RUSH: Here is Robert Fibbs, Baghdad Bob Fibbs, the White House spokesman, the press secretary today. A reporter said, "The president has expressed his regret. Is it accurate to say that he apologized, personally apologized?"REPORTER: Did he lobby for her to take her job back or to take the new job?GIBBS: She has a unique set of experiences and a unique opportunity to continue using those experiences to help people. That's what he said to her, and obviously a decision about what she's going to...

RUSH: Connie in Monroe, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Congratulations on your wedding. This is my comment. It's been said that blacks can't be racist because they have no power. I say that, since we now have the first black president of the United States, the most powerful president, person in the world. We have Shirley, who's been over a white farmer's land, and she's had power over that land 20 some years...

I have been asked to comment on this. People have asked me about this woman Sarah Spitz, who's now "apologized," and they want my reaction to it. And this is another thing I'll react to it but I really don't want to. This bores me as well, this whole concept of forcing people to apologize for things they meant to say. Why is she gonna apologize? She meant to say it, she wrote it, stand by it. You want to watch me die, Sarah? Say it! Where are your guts? Well, she's "apologized." "A producer...

RUSH: Gene in Richmond, Virginia, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello, sir.CALLER: (garbled cell connection) Hello. (Garbled) called worse. (Garbled) argue with right, and you're right, and the millions of your listeners know the passion that you speak with, know the honesty of which you speak, 98.6% correct. You wish, we wish that none of our representatives would speak with that kind of passion, that kind of honesty, that kind of simplicity about our country. So that we don't...

RUSH: All right, we're gonna talk about Shirley Sherrod, and we're gonna talk about the NAACP, and Andrew Breitbart, and this video, but I want to tell you at the outset I hate it. I hate this story. I despise this story. I'm only talking about this because I must talk about it because I don't want to talk about it. It's a distraction. It's nothing more than the left playing the race card. The NAACP has thrown down the gauntlet because the big-government argument has failed. They are keeping alive...

RUSH: Back in the initial days of the oil spill -- well, I always take a risk here. In our culture today, folks, it's a risk to tell the truth. And I said, "Yeah, spill is bad, we'd rather not have it happen, but the earth is a magical thing, and this is going to be taken care of. The ocean, the Gulf of Mexico will handle the oil that is leaking into it, that is pouring into it. The problem we're going to have is if oil gets ashore. That's when it's a problem, when it gets into the actual ground...

RUSH: "Leading Indicators Suggest Recovery Slowing." From the keepers of the faith at the Associated Press: "A private research group says its gauge of future economic activity dropped in June, the second decline in past 3 months, suggesting the U.S. economic recovery will weaken." Now, for the recovery to weaken, it would actually have to be happening. It would have to be a recovery, and there isn't. The only place there is an economic recovery is in the hearts and minds of the nonexistent...

RUSH: So we're supposed to have a postracial president. Instead Barack Obama's the most racial president, folks. I went through the audio sound bites here, and 95% of them are about race. Ninety-five percent of the audio sound bites are about race to one degree or another, and I predicted this would be the case. Greetings, great to have you here, behind the proverbial Golden EIB Microphone. Our telephone number as always, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I never forget...

Rush's Morning Update: Gas AttackJuly 23, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Apparently, my friends, we have arrived at another cultural landmark in the gender wars and education. An AP feature story on parenting issuesfocuses on the widening gap between the reading ability of boys and girls. I quote the headline: "Boys trail girls in reading; can fart jokes help?"The story notes a 20-year trend in which boys have lagged behind...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"All these people who have been clamoring for a colorblind society do not, in any way, want one. They live off of race. They thrive on it.""Go talk to Obama if you want to, Shirley. Go and have a discussion about racism. Go tell him all you want about it. Go get your job back. In the meantime, the rest of us are going to go about trying to save this country for the rest of our children and grandchildren because that's what matters...

Story #1:Gallup Caught Lying About the Generic Ballot Trend RUSH: There was a story recently. The Gallup poll generic ballot showed the Democrats were all of a sudden way ahead of the Republicans. Nobody could figure it out. "What brought this about? What happened?" and the spin from the apparatchiks... I'm really... I'm still looking for a term. It's ingrained in us to refer to these people as "the media." We know there is no media. They're just leftists. These are the propagandists, the...