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Now I got, and this was predictable.
I got some emails during the break.
Hey Rush, don't get distracted by this cat call whistle video here.
Stick to the issues on the election.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is about issues and the election.
This is about the women's vote.
This is make no this you think this is coincidental.
Let me try to put this in perspective.
And I'm talking about the cat call video that's got 12 million, probably more than that, and it's gone viral, 12 million views, of a woman walking the streets in New York being mistreated, spoken to rudely by men.
By the way, a little addition to the story.
If Twitter is to be believed, and that is dicey.
But if Twitter is to be believed, the organization behind this video is an outfit called Hollabek.
H-O-L-L-A-B-A-C-K, as in Holler Back.
Holaback is the name of the company, and uh they supposedly, according to Twitter, are emailing people to apologize for the overrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics in the video harassing this woman.
Okay, leave that aside.
Let me tell you what amazes me about this.
For those of you who are, let's say, let's say you're under 30, maybe even under 40.
We've been there and done that on this.
This was a huge issue when I was 18, 19, 20 years old.
Men, construction.
Miller Light did beer commercials about this.
I'm pretty sure it was Miller Light.
If it wasn't Miller Light, it was some beer company.
There were commercials about really beautiful women scantily clad walking through a construction site, being wolf whistled at by men.
This is this is not new, is the point.
Now, to certain age people, it is new.
And to certain age people, it's brand new.
It's uncalled for.
But we've been there done that.
And we also had something come along to deal with it.
We had something come along to fix it.
This was never ever supposed to happen again, folks.
This was fixed back in the 60s and 70s.
And what was supposedly going to fix this, we have a name for.
It's called feminism.
The feminists of the the early feminists, feminazis of the modern era led the charge against this wolf whistle cat call business.
This is an exact replay.
Those of you who are 50 and over you know exactly what I'm talking about, but this is not new.
It's not it's in fact it was not new in the 60s.
It's been happening since there were men and women.
There's nothing new in this.
What is new is that feminism in the 60s and 70s was supposed to wipe this out.
Feminism was going to take care of this.
It was going to stop the objectifying of women.
It was going to stop the brutish behavior and the predatory behavior of men.
It was going to promote the equality of women.
It was going to make it so that men were never ever going to feel comfortable doing this again.
They would be shamed.
They would be shunned.
Society would want nothing to do with them.
It was never ever going to happen again.
So what we are living here in the middle of is the failure, a massive failure of modern day feminism.
Modern day feminism was going to protect women from this kind of mean-spirited, extremist, boorish predatory behavior, and it hasn't.
Because Now a video of a woman walking the streets in New York, getting cat calls and so forth has gone viral.
Now, people misunderstand me and the women's movement.
I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it.
People think that I am biased against it, but I'm not.
You put me in the right place.
I'm all for the women's movement.
But it has failed in this instance.
And what it's trying to do, do you think this is accidental with a war on women going on, and we are a week out from an election.
We got a budding actress.
And her that's what that the woman that did this a budding actress, and she's got a website where she has a bio.
And on her bio, she proudly announces that she has a bust size of 34 double D. This woman puts it out there.
So she's walking the streets, and by the way, she's not walking the business district of Midtown.
She is walking neighborhoods that in some cases many people wouldn't go if they didn't have to.
She apparently is walking alone, but even some of the things represented as cat calls are not cat calls.
Some of the things are represented are just, I have a nice day.
It's nothing more than men speaking to her.
She doesn't acknowledge any of them.
She doesn't give them the time of day, just keeps walking, doesn't stop.
But what strikes me about this is the cyclical repetitive nature of things.
To a certain age group, this is a brand new offense.
It's a brand new problem.
Well, maybe not brand new, but it's a problem that finally has to be addressed.
They they're so young, they have no idea.
We've been there done that on this.
They have no idea that the modern era feminism staked out exactly this kind of boorish behavior on the part of men that they were going to stamp out and forever forbid.
And it hasn't worked.
And I would I would venture to say that most of modern era feminism has been an abject failure in terms of its objectives, of its own stated objectives.
You hear that the last caller we had on this, she admitted she's 62 years old.
She said it happened to her in New York all the time.
And it happens to every woman, every day in New York.
And I said, Every woman?
Yes, she insisted.
Every woman.
Well, it doesn't happen to every woman.
Then she said she found herself in Paris one day.
And it happened in Paris, but it was okay then, because you know what happened?
Because a nice guy with a French accent, she didn't say that, but you know, Jean-Paul Belmondo crosses the street and says, Ensorie.
And then complimented her legs.
And that was cool.
That was fine.
But I, ladies and gentlemen, remember when I lived in Pittsburgh, 1972 or 1973.
I'm telling you, do not doubt me.
Doing something like that, even with an apology in front of it, made women mad.
Complimenting or commenting, period on a woman's appearance was an insult in the early days of this modern era of feminism.
Because at that time, that was strictly noticing the physical, and that was objectifying women, and that was not realizing their full value and their full worth.
That was ignoring their brain, their minds, their personality.
And if all you saw in a woman was her appearance and her beauty, and that's all you cared to comment on.
It was an insult.
And you didn't open guard doors for women then.
Not the women who bought into this.
You didn't open doors, car doors, or otherwise.
You didn't let them go first.
You didn't do anything that was chivalry-oriented because it was considered to be a put down.
And what happened then, I'm not, look, I'm not making this stuff up.
The men of that area got here got totally confused about what they should do.
Everybody was behaving according to traditional societal norms.
And I'm talking about in terms of chivalry.
You're walking down the street, you take the street side.
If you're the man, you open a door first, you open the car door, you let the woman go first.
All of that stuff was rejected because modern feminism in its early days, I mean, it was really, really radical stuff.
And so men didn't know what to do in the mathing dance.
They didn't know how to go about it with the traditional way of complimenting a woman and letting her know that she was attractive to you was an insult.
What do you do with that?
So what do you have to do?
You have to go out, buy books about rape and find out what women are interested in and be able to talk to them about this kind of stuff.
Whatever it was, if not rape, and whatever the modern feminists were promoting back in the era.
What I did, say what I did.
I went and got a bunch of women's magazines and books.
And I turned to the chapters on where to meet men, find out where I was supposed to be, and I went there.
It was just a and I remember those days like they were yesterday.
They were confusing as hell because traditional behavioral norms, good old-fashioned human nature was being thrown upside down, and we are feeling the effects of it today.
So here we are, one week from an election, we got a viral video on what?
Men.
Now, there's no Republican Party mentioned in the video.
All of this is supposed to be associated or absorbed by the subconscious.
But we do have this war on women.
Everybody knows, I mean, paying attention knows that we supposedly have a war on women, the Republican Republicans are conducting it.
And now we've got another example here of men are mean.
Men are evil.
Men are uncivilized.
Men are brutes.
Men are what?
They will attack you verbally.
They will attack you physically.
They do not respect you.
And we've got a viral YouTube video here to demonstrate this.
And it's all been done before.
And the only reason that it's happening now is because feminism failed to stamp it out.
Now, why?
It's not for lack of effort.
Feminists had the full power and support of the Democrat Party.
So how come men are still catcalling and wolf whistling at women they find attractive?
But what that's the point.
Feminism was going to take care of boys will be boys, will be boys no matter what.
That's what feminism set out to do was to change that.
Because boys being boys was not right.
Boys being boys was bad for women.
And feminism was going to stamp that up.
Feminism was to take care of that.
Feminism was going to fix all of these injustices or whatever you want to call it.
Point is here we are.
And by the way, again, when it was new to me, when the first time society went through this, it was I was 18 or 19, but that was not the first time.
This happened in the 40s.
You can watch old 40s World War II movies about with this kind of incident portrayed in it.
And with women either liking it or not liking it, or what none of this is new.
The newest, I'm going to tell you what the newest characteristic of this is women getting mad at it in mass.
That's what's new about it.
At any rate, and I'm not that's not quite the proper way of say what I really mean here, but the fact that men have noticed pretty women is not new.
The fact that they have let women know they think they're pretty is not new.
Uh women walking by and being whistled.
As I say, Miller Light did a whole series of beer commercials about this.
And the uh incident was not a put down.
They were not making fun of the men.
They were it was a it was a positive thing in the Miller White commercials.
Anyway, let me take a break here.
We'll come back, we'll continue with much more right after this.
Don't go away.
I were just informed of something I did not know.
Cookie tells me that she was screening this today, perhaps going to send me samples of it for the uh program, but it didn't work, uh, just audio-wise.
A bunch of men.
You need to see her walking and the men reacting.
But apparently, Shoshana Roberts is her name.
And she says that she has had multiple experiences of sexual assault, which is why she wanted to be involved in the project.
So I did not know that.
And by the way, don't misunderstand.
I didn't I'm not saying this has anything to do with the Democrat Party.
I'm just the the timing is it's a week before the election.
War on women, Democrats in trouble.
Here comes a viral video on what a bunch of brutes men are.
Now admittedly, the men in this video are African American and Hispanic, not your typical Republican voters.
Not your typical Republican supporters.
And they are apologizing.
The people that did the video, Hollabak, mayor upon if you can believe Twitter, they are apologizing for featuring so many African Americans and Hispanics in the video.
Because they called what was ten hours down to four minutes for this.
So but don't anybody misunderstand.
I'm going to say the Democrat Party had anything to do with this.
I'm saying the if there is any political impact, it'd be subliminal.
But my my real point here is that it isn't new in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And what I think needs to be re people need to be reminded of is in our modern era, late 60s, early 70s, when when women said they were fed up with this.
Feminism came along and said they were going to deal with it and fix it and wipe it out.
And here we are.
Some 40 years later, and it's still happening.
Not a good day for feminism.
They did not succeed in stamping this out.
Here's Matthew in Tallahassee, Florida, as we head back to the phones.
Matthew, I really appreciate your patience.
Great to have you and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, longtime listener, first time caller.
Thank you.
On my daughter's behalf.
She we got your books on Friday.
She read them all by Sunday.
She is finished with them.
She's just turned nine years old.
She is hoping to get to talk to you on Monday.
We got through, but eh, your show ended soon.
But she got a lot out of the books from more than she did in any of her classes in public school in history.
That's probably why she's in private school now.
And she has made her own little book club.
And she shares these books with the little kids in her book club and absolutely loves them.
They're the best ones for all of them, they say, and the parents have called us and asked about them.
Except for one parent wasn't happy with them.
But she is hoping to get talked to you.
One parent, one parent wasn't happy.
Now see, if I were Bill Clinton, I wouldn't care about anything but that.
I'd want to know who that parent was, and I'd want to know why.
And I want to know what I could do to change it, but I'm not focused on that one parent.
Your daughter read the first two Rush Revere books in a weekend.
Not it didn't even take her the whole.
She was done sa uh Sunday morning.
And then folks, this is not heavy reading.
I mean, it's written for 10 to 13, but it's not light either.
This is not this is words.
There's a lot of words in these books, and it's not pictures.
This is incredible.
Your daughter at nine years old.
Yes, that's that she must have liked it.
She absolutely did.
I she had told me trying to get up with you.
She's hoping maybe we could get an autograph copy of that or something.
And I said, Well, I said she kept asking for two days, did he call back?
And I said, No, I said, I'll go get you the book.
So I went and got the third book yesterday for her.
Oh.
And your new book for her.
And she goes, Well, if he does call back, maybe I can get an iPad or an autograph copy of something from him.
You know, you have to explain that to kids.
Well, I mean I'm I'll be glad to send her an autograph copy of the new book.
Yeah.
She did you say that she wants to start a kid's book club?
Is that what you said?
Well, she has her own little uh book club she started at school with some kids at the at a private school she works with.
And the kids they all trade books amongst themselves because some of the books they're not allowed.
They're allowed to have a reader in class, but for some reason a hard book and stuff like that, they have to keep in their desk and stuff, But they can keep the reader with them and they're allowed to use the readers.
Right.
But they can't she can't whip out the hard books, so she trades them when they're in group in the group, and they take them home and they read within their little group, and then they bring them back and switch and talk about the books.
What a great idea.
Oh, yeah, but I mean she's come out with the the amount of history she has come to your books far exceeds what the public school doctrine has as ever that's that's that's the mission.
I mean, that's that's and you did a great job.
She loves your horse, and that what you did with your horse.
Oh, Liberty, uh we've Liberty, Liberty is gonna be such a star.
We're having trouble containing the horse.
The horse already knows how big he is.
Anyway, I need you to hang on out there, Matthew.
Mr. Snerty will come back, get an address where we can get the uh uh autograph copy of Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
That's a new one.
Get it out to you as quickly as we can.
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And I am your host, America's real anchor man Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do.
Here's Mark in Pittsburgh as we uh stay on the phones today.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
This is um this video that they filmed was in New York City, which is an over overwhelmingly democrat city.
Yes.
I mean, statistically speaking, uh most of these men who are who are performing, you know, behaving this way, were Democrat voters.
These are your typical examples of non-metrosexual male Democrat voters, the low information voters.
These guys are carbon copies of Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy with his waitress sandwich.
You know, we saw their bad behavior when it came to women, and everybody poo-pooed it.
And where was the National Organization of Women and the feminists on them?
Well, yeah, it is another thing, too.
I mean, it's it's it's one thing to be walking down the street, saying do what did he diddy dumb did he do.
There she is, just walking down the street.
Roy Orbison even say, you remember that great song Roy Orbison did Pretty Woman?
Yes.
I mean, this is in our culture.
This is inbred.
But how about James Carville?
Hey, you know what?
I got a dollar bill.
I can walk down to Trader Park, and now you know I'm all I'm gonna get Apollo Jones.
That's right, I'm gonna get Paula Jones and a bowl of gumbo.
That is when the dollar bill.
You are exactly right.
We're we're living in a test tube of New York City.
This is all happening where we supposedly have enlightened elitist liberals who behave according to the latest proper standards as dictated by other elite liberals.
And yet this kind of boorish behavior is taking place.
This didn't happen in the great Midwest.
This didn't happen in the heartland.
No.
This didn't even happen in New Jersey.
This happened.
And when men in the in the Midwest and flyover country see a woman walk by, they tip their hat.
They don't make that calls.
Well, some do, you're right.
Ah, this can't.
I I'm just I'm shocked, folks, not shocked.
I could uh I'm I'm just amazed.
I'm just amazed.
It's one of the benefits of having a lot of years under your belt while you've been paying attention, that you are able to keep things in perspective and have a historical context.
And it it's fascinating to me, having been through this exact thing at least three times.
Three different controversial periods in in in my lifetime so far.
This is the fourth time this has come up now.
And to the people to whom it's new, it's outrageous.
It's shocking, it's unacceptable, and we've got to do something about it.
I'm not putting up with it anymore.
These men.
And it's not new.
It's common, and feminism was supposed to fix it.
Now I know why sometimes when I go talk to my grandfather, he would just smile and look bored when I was complaining about something.
Been there, done that.
You'll see someday, son, that this is all part of life.
Just it's happened to countless other people before it happened to you.
No one not saying anything like them.
Men will never change.
I'm just saying you can't.
As hard as you try, if you're going to let people stay free, you cannot erase human nature.
Now, you if you want to imprison them, if you want to take away their freedom somehow in order to get their conformity, then you that's what you have to do.
But if you're going to let people remain free, human nature is what it is, and there's no political movement that is ever going to erase it.
Feminism tried.
Look, I hate to bring it up again.
Time magazine, 1995 cover story, shock and dismay when they learned it, boys and girls are different.
What must they have thought before they found out boys and girls were different?
And it was proved to them scientifically.
They must have thought that we were able to change boys and girls simply by changing the conditioning, the circumstances in which they're raised.
In other words, these liberals believe that people turn out based on their environment.
And I don't mean the air and the water, I'm talking about the circumstances in which they grow up.
So they really believe that little boys wanted to go to war because they got G.I. Joe toys.
And that little girls wanted to make cakes because they got Betty Crocker stuff there and little miniature stoves and ovens.
So they gave the little boys the miniature stoves and ovens and the girls G.I. Joe.
And what the boys did was build forts out of the Betty Crocker cake, then they start having war with a knife and fork on one side and some other utensil.
And the girls started dressing G.I. Joe in different kinds of attire.
And these parents, these liberal parents who hoped to be able to prove that they could raise a little girl to be just like a little boy with the proper conditioning and influence.
Found out, no, that's what I mean.
Human nature is what it is.
We are as we are created.
And there's no political movement and come along and change it.
There's no legislation, there's no president.
There's nothing like that that can erase or alter basic human nature, which is what feminism tried to do.
If you want to get down to brass tacks, feminism, it's undeniable truth of life, number 24, established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the so-called mainstream.
Life was unfair if they weren't attracted.
That was not fair.
Had to change that.
They had to go about changing it.
And so that what they were tackling was changing human nature.
And they can't.
Nobody's ever going to be able, via politics, to change human nature.
All you can do is suppress it by penalizing it, putting it in jail.
But you can't.
You cannot legislate human nature.
It is what it is.
And you're going to have in all avenues of human nature.
You're going to have the bad, the good, the evil, the incompetent, the extremely talented, you're going to get it all.
Human nature is what it is.
No two of us are alike.
And the left can't stand that.
No two people, and I'm talking, I'm not just talking physically.
No two people are alike.
And you can't legislate them.
You can try to legislate their outcomes, but you have to penalize people in order for that to be made possible.
The only way you can legislate outcomes is to make sure that the superior performing people have it taken away from them at the end of the day.
At least that's what the left does.
The left never does try to equalize by elevating people at the bottom.
The left always tries to equalize us by stripping the people at the top from what they have.
And then they call that fairness and equality.
But what they're really trying to do in this instance is change human nature because they don't like it.
But you can't.
Now the left is never going to give up trying to change it because they refuse to accept that it's impossible.
But it's that's why these things are going to keep repeating.
That's why every effort to change it's going to fail, and somebody new is going to come along somewhere down the I got a new idea.
I know how we can stop this.
We'll put a video up on YouTube, we'll go viral with it.
It will humiliate these guys.
And it works for a while.
But then after human nature resurfaces because it never really ever goes away because it's all part of our creation.
Or to cover all the bases, it's all part of our evolution.
It is what it is.
The good with the bad.
The evil with the superior.
It's all part of the mix.
It's always been, and it always will be.
And the idea that basic human nature can be altered and changed by a bunch of people in Washington, D.C. is over half the reason this country's in the mess that it's in.
As long as I'm here, it doesn't matter.
Where here is.
I am Rush Limbo.
The only guy on the radio you never get tired of listening to.
And it wasn't I who said that, although I was very complimented by it.
It was a caller a couple of weeks ago.
And we have uh Ace in Canfield, Pennsylvania up next.
Hi, Ace, great to have you here, sir.
Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.
I am so elated to get through finally after all these years.
I started listening back in uh uh before the first uh right at the uh first Gulf War.
And uh so I I cannot thank you enough for all that you do.
Uh I'm I'm a black conservative, and uh I was told Mr. Snerdley that I really like the sound of his voice.
I took a course, uh correspondence course back in the sixties, because I used to stutter anyway, it just bothered me to no end.
And I was very self-conscious when I spoke, and I took this course, um and at the beginning of every lesson they would highlight a person who had a really nice voice that just make made you want to listen.
Uh a couple of people and that I can remember was uh James Earl Jones, uh Frank Reynolds, Ronald Reagan, and uh Bing Crosby.
And I think the fact one of the reasons I like listening to you and never get tired of listening to you, because I think your voice just it makes people want to listen.
And like myself.
And uh so I just wanted to compliment you on that because uh I think you have the type of voice that just makes people want to listen.
Now that is a first.
That is the and I appreciate that.
I'm I'm I'm mulling this over.
That's the first uh comment or compliment like that that I've heard.
I mean, I don't I've never had people say about your voices, and uh but nobody's ever said specifically what you just said, that it has a factor in uh in listenability.
That's very kind to you.
I really appreciate that.
Oh, you're welcome.
And in fact, when you mentioned that that you were hoarse, I thought I don't even notice that.
Because I I took a recent uh voice, some voice because I'm I'm a singer, I took some voice lessons, and my teacher told me what people hear is not what you think they hear.
So, I mean, I I never used to like my voice because when I was listening on a recording to my wife, yeah, that is like it.
That is that is uh he's exactly right about that, folks.
But there's another reason why you uh you may not be able to detect my hoarseness.
And that is that we have a lot of audio processing on the micro on the mic line here.
Uh I I can there have been days that I have had a very, very bad cold, really stuffed up uh and and horse and have mentioned it and people know I can't hear that.
Right.
It's it's because of and I'm not gonna explain it technically, but it's because of compression.
Uh that that dates back, it was the way the AM radio signal was modulated.
Okay.
Back in the 60s, before FM, When there were a lot of convertibles, if you go back and listen to Motown music that was played on the radio back in the 60s and 70s, it thumped.
You get you go out and buy a Motown album today and listen to it.
If you could if you could get a 45 RPM record that was given to radio stations back there compared to an album people bought would sound totally different because the albums were flat and the stuff on the radio was compressed and the radio station itself added some so that the the station could be heard over the wind and outside noise and people are driving around on their convertibles and loudness when people were scanning the dial made people stick to that station as they were looking at all kinds of tricks.
So we still use some of that here at the EIB network, and it will it will mask such things as hoarseness in the voice.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
But nevertheless, you are uh and and and people uh people never hear themselves the way other people do.
That's just a characteristic, by the way, of uh the ear of the person speaking.
You you you hear your voice because you also feel it.
The other person, the person, people listening to you don't feel unless you know how to use your voice.
They don't feel it, they just simply hear it.
But you speaking, feel your voice.
And if you become a student of your voice, you know how to use it and change it based on how it feels as well as how it sounds to you.
Um, I grew up in um Southeast Missouri, and there's a there's a dire an accent in Southeast Missouri.
It's called Southeast Missouri twang.
And I had it.
And when I the first time I heard myself on tape, when I was actually trying to get ready to be on radio, I was I said, I that can't be me.
Get forget yours nasal.
I mean, this is how people I can't do it anymore because I've literally spent hours uh teaching myself to breathe diaphragmatically and not from my throat, so that I speak diaphragmatically, not from the back of my throat, which most people do.
But when I'm hoarse, I can only speak from the back of my throat.
That's and which is what I'm doing today, which puts an incredible strain.
And uh but it's the the breathing diaphragmatical is how professional you talk about stage actors like James Earl Jones.
Um you you have to be able to breathe diaphragmatically in order to project uh to have a booming voice.
Most people don't get any voice training.
But the next time you watch a movie, actually spend some time listening to the dialogue, especially if there's narration, TV show or movie.
Uh listen if there's if if an actor is narrating, listen to the absolute perfect quality of the of the voice.
They all have.
Every actor undergoes professional voice training as part of the uh well, the the people that have been classically trained, some people have uh become actors by accident and have never had formal training, as is the case in any profession.
But on a day like today when I'm hoarse, I'm a that's putting a lot of strain on the chords, because I'm literally trying to cover it by speaking right from the back of my throat.
And if we weren't using audio processing and compression, you could tell that today.
But that compression and and audio processing will mask it, which is why I insist on it being used.
So I've been old Ace had no idea when he called it he was gonna get all of that, but I appreciate your uh your comment uh nevertheless.
Farid Zakaria GPS, uh this is the the well-known plagiarist who still has a show on CNN.
Farid Zakarius, well, G GPS is the name of his show, global positioning satellite, Farid Zucaria Global Positioning satellite.
He says that the Republicans are winning and are going to win this election by fighting amnesty, not courting Hispanic votes.
He says that illegal immigration is so unpopular, even a labor union is weighing in to oppose it.
And that's true.
I saw that uh just yesterday, but I've got to bump out of this right now.
Sit tight.
Got more after.
Even when horse, this is the fastest three hours in media.
We're already zipping through two of them, and there's much more straight ahead, my friends.