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Feb. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 26, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
This is this is unbelievably hilarious.
And I had no idea it happened.
I had literally no idea I was CNN last night.
I was the totality of CNN programming last night.
And I didn't even know about it.
I just now found out about it when Cookie sends me the audio soundbite roster.
There's something like, let me count it again here.
There's something like 10 audio sound bites.
And you know what it's all about?
I happen to say that the governor of Arizona is being bullied.
Is there any doubt she's being bullied?
And yet this was thought to be the most outrageous, insensitive, over-the-top comment that anyone could make about what's going on in Arizona.
The fact that I said that Governor Brewer was being bullied.
Look, when the National Football League threatens you with taking the Super Bowl away from Phoenix, unless you do what they want you to do.
Are you being bullied or not?
I mean, I don't even, it's just, it is hilarious.
And I'll let you hear the sound bites as an interviewer.
And this N-word thing in the NFL that blew up last night and this morning in the media as well.
So we got a smorgasbord here today, folks.
I mean, we this is an unending buffet line.
You just you gotta hear this stuff, and you will if you hang in there be tough.
Day three of the N-word, and now let me tell you what's been added to it.
Somebody has come out and said some media person, the N-word, that's the wrong thing.
We gotta we gotta look out for gay slurs on the field in the NFL.
The N-word, I mean, that's that's common.
Black guys are calling themselves that with terms of endearment on this gay slurs that are the real problem in the NFL.
Oh, folks, I can't begin to describe the the literal gold mine.
Anyway, greetings.
Uh Rush Limbaugh most talked about radio talk show and host in America.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now let me give you a little news story here to set something up.
This is a story out of CBS Eyeball News Los Angeles.
Southern California lawmakers who support legislation to discriminate against gays and lesbians now have one less hot spot to visit in West Hollywood.
David Cooley, the founder of the Abbey Food and Bar located on North Robertson Boulevard has announced that the popular gay bar will add any legislator in any state who votes for bills to allow for discrimination against uh lesbian gay bisexual tranny people to a deny entry list.
So if any legislator votes in a way this guy doesn't like, they're not gonna be let into his bar.
Of course, that's cool.
That's heroic.
That's right on, but let somebody that bakes cakes for a living not want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, and you've got a major sin that has been committed.
A major human rights violation has been committed, and we've got to do something about it.
And by the way, the attorney general of the United States, Eric Holder, as we mentioned yesterday, is out telling state attorney general, attorneys general, that if they don't like certain laws that their legislatures have passed, just follow the lead of Obama and don't enforce them.
They're perfectly within their legal rights to not enforce laws that they don't like.
So here's where we are.
Eric Holder can lawfully refuse to enforce laws.
Eric Holder can tell state attorneys general not to enforce laws.
A bar owner in West Hollywood can deny entry to anybody he thinks is not sympathetic to LGBT issues, but a business owner in Arizona cannot lawfully protect and adhere to his or her religious views which are constitutionally protected.
And the effort to make that bakery or any other business, wedding photographer, wedding cake maker, to force them to do business with people that they religiously object to.
Why that's not bullying anybody?
Why no?
That's just this is just the way it ought to be.
Can we agree, uh, ladies and gentlemen, selective enforcement of the law is wrong?
Isn't that a starting point for civil society?
Somebody thinks that selectively serving customers based upon religious beliefs is intolerable.
Can that same person argue selective enforcement of the law is fine and dandy?
I mean, why is one okay and the other not?
Why can the president choose to ignore laws on the books, not enforce them?
Attorney General ditto.
How can he tell state attorneys general, hey, you don't like it?
Don't enforce it.
A bar owner in West Hollywood, you're not getting in here.
If you're not sympathetic to gay issues.
But somebody bakes cakes or takes photos in a business refuses.
When a gay couple walks in, then all hell breaks loose.
So, you want to hear some of the sound bites?
Let's go.
We'll start here with uh Mike Taibi.
This is on the Today Show today.
Oh, it it yeah, it was beyond CNN.
It was in local Arizona eyeball news there too as well.
Mike Taiebi, this is uh the way he set up the reporting of the story on the Today Show today.
If Governor Brewer does veto the bill, ultra conservative talkers like Rush Limbaugh say they know who's to blame.
She's being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere.
That's folks, that little innocuous statement, which happens to be nothing more than an observation of what's going on, literally caused liberal brains and heads to explode last night.
You know, I didn't even know about it.
I wish I'd have known.
I wish one of you people would have called me so I could have turned it on.
I know nobody watches CNN.
That's the thing.
That's that's the in fact.
Speaking of, thank you, Mr. Snerdley, for that reminder.
They have now reached the February numbers are in this February.
It is disastrous.
Anderson Cooper, for example, is down 47% year to year.
47% less audience this February than last February.
CNN in some day parts is down 50%, lost over half their audience from last year to this year.
I mean, it it is it is a disaster over there.
You talk about being out of the mainstream, and what's hilarious is they're playing all of these sound bites to me, and people react to me as well, like I'm out of the mainstream.
And these people can't even hold an audience.
I mean, 47%.
This is this is their big guy, Anderson Cooper.
I'll never understand any of this.
I really, you know, I go back a long time in the broadcasting business, and this just a few short years ago, I mean, everybody be gone, and there would be there'd be a mass panic going on long time ago.
Well, they've cleaned house two or three times, but they don't clean house with the they they still think they got the hottest talent in the country.
Uh they've got that I it's inexplicable.
So, anyway, that's today's show.
Now, here is uh KPNX eyeball 12 news at 10 in Phoenix.
This is the anchored Lynn Sue Cooney reporting about Mitt Romney and me on the Arizona bill.
Mitt Romney has become the latest high-profile public figure to criticize the bill.
Rash Limba is on The other side saying, quote, the governor of Arizona is being bullied.
She's being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere.
She is being bullied by the nationwide drive-by media.
She's being bullied by certain elements of corporate America in order to advance the gay agenda.
How is this how is this even a matter of discussion?
She is being bullied.
That is part of the way the left gets its way, is to bully every opponent practically on every issue.
They've successfully bullied the Republicans in the submission.
You know what the Republican position on this is?
Just Governor Brewer, please just sign it.
So go away.
It's gonna kill us if you beat the oh God.
Oh don't, don't please veto it.
Do what it they wanted to veto it against go away.
Just please the Republican Party has been successfully bullied to the point now of submission.
What do you think if this isn't bullying?
What is it?
What were the magic words?
Homosexual lobbyists, that what lit their fire?
That's what it is.
If if I would have well, that look this uh Lin Su cooney.
Look, I I have nothing against but Lynn Succuni know what drive by media is.
It was on a teleprompter.
That's hilarious.
It's hilarious.
He's being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere, she's being bullied by the nationwide drive-by-love.
Don't you love that?
The nationwide drive-by.
What is this if it isn't bullying?
This is the soap opera.
If it's not the gay lobby, it's the NFL.
It's any number of other corporate interests, or also to Apple Computer has weighed in on this.
Uh I don't know.
What would what would you call it?
Pressuring?
Or is it uh invoking what's morally right?
Well, what how is this even controversial?
I'll tell you uh there's as always, there is something else going on.
And when we get the soundbite nine, you'll hear what it is.
The forehead Paul Bagala at CNN gives away what the whole purpose of reacting to me this way is, and it has nothing to do with the bill.
There is no tolerance for contrasting views.
In fact, Snurley just asked you whatever happened to tolerance contrasting views.
In fact, speaking of that, did I put this Obama?
Right here, Evidence of formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Obama is a Washington Post story.
Obama urges supporters to correct misinformation from conservative news.
Obama yesterday called for his support.
Wait a minute.
This is Wednesday.
It says yes, Obama on Tuesday called for his supporters to correct their Republican friends when they spout incorrect facts they heard from conservative news outlets.
Like, if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it.
When the Republicans lie to you about that, you go out there and correct them.
You ask me about tolerance.
Obama's urging his buddies to bully people.
They bring a knife, we bring a gun.
Who said that?
It's Obama.
So the president is asking his own supporters to bully.
People who get their news from conservative media.
One more soundbite, we gotta go to break.
CNN New Day.
This is this morning.
This is their early show.
This is Anna Cabrera.
Reporting on me.
And my remarks that Governor Brewer is being bullied.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh igniting the rhetoric by saying Brewer is being attacked.
The governor of Arizona is being bullied.
She's being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere.
Right now, no one knows for sure what the governor is going to do, but we do know she vetoed similar legislation last year.
Folks, I find this ab.
It's it's such a teachable moment.
It is so hilarious.
There's no question she's being bullied, and yet I'm the bad guy for pointing it out.
It's there's no other conclusion you can draw in terms of the pressure that is being exerted on the governor in order to achieve the outcome they desire.
They're not just passively waiting for the governor to make up her own mind.
There's no passivity going on out there.
They're not any patience, people just waiting to see what she does.
Of course they're engaged here.
And you know, I I guess what bothers them is that they think bullying is exclusively a conservative thing.
That's what I'm turning around on them, calling them bullies, because they're incapable of that kind of behavior.
You know, what's uh what would be if they don't like bullying, what would be a better word?
Um extorting?
Well, in extorting, threatening.
Are they threatening?
Blackmailing?
How about hostage taking?
Well, that's what they say about it.
They they said Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
What they they took the budget hostage, or they were holding the v some some process hostage, the deficit in the hostage.
So about how about calling them uh say they're taking a hostage takers here.
That would really tick them off.
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They really, you know, this reaction to me accusing them of bullying the governor.
It is entirely possible that they do not see it that way.
They don't, they don't.
I I will maintain to you that drive by media has no empathy.
They have no ability to to, they don't understand how you see them.
They do not understand how you react to what they claim is the news every day.
They're totally clueless about it.
There is no question that there is an organized campaign to harass the governor.
If they don't like bullying, I'll pull it back.
I will officially change my terminology.
If you don't like the fact that they're built uh she being bullied, I'll change it.
And I will say that the female governor of Arizona being harassed.
How's that?
We're witnessing a war on a woman.
But a drive-by media and all the vested interests here.
But they don't, they really don't see it this way.
They think they're reporting the news.
Well, I wouldn't go that far.
I mean, they I'm not trying to portray them as detached.
But they're genuinely shocked that anybody would say what they're doing is bullying.
This is the soundbite from yesterday's program that sent them into orbit, folks.
She's being attacked for suggesting she might veto the bill for economic reasons.
I kid you not, she's she's not saying that the veto would be for the reason they want to hear.
The same-sex uh homosexual advocates want her to veto it on the basis of human rights, civil rights, gay rights, and what have you.
The governor of Arizona is being bullied.
She's being bullied by the homosexual lobby.
That was it.
They that launched it into the orbit and took them with it, and they just they that's all they heard.
That became the story.
I actually hijacked the story from the governor of Arizona and became the story.
Now here is CNN's the lead uh last night is Jake Tapper speaking with former Congressman Jim Colby.
Tapper plays a clip of me saying that the governor being bullied and then said, Congressman, does it matter to you why the bill would be vetoed as long as it's vetoed?
I don't know what she'll say in her veto message, but I think it's important that it be done for several reasons.
I think it's morally incorrect.
I think it's unnecessary, and I think economically it's bad.
And I think from a reputation standpoint, it just gives Arizona a black eye, and we don't need that.
And so I think we should avoid that.
So what just happened there?
Jim Colby disagreed with me.
You know, they play this soundbite, they can't believe that I actually think that she's being bullied because she wouldn't veto it for the right reason.
They asked Colby.
Well, I don't know what you'll say, but it is important that it be done.
For several reasons.
It is morally incorrect.
They do want this veto to happen with specific motivation behind.
What is so wrong about reporting the truth about this?
Which is all I'm doing.
I'm just telling everybody what I am observing.
I'm not even accusing anybody of anything.
I'm watching the governor of Arizona be bullied by all kinds of people.
The media, corporate America, the National Football League.
Of course, the uh various gay lobbies and interests and so forth, or harassed, uh, what have you.
Anyway, there's still more of this, and we haven't even scratched surface yet here on uh N word uh NFL today, so welcome back, folks.
Great to have you, L. Rushbow executing a scientist duties flawlessly while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Does anybody at this point even really know what this bill is about in Arizona?
I wonder how many people think that if the bill is signed into law, that gay people can't go to Chick-fil-A and get a sandwich.
I wonder how many people think that if the bill is signed into law, gay people can't go into Ruth's Chris and get a prime cut.
I wonder how many people believe that if a bill is signed into law that gay people can't go buy wedding cakes.
That's the way it's being portrayed, and it's not this law happens to be a religious freedom law.
The Constitution provides in the First Amendment, freedom of religion.
The people that who the people opposing this do not have any constitutional standing per se.
When you've got this West Hollywood bar denying entry to anybody the owner doesn't like for political reasons, there's no constitutional standing for that.
That's blatant discrimination.
But since he represents a minority, and therefore, in the eyes of the left, a bunch of victims, i.e.
homosexuals, then they can't possibly discriminate.
They're victims.
They're in the minority.
He doesn't have any constitutional authority, nevertheless, for his discrimination.
However, people practicing their religious beliefs, guaranteed free religious beliefs with the Constitution, do indeed have standing.
That's really what the nub of the bill is about.
That's all been forgotten because it's it's it's now been uh transformed, if you will, into uh it's been flaked and formed to fit into the daily liberal agenda soap opera.
And that's why a lot of people think that what's at stake here is gay people being able to go into a restaurant when it isn't.
So you see, it's perfectly fine, perfectly fine for the attorney general to tell other attorneys general to selectively enforce the law for his law you don't like, screw it.
Don't enforce it.
He said, we're doing the same thing in Washington.
The president, if he doesn't like a law, he's just not enforcing it.
In fact, the president's writing his own laws.
You guys should try that.
That apparently is fine and dandy.
West Hollywood bar owner can discriminate against people he disagrees with left and right.
No problem whatsoever with that.
But this in Arizona, why my golly, folks, you would think it's the end of civilized society.
And I, you know what I think.
I think the uh in the left.
Like a lot of people, they live in the past.
And I think in this issue, I think one of the reasons they they gin this issue up is they are they're tr they're they're just waiting, they can't wait for the next Todd Aiken.
They can't wait for the next goofball statement from somebody that they think they can build up and bally who into some overall condemnation of conservatives and Republicans.
Something that's profoundly embarrassing, and that's the kind of thing that they're searching for here by focusing on me happening to observe what millions of people are also observing that there is bullying going on.
And there's no question that the governor's being bullied.
There's no question she's being harassed by people who have a vested interest in her vetoing the bill.
On the other hand, where are do you see a lot of um activism on the part of people in favor of the bill?
Do you?
Are they bullying her?
Are they exerting pressure on her?
I don't see it.
They're laying low like a scared to death.
So let us now return the audio sound bites.
Up next is Ken Cucinelli.
He was on Crossfire last night, and they're talking about this, and then they played that sound bite of me, saying that the governor is being bullied.
It's all CNN did last.
They played that soundbite over and over, and they asked every guest what they thought of what I said.
So it's Cucinelli's turn next.
And Van Jones, when a co-host of Crossfire, said I want you to respond to Rush Limbaugh.
Do you think that the governor being bullied?
Jeff Flake, Senator from her states against marriage equality, is against domestic partnerships, against hate crime legislation.
He got 100% ratings for the family research council.
He's against the law.
McCain's against the law.
Are they bullying Governor Brewer?
No, but a lot of other people are.
A lot of other people and entities are.
And this is what this is the political correctness stampede.
Once they, whoever they are that uh control much of the voice, and by that I don't mean actual control, I mean influence control, and they start rolling the steamroller, and it's cool to go that way.
Well, then, you know, Katie Bar the door.
That's what's bearing down on Jan Brewer.
Okay, so he just agreed.
Now he said, no, McCain's not bullying her and Flake and bullets.
A lot of other people are.
And this is the political correctness stampede.
Once they get going, they just steamroll her over everybody.
Ken Cucinelli.
Attorney General from Virginia, Tony Perkins, a family research counsel on Aaron Burnett out front.
She said, sound by number eight.
What do you think about what Rush Limbaugh just said?
Is Governor Brewer being bullied by the gay lobby in order to advance their agenda?
I think what's happened is the water has been muddied, clearly, no question about that.
Too many people have gone to the uh Nancy Pelosi School of Public Policy.
They're going to dispose of this and then read it.
It's a one-page bill.
It's pretty easy.
It amends a 1999 law that essentially does uh three things.
The major thing it does is it says you don't have to leave your faith within the walls of your church or your home.
So he's simply saying uh you can be religious in your business, too.
You don't just have to be religious in church.
So look at I there's no doubt that pressure is being exerted.
There are threats.
Economic, moral, you name it.
I mean, when the National Football League takes a day off from being concerned about the N-word and threatens the governor with removing the Super Bowl.
What is that?
Apple Computer, Apple, or Apple Incorporated, sorry.
Apple just partnered with a sapphire manufacturing firm that's located in Mesa.
The rumors, I guess nobody really, because Apple doesn't announce anything, But the right now Apple uses Sapphire to house the uh the camera apparatus on the iPhone, protect it.
Sapphire very hard, hard to scratch it.
They also use sapphire on the fingerprint sensor, touch ID.
And the story is they're going to start making sapphire for s for for the entire screen of the new iPhone, or iPhones if there are two of them.
And the production is supposed to really, really ramp up, and we're talking about Apple is maybe hiring two thousand people, two thousand new jobs in Arizona in Mesa at this sapphire manufacturing.
And they came out and they let it be known that they were very, very much in favor of the governor vetoing the bill, and there's two thousand jobs now.
What is that?
Mr. Limbo, that is simple moral pressure.
Oh, is that what it is?
Moral pressure.
It isn't bullying.
Oh, okay.
Well, then it's harassment.
I look there's no question.
The left takes ownership of certain words, and we can't use them.
Like gravitas, I mean you name it.
And bullying is one of those things.
They own it, and only they get to use it, and only they get to define it.
So here I come, Mr. Happy Go Lucky Radio Talk Show host, accurately describing what's going on, and there are howls and shrieks of heretical outrage.
And leave it to the forehead, Paul Bagella, to put it all in perspective.
He also appeared on Aaron Burnett out front last night on CNN.
That show is down something like 20% year over year.
It's a disaster at CNN.
My guess is I'm the one by playing these sound bites that's letting the country actually know what happened on CNN last night, because left to your own devices, nobody is watching it.
But that's a discussion for another moment.
Here's the Bagala, the forehead, Paul Bagala, reacting to all this and explaining what this has really been about that all night last night using me to bounce off of.
The face of the Republican Party now is Ted Mugent, Rush Limbaugh, who said these vile things about the woman from Georgetown who testified on contraceptivists, file things.
That's the face of the Republican Party.
Republicans have got to get a better face.
That's what they're attempting to do.
They're trying to uh Todd Aiken me, if you will.
They have these things that happened in the past, and they think, ooh, ooh, we can make it happen again, we can do it again.
They never ever try to triumph in the arena of ideas.
They never once try to win or persuade people on the strength of the basis of their ideas.
The only arrows in their quiver are character assassination.
Efforts to discredit people.
That's all they've got and the forehead just explained what all that on CNN last night was about.
Now let's go to the Today Show.
Back there today this morning, the co-host Matt Wauer, who's back from Sochi.
So Sochi?
Well, how do you pronounce where the Olympics were?
Sochi.
Okay, Mattley, he got back.
I guess he didn't fly out of Kiev.
He got back.
And he's talking to former White House communications director Nicole Wallace.
He used to be Nicole Devonish until she got married.
She married a guy named Wallace, so now she's Nicole Wallace.
Well, no, but that's uh it you if people may not know that when a man and woman got married, the woman used to take the husband's name.
That's used to happen that way, you know, in the old-fashioned days.
Well, I mean it's that's not as common.
Uh I mean you can still find it.
They're pockets of the country where still happens, but I just people might be, you know, I wanted to point out that her just how she be called Wallace when her name was Devinish.
She got married in a very old fashioned uh maneuver, took her husband's name.
Anyway, she's on she's on the Today Show Day, and Mount Wauer said the bill itself does force the question to the religious freedoms of one group trump the right not to be discriminated against for another group.
How do you answer that question?
You've got Republicans saying, I hear you and understanding that the consequences of measures like this are so grave, not just for our party, but for our country to be viewed as not tolerating any group of people.
I think Republicans are saying, I hear you.
I understand the problems we've had in recent elections, and we're not going to get dogged, we're not going to get painted with this brush that we discriminate against any group of people.
Right.
This is this is what we mean by bullied.
The Republican establishment is entirely reactionary and they're just laying down.
Well, okay, well, whatever you want, whatever you want, just don't don't just don't call us anti this.
Just don't just don't say we're anti this or anti that, whatever you want, whatever you want.
Just don't call us any names.
If you call us names, that's always we hurts.
It really hurts.
We don't want to be called names.
We're not because we're not anti anybody.
We're really not, so please don't say that.
And they aren't.
The thing is the Republicans are not anti.
That's been totally manufactured too.
But rather than fight it and defend it, it just let's just, you know, Governor, just veto the bill so we can get rid of the issue, which is the Republican modus emperor.
Just just let them have it.
Get rid of it.
I was also used uh as a uh uh reaction feature on Fox last night, and different thing.
But I gotta take a break.
Don't go away.
Time to go to the phones here on the EIB network.
We have a call from Tucson.
It is Sharon.
Thank you.
You're up first and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hello?
Hi.
Hi, I'm so honored to talk to you, Rush.
I understand I'm the first caller and I want to comment on the bill in Arizona.
Um the way that I read the bill and understand it is that this was made to protect business owners uh because of what happened in New Mexico where the gay couple went in and wanted to have a cake made by uh uh a a baker and he didn't want to do it because he felt it was against his uh religious beliefs, and then you know they sued and uh apparently you know they closed him down.
Right.
Well, that that's what this bill was intended for, because you know the left always uh the left is the one who discriminates.
They say you have free speech as long as you agree with what I say.
If you don't, then you don't have free speech.
That's exactly right.
That is exactly right, and then they bully you if they don't get their way.
Yeah, the left is the one to gaze at a one discriminate.
Now, if you want to be a gay person, that's your right.
But if you're a business owner or you're a person of faith and you don't because of of your right, where where are the business owners right?
Where are the people to face right here?
The the gays discriminate against them because they say, well, if you you have to accept me, you know, they're making that putting this in our face.
Sharon, it's the power of political correctness.
It's what uh the Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was saying.
That steamroller has isn't is now just mowing down anybody in its way.
And if people don't want to speak up, it's like we had a call from a woman a couple of months ago, when Obama's approval numbers started plummeting.
She said, I think they've always been low.
It's just people were afraid to tell pollsters that they disapproved of the president because they didn't want to be thought of as racist.
Well, same thing here.
Uh you're asked, where are the people standing up for the business owner?
They're scared.
They know what's going to happen to them.
If they do, they're afraid of what's going to happen to them.
They're afraid the media is going to descend on them in the first place.
And then and who's the media going to bring along?
They're just scared to stand up.
The Republican Party's in the same boat.
Yep, but the the people that wrote the bill, that was what it was intended to do to protect the business owners.
They have a right Well, Matt Wauer kind of got it right here.
You you do have a balancing act.
You've got you've got constitutionally protected religious freedom.
And how do you balance that against not discriminating against uh others?
And and so the the bill basically attempts to establish that a person's religious beliefs do not exist only while in church.
That he is free, he or she is free to practice them.
They believe, and they should respect other people's.
Right.
Other people's beliefs.
Right.
Uh I've heard the question asked.
Why would you not want to sell your product or service?
Who I why why and I've also why would you go somewhere to buy something where you're not wanted?
And when you answer that, you understand what's going on here.
Why would you go?
Of all the places go to wedding cake, why focus on the place that doesn't want to make one for you?
Think about the answer to that back after a bit.
Another question that I'm gonna re-ask here.
Why is there a political agenda attached to two men having sex with each other?
What is the political agenda in that?
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