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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
	And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain Thanksgiving week, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Great to have you with us, folks.
	Going to be on television today, if you recall me mentioning it on Friday, Martha McCallum's live desk from Fox News is here.
	And you know, I have I have experience being on TV.
	Um I'm I'm gonna limit my brilliance uh on uh one of my TV appearance because people are always so fascinated with my appearance and miss some of what I say.
	So I'm I'm gonna save the real brilliance here for the award-winning radio program.
	By the way, a note for those of you watching on the uh DittoCam, uh, this is it for light uh today.
	We uh Fox has a lot of equipment here.
	And for the use uh those of you who are uh uh electronically gifted, uh our UPS was fried today with an overload.
	Uh and so we don't have all of the lights, so what you see is the lighting that Fox is going to use uh when we join them live at uh at 133.
	Uh and we're gonna simulcast that show.
	This is something we've never done before.
	We're gonna simulcast with Martha McCallum's live desk show from the uh well, the last half hour of uh of the second hour.
	Uh and and uh it'll be on the Ditto Cam as well as uh as telecast live on the uh on the Fox News channel.
	If you want to join us today, phone number 800 282-2882, and the email address is Rush at EIBNet.com.
	I we start with the lighthearted stack today.
	How many of you people travel getting ready to travel for the Thanksgiving uh week and are flying?
	Do you know that the federal government thinks you don't know how to pack?
	They have issued guidelines.
	Airline passengers who already are required at airport checkpoints to remove their shoes, take off their coats, carry only small bottles of liquids, now have a new task, and that is to pack neatly.
	In anticipation of the most popular holiday for travel in the USA, the TSA today launches a campaign urging travelers to eliminate clutter in carry-on bags.
	And then they say pack in layers and keep items neat.
	The federal government now issuing packing tips as though we are a bunch of children and babies and haven't the slightest idea how to do this.
	Well, they've got diagrams to fold the underwear and how to unfold the underwear and you know how to not have your carry-on bag too cluttered.
	I uh Yep.
	Um Snertley in the IF bases, see what you're missing.
	I know what I'm missing, and this is one of those rare occasions, my friends, where I will proudly and happily admit I am out of touch.
	I mean, I don't even pack anymore.
	Um so I I don't need packing tips.
	Staff does it.
	I don't I don't mess with packing.
	Did you see snurdly this this is oh Dawn, you're gonna love this.
	Have you seen this survey?
	Uh blondes make men act dumb.
	Yet this.
	When men meet fair-haired women, blondes, they really do have a blonde moment.
	Scientists have found that their mental performance drops, apparently because they believe they're dealing with somebody less intelligent when they mean a blonde.
	So blondes force an automatic reduction in IQ.
	Researchers discovered what might be called the BIMbo delusion by studying men's ability to complete general knowledge tests after exposure to different women.
	The academics found that men's scores fell after they were shown pictures of blondes.
	Uh further analysis convinced the team that rather than simply being distracted by blonde hair, those who perform poorly had been unconsciously driven by social stereotypes to think blonde.
	Yeah, well yes, Martha McCallum is a blonde.
	It's the reason why I'm interested in this story.
	I wonder what's going to happen to my brain when she comes in here and sits down in front of me.
	According to this, I'm gonna think that she's an idiot, and I will become an idiot in order to match and meet up.
	I uh Roger Dobson and Stephen Swinford wrote the story.
	The research comes from the University of Paris.
	Uh this proves that people confronted with stereotypes generally behave in line with them.
	Uh Theory Meyer, joint author of the study and professor of social psychology at the University of Paris.
	In this case, uh blondes have the potential to make people act in a dumber way because they mimic the unconscious stereotype of the dumb blonde.
	The uh the research adds to a body of evidence that people's behavior is powerfully influenced by stereotype.
	Now you see where this is.
	We're laughing about this.
	But you see, this is all about confirming that there are bigots.
	And if you can be bigoted over a blonde, you can certainly be bigoted over others, can you not?
	This is an attempt.
	What, Mr. Snerdley, the program observer has a question.
	Hillary is a blonde.
	But that's no but no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hillary has a testicle lockbox.
	That's why you forget this.
	I have to keep reminding you that Hillary succeeds with her intimidation.
	You know, Carl Rofe tells a fascinating story.
	Carl Rove inherited Hillary Clinton's West Wing office.
	And when he got in there, he noticed a full-length mirror.
	So he told people, yeah, I would inherited Hillary Clinton's office, and there's uh there's a full-length mirror in there.
	And he ran into Hillary some time later, and she was steely-eyed and said, You told people that I put a full-length mirror in that office, and I didn't.
	And Rove said, I didn't say anybody tell anybody you put it there.
	I just said I found it there.
	It was there.
	And he said it helped me to avoid looking rumpled.
	So he tells that story after he's talked to her.
	She sees him again.
	I hear you're telling the full-length mirror story again.
	She was steely-eyed, she was she had no sense of humor about it, and it told Rove, this woman has a photographic memory.
	She is she is nervy.
	She is she she keeps score.
	Uh she's not lighthearted.
	She got the testicle lock box, Mr. Snerdley.
	Her hair color is irrelevant.
	I don't think.
	You know, this is this is this this research is patently absurd.
	It's just patently absurd.
	If anything, now let's just be honest.
	If anything that happens to men meeting blondes, it's they it's they're if their brains freeze up, it's simply because their eyes, you know, are doing all the calculating.
	We be honest.
	Anyway, that's uh that's big news out there today.
	Some uh then they got some blonde jokes uh at the back of the don't worry, don't worry.
	Guess what?
	Thanksgiving week.
	Guess what we got a shortage of, folks?
	Food pantries struggling with shortages.
	Operators of free food banks say that they are seeing more working people needing assistance.
	The increased demand is outstripping supplies and forcing many pantries and food banks to cut portions.
	Demand is being driven up by rising costs of food and housing and utilities and health care and gasoline and global warming and everything else that's filled with doom and gloom.
	Food manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are finding they have less surplus food to donate, and government help has decreased, according to Lisa Hamler Fugit, the executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks.
	Isn't this just fascinating?
	On Thanksgiving Week, here comes the guilt trip, folks.
	He used to do it with Thursday football.
	They go to the halftime at a local station's uh would would uh do some little little local news insert, and they'd send somebody down to the nearest homeless shelter and show these people, these poor suffering people just clawing food into their mouths like they haven't eaten in a year.
	And the tone of the report would be How dare you sit at home enjoying the comfort coziness of your family and your and your in your Thanksgiving dude.
	Look at these people how Now it's food banks have run out of food.
	It's so timely.
	These stories, by the way, do not appear when Democrats are uh are in the White House.
	And finally, from the Chicago Tribune, there's a new study.
	Feminists make better mates.
	What it says here Feminists make better mates.
	Well, uh we we we did this story of their variation of this story.
	Uh uh feminists like feminist men.
	Of course, what we had to Point out here is that feminist men uh the ones that use batteries.
	Yeah.
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	Uh two big stories that happened over the weekend.
	Uh one of them you I I think probably you've heard about both of them.
	Uh the Robert Novak uh story about how the Clinton campaign has some really scandalous information on Obama, but that they're not gonna release it.
	They just did.
	By saying they've got it, they just did.
	Of course, the Clinton campaign went nuts denying the whole thing.
	Uh Obama really reacted as though uh as though he believed it.
	Uh I don't know whether the Clintons did it, but who can who can look at there's patterns with the Clintons and they do things and they've got a history.
	500 FBI files when you hear a story like that.
	Novak is not known to make things up.
	Now, when you hear a story like that, it is uh it's imminently believable.
	Uh and the uh was it 900 FBI?
	Oh, it's 900.
	I thought it was 500 FBI.
	Well, I can't be expecting to remember everything, isn't it?
	It was 500.
	Now I'm being told it's 500.
	Now the staff's in an argument, you guys settle it, it doesn't matter, they had them.
	I think uh it wouldn't surprise me.
	You know, you you have to understand Mrs. Clinton is not the universal choice of the entire Democrat Party.
	Uh and it's quite pine.
	And Novak has said, hey, I haven't talked to any Republicans about this.
	I didn't this information came strictly from Democrats.
	So it it's quite likely uh that somebody in Democratic Party put this out.
	It's possible, not quite likely, but it's possible somebody put it out, uh, just to stifle the Clinton campaign and and to create uh the kind of uh furor that has resulted.
	Also, great work by a blogger, Doug Ross at Journal, has revealed that every question, you know, in the last Democrat debate uh in Las Vegas, every qu when they went to the real people and the uh registered independent voters, they were all Democrat staffers or plants.
	They were a Democrat Party big wig, an anti-war activist, a union official, an Islamic leader, a staffer, an intern for dingy Harry.
	She's the one that asked the question about the pearls of the uh pearls or what diamonds.
	And then later she went to her MySpace page that said, I didn't even want to ask that question.
	But they made me ask that question because they didn't have much time left.
	So CNN was scripting questions the whole thing was a Clinton set-up job.
	And everybody has this suspicion about CNN.
	More details on that in just a sec.
	Let's go to the audio sound bites and start out here with Novak.
	Um I wonder if if the Democrats are going to end up blaming Scooter Libby uh for this story.
	This is uh Fox and Friends this morning, Steve Ducy and Brian Kilmeeter talking in Novak.
	Uh and Stan Ducey said, Hey, Bob, what what did you write?
	What caused such a reaction?
	I wrote that the Clinton campaign had injected into the Democratic political bloodstream a report that they had derogatory, scandalous information about Barack Obama, but we're not going to put it out because it would hurt the Democratic Party and probably uh hurt uh uh Senator Clinton if that information was out.
	My source, who is uh well-known Democrat, but neutral so far, but he but they thought he should know about this information.
	I then checked with another source who was neutral and said he had heard the same thing from Clinton, Clinton people.
	Uh this is very similar to the kind of uh tricks that uh uh Richard Nixon used to pull where he would say uh I know uh some very bad information about the communists supporting George McGovern, but I can't put that out because it wouldn't be right, but uh I'm I'm just too good of a guy.
	Now, what whether there is any such scandalous information, I don't know.
	What I know is I'm confident of my sources who I trust uh were told this by Clinton people that there was such information out.
	Of course there's information.
	To doubt that the Clintons have this kind of they've got it on everybody.
	What's interesting is I don't think the Clintons would actually be the ones to say it.
	I don't think they would I I I think they let their uh opponents know in more subtle ways uh that uh such information exists.
	This is clearly, more I think about it, uh somebody trying to uh cause or cast aspersions on the uh on the whole Clinton camp.
	By the way, there's new polling data, or soon will polling be polling data out that shows she might lose uh Iowa, uh, which she can withstand, by the way.
	She can withstand an Iowa loss.
	Uh but it's it's it I think Rasmussen Wall Street Journal, AB, it's ABC that's coming out with the poll, I think today.
	Uh next question.
	Uh Brian Kilme.
	So, all right.
	Those who say this is a Republican plot to get Democrats to fight each other, what's your reaction to that?
	I haven't talked to a single Republican on this.
	Uh this was all strictly Democrats.
	Uh that is a the whole uh method of the Clinton campaign is when any anything uh derogatory comes up, they say uh the Republicans are spreading it, but uh there was no Republicans involved in my reporting on the Well, so it can't be scooter Libyan.
	Scooter Lib and it can't be it can't be Armitage.
	Uh so yesterday in Marion, Iowa, uh Barack Obama was at a news conference accepting the endorsement of a regional chapter of the United Auto Workers, and afterward, a little montage of his remarks about Novak's column.
	The Clinton campaign didn't come out and and uh deny it initially.
	I mean, it would have been great if we just sat back and they indicated it wasn't true.
	I think it is very important to send a clear message that whether it is coming from our party, the other party, third parties, 527s, that our campaign will not tolerate this kind of uh slime politics.
	Now, do you realize Obama got ripped by the media for reacting to this?
	What's he supposed to do?
	Sit there and beg for more.
	Here's a sample.
	This is Ron Brownstein on Meet the Press yesterday.
	Tom uh Tim Russert said uh yesterday Novak had a column with the headline, Hill Schill's hint at BAM Slam, suggesting that uh there's been scandalous information about Obama.
	Agents for Hillary have been passing around but not using against the campaign.
	Clinton campaigns are absolutely untrue, but it played out all day long.
	What do you make of it?
	I'm a little surprised uh that the Obama campaign picked up so much on an unsourced Bob Novak um column.
	Bob is a great reporter, has been here for a long time.
	Traditionally sources stronger in the Republican uh than the Democratic Party, and I think it was just a sign of how eager both sides are.
	I mean, not a leaf will fall in the forest between now in Iowa and New Hampshire without Obama and Edwards looking for a way to make this into a contrast with Hillary Clinton, because that is ultimately what you have to do against the front runner.
	The primaries, as crazy as they are, ultimately show us what is in the spine of these candidates, and I think this is the time of testing for Clinton that she really hasn't had before.
	Uh you know, I continue to marvel at the way the drive-by's view events.
	Uh there's such a disconnect between the drive-bys and the rest of America.
	Here's uh Gwen Eiffel following up with Brownstein.
	This is on Meet the Press yesterday.
	What made it curious, of course, was the ferocity of the response.
	The Obama people say, listen, we're just not going to take it, and it's time for us to say, yes, we're not going to take it.
	They there's been whispering campaigns out there about us before about madrasas, et cetera.
	And we're not going to let it pass this time, of course, it's because the stakes are higher.
	The Clinton people say, A, they didn't do it.
	They use words like umbrage.
	How dare they suggest that Hillary would do her thing.
	And then they go on to say, and get this, they started it.
	So there's this kindergarten stuff going back and forth, but it uh but Ron is right.
	What's underneath it is this incredible, bitter high stakes battle, which I think is just beginning to engage.
	That is a good point, and that's exactly right.
	Mrs. Clinton, go back to Carl Rove's story.
	Mrs. Mrs. Clinton is not warm.
	She is not friendly.
	She does not respond to criticism.
	Uh Obama tells a a story that uh, you know, when he uh uh they were on the Senate floor and he was announcing or getting ready, or maybe had announced, I forget which, uh, his intention to run for president.
	He tried to grab Mrs. Clinton's elbow and arm and walk her down and give her a little wink, and she pulled away and didn't want to have anything to do with him, because he had just become the enemy.
	And Obama got on the phone, called a friend.
	You won't believe what just happened with Hillary.
	The idea that she needs to be battle tested is absurd.
	Uh they think she's a novice candidate.
	She's uh she's never been this uh exposed before, and so that may be true, but but she's not a novice at anything.
	By the way, Fortune magazine.
	Uh I'm sorry, Wall Street Journal today has a special section on fifty women to watch.
	Uh fifty women who have risen to the top, and they did it the hard way, they earned it.
	Number one woman to watch, Angela Brayley, president chief executive of Well Point.
	She did not marry the former president to get the job.
	Number two, woman to watch, Inra Nui, Chairman Chief Executive PepsiCo.
	She did not marry the former president to get the job.
	Number three, Neilie Crowe's antitrust chief European Union, she did not marry a former president to get the job.
	Number four, Zoe Cruz, co-president Morgan Stanley, she didn't marry the former president to get the job.
	None of the fifty women to watch in a Wall Street Journal married the former president in order to get their jobs at the top of the heap.
	Mrs. Clinton will never be able to say that.
	A man, a living legend, a national treasure, a way of life.
	Rush Limbaugh, now documented to be almost always right, 98.8% of the time, the latest opinion audit from the Sullivan Group, uh opinion auditing firm that we use in Sacramento, California.
	I've got to read some of this stuff from the blog that exposed CNN's duplicity and phoniness and fraud in portraying six people as undecided, independent, registered voters.
	That whole debate was totally in the tank.
	We know that Wolf Blitzer was warned by the Clinton campaign not to do a russet, and that means don't ask her any substantive questions.
	And uh they didn't follow up one time on the driver's licenses for uh for illegal immigrants.
	But this is Doug Ross at uh at Journal, which is the is his blog.
	Uh CNN hits bottom and keeps digging.
	All six debate questioners appear to be Democrat Party operatives.
	So much for ordinary people, undecided voters.
	To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC's hind end that Howard Dean can taste the hair gel.
	In a nutshell, CNN six undecided voters were a Democrat Party bigwig, an anti-war activist, a union official, an Islamic leader, a Harry Reed staffer who's not even old enough to vote yet, and a radical Chicano separatist.
	Uh and that goes on and on and on.
	The uh the the story much too long to read uh to you here, but it's got pictures and some of the graphics that CNN used uh to describe the uh undecided voters.
	Uh these a lot of them were students, of course, some of them, but they're all operatives one way or the other.
	All right, let's go to the phone.
	Stacy in um Tepperance, Michigan.
	They ever heard of where's Teprance, Michigan, Stacey?
	Michigan is just about five miles, uh just a couple miles north of um Toledo, Ohio.
	So we're just over the border.
	Well, great, okay.
	Well, great to have you with us.
	Russ, listen, I'm a public high school teacher, and I just want you to know I've been listening to your program since I graduated from high school in 1989.
	You're a rush baby.
	I am well, I guess so.
	Yeah, my dad turned me on to you, and I uh I spoke with you ten years ago, and I'm the teacher that uses your dad's Fourth of July speech in my government class.
	Oh, wow, really.
	I d I use it every year when I'm teaching about the Declaration of Independence, and my students love it.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I'm I'm glad that lives on in that way.
	Yes, it does.
	Listen, I wanted to talk to you about the debate.
	I watched the whole thing the other night and my condolences.
	I wanted to be entertained, and I was.
	I um I really thought that the audience was um very favorable towards Dennis Kucinich.
	And they were every time he spoke on the on the on the opposite when the when he had the opportunity, uh the audience loved what he said.
	Well, that's true, but there's there's two reasons for this.
	Number one, the uh audience at a debate like this at a Democrat Party debate is going to be made up of the base.
	And the Democrat Party base right now is really fringe lunatic.
	And so and so Kucinich is speaking their language.
	Now here's another thing, and this isn't this is this is uh more important reason.
	Kucinich was the only well, maybe Biden a little bit.
	Kucinich was the only guy who was authentic.
	Kucinich had no doubt, you had no doubt what he believed, did you?
	No, I didn't.
	In fact, I thought that he was the really he like you said, he and Biden were the guys who w really they were they were who they are.
	And and uh John Edwards, what a phony.
	That guy makes me cringe.
	Yeah, Edward.
	Well, but the but m Mrs. Clinton isn't authentic too.
	Then this is it it it none of this matters.
	Uh Mrs. Clinton is going to be the nominee, but but it's it's uh I had a lot of people tell me they thought Kucinich was the most interesting to listen to because it despite what he was saying, doesn't matter.
	What I've always said, folks, passion.
	You can you can listen to people talk about something you would consider the most boring topic in the world.
	If two people are talking about it passionately, you'll be drawn to it.
	It's like a magnet.
	And Kucinich was passionate because he was talking about what he believed in.
	He wasn't trying to camouflage it like Mrs. Clinton does.
	He wasn't trying to shelter it from anybody.
	He wasn't masking who he was, and he wasn't trying not to offend.
	He was just open.
	And when you're when you're talking about things you really believe, people ask, uh Rush, what what what do you still get butterfly as you make speech?
	No, because I know what I'm gonna say, and I'm very confident that I know what I'm gonna say, and I'm very confident what I'm gonna say is right, and I like hearing myself speak, so no.
	Um I get a little butterflies, hoping the performance aspect of it is okay, but passion and knowledge uh of subject and so forth is is is is automatic in in making people listen to you, and that's what Kucinich had.
	But it's not gonna it's not gonna translate to um to votes.
	Uh we're getting to the point where he's not gonna be in some of these debates.
	They'll narrow them down uh, you know, after some of the uh the first series of uh Hawkeye Cockeye and the and the New Hampshire primary.
	Matt in Phoenix, nice to have you with us today, sir.
	Welcome.
	Thank you, Russ.
	Hey, I was thinking earlier about the something caught my attention there earlier on the uh Thanksgiving story about the food shortages and uh if the manufacturers and the suppliers don't have any extra to give away, isn't that mean they're selling all the supplies to somebody?
	Uh well i of course, but no that's not the way we're supposed to interpret this.
	Let me let me rephrase or reread from the story that got uh Matt's attention here.
	Demand, and by the way, I'm the one adding the Thanksgiving angle.
	This is not so much well, I haven't read the whole story, but they might make a Thanksgiving connection here.
	But it's the reader is supposed to.
	This is what you're supposed to infer this.
	Um demand is being driven up at these food pantries who are struggling with shortages.
	Uh demand being driven up by rising costs of food, housing, utilities, health care, gasoline, global warming, potholes, and food manufacturers and wholesalers and retailers are finding they have less surplus food to donate, and government help has decreased, according to Lisa Hamler Fuji, executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks.
	So if food manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers are finding uh that they have less surplus food to donate, that must be they're selling it.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	Now, if they're if they're selling it, what does that tell you, Matt?
	It means we got money to spend.
	And what is all this holiday travel tell you?
	I mean, then now they're issuing tips on how to pack for crying out loud.
	Do it neatly.
	Now the president went out there and tried to limit the crowds, extra baggage handlers and uh sky caps and kiosks, uh, where supposedly in the midst of this really struggling and challenging economy, rising fuel prices, have people panicked, the mortgage slump, uh people being kicked out of their home.
	And yet, people have enough money to fly all over the country in droves, setting records all week, got enough money to go out and buy food so much so that there's less to give away.
	So how can we have such a rotten economy?
	Well, I've got to create victims somehow.
	Uh especially at Thanksgiving week with a Republican in the White House.
	Ellen Rocky River, Ohio.
	Ellen, by the way, uh one of my all-time favorite top ten female names.
	Actually, is it really?
	Yeah, it really is.
	Well, um, thanks for taking the call.
	It's been a couple of years since I called.
	I'm glad I got it.
	I missed you.
	Oh, have you really?
	I was just telling Sturdly the other day.
	I haven't talked to Ellen in a couple years, and I'm well, here I am back today.
	Um the the reason I'm calling is I was watching Sixty Minutes last night, which was probably a big mistake.
	My condolences.
	What are you what do you there was a good pretty good football game on last night.
	The there's another Massacre in Buffalo.
	Well, this is gonna uh pain me to say it, but I'm really not a football person.
	But as I'm channel surfing, um I I got in on Leslie Stahl's interview of uh Thomas Frieden, whom I find out is the uh health commissioner of the city of New York, and it was about a 15-minute um interview um on his fiat,
	if you will, that he is going to at least attempt to mandate that all of the fast food places have posted on their walls what the caloric value or the caloric count is on the fat fast foods.
	And as I looked at this man, and I have to tell you, I'm a medical professional, I'm a nurse manager, so I understand that there is an obesity epidemic, and I also understand that you could probably infer from that that there has been an explosion of diabetes.
	There is no known about it.
	Also know, as a health care professional.
	Have you heard about the story from last week that overweight people live longer?
	I did hear that.
	I did hear that.
	And that that's not going to play well as far as the conventional wisdom.
	Of course not.
	But but the the thrust of this was now he didn't say it in so many words, but it was he was smug, he was auspicious, and he was intrusive.
	He was going to decide for us that we were a too stupid to know that when you go to the fast food places, it is fat laden.
	I don't go to McDonald's with any frequency because as good as it is, I know it's going to be a fat laden meal.
	You know, you know, uh uh Ellen, I have to tell you that the uh you should call more often than two years.
	This is just the last or the latest example of nannyism in New York.
	You can't use trans fats, you can't smoke anywhere, outside or inside, and yet they're taxing tobacco products through the roof to pay for health care programs and then making it impossible to use the product, so fewer and fewer people are buying it.
	But it's been it's a nanny state uh run by Mayor Bloomberg for a long time.
	This caloric content on the uh on the fast food, I thought that that had been shelved.
	I thought maybe it was some other state that it's been shelved uh because somebody was uh saying this is this is absurd.
	We're gonna we have it's gonna up raise costs and post it all over the restaurants and so forth.
	But learn something fast.
	I mean, you know this.
	You're talking about somebody who's a liberal democrat in New York.
	They view average people with condescension and contempt.
	You don't know how to make the decisions necessary to get through life.
	That's why you need them.
	They want you as dependent as possible.
	They really do think of you as that dumb that you don't realize when you're eating a fistful of French fries that you're eating a lot of calories.
	They really think you may not know that.
	They think that big fast food is screwing you and lying to you about the dangerous ingredients.
	And so here comes big government to want to warn you and protect you because they really think that you're idiots.
	It's one of the primary problems uh with with big government and and liberalism in general is its lack of faith in the individual to overcome obstacles and make uh responsible decisions, leading his or her own life.
	I gotta run a quick break.
	Nice to hear from you again, Ellen.
	Stay with us, folks, and be right back.
	Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	Rick, uh welcome back, folks.
	Rush Lindboss serving humanity simply by showing up behind this, a golden EIB microphone.
	All right, da da.
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	Vocal portrayal impersonating Al Gore, one of our three rotating global warming update themes.
	All right, uh Heather Mills, uh the soon-to-be ex-wife of Paul McCartney.
	Uh, started her day storming out of a radio interview when and then turned up at Speaker's Corner in a gas-guzzling black four by four Mercedes to lecture the assembled crowds on ways of saving the planet.
	As part of her extraordinary tirade at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, Heather Mills exhorted people to try drinking rat's milk instead of cow milk in order to help reduce global warming.
	And there's a picture over here with all these idiots, photographers and everybody else surrounding her.
	Now, I don't know how to milk a rat.
	I if it even if I knew how to milk a rat, I don't know that I would want to do it.
	Drink rats milk to save the planet.
	And get this.
	I I read this story to say I don't quite believe this.
	Early snows boost the Alpine ski resorts.
	Dozens of ski resorts across the Alps have been uh begun running their lifts after unprecedented levels of snow this month.
	Some parts have uh had the most snow in November since 1956.
	I I I thought the ski business in the Alps was about to go south because they were gonna have to fall because of global warming.
	Biggest snow in November since 1956.
	Ski industry is now breathing a collective sigh of relief as bookings are picking up for the autumn portant Christmas period.
	Uh wow.
	What is this BBC News?
	They use Christmas in a story?
	They didn't say holiday period.
	Hmm.
	Many villages and towns in the Alps rely on skiing for up to 80% of their income.
	Uh and they're just delirious.
	All kinds of snow, unexpected.
	And then, have you heard about the stuff over the weekend of the global warming reports?
	It's getting it's getting to the point now, and it's actually been there for quite a while how absurd this is.
	Now the damage is irreversible.
	And and and this planet is soon going to be uninhabitable for millions and millions and millions of different speech, Mr. Limbaugh.
	And you don't have the proper sensitivity to it to understand the danger that's posed by the if it's that bad and it's irreversible, then there's nothing we can do.
	They kind of overplay their hand with this stuff when they say it's irreversible.
	Because that just means go gas up the SUV.
	Speaking of that, not only are people flying all over the country this Thanksgiving week, they are driving in record numbers all over the country, even with gasoline north of three dollars.
	Brief timeout.
	Don't go away.
	We'll be right back.
	Just got an email note say, Rush, if you want to learn how to milk a rat, Mrs. Clinton probably knows.
	Have her show you.
	All right.
	Uh we are preparing here in about a half hour to simulcast the program uh with Martha McCallum and her live desk show on the Fox News channel.
	And for those of you watching on the Ditto Cam, just a uh a reminder, we had a major, major power hit today.
	We fried our UPS because we overloaded it with uh too much of their equipment.
	And so we're we've jury-rigged uh the system here, and the lights that you're seeing on the ditto cam right now are it.
	Even the neon Rush Limbaugh sign, we can't get it on because we can't get the UPS back, so we're uh jury rigged nor the fluorescence above the desk.
	Uh so the lighting that we have in the studio right now is what Fox has set up uh for their uh simulcast, which will happen at 1.33 Eastern time, all the way to two o'clock.
	Uh as with uh first, we've never done this before.
	Simulcast this show with a television show.
	Uh and when we come back from the break at the top of the hour, I will explain to you uh how this is going to work, and you'll be able to watch it either on the ditto cam or on Fox if you're near a TV.
	Sit tight, we'll be back before you know it.
	Don't go away.

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