RUSH: I'm sitting here reading this Obama interview, and I am in stunned disbelief. Nobody can be this ignorant. Scary ignorant. From high atop the EIB Building in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist attractions in all of Manhattan, I am Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Great to have you with us. Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. It's a Q&A with Barack Obama December 20th in the Boston Globe, Charlie...

RUSH: Let's go right to the audio sound bites. In fact, let's start with number two. No, let's go ahead and start with number one. This is PMSNBC, the Morning Joe show today, with Joe Scarborough. Mika Brzezinski, who is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security advisor during the disastrous Carter years, she is talking with the correspondent David Gregory about how an endorsement of McCain by me would sink McCain.BRZEZINSKI: I'm reading Richard Cohen this morning....

RUSH: I'm sitting here reading this Obama interview, and I am in stunned disbelief. Nobody can be this ignorant. Scary ignorant. From high atop the EIB Building in Midtown Manhattan, one of the most frequently visited tourist attractions in all of Manhattan, I am Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Great to have you with us. Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is ElRushbo@eibnet.com. It's a Q&A with Barack Obama December 20th in the Boston Globe, Charlie...

RUSH: You know, all these people -- and this has been I guess the narrative or the template of the Drive-Bys ever since McCain became the front-runner in Florida during our primary season. They attack people like me or Hannity or Ann Coulter as we're just doing it for ratings; just doing it to sell books; we just want somebody that we can argue with. It's the most shortsighted, blind analysis possible. The way we look at it is, whether it's McCain or Obama or Hillary, we're going to be opposing...

RUSH: Mark in Schaumburg, Illinois, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush, this is the first time I've had the privilege of speaking with you. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.CALLER: I was a Romney supporter, and I honestly felt he was the only Republican who had a chance of winning against either Hillary or Obama. Isn't McCain sort of a moot point? And I have another question for a follow-up, if you will indulge me.RUSH: Isn't...

RUSH: From today's Washington Post: "Rattled by Economy's Ills, Consumers Forgo Life's Little Luxuries." By the way, remember this? We had this a couple weeks ago. Life's affluent are cutting back, too -- and when the affluent cut back, they don't rent as many limousines and a limo driver doesn't get hired or get a tip. In fact, it was an AP story that actually admitted the trickle-down effect. So we hate the rich for being rich. Now we hate 'em because they're not spending. Because they, too,...

RUSH: Let's go back to the audio sound bites. Fox & Friends this morning. This is Steve Doocy and Alisyn Camerota having this exchange about Senator McCain.DOOCY: Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, says he's conservative enough for me.CAMEROTA: And, remember, he also got the seal of approval from President Bush, who told Chris Wallace that he's conservative enough as well.DOOCY: Mmm-hmm.CAMEROTA: So that's a seal of approval. Have you listened to Rush lately in the past couple of days?DOOCY:...

RUSH: There's a fascinating story in the news out there today about the future demographic makeup of our country, the United States of America. "The US population will soar to 438 million by 2050..." Let me do some quick counting. Let's see, I'll be 100 years old when that happens. I'll be 100 years old by the time of 2050, and "The US population will soar to 438 million by 2050 and the Hispanic population will triple, according to projections released Monday by the Pew Research Center. The...

RUSH: I can't believe you would say that. For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you've probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp and chief of staff, H.R. I didn't want to bring this up. I hadn't thought I was gonna bring it up. You know, I'm a big Mac guy. I love Macs, and I've got four Mac Pros. They're the top-of-the-line Mac Pros, maxed out. And they just had a new system upgrade, went...

RUSH: Let's go right to the audio sound bites. In fact, let's start with number two. No, let's go ahead and start with number one. This is PMSNBC, the Morning Joe show today, with Joe Scarborough. Mika Brzezinski, who is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national security advisor during the disastrous Carter years, she is talking with the correspondent David Gregory about how an endorsement of McCain by me would sink McCain.BRZEZINSKI: I'm reading Richard Cohen this morning....

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