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Limbaugh: “Returning Captain Phillips' liberty will be used to take away portions of ours”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 04/13/09 2:16 PM EDT

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Limbaugh: “I ... was confident this was going to get settled. It was going to be resolved one way or the other way and regardless how, President Obama was going to be given credit for it”

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