RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you people know that I am a compassionate, thoughtful, helpful, and generous individual. Well, you may not know that personally, but you know people that know it, and you may have deduced it from your many, many years of listening to this program. I saw something yesterday that saddened me. I saw something yesterday that didn't surprise me, but it saddened me. Katie Couric's ratings, CBS Evening News, have now reached the lowest point since 1987. Now, that's 20 years,...

RUSH: I really don't want to harm Clarence Page by quoting him here. When I happen to quote favorably people in the mainstream media, their colleagues sometimes think they've sold out. It's called the Raspberry Effect. But regardless, I have to share with you what he said today in the Chicago Tribune. "Satire About Obama Isn't the Same as Imus' Flub." I'll read you some excerpts of this. "Remember when media pundits were asking whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was 'black enough' to attract...

RUSH: If you'll permit me a personal little story here. As you people know we celebrate entrepreneurship on this program and I have a friend who had an idea. It's a little sauce. Sauce is not the word for it. It's a marinade you put in bloody Marys and that sort of thing. It's called Dr. Tillitsuits. The name is just cute -- Dr. Tillitsuits, T-i-l-l-i-t-s-u-i-t-s, Dr. Tillitsuits. It comes in bottles about, oh, six, seven inches high. After playing golf with the guy, he was very proud of...

RUSH: Let's go back even prior to June the 6th of 1999. Again, on CNN, June 6, 1999 story, "Fort Dix speeds up relocation of Kosovo refugees." Let's go back to May 18th of 1999, just a little short of a month prior. "First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Tuesday an additional $15 million in US relief to the displaced people of Kosovo. The money will help non-government and United Nations groups care for refugees in the border regions of Macedonia and Albania and will also help pay to resettle...

Now, you know, we've had fun all week with the "Barack the Magic Negro" story -- particularly with the local TV station in Sacramento, my adopted hometown -- and interestingly today there are two pieces on this, and I wanted to bring both of them to your attention. The first by Jon Sanders at Townhall.com, and the title of his piece is: "Liberals Don't Get the Joke, but They'll Try to Get the One Who Made the Joke -- The Roman satirist Juvenal famously quipped 'Difficile est saturam non scibere'...

RUSH: I really don't want to harm Clarence Page by quoting him here. When I happen to quote favorably people in the mainstream media, their colleagues sometimes think they've sold out. It's called the Raspberry Effect. But regardless, I have to share with you what he said today in the Chicago Tribune. "Satire About Obama Isn't the Same as Imus' Flub." I'll read you some excerpts of this. "Remember when media pundits were asking whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was 'black enough' to attract...

RUSH: A lot of people are asking the question, "Is it religious bigotry?" We mentioned this to you yesterday. In a debate at the New York Public Library -- that will be "liberry" for those of you in Sacramento that watch Channel 13 -- Al Sharpton, debating Christopher Hitchens, said this...SHARPTON: As for the one Mormon running for office, those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don't worry about that. That's a temporary -- that's a temporary situation.RUSH: And there was...

RUSH: From The Hill newspaper. "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill. Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, 'We can take the president to court' if he issues a signing statement, according to Kid Oakland, a blogger who covered Pelosi's remarks for the liberal website dailykos.com. 'The president has made excessive use of signing...

RUSH: We'll just wait. We'll just wait and find out how long it takes for the Democrats to figure out their tack on this. It ought to be pretty quickly because it's the natural reaction they have to this, talking about the Fort Dix Six. Dave in Detroit, you're next. Great to have you with us today.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hello.CALLER: Rush, I guess my question would be, I can't calculate how the trillion dollars we're French frying in Iraq is really keeping us safe over here. I don't think...

RUSH: Yes, yes, yes, we've got the audio coming up of Barack Obama yesterday on the campaign trail. He was in Richmond, Virginia and he overstated by a factor of one thousand -- (laughing) -- the number of deaths from the tornado in Greenberg, Kansas. They're saying he's just tired. He's just tired out there, a little fatigued, and they corrected it. The most interesting thing I can't show you because it's on the video. The most interesting thing about Obama saying that 10,000 people died when...

RUSH: Did you hear about John Edwards? You will not believe this, ladies and gentlemen. Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! We haven't heard from the Breck Girl in a while, and this one is a doozy. Here he is singing. (Playing of "I am Woman" spoof song.) That's Paul Shanklin as the Breck Girl, John Edwards, "I am Woman." For those of you just tuning in for the first time and thinking, "Oh, my God, that's even worse than 'Barack the Magic Negro!'" remember now, it's all based on the fact some...

RUSH: I keep getting e-mails from people who are upset that I'm not talking about the rising gasoline prices. I have talked about them. I've told you the reason the prices are going up, that is refinery shortages when they're switching over from winter to spring. They have to make these different blends. They make less heating oil now and switch over to make gasoline, but our refineries, they're not all in the greatest shape. We haven't had a new one since 1979, and plus there are all these...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you people know that I am a compassionate, thoughtful, helpful, and generous individual. Well, you may not know that personally, but you know people that know it, and you may have deduced it from your many, many years of listening to this program. I saw something yesterday that saddened me. I saw something yesterday that didn't surprise me, but it saddened me. Katie Couric's ratings, CBS Evening News, have now reached the lowest point since 1987. Now, that's 20 years,...

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RUSH: I really don't want to harm Clarence Page by quoting him here. When I happen to quote favorably people in the mainstream media, their colleagues sometimes think they've sold out. It's called the Raspberry Effect. But regardless, I have to share with you what he said today in the Chicago Tribune. "Satire About Obama Isn't the Same as Imus' Flub." I'll read you some excerpts of this. "Remember when media pundits were asking whether Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was 'black enough' to attract...

Story #1: Hurricane Andrea Mitchell Off Carolina RUSH: I just want to know, has anybody seen an Al Gore or Laurie David press conference yet on Subtropical Storm Andrea Mitchell? It has formed off of the Georgia, north Florida coast and is heading southwest. It may not hit land per se. Some of the models say it won't, but it's up there near Jacksonville with 45 miles per hour sustained winds. This is made to order for the global warming nuts, is it not? Anyway, during the break I went and looked...