RUSH: Montel Williams, who now has a radio talk show -- notice how everybody wants one of those. Everybody wants a radio talk show. Everybody wants to be like me. They do. Undeniable, inarguable. We've put together a montage of Montel Williams' remarks about the possible public reaction to the terror incident at Fort Hood.WILLIAMS: We pulled something like this back in World War II when we decided to round up all Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps. Before we could blink,...

RUSH: Steve King, Republican from Iowa, continues to tell it like it is. And, frankly, we need more Republicans like this guy. The Washington News Observer interviewed Steve King and a reporter said, "What is your opinion of Valerie Jarrett, who is the female consigliere for Obama?"KING: Valerie Jarrett is a product of Chicago politics, the Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, son and daughter of Saul Alinsky, linked up with Mayor Daley, the Chicago machine, we know what it is. Someone called it gangster...

RUSH: "The Senate could still use budget rules to pass healthcare without 60 votes, the White House indicated Monday. President Barack Obama is hopeful that the Senate will pass a healthcare bill with 60 votes, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs held out the possibility that budget reconciliation rules could still be used." The White House is trying to tell the Senate what the hell to do. That means Rahm Emanuel is running this show. They know they're in trouble over there. By the...

RUSH: Remember a couple of days ago we had audio/video. Well, it's actually audio, but there's video of children of staff members at the World Wildlife Fund, a video on that website urging President Obama to go to Copenhagen and save the planet. BOY: The world's top scientists agree that climate change is the most... GIRL: ...serious threat to ever face our planet.GIRL: It's coming faster and hitting harder than expected.GIRL: Droughts and floods and hurricanes are getting worse!GIRL: It's affecting...

RUSH: A couple of audio sound bites this afternoon in Nueva Orc at Columbia University, CNBC held a town hall event called Keeping America Great, A Summit, with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The moderator, Becky Quick, says, "This is a very pivotal moment in history. People have a lot of questions about the economy, about our entire system of capitalism. Mr. Buffett, over the course of the last year was there ever a time you had doubts about capitalism...

RUSH: From Reuters: "The White House is looking to cut its budget deficit by using some unspent funds from the US government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter." This is a joke, right? This is a joke? This is like you owing a big balance on your credit cards. You go out and borrow $15,000 to pay off your credit cards and think you're out of debt. How stupid do they think we are? "Members of the Obama administration are...

RUSH: This is last Monday in Seattle at a Swedish Medical Center press conference. Pelosi spoke to the press. A news reporter, Shomari Stone, said, "Do you think it's fair to send people to jail for not buying health insurance?"PELOSI: For a long time now people who haven't had health care or provided it have placed the burden on others. Everybody is paying the price for uncompensated care. I don't need to tell you that in a hospital. And so what this is is to say we all have to do our part...

RUSH: Pete Hoekstra, a Republican from Michigan -- you know, they've been looking at this Nidal Hasan guy. Have you seen the video of his apartment? There's nothing in there! It looks like he's living in abject poverty, but he was making almost six figures a year. So Pete Hoekstra said sources outside the intelligence community learned about Hasan's possible connections to Pakistan. He might have been wiring money to Pakistan, which, of course, is facing a massive Islamist insurgency, widely...

RUSH: This is the State-Controlled Associated Press. "Heavy government stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates did little to end a 'lost decade' of stagnation and mushrooming debt in Japan." I had you going, didn't I? "Some economists and lawmakers say the US may wind up following the same trajectory. Despite early signs of recovery and a strong US stock market rally, fears persist that the failure to generate new jobs or ignite more consumer spending could drag the economy back into recession,...

RUSH: Last night, I flew into New York -- actually I was in Westchester County. The Westchester-Putnam Council of the Boy Scouts of America awarded my good friend Roger Ailes the 2009 Good Scout Award. As you know he's the CEO of Fox News Channel, and I was just randomly opening my mail one day and I got an invitation to go to this thing, and I moved the schedule around to be able to go up there and do it. I asked for seven or eight minutes to speak, and they gave it to me. I did a profound,...

RUSH: Yesterday on this program, in reporting the absolute collapse of the energy sector in energy colossus Venezuela I said to you people that I keep an eye on Venezuela because that's where we're headed. Get this. The Obama administration intends to purge Republicans from the civil service retroactive to five years ago starting in the year 2010. I found this at RedState.com: "Via Instapundit comes word that the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge...

Rush's Morning Update: Happy DaysNovember 13, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer State-Controlled Associated Press reported that new claims for unemployment benefits fell "more than expected" last week (as is always the case).The 502,000 new claims filed are, according to AP, "evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers." Yeah, you'll be glad to learn that only five and a half million people are still...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Adolf Hitler put people in jail to lower the unemployment numbers. That's how Dachau started.""The United States is a great nation at risk in a dangerous world. Our threats have always been external, but today they are internal. They are right in front of our face -- and I'm not talking about Fort Hood, specifically." "Have you heard what we're going to do with the unspent TARP money? We're going to reduce the deficit with it....

Story #1:Alert: NY-23 Race Tightens as Votes are CountedRUSH: There's all kinds of new and exciting things coming out on New York 23. It might be that Hoffman conceded too soon, a bunch of precincts gave him zero votes he's now closed the gap to 3,000 votes and they're still counting over 10,000 absences. He may have conceited too soon but this Owens guy has already sworn in and has voted on the health care bill. It's unlikely that he's going to win, but I mean it's much, much closer than he...