RUSH: You want to hear something that I find hilarious and a little funny? It's about The Chin, the star of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno. Jay Leno announced on his program Monday night that he's going to -- I think it was Monday night. I have the Detroit Free Press here. Ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da. Yes. On Monday night's Tonight Show The Chin said that he loves Detroit and he's going to go up there and he's going to do a show for the unemployed. In fact, you don't even have to be unemployed....

RUSH: I want to go back, folks. I think this is highly relevant. I told Cookie, I sent her a note last night in the middle of show prep, I said, "I want to go back to something Obama said in a presidential candidates debate January 15th in Las Vegas." This debate was moderated by the late Tim Russert of NBC News. They had, Russert and Obama, the following exchange.RUSSERT: Senator Obama, you gave an interview to the Reno Gazette-Journal, and you said we all have strengths and weaknesses. You...

RUSH: We have four sound bites. President Obama outside the White House, he was on the South Lawn, before getting on a helicopter heading over to Andrews Air Force Base to go out to California. We have put together a montage of the opening remarks that the teleprompter told him to say.OBAMA: People are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses. But just as outrageous is the culture that these bonuses are a symptom of, that have existed for far too long; a situation where excess greed,...

RUSH: The new McCarthyism in Washington, DC, this morning during a House financial services panel hearing. This is the chairman, Barney Frank.FRANK: We will also be asking Mr. Liddy to give us the names of the recipients. They have sent us some information under the confidentiality rules. I've spoken to Chairman Kanjorski about this. If Mr. Liddy declines to give us the names, then I will convene the committee to vote a subpoena for the names. So we do intend to use our power to get the names...

RUSH: Let's grab a couple phone calls. Where we going to start, Snerdley? New Paltz, New York. This is Ruth. Ruth, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: I promised Snerdley I would stay on point, so without my teleprompter, here it goes. One statement. You were brilliant at CPAC, during your first national address to our nation, and one question. Why doesn't this new head of AIG who's getting, quote, unquote, grilled by the guilty just say, "I...

RUSH: I'm watching Obama here. What's he talking about? I'm sorry, the teleprompter. Let's JIP. No, never mind. Never mind. Our microphones are not turned on at this particular press conference. He's just getting ready to leave for California to appear on Jay Leno. This is historic. You know, a sitting president has never before lowered himself to sit on a late-night comedy show, and that's the way to look at this. A president of the United States has never lowered himself like this to sit...

RUSH: So Snerdley walks into my palatial broadcast studio this morning and says, "How long is this AIG stuff going to go on?" I said, "As long as they need it to go on to distract us from all the other things they're doing." The big point about this AIG business, as I mentioned to you people yesterday, the big point here is to poison as many minds in this country as possible to capitalism and to corporate America. This is exactly the kind of thing Barack Obama and his team love, everybody hating...

Rush's Morning Update: Out of PhaseMarch 19, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Say, folks: we have a new definition of what constitutes "un-American" behaviorfrom the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Speaking at Saint Anthony's Church in San Francisco before a group of immigrants (legal and illegal),Speaker Pelosi took aim at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.She accused them of kicking in doors in the middle...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"By the way, folks, yes: I do want Obama's teleprompter to fail, too. It's part and parcel of the whole deal.""Soon these people will be called up to testify before Chairman Frank's committee, and they will face other questions like: 'Have you attended pro-capitalist meetings during the course of your tenure at AIG? How many of your friends are free market capitalists, and what are their names? And where can we find them?'" "You...

Story #1: Rasmussen: Obama Approval Falls AgainRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the Rasmussen poll is out, and it has some chilling news for Barack Obama. He's been president for only two months roughly and already the words "hope" and "change" are the prayer of Republicans. They're tied the generic ballot, the congressional generic ballot, 42-42. I guarantee you, it bothers them at the White House, and that's why Obama is going on offense, urging passage of his $3.6 trillion budget. Story #2: CBS...