RUSH: To Cookeville, Tennessee, we go. This is Kathy. Kathy, great to have you with us. By the way, Kathy is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.CALLER: Oh, I am so impressed to hear that.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm so impressed to talk to you, I'm practically speechless -- which if you knew me well, it has not happened very often.RUSH: I can imagine, because you're a woman.CALLER: Oh.... Well! (giggles) Maybe so. I was thinking last night particularly that, after doing some...

RUSH: Celia in Northridge, California, I'm glad you called and waited. Welcome to Open Line Friday.CALLER: I'm so glad to talk to you. My uncle turned me on to you probably 15 years ago and I'm finally calling for the first time and getting through.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: It's a wonderful day. I wanted to say I have 12 points, I know it sounds like a lot, but I'll make them very short, about why I think this one candidate who's there lurking in the scenes and nobody seems to recognize...

RUSH: Charles in Pittsburgh, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, let me tell you what an honor this is to speak to you, bud. I've been listening to you since 1992, and I was a junior in high school.RUSH: Really? So you're a Rush Baby.CALLER: Absolutely, and I want to thank my dad Clark and my mother Sharon. They both turned me on to you back when I was a mind full of mush.RUSH: It's great to have you here. Thanks much for calling.CALLER: All right. Hey, I got...

RUSH: Bruce in Atlanta, I'm glad you waited, sir, and welcome to the show.CALLER: It's a great honor to talk to you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: I want to state that I'm a Republican for victory.RUSH: A Republican for victory? Well, cool. Kumbaya.CALLER: Hey, why can't we give Iran an ultimatum: "Get out of Iraq or we'll take out your refinery"?RUSH: Well, there's an easier way to do it, because Iran has to import more gasoline than it produces, and I don't think it has but...

RUSH: The big question about Barack Obama has been, "Is he black enough, is he down for the struggle?" Well, you be the judge. We have an ad that began playing in South Carolina on Wednesday. It's entitled, "It's Time," with soft jazz music in the background.ANNOUNCER: It's time. It's time for Barack Obama.OBAMA: I know what you know. Despite all the progress that has been made, we still have more work to do. We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prisons than attend...

RUSH: Brian, Casper, Wyoming, great to have you here on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Hey, Rush.RUSH: Hey!CALLER: Dittos. I just have real quick question then I'll get off the phone and listen to you. Why are the Democrats out-fundraising the Republicans, and will that change when Hillary gets the nomination, after the primaries.RUSH: Who are Democrats out-fundraising? What do you mean?CALLER: Well, aren't the Democrats out-raising the Republicans, if you add up all the Republican campaigns?RUSH:...

RUSH: Ralph in the Bronx, thank you for waiting, sir.CALLER: Rush, mega dittos from NYC, my bru-thuh!RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: Okay, listen, I'm very livid about something, but I want to make a point, then I have a formal request of the man that has talent on loan from God.RUSH: Fine and dandy.CALLER: Okay. I want to talk about Mayor Bloomberg because a lot of people that are from New York don't understand. First and foremost, this is a liberal Democrat who ran as a Republican...

RUSH: Welcome to Open Line Friday, Katherine.CALLER: Rush, it's such a privilege to talk with you.RUSH: Thank you very, very much.CALLER: I am calling from Michigan, and we are now the bottom of the 50 states for our economy. And because it's tax, tax, tax. And then yesterday I talked with my sister in Scotland, and she read it in their paper over there how Michigan is doing so badly because of everything being taxed.RUSH: No kidding. They're not publishing that story in this country.CALLER:...

RUSH: It's Open Line Friday, we go back to the phones. This is Roger in Fallbrook, California. Nice to have on you on the program, sir.CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: About this matter of ice falling from the sky and global warming --RUSH: Hey, hang on just a second. You're on a cell phone, right?CALLER: Right.RUSH: Slow down just a little bit. I have more trouble with cell phones and my hearing than I do with others.CALLER: Okay, the ice in the sky...

RUSH: Seriously, folks, these astronauts, two of them flying drunk, allowed to take off in a space shuttle flying drunk. Now, I know a couple shuttle commanders. I have known them over the years, Kevin Chilton being one, he now runs missile command somewhere in Colorado, big, big, big job, great, great guy, too. I'll tell you, the only thing I can think of is that at lift off, this rule, "bottle to the throttle," that has to go back to the Mercury days, that whole phrase. Those guys back then,...

RUSH: Stewart in Berthoud, Colorado. Nice to have you on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?RUSH: I'm great. Thank you, sir.CALLER: Hey. Well, thank you -- and I can only assume that you intentionally didn't remember something Wednesday when you were asked the question about diplomatic successes over the last 50 years.RUSH: Well, if I forgot it then, I'm still forgetting it. What is it?CALLER: Well, the two that you did mention -- Reagan walking out of Reykjavik, and Bill...

RUSH: Interesting. I have two stories here about John Edwards and his tax-the-rich plan. One story from the Los Angeles Times, and the other one from the New York Times. The New York Times takes him out in the story. See, Edwards is leading in Iowa. That's not the action line. The action line is "Hillary Wins the Nomination" at the New York Times. The LA Times treats this, oh, pretty cool. "Edwards Announces His 'Tax the Rich' Plan -- The Democratic presidential hopeful wants to repeal...

RUSH: To Cookeville, Tennessee, we go. This is Kathy. Kathy, great to have you with us. By the way, Kathy is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.CALLER: Oh, I am so impressed to hear that.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm so impressed to talk to you, I'm practically speechless -- which if you knew me well, it has not happened very often.RUSH: I can imagine, because you're a woman.CALLER: Oh.... Well! (giggles) Maybe so. I was thinking last night particularly that, after doing some...

RUSH: Cathy in Fremont, California, great to have you with us.CALLER: Thank you. Everybody has my phone number. That's a post office number I gave you.RUSH: Okay, good, a post office number.CALLER: God bless you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: You're welcome. I was calling about these people that were calling in yesterday regarding the pit bull attacks versus the --RUSH: Yeah, the famous Michael Vick situation, yes.CALLER: Yes. And it just strikes me that the people who are so...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. We go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen, to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. We have a Gorbasm. (Playing of Gorbasm update theme.) All right, for those of you who are new to the program, and there are many of you who are, we are getting as an aside here the spring 2007 rating book results. They're pouring in this week. This program has long been the most listened to radio program in the country,...

RUSH: You know, back in the early days of the gasoline price going up, everybody was dumping on these guys. We compared the prices of various other liquids. Milk by the gallon; water by the gallon, of course, when you buy it in bottles and so forth. I said, "My gosh, can you imagine how the oil company guys feel about the bottled water guys?" And I'm making a joke. All they do is turn on the tap, put a bottle under the tap, put a label on it saying "spring water," and sell it to you. They...

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Story #1: New York Times Questions Its Own PollRUSH: All right, remember earlier in the week we had a story on a CBS/New York Times poll that said that support for the initial invasion of Iraq had shockingly, surprisingly, unbelievably increased. We reported this, and we couldn't believe the New York Times reported it. They, as it turns out, couldn't believe they reported it, either. There is a story today in the Times by Janet Elder entitled, "The Story Behind a Polling Mystery. -- The war in...