RUSH: Okay, Bill Moyers yesterday was in Washington at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. What...? There are more oxymorons in that title than I can count: the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Bill Moyers gave the keynote speech. Here is a portion of his remarks attacking your host.MOYERS: Journalism is under fire from ideologues. The journalist who is reporting and dares to challenge their party...

RUSH: Let's start with the audio sound bites here from last night's Human Rights Campaign forum with the Democrat presidential candidates. The moderator was Melissa Etheridge and she had this exchange with the Democrat frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.ETHERIDGE: I remember when your husband was elected president, I actually came out publicly during his inaugural week. It was a very hopeful time for the gay community. For the first time we were being recognized as American citizens. It was wonderful....

RUSH: You have to hear this. This is Cindy Sheehan last night at a press conference announcing her candidacy against Nancy Pelosi. SHEEHAN: I'm dedicating my candidacy (crying) to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan (sniff) that have been tragically harmed by the Bush regime with the complicity of Congress. RUSH: Well now that makes a whole lot of sense. You're running for office in San Francisco, and you dedicate your campaign to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, who would be so much worse...

RUSH: Here is Steve in La Costa, California. It's nice to have you with us here on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Hi, chief!RUSH: Hey.CALLER: Precise News dittoes from the left coast.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: We've got the most enlightening animal rights video posted on the weblog today, and I'm also following up on some sentiments you expressed a couple months ago about conservatives driving cutting edge technology. But apparently the animal rights wackos are trying to shut down a rodeo in Texas that...

RUSH: "Nearly half of the nation's murder victims in 2005 were black, and the number of African-American men who were slain is on the rise. A majority of the black murder victims were relatively young - between 17 and 29, the Justice Department said in a study released yesterday. The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics report offers a snapshot of racial disparities among violent crime victims. Black people represented an estimated 13% of the U.S. population in 2005, the latest data available,...

RUSH: Janet in... Godley, Illinois?CALLER: (Laughs)RUSH: Is that really Godley, Illinois?CALLER: Yes, it is.RUSH: Well, Janet, welcome to the program. CALLER: Thank you. I am so excited about talking to you, and I'm so nervous. I wanted to talk about a different aspect of Obama's candidacy. No one has touched on his very far left stance on social issues such as abortion, and there was an incident here in Illinois about seven years ago, at Christ Hospital -- a suburban hospital to Chicago -- where...

RUSH: Okay, Bill Moyers yesterday was in Washington at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. What...? There are more oxymorons in that title than I can count: the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention. Bill Moyers gave the keynote speech. Here is a portion of his remarks attacking your host.MOYERS: Journalism is under fire from ideologues. The journalist who is reporting and dares to challenge their party...

RUSH: You know, this headline: "Crackdown on Illegal Workers Appears Imminent." Today the Bush administration unveiled new work place regulations. Chertoff went out there, and the Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, had a press conference on border security and immigration administrative reforms. This is a huge crackdown and it's being focused on the employers. Of course, we talked about it all week. The employers are a little upset about this. "Food prices are going to go up, and that price...

RUSH: This is interesting. "President Bush charged yesterday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues. At a news conference, Bush said Iran had been warned of unspecified consequences if it continues its support for anti-American forces in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker had conveyed the warning in meetings with his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad, the president said. Bush wasn't specific, and a State...

RUSH: Let's start with the audio sound bites here from last night's Human Rights Campaign forum with the Democrat presidential candidates. The moderator was Melissa Etheridge and she had this exchange with the Democrat frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.ETHERIDGE: I remember when your husband was elected president, I actually came out publicly during his inaugural week. It was a very hopeful time for the gay community. For the first time we were being recognized as American citizens. It was wonderful....

RUSH: I don't know why people ask me, but they ask, "What should I do in the market? What shouldn't I do?" I counsel patience. The fundamentals here are fine. But look at this. I was looking at U.S. Snooze and World Reports, the issue dated August 6, 2007, and on the cover of that issue is this blurb: "If you had invested $1000 with Warren Buffett at 1956, it would have grown to 27 million" today. Fifty years, a virtual lifetime of employment, $1,000 to $27 million. That's 27 thousand times your...

Rush's Morning Update: Surge!August 10, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer On January 6, the new Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, said: "In a letter to the President, the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and I expressed our hope the President will reject one idea he is reportedly considering – the so called 'surge option,' where thousands of additional combat troops would be deployed…. Based on the advice...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The Democrats had a gay debate. I want to know when they're going to have the straight debate.""You can take any 50-year period of the stock market, and you're going to find those same ups and downs, but over those 50 years -- whenever you start and whenever you end -- you're going to find the market way up over when it started.""I cannot see this President leaving office with a nuclear capable Iran. I just can't see it. Not after...

Story #1: High School Economics Education Improves!RUSH: Shockingly good news, by the way. This is in the Wall Street Journal editorial today. Here is a pop quiz. "Which has been most important in reducing poverty over time: a) taxes, b) economic growth, c) international trade, or d) government regulation?" What would you say, Brian? You weren't even listening, right? B, good. Superb! (clapping) Economic growth is something John Edwards needs to learn real fast. Get this. According to the Journal,...