RUSH: I want to go back to the archives of this program. I want to illustrate for you my prescience. When I tell you that you are on the cutting edge of the societal evolution if you are a regular listener here, this will establish it. October 18th, 2006. This is prior to the November elections, the midterms, and I was getting phone call after phone call from conservatives saying they were not going to vote. They were mad as hell. They were sick and tired of the Foley thing and Macaca. They were...

RUSH: Pat in Muskegon, Michigan, I'm glad you called, nice to have you here on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush. You know, I've been a fan of yours for over 20 years and you're making me so frustrated I swear at my radio every day lately. How you can possibly say it doesn't make any difference whether Hillary or Obama is elected or if McCain is elected, there are so many things that are coming up that it's very possibly going to be two Supreme Court judges that are going to have...

RUSH: Pat in Muskegon, Michigan, I'm glad you called, nice to have you here on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush. You know, I've been a fan of yours for over 20 years and you're making me so frustrated I swear at my radio every day lately. How you can possibly say it doesn't make any difference whether Hillary or Obama is elected or if McCain is elected, there are so many things that are coming up that it's very possibly going to be two Supreme Court judges that are going to have...

RUSH: Pat in Muskegon, Michigan, I'm glad you called, nice to have you here on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush. You know, I've been a fan of yours for over 20 years and you're making me so frustrated I swear at my radio every day lately. How you can possibly say it doesn't make any difference whether Hillary or Obama is elected or if McCain is elected, there are so many things that are coming up that it's very possibly going to be two Supreme Court judges that are going to have...

RUSH: Kelly in Denver, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush, thank you very much for taking my call. It's an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir, el mucho.CALLER: (laughs) A little nervous today. Proud member of the cutting edge. Over the last few weeks, it just seems like you're not saying something. You've got something in the back of your mind or maybe right on the front of your mind, but you're not saying it yet. I talked with the owner of the company that I work with...

RUSH: Last night on PMSNBC, the house organ for the Democrat National Committee, DNCTV; Dan Abrams was celebrating the death of talk radio in front of a graphic of a gravestone that says, "RIP, Right-Wing Radio," rest in peace, right-wing radio, and he says this.ABRAMS: For nearly 20 years conservative talk radio has led the Republican Party's charge on hot-button issues from immigration, to abortion, to taxes. So does Romney's failure show that right-wing radio has finally lost its mojo?RUSH:...

RUSH: Now, moving on to other items in the news. "The 20th annual meeting of the nation's second most powerful homosexual activist group is welcoming some new participants--" Mike, how quickly could you find Klaus Nomi? It's been so long since we have heard from Klaus Nomi and You Don't Know Me, which is our official Gay Community Update theme song, and I would like to have the Klaus Nomi official Gay Community Update theme song. All right, it's been so long since we had one of these, let's just...

RUSH: Well, hubba-hubba. Get this. Bill Clinton says "he's learned a valuable lesson from the dustup over his remarks on the campaign trail -- he can promote his wife's presidential candidacy, but he's not free to defend her. Clinton also said that everything he said in South Carolina about Illinois Senator Barack Obama was 'factually accurate,' but a lot that has been said about what he said is 'factually inaccurate.'" (doing Clinton impression) "Yeah, Limbaugh, you understand this because you've...

RUSH: Here's Matt in Southaven, Mississippi. I'm glad you waited. You're next on Open Line Friday. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you, sir.RUSH: Yes, sir, thank you very much.CALLER: My question is based on this apparent campaign strategy that the fear and loathing of Hillary will be enough to win, and the whole concept of opposition politics, in 2004, John Kerry's entire campaign relied on people simply disliking Bush, and look where it got him. So my question is, is wanting...

RUSH: I want to go back to the archives of this program. I want to illustrate for you my prescience. When I tell you that you are on the cutting edge of the societal evolution if you are a regular listener here, this will establish it. October 18th, 2006. This is prior to the November elections, the midterms, and I was getting phone call after phone call from conservatives saying they were not going to vote. They were mad as hell. They were sick and tired of the Foley thing and Macaca. They were...

RUSH: This is Brian in New Orleans. Nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Rush, mega, mega, mega Bayou State where every man's a king; no one wears a crown, LSU Tigers national championship dittos to you, sir.RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much. Great to have you here.CALLER: Yes, sir. I was calling because, as you may or may not know, Barack Obama was in New Orleans yesterday, and I thought it was interesting that he talked a lot about, of course, you know, trying to say that the slow recovery...

RUSH: Before I play the sound bite, I need to ask those of us who were listening to this program at about this time yesterday, the first half hour of this program yesterday, I want to ask all of you, Mr. Snerdley, Dawn, Brian, did I, on this program yesterday, did I suggest that Mike Huckabee should be McCain's vice presidential nominee? I did not say that at all, did I? Did I praise Huckabee on this program yesterday and suggest that that would be my choice to make this ticket one I could support?...

RUSH: Here's some of the e-mails. "Dear Rush, I've always listened and agreed to what you have to say. I'm a lifelong conservative Republican from Alabama. I love President Bush. I can proudly say that the first president I ever voted for was Reagan. I was so excited to vote as a college student at Auburn. You have always been an intelligent person in the political area of life. Yet I am so disappointed in how you are damaging this wonderful party of ours. Ronald Reagan would be horrified...

RUSH: In the Drive-By Media today -- and we did a careful perusal here during show prep, and all of a sudden, within 24 hours, it's not Limbaugh versus McCain anymore. There are some references to me in fact having lost to McCain again and so forth, but they're very hard to find. Instead now.... Like here's the Associated Press, a story by Libby Quaid. It's no longer Limbaugh versus McCain. It's the issues. After McCain's got it sewn up, now the Drive-Bys are telling everybody about the issue...

RUSH: I cannot believe that I let my guard down as easily as it happened. This incident just goes to show how easy it is to lose one's vigilance. As you know, the past two days we've been hearing sob stories from the Clinton campaign about how she's out of money, about how she had to borrow $5 million from either herself or her husband, how the staff is not being paid. None of it was true. Not one word of it is true. I mean, she might have borrowed $5 million, but she is not out of money by...

Rush's Morning Update: SymbolismFebruary 11, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Gloria Steinem --a founder of the feminist movement, modern era -- recently gave a talk at Dartmouth about "increasing women's visibility." Well, apparently she needs to take her own advice;a local paper sent reporters out to get reaction from the student body. A lot of the girl students had no idea who Steinem was, not to mention anything about...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, could be the next Ronald Reagan.""Get this: 'Regulators said today they were reviewing the safety of Botox.' You know, makes me wonder if Nancy Pelosi is going to hold hearings on this in the House." "My success is not dependent on who wins elections. I don't want Hillary to win so I'll 'have an exciting show' for four or eight years. It would be pure agony to deal with that bunch in the...

Story #1: Kerry, Pelosi, Hillary to Hold Botox Hearings?RUSH: Get this. "Regulators said [today] they were reviewing the safety of Allergan Inc's Botox and a competing product after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients." Wow. So after the Senate finishes investigating Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots, and after they finish investigating Roger Clemens and his trainer; they're going to now have hearings or investigations on Botox. You know, it makes me wonder if Hillary...