RUSH: We had a press conference, all of us judges had a press conference yesterday afternoon at one o'clock here, four o'clock Eastern time, with the entertainment media: four people from State-Controlled Associated Press, Las Vegas media, People magazine, all those kind of people. Robin Leach was there in the front row. And toward the end of the press conference one of the female reporters asked me, I'm paraphrasing her question: "Do you penalize any contestants -- I mean you're a big conservative...

RUSH: Got one of these things in the e-mail, author unknown, and if it's not spammed out there yet, it soon will be. If it is spammed out there and you've seen it, forgive me. "The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such man for their president. The...

RUSH: Remember something, folks, dictators always go after the middle class while talking about saving the middle class. Obama, for a year, has talked about saving the middle class, reviving the middle class, he's got a Middle Class Task Force, he's got Biden running the Middle Class Task Force. Obama even went to have a meeting with the 20 members of the Middle Class Task Force, which he impaneled early last year. He had a teleprompter to speak to 20 people. So we've had a Middle Class Task...

RUSH: H.R. is doing the screening today. Snerdley has a hangnail and is having problems holding onto the phone, so H.R. pressed into emergency duty. He is telling me that many of you are calling not to go on the air but to highly praise and compliment my letter to Barack Obama that I read in the last half hour. People are asking for a transcript. The transcript of everything on this program, for the most part, will always be found at the end of the day at RushLimbaugh.com. But I'll do it again...

RUSH: In case you missed it last night, here is Chris "Tingle Up His Leg" Matthews.MATTHEWS: I was trying to think about who he was tonight, and it's interesting, he is postracial by all appearances, you know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.RUSH: Well, he spoke for an hour and ten minutes. What did you think of him for the other ten minutes, doofus? Postracial? Postracial? There is a lot of dementia that is happening on the left. I forgot he was president for an hour. There was...

My Letter to President ObamaSome words of fatherly advice not likely to be taken.

RUSH: This is actually me on this program yesterday. This sets up what's coming next. I'm talking about process, Dukakis, that kind of thing. You'll hear it.RUSH ARCHIVE: [W]e've got a guy who's totally enamored of process. You know who else loved process? Michael Dukakis. I remember him discussing that in the presidential campaign of 1988, the year this program de-buted ("debuted," for those of you in Rio Linda). Dukakis said, "I love policy. I love the process. I love the process of making...

RUSH: I wanted to comment on this strange story. James O'Keefe and another guy got caught in Mary Landrieu's office, and the original report in the Washington Post said that... O'Keefe is the guy who with the girl did the BigGovernment.com videos that blew the top off the ACORN scams. He was in there, and got caught in the phone room, and the Washington Post reported what he was doing was bugging the phone lines of Mary Landrieu. Then the police said, "No, no, no, that's not what he was doing....

RUSH: We found out what it's like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. And if you didn't see it, and if you want to know what sitting through a speech by Castro or Chavez is like find a way to watch a little bit of it and you'll get a grand idea. It was disjointed. I thought it was pathetic. It's striking to me, and it's utterly predictable, you listen to the pro-Obama people in the media and they talk about, "Oh, it was great, it was the most wonderful speech."...

Rush's Morning Update: RewardsJanuary 29, 2010No video update while Rush is in Las Vegas.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer There was one sentence in the State ofObama show that must have been slipped in by a speechwriter playing a joke on Obama. Describing an education initiative that supposedly promotes competition, Obama said: "The idea here is simple: Instead of rewarding failure, we only reward success."Yes, it's a simple idea-- an idea that is proven to work -- but it'salso...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"This must be what it feels like to live in a monarchy when some little kid becomes king due to a premature death.""We found out what it's like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.""Chris Matthews said while he was watching the lecture he forgot Obama was black for an hour. I forgot he was president for an hour. I watched a community agitator and not a very good one. I saw a guy that's angry. I saw...

Story #1:Spin: Drop in Jobless Claims "Short" of ExpectationsRUSH: You're going to love this. State-Controlled Associated Press. They've got a new phrase. "A drop in new jobless claims came in short of expectations." Short of expectations! That's the new phrase. It's not working, Obama. "A new drop in jobless claims came in short of expectations and factory orders rose only slightly, fresh evidence the economy is recovering at a slow, uneven pace." It is not recovering. "The Labor Department...