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Dec. 30, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchor man is away, but not for much longer.
Uh he will return Thursday.
And in the meantime, this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
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Uh don't worry, the show is under uh full control of executive authority because Mr. Snerdley is in New York City, so it goes from my station EIB in New Hampshire to New York, out to California, up to the satellite and thence to the world.
And uh this is how Reuters is reporting the news from Hawaii.
Uh the serenity, the seren uh I love the headline.
But the good the great thing about uh when when I w when I worked at Fleet Street, uh the the uh editors were uh always used to teach uh a lesson about the kind of uh grab grabbing headlines they wanted you to use.
That uh the headline was supposed to uh supposed to grab the reader and draw him in.
And they had a rather obscene term for this that I can't uh use on the air, but that this was the desired quality a headline ought to have if it was gonna draw the reader in.
All headlines involving Obama take on the same character as he himself has.
They become sort of passive and detached.
So this one says, Obama faces smattering of protests on Hawaiian vacation.
Now I don't know whether this is just uh Reuters uh downplaying things, you know.
Louis XVI faces smattering of protests on Versailles vacation.
Is it like that?
Tsar faces smattering of protests on Winter Palace vacation.
Is it like that?
Uh we don't know.
But at any rate, Reuters says Obama faces smattering of protests on Hawaiian vacation.
The serenity of President Barack Obama's Hawaiian vacation was rattled a little on Saturday when demonstrators aired grievances against unmanned aircraft.
By the way, unmanned aircraft are what non-Reuters reporters call drones.
And uh they're not I by the way, I gave my kid a drone for Christmas.
You know, he's like uh the the Amazon wants to deliver things by drones.
A drone, it's not the fact that it's unmanned.
Uh it's the fact that it's being dispatched across the uh oceans to go and kill a bunch of people.
And so the fact that it's an unmanned aircraft is not what they're protesting about.
The unmanned aspect, unless they're members of uh some kind of aircraft uh uh trades union and they're protesting against the fact that now the aircraft don't require pilots or whatever to fly them.
But I got my kid one of these, my youngest boy one, these little drones, uh, and I don't know what you do uh d apart from if you're not going using it to kill jihadis in Waziristan.
I uh I don't know what you uh I don't know what you do with it.
You unless you uh unless you just send it over to hover across the street outside the bedroom window of the uh hot girl in uh in uh sits across the class from you that you've uh always had an eye.
Unless it's like that, I don't I have no idea what you use these things for.
But they're not protesting the unmanned nature.
They're protesting the fact that they're gonna kill people.
Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps base Hawaii, Obama's motorcade.
Now I love that.
By the way, that's great writing just there.
What's wrong with this sentence?
Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps base Hawaii.
Obama's motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs.
I think the idea is that the president visited the gym and the motorcade, the motorcade itself didn't actually visit the gym.
So that's that's poorly written.
Well, actually, I don't know.
It's a close call, because in a sense the motorcade does visit the gym.
I don't know whether they actually all get out of the motorcade and surround the exercise bike or the treadmill that he's on just to secure it or whatever.
I should imagine the motorcade stays outside, but maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, the motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs with slogans including drones unethical and illegal, U.S. bases out of Hawaii, presumably, And close Guantanamo now.
Others express their opposition to genetic genetically modified foods.
This is how the revolution begins, folks.
I know it's depressing.
You think, well, we got Benghazi, we've got uh the IRS, we've got Obamacare, we've got all this.
Uh what are people going to take to the barricades over?
They're going to take to the barricades over genetically modified food.
It marked a second day of peaceful protests surrounding Obama, who is spending a two-week uh vacation with his uh with his family.
This is how close we are to the tipping point.
On Friday evening, as many as twenty-seven protesters turned out to uh demonstrate against the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Pact being negotiated between the United States and several Asian and South American countries.
Um th there's a a strange phrase.
Where's the where's the phrase in this?
Uh let me see if I can find it.
Uh I'll have to have another uh I'll have to Yeah, there's a protest zone.
That's the thing.
There's a designated protest zone.
Yeah, that's right.
Uh against unmanned aircraft and other issues, the demonstrators aired grievances in a small protest zone near the first family's upscale rented house.
Okay.
This is the This is your first amendment in action.
There's a designated protest zone.
It's a small protest zone, so if you want to be sure, if you've got your protest uh against genetically modified food, and you've got your protest against Benghazi, you've got your protests against drones, you've got your protest against Obamacare, you should apply for a permit uh to the uh Bureau of Protest Zone Compliance, and they will then issue you a permit that will tell you uh when you can go and stage your designated protest in the designated protest zone near the first family's upscale rental house.
But Reuters is Yeah, no, yeah.
No, no, no.
Um Mr. Snowley is so cynical, he's just said, well, no one will ever see it, because how near is the protest zone to the first family's upscale rented house?
Uh well, it's true that probably when uh, you know, Michelle ducks out to go to the supermarket and Barack has the Danish Prime Minister over to uh to to sit in her bikini by the pool.
It's probably true that you can't see the designated protest zone from the pool.
But there's a sporting chance that somebody in the 40th car of the 40 car motorcade will be close enough to see the people uh making the protests near the first family's upscale rent uh rented house.
Uh but it reports he's had a warm hundreds of onlookers swelled around his motorcade for about four blocks on Friday night.
I honestly can't make head or tail of what this who is this piece by?
I can't I can't understand what he's saying.
Is it the motorcade that stretches for about four blocks?
That sounds a bit short for a presidential motorcade these days.
Uh or is it the hundreds of onlookers who swelled around the motorcade that stretched for four blocks?
You can bet there are hundreds of onlookers, by the way, never got anywhere near the motorcade, uh because even even the four the most insignificant car in the in the 40-car motorcade, you can't risk getting any American citizens there.
But after the family dined at Nobu, an award-winning Japanese fusion restaurant in Waikiki, uh, as the motorcade pulled away for the 15-mile drive back to Kailua, by the way, 15-mile drive sounds a lot longer than it is because in fact the motorcade itself is about twelve miles long.
Uh as the motorcade pulled away for the 15-mile drive back to Kolo, the crowds clapped, cheered, and waved, snapping photographs with their cell phones.
Because it's it nothing is, you know, when you look back on the Obama era, nothing sums it up better than getting a uh getting a cell phone shot of the back of the 40th car in the motorcade as it goes past you.
So this is how these are the things people are annoyed about now in Obama, the uh with Obama in Hawaii.
They send a protest about genetically modified food and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Pact.
So that's a sign, I think, that the revolution's coming.
The revolution's coming.
It's just small things like that that can just uh start the start the whole thing off, start the whole thing off.
Bigger story, the biggest story this week uh was a story in the New York Times yesterday about Benghazi, a deadly mix in Benghazi.
And it has uh uh it has its share of uh th the reporter, by the way, here is David Kirkpatrick.
And he's got like he he does that thing, you have to give credit to the New York Times for this.
He's he's their Cairo guy, and he's been in Benghazi, and he's gotten lots of uh those little details that give the uh appearance of authenticity to it.
Uh the uh the the September the 9th, American diplomats dined with the militiamen on Twinkie style cakes.
Again, it's a cryptic description.
I don't know.
I take it that means they weren't actual Twinkies, but they ha they were some Libyan approximation of Twinkeys.
And the militiamen uh said that they wanted to build a partnership with the United States, uh, especially in the form of more investment, and specifically asked for Benghazi outlets of McDonald's and KFC.
Two days later, essentially the same group of people who had been in this meeting uh were responsible for storming uh the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi and killing Ambassador Stevens and three others.
And the there's a guy in this, a militia leader called Ahmed Abu Kattala, who is walking around Benghazi openly right now.
And uh his movements are known.
The only time in the course of this attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the only time that the fire, the enemy fire abated was when Abu Qatala apparently entered the uh the compound, the diplomatic compound uh in uh in Benghazi.
But this guy, Abu Qatala, he's walking around, uh he's he's uh in his favorite cafes, he's still there, everyone knows what he's doing, everyone knows his whereabouts.
Why is he still walking around?
Right?
Why is this guy who f who figures all the way through the New York Times story on Benghazi, why is he still walking around?
You know, th this guy is res is what what happened in Benghazi is unusual.
People don't people think it happens a lot, but it doesn't.
It's thirty years since an American ambassador was killed.
Thirty years.
It's an unusual event.
But because it would be inconvenient to play up its unusualness uh two months before a presidential election, instead the ambassador was dead and the other guys were dead, and it was no big deal.
And this guy, Abu Katala, is still uh op w openly walking around.
Um what is what is fascinating about this is there appears to be no move.
Even though he's quoted by name in the newspapers, even though he's been filmed uh sitting in his favorite cafes, even though everybody knows where he is, except apparently the world's biggest military, uh belonging to the world's only superpower, which has no intention uh apparently of lifting a finger to avenge the death of an American ambassador.
And that's not that's r well, yeah.
What diff yeah, what difference can it possibly make?
It could make a difference.
It it could it couldn't in the real world it does make a difference.
Because in the real world, uh I'll never f I'll never forget this.
This was uh an aide to Grammyko who was asked in 1979 what would happen if the uh if uh if if the uh Ayatollah Homeini had done to the uh Soviet embassy what he'd done to the American embassy.
And uh the guy looked at his watch and he said it's eleven o'clock, uh by one o'clock there would be no more Tehran.
Uh and that's why, generally speaking, Soviet embassies and Russian embassies and whatnot don't get seized.
So when you let these things go unpunished, you're licensing more of it.
You're licensing more of it.
But that's in the real world.
In the n unreal world in which the New York Times operates, they're thinking that uh Benghazi has to be neutralized as a story before Iowa and New Hampshire.
So it's not really Benghazi is a town in Libya, uh, but what uh what matters more is the likely reaction out in Iowa or New Hampshire.
This is designed To uh to uh liquidate the issue for Mrs. Clinton uh in uh in those jurisdictions rather than do anything to avenge the death the deaths of four Americans whose whose memory she trashed by standing over those coffins at Andrews Air Force Base and telling lies about them, telling lies about why they were dead.
Uh this this story i is about making Iowa and New Hampshire safe for Mrs. Clinton, not about making Benghazi safe for m uh American diplomats.
Mark Stein for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Pam in uh Hobart, Indiana.
Pam did uh did I pronounce your town correctly, Pam?
Hi, Mark.
Is it Hobert, Hobart, Indiana?
Hobart, Indiana.
Okay, that's great.
That's great.
Not ho Bart in uh kind of like losing connection here.
Oh okay.
Well, let's try not to lose the connection.
Well, what's on your mind today, Pam?
Well, um I just wanted to say, you know, when this all affordable health care was being first talked about, one of my friends, she was real adamant about that it was going to be uh like a payroll deduction like your FICA is, and I kept telling her, No, it's not.
It's more insidious.
You know, you gotta pay attention.
Well, now to make a long story short, she's been out of out of work for almost two years.
Her um she applied for under the exchange, and of course she has no income, so uh she can't go that route.
So they suggested that she would be uh comparable to the Medicaid.
So she has applied there three times and they have officially denied her and she's got a letter of denial.
So she's like, Well, welcome to my world.
Everything has been out of pocket for me, so now everybody uh has to pay like I have to pay.
Everything is out of pocket.
Right, right.
And she thinks that is uh the right way to go.
Yeah, you you you made an interesting point there, Pam.
Uh she basically assumed that it would be easy, that it would be uh like uh that this whole Obamacare thing was gonna be like uh FICA, uh it'd be on your pay slip, there'd be some little bitty it'sy bitsy number, and the costs of health care were going to be deducted from that.
And uh she's like a your friend is like a lot of people.
She thought health care reform was going to be easy, and that's the opposite of what they've done there.
They've massively, massively complicated everything uh to the point where people who who you your your friend uh sounds like the kind of person that government health care is meant to help.
She's got no means of support.
She's out of work for two years.
So if she gets sick, uh she has no way of reaching into her purse and paying for it herself.
So if you're gonna have government in intervention in health care, someone like your pal is the is the kind of person it's meant to it's it's meant to help.
Yet she's uh she doesn't qualify for any of the things.
She's been rejected by she doesn't qualify for the exchanges because she's got no income.
Uh she's lost her own insurance, uh, she's been denied Medicaid.
All they've done with this health care reform is introduce even more gaps for her to uh s fall through, as it were.
But but but the delusion on the part of liberalism is that all this could be done easily.
And uh she sounds as if she's thinking of it that way, that it was that whatever it was, it wasn't gonna be anything you had to think about or anything you had to work at.
And that's actually the opposite of the way it's turned out, Pam.
Yeah, yeah.
What's what's your solution?
If we had to if you were sitting in John Boehner's position now, uh what would you do?
I would still keep it as a free market uh and to open up these uh insurance policies to be able to go from state to state, more open market there.
Um there was always ways to to to help with people that didn't have insurance.
And I I know for an example, me, I had to have surgery four years ago for the first time.
I had no insurance, nothing.
And I went straight to the hospital and uh applied for financial aid there, and I was expecting that maybe I would get forty percent of that bill taken off.
They took everything off from me.
So there's ways.
No, you're right.
You're right, Pam.
That forty percent uh cash discount is automatic.
I think in fact Rush got that when he was uh had his heart problems in uh Hawaii, and he was talking to me a couple of days later when he got back from Hawaii a couple of years ago, that he'd just uh that he'd just written a a check for it.
But in fact, that's just the sort of it.
The reason hospitals do that is because there's now so many third party interventions from insurers and governments that there is no price on an opera.
If you're I don't know what operation you're having, but if you're having a hernia operation, there's no market value on a hernia operation in the United States anymore.
It could be a bazillion dollars, or it could be sixty bucks, because there is no effective market in health care pricing anymore.
And that is what's driving the costs of health care up as much as anything else.
Third party intervention.
We'll talk about that and a lot more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, great to be with you.
Uh New Year's Eve I'll be here.
New Year's Day best of rush, and uh Rush the man, the indispensable man, the big voice on the right, returns to launch another year of excellence in broadcasting on Thursday, uh January the second.
Uh I've just had I've just had a uh uh uh a tweet from uh Jay Knight, who we've talked about that ice big uh eco uh apocalyptic global warming cruise that's got stuck in the ice in the Antarctic, and Jay Knight says, Can we rename the ship HMS Inconvenient Truth?
I name this ship HMS Inconvenient Truth.
God bless her and all who sail in her.
Uh HMS Inconvenient Truth stuck in the ice.
Uh Chinese icebreaker tried to reach them, failed.
This is summer in Antarctica.
Summer in Antarctica, the ice is thicker than ever.
And now I know as I say this that the climate uh the climate change guys, the global warm mongers will be tweeting, well, you know, uh thick ice is not incompatible with global warming.
Thick ice is a site of global warming, no ice is a sign of global warming.
Uh thick ice is a sign of global warming.
Blazing hot sun, rising sea levels, desert scorched earth is a sign of global warming, but uh low sea levels and lush green pie and snows a sign of global warning, and it's if it's fifty-three and cloudy, uh that means the global warming is out of control and you should flee for the hills.
Run now.
Don't start don't don't stop to pack, don't do anything.
Just get the hell out of there right now.
Uh at some point at some point if everything demon if everything that happens proves your theory, it is not a theory.
It is not a theory.
You're like those guys who uh when th they uh on the primitive islands when they say uh the gods of the volcano are angry, so we better toss some virgins into the volcano.
And then the volcano uh doesn't stop erupting, they say, well, that's a sign that the uh volcano's even angrier.
And then when the volcano stops erupting and you still want to toss some virgins into the volcano because it's fun and you've gotten hooked on the habit, you say, well, that doesn't mean that the gods aren't.
Everything is now proof of uh global warming.
I mentioned the uh the state but the the protests in Hawaii.
Uh we're looking we're kind of looking back on some of the things in the last year and looking ahead to what might happen in twenty fourteen.
And um the protests in Hawaii do not suggest a great swell of public anger, at least in Hawaii, to uh towards Obama.
Uh but elections are decided by a thin sliver of people in the middle.
And a lot of that thin for a lot of that thin sliver of people in the middle.
Uh big government's brand was damaged this year.
Now it may well be that uh uh round about uh September, October, they do what they did last time, which is that they know they've got a compliant media that will uh fake things for their for their president and will uh downplay things for their guy and will sledge things under the carpet for their party.
And that may well happen again.
But I d uh unless people are extremely stupid, in which case they well deserve the government they've got, then this last year I think has been devastating for big government's brand.
Um the the lie of the last year.
The big lie, the lie of the year according to Politifact.
If You like your plan, you can keep your plan, period.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period.
These things are not true.
If you do like your doctor, you're in big trouble.
Because you may get another plan, but the plan will have a restricted network.
The plan will have a restricted range of hospitals.
A lot of doctors, a lot of hospitals don't want to be part of this thing.
So you might be able to get another health care plan, but you'll have to drive further and further to see a doctor you're less uh uh uh you you don't want to see, who would not be your choice of doctor in a in a free market.
Um and and again, all the aspects that's that is sent that was necessary, that was necessary uh to get this thing over the finish line.
It was necessary for that lie to survive the 2012 election.
Because if people had known that there was going to be this much chaos and this much uncertainty and all the rest of it, then it would have had an effect.
And in the end, for whatever reason, Obamacare did not really have a significant uh effect in in last year's election.
And it's uh it remains an open question whether they'll be able to pull that off this time.
But if you're paying attention, this is the way it's gonna be.
You're in for more expensive health care, uh, with a smaller range of doctors, a a smaller range of hospitals, less quality health care, less quality health care, uh and uh as consolation, uh a high deductible and coverage for all kinds of things you're never gonna get.
So if you're a fifty-eight-year-old guy, uh you'll you'll have a perfect plan if you ever need to have a hysterectomy or whatever.
By the way, some of these things you should shouldn't be part of plans.
And they're why insurance isn't insurance anymore.
Insurance is for things that are generally unlikely to happen, but that are expensive if they do, like your house burning down or your car flipping over on the interstate.
So when you have health care plans that cover your flu shot, that isn't that isn't in that's not insurance.
You know, you should be paying for that.
Uh you should be paying for your flu shot.
You should be paying for your contraception.
You're not insuring when people say, Oh, oh, that's the great thing.
This new plan will cover uh I'll b they will have to cover my contraception now.
Contraception is not an unforeseen uh event.
Uh it shouldn't.
It it it uh it shouldn't be.
It's uh for for it it's one of those things where if you need to factor it into your life, uh then it should not be something that is addressed by in uh insurance.
And and that's why uh that's why this thing is gonna the the the question now is the next stage.
Uh what happened?
What which way does health care reform go after Obamacare falls apart?
Does it go towards a full-blown government plan, or does it go to something sane, which would be uh uh which which would be people making uh paying something for doctor visits, whether it's foot fifty dollars or whatever, and at the same time having uh uh affordable insurance for catastrophic health care that is nothing to do with uh employment or anything like that.
So the question is where it goes next.
Uh and that's the big question that we'll we'll start to see uh if some of these stories for what happens after January the first turn out to be rather worse for the government uh than necessary.
Uh Florida this is one of the things they were protesting about uh in uh in uh in Hawaii.
They were uh upset about the drones.
At the same time, every state now wants to be in uh in with a shot at big drone money.
Uh the FAA has announced six states that will develop test sites for drones.
Uh now this is this is the critical next step for getting drones into US skies.
They didn't trust them.
They previously just been testing them on large stretches of Waziristan and Yemen.
And nobody cares about that, so they could drone away to their heart's content.
But they they're now uh have now announced funding for research sites that will test drones uh for use in the United States.
Um and the six sites that are gonna get them are Alaska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Texas, and Virginia, as states that will uh host drone research site.
So if you're walking along, so it's like Texas, you might be uh walking along a dusty main street in the uh Texas panhandle, and you might be uh accidentally droned from the skies.
Don't worry, it's just part of an ongoing research project.
But the states that didn't get in are upset about it now.
Florida is uh Florida is upset.
USA Today uh reports that Florida is upset that it was not uh part of the drone development and testing.
So I'm actually relieved.
I'm gonna be in Florida uh in about a month's time.
First week in February.
I'm uh on tour in uh Jacksonville and uh St. Petersburg and Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, Miami, doing a little tour of Florida, and I'm kind of relieved that there won't be drone testing while I'm there.
But Florida is bad, uh, but it is not getting any of the drone testing uh money.
Uh and uh the th this is this is uh the the point now at which we the the guy who was on the former head of the NSA he was on TV and he was talking about Edward Snowden over the weekend and he was saying uh I don't know why he's attacking us from the security of Russia.
Uh Russia is one of the biggest big brother states on the planet.
Look, these guys uh the the the the Benghazi whistleblower in the State Department mysteriously just had his computer hacked and four years of email disappeared.
Der Spiegel is running a story.
If you're wondering, by the way, you see that stuff in the newspapers about oh, UPS and FedEx failed to deliver for Christmas.
Everything everybody ordered and they paid for the express shipping to get it there on Christmas Eve, and it didn't turn up on Christmas Eve, and FedEx and UPS said they're awfully sorry uh it wasn't delivered till the twenty-sixth and they deeply regret that and it won't happen again.
There's a story in De Spiegel about how the NSA, if people order computers and your name turns up on a watch list and you order a computer, the NSA intercepts the computer as it's being delivered from uh Microsoft or wherever you buy it,
uh uh uh d via UPS or FedEx, they intercept the or the United States Postal Service, they intercept the delivery and put something in the computer so they can see everything you're typing as you type it.
This is a story in De Spiegel, the German magazine.
It's not apparently worthy of being reported here, so I don't know how much credence you want to give to that.
Uh but they they manage to th uh where where say you do something and there's an and you get an error message, and you know with Microsoft Windows it says uh th th this uh there's been a flaw in this process, and can we now we'll now report it to Microsoft Windows?
Apparently they intercept that program and it goes straight to the NSA.
So this is the de this is the next day.
You you may think it was just FedEx and UPS delivering your computer a day late, but there could be a whole bunch of other stuff going on.
This is the world we live in, folks.
Mark cited for us, we'll take more calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in uh Farush Friday in our New York studio.
Friday made the point.
When I said I was on tour in Florida uh in February, it sounded like I was just uh motoring around Disney World or something.
Uh that in fact is is not what I'm doing.
I'm I'm going there to appear live on stage in these various towns.
Uh what did I say?
Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Fort Pierce, Fort Myers, and Miami, where I believe Mr. Snerdley will be uh coming along to see us.
And uh if you want to get tickets for that, you can go to Steinamite uh dot com, which is S-T-E-Y, Stein with a Y, S-T-E-Y-N, as in Why Do I Have to Have This Foreigner talking about Boxing Day on my radio show all the time.
S-T-E-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E dot com.
So I'll be live on stage in in Florida, and believe me, the way this New Hampshire winter is going with all the global warming, I'll be glad to uh get down there for a week of glorious florisha Florida sunshine starting in Jacksonville and hope to see you down there too.
Let's go to Annie in Addison, Illinois.
Annie, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Oh, hi, Mark.
It's an honor just to talk to you.
I know it's Alpine Friday, but that lady that called when you were on and back to me.
Yep.
She said her six-year-old knew she was transgender.
Right.
At age three.
Right.
Well, I've had two boys who are nineteen and fifteen, who each preferred pink and purple when they were in all the way through first, second grade.
And my husband was a little apprehensive, but they grew out of it.
I mean, it's not a three year old.
How can a three year old no or a six-year-old null?
I mean, I just didn't want you to feel bad because you're my favorite villain.
No, no, I I was r I was uh I don't feel bad, but I was wrong not to make the point you did there, Annie, because I don't think a six-year-old is a basis on which to uh disrupt either medically, such as by arresting uh giving them hormones to arrest the growth of this or that, or by uh requiring them to use the girls' bathroom in in uh at the grade school or whatever.
So I was wrong, Annie.
Uh and and you're you're right to correct me on that, because I as I was thinking about it afterwards, uh I grew I I I shouldn't have accepted the idea of a six-year-old transgender thing.
Uh I I'll make one exception, Annie, here.
I think that there are people there used to be people who were born, they'd have a kind of botched birth, and it wasn't clear they'd have malformed genitals or whatever, and it wasn't clear what sex they actually were, and sometimes the doctor would r make the wrong call and they'd have a miserable childhood, and in adulthood uh something would have to be corrected.
And again, I don't really care about anything that people want to do to themselves in adulthood.
That's their call.
It's a different matter if they want to get Obamacare taxpayers or whatever to pay for it.
But we're talking about something that is really uh just within living memory.
I mean, this doesn't go back a long way.
The the the first um the first British woman to ever have a sex change died, I think it was last year uh last year, maybe the year before, and she was a lady called uh Roberta Cowell, who when she was a man had been a famous World War II fighter pilot.
And in the nineteen fifties she became the first British woman to have a sex change.
And in those days you it was at all done at the fringes of the map.
You had to go to Morocco to have it done.
Uh it wasn't done in hospitals in the Western world.
And now, as always, we have a situation where uh people people think it should be done, not when you're an adult, but when you're a confused teenager, or even more when you're just like a uh six or seven year old who happens to have an older sister and uh so there's not much around the house to play with except dolls or whatever.
And that's I think, you know, Annie, uh don't don't feel bad for me because I I'd I dropped the ball on that one, so to speak.
Oh no.
My m a behavioral doctor told me my boys would fight for the rest of their lives because of the difference in the age.
And I said, not if mom has anything to say about it.
So I made sure that they played well together, or they just you know, you you sorry, you go read a book.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's not and the thing about these the don't don't forget what you're up against too, Annie.
It's like d it it's one thing if uh to to about decisions that parents make at home.
But the pressure, by the way, the pressure, which is why this California thing is so bad, to change every single school in the state.
Uh the pressure is to make the concept of a transgendered seven-year-old or a transgendered eight-year-old seem entirely normal.
And it's not.
This is all very recent.
And we may be uh we may be ruining far more lives than were ever ruined in the old days by by letting people just sort of work this stuff out for themselves when they were an adult, uh, by actually forcing forcing children down roads they don't want to go to.
They may just be messed up I don't blame any kid for being a messed up kid given the state of the education system these days.
And we may be just uh uh we may just be the cause of in i i i uh uh and and again what you have to uh attach this to, Annie, is that is that the the radical left is committed to the abolition of family, and by that it that requires the abolition of gender too.
That w and I don't even like using the word gender because uh th that's a that in itself is innovation.
The abolition of sex.
Sex is male and female.
Gender is used by the left.
I think the last time I looked there up to like seven or nine different variations on it by the time you consider the various forms of transgender and all the rest of it.
And so they're committed.
That's what's going on here.
They're committed to the abolition of gender.
And the more they can normalize the concept of a transgendered second grader or whatever, Annie, the more they're committed to it.
So thank you for uh thank you for calling me out on that.
And I was I was wrong, I was wrong to take her at face value there.
Uh that's why Rush does this show five days a week for a quarter century, uh, and why I can barely hold my uh uh end up once every couple of months.
But we'll keep trying.
Markstein for Rush, more straight ahead.
America's number one radio show, Mark Stein in for us, behind the golden EIB microphone on the day before New Year's Eve.
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