RUSH: Kevin in Moberly, Missouri. Welcome, Kevin. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hey! It's an honor, Rush. I've been listening to you since the day after the Oklahoma City bombing.RUSH: I appreciate that, which the Clinton administration tried to blame me for, you might remember.CALLER: Yeah. (laughing) I remember that. I had a hard time making the connection.RUSH: Well, so did I. Heh, heh, heh. Anyway, what's up?CALLER: Well, this is something that's been annoying me for about...

RUSH: Dan Rather: We're going to get to all this. This is unbelievable. Yeah, okay, he wants to get paid. Bernard Kalb is out there saying $70 million is pocket change to Dan Rather. This is not about the money, it's about honor. Look, everybody was expecting Dan Rather to crack up on the air, and he came close to it on this story here on the Bush National Guard thing. But it's now official. Because if you read his lawsuit, he makes it plain that he was just a puppet. I'm just the anchor....

RUSH: I got an e-mail today from the official climatologist of the EIB Network, Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. And Dr. Spencer sent me a link to a website that's trashing a new business starting up down here in Florida called DayJet. DayJet is like a charter company, small little jets, will hold one-to-three people, and they'll pick you up and take you where you want to go, and bring you home. Not nearly as expensive as large corporate jets and so forth, and gets you...

RUSH: To New Orleans and Paul. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.CALLER: Multi-mega dittos, Maha Rushie.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Thank you for everything you do every day. I've got a question for you.RUSH: What's that? CALLER: I'm a Baby Boomer just like you are, and given that our generation and our older brothers and sisters are the people who are most likely to vote in the presidential election next year, what do you think are the top two or three things that are motivating our group...

RUSH: This is David in Amherst, Massachusetts. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Hey, conservative dittos, Rush, from the bluest spot in the bluest state.RUSH: Thank you very much. I've been there.CALLER: Hey, I've got a quick question for you.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: My dad has the bust of Ronald Reagan that I got him from the Reagan library, and he also has a bust of Winston Churchill. What he and I would really like, though, is a bust of Rush Limbaugh, and I think you should sell them over the...

RUSH: Now, the Reverend Jackson was on CNN's American Morning this morning, and the cohost, Kiran Chetry, said, "A Columbia, South Carolina, newspaper, the State, is reporting you were unhappy with presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and that you criticized him for acting like he's white."JACKSON: That is an unfortunate misinterpretation. Fact is, I endorse Barack without solicitation and support him today unequivocally. So we will not let that be a diversion from our support of this...

RUSH: People I think are having an overreaction to this. Last night, a $100-a-head fundraiser at Town Hall near Times Square, Hillary Clinton said this.HILLARY: You can always tell when the Republicans are restless, because the vice president's motorcade pulls into the capitol and Darth Vader emerges.RUSH: And they started laughing and so forth. She calls Vice President Cheney Darth Vader. Now, this is from the crowd that decries the politics of personal destruction. Actually, I think she's...

RUSH: The MoveOn.org ad, the president was asked about that today in his preference. Bill Sammon said, "What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General 'Betray Us,' and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?"THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting, and I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the US military, and I was disappointed...

RUSH: Patty in Westchester County, up in New York, nice to have you on the phone. I'm glad you called.CALLER: Thank you. Rush, why do you talk about your mistresses the way you do? I've heard you do it on several occasions. I don't know if you're joking or if you're serious. I don't understand it.RUSH: (Laughing.) Jeez.CALLER: Is it a joke?RUSH: Let me ask you a question.CALLER: Go ahead.RUSH: Do you think that if I actually had mistresses -- see, you've just -- I can't do anything....

RUSH: Bruce in Greenville, Pennsylvania. You're next, sir. It's nice to have you with us.CALLER: Good afternoon. How are you?RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.CALLER: I've been listening to you since 1988, I believe it is, and I talked to you once in 1991, and I was nervous as heck, and I'm not nervous today because you're like my friend.RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I'm glad you're not nervous. We like callers that are not nervous.CALLER: I appreciate that. I just wanted...

RUSH: This is Martin in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hi, Martin. It's nice to have you on Open Line Friday on Thursday.CALLER: Maha Rushie. Hey, I gotta know: What did Rio Linda ever do to you?RUSH: Hmm, not much. I offered to move there if they would change the name to Limbaugh, California, and they didn't do that. But that didn't offend me. That didn't bother me.CALLER: (Garbled)RUSH: (Speaking garbled) to you, too. I guess he's asking me about Rio Linda. He wants to know what Rio Linda did....

RUSH: Daniel in Raleigh, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush! You're always telling your loyal listeners that we can't see the footage of the 9/11 attacks on the US. I really don't understand. I think a guy of your stature, you should be able to afford some of this footage and put it on yourself. I've even seen it on community access here on Raleigh late night.RUSH: Uhhhh, I never even thought about buying it. I probably could, but I want to wait 'til it costs as...

RUSH: You know something, folks? I've been noticing, last night and today, be it in print, be it broadcast -- you know, Norman Hsu had been charged here by the feds with running a $60-million Ponzi scheme, and every reference to him -- either graphically, or on TV, or in print stories that I have downloaded from anywhere on the Internet -- refers to him uniformly as "disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu." Now, I'm puzzled about this for two reasons. A, why are they referring to him as a...

RUSH: Kevin in Moberly, Missouri. Welcome, Kevin. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hey! It's an honor, Rush. I've been listening to you since the day after the Oklahoma City bombing.RUSH: I appreciate that, which the Clinton administration tried to blame me for, you might remember.CALLER: Yeah. (laughing) I remember that. I had a hard time making the connection.RUSH: Well, so did I. Heh, heh, heh. Anyway, what's up?CALLER: Well, this is something that's been annoying me for about...

RUSH: Usama Bin Laden! Another tape saying he's gonna invade Pakistan and declare war in Pakistan on Musharraf, which, ladies and gentlemen, puts him on the same page with a Democrat presidential candidate. That would be Barack Ubama. Let's go back to August 1st. Ubama gave a speech on counterterrorism, and here's portion of what he said.UBAMA: If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will.RUSH: All right. So we're going...

RUSH: Dan Rather: We're going to get to all this. This is unbelievable. Yeah, okay, he wants to get paid. Bernard Kalb is out there saying $70 million is pocket change to Dan Rather. This is not about the money, it's about honor. Look, everybody was expecting Dan Rather to crack up on the air, and he came close to it on this story here on the Bush National Guard thing. But it's now official. Because if you read his lawsuit, he makes it plain that he was just a puppet. I'm just the anchor....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Everybody was expecting Dan Rather to crack up on the air, and he came close to it on this Bush National Guard story. But it's now official.""Any of you practical jokers out there... Something I'd love to see: Just get some of that yellow crime tape and drape it around the Clinton campaign headquarters. We know what goes on in there; just make it a crime scene and be done with it.""Usama Bin Laden says in another tape he's going...

RUSH: I got an e-mail today from the official climatologist of the EIB Network, Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. And Dr. Spencer sent me a link to a website that's trashing a new business starting up down here in Florida called DayJet. DayJet is like a charter company, small little jets, will hold one-to-three people, and they'll pick you up and take you where you want to go, and bring you home. Not nearly as expensive as large corporate jets and so forth, and gets you...

RUSH: To New Orleans and Paul. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.CALLER: Multi-mega dittos, Maha Rushie.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Thank you for everything you do every day. I've got a question for you.RUSH: What's that? CALLER: I'm a Baby Boomer just like you are, and given that our generation and our older brothers and sisters are the people who are most likely to vote in the presidential election next year, what do you think are the top two or three things that are motivating our group...

RUSH: This is David in Amherst, Massachusetts. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Hey, conservative dittos, Rush, from the bluest spot in the bluest state.RUSH: Thank you very much. I've been there.CALLER: Hey, I've got a quick question for you.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: My dad has the bust of Ronald Reagan that I got him from the Reagan library, and he also has a bust of Winston Churchill. What he and I would really like, though, is a bust of Rush Limbaugh, and I think you should sell them over the...

RUSH: Now, the Reverend Jackson was on CNN's American Morning this morning, and the cohost, Kiran Chetry, said, "A Columbia, South Carolina, newspaper, the State, is reporting you were unhappy with presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and that you criticized him for acting like he's white."JACKSON: That is an unfortunate misinterpretation. Fact is, I endorse Barack without solicitation and support him today unequivocally. So we will not let that be a diversion from our support of this...

RUSH: People I think are having an overreaction to this. Last night, a $100-a-head fundraiser at Town Hall near Times Square, Hillary Clinton said this.HILLARY: You can always tell when the Republicans are restless, because the vice president's motorcade pulls into the capitol and Darth Vader emerges.RUSH: And they started laughing and so forth. She calls Vice President Cheney Darth Vader. Now, this is from the crowd that decries the politics of personal destruction. Actually, I think she's...

RUSH: The MoveOn.org ad, the president was asked about that today in his preference. Bill Sammon said, "What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General 'Betray Us,' and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?"THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting, and I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the US military, and I was disappointed...

RUSH: Patty in Westchester County, up in New York, nice to have you on the phone. I'm glad you called.CALLER: Thank you. Rush, why do you talk about your mistresses the way you do? I've heard you do it on several occasions. I don't know if you're joking or if you're serious. I don't understand it.RUSH: (Laughing.) Jeez.CALLER: Is it a joke?RUSH: Let me ask you a question.CALLER: Go ahead.RUSH: Do you think that if I actually had mistresses -- see, you've just -- I can't do anything....

RUSH: Bruce in Greenville, Pennsylvania. You're next, sir. It's nice to have you with us.CALLER: Good afternoon. How are you?RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.CALLER: I've been listening to you since 1988, I believe it is, and I talked to you once in 1991, and I was nervous as heck, and I'm not nervous today because you're like my friend.RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I'm glad you're not nervous. We like callers that are not nervous.CALLER: I appreciate that. I just wanted...

RUSH: This is Martin in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hi, Martin. It's nice to have you on Open Line Friday on Thursday.CALLER: Maha Rushie. Hey, I gotta know: What did Rio Linda ever do to you?RUSH: Hmm, not much. I offered to move there if they would change the name to Limbaugh, California, and they didn't do that. But that didn't offend me. That didn't bother me.CALLER: (Garbled)RUSH: (Speaking garbled) to you, too. I guess he's asking me about Rio Linda. He wants to know what Rio Linda did....

RUSH: Daniel in Raleigh, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush! You're always telling your loyal listeners that we can't see the footage of the 9/11 attacks on the US. I really don't understand. I think a guy of your stature, you should be able to afford some of this footage and put it on yourself. I've even seen it on community access here on Raleigh late night.RUSH: Uhhhh, I never even thought about buying it. I probably could, but I want to wait 'til it costs as...

RUSH: You know something, folks? I've been noticing, last night and today, be it in print, be it broadcast -- you know, Norman Hsu had been charged here by the feds with running a $60-million Ponzi scheme, and every reference to him -- either graphically, or on TV, or in print stories that I have downloaded from anywhere on the Internet -- refers to him uniformly as "disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu." Now, I'm puzzled about this for two reasons. A, why are they referring to him as a...

RUSH: Kevin in Moberly, Missouri. Welcome, Kevin. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hey! It's an honor, Rush. I've been listening to you since the day after the Oklahoma City bombing.RUSH: I appreciate that, which the Clinton administration tried to blame me for, you might remember.CALLER: Yeah. (laughing) I remember that. I had a hard time making the connection.RUSH: Well, so did I. Heh, heh, heh. Anyway, what's up?CALLER: Well, this is something that's been annoying me for about...

RUSH: Usama Bin Laden! Another tape saying he's gonna invade Pakistan and declare war in Pakistan on Musharraf, which, ladies and gentlemen, puts him on the same page with a Democrat presidential candidate. That would be Barack Ubama. Let's go back to August 1st. Ubama gave a speech on counterterrorism, and here's portion of what he said.UBAMA: If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will.RUSH: All right. So we're going...

RUSH: Dan Rather: We're going to get to all this. This is unbelievable. Yeah, okay, he wants to get paid. Bernard Kalb is out there saying $70 million is pocket change to Dan Rather. This is not about the money, it's about honor. Look, everybody was expecting Dan Rather to crack up on the air, and he came close to it on this story here on the Bush National Guard thing. But it's now official. Because if you read his lawsuit, he makes it plain that he was just a puppet. I'm just the anchor....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Everybody was expecting Dan Rather to crack up on the air, and he came close to it on this Bush National Guard story. But it's now official.""Any of you practical jokers out there... Something I'd love to see: Just get some of that yellow crime tape and drape it around the Clinton campaign headquarters. We know what goes on in there; just make it a crime scene and be done with it.""Usama Bin Laden says in another tape he's going...