RUSH: Here is James in Normal, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Great to have you here.CALLER: Hey, thank you. I wanted to take exception with your charge that the liberal media is simply trying to make Palin or O'Donnell portrayed as evil individuals. I mean any candidate who has made as many outlandish and sometimes ridiculous statements as those two is going to be under such scrutiny, and a good deal of it has come from the right as well.RUSH: Well, give me some outlandish, ridiculous...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, in mere moments I am going to demonstrate to you my love and devotion to this program, to this country, and to you, 'cause I'm going to comment on a seeming insignificant, small, little news item that will forever seal any opportunity I have to be involved in the National Football League. But we are at a crossroads, and as I said there are a lot of teachable moments in the Stack of Stuff today. For example, there's a Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times today...

RUSH: Zack, South Bend, Indiana. Hello, Zack. What's your question?CALLER: How you doing, Rush? Thank you for having me on. I'm a new listener. I was just wondering if you had a chance to sit down with Barack, and ask any question in the world that he had to answer honestly, what would it be?RUSH: Well, that he had to answer honestly?CALLER: Yes.RUSH: Oh.CALLER: There was some kind of truth serum and he had no choice.RUSH: "Why are you doing this?" If he had no choice and the truth would...

RUSH: The Woodward book is out. Folks, where do you begin with the Woodward book? This is so jumbled. This is so cockamamie you don't know where to begin with this. What you know is, at least the excerpts that have been published in the New York Times, this is raging incompetence, dangerously so. Obama not even talking about victory, ignoring the generals when promising parents of the troops that he would listen to the generals. He's ignoring them, coming up with his own timeline to get out...

Rush's Morning Update: WarfareOriginal Airdate: August 11, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Suddenly, liberals are worried about class warfare. The opening sentence of a New York Times article last weekend predicts that "a class war" is about to hit "the world of government pensions." In every class war, there are haves and the have-nots. In this case,have-nots are "taxpayers who don't have generous pensions"...in other...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I made the comparison to Jimmy Carter long ago, saying that Obama would be his second term, only worse. But where Carter was a bumbling old fool, this guy's doing it on purpose." "Snerdley, I appreciate that you want to try to find liberal callers, but can you find some that are not filled with cliches? Then again, maybe it's impossible.""After what I've read of this Woodward book, and the way it describes Obama and his whole...

Story #1:Tidal Wave: Polls Tighten in New York, West VirginiaRUSH: Man, this is getting fun in New York. Carl Paladino has now moved to within six points of "Andrew the Como" in the race for the New York governorship. It was 27 points a couple of days ago, 23 points. It was 16 points yesterday or the day before. Now it's six points. And Michael Bloomberg had a joint press conference to endorse "Andrew the Como." In West Virginia, according to Public Policy Polling, a Republican has taken...