RUSH: To the audio sound bites, George Stephanopoulos got under Obama's skin on tax increases. Stephy hit Obama here on what's not even in question, the health care plan is a massive tax increase. Here's the question: "Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money and fining you if you don't. How is that not a tax increase?"OBAMA: No, that's not true, George. The -- For us to say that you've gotta take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase....

RUSH: As promised, ladies and gentlemen, the Official Obama Criticizer, certified black enough to criticize, Mr. Bo Snerdley.SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, official Barack Obama criticizer for the EIB Network, certified black enough to criticize with a heavy dose of pure, unadulterated organic slave blood. I have a statement. President Obama, your weekend media blitz to again try and reverse your sagging fortunes implementing your socialist health care takeover failed. The only ones buying it...

RUSH: To Baker City, Oregon. Sharon, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.CALLER: Nice to talk to you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I've been sitting here with my husband and listening about this ACORN for over a week now, and we're absolutely flabbergasted why nobody has played the clip of Obama straight out endorsing it. When he passed the stimulus package --RUSH: Wait, people have.CALLER: I haven't heard it anywhere. When he passed the stimulus package he jumped in and made...

RUSH: How many of you have heard of Marshall McLuhan, "The medium is the message"? Do you realize how many people misunderstand what "the medium is the message" is? A lot of people do, and it's classic. Let's look at Obama's five appearances on the Sunday shows. Now, I have here the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz: "Obama's TV Blitz: On The Air, but Off His Game?" Sunday was an effort to have Obama's message break through, but Bob Schieffer felt like he was at Dunkin' Donuts. Bob Schieffer said,...

RUSH: Do you remember when Andrew Cuomo got into some deep trouble in New York, was thinking of running for governor, and Bill Clinton went in there and said to Andrew Cuomo in whatever words Clinton used: don't do it. (imitating Clinton) "You remember what happened to Torricelli over there, Torricelli wouldn't go away and we had to push him out. Andrew, we love you and your time will come down the line but we don't want you there now," and so Andrew Cuomo backed out. Well, President Obama, New...

RUSH: Now, a program note, we're going to be in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, actually Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but who's the guest host on Thursday? Mark Steyn is going to be here on Thursday. I gotta go out and finish The Family Guy, and then I'm doing Jay Leno's new show Thursday afternoon and there's two parts to that. I'm actually going to be on the set. They have one sit-down guest every show, and a musical guest. Smokey Robinson is the guest the night that I'm...

RUSH: Let's go to foreign policy now. This is dangerous. I have a series of stories here, we're forgetting our own security. We're not even farming it out. We're just not even going to pay any attention to it. "'Barack Obama Ready to Slash US Nuclear Arsenal' -- Pentagon told to map out radical cuts as president prepares to chair UN talks. Barack Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in the country's arsenal,...

Now, I have a funny story to tell you. Kathryn and I went up to Washington for the weekend, the Redskins and Rams yesterday at FedEx Field, and we flew up Saturday afternoon because we were going to have dinner with Kathryn's brother who lives there and we stayed at the Hay-Adams which is the toe sucker hotel. I mean, that's where Dick Morris is on the phone getting toe sucked while talking to Clinton while he was getting a Lewinsky at the same time. And through the trees you can sort of see...

RUSH: Do you remember that NEA phone call? I think it was back in August, the 21st or the 25th, and it featured basically a coordination from the White House to the National Endowment for the Arts to promote Obama's health care and parts of his domestic agenda. One of the artists on that call got hold of Breitbart and said they're turning the National Endowment for the Arts and www.Serve.gov, the latest website out of the White House, into political instruments, and there are four pieces written...

Rush's Morning Update: AcrimonySeptember 22, 2009**Note: Today's Morning Update available in audio only.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer During his weekend media blitz, Obama sat down with Bob Schieffer of CBS Snooze. Unchallenged by the host(naturally),Obama said thathe has "no interest in increasing the size of government." He just wants to make sure government is smartly run. After comparing himself to Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan,Obama blamed bloggers and the 24-hour news cycle...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We never hear the Obamas talking about what a great health care system we have. No, they just rip it to shreds. It's annoying as hell, frankly.""I have to admit the bride had a great sense of humor to go grab the official photographer and not throw a fit. I mean, it's her wedding, and she works for Hillary, and there I am with her band leader saying, 'Rush Limbaugh's in the house!'""If we pull out of Afghanistan -- which is what...

Story #1:Misery: Congress to Extend Unemployment BenefitsRUSH: Hey, how's that hope and change working out for you, folks? From the State-Controlled Associated Press: "Despite predictions the Great Recession is running out of steam, the House is taking up emergency legislation this week to help the millions of Americans who see no immediate end to their economic miseries." We have to extend unemployment benefits -- the misery is being compounded all over the place.Story #2:Correction: Doug Giles...