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So what do you make of this, folks?
We are told now that it is the women, the female executives at NBC who want to save Brian Williams.
That's what they're reporting out there.
It's a big piece.
National Review Online, Ileana Johnson says it's the women executives at NBC that are arguing to save Brian Williams.
Anyway, we have much more on that coming up as we have uh much more on everything that's out there coming up and otherwise.
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So you believe it?
The news media out there hyping terrorism again, exactly what the president doesn't want to happen, because he doesn't think there is any.
He really doesn't.
There's no terrorism, it's just a bunch of random acting folks out there that are doing random acts.
Mean things to people, but there's no terrorism about it.
There's nothing organized.
It's just a bunch of unhappy random people doing things.
The media is uh is reporting that the fourth and presumably last hostage held by ISIS has been confirmed to be dead.
That would be Caleb Mueller.
And like Obama, I can you imagine how he's reacting to this today?
The media hyping another American killed by ISIS and ignoring the most important issue out there, global warming.
Man-made global warming.
I mean, that's that's what the president's trying to convince everybody.
Man-made global warming is at the top of the list.
All of this stuff by ISIS, man, it's just random folks doing random things.
The president's already put out a statement on the young woman's death.
I haven't had a chance to read his statement in its entirety.
Did he say, Snurdy, do you did Obama say anything about Caleb Mueller being killed by random shooting from some folks?
Well, I mean, in case you missed it, that's how Obama described the attack.
Uh on that Jewish deli in Paris and on the magazine in Paris where the Muslim terrorists sought out and gunned down some Jewish people, which Obama views as just random shooting, like like the kinds that occur every night in Chicago.
Here's what he said.
This was uh on the Vox.com website this morning, Matthew Iglesius interviewing Obama about foreign policy, and this is what Obama had to say about terrorism.
When you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots uh who behead people or randomly shoot uh a bunch of folks uh in uh in a deli in Paris.
It is right and appropriate for us to be vigilant and aggressive in trying to deal with that.
The same way that a big city mayor's gotta cut the crime rate down uh if he wants that city to thrive.
So there you it's it's if there is any terror terrorism out there, this is not militant al-Qaeda, it's not ISIS, it's just a bunch of some zealots, some random folks, uh doing some shooting, bunch of violent, vicious zealots behead people.
Yeah, violent, vicious folks, beheading people.
Randomly shooting a bunch of folks at a deli in Paris.
Yeah, we should be mad about that.
We should be vigilant and aggressive.
The same way a big city mayor has got to cut down the crime rate, like in Chicago.
There's no different than that, folks.
And all of this hysteria about terrorism is uncalled for and unwarranted, and the media should stop hyping it and get focused on what Obama really cares about, and that's the government taking over the internet under something called net neutrality.
And of course, man-made global warming.
I now I haven't seen the full transcript of Obama's public service announcement on violence against women that ran during the Grammys.
Did he mention ISIS or Al-Qaeda at all?
He did he did he didn't mention ISIS or Al-Qaeda in that PSA in the Grammys.
Oh, just just Domestic, oh, just some domestic folks that were engaging in, oh, okay, so so he just confined himself to making up statistics about the number of women who are sexually assaulting the U.S. Did you hear about this?
This is uh I this is really, really problematic here.
The president said, right now, nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape.
That's what he said at the Grammys.
That was what he said in the PSA.
And he said more than one in four women has experienced some form of domestic violence.
Now, let's run the numbers here.
And by the way, this is totally irresponsible.
You have a bunch of made-up malarchy that is emanating on the campus, you know, after the fake rape story at University of Virginia that ran in in Rolling Stone magazine, and all kinds of when people pointed out that hey, it didn't happen.
There were no rapes.
The Rolling Stone story was totally wrong.
The defense of that was, well, well, that's not important.
I mean, it did that story may not have been true, but you know it's happening.
And so our story served a purpose to raise everybody's consciousness level about this, because it is happening.
There is massive events of rape happening all over America and all over the campus.
And if it didn't happen at the University of Virginia, it doesn't matter.
And this is how the left and the drive-by media cover the lies.
This is how they make up or or or try to cover up for the lies that they report.
Well, it's happening somewhere.
We might have got it wrong here, but it doesn't matter.
We still got it right overall.
Under the current population of the United States, 316 million.
Women comprise statistically about half of that, which means that there are about 158 million women and girls in the U.S. Now, if 20% of American women have been raped or almost raped, that's one in five, then that's a total of 31.6 million women.
31.6 million women have been raped or almost raped.
What is almost rape?
What is that?
Did he define that?
So we're left to our own devices to define almost rape?
Okay.
Well, just going by what the president said, one in five women in America have experienced rape or attempted rape.
31.6 million women have been raped or almost raped, which is somewhere between the populations of Texas and California.
That's that's the way to put this in perspective.
So in this country, the populations of Texas and California women have been raped.
Now the numbers the president gave are widely out of line with national crime statistics, which they don't show anywhere near that number of rapes in the past 20 years.
Nowhere near it.
The national crime stats show fewer than two million rapes being reported in the last 20 years.
That's a big difference.
31 and a half million versus two million.
That would also mean that if Obama is right and 25% of American women have experienced domestic violence, then again running a number 39 and a half million women in the country are victims of such violence, and that's more than the population of California.
And notice that the same time Obama claims the media is hyping terrorism, and that's why he went out and said to Voxwell, they're hyping terrorism, it's just a bunch of random zealots.
It's just some zealots shooting, is it random folks?
At the same time Obama claims the media is hyping terrorism, he points out and puts out a just outrageously inflated numbers about sexual assault and violence against women.
You talk about hyping something.
But it's even worse than that.
The numbers that he announces are even worse than that.
What's happening is it all started, actually it didn't start, but it really intensified with the totally made up war on women being conducted by the Republican Party.
That began in earnest In January of 2000, I guess it would have been 2012.
During a Republican primary debate when George Stephanopoulos relentlessly queried Mitt Romney if he favored contraception laws in states, and nobody knew what he was talking about, Stephanopoulos.
It came out of the blue, it came out of nowhere, and Romney, after trying to deflect it, had to answer the question to make it go away.
Once he answered it, that was it.
It didn't matter what the answer was.
Romney said X about contraception.
There you go.
Republican candidate commenting on contraception that equals a war on women.
And that's where the intensification began.
This actually is war on women theory and meme is actually part of the modern era of feminism, which can be traced back to the late 60s or early 70s.
The notion that men are predators and that all men are predators, that's their natural state, that women are at high risk every day of their lives in this country.
And Obama is now throwing gasoline on that fire.
And using totally made up statistics.
Well, it's a situation of rampant fear among college women all over the country with these mythical stories about the rape culture that exists there.
And now here's Obama throwing gasoline on that fire, which is it's just gonna further divide men from women and vice versa.
And it's it it this is not unity, this is not comedy, this is not everybody getting along.
This is pitting people against each other.
This is creating culture wars, or in this case, exacerbating them.
And for what purpose?
What in the war, what purposes serve with Obama making these numbers up?
What purpose is served by lying to the American people and telling them that 31 and a half million women have been raped or almost raped in this country.
The Washington Free Beacon from today Obama uses discredited statistics on sexual assault.
President Obama repeated sexual assault stats during the Grammys on Sunday night that have been thoroughly discredited.
In a video during the broadcast of the award ceremony, Obama said that almost one in five women have been a victim of rape or attempted rape, and again, that's 31.6 million women using the numbers.
However, that one in five figure has been widely questioned.
American Enterprise Institute researcher Caroline Kitchens noted in October of 2013 that the statistic was derived from a questionable study.
Christina Hoff Summers of the American Enterprise Institute explains that the study often cited as the origin of the one in five factoid is an online survey conducted under a grant from the Justice Department.
Surveyors employed such a broad definition that forced kissing and even attempted forced kissing qualified as sexual assault.
So we're getting closer to understanding here what Obama means by almost raped.
Forced kissing and attempted forced kissing.
Now you think I'm exaggerating about the negative impact all of these lies and myths are going to have on our culture.
From our old buddies at campusreform.com, Columbia University to force students to write poetry to combat sexual assault.
I mean, that's granted, these are the old days, and I didn't try to come off as an old fuddy duddy here.
I've studiously tried to avoid that as I have matured and grown older.
But you remember the days when colleges and universities used to require learning math and languages and advanced science before you could graduate.
And now it seems the only requirements are things like learning sexual respect and tolerance for sexual diversity.
Columbia University students will be required to participate, required.
This is not even an elective.
Columbia University students will be required to participate in a sexual respect education program, which can include poetry writing if they wish to register for classes or get a diploma.
Columbia University.
This is this is not the University of Mars we're talking about here.
It's Columbia University, ranking high there up there in the Ivy League.
And if you want to graduate, register for classes, get a diploma, you're going to be required to take a sexual respect class, a series of them, which can include poetry writing.
Students will have to complete one of four options by March 13th.
The options include participating in an hour-long workshop, submitting a reflection piece on two different technology entertainment design talks, watching and discussing short films on sexual abuse.
That sounds like an excuse to show porn movies, if you ask me, but what do I know?
And the fourth option, producing art or poetry, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator.
Students' art and poetry might be on display even in an exhibit later in the semester.
Decreasing the prevalence of sexual assault requires a dramatic change in campus culture, said Jason Reed, a Columbia sophomore.
Neither poetry nor one-hour trainings will affect meaningful change.
Apparently, the sudden increase in sexual assaults on college campaign is almost as established a myth as is global warming.
And the only complaint seems to be the colleges aren't doing enough to stop it.
Now the push for training, this requirement that students take a sexual respect education program, including poetry writing.
The push for this was led by students at Barnard College and all women's liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia.
Barnard students do not have to participate in a program, they just said everybody else does.
You believe that the women at Barnard College don't have to participate in the program that they are demanding be taught at Columbia.
Of course, the women are exempted.
Naturally, women are, of course, exempt.
Women are not natural born predators.
Women are not natural-born rapists, women don't engage in sexual abuse at all.
They're never anything other than victims.
One in five Americans.
What do you think this is going to do?
People have to believe this stuff.
Young, gullible little skulls full of mush in the millennial generation and younger who believe this stuff when it comes from the Oval Office and from the government.
I guarantee you they're going to run or they're going to spend the rest of their lives believing this stuff.
Anyway, I take a break here, but you sit tight because we're just getting started.
EIB Network and L Rushville back after this.
Yeah, I'm sitting here, folks.
I'm still trying to figure out what almost rape is.
One in five women raped or almost raped.
31 and a half million.
What is almost rape?
Could almost rape be when a woman pulls a gun to stop it.
Could that be almost rape?
And also the um almost rape me.
Uh what could it be?
What possibly could it be?
About the women at NBC.
Uh trying that they're the ones trying to say Brian Williams' job.
Deborah Turness, the president of NBC News, and the woman that hired her.
Those are the two women that are lobbying to keep Brian Williams.
It is said that Brokaw is going to have a central role at Brian Roberts is the CEO of Comcast, everybody's boss there.
Said to be the final decision maker on this.
But the women, I guess why?
Why do stories say the women are particularly personally invested in holding on to Brian Williams?
And maybe it is that they know that men make things up all the time anyway.
They're used to it, no big deal.
Men lie.
I mean, it's part of being a woman, as Obama's pretty much setting the stage for that.
And by the way, keep in mind something.
Keep something in mind here.
Brian Williams is on the hot seat for making up things.
In addition to making up things in the hot seat for inserting himself in these made-up stories.
But all Brian Williams did, and maybe will do again, all Brian Williams did was read the daily narrative that was typed on the teleprompter for him.
Barack Obama is making things up left and right.
I do not believe one in five women in this country have been raped or almost raped.
31 and a half million women.
Just like the made-up numbers of how many black kids are being shot by cops, it's all made up.
And Brian Williams doesn't have any power over our lives unless we let him.
But Hillary, look at the stuff she's made up.
Who she was named after, her daughter supposedly walking the street next to the World Trade Center on 9-11?
By the way, Snerdley, anybody keeping track of all the female teachers who are sexually molesting and sexually attacking young boys in our elementary school.
Well, and girls, but but it's female teachers doing the predatory behavior, right?
I guess nobody's counting that.
I guess they Obama forgot to leave it out of the stats.
Look at what Obama did.
He goes on the Grammys, well, in his PSA, and look at what he does.
Literally wants to scare everybody to death.
In one instance, he tells women, if you leave the house, there's a one in five chance you're gonna get raped or almost raped.
But if you stay home, there's an equal one in five chance that you're gonna be abused by that idiot husband or boyfriend sitting next to you.
So women have nowhere to go other than to be with and hang with other women.
That would seem to be the safest place women could go.
I I guess what it boils down to here is that the uh the division, the war, if you will, the division between men and women is apparently not big enough.
So Obama has been forced into telling outright lies to make women more untrusting of men.
Well, look at what he did say in that PSA at the Grammys.
If you leave the house, one in five chance you get raped or almost raped.
If you stay home, you're gonna get abused, sexually abused or otherwise.
And it all must stop.
And I tell you, you you get hold of a bunch of precariously balanced young female and male minds out there who are gonna both believe this stuff, and it is it's just a disservice.
Why create this kind of paranoia?
Why create this kind of mental mindset and attitude for young people who are ready to get on with their adult lives?
Why would you want to do that?
You realize everything that comes out of this administration is dire pessimism, apocalyptic, negative.
I mean, Obama refuses to read the presidential daily brief, otherwise known as the PDB, every day calls it a daily document of death, and he doesn't want to know anything about it.
He doesn't want to see it.
He says it affects him.
Gets up every day, and the first thing they want him to read is a presidential daily brief, and all it is is a document of death that happened in the world overnight.
Well, what is he doing by creating these lie-based statistics that are going to lead to attitudes?
This is how you create hatred in people.
You make them suspicious, tell them lies, and make them hate people they don't even know.
The question is why?
Why would you want to do that?
And I get I want to stress again here, folks, this is made up.
These numbers can't possibly be true.
And we know that the um the DOJ concocted these numbers based on an open survey on the internet, nothing scientific about it.
And one of the categories that qualifies now as almost rape is forced kissing.
Yes, if a brute of a guy attempts to kiss you, and you don't want that's almost rape.
So that gets thrown in there.
Now, as I say, Brian Williams is on the beach for making things up and putting himself in the made up version of his stories, and more and more of them are coming out all the time.
But Brian Williams just is he's a narrative reader.
Whatever somebody puts on the prompter, he reads it, and he's got the appropriate faces.
He can fake drama, he can fake sincerity, he can fake whatever's necessary in facial expressions in order to convey credibility, sincerity, whatever.
But other than that, he has no real power over our lives unless we choose to let him by tuning in and believing whatever it is he's saying.
But Obama has far more power over our lives, and he's making things up left and right.
You know, Mrs. Clinton, I it's again, I I'm not opposed to all this scrutiny on Brian Williams.
Don't misunderstand, but there is a sense of proportion missing here.
You look at Hillary.
Hillary Clinton documented to have made it up about dodging sniper fire when landing in a war zone in Afghanistan.
And the person that gave her up is somebody was on the flight with her.
The comedian Sinbed.
Mrs. Clinton also claims that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
For those of you in Rio Linda, Edmund Hillary was the first to climb Mount, well, gee, what mental block?
Uh Mount Everest, right.
And Hillary was at an audience in Chicago, and she was telling everybody that uh she was named after this famous guy, Edmund Hillary.
The problem was that Mrs. Clinton was born before the guy ever climbed Mount Everest.
Nobody knew who the guy was when Mrs. Clinton was born.
It was therefore, it is therefore impossible for her to be named after him.
But there she was.
She saw fit to make it up.
Why?
She thought it would give her added credibility, I guess.
And then there's the big whopper.
Mrs. Clinton was telling everybody that on the morning of 9-11, her daughter Chelsea was taking a stroll on the streets of New York, very, very close to the World Trade Center.
And she almost died.
She's very lucky to see what was coming, get out of there in the nick of time.
Well, it turns out that's not true either, and we know that because Chelsea herself blew the whistle on it inadvertently by her own event, memoir, whatever, I don't know, writing about where she was in that fateful day without consulting her mother.
She admitted that she was at a friend's apartment.
Nowhere near the World Trade Center.
And yet, there's Hillary making it up.
Hillary also helped concoct the lie that it was a video that led to the death of our ambassador in Benghazi.
She worked with Obama concocting that lie.
Now, these people make up lies, and there's nobody seems to be worried about it, not nearly the attention that Brian Williams is getting.
Now there has to be a psychological explanation or answer for that, and I would really like to know what it is.
You know, I could make my wild guesses just as you could.
And some of them, some of the answers I'd concoct are troubling.
People just have implicit trust in Democrats.
People place implicit trust in representatives of the state, the government, so forth.
Obama himself, he is no stranger to whoppers.
One of the things that Obama has made up over the years, he claimed that his beloved mother died of cancer because she couldn't get treatment because she didn't have health insurance.
He told this whopper during the early days of trying to sell Obamacare.
His mother died of cancer, and it was a horrible death, by the way.
Oh, it was a gruesome death, precisely because she couldn't get treatment because she didn't have health insurance.
And he repeated that story endlessly to push Obamacare.
Problem is, it isn't true.
Obama's mother had good insurance.
She had an intact insurance policy.
It was good.
The insurers were happy to pay for her cancer treatments.
In fact, you know where she was treated?
Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, which is reputed to be in the top five best cancer treatment hospitals in the world.
So over here, Obama says his poor mother died of cancer because she couldn't get treatment because she didn't have insurance.
Over here, the fact is she did get treated because she did have insurance, and she went to one of the five best cancer hospitals in the world.
And even the Washington Post eventually had to admit all of this after a number of us pointed this out on the air.
So yet how about the lie you like your doctor, you keep your doctor?
How about the lie you like your plan, you get to keep your plan?
That lie was told for two years over 23 uh times.
Now, granted, people are mad.
I don't Obama's approval numbers plummeted and fell, and I think people are uh quite upset about it, and maybe more upset than the drive-by's are letting on because the drive-bys did not spend a lot of time covering the anger people felt at Obamacare or any of these other things.
So it may well be that there's just as much disgust and anger with Hillary and Obama over their lives as there is with Brian Williams.
It's just the difference in media treatment and uh and media coverage.
But man, there's a there's a huge sense of proportion missing in all of this, Brian Williams versus these other guys.
Latest on the Brian Williams uh situation is Drudge Just Leaked that uh Savannah Guthrie now is at the top of the replacement list.
Savannah Guthrie from the Today Show.
Do you know Savannah Guthrie, as recently as three years ago, was on the 9 a.m. show on MSNBC with F. Chuck Todd, basically with nobody watching her.
You know what NBC does?
I happen to know this from an impeccable source.
Whenever it's not true, back when MSNBC was striving to be a mainstream network, whenever they would hire female infobabes and anchors, they lured them in by promising them a good shot at Katie Couric's job on the Today Show.
And that's what they all wanted.
Except an offer from MSNBC because they're being told it could lead.
None of them they were never promised, but it could lead to the prime spot on the Today Show.
And that's how they lured a number of the female hires in.
So Savannah Guthrie goes to the Today Show to replace what Ann Curry, who was unceremoniously, uh maybe ceremoniously dumped, and she's not at the top of the list.
Uh that used to be Lester Holt.
And then, oh, and it also on that list was Matt Wower.
But the problem with putting Matt Wower in there was if you take Matt Wower off of the Today Show and put him on the NBC Nightly News, uh, you might impact ratings negatively and cause it to lose some money.
The Today Show pays for a lot of the other NBC shows that don't make any money.
The NBC Nightly News, what's left of it all, was the highest rated evening newscast with Brian Williams, and this is one we had a caller yesterday who said, I don't understand how Brian Williams is still even in the conversation.
And it's a great point.
How is Brian Williams even still in the conversation to return to the anchor chair with everybody knowing what they know about him?
The jokes, the snark, the disrespect on Twitter alone is enough for anybody to know that Brian Williams, whether deservedly or not, is never going to be anything other than a sitting joke if he returns to the uh to the narrative anchor chair on NBC Nightly News.
But it was the highest rated, and therefore it had money coming in commensurately then.
And the two female execs, it is said that they fear the loss of their jobs.
Get this now.
They fear losing their jobs if Brian Williams is fired.
If that's not 180 degrees out of it, Deborah Turness, the Brit import who hired him, and her female boss are trying, it is reported now, and again, this could be all wet, it's a drive-by media, but it's reported they're trying to hold on to him because the number one ratings that he got mean they get to keep their jobs because they're the ones that put him in the chair or so well, whatever.
They're the immediate superior, so they get the credit for it being number one.
And if he loses the gig, if they take it away from him, they fear they could lose their jobs.
Now think about your job in your mind, if this report's true, your job being saved is dependent on making sure a guy who makes it up remains your anchor on the NBC Nightly News is that not screwed, I don't know what is.
Okay, wait for it here, folks.
Just in from the Huffing and Puffington Post.
An historian from Saudi Arabia, which would make this person a Saudi Arabian historian, is trying to justify Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers.
He says that women who drive in other countries, such as the United States, don't care if they're raped, and that sexual violence is no big deal to them.
Quote unquote.
This is Saleh al-Sadoon.
Sale al-Sadun is the man's name.
He claimed in a recent TV interview that women can be raped when a car breaks down.
But unlike other countries, Saudi Arabia protects its women from that risk by not allowing them to drive in the first place.
This, according to a translation posted online by Memory, the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Al-Sadun said on Saudi TV, women don't care if they're raped on the roadside, but we do.
The host of the program that he was on was a woman.
She's not named in the transcript.
She said, Hold on here, wait a minute.
Who told you they don't care about getting raped on the roadside?
And Saleh al-Sadun replied, it's no big deal for them beyond the damage to their morale.
In our case, however, the problem is of a social and religious nature.
Two other guests on the show, a man and a woman, appeared to be in utter shock over the Saudi's comments.
Al-Sadun said they were out of touch.
He said they need to listen to me and get used to what society thinks.
Now the rape argument didn't seem to be convincing anybody on this show, so Al-Sadun tried yet another approach.
He claimed that women are treated like queens in Saudi Arabia because they're driven around by the men of the family and male chauffeurs.
And that led the host to ask if he wasn't afraid that women might be raped by their chauffeurs.
And Al-Sadoun agreed that it is a problem.
That women in Saudi Arabia do run the risk of being raped by their chauffeurs, but it's a much less risk than if women drive their cars by themselves and then break down.
But in America.
Now, where does this guy get this idea?
Where in the world does this Saleh Sadoon get this idea?
You know, you you can say he's just making it up out of a whole cloth, but he's not probably.
Where does he get this idea that women in America don't mind being raped?
On the roadside after their cars break down.
Women who drive in other countries like the United States don't care if they're raped, and that sexual violence is no big deal to them.
Where did this guy come up with this?
Now, this is our friends, the Saudis.
And then there's this, the hotel manager in New Orleans.
This is a media.
More details about Ryan Williams' dramatic misremembering of Katrina have emerged, the manager of the hotel he stayed at directly contradicting his narrative.
You know how often that words now appearing out there?
It's all over the place now.
The narrative, it's everywhere.
This used to be, I'm telling you, the fact that there was a narrative or a template, this was this was one of the most closely held secrets in the world of journalism.
This was an inside baseball term, it was an inside baseball concept, and the news consumer was to never know of the narrative.
The news consumer was never to know of the template, the news consumer was to believe the myth that the news was the news.
Not the result of a narrative or an agenda being followed to its completion.
Now the word narrative is everywhere in relationship to journalism.
The hotel manager says, at no time did any of my people report any sighting of any bodies.