RUSH: This is Debbie in Austin, Texas. Great to have you on the program today.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I got a question.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: It needs an honest answer.RUSH: Well, you've called the right place.CALLER: Yes, that's why I wanted to ask you.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I wanted to know what the problem with Mormons is. We already know they're like big Christians, and is it just because they don't smoke and drink?RUSH: Oh, I don't know what it is. I mean that's the honest answer. I don't...

RUSH: Annie in Sarasota, Florida, nice to have you on the EIB Network. I got about a minute and a half here, so --RUSH: Rush, just want to let you know, my husband's been listening to you since the first day you were on in Tampa on FLA in the early nineties. And I couldn't stand you. He made me listen and I couldn't stand your high-pitched voice, you drove me crazy, but I love you now, too.RUSH: High-pitched voice, what are you talking about? High-pitched voice?CALLER: There it is! There...

RUSH: Stephen Malloy, the Washington Times, "How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb?" By the way, they got me a hotel suite yesterday because I had to change clothes after the two meetings and so forth, and I had about a half hour in there, and I walked in, and the light switches, they were weird. They functioned but they turned the lights on in different rooms. I couldn't figure it out, I didn't have time to figure it out, and none of the lamps were on the switches....

RUSH: Poplar Grove, Illinois, this is Mary. Nice to have you with us. Uh-oh, this sounds like a -- oh, there you are.CALLER: I'm here.RUSH: Sounded like a dead line to me.CALLER: No. Mega dittos from Illinois, Rush. It's an honor to speak to you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: My question or comment is somewhat off the topics you've been addressing today.RUSH: That's what Open Line Friday is. There's no topics.CALLER: I don't know if you have heard the problems we've been having with...

RUSH: Tom in Toms River, New Jersey. Great to have you, sir.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Good. Thank you. Yeah.CALLER: You talked on Wednesday about Cuba and reminded me I wanted to let you know a little story about when I was there in 1991. I was there for 30 days working on the Pan Am Games. We had special visas to go there. And just an illustration of how communism doesn't work. This kid from the hotel invited me to come to his house for dinner....

RUSH: This is Debbie in Austin, Texas. Great to have you on the program today.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I got a question.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: It needs an honest answer.RUSH: Well, you've called the right place.CALLER: Yes, that's why I wanted to ask you.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I wanted to know what the problem with Mormons is. We already know they're like big Christians, and is it just because they don't smoke and drink?RUSH: Oh, I don't know what it is. I mean that's the honest answer. I don't...

RUSH: I talked about this on Wednesday, and the House voted on it Thursday. They passed this hate crimes bill that expands hate crimes now to include 25 different definitions of gender orientation, sexual orientation and so forth. This is not hate crimes legislation, it is thought crimes legislation. Now, the bill has to go to the Senate and the Senate has had to do with it whatever they're going to do and they have to conference it. The White House is threatening to veto this legislation....

All right, folks, I want to warn you, this is how things happen. The headline of the story, and this is from The Scotsman in the UK. "Chimps Are People, Too, Insists Scientist." Chimps are people, too. "An expert on primates is to tell a court that apes are people, in a groundbreaking case that will determine whether a chimp can have human rights. Jane Goodall, known worldwide for her study of chimpanzee social and family life--" She once had a gorilla named Rosie, remember that, and it died...

RUSH: Moving on to the debate, just some preliminary comments. As I said, I thought Jim Gilmore did pretty well. I thought Romney looked Reaganesque. He was very articulate and quick. The New York Post is all over poor Rudy today. He did stumble a bit because Chris Matthews kept going back to him over and over and over and over again on abortion, and people are saying that he was flip-flopping in the middle of answers without being aware of it. McCain, to me, didn't quite measure up. Duncan...

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton, unreal sound bite here. She claims in this sound bite, this was in San Diego, California Democrat state convention on Saturday. She claims to have baby-sat for the children of migrant farm workers from Mexico when she was a child in Illinois.HILLARY: When I was growing up, the neighborhoods I lived in were surrounded by farm fields, and every harvest season we had a lot of the migrants who would come up from Mexico through Texas, following the harvest all the way up through...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I am perfectly willing to admit when I don't know something because it's so infrequent. In fact,I think it humanizes me to admit that there are things I don't know." "John McCain just didn't measure up last night. He looked like he, you know, had a bunch of Red Bull before the debate started. He was really wired out there!" "This Rush to Excellence appearance in Detroit may have been -- in my estimation -- the best one of these...

RUSH: This is Debbie in Austin, Texas. Great to have you on the program today.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I got a question.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: It needs an honest answer.RUSH: Well, you've called the right place.CALLER: Yes, that's why I wanted to ask you.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I wanted to know what the problem with Mormons is. We already know they're like big Christians, and is it just because they don't smoke and drink?RUSH: Oh, I don't know what it is. I mean that's the honest answer. I don't...

Story #1: Mexico Loses More Mexicans to U.S. than Death RUSH: Now, try this story. This is from the Associated Press. The story says, "Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than to death since the year 2000, according to a government report released yesterday." The only problem with this is -- they're not lost! Everybody knows where they are. If you want them back, come get 'em! But anyway, the statistic is amazing. "Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United...