RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, Obama is making three speeches today. He has now booked on Letterman and five Sunday shows. He's doing every Sunday show but Fox News Sunday. I kid you not. Three speeches today, and speaking of the speech today, why is this guy having to whip up support like this with his best supporters who have already been stimulated with stimulus money? Why is he giving this kind of speech now? The tone, the need to talk to a union crowd, is he down to just the union kook thugs...

RUSH: This is Luanne in Jacksonville, Florida. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi. How are you today?RUSH: Very well. Thank you.CALLER: Good. Hey. I'd like to make a comment that you made earlier on the ACORN tax preparers.RUSH: Yes.CALLER. You know what, you are exactly right and I hope everybody out there realizes that the upper class of people do pay the majority of taxes, and those rarely cheat on their taxes. I am a certified tax preparer -- and not that I am a fan of...

RUSH: Ventura, California, Dale, hello, and welcome. Great to have you with us. Hello.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. It's a pleasure to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir. You bet.CALLER: I'm just wondering if everybody's forgetting the fact that about a year or so ago Kanye West blew up and went into a tirade about the fact that the music awards were racist because he didn't get one. And I shudder to think that if it was a black artist receiving an award up there, he wouldn't have interrupted...

RUSH: Tom in Williamsburg, Virginia, you're up next on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Rush, it seems to me that ACORN is just replacing the mob. They're doing the work, it seems, that the mob refuses to do, just like you're doing the work that Charlie Gibson refuses to do.RUSH: Well, except the mob is still there. What ACORN's doing -- your analogy is somewhat close -- what ACORN's doing is the work Obama is doing, but they got caught. You know, Obama is ACORN.CALLER: Right.RUSH: Obama inspires...

RUSH: Politico has an amazing story today by Jeremy Lott, editor of Capital Research Center's Labor Watch newsletter. He's a lib. He's the author of The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency. Here is the headline: "So far, Obama's Failing Miserably," and wait 'til you hear what Obama's failing at in the liberals' own words. This is more testament, folks, to "do not doubt me." "When he ran for president, George W. Bush promised to be a modest reformer at home and a humble...

RUSH: Hey, look, folks, the white kid on that bus in Belleville, Illinois, he deserved to be beat up. You don't know about this story? Oh, there's video of this. The school bus filled with mostly black students beat up a white student a couple of times with all the black students cheering. Of course the white student on the bus deserved the beating. He was born a racist. That's what Newsweek magazine told us in its most recent cover. It's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white...

Rush's Morning Update: ACORNsSeptember 16, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer On Monday, the US Senate voted 83 to 7to blockHUD from giving any more grants to theObama front group, ACORN.In recent weeks, videos surfaced of two young conservative activists posing as a pimp and his prostitute. 25-year-old independent filmmaker James O'Keefe and 20-year-old Hanna Giles visited ACORN offices in New York, Maryland, and Washington,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"ACORN is Obama, and Obama is ACORN. You cannot separate the two. ACORN is freaking everywhere.""You know, they're looking for a new judge to replace Paula Abdul on American Idol. How about Obama? He's doing television everywhere else! I mean, if Obama's willing to call Kanye West a 'jackass', imagine what he could say about some of the talent on American Idol." "Let's just follow Eric Holder's advice and not be 'cowards' about...

Story #1:Obama Surge Over, Polls Fall Back After BounceRUSH: Well, the Obama surge is over, ladies and gentlemen. Health care reform in the polling data has now fallen back to pre-speech levels, this from Rasmussen and a couple of other places. Gallup, in USA Today: "Sixty percent say health care reform will raise taxes on the middle class and lower quality." In USA Today they say Obama's speech apparently failed. In Rasmussen: "Following President Obama’s speech to Congress last week,...