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May 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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All right, I've got to find this.
There's apparently an op-ed out there.
Nerd lust in media can feed misogyny.
Maybe some tech blogger wrote this.
I don't know who.
They're talking to a nerd about it.
It's on CNN.
What does this mean?
Nerd lust can feed misogyny.
What is nerdlust?
There apparently is an op-ed out there.
That's all I know.
I don't know who wrote it, and I don't know where it is.
They're talking about it on cable news right now.
And I just I just saw the little chiron graphic go by.
And as always, my insatiable curiosity is piqued here.
What is nerdlust?
Lust for nerds.
Who does?
Who lusts for nerds?
Lust by nerd nerd lust is lust by nerds.
Okay, so okay, so the nerds.
Well, it still doesn't make sense.
The nerds are lusting for what?
Oh, oh, oh, wait a minute.
The nerds are lusting for women.
Okay, okay, okay.
This is an op-ed out there that said nerds lusting for babes, and then getting rejected feeds misogyny.
And then the nerds kill women.
And that's what life in America is like for women.
Okay.
Thank you for helping me out.
I didn't realize we were talking about lust by nerds.
The way it's written up there, I thought it was lust of nerds.
And I don't know who does.
No one is right.
So well, here's the point.
Somebody just said to me that nerd girls like nerd guys.
The problem is, do nerds admit that they're nerds?
See, that's always the, you know, remember my band the ugly?
Make it voluntary the ugly know who they are.
Sometimes they don't.
And so that that that I know there were nerds get even movies.
Uh and all that.
And there have been various periods where being a nerd was cool, but it never sustains itself.
Uh if if if nerds were cool, they wouldn't be nerds.
You get rid of the name, by the way.
So anyway, um it is.
What did you find it?
Is that what you're all right?
Let's see.
There it is.
Uh oh, it's by the guy that's on.
Oh.
All right.
Now it makes sense.
It's by a guy.
I it yeah, Arthur Chu.
Wasn't sure for a while.
Nerdy guys aren't guaranteed.
It's in the Daily Beast.
That's it's uh Tina Brown's liberal publication.
Here's how it starts.
Nerdy guys aren't guaranteed to get laid by the hot chick as long as we work hard.
There isn't a team of writers or a studio audience pulling for us to triumph by getting the girl.
So we get mad and we hate women and we then resort to violence.
Is the thinking.
Nerdy guys aren't guaranteed to get nobody's guaranteed.
Nerdy guys aren't guaranteed to get laid by the hot chick as long as we work hard.
There isn't a team of writers or a studio audience pulling for us to triumph by getting the girls.
They don't okay.
So the guys have said movies and TV shows never have scenes where the nerd gets the babe.
Doesn't happen, right?
And so the nerds are revolting, getting ticked off, getting mad, ended up hating women, and then disaster happens.
Well, okay.
Let me then go to this other piece.
This other piece is in the UK Guardian.
I mentioned it earlier in the program, Jessica Valente.
The hashtag yes all women reveals the constant barrage of sexism that women face.
But still, some say that Elliot Rogers killing spree had other motivations.
When will we admit that our society is misogynist?
Aha, look what's happening here.
So we have a male nerd writing that male nerds become misogynist when they're rejected by babes.
That's in the Daily Beast.
Across the pond in the UK Guardian, we have a woman, Jessica Valentin asking, when will we admit our society is misogynist?
Elliot Rogers, California shooting spree is further proof that misogyny kills.
Elliot Roger was a misogynist, but is that all he was?
Okay, so her theory is that he was driven by sexism.
And you know what she says if you read the piece?
That this guy, Elliot Roger, he really wasn't all that crazy by today's standards.
He's pretty normal.
And that's what this woman wants you to believe because this woman wants you to believe.
Remember what we had yesterday?
Not all men are brutes, was the op-ed piece yesterday.
Not all men are brutal, not all men are brutes, not all men are predators, but every woman faces it every day.
That is the female experience in America.
That every day a woman faces the possibility of being brutalized, objectified, hated, pummeled, harmed, hurt, injured.
And this is our society today.
It is a misogynist society.
And here's how her piece begins.
Women have had enough.
The stares, the butt grabs, the little comments.
And now this, a man writes a 140-page misogynist manifesto before killing six people, and yet still women are called hysterical for insisting this tragedy was driven by sexism.
Regardless of Elliot Rogers' mental health issues, which we still don't know much about, his ideas were not crazy by the standards of the world today.
They are the norm.
So says Jessica Valenti.
So you see, folks, this is liberalism in action.
You take, they thrive on this.
This is the point.
Take the absolute worst aspects of any society or culture, and put the people in those events, make them the biggest victims, and then claim this is what America is.
This is precisely how it works, and thus begins the massive effort to guilt trip everybody.
So in other words, Elliot Roger is not isolated.
This is not a one-off.
This is not some odd, weird, infrequent thing.
This is what America is.
And every woman knows it because every woman faces it.
Every day of the week and of the month and of the year.
Now, then this stuff ends up in the curricula, in the women's studies curricula, starting in uh, well, hell, junior high, middle school, high school, certainly on into college, and then they come out of there, and no wonder they're all turning to government for protection, for security, for safety, for survival, and for support.
And this is how it's done.
Get them young, convince them that they are at risk every day simply because they are women.
In this misogynistic, sexist, bigoted, hate-filled culture.
And since it is men who pose this threat, you can't turn to one of them for protection.
No.
You have to turn to government.
Folks, do not doubt me, do not discount this.
This is exactly how this stuff happens.
And my point, the left thrives on these events.
They look, they politicize.
I mean, every crime that happens is an opportunity for them to politicize it, to plug it in to not only their agenda, but to what they claim is their worldview, and then force policy based on it.
So while you're, you know, you're channel surfing on TV, and you see a nerd on TV who says that nerd lust can feed misogyny, and you go, what's that?
You stop and think about it.
Then you read from the UK a woman who says, hey, this guy was not abnormal.
This is exactly what our culture is about.
This is why women are at risk each and every day.
And then you find out.
And then after this, then a guy like Obama puts together a commercial for his election, a cartoon featuring this woman, Julia, who we all laugh at, but many, many single women totally identify with her.
If men are the threat, if men are the threat that women face each and every day, where else are they going to turn to protection?
Government.
Run by liberal men, of course, who would never do anything like that.
Oh, no way.
My question is, how is it that feminism could be such a total failure?
Wasn't feminism supposed to eliminate all this.
Feminism has to be one of the biggest failures of all time.
If this is the normal state, if this is the attitude and the circumstances under which women must get through each day.
What kind of massive failure has modern feminism been?
Is that not embarrassing?
Quick timeout.
Think about that.
Back after this, don't go away.
Okay, the firing of Shinn Seckey has been delayed, apparently.
This afternoon in the White House, the press Secretary Jay Carney's briefing.
The AP correspondent Julie Pace said the IG report on the trouble at the VA that came out yesterday was quite scathing, Jay.
And since it came out, the several Democrats have called for Secretary Shinseki to step down.
And I'm wondering if the uh president continues to have confidence in Secretary Shinseki's ability to lead the VA.
The president was extremely troubled by that preliminary report.
Oh, yeah.
As the president said, Rick Shinsecki has performed overall well as secretary on issues like homelessness, on the GI Bill, the 9-11 GI bill.
Right, right.
And on working with us to reduce the backlog.
Oh, a lot of success.
Yeah, yeah.
When it comes to the current situation, the inquiries and the investigations and some of the allegations, the president wants to see the results of these reports, and he, as you know, made clear that he believes there ought to be accountability once we establish all the facts.
Okay, so here's what's going on with this.
You recall that when Obama first heard about this and got mad, he demanded an investigation about how bad it was, even though everybody already knew.
Then it didn't take a couple days, a week, whatever, he got the initial report, and he was really mad then.
He was extremely troubled with the preliminary report.
But overall, Rick Shinseki's done well on issues like homelessness, the GI Bill, the 9-11 GI Bill, and working to reduce the backlog, as I said, a lot of success there.
And he's put his heart and soul into this thing and uh take it very seriously.
So he's uh troubled, but Shinnsecki stays for now.
And all that means is the longer they hold on to Shinsecky, the more it's gonna look like a solution when they finally cut him loose.
That's all this means.
Because he just he's gone, folks.
That's the only way all these people demanding he be gone can be said the problem solved.
The only way.
Remember, liberalism never fixes anything.
You're not supposed to examine their results.
Only their intentions.
And Shinseki being forced out shows their good intentions.
So that will happen.
The longer they wait.
And the more backup they have with the IG report, the more it will be made to look like a solution.
Carney was asked why only Democrats who are vulnerable in their re-election have called for Shinseki's resignation.
And that's true.
The only Democrats demanding Shinseki go are those who are vulnerable on their re-up.
So right now Obama is using Rick like that.
Eric Rick Shinseki is a human shield.
That's his role right now.
Shinseki knows he's gone.
He knows it.
He knows, just like Sibelius knew she was gone.
They know.
And and everybody knows that once he's gone, problem solved.
Because the problem never is solved.
It's solved by showing how much care.
And getting rid of Shinseki will show we've really okay now.
We're serious.
All right.
And that'll be it.
Here is uh oh, look at this.
Rachel, twelve years old in Pittsburgh.
Hi, Rachel.
I'm glad that you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
How are you doing today?
Good.
How about you?
Well, I am great.
I am fine.
I'm uh I'm leaving on what I hope will be a real vacation uh after the program today.
I'm gonna miss this though.
I always do, but I'm still looking forward to it.
So I'm glad you got through today, because it's gonna be a while before I get back.
Me too.
I really wanted to tell you that I just absolutely love both of your books.
I read them for my um my language arts.
I do uh homeschool, so we do it on the computer, and I just love sending in my teacher, and I was just so happy to read them.
Well, that is so sweet.
That is just that that is you you have moved me.
You're touching my heart.
Um that I can't tell you uh how happy it makes me to feel that you like them.
Because that's the obviously the point, that's the objective.
It's so great.
My uncle, he gave me um the first book, The Brave Pilgrims, and I thought I was gonna die before I got the next one because I just love the first one so much.
Really?
Really?
You couldn't wait for the well, what it what was it you like about him?
Um, well, I really I really love history, and you brought it to life so much, I just it was just so amazing.
I I just I was going to get it out of the library, and it's still I'm still waiting to get it, but my uncle, he got it for me, so I was so happy.
Well, that's a great uncle.
That is a really great uncle.
Well, you have a great voice, and you're very articulate, and I must thank you, Rachel, because uh you you said that it comes to life is why you like it, and that's the exact point.
The purpose of the time travel, the horse, Liberty can time is to take you, take the reader right to these really important events as they are happening.
And the fact that that is what you like about it is just wonderful.
It's just perfect.
You know what I want to do?
I want to do you have the audio versions that I have read of both you probably don't.
No, I don't.
You don't.
Well, if you will hang on, uh Mr. Snerdley will get your address, and we will send you the audio versions of both.
You can look and listen to them.
Uh they're on CDs, you can listen to them, and I'll sign a couple of Books for you too.
So don't hang up.
You remember Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia, who's probably as well known for something called the Wilder effect.
The Wilder effect, he's African American.
And when he was running for orifice, the polling data.
How did it go?
The poll.
Right.
I think that's right.
The polling data showed that he would win by a much larger margin than he actually did.
And it was called the Wilder effect.
The Wilder effect is respondents lying to a polster about a black candidate so that they will not think they're racist.
So a pollster will uh respond and tell a post, oh yeah, I'm voting Doug Wilder, so that the pollster will think that the respondent's not a racist.
But then he doesn't really vote for Wilder.
That's the Wilder effect.
So now Doug Wilder is a teacher.
He's teaching millennials about how great government is, and he's disappointed.
He was on Neil Cavuto yesterday on Fox.
And Cavuto said, um, Doug the White House is launching a probe into the outing of a top CIA official.
So you you added that the ongoing VA investigation into Benghazi, the IRS.
What is taking Washington so long to button these scandals up?
I mean, people say it's it's uh just kind of how government works.
We do have a lot of these investigations going on.
What do they prove?
The thing that bothers me, Neil, and I teach at the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at uh Virginia Commonwealth University, and I see in my students a lack of real appreciation for government.
I see it in people that I speak with on a regular basis.
Uh see it and sense that people are losing hope and confidence as to whether government does exist and work for them.
That's bad.
And we have got to do something to change that.
Now, I find this fascinating.
He's teaching millennials at the eponymous Wilder School of Government.
You know what eponymous means.
Means named after him.
Like the Rush Limbaugh show is an eponymous title, named after the host.
So the Wilder School of Government, it's a good he could get a job there.
He got a job at his own school.
And he's teaching government there at the uh Virginia Commonwealth.
He's got these millennials in there.
And they don't have any real appreciation for government.
I see it in people, I speak with a regular basis, people losing hope and confidence as to whether government even exists and works for them.
Now, I think I know what's going on.
Particularly with millennials, they're all either incurring a lot of debt or they've graduated and have a lot of debt.
They don't see a whole lot of career opportunities out there.
They see a contracting, shrinking economy.
They don't see people getting raises.
They don't see this bountiful opportunity.
And they are losing faith.
The sad thing is they're losing faith in the country when in fact they should be losing faith in the current policies that have created these circumstances.
Everything that we are living through now is the result of policy.
It is not the George Bush economy anymore.
Contrary to what the left would like their students to believe.
We're now into six years of Barack Obama.
This is the Barack Obama economy.
And I tell you, he's right.
I cringe when I hear these millennials say they lose faith in the country.
Or as Wilder says they lose faith in the government.
What they need, and I don't I don't mind people losing faith in government.
If you lose faith in government, you're going to have to rely on yourself.
That could be a positive.
But when you lose faith in the country, that's not good.
And it's not accurate.
We are living through an economy that is the result of policy decisions.
We're not living through an economy that is corrupt or collapsing because of capitalism, which is what the left wants these kids to believe.
See, they think that Obama's really, he's as upset as they are.
He's really trying hard.
He's really working.
He's fixed this, but not even Obama can oh, it's so bad, not even Obama can fix it.
Six years and he's been trying, he's working so hard for his oh, and they're losing faith in the country.
And that is a wrong and b, obviously bad.
Now, Wilder is never going to tell them that what they really are upset with is current policy.
They need to be told that.
His students and every every other student needs to be told if you're down on their future, if your future's looking bleak, it's because of policy that has been implemented.
Well, like what Obamacare, the stimulus, all of this usurpation of the private sector by government for crying out loud, if you're gonna make your bones in the private sector, if that's where your opportunity is, and the government's taking more and more of it, then it's getting smaller.
The pie is getting smaller.
Traditionally, the pie is always grown.
That's where opportunity is.
But Obama's policies are shrinking the private sector, which is where the land of true opportunity is, and just absorbing it into government.
Government as a percentage of GDP, the economic output is growing.
And as government grows, opportunity declines.
Opportunity gets smaller, it lessens.
That's the real thing they need to be taught.
I know Wilder, it's gonna tell them, and everybody else is gonna tell him it's Republicans obstructing Obama.
Obama's working so hard, he's got so many good ideas, he really wants people to do well, he worked hard and pay off in the old American dream.
He's really so hard, he really cares at working so hard.
He goes out and makes all these appearances, and you can see he's working, he's really rolling up his sleeves, he really cares, my God, he's really hurt, he's really bothered, he's working with so many powerful forces aligned against.
That's what they're being taught.
And there's nobody pushing back on Obama.
There's nobody pushing back.
He's getting what he wants.
The things he doesn't get are because he can't bring the Democrats along.
Pure and simple.
Here is Anna in coming, Georgia.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks.
Um I just want to make a statement about uh just a comment about that uh story you uh we're talking about the woman from the UK who says that this is what all women face each and every day.
What kind of thought process would lead a person to make a statement like that?
An angry feminist who has been educated in modern feminism.
But the guy is a psychopath.
And it's just unbelievable that makes something benevolent.
No, no, he's not.
No, no, you mustn't it yeah, in reality psychopath, but to the modern era feminist, he's normal.
He is exactly what our culture's become.
That's her whole point of her column.
It's so disturbing.
And uh people are listening to that stuff, and you know, it's just it's incredibly disturbing to me that I had to listen to that.
Uh, and that passes for news.
It's it's really too bad.
Well, look, I hear you, and I agree with the thing, Anna, this has been the norm for decades.
This is this is what modern era feminism has been about.
But you have to look it, it's not just feminism, it's all of liberalism.
They thrive on what they consider to be cultural depravity that they can blame on a free market America, or on guns, or on whatever else they want to get rid of.
And so what they've done here, what this woman is doing is casting every man to be Elliot Roger.
Or potentially.
Therefore, a woman today can't turn to men for protection, security, safety, what have you.
There's only one place to go.
The Democrat Party.
The party of government.
The one place that actually cares for women, like Bill Clinton and the soccer moms, for example, and Michelle Obama and what your kids are eating.
Because the Republicans and everybody else, they're just predators.
And you have to be safe.
And you can't count on them.
But government, Clinton, Obama, that's your answer.
Okay, folks, that's it for me for a while.
I will miss you.
I will miss being here, but we'll be back on Monday, June the 9th.
Until then, hang in there, be tough, and make do.
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