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Sept. 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2006, Monday, Hour #3
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Democrats are adopting Republican voter turnout techniques, according to the Cybercast News Service.
Without looking at the calendar, it's easy to tell that August is nearing an end just by the number of fundraising appeals coming from Democrat organizations.
The latest batch warns Democrats that Republicans are about to do what they do best.
Get voters to the polls on election day.
At the end of summer, as the end of summer approaches, there are some things you can count on, says a group that works to elect Democrats.
The air will get cooler.
The leaves will start changing the Republican attacks will get ugly.
This from Rahm Emanuel, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Writing for the DCCC at James Carvel and Paul Bagala warn that the same Swift voters who went after John Kerry are now attacking Jack Mertha, doing everything they can to amp up the Republican base.
And you can bet your sweet, you know what?
They're looking for a new, even uglier way to suppress votes.
As the right-wing slime machine gears up, and Carl Rove works to turn out the GOP vote.
The DCC said that it is launching its voter turnout fund to match the Republicans' blow for blow and voter to voter.
This is uh uh an interesting new technique here.
I guess that Democrats are gonna give up on the free booze and cigarette schemes and the walk around money that they give away, uh, and are gonna try a new technique to get people out to the uh to the polls.
There's a there's a related story in the stack here uh the the the Democrats are charging that Republicans have a new uh strategy that is designed to keep Democrats away from the uh from the polls.
Here it's in Salon.com.
And it's quite lengthy, and I'm not gonna go through the whole thing, but the basic premise here is that there was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004.
Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice, and Democrats the election in 2006.
Now, this is interesting because up till now, all we've heard about is Democrats are going to take back the House.
It's a done deal.
It's a fate of compliment.
They're gonna take the Senate to and in a white house at 08.
Now all of a sudden, uh Bagala and Carville are writing about well, you know, the Republicans uh starting to swift boat people, and the attacks are gonna start, and we're gonna keep up with them blow by blow.
Might call that the intern vote.
And now Salon's out there saying six states out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Sorry.
Six states out there where the Republicans are gonna cheat by keeping Democrats from the polls.
Arriving in Arizona in January from Kansas City, weakened by four heart attacks and degenerative talk uh disc disease.
Uh guy by the name of a woman by the name of Eva Steele discovered that without a birth certificate, she can't register to vote.
Under a draconing and new Arizona law that supposedly tark is illegal immigrants, she needs proof of citizenship and a state-issued driver's license or a photo ID to register.
But her van and her purse were stolen in the first few weeks after she moved to Mesa.
And with her disability checks going to rent and medicine, she can't afford the $15 needed to get her birth certificate from Missouri.
Come on!
This is absurd.
I don't see a whole lot of confidence in the Democrats.
Now now they're starting already, just now in August, about how the Republicans are going to cheat.
And I'll tell you what, if these Art Levine wrote the story here for Salon.com, and if they don't think this illegal immigration thing is a real problem in Arizona, Art, Let me tell you something.
The fraud that occurs in elections in this country is by Democrats in Georgia, anywhere else.
They don't want photo IDs because that will eliminate fraud.
So you got the Reverend Zach and all the others in the Democratic Party campaigning at those photo ID requirements are racist.
And so forth.
At any rate, uh Eva Steele is unable to overcome the hurdles thrown in her way, and in the way of as many as 500,000 other Arizona residents by the state's Republican politicians.
But Eva Steele's plight has gotten relatively little notice from pundits and progressive activists.
Excuse him, confidently predicting a sweeping Democrat victory in November.
This fall, the favored GOP suppression techniques, our new photo ID laws, the criminalizing of voter registration drives, and database purges that have disqualified up to 40% of newly registered voters from voting in such jurisdictions as Los Angeles County.
Anyone ever stop to think that there might be a whole bunch of fraudulent registrations out there?
There were in the 2004 race all over the place.
Anyway, the six states that the Republicans are going to suppress poor Democrats from voting are Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, California.
California.
What Republic what Republican has anything to say in California other than Arnold?
What Republican runs a voter precinct in California?
Other than Orange County.
So be uh Ohio, California, Florida, and Missouri.
Yes, it says here the show me state.
It's my home state, by the way, has an unsavory and very recent history of suppressing black votes.
Really?
Uh St. Louis keeping the polls open an additional number of hours?
Because black voters supposedly couldn't get to the polls?
This story is an entire crock.
What to take from the story?
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, is that all of this pumped up confidence among the Democrats.
They got this election in a bag because the country hates Bush.
And they hate the war in Iraq.
And they don't believe the war on terror.
And they're mad they don't have health care.
And they're mad they don't have this or that.
The gas price is three bucks.
Why?
Why should the Democrats need to worry about any of this stuff?
Everybody hates Bush.
They're going to turn it out against all the Republicans on the ballot.
Ha ha ha.
What is becoming apparent is that this bravado and confidence is nothing more than typical liberal BS.
All right now, you want to hear a couple conf I'm going to get to the Forbes story and just say this Forbes story is amazing.
I mean, I can't believe it.
It's in Forbes.
Forbes magazine, a business Bible, a capitalist tool.
We just had the survey from the Alliance Insurance Company that almost half of American women, including those who earn a hundred thousand dollars a year.
Fear becoming a bag lady.
Now we got Forbes magazine, long story, don't Marry Career Women.
And there's a there's a nine-part slideshow.
Now we'll link to this at Rushlinbaugh.com, a nine-part slideshow that will warn you men, what'll happen to you if you marry a career woman.
I will share these details with you after the break.
But first, two stories.
These are both uh see, well, I'm not sure one is AP, I'm not sure about the other one.
Study.
Even a few extra pounds is risky.
Being a little overweight can kill you, according to new research that leaves little room for denial that a few extra pounds is harmful.
Baby boomers who were even just a tad pudgy were more likely to die prematurely than those who were at a healthy weight, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Still, nevertheless, uh, we all are going to die.
No change there.
But story that came out just moments later.
This happened last night.
For men over 50, a few extra pounds not unhealthy.
There is good news for some men over 50, being just a little overweight's Not unhealthy.
Yet for women, there's no late in life leeway.
Being overweight to any degree significantly increases their health risks.
I have to sympathize with women on this.
They can't cut a break.
They can't catch a break when it comes to weight.
All these anorexic actresses, waifs and models are paraded in front of them as the the so-called ideal.
Men can run around with unshaven faces and get starring roles in movies as stylish.
Don't have to comb their hairs, can wear jeans and t-shirts with holes and stuff all over, can stink.
And it's said to be an animal attraction technique for women.
Meanwhile, these women are out there doing everything they can to make themselves appeal.
And if they're one pound overweight, they're gonna die prematurely.
It ain't fair, folks.
No wonder they fear becoming bag ladies.
Well, back after this with the Forbes magazine data.
Stay with us.
I really was surprised to see this in Forbes magazine.
I could expect to see it in Oprah's magazine or some supermarket, but in the career section of Forbes magazine, and we've got the link up at Rushlinbaugh.com now.
Don't marry career women.
And here's how the story starts by Michael Kore.
It starts this way.
Guys, a word of advice.
Marry pretty women or ugly ones, short ones are tall ones, blondes or brunettes, just whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.
Why?
Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.
A recent study in Social Forces, a research journal found that women, even those with a feminist outlook, are happier when their husband is the primary breadwinner.
Well, just wait, wait a little feminazis get a load of this one.
This is just, I mean.
See, the culture of feminization is starting to fade away, and a return to normalcy is rearing its head.
These things are cyclical.
I knew it was going to happen, but the the early the dawning of the new age, current age of feminism occurred in the 60s, late 60s, and early 70s when I was late teens and early twenties.
It totally messed me up.
You young guys, 21-22, be thankful as hell.
You weren't born back in 1951, 50, 55.
There's a slideshow with this story.
There's a link up there that you can click on the slideshow.
The pictures are funny, but here are the subjects that go with each picture.
These are the reasons.
You should not marry a career woman.
One, you're less likely to get married to her.
Uh she's not interested in it.
Number two, if you do marry, you are more likely to get divorced if you marry a career woman.
Number three, she is more likely to cheat on you if you marry a career woman.
Number four, you are much less likely to have kids.
That would be in my plus column.
Number five.
If you do have kids, your wife is more likely to be unhappy.
Number six, your house will be dirtier.
This is in Forbes magazine.
And there it this is the subject of a study done in 2005 by two University of Michigan scientists.
Concluded if your wife has a job earning more than $15 an hour, which is roughly 30 grand a year, she'll do two hours less housework a week.
Number seven, if you marry a career woman, you'll be unhappy if she makes more than you do.
And number eight, she'll be unhappy if she makes more than you do.
And number nine, you're more likely to get sick if you marry a career woman.
It's in Forbes magazine.
Larry in Bourbonet, Illinois, training location for the Chicago Bears.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Longtime listener, uh long time Republican, ever since uh Reagan was elected.
Thank you, sir.
But I have a confession to make.
Yeah.
If Hillary or any other Democrat runs for president this next time around and offers some sort of uh national health care, I'm voting for them.
You can't be serious.
Serious is a heart attack.
Uh I got uh, you know, I'm tired of I've got the kids here at home.
Well, if they're grown up now, just young, starting out on their own, want to start a family.
They did everything by the book.
They went to school with the trade schools, uh, trying to find a decent job that offers any kind of health benefits is just damn near impossible.
No, it's not.
Now come on.
Finding a job that offers health benefits is impossible.
Oh, well, they offer some sort of health benefits, but the portion you have to pay, well, well, I got one son, is that the portion he has to pay would take about probably a third of his monthly income and go just to health.
All right.
Okay.
You really stand by the assertion you've been a Republican since Reagan?
Because what you're saying here doesn't jibe with uh what you should have learned and agreed with in those days.
Oh, yeah, man.
You know.
Long time.
It's just that here in the last few years, and I'm seeing with how these kids are struggling now, and the competition out there is strong.
And you look at it and you see, well, you know, people that are retired, they got health care, people that don't want to work, they got Medicaid, uh they have Medicare for somebody that's retired, but somebody that's just starting out in life, they want to start a family, then they got nothing.
Well, you know, there is an option.
Uh uh when you're when you're are there are all your kids married?
Not yet.
Not yeah.
Well, then they don't need it.
You know, it it is elective.
You don't this this is one way to look at it.
What what of the forty-five million reputedly uh uninsured in this country, a large number of them are unin uh uninsured by choice.
Um kids just starting out.
Wait a minute, kids just starting out are just starting out.
Just starting out means something.
Retired means something.
Um there are other concerns other than health care when you are young.
Um but let me let me get to a the the the nut of what you're saying here, because I I'm trying to think of a great question to ask you.
You would vote for a Democrat if a Democrat promises something close to universal health coverage.
You ought to know that that doesn't work.
You ought to know that everywhere it's been tried around the world, Canada, Great Britain, it doesn't work, and they end still end up with two systems where people who can afford it pay for it themselves, they get the best coverage, everybody else waits in line for an appendectomy even.
Now, if the government ought to buy your health care, how come the government shouldn't buy your kids a house?
Well, he's trying to do that.
Who's trying to do that?
My son's trying to do that.
Trying to get the government to buy him a house.
No, he bought a house.
Well, that's my point.
Why should he have bought it?
Why didn't he why don't you hold out for the government to buy the house?
That's not his way.
And if he was in his Well, now wait why is it his way for the government to buy his health care?
If it was illegal, he would just go down to the hospital and get taken care of and let the taxpayer cover it.
But he's not that way either.
He's not going to go down there and he's gonna pay his bills when he has bills.
But but no, he's not.
He's not gonna pay his health care bills.
For some reason, no, and for some no wait a bit.
For some reason, his neighbors and others in the community ought to pay his health care bills.
Who do you think pays for health care for all these people?
Who do you ultimately I do?
You do.
Exactly.
But I'm paying, I'm paying for coverage for the people that are retired, I'm paying for coverage for people that have no job, I'm paying for coverage that people that don't have even citizens of the United States.
Okay, all right.
So what but the so No, no, no, no.
And you're caving in.
You're giving up.
You're saying, Sayonara, I can't believe you're saying this.
That's not the way to fix this.
That's not the way to deal with this is to make it worse.
Well, why shouldn't I give up?
Our president wants to let the what 12 million of them stay?
12 million illegals gonna stay in this country.
They just go to the hospital and get their health care.
Yeah, and it's got people royaled, and they're gonna be people pay for that dearly at the next election.
You wait.
I hope so.
I've talked to my representative.
I'll guarantee you, you start voting for Democrats, you're not gonna change any of this.
You start vote for Democrats, you're gonna be paying more than you are now for everybody to be on health care, and it's gonna be so restrictive, it's not gonna be worth it.
Well, at least somebody from my family on my side will benefit from it, you know.
I can't believe you gotta be putting me on.
Larry, you can't possibly meet you're you're a professional provocateur.
You cannot be this short-sighted.
I just coming across as two things.
Some of you have totally given up.
You can't beat the system, and now you want to to uh to uh game it yourself.
Well, I've just about given up, Russ.
You know who our senators are here in Illinois?
What was the question?
Do you know who our senators here are in Illinois are?
Yeah, I feel sad for you.
Yeah, I've just about given up.
Well, if you vote for a Democrat for president, you're I mean, you're you're you're you're you're you're you're waving the white flag.
We've We've got one person here in the state, one representative uh in our district, uh Jerry Weller, Republican is the only one that's got a clue as to what's really going on.
No, no, they all know what's going on.
What you're up against, there are people who are trying to make you give up.
They are liberal Democrats, they want you to give up out of frustration.
They want you to turn over your life and your kids' lives to them so that you are totally and utterly powerless, so you never have the chance to provide for your own health care.
Just like you buy your own car, your own hotel rooms, your own gasoline.
Why shouldn't the government buy your gas?
Where does this kind of stuff stop?
Back in a moment.
Ha, we're back.
All right, let me let me see if I can if I can tackle this, because I'm getting lots of emails.
That caller was right.
There are fewer and fewer companies offering health benefits, and it's getting tougher and tougher for young people to go out there and get health coverage.
It's at times like these, ladies and gentlemen, that my soul is tried into my nineteenth year and to still have such ignorance in this audience.
Understand it may not be total ignorance, a lot of it is emotion.
Um what I'm about to say will be considered cold-hearted, mean spirited, and cruel.
First of those of you saying, he's right, Rush.
If the government's buying all these illegal homes and giving them health care, why not us?
You people know better than that.
The idea to fix the problem is to get rid of the government paying health care for illegals and giving them housing and all of that, not for everybody else to get on that gravy train.
I am shocked, I am stunned.
And some of you people want to actually do that.
You're giving up.
I understand the frustration out there.
But get with the program.
This stuff never ends.
It's an ongoing battle.
It's called defeating liberalism and liberals and their way of thinking.
They want as many people dependent on them, i.e., government as possible.
And I cringe when I hear so many of you people begging to get on the same doll simply because you're bitter that others have it and you don't.
I am shocked.
That's not what people in this audience are made of, and I will not tolerate it.
The fix for this is to fix the illegal alien problem and to stop all this liberalism and the growth of government.
Number two.
For those of you who say that fewer and fewer employers are offering health benefits.
What is the purpose of a job?
To get health coverage or to get a job to be productive and advance in life so that you can buy whatever you need, not want, need on your own.
Since when is it American to transfer your needs to somebody else?
Is that the purpose of a company?
A company, a car, an organization, a small business sits there for the express purpose of providing your needs.
It's bad enough when you think they ought to buy your VCR.
But now they ought to buy your needs.
I am sick.
I am sad.
I am disappointed.
What a way to send me off on my golf trip vacation.
Thinking of myself as an utter failure with some of you people.
In eighteen plus years, if fewer and fewer companies are offering health benefits, wake up and ask yourself why.
Don't conclude it's because they're cruel and mean and greedy and selfish and want you to get sick and suffer.
If they hire you, they want you to be productive.
They don't want you going to the doctor every damn day.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe if you're taking a look at what's happening at General Motors and Ford, companies have been providing endless benefits for decades, not only for people who are currently employed, but for those who are retired.
Do you think this golden goose can't be killed?
The pension programs at General Motors are in trouble because they don't have the money.
And so guess what?
Good old Uncle Sam's gonna take over.
So now people are going to be dependent on the government for their pensions.
Uh this idea that a company exists to give you health care.
Where did this?
I know it's expensive, and I know catastrophic health care is a is devastating.
I'm fully aware of it.
I have been there.
But the idea that somebody else should pay for that aspect of your life has got to stop.
Otherwise, your kids are going to grow up thinking that somebody else ought to buy their car, and that somebody else ought to pay or partially pay for their house, because those things are expensive too.
And then someday, somebody's going to assume that somebody ought to pay for their vacation.
Where does this stuff stop?
When people are young and just starting out, my thinking is that they need to have a little sense of perspective and proportion.
Demanding when they're 21, 25, first and foremost that they get health care covers.
I understand people want security.
They want to be covered in case something catastrophic happens.
The odds of that to people who are young and youthful are very low compared to people who are aged and older.
If it is so important, pardon me for shouting, I am revved up.
If it is so important, how about buying one car, or not buying three plasmas, and going out and buying your own health care plan, finding a group to join, if it's that important.
I understand you're all Americans, and you expect as Americans that what is necessary, particularly for health, should be available just because we're Americans.
But it costs, it has, as does everything, a price.
Now, if you are really at the top of your list concerned about health care, and you're working for some place that doesn't provide it, then I would think the responsible thing to do would be out and go and buy it for yourself and do without something else.
But I realize those two words, I'll infuriate many of you.
Do without.
It is a concept that many young people don't understand anymore.
Do without, easy for you to say, you've got everything.
Yeah.
Well, when I was 21-22, we all did without.
And a lot of people are still doing without, but they still strive.
But this notion, and because the illegals get health care free, and by the way, if you f if you go to places where this is happening, eleven emergency rooms in Southern California have closed and shut down because they weren't being paid.
They had by law to cover, but they couldn't keep operating.
So we're short 11 emergency rooms, and this is for the Los Angeles Times about a year ago.
We're short 11 emergency rooms.
What you look and see as the grass being greener is not almost in all cases is not what it appears to be.
The grass is seldom greener.
Because everything is relative.
I understand as well as anybody the frustration over illegal aliens and the fact that they get, well, I don't know about housing, I don't know where that comes from, but the uh medical care and so forth and so on.
And I understand for young people starting out that you can't afford the house that you grew up in.
It's so unfair.
It just isn't right.
This is what I mean, folks, when I have said, and when I've been saying over the course of many recent months here.
That we have a society that's so affluent, and we really, really do, that the expectations that people have are through the roof.
And that's fabulous, and that's great.
But you have to understand at the same time that the expectations are just that.
If you expect X, it's also expected of you that you are going to get it.
And when I hear you expecting it to be given or provided you, I will admit to you, I feel like an utter failure if you have been in this audience longer than two years and saying these things.
As to health care, for years, responsible people like me have been proposing a fix to this.
Why is it that a hospital bed should cost more than somebody can afford for it?
Hotels can't do that.
Hotels can't charge themselves, can't charge a thousand dollars a day.
Motel 6 holiday in, take your pick.
They can't charge a thousand dollars a day, and then have the government come in and pick up a room insurance program for people who want to go on vacation or stay in a hotel.
They have to price it according to the ability of their chosen customer base to be able to pay for it.
Medicine doesn't do that.
Is anybody wonder why?
Anybody wonder why hospitals get away with thousand, fifteen hundred dollars a night for a hospital bed?
It's because somebody's paying for it.
Government, insurance companies, or somebody is.
You realize what's happening with all the do you really think that a band-aid costs ten bucks in a hospital?
The reason it does is because somebody's willing to pay it without asking.
It's absurd.
So how do you fix this?
Well, you bring competition back into the marketplace.
Make going to the doctor.
We're not talking about catastrophic.
That's a different thing here.
But you make going to the doctor for checkups and a number that's competitive so that people can go out and and shop it for price just like everything else.
But no, we've got HMOs because these other organizations, and you've given a field of doctors to go through and and and go to, and and that's the price you pay.
Even at that, we have the world's best health care system.
There's no doubt about it.
But the idea, and this is what stuns me the most, wounds me to the heart.
The greatest.
The idea that because you don't have health care insurance means you don't have medical coverage is absurd.
You can go to the doctor and you can pay him.
What a concept.
But for some reason, the thought of paying medical care.
It's just unacceptable.
No, the company ought to pay for that.
And there ought not be any copay.
And I ought not have to pay a portion of it.
I don't know where this comes from, but you have been trapped and you have been lured, and you have been screwed into believing the liberal concept of life.
Somebody else has to pay for it, or else you can't have it.
Now wake up, folks.
Hi, welcome back.
It's open line Friday on Wednesday.
The out of touch.
Rush Limboy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Teresa in Cincinnati.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Yes.
Yeah, hi.
Yes.
Hi.
It's a privilege, uh, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Thanks for all that you do, and uh uh you're a wonderful human being.
Thank you.
Uh I'm a new listener.
And uh this is messing me up because uh Brittany, you gotta turn the radio around.
Turn it around and listen to it on the other side.
I got my girls listen to the radio turned down low.
Um, because she wants to hear mommy on the radio, but there's a delay on and it's messing you up.
Yes, messing up.
So I had her turn it around.
Um I I've heard you make comments over the last couple of months, um, and I'm just getting familiar with a lot of the the viewpoints and things.
Um I'm a little familiar, but I'm learning a lot more as I listen to the show.
Thank you.
And uh yeah, that's definitely a compliment.
And um I've heard you mention uh feminazy uh that uh term and that really cracks me up.
Um but I wanted to see if you could give me a background on what what exactly that means or the definition of that, if that's the if that's appropriate way to ask that.
Sure.
You want the definition of feminazi?
Yeah.
Feminazy was a term that uh that I coined in the late eighties, in the midst of the really, really controversial and royaled abortion debate in this country.
And Feminazi at that time was a woman, and there weren't very many of them, and this was never understood by the crit.
Well, it was understood, but they just refused to believe this.
There really weren't very many feminazis.
Uh 12 to 13 uh was the maximum number I was able to identify publicly.
But a feminazi was a woman whose political beliefs were such that any abortion possible had to happen.
A feminazi was a woman who would be upset if a pregnant woman went to an adoption clinic, an adoption uh office, and and wanted to give birth to have the baby adopted.
A feminazi was a woman who tried to promulgate the notion that a pregnant woman is actually carrying a disease.
Uh and and that uh uh it's it's sometimes a fatal disease.
It was it was just absurd some of these arguments.
Uh and since I consider abortion to be killing, I thought feminazi was an appropriate word.
It got me in a lot of trouble with a lot of people at a lot of t a lot of points, but I've stuck by it.
Feminazy now is sort of the terminology, the definition is relaxed a little bit.
Still applies as to um uh my original explanation to you, but it can also mean women who are just will do anything to enforce a feminist view on the part of everybody, just relentless oppressive women.
Well, um Why are you worried that you are one?
Uh it's funny.
Um I grew up in the 70s, and so I was I read the feminine mystique and all that, and I was uh went to college in the 70s, and uh I you know I kind of was fed a lot of that.
That was the that was in the air, you know, during my time.
Yeah, it was in the air, it was in the water, it was in the front seat of the car, it was everywhere.
You couldn't get away from it.
Yeah, and and um so I'm I pretty much, you know, I believed what I heard that was in the air during the during the time that I was very impressionable.
Sure you did.
And I also didn't um I didn't have a really great education going to public school, so I didn't have a whole lot of uh basis and foundation for you know being able to um compare what what was given to me.
Well it was being it was being taught in the public schools too.
Right.
Well, what what what I want to know too is what what is wrong why do the conservative which I consider myself a moderate or a moderate conservative or a conservative um but but I yet I still don't understand why do the conservative why does the conservative viewpoint uh feel that fem is feminism completely opposed to uh uh the the com the conservative No, no, no.
It depends look, it depends on how you define feminism.
Nobody anywhere is opposed to equal pay for equal work.
Nobody is opposed to equal opportunity for anybody.
That's not the point.
But when you have to start lowering standards, for example, when women wanted to be firemen, they had to change the physical requirements because they couldn't pass test.
So that that was an example of feminization of the culture.
We were we were we were lowering standards for police and for fireman jobs in some cases in the military, uh, in order to allow women to uh to qualify for them under the uh under the under the notion that men and women are essentially the same.
By the way, USA Today yesterday in the life section highlights a book by a woman who's written uh a book uh on how men and women are actually different.
It's Time Magazine's cover all over again.
But Teresa, the the feminization of the culture.
What is meant by that is the characterization of men as predators, as problematic, as wife beaters, as abusers of children, as uncaring brutes.
And many you know, men want to have women around, and so they do what they think they're supposed to do to be attractive to women, including lose their spines.
Uh and and that's the feminization of the culture because women, in civilized affairs, women have always had the power.
They've always had it because in civilized circumstances it's always women who say no.
Um, or have the power to say no in civilized circumstances.
But it's it just the feminization of the culture is has Gotten to the point where men are afraid to be men.
Because being a man is there's something wrong with it.
It's brute, it's barbaric, it's uh uh it's uh it's predatory and so forth.
You basically have a bunch of men running around scared to death of women, and that ain't helpful.
The the great writer and commentator Mark Stein hosting the program tomorrow, Walter Williams, will be here on Friday, and I'll see you back Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll look forward to it.
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