RUSH: Here we go with Barack Obama. As you know, he was up in New Hampshire -- do you know, by the way, TV ads for Barack Obama are going to start airing this weekend? Presidential ads for Barack Obama in New Hampshire start airing this weekend. Hillary, I think, is starting to get panicked because she's called up all of Bubba's old buddies, Carville and Begala and Joe Lockhart, she had them over to dinner to discuss what to do about this. Her team wasn't there. They're all one team, of course,...

RUSH: I'm a little hoarse today. I'm feeling great, feeling fine, no illness. I was up late last night consuming adult beverages, and for some reason -- normally, not getting much sleep does not affect my voice, but -- I'm just a slight bit hoarse today. I had a big meeting yesterday afternoon, and when I finished that, I went home, and before I went out to the thing I had to do last night, I watched Sylvester Stallone's new movie, Rocky Balboa. As a powerful, influential member of the media,...

RUSH: I'm a little hoarse today. I'm feeling great, feeling fine, no illness. I was up late last night consuming adult beverages, and for some reason -- normally, not getting much sleep does not affect my voice, but -- I'm just a slight bit hoarse today. I had a big meeting yesterday afternoon, and when I finished that, I went home, and before I went out to the thing I had to do last night, I watched Sylvester Stallone's new movie, Rocky Balboa. As a powerful, influential member of the media,...

RUSH: Here we go with Barack Obama. As you know, he was up in New Hampshire -- do you know, by the way, TV ads for Barack Obama are going to start airing this weekend? Presidential ads for Barack Obama in New Hampshire start airing this weekend. Hillary, I think, is starting to get panicked because she's called up all of Bubba's old buddies, Carville and Begala and Joe Lockhart, she had them over to dinner to discuss what to do about this. Her team wasn't there. They're all one team, of course,...

RUSH: Here we go with Barack Obama. As you know, he was up in New Hampshire -- do you know, by the way, TV ads for Barack Obama are going to start airing this weekend? Presidential ads for Barack Obama in New Hampshire start airing this weekend. Hillary, I think, is starting to get panicked because she's called up all of Bubba's old buddies, Carville and Begala and Joe Lockhart, she had them over to dinner to discuss what to do about this. Her team wasn't there. They're all one team, of course,...

RUSH: "President Bush said yesterday that he would not be rushed into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq, saying that a round of consultations, he heard both some interesting ideas and some not-so good-ideas." We have some sound bites here. Here's a portion of his remarks to the press yesterday after meeting with the grand pooh-bahs of war.
THE PRESIDENT: In the months of October, November, and the first week of December, we have killed or captured nearly 5,900 of the enemy. Our enemy...

RUSH: Here is this story. Let me just give you the headline: "Islam Based on Epileptic Prophecies, Says Book From Iran Native Neuropsychologist." The dateline is Canton, Ohio. "Religious prophet Mohammad suffered from epileptic seizures, according to a book recently released by a Tehran native and Muslim-raised neuropsychologist. Abbas Sadeghian delivers these findings in the book Sword & Seizure, which is based on historical text, including the Koran. Sadeghian was inspired by a comparable...

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, throughout my sterling, star-studded, notorious broadcast career, I have repeatedly said over and over again I am not a journalist and don't ever call me one, primarily because I laugh, and I smile, and I enjoy life, and I'm not looking for chaos and crisis, nor am I trying to destroy anybody or ruin their lives, or any of that. But there's another reason why I should never, ever let anybody call me or refer to me as a journalist. Gallup has just completed...

RUSH: Look at this immigration and the minimum wage news, because it's obvious that there is a Drive-By Media agenda on both today as we went through the wire services. First, this story from the Associated Press. "A construction worker charged with murdering that actress in her Manhattan apartment now says he attacked her because he was worried about immigration officials. This according to court papers that prosecutors filed yesterday. His name is Diego Pillco, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian illegal...

RUSH: (story) "Angel Nieves Diaz, who was convicted of murdering a Miami topless bar manager twenty-seven years ago, was executed by lethal injection tonight. He appeared to grimace before dying thirty-four minutes after receiving the first dose of chemicals. The manner of his death will likely rekindle the argument that Florida's method of execution constitutes cruel and unusual punishment." Yeah, Old Sparky didn't work. The electric chair. So they went to the lethal injection. That doesn't...

RUSH: I.V., Sacramento, California, glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello there.
RUSH: Hello there.
CALLER: Dittos, Maha Rushie.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I'm getting confused with this pulp comparison thing going on.
RUSH: Most people usually are. That's why they call here and listen to this program, to get straightened out. I'll help.
CALLER: That's true. They're comparing 9/11 with how many people we're losing in battle in Iran, right?
RUSH:...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"This man, Barack Obama, is being lauded as the savior of the country -- a presidential candidate ready to be anointed -- and he can't even handle being teased about his big ears? Wait until Hillary pulls out the testicle lockbox for him."
"Don't look up my dress down there, Brian -- whatever you do."
"I hope Tim Johnson was sedated in the hospital when Dingy Harry showed up -- he had Tom Daschle with him. If I'm in the hospital...

RUSH: Now, this next story's a fabulous story, and it's not getting a lot of play, precisely because it's a fabulous story. "A federal judge," and this is a big-time leftist judge, "upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that [Club Gitmo] detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in United States courts. The ruling by US district Judge James Robertson..." and this guy is a big lib. I think he's a Clinton appointee. "The ruling by US district...

RUSH: All right, minimum wage. This is a new one. I've not seen this method of comparison before. This is Reuters, and in fact, this is part of a package of stories on the upcoming debate in Congress on the US minimum wage. There isn't going to be much of a debate. The Republicans are going to cave on this. They don't have the votes to stop it anyway. Bush is going to sign it. This is a done deal. This is just agenda-driven pressure here on the part of the Drive-Bys. "The following table,"...

RUSH: We got all these minimum wage stories out there. The minimum wage is going to go up. It's a done deal. It's going to happen. It's as done a deal as anything can be done without having been done yet, but there are these constant assaults on capitalism and the unfairness of it all with these statistics that 1% score 16% of all wealth in America. Of course, they never tell you what percentage of the taxes that 1% are paying. We do at RushLimbaugh.com, but the liberals would tell you, "If...

RUSH: David Brooks in the New York Times today gives out his annual Sidney Awards, and there's an interesting little passage. You know, we talk about capitalism, socialism, big government socialism and poverty on this program quite a bit, and it's always been interesting to me that no matter what we do to resolve poverty, the percentages of people who remain in poverty are consistent. Ever since the "War on Poverty" began, which was 1965, the number of people expressed as a percentage in poverty...

RUSH: Fascinating e-mail here. I didn't know that Gallup conducted polls -- I guess it's not really a poll -- it is and it isn't, I guess -- but I didn't know they did this via Internet and via e-mail. I always thought they used telephone calls to people that they considered to be part of their qualified sample. But I got a note here from a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com.
"Dear Rush: I just took a Gallup poll that came to me via e-mail. One of the questions this was: Regardless of whether...

RUSH: I'm a little hoarse today. I'm feeling great, feeling fine, no illness. I was up late last night consuming adult beverages, and for some reason -- normally, not getting much sleep does not affect my voice, but -- I'm just a slight bit hoarse today. I had a big meeting yesterday afternoon, and when I finished that, I went home, and before I went out to the thing I had to do last night, I watched Sylvester Stallone's new movie, Rocky Balboa. As a powerful, influential member of the media,...

RUSH: I want you to hear this audio sound bite. It's a little montage of the media coverage of the sad situation involving Tim Johnson, the Democrat Senator from South Dakota yesterday.
GIBSON: Senator Tim Johnson has suffered a stroke. The Democrats' control of the Senate could be in peril. It could have enormous political implications.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If Senator Johnson were forced to leave the Senate his replacement would be picked by the governor of South Dakota, a Republican. That...