RUSH: We'll go to Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He talked to these two guys that wrote the op-ed a week ago today in the New York Times that, of course, Times readers have not even read, apparently. They don't think it's worthy. Ken Pollack, Brooking Institution, is asked, "What did you see over there that led you to believe the troop surge might actually work."POLLACK: We see in a few places in Iraq some very dramatic changes. The one that everyone knows about is Anbar province where...

RUSH: We move on to St. Augustine, Florida, this is Holly, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Florida dittos.RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.CALLER: Do you know that Rush is on my top ten list of favorite male names?RUSH: You beat me to it. (Laughing.) You beat me to it.CALLER: (Laughing.) Okay. I'm just getting a little disturbed with Newt lately. He was at a conservative conference last week, and said we were waging a phony war and we weren't winning this war, and...

RUSH: All right. To the kook blog convention. This is Hillary Clinton. We have several sound bites here.HILLARY: We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments and making them effective and disseminating them widely and really putting together a network in the blogosphere, in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support, like Media Matters and Center for American Progress. We're beginning to match what I have...

RUSH: "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized President Bush for not spending enough on law enforcement and said police officers were 'invisible' to him. At a meeting of the National Association of Police Organizations, the New York senator promised more spending on police programs, including an anti-drug initiative and bulletproof vest program. 'Honestly, it is like the police officers of our country, along with your families, who stand with you every...

RUSH: Liz in Columbus, Ohio, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Mr. Rush Limbaugh!RUSH: Hey. Hubba-hubba!CALLER: I am so excited I'm talking to you. I have listened to you ever since I was breathing on the face of the earth.RUSH: Well, then you have been successfully indoctrinated here.CALLER: Oh, my. Well, you know... Yeah, you have --RUSH: Educated, educated. CALLER: Educated.RUSH: I was being funny.CALLER: Okay. Here's the deal. I am absolutely overwhelmed, incensed....

RUSH: It's time to read the stitches on a fast ball. I have a story here from of all places the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, and why, look at the headline! "Wealthiest Taxpayers are Escaping Fair Share at the Nation's Overall Expense." Wow. I wonder why this story happens to appear? Could it possibly be because our infrastructure is falling apart? Could it possibly be because of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, hmm? "Wealthiest Taxpayers are Escaping Fair Share at the Nation's Overall Expense."...

RUSH: Let's listen to some of the sound bites from the Republican presidential debate yesterday scheduled by ABC. It was moderated by George "Stephy" Stephanopoulos, and took place someplace in Iowa. David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register was also on the panel. Nobody saw it. Nobody watches Stephanopoulos' show anyway. It's 10:30 on a Sunday morning. If you're going to schedule a debate at 10:30 on a Sunday morning, don't you think it would be best to schedule the Democrats then? If you're...

RUSH: I want to tell you -- and I mean this from the bottom of my heart -- how proud I am of you. My dear audience, I'm so proud of you people, how nice you are, how loyal you are. But mostly, what makes me swell with pride is how informed you are. I would put you up against any audience of any news source. I don't care, put it on radio, put it on television, put it in print, and especially you are so much more informed than readers of the New York Times, and I cannot tell you, both personally...

RUSH: I want to congratulate a couple friends, Michael Irvin with his induction to the NFL Hall of Fame over the weekend. He gave that speech with no notes. We have a couple of bites from it. No notes, just straight from his heart. It was really a tremendous thing. I got to know him very well when I was at ESPN, and of all the guys that worked there, I probably developed a closer relationship to Irvin than any of the others. My buddy Tom Glavine won his 300th game for the New York Mets. I...

RUSH: I don't know how long ago I said this. It's just more evidence, ladies and gentlemen, that I know exactly what I'm talking about, particularly when I am talking about our good friends, the commie libs. Mr. Snerdley, you might be able to help me remember when this was. This had to be back in the late eighties, early nineties, in the midst of the then-feverish debate over abortion. One of the things that I pointed out was that we're starting to eliminate life in this country based on convenience...

RUSH: Now, "FBI agents searched the home of a former Justice Department lawyer last week in an effort to determine who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday, citing two anonymous legal sources. The agents, who had obtained a classified search warrant, took Thomas Tamm's desktop computer, two laptops belonging to his children and some of Tamm's personal files, Newsweek reported. Tamm left the department last year. He had...

Rush's Morning Update: Democrat, LouisianaAugust 7, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer I'm sure you recall that Congressman William Jefferson -- Democrat, Louisiana -- used a National Guard escort to retrieve unknown items from his house, while much of New Orleans was flooded out. You'll recall that William Jefferson -- Democrat, Louisiana -- had $90,000 in cash stuffed in his freezer, part of what the FBI says was a $100,000...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"You are so much more informed than readers of the New York Times, and I cannot tell you, both personally and professionally, how much pride I have in that." "You start getting into designer babies and where do you draw the line? Where do you stop it?""I think the Democrats are going to change their mantra on the meaning of the 2006 election. Ever since the 2006 election, that outcome was claimed to be to get...

Story #1: Police Use Vomit Zapper for Crowd Control RUSH: This is from Gizmodo.com.Cops have a new way for controlling the crowd.There's a new flashlight out there that makes you throw up."It's so bright that it temporarily blinds you, and then it gets you all disoriented and dizzy.It uses special types of really bright LEDs.The flashlight's beam pulses and flashes while quickly changing its color, and all this somehow makes you feel like you're going to throw up."Of course, if you want...