Read the wide array of articles that El Rushbo reads for show prep.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today:

Stock Market Plunge || Obama MIA || McCain Rips Tea Party

"Bright people don't go into journalism. It's that simple."

RUSH: In an unusual departure from past practice, the National Association of Gals – the NAG gang – has defended a conservative woman from attack by the State-Controlled, Drive-By Media. A formerly widely read newsmagazine, Newsweek, ran a cover story on Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

On the Rushwire: Stock Market Bounces After Bernanke Statement ... ABC News Refutes UK Daily Mail on Jackie O Tapes ... Gallup: Economic Confidence Plunges to Minus 53 ... Regime's 2012 Plan: Politics of Personal Destruction ... A Brief Explanation on Why SEALs Were in Chinook ... NY Times Savages Secretive S&P for Regime

• Rush Flashback, 2008: Robot Obama Is Cold, Not Cool

• Richard Cohen Now:Mr. Cool Turns Cold

IBD:Pyrrhic Defeat from Jaws of GOP Victory

RUSH: When they get the point in time where the committee becomes relevant, something's gonna happen to make it irrelevant, worthless, not happen, or kick it further down the road or what have you.  Because nobody -- particularly in election year, nobody -- wants to be attached to things that cause pain.

ALGORE:  They pay pseudoscientists to pretend to be scientists, to put out the message, "This climate thing, it's nonsense! Manmade CO2 doesn't trap heat. It may be volcanoes." Bull(bleep)! "It may be sunspots." Bull(bleep)! "It's not getting warmer." Bull(bleep)!  ... It's no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the God(bleep) word "climate."

RUSH: Have you noticed Obama is at war with an endless list of enemies?  He is at war with all aspects of our country, and particularly with the aspects of our country that generate wealth and success. He has a long list of things we're supposed to hate.

RUSH: Obama is out blaming everybody else, but get this from the Associated Press.  The headline says it all: " -- President Barack Obama says there's some good news from the bitterly partisan debt debate -- it made people so frustrated with Washington that Democrats will be able to draw a clear divide with Republicans heading into the 2012 election.

JAY CARNEY:  We do not control all levers of government. Sometimes that is quite unfortunate, but the fact is we work with Congress in this process, and the president will put forward his ideas.

MCCAIN: I said that if anyone misunderstood, yeah, I'm very sorry, but --

WOMAN: Is that your apology?

MCCAIN: I'm sorry if it was misunderstood.

WOMAN: Thank you.

MCCAIN: I am not sorry for what I said.

MAN: Ohhhhh.

MCCAIN: Why should I when it's the fact?

BBC REPORTER: These are, like, local people. I mean, why is it targeting local people and your own people?

WOMAN 1: It's the rich people.

WOMAN 2: It's the rich people, the people that got businesses, and that's why all of this is happening, because of rich people. So we're just showing the rich people we can do what we want.