RUSH: We've got Sylvester Stallone on the phone, just back from Las Vegas. Sly, welcome to the program. It's great to you talk to you again.STALLONE: Oh, thank you very much. Real privilege.RUSH: I watched your movie the other night. I guess I watched it Wednesday night. Sly, my staff... I came in and told everybody about it. It was about this time in the program yesterday. I started telling everybody about the movie and I got so passionate about it (laughs), they said, "You better stop. You're...

RUSH: Let's go back to the debate, the debate last night here in Boca Raton, Tim Russert said to Mitt Romney, "Governor Romney, do you trust Senator McCain and Mayor Giuliani on the issue of being tax cutters?"ROMNEY: I trust these two gentlemen, and I respect them greatly. Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Senator McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent. I think he should have voted for them...

RUSH: Robert in Leeds, Maine, welcome, sir, to Open Line Friday. Hello.CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush, first-time caller, longtime listener.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to mention to you about when I first saw the New York Times article about Clinton and McCain, my first reaction was that Hillary had a running mate, and I was a little shocked. RUSH: (laughing)CALLER: The second comment I have is about the infatuation the media has with John McCain. And my whole theory is on the fact that I think...

RUSH: To St. Joe, Michigan, and Bill. Thanks for waiting, sir.CALLER: Hi there, Rush. Mega dittos. We could have an instant stimulus package if we let it be known that we're going to start drilling for oil, the oil futures would fall like a rock and people would have enough money to spend and we wouldn't be sending it over to our enemies. What do you think of that idea?RUSH: Well, I went through a lot of this yesterday. I must have spent about 20 minutes on this yesterday, the five myths...

RUSH: Victor in Wisconsin Rapids, yes, hi, how are you.CALLER: Yes, sir. This is regarding the ban on waterboarding.RUSH: The ban on waterboarding, yes.CALLER: When McCain was going through that "waterboarding is torture" and the reporter asked him, "Well, what if there were a nuclear bomb?" And he says that under no circumstances would we torture anybody because it would diminish us in the eyes of the world. Well, if you don't waterboard the person, all you have left is "please." And if...

RUSH: Joe in Knoxville, Tennessee, you're next, Open Line Friday, hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hey.CALLER: Hello January 12th birthday dittos.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Listen, I called to ask about your wine interests. I like politics as much as the next guy, but last year before our birthday a few days, you had a dinner party and you listed all these fabulous first growth Bordeaux you had for the party, and it got me to thinking about you and Marvin Shanken and Cigar Aficionado and Wine...

RUSH: We return to Atlanta. John, hi. Welcome to the show.CALLER: Rush, a pleasure speaking to you today.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I want to take issue with a phrase used in that CNN story that you played a couple segments ago, and it reminds me -- well, it's a phrase that was also used by James Brooks a couple weeks ago in which they put forth that the Republican Party is fractured. In no uncertain terms I want to say that I profoundly disagree with that assertion. Nothing could be farther...

RUSH: The New York Times, by the way, yesterday, hold onto your coffee cup or your steering wheel if you haven't heard this. After months of pondering, the New York Times announced its endorsements for the Democrats and Republicans, and here they are. There was no surprise who they endorsed for the Democrats, and there was not much surprise about who they endorsed for our side. They endorsed Hillary on the Democrat side and they endorsed McCain. So this is a serious, serious question. A serious...

RUSH: We've got Sylvester Stallone on the phone, just back from Las Vegas. Sly, welcome to the program. It's great to you talk to you again.STALLONE: Oh, thank you very much. Real privilege.RUSH: I watched your movie the other night. I guess I watched it Wednesday night. Sly, my staff... I came in and told everybody about it. It was about this time in the program yesterday. I started telling everybody about the movie and I got so passionate about it (laughs), they said, "You better stop. You're...

RUSH: You know what I heard today about the economic stimulus? If the president signs the bill next week, you will get your stimulus check in August. (laughter) Well, whoever among you who are getting stimulus checks, you will get them in August. Now, that's speedy. We gotta head off this recession that's not a recession, right? Look, but it's not even finally agreed to, that's if the thing was agreed to and signed into law by President Bush. In fact, it's in the Washington Post today: "Speedy...

RUSH: Now, we go to the debate Monday night, the Democrat debate, and Mrs. Clinton said this to Barack Obama.HILLARY: I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.RUSH: Ooooh, and they booed and they applauded, they did the whole thing. Guess what surfaced on the Internet, and it's on the Drudge Report. It is a picture of Rezko standing between a smiling Bill and Hillary Clinton....

RUSH: All right, now we focus again on the "I am irrelevant" segment of the program. This is with audio sound bites. First, from West Palm Beach, right across the bridge yesterday. Senator McCain, after a town hall meeting, spoke with reporters. He was asked about me. This is what he said.MCCAIN: I respect Rush Limbaugh. He is a voice that is respected by a lot of people who are in our party. I've been trying to convince everybody that I am the most qualified.RUSH: And then, in an interview...

RUSH: What have I always told you people? Well, I know, a lot. The global warming hoax is nothing more than a religion. If you look at global warming -- Michael Crichton made this point in a brilliant speech about it -- if you look at global warming, it has all the elements of every major religion on the planet. It has the creation of the divine; it has original sin; it has the Garden of Eden; it has penance; it has everything. The most important element that it has is faith, because the people...

Rush's Morning Update: Wing Nuts!January 28, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer The billionaire George Soros-- a major funding partner of Clinton, Inc.-- has issued a call for massive new regulations and oversight of the world's financial markets. Now, it's apparently in response to our economy,which isn't even in a recession. Soros blames low interest rates and excessive freedoms for fueling a real estate boom-- which...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's going to be a tough weekend out there because there's no NFL football. So that means golf and the beach.""Guess what surfaced on the Internet? It's a picture of Tony Rezko standing between a smiling Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Drudge caption is: 'I don't remember meeting Rezko.' My caption is: 'A pair of slimy politicians meet with a Chicago businessman.'" "'Fighting with your spouse can actually be good for your health,...

Story #1: Pets Still Hit Hard By Mortgage FailuresRUSH: I do not believe this. You remember earlier when we had the story from Chicago Tribune about dogs and cats also falling victim to the subprime crisis? It was about two dogs and a cat and they had names and the media was trying to get comments from them (but they couldn't) about how their lives were thrown upside down when their owners were foreclosed on and they just dumped the pets in the local shelter. Well, the French News Agency has picked...