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>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, the Washington Post has a new story on their latest poll, and do you know what's interesting about this Washington Post story on the latest poll? It's that you have to read a long way into the story to find out what the poll says, and you can probably ascertain the reason for that. It ain't good for Obama. The headline in this story from the Washington Post... It's actually the ABC News/Washington Post poll, so this is actually an ABC story: "Enthusiasm Rises for Romney Ahead of Debate," by Gary Langer. "Rising enthusiasm and declining...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, last night and this morning, we have a montage. Diane Sawyer. ("Recycliiiiiing! Recycliiiiiiing!") She was livid! They are all, in the media, outraged Obama would jeopardize his campaign that they've worked so hard on. They've carried the water everywhere. They have built Romney up to be this horrible, rotten guy who hates half the country; who sat idly by while a guy's wife with cancer died. They've said Romney is a felon. They've done everything the regime asked! They have carried the water, and now they are outraged Obama lied to 'em in the middle of...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, if you live in a liberal city, I think you should avoid walking under tall buildings where liberals live. They're jumping out the windows today like crazy. If you happen to know where Andrew Sullivan lives, don't get anywhere near. I mean, it is really getting dangerous out there. There's a new Pew poll out that suddenly shows Romney is up by four percentage points over Obama. Rasmussen now says that Romney's two points ahead of Obama in 11 swing states. Now, for the record, Obama won those 11 swing states 53-46 back in...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Lara Logan, CBS News. Do you remember two weeks ago, two Sundays ago, CBS 60 Minutes, she did a story on Afghanistan that was the same night as the Univision show, and I talked about both. This 60 Minutes piece of hers is not flattering to Obama at all. It was essentially about how we're blowing it in Afghanistan. Well, the Chicago Sun-Times, story by Laura Washington. Apparently Laura Logan went into town, made a speech last week at the Better Government Association's annual luncheon. And it says here that she "delivered a provocative speech to about...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT WOMAN: Obama! REPORTER: You got an Obama phone? WOMAN: (screaming) Yes! Everybody in Cleveland, low minorities, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone! REPORTER: He gave you a phone? WOMAN: He gonna do more! REPORTER: How did he give you a phone? WOMAN: You sign up. If you're... If you on food stamps, you on Social Security, you got low income, you disability... REPORTER: Okay, what's wrong with Romney, again? WOMAN: Romney, he sucks! Bad!Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free PhoneRUSH: There are...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did I not tell you yesterday, did I not make the case yesterday, and today it's borne out to be true. All of this inevitability of Barack Obama is manufactured. It started in The Politico, with two guys named John Harris and Jim VandeHei. They're the ones who got this whole ballgame running on, "Obama's inevitable. Obama got the great bounce." And, folks, it's all phony. There's nothing to it. Even the CNN poll that's out that's got Obama up six. It's a joke of a poll. The Democrat sample in this poll is absolutely unbelievably high....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let me ask you this: How long does this country have if Obama wins? We are headed toward an economic collapse, and we are the leader of the world. When it happens to us, there are reverberations all over the world. It's not like some little Podunk European country collapsing, that goes to another relatively Podunk European country for a bailout. When we collapse, there are worldwide reverberations. How long is it going to take? I'm asking a serious question. Eighteen months? You throw Obamacare onto what we know we're gonna get more of from Obama: More...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Four years ago, Artur Davis was the first congressman outside Illinois to endorse Obama. He delivered a nominating speech at the Democrat convention in Denver that nominated Barack Obama. Now, four years ago later, Artur Davis shows up at the Republican convention. Mia Love was great and Ann Romney was great, don't misunderstand. But I think this speech that Artur Davis delivered last night was just a home run. I only have three excerpts, three sound bites of it, but they are enough to get the point across. Here's Artur Davis saying that Obama is a mistake...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Have you heard about the e-book? There's this new e-book out that says the Obama campaign is roiled by conflict, that there's a bunch of people in this campaign that nobody likes, and they don't like each other, and they're not unified. They're having all kinds of problems inside the Obama campaign. The long knives are out from one person to the next. By Glenn Thrush. "President Barack Obama’s campaign team, celebrated four years ago for its exceptional cohesion and eyes-on-the-prize strategic focus, has been shadowed this time by a succession of political disagreements and personal rivalries...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We're getting the audio on this right now. I just sent it up there to Cookie. Biden is out there, folks, in Danville, Virginia. Snerdley get this, the rest of you. Biden, Joe Bite Me, the vice president of the United States, is in Danville, Virginia -- got an audience, it says here, with a clear population of minorities. For those in Rio Linda, that means there's some black people in the crowd. And Biden says, "[Romney] said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules -- unchain Wall...

>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Are you sick and tired yet of hearing how Paul Ryan wants to kill Medicare? You know what's going to kill Medicare is Medicare. Medicare is going to eat itself. Medicare is going to implode if something isn't done about it, unless somebody does something to save it. And I'll tell you, I had a thought develop yesterday when we were discussing the $700 billion that Obama cuts from Medicare. It's not just that he took $700 billion from Medicare. He put that $700 billion elsewhere. Obama is robbing Medicare. Obama is the guy that's robbing money...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You know what I'm sitting here doing? I'm trying to think of a campaign ad from the past, in my lifetime, to compare with the "Romney Killed My Wife" ad. We know that the Obama people know that it's a lie. We know that they knew that everything in it was false. They don't care. That is the big point: They don't care. The point of that ad... Maybe we should spend some time explaining what the purpose of this is, because a lot of people make a mistake, here. For example, my friends, I know how...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Bugsy. CALLER: Good morning, Rush. RUSH: (laughing) Bugsy in Chicago. You know, you remind me, one of my all-time favorite movies, Jerry Lewis, The Family Jewels. CALLER: Still got mine. RUSH: Jeez. (laughing) Yeah, not for long in Chicago. He played a bunch of different characters in that movie, and one of them was a gangster, Bugsy Peyton. And I used to be able to do a perfect impersonation of the voice that Jerry Lewis used for the character in that movie. So I look up there and I see Bugsy in Chicago, I did a...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I made mention of something at the end of yesterday's program. You may not have heard it. Howard Fineman. He's always been at Newsweek, for as long as I've been doing this, Howard Fineman's been at Newsweek, but he's not a Newsweek anymore. He's now over at the Huffing and Puffington Post. And he occasionally still has his guest shot over there at MSNBC. Now, Howard Fineman once came in and did a week-long tag-along with me as he was writing a cover story on me for Newsweek in the mid-nineties. And then on Thursday of that...

Well, what that led to was more and more concussions. Because guys are hitting each other with the crown of their helmet right there on the front of the lobe, sometimes in the head of another player. Or somebody gets kneed. His point is: You can't take this out of the game. You cannot stop people getting concussions in this game as the players are growing larger. He says, "In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds." Last year, there were 352 players who weighed over 300, and three players who weighed over 350. And he says...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Want to go back to the unemployment numbers that came out Thursday and Friday. You know, the employment number went up to 8.3%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that 163,000 new jobs were created. We used BLS numbers ourselves to show you how this isn't true. We talked about "seasonal adjustment." But a random act of journalism -- a stunning random act of journalism -- in the Washington Post yesterday in the Sunday paper. They actually wrote (this was the headline): "Wait, the US Economy Actually Lost 1.2 Million Jobs in July? -- The US economy...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, in strict legal terms, it may not be that Harry Reid committed the felony, but if somebody's calling him and telling him about Romney's tax returns, it would appear that person has committed a felony. Now, the way to get to the bottom of this, folks, very simple. The IRS and the FBI must question Harry Reid about his source. They have to do this in a formal investigation. And if he's found to be lying about this while being questioned by federal investigators, then we got a process crime; then we got lying under oath....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Have you heard about the second blackout in two days that has hit India? Six-hundred and seventy million people are now in the dark. The population of this country is 1.2 billion. So 670 million people in the dark in India. Boy, you know Obama's gotta be green with envy over this. Obama, he wants as many people in this country to be in the dark as he can arrange. That's his whole reelection strategy, keep as many people in the dark as possible. Seriously. India has lost half of its power grid. Stick with me on...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I was gonna talk about the Olympics, but I don't want MSNBC getting any Twitter account canceled. Did you hear about this? Guy Adams works as a writer for the Independent. It's a UK newspaper. He lives in LA. And throughout the Olympics he's gone to Twitter and he has been ripping NBC repeatedly for its coverage. And everybody, it seems, is ripping NBC. NBC's laughing all the way to the bank because their ratings are through the roof. You can't miss, with communications what it is today, you cannot miss running into the results that NBC...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to go to this Romney business. Romney went to the UK. He's over there for the obligatory foreign trip for presidential candidates. And here is supposedly Romney's big gaffe. This was Wednesday night on the NBC Nightly News with the anchor Brian Williams who said, "In the short time you've been here in London, do they look ready for the Olympics to your experienced eye?" ROMNEY: You know, it's hard to know just how well it will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not...