RUSH: What are...? (interruption) Interrupting for what?THE PRESIDENT: Hello!RUSH: Oh, jeez. The president?THE PRESIDENT: Rush Limbaugh? RUSH: Yes, sir, Mr. President.THE PRESIDENT: President George W. Bush calling to congratulate you on 20 years of important and excellent broadcasting.RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. You've stunned me! (laughing) I'm shocked. But thank you so much.THE PRESIDENT: That's hard to do.RUSH: (laughing) I know, it is.THE PRESIDENT: I'm here with a room full of...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I knew this was going to happen. We have a lot of archival items that I'm not going to possibly be able to squeeze in in our remaining moments, and no reason to stop, we could throw a couple of them in next week on a day or two because they're fun. The gurgling cod was the one I had coming up next that I received on my first trip to Boston, but its length is too much, it won't squeeze in. I wanted to spend a little bit more time on the whole appreciation. You know,...

RUSH: Speaking of Ed McLaughlin, he had a greater tribute earlier in the program. I want to tell you a little bit about Ed. I've written about him extensively in my first book, The Way Things Ought To Be. In that book, I pretty much explained how the EIB Network started. But all the things that people have heard about this network, the program, all of the myths out there that there was some giant strategic meeting between powers in broadcasting and politics to fill a conservative niche in the...

(plastic party horn blowing)RUSH: All right. For those of you watching on the Dittocam, you can see what is happening, an anniversary cake has been brought in and glasses of champagne --STAFF: (giggling)RUSH: -- and one of these little confetti bombs that you see at the Super Bowl are now going off and being launched. Look, it's Veuve Clicquot. It's excellent. And I happen to know it was already in the refrigerator so none of you tightwads bought it. STAFF: (laughing)RUSH: Am I allowed to consume...

RUSH: You, ladies and gentlemen, have got to hear the audio coming next of the newest ad from Senator McCain's campaign, but you really have to see this, too. It's linked at the DrudgeReport.com. You've got to see it, but here is the audio. It is entitled The One.ANNOUNCER: It should be known that in 2008 the world will be blessed. They will call him: The One.OBAMA: A nation healed! A world repaired! We are the ones we've been waiting for.ANNOUNCER: And he has anointed himself ready to carry...

RUSH: Here's Edgar in Nashville, Tennessee. Edgar, thank you for waiting, welcome to Open Line Friday.CALLER: Rush, I'm delighted to get you on this special day and to give you back my vote to continue running this country. If you'll remember, I called you and unjustly chastised you last year because I thought you were defending the Republicans for bringing to closure McCain's immigration bill. I was misinformed by the media. I was under the impression that that closure, like the previous one,...

RUSH: December 10th, 1994, Baltimore, Maryland, at the Heritage Foundation freshman orientation, the freshman class of the 1994 House elections, the Republican House that was sworn in in 1995, this was at their orientation. They asked me to speak.RUSH ARCHIVE: The first thing I'd like to tell you, you're coming into the Beltway, inside the Beltway. And as we're all human beings and we all are susceptible to human nature, and we all want to be liked, we all want to be loved, and you all want to...

RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites and the archives. One of the funniest montages that we have ever put together, April 18th, 2001, New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli denying everything.TORRICELLI: To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt. I do not deserve this treatment.CHANG: Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend --TORRICELLI: I have never.CHANG: -- television set --TORRICELLI: Ever!CHANG: -- Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items --TORRICELLI:...

RUSH: Here's Paul in Buffalo, New York, as we go back to the phones. Nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey! New York overtaxed dittos.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I was going to mention we have one month to go before the opening day, but you got me all cranked up with our tax situation here, so thank you, sir. Congratulations, and it's an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that.CALLER: I'm adrift in a sea of liberals here, and you're my lifeline so I listen...

RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we talked about the state of New York, how they're out of money. Their deficit is ballooning. They've got a combined tax rate, New Yorkers who own property and produce in New York State and New York City pay a combined tax rate higher than the tax rate in the European Union. They pay a higher tax rate than Europeans, and the state's broke, and it still isn't enough! They want more! I said, "One of the problems with New York is it's a welfare state within...

RUSH: Let's go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen. We have a seven-and-a-half minute segment here from the era of this program around Dan's Bake Sale.(BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP)CALLER: Hello to Dan Hubbard in Dallas, Oregon, who turned me on to the show.RUSH ARCHIVE: Yeah.CALLER: And thanks for sending me his used Limbaugh Letter, since I can't afford a subscription yet.RUSH ARCHIVE: Wait a minute. He's sending you his used Limbaugh Letters?CALLER: Well, Xeroxed copies.RUSH ARCHIVE: I'll...

HESTON: Hello, Rush. This is Chuck Heston. You and I met before you were Rush Limbaugh, really, well, you were Rush Limbaugh, but you hadn't become the king of the airwaves at that point. And I remember our conversation very warmly and all the many, many times I listened to you and exchanged moments with you on the air since then. You are a major, major figure in this country's exploration of the political scene. And I wish you well on your tenth anniversary and I'll talk to you again on your...

RUSH: I got an e-mail from good friends of mine, Steve and Kathy Abernathy in New Orleans, met them both when she was the manager at Brennan's in the French Quarter. She said, "You've got to play some of the interview that you did with your grandfather on his 100th birthday." And the copy that we have of that, it's unfortunate, we're going to have to do some major EQ work with it to make it so we can air it, because the sound quality is such it would distract, but we do have a number of excerpts...

GIULIANI: Rush, this is Rudy Giuliani. I'm congratulating you on 20 years of very interesting talk radio, pushing an agenda that in my view has been very, very helpful to America, always being willing to make your positions very clear, and you're a good friend and you're someone that I really admire. I hope that you have another 20 more years of provocative talk. I listen to you very often while I'm in the car traveling from one place to another, and I'm looking forward to listening to you for...

RUSH: And now, ladies and gentlemen, without any further ado, we turn to the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley.SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, Official Barack Criticizer for the EIB Network, certified black enough to criticize with non-homogenized organic slave blood. I have a statement. Mr. Obama, your trip to Europe -- marred by your gross insensitivity to our wounded troops, ego-based photo-ops with foreign leaders, and a speech about nothing to a large crowd in Germany -- has now been...

RUSH: By the way, before we move on, we have inaugurated something today that the website people, Koko and the crew, have been working on for months, and I guarantee you: You have not seen anything like it. It's at my website, RushLimbaugh.com, and it is the virtual Limbaugh Museum of Broadcasting. Now, if I may say so, my website, as it is, is a gold mine. My website is cutting-edge. It is encyclopedic. There is more information available there on current events, history, anything you want,...

RUSH: Speaking of The Messiah, he was heckled today. The Messiah heckled in St. Petersburg Florida.OBAMA: Hold on a second. (heckles) Hold on a second. (booing) That's all right. That's right, all right. Listen. Excuse me. (shouting) Hey. Hold on a second. (chanting) Hold on, everybody. Excuse me, young man. This is going to be a question-and-answer session, so you can ask a question later. Let me make my statement. (applause) Why don't you all sit down. Then you can ask a question. That's...

RUSH: What are...? (interruption) Interrupting for what?THE PRESIDENT: Hello!RUSH: Oh, jeez. The president?THE PRESIDENT: Rush Limbaugh? RUSH: Yes, sir, Mr. President.THE PRESIDENT: President George W. Bush calling to congratulate you on 20 years of important and excellent broadcasting.RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. You've stunned me! (laughing) I'm shocked. But thank you so much.THE PRESIDENT: That's hard to do.RUSH: (laughing) I know, it is.THE PRESIDENT: I'm here with a room full of...

Rush's Morning Update: RecessAugust 4, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, Congress is in recess. (Normally, good news.) They'll be gone forthe rest of the summer.As we approach the fall elections, we should take stock of the enormous benefits that electing a Democrat Congress have brought us.Their single biggest achievement of the Democrat Congress has beenthat huge increase in the minimum wage...30 or 40 cents an...

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Story #1: Drive-Bys Can't Get Story Straight on EconomyRUSH: Remember, we had the story in the New York Times, that referred to the 1.9% economic growth rate as "tepid" and that the stimulus had failed. Here's the Washington Post headline today: "Economy Grows on Impact of Stimulus," the exact opposite take. Yesterday the economy, "tepid," and the stimulus didn't help. Washington Post: "Economy Grows on Impact of Stimulus; Troubles Expected As Effect Wears Off -- The [commerce] department said...