RUSH: By popular demand, ladies and gentlemen, I... You never know. A sound bite sometimes just lights people up. And this sound bite of Larry King last night with social commentator Nancy Giles and Buckingham Palace spokesman "Dickie" Arbiter. Dickie, by the way, is an expert on touching the queen. Well, Dickie is an expert on touching, and Larry King set him up that way. How would you like to be asked what you do for a living? "Oh, my name's Dickie, and I am an expert on touching!" So Larry...

RUSH: Well, let's see. Nicolas Sarkozy did not walk out of the G20 summit. Angela Merkel has made no news whatsoever. What was all the prepub? "Obama, he's stepping into a hornet's nest; Sarkozy's threatening to walk out; Merkel put the kibosh on Gordon Brown's spending plan. Wow, this is going to be a -- " folks, it's already done. You're not going to put 20 eggheads in a room and come up with thousand dollars of pages of agreements in two days. It's already done, and Obama's going to be...

RUSH: Here's John in Las Vegas. John, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey, dittos from wonderful Las Vegas, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Just a couple of comments. One, I am astounded that people are surprised that Emperor Giggles and his cronies, or court jesters, are doing exactly what he said he would do.RUSH: Who's surprised?CALLER: People that I listen to on radio, people that I listen to on TV, things that I read in the paper, they're just surprised that...

RUSH: University of South Florida is the next stop on the phones. Michael, thank you, great to have you with us, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello. Can you hear?RUSH: Yeah, I'm here.CALLER: Sorry, I heard a funny noise over the phone. This is the first time I've called so I'm kind of nervous. I... I... Being on a college campus, you know, obviously you know the type of people I've been hanging out -- I've been exposed to, you know? And I'll tell you one thing, I have never seen this much, like, hatred...

RUSH: On the Today Show today, the cohost Meredith Vieira interviewed the smartest, the craftiest, the most brilliant White House press secretary ever: Robert Gibbs. She said, "I can't let you go here, Bob, without asking you: What was up with the iPod? You give the Queen an iPod? I mean, I would not know what to give the Queen of England. I'm not sure an iPod would be the first thing to come to mind. What was the thinking behind that choice?"GIBBS: I'm not sure entirely, uh, whose idea it...

RUSH: I just got a call from the EIB PR Department. Let me give you this story. The EIB PR Department, the Media Relations Department just got a call from WNBC-TV in New York. That's Channel 4. Channel 4 has requested a response from me regarding a statement made by the (chuckles) Governor of New York, David Paterson, in a press conference this morning. We do not have audio of this. I have not seen any audio of this, but some reporter from WNBC asked the governor of the state of New York...

RUSH: Boy, I tell you what, folks, the markets love it when Obama leaves the country. Have you seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average today? It's up 252 points, and Obama is out of the country! If there's just a way to keep him over there for a while, the market might come back sufficiently to start the rest of the economy coming back. We'll just have to see. Greetings, great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Great...

Rush's Morning Update: ExpectationsApril 3, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer According toDrive-By headlines, new jobless claims jumped "unexpectedly" to the highest level in 26 years. Almost six million Americans are unemployed, and many are having a hard time finding new jobs.No matter what the economic news is, these so-called experts are always surprised. The news is always "unexpected." So let me take the guesswork out...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We're going to prevail over this. There are too many of us and the country is too strong. We're going to beat it back.""We have the Russians helping the Iranians, and what is our policy? Our policy is Obama telling them we're no threat. He's hoping that telling them there's a new day here in the United States will make them nicer. It's first grade conflict resolution." "Porkulus won't lead to job growth. Cap and trade won't lead...

Story #1: NY-20 Race Gets Tighter: Down to 25 Votes RUSH: The margin in the New York 20th congressional race getting closer, getting tighter. Twenty-five votes now and the official recount begins on April 13th. Story #2: Endearing: Michelle My Belle Misses Sweater ButtonRUSH: Here's a picture everybody is talking about: Michelle (My Belle) Obama and her wardrobe and how she's taking Britain by storm and so forth. Now, I have a photo here. I'm going to show you this on the Dittocam. Let me zoom...