Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Unemployment Down as People Stop Looking || Newt Rise Continues || Islamists Poised to Seize Power in Egypt

RUSH: I got up this morning and I did the show prep routine and one of the first places I always go is Drudge and I saw it right there in red, and it's 8.6, and that's all it said, and I knew what it was. It's Friday, and I didn't need to know anything else.  I knew that was the unemployment number, 8.6, and that's all anybody else is gonna hear. They're not gonna dig deep and find out how it happened.

RUSH: Gingrich has lit a firestorm out there with his comments on poor kids and work.

RUSH: There's some weird stuff out there today.  Well, for example, in Saudi Arabia...

CALLER:  I met a wonderful woman a few years back and married her, and she's a conservative Republican, and about a year ago, our debates with each other were getting so bad that we were about to go through a divorce, and I'm driving in the car one day and I start listening to your show, and you really opened my eyes.  I've been converted over to a conservative Republican; and I tell you, me and my wife now get along better than ever.

RUSH:  This is the back page of the December issue of the Limbaugh Letter, which is on the way to subscribers even now.  It's a Christmas card from all of us to you, and you see that we're making fun of Coca-Cola and the white cans and the polar bears.

RUSH: As a fellow broadcaster, I probably shouldn't say this, but that just means I will. 

RUSH: Another great example of an Open Line Friday call. 

CALLER: I called because I was looking for motivation.  I'm a Republican, a conservative Republican.  With all that's been going on, candidate after candidate has just been slapping around.  Within my own community we are having a lot of issues with trying to decide who we want to represent us on the Republican side.

The content of today’s update requires a warning: Some of you may find the lead item disturbing. All right. Here we go.

RUSH:  I feel like I'm listening to a Bond villain here: "The United States rapidly becoming one of the most socially unjust in the wooorld in the area of foreign policy at which I excel. I alone permitted to make this judgment and I look at the United States and I see this widening gap of rich and poor.  I myself am rich, but I deserve to be rich because I'm smarter than all the rest of you plebes.... What it really means is, I'm not being invited to the right parties anymore, because I worked for that dummkopf Jimmy Carter."

RUSH: There are a lot of people who have that fear of Newt Gingrich...

RUSH: Frank Luntz also told the governors, I'm told, that the best thing a Republican can say to the Occupy crowd is, "I got it."  A Republican candidate, the best thing to say to these protesters is, "I get it, I get it."  What a day...You talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

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RUSH: I absolutely love it! Play off of Toys for Tots.