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June 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What a spectacular backfire it was.
I mean 24,000 emails.
How many?
How many people could withstand a media analysis of 24,000 of your emails replete with volunteers looking for any syllable of dirt on you?
And nobody finds anything.
What a giant backfire.
Speaking, of course, Sarah Palin in the media.
Terribly distraught, looking for the knockout shot that they have unable to deliver.
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Medium, state controlled media, clearly hoping to find anything that would knock Mrs. Palin out of the race, even though she's not in it.
They want to knock her out of it before she gets in it.
They want to knock her out of it before she gets in it so she doesn't get in it.
Why?
Why do they care, folks?
She's such an idiot and a dunce.
Why do they why do they care?
One thing they did was knock Wiener off the uh the front page.
Wiener says he's gonna stick it out now.
I nobody can figure out which way he's going on this.
He's uh gonna go to rehab and stick it out, he's gonna resign and go to rehab, he's not gonna go to rehab, he's gonna resign anyway.
Nobody knows.
This seems to what's the latest you've heard, Snerdley.
He's telling you to stick it out.
Stick it out.
Well, which is what got him in trouble in the first place.
So that's that's that's the latest with with uh wing before the 17-year-old.
But the 17-year-old says it's no big deal.
Uh and and well, it sent Democrats over the edge because after a while they reach a point of diminishing returns where uh it makes no sense to save a guy.
In fact, Charles Rangel is out there saying, hey, hey, what are we talking about?
Why are you little boys involved?
Here, but he back off.
Wrangle actually said that.
There aren't any little boys involved here to no big deal.
And I guess for Democrats, there is a point where the appearance of impropriety actually matters.
No, you don't doubt me on it.
Wrangell actually said it.
And he has experience being investigated in things like this.
So all they found in these emails, and there's 24,000 of them, all they found is she's a very hard working governor.
They found out that she is really devoted, very, very hard working governor.
So now the New York Times and uh others are basically telling their readers to ignore the emails.
No, don't worry about it.
Uh we've looked at them for you.
We had all of our volunteers, and there's nothing to see there.
It's I I I just I marvel at this.
I I just I uh the the the the so-called smart people in the room are making abject fools of themselves.
Uh more so and more so each and every day.
I mean, they didn't even find anything they could take out of context.
That's how that's how clean and pure these emails were.
Nothing they could even take out of context.
Watched a movie over the weekend called The Company Men.
Stars Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, uh, let's see who else in this mode.
Craig T. Nelson's in it.
A couple of others, and it's about the current economic crisis.
Well, I don't know.
I watch it on pay-per-view.
I don't I don't know if it's in the theaters or if it has been in theaters or if it's what I don't have any idea.
I just watched it on pay-per-view.
And it's uh gosh, it's scary because you know that we instinctively know anyway, this is it this movie what's depicted here is happening to real people in great numbers.
Lives are being destroyed because of the United States economy.
Now, the the movie, if you've seen it, it does have its um obligatory slams at the typical heartless, cold, ruthless white CEO, but not much.
But it does, and it has its obligatory attacks on uh on how business will fire people but invest 22 million dollars in a new office program.
But that wasn't what struck me.
You know, I've been This is about people of all ages who work for a major corporation who get blown out.
They get fired.
Ranging in age from 35 all the way up to 60.
And the problems that they have.
There's a suicide.
I don't want to give too much of the movie away if you haven't seen it.
And if you plan on watching it, but boy, it made me pinch myself, and it made me realize how lucky I am and blessed I've been.
You know, I got fired seven times.
It was when I was in my youth.
Being fired at age 60.
At any time is bad.
In this particular claim, it is disheartening and depressing.
And they the movie dealt with this, I thought, fairly honestly, other than, you know, the look it's a Weinstein movie, former Miramax guys.
It's got its obligatory attacks on capitalism.
You can look past those.
It really was a case study in what's happening to people.
There wasn't any politics in it.
There was nobody really was blamed other than the white CEO or being heartless and so forth.
But it uh every five minutes watching this movie, I said, Man, am I lucky?
Man uh am I blessed.
And I I could give you review.
I could require me to tell you all about the movie, and I'm not uh gonna do it.
I know Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz says there is no recession, that it's we got the soundbite.
Debbie Blabbermail Schultz says the economy.
It's it's so hot out there right now, you might not even know that there was a recession.
Yeah.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, we've got the women on the round table of Christiana Montport's show yesterday, this week on ABC, talking about the Wiener scandal may be a good moment for women.
Claire Shipman, who is married to Jay Carney.
Claire Shipman, married to Jay Carney, who is the White House press secretary, says this Wiener scandal may actually be a good moment for women.
Are you trying to figure out how that can be?
All right.
Well, I don't want to give it away.
We'll wait till we get to her sound bites, because I got them here.
They're at the top of the list.
For us to listen together and uh enjoy.
Uh it folks, there's it just isn't getting any better.
It's it it just economically, it's just getting worse, and there's no end in sight for it.
And coupled with watching this movie, it was just a combination of being depressed over what's happening to real people in this country.
It just breaks my heart to know that this is happening to people who have done nothing but play by the rules, who've done nothing but go out trying to be the best they can be.
And I know there are natural economic cycles, and you can't lose your mind over everybody gets canned, but this is different because what's happening to the United States and our private sector now is purposeful.
Uh the circumstances that are affecting and happening to people are the result of government policy.
They are the end result of what this administration intends.
And I imagine the people that produce this movie find it strange I might be talking about how much I liked it, because the people involved in this movie were involved in the West Wing TV show.
The movie came out of the Sundance.
You know, Robert Redford's film fest out there in Utah.
It had uh very limited theatrical release.
And I was just channel surfing through it, uh, and I saw it on the pay-per-view list and decided to watch it.
Let me take a brief time out.
We got lots to do here today on the EIB network.
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Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Yesterday on um uh ABC's This Week, the new hostette, Christiana Manpore, there was a round table discussion on Anthony Wiener and other male politicians getting caught for their sexual misbehavior.
And uh and whether more women in positions of power would change this trend.
And they had I think it was an all female round, I think it was all female.
A bunch of uh yeah, with four white women who have not received inappropriate photos that we know of anybody in Congress.
Uh here's Christiana Manpoor opening the discussion up.
You'd be hard pressed to find a sex scandal involving a female politician these days, which begs the question what if there were more women in politics and in positions of power?
Would they change the way business is done from Washington to Wall Street and beyond?
Do you think this might be actually a good moment for women, this scandal?
Okay.
So Christiana Manpora puts it out there.
What if there were more women and and fewer wieners?
Then you wouldn't have so many sex scandals, and you wouldn't have all this kind of stuff going on.
And then she asked Tory Clark, who um you know used to be in the Bush administration, Bush uh 41, George H. W. Bush.
Uh, and Claire Shipman's on the panel.
Do you think this might actually be a good moment for women?
And here's Tori Clark and her reply.
I do.
I in politics in the public sector, often women are seen as more honest, more sincere, those are harder working, all of which I think is true.
So this may be an opportunity for more women to step into those positions.
I'm very hopeful that women do achieve more of these positions.
They are not going to engage in the same kind of behavior.
So help me out here, folks.
Help me out.
Because this has happened to Wiener, and because Wiener is in trouble.
I'm following the logical progression as best I can.
Because Wiener did this.
Nothing happened to him.
Wiener did this, got caught, he's in trouble.
Now it has been deduced by women that this is actually a good moment for women in power and business.
Because guys like Wiener doing this and getting caught results in them getting thrown away.
Getting them thrown out, which opens up more positions, power, and leadership for women.
Do I follow this right?
So far.
Let's move on now to Claire Shipman.
Christiana Monpoor said, look, there's a there's a lot of research that talks about what the effect on society is of more women in various areas of power.
There are half a dozen major studies that show the more women you have at a company, the more senior women, the more money it makes.
There's also an economist at the University of Michigan who has studied diversity and decision making and has found that in every business decision, diversity leads to better decisions.
In other words, uh a group of all white men are not going to reach the best decisions.
There's something about a group of men and testosterone, you know, making risky decisions that's very real.
Governments around the world recognize this.
There's a reason why Norway mandates 40% of board members need to be women.
England is moving in that direction.
Have I not warned everyone about this?
The chickification of the news, the chicken of our culture.
It's perfectly fine.
It's perfectly fine to see her discuss this as a hypothetical.
Something about a group of men and testosterone, you know, making risky decisions that's very real.
But you put a bunch of women in these kind of positions, and that kind of thing isn't going to happen.
They're not going to be that much testosterone there.
So the assumptions that are being made here is just it it goes back to uh one of the earlier periods of feminism.
Fathers, men were natural predators.
That they they really had no redeeming qualities, that the purpose of women was to tame them, to socialize them.
And then if you pointed that out, boy, they really hated you.
Even though those are the circumstances that they set up.
Conclusion you could uh only come to based on the criteria they set forth.
So, I mean it it it's it's stunning here that you have this situation to me, and yet this now is looked upon as a robust opportunity, a good moment for women.
Now, Claire Shipman, keep in mind she's married to um to Jay Carney, so she's obviously not a fan of testosterone, and we knew that, you know, going uh even before.
Well, Snerdley, what do you expect me to say?
It's true, even before she makes the uh even before she makes the comments.
It's true.
I I just I find this uh fascinating, this either or business, diversity is the is the solution here.
It No, women are not crooks, they can't be crooks, women, it's impossible for them to be crooks.
It's impossible for women to engage in uh in in sexual missteps like like Wiener, of course.
Who are all those school teachers that are engaging in predatory behavior with young male young boy students?
Who are those people?
They have to be this is absurd.
You know, here's the thing.
I wonder why is it that Anthony Wiener turns out to be the kind of guy he is?
How does that happen?
If we're gonna bring this stuff up, folks, let's talk about it.
Let's bring it up.
Who, what kind of women has Anthony Wiener been around his whole life?
He has been around a bunch of these kinds of women who have been attacking testosterone, who have been attacking traditional male roles.
He's been around women to whom the idea of a real guy is some metroseual.
Uh is it any wonder, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
I wonder if it occurs to women like Claire Shipman or Tori Clark that Wiener did what he did because he's been surrounded with women like them for his whole adult life.
You know, I told you that I had this story from last week.
Hollywood working on four or five, and maybe even six sitcoms uh uh about about how men have basically just been uh beaten down to to panty wast panty waste milk toast wimps.
The men are just, and they're comedies.
They're sending, and it's now it's in vogue to make fun of weak, worthless, wimp sissies.
That's who the men are in these upcoming.
Now, how does it, how do how do these men turn out that way?
Who makes them that way?
Because that's not that's not their natural state.
I mean, you look at Wiener, we cannot blame what happened to Wiener on testosterone.
We're looking at a guy here who's he's kiddie whipped.
You want to get down to brass tacks on this, we're looking at somebody here who's been hanging around these kinds of women.
And he's doing anything he can to break out.
He's doing everything he can to step out and get away from their control.
This to Anthony Wiener being a guy.
He's not allowed to be a guy hanging around a bunch of liberal women.
No, Snerdley, I'm not defending the action.
Don't put words into my mouth here.
I'm just, I just I heard about this.
I got the transcript.
I had to hear this for myself.
The Wiener scandal, a good moment for women.
Just like everything is looked after the prism, is it good for Obama?
Or is it is it not good for uh for Obama?
By the way, the media is still having trouble deciding whether or not I matter.
Here's a uh montage.
Last Thursday.
Now, I don't have time to get into this.
I you know, I just looked at the clock.
If I get started on this, I'm gonna have to interrupt myself in the middle of it, and I won't have enough time to finish it.
So we'll do this when we come back on the break.
But the media can't decide whether I matter or not.
One day I'm just an entertainer, the next day, you know, I run the Republican Party.
I'm the Nr.
Big.
The next day, I don't really matter.
And they have this uh discussion.
It's about Romney and his position on climate change and the way we reacted to it here on the uh on the EIB network and so forth, basically saying his nomination was over.
By the way, Romney, I have to tell you, has a uh a killer ad that's running against Obama.
In fact, that's probably what I'll share with you when we come back from the break here at the uh at the bottom of the hour, because it is big.
And also Mrs. Clinton is advising Huma on what to do.
Wife and child.
Actually, that's not true.
It's wife and fetus.
We must think of Wiener's wife and fetus right now.
That'll drive the left crazy if you characterize it that way, because you know there's no such thing as a fetus.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Happy to have you along, the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
No, I really believe when I say that it's the women that Wiener hung around with, that he worked with, the women influenced him growing up, that's why he's the way he is.
And I think being surrounded by, raised by, um, in the same orb as, judged by what have you, a bunch of feminist oriented liberal women explains why it is that politicians need to keep cutting loose.
It's no different than why Obama goes and grabs fast food every time he gets away from Michelle.
At home, he's got to eat bean sprouts and watercress, vinaigrette, salad dressing, and gets a chance to get away from all that.
What does he do?
Burgers, hot dogs, double order of fries loaded up with mayonnaise, all the rotten stuff.
Now, you know, liberals and others, let's bring morality into this a second.
Liberals and others are the ones who tell us to ignore the moral issues.
And in fact, there are even some other Republicans, hey, let's not get into the social issues.
We don't want to go there.
We're just made to order for hypocrisy so forth.
You know, get away from faith.
And they now tell us that morality does matter, and women are more moral than men.
That's what Claire Shipman and the gang were saying.
So they can't have it both ways as far as I'm concerned.
Every other day of the week, morality.
How old fashioned is that?
Don't tell me about your morality.
Don't impose your morality on me.
And let Wiener get into trouble because of the women even hanging around, and all of a sudden, women become more moral than men.
Claire Shipman and Tory Clark and whoever else on that panel, far more deserving of positions of power than Wiener.
Because they are more moral.
Now, this is important.
Wiener was their guy.
And for a while, they tried to circle the wagons around their Wiener just last week.
We had a story about all the liberal women doing everything they could to save Wiener.
Remember?
And while at the same time, on this program in my email, all kinds of conservative women are dumping all over Sarah Palin.
And I'm sitting here as the host trying to explain all this to people, trying to understand it myself half the time.
But Wiener was their guy.
He's got a huge huge big government liberal.
He dismissed social, moral issues as web issues.
And now, now all of a sudden, Wiener is an example of all men and their immorality.
That's what these babes on the on the Sunday ABC show meant.
When this is a great moment for women in politics?
Because Wiener is this representative of all men.
They're all that way.
Some of them just smarter than others and never get caught.
You know, I think this is...
Let's...
Let me give you another example here.
We talk about the chicken of things.
ABC recently released a photo of all of their news babes.
World women tonight.
Barbara Walters in the picture, Christiana Manpour, Katie Curick.
Now, does anybody really think that Katie Corrick would have been hired by ABC after this dismal failure on the CBS Nightly News if she were a man?
You look at her work and her ratings on the CBS Evening News.
That's hardly her tracker experience, hardly an entree into another network job.
But she got one.
She goes into the CBS evening news.
She takes those numbers to the lowest they've ever been.
She ends up with a talk show on ABC.
A man would not benefit that way.
Look at don't get mad at me too much here, folks, but just as an example, look at poor old Dan Rather.
All he did was fake a National Guard thing on Bush.
And he had to get caught at that.
And they tossed him out.
I mean, they did a little awards dinner for him, but they tossed him.
He had to go find work at HDNet with Mark Cuban after his evening news train wreck.
After Dan Rather's train wreck evening news, where's he?
He's an oblivion.
He's in the HD net doing stories on milk deliveries in Africa.
Where's Katie Couric after her failure?
ABC, perhaps the next Oprah, based on what she's a woman.
It is what it is.
Why can't we blame liberal women for what these politicians are doing?
They have feminized politics to such a degree that men can't be men anymore.
They all got to be out there and try to prove that they're Alan Alder or whoever is the definition of a real man, Michael Kinsley, I don't know.
But look at look at what we're told.
We're told that Wiener is the man of the hour.
What he is is a genuine pencil neck geek who is sexting.
He's not even got a voice on the other end of the line.
My God, Hugh Hefner at least showed the real thing.
Put the pajamas on, head the babes over to the mansion.
And they said Wiener, there's a playboy.
There's a guy.
And he that was his reputation, big time Democrat Playboy.
And Wiener was nothing but an average liberal neutered guy.
Afraid to tick off any liberal woman.
So what's he do?
Weiner texting, sexing, whatever, is no different than Obama heading out to the fast food joint when it comes to food.
The difference is at home, Obama has to eat whatever Michelle puts in front of him, which is rot gut.
So he when he leaves home, he uh he overdoses on food that he's not allowed.
What did Weiner do?
I'm making excuses for it.
Do not misunderstand me here.
But these these feminists, liberal women have feminized politics to such a degree that politicians, male politicians can't even be men, which may explain why politicians as a group are often caught in these sex scandals.
Everybody says, what is it about politicians?
Anybody ever think it might be liberal women?
What is it about politicians?
Everybody asks that question.
Why what did anybody ever think that it might be who they're raised by, who they're hanging around with?
What if you had to work for Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz every day?
She runs a Democrat national.
What if you had to work with Nancy Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi When was the last time you heard?
Now I'm serious.
When's the last time you heard about a Navy SEAL?
Or a race car driver, a car mechanic getting caught in a sex scandal.
They don't have anything to prove about their masculinity, but Wiener, there's no question that's what he's doing.
He's proving his masculinity, and the only way he knows how taking a picture of it.
Because his behavior is not allowed.
But men who are not afraid of being who they are have no reason to prove their masculinity.
But Wiener, pencil net geek and everything, felt the need to do so.
Why?
He's not allowed to be a guy.
Because guys are predators.
Look at the women on the ABC show.
This is a great moment for women.
Men screw things up, too much testosterone.
That's why we're at war, all this, all this stupid stuff.
Women have neutered the business of politics so effectively that the men who are involved in politics constantly have to prove their masculinity to themselves and to others.
As I say, in Wiener's case, extending all the way to taking a picture of his real congressional member and sending it out on Twitter.
And you know, the subheadline every picture is I really am a man.
I really am a man.
Look at me.
Do you think?
Do you think it possible?
Just indulge me here for a second.
Is it possible that Hillary had some role in making Bill Clinton Bill Clinton?
Okay, okay.
So Cervey says absolutely no question.
How?
How?
If you're so willing to answer that so affirmatively right now.
You know, that the same, the same moralizing media are telling us that Wiener could and should be reasonable easily re-elected.
All he's got to do here is uh is go get fixed.
But the same people are telling us that Sarah Palin doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
The same people told us John Edwards would be great for the country, make fun of Sarah Palin.
You look at who liberal women align themselves with or liberals in general, you look at who they think is smart, you look at who they applaud, you look at who they raise up.
You look at who they put on pedestals, and look at who they tear down, and you look at who their enemy's list is.
You know, Clinton and Al Gore both used to be pro-life until they decided they wanted to go someplace in Democrat politics.
That's not untrue, folks.
They both used to be pro-life.
There are a bunch of Democrat politicians about whom that was true.
Look, even liberal men want to get the girl.
There's something universal about men and women, the guy wants to get the girl.
When your target is a liberal woman, look at what you have to do.
I've been there, folks.
I've been there, I put this to the test.
I've told you about this.
I actually gave a woman I was dating in Kansas City once a book by Susan Brownmiller, who wrote at the time the definitive book on rape, and her thesis was that it's not sex, it's violence.
I didn't care.
It just that's what I had to do, you know, to get a second date with this baby.
It's all it was.
The guy always wants to get the girl when you have the liberal woman that you want to get.
Oh, good lord, look what you have to do.
Oh, geez.
And we're back.
One other thing.
You know all the jokes about Hillary Clinton.
We ourselves here came up with the fact that Hillary probably has a testicle lockbox.
Why?
Well, our belief here is that all really good humor is rooted as an element of truth in it.
Hillary Clinton in a testicle lockbox works.
Meaning Hillary Clinton's the kind of woman that you really think might castrate you if you go off the reservation.
But does anybody think that of Sarah Palin?
I'm being serious now.
Within the context here of the way women are portrayed in the media.
Sarah Palin is thought of as this witch.
Uh you I don't need to recount all the way as she's pretty stupid, what have you, but the one thing that nobody associates with Sarah Palin is this domineering politically demanding feminist.
She's just a woman.
In fact, she likes being a woman.
And she likes being a pretty woman.
She has a husband that loves her and people like that.
Look at the chickification in our society that's taking place.
Look at the look at the time we're spending in schools now on bullies.
Now, I know I gotta tread very carefully on this because bullies are bad and but they've always been.
No, certainly not making a case for bullying.
I'm telling you that the subtle thing going on is the notion that every boy in school has the potential to be a bully.
All these schools and all the curriculum being run by liberals, men and women.
And this has gone way beyond talking about bullies, the ADD, AH or ADHD, whatever.
Give boys pills to make them zombies.
Give little boys pills just to shut them up, just to quite them, just get rid of all that kinetic energy.
Can't throw snowballs, can't play dodge ball, can't keep score, can't do all of the things that boys naturally do, because they hurt people.
Well, boys are boys, and at some point they're gonna act out.
When they sense that these kinds of controls and shackles are no longer there, they're gonna act out.
Or even what they think the controls and the shackles are still there, they're gonna try to get away with acting out when nobody knows it.
Hello, texting, sexting, what have you.
Now, this is not to take away from the fact that I'm not trying to come up with anybody to blame, but Wiener, don't misunderstand here.
But I'm I'm sitting here and I'm listening to these babes go on the ABC show and say, well, yeah, that's because there's too much testosterone in the world.
My point is that if you want to start blaming societal circumstances, uh atmosphere or environment for social outcomes.
Do not leave out the effect liberal feminist women have on men and little boys.
That's all I'm saying.
You can sit here all day long and say, yeah, Wiener's a clod, and he is.
And then go these uh the babes go on the on the Amund Poor show yesterday and talking about what a great opportunity this is for women.
Get all the testosterone out of the room.
Bring in the love and the devotion and bring in all of the sensitivity and so forth.
When anybody who's lived in the real world knows full well that female leaders, when pressed to it, can be just as cutthroat as men anytime they have to.
Margaret Thatcher, Gold of My Ear, the world is replete with them.
There's so many false premises rooted in feminism that have been put forth here.
And a, and by the way, when I say feminism, it's liberalism.
Modern era feminism is just a liberalism in disguise.
The feminist movement's not about women, it's about advancing liberalism, as we have documented over and over and over again.
Chickification of news, you you go talk to any network news veteran.
Ask him what it was like in your average newsroom, forget the liberal aspect of it.
We all know that was, but ask what it was like in a newsroom 20 years ago versus today.
Ask him about story assignments.
Ask him who's assigning the stories and who's going out and who is it that's making people stand in the snow in the middle of a blizzard to tell everybody there's a blizzard?
And who is it that is signing people go out and warn people to drive safely and to take care of the children?
Who is it that's basically saying, you know, make sure you don't take your kids if you're driving in a blue?
Who is doing all this?
And it has an effect when you bottle up certain kind of natural behavior at some point's gonna explode and it's gonna reveal itself.
Wiener notwithstanding.
So apparently, what's happening out there?
Wiener is waiting to hear from Huma, his wife, who's being advised by Hillary on whether he, Wiener, ought to resign.
Now, for the record, the last notable advice Mrs. Clinton dispensed was to tell Mr. Obama to go to war in Libya.
Which seems to be on a par with her advice in general.
So we'll see what Wiener does based on what Hillary tells Huma, who will then tell Wiener, which is what Wiener will then do.
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