RUSH: Dennis Kucinich, we have audio sound bites. I?m getting a lot of panicked e-mail from people about this. He wants to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, popularly known not just by me, but by a lot of people as the Hush Rush bill. Now, the interesting thing about this, and I talked about this over the years a number of times because it's an effort that the Democrats have threatened when they were out of power to do when they regained their power. Now Kucinich is leading the charge here....

RUSH: Dennis Kucinich, we have audio sound bites. I?m getting a lot of panicked e-mail from people about this. He wants to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, popularly known not just by me, but by a lot of people as the Hush Rush bill. Now, the interesting thing about this, and I talked about this over the years a number of times because it's an effort that the Democrats have threatened when they were out of power to do when they regained their power. Now Kucinich is leading the charge here....

RUSH: Anthony in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you doing?RUSH: Just fine, sir.CALLER: First-time caller.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: A little nervous. Illegal immigration. I don't think Huckabee or McCain get the idea here -- especially how the Americans let their voices be heard on this illegal immigration thing. Now, you got Graham campaigning with McCain in South Carolina, and they're almost taking a condescending tone towards...

RUSH: This is just amazing. Folks, I cannot get away from it. I go to the e-mail during the breaks. I have the North Carolina mistress dumping on me for not doing enough of that to this candidate. I got other women, "You're just dumping on our own! We have a saying in my house: 'We don't dump on our own.'" She's talking about another candidate. I'm getting dumped on by everyone out here for what I'm doing on the program. I'm not even going out with these people. The only thing good about this...

RUSH: Now let's move on to Obama here for just a second. This is in Reno during an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board.OBAMA: Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path, because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like, you know, with all the excesses of the sixties and the seventies and, you know, government had grown and grown,...

RUSH: How would you like being on a commercial jet and all of a sudden it's time for the instructions to tell you what to do as the plane's taxiing out for takeoff to your destination, and you hear this.HILLARY: In a few minutes, I am going to switch off the 'fasten your seat belt sign.' However, I've learned lately that things can get awfully bumpy when you least expect it -- so you might want to keep those seat belts fastened. And in the event of an unexpected drop in poll numbers, this plane...

RUSH: Matt in Clarksville, Tennessee, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, how you doing?
RUSH: Fine, sir. Really, they're killing the audience out there! I never did anything to kill an audience member.
CALLER: (Laughing.) Okay. Hey, I was listening to NPR this morning, and surprise, surprise, Hillary Clinton was on, and the interviewer asked her, ?So what is your plan to get out of Iraq? You keep saying get out, get out, but what is your plan?? She said, ?Well,...

RUSH: Scott in Independence, Missouri. Welcome, sir, to the program.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Welcome from Kansas City.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I wanted to bring something up that my mind goes back to seven or eight years ago when then-Governor Bush was running for president, I remember the pundits on the left using the term gravitas. At the time I didn't know what the word meant.
RUSH: Well, gravitas -- you didn't? Gravitas was actually applied to Dick Cheney when Bush chose him...

RUSH: There is fear and panic at CNN and also at PMSNBC over the show ?24?. Now, this first bite is from the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer last night. (CNN Video) The report is produced here by their info babe, Carol Costello, and you'll also hear in the sound bite, Devin Gordon from Newsweek and James Carafano from the Heritage Foundation. We did the ?24? seminar with a couple of cast members, couple producers and writers, and some think tank specialists on terrorism last June, the Heritage Foundation....

RUSH: Okay, Koko at the website, the webmaster, has just told me that the Heritage Foundation forum that I moderated on ?24? last June is now posted, the video, the audio, and a transcript, and it's on the free side of the website so that Craig Crawford cannot accuse us of war profiteering as he has accused the ?24? producers and the Fox network. Now, the reason we are reposting this in case you're just joining us, in case you missed -- tsk-tsk-tsk, if so -- the first half hour of this program,...

RUSH: You know, yesterday we were talking about the first 100 hours of the Pelosi House and how nobody seems to care about it, and we're not even counting down the hours. I don't even know what hour we're at. Sorry, never end a sentence with a preposition. We don't know at what hour we are. And yet there are two big deals coming. One is their student loan interest rate cut. That's set for a vote in the House today, and their attempt to destroy Big Oil with the ending of tax breaks and so forth....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"All you supporters of the Fairness Doctrine who think this show needs to be 'balanced,' let me tell you something: The truth does not need balance. And the truth is what we do on this program."
"Yesterday we were talking about the 'First 100 Hours' of the Pelosi House and how nobody seems to care about it. In fact, I don't even know what hour we're at. Sorry, never end a sentence with a preposition."
"I did this NPR interview...

RUSH: Emily in San Francisco, thanks, Emily, for calling. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thank you for teaching us every day. That's what President Truman said, the press should be to teach the people, and that's what you do with facts and honesty. You're not any Dan Rather making up documents or New York Times having liars for writers, you know. I thank you. But you know what I was going to ask you about is the anti-war left foreign policy of the Democrats. If you recall, with president...

RUSH: Dennis Kucinich, we have audio sound bites. I?m getting a lot of panicked e-mail from people about this. He wants to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, popularly known not just by me, but by a lot of people as the Hush Rush bill. Now, the interesting thing about this, and I talked about this over the years a number of times because it's an effort that the Democrats have threatened when they were out of power to do when they regained their power. Now Kucinich is leading the charge here....

RUSH: Craig in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Hey, dittos Rush.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: I'll get right to the point. Regarding the clip between Matt Lauer and Hillary early, I believe I heard Hillary say she would cut off the personal protection for the Iraq leaders if they didn't comply with our political timetable?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: This struck me as very callous and it seems to show a serious lack of judgment....

RUSH: Other news items out there. 'Dozens of Duke University professors have posted an open letter.' Oh, by the way, gotta find the audio sound bite because I'm going to need it here. Grab audio sound bite 14 and 15, because I'm going to need those lists here in just a second. ?Dozens of Duke professors have posted ?an open letter to the Duke community? on the Web, explaining an ad last spring that has been widely criticized as a condemnation of lacrosse players. The new letter, signed by 87...

RUSH: As you people remember, one of the first items on the agenda for the Nancy Pelosi Democrat House was legislation to expand the use of human embryos for stem cell research. They passed that legislation on January 10th, a week ago today, 253 to 174. It has to go to the Senate and then to the president. It will be vetoed -- well, hell, I can't say it will be vetoed, but it's got a tough road ahead. There's one inarguable fact about embryonic stem cell research, and that is in order for scientists...

RUSH: Snerdley, Cookie, I need to find something. I was just told by an audience member, the top-of-the-hour news, that the president has said that some independent body will now decide on whether or not we have the -- if I understand this, an independent body will now decide whether we have the constitutional authority, the president has the constitutional authority to intercept phone calls from terrorists overseas to Americans in this country and vice-versa. Terrorists here, whoever is contacting...

RUSH: Mark in Findley, Ohio, you're next, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Well, thanks for taking my call, Rush. I was just sitting here listening to your show. I'm a lifelong Democrat, about 50 years old, and George Bush was the first Republican I had ever voted for.
RUSH: Hmm.
CALLER: And that's breaking the mold where we're at. I just heard on the news today that George Voinovich, our Republican senator, is throwing up some roadblocks for this surge that the...

RUSH: The stories keep rolling in here about the destruction of the citrus crop in California, 75% of the citrus crop is gone. The governor out there, Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked for federal disaster aid over this. I got a call here from Mike in Sterling, Kansas, who wants to weigh in on it. Mike, what do you say about this?
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.
RUSH: Afternoon.
CALLER: Pleasure to speak with you, sir.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: You know, they want to put...