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On Today’s Program: McCain takes a big lead in one poll, and is ahead or tied in others in the key pre-convention period. Panicking Democrats suffering from buyer's remorse, say it's because McCain got mean. Mean? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Rush really knows how to play the media. He urged McCain not to pick a pro-choice or Democrat VP, and all the Drive-By outlets jumped to report it as a "shot across the bow." Wolf Blitzer asked Tom Ridge about it. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » LifeNet: GOP Officials Say McCain Will Not Pick Pro-Abortion Running Mate...

On Today’s Program: Show Highlight: "McCain's conservatism -- sometimes hidden -- surfaced loudly, proudly, and valorously on Saturday. Choosing a pro-choice Democrat or a liberal Republican running mate will undo that. Senator, we know you're smart and we know you're going to do the right thing, and we know you do not want to lose." The Drive-Bys are urging McCain to pick a pro-choice running mate, because they know it'll destroy the Republican Party. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Crisis! Kids are forced to wear last year's clothes and walk to school! The Drive-By Media are taking the throwaway...

Wolf Blitzer for one apparently doesn't think Tom Ridge's pro-choice position should disqualify him as John McCain's VP pick. The former Pennsylvania congressman and governor was a guest on this afternoon's Situation Room, and Blitzer began by playing a clip of Rush Limbaugh urging McCain not to pick a pro-choice running mate, saying it would "obliterate all the progress that he experienced" at the Saddleback forum. Ridge surmised that "Rush and everybody else hopefully can see that there's a clear choice regardless of the vice-presidential candidate. A choice that says that John McCain is needed now as president of the...

On Today’s Show... Obama bombed at the Rick Warren forum. McCain's performance was so good, the Dems and Drive-Bys were reduced to accusing him of cheating. On issue after issue, Obama showed he's not in McCain's league. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » NB: Did Mitchell Get "McCain Cheated" at Saddleback from Daily Kos? » Byron York: McCain, Obama, and the "Cone of Silence" Pearl of Wisdom: "If McCain doesn't do something stupid, like name a liberal running mate, he should be able to hold on. Obama's campaign is falling apart." Obama trashed the intellect of Justice Clarence Thomas,...

"Everybody is starting to whisper that if Obama has any prayer of winning, he has to choose Hillary. And if he chooses Hillary, he's going to have to have somebody taste his food and start his car for him every day."

On Today’s Show... Pearl of Wisdom: "Have you seen these pictures of The Messiah body surfing in Hawaii? Why doesn't he just walk on the water?" The Kremlin and Obama camp are on the same page: They're both blaming Russian aggression on a Bush-McCain conspiracy! The West blusters that Russia withdraw from Georgia, but how can we back up these demands? Gorbachev even surfaced on Larry King to celebrate the return of the Cold War. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » UK Times: Kremlin Dusts Off Cold War Lexicon to Make US Villain in Georgia » John Bolton: After...

Rush Limbaugh killed some church goers in Tennessee last July. That is the message from a Newsday.com columnist for a local New York newspaper chain. Now, I've listened to Rush Limbaugh many times. Because of my schedule, I cannot listen every day, so certainly I have not heard every word the man has ever uttered, but I am sure that you won't be able to find a time when he told people to go out and kill liberals. Neither have I ever heard Sean Hannity advocate murder. Michael Savage.... well, I haven't heard it but I almost wouldn't be surprised,...

On Today’s Show... The American people must hear the truth, not pandering, about oil. If we all stop driving tomorrow, we'd still need 5 million barrels a day to supply our other needs. We are 50 or 75 years away from anything that can replace oil, folks, and even Obama can't legislate a replacement for it into existence. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » History Channel: Secrets of Oil » ABC: ExxonMobil's Tillerson Schools Gibson The Russians are at war for oil, the Iranians are nuking up so they have more oil, and we're taking ourselves back to the...

On Today’s Show... President Saakashvili asks: "Who else can stand up for liberty in the world?" No one but us. The Europeans and NATO aren't going to do it -- and if you listen to their presidential candidate, neither are the Democrats. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Robert Scheer (Liberal Nut): Georgia War is a Neocon-McCain Election Ploy McCain has declared "We are all Georgians," and stand with that tiny democracy against the Russian bear. Liberals are furious. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » The Left-Wing UK Guardian: How "Old" Europe Let Georgia Down See, I Told You...

The Dennis Miller interview By JEFFREY RESSNER | 8/10/08 12:29 PM EST How would you describe your political beliefs: Republican? Independent? Libertarian? Well, I’d say it’s eclectic pragmatism at some point. I’m a moderate in some degree because I have wildly swinging opinions but through some sort of ideological feng shui they end up in the middle. Some swing far to the left, others to the far right. I’m for the war, but I’m also for gay marriage. I don’t care if two folks with the same genitalia want to get hitched, I just don’t want some a—hole from another...

On Today’s Show... Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) -- a VP wannabe and Obama prostitute -- claimed that Russia obeyed The Messiah's magic words and halted their invasion of Georgia. The once-and-future Soviets are sending us a message, just as the ChiComs were in the Olympics: We can do whatever we want. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)McCain and Bush are standing up for this tiny, democratic ally, while Obama mumbled that this brutal attack "is wholly inconsistent with the Olympic ideal." The Russians are sending a message to the world, and salivating over the prospect of this useful idiot Obama...

On Today’s Show... Minnesota's "Mr. Right," Jason Lewis of KTLK-FM in Minneapolis, guest hosted for the Maha Rushie on Monday. Colonel Allen West, GOP candidate for Congress in Florida's 22nd District -- who was fined by the military for doing what it took to interrogate an "insurgent" in Iraq -- explains why he is diametrically opposed to his fellow African-American, Barack Obama. This is a great interview, folks. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » NY Sun: First Black President Will Be a Republican El Rushbo: "How can they ban Edwards from the Democrat convention and welcome Bill Clinton? Everyone...

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On Today’s Show... Pearl of Wisdom: "How can they ban Edwards from the Democrat convention and welcome Bill Clinton? Everyone lies about sex." (ABC: Edwards Admits Affair) Five Senate Republicans, who are not up for reelection this year, have joined five Democrats to form the "Gang of 10," and sell out their party -- and John McCain -- on the energy issue. Obama is thrilled about this. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Kimberley Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: Republican Energy Fumble » Institute for Energy Research: Better to Do Nothing, Let Offshore Ban Expire Callers flood Gang...

On Today’s Program: Accuracy in Media: The Associated Press Lies About Obama's Red Mentor A child drew an honest answer out of Obama: he's running for president because America sucks, although it didn't used to suck. When was that, before the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Obama follower Kendrick struggles to say just when his Messiah thinks America was better -- and comes up with the Pilgrims' days! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) The Democrat Party will lose on the oil issue. Clips of Robert Reich and Rep. Pallone (D-NJ) pushing for...

On Today’s Show... Spread the word: We can't inflate our way out of this! Shout it from the mountaintops until it reaches Obama's ears. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Obama doubled down on his idiotic "inflate your tires" solution to high gas prices, and the sycophantic Drive-Bys fell in line. Air in our tires (made from oil) won't put gas in our tanks -- and over-inflating them is dangerous. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Energy policy side-by-side: Celebutard Paris Hilton vs. Obama economic advisor Laura D'Andrea Tyson. Paris sounds smarter! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "There...

On Today’s Show... Obama's disciples in the Drive-By Media are covering for their messiah's idiotic claim that by inflating our tires, we can get as much oil as we would from drilling. Conservation is fine, but this is flummery. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "The Most Merciful Lord Obama really is like a man-child. He's so spoiled rotten. Things don't go his way, and he's gotta whine and moan and complain. Meanwhile, McCain is sounding more confident." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Rush is right. "The Messiah" nickname fits Obama. It's how he looks at himself...

How out of touch is Barack Obama? He's so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point; Rush Limbaugh is having a field day; and the Republican National Committee is sending tire gauges labeled "Barack Obama's Energy Plan" to Washington reporters. But who's really out of touch? The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030....

Rush Rides In A Smart Car

On Today’s Show... Obama's speech demonizing energy was full of contradictions, platitudes and lies. He declared, "We must end the age of oil in our time." What he means is end the era of American greatness. It's frightening. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Obama's Attacks on America Backfire: Rasmussen Poll Has McCain in Lead » Financial Times: Democrats Anxious for Obama to Widen Lead Pearl of Wisdom: "Not one thing about Obama's energy plan will reduce fuel prices, nor will it expand supplies. There's nothing about his plan that will grow the economy. There is nothing in his...

President & Mrs. Bush are spending the weekend at the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine. The President will return to the White House on Sunday before beginning his trip to Asia and to the Olympics in China next week. Today President Bush surprised Rush Limbaugh with a live call to his radio show, congratulating him on his 20th anniversary. (Transcript & Audio) Rush: What are...? (interruption) Interrupting for what? President Bush: Hello! Rush: Oh, jeez. The president? President Bush: Rush Limbaugh? Rush: Yes, sir, Mr. President. President Bush: President George W. Bush calling to congratulate you on 20 years of...

"I am never better. I'm so glad that you three called me. I'm stunned here. It's great to hear from you," Limbaugh said. (Go to link to hear)

Love him or loathe him, defend him or despise him, one thing no one can ever do is dismiss Rush Limbaugh. Today, August 1st, 2008, a month after signing a new, eight year, $400 million contract, marks his 20th anniversary as a nationally syndicated talk radio host, a truly unique accomplishment. Of course, mere longevity in that field in and of itself does not confer greatness–though it, too, is remarkable. Limbaugh’s greatness lies in the influence he has had on American conservatism. It’s long been a given that our national media is liberal-infested to the point that news in that...

On Today’s Program: The Big Anniversary Show... President Bush 43, President Bush 41, and Jeb Bush the former governor of Florida called up to wish Rush a happy 20th Anniversary. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Congratulations Pour In: Rudy Giuliani, Ed McLaughlin, Al Michaels, Mark Levin, Tom Sullivan -- and a taped message from the late, great, Moses: Charlton Heston. Visit the virtual Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting. It's just indescribable. Protestors holding up a banner "What about the black community, Obama?" heckled the Lord Messiah. You just don't see this happen. The Messiah will not be mocked. Pearl of...

The First and Second Amendments of the Constitution are twin pillars of America’s unique form of self-government. Having spent two decades defending one of those pillars, I am grateful to Rush Limbaugh for defending the other on a scale few can equal. The First Amendment protects freedom of conscience. It guarantees we can worship according to the dictates of our conscience. It gives us the right to speak our mind on any issue, to freely declare ideas for our fellow citizens to hear and judge. When our leaders have done wrong, the First Amendment says we can petition our government...

On Today’s Show... Obama says we don't need to drill, that high gas prices are your fault for not inflating your tires and not keeping your car tuned up. This is new and change and fresh? We've been hearing this since the '70s! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Eyewitness report: Rush gets his car tuned up, and the gas price drops instantly. Pearl of Wisdom: "Those advising McCain to pick a vice president who'll 'appeal to moderate Republicans and Democrats,' must not want to win this election. If you like the way the government's going, how big and bloated...

RUSH: Colorado Springs, Jennifer. You're next on the EIB Network. Great to have you here. CALLER: Well, Rush, you might change your mind about that. I'm kind of angry. All these accolades that you're receiving are literally making me sick. And, in fact, my doctor, believe it or not, actually may be tongue-in-cheek, but wrote me a prescription for lowering my blood pressure. And that is, is that I listen at your program as infrequently as possible because in reality you are the one who believes that you are The Messiah, not Obama, and what's more, you're very sexist, you're...

RUSH: Yesterday we had a caller on this program, Janet from Maine, and this is what Janet said. BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP CALLER: I just wanted to posit a new idea about Obama, as to why he's not sweeping us all off our feet, even though he was causing women to faint earlier this year -- RUSH: Tell me. CALLER: -- at the rallies. RUSH: Tell me, tell me, say it, say it. CALLER: He's not likable. It's really simple. The man is odious. He talks like a girl. You ran a clip yesterday of Gloria Steinem, excuse me, Jane Fonda....

On Today’s Show... The Messiah, the Most Merciful Lord Barack Obama is having trouble with older women. Ladies say they're hip to smooth talk. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Pearl of Wisdom: "There is a new song by the rapper Ludacris (his real name is Chris Bridges) supporting Obama. In this song, Ludacris calls Hillary a b-i-itch, says that McCain should be paralyzed and that Bush is mentally handicapped. Now, Obama likes this guy -- and, ladies and gentlemen, Obama met with him in his Chicago office in November of 2006 to discuss running in '08." (Rush 24/7 Members:...

Rush Limbaugh likes to joke that he has "half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep it fair." But there's no sign Michelle Obama [file photo] was anything but serious when she said something similar in a current People magazine interview, h/t Michelle Malkin, claiming she could be "very competent" on policy putting in only a 70% effort. Throw in a couple more statements from Mrs. Obama in the interview attesting to her own intellect, and a picture emerges of a woman either very sure of her smarts . . . or perhaps in need of reassuring others--and...

I distinctly remember when my phone at my Washington hotel room rang at 1 AM during the spring of 1996. A distraught President Clinton was calling. “We’re getting killed on radio,” he blurted into the phone as soon as I picked it up. “What do you mean?” I answered blearily trying to get a grip on what he was talking about. “Hillary’s mothe r just drove here from Pennsylvania and all during the trip she heard them saying the most awful things about me on radio,” the president explained. “On whose show?” I probed. “Rush Limbaugh,” Clinton replied. “He’s been...

On Today’s Show... McCain is up among likely voters, and the Drive-Bys are shocked. They think everyone loves The Messiah Obama as much as they do. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » Gallup-USA Today: McCain Gains on Obama in Latest Gallup Poll Pearl of Wisdom: "The Drive-By Media are shocked that Obama isn't up in the polls, because they're portraying him as acting president, saying he's going to make America liked. Most Americans don't care to have this country defined by whether or not people in other countries like us, particularly the Europeans. The Drive Bys live in their...

On Today’s Show... The EIB Network's 20th Anniversary week kicked off. Listen for shout-outs from Rush's friends, celebrities, and fans just like you leading up to Friday's big show. Twenty years ago, radio's wizards said Rush's show wouldn't work. Ever since Rush proved them wrong, the press has heralded "liberal Limbaughs," from Cuomo to a whole network to the latest: three black guys. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) » NY Times: Black Radio on Obama Is Left's Answer to Limbaugh Nancy Pelosi said the US Military surge has failed in Iraq. But wait! Barack Obama says the surge worked,...

When I was a teenager, my dad used to say that the media in this country are so biased and so liberal that we conservatives needed to figure out a way to buy a big newspaper or television network so our views could have a voice. That was 35-40 years ago. Today, we have Rush Limbaugh. He is our voice. He is the counter-weight to the liberal media complex. He is the answer my dad and millions like him were hoping for. Those of us who were alive and attentive during the 1960's and 1970's know what it would be...

Rush Limbaugh is a patriot. Pure and simple, a patriot.I see him in the select company of other patriots like Paul Revere, Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin. Thankfully, he hasn't been asked to make a dying proclamation like Nathan Hale – "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country" – but I suspect he would, if it came to that.Oh, I know he's the big dog in radio, all radio, and not just conservative. And I know he's paid big bucks because of the millions that listen to him every week. And I'm aware...

Parody of "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head. See Rush Limbaugh home page.

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...