RUSH: State-run MSNBC at the top of the hour focused a lot on Newt Gingrich retracting the word "racist" to describe Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as too extreme. The Drive-Bys all happy that Mr. Newt is retracting. I'm not retracting. The truth doesn't need to be retracted and we don't retract the truth here, but they're all excited about it, "It's too extreme, it's too extreme, "racist," it's too extreme." It wasn't to extreme when it was applied to Robert Bork. It wasn't too extreme when it was applied to Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown. "Racist. That's too extreme. We can't have that kind of talk." But we can have, in a storied Senate hearing chamber, before the nation, we can have discussions of a pubic hair on a Coke can, but we can't use the word "racist" when it actually applies.