Okay, you never saw the series on HBO, but you saw the movie.
Well, darn it.
I need to talk to a woman who watched it.
Snerdley, find me a woman at what because I have a question about it.
And I'm not going to ask the question until I get the woman on the phone.
So if you have what if you watched sex, if you were a fan, not if you by fan, you could have disagreed with it, liked the way, but if you watched it a lot, I want to talk to you.
I got a single very simple question about it.
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There is a see, is this uh Gallup?
What is the poll?
Pew Research Center.
Partisan differences now divide Americans more sharply than distinctions of race, religion, education, or sex in a 10-year wave that has pushed Democrats and Republicans to opposite corners on a wide range of formerly less partisan issues.
Do you realize how profound that is?
The partisan divide is sharper than the divisions that exist because of race, religion, education, or sex.
The partisan design divide left versus right, conservative versus liberal.
That divide is sharper than even race and religion.
Now, I'm not surprised.
This does not shock me, but I can imagine this is going to blow the lid off of a lot of people.
And the re and I know it's true.
I don't need a poll to tell me this is true.
I saw this focus group last night at once did on the Hannity Show with the uh supposedly a cross section of people from Wisconsin on the eve of the recall election today.
Folks, it was breathtakingly sad.
Breathtakingly frustrating.
And what it ensured was that there is no hope for compromise here.
And all of this talk about compromise is drivel.
All of this talk of compromise is a side show.
It's a distraction, and it is part of the arsenal of weaponry, ammo from the left to defeat us.
They have no desire to get along with us.
This, and that's any any conservative or Republican, any political consultant from this day forward, who advises a candidate that the way they get elected is to go out and sell him or herself as the guy who can cross the divide, bridge the gap, is gonna be responsible for that person losing.
I am not kidding.
The people I saw that Frank Luntz put together in this focus group last night, there is no, it's not even a matter of changing their minds.
There's no reaching them.
They were as close-minded to truth and fact as anything I've ever seen.
And I've seen it all.
And I've talked to obstinate liberals.
I've talked to brain-dead people.
These people took the cake.
They were mostly union workers.
And they have this set of beliefs that are every bit as hysterical as every right-wing conspiracy kook that you've ever run into.
They are that devoid and that distanced from a rat reality, these people were.
And so this Pew Center report says on matters as disparate as environmental protection, support for the social safety net, and immigration, former areas of bipartisan agreement have dissolved as Democrats have moved left and Republicans have shifted to the right,
according to a major news study by the Pew Research Center, which tracked or has tracked American values for over the past 25 years.
Now, this survey found that young people today are less politically engaged, less religious, and yet more positive about government and what it can do than ever before.
And this polarization has important practical consequences.
It basically indicates that there will be continued gridlock in national politics.
Well, I'm going to tell you something.
That's fine.
If the choice is more Obamaism and more liberalism or gridlock, we take the gridlock because that stops them.
When you stop and think of this, you know how sharp the racial divisions in this country have been.
For the political divisions to be more extreme, to have more emotion attached to them.
That's big.
And it is on issues like the environment.
It's on issues like abortion.
It's on issues like the social safety.
It's about the very future of the country.
That's why these divisions are so sharp.
Because that's what this is about.
What kind of country are we going to be?
What kind of leaders are we going to have?
What will be the makeup of our population?
What will be the American purpose?
What will become the American ideal?
That's what's at stake here.
This sharp division results.
And this is going to be, I'm sure, uh bone of contention with a lot of people.
I think, and I expect a lot of people are not going to understand this, they're going to think this is a very simplistic analysis, but I think we owe all of this or the vast majority of it to the left.
And the reason I say that is we conservatives do not try to force anything on anybody other than individual liberty and freedom.
If we like broccoli, it's enough that we like it.
We are not going to have a law or policy demanding that you eat it.
And if we don't like it, we're not going to try to stop you from eating it.
They do.
They want the most powerful forces in this country controlling all of us, the government.
We don't.
We have been rendered almost in an entirely defensive posture.
We are content to obey the tenets of the Declaration of Independence, pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
They are content to take those away.
Not content.
They are on a mission to deny those things.
It's no wonder that there is this massive partisan divide.
But as I listen to people on the left, as I read comments posted to blogs, and I don't care if it's news, sports, I don't care what it is, as I as I as I look at the comments posted by the left, there is no thinking going on there.
It's pure mind-numbed robotics.
It is the walking brain dead.
Now I'm not saying this to be provocative or insulting.
And what we are up against.
And I think I know what some of the root causes are.
I think I think one of the major root causes, and it's been there forever, and it is an effervescing forever.
We just happen to be alive when it has boiled over.
And a lot of it is income inequality, a lot of it is money, and for everybody who says it's not the money, quadruple the impact that it is the mummy.
It's so much about that.
It's haves and have-nots, jealousy, envy, the That's that's the main thing the left has been able to exploit.
We've had a number of isms.
Communism exploited class differences, Nazism exploited racial differences.
The point is, whatever ism it is, people on the left are constantly trying to exploit and divide.
And they pick what they think is the most direct route to somebody's heart and mind, and they're mostly concerned with the heart.
It's easier than getting into somebody's head.
They control education, they're able to shape young people who already, because of youth are idealistic.
That's a it's a we we are at a very, very crucial point in history for ourselves in the country.
And this partisanship divide is not something for which there's a bridge.
Yeah, there might be individual instances where a liberal has his mind changed.
There aren't too many.
You ever hear of conservatives who become liberal?
See that John O'Sullivan, a former editor, National Review, had a loosely knit theorem.
And I'm going to have to paraphrase it, I don't have it right in front of me, but it essentially any person or thing who was not conservative would by definition become liberal.
Conservatism is a constant daily intellectual application and pursuit.
Liberalism is the most guttless thing you can do.
It's easy.
And it's what everybody devolves to if they are not actively thoughtfully conservative.
You don't hear of people being persuaded to liberalism.
They more or less just become it.
There are instances where liberals have been converted to conservatism, and it's probably more than the left would like them to believe in, and this show has had a profound role in that.
And Tom Dashell, no less, has indicated that former Senate majority leader in the Democrat Party.
But right now, all this talk of compromise and crossing the aisle and reaching out and the great independence here in the middle and just want us all to get along, folks.
There isn't any of that.
You listen to Obama, longing for John McCain to be his opponent.
Because McCain agreed with him about campaign finance reform and the environment.
McCain agreed with him.
What did that mean?
Mean McCain caved.
It meant that McCain presented no opposition.
Obama's not interested in compromising with anybody.
Nobody on the left is interested in meeting halfway.
And we shouldn't be either when we're talking about core beliefs and principles.
And so this partisan divide has resulted from a reality that people in positions of power on both sides of the divide realize.
There is no getting along.
There's only defeat.
We have to defeat these people.
We have to keep them a permanent electoral minority.
Gotta take a brief time out.
We'll do it.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Couple things here before we get to the phones.
This uh Pew survey that shows a sharp increase in partisanship, more so than even racial divides or religious divides.
The um how do I put this?
The wizards of smart in politics, the political consultants, the advisors, the quote-unquote experts who advise people how to win in the business of politics, have been scratching their heads lately because there is this wonderful, great partisan divide in Congress.
And as you know, but it's wringing their hands over it.
Why can't they work together?
Why can't we just get along?
Why isn't there any compromise?
Why can't we get some bills?
Why can't we get some legislation?
The analysts have been saying, what's going on here?
Is it that members of Congress are actually that entrenched in their ideology?
Or are they afraid of their voters who are the real extremists, quote unquote, and are simply reflecting their voters.
And they've been scratching their heads all these experts trying to figure out the hot debate is whether the trench warfare so obvious in Congress involves conflicts among elected officials and political interest groups or reflects a deeper divide among voters.
And what the survey indicates is that members of Congress are no different than the population at large.
That the trench warfare in Congress is simply being repeated and replicating the trench warfare in the culture.
And we know that there is trench warfare in the culture, and Wisconsin's the focal point of it right now, but it's everywhere.
Now back to John O'Sullivan.
Something, some person, some institution that is not by definition conservative will become liberal.
Let me read to you the charter of the very foundation that did this survey.
The Pugh Foundation.
This is the charter of the Pugh Freedom Trust, 1957, spelled out that Pew intended to acquaint the American people with the evils of bureaucracy, the values of a free market, and the paralyzing effects of government controls on the lives and activities of people.
The Pew Foundation was intended to inform our people of the struggle, persecution, hardship, sacrifice, and death by which freedom of the individual was won.
The Pugh Foundation, begun by the conservative oil magnet J. Howard Pugh.
And like all of these foundations, it's been turned upside down.
Here's a foundation that started, much like the Ford Foundation did.
You know, you hear about all these foundations, and they're all solidly liberal now.
The left took them over.
Most of them were founded by Died in the wool conservatives.
But over the years, the people that were hired there were not active conservatives.
They moderated and became centrists or independents.
Finally the Libs moved in and took over because if it isn't a conservative organization applied each and every day, it's going to become liberal.
And it's happened to Pugh, it's happened to the Ford Foundation, it's happened to practically all of them.
When the founder is out of the way, that's when the mischief begins.
And the left exists to wait, bide their time, and take these places over.
And the only way they can do it is if the people that run the place start waffling or caving, or simply stop being conservative.
It's the same thing.
We wonder what happens to all these conservatives who run for election, members of the House, they run and they campaign as ardent conservatives, and all of a sudden they get there, and it isn't long before they're just mashed potatoes.
Why?
This is one of the reasons if they do not actively pursue their conservatism every day.
And believe me, it's hard when the dominant culture is liberalism, social to boot, is liberal, and everybody wants to get along, everybody wants to have friends, everybody wants to be accepted, everybody wants to be in the clique.
What do you do?
You start caving.
You start compromising, you start sacrificing, and you stop being conservative, and then it's over.
And this is why the Tea Party exists, by the way.
And it's why dyed-in-the-wool conservatives are so insistent that things be and remain conservative.
Because the great reality is that the moment the committed, locked into mission of conservatism weakens, liberalism is like a tsunami, just sweeps in.
I'm going to go ahead and move.
It is safe to say that Mr. J. Howard Pugh would not recognize his foundation today.
He wouldn't have the slightest idea.
If he came back to life, he'd be scratching his head.
What the hell happened?
Same thing with the Ford Foundation.
There's any number of others.
Just can't think of the names off the top of my head.
But it's what happens.
And that's why conservative voters reward conservatives who don't waver, who stick to it.
It's why they're so admired.
It's why they are celebrated, rewarded, and built up.
And it's why the people who cave are so resented and disliked.
Because it's a betrayal.
Andrew Carnegie Carney, Carnegie Foundation.
Totally run by the left.
Andrew Carnegie was a conservative.
Radical conservative by today's standards, even.
His foundation's been taken over.
That's why there isn't a limbaugh foundation.
The last thing I'm going to have is that become a liberal bunch of you know what?
Ba dump.
Okay, we found a fan of sex in a city.
Your name is Megan, and we're going to get to her here.
Megan, it may be d not not long.
I got to get a couple people Wisconsin in first, but we'll get to you.
But uh from Wisconsinpolitics.com.
Are you ready?
With only about four hours, this is from just before noon Eastern time today.
With only about four hours into the election day voting, members of the Milwaukee Democrat Party are claiming that telephone calls are going out to voters telling them that if they signed the recall petition, they don't have to vote today.
Milwaukee County Democrat chair Sashin Cheda said that Walker supporters can't get through the day without cheating.
The latest lowlife sleaze comes on the heels of countless reports from around the state of various Republican dirty tricks on behalf of Walker.
Let me tell you what, I'll bet you is going on.
I will the Democrats know that they're down by five or six or maybe more points.
The public policy polling poll, which is a strictly far-left liberal agenda-oriented polling outfit, had Walker up by three just outside the margin of error yesterday.
If they could, these people would have published a poll with Barrett ahead of Walker.
But they've got their credibility.
I'm telling you, this is not a three-point race going in it.
I and the Democrats, you got the DOJ in there uh monitoring the elections.
The Democrats already start talking about cheating.
I can't prove it.
Obviously, I'm not there.
But this is dude this is too made to order.
Republicans simply don't do this stuff.
What's happening is the Democrats are probably making these phone calls and then accusing the Republicans.
The phone calls have to be happening.
Even if it's just one or two, the phone calls have to be happening for the charge to be made.
Somebody's out there making crank calls so that the Democrats can level the charge and set up a protest or a recount or what have you.
No matter what the margin of victory.
Okay.
Tammy in Madison, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Oh, I'm so thrilled.
This is a great honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm in the not only in Madison, but I'm in the belly of the beast.
I go to grad school at UW, and I teach at another local college.
And I am telling you there is absolutely no compromise with these people.
I hear it in every classroom in every semester, more and more.
Um extravagant claims.
If you try to um debate the fireplace, you can't.
It's it's not, it's not even a matter of compromise.
You can't, if what I saw in that focus group last night is at all representative, it would have to be, or Lunz is not doing his job, but it would have to be a uh representative crossover.
You could hit these people between the eyes with the fact that two and two is four, and if you were told Scott Walker said it, they wouldn't believe it.
They just there's there is no penetration by a fact that can get through to these people.
None.
You can't talk to people that you can't if you can't even put facts on the table without them being rejected on a partisan base.
How what possible compromise is there?
There actually is none.
You can't you can't carry on an intelligent debate with them.
In my classroom as a teacher or as an instructor, I can um force the issue, and luckily I'm able to do that.
But as a student, you just can't.
You cannot.
Are you um well?
It's gotta be frustrating.
Um I as I watched this this focus group last night, you know, Hannity took it over from lunch.
He said, well, wait a minute now.
The unemployment rate in Wisconsin is just over six percent.
It's way below the 8% national average.
No, it's not.
That's just another walker lie.
Well, nobody has been fired.
Scott Walker has not laid off anybody, none of the union claims that's not true.
I know people that are losing their jobs left and right.
Uh Scott Walker, the uh taxes, everything he said he was gonna do, he doesn't care about us.
Scott Walker doesn't care about us.
Oh, this is a bunch of lies.
It was it was didn't matter what the fact was.
Did not matter.
It didn't exist, it wasn't true, it was all tricky knowledge.
It was I've seen it before, folks.
It wasn't this is not the first time I've seen this.
I know I sound incredulous.
Um I encounter it uh quite often.
But it it was concentrated and in in this setting, and the presentation of fact was rat tat tat tat tat.
And all the facts were true.
I live in real.
I'm not interested in the f in in in in in lies.
I'm not interested in things that are not right.
These people couldn't have cared less.
They have an entirely different motivation.
They don't they don't being right, factual is irrelevant to them.
All that matters is the triumph of their ideology.
But here's a guy, Scott Walker, who's being recalled for one reason.
He's doing what he said he was going to do.
It's a policy recall.
He ran for office, he got elected on a specific agenda, and he has implemented it, and now the Democrats are trying to recall him for it.
If this kind of stuff ever gets hold, elections are going to be meaningless.
Hey, uh, the people that Mr. Lunt had on last night were not a cross-section of Wisconsin.
They were a cross-section, maybe of Madison.
But the fuzzy headed moon bat, mother fool's coffee drinking liberals that hang out on Willie Street and Monroe Street were not there.
Nobody started screaming, nobody started throwing anything, nobody started yelling liar, nobody changed their head to the- wait now, wait a wait, wait wait a second.
I counted maybe two conservatives.
No, they if they were conservative, they were probably sitting there with their hands in their lap.
Well, the even the conservatives seemed afraid to say anything, and those that did you're right.
But the t the the the cameras being present, I think stopped any violence or anything being thrown or things like that.
Oh, that that that doesn't that doesn't stop the liberals.
what it does is stop the conservatives from, you know, even putting up yard signs.
We just don't do it.
I mean, I figure for every Barrett sign there is, every empty yard, There's got to be at least one locker sign that's not up because we're afraid to.
But uh, every bit of union buggery and union hackery that could possibly be had is is happening here.
You know, and uh someone comes up and says, uh, oh yeah, we're gonna help the voting with Wascan.
Like, really?
Oh yeah, we're from uh, you know, Monona.
Oh, you mean Monona?
You know, they're uh they're not even pronouncing things right, like Okaningwalk, Mekwan, Walkisha, Ray Fiend, you know.
When they can't even pronounce Wisconsin or any of our cities, right?
You just know none of them are from here.
And they're all right.
Well, that's I know.
And that's that's been the case since this whole recall effort began.
Uh but that's interesting.
If if what we saw last night were the polite, calm reserved.
It's good.
It's worse than even I thought.
Here's Megan.
She's the uh sex in the city fan in New York City.
Hi, Megan, I'm glad you called.
Hi, Rash, I'm a huge fan.
Thanks for having me.
Appreciate that.
Now Megan, I just I just have one question.
Sure.
Yeah.
No, I've got let me I've one question, but a couple of setups.
Did you watch the show as often as you could?
Did you try not to miss it?
I did.
I would try every week.
Every week.
So you are a a committed fan of the program.
When it was on HBO.
When it was on HBO, okay, good.
No, not these reruns now.
Now I guess I want to ask why, but I don't want to leave it quite that open end.
Did did the show have a message to you?
Or was it just entertainment?
Well, no, it was it was just entertainment.
What was interesting about the show, if you saw all four women, they were each an extreme personality of all of us have a little bit of each one of those women in us.
But what was the objective?
What were the what was the purpose?
Venting.
Venting about men, venting about venting about men.
That was and I saw the show a number of times.
I didn't watch it religiously.
I sh I saw the show a number of times.
I'll tell you what I came away with.
That's what I want to ask you.
As I watched the show, all I remember about it is that that show basically told women they should be willing to do anything to get Mr. Big, to get a man, to get the guy.
Well, to get Mr. Big, I mean, how do you get better than him?
I'm just kidding.
Um yeah, that is the message of the show.
You work really hard to get the man.
But you have to also remember that when the show ended, the main character still didn't get married.
She didn't settle down with the man.
They were equal at the end.
Exactly.
So it wasn't trying to get married and make babies.
It was always trying to build a room.
It was it was these New York women who were fashion plates in one instance.
But they were the they were the uh the crim to the crime.
And yet what was their focus?
The only thing that they had a problem with.
It wasn't their careers, it wasn't anything except for how do I get this guy to like.
Yeah, how do I get the guy?
Which amazed me because the th th th that that was the thing that the feminism wanted no woman to be engaged in.
Don't make your life revolve around a man.
Don't make your happiness dependent on your relationship, and yet here is a total show, four years or whatever it went, focused on just that.
And I I'm sorry to say, but that does happen a lot.
Uh I mean I'm I'm twenty-eight and I'm looking around and my friends are going through that again.
I know it does.
They can have great jobs.
They can be doing really well in their lives, but if they don't have a man, not happy.
It's it it's feminism is a promise d is uh uh uh that that's that's uh having a mental block on the word, but it it's uh uh is a promise that's betrayed is really what it is.
The whole notion of feminism was do not get a man, do not make a man the focal point of your life.
Certainly your relationship's not supposed to be the primary reason you're happy.
Don't prostitute yourself, don't go out there just to get and that's all the show was about.
And these are supposedly feminist, uh hip.
Supposedly, yeah.
Then these women had it all.
And the sad thing is that But they were not happy, were they?
They were not happy.
And but I hate to say that I have related to some some episode at one point.
All of my friends have related to an episode at some point.
So women have been there, but so have men.
That's that's that show entourage.
It's kind of the same thing.
They're all trying to get women.
They're just not trying to settle down with them.
I know.
And and and exactly this is the point.
I guess I'm the circuitous way of getting there, is that human nature is what it is.
Feminism has done everything it could to try to reorient and erase it, but they they have failed, and this show is a great illustration of how and why.
I mean, here's HBO, a feminist network, great liberal network, great advanced, not not attached to any of these societal cliches, and one of the most popular shows is all about men and women and how they behaved for hundreds of years.
Mm-hmm.
Wearing sandals or Monolo Blonics, it doesn't matter.
The purpose is still the same.
Okay, so were you sad when it ended?
I was oh, I was heartbroken when it ended.
It was good entertainment.
I did like it.
I didn't base my life around it.
You did.
Okay, did you you didn't want to be any of the four women?
No.
And I felt I felt there's a little piece of me in each of them.
Right.
Okay, well then that's good writing.
Yeah.
I mean, it is it is entertainment at the end of the day.
Okay.
Just entertainment.
Just entertainment.
I wouldn't go further than that and base my life around it.
Okay.
Well, thank you for taking time to call.
Yeah, no problem.
Hey, again, I'm a huge fan, so thanks for hearing me out.
Appreciate that.
I really do.
So I'm glad you made it through.
It's a tough thing to get through, and you did it, so here.
Appreciate it.
You bet.
It's Megan in New York City.
And the reason I brought this up is Sarah Jessica Parker is hosting this big dinner for Obama.
Big liberal, big feminist contest.
You too could win dinner at Jessica, Sarah Jessica Parker's house.
And big claim to fame is sex in the city.
And it was um basically, you know, sex in the city was about fish trying to get a bicycle.
It was Well, that's what that's what femin feminism, feminism is women need men like a fish needs a bicycle.
That's that's one of their philosophies.
Women don't need men.
Women shouldn't want men, women shouldn't want the relationship with a man to be the focal point of their life.
Here's a show that that's all it was about.
Particularly the pursuit of Mr. Big.
It was a betrayal of everything feminism stood for.
There it was right there on HBO.
And that's who's co-hosting one of these dinners.
Or this dinner for two lucky Obama voters, whatever the heck.
Back to the funds, Columbia, South Carolina.
It's Lauren at Lauren, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
I know.
I'm so excited I got through, and it's just um so exciting to talk to you.
And uh I know probably your top name now is Catherine, which I don't blame you.
She's absolutely beautiful.
You know that today is our two-year anniversary.
Well, happy anniversary.
Two years.
It just seems like two days.
It seems like it was just yesterday that Oldton John was singing to us.
Uh at this giant ballroom at the at the Breakers Hotel.
Well, I would have loved to have seen more pictures, but the the few that you released were absolutely beautiful.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And I've been married 32 years in last month.
You don't even sound 32.
Thank you.
You don't.
Um I have a couple of questions, a couple comments.
One, um, there's a dinner with Sarah Jessica Parker.
Yeah.
What are the guidelines for that?
I have not been able to research it.
I haven't really.
Well, I haven't either.
I I just listened to the ad.
You have to go to an Obama website, and what they're not telling you is that that uh it's a donation website.
And all you're doing is putting yourself on a mailing list for future fundraising.
So it's assumed that that Republicans are not going to go there.
It's a donation place.
So they're assuming that the only people that could win are going to be sympathetic to Obama and his policies.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I was asking Snergley, I said, what do you think?
Do they have a minimum bid on that?
They have a minimum donation.
I mean, what do you give $100?
No, they can't be in there.
They can't put a dollar amount on it.
It's a sweepstakes.
We do this at two of my tea, but ours are genuine and real.
They can't put a dollar amount on it.
They're the the thing that are leading people to believe is it's gonna be a random selection.
Sure it is.
But you know Obama's gonna be a secret service is gonna is gonna have a say in who shows up at this place.
I mean, it's gonna be tightly controlled.
It's it's it's just such a it's so ridiculous.
And I I too was a fan of sex in the city.
I mean, I loved it for the entertainment, and it was so removed from my life that it was like, oh my God, people actually think like this or write like this or live like this.
Um it just makes me sick when these celebrities come out and support.
They're brain-dead.
Look, look, uh the the analysis of why celebrities are the way they are politically we've been through that countless times and you know them without having to be told.
The whole point of this that needs to be made is that Obama is really narrow casting here.
This for a man running for president, this this is uh this is something that hurts.
Most people never gonna win this thing.
Most people never gonna enter this thing.
This thing does not say a thing about jobs, the future of the country this pure this is Barack Kardashian.
This is not helpful to him.
Don't doubt me on this gotta take a brief time out here top of the hour.