RUSH: Now, there are bright spots. There are bright spots. Let's go to the audio tape. Sound bite number 21. Wednesday morning on the Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends they interviewed the victorious senator from Georgia, Saxby Chambliss. Brian Kilmeade said, "You fought off Bill Clinton, you fought off Algore, you fought off Ludacris, the rapper, in that order. They came down to fight for Jim Martin. In the end, if success leaves clues, Senator Saxby Chambliss, what can the party learn from...

RUSH: Ken in Decatur, Alabama, I'm glad you called, sir. You're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Dittos, Rush, from Alabama, the reddest state in America.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Rush, I just wanted to comment about your talking earlier about the automobile industry in Alabama.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: I am in industrial sales, and I call on all of those Alabama automobile manufacturers, including the three General Motors plants here that are scheduled for closing next year....

RUSH: Now, I saw today on the Bloomberg News wire that the secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, has decided that he needs to do something now about home prices. He needs to do something about getting people into houses. You know, Phil Gramm said something back during the campaign. Of course, McCain zapped him for it. He said we're a nation of whiners. I never thought that this would happen. I thought that there was an innate toughness and an understanding of history by people in our country....

RUSH: As usual, talent on loan from God-d. Here is Kevin in Bozeman, Montana. Hi, Kevin. Thank you for calling. You're up next on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush, glad to have you back.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: It was tough listening to those ladies cackle while I was on hold.RUSH: Yeah, and they don't breathe. I mean not one of them took a breath.CALLER: I'm listening on the phone, too, and it's right in my ear.RUSH: Yeah. Well, you're a trooper, man, I appreciate you're...

RUSH: We have four sound bites from The View today, and here's the first. We'll just play these in order. I don't even need to set 'em up.WALTERS: I want to quote something you said: "Does the country actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" You said this about Hillary Clinton.RUSH ARCHIVE: Yes.WALTERS: You have watched me get older on a daily basis.RUSH ARCHIVE: Right.WALTERS: Sarah Palin, whom you love, is going to get older -- RUSH ARCHIVE: Yes.WALTERS:...

RUSH: This is Sunday morning on Meet the Depressed. Tom Brokaw was interviewing the founder of CNN, Ted Turner. Brokaw said, "Did you think at some point during those early days of CNN that it was really a fool's mission, that you couldn't pull it off?"TURNER: I thought through very carefully for several years and went over all the things that could go wrong. Because even before I started CNN I knew what the greatest threat to it would be and that was a right-wing news network and in fact Fox...

RUSH: Barbara Walters has her Ten Most Fascinating People of the Year special. It runs tonight at ten o'clock, after Grey's Anatomy. I am one of the ten. I didn't realize this. The first time she did this show in 1993, I was one of the twelve. There were twelve most fascinating then, and since then it's been reduced to ten. I sat with her three weeks ago for the interview and one question was, "We gotta do a what-if." It was known that, you know, Hillary and her camp had leaked the fact that...

RUSH: Okay, folks, we're going to give this a go today, but I cannot guarantee how far we're going to get before I erupt into coughing spasms. I appreciate your patience out there. I have been bogged down with a combination of the flu and bronchitis that hit me late Saturday night, and it has not really improved much, but I was getting bored and feeling worthless not contributing or achieving anything, so here we are. We're here and we're going to give it a go. Telephone number today, if you...

Rush's Morning Update: Skid-Row SantaDecember 5, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Keeping the Drive-By spirit of Christmas, AP-Obama tells parents how to break the bad news to their kids: This year, "Santa's sack will be smaller."First, ask the kids to write a sentence or two explaining why each item on their holiday lists is important. If a much-coveted gift won't make it under the tree,tell them in advance.Second, explain...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The most untalented, wasteful people with a pile of money in this country are elected officials -- in any branch of government.""What we have are these three automobile executives begging the very people responsible (in large measure) for the problems they have for the solution. We're looking at cowardice, here, folks.""Rather than give up anything, Congress will gain more control over the US auto industry with this bailout. And...

RUSH: Ken in Decatur, Alabama, I'm glad you called, sir. You're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Dittos, Rush, from Alabama, the reddest state in America.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Rush, I just wanted to comment about your talking earlier about the automobile industry in Alabama.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: I am in industrial sales, and I call on all of those Alabama automobile manufacturers, including the three General Motors plants here that are scheduled for closing next year....