RUSH: Howard in Springfield, Illinois, hi.CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: I heard you mention Walter Cronkite earlier and it really fired me up. I feel that he did more single-handedly than any other American to cost us lives in Vietnam when he got on the news and said we cannot win, we need to get out of Vietnam, the will to win in Vietnam went south, even more than Hanoi Jane, people trusted him and he used his own personal opinion and he literally cost...

RUSH: Last Thursday night in New York City, President Obama showed up at the 100th anniversary celebration of the NAALCP. That would be the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People. Now, I play these four bites because it was I, El Rushbo, who told you prior to the election of President Obama that our race industry would not end. Racism, as an American original sin would not end. It would only get worse. Now, as with the health care sound bites, we have speeded these...

RUSH: Richard in Philadelphia, great to have you, sir, on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Hi. Welcome. I'm a critical care and pulmonary physician outside of Philadelphia.RUSH: What is a critical care physician?CALLER: I take care of patients who are in the intensive care unit on mechanical ventilators after surgery. Sick patients.RUSH: I see. Okay, thank you. CALLER: They come in with heart failure, pulmonary failure. Anyway the patients... I work in the city hospital. They have...

RUSH: This is a town meeting in Delaware. An unidentified woman and Representative Mike Castle have the following exchange. It's about Obama's birth certificate. WOMAN: I want to go back to January 20th, and I want to know, why are you people ignoring his birth certificate? (cheers and applause) He is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya. I am American. My father worked -- fought in World War II with the Greatest Generation in the Pacific theater for this country, and I don't...

RUSH: I heard some things Joe Biden said, and last Thursday I instructed Cookie, on air, to do the following.RUSH ARCHIVE: Cookie, you gotta get audio of this speech when it's given. We gotta do a Bob Torricelli on this. "Come see what I see everywhere I go. Workers rehired --" by the way, Harley-Davidson is cutting 1,000 more jobs as profits plummet. This is from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Journal Sentinel. "Come see what I see everywhere," Biden says. "Workers rehired, factories reopened,...

Tom in Danbury, Connecticut, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. What a privilege. Longtime listener back to Mapplethorpe debacle.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I have raised four Rush Babies who are now four Rush adults.RUSH: Well, thank you very much. That's great to hear.CALLER: Talking about the cost of health care and we get fed this information about the constant rising costs, well, why? One of the big reasons is because of the cost of Medicare and the cost...

RUSH: We have talked about a group called Public Policy Polling from time to time on this program. They're in North Carolina. They're a major Democrat group, admittedly so, and they're troubled by some of their own polling. "Public Policy Polling's national survey --" this is just out today, by the way "-- shows Obama's approval rating continuing to drop." Now, in this poll, Public Policy Polling, Obama's at 50% approval, with 43% of voters disapproving, continuing a steady decline from 52%...

RUSH: This story from state-run Associated Press. "The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape. The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama's budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through...

RUSH: The stimulus money is now showing up in great detail, and there's so much stimulus money spent on ham, literally spent on ham. Listen to this, folks. Stimulus money, $2,531,600 for ham, water added, cooked, frozen, sliced, two pounds. This is from Recovery.gov, stimulus money awarded $1,191,200 for two pound frozen ham slice. Now, ham is pork. It's amazing.BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Tom Vilsack, who is the secretary of agriculture, has responded. Matt Drudge has on his website today all of...

RUSH: The health care headlines are incredible. This health care business, by the way, I'm fascinated by some of the coverage on this as well, although some of its starting to turn a little negative. The majority of it, the Drive-By Media, they look at it much as they did during the Bush administration, not on the substance of the issue, but, is it going to be a win for Obama, or is it going to be a loss for Obama? As far as the State-Run Media is concerned, health care battles not about the American...

Rush's Morning Update: Absolutes!July 21, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was on Meet the Press on Sunday,in a vain attempt to put a positive spin on the health care monstrosity being cooked up by Obama and his Democrats in Congress. At one point the moderator asked whether President Obama believes "if everybody benefits under health care reform," then everybody should...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I want to be known as the man who saved America from subprime health care, blue sky promises 'til you get the bill.""I would love to see the party platform of a Colin Powell/Meghan McCain/John McCain-led third party, and here's what it would be: 'We believe in the following, but we're not going to tell you what the following is because if you don't agree with us, we might agree with you. It just depends.'""The stimulus plan was...

Story #1: Where are Arrest Warrants in Afghanistan Kidnapping?RUSH: I got a quick question here. Snerdley, you might know the answer to this, and some of you people in the audience might know the answer to this. I haven't seen anything. Has President Obama instructed the attorney general, Eric Holder, to swear out arrest warrants for the Taliban who have kidnapped an American soldier in Afghanistan? No arrest warrants yet? I mean that's how they say they're going to fight this. Of course...