RUSH: An e-mail. Subject: "Could you clarify this for me?" "Dear Rush: I just heard a Hillary sound bite that you played where she said this administration has made diplomacy a dirty word. Could you please list history's top ten greatest diplomatic successes to illustrate for your listeners why the work of the state department and diplomacy generally is soooooooo important to our nation's safety and security?" Now, I only got this e-mail during the break a few minutes ago. I must confess I've...

RUSH: Here's Bob in Thousand Oaks, California. It's great to have you, sir. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. It's nice to be on the show. I want to address the Fairness Doctrine.RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: In 1977, to finish up a degree in broadcasting, I had to take class on the Fairness Doctrine, and I wanted to give you a couple examples. One was Johnny Carson thought it would be kind of humorous to have the local candidate for city council in beautiful downtown Burbank on...

RUSH: Here's Mike in Baldwin, Michigan. Mike, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you for having me, Rush.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I heard you mention someone in the know saying that Al-Qaeda was public enemy number one in Iraq. You know, if a public enemy number one, a mad bomber of our children moved into our neighborhood, my neighbors and I who are fairly well armed, would do something about it. We would look into the matter, and if the police didn't respond,...

RUSH: I was talking to Snerdley here during the top-of-the-hour break and he was amplifying on a point that I made yesterday, discussing the CNN YouTube debate last night. And remember, just to refresh your memory, our discussion yesterday focused on the fact that some people, some critics, some TV critics, were mad that CNN was going to choose which YouTube videos were used as questions for this so-called debate last night. They would rather the questions that were used be voted on by the public...

RUSH: Kathy in Napa, California, welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you with us.CALLER: Well, thank you so much, Rush!RUSH: You bet.CALLER: This is a thrill! Okay, I have to tell you, you're the number fourth man in my life besides my husband, my son, and my dad. They're all dittoheads, and they love you.RUSH: I'm honored to be on your list.CALLER: You're on my list.RUSH: I just have to say: Kathy is one of my top ten all-time favorite female names, too.CALLER: Okay, you just...

RUSH: Here's this audio sound bite. I actually got two of them. It happened on PMSNBC today. For some reason they've got Super Tuesday. PMSNBC is running another telethon for the Democrat Party, and this morning, Tim Russert spoke with the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza about last night's CNN-YouTube debate, and Russert said to Cillizza, "These after-debate focus groups, what do they tell you, and what about the disparity that appears between what people told focus groups in Iowa, New Hampshire...

RUSH: An e-mail. Subject: "Could you clarify this for me?" "Dear Rush: I just heard a Hillary sound bite that you played where she said this administration has made diplomacy a dirty word. Could you please list history's top ten greatest diplomatic successes to illustrate for your listeners why the work of the state department and diplomacy generally is soooooooo important to our nation's safety and security?" Now, I only got this e-mail during the break a few minutes ago. I must confess I've...

RUSH: I mentioned earlier President Bush kicking butt at a speech this morning in South Carolina on the war on terror and the war in Iraq, and we have three bites, and I want to play them for you. Here's the first of the three.THE PRESIDENT: Our top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has said that Al-Qaeda is public enemy number one in Iraq. Fellow citizens, these people have sworn allegiance to the man who ordered the death of nearly 3,000 people on our soil. Al-Qaeda is public enemy...

RUSH: This next one is juicy, ladies and gentlemen. A question from Mike Green from Lexington, South Carolina. He said, "I wanted to ask all the nominees whether they would send their kids to public school or private school." Here's Mrs. Clinton.HILLARY: Chelsea went to public schools kindergarten through eighth grade until we moved to Washington, and then I was advised -- and it was unfortunately good advice -- that if she were to go to a public school, the press would never leave her alone...

RUSH: Let's move on to more audio sound bites. The next question is basically, when are the troops coming home?YOUTUBER: Dear Presidential Candidates. See those three flags over my shoulder? They covered the coffins and my grandmother, my father, and my oldest son. Someday mine will join them. I do not want to see my youngest sons join them. I have two questions. By what date after January 21st, 2009, will all US troops of out of Iraq, and how many family members do you have serving in uniform?RUSH:...

RUSH: What was that last night? Did you watch the debate, Snerdley? I'll tell you what, I have an idea. We've broken new ground. Everybody says we've broken new ground in these debates. So the next time the Democrats get together, I think the questions ought to come from Shrek, from the Little Mermaid, from the little Nemo fish, Homer Simpson, Cartman from South Park. Man, oh, man, oh, man. Well, we're loaded with that stuff today. Great to have you. We're back for another three-hour excursion...

RUSH: The president just concluded a bang-bang speech on the progress of the surge in Iraq. I've been watching it while working here on the closed-captioning, reading some of it, and just really kicking butt with this speech, very upbeat and positive. J. R. Dunn today in the American Thinker, the surge is working, it is succeeding, and everybody is aware of it, and so how is that going to be dealt with? It's going to be ignored, says Mr. Dunn at the AmericanThinker.com today. The results are...

RUSH: Let's listen to some of this debate stuff, ladies and gentlemen. We have the questions, we have the YouTube questions. I don't know how many of you people watched this, but I did last night. I was working, and I was working for you last night. I watched this, and I'm telling you it was torture because I knew, the moment I heard the question, I knew what the answers were going to be. There are conflicting analyses today on who scored the best. Some people say that Hillary just cleaned...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Next Democrat debate, the questions ought to come from Shrek, the Little Mermaid, Nemo, Homer Simpson, and Cartman from South Park.""Somebody at CNN is probably in huge trouble today because there were four or five instances last night when the camera was placed right behind Mrs. Clinton's derriere. And believe me: you forgot anything you were hearing at the time when you watched that.""I've never been inside a Starbucks. It's...

Story #1: Loose Dykes Spur China Flood Fears RUSH: Try this headline: "Loose dykes spur China flood fears." This is why we call them "levees" in this country. "Hundreds of sections of embankments along China's third-longest river have become loose, threatening the homes of millions of people after three weeks of deadly floods across the country, state media said on Tuesday." More rains in the forecast and the dikes are loose. Everybody is saying, "Whoa, this is incredible, global warming. It's...