RUSH: Here's Carly in Savannah, Georgia. Hi, Carly. It's nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi. (giggles) I was just calling to kind of give you a perspective from a younger listener.RUSH: I love this. You are 22?CALLER: Yes.RUSH: Hey, Carly, are you on a cell phone?CALLER: Yes.RUSH: Are you anywhere near a land line where Mr. Snerdley could call you back on? I'm having trouble hearing cell phones today because they cut out or there's a little echo or whatever. Don't...

RUSH: Let me grab a quick phone call. Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. This is Judd. Nice to have you here, sir. Welcome.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It's great to talk to you. I think today is the best show you've ever had. It's been terrific. I really enjoy it.RUSH: You know, it's interesting you say this because I'm setting an e-mail record in the public e-mail account. We're getting five times what we normally get in the course of the three-hour program on the tire gauge garbage. What have...

RUSH: Another See, I Told You So. Way back in the spring (it might even predate that) we had a call on this program from somebody who said, "But, Rush! But, Rush! If Obama is elected president, isn't that gonna just take care of most of the racial strife in this country? Because, I mean, how could they keep calling us racist if a black man is elected president?" I said, "You don't understand the race business. It will get worse. If Obama is elected, the race business will expand. The accusations...

RUSH: From the Wall Street Journal: "Good news out of Iraq is becoming almost a daily event: In just the past week, we learned that US combat fatalities (five) dropped in July to a low for the war, that key leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have fled to the Pakistani hinterland, that troop deployments will soon be cut to 12 months from 15, and that Washington and Baghdad are close to concluding a status-of-forces agreement. Now this: Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr plans to announce Friday that he will...

RUSH: This is a funny little bit here. This was this afternoon, just moments ago on DNCTV, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was talking to McCain advisor Carly Fiorina, and they had this little, bitty exchange here, runs about 21 seconds.MITCHELL: Carly Fiorina is the Republican National Committee victory chairwoman and a spokeswoman for Barack Obama.FIORINA: Actually I'm a spokeswoman for John McCain, not Barack Obama, Andrea. Nice to see you.MITCHELL: My God. Talk about -- let's talk...

RUSH: This is from the Independent in London, the Independent newspaper. "Bill Clinton made a plea yesterday..." I'm not making this up, by the way. I'm actually reading the Independent. "Bill Clinton made a plea yesterday for a new emphasis on monogamy as a key element in the battle against AIDS. The former US president, not noted for his ability to keep his own marriage vows, said it was very important to change people's attitudes to sex." I'm not joking. I am not joking! It is from a Canadian...

RUSH: This is Felicia in Marianna, Florida. Hi, Felicia. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Well, hi, Rush. It's wonderful to actually be able to speak to you. I've been listening to you since you started in Sacramento. I used to live in the big town of Rio Vista.RUSH: Yeah, dangerously close to Rio Linda.CALLER: Dangerously close to Rio Linda.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: But now I live in Marianna, which is almost the end of -- you can kind of see it from here, but anyway. Monday, my husband, well,...

RUSH: Let's talk about energy, tires, inflation, gasoline, oil. We have... I don't know. The oil business is relatively young, just over a hundred years old. We have therefore a century of experience, market-based experience, with the concept of oil being the foundational building block of all energy, which has led to the most prosperous and the most free collection of human beings in one country ever in the history of the world. I'm not saying oil replaced the Constitution, don't misunderstand...

RUSH: The Obama camp continues to push the tire gauge. I mean, this is incredible. They continue to push this tire gauge thing as an energy plan. They claim to have found proof somewhere that properly inflating your tires, if we all did it, would save something like 50,000 gallons or barrels a day or some such thing. It's just absurd. The Drive-Bys continue to circle the wagons around Obama's tire gauge thing, and then McCain continues to make fun of it. But McCain went out there -- this is...

RUSH: Everybody is chatting in one way or another about Paris Hilton, the celebutard's retort to the McCain ad that had her and Britney Spears in that commercial making fun of what happened over in Germany in front of 200,000 people. If you haven't heard this, this is Paris Hilton's ad, it's at funnyordie.com, which is a website that's been put together by a bunch of former Saturday Night Live people.HILTON: Hey, America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity, too. Only I'm not from the olden...

Rush's Morning Update: DefeatAugust 7, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer According to a Wall Street Journal report this week, Muqtada al-Sadr has decided to change his ways. Mookie, who headed up the Mahdi Army, was once the dominant terror figure in parts of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. But the times, they are a-changin' --and Mookie is changing with the times.He is reorganizing his once-powerful Mahdi Army;its members...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The debate for the presidency is now focused on tire gauges replacing the development of sources of energy. It's breathtaking. I'm going nuts.""Which woman sounds more intelligent here? I mean, you gotta give it to Paris Hilton, don't ya? Paris Hilton sounds a bit more cogent than Laura D'Andrea Tyson. Plus, Paris Hilton has the added benefit of being 'hot' -- but that didn't influence my vote.""If indeed Barack Obama becomes...

Story #1: Will Oil Bubble Burst Lead to Big Oil Bailout?RUSH: Let me check the oil price, folks -- $117.79 -- and in a lot of places out there gasoline has now fallen below the four-dollar tipping point price level. Now, ladies and gentlemen, it was not all that long ago that I suggested to you that these inordinately high prices of petroleum and related products, led by the oil price approaching $150 just could not be supported by the market. Now, what do we have here? Do we have a bubble bursting,...