RUSH: We want to welcome Mark Levin to the microphones here. We had to put in a microphone because we never have guest in the studio, but this is a rare and valid exception. Mark Levin is here. How you doing, sir?LEVIN: All right, brother.RUSH: We got a new Dittocam over there so that you are the primary focus --LEVIN: Okay.RUSH: -- of the Dittocam today.LEVIN: You've got a big canvas up here.RUSH: What are you in town for? I know he didn't come down here to appear on this show to talk...

RUSH: Here's Bill in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to talk to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just wanted to call and thank you for bringing on Mr. Levin today, touching on the lighter end of the subject. You know, your program is always about pretty serious issues and I thank God, the Lord, for you and what you do. I just wanted to say, I had a Blue Heeler. His name was Boone. I had him for 17 years. He was the best dog...

RUSH: Here is Dewayne. He's seventeen years old in northeast Ohio. It's nice to have you on the program, 'Wayne.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'd like to start off by saying I've been listening to you since I was three years old. I'm quite the veteran here.RUSH: A Rush baby!CALLER: Yeah. How about that, huh? I'm calling to... I'd like to note the liberal influence on teenagers now, because I watch MTV for the music, okay? And they're all about, "Well, we need teenagers to vote," and we need this, that,...

RUSH: Terry in Tacoma, Washington. You're next on Open Line Friday. Hello.CALLER: Hi. Good morning. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I just first want to say that, I, years ago, thought I had the answer. I thought possibly the Democrats might even have the answer, though your show woke me up. I started listening to you and other conservative radio hosts, and I have been shown down the path by you guys. I wanted to talk about what has happened in Olympia when our troops have...

RUSH: Here's Bill in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to talk to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just wanted to call and thank you for bringing on Mr. Levin today, touching on the lighter end of the subject. You know, your program is always about pretty serious issues and I thank God, the Lord, for you and what you do. I just wanted to say, I had a Blue Heeler. His name was Boone. I had him for 17 years. He was the best dog...

RUSH: We have the Sarkozy bites. This goes back to the call I got a minute ago wanting to know how does Bush stack up with Ronald Reagan. We played these bites the day that Sarkozy spoke. I think it was the day after. He spoke November the 7th. He addressed a joint meeting of the House and the Senate. We've cut all the applause here. It's been shortened to deal with constraints of time. But I want you, when you listen to these things, forget that it's a Frenchman, that's marvelous and tremendous...

RUSH: Russell in Memphis, you're next, sir. Thank you for waiting. You're on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to say to the last caller, Kevin, "We appreciate your service to this country," and my question/comment for you was, I was not around for the Reagan administration. I'm 18. From everything I've studied and looked at, he was a tremendous, tremendous president. I'm also a big George W. Bush fan. Aside from immigration,...

RUSH: There's an all-out assault here on the US military taking place in the Drive-By Media. To set it up, I want to go back to yesterday, CNN's American Morning. The cohostette, Kiran Chetry talked with the president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister. She said to him, "People are very fed up about the price of oil, and you set out to explain to them, once more, about why we're seeing this rise in oil?"HOFMEISTER: Well, it was more to listen, listen to Americans about their issues, their concerns...

RUSH: Back to the phones. I know it's Open Line Friday, so we try to take more phone calls than we usually do. Kevin in Largo, Florida, nice to have you, sir. I'm glad you waited.CALLER: Yes, sir. It's such an honor to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.CALLER: Yes, sir. This question... I have two questions. This question is for Hillary Clinton and actually for Dirty Harry and for Dick Durbin and Schumer and for Grandpa Munster and the rest of them all right there....

RUSH: "The State Department is dropping plans to force diplomats to serve in Iraq because volunteers have filled all 48 vacant positions at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and in outlying provinces, The Associated Press has learned. The department will announce that it is dropping plans for 'directed assignments' for Iraq once personnel panels give a formal approval to foreign service officers who signed up for the remaining three open jobs, U.S. officials said Thursday. ... The announcement will be...

RUSH: By the way, there was a Drive-By editorial today in the Chicago Sun-Times. Hillary is going to have to come up with some of these papers from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor to demonstrate her experience. It's just not right that she gets away with saying she's got all this experience, that there's evidence of what she did in the White House that nobody can see. Now, this is from the New York Post today, and this is interesting, too, because yesterday we had a news story from California...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! To the archives we go, ladies and gentlemen, for an update. It's a Gorbasm. He's back in the news, and the New York Times is not happy. (The Gorbasm Update Theme: The Imperial March -- Darth Vader's Theme -- in G Minor) RUSH: All right, for those of you who have not heard a “Gorbasm,” if this is your first Gorbasm, let me explain to you -- and this actually does not qualify as a Gorbasm -- this is sort of an anti-Gorbasm from the New York Times....

RUSH: On Monday, we're going to do something that we have not done on this program before. Martha MacCallum, who hosts a program on the Fox News Channel called Live Desk that airs at 1 p.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday, has invited me on the program any number of times -- and, of course, it's not possible because our programs air at the same time. So she's suggested, "Well, why don't you come over and we'll do some pre-tape?" I said, "You can't do that because it's show prep," and life is...

RUSH: We want to welcome Mark Levin to the microphones here. We had to put in a microphone because we never have guest in the studio, but this is a rare and valid exception. Mark Levin is here. How you doing, sir?LEVIN: All right, brother.RUSH: We got a new Dittocam over there so that you are the primary focus --LEVIN: Okay.RUSH: -- of the Dittocam today.LEVIN: You've got a big canvas up here.RUSH: What are you in town for? I know he didn't come down here to appear on this show to talk...

RUSH: All right, a quick question here, folks. If you watched the debate last night -- and, by the way, I want to apologize for hyping it. It was a dud. Nothing of note happened. I'll talk about it in some detail but not nearly as much as I hoped, because nothing happened. But I'll just ask you a quick question. Did it appear to you that Wolf Blitzer was behaving as though he had, in fact, been warned? BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Now, let's go back to the debate for a second. I'm really bummed...

Rush's Morning Update: No WordsNovember 19, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last week, Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats passed legislation requiring President Bush to effectively surrender in Iraqin order to get the funding our troops need to continue fighting and winning.Yes, these Democrats are holding our military hostage-- unless they lose.Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harryalso promises that our troops will be funded...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The biggest fear Hillary has, folks -- and this is not good for me, but the biggest fear Clinton, Inc. has, is me.""You know what I first thought when I read this story about a newly discovered dinosaur with a 'vacuum' mouth? 'Why didn't they call it the Monicasaurus?' Ha! That worked! Even Dawn is laughing at that.""In this one area of his administration -- the war on terror -- Bush has not wavered at all. And I'll tell you what:...

RUSH: We have the Sarkozy bites. This goes back to the call I got a minute ago wanting to know how does Bush stack up with Ronald Reagan. We played these bites the day that Sarkozy spoke. I think it was the day after. He spoke November the 7th. He addressed a joint meeting of the House and the Senate. We've cut all the applause here. It's been shortened to deal with constraints of time. But I want you, when you listen to these things, forget that it's a Frenchman, that's marvelous and tremendous...

Story #1: Monicasaurus Discovered in the Sahara RUSH: "Perhaps it was one of those Eureka moments," AP story here, "when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food. The 110 million-year-old plant eater, discovered in the Sahara Desert..." what does that tell you? There aren't any plants in the Sahara Desert right now. "...was to be unveiled Thursday by the National Geographic Society." Now, they've named this thing the Nigersaurus. "Its...