RUSH: The Drive-Bys and everybody going orgasmic -- I should say, Obasmic -- over The Oprah and the crowd that she drew in South Carolina for Barack Obama, who is a presidential candidate. As you people know, I don't like to make things about me, I really don't. I get embarrassed when the discussion turns to me, but sometimes I am forced into doing so. They're just going nuts. For example, here is Joe Scarborough's show, MSNBC this morning, David Shuster and the co-host Mika Brzezinski, Willie...

RUSH: Melody in Albuquerque, New Mexico, great to have you on the program.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm glad to speak with you. I'm a Rush Baby. My dad was the first caller from Albuquerque, and some of my best memories are sitting in the car listening to you with my dad eating pizza.RUSH: Wow.CALLER: And I just wanted to thank you for those memories and now I'm a college student and every day before I go to class, I listen to you to prepare myself to go against my liberal teacher and my liberal classmates,...

RUSH: Melody in Albuquerque, New Mexico, great to have you on the program.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm glad to speak with you. I'm a Rush Baby. My dad was the first caller from Albuquerque, and some of my best memories are sitting in the car listening to you with my dad eating pizza.RUSH: Wow.CALLER: And I just wanted to thank you for those memories and now I'm a college student and every day before I go to class, I listen to you to prepare myself to go against my liberal teacher and my liberal classmates,...

RUSH: Theresa in Sumter, South Carolina, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the broadcast.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Just wanted to say love you, love Mannheim Steamroller, and I was one of the I guess 36,000 people yesterday at William Bryce Stadium for the Obama-Oprah extravaganza.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I am a Republican, the whole reason was just to introduce my daughter to politics. But I do feel that the introduction of Oprah, a lot of people that I spoke with yesterday, they trust her judgment, they...

RUSH: Terry in Santa Rosa, California. I'm glad you waited, sir. Nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush, nice to talk to you.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: I just wonder why you're not mentioning anything about Algore receiving his Nobel Peace Prize?RUSH: In fact, I've got the audio spites coming right up here. They're numbers 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19.CALLER: Okay, just because I know you said you were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, I think that was just a joke from the very beginning.RUSH:...

RUSH: This is Caesar in Richmond, Virginia. Hi, Caesar, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush, it is a pleasure speaking with you, sir.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: Yes, sir. I just wanted you to know for the record, you know, I just say this, I'm a 63-year-old black male, and I've been listening to you for five years. I was actually a Democrat when I started listening to you. Since then, I've changed. The Republicans have let me down also, but I'm no...

RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites. President Clinton this morning with Harry Smith on the Early Show at CBS. Harry Smith said, "When you were in Muscatine a week and a half or so ago, right, and said, I've always been against this, speaking about the Iraq war, I did a little Googling last night, and the best I could tell was you said the weapons inspectors should be allowed to do their jobs."CLINTON: Look, I said something like that a hundred times. I supported threatening Saddam so we could...

RUSH: National Intelligence Estimate. "British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week. Analysts believe that Iranian staff, knowing their phones were tapped, deliberately gave misinformation. The timing of the CIA report has also provoked fury in the British Government, where officials believe it has undermined efforts to impose tough new sanctions on Iran and made an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities...

RUSH: "Four top members of Congress, including now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, got a close look at CIA overseas detention sites and interrogation techniques in September 2002 and offered no challenge to their legitimacy, according to a news article out Sunday," in the Washington Post. "On the contrary, at least two lawmakers involved in the briefing that day questioned whether the CIA was pushing hard enough, even after hearing the details of the now widely criticized technique known as waterboarding,...

RUSH: Bill Moyers and all these people are upset here that I refer to Mrs. Clinton's testicle lockbox. I feel very honored, by the way, to have forced that term on PBS. Moyers used it Friday night talking to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, asked her what it meant. (laughing) Do you remember during the 1992 presidential campaign, George H. W. Bush running against Der Schlick Meister, and Ma Richards had the old line at the convention, "Poor George, he can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his...

RUSH: You gotta hear this. Friday night, PBS, Bill Moyers Journal, talking with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania. She's a media and speech communications specialist, and I really like her. They did a report on this program once some years ago which got it dead on right about who the audience is, why we appeal to people and so forth. It was totally out of the conventional wisdom. What I said at the outset, I really like Kathleen -- and, by the way, I did this in 2000 'til I...

RUSH: Now, as to the Oprah and Obama stunt, just a couple things. You know, Oprah used two of Mrs. Clinton's stunts. She wore a pantsuit, and she pretended to be black. Well, I know Oprah's black, Mr. Snerdley, but to Democrats, black isn't black, because Bill Clinton is black. He was the first black president. Oprah had to go up there and pretend, she did, she did the same voice that Hillary did down there before the Selma crowd. The pundits are pondering or bloviating how much or how little...

RUSH: The Drive-Bys and everybody going orgasmic -- I should say, Obasmic -- over The Oprah and the crowd that she drew in South Carolina for Barack Obama, who is a presidential candidate. As you people know, I don't like to make things about me, I really don't. I get embarrassed when the discussion turns to me, but sometimes I am forced into doing so. They're just going nuts. For example, here is Joe Scarborough's show, MSNBC this morning, David Shuster and the co-host Mika Brzezinski, Willie...

Rush's Morning Update: TapesDecember 11, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Today the CIA Director, Michael Hayden, will face the wrath of liberals on the Senate Intelligence Committee;they are enraged that videotapes from secret interrogations of Al-Qaeda terrorists were destroyed two years ago.Democrats have their collective undies in a bunch. Senator Joe Biden is so mad his hair plugs are standing on end. He's demanding...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Which candidate is more capable of beating Republicans, Obama or Hillary? Neither. That's the dirty little secret.""I just love this Mannheim Steamroller music. I love the holiday season. I like cold-weather football games, a lot of spitting snow and some sleet, and overcast, gray days... It's so beautiful to look at when it's 80 degrees outside where you live.""While everybody's going on and on about how breathtaking and how...

Story #1: New York Philharmonic to Visit N. KoreaRUSH: "Striking a note of musical diplomacy, the New York Philharmonic said on Monday it plans to perform in North Korea -- the first major US cultural visit to the reclusive country. North Korea's invitation to play a concert came as the reclusive communist country was beginning to disable its nuclear facilities and starting to see a thaw in relations with the United States."I should also add here in light of this news that moves are afoot for the...