{"id":16273,"date":"2012-03-14T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-14T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:42:42","slug":"tom_grace_s_the_liberty_intrigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/14\/tom_grace_s_the_liberty_intrigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Grace\u2019s “The Liberty Intrigue”"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Tom. Thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Always a pleasure to wait for you, Rush. Conservative thriller-writer dittos from Dexter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, when we last spoke last June I\u2019m the guy whose book was nationalized by Hugo Chavez, if you remember that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You were the guy whose book was nationalized by Hugo Chavez. I do vaguely remember that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve got a new book out. It\u2019s an election thriller, and it uses a brokered convention as a plot device. It\u2019s a strategy that\u2019s employed by both sides. And I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s any real world advantage to the president in prolonging the GOP nomination, and might we actually be looking at some kind of a strategery?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well, you know, this is an open question. There are people on both sides of this, as to whether or not this prolonged Republican campaign hurts or helps Obama. In one way, I don\u2019t know you can say this hurts him, but it prevents him from targeting his focused opposition research and intense advertising campaign against the nominee because we don\u2019t have one yet. And the longer we can delay — or the longer we do delay — having a nominee, then the less time Obama\u2019s gonna have, along with George Soros and all the other players here, to demonize our nominee and to run all these caustic ads. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, the protracted — and this has always been my theory. The protracted campaign allows for the continued articulation of conservatism. And as long as Santorum and Gingrich are there, that\u2019s going to happen. And it also provides an opportunity for criticism of Obama and Obama\u2019s economic policies. Now, sometimes that ends up playing second fiddle in the primary \u2019cause these guys go after each other tooth and nail. But it always does eventually surface that the problem is Obama and that all four — well, three — are actually running against Obama. And I think those are the two things. Whatever benefit accrues to Obama on this? He\u2019s running ads against Sarah Palin right now, for crying out loud, because he doesn\u2019t have a Republican nominee to focus his evil on. <\/p>\n

Tom, what is the name of your new book?<\/p>\n

CALLER: My new novel is called The Liberty Intrigue. And the interesting thing about it is there\u2019s actually one nationally published review that latched onto my take on conservatism \u2019cause it\u2019s a conservative election thriller. It\u2019s told from our point of view, but there\u2019s a character in this book that bears an uncanny resemblance to you, and this reviewer thought that you actually wrote portions of the book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Really?<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I don\u2019t know if I owe you any royalties or not because, you know, I\u2019m a 24\/7 member and that\u2019s where I did my research. You know, clearly I caught your style and substance so perfectly that I caught your ear for how you handle your show and they thought you wrote those portions of the book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Did that hurt you in the review?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not at all. The reviewer loved my book because they thought it was a brilliant articulation of conservatism. And here\u2019s a fun thriller as opposed a polemic or a treatise. You know, somebody\u2019s actually done something in the popular culture. I was having a nice chat with Andrew Breitbart a few days before he died and, you know, the idea that we need to engage the popular culture. Well, I\u2019ve done it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what he was into. What\u2019s the name of it again?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The name of the book is The Liberty Intrigue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Liberty Intrigue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It\u2019s an e-book and a physical book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Hang on just a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s an election book for conservatives to read this year \u2019cause they\u2019re not finding anything else like it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me see here. Hang on just a second. I\u2019m gonna go to the iBook store and I\u2019m going to see if it\u2019s there. Hang on just a second. This won\u2019t take long because I have the fastest Internet connection known to exist in the Free World. Okay, here\u2019s the store and let\u2019s just see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually, I have a very nice blurb on the back from your brother.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You got my brother to write a blurb?<\/p>\n

CALLER: David read an early copy of the book and wrote a very kind blurb for the back of it. He and Steve Berry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Liberty Intrigue. Tom Grace is who we\u2019re talking to here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, Tom, your book is only $9.99!<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the e-book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m gonna buy it here right now. See, a lot of people think powerful, influential members of the media like me are given free stuff. But, no, I buy it, and it\u2019s $9.99. I\u2019ll click on it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate that. Every one of those helps.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Buy a book,” and there it\u2019s downloading.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you\u2019re gonna find this very entertaining particularly your literary doppelganger. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re now a fictional character.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you say that you gave my brother a copy of the book?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Your brother and I have been trading books, basically. So I\u2019m looking forward to reading his next one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know he\u2019s finishing his up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh, I see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He helped me get my editor because I had two editors —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — who declined to work on the book because they were liberals.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Ah, let\u2019s see. I\u2019ll open it. Great cover here, Tom. This is a great, great cover.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m surprised you didn\u2019t put Obama\u2019s picture on the bunting there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that would scare people away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nooo. Okay, The Liberty Intrigue. Let\u2019s see here. “Also by Tom Grace…” The Liberty Intrigue. Okay. I got it here. That means it will automatically download. “For Kathy always.” Who\u2019s Kathy? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Kathy is my wife. Kathleen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As opposed to your wife, Kathryn.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. Okay. So it starts January 18th. Okay, cool. It\u2019s on my iPads now, too, and everything. So I have got it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Fantastic! You\u2019re gonna enjoy it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I certainly will try. You\u2019ve just become a new advertiser, by the way, here on the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I am proud new advertiser, I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One-time advertiser, but good luck with the book. Look, you asked me this question about the potential assistance or harm to come to Obama. Do you think this long Republican campaign helps him, and if so, how?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think it helps him very much because he can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting. Okay, cool. Well, I\u2019m glad you called, and good luck with the book.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll do well now. Nobody who\u2019s advertising on this program ever does anything but wildly succeed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you for the shameless advertising.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) You\u2019re more than welcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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