RUSH: Judy in Clarkston, Michigan, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: I'm so happy to speak with you.RUSH: Well, thank you. Nice to speak with you, too.CALLER: I'm calling, back to the story of the article in the Sacramento paper you were discussing.RUSH: Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. The out of work liberal radio producer --CALLER: Right.RUSH: -- is upset. Yes.CALLER: Right. And my point at the time was that the reason those radio shows fail is because...

RUSH: "Free-market principles to global warming." Really sounds nice, doesn't it? Free-market principles to global warming. After you've accepted a hoax, after you've accepted it's indisputable that man is causing it? Free-market principles to global warming is a contradiction in terms. If there was manmade global warming, the free market would already be responding to it in a more vigorous way. Instead what we have is government telling industry what must be done, and industry reacting to...

RUSH: Senator McCain with a story here that's on the French News Agency: "'McCain Faces Doubts Among Republican Conservatives' -- While John McCain is practically assured the Republican presidential nomination, many party members are having a hard time accepting him -- and showing it with symbolic votes against him in primary contests. ... The Washington Times, a conservative newspaper, calculated that McCain had garnered no more than 45 percent of the Republican vote since January." People are...

RUSH: Susan Estrich in her column, Fox News: "'Could Obama Be Another Dukakis?' -- It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a 'wimp' who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting his lesser-known opponent as an out of touch 'liberal' who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not...

RUSH: Susan Estrich in her column, Fox News: "'Could Obama Be Another Dukakis?' -- It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a 'wimp' who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting his lesser-known opponent as an out of touch 'liberal' who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not...

RUSH: Hey, folks, you want to tweak the Drive-By Media with me right now? Want to participate in tweaking the Drive-By Media? You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states. You heard this? And everybody chalked it up to, "Well, he's tired." You know, this is a Dan Quayle moment. I mean, Dan Quayle goes out there and misspells potato, and we still get jokes about it. Barack Obama says he's gonna go out and campaign...

By the way, before we get outta here, I have to say something. Those of you that watched the Players Championship yesterday and throughout the weekend -- the final round yesterday with the playoff between Paul Goydos and Sergio Garcia on the 17th hole. Starting Saturday afternoon, I was watching this, and I was pulling for Goydos, because I've met him one time. I played with Paul Goydos. He was in my foursome at the AT&T National Pro-Am some years ago. I'm thinking three or four, but these years...

RUSH: Alex in Lincoln, Nebraska, 19 years old, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello. Alex? Testing, one, two. He's gone. Nineteen-year-old kid from Lincoln. His question: Would oil be the same price if there were no Iraq? Hmm. Hmm. It's an interesting question. I wouldn't mind exploring that with him. Be tough to take an event like that out of the marketplace. Of course, you know, "if" is for children. There is an Iraq situation.CALLER: Hello?RUSH: You are there. Hello there,...

RUSH: Judy in Clarkston, Michigan, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: I'm so happy to speak with you.RUSH: Well, thank you. Nice to speak with you, too.CALLER: I'm calling, back to the story of the article in the Sacramento paper you were discussing.RUSH: Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. The out of work liberal radio producer --CALLER: Right.RUSH: -- is upset. Yes.CALLER: Right. And my point at the time was that the reason those radio shows fail is because...

RUSH: Here's David in Wheaton, Maryland. Great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome.CALLER: It's a great honor to speak with you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Might it be the perfect time to end Operation Chaos and initiate "Operation Count the Votes" to help the disenfranchised Democrats in both Michigan and Florida get their votes counted, as well as to stir up even more chaos? We've got to keep this going, because this media/Hollywood juggernaut is undermining our democracy like never...

RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen. Terry McAuliffe appeared on two shows yesterday, Face the Nation and Meet the Press with Bob Schieffer. First from Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer says, "Look, is Mrs. Clinton now picturing herself as the candidate of working-class white people? Is that what she meant to say?"MCAULIFFE: What she paraphrased was an Associated Press article as you know, but listen, she has reached out from the beginning of this campaign. We've received...

RUSH: All right. Now, this is a little out of whack here, folks. Another story on Obama's trip to Missouri and Limbaugh country. This is the Washington Times, Christina Bellantoni: "Senator Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow." He's going to be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, my hometown. They're not calling it a campaign stop. It's not a campaign stop. It says here that he is going to "hold an economic roundtable" in the city, "located near what's called Missouri's bootheel on...

RUSH: Susan Estrich in her column, Fox News: "'Could Obama Be Another Dukakis?' -- It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a 'wimp' who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting his lesser-known opponent as an out of touch 'liberal' who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not...

RUSH: As you know, ladies and gentlemen, my adopted hometown is Sacramento, California. I worked out there at KFBK, 50,000 watt blowtorch, 'til this day carries the program, been on the air there since 1984, so 24 years at KFBK Sacramento, number one. And while there, one of my nemeses was the Sacramento Bee, the local newspaper owned by the McClatchy clan. It is still owned by the McClatchy clan, and it has still refused to accept what has happened to me, as evidenced by a story that is special...

RUSH: On CNN's This Week in Politics, the host Tom Foreman was talking to Republican strategist Rich Galen, and they have this exchange about Operation Chaos.FOREMAN: Rush Limbaugh doesn't like Barack Obama and he always has something to say. Listen to what he was saying this week.RUSH ARCHIVE: We have done our part to expose Obama through our support of Operation Chaos, effectively using the Clinton campaign as our foil, and Obama and the Democrat Party are the weaker for it.FOREMAN: Well I...

RUSH: Dobbs This Week, he and Democrat strategerist Hank Sheinkopf had this exchange about Operation Chaos.DOBBS: Operation Chaos, as Rush Limbaugh describes it, is it effective, is it working in your opinion? SHEINKOPF: Hard to have a definitive way to examine it. Go with Limbaugh and say he's having some impact because a lot of stations, a lot of people listen to him. Is it a good use of time? Why not? Is it helpful to the Republicans in the fall? Potentially. But should a radio personality...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Feminist Update time, ladies and gentlemen. Lots of feminists in Sacramento, most of them listening to this show on KFBK, as they always have. They never left to the lib talker. (playing of Feminist Update song) The Forester Sisters. That's actual audio of a pro-choice rally with a bunch of feminazis on the Capitol steps back in the early 1990s. We did speed it up. They don't sound like chipmunks normally. Only when...

RUSH: Senator McCain with a story here that's on the French News Agency: "'McCain Faces Doubts Among Republican Conservatives' -- While John McCain is practically assured the Republican presidential nomination, many party members are having a hard time accepting him -- and showing it with symbolic votes against him in primary contests. ... The Washington Times, a conservative newspaper, calculated that McCain had garnered no more than 45 percent of the Republican vote since January." People are...

RUSH: "Free-market principles to global warming." Really sounds nice, doesn't it? Free-market principles to global warming. After you've accepted a hoax, after you've accepted it's indisputable that man is causing it? Free-market principles to global warming is a contradiction in terms. If there was manmade global warming, the free market would already be responding to it in a more vigorous way. Instead what we have is government telling industry what must be done, and industry reacting to...

RUSH: Big, big, big primary tomorrow, West Virginia, Obama is not even competing there, knows it's going to be a landslide. Obama is going to be in my hometown tomorrow of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, appearing before a town meeting of a hundred people while getting shellacked in West Virginia. Have you read some of the comments from West Virginia voters? "I think he's a Muslim, isn't he? I've heard he's a Muslim and I've heard his wife is an atheist." Mrs. Clinton standing on a porch looking...

Rush's Morning Update: Shock & DismayMay 13, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, continued shock and dismay were on display on the weekend news shows following Senator Clinton's USA Today interview. She said: "Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again" --thus proclaiming herself the white knight of hardworking white America.Terry McAuliffe was assigned damage control duty,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"One thing that we can say is that whoever Obama chooses as vice president, it is going to be someone who has and needs gravitas.""Ted Kennedy says that Mrs. Clinton is not fit to be vice president. Now, imagine if you are Hillary Clinton. I mean, when Ted Kennedy says you're not fit, that must mean that you are lower than Chappaquiddick pond scum." "Liberalism is all about ignoring every failure of liberalism and asking instead...

Story #1: Disgruntled Republicans Seek Libertarian Nod SLA Times Blog || AFPRUSH: A blog from the Los Angeles Times today: "Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between Hillary and Obama. In the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people; the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans...