RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: Thanksgiving is one thing, and it's great. Christmas, I always get more thankful at Christmas for some reason. It's the greatest holiday. Family memories of it are just irreplaceable, and I hear this song, and it makes me tear up when they get to the end of this thing -- and the crescendo, the strings, the synthesizers or whatever. It's Mannheim Steamroller and Silent Night, and I'm not going to talk over too much of it because it's a beautiful song. I just want to, once again, tell all...

RUSH: South Bend, Indiana. Bob, welcome to Open Line Friday. Hello.CALLER: Well, good afternoon. What an honor! Thank you.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Merry Christian Christmas to you, Rush.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I know you sit down and have breakfast every morning with the president, and I know you really got a lot of influence there. RUSH: (laughing) CALLER: Well, yeah! You know you do. Would you ask him to ask his press secretary, that new lady, not to accept any questions from the...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: I want to go back, show you the cutting edge, societal evolution. This is how this program with very little acknowledgment from outside the program does impact the presidential campaign on both sides. This is me from this past Monday on this very program.RUSH ARCHIVE: Look, what they did to Carl McCall, running for governor of New York. They trashed Carl McCall. We ended up raising funds for Carl McCall, you and I on this program together because the DNC and Terry McAuliffe hung him out...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...

RUSH: Now Mrs. Clinton. Her husband is out there saying that she is a "world-class genius." Let me ask some questions about this. As I mentioned in the first hour when discussing the Huckabee campaign, one of the things I like to do here is ask questions. Do world-class geniuses have forced, uncomfortable laughs when asked simple questions about their area of expertise? Do they have other people handle complex investment schemes like cattle futures? Are world-class geniuses the last people...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We've got Jimmy in Chicago next. Great to have you, sir. Welcome to Open Line Friday.CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush? Merry Christmas.RUSH: Same to you, sir.CALLER: Hey, buddy, I first tuned in to you in '92. I come from a real long line of Democrats here in Chicago, and they were after the Republican Party all the time, but my buddies turned me on to you in '92, and I've been listening ever since. Thank you for the education you have given me.RUSH: I appreciate that. You're more...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Look at this, folks. "Consumers put aside worries about slumping home sales and soaring gasoline prices and headed to the malls in November, pushing spending up by the largest amount in three and a half years." I thought it was going to be a bad Christmas. I thought it was going to be very, very bad. Consumer spending, despite the home sales slump and the soaring gasoline price, why, consumer spending is up! This would include that massive weekend after Thanksgiving and the following week...

Rush's Morning Update: Bah Humbug!Original Air Date: December 18, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Tsk, tsk. My friends, once again,you people are not doing your part. According to the Drive-By Media, your Christmas shopping has been lukewarm. You've put retailers in a bind, "despite generous discounts and expanded store hours." They're desperately hoping you'll show up to shop this weekor else the entire season will be...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"McCain's starting to look better to me than Huckabee, and that's saying something.""Who is this campaign to be defining who is or who is not a conservative? I never heard of Huckabee in an important ideological way before this campaign got going.""It's Open Line Friday. You know the drill by now. We go to the phones, and you can talk about whatever you want. Monday through Thursday, it's not the case. But Friday it is. So...

RUSH: It's day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: "Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?" The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: "Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also...

RUSH: We'll start in Pittsburgh in this hour, with Charles. Thank you for waiting, sir. It's great to have you on the program.CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's nice to finally get on.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Okay, sir. I was online this morning, and I was reading an article about Mitt Romney and supposedly some flip-flop on something he said about his father having marched with Martin Luther King. Well, as I was reading the messages posted, there was like this raging battle between Huckabee...

RUSH: All right, Ed Rollins is on the warpath now for his candidate, Mike Huckabee, and he sat down for an interview with CBS News on their -- I guess on their website, and here's the first question: "Let's start with the attacks on Governor Huckabee from a lot of Republican establishment figures lately." Republican establishment figures lately? "Rush Limbaugh has called him 'the Huckster.' Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review has said it would be 'suicide' to nominate him. Why do you think,...

RUSH: Bozeman, Montana. This is Greg. You are up first in this hour. It's nice to have you, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Merry Christmas. Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I'm a Huckabee guy, but I'm thinking about switching.RUSH: You're a Huckabee guy, but you're thinking about switching. Why?CALLER: Well, I don't know. All my people -- Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan all those people -- are, I don't know, they don't like him, and I don't know. All the stuff is starting to come out against...