RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program today, Juan Williams, who is at the Fox News Channel and has a terrific piece in the Wall Street Journal today. The headline and the subheadline of the piece are this: "Judge Obama on Performance Alone -- Let's Not Celebrate More Ordinary Speeches." He, too, was one who thought that yesterday's speech was somewhat ordinary. There are a lot of people who have that view. Others have a completely different view, of course, but it was unremarkable in a number...

RUSH: Shelly in Riverside, California, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rushalicious. How you doing?RUSH: Great. Thank you.CALLER: Hey, sweetie, I've been listening to you for years, and I agree with most of your comments and opinions, but I think with this Obama thing you've gone a little too far, you sound like a petulant little boy who didn't get his way and, you know, I may not agree with Obama's packages --RUSH: What do you disagree with about Obama's package?CALLER:...

RUSH: Obama just signed a couple of executive orders out there and with the signing of these executive orders, the four-year campaign to reelection in 2012 has begun. This order freezing the pay of his staff is entirely symbolic, as if they would be entitled to a pay raise any time soon anyway. So he's going to freeze the pay of his staff, and this is all calculated here to make him look like he's setting a new era of ethics and it's all calculated to make it look like he's concerned about you....

RUSH: This is Galen in Cincinnati, as we return to the phones. Thank you for waiting, Galen, great to have you here.CALLER: How you doing, Rush? Look, I wanted to tell you that I think you may have this wrong, in terms of Mr. Obama being The Messiah and people looking at him as such. I don't think that people look at Mr. Obama any differently than the people who follow you or who are hanging on every word that you say, and follow you. You are a person who speaks for a certain segment or generation...

RUSH: Marie in Discovery Bay, California. Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Oh, my God, Rush, I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy. I bow before you.RUSH: Now, see, that embarrasses me. If I were Obama, I would say, "Don't get up until I raise you."CALLER: Well, I want to just phone in because I adore you but I have to hold you to account for the little person out here. I am a small business owner, one person, home based. I have a house that's now valued at $200,000 less...

RUSH: Let's get started with some of the audio sound bites. Yesterday morning on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough was talking to Tom Brokaw, and they talked about Brokaw running into former Weatherman Mark Rudd. Now the point of this is, as you listen to this, this is a glimpse into the mind of a liberal. As far as Brokaw is concerned, a terrorist from the sixties can be "rehabbed."BROKAW: The other night at a party, a man came up to me that I knew instantly (chuckles), and it was Mark Rudd who is a poster...

RUSH: It is the first official day of Obamalot today, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday doesn't count because he had to share that day with Bush. Bush didn't get out of there until 12:04, whenever the oath of office was botched and said. By the way, there's some experts saying he needs to retake the oath because the Supreme Court chief justice blew it; and just to get this right, he'd better retake the oath. I don't know if he's going to do that. It would be easy enough to do in private and...

Rush's Morning Update: New AmericaJanuary 22, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last Monday, two 9/11 terrorist defendants were in a Guantanamo Bay courtroom. Relatives of some of the 9/11 victims, also in the courtroom, were stunned by what they heard: "We did what we did; we're proud of September 11th," declared defendant Ramzi Binalshibh. The other-- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed-- complained that he has been unable to see his...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The people who make this country work are listening to me right now, and I doubt too many radios are on in Washington.""Most of the conservative media are now totally caught up in the tug of popular sentiment, and you know why that is? Because Obama has been portrayed as the most popular human being ever to be president, and nobody has the guts to stand up and oppose it.""I think that everybody who works at CNN and MSNBC are going...

Story #1: Part One of Rush Interview on Hannity TonightRUSH: A reminder, folks. Yesterday morning at ten o'clock here at the EIB Southern Command, I taped a 30-minute interview with Sean Hannity for his new show on Fox, and it's a two-part interview that will air starting tonight (the second part is tomorrow night). His show is at nine o'clock on the Fox News Channel. Everybody says it was good, typically good, but I thought I rambled and had diarrhea of the mouth a couple of times. I don't watch...