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May 8, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 8, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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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.
And Dawn says the kids want to get one.
If kids want to get one, you're pretty much going to get one.
This is the Cadillac SRX crossover.
New sponsors here at the EIB network, General Motors.
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 is 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 $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.
What was it, Detroit Economic Club where he was speaking?
Now, here is a companion story.
This also from yesterday's stack.
It's from the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times, Healthcare Reform's unlikely ally, big business.
Abandoning the business lobby's traditional resistance to healthcare reform.
A new coalition of 36 major companies plans to launch a political campaign today.
Stories from yesterday calling for medical insurance to be expanded to everyone along the lines of Governor Schwarzenegger's proposing in California.
Founded by Steve Bird, chairman of the Safeway grocery chain and an ally of the governor, the coalition could boost efforts in Sacramento and Washington to overhaul healthcare 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 slaying 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 plans.
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 and 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 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 they've the kind of cars you see if you go to Europe, you know, smaller streets, higher petrol prices over there.
They've had tiny little cars for years.
And I even showed me this giant SUV, what was it, a Yukon that is half hybrid, half half.
They're very proud of it.
But at the same time, at the same time, I was reminded during the visit that General Motors is already on there.
I know that Ford and Chrysler, I assume they are too, but I mean, they're busting their rear ends to get their fuel economy standards up, these cafe standards, because they're mandated.
And they feel sort of hamstrung by it.
Cadillac wanted to build a thing called a Cadillac 16.
It was going to be 550 horsepower MAMA.
And they're not going to do it because I don't think there's going to be any market for it.
And it won't be legal.
Something that gets that little gas won't be legal down the road.
So they're up to speed on what they have to do.
And some of the cars I saw that they're going to be introducing in the next two years are indeed, they're 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 something that to me is, well, 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 this indeed happens.
I was talking earlier in the last hour about the feminization of American culture.
Now, 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 healthcare maintenance program, a healthcare 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 I'd build a variety of them.
And 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 got to be tough for them.
And when you are told that you can't build certain kinds of cars, and by the way, 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, then, okay, you bend over and grab the ankles and say, I'm afraid of alienating the customer.
I'm afraid of alien.
That's not the real thing.
They're afraid of alienating government.
Now, last thing they want to do is alienate government because they'll come down on them 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 customers are going to have fewer choices of what they really want.
I mean, the largest seller in the GM line right now is the Escalade.
Well, the escalade's a big mama.
There's nothing, 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, it was not a GM executive, it was somebody in my entourage who talked to before I got there, said that a majority of the escalades are being purchased by these giant limo companies and being stretched.
Have you seen these giant hummers and escalades on the road at seat 50?
You know, with a drivetrain that's about a block long and so forth, a lot of them are being turned into that.
Well, 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 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 Detroit wouldn't.
Well, the fact is Japanese companies don't have to pay the health care of their workers.
The company does that.
In Japan, anyway, the government does that.
And so they, but 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 in every car you buy averages out to be $1,500.
And the Japanese don't have to put that $1,500 in the suggested retail price of their automobile.
Well, right there, you've got 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 today, and it comes from Mortimer Zuckerman.
Mort Zuckerman, U.S. News and World Report, is the owner-protect publisher of the Grand Poobah.
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.
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.
There 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 has 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 the 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 because platitudes and an above politics stance and charisma are not going to be enough in a dangerous world.
The USA Today has a poll.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has rebounded to a 15 percentage point lead over Barack Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination.
She went up seven points in three weeks, I think, is what's happened here.
Among Republicans, it's Giuliani with a 14-point lead over McCain.
Clinton is only 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 23%, three points lower than before.
Clinton strategist Mark Penn attributes her boost in a poll to her performance in the opening April 26 debate.
He said, at that debate, people got the first chance to see them all side by side, and I think she's looking very ready to lead.
Meanwhile, John Edwards, the Brett 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 North Carolina doing an interview on Iowa Public Radio.
That's okay.
So he said that'll be the end of it.
Drive-by say, yeah, he's addressed the issue and he's genuine and he's authentic.
The larger question is this: the Brett 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?
Somebody tell me anywhere in the world where poverty has been solved by government.
You can't unless you say government get out of the way.
But I'm talking about, yes, Mr. Snowden, what?
What?
Norway?
Oh, 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, nobody cares about poverty.
They're stoned.
Norway's sitting on.
You're telling me there's no poverty there?
You're telling me there's no...
The point is, in major industrialized nations with genuine percentages of poor people, has government wiped it out?
Has the government fixed it?
And is the Brett girl's 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 going to make them care.
He's going to 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 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.
Society, so many redundant programs.
It's not the answer, is it?
Which means liberalism, Democrat answers, are not the answer to the problems of poverty.
And of course, the dirty little secret is, is that even the libs know this.
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.
Whether they accomplish anything, you're not supposed to look at their results.
You look at their results, that's mean, spirited, and cruel.
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.
And without teaching people how to escape poverty, and I don't think many libs want them to fully escape it, then they wouldn't need government.
I know it sounds cynical, but 50 years of track record is pretty much evidence to look at to draw some pretty definitive conclusions.
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, dittos.
Thank you very much.
Great to talk to you.
It's been great to sit and listen to the parodies as well.
But I wanted to 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 kind of stole my thunder a little, but I just want to touch on the issue of the verbiage.
And I think this is where people maybe get a little confused as to your position 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, devaluing men and their God-given role in society and elevating.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's another way of saying that the feminization of culture is taking place.
But it's not that I don't, I think it's, you're half right.
You know, feminism is not just about devaluing the male.
It's also about changing 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 correct and true history, 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 50 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.
And 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.
You know, you see this in commercials today.
I have two daughters.
Say what, hold your thought.
I got to take a break.
But folks, once again, to 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 in just a second.
Stay with us.
And we are back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is, let's see, we're still with Yvonne in Livermore, California.
You were saying, Yvonne.
Yes, well, I was just saying I can testify to the change in our culture.
I'm trying to raise two girls, and it's a daily struggle to combat this devaluation, really, of both sexes to a degree, but especially of men.
We see it in commercials on TV.
My girls see the man being treated as an idiot all the time.
And of course, the women know everything.
And it's just a real struggle in daily life.
Well, sadly, that's pretty accurate.
That's what they're going to face out there.
That's what they're going to end up thinking.
Not if we can help it.
Not quite that far.
Look, 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 pioneer women and eras such as that, and you found really strong women in their roles.
And you found really strong men at the same time in their roles.
And I know I do a lot of joking here because I love stereotypical humor.
I love mother-in-law jokes, such as, you know what a real quandary is?
It's seeing your brand new Cadillac go over the cliff, but your mother-in-law's tongue stuck in the seatbelt clip.
I just, I've always liked those kind of jokes.
You can't tell those jokes anymore.
People out there were, voah, anti-woman.
Limbaugh hates women and so forth.
And it would be all over the place as though I, you know, really misrepresented 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.
And activism is almost always a province of the left, and it almost always works because people who are not leftists just sit out there and let this stuff wash over them.
They've 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, move behind a gate, the gated community, and let the world deteriorate around them while they try to insulate themselves from it.
But I have always, I think about both of my grandmothers and my mother, I've always marveled at the genuine toughness and emotional strength of women.
And it's always been something that I have admired.
It wasn't until, and we all have formative experiences.
And 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 Khrushchev showing up and banging the shoe at the United Nations.
And my grandparents, too.
All of these things had profound impact on the way they raised my brother and me and the way they lived their lives.
Well, I haven't gone through anything like that.
Great Depression, World War II, that sort of thing.
The closest we've had to what they had to go through was the Soviet threat, which was real at the time.
But 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 Khrushchevs and the Brezhnevs and the Uriendropovs 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.
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 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 in the world is America.
And we're alienating allies and we're not consulting them when you 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.
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 bench out, 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 you had to do all this yourself because there were no engineers.
And the purpose, Sears had sponsored this.
They were buying an hour or two hours.
So Sears would have spent the point was to draw a crowd into Sears 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 Haskrill.
And I remember one of these Saturday mornings, they said, we want you to bring in some kids from high school to talk about issues that they're facing.
And that was my first taste into how formulaic radio is done.
But I didn't know that at the time.
I just said, okay, fine.
I just wanted to be on the radio.
And one of the, and I didn't pick the high school people.
I don't remember who did.
I might have had a hand in it.
It doesn't matter.
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 firebrand for feminism.
And I'm hearing about it for the first time.
And I'm kind of, I'm trying to remember my, at the time, I don't think anything big deal.
I mean, 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, feminism, where is this coming from?
I have not, I was not familiar with it at all.
And after that, of course, it's like the first time I saw a lot of cars on the road that I have never, ever seen before.
I see one.
I said, gee, what the hell is that?
And then it seems like I see 10 of them every day after that.
Well, after this first exposure to this firebrand high school senior on feminism, and she wasn't angry, she was newly enlightened.
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've been repressed and they've been oppressed and women have been made to conform to men's demands for too long and it was time to get active in this.
And I'm listening to all of it, first I've ever heard of it.
It was shortly after, well, a year after that, that I left my hometown.
I went to my first job away from home, which was in Pittsburgh.
And it was infested with women like that.
And I'm 20.
I'm 20 and 21 years old.
And 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 clichés 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 10 years, if I thought a woman was good-looking, I would apologize before noticing it and saying so.
I don't mean to offend you here, but 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 still am quite reserved in dealing with this kind of thing because until I get to know them, 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 or offensive or what have you.
So we've got people walking on eggshells.
We've got men and women who no longer know how to do it.
Well, I think it's changing now because feminism, while it's still deeply rooted, 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.
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 going to marry a woman like that.
I was not going to 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, that was not the point.
I was not going to be dictated to by some cultural change that was nothing more than 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.
Those experiences when I'm 19 and when I'm 20 and 21, this is supposed to be when you're out there sowing your wild oats and praying for crop failure every morning.
You know, and some of these women, if they did engage in it, they wouldn't pull a goalie on you.
And so you were running the risk of, well, men might understand that.
You know what I mean by that, Dawn, pull a goalie.
Don't take the pill.
So, I mean, just I'm telling you, it snerdly's on the floor.
He's on the floor.
Well, crop failure, pulling the goalie.
I mean, these, I'm just telling folks, I don't want to beat this into the ground, but this is what has, you know, talk about formative experiences in life.
And I've, I've, this feminism stuff, it, it, women started disliking.
They resented what I've told you the story.
I once, when I went to Kansas City, a friend of mine, when a news director said, there's a babe you got to meet and go out to dinner with.
I said, okay, fine.
Woman, all she wanted to talk about was Susan Brownmiller'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, this woman is just, she's not having any fun in life.
She's just balled 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 I scratched my head, I said, this is just, you know, I would spend some time on it.
Okay, rape's a serious thing, but good Lord, I'm not going to sit here and be preached to.
And we went from that to men are predators, social services.
Your wife better not call social services on.
You're going to lose your kids.
And women had this, the feminists had this natural presumption that women, or that men rather, are predators.
They're going to beat up their kids.
It just, I don't know, folks.
It just totally, totally, totally messed things up.
And that's, well, what do you mean, how do I order dinner?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's how HR 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 was just trying 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 too much.
And then, on those rare occasions.
On those rare occasions, Snortly, I want you to hear this.
On those rare occasions where I had a date in Pittsburgh with a woman who 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 finally had a date with just a standard, ordinary issue, decent female.
So I'm putting on the dogs.
Hey, Fritz, you got 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.
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 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 used and taken advantage of.
I don't know, folks.
It just hasn't been fun out there.
Hey, folks, 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 slabs 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 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 KFBK 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 Literally, you phone.
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, dishonest setup.
This guy's a perfect candidate for 60 minutes.
I think he ought to send his resume into him and he could be hired tomorrow.
Yes, it is.
It's hilarious.
It says, 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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