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Radio's Rush Limbaugh is not only good for his own business -- with a new eight-year contract offering him the potential to make $400 million -- he's also good for Fox News. Limbaugh's appearance on "Fox News Sunday" set a ratings record for the year so far for the network's Sunday morning counterpunch to "Meet the Press" and the rest. Limbaugh drew 3,892,000 viewers, including 1,180,000 in the coveted 25-54 age group, for the show on the Fox broadcast network and cable's Fox News Channel (2.35 million tuned in at FNC.) "I'm a ... guy who earns a percentage of...

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...

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...

RUSH: Obama's not a narcissist, he's not a narcissist. He watched a documentary about him while the election returns were coming in last night. That's what Bob Gibbs tells us. Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Folks, I would be embarrassed if somebody put together a documentary about me the way this has been put together about him. I mean it is godlike. But I have a question. He's the president. This thing aired live last night at nine o'clock on HBO, you mean to tell me that they didn't send him...

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...

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...

RUSH: I'd like to share with you what I think, my friends, are -- and it was tough to limit this to ten -- the Top Ten Republican Moderate Moments. Number ten: Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008. Number nine moderate moment in GOP history: Bush-Quayle '92. The number eight moderate moment GOP history: Dole-Kemp '96. The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history: Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here? Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number six: Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumps from the Republican Party. Top ten moderate...

On Mark Levin's show tonight, just after 6:30 PM Eastern, Rush Limbaugh talked about how close exit polling in New Jersey is today and urged listeners to get in line before 8 PM when the polls close. Here's a brief segment:

Ann Coulter & FOX's Geraldo Rivera Debate Rush Limbaugh vs. President Obama War - 11/01/09

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...

LOL!

During any other year this might seem unusual. Ann Coulter rebuffs him well, and Kirsten Powers has a humorous rejoinder also.

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh slammed President Barack Obama on Sunday, calling him “immature,” “narcissistic” and “inexperienced,” in a interview on Fox News. “He’s a child. I think he’s got a five-minute career,” Limbaugh said. Limbaugh has been one of the harshest critics of the Obama administration since the 2008 campaign. But his comments on Sunday were particularly biting. He accused Obama of “not caring” about the war in Afghanistan and using a ceremony to honor fallen soldiers as a “photo op” to distract from the ongoing debate within the administration over the eight-year conflict. “It was a photo...

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

...I truly believe that this is brought on by what I call the Minority Thought Pattern. Let's not mince words: the Minority Thought Pattern is the total disdain and hatred of what God has accomplished through the white male throughout history. Coming from an African-American, I know this will shock you...

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

President Obama is pursuing a "radical" agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday," giving the young president failing grades across the board and standing by his sustained criticism of the administration. The conservative radio host assailed the administration for its economic stimulus package, health care reform plan and alleged uncertainty over the way forward in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging interview, he called Obama a "child" driven by his "out-of-this-world ego." And he predicted that Obama, who built a broad-based majority over Republican candidate John McCain a year...

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...

Axelrod rebuffs Limbaugh for criticism By Tony Romm - 11/01/09 12:12 PM ET White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on Sunday fired back at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who said earlier this morning the president was "a child" with an "out-of-this-world ego" that does not suit his "a five-minute career." "Well, I think it's a surreal day when you're getting lectures on humility from Rush Limbaugh," Axelrod told CBS' "Face the Nation." "The fact is that he is an entertainer. The president has to run the country," the adviser added. "He's the commander-in-chief. He has huge responsibilities. I think...

Rush Limbaugh, in response to the announcement that RINO, Dede Scozzafava, had withdrawn from the NY-23 race, told Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online:

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...

(CNSNews.com) – NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith would not say whether the NFL had treated talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh fairly when racist quotes were falsely attributed to Limbaugh shortly after word leaked that he was involved in a potential bid to buy a stake in the St. Louis Rams.

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...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Brooklyn. Vinny. You're next. Hello, sir. CALLER: Hello El Rushbo, mmm, mmm, mmm. RUSH: Yeah, I love that. REPORTER: Listen, two days ago, and I only heard this once, ABC reported that President Obama did a midnight run to Dover airfield base. My first question to you is I've never heard of any other president doing that, and why would he go out to view the dead coming back from Afghanistan? I mean this seems like some kind of, look at me, I'm the president, you see how sorry I feel for our dead soldiers returning, but...

Once again referring to the AP report.

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...

I heard this today. It is absolutely hilarious, and right on the money....

During Wednesday's Congressional hearing about head injuries in football, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) ripped NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell over the decision to not allow conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to own a team when pop artists Fergie and Jennifer Lopez do. As NewsBusters reported on October 17, Fergie and J-Lo are part owners of the Miami Dolphins, and they have incidents in their respective pasts that are far more offensive than anything Limbaugh was accused of. With this obvious hypocrisy in mind, King gave Goodell quite a tongue-lashing.

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 --...

RUSH: It is apparent, ladies and gentlemen, that General John "Swifty" Kerry has taken over Obama foreign policy. You people who thought you were voting for Obama to change foreign policy were wrong. You know, I still can't get over that last sound bite. President Obama, there aren't Bush troops, and there aren't Obama troops. Those are American soldiers, and you've abandoned them, while claiming to these naval people in Jacksonville yesterday you never -- he's embarrassing. Worse than that, it's dangerous. We got John "Swifty" Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, yesterday afternoon at the Council on...

Talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh says the Republican Party has a death wish – and is as dangerous to the United States as the Democrat Party and its czars. Limbaugh's comments came today as he was discussing the race for Congress in New York's 23rd district, where the GOP picked a liberal nominee to oppose a liberal Democrat, passing over a conservative candidate who wanted to represent the GOP, a candidate now pursuing the seat as a third-party candidate. "They have a death wish. The Republican Party has a death wish. Gallup: 40 percent of Americans now say they are conservative,...

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....

If Barack Obama would release his Columbia thesis, this latest media pseudo-controversy would never have happened. But now the tittering hyenas on the left are howling at the moon over the satire of Obama's thesis that was taken for the real thing by Rush Limbaugh, Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media, as well as by Denis Keohane at The American Thinker. The fake thesis has Obama criticizing the Constitution, saying that "the so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed...

I'm listening to Rush and Mark Davis is the substitute host. He has been saying all morning that even though Doug Hoffman is the real conservative, he can't win NY-23 and that people should vote for Scozzafava to prevent Bill Owens, the Democrat from winning. I'm trying to contact him and tell him about the Club For Growth poll showing Hoffman in the lead, but it's tough to get through. Maybe if more of us call in, we'll have a better chance.

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 …

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...

Thanks to the left, Rush Limbaugh's attempt to become a minority owner of a NFL franchise went down in flames. They branded Limbaugh as a racist and used outrageous, unconfirmed racist quotes to support their argument. Now they confirm the gasoline they used to burn down his dream was, wait for it, a lie. Karl Frisch, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters, was a guest on the Stephanie Miller Show yesterday and had the following to say: "You know, in fairness to Rush, those two out of literally dozens of racist things were not necessarily accurate. We were never able...

The president has learned it's easier to burn bridges than build them. And despite having been elected in part to unify all Americans and put an end to partisan division, the administration is intent on lighting as many fires as it can. In doing so, Obama is essentially creating a liberal version of Richard Nixon's "Enemies List." We knew the White House would consider Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly as enemies. Taking on an entire cable news outlet (and its viewers), insurance companies, and the United States Chamber of Commerce, however—and to launch these attacks proactively—is another, riskier...

Rush: If Fox News Is Talk Radio, MSNBC and CNN Are Pornography By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-10-22 20:03 Rush Limbaugh has responded to Barack Obama's claim that Fox News is like talk radio by stating that if the President is right, MSNBC and CNN are pornography. As NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein reported [0] Thursday, Obama replied to a question about Fox News from NBC's Savannah Guthrie on this morning's "Today" show: "[I]f media is operating basically as a talk-radio format, then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another." This amused Limbaugh who early in...

On Today's Show... October 22, 2009   As Obama Approval Plummets, His State-Run Media Targets Us It's our fault that the stimulus failed and people are dissenting. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » Henninger: We're All Balloon Boys Now » Gallup:  Obama Approval Plummets 9%   "Every day brings more evidence that we have a willful and purposeful destruction of the private sector economy in the US -- and it's not just Obama. It is the entire Democrat Party. We have a bunch of economic illiterates running the show here, folks." -Rush (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)   Another One: School Kids...