RUSH: Speaking of principle, ladies and gentlemen, and honor, I am seriously considering withdrawing my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. If I am to win this, I'm already going to be in a club that's got schlubs like Jimmy Carter in it. That's bad enough. But get this. You ever heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams? She "won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland." In 1992,...

RUSH: Tony Snow, welcome to the program. How long have you been on hold?SNOW: I'm doing fine. Good to be here, Rush.RUSH: Good. How long have you been on hold? I'm sorry I've made you wait.SNOW: No, I've just been on hold. It's just been a matter of seconds.RUSH: You just got here. Okay, great! Tony, I thought the interim report today -- and I know you're going to be talking about this but -- I thought there's so much good in this, and I spent the first segment of the first hour giving...

RUSH: We go to Houston next, and this is Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Well, thank you. How are you, Rush?RUSH: I'm fine. Never better!CALLER: Well, good. I'm so glad... I put this on recording, and I just wanted to see what your opinion is. I want to write a book about growing up in the South in the twenties and thirties. Do you think it's a stupid idea?RUSH: Of course not.CALLER: Well, I didn't think you would, or I wouldn't have called. (laughs)RUSH: Of...

RUSH: Scott in Amarillo, Texas, you're next, sir. Thank you for waiting.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you today?RUSH: I'm fine. Thank you, sir.CALLER: Rush, I've been an educator for 20 years, and in those 20 years I've seen a lot of changes in our educational system, trying to keep up with the technology of our society. I'm really concerned that our current educational system could possibly be -- and I wanted to ask your opinion about this -- educating a generation of Americans out of the labor...

RUSH: Cheyenne, Wyoming. This is Julie. Julie, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I haven't talked to you for about 15 years. That's when we first heard you. We lived out in California at the time, and we want you to change the subject a little bit because we want to have you become the first recycler of some of your great stuff, and that is Gorbasms. Instead of doing for, you know, Gorbachev, we want you to turn it into a Gore-basm, you know, all this Earth First stuff and the global...

RUSH: Jim in Colorado Springs, you're next. It's great to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Rush, thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes?CALLER: I enjoy your show, and I agree with you on your take on issues 96-and-one-half percent of the time.RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.CALLER: Yeah. Since I find out that you're running everything and know all, as an old retired Marine officer -- not related to Murtha -- I had to call you and I don't want to add to an air of redundancy, but I had a question, slash,...

RUSH: This is Chris in Kansas City, Missouri. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hey, Stroud's chicken dittos from KC.RUSH: Oh, man, you're making my mouth water, especially since I can't have any of that right now.CALLER: Listen, I just had a couple of quick points to make about Iraq. You know, President Bush talked about the "war fatigue" earlier today, and the American people can't really have "war fatigue" right now because they haven't made any sacrifices. The American people...

RUSH: Tony Snow, welcome to the program. How long have you been on hold?SNOW: I'm doing fine. Good to be here, Rush.RUSH: Good. How long have you been on hold? I'm sorry I've made you wait.SNOW: No, I've just been hold. It's just been a matter of seconds.RUSH: You just got here. Okay, great! Tony, I thought the interim report today -- and I know you're going to be talking about this but -- I thought there's so much good in this, and I spent the first segment of the first hour giving a...

RUSH: "Democratic presidential hopeful [the Breck Girl] has a ready answer the criticism about his expensive haircuts and huge home. The former North Carolina senator says a man can be wealthy and care about poor people." He's got his poverty tour next week starting in New Orleans, and he's making a point of going to places that are not early primary states, that it's not political, that he's not just stumping for votes out there. He's going to show that he cares about poverty! But he's gotten...

RUSH: Speaking of principle, ladies and gentlemen, and honor, I am seriously considering withdrawing my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. If I am to win this, I'm already going to be in a club that's got schlubs like Jimmy Carter in it. That's bad enough. But get this. You ever heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams? She "won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland." In 1992,...

RUSH: Today's iPhone winner is Gustavo M. He's from Medford, Long Island, and listens to us on AM 77, WABC, our flagship station in the Big Apple. Here's what he gets. He gets the eight gig iPhone; he gets a check from us to cover two years of service with AT&T; a one-year subscription to The Limbaugh Letter and a one-year subscription to the website, Rush 24/7, plus a $100 gift card from BocaJava.com. Now, I don't know when Gustavo registered, but he did because he won the iPhone. All you have...

RUSH: I want to start today's program, ladies and gentlemen, by giving a huge shout out -- a huge attaboy -- to the troops over in Iraq, and I want to do it early in this hour because this hour of the program is broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio network around the world, and the men and women serving in uniform will hear it. We have received the progress report. We received this interim progress report. The Drive-Bys have done everything they can to cast it in a negative light, as we knew...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The Democrats' behavior in this fight is a criminal shame, but don't for a minute think that we can't win. We can and we will.""I want to start today's program by giving a huge shout out -- a huge 'attaboy' -- to our troops over in Iraq. We have the progress report, and our people are moving the ball and kicking butt.So I want to congratulate them." "I can't believe that, attitudinally, we have people who actually believe the...

RUSH: We go to Houston next, and this is Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Well, thank you. How are you, Rush?RUSH: I'm fine. Never better!CALLER: Well, good. I'm so glad... I put this on recording, and I just wanted to see what your opinion is. I want to write a book about growing up in the South in the twenties and thirties. Do you think it's a stupid idea?RUSH: Of course not.CALLER: Well, I didn't think you would, or I wouldn't have called. (laughs)RUSH: Of...

RUSH: Scott in Amarillo, Texas, you're next, sir. Thank you for waiting.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you today?RUSH: I'm fine. Thank you, sir.CALLER: Rush, I've been an educator for 20 years, and in those 20 years I've seen a lot of changes in our educational system, trying to keep up with the technology of our society. I'm really concerned that our current educational system could possibly be -- and I wanted to ask your opinion about this -- educating a generation of Americans out of the labor...

RUSH: Cheyenne, Wyoming. This is Julie. Julie, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I haven't talked to you for about 15 years. That's when we first heard you. We lived out in California at the time, and we want you to change the subject a little bit because we want to have you become the first recycler of some of your great stuff, and that is Gorbasms. Instead of doing for, you know, Gorbachev, we want you to turn it into a Gore-basm, you know, all this Earth First stuff and the global...

RUSH: Jim in Colorado Springs, you're next. It's great to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Rush, thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes?CALLER: I enjoy your show, and I agree with you on your take on issues 96-and-one-half percent of the time.RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.CALLER: Yeah. Since I find out that you're running everything and know all, as an old retired Marine officer -- not related to Murtha -- I had to call you and I don't want to add to an air of redundancy, but I had a question, slash,...

RUSH: This is Chris in Kansas City, Missouri. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hey, Stroud's chicken dittos from KC.RUSH: Oh, man, you're making my mouth water, especially since I can't have any of that right now.CALLER: Listen, I just had a couple of quick points to make about Iraq. You know, President Bush talked about the "war fatigue" earlier today, and the American people can't really have "war fatigue" right now because they haven't made any sacrifices. The American people...

RUSH: Tony Snow, welcome to the program. How long have you been on hold?SNOW: I'm doing fine. Good to be here, Rush.RUSH: Good. How long have you been on hold? I'm sorry I've made you wait.SNOW: No, I've just been hold. It's just been a matter of seconds.RUSH: You just got here. Okay, great! Tony, I thought the interim report today -- and I know you're going to be talking about this but -- I thought there's so much good in this, and I spent the first segment of the first hour giving a...

RUSH: "Democratic presidential hopeful [the Breck Girl] has a ready answer the criticism about his expensive haircuts and huge home. The former North Carolina senator says a man can be wealthy and care about poor people." He's got his poverty tour next week starting in New Orleans, and he's making a point of going to places that are not early primary states, that it's not political, that he's not just stumping for votes out there. He's going to show that he cares about poverty! But he's gotten...

RUSH: Speaking of principle, ladies and gentlemen, and honor, I am seriously considering withdrawing my nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. If I am to win this, I'm already going to be in a club that's got schlubs like Jimmy Carter in it. That's bad enough. But get this. You ever heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams? She "won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped start peace talks in Northern Ireland." In 1992,...

RUSH: Today's iPhone winner is Gustavo M. He's from Medford, Long Island, and listens to us on AM 77, WABC, our flagship station in the Big Apple. Here's what he gets. He gets the eight gig iPhone; he gets a check from us to cover two years of service with AT&T; a one-year subscription to The Limbaugh Letter and a one-year subscription to the website, Rush 24/7, plus a $100 gift card from BocaJava.com. Now, I don't know when Gustavo registered, but he did because he won the iPhone. All you have...

RUSH: I want to start today's program, ladies and gentlemen, by giving a huge shout out -- a huge attaboy -- to the troops over in Iraq, and I want to do it early in this hour because this hour of the program is broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio network around the world, and the men and women serving in uniform will hear it. We have received the progress report. We received this interim progress report. The Drive-Bys have done everything they can to cast it in a negative light, as we knew...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The Democrats' behavior in this fight is a criminal shame, but don't for a minute think that we can't win. We can and we will.""I want to start today's program by giving a huge shout out -- a huge 'attaboy' -- to our troops over in Iraq. We have the progress report, and our people are moving the ball and kicking butt.So I want to congratulate them." "I can't believe that, attitudinally, we have people who actually believe the...

Story #1: Bogus Company Gets Radioactives License RUSH: In case you missed the story, here it is. "Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a post box and within a month obtained a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small 'dirty bomb.' U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, who planned to ask the NRC about the incident at a Senate hearing Thursday, said the sting operation raises concerns...

Story #1: Bogus Company Gets Radioactives License RUSH: In case you missed the story, here it is. "Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a post box and within a month obtained a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small 'dirty bomb.' U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, who planned to ask the NRC about the incident at a Senate hearing Thursday, said the sting operation raises concerns...