RUSH: We are going to do something today in a little less than a half hour that we've not done before, and that is simulcast this program with a television program. For those of you in Rio Linda, simulcast means we're both going to be on the air at the same time. The program is Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Channel. She has asked me to be a guest on her program a number of times, and I just could never do it because our programs occur at the same time during the busy broadcast day....

RUSH: We are going to do something today in a little less than a half hour that we've not done before, and that is simulcast this program with a television program. For those of you in Rio Linda, simulcast means we're both going to be on the air at the same time. The program is Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Channel. She has asked me to be a guest on her program a number of times, and I just could never do it because our programs occur at the same time during the busy broadcast day....

RUSH: We are going to do something today in a little less than a half hour that we've not done before, and that is simulcast this program with a television program. For those of you in Rio Linda, simulcast means we're both going to be on the air at the same time. The program is Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Channel. She has asked me to be a guest on her program a number of times, and I just could never do it because our programs occur at the same time during the busy broadcast day....

Rush's Morning Update: Jail BreakNovember 20, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Just in time for the holiday season, a new report says that the number of Americans in jail has risen eight-fold since 1970. As usual, women and minorities are hardest hit. Women are the fastest growing population of new criminals being sent to prison. (Who says the push for equality isn't getting results?)In 1970, there were under 200,000 criminals...

RUSH: "Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) of soliciting bribes in two alleged schemes that had not been previously disclosed." I'm surprised there's only two more. "The allegations, detailed in a seven-page document filed in US District Court in Alexandria, Va., will not result in new charges, prosecutors said..." Of course not! Of course not, he's a Democrat. "...but they plan to present them during Jefferson's federal bribery trial as evidence...

RUSH: Mark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Am I reading that right? Welcome to the program. Don't have my glasses on so I couldn't really read it, but I guessed and got it right.CALLER: Yes you got it right, dittos, longtime listener, 24/7 member, and fellow talk show host inspired by you, my friend.RUSH: Well.CALLER: Been at it for five years on the Internet, think I've got the biggest show on the Internet, and I've got a big question for you.RUSH: All right, ask away.CALLER: All right....

RUSH: This is Chuck in Bradenton, Florida. Chuck, welcome to the program. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Rush.RUSH: Hey.CALLER: It's a pleasure, sir.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Very much so. I'm a little nervous, so bear with me.RUSH: No problem.CALLER: First-time caller here. First off, I've converted my ex-wife from a liberal to a Republican. So there's gotta be some credit given there somewhere to you because, after listening to you for all these years, why, I was able to use some...

RUSH: Let me move on to something here, speaking of the war in Iraq. Great piece today by Jack Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the headline: "It's True: Iraq is a Quagmire -- But the real story is not something you have heard." I mentioned this last week. People are beginning to use the word victory in the current context, more frequently, more and more, and it's not being reported, obviously not. "Our strategy is flawed, and it's too late to change it. Our resources have been squandered,...

RUSH: I want to go back and revisit the New York controversy of Governor Spitzer, the driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Yesterday, the Washington Post, in an editorial, spelled out exactly how this is going to end up happening. "Listen to the fumblings and bumblings of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, two otherwise canny and articulate senators, and you can hear a pair of candidates who probably know that granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants is smart public policy." It is? It...

RUSH: Have you heard about Nancy Pelosi's latest maneuver? It's been less than a week since the smackdown with Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer over driver's licenses for illegal aliens. "Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army." This is John Fund at the Wall Street Journal. "Sen. Lamar Alexander, a moderate Republican...

RUSH: Guess what? Thanksgiving week, guess what we got a shortage of, folks? "'Food Pantries Struggling With Shortages.' -- Operators of free food banks say they are seeing more working people needing assistance. The increased demand is outstripping supplies and forcing many pantries and food banks to cut portions. Demand is being driven up by rising costs of food, housing, utilities, health care and gasoline..." and global warming and everything else that's filled with doom and gloom. "...wholesalers...

RUSH: All right, dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Trumpet fanfare, time for an update. Great global warming news. Our favorite song stylist, Algore. (Playing of Ball of Fire.) That is white comedian Paul Shanklin, the vocal portrayal impersonating Algore, one of our three rotating global warming update themes. All right, "Heather Mills, the soon to be ex-wife of Paul McCartney, started her day storming out of a radio interview and then turned up at Speaker's Corner in a gas-guzzling black...

RUSH: I have to read some of this stuff from the blog that exposed CNN's duplicity and phoniness and fraud in portraying six people as undecided, independent registered voters. That whole debate was totally in the tank. We know that Wolf Blitzer was warned by the Clinton campaign not to do a Russert, and that means don't ask her any substantive questions. They didn't follow up one time on the driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. But this is Doug Ross @ Journal, which is his blog, "CNN hits...

RUSH: Two big stories happened over the weekend. I think probably you've heard about both of them. The Robert Novak story about how the Clinton campaign has some really scandalous information on Obama, but that they're not going to release it. They just did! By saying they've got it, they just did. Of course, the Clinton campaign went nuts, denying the whole thing. Obama really reacted as though he believed it. I don't know whether the Clintons did it, but there are patterns with the Clintons...

RUSH: We are going to do something today in a little less than a half hour that we've not done before, and that is simulcast this program with a television program. For those of you in Rio Linda, simulcast means we're both going to be on the air at the same time. The program is Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Channel. She has asked me to be a guest on her program a number of times, and I just could never do it because our programs occur at the same time during the busy broadcast day....

Rush's Morning Update: DoomedOriginal Airdate...October 11, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Have a couple ofitems today, folks. First: hundreds(perhaps thousands, maybeeven millions) of residents in and around New York Cityface death by the year 2050because of greenhouse gas emissions. This warning comes from Dr. Kim Knowlton of Columbia University. She's the lead author of a study that measures the deadly consequences...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The first contingent of over 60 members of my family arrives today for the Thanksgiving week. It's going to be an interesting week here, folks.""The Wall Street Journal today has a special section on '50 Women to Watch,' and none of the '50 Women to Watch' married a former president in order to get their job at the top of the heap. Mrs. Clinton will never be able to say that.""I have great trust and faith that the damage we've...

Story #1: The Government is Telling Us How to Pack Bags RUSH: I will start with the lighthearted stack today. How many of you people travel, or are getting ready to travel for the Thanksgiving week, and are flying? Do you know that the federal government thinks you don't know how to pack? They have issued guidelines. "Airline passengers, who already are required at airport checkpoints to remove their shoes, take off their coats and carry only small bottles of liquids, now have a new task: Pack...