RUSH: Now, let me address one thing. The e-mail is loaded today with people requesting my comment on some of the outrageous slander and libel that's been on television and in newspapers since last week about my potential purchase, being in a group, potential purchase of the St. Louis Rams. I mentioned last week, I can't do anything but confirm this. The people bidding on this, we all have a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs through the brokers here and there are just certain things...

RUSH: Bonnie in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you, sir, hello. Ma'am! Sorry.CALLER: That's okay, Rush. Today is Columbus Day. And I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus.RUSH: Well, I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here.CALLER: Oh, great. Great.RUSH: It's not what you're gonna want to hear.CALLER: Maybe. (chuckles) I think he was a great, courageous visionary. I think he's a great role model for today's youth. He was an...

RUSH: To Garner Valley, California, this is Big Walt.CALLER: Rush are you there?RUSH: I'm right here.CALLER: I just wanted to say if they're going to hand people money they need to make 'em work, you know, I got a few people --RUSH: Where? Wait a second. Where? I proposed --CALLER: Anything! Sweep the streets, pick up trash, rebuild the buildings in Chicago. Give them jobs. Make them proud of themselves.RUSH: Well, that's what the stimulus was for, but it's not happening!CALLER: They're...

RUSH: There's a story out there today, NBC Chicago, about all the profanity being uttered in the political spectrum today, and what's with all that X-rated language here. It's an attempt to justify it on the Democrat side. So that's a companion story to this in the New York Times: "'Democrats Must Attack to Win in 2010, Strategists Say.' -- New Jersey Republicans complain that Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, has turned nasty to gain ground in his re-election bid this year. Republicans elsewhere...

RUSH: Steve Wynn on Fox News Sunday was interviewed by Chris Wallace. He's the CEO of Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas. He's also on with Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan. And Chris Wallace says, "Unemployment in Nevada is 13.2%. That's the second highest in the nation. Your company, Wynn Resorts, has more than 20,000 employees. Do you see any turnaround yet?"WYNN: No, in the sense that I think that the priorities of the administration should have been more directly focused on job creation....

RUSH: Snerdley hasn't said anything to me, but he's looking at me since the show began, "Why aren't you talking about the Today Show? When you did the CPAC speech, you didn't talk about that." Folks, I'm going to explain it to you. I have a sound bite roster today that is 95% me. You know how uncomfortable I am talking about myself on this program. The sound bite roster is 95% me. I refuse to be distracted by all of this stuff. I'll get to the Today Show bites, but if you want to watch it...

RUSH: Let's talk a little health care, ladies and gentlemen, 'cause tomorrow there's a big, big vote in the Senate Finance Committee. The big news today: "After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system," and destroy it "the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report," in fact they have come out with that report, it has been released "warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more...

RUSH: Folks, I want to take you back to last week. I want to go back to Detroit, Cobo Center, last week where some 65,000 people showed up to receive applications for stimulus money. About 3,500 people will actually be granted a portion of $15 million in stimulus money. There were scam artists outside Cobo Center selling fake applications for 20 bucks apiece. I was thinking about this all weekend and particularly after doing the Jamie Gangel interview on Thursday, first part of which today ran...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it's an outrage, it is an absolute outrage. Our president has been shafted by the Nobel committee and by the pope. Greetings, my friends. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address today, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. Well, they gave out the Nobel Prize for economics last week. President Obama did not get it. It is an insulting outrage. I mean if he's going to get the Peace Prize for doing...

Rush's Morning Update: Lay Down... October 13, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer As part of their health care takeover attempt, Democrats last week found four Republicans to use as PR fodder. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, and former Senate Majority CaversBill Frist and Bob Dolewere, to varying degrees, supportive of "finding a compromise" with Obama and the Democrats.Over...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If I'm controversial, it's because I say things everybody thinks but doesn't have the guts to say. Political correctness is like a vise grip around all our throats." "Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints on Sunday, even one for work in Hawaii. I saw that and said, 'Oh, my God! The Catholic Church has sainted Obama!' But no, the Catholic Church has shafted Obama.""Were I president, I would be embarrassed that there are...