RUSH: This morning on Joe Scarborough's show on MSNBC, he was talking to their White House correspondent, Savannah Guthrie -- speaking of White House correspondent -- I've had a lot of people e-mail me: "Why didn't Obama call on any real Drive-Bys at the press conference on Tuesday? Why didn't he call on anybody from the Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post?" Why should he? He's already got 'em! He owns 'em. He wanted to focus on some other people and spread the wealth. Anyway, the...

RUSH: The Washington Post and every news outlet... I mean, it's all over the place. There's a special election in New York State to replace Kirsten Gillibrand, who's the conservative Democrat who was named to -- who? Replace who in the Senate? Hillary! Yeah. She was named to replace Hillary in the Senate. So her seat is up. It's a conservative district, and the Republican candidate, Jim Tedesco, was way ahead. He was up by double digits, and then he goofed up, and he said Rush Limbaugh is...

RUSH: Orrin in Bloomington, Illinois. Great to have you here. Thank you for waiting, and hello.CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. Thank you for taking my call, from the home state of some of the most amazing politicians we've ever seen.RUSH: Rod Blagojevich, yes, I agree with you.CALLER: Well, that's a good start, but we have a couple in Washington that are just doing some things that really worry me. But I called today to ask a favor of you, to see if you could help the liberals and the...

RUSH: "Virtual town hall" at the White House today. One of the questions from Harriet in Georgia (summarized): "Mr. President, I love you. God bless you, all the hard work you're doing! But when are you going to bring these jobs that have been outsourced back? When are you going to bring these jobs that are overseas back so they can be made available to unemployed workers here?"OBAMA: The answer to the question is, not all of these jobs are gonna come back, and it probably wouldn't be good for...

RUSH: "If California regulators get their way, auto makers may soon be forced to rewrite a cliche from the Ford Model T era and start telling customers they can have any color they want as long as it isn't black. Some darker hues will be available in place of black, but right now they are identified internally at paint suppliers with names such as 'mud-puddle brown' and are truly ugly substitutes for today’s rich ebony hues. So buy a black car now, because soon they won’t be available...

RUSH: For those of you who read the book 1984, Big Brother was everywhere, no matter where you went. Big Brother was on television, on the radio. It didn't matter where you went. I have a simple question. When do all television sets just eventually default to the Obama channel? There has to be an Obama channel now, and at some point the government, the FCC, is gonna encode broadcast signals so that your TV or your receiver defaults to the Obama channel all the time. It's the same thing with...

RUSH: You remember, they got all those jokes about how dumb George W. Bush is. In fact, I hadn't seen this. I was channel surfing around last night looking to see if I could find a movie worth watching, and I started with HBO because it's the first movie channel on DirecTV, channel 501; and I saw the stage show Will Farrell is doing, Good Night with George W. Bush or A Last Day or whatever. It was just outrageous, portraying this guy as the biggest boob, Looney Tune, stupid idiot on the face of...

RUSH: Listen to this headline. It is a headline from CBS News and their website: "AIG Bonuses Renew Call for Congress to Read Bills." Is that not hilarious? Greetings. (laughing) Greetings, my friends, and welcome. It's the Rush Limbaugh program. Here we are, the fastest three hours in media, broadcast excellence straight ahead as always. It is a thrill and an honor, delight to be with you. The phone number, if you want to be on the program when we eventually get to the phones is 800-282-2882,...

Our read on the Arbitron PPM monthlies would give you absolute confirmation on what the audience growth has been like:Color commentary on NYC, Chicago, Houston and Dallas...the first four cities where the PPM data is now released. I will soon have the specific Monday, after your first address to the nation (CPAC).Try #1 12 plus in New York, Chicago and Houston!Over the last 3 months WABC goes 4.6 to 5.9 to 6.7 to be #1 from 12n to 3pm with total audience 12 plus. Cume is up to 693,000. Men 35-64...

Rush's Morning Update: ExcessMarch 27, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer After whipping up anger at the financial sector, the Obama administration is now leveraging that anger. Treasury Secretary Geithner is demanding new rulesto supposedly offer consumers and investors more protections. Banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, andothers are targeted for more regulation. And powerful centralized institutions like the Treasury...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"When Bush was president, the jokes were on him. With Obama, the joke's on us -- and it isn't funny.""Obama signed a $500,000 book advance five days before being inaugurated to escape ethics rules and to earn a lot of money before his own tax increase goes into effect. Now, I wonder if President Obama will redistribute any of that $500,000 to his brother living in a hut or the brother who has cholera.""I defy you to find, other...

Story #1: Google Taking Step Into Power MeteringRUSH: By the way, the stimulus bill includes the smart monitors, and you know who's going to build 'em? Google. This is from the International Herald Tribune, which is the New York Times international edition, February 10th of this year. "Google will announce its entry Tuesday into the small but growing business of 'smart grid,' digital technologies that seek to both keep the electrical system on an even keel and reduce electrical energy consumption....