RUSH: We've been told we can expect 10,000 deaths. Before that, it was "thousands and thousands." Before that, some people said it could be "the worst in American history." Keep your shirts on, folks. This is a bad one. It's going to be bad out there. We get in there, we see what these floodwaters are holding and covering up, "Oh, I warn you, it's going to be bad, so bad we can't show you the pictures." Well, the death toll so far has, I don't think, risen to 700. Good news. This is excellent,...

RUSH: Did anybody watch the ABC pregame show prior to the game? Good, Brian did. I did not watch it. The National Football League, to me, is football. It's not rappers and Rolling Stones and creaky, aging Carlos Santana, and the rest of these people. I got a story here, Brian, in the Boston Globe today from a guy named Steve Morse. He writes a piece here on how the NFL kickoff show falls short at Gillette Stadium. He was at the stadium watching this. It wasn't a big deal. A lot of it was...

RUSH: You got to hear this, because you don't hear this. You're going to hear something you don't hear. This happened while this program was on yesterday, on CNN. Nancy Pelosi, all set for what she thought was a softball interview with Kyra Phillips on CNN. But it was anything but softball. Kyra Phillips' first question: "I want to ask you, as you stand here and continue to criticize the administration and criticize the director of FEMA, I do want to tell you the White House coming forward...

RUSH: Kathleen Blanco is white, correct? George Bush is white, correct? At least according to the pictures I see. The majority of the residents of New Orleans, black, right? According to the census and the pictures I see, right? Yes. Okay. Hurricane comes. Most of the suffering that we are shown is being incurred by black people in New Orleans who are said to be poor, who are said to be black, and about whom it is said Bush is happy this has happened. Bush doesn't care about black people....

RUSH: Janet in Hampton, Virginia, we'll start with you today. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Rush?
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Yes. This is Janet. Listen, one thing I've been so angry about--
RUSH: Janet, hold it, you must do me a favor here. I have a little bit of a hearing problem on the phone this week for some reason. Would you slow down what you say a little bit so that I can understand?
CALLER: All right.
RUSH: Thanks.
CALLER: I'm just so emotional about what's being...

RUSH: Here's a little bit of a story. This is from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier. "FEMA Again Plays the Villain to Some Across Lowcountry; Hard feelings toward agency stirred up as residents watch familiar response. -- Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, vilified in the Lowcountry since Hurricane Hugo and frustrating residents as recently as Hurricane Gaston last year. The nation has watched in...

RUSH: So Kofi Annan is sitting there presiding over the absolute worst scandal in world history. The Volker Commission is pretty much establishing he was asleep at the wheel, and nobody, nobody -- the American left, nobody -- is demanding Kofi's head. A little hint: neither is George W. Bush, by the way. But as I told Christine, I had a conversation. In fact, it was F. Lee and I were instant messaging this morning and F. Lee made the same point to me, and I said, "You know, the problem is," and...

RUSH: We've been told we can expect 10,000 deaths. Before that, it was "thousands and thousands." Before that, some people said it could be "the worst in American history." Keep your shirts on, folks. This is a bad one. It's going to be bad out there. We get in there, we see what these floodwaters are holding and covering up, "Oh, I warn you, it's going to be bad, so bad we can't show you the pictures." Well, the death toll so far has, I don't think, risen to 700. Good news. This is excellent,...

RUSH: Did anybody watch the ABC pregame show prior to the game? Good, Brian did. I did not watch it. The National Football League, to me, is football. It's not rappers and Rolling Stones and creaky, aging Carlos Santana, and the rest of these people. I got a story here, Brian, in the Boston Globe today from a guy named Steve Morse. He writes a piece here on how the NFL kickoff show falls short at Gillette Stadium. He was at the stadium watching this. It wasn't a big deal. A lot of it was...

RUSH: You got to hear this, because you don't hear this. You're going to hear something you don't hear. This happened while this program was on yesterday, on CNN. Nancy Pelosi, all set for what she thought was a softball interview with Kyra Phillips on CNN. But it was anything but softball. Kyra Phillips' first question: "I want to ask you, as you stand here and continue to criticize the administration and criticize the director of FEMA, I do want to tell you the White House coming forward...

RUSH: Kathleen Blanco is white, correct? George Bush is white, correct? At least according to the pictures I see. The majority of the residents of New Orleans, black, right? According to the census and the pictures I see, right? Yes. Okay. Hurricane comes. Most of the suffering that we are shown is being incurred by black people in New Orleans who are said to be poor, who are said to be black, and about whom it is said Bush is happy this has happened. Bush doesn't care about black people....

RUSH: Janet in Hampton, Virginia, we'll start with you today. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: Rush?
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Yes. This is Janet. Listen, one thing I've been so angry about--
RUSH: Janet, hold it, you must do me a favor here. I have a little bit of a hearing problem on the phone this week for some reason. Would you slow down what you say a little bit so that I can understand?
CALLER: All right.
RUSH: Thanks.
CALLER: I'm just so emotional about what's being...

RUSH: Here's a little bit of a story. This is from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier. "FEMA Again Plays the Villain to Some Across Lowcountry; Hard feelings toward agency stirred up as residents watch familiar response. -- Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, vilified in the Lowcountry since Hurricane Hugo and frustrating residents as recently as Hurricane Gaston last year. The nation has watched in...

RUSH: So Kofi Annan is sitting there presiding over the absolute worst scandal in world history. The Volker Commission is pretty much establishing he was asleep at the wheel, and nobody, nobody -- the American left, nobody -- is demanding Kofi's head. A little hint: neither is George W. Bush, by the way. But as I told Christine, I had a conversation. In fact, it was F. Lee and I were instant messaging this morning and F. Lee made the same point to me, and I said, "You know, the problem is," and...