RUSH: Once again, ESPN remains obsessed with me. Last night on Pardon the Interruption, with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.WILBON: Rush Limbaugh reportedly said Friday night that the NFL "too often looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods without any weapons," close quote. Tony, what do you think of that?KORNHEISER: I've said it before. This is blatant race baiting. He has done this before.WILBON: That's bigoted!RUSH: (Laughing.) Once again, they didn't hear it.Rush Limbaugh "reportedly...

RUSH: I gotta tell you this. I don't know how this slipped my mind. I screened the new Rambo movie last night at home, as a powerful, influential member of the media. It's Stallone's new movie, Rambo. I have to confess: I have not seen any of the previous Rambo movies. Now, this Rambo movie, the movie takes off on the violence in Burma; all of the slaughter of the Burmese monks and so forth. It takes off. It just so happens that Rambo happens to be retired there, and he's running around; he's...

RUSH: John in Atlanta, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?RUSH: Fine, thank you, sir.CALLER: Good. I was just trying to make the point how the Clintons are the left's Nixon in that you have the corruption and abuse of power and cover-ups that I don't think we will have ever seen on any scale.RUSH: I think I understand the point you're making, but I think to lump Richard Nixon with these people is unfair and unfortunate in terms of dirty tricks...

RUSH: I gotta tell you this. I don't know how this slipped my mind. I screened the new Rambo movie last night at home, as a powerful, influential member of the media. It's Stallone's new movie, Rambo. I have to confess: I have not seen any of the previous Rambo movies. Now, this Rambo movie, the movie takes off on the violence in Burma; all of the slaughter of the Burmese monks and so forth. It takes off. It just so happens that Rambo happens to be retired there, and he's running around; he's...

RUSH: If you saw a headline in a newspaper that said: "Obama Criticizes Clinton's Candor," how would you interpret that? What would you think that Obama's criticizing? Candor is honesty, right? "Obama Criticizes Clinton's Candor." Who would criticize somebody's honesty? Well, if you read the first sentence, you find that the headline is incorrect. "Democrat Barack Obama questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor and trustworthiness Wednesday, saying she has indulged in double-talk on bankruptcy...

RUSH: Matthews, Virginia, this is Joe. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Great to be on your show. Thank you very much.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: After your segment, though, giving kudos to the president and his speech, I'm not sure I can criticize him, but I do have some criticisms as a conservative.
RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. I made it plain I was not going to talk specifics in my opening comments. I was...

RUSH: Let's listen to the Drive-By Media now agonize over post-speech polls. First off is Bill Schneider. He took a snap poll out there. Americans who watched the speech liked it, so Bill tries to distort it by splitting "very positive" and "somewhat positive," which was on the screen, but left out by Schneider. So if you added up the "somewhat positive" and "very positive" groups in their poll, you had a total of 78% who reacted positively. When you add "very positive" and "somewhat positive"...

RUSH: The Breck Girl, last night on CNN with Anderson Cooper, "the Paris Hilton of news," Cooper said, "You started off your presidential campaign just a few months ago in New Orleans. Were you surprised that this president did not mention New Orleans or the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast?"
EDWARDS: Really surprised, Anderson, when he was identifying a whole, uh, group of American heroes who were in the gallery. I sort of got this sense inside of what Americans I think want, which is a sense...

RUSH: For those of you that didn't see this last night -- and frankly, I have not seen this replayed much on television, especially today -- this is the president in his opening remarks. This is how he opened the State of the Union last night.
THE PRESIDENT: Tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own, as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker. In his day, the late congressman, Thomas D'Alessandro, Jr., from Baltimore,...

RUSH: This is Mary in Canal Fulton, Ohio. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Dittos.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I was struck last night watching this speech, just what an honorable and decent man President Bush came across as.
RUSH: Yeah, I know.
CALLER: In his introduction of Nancy Pelosi, he went way above and beyond what he needed to do, when he referenced her father, and I thought that was so kind and personal for her, which (scoffs). I wouldn't have done...

RUSH: I think, as people assess this last night, the human aspect of this sometimes gets overlooked -- certainly by the Drive-By Media. In many ways, President Bush was magnificent last night and some people might think that, given circumstances, that it could have been one of his finest hours. We don't think about these things much. Well, I shouldn't say that. I'm sure some of you do. But very few of us can understand what daily life for George W. Bush is like and all about. We all are seeking...

Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, when I say something about anything, there's nothing left to be said about it. As such, I'm not going to start out here with an in-depth analysis of the State of the Union speech last night. I will wait for your input on this. I'm not going to deny you my input, but if I start telling you what I think there's no reason to take any call about it because there's nothing left to be said once I say something about it. So I want to mix. I have some little...

RUSH: Berwyn, Pennsylvania, I'm glad you waited. Tom, it's your turn on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Is the president not aware of the catastrophic economic effects of trying to switch to E85 which, by the way, is doomed to fail? Corn and corn products are in everything we eat!
RUSH: Wait a second. You're talking about ethanol here, right?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: You gotta speak language people in Rio Linda understand. They don't know what E85 is.

CALLER: Corn is in everything...

RUSH: Are you people aware of how sensitive the Democrats are if you say "Democrat" Party, not "Democratic" Party? You know, they love it to be called Democratic Party because of the subliminal connotation to "democratic," i.e. fair, but they are called Democrats. They are not called Democratics! So people have started calling them the Democrat Party. It really upsets them. Last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper had "The Forehead," Paul Begala on, asked him what he thought of this.
BEGALA: He...

The Senate has just rejected an effort to pass a minimum wage bill without accompanying tax cuts. The House passed their minimum wage increase and it went over to the Senate, and the Senate said (paraphrased exchange): "Well, we want some tax cuts for small businesses in there to help them defray the increase costs in the minimum wage." House Democrats said, "Screw that! That's never going to happen. We're not going to pass on a minimum wage bill with tax cuts in it." So the Senate said, "Well,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"As you all know, when I say something about anything, there's nothing left to be said about it."
"Everybody's commenting on Nancy Pelosi's blinking rate. It used to be she was unable to blink; now she can't stop blinking. I think it was Morse code. I think she was sending codes to the Democrats as to when to applaud and when not to applaud."
"As much as she tries, Hillary just can't pull off warm. She just can't! You look...

RUSH: Have you heard what's going on in Atlanta and Fulton County? Get this! Wait 'til Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon at "Pardon the Interruption" hear about this. (story) "A potentially explosive dispute in Atlanta taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta's predominantly white affluent suburbs to the north of the city from some of the metro area's poorest black neighborhoods. Legislation that would allow the suburbs to form their own county to be...

RUSH: Snerdley tells me that phone calls... We can't put up nearly as many as we get every day. First, I asked him, because we've been getting a spate over the last couple or three days of liberal phone calls, liberal seminar callers. Actually, these haven't been seminars. Seminars try to disguise who they are. These are flat-out, pedal-to-the-metal liberals. I began to think about this, and I have a theory going on here about what might be happening.
You know, the Fairness Doctrine is out...

RUSH: Once again, ESPN remains obsessed with me. Last night on Pardon the Interruption, with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.
WILBON: Rush Limbaugh reportedly said Friday night that the NFL "too often looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods without any weapons," close quote. Tony, what do you think of that?
KORNHEISER: I've said it before. This is blatant race baiting. He has done this before.
WILBON: That's bigoted!
RUSH: (Laughing.) Once again, they didn't hear...

RUSH: Bill in Orange Park, Florida, you are next, sir. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. It's a real pleasure to talk to you once again.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: First of all, Rush, I had two points. The first one is, I like what you talked about Fox News opening up their microphones last night. It was very, very telling. The other thing was I wanted to talk about the president's speech.
RUSH: Yes?
CALLER: I thought that the president...

RUSH: "New ethics charges have been filed by the North Carolina State Bar accusing the Durham district attorney, Mike Nifong, of withholding DNA evidence and misleading the court in the Duke Lacrosse case. The amended complaint cites findings of April 2006 that DNA tests found on the alleged accuser excluded all of the Duke Lacrosse players as potential contributors. The complaint also states that Nifong was told of the test results by Brian..." We all know this, by the way. The bar has just...