RUSH: Driftwood, Texas. John, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Dittos from Texas, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: You know, one of the things that struck me early on about this when we started hearing about the shooter was, of course, he railed against women, and he railed against the decadence of our society, but he also railed against "rich kids." I even heard the term "rich white kids" at one point, and that struck me as odd, because there has been an undertone of...

RUSH: The headline: "Compassion: Students Forgive Virginia Tech Killer -- Students say he's a human first, a murderer second," and a pull quote (this is from a CBS story about it), "Cho Seung-Hui lived eight-thousand, four-hundred, and eighty-nine days. I and no reasonable person, or deity, could or should allow the events of one of [those days] to discount the other eight-thousand, four-hundred, and eighty-eight." That's what's on a website of 50-odd students, and I just mention this to you because...

RUSH: You know, speaking of this "coarsening of the culture" business, one of the things that caused me to reach the boiling point -- and it takes me awhile to reach the boiling point, I should tell you, because it happens all the time and to me (sigh). Well, when you get in this arena, those are the kinds of things thatare going to happen. This is the big leagues. It's hardball out there, and I'm not going to spend every day whining or moaning or complaining about this stuff, but there are just...

RUSH: John in Raleigh, North Carolina, I have a couple minutes, and I wanted to get to you before we gotta go.CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you today?RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Good. I just wanted to comment. I'm an alumni of Virginia Tech, and as if dealing with all this, this week, wasn't enough, I think I can speak for the majority of the Hokie Nation that we've been just as angered at the three-ring circus that the media has made of our campus, and at the same time have been just...

RUSH: Dingy Harry, Harry Reid, "the Senate majority leader was among those who denounced yesterday's Supreme Court ruling upholding the federal partial-birth abortion ban." Here's what he said: "'A lot of us wish that Alito weren't there, and O'Connor was there.' Indicating his desire that there had been a fifth vote to invalidate the statute as Justice O'Connor had provided the fifth vote to invalidate Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban in a previous case." But here's the interesting thing....

RUSH: Driftwood, Texas. John, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Dittos from Texas, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: You know, one of the things that struck me early on about this when we started hearing about the shooter was, of course, he railed against women, and he railed against the decadence of our society, but he also railed against "rich kids." I even heard the term "rich white kids" at one point, and that struck me as odd, because there has been an undertone of...

RUSH: You know, speaking of this "coarsening of the culture" business, one of the things that caused me to reach the boiling point -- and it takes me awhile to reach the boiling point, I should tell you, because it happens all the time and to me (sigh). Well, when you get in this arena, those are the kinds of things thatare going to happen. This is the big leagues. It's hardball out there, and I'm not going to spend every day whining or moaning or complaining about this stuff, but there are just...

RUSH: We'll go to Jacksonville, Florida, this is Peter. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us.CALLER: Dittos from the first coast, Rush.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: Yesterday afternoon when my wife and I got home, we had a voicemail from our daughter's principal. He was telling us that he had to have a student arrested for "safety reasons" and didn't give us any details. This morning when we were watching the news, we found out it was this 14-year-old boy who had e-mailed to his buddies threatening...

RUSH: The New York Times today, headline -- it's a column by Barbara Oakley from Rochester, Michigan -- "The Killer in the Lecture Hall" A couple of excerpts: "Sometimes I wished I had an armament, although, like Virginia Tech, my university does not allow firearms on campus. I wished that because, not only did Rick attach love-cockroaches to my door and live across the hall from my office and possess a small armory, but Rick watched me all the time. Sometimes he followed me out to my car -- just...

RUSH: The headline: "Compassion: Students Forgive Virginia Tech Killer -- Students say he's a human first, a murderer second," and a pull quote (this is from a CBS story about it), "Cho Seung-Hui lived eight-thousand, four-hundred, and eighty-nine days. I and no reasonable person, or deity, could or should allow the events of one of [those days] to discount the other eight-thousand, four-hundred, and eighty-eight." That's what's on a website of 50-odd students, and I just mention this to you because...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we are not going to play the audio of the Virginia Tech shooter on this program. It's airing constantly on cable. I think Fox News finally just suspended all video, both on their website and on the network. But the repeated replay of this stuff is literally nuts. You know, sports networks (well, the big networks that televise sports), refuse to televise some idiot that leaves the stands and runs around nude on the field or whatever. They don't do that because they...

RUSH: You have to hear this audio. You have to hear this. Barbara Boxer yesterday at the National Press Club.BOXER: I know this is a very hard and emotional week (groans) given everything that's happened: continuing violence in Iraq, horrific; the terrible news about (groans) the accident that our good, dear friend Governor Corzine is suffering from; the Virginia Tech tragedy that brings back in -- almost in a posttraumatic stress way to many of us the violence that exists too -- far too much...

RUSH: We continue our poll at RushLimbaugh.com: "Which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host?" You have three options: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, or Tucker Carlson. This is an electronic vote. We put it up at two o'clock Eastern yesterday afternoon with one hour of the program left. We have kept it going all night long. It received a tremendous number of votes. It's very close: Matthews now with 49%, Olbermann 47%, and Tucker Carlson at 4% -- and we don't know what...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Is it just me, or does the Drive-By Media just love this Virginia Tech story? Shameless and sickening; they just love it.""To read these little neophytes -- these elitist, know-it-all, sniveling little pencil-necked geek-creeps locked away in their newsrooms -- talk about how there's incivility in our culture found with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh... if it weren't for us, this country would be far more gone than it is.""NBC...