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June 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #3
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There are signs out there that uh the libs are starting to get a dose of reality, folks.
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The nation.
Katrina, Hurricane Katrina Vanenhovel's publication.
I mean, this thing is Pravda West.
They've just posted a little editorial out there on their website.
And I only know I don't read the nation, but uh but those those uh flaming little lefties at Yahoo pick it up and they put it put it out there on their on their news sites.
Democrats keep talking about moral victories this election cycle, but to take back the Congress, they're gonna need to convert symbolic wins into actual ones.
Perhaps more disconcerting for Democrats, illegal immigration seemed to matter more than a culture of corruption message that Francine Busby hammered in Duke Cunningham's former district.
In 2004, Democrats and Progressives were convinced that they had a better turnout operation than Republicans did, and the country was as anti-Bush as they were.
The country's appetite for Republicans has certainly soured since then, but it's way too early to begin calling Nancy Pelosi speaker, as some Democrats are already doing.
A note of caution after a long political night.
I'm not going to accuse the nation of plagiarizing me because I refused any of them ever to listen to me.
It's like this clown at the UN is Mark Malik Brown.
When do you think this guy ever's listening to me?
You think that Mark Malik Brown or Kofi Annan have actually ever tuned in this program?
No, they just hear other libs ripping me, so they figure it's a fashionable way to make a point.
They they they just don't uh don't get it.
So I I can't accuse the libs of plagiarizing me, sadly.
Uh Canada.
You heard that these terrorist buddies up there wanted to behead uh the prime minister.
And that's that's what their their their target was to be.
At least one wanted to behead the prime minister if demands to withdraw Canada's troops from Afghanistan were not met, according to a summary of prosecutors' allegations read in court on Tuesday.
By the way, speaking of uh speaking of all that, I think we need to thank Canada in one sense, because the Libs, the liberals in this country want us to learn from Canada when it comes to health care, do they not?
Uh well, the Libs will learn from Canada as well when it comes to the life or death uh struggle that we face uh versus terrorism.
Uh and I how how selective will the libs be when it comes to learning from Canada?
I think they will not want to learn from this.
But can I point out something to you, uh, ladies and gentlemen?
Canada never was part of the coalition in Iraq.
Now, Canada did send some troops to uh Afghanistan, but they did not send any coalition troops to Iraq.
Spain, at least, had the option to cut and run, which they did, but Canada can't withdraw troops from Iraq because they didn't have any, and yet Al-Qaeda still targeted them.
Al Qaeda still targeted, even though they were nowhere near Iraq.
So a lot to learn from Canada in this sense, and a lot Canada can learn.
A lot of people in Canada stunned and dumbfounded they would ever be targeted, precisely because they didn't join the evil United States uh in this mission in Iraq.
Did you see I just I I have to react to it?
There was a there was a picture just flashed up on the screen I think it's CNN uh about and pardon me for mentioning this, but I've got a point.
Otherwise I wouldn't mention it.
About Alex what's her name?
Um Joe Lee.
What's her first name?
Um Angelina.
Angelina Angelina Jolet and Jolie and and uh and what's his face?
What what's Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt, 10 million dollars they will be paid for the first picture of their son.
Now I I've you know, good for them, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo, but what does that say about pop culture today?
People magazine, something like won the rights in the United States, 4.1 million.
The worldwide rights, those two are gonna get 10 mil for the uh for the first picture of uh of their kid.
That just blows me away.
Ten million.
I just uh if I was trying to sell a picture of Winston Churchill when he was a baby.
And keep the kid hidden.
At any rate, um teenage girls commonly have sex.
Who wrote this?
This is Reuters Health.
Uh teenage girls commonly have sex, uh not not because they want to.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But because they feel pressured into it.
And the result may be a higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases in pregnancy, according to a news study.
Uh researchers found that among two hundred and seventy-nine teenage girls they interviewed, many of them said that they had given in to unwanted sex at some point because they were afraid that their boyfriend would get angry.
Uh-huh.
The findings published in the archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine indicate that many teenagers, girls and boys, need help in negotiating their relationships.
Oh, yes.
And we need a government agency to do this.
Uh, preferably headed up by a bunch of feminists.
Oh, the baby girl, they had a baby girl, not a baby boy.
What do I know?
I I I frankly am proud I don't keep up with that kind of pop.
I couldn't even think of their names.
Right off the top.
It does.
A kid looks like Winston Churchill?
Even you mean the baby girl looks like Winston Churchill as an ad.
Uh all babies look like Winston Churchill.
Don't my dad told me that about me.
My dad told me you've got Winston Churchill's profile.
But back then it was something to be proud of.
Let's see.
Uh we need to give guidance to teenagers on how to communicate with each other, said the study's lead author, Dr. Margaret J. Blythe, the pediatrician at the Indiana University Medical Center in uh Indianapolis.
That means helping girls to take more control over their sexual activity, and boys to understand what constitutes pressure, according to Blythe.
Girls who reported unwanted sex also reported less condom use, a poorer relationship quality, and a higher rate of pregnancy than their peers.
For example, girls who reported unwanted sex were more likely than their peers to have a partner who smoked dope, and other studies have linked drug and alcohol abuse to forced or unwanted sex.
Substance uh use can blur the line between consensual and non-consensual sex, the researchers wrote.
Really?
Uh and boys who use drugs or alcohol may become less sensitive to what their partner.
Well, they we all know they're not sensitive to begin with, uh, as boys and his men, not the bunch of brute predators, couldn't care less for who they hurt or harm and uh leave in the path of destruction.
Uh so I guess even less sensitive than having no sensitivity whatsoever.
Mr. Snerdley, uh has this been your experience uh that that uh uh guiles guys pressure in their teenagers, uh guys, guys, pressure girls, the girls really want no part of it in uh teen.
Yeah, I was gonna think Snerdley says in his experience it's not true that the girls want no part of it.
Um I don't even want to go there and get into this, but this story is so much cock up, folks.
I can't begin to tell you.
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Uh back to San Diego.
This Jim.
I'm glad you uh waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
My pleasure, Rush.
It's great to speak to you.
Thank you.
I hate burst the bubble.
But Francine Busby.
The big dig, I mean, in every aspect, liberal of uh San Diego did not misspeak in uh her statements about documentation to vote.
I voted yesterday as a good solid conservative uh for Mr. Bill Bray, and I walked into the polling place, and I gave my name and address, and uh he's a Republican.
That whispered it, handed me my ballot, and said, just go over there.
And I signed my name.
I mean, they didn't even check to see if your name is on a list.
Well, I was on a list, but then they said I said, Don't you want to know see my ID?
Don't you need a picture ID to verify I wasn't dumpster diving?
Oh no.
It'd be against the law for us to ask for an ID.
And if someone came in and used your name, then both votes votes would be voided out.
Therefore, she was technically correct, Russ.
You don't need any paperwork to vote in California.
Yeah, but what you expect otherwise.
That's not what she meant.
I know that's not what she meant.
What if she didn't misspeak?
If she didn't misspeak, what she meant was that we can get you in and get you uh get your vote counted, even if you if you're not registered, is is what she meant.
If if if indeed she didn't uh misspeak.
I go uh when I go vote, I have to show the card.
I have to show the voter registration card.
Uh photo ideas are are not allowed yet, of course, because that that's discriminatory against Democrat voters.
Love that.
Ron in uh in Los Angeles, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Ross?
Good.
Fine, very good, thank you.
Excellent.
My point is uh I'm in Los Angeles and I'm a Democrat register.
I didn't vote yesterday.
You know why?
Why?
Because I'm seething.
There.
I am seething.
I'm not seething at at the Republicans.
You know who I'm seething at?
No.
The Democrats.
Well, why?
Because they're full of it.
I am going to and I am considering the GOP at this point.
Tell me why why why are they full of it?
What what are they where have they left you behind or where have they uh angered you?
Well, I'm over fifty years of age.
So I've been eligible to vote in voting.
You don't sound like you're over fifty.
You sound like you're in your twenties.
Thank you.
For over thirty years.
And nothing has changed.
They talk out of both sides of their mouths.
I mean, this proposition 82.
I'm glad it went down.
That was another democratic ploy.
So all I'm saying to say all this rush is you're on the money.
Okay.
And I'm an African American.
And and a lot of us feel this way.
You know, every every election I get calls from people like you, and I absolutely love it.
And I uh and there's no question you uh uh you have uh quite a lot of intelligence and you care about this stuff, it's obvious you've studied it, you know what you're talking about.
Every year we get calls from African Americans say fed up with the Democratic Party or start voting Republican, and and the numbers don't change much uh at least in presidential races.
It still seems that ninety percent of uh African Americans vote for the Democrat candidate.
Yeah.
And and what what kind of scares me though about Arnold.
Now I would vote for Arnold, but he's scaring me because he's being wishy washy on this immigration thing.
What?
I thought he was sending troops down to the border.
I think after the election, maybe.
But you know, I'm I'm a but I am very anti-illegal immigration.
I am very pro-American, regardless of what race, creed, or color you are.
Well, amen.
That's that's that's that's that's uh this is encouraging.
I I hope encouraging to get calls from Democrats like you who are seething and fed up.
Absolutely.
But at at who they think the Republican Party, and I'm not.
It's towards the Democrats.
Okay, now are you actually going to make the commitment and become a Republican, or are you gonna stay a Democrat simply because it'd be easier and vote Republican?
Well, you know, that's a good question because I thought about this and I said, Well, I could continue to have the Democrats think that they're all this and that by remaining a Democrat and voting Republican.
Or I could go all the way.
Well, it's it's a toss-up.
I don't know what California primary rules are.
I've forgotten since I live there, but I don't know if Democrats can vote in Republican primaries vice versa.
No, they can't.
So I have to wait till a general election.
Yeah.
And that's what I had planned on doing.
I mean, neither one of the the governor, you know, potential candidates had any appeal at all.
They're both still Democrats.
Yeah.
Can't wait to they were first uh in a race to see who could raise taxes the most.
Absolutely.
So what was the point in me going out and and and casting a vote for either one of 'em?
You know, so you know, I am as the older I have gotten, I have become more conservative.
I love this.
And that's what I'm saying to you.
I love hearing this.
Is that and I'm a Chicagoan by birth.
How long you've been in California?
Over thirty years.
Over thirty years.
Why'd you move out there in the first place?
Uh because it was easier to survive than in the winners of Chicago or something.
I hear that.
Yes, I I hear that.
So this is how we feel.
I mean, and you're gonna hear springing up because the drive-by media doesn't report this, of course.
And the mainstream media doesn't report this.
But African Americans are fed up with this.
There's not a whole bunch they can do, but they can support those who are against illegal immigration.
You know, one day, I actually think this is going to be true.
I uh w when when we got a guy like you calling and saying African Americans are fed up, but one one day, and it's gonna be in my lifetime, it's gonna be true.
It's gonna be true.
When when if Ted Kennedy and the boys keep talking about this these illegal immigrants as the new civil rights movement and as the illegal immigrants, not Hispanics and Latinos, the illegal immigrants uh that come to uh replace the African American vote in the uh in the traditional Democratic Party outreach and so forth.
Well, then there's gonna be uh uh reckoning.
And I and I'm I'm convinced that this is going to happen uh in all of our lifetimes.
Great to hear from you, Ron, and we hope uh to hear from you again sometime.
This Jenny in uh Sunset, Missouri.
I now I am from Missouri and I never heard of Sunset Missouri.
Where's Sunset Missouri?
Well, it's actually Sunset Hills, but I was abbreviating.
So we'll still never heard of Sunset Hills.
Where's where's Sunset Hills?
It's um it's sort of near um Fenton, Sappington, Crestwood, um it's South.
Yeah, uh so you're i i basically St. Louis major metro area.
Right.
Right.
It's like South St. Louis only West.
Yeah.
South St. Louis only West, which makes perfect sense to me.
Good.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I'm I'm happy that I'm happy to hear that.
Otherwise, I think you're full of caca on your comment about young teenage girls.
Uh not having any pressure to have sex, is that what you meant to say?
Well uh i not entirely.
Um now he's gonna back out of it.
No, I just don't think it's a one-way street here.
And this story is trying to portray it as a one-way street, and I d so I think there's an attack on men throughout the country, and there has been for a long time, militant feminists and feminism and the feminization of our culture.
Oh God, we've heard this over and over from you.
Yeah.
I'm gonna say it as often as it takes to convince you that I'm right about this.
Jenny.
By the way, I must say I love your name.
I love the name Jenny.
I've always loved the name Jenny.
Wow.
That's nice.
Um I I'm happy to hear that.
Thank you.
Um let me just say, if you if you decided to I mean, anybody, 14, 24, I've been there.
I've been there, I've seen it, I've done it.
You mean you've been pressured for sex before and you and you, you know, tried to resist, but you were forced to sit out.
I can't tell you how many times, not as a teenager.
But I I can't I can't tell you how many times.
That's why this is cost.
Were these were these from actual people or are or groupies?
Uh I don't do groupies.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Let me just say that if you What do you mean why why in the why you think I'm I'm I'm exaggerating here?
I'm being honest with you.
It's not wasn't the case in high school, and I know full well that there are plenty of girls in high school who are totally boy crazy.
It's the most important thing in the world to them is to have a boyfriend and they'll do whatever it takes to keep the guy.
I've seen that.
Been there, seen that.
I'm just telling you, it doesn't define every teenage relationship as this story attempts to portray.
Well, it I don't think it said that.
It just said a lot of girls.
I mean, there are a lot of girls who wouldn't choose to do that if they hadn't been pressured.
Of course, there are some who can't wait, but I think there are a lot of girls who are pressured.
The ones that, they're just doing oral sex.
That's now become commonplace ever since...
Well, that's even worse.
Well, I know, but it's fact of life.
It's it's it's that's because that's not considered sex.
Well, then they're being forced to do that.
Let me just ask you one question.
You know, Jenny, you you must have had some unpleasant experiences with men.
Uh well.
I mean, some, but I I've known a lot of men that I thought were great.
But none, you know, over this issue.
I mean, I it it it hasn't been.
I mean, it hasn't been a huge problem for me personally, but I just know that.
See, it's just like this what people say, uh, economy, I know it's really really good for me, but I know it's got to be really bad out there.
No, no, I'm saying, you know, if if this is people just wanting to have sex or oral sex or whatever, you know, that's that's true.
I mean, people do do that, but if you're going out with somebody and you want to continue to go out with them, and they and you will not have sex with them don't relationship.
Uh noted teenage uh expert as well, L. Rushball, the excellence in broadcasting network.
Jenny, it was it really I I I was trying to talk to you, but uh we have phone problems here, and we had a hard break coming up and I couldn't I couldn't uh uh move it, and I was able unable to make you hear me.
And I didn't want to shout uh be rude or anything, so I didn't mean to hang up on you.
It was not the intention.
And I hope you do call back uh from uh uh South St. Louis only West.
Uh Andrew in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Wonderful to have you with us.
Mega diddos, Rush.
Uh first I want to say that I think uh I think the immigration issue is gonna be a problem for both uh liberal Democrats as well as liberal Republicans.
Amen.
I think there's there's a lot of uh seething rage.
If they're seething rage out there, it's over this.
Amen.
And uh yeah, I mean, especially uh what what what what scares me is this whole concept of these people can these illegal aliens can come here, steal my identity, ruin my life, and oh oh, we're we're just gonna forgive them.
Ah, we're gonna praise them.
They're gonna be on a backbone of America.
But anyway, we're we're getting back to getting getting back to my point.
I think liberal Democrats have have something to worry about.
Uh, because I think people are gonna I mean, you know, even even even even moderates are gonna are gonna be really, I think, really up in arms about this.
And I think not only Republicans, I think I think Democrats are gonna be in for a real surprise in November.
Uh I do too.
I and I'm glad to hear you say that because I it it that's more, by the way, than just opposing conventional wisdom.
I just actually think that this whole thing is a uh been misreported, and because of the inside the beltway elites have an opinion on it, that is being portrayed as the majority opinion.
But you know, we talked about we talked about values earlier, and how after the two thousand four election, uh exit polls showed that values matter to a lot of voters, and uh the left was stunned and shocked by the thought it would have been uh something else, the war in Iraq or some such thing, and it wasn't.
A war in Iraq didn't rate that high in the exit poll.
It was high, but it was not where the Democrats thought it was going to be.
I think illegal immigration pretty much encapsulates so many values issues, and that's why it is such a huge issue to people.
And the notion that values uh uh issues are now gonna hurt the Republicans, as uh proffered in a front page opinion piece today by the New York Times.
It was disguised as a news story, but uh is uh ridiculous.
Just is.
I'm glad you called, Andrew.
Uh thanks very much.
Speaking of uh immigration, a couple stories here in the in the Washington Times about this.
The headline of the first story, Dingy Harry proposes deal on reform bill.
Immigration reform remained mired in the Senate yesterday, but Dingy Harry indicated there may be some room for compromise.
Legislation's been stalled for weeks on constitutional grounds that prevent the Senate from writing bills that raise revenue, and because the Senate legislation includes a requirement that illegal aliens pay back taxes, it must originate in the House.
Well, let's be honest about that.
They may have to pay back taxes for only three of the five years they've been here.
Majority Leader Bill Frist offered a solution by attaching the bill to tax legislation that had already passed the House.
Uh Dingy Harry rejected that solution.
He said Republicans think there's a problem because they want a problem.
They don't want to go to conference.
He also added that he's at least willing to consider the idea.
I've got another idea for them, Dingy Harry said to reporters yesterday.
If they want to use another bill, a tax bill, instead of the House passed immigration bill, then let them come to me with how they're going to not have this as a Christmas tree of tax measures.
It's up to them.
They want to use a tax bill, let's see what they can come up with to protect the Senate's position on immigration.
John Boehner, majority leader in the House said unfortunately uh the minority leader over there, Dingy Harry, continues to stand in the way of getting to a conference.
And I think you ought to quit playing politics with this issue and let us get to work on solving this problem of illegal immigration.
It sort of sort of confirms what some people's theory is.
See, we there was I I'm sorry for being redundant on this, but there are so many people inside the beltway in the political class, both elected and policy uh and the media uh inside the beltway who think, oh my God, there has to be a bill.
We have to get a bill.
There has to be a bill.
There's no bill.
Oh, that's horrible for Bush, it's horrible for the we've got to get a bill.
So it's legislation for legislation's sake.
And the theory is that Dingy Harry subscribes to this theory that if there's no bill that the Republicans and Bush will be creamed because Bush will not be able to get his own Republicans in line with what he wants, and that'll make him an official dead duck.
And Dingy Harry and the gang will be out there saying, see, the Republicans can't govern.
I almost hope it turns out this way.
The odds of getting this thing fixed.
I mean, some of the things in the Senate bill are so atrocious.
I don't know how many of them these guys like Kennedy and McCain would be willing to throw away in favor of some of the things in the House.
So I almost think having no bill would is a more likely thing than getting a decent compromise.
Now, the third option is that we go to conference and house caves and the Senate bills primarily what we're in that case, that would be disastrous, and no bill would be far better than that.
If a I'll guarantee you, if if if the ultimate bill that comes out of their favors, the open borders crowd, there will be hell to pay uh on election day in November on the part of both parties and people who support the open borders crowd.
They will fry.
That will be the end of their political careers.
If a bill comes out of there that has a first emphasis on border security, the people behind that are going to be heroes.
And they will triumph.
But I'll tell you, of these three options, no bill is better than a bill that's dominated in the conference by the Senate side.
Uh and and the whole notion that we don't have a we don't have a bill that we don't have any progress is absolutely absurd because uh a bill that bad would set us back to the point of fixing it would be I don't even want to think about how difficult uh that would be.
Tom in Manhattan, it's uh good to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, it's great to talk to you, Rosh.
I I'm a true fan.
You really, really, really are my inspiration.
I uh you keep oh thought I can one day too own a jet and be a millionaire.
Now, listen, the very interesting thing about this this California election.
I mean, don't don't you think that this is this could basically be a potential snapshot for how the Republicans can strategize uh to run the November uh elections.
I mean, I mean, basically, really the headline should have read anti-immigration candidate who McCain did not support wins election.
I mean, that should have been the headline, don't you think?
That's I hope that that that is part of the lesson that's taken, yes.
There's a lot of lessons a Republicans take can take from this election, and I and I hope that that is uh one of them.
Well, and I I just think that the although the uh you know is the president, you know, uh if the conservative candidates sort of run from this issue and stand line against the anti-immigration law that they want to pass, I I think that they will ensure that the House stays in place and maybe not even pick up seats.
I I'm with you, Rush.
I don't think it's the doom and gloom that the drive-by media uh uh uh is giving.
And one more point the the only sad thing about uh listening to the program today was having to hear Bob Schiefer because I have I have uh I have done away with all of the major uh news network nightly newscasts because uh because of that fact.
And uh, you know, it's I agree.
Well, I I appreciate that.
Though the one thing, and we don't know uh how this is gonna turn out, but your your your advice uh is is is gonna be tempered by what happens with this bill.
Uh when you say the Republicans gonna do X, Y, and Z. This is the question for members of the House.
And this is not an easy one for these guys.
Let's go through these scenarios again.
First scenario is they go to conference and the House bill, majority provisions in the House bill survive.
We get a border security uh first bill, uh, and a lot of stuff in the Senate bill gets erased.
Uh then uh uh but we still get a bill.
The President can still claim credit for getting an election refer or uh immigration reform bill.
You have some disgruntled senators, but they're not up for re-election.
Um but you'll have the House can be running around and flexing their muscles.
That'd be good.
Uh second option.
The Senate bill survives mostly intact out of conference.
The House bill takes it on the chin, then you've got a real challenge for the Republicans in the House, because that will mean that the President's view and the White House view and the McCain view and the Kennedy view would mostly have prevailed, and yet the members of the House, because they're up for election every two years, have their finger on the pulse of the people in this country, particularly in their district.
So what do they do?
When they go back and campaign for re-election, do they go back and campaign?
We tried, we gave it everything we got, but we uh we did the best we could, and do they run in opposition to this bill because people will be f fit to be tied if if the second option happens.
So when you say Republicans, that you might have a scenario where House Republicans have to actually campaign uh uh i in favor of something that didn't happen where the president and other Republicans in the Senate are clapping and throwing parties and being happy about it.
The third scenario is there is no bill because for whatever reason they don't come to any agreement in the conference or the Democrats hold it up because they think that's of the best harm to Republicans, then the House Republicans don't have to worry about what Republicans want or what Republicans do because there won't be a bill.
So you got two out of three options there where the House Republicans can uh follow this this uh uh uh lesson that you uh cite from California 50.
But it's it will be it'd be really interesting to watch in that first scenario how many House Republicans would actually campaign for re-election opposing something that happened and became law, uh and in the process would be campaigning against expressed wishes of uh of the White House.
I mean, that's that's always gonna be uh a toughie for them.
A quick timeout, we'll be back and continue, my friends.
Moments are vanishing quickly here on the fastest three hours in meeting, but we will maximize them and make the most of them when we come back.
Traverse City of Michigan and PJ.
Hello, PJ, nice to have you with us today.
Good afternoon, Ross.
Thanks for taking my call.
Any time.
I just wanted to uh go back to our frivolous topic of the day, and um while I agree that Jenny is a nice name, she's uh wrong.
Uh Jenny is wrong, did you say?
I did say that, Rush.
I have to back you up here and say that um I, although I'm nearly fifty years old now, was once a teenage girl.
And I realized it then that it was the girls who had the power in those adolescents relationships.
Well, you know, that's an interesting point because uh it it is in civil relationships, and we're and this is not a story on rape.
In civil relationships, this is uh this this is it's always true.
It's it's the it's the girl, the slash woman who has the ultimate power because it's a girl who says no.
Uh and another thing, I don't think Jenny heard me or got my point when I was telling her I've been there and I've seen this, not when I was in high school, but it's patently obvious if if if you have teenage uh daughter today, you know that in a lot of cases a teenage daughter can be obsessed with having a boyfriend.
Uh just it it'd be is the most in fr frustratingly so, you know, over anything else about her future or her studies or anything.
This has to have because of societal pop culture pressure, has to have a boyfriend.
And uh and in in that case, it's acting to please.
It's not the result of pressure being brought on uh by by the boys.
I I think this is something this survey uh might have missed.
Jerry in Superior Wisconsin, you're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Um he's gone or it's John.
I'm I'm John in Superior Wisconsin.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Oh, hello, Rush.
Yeah.
Big Deaddoes from Wisconsin.
Thank you, sir.
Um about that uh Jenny woman that the last caller was talking about as well.
Yes.
Um, she said forced.
Now, I've I've had a lot of debates with a lot of different people, and you know, popular psychology these days.
You don't have a choice in this, you know, there's peer pressure, you know, there's what have you, you've got to please, you know.
There's they always like to say forced and never pressured, just pressure, but forced.
Because but every time somebody says that to me, I say, you know, if you've been forced, if somebody has made you choose something, you've literally lost the ability to choose, and you're not human anymore.
You're something less because you're not capable of making a choice for yourself.
If you're not capable of making a choice for yourself, what are you saying?
There's a difference between pressure and force?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, if there wasn't, then well if there wasn't, then there'd be a lot more blood in this world.
All right, well, that makes sense.
That's uh that's another area where I think maybe this story that we reported is misleading, because if uh if if you're unable to draw the distinction between pressured and forced, I mean, forced, let's be honest, forced is against your will.
Uh pressured is come on, come on, it'll be fine.
No be c wear it is condom, it won't be a problem.
You got nothing to work.
Now that's yeah, that's being pressured.
You succumb to that.
But forced is uh is another thing.
The thing that I objected to primarily in this in this story is it is yet another in a long line of stories that portray men as predators and brutes and insensitive uh uncaring brutes and and women as as just even teenage girls is just unwitting victims.
And uh I mean anybody who's been alive knows this stuff, particularly sex is a two-way street, outside of rape, of course.
We're not and and and this story was not even mentioned that, so let's you know, I put it on the table here only to to be able to draw the uh distinction.
It's always it's always a uh a two-way street.
And we're talking in and this this was about civil relationships, it wasn't about abusive relationships or anything of the sort.
Uh Jerry, I appreciate the uh the phone call.
Who's next?
Uh Frank from Ocala, Florida.
Are you still there?
Frank from O'Califort, are you there?
Yes, yeah.
Great to have you on the program.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Uh Rush, let me start out with a compliment first.
Uh I think you're absolutely fantastic at being able to articulate your point, and let's hope I can I can maybe articulate this idea that I have.
I'm eighty years old in the uh investment business for over 40 years.
There is a precedent to regulating commodities.
And I have an idea about oil, and I want to bring you back to your uh uh Labor Day broadcast, I believe it was.
You spent a lot of time, a lot of time uh talking about the price of gasoline and how important oil is.
And you at one time you used the phrase, I think it was something like uh oil is is uh uh the generates our economy is the generator of the oil is the uh fuel.
Engine of our economy.
The engine of our economy, yes.
Uh I think it would be a a fantastic idea for the Congress of the United States to to think about regulating the price of oil.
All companies, and you pointed this out in your broadcast, all companies do not set the price of oil.
The speculators do.
And the speculators run the price of oil up, and the uh the all companies have to pay a higher price and they have to charge higher for the gasoline.
Well, they could think seriously about regulating that particular commodity because it's so important to our economy, and regulate it to the extent that it trades at no higher than forty dollars.
You have done a great job articulating your point.
Now I don't mean to be rude.
Uh and in fact, Mr. Snerdley, get his phone number, we'll call him back tomorrow because I'm not gonna have time to respond to this uh nearly as uh in a detailed fashion as I'd like.
Uh just r regulating the price of of a commodity like this is uh worldwide can't be done uh in the first place.
It isn't gonna be uh you won't succeed.
But number two, uh there is there's there's uh thapitalism is in danger for other reasons, and and I I wouldn't mind tackling those with you, uh Frank, and we'll do that if we have time to call you back tomorrow.
Be back here in just a second, folks.
Look, at the root of that silly story was the notion that women and girls don't like sex.
And that's that's what was caca about it, folks, okay?
And we'll see you tomorrow as we rev up and do it all over again.
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