RUSH: Barb in Montana, a cell call, great to have you on the program. Hello.CALLER: Hey! Thanks, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: I gotta say hi to my folks back in St. Paul and also to our friend Cory who is mowing hay right now back in Livingston. We're just driving through southern Montana and I had to call because I'm excited as heck that Brett Favre is playing quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, and I'd rather watch him play and struggle with his retirement issues...

RUSH: We go to Atlanta, Indiana, and this is Elizabeth. Elizabeth, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Whooo-hoo! I can't believe we're talking to you! Hi, Rush. How are you?RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thanks much.CALLER: I wanted to tell you what Obamacare would be like. I've got an HMO and my daughter's got a special medical condition, she needed to see a specialist, my insurance company denied her. I have an HMO so we went through a grievance process. The panel was composed...

RUSH: I have an idea. Nobody likes the term "death panels." Well, I happen to like the term "death panels." How about cash for caskets? Hey, Koko, get Michaele at the website working on a graphic of that: Cash for Caskets. You know, get a bunch of old people, and put 'em in a casket with dollar signs and bills floating around.BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: I like that: Cash for Caskets. Cash for Caskets to replace the whole notion of death panels. And you know, you could use a Darth Vader-like figure...

RUSH: We now go to Yakima, Washington, this is Andrew. Andrew, how long have you lived in Yakima Washington.CALLER: I've lived here my entire life, I'm 31 years old.RUSH: Thirty-one-years old, you're right on the cusp, let's see --CALLER: I was born in '78, March 9th, the day you started losing weight.RUSH: Yeah, you might be a little young. There's something that Yakima, Washington, was the first at in this country ever, something that happened in Yakima, Washington, did it before anybody...

RUSH: Albany and Tom, you're next, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's great to speak with you. I'd like to thank you for the great work that you've been doing for so many years.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I have an observation I'd like to share with you and possibly get your feedback. Since Obama took over I've been watching some of these town hall meetings, and it hurts me to see fellow Americans be categorized as Nazis, being on the lunatic fringe and so...

RUSH: June in Greenwood, Arkansas. It's great to have you, thank you for calling, and welcome.CALLER: Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: I'm calling because I've had similar success on a weight loss program very similar to your program.RUSH: Not possible. CALLER: (chuckling)RUSH: The weight I've lost I haven't lost, according to the experts.CALLER: I know. I heard that. I started out at 319; I lost 90 pounds.RUSH: In what period of time?CALLER: It took...

RUSH: Doris Kearns Goodwin is heartbroken. Obama is learning the presidency is hard. Everything left over from Bush is much worse than anyone thought. That's her summary. Charlie Rose said, "Doris, what do you make of President Obama?"GOODWIN: What we've seen so far is a man that surprisingly is in command of the office. Think back to the days when people worried about a 3 a.m. call coming in the middle of the night and this rookie wouldn't know what to do. He's had multiple crises, and he...

RUSH: Now, folks, Obama says there aren't death panels. He pooh-poohs the notion that there aren't death panels here. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report. "If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment...

RUSH: Everybody is asking, "How did it go with William Shatner yesterday?" Folks, it was like everything else this week. I have simply had a blast out here. We did the interview in a private home in Encino, California, and it was great. Shatner's show is Raw Nerve. It's on A&E. I don't know when this particular episode is going to air. It's a 30-minute show with commercial, so it's 23 minutes of content. We did an hour and 45 minutes, and he had a unique setup. We were sitting in chairs that...

RUSH: We're all wee-weed up here, folks. President Obama yesterday, he was at the Democrat National Committee headquarters, he spoke to supporters via a webcast, and here is a portion of what he said.OBAMA: Sometimes it seems like one loud voice can drown out all the civil, sensible voices out there. Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. That's how we won this election. We've been through this before. Some of you were involved when we were in Iowa, 30 points...

Rush's Morning Update: Beyond Belief!August 24, 2009No video while Rush is broadcasting from LA.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer As the Obama administration is trying to relocate Club Gitmo terrorists to American neighborhoods (mainly in Michigan),an outrageous story is breaking.According to the Washington Post, the Justice Department is investigating three lawyers representing Gitmo terroristswho showed their clients photographs of CIA officers and contractors. The defense lawyers...

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