RUSH: Joanna in Las Vegas. Do you have a job? Are you still working? The unemployment rate out there is very high.CALLER: No, actually. I was a budget cut last Thanksgiving and haven't found anything since and we're about approaching 14%.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: But I wanted to let you know that my children have been raised on you. My youngest is in college right now in sociology and political science and she has to have a healthy dose of you to keep sane. But my main reason for my call is Michelle...

RUSH: Karen in Wauconda, Illinois. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, it's so great to talk to you. You look smoking hot. Congratulations on the weight loss.RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much.CALLER: You're welcome. You're very welcome. One of the things I'd like to hear would be more of Mr. Snerdley's commentary from the hood.RUSH: Oh, the Official Obama Criticizer.CALLER: Yes.RUSH: Well, you know what, I'm glad you reminded me of that. I'll get Mr. Snerdley...

RUSH: Headline, CBS News: "Michelle Obama: Health Care is a Women's Issue -- First Lady Michelle Obama made the case Friday morning that health care reform is a women's issue and called on female activists to support President Obama's reform plan." You mean they're not already on board? Why does she have to call on female activists to get involved? We have audio sound bites. This is at the White House, Michelle Obama speaking to a group of women. Here's the first sound bite.MICHELLE: These...

RUSH: Here is our blowtorch affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, WPTF radio, the Bill LuMaye Show. He's talking to Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling communications, and he says, "How important are your polls to a political party, whether Republican or Democrat? Do they look at this and go, 'Holy cow'? They recognize the trouble they're in, don't they?" JENSEN: Absolutely. We've had campaign managers for Democratic candidates in other states call us up and ask us not...

RUSH: Now, get this. This is on CNN, the chickification of the news. Ashley Fantz: "Obama as Witch Doctor: Racist or Satirical?" Apparently a tea party rally protester had a sign with Obama depicted as a witch doctor. Here, I'll show you on the Dittocam. Let me zoom in there. That's it, it's as close as I can get. But that's the poster at one of the tea parties with Obama sitting there as a witch doctor. Now, CNN's terribly upset about this because this is, of course, a racist country....

RUSH: This is Ann Curry talking to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an official exclusive interview.CURRY: Did you steal this election, sir?AHMADINEJAD: I don't know what you mean by that.CURRY: Did you create conditions so that you would win no matter the vote?AHMADINEJAD: It's very clear whoever becomes a candidate will start a campaign and will do his utmost to win. I think we should be courageous enough to accept the vote of the people. It's more courageous than participating in the vote itself.RUSH:...

RUSH: During the break Mr. Snerdley showed me a website that a friend of his had alerted him to. Apparently it has taken hold out there that when discussing Obama's America as it relates to the school bus incident -- where was that? That was in Belleville, right? Belleville, Illinois -- playing off the Newsweek story of, you know, all white kids are born racists. I did a whole routine here on, "Well, maybe we need to segregate the buses and so forth," in a joking fashion. And this guy at the...

RUSH: Tom in Albany, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: It's an honor to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate that.CALLER: Well, I'm a big fan. I spoke to you once before and it was a thrill. I'd like to comment on Speaker Pelosi's comments the other day about violence and she's nervous, not only is she a bad actress, she's the ultimate hypocrite.RUSH: You know, before you talk about that, we've got a sound bite trilogy...

RUSH: I'm waiting for audio of this, but we talk about Public Policy Polling here a lot. It's an outfit out of North Carolina. The guy that runs Public Policy Polling is a guy named Tom Jensen. He's a huge liberal Democrat, as I have mentioned on several previous occasions, and he was on a radio station in North Carolina (Raleigh, North Carolina) yesterday, he is in this radio interview (and I'm waiting for the audio on this) that Democrats and Obama are in big trouble and that he has been called...

RUSH: Cookie said, "Are you doing a speech Sunday in Washington?" and I said, "No. I'm going to Washington, but I'm not doing a speech." She said, "Well, TV stations are reporting all over the country you're doing a speech in Washington Sunday." I said, "I don't believe that. How can this be? And even if I were, why is it a big deal?" She said, "Because you are a big deal." Local NBC stations report that I'm speaking in Washington today. Now, NBC happens to be the network Tom Brokaw and Tom...

RUSH: Get this. This is hilarious. This is Bertha Lewis. She's the CEO of ACORN, but she's just a figurehead CEO. You gotta understand that but nevertheless she was on Washington Journal on C-SPAN today, and she was asked this question: "What would you like to say to James O'Keefe?" That's the journalist that walked in as the pimp to all these ACORN offices and got that video.LEWIS: I know Mr. O'Keefe is a conservative videographer. I do think it is disturbing, however, that if you want to...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I maybe have to be called into service on a different matter here today. There are a number of stories on the unhappiness of women. Arianna Huffington at the Huffing and Puffington Post has a big piece. They've hired some new writer who is going to explore why modern women are so unhappy and why they're so miserable. There are constant stories -- (interruption) no, they don't know. They gotta have some expert in there to explain why women are so miserable. I don't...

RUSH: We're getting sneezing lessons at the White House from the Health and Human Services secretary. F. Chuck Todd screwed it up when he sneezed and Kathleen Sebelius had to show the right way to do it. Apparently the new right way to sneeze is the way the Clampetts would do it on the Beverly Hillbillies, yeah, into your arm. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, Open Line Friday. When we go to the phones, the content of the program's all yours. Whatever you want to talk about, feel...

Rush's Morning Update: Act IISeptember 21, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Congressman Barney Frank --the Banking Queen,who runs the House Financial Services Committee --held a hearing last weekproposing an expansion of the Community Reinvestment Act. Democrats call the new measure the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009."The original act, signed into law by Jimmy Carter, was ultimately a trigger for the...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Blitzer thought he knew lots of stuff, and he got it wrong to the tune of minus $4,600, almost a 'Jeopardy!' record.""What a day! It's just incredible! We're getting sneezing lessons at the White House from the Health and Human Services secretary, and apparently the new way to sneeze is the way the Clampetts did on the Beverly Hillbillies.""Do you know what the real name of Tuscan kale is? It's cavolo nero. And do you know what...

Story #1:Rasmussen: Opposition to Obamacare Hits 56%RUSH: Opposition to Obama's health care plan hits a new high of 56% now in the Rasmussen Reports poll, 44% strongly opposed to it. Just 43% now fare Obama's health care plan. Story #2:St. Louis Turns Off Arch Lights for Migrating BirdsRUSH: This story just kind of burns me up. It goes right along with the insanity of the turtle light ordinance where I live. From St. Louis: "Migrating birds passing through downtown St. Louis won’t be...