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Nov. 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 30, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir, Rebob, here we are, my friends El Rushbow smiling and laughing and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Why?
Because I'm an idiot.
Who in their right mind is happy these days?
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Just kidding, folks, just kidding.
Truly am.
As I'm doing what I was born to do.
I love it.
And that's why I'm having more fun any human being should be allowed to have.
Have you ever noticed, folks?
That the people that win lotteries look like the same people visited by UFOs.
Great to have you here.
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Okay, another story I've been holding here in uh in abeyance for most of the well, I got back on Wednesday.
Uh a story that ran on Fox News back on November 24th, which was shortly after Thanksgiving.
It's by a woman, and her name is Suzanne Vinker.
So she works at Fox News.com.
I don't think she's on the air anywhere.
And her piece is called The War on Men.
I give you a couple pull quotes from this story.
I've actually, she's writing this.
I've actually stumbled upon a subculture of men who've told me in no uncertain terms that they are never getting married.
And when I ask them why, the answer is always the same.
Women aren't women anymore.
Here's another pull quote.
Men want to love women, not compete with them.
They want to provide for and protect their families.
It's in their DNA.
But modern women will not let them.
Modern women will not give them any credit for that.
The way men used to feel like men is not permitted anymore.
Being a provider taking care of that you don't get any credit for that anymore with today's women.
That's her point, based on her conversation with other women.
The battle of the sexes is alive and well is the way this piece begins.
According to the Pew Research Center, the share of women ages 18 to 34 say that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their lives, and it rose nine points from 97.
It's up 28%, 37%.
For men, the opposite occurred.
The share voicing this opinion dropped from 35 to 29%.
People that want to get married.
Believe it or not, modern women want to get married.
The trouble is that men don't.
The so-called dearth of good men, meaning marriageable men, has been a hot subject in the media as of late.
Much of the coverage has been in response to the fact that for the first time in Histo, women have become the majority of the U.S. workforce.
They're also getting most of the college degrees.
The problem?
This new phenomenon has changed the dance between men and women.
By the way, she write about that.
Fewer and fewer men are going to college.
Why is that?
They're all feminized?
They've been chicken.
Is that what is that what you're saying?
The feminists have taken over the curriculum.
Well, there is something to this in in the sense that radical feminism.
I can folks, here's the thing that it's a it's a it's a hard cold reality to me.
I've been doing this 25 years, and I think back to previous years, in fact, eras of this program.
And we did our feminist updates, and what were the feminist updates?
We chronic we laughed at what was being done in universities.
We laughed at some of the radical cockeyed ideas that radical feminists and feminazis are While we were laughing, that stuff was becoming reality.
Well, I'll speak for myself, I was laughing.
And I was of the opinion that no rational majority of people is ever going to subscribe to this.
Radical feminism.
For example, portraying men as natural predators.
All sex is rape.
Remember Catherine McKinnon, all sex is rape, even the sex in marriage.
And she was a professor of something at the University of Michigan.
And she was teaching this stuff.
I remember doing feminazy updates about it, laughing.
Yeah, okay, there's always going to be some small group of unhappy people have fallen.
No, it's not a small group.
It has become reality for a whole lot of women.
That and a lot of other things.
That had to be shielded.
His children had to be protected from him.
At the slightest raising of his voice, they called child protective service that come over to house.
Maybe take the kids away if the husband was out of whack.
And being out of whack didn't take much other than raising your voice.
All these things.
I mean, I can't remember, but some of them were just ridiculous.
But they've become mainstreamed.
Far and it's not just with feminism, it's a lot of other liberalism, the same kind of environmentalism.
The whole hoax of global warming, while all this is being built and while it's happening, we're pointing out the intellectual holes in the data.
We're pointing out the faults in the so-called logic of the argument.
In the meantime, it was taking hold with a whole bunch of young people, starting with Ted Turner's Captain Planet cartoon series on Saturday morning, to who knows what else was happening.
Now I've told you, shared with you many times.
I read tech blogs because that's my hobby.
Staying up to speed on tech stuff.
And the tech blogs are written by a bunch of young guys and women too in some cases that are in their twenties and thirties, and you read these people standard ordinary stuff every day, it's amazing what they really believe.
They believe the stuff you and I were laughing about when they were four and five years old.
They really believe, for example, that the kind of cars that we have driven has destroyed the climate.
Not that we are destroying it.
They really believe, even though it cannot be proven, they really believe that Hurricane Sandy was because of global warming.
They really believe the sea levels are rising to flood levels.
They watched Al Gore's movie, and instead of laughing at it and seeing all the crock in it, they bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
And not only did they buy it, they are now arrogantly cocky about it, thinking they are the only ones who are right, and anybody doesn't see it as a Neanderthal.
It's really been fascinating in one regard, is disappointing in another, scary in another, but they they bought and believe as fervently as anything you believe, the stuff that we were laughing at, deservedly so.
I mean, how many, how many different people have said if we don't clean up the oceans in ten years, we're gonna Ted dance it?
They believe it.
Starting in 1986, if we don't fix this, we're gonna global warm, we only got 20 years.
Well, that was 2006, and the world didn't end, and it wasn't getting even hotter in 2006, doesn't matter.
All somebody had to do is come along and say another 20 years is because the brilliance of these people's campaign to work on young people, impressionable young people, and how did the global warming movement really propel itself?
First thing it did was make everybody feel guilty.
You have destroyed the planet.
You and the way you're living.
Your capitalist lifestyle, it wasn't capitalism, wasn't said, but your uh self-indulgent lifestyle, your lifestyle of desiring More stuff.
You're wanting to increase your standard of living.
All of that led to global warming.
All of that excess wasn't fair.
And we're sitting here thinking this stuff hasn't worked in our lifetimes.
It's not going to work now.
It's sophistry, but it did work.
Because in addition to telling these young people, and by the way, women too, in addition to saying you are destroying the planet, they offered them absolution.
Drive this car.
Don't buy that.
Live this way, and you can save the planet.
Well, that was a noble thing to be able to save the planet after you have been made to feel guilty for helping to destroy it.
And of course, what were the proscriptions for saving the planet?
Nothing but big government liberalism.
And they all bought into it.
And now it's de rigor.
Or de reggae, whatever.
But it's it's and it's fascinating to expose yourself to this stuff.
Stuff that you know is a croc.
Stuff that you know is nothing more than propaganda.
See how easily it has been inculcated in these young skulls full of mush.
No, I'm not surprised propaganda works.
This, but this is massive.
And so back to this piece.
The same thing has happened with women's studies on campus, radical militant feminism.
We were laughing at it.
Because we all knew women who thought it was a croc, as well as we who thought it was a croc.
But now these people all come out, these young tech bloggers, these even some of the sports media, doesn't matter where you go, this this young uh hip pop culture demographic, not only do they believe all the stuff we were laughing at, they have a moral superiority about their countenance.
What they believe is morally superior to say what I believe, what they believe and what they live and how they live morally superior.
So they kind of look down their noses at people.
They will they do not and will not consider opposing arguments because the people who make them have been discredited with character assassination and so forth.
Throughout every little tentacle of education, be it K through 12 or college, undergrad, postgrad, you name it.
Even today, I don't have one handy, but every day there's a story, but some wacko professor saying something that's just utterly insane.
And then you stop and realize wait a minute, this guy is a professor, and there are hundreds of kids who've been through this guy's class over the years who believe this stuff.
And that's the thing.
The hardest thing for me was to accept that they did believe it and absorb it rather than laugh at it.
Now, there were people that laughed at it along with us.
We we'd heard from them, and little kids in college call and but there were also those who bought it hook, line and sinker.
All of this radical liberalism, radical feminism, radical environmentalism, um, all the stuff that people think about conservatives, all the things that people have been told about Republicans, racist sick.
How in the world do you have yesterday the woman called here who was talking about all the negative ads run against Romney?
Or it was a guy, I think.
I said, We've really got a problem in this country, and I mean this.
We have a real problem.
I just put it this way.
No, I'm not gonna put it that way, because that's old fogeyism.
Let's put this when you've got a majority of people in this country who can be made to believe that Mitt Romney hates dogs with a commercial of a dog in a cage on a roof of a station wagon with ostensibly the Romney family inside on a family vacation, then I would suggest we've got a problem.
Take whatever other insult or mischaracterization or character assault on conservatives you can believe, and there is a moral superiority to the people who believe this stuff.
It's not that they just believe it.
It is that there is an arrogant condescension about them.
They're closed-minded.
There's no other possible way to explain things that are happening other than what they believe.
So here's this piece, The War on Men.
And this woman at Fox writes, I've stumbled upon a subculture of men who've told me they're never getting married.
Ask them why the answer is always the same.
Women aren't women anymore.
Men want to love women, not compete with them.
They want to provide for it, protect their families.
It's in their DNA, but modern women will not let them.
Modern women will not let a man take credit for any of that.
A man, in order to get credit from a woman has to do other stuff now that's not in his DNA.
That's the whole point of her piece.
So a man has to figure, okay, because men throughout time have always been trying to figure out what they have to be to get where they want to go where women are concerned.
I remember when I was young, the whole thing, where do you meet women?
I'd go out and get women's magazines and turn to the section on where to meet men, which would tell me where I was supposed to be, and I would go there.
And it was always a fun little dance and a fun little game.
But the traditional way that men were rewarded by the women they loved are they don't exist anymore.
And a guy who wants to be appreciated and loved because of the things that are naturally in his DNA, it's rejected.
And so this woman has stumbled across a bunch of they're not only not going to college where women are, they're not trying to meet women, and they're not trying to marry them.
And that's why you get ads run by Obama on Julia.
She's single her whole life.
And that's why it works.
We laughed at the Julia ad.
That ad worked.
The war on women, this whole business of giving away contract, we're laughing at it.
It worked.
I don't know on a majority, but it worked.
There were actually enough women in this country who were made to believe that Mitt Romney was going to take their birth control pills away from them, not let them have them.
And then after they got pregnant, he was going to make them have an abortion.
They believe it.
They've been told it, they've been educated this way.
That's what conservative men aren't.
And these guys say, I'm not even messing with this.
I'm not even going to do battle with this.
Now when I live in Kansas City in the 1970s, a book came out by Susan Brown Miller.
It was a book about rape.
And it made the case rape was not a sexual crime, it was a violent crime.
Well, it became a huge fad with women.
I knew guys who went out and bought the book.
Whatever it took, they had a crush on a woman, a woman believed in the book, go get the book, give it to her, discuss it with her, found out, no, this is not the way that it was dealing with a militant.
Thought the guy was a predator because of what was in the book.
And she goes on here.
And we talked, I've got to take a break here.
I just saw the clock.
I'll be back here in just a second.
Now I want to read to you here a brief segment from Suzanne Vencker's piece on Fox News.com, The War on Men.
And then I want to read you some of the tweets that women who've read this article are saying.
She writes, in a nutshell, women are angry, and they're also defensive, though often unknowingly, and that's because women have been raised to think of men as the enemy.
Armed with this new attitude, women pushed men off their pedestal and climbed up to take what they were taught to believe was rightfully theirs.
See, men haven't changed much.
They've had no revolution.
But women Have.
Women had a feminist revolution and they have changed dramatically.
But men have stayed the same.
So women pushed men off their pedestals.
Women had their own pedestal, but the feminists convinced them that it was not worthy of putting a man on a pestle pedestal.
Feminists even convinced women a relationship was not worthy of providing a woman happiness.
Okay, so women read this.
Here's some tweets in reaction to this from women on Twitter.
I cannot wait to bring this to my women's studies class.
She'll be torn apart in classrooms across the country.
Another tweet.
If she's so unhappy as a mother and a wife, why is she writing books?
Did she get her husband's permission to write that article?
Oh.
Another tweet.
Suzanne Vinker makes a solid argument to return to a time when women couldn't vote and men could legally beat their spouse.
Another tweet.
Shut up, Suzanne Vinker.
You're just mad because you're an idiot.
And these are the pleasant ones.
These are the ones I can read on a family show.
Now, in the past, we sit here and laugh ourselves silly at this.
The fact is, what I have speaking for my what I have to realize is these tweets represent a whole lot of female thinking in this country.
When a woman here tweets, well, she makes a solid argument to return to a time when women couldn't work and men could legally beat their spouse.
I have to realize people like Catherine McKinnon have been teaching women this for twenty years that that's what men do is beat their wives.
And that's what men want.
And a bunch of women believe this stuff.
And they vote for Obama by vote for Democrats.
Here's Mary Ann Vista California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Wonderful speaking to you.
Great show.
Thank you.
And I just love you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Obviously not a product of uh liberal education here, are you?
No, no way.
No.
But I did have a very disturbing phone call this morning from my daughter, who asked me if it was true that Muchel, my Bell was considering running for the presidency in 2016.
Have you heard anything like that, Rush?
I haven't.
Thank gosh.
Okay.
Well, that doesn't mean that it isn't true.
Oh, Lord.
Okay.
You're right.
And I if she did, would that mean all the black vote would be going to her?
No.
No, no, because Hillary is going to be out there competing for it.
Okay, well, let's hope.
Let's hope so.
I really I don't care if you're not going to be able to do that.
Well, you mentioned that would be a fascinating primary.
Hillary against Muchell Obama.
How would that happen?
I haven't, I haven't heard this is the first I've heard of it.
I haven't heard a syllable of uh of Luchelle running.
I I would anything's possible.
But I've never associated her with running for office.
I don't know why.
I I I think of her as you know, running the Barack Obama Institute for Social Justice.
Well, it would kind of keep it.
Somewhere in Hawaii.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Well, I know that people have these fears, but I I've I I uh I want to try to allay yours because I haven't heard that at all.
I haven't heard it.
But I have heard that Mrs. Clinton wants it.
By the way, speaking of the Clintons, did you hear that Bill Clinton, Jennifer Flowers claimed that Bill Clinton called her in 2005 and wanted to come see her.
Jennifer Flowers says that Clinton called her up when he was in town wherever she lives now, wanted to go see her, and and said, hey, uh look, I'll put on a hoodie and I'll jog up her right now.
And she said, No, I have no desire to see you, and she rejected the uh request.
Now, why would Bill Clinton want to see Jennifer Flowers?
I don't think she making it up.
But he was even willing to put on a hoodie so that nobody knew it was him when he got there.
And she won she lives in New Orleans, that's right, that's where it was.
But look at Michelle would be just qualified as Hillary.
I mean, they they've both been first lady.
They both um well, Hillary's been secretary of state.
Michelle hasn't done that, but it'd be fascinating primary.
Here's the Darlene, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Hi.
Hi there.
Uh Ditto's from Western Colorado, where we did elect Romney.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, we couldn't outdo the other side of the hill.
Uh Rush, we my husband and I were uh over in Denver on the one of the wide highways, and right next to us was one of these smart cars.
It's uh it's a golf cart with a cover.
Yeah, I've I've in fact I have a couple friends who tool around, they go pick up the groceries in them.
Yeah, but do you want to drive one of those on a three-lane highway at sixty miles an hour?
Because if you're in an accident, you're toast.
And the woman driving it reminded me that there was an article in the Denver Post that women uh are the majority of drivers now, and they're driving smaller, safer cars.
And I thought, wait a minute, uh smaller cars aren't safer.
And this woman driving this smart car, I said to my husband, you know what?
Uh women are driving these small uh cars that are not safe, and they're also us they're getting free condoms, and uh if they're Christian, they're having more children than the liberals are that are non-Christian, so they're going to go extinct.
Are you uh are you are you in in addition to everything else?
Are you making a comment on women's driving skills and No, I'm t I'm talking about the kind of car they choose to drive.
Right.
Which is a small little what I call a stupid car.
Well, it's some case that's all they can afford.
You know that they're out there trying to get sixty miles to the gallon.
Um the gasoline's expensive and so forth.
And they aren't safe on a high speed road, my goodness.
It doesn't matter.
They think they're saving the planet.
But they are going to be extinct, Rush, because they're using these free condoms and they're not having children.
So they're going to uh be an endangered species.
Liberals, I mean.
Yeah.
Well I've been waiting for that.
They've been aborting themselves out of existence for twenty years and it hadn't happened yet.
Exactly.
Uh the only trouble is it's probably gonna take another generation.
We'll see.
Look, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it, Darlene.
A quick time out.
Open line Friday continues after this.
Back to the phones.
Liz Damariscotta Maine.
It's great to have you here on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's very exciting to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Um, I want to speak to your comments um earlier about men and women and the changing roles and the articles that you cited from Fox News.
Okay.
Um I think that not only women, I think both sexes are changing.
And I don't think that necessarily successful women are the detriment to a traditional man and woman dynamic.
I think that uh specifically in my scenario, my husband and I am um I make the majority of our money and my husband spends a lot of time with our children, with our young children.
But my husband is what I would classify as a very traditional man's man.
And I think what's changing is men aren't thought of or taught to be or have examples of man's men.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Like it's almost frowned upon to be a manly guy or to have many opinions.
I mean, it's almost like you're a minority to be a guy.
I know I know exactly what you mean.
When you say I think successful women and smart women, just because we're out there making money or educated or working hard, I don't want a wussy guy.
I don't want some, you know, uh some guy sitting around.
Well, We're not talking about you anyway, because you actually want a guy.
We're talking about women who don't want a guy, period, no matter what kind.
Well, I think that the relationship between a man and a woman and the things that a man brings and the things that a woman brings to a relationship create a successful partnership, and I I'm not I just think that those the uh qualities that people associate as old school or tired or lost on the last generation are what makes for a successful partnership, and it really is upsetting.
Let me let me ask you while I have you here, Liz.
To you, what is a manly man?
Oh, I think that without my husband, I would be lost if ever I'm upset or scared or nervous or need somebody to confide in.
He's just my rock, someone I can always trust, and somebody that I can rely on, and that I feel like if something were to happen, he would be able to protect myself and my children.
Does he wear clothes from LL Bean or Ralph Lauren?
From LL Bean.
He happens to be a manly man to the to the core.
No, I'm I'm I'm I'm serious in the I'm seriously interested in the answer here is as it relates to what is a manly man, because that's going to change from woman to woman too.
That's what this whole argument's about.
Well, I like a man's man.
I like a guy that works with his hands, that physically maybe labors or at least knows how to do it.
Yes, yes, yes, fixes the roof.
Right, right.
Changes the oil, changes the tire, gets no credit if he can afford to have other people do that.
He gets credit if he does it himself.
Absolutely.
And I don't want to, and it is insulting to me for people to say that you're putting woman women back by having those types of ideas, because I think that we're putting ourselves back by you know, demasculating our men and not letting them You are not the kind of woman that this woman was writing about because you don't consider men your enemy.
Those are the women she was writing about.
Well, I feel like liberal women tend to give hard working, well-educated women like myself, a bad name and a bad image.
Um well depending on what else you do, you might have a point.
What else they might disapprove of that you do.
And in many cases, you know, I used to think this is a joke, something to laugh at.
There are women that really believe this.
If you derive too much happiness from your relationship, then you being used.
You are being taken advantage of and and you are not helping the sisterhood.
I thought that was a fringe belief, but it isn't.
It's not, I don't know how widespread, but it certainly isn't fringe.
State of Washington taking bride and groom off of official marriage certificates.
No more husband wife, no more bride and groom.
State of Washington.
Marriage documents.
Who do you think is doing that?
See you on Monday, folks.
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