BECK: Now joining me on the phone is radio talk show host Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Rush?RUSH: Glenn Beck. How are you, sir?BECK: Very good, sir. I want to play something for you. I don't know if you just saw it, but I want to play it again. This is the new diversity officer for the FCC, a newly created position. This is what he said at a speech or talk he was giving about Chavez's Venezuela and how the media work down there. Watch this.MARK LLOYD: In Venezuela, with Chavez, you really hadan incredible...

RUSH: I want to close here by repeating part of my eulogy that I gave in the first hour to Ted Kennedy. The left is going to exploit him, they're going to exploit his death, they're going to exploit his legacy to push health care through. But the greatest tribute would be that every American, every man, every woman and child would get the same health care options that Ted Kennedy got. Tedcare for all, forever. Will there be a single liberal to come forward and embrace Senator Kennedy's example...

RUSH: This is last night on MSNBC. And they talked to Sherrod Brown's wife, who is Connie Schultz. She is a columnist, a newspaper columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the host of this show asked Connie Schultz about the Death Book, the VA Death Book, and she said, "Why are the anti-reform people (sic) moved on to veterans?"SCHULTZ: Well, I think they were running out of steam on America's number one most vulnerable group, senior citizens. So now they're trying to prey upon veterans....

RUSH: Charlie from Fairfax, Virginia. Hi, Charlie, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's great to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I was at the town hall last night with the esteemed Howard Dean and Congressman Moran.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: And I don't even know where to begin. I don't even know where to start it was so unbelievable, but I have to tell you: I don't know if you saw all this stuff that happened on C-SPAN, because they covered it live.RUSH:...

RUSH: I want to move on to the CIA and the Obama administration. This is a subject that continues to inflame me. It just makes my blood boil. It irritates me all to heck. If I were a CIA agent, if I were a CIA interrogator, I would tell Eric Holder to start the trial this week. And, by the way, the last surviving Kennedy brother, Barack Obama, again today makes it plain, (imitating Obama) "I've got nothing to do with this investigation. The attorney general is doing all that, attorney general...

RUSH: Move on to Senator McCain and his town hall yesterday. You know, President Obama is preparing to pass an extinguished torch to future generations of Americans. Remember President Kennedy? (JFK impression) "The torch has been passed to a new generation." Obama is going to pass a torch only the torch he passes is going to be extinguished. The torch he's going to pass is one of fascism. And this health care debacle. So McCain has a town hall yesterday -- and, folks, it's worse than I thought...

RUSH: No, it's totally believable. Unbelievable here. Totally believable, I should say. Drive-By Media, State-Controlled Media, Reuters, just check this headline: "'Kennedy Death Puts Family Dynasty in Doubt' -- Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity." That's not true. That's not true. Chris Matthews told us today that Barack...

RUSH: Here's Christine in Syracuse, Indiana. Hi, Christine. Great to have you with us.CALLER: Hi. I want to know how -- I'm curious. You alluded to the fact what a fighter Ted Kennedy was. How do you know he didn't have a living will or a medical directive? I mean if he had -- if he had -- of course, he had the means to be able to use any kind of New Age and/or experimental cancer treatment because he had the means, but I'm in favor of a national health care program. I'm uninsured right...

RUSH: Michelle in Memphis. I'm glad you called. Thank you for calling, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you so much. I'm so excited to talk to you.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Also want to say, my father, who was a wonderful man and who turned me on to you, by the way, he was diagnosed with the very same brain tumor that Kennedy had back in 1999, and we did our research and found out that the best doctor was at Duke University and it's the same doctor that Kennedy went to.RUSH: Right.CALLER:...

RUSH: I'm getting lots of e-mail. People are frustrated as they can be over the slobbering media coverage today over the passing of Senator Kennedy. Folks, you're going to have to put up with it for a week. It's just the way it is. It shouldn't surprise any of you. But I think we need to look at Senator Kennedy in a number of ways. I think Senator Kennedy... It would serve us well to remember that Senator Kennedy is a perfect example of the redeeming aspect of liberalism. If a politician is...

RUSH: How am I going to pull what off, Snerdley? You mean discussing the passing of the lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy? And we were his prey. Well, I tell you, I think the best way to deal with this is I just have to share with you what I heard on NBC, the Today Show -- Brian, turn my mike up a bit now. Testing, one, two -- level check, level check. That's good. I actually heard Chris Matthews say that Ted Kennedy had turned the ball over to Barack Obama. He said, "Barack Obama is the last...

Rush's Morning Update: CIAAugust 27, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Two weeks after 9/11, Bob Torricelli,"The Torch",took to the Senate floor to denounce the CIA. The New Jersey Democrat demanded a board of inquiry into what he called a "stunning failure" of US intelligence. One year later, with his corrupt financial dealings exposed, Torricelli left the Senate in disgrace.But the damage was done. During his tenure, Bob...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The greatest tribute would be that every American would get the same health care options that Ted Kennedy got. Tedcare for all, forever.""Senator Kennedy is a perfect example of the redeeming aspect of liberalism. If a politician is liberal, and if the politician uses the government to take money from people who work to give it to people who don't work, then they are redeemed for every bad act they commit on earth.""If we were a...

Story #1:Democrats Fake Vandalism Against ThemselvesRUSH: I mentioned before the break that the Democrats have faked a vandalism crime against themselves. Hee,hee. I told you when these town halls started, when they got all raucous, I said, "Don't be surprised," after the White House says you're nothing but an unruly mob and Nancy Pelosi said that everybody's out there wearing swastikas and so forth, I said, "don't be surprised if at the next town hall meeting you go to, a Democrat shows up and...