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July 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 4, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #3
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There are signs out there that the Libs are starting to get a dose of reality, folks.
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The Nation.
Katrina, Hurricane Katrina Vanenhoevel's publication.
I mean, this thing is provda west.
They've just posted a little editorial out there on their website.
And I only know, I don't read the nation, but those flaming little lefties at Yahoo pick it up and they put it out there on their news sites.
Democrats keep talking about moral victories this election cycle, but to take back the Congress, they're going to need to convert symbolic wins into actual ones.
Perhaps more disconcerting for Democrats, illegal immigrations seem 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.
Refused to me.
It's like this clown at the UN, this 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 just don't get it.
So I can't accuse the Libs of plagiarizing me, sadly.
Canada, you heard that these terrorist buddies up there wanted to behead the prime minister.
And that's what their target was to have been.
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 all that, I think we need to thank Canada in one sense, because the liberals in this country want us to learn from Canada when it comes to health care, do they not?
Well, the Libs will learn from Canada as well when it comes to the life or death struggle that we face versus terrorism.
And how selective will the Libs be when it comes to learning from Canada?
They will not want to learn from this.
But can I point out something to you, ladies and gentlemen?
Canada never was part of the coalition in Iraq.
Now, Canada did send some troops to 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 are stunned and dumbfounded.
They would ever be targeted precisely because they didn't join the evil United States in this mission in Iraq.
You see, I just, I have to react.
There was a picture just flashed up on the screen.
I think it's CNN 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?
Jolie.
What's her first name?
Aunt Angelina?
Angelina Jolie and Jolie and what's his face?
Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt, $10 million they will be paid for the first picture of their son.
Now, good for them.
Yep, yep, yep, ye, peahoo, but what does that say about pop culture today?
People magazine, something like won the rights of the United States, 4.1 million.
The worldwide rights, those two are going to get 10 mil for the first picture of their kid.
That just blows me away.
10 million.
I just, if I try to sell a picture of Winston Churchill when he was a baby and keep the kid hidden.
At any rate, teenage girls commonly have sex.
Who wrote this?
This is Reuters Health.
Teenage girls commonly have sex, not because they want to.
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 new study.
Researchers found that among 279 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, preferably headed up by a bunch of feminists.
Oh, is it a baby girl?
They had a baby girl, not a baby boy.
What do I know?
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 all babies look like Winston Churchill.
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.
We need to give guidance to teenagers on how to communicate with each other, said the study's lead author, Dr. Margaret J. Blythe, a pediatrician at the Indiana University Medical Center in 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 use can blur the line between consensual and non-consensual sex, the researchers wrote, really.
And boys who use drugs or alcohol may become less sensitive to what their partner, well, we all know they're not sensitive to begin with as boys and as men, not a bunch of brute predators, couldn't care less for who they hurt or harm and leave in the path of destruction.
So I guess even less sensitive than having no sensitivity whatsoever.
Mr. Snerdley, has this been your experience that guys pressure teenagers?
Guys pressure girls and girls really want no part of it.
That's what I was going to say.
Snerdley says in his experience, it's not true that the girls want no part of it.
I don't even want to go there and get into this, but this story is so much caca, folks, I can't begin to tell you.
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Back to San Diego.
This is Jim.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
My pleasure, Rush.
It's great to speak to you.
Thank you.
I hate to burst the bubble, but Francine Busby, the big, dig, I mean, in every aspect, liberal of San Diego, did not misspeak in her statements about documentation to vote.
I voted yesterday as a good, solid conservative for Mr. Bill Bray.
And I walked into the polling place and I gave my name and address.
And he's a Republican, not 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 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 would be voided out.
Therefore, she was technically correct, Rush.
You don't need any paperwork to vote in California.
Yeah, but what you expect of that.
That's not what she meant.
I know it's not.
That's not what she meant.
If she didn't misspeak, if she didn't misspeak, what she meant was that we can get you in and get your vote counted, even if you're not registered, is what she meant, if indeed she didn't misspeak.
When I go vote, I have to show the card.
I have to show the voter registration card.
Photo IDs are not allowed yet, of course, because that's discriminatory against Democrat voters.
Love that.
Ron in Los Angeles, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good.
Fine.
Very good.
Thank you.
Excellent.
My point is: I'm in Los Angeles, and I'm a Democrat registered.
I didn't vote yesterday.
You know why?
Why?
Because I'm seething.
I am seething.
I'm not seething at the Republicans.
You know who I'm seething at?
No.
The Democrats.
For why?
Because they're full of it.
I am going to, and I am considering the GOP at this point.
Tell me, why are they full of it?
Where have they left you behind or where have they angered you?
Well, I'm over 50 years of age, so I've been eligible to vote in voting.
You don't sound like you're over 50.
You sound like you're in your 20s.
Thank you.
For over 30 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 a lot of us feel this way.
You know, every election, I get calls from people like you, and I absolutely love it.
And there's no question you have 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 if fed up with the Democratic Party are still going to start voting Republican.
And the numbers don't change much, at least in presidential races.
It still seems that 90% of African Americans vote for the Democratic candidate.
Yeah.
And 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 I am very anti-illegal immigration.
I am very pro-American, regardless of what race, creed, or color you are.
Well, amen.
This is encouraging.
I hope that.
It's encouraging to get calls from Democrats like you who are seething and fed up.
Absolutely.
But at who they think is the Republican Party.
And I'm not.
It's worth the Democrats.
Okay, now, are you actually going to make the commitment and become a Republican, or are you going to 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 a toss-up.
I don't know what California primary rules are.
I've forgotten since I lived 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 the general election.
And that's what I had planned on doing.
I mean, neither one of the governor, you know, potential candidates had any appeal at all.
They're both still Democrats.
Yeah, they can't wait.
They were first in a race to see who could raise taxes the most.
Absolutely.
So what was the point in me going out and casting a vote for either one of them?
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 have you been in California?
Over 30 years.
Over 30 years.
Why'd you move out there in the first place?
Because it was easier to survive than in the winters of Chicago.
I hear that.
Yes, I hear that.
So this is how we feel.
I mean, and you're going to hear springing up, because the Drive-By Media doesn't report this, of course, and the mainstream media doesn't report this, that 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.
When we got a guy like you calling and saying African Americans are fed up, but one day, and it's going to be in my lifetime, it's going to be true.
It's going to be true.
If Ted Kennedy and the boys keep talking about these illegal immigrants as the new civil rights movement and as the illegal immigrants, not Hispanics and Latinos, the illegal immigrants that come to replace the African American vote in the traditional Democratic Party outreach and so forth, well, then there's going to be a reckoning.
And I'm convinced that this is going to happen in all of our lifetimes.
Great to hear from you, Ron, and we hope to hear from you again sometime.
This Jenny in Sunset, Missouri.
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 Sunset Hills?
It's sort of near Fenton, Sappington, Crestwood.
It's south.
Yeah, so you're 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 happy to hear that.
Otherwise, I think you're full of caca on your comment about young teenage girls not having any pressure to have sex.
Is that what you meant to say?
Well, not entirely.
Ah, now he's going to 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 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 going to say it as often as it takes to convince you that I'm right about this.
Jenny.
Let me.
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.
I'm happy to hear that.
Thank you.
Let me just say, if you decided to, I mean, anybody 14, 24, I've been there.
I've seen it.
I've done it.
You mean you've been pressured for sex before and you tried to resist, but you were forced to say.
I can't tell you how many times.
Not as a teenager.
But I can't tell you how many times.
That's why this is cocky.
Were these from actual people or groupies?
I don't do groupies.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Let me just say that if you...
What do you mean?
Why in a way you think I'm exaggerating here?
I'm being honest with you.
That 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, 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.
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.
Because that's not considered sex.
Well, then they're being forced to do that.
Let me just ask you one question.
Jenny, you must have had some unpleasant experiences with men.
Well, I mean, some, but I've known a lot of men that I thought were great.
But none, you know, over this issue.
I mean, 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, economy is 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 this is people just wanting to have sex or oral sex or whatever, you know, 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 you will not have sex with them, no relationship goes out.
Noted teenage expert as well, Elle Rushball, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Jenny, I was trying to talk to you, but we have phone problems here, and we had a hard break coming up, and I couldn't move it, and I was unable to make you hear me.
And I didn't want to shout and 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 from South St. Louis only West.
Andrew in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Wonderful to have you with us.
Mega Doodos, Rush.
First, I want to say that I think the immigration issue is going to be a problem for both liberal Democrats as well as liberal Republicans.
Amen.
I think there's a lot of seething rage.
If there's seething rage out there, it's over this.
Amen.
And yeah, I mean, especially 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, we're just going to forgive them.
We're going to praise them.
They're going to be the backbone of America.
But anyway, we're getting back to my point.
I think liberal Democrats have something to worry about because I think people are going to, I mean, you know, even moderates are going to be really, I think, really up in arms about this.
And I think not only Republicans, I think Democrats are going to be in for a real surprise in November.
I do too.
I'm glad to hear you say that because that's more, by the way, than just opposing conventional wisdom.
I just actually think that this whole thing is been misreported.
And because of the Inside the Beltway elites have an opinion on it, that is being portrayed as the majority opinion.
You know, we talked about values earlier and how after the 2004 election, exit polls showed that values mattered to a lot of voters.
And the left was stunned and shocked.
I thought it would have been 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 issues are now going to hurt the Republicans, as proffered in a front-page opinion piece today by the New York Times.
It was disguised as a news story, but is ridiculous.
Just is.
I'm glad you called, Andrew.
Thanks very much.
Speaking of immigration, a couple stories here in the Washington Times about this.
The headline, 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 has 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.
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.
If 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, 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 confirms what some people's theory is.
See, 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 and the media 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, it's horrible for Bush.
It's horrible for him.
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 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, in that case, that would be disastrous, and no bill would be far better than that.
I'll guarantee you, if the ultimate bill that comes out of their favors, the open borders crowd, there will be held to pay 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.
And the whole notion that we don't have a bill that we don't have any progress is absolutely absurd because 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 that would be.
Tom in Manhattan, it's good to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, it's great to talk to you, Rush.
I'm a true fan, and you really, really, really are my inspiration.
You keep talking about I could one day, too, own a jet and be a millionaire.
Now, listen, the very interesting thing about this California election, I mean, don't you think that this could basically be a potential snapshot for how the Republicans can strategize to run the November elections?
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?
I hope that is part of the lesson that's taken.
Yes.
There's a lot of lessons the Republicans can take from this election, and I hope that that is one of them.
And I just think that although the, you know, is the president, you know, if the conservative candidates sort of run from this issue and stand head in line against the anti-immigration laws that they want to pass, I think that they will ensure that the House stays in place and maybe not even pick up seats.
I'm with you, Rush.
I don't think it's the doom and gloom that the drive-by media is giving.
And one more point.
The only sad thing about listening to the program today was having to hear Bob Schieffer because I have collectively done away with all of the major news and network nightly newscasts because of that fact.
I agree.
Well, I appreciate that.
The one thing, and we don't know how this is going to turn out, but your advice is going to be tempered by what happens with this bill.
When you say the Republicans going to 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, the majority provisions in the House bill survive.
We get a border security first bill, and a lot of stuff in the Senate bill gets erased.
But we still get a bill.
The president can still claim credit for getting an election or an immigration reform bill.
You have some disgruntled senators, but they're not up for reelection.
But you'll have the House going to be running around flexing their muscles.
That'd be good.
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 their district.
So what do they do when they go back and campaign for reelection?
Do they go back and campaign?
We tried, we gave it everything we got, but we did the best we could.
And do they run in opposition to this bill?
Because people will be fit to be tied if the second option happens.
So when you say Republicans, you might have a scenario where House Republicans have to actually campaign 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 follow this lesson that you cite from California 50.
But it will be really interesting to watch in that first scenario how many House Republicans would actually campaign for reelection opposing something that happened and became law and in the process would be campaigning against expressed wishes of the White House.
I mean that's always going to be 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, Michigan and PJ.
Hello, PJ.
Nice to have you with us today.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
Any time.
I just wanted to go back to our frivolous topic of the day.
And while I agree that Jenny is a nice name, she's wrong.
Jenny is wrong, did you say?
I did say that, Rush.
I have to beck you up here and say that I, although I'm nearly 50 years old now, was once a teenage girl.
And I realized then that it was the girls who had the power in those adolescent relationships.
Well, you know, that's an interesting point because it is in civil relationships.
And this is not a story on rape.
In civil relationships, this is always true.
It's the girl, the slash woman, who has the ultimate power because it's a girl who says no.
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 you have teenage daughter today, you know that in a lot of cases, a teenage daughter can be obsessed with having a boyfriend.
It's the most frustratingly so, you know, over anything else about her future or her studies.
It has to have, because of societal pop culture pressure, has to have a boyfriend.
And in that case, it's acting to please.
It's not the result of pressure being brought on by the boys.
I think this is something this survey might have missed.
Jerry in Superior, Wisconsin.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
He's gone or is John?
John in Superior, Wisconsin.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Oh, hello, Rush.
Yeah.
Big Ditto's from Wisconsin.
Thank you, sir.
About that Jenny woman that the last caller was talking about as well.
Yes.
She said forced.
Now, 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.
They always like to say forced and never pressured, just pressure, but forced.
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 another area where I think maybe this story that we reported is misleading.
Because if you're unable to draw the distinction between pressured and forced, I mean, forced, let's be honest, forced is against your will.
Pressured is, come on, come on, it'll be fine.
No, I'll wear this condom.
It won't be a problem.
You've got nothing to worry about.
Now, that's being pressured.
You'll succumb to that.
But forced is another thing.
The thing that I objected to primarily in this story is it is yet another in a long line of stories that portray men as predators and brutes and insensitive, uncaring brutes, and women as just even teenage girls as just unwitting victims.
And I mean, anybody who's been alive knows this stuff, particularly sex is a two-way street outside of rape, of course.
And this story was not even mentioned that.
So let's, you know, I put it on the table here only to be able to draw the distinction.
It's always a two-way street.
We're talking, and this was about civil relationships.
It wasn't about abusive relationships or anything of the sort.
Jerry, I appreciate the phone call.
Who's next?
Frank from Ocala, Florida.
Are you still there?
Frank from Ocala, Florida.
Are you there?
Yes, Rush.
Jeff, great to have you on the program.
Yeah, right.
Rush, let me start out with a compliment first.
I think you're absolutely fantastic at being able to articulate your point.
And let's hope I can maybe articulate this idea that I have.
I'm 80 years old, in the 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 Labor Day broadcast, I believe it was.
You spent a lot of time, a lot of time talking about the price of gasoline and how important oil is.
And at one time, you used the phrase, I think it was something like, oil generates our economy, is the generator of oil.
Oil is the fuel.
The engine of our economy.
The engine of our economy, yes.
I think it would be a fantastic idea for the Congress of the United States to think about regulating the price of oil.
Oil companies, and you pointed this out in your broadcast, oil companies do not set the price of oil.
The speculators do.
And the speculators run the price of oil up, and 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 $20.
You have done a great job articulating your point.
Now, I don't mean to be rude.
And in fact, Mr. Snurdle, you get his phone number.
We'll call him back tomorrow because I'm not going to have time to respond to this nearly as in a detailed fashion as I'd like.
Just regulating the price of a commodity like this worldwide can't be done in the first place.
It isn't going to be, you won't succeed.
But number two, capitalism is in danger for other reasons.
And I wouldn't mind tackling those with you, 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 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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