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Rush Limbaugh delivered the "freeSpeech" segment on Thursday's CBS Evening News. Anchor Katie Couric set up him up: “With the fifth anniversary of 9/11 coming up, the topic tonight is the war on terror. And there may be no one more opinionated on the subject than radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.” Limbaugh began: “My friends., it's time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we're alive and don't believe as they do....Now, this threat is not just go away because we choose to ignore it.” He soon zeroed in on the problem:...

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

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

<p>Rush Limbaugh's attorney has issued a statement announcing a settlement of the Florida prosecutor's investigation into alleged doctor shopping by Rush Limbaugh.</p> <p>Details have been read by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Basically, the charge of doctor shopping is dismissed, with some conditions.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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