RUSH: We have the obligatory audio sound bites from Senator McCain's speech on the environment yesterday in Oregon. Yeah, I'm going to torture you with these. You gotta hear these. I'm gonna tell you something, folks, when it comes to global warming and the hoax and the fixes for this hoax, the solution, we do not have one of the three presidential candidates who differs from each other. We are cooked. Our goose is cooked on this. It doesn't matter who you vote for, for president, we're going...

RUSH: Let me ask you the question again. You think about it for a while. President Bush this week will be in Saudi Arabia. He is going to meet with the head of the royal family there, King Abdullah. He's going to ask King Abdullah to raise the oil output, to increase oil production. What is wrong with this? What is wrong with this? Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program today. Can't believe the first...

RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, from the New York Times today, this is just too rich. This is just too good. "Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of African-American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time. The legislation, which would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to oversee tobacco products, would try to reduce...

RUSH: Let's go to the phones. Eddie in Monroe, New York, you're next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I love your show.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: (garbled) I had a... I tell you, it's easier to get in touch with President Bush than it is you. One comment I wanted to make. I think -- What do you think on OPEC not putting out enough oil because of our support behind Israel and our military backing behind Israel?RUSH: Okay, I'm really having trouble hearing...

RUSH: Let's go to the phones. Eddie in Monroe, New York, you're next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I love your show.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: (garbled) I had a... I tell you, it's easier to get in touch with President Bush than it is you. One comment I wanted to make. I think -- What do you think on OPEC not putting out enough oil because of our support behind Israel and our military backing behind Israel?RUSH: Okay, I'm really having trouble hearing...

RUSH: What is the ongoing fascination with accepting the premises advanced by the Democrats and thinking we can improve on their premise? Whatever happened to standing up and fighting their premise? This whole concept of change, the idea we got some new candidate here with change. Jeffrey Lord in the American Spectator today does a yeoman's job of exposing that there is absolutely nothing new about Barack Obama, that, in fact, Barack Obama is nothing more than Jimmy Carter serving his second...

RUSH: You know, this is just one of those days. This is from the St. Cloud, Minnesota Times: "A St. Cloud State University student in a teacher-training program at Technical High School left the school in late April because he says he feared for the safety of his service dog. The school district calls it a misunderstanding, and officials there say they hoped Tyler Hurd, a 23-year-old junior from Mahtomedi who aspires to teach special education, would continue his training in the district. Hurd...

RUSH: We have a trucker on the road in Pennsylvania burning diesel. This is Terry. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? Mega dittos. Hey, I wanted to really kind of talk about what I think is the ultimate white guilt. Being a black man, I just kind of don't see where people are really talking about where I think Obama is -- just how much he's hurt racism in this country. You know, everything that has been (unintelligible) I just think that (unintelligible)...

RUSH: Here is Ken in Brooklyn. Ken, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. You're next.CALLER: Nice to be on your show, Rush, thanks.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: You know, for once I agree with something you said.RUSH: What's that?CALLER: I'm a typical, you know, quote, unquote, liberal. That we should open up more refineries and produce more, not drill more, not go into ANWR, not do a lot of things, but produce more, yeah.RUSH: Well, how are we going to produce more? How are we gonna refine more...

RUSH: This story is from Morgantown, West Virginia, at the Wine Rack -- it's a wine store -- "At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won't: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged. 'There are friends who get the $300 Caymus and there are friends who get the $10 bottle,' Vorbach says. 'They're saying, 'I like them, but I don't like them THAT much.' Even wealthier customers are stocking...

RUSH: Let me ask you the question again. You think about it for a while. President Bush this week will be in Saudi Arabia. He is going to meet with the head of the royal family there, King Abdullah. He's going to ask King Abdullah to raise the oil output, to increase oil production. What is wrong with this? What is wrong with this? Greetings, my friends, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program today. Can't believe the first...

RUSH: We have the obligatory audio sound bites from Senator McCain's speech on the environment yesterday in Oregon. Yeah, I'm going to torture you with these. You gotta hear these. I'm gonna tell you something, folks, when it comes to global warming and the hoax and the fixes for this hoax, the solution, we do not have one of the three presidential candidates who differs from each other. We are cooked. Our goose is cooked on this. It doesn't matter who you vote for, for president, we're going...

RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, from the New York Times today, this is just too rich. This is just too good. "Some public health experts are questioning why menthol, the most widely used cigarette flavoring and the most popular cigarette choice of African-American smokers, is receiving special protection as Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time. The legislation, which would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to oversee tobacco products, would try to reduce...

RUSH: Barack Obama, we have learned, is meeting in a closed session today at a clothing manufacturing plant in Cape Girardeau called Thorngate Ltd. It's on Independence. I have driven by it many times. It's been there since I was growing up. I don't know what they manufacture now, but Thorngate used to manufacture the men's clothing line Hart, Schaffner & Marx, which at the time I was growing up is what Johnny Carson wore on The Tonight Show, and they always had their outlet days, their seconds...

Rush's Morning Update: Repression!May 14, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer For decades, the American left has demonized their opponents as intolerant --but, as always,it is they who exhibit the very behavior they claim to despise. Case in point, today,is what happened to Crystal Dixon, associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo.She responded to a recent Toledo Free Press editorial concerninggay...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's embarrassing that people running for the presidency are less informed than I am on something that is as crucial as the global warming hoax.""I'm very proud of my brain, folks, I want to be very honest. And it offends me that a man running for the president of the United States knows 10% of what I know about this stuff. I'm not supposed to be smarter than the guy running for president, and neither are you.""I'm being asked...

Story #1: Economic Disaster: Kids, Parents Helping Each Other RUSH: A little economic news here: "The economic downturn is hitting roughly one in 10 middle-aged and older Americans especially hard, compelling them to borrow money for everyday living expenses and to seek help from family, friends or charities, according to a survey released Tuesday by the AARP. In the telephone survey of 1,002 adults 45 and older, nearly four in 10 said they had helped a child pay bills or expenses. Among retirees,...