RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen. I gotta talk about this iPhone business. There's some incredible stuff going on, being said, about the iPhone 4. Now, I have seen four iPhone 4s. They are amazing devices. It was kind of interesting. When Apple was a number two and not a big threat to anybody, they were treated as a boutique little company and whatever their successes and shortcomings might have been they were just sort of laughed at by the big wizards at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and you...

RUSH: This is Obama ten years ago -- well, nine years ago, 2001, on a Chicago FM radio station, WBEZ. And the host, Gretchen Helfrich was interviewing then-State Senator Barack Obama. And among other things in a long answer, he said this.OBAMA 2001: As radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted -- and...

RUSH: The State-Controlled Media, folks, is in a tizzy today. The report on consumer confidence at an all-time low? They're just devastated. The stories are about more and more people feeling disconnected from their own president, and this is the guy they put there! This is the guy that we've all been waiting for. This regime was going to make us utopianists. We're going to live in Pandora, we were going to have a panacea, and there's nothing but misery, depression. Look at the number of suicides...

RUSH: Yesterday spent some time sharing with you my valued insights on the reason for the misery, the unhappiness, the despondency, the depression of all the leftists in this country -- and it's because they got their panacea. They got their guy. They got their "clean, articulate" president. They got every policy wonk in power they ever wanted. They've got all the agenda. They got health care. They got stimulus to create jobs. They got people in homes that can't afford 'em. It's supposed to be utopia...

RUSH: This from Byron York: "The allegation that Al Gore sexually assaulted a woman in a Portland, Ore., hotel room nearly four years ago has dealt a serious blow to the former vice president's story that he and wife Tipper simply 'grew apart' after 40 years of marriage. The police report of the masseuse's complaint is 73 pages long and extremely detailed. According to the document, she got a call from the front desk of the trendy Hotel Lucia on the night of Oct. 24, 2006. The hotel had a special...

RUSH: How about this Russian spy ring? You know, this is right out of a book. If you haven't read the book, go get The Charm School by Nelson DeMille. Nelson DeMille's latest book is called The Lion. That's a fabulous book. Do not read the last 40 pages before you go to work. The Lion, by Nelson DeMille. Fabulous. He wrote a book years ago called The Charm School. The Charm School is all about how the Soviets planted spies in the United States that were educated and trained to blend into...

RUSH: From the Wall Street Journal today, Dow Jones News Service: "Executives from oil and gas companies on Monday concluded an hour-long meeting with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar without securing promises from the government to lift a deepwater-drilling moratorium imposed after a disastrous BP PLC oil spill. ... 'Numerous operators told Secretary Salazar that they were in the final stages of moving rigs, deepwater rigs out of the Gulf of Mexico and to West Africa and the Middle East,' according...

Rush's Morning Update: Total FailureJune 30, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer On the one hand, Obama and the Democrats tell us that Big Government is the answer. So they took over Big Auto, they took over housing, and health care. Now they're in the midst of taking over banking and Big Energy. They've inserted their tentacles deeper into the private sector,despite a dismal track record. Medicaid and Medicare are bankrupt,...

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