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A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with -- from the economy to the war in Afghanistan -- are the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush....he said his administration was also confronted with a "financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst that we've seen in generations.""We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world," Obama added.He said his administration had acted swiftly to save the economy from "imminent collapse." -(http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43692420091104?sp=true) It seems the Manchild-in-Chief is...

GOP leaders have been loathe to criticize Rush Limbaugh -- but House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking issue with Limbaugh's claim that President Obama's push for health care was comparable to Hitler's stranglehold on Germany. Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish Republican elected official in the country, told Bloomberg News that his party needs to be more inclusive to regain power. “The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al...

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, said his party needs to be inclusive and criticized some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as inappropriate. “The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing today.

On Today's Show... November 5, 2009   Mark Davis of WBAP News/Talk 820 Dallas-Fort Worth Filled in for Rush Check out Mark's Stack of Stuff and listen to the entire guest-hosted show at RushLimbaugh.com.   Mark Davis Monologue: The Ultimate Tea Party (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » LA Times: Tea Party Activists Swarm Capitol Hill » Politico: Tea Partiers Hit Capitol   "We're going to hold tea parties and town halls. We're going to gather people on a moment's notice at the Capitol dome to say 'No' to Obamacare. And we're going to keep doing it until the 2010 elections...

The White House arrogance on display in denying that Tuesday's election results were a repudiation of President Barack Obama's radical agenda is of a piece with its arrogance in attempting to advance this agenda against the people's will. One of the great ironies of this administration is its promise of returning power to the people but governing with an iron fist and its back turned to the expressed wishes of the voters. The White House claims a mandate for its extreme blueprint to restructure America, but the voters had no idea Obama would go this far, even if many of...

On Today's Show... November 4, 2009   Democrats Lose Huge in NJ and VA, But the Worst Is Yet to Come Obama losing New Jersey is like Stalin losing Moscow. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   Conservatism Didn't Lose in NY-23 (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   "The huge story of NY-23 is the shambles the Republican Party 'big thinkers' made of it.   They nominated a horrendous candidate -- a liberal Republican -- and then when she left, they praised her, even as she  endorsed the Democrat! Conservatism did not lose.  What lost was Republican ineptitude and incompetence in selecting...

Ever since the left wing captured the universities and media, putative conservatives desiring media favor and intellectual respectability have been apologizing for conservatism's most popular and effective figures. These days, they want to distance themselves from the "anger" and "extremism" of such personalities as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. What they ought to be doing instead is taking lessons from Beck as he lectures in front of a blackboard, a fitting symbol for what has gone wrong. Conservatism is rising, and we have the intellectual and historical high ground.

Is Bill O'Reilly the new moderate voice of America's right? That would seem to be the case after Bill O' took on Rush Limbaugh, the fire-eating grand poobah of everything right-wing. O'Reilly took exception to Limbaugh's claim that President Obama was trying to deliberately destroy the economy. In an interview with Fox News, Limbaugh said Obama represented the most "radical leadership" in the history of the country, and that the economy was "under siege" by Obama. Limbaugh also said Obama had "not done one thing to revitalize the economy." In response, Bill O' asked the logical question — but one...

had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the “21” Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a “reporterette,” to use a Limbaugh coinage. He was charming, in a shy, awkward, lonely-guy way. Not a man of the people. He arrived in a chauffeured town car and ordered $70-an-ounce Beluga, Porterhouse and 1990 Corton-Charlemagne. But he was not a Neanderthal, though he did have a cold and blew his nose in his napkin. He talked about Chopin’s Polonaise No. 6, C.S. Lewis and how much he loved the end of the movie...

An interview with Oprah Winfrey is already scheduled, and I’m also planning to talk with Bill O’Reilly, Barbara Walters, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Tammy Bruce, and others, including local Alaska personalities Bob & Mark and Eddie Burke. (Variety is the spice of life!)

On Today's Show... November 3, 2009   If Any Republican Wins, Then They Will Have Attracted Independents By the White House's own definition, this will be the meaning. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   Liberals Have a Cow Over Bestiality Joke About Scozzafava and RINOs The Democrat candidate is "personally offended." Personally? What do we not know about him?   El Rushbo's Election Predictions: How the Media Will Spin Wins or Losses for Obama Whatever happens, it will be good for Obama and bad for the GOP. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) Go to Washington This Thursday with Rep. Michele Bachmann and Dr. Mark...

In his nationally syndicated radio program yesterday, Rush Limbaugh declared “Scozzafava has screwed every RINO in the country … and Pelosi’s going to kill off the blue dogs … the American people have had enough.” Video: Rush Limbaugh - Scozzafava’s Guilty Of Bestiality

Conservatives owe a lot to great men like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley who helped keep the fires of conservatism burning when the movement was barely holding together. Without their efforts conservatism would likely not have gotten this far, this fast. That being said, in the last 30 years, conservatism has become considerably stronger, more popular, and more effective than it was in Goldwater and Buckley's heyday. There are three men who deserve to be heralded for that success above all others. Of course, Ronald Reagan deserves the lion's share of the credit for proving that conservative ideas work...

On Today's Show... November 2, 2009 Stop Nationalized Health Care! Join Michelle Bachman and Mark Levin on Thursday in DC   El Rushbo Goes to News Church, FNS Interview Shakes Up Beltway It's nothing that Rush hasn't said on his show. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Interview Transcript and Video: Rush on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace   David Axelrod and Joe Biden Campaign Against Rush They don't know what we're for? They know, and it terrifies them. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Here's What We're For, Mr. Biden: Rush's WSJ Op-Ed on Harriet Miers   Dede Scozzafava...

I nearly fell out of my chair as I read this New York Times headline: "Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit." From the headline alone, I couldn't tell whether this was before, during or after they supported President Barack Obama's intentional, exponential escalation of the deficit to $1.4 trillion. That's simply immeasurable chutzpah. But just in case you're ready to be taken in yet again by these fair-weather deficit watchdogs, the first sentence of the Times article reveals their true -- and true to form -- motive. "Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and...

Here is video of Ann Coulter and Geraldo sparring over Rush Limbaugh's interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Geraldo called Limbaugh's use of the phrase "man-child President" to refer to Obama as an example of Rush being a "racial provocateur." Coulter completely disagreed with Geraldo. . . . (VIDEO)

On Fox News Sunday yesterday, Chris Wallace interviewed Rush Limbaugh regarding what Obama has done for and to America. Rush proclaimed that President Obama is “destroying” the private sector in America, and that he “has to think it may be on purpose.” This extensive interview leaves few stones unturned regarding Limbaugh’s opinion of Obama’s objectives and their consequences for this country. (good videos to save for future reference) Video: Rush Limbaugh - Obama Is Destroying America

VIDEO: Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace interviewed legendary talk show Rush Limbaugh on November 1st. Below is the video from Rush's interview broken down into three parts:

Rush said earlier that he doesn't believe Obama really cares what happens in Afghanistan...only what the war can do for him, and now the dithering liberal is dithering some more. 10 months wasn't enough you see: Axelrod said Obama would announce a war strategy "within weeks." A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press that Obama has still not yet decided what to do, and it remains unclear whether he will decide before he goes to Asia on Nov. 11. Here is what Rush said earlier and it's dead on accurate: WALLACE: Let’s talk about a couple of the big...

Rush Limbaugh appeared on "Fox News Sunday" today, and said Sarah Palin is ready to be president. He also predicted a revolt against Democrats in 2010, and a loss for President Obama in 2012: (VIDEO AT LINK)

Video: Rush on Fox News Sunday   Interview Transcript: Rush on Fox News Sunday with Chris WallaceFox News Web Exclusive Videos: Rush Election Predictions | Rush on CzarsFox News Story: Limbaugh Tells Fox News Dems Trying to 'Steal' Private SectorFox News Photos: Behind the Scenes at Rush Interview

Rush Limbaugh on Sarah Palin: She’s Ready to Be President (Video) Sunday, November 1, 2009 Jim Hoft Rush Limbaugh predicted today that Barack Obama will be a one term president. Rush also told Chris Wallce that, “Yes, she’s ready to be president.” From FOX News Sunday: Chris Wallace: Sarah Palin. You say that you admire her backbone. Do you really think she’s ready to be president? Rush Limbaugh: Well, yes I do. One thing I do not do is follow conventional wisdom. And the conventional wisdom is that Sarah Palin is not smart enough. She needs to bone up on...

Rush Limbaugh's interview with Chris Wallace is going to be the only thing the MSM is talking about Monday. When asked what he thought of Obama's trip to Dover to visit the remains of soldiers brought home from Iraq. Limbaugh said "It was a photo-opt. It was a photo-opt precisely because of hes having big time trouble on this whole Afghanistan dithering situation." He didn't stop there, though. He hit on everything you wanted him to. Even why he calls President Obama a man-child. Here's the link for the videosHe's the transcript from part 1. I'm working on part 2...

In response to the NY-23 news, Rush Limbaugh tells me: “Hmmm... I thought the Era of Reagan was over? Who was it that said that? Oh yeah, the smart people on our side who told us the only way we could win was with moderate/liberal candidates like Scozzafava. Hmmm...”

Limbaugh Tells Fox News Dems Trying to 'Steal' Private Sector The conservative radio talk show host blasted the Democrats' health care bills as a front that would steal money from American businesses and effect the partial takeover of the private sector. Health care reform legislation being pushed through Congress represents the "biggest snatch of freedom and liberty" in U.S. history, Rush Limbaugh tells "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace in an exclusive interview to air this Sunday. The conservative radio talk show host blasted the Democrats' health care bills as a front that would steal money from American businesses and...

On Today's Show... October 30, 2009 Even State-Run Media Doesn't Buy Obama Lies on Stimulus Jobs CBS News runs blistering report on Obama's fraudulent claims on stimulus jobs "created or saved," and then listens to an Obama propagandist insist it's all real. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   The Messiah: Obama Saves  What Obama has "saved or created" around the globe. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   See, I Told You So: GDP = CIG There is no private sector growth in the US economy. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Reuters: Consumer Spending Fell in September » Auto Observer:  WH Charges Edmunds.com Got...

On Today's Show... October 29, 2009 Nancy Pelosi Announces Democrat Time Bomb Health Care Bill This health care bill is a radical plan for generational theft of billions of dollars. The Democrats' aim is to destroy private insurance companies, and thus the economy. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   Message to Blue Dog Dems:  "I know more about what your future holds than you do. If they'll throw Creigh Deeds under the bus because he's down double digits in Virginia, you think that they won't cast you aside the moment they no longer need you?" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Kristol: Pelosi...

Can you imagine the brazenness of President Barack Obama and his cohorts in going so far as to ridicule opponents of Obamacare for rightly pointing out that its ultimate goal is single-payer socialized medicine? These people are propaganda virtuosos of the highest order. You might expect grand artists of deception just to silently dismiss such claims from critics or, at most, to summarily deny them. But they go further and mock the critics, trying to reduce them to acutely paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing, black-helicopter-hallucinating Cuckoo's Nest inpatients. What better way to distract attention from what is right in front of our faces?...

Speaker Pelosi denies public access to Health Care Public Plan announcement. He is told he is not "authorized" by the Speaker's staff.

This past Monday I reported that the USCCB Department of Communications is listed as a "principal partner" on the "So We Might See" Web site. So We Might See is a coalition of religious groups that is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to investigate "hate speech."   Since the page on the organization's Web site displaying the petition also contained specific allegations that Rush Limbaugh incited violence against two Mexican men in 2006, I reported that the USCCB was also supporting an investigation of Limbaugh.   Helen Osman, Secretary of Communications for the USCCB, responded to my article in...

Here is video of Rush Limbaugh commenting on excerpts from Ronald Reagan's classic "Rendezvous with Destiny - A Time for Choosing" speech on October 27,1964 - a speech delivered by Reagan 45 years ago. Below is video of Reagan's entire speech . . . (VIDEO)

On Today's Show... October 28, 2009   This Video Came in Right After the Show, From Today's Judiciary Cmte. Hearing: » YouTube:  Rep. Steve King Grills NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Rush!   The 45th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's "Rendezvous With Destiny" Speech Reagan's speech for Goldwater still rings true today. Ignore those who say the era of Reagan is over. Reagan is gone, but his principles remain the guideposts for a conservative movement on the ascendency in a nation awakening to Barack Obama's radicalism. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » YouTube:  Watch the Entire Reagan Speech (A Time for Choosing --...

On a dark humid Florida night a black sedan meanders toward a mansion where a meeting is to take place about an investment opportunity. A Racial Justice Patrol Car, with a SCB (Successful Conservative Bulletin) taped to its dash, sirens screaming, lights flashing, headlights beaming on high blinding anyone looking back, compels a pullover. The two officers, guns drawn, loudspeakers in the other hand shout, “Get out of the car — NOW!” A slimmed down radio talk show host exits, EIB microphone in hand. The racial cops scream, “Put your hands on the car and keep your big mouth away...

On Today's Show... October 27, 2009 Rush's Opening Monologue Sets the Table for the Day On only an hour and a half of sleep, the highlights of the day's news. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   "Here's our Media Tweak of the Day: I don't want anything to happen to Barack Obama, but especially because Joe Biden is number two." -- Rush   Ignorant Media Misses Our Satiric Tweak on the Obama Thesis Hoax They have no clue that in our correction, we were parodying what just happened to us with fabricated quotes. These people live in an insular, humorless world....

Sorry, Democrats: The Limbaughs and Becks don’t dictate what Republicans do in Washington. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer on how Dubya’s team ignored the talk titans—and why that was a mistake. Like viewers learning about a mysterious civilization on the Discovery Channel, those in the know in New York and Hollywood continue to observe the inner workings of the Republican Party with fascination. I really think it is important to help those who haven’t had much experience with conservatives try to understand some of their tribal rituals and enthusiasms. Recently, in fact, I continued my modest instructional work in Hollywood as...

Here is video of Rush Limbaugh talking about John Kerry's comments yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations. John Kerry talking about Afghanistan said "because of the gross mishandling of this war by past civilian leadership, there are no great options for it's handling today. One American officer captured well our lack of a strategy when he said we haven't been fighting in Afghanistan 8 years, we've been fighting in Afghanistan 1 year, 8 times in a row. That is our inheritance." Reacting to Kerry's remarks Rush said "these people are absolutely shameless, they have no guts, nor do they...

"The Republican Party, as constituted, is just as dangerous to the country as the Democrat Party."

Can you imagine the outrage that would have ensued had former President George W. Bush declared off-limits those media outlets he thought (correctly) treated him unfairly? Heck, the left declared him a dictator simply because he led a war on Iraq that Congress approved. He never tried to shut down his critics. He rarely even objected to their abuse. But liberal politicians have been spoiled with mainstream media favoritism for so long that they believe anything other than sycophancy is mistreatment. Their selective outrage is as hollow as it is risible. In fact, Fox News seems much more conservative than...

And still no apology. Even when conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh runs with a fabricated story, he doesn't apologize for the error. Limbaugh, who seizes on every opportunity to blast Obama, ended up with egg on his face when he read an Internet satire piece that claimed President Obama dissed the Constitution in his college thesis at Columbia University. A transcript of his Friday broadcast remains Sunday at the top of Limbaugh's web page under the headline, "Obama's Disdain for Constitution: We Know He Thinks It, Don't We? When we discover a hoax, we correct it immediately." But apologize? You...

The crucial Nov. 3 special election in upstate New York features two candidaties -- liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens -- connected to the Working Families Party (WFP) which is the New York political arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). <snip> With both Big Labor and ACORN working to defeat the Conservative -- who is also being attacked by the national GOP Establishment -- Hoffman's campaign is sending out a nationwide call for volunteers to help match the "community organizers" being brought into the 23rd District by his major-party opponents. "We need boots...

FOX News announced that Rush Limbaugh will be the special guest on an upcoming FOX News Sunday with Chris Matthews.

VIDEO MESSAGE FROM BRENT BOZELL: Without a shred of proof, CNN and MSNBC continued to repeat completely fabricated racist quotes they attributed to Rush Limbaugh. Their reckless behavior revealed their deep hatred—not just for Rush, but for conservatives in general …

If Obama and his Chicago thugs simply focused on the country's real enemies rather than American citizens and institutions which provide constructive criticism and honest discourse on the policies emanating from the White House, effective policy might be put in place which would advance an agenda supported by a true majority of citizens. But rather, we see an administration so focused on what, in its paranoid state, it perceives as enemies, that all of its energies are centered on discrediting Bush and Cheney, Fox News, talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, town hall attendees, tea party organizers, health insurance companies, Wall Street...

You're a college dropout and OxyContin junkie who somehow managed to climb to the top of the media pile. You've made yourself one of the most popular and influential voices in the national dialogue and that, in turn, has made you rich beyond dreams of avarice. How satisfying must that be.Just because you said the NFL "all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips"? Just because you once told a black caller to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back"? For those trifles the sensitive pansies of the NFL don't want...

On a dark humid Florida night a black sedan meanders toward a mansion where a meeting is to take place about an investment opportunity. A Racial Justice Patrol Car, with a SCB (Successful Conservative Bulletin) taped to its dash, sirens screaming, lights flashing, headlights beaming on high blinding anyone looking back, compels a pullover. The two officers, guns drawn, loudspeakers in the other hand shout, “Get out of the car--NOW!” A slimmed down radio talk show host exits, EIB microphone in hand. The racial cops scream, “Put your hands on the car and keep your big mouth away from the...

The tactic of bashing Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk show hosts to score political points is apparently no longer the exclusive realm of national-level Democrats and moderate Republicans. Now, even local politicians are adopting this political maneuver in their local campaigns. Democrat David Englin, member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 45th District (and currently my own delegate), sent out a direct mail piece which I received on Thursday where Englin boldly proclaimed his opposition to the top conservative talk show host: “If Rush Limbaugh is for it, I’m probably against it.” (image at right).Englin’s mail piece, paid...

Why Can't MSNBC Say 'Sorry' to Limbaugh? MSNBC launches a campaign to discredit Rush Limbaugh but when the network screws up after running a fake quote it can only "clarify" its mistake. Change the meaning of the MS in MSNBC. At least for one brief moment last week, the abbreviation went from “Mostly Stupid” to “Mostly Sorry.” Co-host David Shuster, who seldom has a good word to say for any conservative, gave a classic non-apology apology when he said racial quotes attributed to talk show host Rush Limbaugh could not be verified. He was mostly sorry. Sort of. Maybe. “MSNBC...

Here is video of Glenn Beck showing a Rush Limbaugh caller yesterday telling Rush that she called the Los Angeles FBI Office to ask about the investigation of ACORN, and was told to "watch Fox News and listen to Talk Radio." She said she called a second time and was told to "watch Glenn Beck. We all watch Glenn Beck." Rush Limbaugh was speechless! Beck loved it! . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Rush Limbaugh epic caller "Susan in Glendale" demonstrating in her kitchen just what the Democrats are doing in trying to ram Government-run Health Care down the collective throats of the American people. Susan makes what she calls a "Socialist Smoothie," with each ingredient she tosses into the blender being labeled as one of the elements of the ObamaCare Plan. Interesting analogy and demonstration. . . . (VIDEO)

Let me first apologize to Rush Limbaugh. Last week in explaining why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell needed to put an end to Limbaugh's latest publicity stunt, I attributed racially insensitive quotes to Limbaugh that I read in two Missouri newspapers, saw on CNN and confirmed through a Google search. Prior to posting the article, I never found a denial of these quotes by Limbaugh, and had no reason to believe those statements were not true. It was unfair to Limbaugh. And I regret that. I've commented on some of his earlier controversies. I've long been an admirer of his broadcasting...