RUSH: Now, the surreal nature of things continues. Do you remember two days ago a phony group claiming to be the Chamber of Commerce sent out an e-mail that the Chamber had done a 180 and was now supporting cap and trade? It was learned that the e-mail was a hoax and the group was a hoax group. So then we find out later that the group then had a press conference in Washington where the media showed up. And this fake group claiming to be the Chamber of Commerce was in the middle of the press conference...

RUSH: And welcome back to the most listened to radio talk show in America: The Rush Limbaugh program on the famous and distinguished Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Here's the phone number if you'd like to join us. 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. From the New York Times today: "In Shift, Cancer Society Sees Risks in Screenings -- The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening," meaning testing, "is now saying that the...

RUSH: I mentioned the House of Representatives has, uh, how to say this? They have reformulated the House version of health care and it's $871 billion price tag, because they realize they need to do something with it. That bill is the focal point of opposition. They claim in their revamped version here that the way they've redone the bill will keep costs low. They will keep costs low. Now, Ed Morrissey writes about this at the Hot Air blog and I want to get into what he says, and we'll do it...

RUSH: Randall in Columbia, South Carolina, hello, sir.CALLER: Hey, Rush. I appreciate you taking my call. I look at this and I see where the far left has gained some common sense toward the end of President Bush's term. But I believe that the common sense they gained and the values that they wanted to instill in America, they're going to gain them back again.RUSH: Wait a minute. I must confess here to being confused. You said that the far left has gained some common sense toward the end...

RUSH: Lamar Alexander on the Senate floor this morning, warning Obama he's going down the Nixonian path with this enemies list business.ALEXANDER: Based upon that experience and my 40 years since then, in and out of public life, I want to make what I hope will be a friendly suggestion to President Obama and his White House. Don't create an enemies list. It's a mistake for the president of the United States and for the White House staff. If the president and his top aides treat people with different...

RUSH: Kate in Fairfield, California. "The" Kate, speaking of KFBK, one of my favorite callers from my days back there. How are you, Kate?CALLER: Well, I'm doing very well, Rush. How are you?RUSH: Very well. Thank you.CALLER: It's so good to talk to you. Hey, listen, I listened to Fox News last week and I heard about Newt Gingrich endorsing that woman, I can't even remember her name, there's no use remember her name, I call her "that woman," who is not Republican in any way, shape, or form....

RUSH: Jerry in Vancouver, Washington. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Major dittos, Rush. I've been listening to you since KFBK.RUSH: Well, that will be 1984, that's forever.CALLER: Yes, sir. I would like to expand on your mood yesterday. You elaborated that even the golf balls were going to have to help your therapy, and you are so important to all of us, and when you left the show yesterday, it wasn't just me that felt despondent, people around me, we talked about...

RUSH: Let's go back to January 16th of this year. The Wall Street Journal had just asked me to join a cadre of fellow commentators, asking me to write 400 words on my hopes for the new administration and President Obama and this is what I said to you, my devoted and loyal audience in explaining my reaction to the Wall Street Journal.RUSH ARCHIVE: I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous...

RUSH: There's a hilarious story today, the first of a two-parter. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen at The Politico: "Obama Strategy: Marginalize Critics." We linked to the Politico website where Jim VandeHei posted a video about the White House's ongoing efforts to silence me and the GOP. This is what he said.VANDEHEI: The White House has systematically set out to try to marginalize the most powerful voices in the Republican Party, including Rush Limbaugh, the US Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, the...

RUSH: Hey, have you heard the latest news out there, folks? Well, the latest news out there is that the taxpayers are not going to get their money back on the bailouts. They just announced this today, that we're not going to get the money back on the bailout of Chrysler or General Motors, and we're not going to get the money back on TARP. That's news to me, but whoever thought we were going to get our money back, and, by the way, what does that mean, the taxpayers get their money back? Even...

Rush's Morning Update: PettyOctober 22, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last week,after Fox News aired video of Anita Dunn quotingMao Tse-tung (who she called one of her "favorite political philosophers"),the Obama White House went ballistic. First, they blackballed Fox,banning White House staff from appearing on the network. Then they backtracked, retreating to their standard smear campaign -- supported by the State-Controlled...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Ladies and gentleman, I, Rush Limbaugh, live in Barack Obama's head rent free.""Maybe we ought to start putting stickers on journalists' foreheads -- something like, 'Obama-approved journalist'. Or, how about at the end of every story, 'I'm Barack Obama, and I dictated this story'. Well, that's what's happening in American journalism today.""Obama is Van Jones, is Ron Bloom, is Anita Dunn. He just knows that if he spoke like they...

Story #1:Mort Zuckerman: Get Used to 10% UnemploymentRUSH: And, my friends, Obama, while the rest of you are starving and deciding whether to eat dog food or cat food, and wondering, "Where is my job coming from?" know that even Mort Zuckerman is out with a piece today, Mort Zuckerman the CEO and publisher of US News & World Report, basically saying that we're not going to have any new job creation. He's going on along with what the AP said the other day, that some industry jobs are not ever going...