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RUSH: I mentioned at the top of the program, even while I was gone, I\u2019m still given credit for Santorum\u2019s rise in Iowa. I\u2019m not kidding. I\u2019m not saying it. The media did. We\u2019ve played those sound bites<\/a>, and here\u2019s Santorum <\/a>himself. This is last week. Santorum released a radio ad entitled “Unite” for the voters in Iowa. We have a portion of the ad.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Sarah Palin praised Santorum for protecting the sanctity of life, Mike Huckabee said he loved Santorum\u2019s conviction, and Rush Limbaugh said it would be great if Rick Santorum became president — and Rick is endorsed by Iowa conservatives like Bob Vander Plaats and Sam Clovis. Now it\u2019s time for all conservatives to unite and support Rick Santorum for president. Visit RickSantorum.com. Paid for by Rick Santorum for President.<\/p>\n

SANTORUM: I\u2019m Rick Santorum, and I approved this message.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: How stupid is it that they have to say that? How about, “I\u2019m Rick Santorum: I have no idea what this message said, but election law says I gotta say I approved it.” How stupid! So, anyway, there\u2019s Santorum\u2019s ad mentioning me, and then on CNN, this happened, this was last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

MAN: Santorum\u2019s new radio spot touts, uhhh, the endorsements he\u2019s gotten from some top social conservative leaders right here in Iowa. He also says that Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, has said some nice things about him as have [sic] Rush Limbaugh. Both of them of course pretty influential as well among conservatives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So: Limbaugh and Palin mentioned Santorum; Santorum catapults in the polls. That was the media story last week. Even when I\u2019m not here, this program is listened to by members of the media so that they can figure out what you think. This is Joe Klein from TIME Magazine. He was on with John King at John King\u2019s USA. Well, but the fill-in host was Candy Crowley. So we have Joe Klein on John King USA guest hosted by Candy Crowley on CNN in Des Moines, and she said, “The problem with Mitt Romney is he\u2019s played this campaign as sitting there and watching other people go up and down. He\u2019s been completely cautious, very careful, and people just didn\u2019t see the fire.”<\/p>\n

KLEIN: I\u2019ve been out here driving around the cornfields listening to talk radio. Rush Limbaugh has sit-in hosts this week but when you listen to the callers, they\u2019re all coming to terms with Romney now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Joe Klein is out “driving in the cornfields.” I told you at the top of the program: These people think they are in a foreign country when they have to go to Iowa. Anywhere in the Midwest. He\u2019s out there driving around the cornfields. Does anybody live there? I mean, in great numbers? Anyway, he\u2019s out there driving around the cornfields listening to talk radio, and he said that you are coming to terms with Romney. Is that true, audience? Is that really true? Is Joe Klein accurately describing, Snerdley, the people that called here last week? (interruption) Okay, Snerdley is telling me that this is a blatant lie. Let\u2019s put it this way: Klein has it wrong that the majority of callers are doing this. So Klein wanted everybody to think that the Limbaugh audience was coming to terms with Romney, and Snerdley, who was working last week, says it\u2019s not true. So there you have that.<\/p>\n

Now, last Thursday on Hardboiled on MSNBC, Huffing and Puffington Post editorial director Howard Fineman had this to say about Gingrich and me.<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: Newt had several ads on the Rush Limbaugh radio show, which is on WHO, the big 50,000-watt station here. He had lots of ads saying: I\u2019m a great guy. Then Mark Steyn, who\u2019s substituting for Rush, comes back on and just bangs Newt over the head again. The whole conservative movement has decided that Newt is a mistake waiting to happen. I can quote Mark who said, “Newt Gingrich is like Yosemite Sam: The dynamite\u2019s gonna blow up.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is akin to everybody\u2019s waiting for the implosion. Steyn said it was an explosion, but people are still waiting. Yosemite Sam. I think I described McCain as Yosemite Sam back in 2000, and it didn\u2019t sit well. It did NOT sit well. I called him Yosemite Sam, I forget why. It was so accurate. I forget specifically what it was about. Yeah, I\u2019ve had people ask, “Do you listen to your show when you\u2019re off?” and I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t. I never have. “Steyn was really dumping on Newt.” Joe Klein says that the audience is coming to grips and sidling up to Romney. Don\u2019t worry, Snerdley. He said it on Candy Crowley sitting in for John King on CNN. Nobody heard it. It isn\u2019t that big a deal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Steny Hoyer, who is one of the Democrat leaders in the House. They had a press conference on December 22nd about the payroll tax cut legislation.<\/line><\/p>\n

HOYER: That\u2019s what almost everybody in this country, including the Wall Street Journal, says we ought to do, Mr. Speaker! Now, perhaps Rush Limbaugh and Grover Norquist don\u2019t think that\u2019s what we ought to do, but Americans think that\u2019s what we ought to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was that a press conference or was he on the floor of the House saying that? Grover Norquist? Me and Grover Norquist. You know, the villains of the day. The Democrats actually think naming the villains of the day will somehow move their issue forward. Boy, could I tell you stories. Sometimes it works. Yeah, I had a guy, a friend of mine come meet me about a month ago on a Saturday. He asked to come by for a couple hours. I said, “Sure, come on by.” He started crying about what Obama\u2019s doing to the country. I was surprised. I thought this guy would love Obama. He\u2019s a regular Democrat voter. We gotta start working together, gotta work with each other, gotta work together. I said, “Oh, no, who sent him? Right now, who sent him,” and he started talking about, yeah, Grover Norquist.<\/p>\n

“Do you even know who Grover Norquist is?”<\/p>\n

“No.”<\/p>\n

Okay, I explained. “Grover Norquist is a guy who doesn\u2019t believe in tax increases and he makes people sign a pledge.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Those kind of guys are gonna kill us.”<\/p>\n

“No, no, they\u2019re not gonna kill us.”<\/p>\n

But these guys are standing in the way of agreements. No, they\u2019re standing in the way of tax increases, which is not what we need right now. Anyway, so here\u2019s a guy who didn\u2019t even know who Norquist was, but some Democrat had told him that Norquist was a villain, so he had to do something about it. I don\u2019t know. A pointless, mindless little story, but it\u2019s still illustrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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