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July 17, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you here.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program in the EIB network.
And folks, I I've just got there's nothing.
There's nothing in the show prep stacks of stuff that fires me up.
There's nothing I really I'm tired of Zimmerman.
I'm tired of Rachel's Intel.
I've never thought that would happen, but it did.
I mean I've got I've got stuff about it, but uh I mean ABC News, ABC News in 2013.
On World News Now this mor a newscast was devoted to reading tweets about Kim Kardashian and what she thinks of the of the of the Zimmerman verdict.
They spend more time on what Kim Kardashian thinks about it than they did on Hillary and what she thinks about it.
And Hillary just said, I ain't no way tired.
And then she got confused and realized it wasn't Selma that she was at, so she went in another direction.
Now they really it it's uh uh not a whole lot even even CNN's not spending a whole lot of time, I think on Zimmerman and the and the Trayvon Martin.
One of the reasons why is that pew poll that hit uh yesterday the day before that showed only 26% of the country was paying attention to it or was interested in it, and yet, you know, show you how bad it's gotten for CNN, they had uh they had a great night uh two nights ago, ratings-wise.
They had a great night at 1.3 million viewers.
They were stopping the presses and celebrating.
They were throwing a party.
1.3 million viewers.
That was such an increase over what they normally get.
And that was because of the interview with Rachel Gentel that was conducted by the worldly and hip Piers Morgan.
Um just it's it's uh uh amazing.
We've got the healthcare story with uh uh unions and Obama, and the union's not happy about it.
There is something I didn't talk about this, this happened in the New York Times magazine over the weekend.
This has within its own universe.
This has created a fire storm.
It's about hooking up in uh in college.
And it's called the uh let's see.
I don't have the headline right.
Let me see my second page here.
Sex on campus.
She can play that game too.
And this is a long, it's like 4,000 words.
New York Times magazine piece.
It's a long piece on how there isn't any dating anymore, as you and I understand it.
It's just no emotion sexual hookups.
And they are perfunctory at that.
Not any attachment whatsoever.
It's written by uh well, I don't know who wrote it.
It's uh female, but I don't have her name here.
Strange, it never prints.
But here's how it uh it starts at 11 o'clock on a weeknight earlier this year, her work finished.
A slim pretty junior at the University of Pennsylvania did what she often does when she has a little free time.
She texted her regular hookup, the guy she's sleeping with but not dating.
What was he up to?
He texted back, come on over.
So she did.
They watch a little TV, had sex, they went to sleep.
Their relationship, she noted, is not about the meeting of two souls.
We don't even really like each other in person, sober, she said.
We literally can't sit down and have coffee with one another.
Sober.
Ask her why she hasn't had a relationship.
This is the University of Pennsylvania, By the way.
Major, big time, powerful quasi Ivy League school.
Ask her why she hasn't had a relationship at Penn, and she's she doesn't complain about the death of courtship or men who won't commit.
Instead, she talks about the cost benefit analyses and the low risk and low investment costs of hooking up.
Yeah, I position myself in college in such a way that I can't have a meaningful romantic relationship because I'm always busy.
The people I'm interested in are always busy too.
I know everybody says make time make time, said the woman who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But there are so many other things going on in my life that I find so important that I just like I can't make time.
I don't want to make time.
It's by now pretty well understood that traditional dating in college is mostly gone the way of the landline, replaced by hooking up, an ambiguous term that can signify anything from making out to Lewinsky's to intercourse without the emotional entanglement of a relationship.
Until recently, those who studied the rise of hookup culture had generally assumed that it was driven by men.
But that's what this long magazine piece ends up being about.
That the hookup culture in college is driven by women today.
It is women who are taking advantage of this new culture.
It's not men.
Men aren't running anything anymore.
Men aren't in charge of anything.
They're just the doormats of society.
And women have become the alpha babes.
And this is a uh it's obvious an outgrowth of feminism.
And you know what's interesting, it was one of the objectives of modern era feminism was to take the presumed barbarian brute nature out of men.
It was to civilize men, make them more like women, make them more docile.
Instead, what has happened is that women have sought to become like men.
They want to do what men do, join the clubs that men do, have the attitudes that men do while at the same time emasculating men.
It did happen.
And so the story is a long, it's a it's a magazine article, not a story, and it goes on and Kate Taylor is who wrote the piece.
That's her name, and she says that she is being overwhelmed with reaction to this.
She cannot believe it.
People are reacting, even in the New York Post today, as a uh a story from a guy who runs a hedge fund, who is got a daughter in college and is just ticked off about this as he can be.
He is unhappy, he doesn't like it, he thinks this is horrible, uh, and he's uh he's sending out notes to people to try to do something about it.
I thought, yeah, here it is.
College sex pushes dad's buttons.
It's a hedge fund guy.
His name is Whitney Tilson, prompted by recent New York Times story about the campus hookup culture at the University of Pennsylvania.
The founder of Case Capital caused a stir with a widely circulated email and blog posting yesterday.
Offering some advice to his three daughters.
Should a guy ever tell them to quote, get down on your knees.
Mr. Hedgefund guy, you're missing the point of the story.
It's not the guys doing this.
It's your daughters.
The point of the story is that it's the daughters, it's the women at universities who are in charge, who are pushing the hookup culture.
It is the women who are running around demanding and setting the terms and saying it's now or it's not now, or what have you.
Now, admittedly, the guy's advice is somewhat uh tongue-in-cheek.
Um, but nevertheless, this whole story has within its universe, folks, has created an incredible response.
Now, you and I, we've talked about the hookup culture on this program.
It's not new.
It's been around for a long, long time.
The New York Times magazine just now hearing about it, but when they hear about it and write a long magazine piece about it, of course, their readership runs across it, and people who haven't heard about it are freaking.
But like anything else, in the midst of hookup culture, what do you see happening?
There's still weddings.
The New York Times still has its obituary.
I mean, uh uh uh still has its its uh uh wedding page and engagement page.
So people are still in certain parts of the country, they're still getting married and traditional relationships still happening and traditional dating still happens.
But at the elite schools, apparently, all that's just uh old school, non-new school.
All that just old fashioned.
And I've and the parents who send their kids to these schools are just learning about this hookup culture.
We had another story from the University of Pennsylvania yesterday about the uh that obnoxious professor of religion slamming Christians, uh claiming God's a white racist with the problem.
Uh God is uh is a white guy with a gun stalking young black men.
I mean, it it's it's no wonder.
It's no wonder the students at 10 are running around like zombies seeking any kind of divorce or separation from the insanity that they're presented with.
God ain't good all the time.
Okay, I'm gonna go find uh Zika will hook up.
Maybe I'll find God in the hookup.
So that's something that has the Northeastern liberal elites.
I don't know that they're liberal elites a lot.
The Northeastern elites are sort of buzzing about this.
Who bzb.
But again, folks, the thing about this is the thing about it is that it's always been presumed that it would be men, the coarse, unfeeling, no commitment, barbaric predators who would be treating them women this way, and then discarding them after haphazard use.
And it turns out it's the women doing it.
And it's the guys.
When you call them at 11 o'clock, they're home.
They're doing nothing.
They're eating wheaties and watching ESPN, the phone rings, and little Feminazzi says, Hey, I need a hookup.
Are you home?
Yeah, come on over.
They don't even like each.
It's the women running this show.
That's what has some of the parents upset.
I just can't believe there's little girls would uh be doing this.
I think this prints out to like nine or ten pages if you uh print it out.
Anyway, I'm only joking.
There is stuff to discuss here, my friend.
But there it it, I'm sorry, there is more Zimmerman trial stuff that we have to get into because they closed the loop on this.
So you sit tight, we'll come back and continue with all the rest of the exciting program today, right after this.
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I want to go back to Piers Morgan's CNN two nights ago.
I keep learning things that Rachel Gentelles said.
I didn't hear the interview.
I just read about it, and the audio sound bites that we played yesterday, or all I've heard.
I didn't watch it.
Apparently she said something else that's it's kind of uh entertaining.
This is from Breitbart News.
Prosecution witness Rachel Gentel speaking to Piers Morgan on CNN last night, explained that George Zimmerman had misunderstood the beating he was receiving from Trayvon Martin.
And therefore, so did the jury misunderstand the beating.
Zimmerman was not facing a potentially life threatening bashing.
Rachel Gentel said that all that was happening was whoopass.
Here's her quote.
Rachel Gentel on what is this one Monday night on CNN.
They don't understand.
They understand, oh, he would just bash or was kill.
Close quote.
When somebody bashed somebody like blood people, trust me, in the area I live, that's not bashing.
That just called whoopass.
You just got your ass whooped.
That's what that is.
And the point that she was making was that it was Zimmerman's fault for not understanding the cultural context in which he was being attacked.
Now, those are not Rachel Zintel's words.
She did not say that Zimmerman didn't understand the cultural context.
What she said was that Zimmerman didn't understand that Trayvon Martin didn't want to kill him.
He'd just do a little whoop ass.
And uh and Zimmerman overreacted.
Now Piers Morgan, according to this story here at Brightboard, Piers Morgan tried to save Gentel from herself by asking her whether Trayvon Martin would have whooped ass in self-defense.
Because he was here, look, she did so much that's being ignored.
Can you believe, by the way, the dramatic revelation on this program yesterday that this was not about race at all, that it was actually about homophobia?
Nobody has picked that up, folks.
Nobody.
Nobody wants to go there.
And my staff on the other side of the glass yesterday was petrified, thinking that I would be destroyed today.
That I would that that when we left yesterday, sir, they said, Boy, I can't wait till they hear what you said today.
And I said, You mean about the homophobia?
He said, Yeah.
Nothing.
Blissful silence.
There hasn't been any reaction to us.
None.
Zilch Zero Nada.
None.
Nobody is talking.
Nobody wants to get anywhere near it.
And it's patently obvious what she said.
She she made it clear.
Race was not one part of this.
It wasn't in minuscule aspect of it.
Rachel Gentel admitted to Piers Morgan that she was telling Trayvon that this guy could be a rapist.
Well, he's male.
That means he's a gay.
So we got homophobia here, not racism.
And she said, run, Trayvon, run.
And then she said, Trayvon's little brother is at the house.
You don't want the guy following you.
Well, why?
What's going to happen if a rapist goes into your house with your little boy in there?
Well, we all know.
So she said, Trayvon, run, run.
Trayvon didn't run.
Trayvon started beating up on Zimmerman.
But it wasn't because he thought Zimmerman was being racist or any of that.
It was dark, it was raining.
Zimmerman, despite the efforts of the media, portray him as a lily white guy.
He's an Hispanic, he's dark-complexed.
And it was nighttime.
And it wasn't obvious that Zimmerman was some Ku Klux Klan guy running around the neighborhood.
She told Trayvon that it was likely this guy was a rapist.
So that we've got homophobia.
Nobody is talking about.
So Trayvon would do one whoop-ass on the guy because Trayvon said, look, man, don't think I'm not one of you.
And that's what she said.
She says Trayvon not that way.
And if you not that way, this is uncomfortable.
So Trayvon doing a whoop-ass.
Can I say that?
Trayvon doing a little whoop-ass on Zimmerman because he thought he was gay.
Now, the point here is that in another part of the interview, it was Rachel Gentile who admitted that it was Trayvon beating up on Zimmerman.
Remember during the trial, all of this, my God, who was on top and who was on bottom and on the 9-11 call, who was saying, help me, help me.
Well, Rachel, God bless Rachel, after telling us that it was a homophobic challenge that Trayvon was facing, now tells Pierce Morgan that Trayvon wasn't trying to kill anybody.
He'd just do a whoop-ass.
So when she said that, when she said that, Piers Morgan said, oh my Jesus, oh I'm destroying the whole thing.
So he then said, well, now wait a minute, wait a minute, Rachel.
Could Trayvon have been doing whoop ass in self-defense.
But the damage was already done.
She had already made Trayvon the aggressor.
He was beating up on Zimmerman doing whoop ass, and it was Zimmerman's fault for not understanding.
Wasn't trying to kill him, it was just a good old neighborhood whoop ass.
The Attorney General, Eric Holder, moving on now on this stand your ground law.
I'll tell you, folks, these people, uh it is really sad.
It's, you know, it was the, I think, it was the British historian Alistair Cook, I think it was him in his letters to America, said that America would never overcome its black problem.
It was never going to happen.
And I'm struck here.
We elected the first black president.
And that was supposed to fix all of this, wasn't it?
Or at least make a huge dent in the race problem in this country, wasn't it?
The theory was that if America, with a vast majority white population, and what, 12 to 14% black population, elected a black man president.
Why, that would speak volumes about how progressive and advanced America had become.
And it would go a long way toward healing the wounds that apparently remain from slavery and discrimination and all the other.
But seems it's got worse to me.
It seems that with the election of Barack Obama, racial strife in this country is worse than it's ever been.
It's the Civil War.
Or as bad at least, it certainly hasn't improved, let's put it that way.
It has not improved.
The country's more divided in more ways than I can remember in my adult lifetime.
And I mean that.
I've thought about that.
I've I've gone back, my memory, I've tried to remember when we may have been more divided on so many things, and I don't remember it.
What I do remember is everybody saying, and many people hoping, and a lot of people believing that the election of Barack Obama would end a lot of it.
And it hasn't.
It has just made it worse.
Now, back to by the way, one let me, I'm gonna be hopscotching here, stick with me.
One thing I I meant to mention, the the writer Kate Taylor, who wrote the piece in the New York Times magazine about hooking up.
A little interesting side note about this.
She says that she talked to hundreds of young women on college campaign, and almost every one of them, almost all of them wanted her to use a fake name or just a letter for their names, such as A or B. They didn't want their parents to know they were doing it.
That's why.
The women didn't want their moms and dads to know what they were doing.
Now, balance that or compare that to everybody vomiting everything that they're doing on Twitter and Facebook.
Confusing.
And then here's another way to look at this.
With all this hooking up and all that it means, it's just something to do.
There's no attachment of any kind whatsoever.
When you look at the New York mayoral race, you see Spitzer and Wiener.
Well, in the two elections, you see them both with decent chances of winning.
Makes sense in a way.
New Yorkers, it's no big deal what Spitzer did at the end of the day.
No big deal what Wiener did at the end of the day.
Kids on college campus are doing the same thing.
They're tweeting out things like that, and they're hooking up, and there isn't any attachment to it, and nobody's being betrayed because nobody's making commitments of any kind.
So Spitzer and Wiener, they're not that much different from the behavior of people in college today and uh and recent college graduates.
I think it's fascinating.
You know, as those of us who hold traditional view of things, we look at all this, we try to make sense of it, and of course, logically it doesn't.
So then you try to find ways other than good lord, who is that?
Oh, take it back.
Uh sorry, distracted by something I saw on TV.
It's incredibly risky to watch TV.
You just never know what you're going to see.
At any rate, with all of this supposedly new type of getting together hooking up, it's right along the lines of what happens with Wiener and Spitzer and Anne Clinton and all of these perpetrators of this kind of thing.
So in the case where these perpetrators, like Spitzer or Wiener are Democrats, it really isn't outside, or that much outside the mainstream of behavior.
But I want to go back, I just wanted to make sure it reminded you of that.
The women hooking up and bragging about it, thinking it's the news, don't want their parents to know.
I just I find it fascinating because they're still vomiting all of it all over the social websites.
So this, however, I I must, by the way, credit Drudge because Drudge did run with what I was saying yesterday about interpreting Rachel Gentel's remarks as being totally absent racism.
And Zimmerman was perceived as a homophobe.
A predator homophobe, and that's what led to all this.
And then Rachel Gentel, elsewhere in the interview with Piers Morgan, admitted that it was Trayvon doing whoop ass on Zimmerman.
That was a huge thing in the trial.
They brought voice experts in.
They brought all kinds of experts in to analyze the 9-11 tape, trying to figure out who was shouting for help, who was on top, who was on bottom, who was the aggressor.
And Rachel Gentel told them.
It's just nobody really understood what she was saying.
And of course, that's everybody else's fault.
And in fact, it was Zimmerman's fault for not understanding that Trayvon didn't want to kill him, he's just doing a little whoop ass.
But why was Trayvon doing whoop ass?
Because he thought Zimmerman was gay.
He thought Zimmermoon was a gay predator.
Nobody's picked that up.
And when Rachel Gentel then said, you gotta look at it it's just whoop ass.
It wasn't trying to kill, that's all that was going on.
She admits that it was Trayvon doing the whoopassing and beating up.
And Piers Morgan had to jump in there and try to save the day real fast by asking, well, well, wait a minute, Trayvon could be doing whoop ass in the fence, right?
Right, right.
But the damage had been done.
And then the Breitbart story says that the camera caught a member of the Piers Morgan audience reacting in shock that her jaw dropped at Gentel's admission that it was Trayvon doing the whoop ass.
Because a lot of people still think this jury verdict was a travesty, and they still think that it was Zimmerman that was beating up on poor Trayvon.
And and and uh Zentel just Gentel blew everything about this trial sky high.
It's just nobody really understood what she was saying when she said it.
So when she goes on Piers Morgan and says it again, and all the experts say, oh, oh, she's so engaging and beautiful and wonderful.
Why didn't she say this sound like this when she was on the stand?
If she had been as uh expressive and as clear on the stand as she has been on the Piers Morgan, this this case the jury wouldn't have been out more than five minutes.
Because there really wasn't any case here.
Gentel made it clear it was not about race and made it clear that Trayvon was the aggressor and was doing a little whoop ass.
And furthermore, that it was Zimmerman's fault.
This is another thing Rachel Gentels.
It was Zimmerman's fault because he should have understood that Travan wasn't trying to kill him, it just whoop ass.
Anyway, there's more.
She's opened up about her friendship with Trayvon, calling him a good friend, true friend.
He's got an energy it makes you laugh.
He's real funny, and I like that on a person, Gentel said.
Trayvon never judged me.
You know, I've always had an underbite.
It's an underbite that I need to get done.
But Trayvon never judged.
He just said, Oh, okay, well, that ain't no problem.
How she spoke was part of the reason for the firestorm of criticism she received about her testimony.
And she said, Yeah, I was attacked.
I I knew I was going to be attacked, but I didn't know it was going to be that much of an attack.
And she said a lot of it was because she was asked to speak louder, but she can't speak louder.
And they said the lawyer knew she couldn't speak louder because she has a voice problem.
They say it's her tonsils acting up.
That's what the doctors had thought her tonsils were acting up.
She couldn't speak up.
She couldn't speak louder.
She couldn't do that till she ended up with Piers Morgan on uh on CNN.
Anyway, brief time out, my friends, sit tight.
Four jurors have seen fit to distance themselves from juror B 37, who was the juror that went on Anderson Cooper 97 on Monday night back after this.
Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And this is Eileen of Clinton, Tennessee.
Hi, Eileen, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, thank you for taking my call.
I'm honored.
When you mentioned um that um, I'm not sure exactly what you mentioned something that made me think of a study that I had heard uh about Hispanics integrate um assimilating better than we would have thought.
You know, there's a lot of talk about, you know, the uh rising uh Hispanic population and they're they think you know we're gonna look like Mexico, they're gonna take over.
And there are enclaves where uh you have to be Spanish speaking to do business and whatever, but as a whole, according to social scientists who measure things like, you know, generations uh, you know, taking over speaking English and working in, that they're assimilating much like my all my grandparents were immigrants, uh, much like other waves of immigrants had the Hispanics are you saying.
The Hispanics.
And I'm wondering I'm trying to understand this because let me see if I understand what you're what you're saying is that everybody's been worried about immigration and uh amnesty and illegals because the Hispanics are not assimilating, but in fact you read some guy says they are, and you also that's just one person's, you know, one study.
But I think apply this to the Oh, I know what it was.
You were saying after Obama got elected, we expected better race relations.
Yeah, everybody thought that.
Everybody thought, well, not everybody, I didn't.
I thought exactly what has happened was going to happen.
I thought racial relations would get worse.
I thought racial relations would be exacerbated.
I thought there'd end up being more friction in our society.
Because I know liberals.
And I knew that what was going to happen, okay, we got the first black president elected, but that's not going to count for anything.
It's going to be chalked up to people who didn't really mean it.
They were just voting for the black guys, so nobody would think they're racist, but they don't really love Obama.
That was the first thing they were going to say.
And the next thing they were going to do was any time Obama's criticized, they were going to accuse the criticism of being racist in its orientation.
Well, folks, there hasn't been a president alive who doesn't get criticized.
Presidents are criticized by more people every day than anybody else in society.
But the left, the Democrats set it up so that any criticism of Obama had nothing to do with substance.
It was all racist.
And the objective here was at least twofold, if not multifold.
One was to silence any criticism by making those who would criticize Obama fearful of doing it because they didn't want to be called racist.
The second objective was to be able to call people racists.
Because it does matter.
Somebody calls you a racist and it sticks, you have a problem.
Particularly if you're in politics and are seeking people's votes.
So the that's why I think the next thing the Democrats are going to do is try to find another first.
Any criticism will be sexist.
And it will allow them to continue the war on women, or maybe they'll they'll find an Hispanic to run on their side that they think could be elected, so then we have the first Hispanic president, and every criticism will be anti-Latino.
And that's how they set it up.
And so it's twofold.
It's it's it's to silence any criticism, but that criticism that actually survives will be characterized as racist or sexist or bigoted or what have you.
And it's just a way the overall purpose of this is for the left to silence and do away with any opposition, because that's their objective.
I was told that yesterday on MSNBC, they had a panel discussion, and the people on the show were literally having cows over my interpretation of them and their reaction to the Zimmerman verdict on Saturday.
I approached the EIB golden microphone on Monday, and I told you that their reaction was really not about Zimmerman and Martin Trayvon.
It was just a bunch of children didn't get their way.
They've been getting their way on everything.
In the last five, five and a half years, they've gotten 99% of what they want.
They didn't get this.
That's in their belly aching.
They were, they were I accused them of having a temper tantrum.
You would not believe how that was purposely misinterpreted and then misanalyzed.
Which is something they always do.
They eliminate all of the crucial context of any critic that they launch into.
So what it became was I was – folks, I don't remember.
It was so insane, I don't remember how they interpreted it.
But I am a premier communicator.
I say what I mean.
I don't leave it up to – if somebody asks me a question, I answer it.
I don't speak in riddles.
And I said that what really had them ticked off about this verdict was that they didn't get their way.
Somebody didn't let them have what they wanted.
They wanted a guilty verdict.
For whatever reasons, they wanted a guilty verdict.
They didn't get it.
And then they launch into countries racist because they didn't get their way.
Well, Eileen, I've not forgotten your question.
This is all sort of a setup for my answer to your question because she has observed that it is – and she's read – that it's not the Hispanics.
They're not assimilating so much.
It's actually blacks who are not only not assimilating, they appear to be regressing.
And there's a – actually.
an opinion piece about this at PJ Media.
I got to take a break right now, but don't go away.
I told you I was only kidding when I said I had nothing.
I mean, for from I got most hosts would have nothing.
But that's really never the case here.
So you sit tight, my friends.
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