RUSH: Marian in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm glad to finally speak to you. I just want to mention, I just returned from China, and it's an amazing place. I mean, nothing like what I expected.RUSH: What did you see?CALLER: We were in Beijing. We went throughout the country.RUSH: How was the food? I have to ask, how was the food?CALLER: Not good.RUSH: Well.CALLER: The hotels, we stayed in two four-, five-star hotels. I don't...

RUSH: Now, the left today cannot be in a very good mood. "President Obama acknowledged for the first time [today] that his administration would miss a self-imposed deadline to close the detention center at [Club Gitmo] by mid-January, admitting the difficulties of following through on one of his first pledges as president." Remember when he went out there and one of his first acts was signing the executive order and explaining how it was all going to happen? He forgot what it was that was going...

RUSH: The comedy of errors that is the decision to try the 9/11 mastermind and his cohorts in a civilian court in Manhattan continues. This morning on NBC's Today Show, the chief White House correspondent F. Chuck Todd interviewed President Obama in Beijing China, and F. Chuck Todd said, "Can you understand why it's so offensive for some for this terrorist to get all the legal privileges of an American citizen?"OBAMA: I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death...

RUSH: Bob in Hewlett, Long Island. Great to have you on the program. You're up first today. Hello.CALLER: Rush, good morning. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm a diagnostic radiologist, and I am continually appalled at how the liberals are trying to hurt the population that they claim to save. For example, the desire to move mammographies to the age of 50 not only allows cancers to go undetected in people who are most susceptible to severe breast cancer -- those between the ages of 40...

RUSH: Now, I have ten snippets of stories here; ten snippets of news stories from today highlighting the economic crisis, government waste, and fraud and mismanagement that cannot be spun. Beijing, November 18th, Reuters: "President [Barack] Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising US deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession." I know it's schizophrenic but there are two reasons for this....

RUSH: From The Politico: "Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage." Rhetorical? That means call in George Lakoff (rhymes with) to give 'em new words to issue confidence to people. "Following serious setbacks with independents in off-year elections earlier this month, White House officials attributed the defeats to local factors and said President...

RUSH: And get this one -- and this is just one of about ten economic stories that I've got. Folks, brace yourselves: "Obama: Job Creation Not Goal of Dec. 3 Jobs Forum." ... "President Barack Obama says creating jobs isn't the goal of a coming White House forum on jobs and economic growth. The president told NBC News on Wednesday that the purpose of the Dec. 3 summit is to figure out how to encourage hiring by businesses still reluctant to do so." Would somebody tell me the difference here?...

Rush's Morning Update: Breakfast!November 19, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Folks, before delving into today's update,let me issue a warning to those of you who consider yourselves responsible parents. When you hearwhat you're about to hear,you might have a negative reaction, so stifle it.Let's begin. Educators in Washington, DC have a problem. Many of the students who eat "free" or "reduced-price" skrool lunches don't...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Attorney General Holder says justice has been delayed for the victims of USS Cole. The Cole was bombed in 2000, when Eric Holder was the deputy attorney general!""Layoffs are beginning at the Associated Press. I guess that means there are probably no more Sarah Palin books to fact check out there." "It's stupid to run out and say that the goal of the jobs summit is not job creation; then what the hell is it? Well, it's a propaganda...