Minnesota's "Mr. Right," Jason Lewis of KTLK-FM in Minneapolis, guest hosted an installment of Open Line Friday on Thursday. Visit Jason's Stack of Stuff right here. El Rushbo returns to the Golden EIB Microphone after Independence Day Weekend.

Rush Signs a Contract for America: "I've extended my partnership at Clear Channel through 2016. I'm not going anywhere. I'm your host for life. As I've said on many occasions: none of this would have been possible without you, and I can't thank you enough. It's a debt I can never repay." (details) (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» The New York Times Sunday Magazine Profile: Late-Period Limbaugh

The left seeks to redefine patriotism as ripping America, compulsory national service, and paying the confiscatory tax rates Democrats pile on us. The USSR had patriotism, too. Every country does. Patriotism in America is more than loving a geographic area. It's about loving the ideals of the Founders. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» Reuters: Obama Issues New Call for National Service

» Ayn Rand Center: Reject Citizen Service - Your Life is Your Own

Jason Lewis Pearl of Wisdom: "These troops are not fighting on July 4th for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They are fighting for freedom."

The Best of Rush for Independence Day...

» Rush's Father's Speech: The Americans Who Risked Everything

» Terrorists Are NOT the Equivalent of Our Founding Fathers

» Clown-Ministry.com: Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

» Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal: Global Warming as Mass Neurosis

Jason Lewis Pearl of Wisdom: "None of these ethanol-state senators ever complain about the speculation in corn or wheat that's driven up the prices. It's only oil. Why is that? It's because they have a bias against oil." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Obama's new ad says he "worked his way" through college and law school. But his campaign says he had two summer jobs. Oops. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» FactCheck.org: Obama's Work Claim

Dire warnings of a heterosexual AIDS epidemic turned out to be overblown. Will global warming predictions of doom, pestilence and death be similarly exposed?

» Michael Fumento: AIDS Danger Inflated, $50B Relief Bill Based on a Myth

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Rush Signs a Contract for America: "I've extended my partnership at Clear Channel through 2016. I'm not going anywhere. I'm your host for life. As I've said on many occasions: none of this would have been possible without you, and I can't thank you enough. It's a debt I can never repay." (details) (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» The New York Times Sunday Magazine Profile: Late-Period Limbaugh
 

CNBC Asks: Is Rush Worth It? Lex Luthor lookalike Michael Wolff freaked out, saying conservatism is over and Rush will soon be an "oddity." If you people don't learn how to cover the news, Rush is going to buy your network and do it right.

Pearl of Wisdom: "Wesley Clark is a political hack, and he's trying to take away from McCain the #1 attraction that he has, and that is his character, dignity and heroic war service that has contributed to this status. They know exactly what they're doing."

» CBS: McCain on Clark to Obama: "Cut Him Loose"

As Obama attacks McCain, the Politico reports: McCain Game Plan Worries Insiders. Four months have passed since McCain effectively captured the GOP nomination, and the insiders are getting restless now? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "I'm telling you here and now: 'crossing the aisle' and working with the left is not going to make this country better. The country is not going to improve, and it isn't going to do much for you personally." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Rush teaches a caller to be sensitive to liberal redefinition of terms. "Patriotism" now means bashing your country. "Swiftboating" now means an unjustified, dirty political attack -- when all the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did was tell the truth about Kerry.

Pearl of Wisdom: "You Recreate '68 protesters aren't worthy of your name if you're just going to sit here as a bunch of docile little puppies and agree to be placed in a cage at the Democrat Convention. I mean, for crying out loud, why don't you guys at least go talk to Bill Ayers in Chicago and get some tips, or maybe a couple bombs?"

A Homeless Update: Denver is going to round up the homeless for the Democrat convention, and put them in rooms with flatscreen TVs. This is going to be boring.

» Denver Preps for DNC with National Anthem Snub » Power to the Street People

Help for a father whose son has been duped by the manmade global warming hoax: We can't destroy the planet, or save it. Research it in

Rush's Essential Stack of Stuff.

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» What Happened to This Guy? Deranged Joe Klein: Kill Your A/C

» Why Obama Claims He's Against the Fairness Doctrine

» TIME: Ten Things You Can Like About $4 Gasoline

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The Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, critiqued the diabolical Barack Obama and his campaign's all-out assault on John McCain's Vietnam service. The Drive-Bys report that Obama "rejected" Wesley Clark's attack on McCain. Obama did no such thing! He didn't even mention Clark's name. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "Say what you want about John McCain, but he's right about a little, folks. To say that Obama has more experience and greater qualifications to serve as president of the United States is a joke -- and Obama's handlers know it. They know he has zero experience." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "Obama isn't what he seems. He's deceptive, diabolical, downright mean. What they're trying to do to McCain with genuine lightweights, like Wesley Clark and Rand Beers who couldn't wear McCain's jockstrap, is breathtaking."

Two days after Wesley Clark's disgusting attack on McCain, the one Republican with guts fires back -- and it's Bob Dole. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» MSNBC: Lindsey Grahamnesty Says Clark "Made a Huge Mistake"

Pearl of Wisdom: "Here's Harry Reid saying oil and coal make us sick and we're destroying the earth with global warming. Certainly there can't be a majority of voters who want people who think this country sucks and sins, and who want to harm it."

» A Staggering Inquirer column: "America doesn't deserve to celebrate its birthday."

Just as he does not speak "cat," Rush does not speak "woman." Unfortunately, Denise called and whispered a convoluted request for Rush to stick to the issues about McCain and Obama. That can't be what she meant, though. Rush is the only one who focuses on Obama's plans instead of his personality! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

The Drive-By Media is still demonizing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, twisting the term "swiftboating" into a metaphor for a false political attack. No one has disproved a thing those veterans said about a man they served with: John Kerry.

The chickification of the nation continues with wedding showers...for dudes!

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» Tough Love from Saudi King » Washington Post Reporter Apologizes to Obama

» Uncle Bills Feeling Backlash for Clinton Support » Grouse Stops Energy Exploration

» Gas Prices Change Views on the Environment » NRA to Spend $40M on Campaign

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The Drive-Bys rejoice: Warren Buffett sets the record for a charity auction on eBay, breaking our record for the Harry Reid "phony soldiers" smear letter. However, if you count Rush's matching contribution, the record is still ours.

» The Monopolistic AP: Chinese Investor Pays $2.1 Million to Eat with Buffett

Don't buy the BS that the Democrats are unified. Clinton supporters vandalized a bunch of cars, spray painting them with racist anti-Obama graffiti. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton is quoted as saying Obama will have to "kiss his ass" to get his support.

Wes Clark, who made John Kerry's service the centerpiece of his 2004 convention speech, disparaged McCain's heroic military service. This attack was coordinated with Obama's speech redefining patriotism. How long will it be before Barack Obama says, "That's not the Wesley Clark I know"? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "This is an effort to devalue Senator McCain's military experience and hero status, and to raise Obama's patriotic position by redefining patriotism."

Senator McCain's response to Clark was Clintonesque. He sounds hurt. Is he really surprised that Democrats seek to destroy him? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "We don't need The Messiah to redefine patriotism. We know it when we see it. We know it when we don't see it."

"Mr. Theodore," an Obama hack who claims he's a veteran, calls in to lecture Rush for supporting McCain and citing Obama's record. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "It's suburban, GOP areas being hurt by gas prices. Lo and behold, the environment wackos are in the Boston Globe relishing their misery! They hope it'll force these voters to conform to the way liberal environmentalists think they ought to live. Liberalism is about control and relishing the loss of liberty. The car is as much a part of American culture as anything else, and it's under assault as though it's evil."

Politico has a story today dredging up left-wing blog attacks on McCain's war record.

» The Politico: Some on Left Target McCain's War Record

Sen. McCain pledged to fight for amnesty "yesterday, today and tomorrow." You have to wonder if he really wants to win this election. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Governor Schwarzenegger was hilarious on Meet the Press this weekend -- intentionally and unintentionally.

Obama quoted Mark Twain's definition of patriotism today. A caller points out that the left tried to ban Huckleberry Finn because of its "racist" language.

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» California Fires Emit Huge Carbon Footprint » Jindal Vetoes Pay Increase

» Let's Hope Seymour Hersh Got it Right on Iran » Abu Ghraib Detainees Sue

» Newspapers "Insulated from Reality" » A Presidential Debate in Dubai?

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Pearl of Wisdom: "There's a lot happening to the Republican Party. The country club, blue-blood, Rockefeller types are trying to take it over, and exclude as much of the Republican base -- especially rural southerners and the evangelical Religious Right -- as possible. They're attacking the party from within, and then there are the usual attacks by the Democrats from without." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Illustrative of What's Gotten the Republican Party in This Condition: NY Times pseudo-conservative David Brooks praises a book urging the GOP to embrace the New Deal and activist government. They did, and they lost in 2006! Real journalism doesn't happen much anymore. What happens is speculation about the future -- like an ice-free North Pole or $7 gas -- designed to panic you, so you elect Democrats and seek government help. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

An inspired monologue from one of America's foremost experts on women: College, Feminization and the Biological Time Bomb. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "How about this show between Hillary Clinton and Obama in, of all places, Unity, New Hampshire. You have Mrs. Clinton, who is in hock for millions, making a big deal out of telling her money machine to give money to Obama. You talk about a 'willing suspension of disbelief'?" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Rush described the fake, put-on Obama-Hillary rally. She made it clear she was only there for the money. Imagine how she felt. The presidency was her birthright!

We can't afford Obama's punitive economics. Just look at his capital gains tax hike.

Obama flip-flops as much as John Kerry, but Obama is more likeable than the haughty Kerry, so the flip-flopper label will not stick. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "Gov. Schwarzenegger knows damn well we're not talking about getting oil out of the ground tomorrow and lowering the pump price tomorrow. He knows exactly what this is. There's an opposition to oil here for reasons these people are not telling us. So who's blowing smoke?" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Praise for the clips Rush played of George Carlin ripping the environmentalist wackos for their arrogant view of the "fragile" earth. He was one of your own, liberals.

Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) is glad Al-Qaeda had a chance to see and target Dick Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington. This is your Democrat Party. (video)

A Great Open Line Friday Question

How to Properly Smoke the La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero Chisel Cigar

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» InBev Tries Hostile Takeover of AB

» Iraqi Soccer Team Losses, No Players Killed

» Feds Moratorium on Solar Energy Projects » Funny Pics NPR Funding on Blog

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It's a Bad Day for Liberals: Obama campaign cutbacks at the Palm Beach Post, Baltimore Sun, etc Gallup: Messiah & McCain tied. The economy grows! Iraq is so safe, CBS infobabe Lara Logan carried on two affairs at once over there! Plus, the Supreme Court upholds your Second Amendment right. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

There are "Delicate Talks for Democrats on a Path to a Unified Party," where The Messiah is their nominee and supposedly the best at unifying people. He can't get Hillary and Bill Clinton to unify behind him. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "The left has bastardized the definition of a 'right' to the point that a lot of Americans think it means 'entitled to.' There's no right to health care, housing, or clean air. There is a RIGHT to bear arms." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

A former teacher in the Bronx, with Hispanic and African-American parents, laments the left's cultivation of ignorance in our schools. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

A Canadian report: liberals in Toronto blame our Second Amendment for their gun crime. If you want to see liberalism's failures, look north, folks. It's a failure.

» IBD: Canadian Health Care We So Envy Lies In Ruins, Its Architect Admits

Pearl of Wisdom: "A PBS documentary on Monday night is going to evoke sympathy for the 'innocent people' we bombed to smithereens in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, etc. They'll say the Greatest Generation was no different than the Nazis, and they teamed up with Stalin. This is government-financed public television."

» NY Post: It's All One "War" PBS Show to Argue Allies as Bad as Nazis

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» Volcanic Eruptions Reshape Arctic Ocean Floor » Jindal: Castrate Child Rapists

» CNN: McCain Too Stupid to be President » Economic Doom: Pet Spending Cut

» Obama Campaign: McCain Too Fat » Obama Staff Cut: Newspaper Firings

» Obama's Plans to Raise America's Kids » Mayor Daley to Fight for Gun Ban

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Europe-loving Justice Kennedy and four Supreme Court liberals overturn the death sentence for Louisiana child rapists. Kennedy wrote that it's "disproportionate" punishment, and cruel and unusual. What is crueler: the violent rape of a young girl, or death by lethal injection while you're sedated? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» A Fantastic Investor's Business Daily Column by Thomas Sowell:
So Wrong, So Often, For So Long, Yet It's Europe We Want To Copy

A Greek-Italian living in America defends Europe against a choice Rush didn't make, and gets her name thrown off Rush's all-time, top-10 favorite female names.

Pearl of Wisdom: "While the rest of the world is guiltlessly walking down the path trying to figure out how to get more energy so they can use it, what are we doing? We're being told to reduce our lifestyles. It's clear that the Democrat Party and the left hate oil. They despise oil. Is that rational? No." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Who's running for Carter's second term? McCain will "green the government." Guess what it bought him with the left? Nothing! They did an exposé on his cars.
A caller demands Rush lay off McCain, citing Supreme Court nominees. The liberals in the Senate confirm justices, so no conservative nominee has a chance. Yes, folks, Obama would be a disaster we can't afford, and McCain is far better. Rush is helping McCain by pointing out where he's wrong. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Democrats always need a villain. Today, it's oil speculators, when they have no effect on the price going up or down. They bet on both sides, just like odds makers in sports. Besides, the media is nothing but "speculation." Rush's example: the coverage of Tiger Woods to the exclusion of all other golfers. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "When you put your money on the Steelers versus the Patriots, you know your money is going to have no impact on the Steelers winning. It's the same thing in the oil futures market. The bookies make sure there's money on both sides."

Nancy Pelosi now backs the Fairness Doctrine, aimed at the Rush Limbaugh Show. This is just the beginning. They're going to squelch free speech, advance socialism, reduce your freedom, and surrender to terrorists. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "The Democrat constituency is made up of largely two economic extremes: very wealthy and poor people. But when the Democrats view that most of the suffering on something like gas prices is in Republican, suburban, red state areas, they're happy for your suffering to continue." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Ralph Nader has offended Rush, by saying that Barack Obama is "talking white" and mocking him as only "half African-American." Where are the Justice Brothers?

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» Pro-Amnesty Cannon Ousted in GOP Primary » Mom Chooses Gas over "Cabel" TV

» The Real Meaning of the Anheuser-Busch Sale: Campaign Contributions at Stake

» Drive-By "Strategists" Aren't Really Strategists » Russian Military Exercise in Arctic

» Libs Want to Ban Drive-Thrus » Mayors Get Together to Ban Bottled Water

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Programming Alert: On Thursday, June 26 at 4:20 PM EST, Rush will do a telethon for Move America Forward. The objective is to provide the largest care package ever of items of interest to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pearl of Wisdom: "I instinctively do not have a pessimistic view of the future of this country. I can find for you times in our recent past where gasoline prices have gone up identically in terms of percentage increase. Because of my advanced age of 57, I've been through these things and worse. The country is better today than at any time in my life, economically and with opportunity." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Senator McCain is clearly stronger than Obama on protecting the country. McCain has a record. Obama has none. Yet McCain threw his adviser Charlie Black under the bus for saying a terrorist attack would help McCain. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

The Drive-Bys focus on Don Imus again, this time for a quip about "Pacman" Jones, yet they ignore the real racism from Democrats. Official Obama Criticizer Bo Snerdley appeared on air to discuss the "slave blood" issue. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Ralph Nader said Rush wants the oceans to drown us all before he'll believe the global warming hoax. Although he did this on public access TV, our microphones were there! Rush repeated his demand that NASA publicity-seeker Hansen charge him with crimes against humanity for his stand against the hoax. Finally, a voice of sanity on the environment comes from the late George Carlin. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "We're supposed to cry a blue river when a government has to cut back. It's our money! It was never theirs. They warn of suffering, but it'd be wonderful if people became more self-reliant. When you start depending on government for your needs, you're a slave. That's what liberals want." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

A caller asks what Rush would ask for as a gift. The answer? Rush buys whatever he wants, except the giant gardenia candles which he can't find anywhere -- yet.

Praise for a great Limbaugh Letter cover: Rush with a ten-gallon, J.R. Ewing cowboy hat over the title: "Oil is NOT the Enemy." (Subscribe to the Limbaugh Letter)

Rush isn't doing enough to combat the Drive-By Media, says a caller. Really? He's not doing enough, yet they hate him so much they routinely wish him dead -- as in this crudely drawn cartoon from the Kansas City Star. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Newspapers are losing circulation; revenue is plummeting. Well, there is this place called the internet where you can get your news without the spin. But Rush has an idea: tax newspapers! It's the liberal answer to everything, and it'll "save the planet."

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» Rush Hates Walking: Average American Gets 41 Miles to the Gallon (of Alcohol)

» Girlfriend Cleans, Tosses Limbaugh Letters » UA Dumps 950 Pilots, Grounds Jets

» $4 Latte Effect: US Curbs Coffee Consumption? » Pain Goes Beyond Pump to Pizza

» Kofi Annan Wants Climate Justice for Polluters » Lack of Sunshine Will Kill You

Rockefeller Republicans aim to eliminate conservatives and the Christian Right -- who have always embarrassed them -- from the GOP. Former congressman Mickey Edwards, yet another Republican to marry a liberal babe and turn squishy, reveals this hope: a McCain win would be bad for Rush. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "Why am I the only guy that can cavort and run around with liberal women and not lose my bearings? They lose their bearings. I do not lose mine."

Pearl of Wisdom: "I want to make a prediction. Before long, a story will appear somewhere in the Drive-By Media (probably AP), and will be picked up and amplified from there: 'One day after Obama warned that his critics would play the race card, Rush Limbaugh talked about how his wife, Michelle, has slave blood, but Obama doesn't.' Keep in mind when they do this that it was Charles Steele Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who said that." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

We can't drill our way out of this, liberals say, while begging the Saudis to help us drill our way out of this. One by one, Rush debunks the absurd, nonsensical liberal talking points about oil and energy independence. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "Dr. Hansen wants to put Big Oil guys on trial for lying about global warming! This is an insult! I mean, if anybody's going to get sued, brought on trial, brought up on charges, and thrown in jail for spreading the truth about this hoax, why not me? Come on, Dr. Hansen. Indict me!" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

A caller tries to analyze the thinking of Dr. Hansen-types. You can't analyze these liberals, folks. They're just too lost to logic and reason to rationally comprehend.

Barack Obama not only swore he'd abide by public financing before seeing how much cash he could rake in, but he had the audacity to say that since he's taking in so many millions, he is a publically financed campaign! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "I don't know anyone on our side who's talking about Obama's race. Do you? Our side is scared to death to say anything about Obama! Democrats -- specifically the Clintons -- brought up his race, yet Obama calls Republicans racists!"

A caller welcomes his brother home from the front lines in Iraq, where our military is having huge -- and unreported -- success. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» The Messiah, Barack Obama, Unveils His Own Presidential Seal

» Daschle is Deep in Ethanol Cash » Majority of Brits Doubt Global Warming Hoax

» Rush Loves Scented Candles, Kitty Cats » Drive-Bys Avoid Good News in Iraq

» The American Medical Association Excludes Menthol from Cigarette Ban

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