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May 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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On the cutting edge of societal evolution.
What does that mean?
It means if you're from the sunny sound day.
It's over here.
You're gonna know what's happening before it happens.
You're gonna want to know, you're gonna know what's important before it's important.
You're just going to be up to speed far faster than you would be otherwise.
Thank you.
Hammer back, L. Rushball, open line Friday.
Whatever you want to talk about, even if it doesn't make sense, as you've heard today.
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General Motors has announced five more recalls now covering 2.7 million vehicles.
I can't keep up with the number of recalls that General Motors has had to issue.
And I do not enjoy passing this information along.
I hate this.
After recalling more than seven million vehicles during the first three months of the year, it seems that GM's safety problems are far from over.
The automaker today announced five separate new service actions, recalls covering another 2.7 million passenger cars and light trucks.
The latest batch of recalls includes 140,000 Chevrolet Maliboos.
Also includes a wide range of recent and older models.
The 2005 Pontiac G6, the 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV.
Problems range from faulty taillights to tie rod defects that could cause a loss of control and a possible crash.
The CEO, Mary Barra, said we're going to take this opportunity.
I'm paraphrasing.
I just saw the quote, but it's no longer in front of me.
We're gonna take this occasion and turn this into an opportunity, or we're gonna become the industry leader in safety.
Here's a quote from Jeff Boyard, the recently appointed global vehicle safety czar.
General Motors, we have redoubled our efforts to expedite and resolve current safety reviews in process, and we also have identified and analyzed recent vehicle issues which require action.
These are examples of our focus to surface issues quickly and promptly take necessary actions in the best interests of our customers.
So now they're gonna really double down on safety.
Now I would be remiss if I didn't point out that GM also stands for government motors.
It's technicality, but this, the United Auto Workers and Obama, basically, we're the prime number one shareholders here.
Is it still the case?
I, this Jill Abramson thing, I'm, I'm, I have to say I'm confused.
I must have from yesterday left over here five stories all devoted to why she was fired.
One of the things that I mentioned yesterday was that she went in there, she went in at Little Pinch.
By the way, I found out why the nicknames.
Okay, Little Pinch, Arthur Schultzberger Jr.
His dad is Arthur Schultzberger Sr.
And his nickname is Punch.
And the reason his name was Punch, nickname was Punch, is he had a sister named Judith that they called Judy, and there is a British uh animated cartoon character called Punchy or a character called Punch and Judy.
So they they call him Punch.
Punch is also nothing to do with Schultzberger.
Fabulous brand of premium cigars.
But that's another story.
So, okay, how did they name Arthur Schultzberger Jr.
Pinch?
Well, one year after he took over as the head hunch of the New York Times, he announced a 10% reduction in staff, payroll, budget, everything.
So Penny Pincher is the root of the nickname Pinch.
Right.
The cheapskate is a tight one, a cheapskate, and it's Pinch goes with Punch.
And in the case of his dad, his dad liked the nickname Punch.
You know, because it was manly.
But little Pinch doesn't like his nickname, is what I'm told.
Anyway.
Anyway, uh, I I mentioned yesterday that Jill Abrams was fired because she said she went in and wanted as much money as her predecessor was making, Bill Keller.
She found out that Bill Keller was making $100,000 a year, a little bit more than that, more than she was.
So she went in, they had a lawyer do it, not herself, because you wanted to avoid being pushy, and got fired.
And I had every I mean, no, no, no, Russia.
That's not what it is.
She eventually got paid.
She got as much as she was, her salary was that's not why she got fired.
I just turning on Fox.
They're doing a whole segment a minute ago.
Oh, she got fired because she wasn't being paid as much as the guy.
So I'm still confused.
But what I know, that's I read that too.
Pinch put out a stave and say compensation had nothing to do with why she was fired.
I'll tell you why they got rid of her.
They got rid of her because she wasn't working.
She was out doing all these appearances on panels and discussions and uh she she she liked being the face of the job, but she didn't really like doing the job.
That's and Pinch himself has alluded to that.
And plus the fact that she probably wasn't very good.
And then they they're also dumping on her that she was no good with the digital side.
Um but uh this this equal pay thing, well, of course it was it was uh hypocritical in a way, and ironic, because here's the regime making this big deal about equal pay and women being sabotaged by evil CEOs, and looky here.
The liberal house organ discriminating against a woman, and Obama pays his women even less than the New York Times does.
Both instances are classic, by the way.
That's the reality.
They tell everybody else what rules they're gonna live by, but they don't.
They exempt themselves from all this.
You may have to pay the women and men on your staff the same, but they don't.
They get credit for demanding that everybody else do it, but they don't have to do it themselves, and they don't do it.
They don't, they don't do half the crap that they want.
You think Obama's gonna live under Obamacare?
There's no way Obama is gonna have anything to do with any exchange anywhere, even after he's gone.
No way, nor will anybody in his family.
And it's the same with a lot of these people.
Dingy Harry is blaming the Republicans for what happened to Jill Abramson.
Grab audio soundbite number eight.
This is on the Senate floor yesterday.
It should not be lost that Republican centers are continuing their agenda by just saying no.
Whether it's something as logical and as important as pay equity, so that a woman doing the same job as a man gets the same amount of money.
That was blocked.
And Madam President, this is uh an issue that is more than just something that takes place away from the madding crowds.
Look what happened, it appears in the New York Times.
The woman that ran that newspaper was fired yesterday.
Why?
It's now in the press.
Because she complained she was doing the same work as men and two different jobs and made a lot less money than they did.
That's why we needed that legislation.
Damn Republicans, look what they're causing to happen.
Look at what they're doing.
They're blocking the legislature, just saying no, and so the New York Times decided to pay Jill Abrams in less than they were, and then they're out denying it.
She did get a raise when she went and asked for it.
She did get bumped up.
And she did have a lawyer go in and do it because it is said that women shouldn't well.
Let me find it.
Let me find it.
I know I kept it.
Let me find it here.
Let's see.
Because I made a yes, New York Times.
It's a moving past gender barriers to negotiate a raise.
But it can emerge when women act in ways that aren't considered sufficiently feminine.
And when women advocate for themselves, these experts say, some people find it unseemly, if even on a subconscious level.
As a result, women need to take a more calibrated approach to seeking a raise.
Otherwise, they can risk being perceived as overly demanding and unlikable, experts say, and their requests can backfire.
That was in the New York Times.
The head of the headline was moving past gender barriers to negotiate a raise.
And it is in this article that was also stated that women are advised get a third party to go in and ask for your bread.
Don't do it yourself because – It is always the victims.
They're always the victim.
If you do this, you're gonna be mistreated, and if you don't do it, this is so the story, I've got it right here.
Asking for a raise is the type of conversation that can make even the most confident among us uncomfortable.
Women, however, may have good reason to feel uncomfortable.
Discrimination persists in the workplace, and it isn't necessarily intentional or overt.
Experts on gender negotiation say.
Can he just report a story that does not involve some expert weighing in on it?
A negotiation expert?
And a gender expert?
As the source authorities for how to ask for a raise.
Yes, it can emerge when women act in ways that aren't considered sufficiently feminine.
And when women advocate for themselves, these experts say some people find it unseemly.
As a result, women need to take a more calibrated approach, whether asking for higher salary or a new position.
You gotta be really careful about how you ask for more.
We are asking women to juggle while they're on the tightrope, said Linda Babcock, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, founder of the gender equity program at Carnegie Mellon University.
It's totally unfair for women because we don't require the same thing of men.
But if women want to be successful in this domain, they need to pay attention to this.
They can't ask for the raise themselves.
They have to ask a third party representative so that they don't come across as unseemly or insufficiently feminine.
What was it you said?
They are that's the No.
Women are women are no women are supposed to be equal, but they're not equal because of men.
So they can't they can't do things like men do because it's not equitable out there.
So they have to.
Anyway, uh all of this.
I mean, this was all over the news.
All these different stories on how to ask for a raise to Jill Abramson do it right and all this Stuff and and they're still reporting that she got canned because she wanted more money.
And that turns out looks like it's not true.
And besides Harry Reid says a Republicans are to blame anyway.
Now I have here a story.
I've been holding this.
This goes back to uh it's a couple days ago.
It ran in Salon.com.
How many of you remember my undeniable truth of life number 24?
Snerdley remembers it.
This is the truth of life.
Written in the late 70s.
This one established me as one of this nation's great thinkers.
And opinion leaders.
Feminism was established so as to allow, and it's still misunderstood to this day.
It's misunderstood.
It is misrepresented.
It is true, but it's it's it's simple.
Feminism, I'm talking about modern era feminism, the late 60s, early 70s.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
And everywhere you look in the world of feminism, you will find that truth screaming at you.
And I've got another example of it here.
It is a piece that ran a couple days ago at Salon.com.
And the headline is, Feminism's Obsession with Celebrity.
It's Time to Stop Making Our Pop Stars Into Political Icons.
And if you read this, if you read it far enough into it, you will find that it is an extension of my undeniable truth of life, number 24.
That women still find themselves living under the burden of unattractiveness.
And I will explain how that manifests itself in this story when I take a break, come back from it.
I get some more of your telephone calls in as well.
So still a lot to do before we get out of here today, folks.
So don't go anywhere.
Somebody tell me.
Any of the journalists there, any of the people that worked for Jill Abrams.
Is anybody spoken up in her defense?
Have you seen anybody say that they're upset by this?
I don't know.
I haven't.
Why would they be afraid?
You telling me that people that work at the liberal Bible would be afraid to say what they think.
These are the people that control the speech codes.
These are the people that determine who can say what.
You know those those two guys that had that show on the on the LG TV, LG, but whatever it is.
The uh whatever it was.
These two guys that are that are anti-abortion, approach, their bank just dropped them.
Sun Trust.
I just saw the story of their bank just dropped them because of their comments on uh I guess gay marriage and abortion.
They got their TV network canceled their show, and their bank just told them they don't want to do business with them anymore.
Holy smokes.
For just for being anti-abortion, and I guess anti-it's the anti-gay marriage that did it.
But I guess the activists were pressure, found out where they banked, were pressuring the bank, I guess.
I don't know.
But I just, you know, Jill Jill Abramson.
Here's here's the thing.
You know, it got apparently she was fine, because she's too bossy.
She did she was not liked at this place at the at the New York Times.
And did yeah, well, did things without communicating with us, it was kind of autocratic.
Uh I mean, exactly.
She's just behaving normally, the way autocrats are.
Uh gee, you did just there are all kinds of lessons here.
Let me grab a phone call.
No, no, I'm not saying she's bossy.
I'm other people.
No, no, don't.
I don't I never worked for her.
I don't know she's bossy.
I'm it's in all these stories.
Anonymous people think she's bossy.
My point is I can't find anybody who's speaking up for her.
Okay.
John in Evansville, Indiana.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Hey, I just want to tell you about how the uh Affordable Air Uh Care Act has affected my family and my immediate leaf immediate family.
Uh I happen to be uh identical twin brother, and uh he's more liberal and I'm more conservative, and uh we both happen to be millennials.
Um he's kind of backed the Affordable Care Act since it was brought up as an idea, and I always thought it was not really that great of an idea.
I've never liked the idea of socialized medicine, but uh he's backed it pretty much the whole way.
They uh eventually signed up for Obamacare through the website and just found out a couple weeks ago that our doctor who we've been going to for an excess of ten years is no longer an option for him.
He can't go there anymore.
Because he's not in the network.
Yeah, he's not in the network, right?
Right.
Okay, now you know what I gotta hold you on there, John.
I've got a break.
I misread the clock.
I thought I had more time here than I than I do.
So can you hold on for just a couple more minutes?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I knew he could.
I knew it.
We'll be right back.
All right, we're back at John in Evansville, Indiana.
He has an identical twin brother.
He, John N caller is uh, for the most part conservative, uh twin brothers at Commie SOB.
And you both have the same health care plan, and you left off there.
I had to stop you there.
Oh, except except that he found his doctor, your doctor is not you can't use him because he's not on your network.
After you get went to Obamacare with the exchange and signed up, that's where you left off.
That that's right.
Uh well, I'd like to point out he's not necessarily a commie SOB.
He's uh he's a smart guy, you know.
We come from the same genes, obviously.
So uh I if I consider myself intelligent, I should probably consider him him intelligent as well.
So I was just comical.
Commie SOB is a liberal, right?
I mean, you're conservative, he's more liberal than you are.
There's no degree of liberal.
If you're liberal, you're all in.
I gotcha.
Um, where I left off was I guess that uh our doctor, you know, we've uh we've been going to him for uh our whole entire family, me, him, my other brother, my parents, my grandparents, over ten years now.
We all really like him.
He likes our doctor, and just found out a couple weeks ago that uh the doctor is not in the uh network that he signed up for Obamacare, and uh his our doctor's not in his network anymore, so now he doesn't have a doctor.
And uh my guess is that as far as your brother's concerned, this has nothing to do with Obama.
Not Obama's not Obamacare's fault that he lost his doctor, it's not Obama's uh no big deal.
Okay, I gotta find a new Dr. Obama, it's just it's it's no big deal, right?
Uh yeah, I I'd say so, because you know he's uh he's let's face it, they've they've been feeding lies across a lot of particularly the uh president himself has been lying in front of the American people for a long time.
You're asking yourself no, I'm serious.
I don't nothing personal.
This I'm just I'm just genuinely curious.
You recognize that they've just been telling lies left and right, the American people.
You ever wonder why you don't believe them and your brother does?
Well, uh it's it's honestly a uh media situation, I think.
Yeah, I I can't I can't speak so far uh No, I think that's probably right.
I think it's exactly I th I think it's it's it's not yeah, media and all forms of it.
Media including entertainment and news.
Right.
And actually that's uh I I do know that they uh they have watched M S N B C which I try to stay away from.
Well, that's all you need to say.
It is.
And and uh uh Colbert Rapport and Daily Show, those are funny shows, I admit.
I I watch them and I laugh, but you it's not a place to get your news, right?
Uh But not to him.
And that's a lot of people.
That's where that is the real news.
The fake news is the real news.
Well, what are you gonna do?
I mean, you did did uh is it just you or just him that lost the doctor?
Did you have the same health care plan yourself?
Uh well, I've got uh insurance through my uh company.
So as far as as far as I know, I'll have my insurance for a while, at least until the employer mandate comes in, but uh he didn't, so he had to sign up through the exchanges and uh and that so since he was in for the Affordable Care Act, and I'm not necessarily yet.
Well, there you go, and and I'm sure he thinks, you know, everybody involved, they're just trying to help people.
Uh, just they're trying to sign up the uninsured, they're trying to make sure everybody has hell coverage, and they're at least they're trying.
At least they care.
At least they're trying to do something.
Uh Republicans, they don't care, all they just run people down all the time.
They don't really care about people.
And okay, so I lost my doctor.
Obama's trying.
That's generally how it goes.
And it's just the way it is.
Once the believability and loyalty have been established, it's it's tough to snap them.
And if you if you believe all this, you you're right about media.
If media tells you this is the biggest hearted guy, compassion, loves people, and you buy that.
Um, it's gonna take a lot of evidence, not one or two examples of it, to cause you to question it.
It's a powerful thing.
The daily inculcation of propaganda.
The daily, and it's it's more than an inculcation.
I mean, it's a bombardment.
Depending on how much media you expose yourself to, it is a literal bombardment of propaganda every day, and then it adds up, and all the days become months, and they become years.
After a while, I saw it on TV.
It must be true.
Becomes most people's source authority.
I saw it on TV.
It happened.
He said it on TV.
I believe it.
I saw it or I read it in the New York Times.
Has to be true.
And they're able to get there by not teaching critical thinking.
It's it's taken them a long time to get here, but they have made it.
And it's gonna take a concerted effort, a long time to run unwind it.
I don't think one election is uh gonna do the trick.
But John, I appreciate the call.
Uh folks, back to this salon story that I promised you about, because it's related to undeniable truth of life, number 24.
What it means is just another story here that women basically talk about living under that burden of unattractiveness.
And the headline of this story is Feminism's Obsession with Celebrity.
It's time to stop making our pop stars into political icons.
Now, why?
Aren't most pop stars liberal?
Most actresses, most song stylists.
Most liberals, uh, most entertainers are liberals.
So why all of a sudden do we have to stop making them into political icons?
Well, there's a very good reason.
And it's right here in the opening paragraph.
No, the actress Shailen Woodley answered recently when asked if she considers himself to be a feminist, was in a Time magazine interview.
And it went all over the blogosphere.
She said, No, I am not a feminist.
I love men.
I think the idea of raise women to power, take the man away from the power, never gonna work out because you need balance.
Uh-oh.
Oh, code redcon five.
Massive, massive.
We're showing Dracula the Cross here, an actress.
Shailen Woodley said, No, I'm not a feminist.
I love men.
Uh-oh.
The outrage soon followed.
Shaylene and Woodley has some thoughts on feminism, and they are not good, said one headline.
The Shalee and Woodley uproar shows we're getting celebrity feminism all wrong, read another one.
In yet another iteration of the let's debate a celebrities feminist credentials argument.
What no one seems to be asking, though, is why we keep making feminist icons out of our celebrities.
Really?
Do you have to ask that question?
Who wrote this?
Rihanna Sassine, if I'm pronouncing that right.
Shaylene Woodley, Kirsten Dunst, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, they're not feminists, nor do they need to be, and that's a problem.
Why do we keep making feminist icons out of our celebrities?
Well, uh because it's always been the way you did it.
You may not remember this.
Back when Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden were married, and we're going back to the 80s and prior.
They routinely held what would you call them?
Little miniature re-education camps.
Every young Hollywood male or female, young or new arriving star, they would have political seminars with them and instruct them how to succeed in Hollywood and what their politics had to be.
It was an activist program.
Jane Fonda Tom Hayden did this.
And I'm sure they're not the only ones that did it.
So there's your answer.
I mean, it was something that was studiously attempted.
was an objective that feminism had.
But now all of a sudden, some attractive, not unimportant here, young Hollywood actresses are saying, no, I'm not a feminist.
I can't be.
I'm I love men.
After, let's see, let's just say 1970s.
After 44 years, this is not good.
What's happening is the backlash.
The cycle by now, I return to the article here.
Cycle by now is familiar.
Every few months, an interview with a female celebrity goes viral on the basis of the celebrity's disavowal of the word feminist or conservative approach to gender.
Sometimes the pop stars involved, Katie Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, while other times it's an actress.
Woodley, now Kirsten Dunce, Susan Saranan before her.
Yesterday was Miley Cyrus.
Slammed for telling a terrible rape joke and writing an inflatable penis.
Tomorrow somebody new will go through this veritable right of passage.
Well, why?
asks Salon does it keep happening.
From a business point of view, it makes sense for all people involved.
The publication that initially publishes the interview is guaranteed page views.
The op-eds that follow from all corners of the internet piggyback on this, and the starlet in question has both headlines and an opportunity to distance herself from the hairy-legged feminist stereotype.
Maybe she'll see the light in a couple of months, as Perry did.
More headlines will follow, rinse repeat.
What's missing from this equation are the women who don't star in Hollywood blockbusters or go on world tours following their album release.
The women who have historically been the focus of feminism.
Class becomes a dividing line.
What does the woman struggling say to afford child care, the cost of which ranges from four grand to 15 grand a year?
What does that woman have in common with a Hollywood star who can actually afford nannies?
Celebrity feminism is one of the is something that seems only to demand that the one percent affix themselves with the label feminist with little regard for the lives of ordinary women who are silent.
This look it goes on.
It's a long piece on cherry picking uh pull quotes.
It is again another trap for women.
See how they're so victimized?
Even after all this emancipation.
Everything out there is a trap for women.
And here again is another one.
For both celebrities and ordinary women.
We want icons, not human beings.
Is it any wonder that the celebrities' answers are always contradictions?
The feminist question is simply another example of the impossibilities we demand from women.
Forget the virgin whore complex.
Today's woman must simultaneously prove her apparent agency and independence while continuing to embody an appealing prostrate version of female sexuality and womanhood.
So what you have it's it's it's if you can weed through this, what's happening is that more and more young female starlets are disavowing the feminism of the era.
And they are identifying it in ways in which they've always perceived it.
Anti-male.
They don't perceive feminists as wanting anything to do with men.
They don't perceive feminists as wanting anything to do with relationships with men, and they want that.
So they don't want to be called feminist.
This is called DEFCON five panic in the upper levels and reaches of liberalism.
And so if you read this through, you find out that one of the things that they're criticized for is look at this, they're not like real women.
They're beautiful, they're famous, and they can afford to be feminists without having to say they are.
They can afford nannies, they can afford abortions if they need, they can afford all of this, they can say what they want, and they're traitors.
And they're phonies.
And at the root of it, don't doubt me, is that they are beautiful.
And these other women aren't and are burdened by it, and that's the dividing line, and that's what makes it tougher on the other women who aren't the celebrities.
And it's it all loops back to undeniable truth of life number 24.
But at the root of this is also the breakdown of the cause.
Used to be automatic, new Hollywood Starlet, guaranteed, gonna be the next feminazy in waiting.
Now it's not guaranteed.
See, these young, beautiful young actresses are denouncing feminism.
So the militant feminists say, you know, we don't need these young women.
We don't need, we'd love to have them.
But we don't need these pretty women.
We don't need these pretty women to say this.
It's all back to undeniable truth of life number 24.
Okay, Shinsecki has fired somebody at the VA.
They got a scapegoat.
I have his name right in front of me, but he's gone, Shinseki stays, predictably so.
Have a great weekend, folks, and we'll be back here on Monday.
Can't wait.
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