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Oct. 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 22, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Well, we're back at full strength here today, folks.
Snerdley no longer wearing the uh the surgical mask to um prevent the rest of us from catching this phantom disease that he was walking around with last week.
Yes, my friends, time to clean up the messes made over the weekend.
That's what we do here on Monday on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, and I am Rush Limbaugh.
Tremendous to have you with us.
Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead from behind this.
A golden EIB microphone.
Here we are at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Phone number if you want to join us today, 800 282-2882, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
How about these fires out in Southern California and Malibu?
This is just um it is it is well, it's amazing, but it's not uncommon.
I actually think these fires are worse than hurricanes.
You know, and I I wonder where in the world are the environmentalist wackos here trying to put the fires on you.
This has been an amazing thing to watch and to uh read about.
I imagine if you were sitting in Southern California on Sunday, the experience of watching these fires and the media reaction was fascinating.
But uh, you know, one one thing one thing stood out to me, especially in Malibu.
Uh when you when you watch the wall-to-wall coverage, you see firemen, you see homeowners, you see landlords, you see business owners all struggling to save their homes and their businesses, and when the fire department wasn't able to help, they used garden hoses to fight the flames.
They got sixty plus mile an hour winds out there, the Santa Annas are driving all this.
I mean, people are stamping out flames with their tennis shoes or tennis shoes or catching fire.
Uh guys who are trying to keep uh flames from coming underneath the door in their garages and so forth.
Um and the people that were noticeably absent were the environmentalist wackos.
I mean, where were Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and where were their bucket brigades?
Where do these people show up in time of disaster like this?
I mean, they just love the wilderness, don't they?
It's what they always say, save the species, save the earth.
Well, Mother Nature turned to turned a whole bunch of uh Southern California via a torch.
Uh and I uh who I didn't see one Algor Acolite out there trying to help out.
And I'm I'm sitting here watching this.
I wonder how much CO2 and particulate matter got belched into the atmosphere from one fire, let alone five different fires out there.
Talk talk about carbon footprint, try charcoal footpr.
Well, I know it it's it's natural, but here's the thing about Southern California.
The left is gonna claim that a lot of people are gonna claim that it's caused by a drought.
Now, as long as I I lived in California up in the northern part, lived in Sacramento for a while, and and uh moved to New York to go to LA uh for business reasons.
There were always signs in a hotel use as little water as necessary.
There's always a drought out there because it's a desert.
It is not naturally green.
I don't want to offend anybody out there, but the the natural inclinations would be when we're out there discovering the country.
Don't put a city here.
But they funnel water in from the northern part of the state.
There's always a big battle over that, too, and from other other western states where the where the water comes in.
Uh but it's basically a desert.
It's basically a desert with a great view.
It's not naturally green.
Uh if you look at some of the vegetation, chaparral, for example.
Um, I mean, that's a real water-loving species.
Pretty soon are going to put cactus out there.
Just have something to put fires out with.
Uh it just it's it's uh it's an amazing thing to watch, but uh you feel for everybody impacted by this.
But they happen.
They happen regularly.
These fires are an annual thing.
Uh this one is uh considered to be a little worse because of course where it's hitting.
It's hitting Malibu, uh, which is an upper crust elitist enclave.
So the uh the class envy crowd ought to be somewhat happy with this.
Uh San Diego, I mean, all the way up from San Diego to uh to Santa Barbara's right between a couple of fires now.
Uh as I say, I, you know, We we live in a uh in a hurricane prone area here in South Florida, but you know, last what did they predict?
Fifteen hurricanes this year.
We've had four.
And the the end of the season is drawing near, as is the end of the turtle season.
By the way, no another turtle controversy up here.
There aren't as many showing up.
Uh people are very upset about this.
Where are they going?
And they're upset because they think the beaches are eroding and the authorities now here aren't replenishing the beaches well enough, so the turtles aren't showing up.
All these uh distractions.
But here we've had four hurricanes this year, um, two of them nowhere near the United States, five last year.
Who would have ever predicted after the hurricane Katrina season, we had all those hurricanes, uh fifteen of them, and then some tropical storms.
We we went through the whole alphabet of names and had to go to Alpha One and Alpha 2 and what and then they all predicted, oh, this is horrible.
Global warming.
Look out, folks.
Every hurricane's gonna be a Katrina.
We're doomed.
We've had nine since that year.
Who would have ever predicted that?
Nobody predicted.
Every prediction about the past two hurricane seasons has been wrong.
I just had to throw that in.
The point is, these fires are worse than uh than hurricanes.
But uh, you know, Brentwood, uh, where O.J. Simpson lived.
Um that's not far from Malibu.
I mean, it's not just a hop skip and trip, but it's not far from Malibu.
Um it's close enough that people in Brentwood could have helped out if they wanted to.
And I tell you why I mentioned this, is that while the fires were raging out there in Malibu, Hillary Clinton was celebrating in Brentwood at the home of Meathead.
Rob Reiner on Saturday night, who was singing songs to her.
It was a preliminary birthday party.
Her big birthday party is going to be some shuck and jive event here on the East Coast.
So the Hollywood crowd wanted to give her a pre-birthday bash, which is really nothing more than a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton, while millions of dollars worth of homes and businesses and family members were literally growing up in flames.
The Hollywood elite at Meathead's house, listening to him serenade Hillary Clinton.
Actually, I made a mistake, folks.
It actually wasn't for her.
Because we all know Mrs. Clinton doesn't care about money.
The Clintons tell us this constantly.
They don't care about money.
Uh this was for her campaign, and that means it was for the children.
And so having Meathead serenade Mrs. Clinton on Saturday night in Brentwood.
Not a fundraiser, but for the children.
And that is something.
Don't think don't think she did a flyover.
I don't think she did a flyover.
I I don't I don't think there was one expression of uh, well, I don't know what was said inside there, but I haven't seen Mrs. Clinton comment on the fires.
Now, along with keeping this in context with with my theory uh that wildfires of this nature are far more damaging and dangerous than hurricanes.
In a lot of cases, you don't have the warning when something like this, the these things with the Santa Anna's propelling, bam.
Uh and in a tinder box like that, and it is in the middle of a drought, but they're always in the middle of a drought.
Which is the uh which is the point.
Uh, you know when it rains in Southern California, everybody goes nuts.
It's weird.
It doesn't happen that much, especially uh torrential downpours.
Uh so I, you know, after Katrina hit, all we heard about was where's FEMA?
Where's the federal government?
Where's this or that?
We have these homeowners and these business owners and the fire department out there and state authorities all on their own.
By the way, congratulations, speaking of state authorities, Bobby Gindal in Louisiana, a 36-year-old Republican elected governor there on a platform of cleaning up corruption.
Uh and it's uh congratulations to him.
Uh absolutely great.
I have to tell you, I was I was uh in Miami yesterday.
I was a guest to Wayne Heisinger for the Patriots and Dolphins uh in his uh in his box down there, and and uh there were a bunch of military personnel sitting in specially constructed seats down in the end zone.
Uh and about I guess late in the second quarter, somebody what all right, all right, all right.
What have I said here that's funny?
What's what's of course I didn't leave at halftime.
I stayed for the whole game.
Mr. Heisinger has one of the nicest places to watch a football game.
We went down the field before the game and then talked to the Patriots owner, Bob Kraft for a while.
I've met him a couple of times.
He lives here in Paul Beach in the wintertime.
Just a lovable little guy.
I I had uh I have a lot of fun with him.
He's uh he's a uh just just a principal guy.
So so's Wayne Heisinger.
They're just uh nice guys.
I had pictures of it to prove it.
I have pictures to prove it.
Uh left them at home, but I've got pictures to prove it.
Any rate.
Um they brought these military guys, they were, they were from uh an Air Force wing.
They'd fly by.
Did a flyover before the game, F-15s.
That's always uh uh every time I see one of those uh and hear one of those, it's just it's just spine-tingling.
Anyway, they brought these guys up, and there were must have been about 10 or 15 of them that were seated in the end zone.
And uh when they got up there, I made it a point.
Go up and talk to them, and they all they just they did they they were traditional military people.
They do you could not find better examples of American citizens than these guys that were brought up.
And they were all very nice to me, naturally, they would be, as I'm one of their largest supporters, as they know.
And I was uh one army guy among them.
And I had seen something in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that I thought was funny as it could be, because you know there's inter-service rivalries.
These guys uh uh compete against each other and make jokes about each other.
It's a special fraternity being in the U.S. military, even in the inter-intervice rivalries.
So I ran up this Army guy and I said, I gotta tell you this, I gotta tell you what I read in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday.
This this little quote in Fallujah, enlisted Marines have complained to an officer.
There's nobody to shoot here, sir.
They're all gone.
If it's just going to be building schools and hospitals, that's what the Army's for, isn't it?
He laughed.
He laughed.
And he started telling some marine jokes.
Uh but it was uh it was a it was a great time.
All right, we got the Republican debate last night to talk about.
Actually, that was somewhat interesting because they actually debated each other.
And Fox saw to it that that happened, and the uh leading opponent was Mrs. Clinton.
She received most of the discussion uh among these candidates about um the Democrats, and the uh conclusion that I came to is that they hope that she is the nominee.
They want to run against somebody with 50 percent or 49% negatives.
By the way, I was just in Philadelphia, as you know, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, we're gonna do a little recap on the uh on the smear letter today.
Just a little recap, just to wrap this up, clean up the mess the media made of this over the week.
The New York Times was simply outrageous.
It was just irresponsible.
It just may as well have reprinted what Media Matters for America gave them.
Reuters got it all wrong.
You know the best treatment, the most accurate treatment of this was Susan Candiotti and Wolf Blitzer on CNN.
And we've got the audio of that, if I have time to uh to squeeze it in.
We announced all this, the dingy Harry Smear letter, uh in Philadelphia on the night of October the 11th.
So imagine when I get up today and I look at this, well, actually, this hit on Saturday.
Philadelphia is the home of the least attractive people in the United States.
The uglo American Capitol of the United States.
This according to a survey of visitors and residents.
And it was published on Friday.
City of more than one and a half million people was also found to be among the least stylish, the least active, the least friendly, the least.
This is distressing and disturbing to me because I received one of the warmest, loudest, longest sustained greetings.
Several standing ovations during my presentation.
Uh uh that that I can recall.
And guess what?
Guess who Philadelphia just barely beat out.
Now, this I can understand.
Washington, D.C. was next up on the uglo-American Capitol, but then uh that was Dallas Fort Worth.
Now I wouldn't put Dallas Fort Worth near the bottom in Uglo Americans, but every time I've been down there, uh, which is which is somewhat frequently, uh I Dallas, Uglo American Capital of the World.
Well, you've seen the women down there?
That's that that just can't be.
I don't know how in the world.
Dallas Fort Worth ended up in this.
Philadelphian self-esteem has been undermined by national surveys, showing that they're among the fattest people in the U.S. as well, including the ugliest.
The American Obesity Association ranked Philadelphia in the top ten for overweight people every year between 2000 and uh 2005.
Stunning and shocking.
Plus uh the mayor there has just said, hey, traditional methods of policing, we're not gonna work.
We'll no longer work here in uh in Philadelphia.
At any rate, a little long here for oh, I'm actually, according to the programming format, way long.
Be right back.
By the way, you know what causes uh the Santa Ana winds, ladies and gentlemen?
A high pressure, a strong, very cold high pressure area.
It's an air mass, uh, that extends unusually far south over the southern Rockies.
As you know, a high pressure area, the winds circulate clockwise, and that's how they end up coming out of the east.
You know, we have big strong winds down here sometimes in October and November, sometimes approaching 50 miles miles an hour with hardly anything in sight.
It's the usage of a giant high over New England.
Uh coupled with uh low pressure down here that just sucks, creates wind and sucks it in.
And that's what's happening that's what causes the Santa Annas.
I love it.
In the midst of global warming, a cold, unusually cold air mass of high pressure is fueling these uh 60 mile an hour winds.
All right, uh, Harry Reed and the smear letter, a post-mortem.
Try to imagine, if you will, the inner sanctum of the lift, the smoke-filled room where liberal senators plan their strategy.
And they're probably saying in their in their behind closed doors, where are you gonna lead us now, Senator Reed?
What cliff are you gonna drive us over next?
If the letter wasn't bad enough, the original letter wasn't bad enough, and it was.
Harry Reed's last hour, last hour attempt to take credit for the donations was.
So let's do the math.
The auction was announced on Friday, November 12th at 1.30 Eastern time on this program.
And that's when the eBay bidding began.
The winning bid was determined on Friday, October 19th at 1 p.m.
Now I quickly did the math on this, uh, and that's 168 hours.
But let's just use a hundred hours from the time of the announcement until the winning bid.
And let's illustrate it this way.
100 hours, 168, to be accurate for the bidding.
And the senator from Nevada said nothing.
90 hours, and the Senator from Nevada said nothing.
80 hours, the Senator from Nevada said nothing.
70 hours, the Senator from Nevada said nothing.
Sixty hours, fifty hours, forty hours, thirty hours, twenty hours to go.
Senator Reed said nothing.
The bidding had gone from a hundred dollars to eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the senator had said nothing.
With two hours to go, two point one million, and the senator from Nevada still said nothing.
And then with one hour to go, after 167 hours had gone by without comment from Senator Reed.
One hour to go, Senator Harry Reed, Democrat Nevada, tried to horn in on the credit.
What a guy.
What a leader.
What a grungy act.
He implied that he and my syndication partner worked out the fundraiser.
But he didn't even know his name.
He kept calling him Mark May.
It was Mays.
He claimed he talked to him and they had conversations, and they say it's not going to raise a whole lot of money.
Dingy Harry tried to horn in on this and get credit for it in the last hour.
And as I predicted on Friday, the drive-by media in most places went right along with it.
The New York Times, Reuters, right along with it.
When a Republican has egg on his face, it's a Republican issue.
When a Democrat has egg on his face, they turn it into both sides do it.
And they try to turn this into a story into uh you, me, uh, and Senator Harry Reed were both wrong.
Uh, just could not.
Listen to the way the New York Times started on Saturday.
This is the babe who called me and wanted an interview and was told you I wasn't gonna do it because we looked into some of the other things she'd written and she attacks private charity because that money doesn't go to the government.
So here's her lead on Saturday, Stephanie Strom is her name.
After Rush Limbaugh referred to Iraq war veterans critical of the war as phony soldiers.
So they start out with the lie.
After 17 days of this, they still perpetuate the lie.
He received a letter of complaint signed by 41 Democrat senators.
He decided to auction the letter, which had described as its glittering jewel of colossal ignorance for charity, and he pledged to match the price dollar for dollar.
So they start out with a premise they close with a former IRS agent in the Clinton administration claiming that there not might not be tax deductibility for the donor here, which to me signaled that they might investigate the donor.
They know no bounds of depravity.
None.
Here we are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Well, one of the things that we know, ladies and gentlemen, that Dingy Harry has been doing is recording music in a secret Democrat senatorial recording studio.
Paul Shankly, quick little one minute, three-second ditty there, and uh the letter by Senator Harry Reed of Nevada.
All right, let's go to the phones.
Big Bear California.
Brian, you're up first.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
Just why I'd let you know the butler two fire that was going on about a month ago just started raging again.
And uh we have an old saying up here in Big Bear that uh having the Sierra Club match our forest is like having Michael Jackson babysit your six-year-old child.
Well, that's the point.
The Sierra Club creates tinder boxes out of forests.
Yeah, absolutely.
They they they they won't even let us come in the forest and cut down the dead trees.
And so what happens is you get too many trees sucking out the water, and it it it gives the bark beetles and those things the chance to kill off everything before, you know, anyone even knows about it.
And so now we've got a huge timber box ready to go up, which is exactly what's happening.
Yeah, it's you know, sadly though, it's it's just it's all too common.
Uh these fires are just they uh they're they happen.
Uh they're annual, uh, and this one just happens to be impacting a lot more homes than uh than some of the others.
I mean, all the way from San Diego to Santa Barbara uh with the with points in between.
Thousands of people are being told that they have to uh be prepared to uh evacuate their homes.
That that has got to be one of the most helpless feelings in the world to have.
They've been I have some friends that live in Sun Valley up in Idaho.
Uh this is my buddy that lives pretty close to John F. Carey.
And they had some fires up there in August, and they were they were they were this close to being told they had to evacuate.
Uh it's a uh and it's of course this is a built-in recipe for the wackos to blame global warming uh for all of this when uh these are common.
Fires are common.
Uh and he's right, the Sierra Club will not let you get in there, and none of the environmentalists will, and get rid of the dead junk that is at the bottom of these forests that is just like kindling wood.
Uh that we must maintain the earth, Mr. Limbaugh in its prithine and gorgeous state, this nature, Mr. Limbaugh.
Uh and they just continue to miss the point.
We are human beings.
We have dominion.
We manage our lives in order to thrive, we have to alter our environment.
And if altering the environment means clearing out some dead brush to make uh uh fire less of a a gigantic possibility than it already is, then we have a responsibility to do that.
Uh but this is all rooted in the in the mistaken belief of the environmentalist wackos that human beings are only intruders here, and that we are predators, and that we're destroying the planet.
Hell, I've got a story over here in a global warming stack, and this is just this is just well, I here it is.
Uh this is this is uh uh by Fraser Moore of the Associated Press, and it's about a television show.
Uh it's a tough world, all right.
Too bad it's not tougher.
Right now, Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.
We are punishing the earth.
Uh this isn't really news, of course.
Of course not.
Why would the drive by's question such a ridiculous proposition?
Not really news that we're punishing the earth.
We are punishing the earth.
You see, the only thing we can do, folks, is die or leave.
We have to stop punishing the earth.
Because it's so fragile.
It is fragile, Mr. Limbaugh.
Very No, it's not.
It's going to outlast us and whatever we do to it.
God, the vanity that some of the people in this planet have.
CNN has packed a two-night, four-hour planet in peril show with information and images that give a familiar story, new urgency.
Here's an eye-opening, often heart-wrenching exploration.
And uh so it's more of talk about propaganda.
That is precisely uh what this is all about, designed to fear, as frightened and create fear in as many people's minds as possible.
This is all part of the hoax to make you feel as guilty as possible because you're responsible.
You are now punishing the planet, folks.
You are punishing it.
Those of you who are about to lose your homes or have lost your homes in fires in Southern California, Idaho, you are punishing the planet.
Mother Earth is just getting even with you because Mother Earth doesn't want homes where you put them.
And when a hurricane comes along and just drives your home on the beach, Mother Earth getting even with you, because Mother Earth doesn't want homes on her beaches.
Yes.
So Mother Earth's coming.
I if anybody's punishing anybody, it's Mother Earth punishing us.
No, we're punishing Mother Earth.
It's designed to make you feel guilty because you're causing this.
And when some dingleberry comes along with the idea that you need to roll back your lifestyle and have your taxes raised, you're supposed to, in order to absolve yourself of this guilt and sin, go right along with it.
It's about bigger government controlling your life, and that's what global warming actually is all about.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ronnie, glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Rush.
Yeah.
Ditto's.
Thank you.
Listen, you made a comment about Mr. Gendal that was excellent because you did it without mentioning his race or ethnicity.
Everybody down here, every article I read has to paraphrase it by saying an Indian American or the first non-white since 1870.
I've noticed this, but they're all liberals.
See, they're the ones obsessed with noticing people's outward appearance.
Look at who do you think did this survey on what city has the ugliest people in it?
Do you think you think a bunch of conservatives would bother themselves with that?
This is liberals doing this.
Liberals, they have to point out that Gendel is non-white and he's part Indian because they see people as members of groups.
That how that allows them to put people in uh more easily in a victim status.
A lot of them fail to mention that he took 54% of the vote.
He took 60 out of 64 parishes.
Well, you gotta understand.
This isn't, and he's only 36, and he ran on an anti-corruption.
This isn't supposed to happen.
Liberals are not supposed to be losing elections here when they're about to win the White House, quote unquote.
You know, they just they just they're just uh uh this is not supposed to happen, especially in a state that they have run since the 1800s.
That's exactly right.
Well, congratulations, Ronnie.
I uh I'm happy for everybody down there.
This is gonna be a uh uh an opportunity for a market improvement.
Here is uh what you have one more thing you want to say?
Uh well, I just certainly hope so, and I appreciate your comments.
You bet.
Appreciate your call.
This is uh uh Don in Detroit, your next Don with Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Measured in current dettos to you.
Thank you.
Hey, just uh just out of curiosity, I wonder what you thought about EGV giving more uh advertising credence to Jerry Garcia's kitchen sink than to the uh U.S. constipation there, the declaration of incompetence.
Um you mean eBay's coverage of the phony the the the phony soldier smear letter uh and how much it raised.
Yeah, absolutely.
They didn't even put you have a have the decency to put you on the front uh page, their homepage.
And they had Jerry Garcia think up there for like a month.
You this this this should this should not surprise you.
Uh it it kind of outrages me a little bit.
I mean, here you are um raising all this money three times more than eBay's ever raised for anybody else.
On a charity.
Absolutely, on a charity.
Uh eBay should have given you the the uh giving credit where credit is due.
Uh you know, I don't I don't expect that from outfits like that.
I mean eBay, they they helped us out tremendously, and they administered the auction very well with a couple of uh partners, but we people at Run eBay are very liberal Democrat.
And they made a lot of money off of this as well.
Um, I think they waived their fees on uh charitable auctions.
Uh even had they not, we were going to pay those.
The uh the high bidder, the winner of the Harry Reed letter was was not going to have any expense uh whatsoever associated with this.
But look, I predicted to you people on Friday, once Dingy Harry came out with that last minute appeal to make it look like he was part of the fundraising effort all along.
I said the whole purpose of this is designed to get the the the drive-by media, which are in the tank for Democrats and out in order to get Harry Reed involved in this.
The last thing they want to do is report success on the part of somebody like me.
I've I have uh I've taken my own little uh informal personal surveys.
You would be amazed.
The New York Post has not said a word about it.
The New York Times lied about it.
Uh the New York Daily News put a one-line blurb or two-line blurb at the end of a big story on radio.
Uh and this is perfectly understandable, folks.
These are liberals.
You you you, if you don't know it by now, you have to understand, or you must try to understand, and I really don't want to make this about me, but it is, unfortunately.
They had a monopoly.
I've said this over and over again.
They had a monopoly.
They used to be able to determine what was reported and more importantly, what wasn't reported.
And they they they had every media controlled, from broadcast to cable to print with the magazines and newspapers, and they don't have that anymore.
I'm the guy that started the trend that defeated their monopoly.
So it's it's personal uh with with them.
You can see it in the in the way they report.
There's an alternative universe here.
The media lives in a different world than the rest of us do.
So to expect, as I told somebody on Friday, to expect validation for what you do, or for what the conservatives get done in this country in the mainstream media, to even expect objectivity and accurate reporting is an expectation that you're only going to be uh disappointed in because it's never going to be met.
We know who they are, we know what angers them, we know they're gnashing their teeth over this.
Uh and that's that's part of the success and the fun with it.
The way to look at this is not that they're not covering it fairly, because we know that's going to happen.
The way to look at this is look what we did without them.
Not only did they not cover it after the fact, they didn't cover it before or during.
Uh and those that did touch on it got it wrong, as uh as was also predicted.
So this was done.
This record and so forth was set on eBay without them.
It's a positive.
It's a net win-win.
We'll be back.
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Rush Limboy here at the EIB network.
I have, as a result of show prep today, what's one uh two, two, two, do, three, four, six six stories.
We have a special stack today for teacher abuse stories.
This is unbelievable.
Four thousand or two thousand seven hundred and fifty cases.
This is a survey by AP.
Five years of state disciplinary actions against teachers found that two thousand five hundred and seventy educators were punished for sexual misconduct in the cases where the victim's gender was clear, uh, the large proportion were female.
Uh almost nine out of what does that mean?
In the cases where the victim's gender was clear.
What am I missing here?
This they this this.
Oh, okay, some of it's not reported.
I guess you can't tell from names anymore.
This this doesn't say anything about not being reported.
This said in cases where the victim's gender was clear.
Uh let's not go any further with that.
I this is typical journalism date.
A large proportion were female, but the boys who are drawn into sexual relationships with their female teachers get an overwhelming amount of attention, especially when the woman's attractive.
Oh.
These people have no clue about human nature.
At any rate, uh they're the subject of heavy news coverage, jokes from late-night TV comics, websites with photos, videos.
Oh, I see what they're saying.
The press is saying when a teacher is from Philadelphia or Dallas Fort Worth or Washington, the uglo American capitals of the uh of the country, that doesn't get as much coverage if the female teachers are not attractive.
What's more likely to be described as rape or sexual abuse when the victim is female turns into a twist or a sexual liaison when the perpetrator is female and the victim is uh is male.
Sexual misconduct by teachers remarkably common in American schools, according to AP, but how Americans react to it's deeply split depending on the victim's gender.
And then there's another story in this stack.
It says the 4.5 million have been abused in these 2500 cases.
We're talking about groped being raped, pursued, seduced, end up thinking that they are in love.
4.5 million have been abused.
And then there's this story from today in the Los Angeles Times.
Professor makes a case for faculty student romance.
Uh UCLA's Paul Abramson argues that colleges shouldn't restrict dating by consenting adults, provided grades are not involved.
Uh he's leading a campaign so professors can hit on their students.
Uh it's basic a right as free speech, he says, when both are adults.
And he suggests here to allay legal fears, he suggests an alternative.
All faculty and students would read and sign a release called a love contract that would warn about the power differences and favoritism that can arise from faculty student dating.
Then they would promise, as in a medical release, not to hold the school responsible if the remote romance goes sour.
This this, of course, this is a responsible approach, ladies and gentlemen.
This is the adult response.
This is the evolving uh uh uh approach here as our culture continues to uh evolve.
Uh and so to protect the professor uh when the romance goes south, both will sign a love contract, uh claiming that they will not sue each other and a student won't sue the school as long as it can be perfectly ascertained that there was no influence on grades involved here.
So while we've got all these cases of abuse, which we're not even talking about the mental uh results of this, you know, the emotional scarring these young kids in uh in junior high and high school with this happens to.
Now we've got this guy at UCLA who wants he wanted to sanction this under the uh guise of a love contract.
If that ever got done, don't you know that would filter down?
They'd find a way to get around the consenting adults business in the other schools.
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