RUSH: I want to play a sound bite here, President Bush. This was yesterday during an interview with Chris DeMuth, who is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Remember the president's new tone when he came to office, and I begrudged it, by saying it ain't gonna work, you can't make friends with Democrats, they don't want to be friends with you, they're just going to take advantage of you. There's no need for a new tone! We're not the bad guys! The Republicans are not the bad...

RUSH: Bill in St. Paul, Minnesota, nice to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Merry Christmas to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much, appreciate it.CALLER: I got a solution to the daylight we're losing. Everybody lights a cigar, come around April or May there will be much more light for us out there.RUSH: Well, could be. We need to probably take some drastic steps. One thing, get rid of all the compact fluorescents and go back to standard lightbulbs. They produce more heat, more...

RUSH: Here's Grant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hi, Grant. Great to have you with us on the phone today.CALLER: Hey, how are you doing?RUSH: Very well. Thank you.CALLER: Good. Hey, I hear you talk a lot about how people who can't pay their own way -- you know, you gripe about people that go to the doctor and the hospital and stuff like that and can't pay their own way. If you're in an accident or you break your leg or you're hurt working and you can't pay the co-pay or you just can't pay for it outright,...

You know, ladies and gentlemen, the media is getting a little testy with Obama. Two pieces here from ABC News' The Note about how Obama is not taking any questions in these press conferences, how he's not saying anything at the press conferences, he's not providing information the press wants, such as, who on his staff spoke to Blago however many times. He's putting it off until next week, blaming it on Fitzgerald. And today, the second piece from ABC: "Words Matter: Pablum from the President-Elect."...

RUSH: Now, there is a letter to the editor at the AmericanThinker.com today. I just touched on it. Dear editor: "I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I have detected a new crisis that I have named 'the daylight change crisis.' I first noticed it sometime around the end of June this year. I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of daylight and my computer...

RUSH: Jenny in Nevada City, California, I'm glad you waited. You're on Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush. Oh, my goodness, it's such an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you. Thank you so much.CALLER: I've been listening to you since you were in Sacramento. I guess I'm a Rush Baby.RUSH: Well, you are.CALLER: I am just so frustrated right now with California and listening to Schwarzenegger saying how we need help. We don't need help. What we need is...

RUSH: This is David in Nashville Tennessee where the big showdown between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Houston Oilers takes place at one eastern on Sunday afternoon. Welcome, David, great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you very much. Dittos, Rush. I just wanted to compliment you on being one of the sole positive individuals in the media right now. It is so bad, I'm a conservative talk radio junkie, and some of your competitors are out there --RUSH: I have no competitors. I have colleagues.CALLER:...

RUSH: Seth in Florida, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Good day, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: And mega dittos. Changing pace a little bit on the conversation today.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Actually I'm looking for some education on the NFL and the playoff seedings for this year.RUSH: Oh, the playoff seedings.CALLER: Yes.RUSH: How can I help?CALLER: Well, it seems that the AFC South is going to have a bit of a dilemma because I believe the Titans...

RUSH: Matthew in Cincinnati, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to Open Line Friday. Hello. Matthew?CALLER: Hello? Hi.RUSH: Hey!CALLER: In light of your previous story, it's Christmastime, and it sounds like the liberal media is once again comparing Barack Obama to Jesus. There's no room in the inn!RUSH: Yeah. I was on the verge of saying this, but I knew that somebody like you would call and get me off the hook and say it yourself. Grab audio sound bite number ten, Ed. The city of Washington...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, there's a lot of news out there about Caroline Schlossberg, who is seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton. Now, what we have here is a vanilla woman who, you know what, I think she's bored. I think she's bored, and I think she's overcome with this family legacy business. She likes attending pointless meetings and eating lunch with other rich liberals, but now it has been uncovered by the New York Daily News that her voting record is already...

RUSH: Now, remember, Obama promised to add or save two million jobs, remember? He first said he was going to add two million jobs, his policies would add two million jobs over the course of a couple years or so, and then he started adding the word "save" to the figure, add and savetwo million. Well, George W. Bush just saved two million jobs for him. The figure they're throwing around is that an auto bankruptcy would cost one to three million jobs. So you round that off, you gettwo million. Bush...

RUSH: We had a call and the caller chickened out, the caller hung up, the caller did not have the guts to ask the question directly. I get a one-line advisory about whatever the caller wants to talk about, and this guy wanted to know how can you square pollution with global warming or something. Snerdley said he said, "Well look, big fan of yours, listens to you all the time --" of course; who doesn't? "-- he's got a problem with your stand on global warming. He lives in Boston. Since the 1900s...

RUSH: Oh, yeah, Open Line Friday, heading us into a big NFL weekend. Two big games this weekend, the Pittsburgh Steelers in Nashville to play the Tennessee Titans at one o'clock on Sunday, and then on Sunday night, we have the New York Giants hosting the Carolina Panthers. And tomorrow night's not insignificant, either. The Dallas Cowboys hosting the Baltimore Ravens on the NFL Network. Plus, it's Christmastime! It's the holiday season. Yip yip yip yip yahoo. Yeah, I'll do some analysis...

Rush's Morning Update: Win Some... December 22, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer My friends, the appointment of California Congresswoman Hilda Solis to head the Labor Department has eased growing tension in the Democrat Party Hispanic base.Justa few weeks ago, The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama The Most Merciful, was threatened by California Democrat Joe Baca. Baca warned Lord Obama that his legislative agenda of hope, change,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Caroline Schlossberg went up to Harlem for lunch yesterday. She's probably stunned to know that there are streets north of 110th.""It's been learned, ladies and gentlemen, that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has not voted very much since 1988. But it's ok because she was out there being a good mother at the time, and caring about a lot of things." "My friends, I don't want to divulge too much of what I know here, but... you can...

Story #1: Burger King Unveils Beef-Scented Body SprayRUSH: I had this in the stack yesterday to talk about it. Did you see that Burger King has launched a beef-scented body spray? You may be grimacing, but these people are into making money. Apparently people like -- they've done some surveys -- the way the inside of Burger King restaurants smell. And of course what's being cooked inside of a Burger King restaurant is French fries and burgers. I mean this is actually pretty brilliant. Beef-scented...