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May 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Ha, how are you?
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Dawn is driving the Cadillac SRX this week, the crossover, loves it.
Her two kids love the thing because there's video screens on the back seats.
Mommy, mommy, can you go drive and watch a DVD?
And now Snerdley says he wants to get one.
Uh and uh Dawn, this is the kids want to get one.
The kids want to get one, you're pretty much going to get one.
Uh this is the Cadillac SRX crossover.
New sponsors here at the EIB network, uh, General Motors.
Uh honored and proud to have met with them last Thursday in Detroit when I was out there for the Rush to Excellence tour for WJR.
Speaking of this, I got a couple Obama stories here.
First one, it's from Detroit.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday faulted U.S. automakers for failing to do what foreign manufacturers have accomplished in producing fuel efficient vehicles.
Uttering words not often spoken in Detroit, Obama said that U.S. energy policy must change in order to help domestic automakers answer the rising global demand for efficient autos.
For years, while foreign competitors were investing in more fuel efficient technology for their vehicles, American automakers are spending their time investing in bigger, faster cars.
Obama said his plan encourages domestic automakers to make fuel efficient hybrid vehicles by giving them health care assistance for retirees.
Federal financial assistance would cover 10% up to $7 billion of automakers' annual legacy health care costs through 2017 under Obama's plan, which would require automakers to invest at least half their health care savings into technology to produce fuel efficient cars.
Now it's pretty gutsy.
Obama going into Detroit.
You don't hear this kind of stuff said much in Detroit.
This is the what was it, Detroit Economic Club or is uh where he was speaking.
Now, here is a companion story.
This also from yesterday's stack.
It's from the Los Angeles Time.
Uh Los Angeles Times health care reforms unlikely ally.
Big business.
Abandoning the business lobby's traditional resistance to health care reform.
A new coalition of 36 major companies plans to launch a political campaign today.
Uh stories from yesterday calling for medical insurance to be expanded to in uh to everyone along the lines of Governor Schwarzenegger's proposing in California.
Founded by Steve Byrd, chairman of the Safeway Grocery Chain and an ally of the governor, the coalition could boost efforts in Sacramento and Washington to overhaul health care laws.
Now let me tell you what's going on here.
Let me tell you what's going on.
And the same thing going on with Obama.
While this sounds gutsy, what's Obama doing?
He's dangling a carrot in front of the automakers saying, look, we'll pick up some of your health care costs for your retirees.
That's what's killing them.
They have to pay retirement and health care costs for people no longer working there.
And of course, there's no productivity associated with those people because they're retired.
And I know they made the deal and it is what it is, but the golden goose is about to be slain here.
So you've got a bunch of companies who are all thought to be pro-Republican, big conservatives and so forth, screw the little guy.
They want government to take over their health care plants.
They can't wait for that.
They want to get rid of the expense.
They want you and me and everybody else to be part of a single-payer government system, and Obama's going into Detroit saying, hey, look, automakers, I'll offer you the same thing.
Will you get started making fuel efficient cars like the Japanese have done?
And I'll take care of some of your legacy health care costs and get them off your hands when a sliding increasing scale, the more fuel-efficient, energy efficient cars you produce.
Now, I didn't see all of General Motors line, and I they showed me what they've got in the next two years and some of their brands.
But my gosh, folks, I saw some tiny little cars.
They showed me some, and and they've they've uh uh the kind of cars you see if you go to Europe, you know, smaller streets, higher petrol prices over there.
They've they've had tiny little cars for for years.
And I even showed me this giant SUV, what was it, a UConn that is half hybrid, half uh half game.
They're very they're very proud of it.
But at the same time, at the same time.
Uh I was I was reminded during the visit that uh they're they're General Motors is already on the, I don't know if it Ford and Chrysler, I assume they all they are too, but I mean they're they're busting their rear ends to get their fuel fuel economy standards up, these cafe standards, because they're mandated.
Uh and they're uh they feel sort of hamstrung by it.
Uh Cadillac wanted to build a uh thing called a Cadillac 16 was going to be 550 horsepower, you know, mama.
And they're not going to do it because uh they don't think there's going to be any market for it, and it won't be legal.
Something gets that little gas won't be legal down the road.
So they they're they're up to speed on on what they have to do.
And I some of the cars I saw that they're they're going to be introducing in the next two years are indeed not all hybrids, but they're tiny, they're fuel efficient, so forth, and they're on the case.
But they are being buried by these legacy health care costs.
And it's it's uh uh it's something that that to me uh is is well, it's it's a black cloud because now you've got all these other businesses in this California rally, and they want to slough their health care plans off to the government, they want to rid themselves of this expense, and that leads us right into Hillary care if if this indeed happens.
I was talking earlier in the last hour about the feminization of American culture.
Now let's let's pretend I am an automaker.
And the reason I'm in business is to sell cars.
I think most CEOs of domestic car companies, if you ask them, would tell you they feel like they're running a health care maintenance program, a health care company, and that the side business is manufacturing cars.
If I were in the auto business, I would be finding out what my customers wanted, and I would build those cars.
And if I had I'd build a variety of them.
And uh and uh that's not the purpose of a company any longer.
The purpose of a company is to provide jobs.
The purpose of a company is to provide health care.
And of course, a company today has to be beholden to politicians and governments, demanding you can't build that car, you can't build that kind of car, your cars have to get no more than this amount of mileage and so forth.
And so it's it's uh it's gotta be tough for them.
Uh and and the uh uh when when you when you we when you uh are told that you can't build certain kind of cars, uh and you're and you and by the way, if you if if uh if if your top management happens to think that you've got to go along with this global warming scare because a lot of people happen to believe it, uh then okay, you bend over and grab the ankles and say I'm afraid of alienating the customer.
I'm afraid of ali.
That's not the real thing.
They're afraid of alienating government.
Now, the last thing they want to do is alienate government because they'll come down on them uh and force them to do things and make it even tougher to do business.
And the end result of this, by the way, is that uh customers are gonna have fewer choices of what they really want.
I mean, the largest seller in the GM line right now is uh the Escalade.
Well, the Escalade's a big mama.
Uh there's nothing uh, you know, it's not a little bubble car out there.
It is a huge, and you know, by the way, something I was told, uh it was not a GM executive, it was uh somebody in my entourage that's talk talked to before I got there, said that a majority of the escalades are being purchased by these giant limo companies and being stretched.
Um you've seen these giant Hummers and escalades on the road at seat 50, you know, with a drive train that's about a block long and so forth.
That's a lot of them are being turned into that.
Well, what what does that tell you what people want?
So they've got to be between a rock and a hard place.
They've got these legacy legacy health care costs.
Now you've got Obama in there, basically dangling this carrot and telling them the Japanese are running rings around them because the Japanese built fuel efficient cars when when Detroit wouldn't.
Well, the fact is Japanese companies don't have to pay the health care of their of their workers.
The uh the company does that in Japan anyway, the the uh the government does that.
Uh and so they but the the point is that those companies do not have to build in that price per car, which I think in the U.S. auto industry, the price for health care at every car you buy averages out to be 1,500 bucks.
And the Japanese don't have to put that 1,500 bucks in the uh in the suggested retail price of their automobile.
Well, right there, you you've got a uh a bit of a disadvantage.
The point of this is that there is a move afoot for as many companies as possible to shed their health care plans and turn it over to the government and let the government run it.
And believe me, there are people from Nancy Pelosi on down that would be happy.
Hillary Clinton on down that would be happy to do it for you.
All right, second Obama story uh today, and it comes from Mortimer Zuckerman.
Uh Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News and World Report is the owner predict uh publisher, the Grand Poo-Bah.
And the headline here, who's the real Obama?
And Mort Zuckerman's no conservative.
So add this to the liberal side of the stories on Barack Obama.
And he starts out, why not Obama?
I mean, millions of people are inspired by him.
Witness the polls, the stunning breadth of his financial support, the rapture over his way of speaking.
We go again.
He's the first black candidate to have a serious chance of winning his party's nomination in the presidency.
That's a remarkable statement of how far America's come on race, but it also reflects Barack Obama's ability to present himself as a politician for all Americans, not just somebody who happens to be black.
But pause comes when we look beyond his biography.
The world has rarely been in a more dangerous state.
Time bombs tick in the Middle East.
Radical Muslims plan more terrorism.
From London, there is evidence of how eager they are to betray a host nation, yet Europe is enfeebled.
China and Russia are unhelpful.
There is worldwide disaffection with America, and unparalleled means of destruction are more available than ever before.
Is charisma enough to avert catastrophe?
Foreign affairs are no longer foreign in the globalized world.
They are in our living room.
But Obama will not be able to maintain this above politics stance.
If his broad themes are to remain credible, he's going to have to be more than a smooth and sweet talking optimist.
He will have to detail just what he would do on health, global warming Iran.
Is he tough-minded enough?
Not to just take a punch, but to give one.
People who know him well doubt this.
If they're right, he'll become another one of those failed candidates like Adelaide Stevenson, who bemoaned a dirty business of politics, tried to run campaigns that rose above it.
For now, Senator Obama is the most impressive insurgent candidate, but if he is to maintain momentum, he must grow.
Along with his uplifting eloquence, he must show a capacity for leading the West, and above all for realism and resolution in the deployment of American power for the common good.
You know what he's saying here?
What Mort Zuckerman's saying is that with Obama there's no there right now, and he better grow up fast and get a there there because platitudes and uh an above politics stance and charisma are not going to be enough in a dangerous world.
The uh USA Today has a poll.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has rebounded to a 15 percentage point lead over Barack Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination.
Uh she went up seven points in three weeks, I think is what's uh what's happened here.
Among Republicans, it's Giuliani with a 14-point lead over McCain.
Clinton is only the uh the only contender in either party to show movement outside the poll's margin of error.
She is the choice of 38% of the Democrats and Democrat leading voters surveyed.
That's up seven points from a survey taken three weeks earlier.
Obama's at twenty-three percent, three points lower than before.
Clinton strategirist Mark Penn attributes her boost in a poll to her performance in the opening April 26th debate.
He said, at that debate, people have the first chance to see them all side by side, and I think she's looking very ready to leave.
Meanwhile, John Edwards, the Breck girl, said yesterday that it's silly to suggest that his wealth and expensive tastes have hurt his credibility as an advocate for the poor.
Would it have been better if I'd done well and didn't care?
Edwards asked, he noted that some of the most acclaimed anti-poverty advocates came from privileged backgrounds, including Franklin Roosevelt and Bobby Kennedy.
You can see and feel the empathy they had.
He was speaking from his home in uh North Carolina doing an interview on Iowa public radio.
That's okay.
So he said that'll be the end of it.
A drive-by say, yeah, he has addressed the issue, and he's genuine and uh and he's authentic.
The larger question is this.
The Bret girl is just the latest in an endless parade of liberal Democrats to come along and make poverty the cause celeb and to claim they've got the solution for it.
Now, something everybody ought to really think about is can poverty be solved by government?
Can it?
But somebody tell me anywhere in the world where poverty has been solved by government.
You can't.
Uh unless you say government get out of the way.
But I'm talking about yes, Mr. Snowdley, what?
What what what what Norway?
Well, come on, don't give me Switzerland and Norway.
I mean, yeah, they legalize drugs and they pay people for the drugs, they've legalized prostitution.
Yeah, of course nobody cares about poverty.
They're stoned.
You know, Norway sitting on don't don't don't don't you you telling me there's no poverty there?
You telling me that there's no point is in in major industrialized nations, with genuine percentages of poor people.
Has government wiped it out?
Has the government fixed it?
And is the Bret girls campaign anything new?
What's his problem?
It's all class envy.
The rich are causing poverty.
The rich don't care.
He cares.
He's rich and he cares.
But nobody else cares.
And so he's gonna make them care.
He's gonna take their money away.
Is that the way to do it?
Is that the way to solve poverty?
Do we in this country?
Do we not have uh practically a 50-year track record we can look at and say affirmatively that government fixed poverty?
We cannot say that.
We have the same people percentage-wise as a portion of our population in poverty as when the war on poverty began.
Time to pull out of the war on poverty.
Great society, so many redundant programs, it's not the answer, is it?
Which means liberalism, Democrat answers are not the answer to the uh problems of poverty.
And of course, the dirty little secret is that even the libs know this.
Uh the point is not solving it.
They want credit for big hearts, they want credit for great intentions.
They want to get credit for caring.
What are they accomplished anything?
You're not supposed to look at their results.
You look at their results, that's mean-spirited and cruel.
Uh you're supposed to examine their intentions.
They have good hearts.
At least they want to help people like us, they say, don't even care.
And if it weren't for them, then there would be no hope for poverty.
And of course, their solution is always more money.
Uh, and without teaching people how to escape poverty, and I I don't think many libs want them to fully escape it, then they wouldn't need government.
I know it sounds cynical, but uh fifty years of track record is pretty much evidence to look at to draw some pretty definitive conclusions.
Uh back to the phones to Livermore, California.
This is Yvonne and I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Homeschooling conservative California, amazingly, dittoes.
Thank you very much.
Um great to talk to you.
It's been great to sit and listen to the parodies as well.
But I wanted to talk, uh, touch on the issue that you had with the woman, I believe she was from Grand Rapids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And at the end of your conversation, you you kind of stole my fender a little, but I just want to um touch on the issue of the verbiage.
And I think this is where people maybe get a little confused as to your position uh, or even probably my position, is that feminism and feminist is not equal to being feminine or a strong woman.
It's a matter of actually just devaluing the male um devaluing men and their God-given role in society and an elevating Well, okay.
Well, that's a that's another way of saying that the the the feminization of culture is taking place.
But it's not that I don't I think it's you're half right.
Um, you know, feminism is is not just about devaluing the male, it's also about changing the uh the the j the general human nature of women as well.
It tries to make them like men while devaluing men.
Absolutely.
And I think, especially as a homeschooling mom, I am learning so much about the the correct and true history um, not just of our nation, but specifically I'm thinking of pioneer women and women during the revolutionary war, and just up until, like you say, the last fifty years.
You had to have a lot of strengths to be a woman and to fulfill your role in society.
And that role was valued.
Um the men's role was valued.
And you didn't have time to be trying to take over their role because you were just busy trying to do your role.
Um you know, you see this in commercials today.
My I have two daughters, and say what hold your thought.
I gotta I got I gotta take a break.
But folks, once again, uh help you understand this.
What we're talking about here is the steady and slow encroachment of liberalism into our culture.
We'll be back just a second.
Stay with us.
And we are back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have this as uh let's see.
We're still with Ivan in Livermore, California.
You were saying, Yvonne.
Yes, well, I I was just saying I I can testify to the the change in our culture.
I'm trying to raise two girls, and it's a daily struggle to combat this um this devaluation really of both sexes to a degree, but especially of men.
We see it in commercials on TV.
My girls see, you know, the man being treated as an idiot all the time.
And of course the women know everything, and um it's just a real struggle in daily life.
Well, sadly, that's pretty accurate.
That's what they're gonna face out there.
Uh that's what they're gonna end up thinking.
Uh not if we can help it.
Not quite that far.
Look, let me let me cut to the chase here, Yvonne and try to explain this because you said something very important.
You were talking about the history research you've done.
You've gone back in time to the uh the pioneer women and and uh uh eras such as that, and you found really strong women in their roles.
And you found really strong women, uh, men at the at the same time in their roles.
Uh and I know I do a lot of joking here, because I love stereotypical humor.
I I I love mother-in-law jokes, such as you know what, a real quandary is to see your brand new Cadillac go over the cliff, but your mother-in-law's tongue stuck in the seatbelt clip.
Um I just I've always I've always liked those kind of jokes.
You can't tell those jokes anymore.
People out there were, whoa, anti woman.
Limbaugh hates women so forth, and it would be all over the place as though I, you know, really was represented in my attitude about women.
And that's not the case at all.
I happen to think that the real problem here is that there was nothing wrong with the natural roles created by God for men and women.
And it wasn't until a bunch of liberal activists came along and started creating this war between the sexes that things got out of hand.
Uh the and and activism uh is is almost always a province of the left, and it almost always works because people who are not leftist just sit out there and let this stuff wash over them.
They got no time to rise up and fight it.
And besides, if they do, they're labeled, and most people don't have the stomach to get into those kinds of fights and disagreements, so they just go docile, uh, move behind a gate, the gated community, and let the world deteriorate around them while um uh they try to insulate themselves from it.
But I have always uh I think about both of my grandmothers and and and my mother.
I've always uh marveled at at the the genuine toughness and emotional strength of of women, and uh they it it it's it's always been something that I have admired.
It wasn't until you know this is we all have formative experiences.
And my for my I've said this before, the formative experience in my parents' lives was a great depression.
That shaped the way they looked at life the rest of their life.
And so did World War II, and so did uh uh Khrushchev showing up and banging the shoe at the United Nations.
And my grandparents too.
All of these things had profound impact on and the way they raised uh my brother and me, and the way they lived their lives.
Uh well, uh I haven't gone through anything like that, uh, Great Depression, World War II, uh that sort of thing.
The closest we've had this what they had to go through was the Soviet threat, uh, which was real uh at the time.
But uh that fight had already begun.
The Cold War had already begun.
We were born into the fight.
We didn't have to have the guts to start the fight and stand up to the Khrushchev's and the Brezhnev's and the Yuri and Dropovs and so forth.
And that's why I think it was crucial that somebody like Reagan was elected president in the 80s, somebody who had enough age and seasoning to understand it.
That one of the risks that we face today is that leaders are going to be born that don't remember all those challenges and don't remember uh enough history to understand what the country really faced, and so you end up with people like John Kerry who think the problem with America and the world is America.
And we're we're alienating allies.
And we're not consulting them when we do them.
It's absolutely just it's absurd.
And now we've got the surrender and own defeat Democrats who refuse to recognize the true threats that we face.
I've gotten a little bit off tangent here, but the formative experience, one of the many in my life, and I kid you not, I'd just become 18 in 1969, and I remember I was working at a local radio station in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Uh, and every Saturday morning had to go out and do a remote broadcast at the local Sears.
And in those days, you took the little little bench out, it looked like a miniature piano, had two turntables on it and the control dials, and you patched it in through a phone line and so forth, and had to do all this yourself because there were no engineers.
And the purpose, Sears had sponsored this.
They were bought buying an hour or two hours.
So Sears with this man, the point was to draw a crowd into Sears to uh to see the radio show taking place.
And it was this Saturday morning show was unlike the one that I did during the week.
And I'd started when I'm 16, so I've been doing this for two years.
I'm 18 in my senior year at Haskrul, and I remember one of these Saturday mornings, uh they said, We want you to bring in some some some uh kids from high school to talk about issues that that are facing.
And that was my first taste into how formulaic radio is done.
So but I didn't know that at the time.
I just I just it's okay, fine.
I would just wanted to be on the radio.
And one of the and I didn't pick the uh the high school people, I don't remember who did.
I might have had a hand in it, doesn't matter.
Uh one of the girls, also a senior, came in and she was on this show at 10 o'clock in the morning at Sears, she was off fire brand for feminism.
And I'm hearing about it for the first time.
And I'm I'm kind of I'm trying to remember my at the time I don't think anything big deal.
I mean, I'm I wasn't the political guy then that I am now.
I had awareness, but you know, I just I just want to be a radio guy.
I don't want to play the records and play the hits and so forth.
I'm having this discussion here.
These high school kids, and I said, feminism, where is this coming from?
I had I have not I was not familiar with it at all.
And that if after that, of course, it's like the first time I saw a car I a lot of cars on the on the road that I have never ever seen before.
I see one, and gee, what the hell is that?
And then it seems like I see ten of them every day after that.
Well, after this first exposure to this firebrand high school senior on feminism, and she wasn't angry.
Uh she was newly enlightened.
Uh she had learned something she thought was revolutionary, and she had been told that women had been eating the excrement sandwich for too long, and it was time now to go grab the mustard and maybe some ketchup, and then finally change the menu entirely.
She was going on and on and on and on about how they'd been repressed and they'd been oppressed, and women have been made to conform to men's demands for too long, and it was time to to to get active in this.
And I'm listening to all it first I've ever heard of it.
It was shortly after, well, a year after that, that I that I left my hometown and went to my first job away from home, which was in Pittsburgh, and it was infested with women like that.
I'm twenty.
I'm twenty and twenty-one years old, and it I'm not kidding you.
Open a car door and you get yelled at.
I'm not, folks, I'm not making this up.
These are not cliches and made-up stories.
The idea that if you complimented a woman's appearance, you were insulting her brain or objectifying her was something that was real.
And I can remember for ten years, I if I thought a woman was good looking, I would apologize before noticing it and saying so.
I uh I don't mean to offend you here, but to even to this day, I still do that on occasion, if it's a professional woman.
That's how big a formative experience this was.
So I I am I I still am quite reserved in dealing uh with this kind of thing, because until I get to know them, uh, because I don't know what the reaction is going to be.
And I'm just telling you, this is happening throughout our culture.
Everybody's sitting around and pausing and waiting before they say anything because they don't want to either get yelled at, they don't want to be offended uh or offensive or or or what have you.
So we've we got people walking on eggshells.
We get men and women who no longer know how to do well, I think it's changing now because feminism, while it's still deeply rooted, uh some of the things that it tried to accomplish bombed major and big time, and one of the reasons was because the early feminists sought to remake women in the image of men.
Careers, attire, climb the corporate ladder, do all these things, get rid of this whole notion of having a home and a family.
And men would love to have a family as long as I never went home.
Men would love to be able to have a family and have the wife raise the kids but spend all the time on the golf course.
Then it came about the new definition of the ideal husband was if he was the one got up at three in the morning to change diapers.
Do you wonder why I don't have kids?
I was not gonna marry a woman like that.
I was not gonna have the definition of manhood and husbandhood defined by this kind of role reversal in order.
Well, didn't you care about the kids?
No, I did that was not the point.
I was not gonna be dictated to by some cultural change that was nothing more than a uh a grand invention or intervention in human nature.
And I know why it.
I mean, the feminists were upset about how unkind nature was to them.
They're trying to get even by changing basic human nature.
But I'm not, folks, I am not exaggerating.
That that those experiences when I'm 19 and when I'm twenty and twenty one, this is supposed to be when you're out there sowing your wild oats and praying for crab failure every morning.
You know, and some of these women they wa if if they did engage in that it wouldn't pull a goalie on you.
And so you you were running the risk of uh of well, men might understand that now.
You know what I mean by that, Don Pulagoli?
Don't take the pill.
Um, I mean, it it just I'm telling you, it Snerdley's on the floor.
He's on the floor.
Well, crop failure pulling the goalie.
I mean, I but uh these I'm just telling you, folks, I don't want to beat this into the ground, but but this is what has uh uh you know talk about formative experiences in life, and I've I've this feminism stuff, it it women started disliking, they resented women.
I've told you the story.
I once, when I went to Kansas City, a friend of mine, one of news directors said, there's a babe you gotta meet and go out to dinner with.
I said, okay, fine.
Woman, all she wanted to talk about was Susan Brown Miller's latest book, which she hadn't read, which was the case for rape or case about rape or whatever it was, and it was the premise that rape is not a sex crime, it's a violent crime.
So I'm sitting, what do I do?
I mean, I and this woman is a is just she's not having any fun in life.
She's she's just bold up with angst and all this stuff.
Well, so I went out, I bought the book and I gave it to her, and tried to engage in serious discussions about it, and after a scratch of my head, I said, This is just you know, I spent some time on it.
Okay, rape's a serious thing, but good Lord, I'm not gonna sit here and be preached to about and the the the we went from that to men or predators, social services.
Your wife better not call social services on, you're gonna lose your kids.
And women had this, the feminists had this natural presumption that women, or that men rather are predators, uh they're gonna beat up their kids.
It just I don't know, folks.
It just totally, totally, totally uh uh mess things up.
And that's well.
What do you mean how do I order dinner?
You would.
Oh, you yeah, well, that's another thing.
How do I H.R. wants to know how do you order dinner with that kind of stuff going on?
That's another thing.
In the good old refined days, you'd ask the date, what do you like for dinner?
And you'd tell the waiter what you want, what she wants.
I can make up my own mind and I can talk.
Geez, okay, I was just trying to be polite.
Don't scream at me here.
I would just try to be polite.
Then I got judged on everything I said and did in the basis of a feminist context.
And it was just it got to be uh got to be too much.
And then, on those rare occasions, on those rare occasions, Snerdly, I want you to hear this.
On those rare occasions where I had a date in Pittsburgh with a woman had not yet been touched by this stuff, I still managed to blow it.
There was this great restaurant out in Irwin.
It's no longer there, it's called Ben Gross.
And they had the greatest old wine sommelier in there.
His name was Fritz.
And I just love this.
I didn't know anything about wine.
I walked in there one night and I finally had a date with just a standard, ordinary issue, decent female.
So I'm putting on the dogs.
Hey, Fritz.
You had a good year for a fine red.
He looks at me.
He says, For you, sir, the year you drink it.
So he destroyed me and he was trying to make a joke.
Just but he was.
So at any rate, I think the basic problem to sum up here is not women being weak and men being feminized.
It's just, it's just the fact that they created a war.
And they got all these women thinking that they were being shortchanged and denied and so forth, and they were being devalued when the role that women have traditionally played in free societies is invaluable.
And they got all these women all fussed up and gussed up about how they were getting, you know, used and taken advantage of.
I don't know, folks.
It has it just hasn't been fun out there.
Let's just put it.
And folks, try this, try this next story.
Fathers responsible for fat children.
Study.
Fathers who play less of a role in child rearing are more likely to have overweight or obese offspring.
Australian researchers said the study found that a mother's parenting style had little impact on whether a child was overweight or obese.
Now give me a break and cut me some slack.
This is the exact kind of thing that I'm talking about.
Okay, so men are bad again.
Women aren't having any effect, and there's all the fat slobs out there in the kid populations because of fathers.
The headline ought to read Lack of Fathering Responsible for Fat Children.
Anyway, I just got the most unbelievable note here from a friend of mine at KFBK Sacramento.
And I did a little radio interview there, 17 minutes this morning.
It's our affiliate on the EIB network, and it's of course the uh 50,000 watt blowtorch station that launched this show.
And it's 17 minutes talking about this flap with the local TV station out there.
You may want to check out the CBS 13 website.
Yesterday they asked if they could have a camera crew here in our studio to tape Russia's appearance on KFPK this morning, and we agreed.
This is the first I knew that Channel 13 had a camera crew in the studio.
Now, why don't we get a camera crew in a radio studio to record a telephone interview?
Well, the next line.
When they arrived, Chris Burroughs, one of the three morons, was with them and wanted to go on and ambush you.
And we said no.
Now on their website, they're reporting that Chris Burroughs' request to talk to you was denied and that you are gutless.
This is juvenile.
This is I didn't even know they were there.
I didn't even know they had asked to be there.
I knew they had asked me to go on their station, but I'll be damned if I'm going to grace my presence on that television station out there.
But they were playing an ambush.
And typical drive-by media.
This is it for false pretense.
This guy's a perfect candidate for 60 minutes.
I think he ought to send his resume in to me.
Yes, it is.
It's hilarious.
It seems.
Dear Rush, when you mentioned that men will pray for crop failure the morning after and about women pulling the goalie, when my wife found out what all that meant, she became very angry.
Well, I just told her to shut up and enjoy the show and stop complaining, and she did.
Great show.
Dawn said, That's not funny.
We all said, may not be funny, but it's life.
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