RUSH: This is West Caldwell, New Jersey. Oh, Sopranos territory! This is where the Sopranos live. Tony Soprano's house is in West Caldwell. This is John. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir, my pleasure.CALLER: Fred Thompson for president. What's your take?RUSH: (Laughing.) You know, you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites. I continue to receive a plethora of e-mails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson, and...

RUSH: This is West Caldwell, New Jersey. Oh, Sopranos territory! This is where the Sopranos live. Tony Soprano's house is in West Caldwell. This is John. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir, my pleasure.CALLER: Fred Thompson for president. What's your take?RUSH: (Laughing.) You know, you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites. I continue to receive a plethora of e-mails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson, and...

RUSH: This is West Caldwell, New Jersey. Oh, Sopranos territory! This is where the Sopranos live. Tony Soprano's house is in West Caldwell. This is John. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir, my pleasure.CALLER: Fred Thompson for president. What's your take?RUSH: (Laughing.) You know, you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites. I continue to receive a plethora of e-mails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson, and...

RUSH: This is West Caldwell, New Jersey. Oh, Sopranos territory! This is where the Sopranos live. Tony Soprano's house is in West Caldwell. This is John. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir, my pleasure.CALLER: Fred Thompson for president. What's your take?RUSH: (Laughing.) You know, you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites. I continue to receive a plethora of e-mails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson, and...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Somebody needs to ask Chuck Schumer a question: If a Democrat is elected president, say hypothetically Mrs. Clinton in 2008, are you telling us that she will not be free to fire any United States attorney because to do so would be political? Is that the standard now?"
"Chuck Schumer is a demagogue of the first order. If you hear the word 'demagogue' and you're from Rio Linda and you're not quite sure what it is, just think 'Chuck...

RUSH: This is Patrick in Tampa, Florida. Patrick, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Mega airport screener dittos!
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Yes.
CALLER: I've been listening to you since the days of the gurgling cod, so I'm a very longtime listener. I'll get right to it. I'm an airport screener. I hope I'm not going to get fired for talking about this. The bill that's before the Senate now about giving us collective bargaining, they're twisting this bill to make it out...

RUSH: All right, let's talk about the Democrats and the war in Iraq. The Associated Press: "The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement - 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly - faces a dilemma: The lawmakers can back a Democratic plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause. It falls to one of their strongest allies, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. - whose San Francisco district is passionately against...

RUSH: Democrats are still peeved about Halliburton moving over to Dubai. They think it's about escaping taxes. Here's Henry Waxman.WAXMAN: We're looking very carefully at this move and what it may mean for national security for American taxpayers. I've asked my investigative staff to find out the answers to these questions --RUSH: Stop. You've been trying to bury this company. You and your party have been trying to destroy this company, and now you equate that with national security because they're...

RUSH: All right, to the audio sound bites. Let's go to me, shall we, yesterday on this program talking about Hagelmania.RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me tell you something. There are going to be a lot of real PO'd national reporters who dragged themselves out there for this. (Hagel) could have done this with an e-mail, could have done it with a fax. Besides, how do you pad an expense account if you're a reporter and you go to Nebraska?RUSH: Yes. Nothing against Nebraska. It's just things are cheaper there....

RUSH: This is from the UK Telegraph: "Brilliant Men Always Betray Their Wives -- Einstein's affairs should surprise no one, says Desmond Morris. It is all in the genius's genes. So Albert Einstein did not, after all, spend all his waking hours chalking up complex symbols on a blackboard. According to letters newly released this week, he devoted quite a bit of it to chasing the ladies. And with considerable success." By the way, Einstein was no looker, gang. He'd make a freight train take a dirt...

RUSH: Mr. Snerdley tells me that a number of you people have been calling today wanting to talk about the "propaganda" of the movie 300. That infuriates me. You're going to worry about a movie about the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, and you're going to soak up like an idiot sponge everything in Algore's stupid propaganda tripe? I'm getting no calls complaining about the propaganda of Algore's movie but a bunch of you dunderheads want to talk to me about the "propaganda" of 300. Snerdley hadn't...

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RUSH: Let's go to the phones. Barry in Denham, Massachusetts. Hi, Barry. Thanks for waiting, sir.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush, you know, on Fred Thompson? The times I've read about him considering his run in the liberal press or even like AOL News Online, they always have the headline captioned: "TV actor seeking possible nomination," and they don't mention the fact that he was a United States senator and a lawyer during the Watergate period and that kind of thing. They try to minimize it with TV...

RUSH: Time for another update. We're update loaded here, ladies and gentlemen. Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Trumpet fanfare. The Breck Girl is in the news, which is good, because I love this update. (Playing of "I am Woman" update theme song.) The Breck Girl, John Edwards, potentially the first female president of the United States. That's Paul Shanklin with the exciting vocal portrayal there, "I Am Woman." What is the Breck Girl news today? Well, it's from our old buddy Nedra Pickler...

RUSH: This is West Caldwell, New Jersey. Oh, Sopranos territory! This is where the Sopranos live. Tony Soprano's house is in West Caldwell. This is John. It's nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir, my pleasure.CALLER: Fred Thompson for president. What's your take?RUSH: (Laughing.) You know, you've taken me into our next series of audio sound bites. I continue to receive a plethora of e-mails from people who are excited about Fred Thompson, and...

RUSH: Do you remember there was a story in the New York Times, a huge puff piece about Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and George Miller and Bill Delahunt? They share an apartment in Washington. It was the biggest puff piece that you can imagine. We never get such a puff piece on Republicans. Jake Tapper, following up on this newspaper story, visited their apartment, and here's a portion of his report. SCHUMER: Hi. Welcome to our humble abode.TAPPER: Most Americans might be surprised to learn that...

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RUSH: On the Rudy Giuliani thing, let me get this out of the way before we go to the break. It's in the New York Sun today. I told you people last week when we were discussing the Scooter Libby verdict and the controversy of whether or not there should be a pardon, and if so, when? Should it be immediate? Should it be after the November '08 elections? I hope somebody asks Rudy about this because these US attorneys are a fraternity; they hang together. And, of course, the reason this is important,...

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