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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...

Excerpt: It was confirmed today that the White House is running a campaign against Rush Limbaugh. Is this a smart strategy? Rush Limbaugh was a leading force in the Republican Revolution two years after Bill Clinton first won election. The freshmen Republicans dubbed themselves the “Dittohead Caucus” after their sweeping victory in 1994. Obviously Rush played a critical role in 94' election. Is it smart for the media and the White House to target Limbaugh at a time when a repeat of that 1994 revolution is most likely to occur? The problem for Obama and the White House is that...

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Dittoheads, you've been dissed. Chris Matthews has dismissed you as a bunch of mind-numbed robots. CNBC's John Harwood seconded the insult. It happened on this evening's Hardball as Matthews mused about the potential impact of Operation Chaos on the upcoming primaries. CHRIS MATTHEWS: How much of a move do you hear, John Harwood, the so-called Operation Chaos is going to play next Tuesday in Indianapolis [sic], the effort by Rush Limbaugh, the lovable Rush Limbaugh, I must say, to encourage Republicans, registered Republicans, to go vote for Hillary just to cause chaos and perhaps get her the nomination? How big...

Does a John McCain Republican victory mean the demise of the "dittoheads?" It is just one of a number of a fascinating back stories to the resurrection of the Arizona senator, a campaign that has had to swim upstream not against the Mitt Romneys and Rudy Giulianis of the world, but the right-wing "talkocracy" of the United States, the family-values wing of the party and some Republican members of Congress. It has been bad news for the "dittoheads," the pejorative name given to the audience of Rush Limbaugh, the country's leading conservative radio voice, for their blind agreement with the...

Somebody in the Huckabee camp made the mistake of insulting the leader of the conservative movement in the U.S., Rush Limbaugh. Rush responded on Friday's show and basically ripped the Huckabee camp a well-deserved new one. Whoever made the original comments clearly has not been paying attention. Some are questioning whether the Huckabee campaign can survive the shellacking it got on Friday's program. Huckabee is trying to stop the bleeding: SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another. Mike Huckabee, taking questions...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/part1.html 10 WAYS THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ SUPPORTS THE WAR ON TERROR With the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq is no longer a state sponsor of terror. According to State Department reports on terrorism, before the removal of Saddam's regime, Iraq was one of seven state sponsors of terror. Saddam Hussein's regime posed a threat to the security of the United States and the world. With the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime, a leader who pursued, used, and possessed weapons of mass destruction is no longer in power. Saddam Hussein would not uphold his international commitments, and now that...

RUSH: I'm ecstatic. I heard about this list this morning. It's a list of the "meanest" cars for 2006, and I am on the list -- well, my car is. "High-performance sports cars, ultra-luxury sedans and powerful trucks all rely on high-powered engines to deliver performance and towing capacity — but that performance comes at a price — landing these vehicles at the bottom of the list in the annual Green Book from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Each year, ACEEE rates vehicles on their overall impact on the environment, with vehicles earning the best scores...

RUSH: A couple more delights from the White House press briefing today. David Gregory. Did you happen to see earlier this week the Washington Post ran a big puff piece on Gregory. He's the new Sam Donaldson. He is the Sam Donaldson to George Bush. You know, Donaldson, among many things that led to his fame, was a provocateur with Ronald Reagan throughout much of Reagan's administration. So they're having this White House press briefing today, and they're talking about this offensive that's going on in Iraq. GREGORY: Does the president think that an offensive like this high-profile is...

RUSH: Brian in Wilmington, North Carolina, I know you're still out there, because I know you're here every day, Brian, and I know a lot of you libs are out there. Let me tell you: I think this is probably everything that you're looking for. The reason that it took so long to release details of the hunting accident -- Dick Cheney and Harry Whittington -- is that Whittington is actually dead, and it took them about eight hours to go find a double for Mr. Whittington, because he's actually brain dead. He's so injured that he's being held...

RUSH: I've got to take care of something first. These idiots over at Bill Schneider's office and CNN. You remember the bit that I did yesterday in which I describe what would be happening if a Democrat vice president had shot a buddy accidentally while hunting? We would be hearing about, "Oh, this is a terrible thing. We must give the vice president room while he grieves and assembles himself as he suffers along with his friend." We'd get all kinds of features on hunting safety and there would be a totally different approach. They took one sentence out...

RUSH: Here's a little story today in the New York Sun. Did you know that Judith Miller was back in court fighting with the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, again? "Journalist Judith Miller and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald squared off in court again yesterday, with a lot less public attention than last year, when the dogged special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case had the then-New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days to force her to disclose the identity of an anonymous source. Yesterday appearance in Manhattan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was another...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So let me ask you a question, folks: What would you rather do? "Would you rather go hunting with Dick Cheney or riding in a car over a bridge with Ted Kennedy?" You go riding in a car over a bridge with Ted Kennedy, he's going to run off if an accident happens and you won't see him again, and it's too late. You go hunting with Dick Cheney and an accident happens and he'll take you to the hospital. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We have some audio from Good Morning America today on the Cheney situation....

ABC News, via their investigative reporter Brian Ross -- and I can attest personally that Brian Ross gets it wrong -- has got a story, "Is the CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt.'?" Now, because it's Brian Ross, I cannot attest to the accuracy of the report. This is a guy who just recently on Nightline did this whole distortion of Justice Scalia showing up to teach a course for a legal society, at which the respondents and the participants had paid months in advance to attend this thing. It was portrayed by ABC News as a "junket," and because...

RUSH: You people out there that have robbed banks, what do they call the red dye? What do they call the red dye that banks use? Somebody steals a bag of money and they escape and they open it, and (interruption). The dye pack, that's right. Maimone knows. He's a former bank robber. Kaboom! You've got red dye all over the perp and all over the money. It's a red dye bomb, is that what it's called? Pretty much? We'll just say it is, because it captures enough. Whatever you call it, the red dye bomb exposed John F....

RUSH: Bob in Corpus Christi, Texas, welcome to the program, sir. Nice to have you with us. CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush. About Hillary. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: You're wrong if you don't think she can win. Be afraid, be very afraid. RUSH: (sighing) CALLER: It's very simple. John Kerry almost won. He lost by three points, and he based his whole campaign on three and a half months in a swift boat. And his background, his voting record was buried. He made his name in VVAW, a bunch of bogus psychopathic radicals. He told a bunch of twisted lies about being...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Of course we all know the circumstances surrounding Mrs. Alito leaving the hearing room in tears yesterday. You know what the laugher about this one is? The AP, the Associated Press, the first story crossing the wires tried to blame "Vice President" Lindsey Graham for this. They tried to blame the Republicans for making Ms. Alito cry. Anybody with a brain -- half a brain, a quarter of a brain -- watching these things understood what was going on with all this yesterday. We'll have the audiotape of that incident here. A very emotional time, by...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the barrier 11,000. The media has a way of describing this. We have put together a montage: Fox News Channel, ABC News, CBS News, CBS This Morning, CBS, NBC. Note here, there's a single word that all of these anchors and info babes and reporters used to describe the Dow breaking 11,000. CHRIS WALLACE: We certainly understand it to be an important psychological mark. REBECCA GOMEZ: It's a psychological milestone. MELLODY HOBSON: There's nothing magical about 11,000. It's more psychological. BOB SCHIEFFER: Wall Street reached a psychological milestone today....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, you know, folks, it's just real simple here. From a purely analytical point of view -- from a purely analytical point of view -- the media prove time and time again they cannot be trusted to report the truth or the facts. We can't count on them anymore. First there was Katrina. We got forged documents, lies about the law regarding the NSA program; now this terrible mine accident. Time and again they report false information and spin. They rely on rumored sources. Somebody shouts out a rumor, they run with it. They take it...

RUSH: I'm going to mention this again today. It's from Slate.com. It's by Daniel Gross, and it's just... Well, it speaks for itself. It may also explain why journalists are so mean and nasty and jealous and vengeful is because they have no money. (clearing throat) Daniel Gross, Slate.com, Tuesday December 20th, actually, this ran. "The New York real-estate boom is claiming a different kind of casualty, according to an article in Sunday's New York Times. Keying off a new report issued by the Center for an Urban Future, Jennifer Steinhauer noted that, thanks to high housing prices, many...

<p>RUSH: You know, sometimes -- frequently actually -- during all these breaks I go to the e-mail. I check things out, and I go to all the various accounts from which I receive mail, and the Rush@eibnet.com is where the kooks send me mail. I get eight, 10,000 shots a day in a 24-hour period in this account and, you know, sometimes I just peruse the subject line, and this one caught my attention, so I thought I'd read it. Subject line is: "9/11 Explanation is a Lie, Lie, Lie." I said, "Ooooh, okay." So here's the note to me: "Everybody in the country except you knows and understands the Bush official explanation of 9/11 is a cover-up and a lie. The truth is being told, and the people are starting to wake up and realize that Bush and his minions are pushing a big lie. When they can no longer cover their rear ends with lies they will be held accountable for their crimes against the people of this country." He goes on to give me two links here to show that Bush blew up the World Trade Center.</p>

We Go to War for Civil Liberties? December 19, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got an e-mail from a friend of mine in St. Louis. "Rush, did you hear what Tim Russert said after Bush's press conference today?" He said, paraphrasing -- and I haven't seen this, so I probably ought to double-check this, but we will. Paraphrasing, Russert said, "People go to war to protect their civil liberties, so isn't counterproductive to take away these liberties while doing it?" All of you out there listening, how many of you think we go to war to protect civil liberties?...

A week ago, Rush Limbaugh won a major victory in a Florida court over government efforts to invade his medical privacy. But you wouldn’t know it from major media reports, as a Florida judge’s ruling in Limbaugh’s ongoing prescription drug case was distorted in newspapers and on TV news reports all across the nation. Thank the Associated Press for the media spin. In the initial AP story on the court case, the headline read: "Judge Allows Subpoenas of Limbaugh Doctors." The wire service then reported that Palm Beach County "Circuit Court Judge David F. Crow ruled that Florida laws do...

RUSH: "A Texas judge yesterday threw out a campaign finance conspiracy charge against Rep. Tom DeLay, but ruled that the prosecutors' money laundering charge should go forward." (story) Mike, grab audio sound bite -- no humidity in the air down here today so the pages are not coming apart easily. You know, the media all portrayed this as a big lawsuit actually-- (Laughing.) "Ooh, DeLay didn't win anything here, still faces the money laundering charges, oh, this is horrible." "The ruling means Mr. DeLay, Texas Republican, will not be able immediately to regain the House majority leader's post he...

RUSH: I want to continue on the sound bite roll here, because this next is just choice. Talked about this yesterday. The media being all upset about the fact that the Pentagon reportedly buying space, buying stories, planting good news in the Iraqi media. "We can't have that, why, we can't have good news in the Iraqi media. Who gave them a right to do that? We can't go shaping and bending the news like that." The media's got an idea the news out of Iraq is going to be all bad. The Pentagon says, "Hey, we're going to...

Rush Limbaugh calls them "Schumer’s Plumbers” – two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffers who worked for Senator Chuck Schumer and are now accused of illegally obtaining the credit report of a Republican candidate for the Senate. The two staffers have resigned, and Sen. Schumer – chairman of the DSCC – denies any involvement. In his latest must-read "Limbaugh Letter,” Rush writes that the media is continuing a cover-up of the scandal. Limbaugh notes that despite Schumer’s denial of any involvement, his organization is picking up the $400-an-hour tab for the pair’s attorney. The Senator from New York "has presided over...

RUSH: So Mr. Snerdley comes in today, folks, and he says, "This economy has to be humming." Well, there's no question that it's humming. His definition of a humming economy is he can't find an X-Box 360. He went out there and tried to find an X-Box 360, the new one. The base price is between three and four hundred dollars, and with other bundles thrown in there, it's between eight and nine hundred dollars. Some are listed now by a grand by resellers online because there's such a demand for these things. He can't find one. I said, "You...

In 1921, an unknown World War I American solider was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Across the Atlantic, England and France also laid unknown soldiers to rest. The three ceremonies occurred “on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.” A 1926 congressional resolution gave the date an official name: Armistice Day; 12 years later it became an official holiday honoring veterans of the First World War. In 1947, WWII vet Raymond Weeks organized “National Veterans Day” in Birmingham, Alabama to honor all veterans. Seven years later Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming Nov. 11 Veterans...

It has been more than two years since news first broke that Rush Limbaugh had an addiction to painkillers. That news led to a criminal investigation of Limbaugh by Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer, who in December 2003 leaked to the media that his office had uncovered evidence of 10 felony counts, including "doctor shopping," money laundering and drug trafficking. Despite the sensational allegations, no charges have been brought. Worse, in the latest round between the State Attorney's office and Limbaugh, Assistant State Attorney James Martz made a startling admission in open court on Tuesday as he sought...

RUSH: Okay, gotta hear this. We got a lot more sound bites of this, but this is the money sound bite. Brian Ross today talking to Mary Mapes of CBS says, "After 12 years of defending him, CBS and Dan Rather later admitted they couldn't vouch for the authenticity of the documents, Bill Burkett's documents, and that they should not have been used and the story should not have aired. Do you," Mary Mapes, "still think the story was true?" MAPES: The story? Absolutely. ROSS: This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now and say you still...

RUSH: Have you noticed when the liberals lose elections, the elections were stolen? I toyed with the idea today of trying to start this big movement that all these elections were flawed yesterday and that the voting machines were tampered with and that people tried to vote and weren't allowed to vote and there was discrimination against conservatives, and I wanted to lead the charge, saying these elections are illegitimate because they were stolen. But then I stopped, and then I realized, no, that's not the way to go about it. Because, as losers in these elections, those that we...

RUSH: Seems I've heard this before. Has Clinton not told this story before? It's hard to remember. But here's Bill Clinton during his eulogy for Rosa Parks yesterday in New Fallujah. CLINTON: I remember as if it were yesterday that fateful day 50 years ago. I was a nine-year-old southern white boy who road a segregated bus every single day of my life. And I sat in the front. Black folk sat in the back. When Rosa showed us that black folks didn't have to sit in the back anymore, two of my friends and I who strongly approved of...

RUSH: The funniest thing about this yesterday -- and there are a lot of funny things, it's hard to pick -- the funniest thing is the Democrat kook internet reaction. They thought this was going to result in Bush getting impeached. They actually thought that the Democrats, Dingy Harry invoking Rule 21 and shutting down the Senate, going into closed session, was finally what they've been asking for all along. So much is clear; so much is obvious. They were so let down over the lack of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation leading to a trial on the war with Iraq and...

RUSH: Are all you Doubting Thomases out there willing to admit now that I know what I'm talking about? Are you willing to admit that I was right about this whole thing? Greetings and welcome. It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and here we are, ready to roll, another exciting three hours of broadcast excellence. I am America's anchorman, here at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies: 800-282-2882 if you'd like to be on the program. E-mail address, Rush@eibnet.com. I have here a column by our old buddy Jim Pinkerton. He's a columnist at Newsday, also appears on Fox's...

RUSH: We finally have the press release which has been made public here by the independent counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald -- who, by the way, the liberals, the Democrats are all calling him "Elliott Ness." He's an Elliott Ness out there. What does that mean? It means that Al Capone is in the White House. These terms here are not accidentally chosen. It's a five-count indictment, one count object construction of justice, two counts of lying to investigators, and two counts of perjury. Five-count (interruption). What? It's Libby. Yeah, this is Libby. It's the only one that there's any mention of...

RUSH: Well, folks, conservative crackdown theory validated. Greetings and welcome. It's the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular Rush Limbaugh program. Is that Dittocam up and running out there? Good, because I ordered that thing to be on from the top of the program. So it's available at www.RushLimbaugh.com. It's great to be with you. Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program. (Laughing.) I am wearing body armor today, folks. Telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is Rush@EIBnet.com. Altamont, grab audio sound bite #1. Let's go back to last Friday. This is what I said...

We had a call from Rancho Mirage, California -- last call in the previous hour -- from John who wanted to draw the distinction, that (summarized): "Yeah, Susan Webber Wright did cite Clinton for contempt but that was in a civil case and he was never convicted on it and the fact he was not convicted of any of this during his impeachment hearings and so to go after Clinton here and try to say there was something different about Clinton that there is about these other cases is a bit of a stretch and Republicans are perhaps being a...

RUSH: This is John in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hello, sir. Great to have you on the program. CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Wondering, if Mr. Fitzgerald doesn't hand down the expected indictments, or perhaps doesn't go as far as the left wants him to, how quickly do you think Schumer and the rest of the press now praising him will turn on him and he becomes a partisan hack? RUSH: That will take about half a second and I kid you not. I mean, look at how far out they've gotten, "He's a prosecutor's prosecutor. This guy's apolitical." These indictments have already...

RUSH: I've been thinking about this Harriet Miers problem, folks. I got a solution. Everybody's got their ideas. One of the ideas is that Harriet Miers resign, withdraw, and that Bush nominate her to the appellate court - and let her get some seasoning and go through some hearings there and get out of it that way. I have a different idea but -- oh, before I give you my idea -- I saw a news story yesterday. Let me tell you what I think of it. Sam Brownback and the vice president, Lindsey Graham, both-- (interruption) No, wait. They...

RUSH: The Associated Press, in their slug to their first story about this, by their reporterette, their info babe, Laurie Kellman: "DeLay's Mug Shot Smile Hurts Democrat Chances in '06." That is a headline from the Associated Press! Now, I told you people from day one that this is what Ronnie Earle and the Democrats wanted. They wanted this mug shot and they wanted his fingerprints and they wanted the perp walk. Now, they didn't get the perp walk, but they wanted that mug shot so they could use that picture for the rest of DeLay's life. Now, it probably...

Snerdley looked it up. He found it. April 5th, 1992, this is during the campaign, Bill Clinton said, "And I will appoint judges to the Supreme Court who believe in the constitutional right to privacy, including the right to choose." So there Clinton did establish his litmus test. So it's okay for the libs to say, "We're going to get a pro-choice nominee. They're going to be pro-Roe vs. Wade," but somehow Republicans can't say this. Republican nominees say it. Republican presidents can't say it. "Weeeell, I have never talked to our nominee about that! You know, I don't have...

RUSH: All right, let's go to the audio sound bites. Seriously, I want to get these things about me out of the way so we can move on to the other items in the Stack of Stuff today. It's really funny how the press is turning on Judith Miller. To think -- to think! -- that they held retirement parties for Dan Rather; to think that they gave him all kinds of awards. He got the Peabody Award. The media circled the wagons to protect Dan Rather. They want Judith Miller back in jail. She has committed -- this is...

RUSH: This next story made page A-22 in the Washington Post yesterday. "On the Streets of Iraq, Scenes of Joy and Determination" is the headline. "For the cooped-up children of bomb-weary Baghdad, referendum day was a winner, no matter what the final outcome. A security ban on private vehicles, invoked to keep would-be bombers from reaching targets, had a blissful side effect: The boys and girls of Baghdad took back the streets for a day," and it goes on and on and on to describe what a pleasant day the Election Day was in Iraq. If you look at this,...

RUSH: Eric in Destin, Florida. Hello, sir, welcome. CALLER: Dittos, Rush. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: Yes, sir. Susan Estrich is floating a trial balloon in her latest book that if Hillary loses the '08 election that it sets back the women's movement more so than Judge Bork ever could have. And I just wanted to get your opinion on that. RUSH: I've grown to like Susan Estrich, but I just think it's poppycock. I think what set the feminist movement back is feminism. The feminist movement has already been set back. The feminist movement, we're going to be overturning Roe...

RUSH: We got great audio sound bites from Calypso Louie coming up. Calypso Louie's -- what is this thing being called tomorrow? The Million More March. You know, tomorrow is a fascinating day, ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow is showdown Saturday. This is Open Line Friday. Tomorrow is a Saturday that will test aspirations. It will test hopes and dreams. Will they reject the past and look to building a better future? If you think I'm talking about the referendum in Iraq, you're only partially correct. I am talking about that. They're going to be voting on the constitution there tomorrow....

All right, folks, the left is out there salivating over what is happening in the conservative world over the Harriet Miers nomination. Two things here: Robin Toner's piece in the New York Times today, and a Howard Fineman column titled, "The Conservative Crackup." The subhead is: "How the Neocons Have Developed a Political Exit Strategy," and I just know that Howard was sitting there drooling over his keyboard as he was typing this piece -- and, remember, Fineman had a piece recently that was two years late in discovering the influence that the extremist left-wing bloggers have on the mainstream...

RUSH: Jim Dobson recorded his radio show for today and tomorrow yesterday; the transcripts for that show are out. Now as you know, one of the things that irked Senator Specter is that Dobson admitted that maybe Karl Rove told him some things he "shouldn't know" – everybody assumed – when he called him to give him a heads-up on the nomination of Harriet Miers, the US Supreme Court. Well, everybody ran and rushed to judgment on that and said, "A-ha! A-ha! Rove told Dobson that she's a definite vote against Roe vs. Wade," which of course if that were...

RUSH: Good old Justice Stephen Breyer is continuing to speak. We have some sound bites from him. He was speaking Monday in Washington at a symposium on public service and international law. Now, Breyer is a known commodity. He was a liberal when he was nominated; he was a liberal when he was confirmed, and he's a liberal on the court, and the liberals didn't have to be stealth about him, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg? She was a liberal when she's nominated, and she is a liberal on the court, and they didn't have to be stealth about her and...

RUSH: Bill in North Brunswick, New Jersey, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you. You are up first today. CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I have to say that I think the response of some of the big-name conservatives, Kristol, Podhoretz, Krauthammer and even you to an extent has been reflexively negative on this nomination. I've been a conservative for over 40 years, and I was inclined to at least give the president the benefit of the doubt through the first couple of days, perhaps through the hearings. You know, I think the behavior of conservatives in this matter...

Folks let me tell you a little bit about my evening last night -- and I'm here today, and I knew this was going to happen. I'm here today on about three hours, 2-1/2 hours sleep. So I'm in a giddy mood and we all know what happens when I'm in a giddy mood. The broadcast engineer's finger is poised over the deedle button at all times, as, you know, we get close to that line of pushing the envelope, as it were. Last night was the 50th anniversary of National Review magazine. Now, National Review magazine, of course, is...