Okay. Folks, let me get (for me on a Friday) a little serious here for a moment. I've had conversations in recent days, weeks, with liberals. Every time I mention this to you, I get, "Why are you hanging around them?" Well, you can't avoid 'em, and I'm not afraid of them. I like engaging them sometimes, because these people, many of them are just following a script. They've got their template, their narrative, and life is very compartmentalized and if something doesn't fit the little cocoon...

We've had a phone call, a couple phone calls on this program, from a man known as Tazz. He's a lieutenant colonel. He's in Iraq now. Remember, he was in the Baghdad control tower and threw that faulty French refrigerator off the edge and told us about it. I got an e-mail from him yesterday. "Hey, Slugo. Hey, Rush, I'm missing the States and my family badly, but thanks for your support." We sent him a care package. "[T]hanks for your support. It really means a lot. This place is on fire --...

RUSH: David in Forest Park, Georgia, welcome. You're back with us, Open Line Friday continues. Hello.CALLER: Hello. Georgia conservative, life itself on loan from God, mega dittos.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: I heard something in the Republican debate the other night that actually brought a tear to my eye.RUSH: What was that?CALLER: In response to Ron Paul's rant about how the Republicans would lose votes if we didn't get out of Iraq immediately, Mike Huckabee said something...

RUSH: All right, there's not enough time to be fair with phone calls here, but we certainly have time to revisit Joseph Biden's comment back on January 30th this year. It was an interview with The Observer on Senator Barack Obama.BIDEN: I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and -- and clean and a nice-looking guy.RUSH: This is where the whole "Magic Negro" stuff started with the Reverend Sharpton, because he doesn't think he stinks. He took a...

RUSH: All right, some of the details of the Bin Laden tape, the supposed Bin Laden tape, have been released. Now, this is a hoot. In the first place, there is no specific threat to the United States in the tape, unless there is one in code. But there's no promise that we're going to get hit again. There may be some code in there, but nothing direct. But it is amazing, folks, it is a liberal rant. He blames the US for global warming. He blames US corporate interests for corrupting the political...

Okay. Folks, let me get (for me on a Friday) a little serious here for a moment. I've had conversations in recent days, weeks, with liberals. Every time I mention this to you, I get, "Why are you hanging around them?" Well, you can't avoid 'em, and I'm not afraid of them. I like engaging them sometimes, because these people, many of them are just following a script. They've got their template, their narrative, and life is very compartmentalized and if something doesn't fit the little cocoon...

RUSH: This is Mary Ellen in Cleveland. Hi, Mary Ellen, nice to have you on the EIB.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Post-vacation dittos. Rush, I was on vacation in Eastern Europe, and --RUSH: Where in Eastern Europe did you go?CALLER: Well, we went on a river cruise down the Danube and we were in cities like Budapest and Belgrade --RUSH: Oh, they love us there, they love us there. Western Europe they're not so hot on us right now. They love us in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet blocs.CALLER: Well,...

RUSH: I have a couple headlines here on the Norman Hsu story. First from the Los Angeles Times, the headline of this story is: "Democrat Donor Hsu Caught in Colorado." My first reaction when I saw this was they caught him before anybody could kill him, or they caught him before he could kill himself. I'm still wondering if that's what he tried to do here. This is so normal, isn't it: people on a train, on an Amtrak train, had to stop the train somewhere and pull the guy off on a stretcher? I mean,...

RUSH: Brad in Austin, Texas, hi. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Longtime listener dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I've been listening for over 15 years and I always respected you, but I want to tell you when I decided I liked you. It was a year or two after I started listening. You came back from a break playing a song but this time you were singing along. When you finished it, you said, "That sounded pretty good," and you meant it, but it didn't, it sounded terrible! (laughing) You...

We've had a phone call, a couple phone calls on this program, from a man known as Tazz. He's a lieutenant colonel. He's in Iraq now. Remember, he was in the Baghdad control tower and threw that faulty French refrigerator off the edge and told us about it. I got an e-mail from him yesterday. "Hey, Slugo. Hey, Rush, I'm missing the States and my family badly, but thanks for your support." We sent him a care package. "[T]hanks for your support. It really means a lot. This place is on fire --...

Okay, the Drive-Bys, folks, they're just orgasmic over there about the latest video that's come in, ostensibly from Osama Bin Laden. Listen to this montage. We got 'em all. We got Brian Ross at ABC. We got Alisyn Camerota and Fox. We got Matthew Felling. We got everybody in this montage talking about Bin Laden.Brian Ross: Well, three years ago, as you can see, the beard was very white! Now, three years later, the beard is dark black!Alisyn Camerota: It is clear he has a much darker beard! Matthew...

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to go back to yesterday's big program and revisit a sound bite by New York Senator Chuck Schumer on the floor of the Senate. This was Wednesday.SCHUMER: Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from Al-Qaeda said to these tribes, "We have to fight Al-Qaeda ourselves." It wasn't that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The problem with the world is not America. The problem with the world is the lack of equal distribution of capitalism, and it's just that simple.""Michelle Obama says that her husband does stink in the mornings. Did you see this? The kids can't come over and get in bed with him because he stinks! So Joe Biden was wrong about him being clean. He's still articulate, of course.""Did you know that the Breck Girl -- John Edwards --...

Story #1: Study Shows Children Smarter Than ChimpsRUSH: Well, here's a shock: "In another case of researchers reporting the ... obvious, European scientists have found that children are smarter than chimpanzees." Sometimes I don't know about this, folks. Let's read this and find out just exactly what age we're talking about. "A unique study comparing the abilities of human [crumb crunchers] to chimpanzees and orangutans found that two-year-old children have social learning skills superior to the...