

On Today’s Show... Rush's advice to Senator McCain: "McCain is doing some responding to Obama. He needs to be on an oil rig, and at a nuclear plant. He needs to do a bunch of things to focus on what the American people are most interested in now: energy and its price." Little Barry Obama is touring the world on someone else's dime, like a student touring colleges. In only 24 hours, he's solved Afghanistan. Never mind that he's saying the same thing Bush and McCain have been saying. Obama is The Messiah, the Chosen One. He is a...

On Today’s Show... If you have the means, please donate: Center for Health Transformation (Attn: The Tony Snow Family Trust) 1425 K Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20005 While El Rushbo was out, WBAP-AM's Mark Davis filled in from the Dallas Metroplex. » Check out Mark Davis's Stack of Stuff Mark Davis: "Tony Snow was a talk show host, and a damn good one. We need more voices like Tony Snow and Tim Russert in Washington. Sunday mornings just won't be the same without them." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » The AP: President Bush Remembers Snow's ''Record...

On Today’s Show... If you have the means, please donate: Center for Health Transformation (Attn:The Tony Snow Family Trust) 1425 K Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20005 Jed Babbin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for President George H. W. Bush and editor of Human Events, filled in Thursday while Rush attended Tony Snow's funeral. » Visit Jed Babbin's Stack of Stuff at RushLimbaugh.com, and Jed's Latest Columns» Note: HumanEvents.com will be honoring Rush the week of July 28th. Check it out!Senate Minority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined Jed Babbin to discuss the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008,...

On Today’s Show... If you have the means, please donate: Center for Health Transformation (Attn: Tony Snow Family Trust) 1425 K Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20005 Program Note: Rush will be out for the next two days to attend the Tony Snow funeral. Jed Babbin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Bush 41 and editor of Human Events, will host on Thursday. WBAP's Mark Davis guest hosts on Friday. The Lord Messiah Obama now claims that the New Yorker cover insulted Muslims. "Inevitability" is a death knell for Democrats. With his campaign floundering, some superdelegates are eyeing Hillary....

On Today’s Show... The New Yorker didn't put this cartoonish drawing on their cover to hurt Obama. They wanted to smear conservatives as racists, but now liberals are upset because the American people are too unsophisticated to get the joke. They say that if they'd had Rush painting the picture, that would have helped. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » NB: Andrea Mitchell: Dumb Americans Might Not Get 'Sophisticated' Cartoon Pearl of Wisdom: "The Obama campaign and The Messiah are very, very upset over this cartoon by the radical-left New Yorker. Let me ask you a question. Who is...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The Obama campaign, they continue to be in a tizzy over this New Yorker cartoon. Let me ask you a question. Obama and his team are upset over a cartoon on the cover of The New Yorker, a leftist publication, that makes him look like a Muslim, that makes his wife look like a terrorist Muslim, that has the American flag burning in the fireplace, under the portrait of Osama Bin Laden in the Oval Office. The Obama campaign and The Messiah himself were said to be very, very upset over this. Let me ask you...

On Today’s Show... Rush shares his memories of radio host, Fox News anchor, White House press secretary, and all-around great guy Tony Snow. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Rush's recent chats with Tony: 01.11.07 | 05.16.07 | 07.12.07 | 09.10.07 Sen. Charles "Chuck-U" Schumer (D-NY) caused the run on IndyMac bank, and he's happy, because Democrats want you miserable. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Wall Street Journal: Schumer Deflects Blame to IndyMac, Regulator Pearl of Wisdom: "If we subsidize every failure -- if we nationalize as much as we can of the credit markets and so forth...

On Castrati Thursday’s Show... Humorist Mark Steyn, outsourced from Canada, filled in behind the Golden EIB Microphone while Rush visited the dentist. Mark enjoyed our First Amendment for a day, while up north his book "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It" came under assault from the Canadian government for offending Islam. » Canadian Human Rights Commission: The Right to Offend A Muslim living in Canada charged Mark with hate crimes over an excerpt of his book in Maclean's magazine, and filed a complaint before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal! For Details, check out...

On Castrati Thursday’s Show... The Democrat National Committee platform director has publically thanked Rush for Phase II of Operation Chaos, welcoming all of you to help write the platform that The Lord Messiah Barack Obama will run on this fall. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) A caller asks: If Democrats want EIB input, will McCain welcome it, too? The Reverend Jackson has apologized. Apologized for what? If you watched the Drive-By Media, you never heard that he threatened to cut off Barack Obama's "nuts." The hatred and racism are on the Democrat side. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) »...

On Today’s Show... Pearl of Wisdom: " Rather than urging people in our country to speak English, Lord Obama wants us all to speak Spanish. (He can't.) Urging Americans to speak foreign languages is perfectly fine, but in context of his other views, this is an indication of where his head is. He would prefer to be running for president of a Western European country. He's embarrassed by America." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Obama wants our kids to learn Spanish. Fine and dandy. Let's teach them some other languages first: English, terrorism, Capitalism, and Marxist Socialism for starters....

Changing course after a week of attacking Rush Limbaugh over his new deal, "progressives" have suddenly turned against New York Times interviewer Zev Chafets, who wrote the widely- read piece on the talk titan that ran in Sunday's paper. Like a pack of rabid dogs, the unhinged left has labeled Chafets "creepy" and a "dittohead", among other insults.

On Today’s Show... Rush 24/7 Subscribers: Preview the battle plans for Phase II of Operation Chaos in Wednesday's Morning Update Transcript, Audio, and Rush's Video Podcast If the Republican Party had any onions, they'd whip the Democrats on gas prices and taxes. Every cabby and gas station owner is a potential GOP voter. Instead, our side says, "Eh, 2008 isn't our year." Well, it should be! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) As callers demand Rush do more, approval for the Democrat Congress plummets to an all-time low: 9%! Yet Republicans talk about all the seats they're going to lose!...

<p>He heard it from some people at work that Rush Limbaugh is a pedophile.</p>

On Today’s Show... Even as he moves to the right on positions like victory in Iraq, the flip-flop label won't be effective in going against Obama. Focus on his dangerous lack of experience. That's the reason for these sophomoric policy changes. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "The so-called media intelligentsia on our side says the Republican Party can't win with conservatism, so they're moving to the left. In the meantime, what's Obama doing? He's moving in our direction. He's moving to the right!" » Here's How You Go After Obama: After 143 days in the Senate,...

At one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command, and describes on the air as a “heavily fortified bunker.” In fact, Limbaugh’s show emanates from a nondescript office building on a boulevard lined with tall palms. There isn’t even a security guard in the lobby. The elevator opens directly onto a pristine anteroom furnished in corporate glass and leather. An American flag stands in the corner. Only...

RUSH LIMBAUGH: A BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD, BUT OUR BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD! I’ve been listening to Rush, off and on, for some 22 years or so, ever since my bride told me that some guy had been on Sixty Minutes and he said the things I had been saying for years. So, of course, I sent for the transcript to find out who this alter ego of mine was all about. I discovered the bride was right. I don’t listen for all 3 hours of his syndicated broadcast; some days I don’t listen at all and on others I catch him for just...

Palm Beach–In what could only have been deteremined as a yet another hit piece by the New York Times, Zev Chafets, delivered a masterpiece in his 8,000 words on Rush Limbaugh. There are certain times that many pieces of literary work should be written. I can think of no better time than the Fourth of July to publish this excellent piece. The piece is a study of Limbaugh, his lifestyle, an abbreviated life history, and his stance on many issues. It flashes back and forth throughout his life, but gives Americans a better understanding of what Rush LImbaugh does and...

On Today’s Show... Minnesota's "Mr. Right," Jason Lewis of KTLK-FM in Minneapolis, guest hosted an installment of Open Line Friday on Thursday. Visit Jason's Stack of Stuff right here. El Rushbo returns to the Golden EIB Microphone after Independence Day Weekend. Rush Signs a Contract for America: "I've extended my partnership at Clear Channel through 2016. I'm not going anywhere. I'm your host for life. As I've said on many occasions: none of this would have been possible without you, and I can't thank you enough. It's a debt I can never repay." (details) (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)...

Not bad for a kid from Cape Girardeau. Rush Hudson Limbaugh III didn’t do so bad passing up the family predilection for law school. Not bad at all. The word leaked yesterday that Rush Limbaugh, one-half of the defining force in A.M. talk radio, has signed a contract for $400 million. He’ll be on the air for another eight years, and he’ll be rolling in dough for every second of it. The richest man in broadcasting has made so much money he’s going to have to change his name to Oprah. And I couldn’t be happier. He deserves it. By...

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...

There may be signs of disarray in the Republican camp, but America's biggest right-wing shock jock just goes on and on. Rush Limbaugh, radio's most powerful political voice, has signed a new contract that Mr. Limbaugh confirmed Wednesday is worth $400-million, extending his program to 2016. John McCain should wish he could be so popular. The Republican presidential nominee, consistently lagging in the polls and subject to internal grumbling over sloppy logistics and lack of clear lines of authority among senior advisers, shook up his campaign organization, Wednesday, in the middle of a swing through Colombia and Mexico. (Mr. McCain...

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...

Vanity Fair media columnist says popular host will be 'oddity,' claims 'rise of conservatism' 'coming to an end.' It’s time to short-sell Clear Channel Communications stock if you follow the analysis by CNBC contributor and Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Wolff. He criticized a record deal that locks Rush Limbaugh in with the radio company through the next eight years. Wolff mocked Clear Channel’s (NYSE:CCU) decision to sign Limbaugh to the long-term agreement on CNBC’s June 2 “Street Signs.”

On Today’s Show... Rush Signs a Contract for America: "I've extended my partnership at Clear Channel through 2016. I'm not going anywhere. I'm your host for life. As I've said on many occasions: none of this would have been possible without you, and I can't thank you enough. It's a debt I can never repay." (details) (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » The New York Times Sunday Magazine Profile: Late-Period Limbaugh CNBC Asks: Is Rush Worth It? Lex Luthor lookalike Michael Wolff freaked out, saying conservatism is over and Rush will soon be an "oddity." If you people don't...

The Conservative Human Blowtorch has inked an earth-shattering new contract worth more than 100 MILLION DOLLARS. That ought to make the liberals' heads explode.

At one time, Limbaugh did his program from a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper he dubbed, with tongue-in-cheek grandiosity, the Excellence in Broadcasting Building. These days, he mostly broadcasts out of a studio in Palm Beach, Fla., which he calls the Southern Command, and describes on the air as a “heavily fortified bunker.” In fact, Limbaugh’s show emanates from a nondescript office building on a boulevard lined with tall palms. There isn’t even a security guard in the lobby. The elevator opens directly onto a pristine anteroom furnished in corporate glass and leather. An American flag stands in the corner. Only a...

On Today’s Show... The Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, critiqued the diabolical Barack Obama and his campaign's all-out assault on John McCain's Vietnam service. The Drive-Bys report that Obama "rejected" Wesley Clark's attack on McCain. Obama did no such thing! He didn't even mention Clark's name. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "Say what you want about John McCain, but he's right about a little, folks. To say that Obama has more experience and greater qualifications to serve as president of the United States is a joke -- and Obama's handlers know it. They know he has...

On Today’s Show... The Drive-Bys rejoice: Warren Buffett sets the record for a charity auction on eBay, breaking our record for the Harry Reid "phony soldiers" smear letter. However, if you count Rush's matching contribution, the record is still ours. » The Monopolistic AP: Chinese Investor Pays $2.1 Million to Eat with Buffett Don't buy the BS that the Democrats are unified. Clinton supporters vandalized a bunch of cars, spray painting them with racist anti-Obama graffiti. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton is quoted as saying Obama will have to "kiss his ass" to get his support. Wes Clark, who made John...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, one of the things that -- we talk about the Drive-By Media here quite a bit, and we analyze them a lot, and there have been periods of time in this program I've frankly gotten tired of it because everybody knows that they have a bias and everybody knows that they have an agenda, and what's news about it? I try to ignore 'em, and just can't. They are such a destructive force. They are so heavily aligned with the Democrats. But perhaps the thing of which they are the most responsible and guilty is a...

The announcement from Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she wants to revive the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” is big news -- but it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. The Fairness Doctrine is an Orwellian and archaic Federal Communications Commission rule devised in 1949 that requires radio broadcasters to present both sides of an opinion when discussing controversial topics. It put unelected FCC bureaucrats in charge of enforcement and determining what speech was legal. Broadcasters responded by avoiding controversial issues completely, the opposite of what a healthy democracy should expect from its radio press. This wrong-headed policy was finally repealed...

On Today’s Show... Pearl of Wisdom: "There's a lot happening to the Republican Party. The country club, blue-blood, Rockefeller types are trying to take it over, and exclude as much of the Republican base -- especially rural southerners and the evangelical Religious Right -- as possible. They're attacking the party from within, and then there are the usual attacks by the Democrats from without." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Illustrative of What's Gotten the Republican Party in This Condition: NY Times pseudo-conservative David Brooks praises a book urging the GOP to embrace the New Deal and activist government. They...

Friday, June 27, 2008 Posted By:Catherine MoyPermalinkTHANK YOU AMERICA!!!!! We’ve topped $1.1 Million for Our Troops!!!!! It is the day after our webathon and I am still numb from the stunning, selfless generosity of America. Our historic - and risky - webathon brought together the best in high-tech Ustream.tv, stars like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Gold Star parents and thousands upon thousands of Americans who REALLY support our troops. I want to apologize for failing to get a blog up as we went last night and yesterday. So many folks were participating on line that I...

On Today’s Show... Program Note: Watch Rush today at 4:20PM ET on the MoveAmericaForward.org online telethon in support of the US Military, "From the Frontlines," with Michelle Malkin and Melanie Morgan. The goal is the largest-ever care package to our troops. It's a Bad Day for Liberals: Obama campaign cutbacks at the Palm Beach Post, Baltimore Sun, etc Gallup: Messiah & McCain tied. The economy grows! Iraq is so safe, CBS infobabe Lara Logan carried on two affairs at once over there! Plus, the Supreme Court upholds your Second Amendment right. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom:...

On Today’s Show... Europe-loving Justice Kennedy and four Supreme Court liberals overturn the death sentence for Louisiana child rapists. Kennedy wrote that it's "disproportionate" punishment, and cruel and unusual. What is crueler: the violent rape of a young girl, or death by lethal injection while you're sedated? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » A Fantastic Investor's Business Daily Column by Thomas Sowell:So Wrong, So Often, For So Long, Yet It's Europe We Want To Copy A Greek-Italian living in America defends Europe against a choice Rush didn't make, and gets her name thrown off Rush's all-time, top-10 favorite female...

On Today’s Show... Programming Alert: On Thursday, June 26 at 4:20 PM EST, Rush will do a telethon for Move America Forward. The objective is to provide the largest care package ever of items of interest to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pearl of Wisdom: "I instinctively do not have a pessimistic view of the future of this country. I can find for you times in our recent past where gasoline prices have gone up identically in terms of percentage increase. Because of my advanced age of 57, I've been through these things and worse. The country is...

On Today’s Show... Rockefeller Republicans aim to eliminate conservatives and the Christian Right -- who have always embarrassed them -- from the GOP. Former congressman Mickey Edwards, yet another Republican to marry a liberal babe and turn squishy, reveals this hope: a McCain win would be bad for Rush. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "Why am I the only guy that can cavort and run around with liberal women and not lose my bearings? They lose their bearings. I do not lose mine."What's the difference between McCain and Obama? Folks, we cannot afford Obama economically or...

Barack Obama has informed us that any criticism of his wife is strictly forbidden. This though Michele Obama is constantly making speeches for her husband and plays a significant role in his campaign. However, according to his allies in the press we are also forbidden to comment on the racist rants of his pastor, his association with a known terrorist, as well as his 20 year membership in a church that seems to preach more hate than anything else. Seemingly, hyper-sensitive, Obama has taken an unprecedented step in confronting his critics who have legitimate questions about his background. He has...

On Today’s Show... Minnesota's "Mr. Right," Jason Lewis of KTLK-FM in Minneapolis, guest hosted for Open Line Friday. El Rushbo returns to the Golden EIB Microphone on Monday. The Best of Rush: By Popular demand, we've posted Rush's chat with sportscasting legend Jim Nantz about his book of recollections. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other Obama claims he's the candidate of "change," but what he stands for is nothing new. In fact, he's more like the candidate of "old." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) »...

The bottom line is that Limbaugh does not care if McCain wins in November, in fact, it would be counter-productive to the possibility of revitalizing his career. If Obama wins Limbaugh will have better ratings and earn more money. So, congratulations "ditto heads", you have achieved Rush's goal…the only cost to you is victory in November ......... The last four months was a welcome back to “fifteen minutes of relevancy” for Rush Limbaugh. The king of the talk radio movement of the 1990’s has had a very tough eight years in the wilderness of relative invisibility. "Operation Chaos" was successful...

On Today’s Show... WBAP-AM's Mark Davis filled in Thursday from the Dallas Metroplex. » Check Out Mark Davis's Stack of Stuff: Right Here Judges have become crafters of law instead of interpreters. Mark and Bill Sammon discussed Obama and the Supreme Court ruling, Tim Russert's memorial, and why history will treat the Bush presidency kindly. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)» Bill Sammon: Obama Advisers Say Bin Laden Can Appeal to U.S. Courts Watch the Staggering Video of Obama Promising to Disarm the United States Mark recaps Michelle Obama on The View, and Whoopi's lame defense of Mrs. O's "proud...

On Today’s Show... Landmark Rush Monologue: If terrorists get constitutional rights under this latest Supreme Court decision, and if Obama's advisors say Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, why are we trying to kill terrorists? Why aren't we trying to arrest Osama Bin Laden, read him his Miranda rights, and give him a lawyer? "Somebody ought to ask Obama: 'If we capture Bin Laden and we put him on trial, do you believe, sir, he should be presumed innocent? And if he's found not guilty in a court of law, do we just let him go after the...