RUSH: William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stamford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times. I've been reading some of the quickly produced obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services and I've had a chance to listen to some people on television who worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him, and I want to leave it to others to describe his history and his role in conservatism. I think...

RUSH: William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stamford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times. I've been reading some of the quickly produced obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services and I've had a chance to listen to some people on television who worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him, and I want to leave it to others to describe his history and his role in conservatism. I think...

RUSH: William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stamford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times. I've been reading some of the quickly produced obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services and I've had a chance to listen to some people on television who worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him, and I want to leave it to others to describe his history and his role in conservatism. I think...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites very quickly. Mr. Snerdley, you were roundly criticized on MSNBC's Hardball last night. Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine was on with Chris Matthews, and they were talking about you, our Official Obama Criticizer. Now, for those who didn't hear this yesterday, Mr. Snerdley was very critical of Obama's whining and moaning reaction to the picture that the Clinton camp put out there with him dressed up like Ayman al-Zawahiri. So Mr. Snerdley did his standard...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites very quickly. Mr. Snerdley, you were roundly criticized on MSNBC's Hardball last night. Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine was on with Chris Matthews, and they were talking about you, our Official Obama Criticizer. Now, for those who didn't hear this yesterday, Mr. Snerdley was very critical of Obama's whining and moaning reaction to the picture that the Clinton camp put out there with him dressed up like Ayman al-Zawahiri. So Mr. Snerdley did his standard...

RUSH: William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stamford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times. I've been reading some of the quickly produced obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services and I've had a chance to listen to some people on television who worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him, and I want to leave it to others to describe his history and his role in conservatism. I think...

RUSH: Big, big, big news on the global warming front, but this is going to serve as a great example to what I was talking about earlier. You have Obama and his followers, and you're not going to talk his followers out of him with standard political jargon or criticism because they're not with him because of politics. He's not running a political campaign. He's leading a movement out there. By the same token, manmade global warming is a total hoax. It has no basis in fact, and yet it has acolytes...

RUSH: Yesterday when I heard about this, I did not know that it was Bill Cunningham who was the talk show host in Cincinnati who had warmed up the audience for McCain. Of course, he kept talking about -- and I guess he mentioned three times -- "Barack Hussein Obama," and McCain claimed after Cunningham finished... McCain did his remarks at the rally, then, after that when he was told what happened, he immediately apologized, threw Cunningham under the Straight Talk Express and disavowed it and said...

RUSH: The Angry White Women Tour. This is yesterday, NPR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook. He's talking with Katha Pollitt, who is a columnist for The Nation magazine, and Ashbrook says, "Let's remember Rush Limbaugh, wondering if America wants to watch a president, a woman president 'age in office.' Katha Pollitt, you've carried the feminist flag for many years."POLLITT: Well, I've written maaany pieces about the sexist onslaught against Hillary Clinton, which I think is really shocking, just really...

RUSH: We'll start in Knoxville, Tennessee, this is Susan. Thanks for your patience. Hi.CALLER: Yes. Rush, I'm just glad you took my call. I had just gone out to the mailbox to get my copy of the National Review, which I found in there, and when I came back in I heard you giving those good words about William Buckley. I just wanted to thank you for doing that. I think you very well captured what he meant to so many of us, and, by the way, what does sybaritic mean?RUSH: The pursuit of pleasurable...

RUSH: I want to expand a little bit on this debate last night. We've got some audio sound bites of it coming up, and I might get to 'em later on in the program. But to analyze this debate in sort of a horse race fashion: Who did better here? Did Hillary slap Obama around on health care? That misses the whole point. It misses the whole point. In the first place, at this stage, when it comes to Obama's supporters, it doesn't matter what he's saying. I'm not trying to be funny. I know it sounds...

RUSH: Well, I know we were all hoping that Mrs. Clinton would win one for the Lipper last night, but it just didn't happen. Bill Clinton, the Lipper, the biting the lower lip. It was bad. It was just bad. The only hope, ladies and gentlemen, is if the audience sees this as three guys ganging up on the girl. Russert bullied Mrs. Clinton last night. Obama sort of ganged up on her, and Brian Williams, we had three guys ganging up on Mrs. Clinton last night. I know she's running for president,...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites very quickly. Mr. Snerdley, you were roundly criticized on MSNBC's Hardball last night. Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine was on with Chris Matthews, and they were talking about you, our Official Obama Criticizer. Now, for those who didn't hear this yesterday, Mr. Snerdley was very critical of Obama's whining and moaning reaction to the picture that the Clinton camp put out there with him dressed up like Ayman al-Zawahiri. So Mr. Snerdley did his standard...

RUSH: William F. Buckley passed away either late last night or this morning at his home in his study in Stamford, Connecticut, a place that I have been privileged to visit countless times. I've been reading some of the quickly produced obits and bios on Buckley on the wire services and I've had a chance to listen to some people on television who worked for him or knew him intimately talking about him, and I want to leave it to others to describe his history and his role in conservatism. I think...

Rush's Morning Update: The CostFebruary 28, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer We have three items for you today, folks. First: With crude oil hovering over a hundred bucks a barrel, Nancy Pelosi scheduled a vote to raise taxes on America's oil companies. To the tune of $18 billion. That tax increase, naturally, would be passed on to you, the consumer. Some of the money, say Democrats, would be used to invest in "alternative...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I still marvel whenever I read anything Bill Buckley's written, and I'll always continue to learn from him -- no matter the fact that he's gone.""I think I killed the Hillary campaign. Not just with the illegal driver's license issue, but let's not forget that after one of those debates I actually called her 'sexy'. You remember that, Snerdley? Yeah, I'm sure you blocked that out." "When you see the output of someone's work...

Story #1: Congress Asks Justice to Investigate Clemens RUSH: By the way, "The House Oversight Committee has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether baseball star Roger Clemens lied during his testimony to Congress about performance enhancing drugs in baseball." So now... I guess Clemens asked for this. He asked for his day in the sun. He wanted this congressional hearing. He got it, and apparently now the House Oversight Committee of Henry Waxman has believed the trainer, Brian McNamee,...