RUSH: We always try to take more phone calls on Open Line Friday, and to that end, we go to Carl, who's calling from near Chicago. Hi, Carl. Thanks for waiting, and welcome.CALLER: Well, thanks a lot, Rush. Good to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I heard you talk about the 1/2 Hour News Hour satire show for Sundays. I thought they did two pilots, and the second pilot is going to run. Who makes the decision to make other pilots? What's the life of this show?RUSH: Well, let me give you the...

RUSH: I have a Global Warming Stack that's almost as big as the regular news stack. There's some really great news in here about Algore. A blogger has uncovered that the carbon credits, the carbon offsets that Algore buys are actually from a company that he owns, and they don't sell credits to anyone other than him! You can't buy them off their website. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's even better than that. I just want to warn you: at the end of the program yesterday, I made this point. This...

RUSH: We always try to take more phone calls on Open Line Friday, and to that end, we go to Carl, who's calling from near Chicago. Hi, Carl. Thanks for waiting, and welcome.
CALLER: Well, thanks a lot, Rush. Good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I heard you talk about the 1/2 Hour News Hour satire show for Sundays. I thought they did two pilots, and the second pilot is going to run. Who makes the decision to make other pilots? What's the life of this show?
RUSH:...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We, the little people, are about to be hosed again while the elite continue their lifestyles with righteous indignation for all that do not worship at the feet of the Earth Mother Gaia."

"I wonder if there is serious mental instability and perhaps potential suicides waiting to occur on the kook-fringe left. George Soros has recently purchased two million shares of Halliburton stock. You have to wonder what the little nerds...

RUSH: Ryan in Vancouver, Washington. Hi.
CALLER: Yeah. I just wanted to ask you if you think the libs are going to control -- if they do, I'm saying, which hope to God they don't because I'm conservative. But to make a long story short, I'm just wondering if you think they could control our country, do you think our democracy, our government will fail in the next 25 years, which I hope to God it doesn't?
RUSH: Do I think democracy will fail, meaning will we lose freedoms and so forth...

RUSH: We go to the Becky in the hometown of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana). Well, maybe not hometown, but he's there. Becky, how are you?
CALLER: I'm doing great.
RUSH: Terrific. I'm glad you called.
CALLER: Is this Rush?
RUSH: Yeah, this is Rush. I'm sorry. Yes.
CALLER: Oh! Hey, Rush. I just called to say thank you, because I'm 22, and I was raised Southern Democrat. Every member of my family is probably Democrat. But thanks to you, listening...

RUSH: From the LA Times today: ?A vast undersea wedge of gravel and grit holds the ice streams of West Antarctica in place like a doorstop, even as rising seas caused by global warming threaten to undermine them.?
Damn it! These wedges of gravity and grit are not giving way! They ought to be giving away, damn it! The Antactic ought to be disintegrating before our very eyes!
But it's not!
"West Anarctica encompasses enough frozen fresh water, 7 million cubic miles, to raise sea...

RUSH: I have this from National Geographic's website. ?Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural?and not a human-induced?cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.? One scientist controversial theory is that the sun plays a major role. That is what's controversial in the global warming movement, that the sun -- the only source of energy in our planet, the only source of heat, the only source of any energy, the sun. Reporting...

RUSH: Some more from the Global Warming Stack here, folks. Back in Tennessee on Tuesday after Al Gore had the big night at the Academy Awards, ?Gore told a crowd of about 50 people at the U.S. Media Ethics Summit..? Fifty people attending a summit on ethics in the media, 50 people! He told them that ?the presentation's single most provocative slide was one that contrasts results of two long-term studies. A 10-year University of California study found that essentially zero percent of peer-reviewed...

RUSH: Yes, here we are, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. I'm Rush Limbaugh, on the cutting edge of societal evolution. It's Jennifer in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as we stick with the phones. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Thank you, sir. So let's say, God forbid, the Democrats get their way and they're able to de-fund the war. What is to stop us as citizens, to support our troops, joining together and buying war bonds in order to fund the war?
RUSH: ...

RUSH: Bob in Shreveport, Louisiana, welcome to the program. It's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Rush?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Rush Limbaugh.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Man, I'm a nervous wreck here. Rudy Giuliani, he has proven to be -- well, I'm a little shook up here -- I told Snerdley that I was a born-again Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life --
RUSH: Do you believe in tax cuts?
CALLER: Do I believe in tax cuts? Are you kidding? I think we ought to abolish...

RUSH: This is Laura in Grand Island, Nebraska. I'm glad you waited. Open Line Friday. The program's all yours, so make it count.
CALLER: Okay, Rush. I have been a Democrat since I was 21 years old. I've listened to you and sometimes if I could get through the wire I'd absolutely strangle you because I don't agree with everything, but I just moved, and I had to re-register, you know, and by listening to you and all, I registered as a Republican.
RUSH: Yes!
CALLER: Now, my problem...

RUSH: Kara in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hi, Kara, welcome to the Open Line Friday edition of our big broadcast.
CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?
RUSH: Fine. I'm Rush, by the way. Thank you.
CALLER: It's such an honor to speak with you. I'm a Rush baby, and it was great to talk to Mr. Snerdley, too. You have a wonderful team.
RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that.
CALLER: Well, we just got done digging out of our second storm in under a week.
RUSH: Yeah, and in fact...

RUSH: We go back to Webb, Iowa, and Jerry. You?re a corn producer, therefore you're big on ethanol, and you were upset that I equated you with an environmentalist wacko, and I didn't.
CALLER: Okay. Along with that, there's another side to a carbon credit. I'm getting paid for my carbon credits also, but that's another story. Going back to ethanol cost of production. Right now if the price of barrel [of oil] remains above $40 a barrel, and if the present price of corn, ethanol, will still...

RUSH: We always try to take more phone calls on Open Line Friday, and to that end, we go to Carl, who's calling from near Chicago. Hi, Carl. Thanks for waiting, and welcome.
CALLER: Well, thanks a lot, Rush. Good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I heard you talk about the 1/2 Hour News Hour satire show for Sundays. I thought they did two pilots, and the second pilot is going to run. Who makes the decision to make other pilots? What's the life of this show?
RUSH:...

RUSH: Wakefield, Rhode Island and Josh. I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: How are you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Fine, sir.
CALLER: I have a quick question for a successful, conservative media icon. I'm a cartoonist. I've been making cartoons, animation, and refuse to get into any sort of media without selling my soul to the libs.
RUSH: Well, that's good. I mean, you shouldn't do that.
CALLER: It seems almost impossible. I live in Rhode Island, where...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. We're going to update you! But we'll play the Peace Update Theme Song first.
(Playing "Una Paloma Blanca" by Slim Whitman.)
Slim Whitman.
(Continued playing.)
Peace update theme.
(Continued playing of song.)
Stop the tape! Stop the tape! Whatever happened to the peace movement? Whatever happened to it? Where is it? It's the global warming movement today, folks.
(Continued playing of song.)
Where is Slim Whitman?
Whatever...

RUSH: Here is Bill in Cincinnati. Bill, welcome. We have about a minute here but I wanted to squeeze you in.
CALLER: Sure. Retired firefighter dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I love talking to you. Hey, talking about the media panting? You joked in your opening how Bush hasn't been blamed for the tornadoes yet yesterday, but essentially MSNBC did just that last night about 7:30 -- as early as 7:30 -- by way of blaming FEMA. They had a FEMA rep on and were really questioning...

RUSH: They are panicking out there in the Drive-By Media and on the left over a possible third George W. Bush Supreme Court nomination. I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from ABC News and their blogs. It's by Jan Crawford Greenburg. She's their legal correspondent babe. She writes about today's arguments and lawsuit over President Bush's faith-based grant initiatives and how it went at a dizzying pace, and she says, ?As intense as the arguments were - and as fun...

RUSH: Let's go to the phones. We're going to start in Philadelphia with Al. Next up, you are. Welcome to the program, sir.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I'm glad to talk to you again. Rush, the man from your home state of Missouri, John Ashcroft? Do we have any conservatives more Reaganesque than him?
RUSH: You know, it's interesting you bring this up. James Gilmore, former governor of Virginia -- I think he went to CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference. He?s going to go out and...

RUSH: I'm wondering -- I haven't checked today because, frankly, I didn't have the time to spend on it -- but I wonder if there is serious, serious, serious mental instability and perhaps potential suicides waiting to occur at the kook-fringe left. George Soros has purchased recently two million shares of Halliburton. ?The Halliburton shares reportedly went for an average purchase price of $31.30 a share. That puts Soros' total investment in Halliburton at around $62.6 million, or about 2 percent...

RUSH: Lots to do on the busy broadcast today. We find out that census records and genealogical records indicate there's a history of slavery in Obama's family, on his mother's side. It's in the Chicago Tribune. Forebears, relatives of Obama's mother had slaves, and it's in the Chicago Tribune. ?Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention...

RUSH: All right. (story) ?A House Judiciary subcommittee approved today the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials.? I've been wondering where this was, but it's now beginning. ?They will likely explore corruption and mismanagement allegations on everything from pre-war Iraq intelligence to the mishandling of the response to Hurricane Katrina,? which is going to be interesting because look at all the devastation from the tornadoes. Is anybody...

RUSH: Let's take a look at the latest in the escapades of the Democrats and what they want to get done with the war in Iraq. AP story. ?Democrats are considering cutting President Bush's budget $142 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year by $20 billion, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said Thursday. ? Conrad said a final decision has not been made whether to impose the $20 billion cut.? It was just a few hours later another story crossed the wires:...

RUSH: Here's Dan in Springport, Michigan. Welcome, sir, to Open Line Friday on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: In the past you?ve played a speech from Charlton Heston in which he speaks about how impossible it is for humans to destroy the earth. With all of the talk of global warming, I was hoping sometime you could play that again.
RUSH: Yeah. Your call has been on the board for a while. We had a chance to find it. What it actually is,...

RUSH: I have a Global Warming Stack that's almost as big as the regular news stack. There's some really great news in here about Algore. A blogger has uncovered that the carbon credits, the carbon offsets that Algore buys are actually from a company that he owns, and they don't sell credits to anyone other than him! You can't buy them off their website. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's even better than that. I just want to warn you: at the end of the program yesterday, I made this point. This...

RUSH: All right, I have a sea turtles light update. I'm sorry to keep bugging you people, but I can't keep this in. I had some friends over for dinner last night, a bunch of golf buddies. The Honda Classic is in town here this week up at PGA National. I had some people over and the sun goes down here about 6:25 this time of year. By the way, we got a new date for Daylight Savings Time this year, March the 11th. So in less than two weeks it will be 7:25 here when the sun goes down. So I was...