RUSH: I have had this story since last Friday. I think last Friday. June 14th. I don't have a calendar right in front of me. But I've been waiting to get audio of this before using this, and we have it. McCain was having a town hall meeting somewhere, a virtual town hall (whatever that is). I don't even know where this was; I just have the story. He was in a virtual town hall. I guess it's on the Internet or something. He's on TV, and he's taking phone call questions, or virtue town hall questions....

RUSH: Chris in Provo, Utah, you're next, and welcome to the program.CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you doing today?RUSH: Just fine, sir.CALLER: I wanted to talk -- you know, I agree 100% with everything that you've been talking about with respect to Obama and the danger that he poses for conservatives. But I'm not really 100% convinced that the bigger danger doesn't lie with McCain. Not so much that I support Obama in favor of McCain, but that... Well, let me explain. You know, the Republican...

RUSH: Wilburn, Georgia. Nancy, hi. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's a pleasure to speak with you finally, and I want to thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing out the extreme differences in the coverage and in the reaction to the two floodings which have been in the media the last number of years. Number one: the New Orleans flooding following Katrina, and the current flooding in Missouri and Iowa. The differences are so different. I want to know: Where...

RUSH: Jeff in Pittsburgh. Hello, sir. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Yeah, Rush, you're the man.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: A little change of subject. Well, you talked about environmental policies and oil earlier, and I was just wondering what your take is on the idea that we need to boost up the economy with tomorrow's energy, you know, government-mandated green jobs and new technology. Kind of like the environmentalist economics, which is an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. RUSH: Let...

RUSH: Now, I've mentioned in the past on this program -- and I've been very serious -- in discussing Barack Obama, that I really do think that somebody else is behind this campaign. You can even look at it as you want as an Oz behind the curtain pulling the strings. I don't mean it that way. Politics is what it is. Every candidate has sponsors and friends and people that encourage the candidate, "You gotta run, Barack. You gotta run." There's somebody behind the strings, 'cause the things that...

RUSH: Jack Murtha alert, big news, ladies and gentlemen: "A military judge has dismissed charges against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis. Col. Steven Folsom dismissed charges Tuesday against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani after defense attorneys raised concerns that a four-star general overseeing the prosecution was improperly influenced by an investigator probing the November 2005 shootings by a Marine squad in Haditha. The charges were dismissed without...

RUSH: Jenny in Sarasota, you're next. Jenny is one of my all-time, top-ten favorite female names, by the way.CALLER: Oh, really?RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: (laughs) Oh, great. Listen, I've been trying to get through for about a week. I've been listening to your show. I'm kind of a new Democrat listening to your show. I do agree with you about Obama. He scares me, and I just... But what my problem is, is I need you to convince me -- RUSH: Yes?CALLER: -- to vote for McCain. I've been listening...

RUSH: This guy Obama is dangerous, because he's an idiot. I mean, really. They talk about how brilliant this guy is, that he went to Harvard and so forth. I did some checking. This guy never wrote anything at Harvard Law. He just was head of Law Review. He never wrote anything -- probably on purpose, not to create a paper trail. Number two, he might not have been capable of it, for all I know. But I mean the things this guy says, the people he hangs around with, the associates he chooses to...

RUSH: Everybody's all excited here. Senator McCain is going to give a speech today down there to the oil company executives whose profits he thinks are obscene. He's "going to call for an end to the federal ban on offshore drilling and offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices. This immediately drew the ire of environmental groups." Screw them! Who cares? You know, there's this story here -- and I had this in the stack yesterday, and I didn't get to it. It's on the ABC News site,...

RUSH: I can't believe Obama let this happen. I cannot believe Obama let Gore endorse him publicly. That is a curse. That is a curse worse than if Bill Clinton endorses you. Now some people are out there saying, I think it was David Rodham Gergen, and we have the sound bite of this, David Rodham Gergen is out there saying the best thing would be is if Obama let Clinton and Gore run his administration, the global warming aspect and so forth. It was on CNN last night. BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: I...

Rush's Morning Update: PoohJune 18, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Unless you are a political junkie, I doubt you're familiar with the name Richard Danzig. He served as Bill Clinton's Naval Secretary, and now he's a top aide to Obama-- poised to become his National Security Adviser. (Some "change", eh?)Anyway, speaking before the Center for New American Security, Danzig gave a hint of the kind of change our enemies can...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The US military is what's prevented another attack on this country since 9/11. And they don't deal in indictments, Senator Obama.""Members of the military have to put up with people in your party accusing them of rape and murder, and yet they still do the job and make it safe for your skinny little rear end to utter all these inane stupidities while people say you're the messiah, Senator Obama. You owe them a debt of thanks, sir.""Tailgaters:...

Story #1:New Flynn Book Keeps El Rushbo Up All NightRUSH: Okay, warning everybody: I was up 'til 4:30 this morning. I could not put a book down. Vince Flynn's Protect and Defend. I started it at about 11 o'clock; I finished it at 4:30. I had the cat jumping on the desk, head butting me, wanting to be fed, I didn't respond. I could not put the book down. So anyway, 4:30, three hours sleep. When that happens, we get a little giddy here sometimes. Just a warning. Story #2:Denver Prepares:...