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RUSH: I'm going to mention this again today. It's from Slate.com. It's by Daniel Gross, and it's just... Well, it speaks for itself. It may also explain why journalists are so mean and nasty and jealous and vengeful is because they have no money. (clearing throat) Daniel Gross, Slate.com, Tuesday December 20th, actually, this ran. "The New York real-estate boom is claiming a different kind of casualty, according to an article in Sunday's New York Times. Keying off a new report issued by the Center for an Urban Future, Jennifer Steinhauer noted that, thanks to high housing prices, many...

<p>RUSH: You know, sometimes -- frequently actually -- during all these breaks I go to the e-mail. I check things out, and I go to all the various accounts from which I receive mail, and the Rush@eibnet.com is where the kooks send me mail. I get eight, 10,000 shots a day in a 24-hour period in this account and, you know, sometimes I just peruse the subject line, and this one caught my attention, so I thought I'd read it. Subject line is: "9/11 Explanation is a Lie, Lie, Lie." I said, "Ooooh, okay." So here's the note to me: "Everybody in the country except you knows and understands the Bush official explanation of 9/11 is a cover-up and a lie. The truth is being told, and the people are starting to wake up and realize that Bush and his minions are pushing a big lie. When they can no longer cover their rear ends with lies they will be held accountable for their crimes against the people of this country." He goes on to give me two links here to show that Bush blew up the World Trade Center.</p>

We Go to War for Civil Liberties? December 19, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got an e-mail from a friend of mine in St. Louis. "Rush, did you hear what Tim Russert said after Bush's press conference today?" He said, paraphrasing -- and I haven't seen this, so I probably ought to double-check this, but we will. Paraphrasing, Russert said, "People go to war to protect their civil liberties, so isn't counterproductive to take away these liberties while doing it?" All of you out there listening, how many of you think we go to war to protect civil liberties?...

A week ago, Rush Limbaugh won a major victory in a Florida court over government efforts to invade his medical privacy. But you wouldn’t know it from major media reports, as a Florida judge’s ruling in Limbaugh’s ongoing prescription drug case was distorted in newspapers and on TV news reports all across the nation. Thank the Associated Press for the media spin. In the initial AP story on the court case, the headline read: "Judge Allows Subpoenas of Limbaugh Doctors." The wire service then reported that Palm Beach County "Circuit Court Judge David F. Crow ruled that Florida laws do...

RUSH: "A Texas judge yesterday threw out a campaign finance conspiracy charge against Rep. Tom DeLay, but ruled that the prosecutors' money laundering charge should go forward." (story) Mike, grab audio sound bite -- no humidity in the air down here today so the pages are not coming apart easily. You know, the media all portrayed this as a big lawsuit actually-- (Laughing.) "Ooh, DeLay didn't win anything here, still faces the money laundering charges, oh, this is horrible." "The ruling means Mr. DeLay, Texas Republican, will not be able immediately to regain the House majority leader's post he...

RUSH: I want to continue on the sound bite roll here, because this next is just choice. Talked about this yesterday. The media being all upset about the fact that the Pentagon reportedly buying space, buying stories, planting good news in the Iraqi media. "We can't have that, why, we can't have good news in the Iraqi media. Who gave them a right to do that? We can't go shaping and bending the news like that." The media's got an idea the news out of Iraq is going to be all bad. The Pentagon says, "Hey, we're going to...

Rush Limbaugh calls them "Schumer’s Plumbers” – two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffers who worked for Senator Chuck Schumer and are now accused of illegally obtaining the credit report of a Republican candidate for the Senate. The two staffers have resigned, and Sen. Schumer – chairman of the DSCC – denies any involvement. In his latest must-read "Limbaugh Letter,” Rush writes that the media is continuing a cover-up of the scandal. Limbaugh notes that despite Schumer’s denial of any involvement, his organization is picking up the $400-an-hour tab for the pair’s attorney. The Senator from New York "has presided over...

RUSH: So Mr. Snerdley comes in today, folks, and he says, "This economy has to be humming." Well, there's no question that it's humming. His definition of a humming economy is he can't find an X-Box 360. He went out there and tried to find an X-Box 360, the new one. The base price is between three and four hundred dollars, and with other bundles thrown in there, it's between eight and nine hundred dollars. Some are listed now by a grand by resellers online because there's such a demand for these things. He can't find one. I said, "You...

In 1921, an unknown World War I American solider was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. Across the Atlantic, England and France also laid unknown soldiers to rest. The three ceremonies occurred “on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.” A 1926 congressional resolution gave the date an official name: Armistice Day; 12 years later it became an official holiday honoring veterans of the First World War. In 1947, WWII vet Raymond Weeks organized “National Veterans Day” in Birmingham, Alabama to honor all veterans. Seven years later Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming Nov. 11 Veterans...

It has been more than two years since news first broke that Rush Limbaugh had an addiction to painkillers. That news led to a criminal investigation of Limbaugh by Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer, who in December 2003 leaked to the media that his office had uncovered evidence of 10 felony counts, including "doctor shopping," money laundering and drug trafficking. Despite the sensational allegations, no charges have been brought. Worse, in the latest round between the State Attorney's office and Limbaugh, Assistant State Attorney James Martz made a startling admission in open court on Tuesday as he sought...

RUSH: Okay, gotta hear this. We got a lot more sound bites of this, but this is the money sound bite. Brian Ross today talking to Mary Mapes of CBS says, "After 12 years of defending him, CBS and Dan Rather later admitted they couldn't vouch for the authenticity of the documents, Bill Burkett's documents, and that they should not have been used and the story should not have aired. Do you," Mary Mapes, "still think the story was true?" MAPES: The story? Absolutely. ROSS: This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now and say you still...

RUSH: Have you noticed when the liberals lose elections, the elections were stolen? I toyed with the idea today of trying to start this big movement that all these elections were flawed yesterday and that the voting machines were tampered with and that people tried to vote and weren't allowed to vote and there was discrimination against conservatives, and I wanted to lead the charge, saying these elections are illegitimate because they were stolen. But then I stopped, and then I realized, no, that's not the way to go about it. Because, as losers in these elections, those that we...

RUSH: Seems I've heard this before. Has Clinton not told this story before? It's hard to remember. But here's Bill Clinton during his eulogy for Rosa Parks yesterday in New Fallujah. CLINTON: I remember as if it were yesterday that fateful day 50 years ago. I was a nine-year-old southern white boy who road a segregated bus every single day of my life. And I sat in the front. Black folk sat in the back. When Rosa showed us that black folks didn't have to sit in the back anymore, two of my friends and I who strongly approved of...

RUSH: The funniest thing about this yesterday -- and there are a lot of funny things, it's hard to pick -- the funniest thing is the Democrat kook internet reaction. They thought this was going to result in Bush getting impeached. They actually thought that the Democrats, Dingy Harry invoking Rule 21 and shutting down the Senate, going into closed session, was finally what they've been asking for all along. So much is clear; so much is obvious. They were so let down over the lack of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation leading to a trial on the war with Iraq and...

RUSH: Are all you Doubting Thomases out there willing to admit now that I know what I'm talking about? Are you willing to admit that I was right about this whole thing? Greetings and welcome. It's the Rush Limbaugh program, and here we are, ready to roll, another exciting three hours of broadcast excellence. I am America's anchorman, here at the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies: 800-282-2882 if you'd like to be on the program. E-mail address, Rush@eibnet.com. I have here a column by our old buddy Jim Pinkerton. He's a columnist at Newsday, also appears on Fox's...

RUSH: We finally have the press release which has been made public here by the independent counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald -- who, by the way, the liberals, the Democrats are all calling him "Elliott Ness." He's an Elliott Ness out there. What does that mean? It means that Al Capone is in the White House. These terms here are not accidentally chosen. It's a five-count indictment, one count object construction of justice, two counts of lying to investigators, and two counts of perjury. Five-count (interruption). What? It's Libby. Yeah, this is Libby. It's the only one that there's any mention of...

RUSH: Well, folks, conservative crackdown theory validated. Greetings and welcome. It's the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular Rush Limbaugh program. Is that Dittocam up and running out there? Good, because I ordered that thing to be on from the top of the program. So it's available at www.RushLimbaugh.com. It's great to be with you. Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program. (Laughing.) I am wearing body armor today, folks. Telephone number, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is Rush@EIBnet.com. Altamont, grab audio sound bite #1. Let's go back to last Friday. This is what I said...

We had a call from Rancho Mirage, California -- last call in the previous hour -- from John who wanted to draw the distinction, that (summarized): "Yeah, Susan Webber Wright did cite Clinton for contempt but that was in a civil case and he was never convicted on it and the fact he was not convicted of any of this during his impeachment hearings and so to go after Clinton here and try to say there was something different about Clinton that there is about these other cases is a bit of a stretch and Republicans are perhaps being a...

RUSH: This is John in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hello, sir. Great to have you on the program. CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Wondering, if Mr. Fitzgerald doesn't hand down the expected indictments, or perhaps doesn't go as far as the left wants him to, how quickly do you think Schumer and the rest of the press now praising him will turn on him and he becomes a partisan hack? RUSH: That will take about half a second and I kid you not. I mean, look at how far out they've gotten, "He's a prosecutor's prosecutor. This guy's apolitical." These indictments have already...

RUSH: I've been thinking about this Harriet Miers problem, folks. I got a solution. Everybody's got their ideas. One of the ideas is that Harriet Miers resign, withdraw, and that Bush nominate her to the appellate court - and let her get some seasoning and go through some hearings there and get out of it that way. I have a different idea but -- oh, before I give you my idea -- I saw a news story yesterday. Let me tell you what I think of it. Sam Brownback and the vice president, Lindsey Graham, both-- (interruption) No, wait. They...