RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Tom Brokaw will not stop talking about talk radio, and we all know talk radio is me. I know my parents raised me well, raised me right, and told me you're not supposed to make fun of people's peculiarities, but as a highly trained broadcast specialist, my friends, I must admit, I have never understood how somebody who can't pronounce their L's rose to the top of the news reporting business. It's just me. (imitating Brokaw) "Matt Lauer." But nevertheless, Charlie Rose, who is literally clueless...

RUSH: Down to Gary in Charleston, South Carolina.CALLER: Rush, good afternoon. Gary up here in Charleston, South Carolina. First-time caller, and I thank you, sir, for being a pulse of America that keeps us conservatives and everybody else abreast of what's going on.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that.CALLER: The reason for my call is I just heard a news commentary by Harry Reid that has me all upset, and being an ex-Marine and knowing a little bit about the CIA, they're having...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut, a brand-new global warming update, Paul Shanklin, song stylist portraying Algore. (playing of global warming song) Vice president Algore and In a Global Warming Wonderland, our latest in a series of rotating global warming update themes. Before we get to the global warming news, we actually have an audio sound bite from Algore. This is yesterday on CNN in Oslo. Correspondent Jonathan Mann of CNN interviewed Algore after he got the Nobel Peace Prize that should...

RUSH: Steve in Lansing, Kansas, I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Longtime listener since the eighties. First time I've gotten through. I'd like your guidance relating to the general election and today's Drudge headline. My question is about what kind of weight we're putting on, or should be putting on, electability for general election. I mean, whether it is the DNC or Romney behind the Drudge headline about Huck, do you think...

RUSH: Ron in blue state New York. Nice to have you with the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Yes. Mr. Limbaugh?RUSH: Yes.CALLER: My name is Ron. I'm an outsider. I usually attack the outsiders. Asking us why do we call. I'm an outsider. I'm a non-dittohead, but at 12:27 you misinformed the public about how crude oil is -- how it, it -- where it really comes from. And I challenge you as to -- on the air right now as to --RUSH: What did I say about where it comes from?CALLER: Yeah, you...

RUSH: There's a new poll out, and polls are gospel to these people, except the new one that says only 1% of Democrats say that The Oprah endorsement will affect their vote in Obama vs. Hillary. They say this was meaningless. So here we have a montage, Susan Page of USA Today, Jennifer Donahue from the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Scarborough at MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski from MSNBC, Harry Smith at CBS, who admits he doesn't even know how to use Google, Bob Schieffer at CBS talking about Oprah's...

RUSH: All right, Mr. Snerdley told me during the break at the top of the hour, he's being inundated with telephone calls from hucksters, the Huckaboomers, the Huckabee supporters who are trying to accuse me of trying to sabotage Huckabee's campaign by simply reporting what the Democrats are saying. Should I be defending Huckabee against this stuff, that's what they think? I tried to address this to you people in the first hour. I've only got one thing against Mike Huckabee, just one thing. Exercise....

RUSH: This is Liz, Kansas City, Missouri. You iced in, Liz?CALLER: I am. I'm sitting here in icy Kansas City. And I was thinking, I think I'm going to call Rush and tell him my global warming story.RUSH: Oh, good.CALLER: Well, I am a school librarian. I work with kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. One of my upper grade teachers wanted to do a research project on global warming with her class and wanted to talk with them about the impact on Third World countries that we are having...

RUSH: Let's go Ames, Iowa, yesterday, a campaign event for Hillary and former President Bill Clinton spoke. I ask you, who is he talking about here?BILL CLINTON: When she came down there and we got married, I was a defeated candidate for Congress, with a $26,000 salary and a $42,000 campaign debt. Now, if she were half as calculating as somebody says, that's a really great way to run for president someday. I mean, I'll go to a state I've barely seen and marry some failed politician with a $26,000...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

RUSH: Well, it's a good thing Iran has no plans for a nuclear weapon, because the president over there, Mahmoud Ahmanutajob said Iran needs 50,000 centrifuges within five years so that it can make enough fuel for one nuclear power plant, 50,000 centrifuges. This is a Reuters story: "Iran's uranium enrichment plans are the part of Tehran's nuclear program that most worries the West because the process can be used to make both fuel for nuclear power plants or, if desired, material for warheads."...

Rush's Morning Update: Taking SidesDecember 12, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Amid liberal outrage over the CIA's destruction of videotapes of interrogations, a new AP story delves into CIA interrogation techniques. AP cites a former agent who details how waterboarding was used to extract information from a high-level Al-Qaeda terrorist.The former agent asserts the interrogation technique was approved only after the CIA...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I will bet my life's fortune against Algore's that what he predicts in 2030 will not happen." "You know, my parents raised me well and told me you're not to make fun of people's peculiarities, but as a highly trained broadcast specialist, I must admit I have never understood how somebody who can't pronounce their L's -- Tom Browkaw -- rose to the top of the news reporting business.""All these questions to Rudy about whether the...

RUSH: Drudge Report today has an exclusive, but I knew it, I knew this was going to be the case. I'm on the cutting edge of societal evolution. "Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal. The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he secures the party's nomination. The directive has come down from the highest levels within the party, according to a top source. Within the DNC,...

Story #1: San Francisco Judge: Pay Cops to Dress, UndressRUSH: Other news here before we continue on with the serious stuff of the presidential campaign. "A police uniform is not just a set of clothes." This is out of San Francisco. "A police uniform is not just a set of clothes, but an emblem of authority that conveys 'special powers and deference in our society' -- and that means the officer should be paid for the time needed to put it on and take it off, says a federal judge in San Francisco."...