RUSH: Now, Judicial Watch. I mentioned this in the previous hour. They are the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, and they released, I think it was yesterday, records obtained from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor related to the national task force on Hillary health care reform, a cabinet-level task force chaired by Mrs. Clinton during the administration. Specifically, those documents came from the White House health care interdepartmental working...

RUSH: Now, Judicial Watch. I mentioned this in the previous hour. They are the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, and they released, I think it was yesterday, records obtained from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor related to the national task force on Hillary health care reform, a cabinet-level task force chaired by Mrs. Clinton during the administration. Specifically, those documents came from the White House health care interdepartmental working...

RUSH: Kelly in St. George, Utah, welcome.CALLER: Hi. Glad to talk to you again.RUSH: Hi. Thank you.CALLER: Hey, I've got a question for you. Do you think that Mitt Romney has overcome the Mormon issue?RUSH: Uh, maybe in the primaries, but it will be back if he wins the nomination. It will be huge.CALLER: Well, we're not as bad as everyone makes us out to be.RUSH: Wait a minute. Wrong way to look at it. The truth is not relevant. The economy is not bad, either, but look what everybody...

RUSH: All right. It's a great thrill to welcome back to the program Ken Hutcherson, Dr. Hutcherson from Seattle, former player, NFL, Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Seattle Seahawks, played linebacker for many years in the National Football League, even given a big award by George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, Ken Hutcherson Day. I'm sorry I gave you the wrong phone number, Ken.HUTCHERSON: You did.RUSH: I think I reversed a nine and a six in there to a 69. Anyway, before we get to...

RUSH: Reno, Nevada. Bill, welcome to the program, sir. Great to have you.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It's a pleasure talking to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Listened for many years. There was a comment earlier this week on the radio about the lack of experience of the Democratic nominees for the presidential race had, and I remember in 1972 I voted for George McGovern, and years later, listening to PBS I heard an interview with Mr. McGovern, and he had gotten into a business venture in New England...

RUSH: Now, I want to indulge, or ask your indulgence here for just a second to do some Inside Baseball stuff, meaning talk about the radio business. I don't know how many of you have heard about this, but there's a trade publication in our business called Radio & Records. It's a good publication, and I've received some awards from this magazine, and I know the editor, the publisher, very well, Erica Farber who, by the way, has been in the hospital during the period of time of this recent controversy...

RUSH: Now, Judicial Watch. I mentioned this in the previous hour. They are the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, and they released, I think it was yesterday, records obtained from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor related to the national task force on Hillary health care reform, a cabinet-level task force chaired by Mrs. Clinton during the administration. Specifically, those documents came from the White House health care interdepartmental working...

RUSH: David Brooks is back in action today at the New York Times, and the pull quote of note, "Rush Limbaugh is going bananas," because Mike Huckabee is breaking up the tribe -- I'm paraphrasing. Limbaugh is going bananas because Huckabee is breaking up the tribe that Limbaugh has spent all these years, what did he say, creating and putting together. So his thought is that I'm upset because I've built this huge movement out there based on my radio program, and here comes Huckabee who's going to...

RUSH: First, Fred Thompson just got some encouraging news. Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told the Brody File, which is a blog at the CBN.com website, the Christian Broadcast Network, "My assessment is that at this moment in time it is Fred Thompson's race to lose. It may be a convergence of the right man at the right place at the right time. I have never seen anything like this grassroots swell for Thompson. I'm not speaking for Southern...

RUSH: The president had a little press conference today and announced a stimulus package, $145 billion consisting primarily of tax cuts. H.R., I was having trouble, so much going on in here, did he propose a specific dollar amount rebate? Because the word was floating around before he spoke it was going to be 800 bucks per man, woman, and child. I have a Wall Street Journal story on it here, but they don't recount that. They just give the highlight of the cost of the thing, $145 billion. They...

RUSH: Let's go ahead and play audio sound bite number five here. Obama's supporters are running an ad, a Spanish-language ad in Nevada that says Hillary doesn't respect Latinos. (laughter) Didn't they hear her say, "No woman is illegal?" Anyway, we've got the Spanish ad here, Spanish language ad translated. (playing of ad) Stop it, stop it, stop it -- I have the translation. I will translate when it's over. I thought it was going to be like, you know, we got Kim Jong ll in the background...

RUSH: So I had to go to a cocktail party last night. Yeah, I'm very hoarse today, but I feel fine. I don't have a cold or any of that. I think I sound a little stuffed up, but it's cool. It's just hoarseness, and of course there aren't any chocolate doughnuts around here. That used to be the fix. How long will it be now before some chocolate doughnuts show up? Anyway, I had to go to this cocktail party last night and I get in there and it was a hearing nightmare. It was conveniently located...

Rush's Morning Update: The Vision ThingOriginal Airdate: December 19, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer All right, folks: Hold onto your wallets. The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, estimates that entitlement programs are running a long-term "shortfall" of... $45 trillion. That's the difference between what the government expects to take inand what it has promised to shell out over the next 75 years in Social Security,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If you Republicans don't mind McCain's positions, then what is it about Hillary's positions you dislike? They're the same!""A brief break here at the top of the hour. I will take more remedial measures to try to bring back my voice with a combination of greasy potato chips and chocolate doughnuts.""The one time Chris Matthews gets something right, and he apologizes for it because of pressure from a Hillary front group, Media Matters...

Story #1: Golfweek Editor Fired for Noose Cover RUSH: Have you people heard? Kelly Tilghman of the Golf Channel was on the air with Nick Faldo and they were talking about all these new young guys coming on the PGA Tour this year and what are their chances of beating Tiger. And Kelly says, "Well, I think their best chance is to take him out in the back alley and lynch him," and there was a little storm over this; she apologized, didn't mean anything by it. Tiger said, "We know that. We like Kelly....