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March 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I'll give you more details on this Northern Arapaho Native American business.
The story is in the New York Daily News.
The headline, Northern Arapaho Indian Tribe gets right to kill bald eagles.
A pair of Wyoming bald eagles now qualify as a really endangered species.
The Northern Arapaho tribe secured an extraordinarily rare permit from Obama's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, allowing the Native Americans to kill two of the birds for religious use.
The National Agency in a 2009 report, the Fish and Wildlife Service, said it has never issued a license for the killing of a bald eagle, making it likely that the tribe was the first group to ever get the legal go-ahead.
The highly unusual decision came after three years, came three years after the tribe's initial request to kill two of the eagles.
The ruling came, I'm sorry, ruling could defuse a federal lawsuit filed last year by the tribe in the flap.
Federal law bars the killing of any bald eagle under almost any circumstances.
But the Wyoming tribe argued that the ban was a violation of their religious freedom.
And here's why.
Eagle feathers and body parts are often used in tribal rights, and the Arapahos use the bird and their sundance.
A tribal member was arrested for killing a bald eagle in 2005, which set off this whole legal battle.
The federal government keeps a repository of eagle feathers and body parts for use in tribal rituals, although the Native Americans must file an application for their use.
The process was considered demeaning by some Native American groups, including members of the Northern Arapaho tribe.
How would a non-Indian feel if they had to get their Bible from a repository, said Northern Arapaho leader Nelson P. White Sr. after a 2007 court hearing?
Well, did you know that eagle feathers and body parts are kept by the government for use in religious ceremonies?
I didn't know that.
Then I didn't know that that was unacceptable to the northern Arapahos, that they felt it demeaning to ask the government for the body parts and feathers.
So they wanted to kill a couple birds.
They got the stuff themselves.
And the regime has granted permission via the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
And again, folks, what this is about is President Obama seeking to establish separate laws.
Depending on which tribe or which race you belong to, you'll have special circumstances, waivers from law, or certain favors granted to you.
And this is all part of Obama's disdain for the Constitution, which to him and many other left-wing liberal Democrats, Constitution is considered rich white man's law.
Can't have that.
So Obama has found a religion here that he supports.
Now, about that religion thing, just an observation here.
Three days after an obviously deranged member of the U.S. military goes on a shooting rampage, killing more than a dozen innocent people, there are calls at the highest level, Petraeus, Panetta, to try this guy speedily and execute him.
Three days.
Three days after this incident in Kabul.
Three years after the shooting at Fort Hood by Major Nadal Hassan, during which he shouted Allahu Akbar after lengthy internet chats with Anwar Alaki, and having been ignored, is labeled a jihadi threat for nine years in the medical ranks of the U.S. Army, the Obama administration has yet to try Hassan.
His trial begins in June.
And his attack at Fort Hood is officially referred to as a workplace shooting.
Army Major Nadal Hassan opening fire on base is a workplace shooting.
This deranged member of the military who went nuts in Kabul, everybody's calling for his trial and execution within three days.
The Obama administration refuses to connect the Fort Hood shooting to religious motivation in any way, despite the fact that Major Nadal Hassan shouted Allahu Akbar before letting go.
And there have been no calls for death penalty from anyone high in the regime.
Different rules, different rules for different religions in the Obama administration.
Separate laws, depending on which tribe and which race that you belong to.
Okay, let's go to the audio soundbites from last night after the Republican primaries, three southern states.
Here we have Rick Santorum.
Actually, this was this morning.
He was on Fox America's newsroom.
The correspondent John Roberts played a clip from an interview that Santorum did last night after his win in Alabama, Mississippi.
Roberts said, in your victory speech, you called for uniting conservatives around you, but you can't do that if Newt Gingrich stays in the race.
Do you think he should get out?
I'm not asking Newt Gingrich to do anything.
I'm asking conservatives to give us the best chance to nominate a conservative.
And I think we've seen it in the past.
We nominate moderates in this party, we lose.
We nominate people who stand for what our principles are that made this country great, we win.
Now, this is last night in Lafayette, Louisiana.
This is at Santorum campaign headquarters and a portion of what he said.
This campaign is about ordinary folks doing extraordinary things, sort of like America.
Sort of like America, going out there and exceeding expectations, going out there and defying the odds because we believe in something that's bigger than ourselves.
In spite of all the odds, all the money being spent, all the establishment being on the other side of this race, you stood with a guy, comes from this grandson of a coal miner from a steel town in western Pennsylvania, but you knew, shared your values, and was going to go out and work for you to make sure that this country was free and safe and prosperous based on believing in free people and free markets, a free economy, and of course, the integrity of the family and the centrality of faith in our lives.
He didn't talk about contraception there, Dawn.
He didn't bring up contraception.
He didn't bring up the war on women.
He's out of it.
He doesn't understand what's going on.
Now, there's a new voting block.
I think that voting block probably has been created today by Karen Finney.
White working women.
Or, no, let's think because, you know, there are probably plenty of African-American conservative women who are ticked off at this, too.
The way they're being characterized by liberal women on MSNBC.
Angry conservative women.
That's the new voting block.
And Santorum, why he's an idiot too.
He didn't even talk about contraception.
He didn't even talk about the war on women.
He didn't chide women for voting for him for the wrong reasons, like the Democrats want him to say or believe happened.
Here's a little bit more of what he had to say: We will compete everywhere.
We will compete everywhere.
The time is now for conservatives to pull together.
The time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election.
And the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against Barack Obama, who can take him on on every issue.
Did you hear all of those code words that Santorum used?
Well, according to Karen Finney of the Democrat Party, conservative values is a code word.
And Santorum talks about conservative values in every other sentence in both of those sound bites.
You heard Santorum talking about nominating a conservative.
Conservative values.
All those code words.
And you white, well, you working Southern women, you understood the code.
And that's why you voted for him.
By the way, there's a Gallup poll out from last night, Republicans not calling for Gingrich or others to drop out.
According to Gallup, more than half of Republicans nationwide, 53%, say that all members of the current Republican field should stay in the race until one of them clinches the nomination.
21% say Gingrich should drop out.
Another 20% say all candidates but Romney should drop out.
But 53% say, oh, there's nothing wrong here.
Let it play out.
Here is Newt.
Last night, Gingrich campaign headquarters in Birmingham.
I emphasize going to Tampa because one of the things tonight proved is that the elite media's effort to convince the nation that Mitt Romney is inevitable just collapsed.
The fact is, in both states, the conservative candidates got nearly 70% of the vote.
And if you're the front runner, if you're the frontrunner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a frontrunner.
That's Gingrich, and he is arriving at that by adding his voters with Santorum's voters to equal the conservative vote of 70% against that which Romney got.
So he's characterizing Romney's campaign as collapsing last night to the onslaught of conservative voters whose votes are being split essentially two ways between Santorum and Newt.
Now, again, the delegate count, Romney picked up six delegates last night, and he's the leader at 495.
Santorum at 252, Gingrich at 131, and the other guy, Ron Paul, at 48.
1,144 are needed to nominate.
Last night on the Situation Room on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, he spoke with Romney.
He said the super PAC that supports Santorum has come out with a very tough commercial, a very tough attack ad against you, Mitt.
I'm going to give you a chance to respond here to Santorum's super PAC.
You know, Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign and is trying in some way to boost his prospects.
And frankly, misrepresenting the truth is not a good way of doing that.
He's far behind in the delegate count.
He's far behind in the popular vote count.
If you look at the math of how many delegates he'd have to win to become the nominee, it's a very difficult road for him.
And yesterday in St. Louis, KSDK-TV, former Governor Romney answered questions from viewers.
Unidentified viewer said, what are some of the specifics of the plan to lower the trillions of dollars a deficit?
What programs would you want to cut or drastically reduce?
Get rid of Obamacare.
That's the easy one.
But there are others.
Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.
The subsidy for Amtrak, I would eliminate that.
This has caused the left to go apoplectic with Romney calling for the defunding of planned parenthood.
They can't stand it.
They're freaking out over there.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
More of your calls are coming up, folks, when we get back.
So sit tight.
Ruth in Tulsa, Oklahoma, you're next on the phones.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega, God bless America and deliver us from every enemy within and without ditto, sir.
Thank you very much.
Love your program.
Love what you do for this country.
Don't ever minimize that.
God puts you there for such a time as this.
Thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
Well, really appreciate you.
I love my country, and I am an angry white conservative working woman.
I have been working all my life since I was a kid.
And when I had to raise my kids by myself, I held three jobs at one time.
I have never gotten a food stamp.
I have never gone to the government for anything but a student loan, which I paid back.
And I don't ever want to have to go to my government for anything.
And what I told you, Screen Caller, is he could be a matador.
Obama could be a matador.
He waves the red flag of racism, all these wicked things they say about conservatives to take our eyes off the real issue.
The bull in the stadium is he is incrementally dismantling our country and destroying it.
And that's what makes me angry.
I don't give a flip about his skin color.
Really?
I mean, if that's a problem, I'll be angry with his white side.
You know, I want my country back.
I want it put back the way it was supposed to be.
I was standing in Whole Foods at the checkout line one day in 2008, just before the election, and on the front of a magazine, and I don't know why no one ever saw this, and I never could get through to bring attention to it.
There was a magazine, and on it had the Dow Jones Industrial Index, and it took the arrow way below where it has ever been, and across it was plastered, yes, we can.
This guy, it isn't about liberal, it isn't about conservative, it isn't Republican Democrat.
This is about a fellow who is trying to destroy a nation, and everybody's too polite to say it.
Because every time people stand up and speak the truth, he waves that red flag of racism, and I'm tired of it.
And I thank God that you and Talk Radio are willing to stand against this stuff and speak the truth because our nation is at stake.
It is.
We're losing it.
Well, you know, I'm not going to lose it without a fight.
And by that, I don't mean I want to hurt anyone.
I don't.
But I'm going to do all it takes to elect a conservative, to get this conservative nominated and then get him elected.
I'm going to see to it that my votes in my state are kept integrity, that the integrity of the vote is maintained, and that the voting polls are clean of illegals and dead people and multiple voters.
I've had it.
My country is precious to me, and I'm not going to stand in eternity before God or all the veterans who have died and served, all the people that worked their tails off.
We forget 50 years ago, Americans didn't have two cars, and a lot of people had struggles putting food on the table.
You know, they didn't go through all that for us to hand it over to a few, a very few minority with a megaphone and just lay down and let them take it.
I say no.
And here we have, and God bless you, by the way.
Love your passion.
And you have millions of Americans cheering you on right now, I guarantee you.
You've got a new voting block here, folks.
Angry, conservative, working women.
Now, I'm going to put white in there because I know there are a lot of African-American women who are just as ticked off about this economy as anybody else is.
Angry, conservative, working women, new voting block.
And we'll be back.
Back to the phones.
We go to Dexter, Michigan.
This is Tom.
Thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
It's always a pleasure to wait for you, Rush.
Conservative thriller writer Dittos from Dexter.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, when we last spoke last June, I'm the guy whose book was nationalized by Hugo Chavez, if you remember that.
You were the guy whose book was nationalized by Hugo Chavez.
I do vaguely remember that.
Well, I've got a new book out.
It's an election thriller, and it uses a brokered convention as a plot device.
It's a strategy that's employed by both sides.
And I'm wondering if there's any real-world advantage to the president in prolonging the GOP nomination, and might we actually be looking at some kind of a strategy?
Well, you know, this is an open question or people on both sides of this as to whether or not this prolonged Republican campaign hurts or helps Obama.
In one way, I don't know that you can say this hurts him, but it prevents him from starting his focused opposition research and intense advertising campaign against the nominee because we don't have one yet.
And the longer we can delay, or the longer we do delay, having a nominee, then the less time Obama is going to have, along with George Soros and all the other players here, to demonize our nominee and to run all these caustic ads.
On the other hand, the protracted, this is always been my theory, the protracted campaign allows for the continued articulation of conservatism.
And as long as Santorum and Gingrich are there, that's going to happen.
And it also provides an opportunity for criticism of Obama and Obama's economic policies.
Now, sometimes that ends up playing second fiddle in the primary because these guys go after each other tooth and nail.
But it always does eventually surface that the problem is Obama and that they're all for all, well, three, all three of them actually running against Obama.
And I think this is the those are the two things.
Whatever benefit accrues to Obama on this, I mean, he's running ads against Sarah Palin right now for crying out loud because he doesn't have a Republican nominee to focus his evil on.
Tom, what is the name of your new book?
My new novel is called The Liberty Intrigue.
And the interesting thing about it is there's actually one nationally published review that latched on to my take on conservatism because it's a conservative election thriller, it's told from our point of view.
But there's a character in this book that bears an uncanny resemblance to you.
And this reviewer thought that you actually wrote portions of the book.
Really?
So I don't know if I owe you any royalties or not because I'm a 24-7 member and that's where I did my research.
And apparently I caught your style and substance so perfectly that I caught your ear for how you handle your show.
That's what those portions of my book.
Really?
Did that hurt you in the review?
Not at all.
The reviewer loved my book because I thought it was a brilliant articulation of conservatism.
And here's a fun thriller as opposed to a polemic or a treatise.
Somebody's actually done something in the popular culture.
I was having a nice chat with this with Andrew Breibart a few days before he died.
And the idea that we need to engage the popular culture, well, I've done it.
Well, that's what he was into.
What's the name of it again?
The name of the book is The Liberty Intrigue.
It's up on Amazon and Barnes ⁇ Noble.
It's an e-book and physical books.
Wait a second.
Hang on, just an electric book for conservatives to read this year because you're not going to find anything else like it.
Okay, let me see here.
Hang on just a second.
I'm going to go to the iBook store and let's see if it's there.
Hang on just a second.
This won't take long because I have the fastest Internet connection known to exist in the free worlds.
Okay, Storm, and let's just, let me.
I showed a very nice blurb on the back from your brother.
You got my brother burb?
David wrote an early copy of the book and wrote a very kind blurb for the back of it.
So he and Steve Berry.
Liberty Intrigue.
Here it is.
Okay, Liberty Intrigue.
Tom Grace is who we're talking to here.
Okay.
Tom, your book is only $9.99.
That's the e-book.
Yeah, well, that's what I'm going to buy out here right now.
A lot of people think powerful, influential members of the media like me are given free stuff.
But no, I buy it.
And $9.99.
I appreciate that.
Every one of those helps.
Buy a book.
And there it's downloading.
I think you're going to find this very entertaining.
Wait a minute.
You're Don.
David Doppelganger.
You're now our fictional character.
Can we ever fix this phone system?
Will it ever get fixed?
Did you say that my brother, you gave my brother a copy of the book?
Your brother and I have been trading books, basically.
So I'm looking forward to reading his note.
I know he's finishing up.
He helped me with my editor because I had two editors declined to work on the book because they were liberals.
Okay.
Let's see.
Great cover here, Tom.
This is a great, great cover.
I'm surprised you didn't put Obama's picture on the bunting there.
That would scare people away.
No, Liberty Intrigue.
Okay, let's see here.
Also by Tom Grace, Liberty Intrigue.
Okay, I got it here.
That means it'll automatically for Kathy always.
Who's Kathy?
Kathy is my wife, Kathleen.
Good.
What's your wife, Catherine?
Catherine, that's right.
Okay, there it is.
So it starts January 18th.
Okay, cool.
I guess it's on my iPads now, too, and everything.
So I've got it.
Fantastic.
You're going to enjoy it.
I certainly should.
You've just become a new advertiser, by the way, here on the EIB network.
I'm a proud new advertiser, I guess.
One-time advertiser, but good luck with the book.
And look, you asked me this question about the potential assistance or harm that come to Obama.
Do you think this long Republican campaign helps him?
And if so, how?
I don't think it helps him very much because he can't focus his attention on anyone.
I think it would be more productive on our side if we were focusing our attention solely on him and let the voters figure it out in the end.
Interesting.
Okay, cool.
Well, I'm glad you called, and good luck with the book.
Thank you so much.
I'm sure it'll do well now.
Nobody who's advertising on this program ever does anything but wildly succeed.
Well, thank you for the shameless advertisement.
More than welcome.
Okay, Danny in Dayton, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, great.
It's a real pleasure to talk to you, Rush.
Megadittos from Dayton.
Thank you very much.
Well, I wanted to call and talk to you a little bit.
As a young voter, my first presidential election I got to vote in was in 08.
I didn't support Obama, but when he got nominated, you know, I wanted to believe in him.
I wanted to think maybe it's not going to be so bad.
Maybe everyone's kind of making too big a deal out of it.
Way wrong.
Today sent me over the edge when I heard him doing this joint press conference with the U.K. prime minister.
Yeah.
And he talked about how successful they had been in quelling the Taliban whilst his administration is sitting down at a table under a banner of truce with the leaders of the Taliban to negotiate the surrender of U.S. prisoners.
I can't believe it.
How is no one in the mainstream media making a big deal of this?
Am I making too big a deal of this?
No, I'm wrong.
The mainstream media would not make a big deal of the mainstream.
This is the kind of pacifism the mainstream media celebrates, praises.
This is a new courageous leadership this country needs.
This country needs leadership willing to acknowledge our own atrocities, willing to own up to our own evil and fix it.
Where I come from, it doesn't really take that much courage to sit down and wave the white flag.
That's just me.
Yeah, well, in the world of Obama and the mainstream media, this is brave, it's courageous, and it's gutsy.
We finally have a president who is willing to admit to the world our atrocities, our unfairness, and how we've overstepped, and how it's time that we were called on the carpet for it.
That's this to them, may not be to you, but to them, to the media, to the American left, this is guts.
This is courage.
The courage to criticize your own country.
Publicly like this.
That's exactly what's called for.
Hey, we're back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on loan from God.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
Interesting story here from the Chicago Tribune.
Caterpillar Incorporated.
Remember Caterpillar?
They're based in Peoria.
Back during the first couple of months of the regime, Obama cited Caterpillar as one of his prototypical companies that was going to grow by leaps and bounds as a result of his stimulus bill.
I mean, shovel-ready jobs.
They're going to have roads and bridges rebuilt, schools, all these wonderful things.
Not a one of them happened.
And he cited Caterpillar as an example.
A Caterpillar CEO said, Obama said Caterpillar was hiring new people to work there as a result of the stimulus bill.
That's what it was.
And the Caterpillar CEO said, no, no, no.
We're not hiring people yet.
And they continued to lay people off.
That's what it was.
Obama publicly praised Caterpillar for increasing jobs simply because the stimulus bill was signed, and that did not happen.
So the Caterpillar said today that it plans to move from its plant in Joliet, Illinois to another facility in Sumter, South Carolina, creating 80 jobs in South Carolina.
The global construction equipment giant said that the move will consolidate production of hydraulic cylinders in the Sumter plant, allow Joliet to expand production of other components it produces there, including truck struts.
Caterpillar spokeswoman said there is no employment impact expected in Joliet as a result.
But they're still leaving Joliet.
They believe me, well, I shouldn't.
Just an opinion.
But this means something.
Caterpillar leaving to South Carolina right to work state.
Don't have to have unions there.
The real question now is: will the National Labor Relations Board allow Caterpillar to move to South Carolina?
They didn't allow Boeing to do that.
The United States of America, the land of the home and the brave, the free, liberty for all.
Federal government told Boeing, no, you can't move to South Carolina and start building jets there.
Just told them they couldn't because South Carolina was a right-to-work state.
There's no power.
Obama, the NLRB, don't have the power to tell a company where it can and can't go, but they did.
And of course, Boeing pretty much bent over.
What are you going to do?
Got something as big and powerful with endless resources as the federal government gunning for you.
What do you do?
Gloria in Columbus, Ohio.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi, Gloria.
Got about one minute.
Okay.
I just want to tell you, I am a black Puerto Rican woman, and I am a supporter of Rick Santorum.
I hope he wins this Sunday.
And I've been a Republican since the election of 2008.
And I just want to thank you for opening my eyes.
I am very nervous right now.
Because I used to hate the United States, okay?
I was a socialist in Puerto Rico from the Independence Party.
And you know why?
Because I was ignorant.
Okay.
I didn't read.
I used to believe that all white people in America were racist.
Right.
And that all Republicans were racist.
And the Democrats were for Hispanic and black.
That is a lie.
You know why I was thinking like that?
Because I was listening to R. Charlton.
I was listening to Jesse Jackson.
All these crazy liberal revolutionaries that happened to go to Harvard, like my leader, Alviso Campos.
He graduated from Harvard University.
And that's a nursery for socialist liberals that just hate United States.
Well, I got to, Gloria.
Welcome home.
The left feeds on ignorance, the kind of ignorance that you had then.
That's why they encourage it.
That's why the left encourages and subsidizes ignorance, people not knowing things.
You saw it.
You woke up.
God bless you.
We'll be back.
The Politico has a story.
A pollster, guy that runs public policy polling talking about the thing you learn as a pollster is how stupid people are.
Interesting that that story comes out now after Obama has such a devastating poll of the New York Times, The Washington Post on Monday, isn't it?
People are stupid.
Yep.
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