RUSH: David Obey wants to raise taxes on everybody to pay for the Afghanistan war. Last night ABC's World News Tonight Jonathan Karl had an interview with him.OBEY: If we don't pay for it, then the cost of the Afghan war will wipe out every other initiative that we have to try to rebuild our own economy whether it's the president's; whether it's the Democrats in Congress, whether it's the Republicans. Ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan.RUSH: That's just...

RUSH: There is another fraud that is in the process of being uncovered, and that is ACORN. Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website has video showing employees at ACORN's San Diego County office offering to assist in the transportation and exploitation of underage prostitutes from abroad. The attorney general of California announced an investigation into these operations of ACORN's. The nights before the visit, ACORN dumped thousands of documents in a dumpster. Breitbart obtained them and says...

RUSH: This is posted in Environment, September 29th of this year: "A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent peer-reviewed climate papers. At least eight papers purporting to reconstruct the historical temperature record times may need to be revisited, with significant implications for contemporary climate studies, the basis of the [UN's climate panel] assessments. A number of these involve senior climatologists at the British Climate Research Centre, CRU, at the University...

RUSH: All right, to the phones as promised. We start in Sacramento. Hi, John, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Gulf War One veteran dittos to you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I'm so glad you talked about Afghanistan because I'm going to use that to support my two points that I want to make about climate change, but as I was on hold I was also thinking, "I don't want to make points just to make points and to be, you know, offended and to feel righteous." So I want to...

RUSH: Now, Obama's press conference today had nothing to do with Afghanistan, yet here's the first question from CBS Radio's White House correspondent, Mark Knoller.KNOLLER: Mr. President, I suspect you don't want my colleagues and I to rely on leaks until next week. So I'd like to ask you about --OBAMA: Why -- why stop now?KNOLLER: Well, perhaps you'd like to help us set a new stage in our relationship by telling us where you stand on your decision on Afghanistan. You had what we were told...

RUSH: Now we go over to the Universe of Lies. This afternoon, President Obama press conference with the Indian prime minister. Here's a portion of Obama's opening remarks.OBAMA: We've made progress in confronting climate change. I commended the prime minister for India's leadership in areas like green buildings and energy efficiency, and we agreed to a series of important new efforts: A clean energy initiative that will create jobs and improve people's access to cleaner, more affordable energy;...

RUSH: Do you know that the Fox News Channel is the only television outlet to report on ClimateGate? The rest of the media is totally ignoring it. The Washington Post is actually attacking the "deniers." This whole hoax has been fully exposed. These people were hiding data. They were hiding data from a Freedom of Information request. There are e-mails from the guy that ran the place, this university in England, to all of his contributors and all the members of his committee: "Don't release any...

RUSH: Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting post at National Review Online. "The Corner" is the name of their blog. "Why the Liberal Anger Over the Asian Tour?" We talked about this yesterday. You can't find one positive review of Obama's trip over there. Oh! And Drudge has unearthed another picture of Obama bowing, this time to the Chinese premier. So he bowed to the Japanese emperor, and he bowed to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (interruption) No, it's never understandable. American...

RUSH: It is amazing. Right on schedule, ladies and gentlemen -- here as this program begins -- is the GDP for the third quarter, as I predicted, being revised downward. Obama strolls to the microphone with the prime minister of India and a joint press conference right as this program starts. But I'm not worried about it, ladies and gentlemen, because I know that I have more drawing power than either of these guys, particularly Obama. The country may be interested in hearing what the Indian guy...

Rush's Morning Update: LegacyNovember25, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, whoopee. A joint study issued by the UN Development Program and the World Health Organization reports that almost half of the world's population has no modern sources of energy.Broken down by the numbers, two billion people have no access to natural gas or propane (including Obama's brother),and over a billion live without any electricity (including...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Everything the Democrats are behind today is a fraud and a lie aimed at separating you from your freedom, your property, and your money.""I guarantee you that as we speak, the hoaxers and everybody involved in this global warming scam -- from Algore on up -- are plotting strategy on how to keep forging forward because there is a hell of a lot of money at the end of this train.""Dittocam viewers are effusive in their praise todayof...

Story #1:Bolton: NYC Won't be Safe During Terror TrialRUSH: John Bolton says he's taking the family out of New York when the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial starts, not going to be safe there. Story #2:Dittocam Viewers Effusive of Rush's Shirt ColorRUSH: Dittocam viewers are effusive in their praise today of my shirt, the color of my shirt. "You look good in red out there." And of course Dittocam, cheap piece of equipment here, it's actually salmon, more of a salmon color, wouldn't you agree? It's...