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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I've never seen anything like it, folks. I've never seen this kind of a mid-course correction. I don't even think I saw one like this from Bill Clinton. Suddenly the biggest believer in the Keystone pipeline (or half of it), the biggest believer in drilling for oil, the biggest believer in expanding domestic oil supplies happens to be Barack Obama! Who just two days ago (and every day prior to that) hated the very idea and was trying to dissuade anybody from believing that drilling for oil or pipelining oil would make any difference whatsoever in the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We'd like to welcome to the program Rick Santorum, who is one of the Republicans seeking the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. Senator... How do you prefer to be referred to these days? You were last a Senator. How are you anyway? more...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama has just announced that the United States and Britain are going to release oil from their Strategic Reserves. I didn't even know that Cameron was up for reelection. I did not know that he was up for reelection. That's why Obama's doing this. This is going to have absolutely no impact whatsoever. It is a purely political move from the guy who says, "We can't drill. We can't drill fast enough, can't drill soon enough." What does that mean? If we can't drill what it means is putting more oil on the market isn't gonna matter...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Wilmington, Delaware. We're gonna start with Michael. I'm great. You appreciate your patience, and hello, sir. CALLER: How you doing, Rush? And thanks for taking the call. Affordable energy is the absolute, I believe, only way back for this country. RUSH: Yep. CALLER: We cannot create jobs unless we go to the bottom of the job-creation ladder. RUSH: People have to get to work! CALLER: You must have a manufacturer or a person with an idea to open up a little warehouse -- a plant, a garage, wherever -- and bring energy into that building, powerfully and...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Larry in South Hackensack, New Jersey, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you with us, sir. CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush. Thank you for having me. RUSH: You bet, sir. CALLER: Our company, Newcandescent.com, manufactures incandescents right here in the US. We have apples to zebras, everything that you can't get, we have permission to manufacture right here in the good old USA. RUSH: What do you mean, everything that we can't get? CALLER: All of the banned incandescent lamps -- RUSH: Oh, you mean the stuff that's been banned, the stuff that's been...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Jacob Tapper, our old buddy. Jake Tapper, ABC News. He may be in trouble today, folks, 'cause all the good graces he found himself in the way he reported on me this week, he's now stepped in it. Last night on ABC's World News Tonight, he happened to report the truth. There was a new Obama reelection campaign documentary out there, The Road We Traveled, it's a film directed by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim, and this Guggenheim guy, by the way, has said in all of his investigating he can't find one thing wrong with...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to ask if you will indulge me for just a brief few minutes for some inside baseball stuff before we move on to our review of the issues of the day, politics and so forth, Super Tuesday, the results, and where we are. The reason for this is, once again, so much misinformation about this program and advertisers is in the mainstream media. People are reporting things that, A, are not true, and B, I don't even think the people reporting it have the slightest idea what they're talking about, nor do they have the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: For the longest time, I, on this program, incurred the wrath of millions of you by suggesting, because you thought I had chosen sides, I still haven't chosen sides. You thought that I had it in for Romney when I pointed out that -- in my view, based on my instincts, my gut, study, my knowledge of who the left is -- I thought they wanted Romney as the nominee all along. I thought that's what Occupy Wall Street was all about was to set up Romney as the guy they were protesting. Romney is the kind...

>BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Hey, by the way, folks, if you'll permit me just one more observation about this woman, Tracie McMillan, her book on food justice. Are we really supposed to believe that only Walmart is selling below quality produce? Do you think Whole Foods might be doing this? Do you think Costco might be? Do you think any of these chains? Why Walmart? Why does this political science major writing a book about food justice focus on Walmart and produce at Walmart? Are we really supposed to believe that other grocery stores don't do what that woman's accusing Walmart...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: "A Missouri House member frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health is proposing to restrict vasectomies. Legislation sponsored by Democrat Stacey Newman would allow vasectomies only when necessary to protect a man from serious injury or death." You will not find the name "Rush Limbaugh" anywhere on this legislation. Nor do I know Ms. Newman. I'm not in cahoots with her. In the state of Missouri, a woman "frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health" has proposed legislation that would deny men the right to have a vasectomy whenever...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: "A Missouri House member frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health is proposing to restrict vasectomies. Legislation sponsored by Democrat Stacey Newman would allow vasectomies only when necessary to protect a man from serious injury or death." You will not find the name "Rush Limbaugh" anywhere on this legislation. Nor do I know Ms. Newman. I'm not in cahoots with her. In the state of Missouri, a woman "frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health" has proposed legislation that would deny men the right to have a vasectomy whenever...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Brooksville, Kentucky. This is Vickie, and you are up first. It's a delight to have you with us. Hello. CALLER: It's a delight to speak to you, Rush. Thank you very much for taking my call. RUSH: You bet, madam. Thank you. CALLER: Hillbilly dittos to you, man. RUSH: Ha-ha-ha-ha. CALLER: Hillbilly dittos. RUSH: By the way, speaking of that, hey, Vickie, I gotta ask you a question, do you watch Justified? CALLER: No, I don't, but I've heard a lot of great things about it. Is it really good? RUSH: Oh, it's one of the best...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Stan Greenberg, pollster extraordinaire. He's got this polling company with Carville. Stan Greenberg is married to Rosa DeLauro, a congresswoman from Connecticut. Enough said. National Journal: "Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg is out with a must-read polling memo this morning, which offers some eye-opening advice to President Obama and his re-election team. After testing several of the president's economic messages, he finds the argument that the economy is back on the right track polls miserably -- and 'produces disastrous results.'" I'll read that to you again, folks. Look at me when I say this to you. Greenberg, Democrat...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Folks, did you know that pond scum, algae, pond scum is now the new source of energy in this country? We were on the air yesterday, Obama was down in Coral Gables making a speech, I told you if we had anything memorable from that we'd play it today and we do. We've got about nine or ten sound bites on gas prices alone, including some things Obama said about algae, pond scum. Now, this needs a czar. We need a pond scum czar, and that means we need somebody slimy. I think Obama could probably find...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Okay, Ronald Reagan March 8, 2013, Orlando, this was at the National Association of Evangelicals' annual convention. By the way, just so there's no confusion, the reason I'm playing these bites for you is so that you understand, especially those of you who were too young or not interested back in 1983, that this is nothing new, that a president who won election in two landslides spoke the same way as Santorum. I'm not saying that Santorum is Reagan. I'm saying that what is happening with Santorum, the fact that he believes what he believes, is not...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, yesterday, as I mentioned, Matt Drudge posted excerpts from a speech Santorum gave at Ave Maria University back in 2008, and in that speech Santorum said Satan had set his sights on America. You know, I've talked about Satan on this program. Well, I didn't do it on this program. I discovered Satanic messages in Slim Whitman music back in Sacramento. I have my own experiences with the devil. I almost resigned when I found out about this. I was doing a Peace Update, and at the time the Global Peace March was going on for...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's just jump feet first into this Santorum business. I want to start actually with Friday night's Hardball. Chris Matthews had the editor-at-large from Salon.com, Joan Walsh, as a guest. And they were talking about Obama's decision that insurance companies pay for contraception coverage for employees of religious-based businesses. That's what happened at the same time Obama's approval numbers were plummeting. Now, you're gonna be hearing something that isn't true in this bite. They cite a poll that shows 66% support of Obama's federal requirement that private insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control. No....

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. How about this, ladies and gentlemen? It looks like the establishment Republicans are very worried that Romney cannot win, even if he is nominated. They're very, very worried that, even if Romney is nominated, he can't win, yet they continue to push him. There are a bunch of pieces. By the way, greetings. Great to have you here on Presidents Day. Yes, I know it's a holiday. I did not get deceived by the staff, as I announced on Friday. I was given the option, I was told that today was gonna be Presidents Day and...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: There's a story here. This is another one. Most people would read this and wouldn't connect the dots, but look at this one. This is from the Wall Street Journal: "General Motors Co. is freezing the pay of its 26,000 U.S. salaried employees and will eliminate its traditional pension contribution for those salaried workers who still receive them in moves to reduce financial risks and cut costs." Well, guess who owns General Motors now? You say "Obama." No, it's the unions, the United Auto Workers. Guess what's going on here. Do you realize the grievance and the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Foster Friess, and he was on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, her show at one o'clock eastern yesterday afternoon. FRIESS: Back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. MITCHELL: Excuse me, I'm just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Friess, frankly. RUSH: Uh, excuse me, trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Frieze, frankly. Folks, it is I guess factual now to say that our culture is obsessed with sex, and the conventional wisdom now is everybody, particularly...