RUSH: All right, folks. It just keeps getting better and better and better out there. The Drive-Bys at DNCTV are still focused on my claim that Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama is about race. This afternoon on DNCTV Live, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington; was talking to their bureau chief, Mark Whitaker, and she said, "Let me play for you Rush Limbaugh's reaction to the media. This happened just moments ago, Mark."RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, back to General Powell. I just want to button this...

RUSH: This is Stephanopoulos' show yesterday morning. He had the former speaker Mr. Newt on. Stephanopoulos says, "You've heard, I think, you see McCain, Newt, starting to lay into this as well, talk about Obama measuring the drapes in the Oval Office, raising the prospect of an Obama-Pelosi-Reid government."GINGRICH: The only hope that McCain has is Harry Truman. In the age of television you can be Harry Truman in about ten days. And what he has to say is, "This is actually a RePO team. It...

RUSH: John in Enfield, Connecticut, you're next, sir, as we go back to the phones. Hello.CALLER: Hi. RUSH: Hi.CALLER: Hi.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: Rush, don't let them steal the term trickle-down economics. I'll give you the bottom line. They're using the term trickle-down economics to explain Obama's answer to Joe the Plumber. At first, I was shocked; and then I laughed, and then I say, "Ohhhh, this low level of ignorance! You can't argue with that," and then I said, "You know something? Maybe they...

RUSH: Rudy Giuliani has called, ladies and gentlemen, and has asked to respond to Senator Biden promising calamity in the first six months of an Obama administration. Mr. Mayor, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Nice to have you here with us.GIULIANI: It's nice to be with you, Rush. I'm campaigning today with Cindy McCain in Pennsylvania. We're in Bucks County.RUSH: Bucks County. GIULIANI: Yes, we're on our way to a rally there. We just left a hospital and we're going to a rally and I left...

RUSH: To the phones, to Redlands, California. We're going to start, Matt, with you. It's great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Rush it's an honor to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Rush, I agree with Joe Biden's recent statement that if we elect Barack Obama, that will guarantee that America's enemies will test Obama's youth and inexperience with crisises; and the election of Obama would probably guarantee a war between Israel and Iran within the next two months,...

RUSH: I've been thinking about this Joe the Plumber business, and everybody is pointing out that it's not what Joe the Plumber asked Obama, it's what Obama answered. He wants to "spread the wealth around." But it's actually even worse than that. It's now about how quickly team Obama was able to shut down Joe the Plumber, to mock him, to make fun of him, to investigate him, to demonize him, to virtual Tony Soprano him. They did everything but throw him in the East River with concrete blocks tied...

RUSH: I'm minding my own business yesterday, went to Green Bay for the Indianapolis Colts-Green Bay Packers. Stayed out in Appleton at the Radisson, which is where the visiting teams who play the Packers stay. The Colts were there. I went in and had dinner at Lombardi's on Saturday night. Oh, it was just fabulous, went in with some people from Gulfstream and ran into a bunch of Colts front office people. It was a great, great, great time. We were up pretty late on Saturday night because we...

RUSH: Hey, folks, how about our boy, Joe Biden? Hey, stand up, Joe, tell us again what's going to happen when Obama gets elected. You hear what Biden said? ABC is reporting that Joe Biden is warning now of an international crisis. The world, multiple nations, will test Obama just as JFK was tested the first six months of his administration. Biden is guaranteeing trouble under Obama. We can also assume that McCain would not cause such a test to occur from leaders around the world, but Biden...

Rush's Morning Update: The PieOctober 21, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer In 1975 CBS, the once-powerful network, aired the The Jeffersons-- a sitcom about a black family who realized the American dream through husband George's dry cleaning businesses. The theme song told their story: the Jeffersons were "movin' on upto that deluxe apartment in the sky...they finally got a piece of the pie."Well, it's a little over 30...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama is about race. R-A-C-E. You can quote me.""Joe Biden says the world is going to 'test' Obama. What's it going to be: China taking Taiwan? China taking North Korea? Russia taking over a bordering country or two? Israel being wiped off the map? All the above? What is it, Joe?""So Biden says a major international crisis is a fair price for electing an inexperienced squirrel -- Obama -- who wants...

Story #1: FT: US Faces Worst Recession in 26 YearsRUSH: There was a story, Financial Times, yesterday: "US Faces Worst Recession in 26 Years." Unemployment could go to 7.5%. Looking bad out there. But then I ran across this little story that just cleared the wires here about an hour-and-a-half ago... Story #2: AP-Obama: Economic Indicators Up in September RUSH: It's from New York, the Associated Press-Obama: The economy's health improved for the first time in five months in September as interest...