RUSH: I knew it wouldn't be possible. I was trying to go through this program today without one sound bite from President Obama, but it's not possible. The president had a presser, some ceremony at the White House this afternoon to take credit for pulling us out of Iraq, which we're not doing. We're not leaving Iraq. We're pulling out of the cities, and it's up now to the Iraqi security forces to defend themselves -- and, by the way, all hell is breaking loose. Twenty-four dead in Kirkuk. The...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. We gotta do an animal rights combo, animal rights, environmentalist wacko update from the archives, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, Andy Williams sings our favorite animal tune. (playing of animal rights update song) Hey, hey, let the song establish here before going all nuclear on the ammo. (continued playing of song) All right, now time to drop some bombs. (continued playing of song) Andy Williams, our combo animal rights...

RUSH: All right. David, West Bloomfield, Michigan, hi, nice to have on you the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush, how are you?RUSH: Very good, sir. Thank you.CALLER: I'm calling about the Obamamania. I grew up in a Jewish communist household, and from my history and from my experience --RUSH: Where was the Jewish communist household that you grew up in?CALLER: Detroit, Michigan.RUSH: Detroit, okay.CALLER: And I have seen from my own background as well as my own hobby of history,...

RUSH: Roger Altman today in the Wall Street Journal. Roger Altman is a Clinton guy, an Obama guy, a Democrat. You might say that Roger Altman is a whistle-blower who blew the whistle on Obama's community organizer economics. He's not the first. We'd have to say that Gerald Walpin would be the first whistle-blower and they canned him. And they suppressed the second whistle-blower in the EPA who said, "Wait a minute! The thing you're relying on to say that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and it's...

RUSH: This afternoon on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reporting, NBC News, Washington. She was talking to the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt -- wait, we have an alert here, an alert. Okay, the Minnesota Supreme Court has said it's over and Franken is the winner. You know, it's just like they recounted the votes in Iran, folks, and Ahmadinejad actually got more votes after the recount! It's just like in this country. In Minnesota, after the original vote count, Norm Coleman was ahead. And in every recount...

RUSH: There's a column by George Will today about the Supreme Court decision yesterday regarding Sonia Sotomayor, the Ricci case, the firefighters in New Haven. And it's a great piece by Mr. Will: "'Four Justices Unable to See Beyond Race' -- Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly -- 5 to 4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even...

RUSH: I was just perusing the e-mail during the top-of-the-hour break out there, ladies and gentlemen, and I have an e-mail here from somebody in North Carolina who thinks that I have lost my sanity today. I guess it's at least positive he thought I was sane at some point. You can't lose your sanity if you don't have it to begin with. Greetings. Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network at 800-282-2882. The e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. "Hey, Rush, I think you've lost your...

RUSH: Cameron in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, I'm glad you called, sir. You are on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hello, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Just fine, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Yesterday at the end of your show a man called up and he as much as said that he thought Michael Jackson was a child molester, and you tried to defend Michael Jackson. It's my belief, sir -- and with all due respect you are due a lot of respect, but with all due respect -- it's not a conservative position to take, to try...

RUSH: We got a call from Honduras and I want to take it, it's Jim. Jim, I'm glad you got through to us today. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, I appreciate you putting me on the line. I'm calling you right now from Honduras.RUSH: What city?CALLER: I can't tell you, Rush, because that could possibly put my family in danger.RUSH: You're kidding!CALLER: No, I'm not kidding. If this situation gets any worse, Rush, Americans are going to be kicked out. If what Obama has done...

RUSH: Now, yesterday, in discussing cap and trade, this abomination that was voted on and passed the House of Representatives on Friday, I was explaining what I'd missed and I apologized to you for missing something so blatant. Cap and TRADE. Trade. Who's gonna trade? Who's gonna monitor the trades? Who's going to do the trades? Who's gonna get the profit? Who's gonna get the fees? Who's going to get the commissions on the caps that are traded, the pollution credits and so forth? Wall Street!...

RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, if you were here at almost this exact time, you recall we had a couple of examples of the chickification of the news. Women were writing news stories about the Mark Sanford-Argentina "girl from Ipanema" affair. I missed one yesterday because it wasn't yesterday, it was June 27th. It is by Erika Lovley at ThePolitico.com. "Inside Sanford's Love Letters -- It's a love story worthy of a ... Nicholas Sparks novel. A high-ranking politician sneaks away from...

RUSH: "US consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June." That's from Reuters. "Unexpectedly!" Every bit of economic news is "unexpected." What were they expecting? A big rebound? Let's go to the audio sound bites. I want to take you back to me on this program, January 9th of this year.RUSH ARCHIVE: We're going to start seeing stories that will not be true, that feature man-on-the-street interviews with people whose lives are starting to get a little bit better, they see the...

Rush's Morning Update: Overreach? July 1, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, theultra-liberals Tom Daschle and John Podesta are warning Republicans: you better not "overreach" in trying to shape health care policy --or congressional Democrats will go it alone.Daschle-- ex-Senate majority leader and well-known tax cheat-- says if Republicans won't cave, he wouldn't hesitate to use Senate rulesto prevent them from...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Pop quiz, ladies and gentlemen: What do God and Barack Obama have in common? God does not have a birth certificate, either.""Mr. President, if your foreign policy doctrine is to endorse Marxist/leftist regimes, no matter how they come to be -- either by force or by ballot -- then you should say so." "I know some of you people are going to think that I've gone over the edge because I was up late last night until five o'clock working...

Story #1:Feeling Minnesota: Ahmadinejad Gains Recount Votes RUSH: Okay, the Minnesota Supreme Court has said it's over and Franken is the winner. You know, it's just like they recounted the votes in Iran, folks, and Ahmadinejad actually got more votes after the recount! It's just like in this country. In Minnesota, after the original vote count, Norm Coleman was ahead. And in every recount thereafter, Franken got more votes, the loser. It's amazing the similarities in the Minnesota electoral...