RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, on this program we have a phrase that sometimes describes one of the strategeries we use to communicate here. It's called "illustrating absurdity by being absurd," and I'm afraid my strategy is being stolen. Just as I admitted stealing from Bill Clinton the concept that Obama's a "Chicago thug," CNN is now stealing from me my strategery of illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Here is correspondent Deborah Feyerick on Lou Dobbs' show last night.FEYERICK:...

RUSH: Yesterday on MSNBC's New York Times Transition Edition (laughing) the cohost Tamron Hall interviewed Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Tamron Hall said this.HALL: I was in a car the other day with a gentleman from another country, and he said, "I just really feel the -- the weather is better because of Barack Obama." He said, "I think he's on the good side. Look at the weather as proof," and I pointed out that it was snowing and 34 degrees that day in Chicago and cold, but beyond the...

RUSH: This is James in Cincinnati. Nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I got a very simple comment here. I think that there's a very simple solution to the conservative crisis and the financial crisis in the country. It goes like this. Get out the electoral map, you flood the red states with conservatives, and you begin to actively promote the conservative way of life that half of Americans in this country want to live. You know, family, free...

RUSH: CNBC today had a video clip, a segment I should say, that deals with the auto industry since they're being talked about in terms of being bailed out. They had a chart and I got hold of it here. When you look at the chart, it's no wonder that General Motors and Ford and Chrysler are having financial problems. Their costs are 53% higher than Toyota and 132% higher than other manufacturing. The cost per hour to manufacture at the Big Three auto companies is $73.20, and that's total compensation...

RUSH: Let's get a call. Cincinnati. We'll start with you, Chris. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Chris in Cincinnati, an honor and a pleasure to speak with you today.RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.CALLER: Yes. I just had a comment about something you said yesterday, and let me preface this by saying I've been listening to you for eight years. As an African-American female I do get a lot of flack from family and friends for that, however I like...

We have some Barney Frank sound bites coming up, and, as always, prior to those... Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! (playing of My Boy Lollipop) RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, Barney Frank, congressman, Massachusetts, is fit to be tied. He is not happy. The $700 billion bailout is not being used as it was intended. He thinks it is his money. He chaired a hearing today of the House Committee on Financial Services.FRANK: The bill we passed that is accompanied...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you have noticed this as have I. I, of course, a highly observant human being. It's my job. I sometimes participate in life by observing others doing what they do as they live. I have been observing something that's not happening. Now, you may say, "Rush, how can you observe something that isn't happening?" That's why I am the host. I have been watching all of my televisions, and I have been reading all of my websites, and I have occasionally even...

RUSH: We're joined now by Bill Gertz, another book, a prolific writer. Bill, it's a long title. I'm going to mention the title in full once, and I'm just going to call it The Failure Factory after that. Is that all right?GERTZ: That's great.RUSH: The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War. Now, your focus is the Pentagon, that's your beat for the Washington Times, but you cover...

RUSH: Salt Lake City, up in arms over my comments about the One World Cafe. This the place where you go in and eat whatever you want and pay whatever you want, including nothing, and they're having trouble, obviously so. KTVX ABC 4 Eyeball News at ten, the correspondent Susan Wood.WOOD: This is One World, where everyone who walks through the door eats whether they're rich or poor. But Rush Limbaugh says it's an American embarrassment. At One World there is no menu, just a variety of healthy...

RUSH: Did you see what the Treasury secretary did today? Folks, we're bailing out everybody. We are bailing out credit card companies. You are going to be paying for people's dinners that they are not paying their credit card companies for enjoying. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I don't care. I don't care what Henry Paulson does, nobody can complain about this. You can complain, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. Henry Paulson,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Nobody caused Republicans to stay home this election -- except the Republican Party.""We are now paying for other people's dinners with this credit card bailout. This has an upside, however. When you pay for other people's dinners and get nothing for it, there is a teaching moment: women can finally learn how men feel on dates.""AP poll: 'The public seems willing to wait on tax cuts.' Ha, ha! Isn't this a convenient poll! Yes,...

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, on this program we have a phrase that sometimes describes one of the strategeries we use to communicate here. It's called "illustrating absurdity by being absurd," and I'm afraid my strategy is being stolen. Just as I admitted stealing from Bill Clinton the concept that Obama's a "Chicago thug," CNN is now stealing from me my strategery of illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Here is correspondent Deborah Feyerick on Lou Dobbs' show last night.FEYERICK:...

RUSH: Yesterday on MSNBC's New York Times Transition Edition (laughing) the cohost Tamron Hall interviewed Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Tamron Hall said this.HALL: I was in a car the other day with a gentleman from another country, and he said, "I just really feel the -- the weather is better because of Barack Obama." He said, "I think he's on the good side. Look at the weather as proof," and I pointed out that it was snowing and 34 degrees that day in Chicago and cold, but beyond the...

RUSH: This is James in Cincinnati. Nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I got a very simple comment here. I think that there's a very simple solution to the conservative crisis and the financial crisis in the country. It goes like this. Get out the electoral map, you flood the red states with conservatives, and you begin to actively promote the conservative way of life that half of Americans in this country want to live. You know, family, free...

RUSH: CNBC today had a video clip, a segment I should say, that deals with the auto industry since they're being talked about in terms of being bailed out. They had a chart and I got hold of it here. When you look at the chart, it's no wonder that General Motors and Ford and Chrysler are having financial problems. Their costs are 53% higher than Toyota and 132% higher than other manufacturing. The cost per hour to manufacture at the Big Three auto companies is $73.20, and that's total compensation...

RUSH: Let's get a call. Cincinnati. We'll start with you, Chris. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Chris in Cincinnati, an honor and a pleasure to speak with you today.RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.CALLER: Yes. I just had a comment about something you said yesterday, and let me preface this by saying I've been listening to you for eight years. As an African-American female I do get a lot of flack from family and friends for that, however I like...

We have some Barney Frank sound bites coming up, and, as always, prior to those... Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! (playing of My Boy Lollipop) RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, Barney Frank, congressman, Massachusetts, is fit to be tied. He is not happy. The $700 billion bailout is not being used as it was intended. He thinks it is his money. He chaired a hearing today of the House Committee on Financial Services.FRANK: The bill we passed that is accompanied...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you have noticed this as have I. I, of course, a highly observant human being. It's my job. I sometimes participate in life by observing others doing what they do as they live. I have been observing something that's not happening. Now, you may say, "Rush, how can you observe something that isn't happening?" That's why I am the host. I have been watching all of my televisions, and I have been reading all of my websites, and I have occasionally even...

RUSH: We're joined now by Bill Gertz, another book, a prolific writer. Bill, it's a long title. I'm going to mention the title in full once, and I'm just going to call it The Failure Factory after that. Is that all right?GERTZ: That's great.RUSH: The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War. Now, your focus is the Pentagon, that's your beat for the Washington Times, but you cover...

RUSH: Salt Lake City, up in arms over my comments about the One World Cafe. This the place where you go in and eat whatever you want and pay whatever you want, including nothing, and they're having trouble, obviously so. KTVX ABC 4 Eyeball News at ten, the correspondent Susan Wood.WOOD: This is One World, where everyone who walks through the door eats whether they're rich or poor. But Rush Limbaugh says it's an American embarrassment. At One World there is no menu, just a variety of healthy...

RUSH: Did you see what the Treasury secretary did today? Folks, we're bailing out everybody. We are bailing out credit card companies. You are going to be paying for people's dinners that they are not paying their credit card companies for enjoying. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I don't care. I don't care what Henry Paulson does, nobody can complain about this. You can complain, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. Henry Paulson,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Nobody caused Republicans to stay home this election -- except the Republican Party.""We are now paying for other people's dinners with this credit card bailout. This has an upside, however. When you pay for other people's dinners and get nothing for it, there is a teaching moment: women can finally learn how men feel on dates.""AP poll: 'The public seems willing to wait on tax cuts.' Ha, ha! Isn't this a convenient poll! Yes,...

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, on this program we have a phrase that sometimes describes one of the strategeries we use to communicate here. It's called "illustrating absurdity by being absurd," and I'm afraid my strategy is being stolen. Just as I admitted stealing from Bill Clinton the concept that Obama's a "Chicago thug," CNN is now stealing from me my strategery of illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Here is correspondent Deborah Feyerick on Lou Dobbs' show last night.FEYERICK:...

RUSH: Yesterday on MSNBC's New York Times Transition Edition (laughing) the cohost Tamron Hall interviewed Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Tamron Hall said this.HALL: I was in a car the other day with a gentleman from another country, and he said, "I just really feel the -- the weather is better because of Barack Obama." He said, "I think he's on the good side. Look at the weather as proof," and I pointed out that it was snowing and 34 degrees that day in Chicago and cold, but beyond the...

RUSH: This is James in Cincinnati. Nice to have you on the program, sir.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I got a very simple comment here. I think that there's a very simple solution to the conservative crisis and the financial crisis in the country. It goes like this. Get out the electoral map, you flood the red states with conservatives, and you begin to actively promote the conservative way of life that half of Americans in this country want to live. You know, family, free...

RUSH: CNBC today had a video clip, a segment I should say, that deals with the auto industry since they're being talked about in terms of being bailed out. They had a chart and I got hold of it here. When you look at the chart, it's no wonder that General Motors and Ford and Chrysler are having financial problems. Their costs are 53% higher than Toyota and 132% higher than other manufacturing. The cost per hour to manufacture at the Big Three auto companies is $73.20, and that's total compensation...

RUSH: Let's get a call. Cincinnati. We'll start with you, Chris. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. This is Chris in Cincinnati, an honor and a pleasure to speak with you today.RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.CALLER: Yes. I just had a comment about something you said yesterday, and let me preface this by saying I've been listening to you for eight years. As an African-American female I do get a lot of flack from family and friends for that, however I like...

We have some Barney Frank sound bites coming up, and, as always, prior to those... Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! (playing of My Boy Lollipop) RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, Barney Frank, congressman, Massachusetts, is fit to be tied. He is not happy. The $700 billion bailout is not being used as it was intended. He thinks it is his money. He chaired a hearing today of the House Committee on Financial Services.FRANK: The bill we passed that is accompanied...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you have noticed this as have I. I, of course, a highly observant human being. It's my job. I sometimes participate in life by observing others doing what they do as they live. I have been observing something that's not happening. Now, you may say, "Rush, how can you observe something that isn't happening?" That's why I am the host. I have been watching all of my televisions, and I have been reading all of my websites, and I have occasionally even...

RUSH: We're joined now by Bill Gertz, another book, a prolific writer. Bill, it's a long title. I'm going to mention the title in full once, and I'm just going to call it The Failure Factory after that. Is that all right?GERTZ: That's great.RUSH: The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War. Now, your focus is the Pentagon, that's your beat for the Washington Times, but you cover...

RUSH: Salt Lake City, up in arms over my comments about the One World Cafe. This the place where you go in and eat whatever you want and pay whatever you want, including nothing, and they're having trouble, obviously so. KTVX ABC 4 Eyeball News at ten, the correspondent Susan Wood.WOOD: This is One World, where everyone who walks through the door eats whether they're rich or poor. But Rush Limbaugh says it's an American embarrassment. At One World there is no menu, just a variety of healthy...

RUSH: Did you see what the Treasury secretary did today? Folks, we're bailing out everybody. We are bailing out credit card companies. You are going to be paying for people's dinners that they are not paying their credit card companies for enjoying. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I don't care. I don't care what Henry Paulson does, nobody can complain about this. You can complain, but it isn't going to get you anywhere. Henry Paulson,...

Rush's Morning Update: Bear ItOriginal Airdate: June 25, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Not long ago, I told you about a lawsuit filed by environmentalist wackos claiming polar bears will "stress out" if oil drilling is allowed in the Arctic. Well, the beloved AP rehashed the story this week blaming Bush for allowing Big Oil to harass and "annoy" these poor bears. But the silliness doesn't stop there. At Washington D.C.'s...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Nobody caused Republicans to stay home this election -- except the Republican Party.""We are now paying for other people's dinners with this credit card bailout. This has an upside, however. When you pay for other people's dinners and get nothing for it, there is a teaching moment: women can finally learn how men feel on dates.""AP poll: 'The public seems willing to wait on tax cuts.' Ha, ha! Isn't this a convenient poll! Yes,...

Story #1: Big Media Bailout? TIME Offers BuyoutsRUSH: So now credit card companies want their share of the bailout pie, and Big Auto wants its share. It isn't going to be long before Big Media asks for a bailout. In fact, TIME Magazine today is asking for volunteers for buyouts. I kid you not. Isn't that just fabulous? And what happens if nobody volunteers? Which liberal journalist will be first? I thought they were into sacrifice -- they've been wanting us to sacrifice for the longest time. But...

Story #1: Big Media Bailout? TIME Offers BuyoutsRUSH: So now credit card companies want their share of the bailout pie, and Big Auto wants its share. It isn't going to be long before Big Media asks for a bailout. In fact, TIME Magazine today is asking for volunteers for buyouts. I kid you not. Isn't that just fabulous? And what happens if nobody volunteers? Which liberal journalist will be first? I thought they were into sacrifice -- they've been wanting us to sacrifice for the longest time. But...

Story #1: Big Media Bailout? TIME Offers BuyoutsRUSH: So now credit card companies want their share of the bailout pie, and Big Auto wants its share. It isn't going to be long before Big Media asks for a bailout. In fact, TIME Magazine today is asking for volunteers for buyouts. I kid you not. Isn't that just fabulous? And what happens if nobody volunteers? Which liberal journalist will be first? I thought they were into sacrifice -- they've been wanting us to sacrifice for the longest time. But...