RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

RUSH: Let me go back to Jack here in Miami. Jack, welcome back to the program, and thanks again for holding on.
CALLER: That's okay. How you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Very good, very well, just as good as the last time I spoke to you. Now, you're 20 years old, you're a Rush baby, and I have been the one constant voice in your life, I believe you said.
CALLER: Yes, that is true.
RUSH: You feel helpless? Describe this to me. What do you mean, helpless?
CALLER: Well, I kind of feel...

RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

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"The ratings are in for the '1/2 Hour News Hour,' and I think you'd like to hear about this. The show drew one and a half million viewers. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call 'kick-ass numbers.'"
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RUSH: Scott, Jacksonville, Florida, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Jack Bauer and Allen Brothers mega dittos --
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: -- from your number one listener in Jacksonville, Florida.
RUSH: Great to have you on the program, sir.
CALLER: Thank you. I'd like to thank you for something after I get to my point. I am concerned about this Home Depot CEO. The article reads, ?The head of Home Depot left the home improvement share on Wednesday, a mutual agreement...

RUSH: Tony in Cleveland, it's you, sir. It's your turn. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?
RUSH: Fine.
CALLER: Tony from Cleveland.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: You know, I kind of listen to you talk from time to time, and I don't think that you're dumb, but that would mean that you're pure evil, and I was just wondering how you felt about that.
RUSH: Snerdley, here we are on the verge of the lifestyle section and I have to answer a question from somebody...

RUSH: Checking the e-mails, somebody said, ?You haven't talked about the Scooter Libby trial. What do you think of the Scooter Libby trial?? Well, I think the trial's a joke. I mean, I could spend a lot of time on it. I don't even call it the Scooter Libby trial, I call it the Viagra-Cialis-Levitra trial. Well, you know all these warnings about if an erection should last longer than four hours, go to the emergency room. This trial is arguably the longest erection in Drive-By Media history...

RUSH: All right, let's get to the lifestyle section. Eagerly awaited since yesterday. First up from New York, this is Associated Press and CBS dispatch combined. ?In what it says is an attempt to get students to debate the issue of illegal immigration, a student Republican club at New York University has dreamed up a novel game that has some on campus calling the event ?racist.? In the game planned for Thursday, called ?Find the Illegal Immigrant,? members of the club who present their NYU identification...

RUSH: Al in Philippi, West Virginia. Hi, Al. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Appalachian American dittos to you. It's a privilege to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I wanted to say that tomorrow night HBO is going to air a so-called documentary about what went on in Abu Ghraib, and their contention is that everything that went on over there in that prison is systemic. I mean it goes through the whole military, including Guantanamo down there, and my point is that these...

RUSH: Mr. Snerdley asked me this morning if I was outraged over the comments that Senator McCain made about former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. I said I was not outraged. He was amazed that I was not outraged. I explained to Mr. Snerdley, and I explain to all of you that I am beyond being outraged by Senator McCain. This is typical Senator McCain behavior. Here he is running for the Republican presidential nomination, and he rips Rumsfeld. What's new about that? He has little to say about...

RUSH: Let me go back to Jack here in Miami. Jack, welcome back to the program, and thanks again for holding on.
CALLER: That's okay. How you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Very good, very well, just as good as the last time I spoke to you. Now, you're 20 years old, you're a Rush baby, and I have been the one constant voice in your life, I believe you said.
CALLER: Yes, that is true.
RUSH: You feel helpless? Describe this to me. What do you mean, helpless?
CALLER: Well, I kind of feel...

RUSH: If you people will permit me, I will make this brief. It is getting sick. It is getting really sick what the media and the judicial system, the legal system are doing with this whole Anna Nicole Smith situation. The judge is auditioning for a television show, everybody in his courtroom just wants to be on TV, and there's the media granting the wish. Get this. This is just sick. Headline: Anna Nicole's Body Decomposing. Now, why is this a story? Well, here's why. ?The drawn-out court...

RUSH: The Drive-By Media is just ecstatic over the announcement by Tony Blair that they're going to start a troop withdrawal, the Brits are, from Iraq. They could not wait to find out what this is really all about. They just couldn't contain themselves. They are so eager for defeat. They are so eager for us to pull out and be humiliated that they jumped the gun. Here is a montage of a CNN announcer, Wolf Blitzer. We have others from PMSNBC, Brian Williams, a whole bunch of them. You might recognize...

RUSH: This is an editorial from the San Francisco Chronicle. ?America's best known dungeon -- the Guantanamo Bay wire-cage complex -- is now blessed by a federal appellate court. Prisoners there have no right to U.S. courts, the judges said. ? Maybe the White House has, at last, perfected its end-run around basic civil liberties. But it should drop the matter, once and for all, and shut down Guantanamo for the black-hole embarrassment it has become.? So the White House wins and the Drive-By Media...

RUSH: The ratings are in for "The 1/2 Hour News Hour," and I think you'd like to hear about this. "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" drew one and a half million viewers, which exceeded expectations. For Sunday night at ten o'clock on cable, these are what we in the broadcast business call "kick-ass" numbers.
It's just a hundred thousand viewers less than The Daily Show which airs -- I don't even know what time, I've never seen it, but it's Monday through Friday on Comedy Central. It's a larger audience...

RUSH: Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. This is just so juicy. Let's take this in order. (story) ?Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed yesterday to change the United States so it's no longer an ?arrogant power? that alienates the world. ?When I'm president, I'm going to send a message to the world that America is back - we're not the arrogant power that we've been acting like for the last six years,? Sen. Clinton said during her first campaign stop in the Sunshine State.? She was down in Miami. ??We want to be an...