RUSH: It was only last week that we learned, ladies and gentlemen, of the sad situation at a Needham, Massachusetts, high school where one parent (one mother, I think it was) who had three kids complained to the skrool principal that the fact that two of her kids didn't make the honor roll was causing trouble in the household because the school published a list, and so the principal took it under advisement, thought about it for about a half minute, and broomed the whole notion of publishing the...

RUSH: Funny story today also today in the New York Observer. (That's the pink paper here in the city.) Headline: "John McCain and the Iraq Numbers Game." The Drive-By Media is starting to turn on McCain now. They loved McCain when he was anti-Republican, and they thought when he was a moderate and a "straight talker," but Richard Cohen of the Washington Post had a column yesterday essentially saying that McCain's campaign is a tale of two cities, Baghdad and something else, because he's all...

RUSH: Hillary Clinton, as I said, was on The View today in a pink pantsuit, which made me wonder: "How many pantsuits does she have?" You know, people are always talking about wardrobes and clothes and this sort of thing. I don't know if it's the same pink pantsuit from the Pretty in Pink press conference, which would have been in 1993, perhaps 1994. I don't know if it was that. All I know is -- that View show -- it is hard enough to watch, hard enough to look at with Rosie on it. Today, Hillary...

RUSH: You know, I'm getting close, if I lived in Chicago, I'd vote for Mayor Richard Daley, and I kid you not. Listen to this: "Mayor Daley had a field day ridiculing aldermen for banning foie gras and suggesting Chicago restaurants sharply restrict artery-clogging trans fats. Now the mayor has a new target: mandatory calorie counts. One week after Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) proposed the idea, Daley shot it down with a sarcastic vengeance. He argued that restaurant patrons can count their own...

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"People that listen to this show are not puppets. They end up doing their own thinking, and most of them just have their own thinking validated....

RUSH: Now, this is from The Australian.
"A friendly word of advice this Christmas: relax and enjoy it. Don't feel guilty about taking home your Christmas turkey in a plastic shopping bag or turning on the lights on the Christmas tree. They aren't acts of environmental vandalism or likely to accelerate global warming. You could, of course, be forgiven for thinking otherwise, since the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, global warming hysteria has reached...

RUSH: Ron in Athens, Georgia, I'm glad you called and glad you waited. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
CALLER: Rush, it's great to talk to you. Can you hear me all right?
RUSH: Yeah, I hear you fine.
CALLER: All right. Great.
RUSH: (shouting) What, are you on some kind of a cell phone out there driving around?
CALLER: What's that?
RUSH: You're on a cell phone? You can't hear me and I can year you. You're on a cell phone, right?
CALLER: Yeah. Actually, I'm on...

RUSH: I got an e-mail today from Gretchen Carlson, who is the co-host of Fox and Friends, and she said, "Hey, Rush, my mom heard you on the radio today talking about the Miss USA stuff."
She's referring to this hijacking of three cable networks by Trump yesterday with this gag-me press conference with Tara Conner. Gretchen writes, "As a former Miss America, the two pageants are markedly different. Miss America actually stays busy all year doing speeches, talking about her platform, and performing...

RUSH: Eblon in Melbourne, Florida. You're next, sir, on the EIB Network.
CALLER: It's great to be with you, Rush. You've been one of my great fans for a long time.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. I appreciate that.
CALLER: The issue -- I was just coming back from a late lunch, the issue -- of whether we should talk or not to the Syrians is dominating the news, and that's not really the issue. That's covering up the real issue. The real issue is the precedent that this Syrian government has...

RUSH: You know, these terrorist guys, they're just mean. They're just really mean! I can't believe that Zawahiri did this. Doesn't he know it's Christmastime here! When the children hear about this, it's going to ruin everything for them! It's going to upset 'em. I mean, hell, if the kids are running around being upset at the school bus driver wearing a Santa Claus hat, can you imagine what the kids are going to think when they hear about the latest tape from Ayman al-Zawahiri? Greetings, ladies...

RUSH: It was only last week that we learned, ladies and gentlemen, of the sad situation at a Needham, Massachusetts, high school where one parent (one mother, I think it was) who had three kids complained to the skrool principal that the fact that two of her kids didn't make the honor roll was causing trouble in the household because the school published a list, and so the principal took it under advisement, thought about it for about a half minute, and broomed the whole notion of publishing the...

RUSH: Interesting headline here in the Washington Post: "Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds -- Ten sessions of exercise to boost reasoning skills, memory, and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people in the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body," but if you heard our morning update last week on this, too...

RUSH: We'll start in Oregon in Astoria. This is Colin, and I'm glad you called, sir. Welcome.
CALLER: Thanks a lot. I'm going to be open with you: I'm a 22-year-old liberal, and I listen to you almost daily, and not out of spite, but I think you're thoroughly entertaining, and I appreciate your side, and it only helps me hone my own view. Now, what I want to say to you, though, is I think, like, your attitude toward liberalism and liberals in general -- like when you're talking about the...