RUSH: Let's go St. Louis. Brian, hi. Thanks for calling the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking the call.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: A couple of times I've heard you discussing the $700 billion dollars and the Pickens' plan and you're discussing peripheral elements of it, things like, oh, it's Americans paying the money and things like that, and I don't think that's the biggest issue. The biggest issue is he's talking about energy independence. Now, isn't the overall goal of energy...

RUSH: You gotta hear this. This is The Messiah, Barack Obama, this morning in Youngstown, Ohio, at a campaign event making fun of the concept "Drill here. Drill now."OBAMA: Instead of offering a real plan to lower gas prices, the only energy -- uh, energy plan that he's really promoting is more drilling. That's what he talked about yesterday. "I want to drill here, I want to drill now." I don't know where he was standing. (laughter) I mean, I think he was in a building somewhere.RUSH: Keep...

RUSH: Bill in Tampa, nice that you waited as well, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Mega Cold War veteran West Coast Central Florida dittos to you. Honor to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: I have one question and one suggestion. The question is, yesterday Barry put out that he'd like the Michigan and Florida delegates to be fully counted. Would that make any difference having known that Hillary has not got rid of her delegates?RUSH: Hell...

RUSH: Up next is Deanna from Sidney, Ohio. You're next on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: Well, a little bit off the beaten path, but I was wondering what you thought about the whole Brett Favre situation.RUSH: Well, tell me something. Last I heard, the head coach, Mike McCarthy, was to have a little meeting with the Packers quarterbacks and the team last night and then go out and have a press conference that was scheduled to start...

RUSH: I found something yesterday I want to share with you. This $700 billion dollars a year we're spending on oil, folks, I can't tell you how much it tees me off, because it's being portrayed as though we're being extorted, blackmailed, we're giving money away to terrorists and so forth. There's a website called Seeking Alpha is what it actually is, and they start out quoting T. Boone Pickens. Mark Perry is the author of this little blurb. "As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount...

RUSH: Question, ladies and gentlemen. You know, the Democrat convention is coming up on August 28th, and that is a Thursday. Well, the convention is that week, 25th to the 28th, but the big night is the 28th. That's the night that Obama will accept his party's nomination, supposedly outside of Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver -- and, as you know, he has not received a bump from his trip overseas. Quite the contrary. It probably has hurt him. Now, August 28th is also the 40th anniversary...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, our Morning Update today bounces off an Associated Press story that talks about not only are you suffering economic hardship, so are the wealthy. The wealthy and the rich are finally beginning to share the pain that everybody else in this country is feeling. They are hurting. They are scrimping and scraping and saving and they're doing everything they can to make ends meet just like you. Here's how bad it is according to the AP. The wealthy "have decided to invest...

RUSH: I kid you not. "Oil prices..." This is from Fortune magazine. It's from yesterday, last night, actually. "Oil prices are falling sharply, and that's good news, but not nearly as good as you might think. No doubt the drop, which is..." Let me check and see what it is. It was down to $118 earlier. We're at $119.61 right now. So the drop-down to $119 a barrel "down to $120 by mid-day Monday, gives strapped consumers relief at the gas pump. Prices have dropped below $4 a gallon and could...

RUSH: TIME Magazine. Michael Grunwald, headline: "'The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke' -- How out of touch is Barack Obama? He's so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point; Rush Limbaugh is having a field day--" make that a field week, Michael. "--and the Republican National Committee...

RUSH: Try this headline from the Rocky Mountain News: "With the Democrat National Convention in Mind, the City of Denver has Banned Carrying Urine and Feces." A story written by Daniel Chacon, let me share parts of this story with you: "Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes. The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by the City...

Rush's Morning Update: The Skinny! August 6, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer The Wall Street Journal recently ran a lighthearted piece by Amy Chozick, entitled, "Too Fit to Be President?" She facetiously asked whetherObama's trim form could hurt his chances, given that 66% of American voters are slobs... oroverweight. "Despite his visits to...greasy-spoon diners around the country," she wrote, "his slim physique just...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama really is like a man-child. He's so spoiled rotten. Things don't go his way, and he's gotta whine and moan and complain.""Say we use 25% of the world's resources -- I don't even believe it, but let's accept it as true for the sake of it. You know why we do? 'Cause we can! And the others can't! And what we do with it is in the interests of the betterment of all mankind!""Can you imagine the Denver city council having to pass...

Story #1: Shocker: ChiComs Didn't Live Up to PromisesRUSH: Here's a shocker, folks. I know you won't believe this. This is from McClatchy newspapers: "With four days left before the start of the 2008 Summer Games, Chinese officials have not lived up to key promises they made to win the right to host the Olympics, including widening press freedoms, cleaning up their capital city's polluted air and respecting human rights." No! I am shocked. I cannot believe this. They lied to us, the ChiComs...