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Rush Babes For America

Right from the get-go, Rush knows that women might take this the wrong way.

So much to unpack here. Rush Limbaugh has started a new Facebook page titled "Rush Babes For America." (Because you gotta have the word "America" in there, everyone KNOWS that Liberals hate America! That's how you distance yourself from them: by frantically waving the flag.)

Reading this transcript on Limbaugh's site, I had to smirk. He spends a surprising amount of time backpedaling from the word "babes." By going over and over the point that he doesn't mean the word "babes" in a demeaning sense, Rush makes it clear that he knows that calling women "babes" IS demeaning. (He wouldn't feel the need to defend his use of, say, the word "women!")

So right from the get-go, Rush knows that women might take this the wrong way. Doesn't stop him from doing it, though. Probably because statistically, over 75 percent of his listeners are male. In a world where 51 percent of the population is female, that's a pretty big skew!

I was also intrigued to read that whole entire transcript and not see a single instance of the word "Feminazi." Does Rush realize that even conservative women bristle when he labels women "Feminazi?" Does he know that women pay attention to his show, and remember all the offenses that can get you labeled a "Feminazi?" It's a long list, folks.

Doesn't stop him from getting in a dig at the National Organization for Women, which he insists on calling NAGs (his pet name: National Organization of Gals). Which is kind of funny, in that I think "gal" is a less insulting term for women than "babe." The word "gal" just trivializes us, whereas "babe" both trivializes AND sexualizes us.

But that's neither here nor there.

Rush makes a big deal out of the fact that he's getting more support for Rush Babes than NOW does. But if we look closely, he's basing this on Facebook likes. I'm not surprised that Rush can mobilize his followers to Like something on Facebook. It's the kind of meaningless gesture that he does best. But given that NOW actually has 500,000 actual members (as opposed to meaningless Likes on their Facebook page), I would say Rush still has a ways to go. As in, a full decimal place.

I feel obliged to point out, though, that a lot of those Likes seem to be coming from male listeners. Also, not to state the obvious, but most of them appear to be older white women. No surprise that Rush can sew up the "conservative little old lady" demographic, I suppose.

War on Rush

NOW Attack Initiative

President Obama and his democratic handlers are now attempting to persuade the voting public that the Republicans are mounting a war on women. Liberals will sink to any depth to forward their agenda. They rained nuclear fire on Sarah Palin, her family and children in the last election. Allegations and attacks incredibly vile and filthy to any and all women permeated the airwaves and newsprint for months and indeed, have not stopped.

No Democratic leader or follower and certainly no member of any women’s rights groups, such as the National Organization for Women, made a peep. When the lack of backlash was apparent, the attacks were widened to include Republican women pundits and public servants.

NOW is the most hypocritical organization known to man. They don’t give a flip about women, except for the ones who draw their sustenance from the organization, and only surface if the cause is radically left-of-center.

Now the National Organization for Women is intent on waging a war on Rush Limbaugh. They plan to strong-arm advertisers into boycotting the sponsorship of his radio show. They believe their efforts will bring Rush to his knees and have even stated that “the constitution does not guarantee anyone 38M a year for hosting a radio show.”

Surely, there is no thinking member of the business community or public who would listen to or much less follow the rantings of this dishonest and highly political group.

Rush Limbaugh says America's not racist

Limbaugh is like the street magician. I admire his skill in misdirecting the audience. Look over here! Nothing up my sleeve! America! America!

Don't you love it when white people make declarations about how there is no such thing as racism? Or that Americans aren't racist? Or that racism is a thing of the past? Or how there's no racism, but there sure as shootin' is REVERSE racism?

Stuff white people say. I swear to God, it gives us all a bad name. Invisible backpack much?

Rush Limbaugh recently went on the attack when someone forwarded him an out-of-context tweet by a (black) CNN syndicated columnist. Roland S. Martin, in bemoaning the racist things everyone is saying about a black hockey player, commented that "I simply accept the reality that racism is in the DNA of America. And when that button is pushed, the true feelings come tumbling out!"

Well guess what. He pushed the racism button, and Rush Limbaugh's true feelings came tumbling out.

Not only does Rush Limbaugh believe that racism is alive and well in America, he is fully aware of the fact and is lying about it, in order to curry favor with his audience. I can prove it. How? By pointing you to Rush Limbaugh's own words, in which HE DOES NOT REFUTE THE CLAIM THAT AMERICA IS RACIST. Instead, he simply distracts the audience by waving the American flag and insulting liberals.

It would be one thing if Rush Limbaugh had tried to claim that America doesn't have a problem with racism. For one thing, it would be instantly refutable with facts and a million billion moments of personal experience. AND HE KNOWS IT. Otherwise, he would have just said "That guy is wrong, and here is why."

But Rush Limbaugh is too smooth, too practiced, too savvy to say anything which he knows is both A) wrong and B) disprovable by objective facts.

Limbaugh is like the street magician. I admire his skill in misdirecting the audience. Look over here! Nothing up my sleeve! America! America!

By doing so, of course, Limbaugh is just making a bad situation worse. I wonder if he ever feels bad about that. About working so hard to keep driving wedges between different groups of Americans, for basically arbitrary reasons. The man has so much sway, he could do a lot to make this country better, to improve the lives of Americans, and to soothe the divisive rhetoric that he has made his coin of the realm.

Rush Limbaugh: Always Seeking Dad's Approval

Whether talking about the Democrats or his father, Rush uses the language of submission.

Rush Limbaugh has posted a show transcript which has a surprising level of self-analysis and emotional honesty, even if Rush doesn't seem to realize it. In it, Rush draws parallels between the wrong things that the Democrats believe, and the wrong things that his father believed, and how his father's beliefs affected Rush.

Limbaugh is clearly a man who is still bitter about not having received his father's approval. His father grew up in the Great Depression and became a lawyer, and apparently put a lot of pressure on Rush throughout his life to get a "real job," and follow a conventional career path. According to Rush's father there was only one path to success in America, and Rush wasn't following it.

In this transcript, Rush derides Barack Obama for having been "raised to believe that this country does not provide opportunity for everybody, that the game's rigged by the rich starting with the Founders." But just a few moments earlier, Limbaugh had been talking about his father's convictions on how you become successful in America: you go to college, get a degree, get a secure job, stay there for 30 years, and retire with a pension.

And Rush apparently doesn't connect the dots between these two things. The key to prosperity according to his father is to go to college. But who can afford to go to college? Who has the support system to make it all the way to college in the first place? The rich. Sure there are scholarships available, but they are difficult to get. And the poor are much more likely to have dropped out of high school, to have bad grades, and to live in a family that doesn't see the value of education, thus never strived to achieve a college degree.

Rush Limbaugh's father may never have overtly believed that "the game's rigged by the rich." But that's what he believed. He never believed that Rush could make a success of himself out of a rogue career like radio broadcasting. If you want to make it in America you play the game, and the game starts with college (which only rich kids can attend).

Whether talking about the Democrats or his father, Rush uses the language of submission. The Democrats "want you to have this menial stuff where you need them." His father believed that "You had to kiss [your bosses'] feet every day and whatever they wanted you to do, you did."

According to Rush, his father thought he was "a failure" until the day he died. I have to say, I feel a little sorry about the guy. But then again, I wish he had the self-awareness not to take out his daddy issues on the rest of us.

Rush Limbaugh: Cranky Old Man

Things WERE better when you were a kid. Wanna know why? BECAUSE YOU WERE A KID.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that Rush Limbaugh is super old. Then he goes on one of his long rambling riffs about, you know, "kids these days" and "back in my day," and it's like you can practically smell the Ben Gay. As if Werthers Originals are going to start pouring from his pockets.

Rush celebrated his 61st birthday last January. And his latest rant about "cultural rot" shows every day of it. Why, there's not a cranky old man over the age of 60 in this country who isn't just itching to go off on the same rant, any minute of any day. The topics are universal: parents are too lenient, today's youth is morally corrupt, and "our institutions" are under attack.

The truly hilarious thing is, old people have been making these complaints throughout the whole of human history. Back when Rush was a kid, old people complained about the moral degradation of Elvis Presley. When those old people were kids, old people complained about how women getting the vote would be the ruination of society. And on it goes, back for as long as there have been old people, they have complained about how "today sucks, and things were better when I was a kid."

This statement isn't entirely untrue. Things WERE better when you were a kid. Wanna know why? BECAUSE YOU WERE A KID. Your parents created a safe bubble around you, they fed you and took care of you, put a roof over your head, sent you to school, your only responsibilities were to finish your homework and do your chores. To the extent that you were aware of national events and politics, they seemed like an interesting abstraction at most.

By the time you're Rush Limbaugh's age, you have forgotten about all that other stuff. All you have is hazy, romanticized memories about The Way It Used To Be. Memories which were formed when you were 10 are hardly indicative of the true state of society, is what I'm saying.

For pity's sake, Limbaugh is still harping on the Clintons. Bill Clinton left office over ten years ago! Bill Clinton left office before 9/11. Think of how much the world has changed since then. How much of it can we blame Bill Clinton for? Precious little. But Rush is still holding onto those grievances, because that is what old men do: they hang onto past slights, and ridicule women.

Here, grandpa: have some more tapioca, I know it's your favorite! Time for a nap? Hmm?

Excellence in broadcasting

Rush wins out

I discussed the events surrounding the Sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh dust-up while it was taking place. Now that the dust has settled, things are much clearer. Six weeks after Rush Limbaugh chatted up Sandra Fluke on his national radio program, life in the EIB kingdom has returned to normal.

As advertisers realize—yet again—that they simply panicked and caved when Liberal seminar callers deluged them with boycott threats; they are now trying to return to sponsorship of Rush’s show to present their products to a base of 15 to 20 million listeners that they had just drop-kicked to the curb. Incidentally, I applaud Rush for denying most advertisers to return—at least immediately.

In truth, the “outrage” died out after just several weeks because only Liberals and the media were beating the drum.

Conservatives were outraged; but at Liberals and Sandra Fluke, not at Rush. The Right saw the democrat’s orchestration of the whole affair for what it was.

Independents were disgusted with the blatantly self-righteous, entitled attitude exhibited by Fluke, especially after her backpedaling in the second week of the “outrage.”

Now, we seem to be deluged by reports from the left that Rush is under attack from competitors such as Mike Huckabee, who launched a three-hour radio program in recent days. They are also claiming that Rush is already shedding viewers, particularly women. In my estimation, women are pragmatic and have had to make it on their own in many ways and as a result probably take a harder view of the antics of Fluke and her democratic handlers than do men.

In any event, Rush seems to not only have weathered this “situation”, he has emerged the winner.

After all, where are Fluke and her handlers?

Rush-The way things ought to be

The golden microphone

I am interested in the countering claims between Media Matters and Rush Limbaugh concerning the number of sponsors who have discontinued advertising. I looked at Media Matters website this morning and saw that they have the story way down on their topic list.

I looked further and clicked on their reference to the listing of advertisers who have pulled their business from The Rush Limbaugh Show. Media Matters lists 64 sponsors who have discontinued advertising. Looking at the dates of their departure, I soon deduced that most of them left in the days immediately following the controversy. In fact, by my count, Media Matters lists only seven advertisers who have allegedly pulled their ads within the last two weeks. My guess is that now that the attack has lost support among rational thinking people—those who saw the liberal shenanigans for what they were—the advertisers who recently left will return just as the ones did who left initially.

The companies involved pulled their advertising because of a massive deluge of threat letters to boycott their products sent by liberal seminar groups. They left due to the perceived threat of losing money—they will return because of the reality that they are losing money, by not touting their products to Rush’s massive audience.

I also made a prediction immediately after the controversy, that as the true story of the orchestration of the liberal plot became public, people would be disgusted with Sandra Fluke and her liberal handlers. The controversy would generate more interest in Rush Limbaugh and more people would tune in to his show and be converted to the conservative view. Guess what? My prediction was accurate.

Rush fell into the liberal trap, laid out his case over the airwaves and people saw the truth.

I mean, why else would liberals and Ms. Fluke retreat into the background, hunker down and hope this blows over as quickly as possible?

No surprise-Rush is alive!

Liberal assasination attempt failed

Just a few short weeks ago, liberals were stoning what they perceived as a weakened and cowering Rush Limbaugh, while chortling over his certainly immediate demise. Liberals applied pressure and twisted the arms of advertisers—some of whom caved and pulled their sponsorship from the program—in an attempt to make certain that this time, they nailed him with a stone sufficiently big enough to put him down for good.

For the love of God, The President of the United States joined the mob; he placed stones into the eager hands of the leftists while gleefully dancing on the fringes of the mob and pointing out possible head shots that would nail Limbaugh.

Shades of Dan Rather, when will they learn that plotting—regardless of how clever they believe it is—simply is transparent as hell to most people who see it. As Flock’s interview performance played non-stop on the news, citizens of conservative as well as independents were appalled and disgusted at this privileged person believing her and others were entitled to what was worked for and earned by people like you and me.

As the true story of her recruitment by the democratic administration and her special and priority entry into the Congressional hearings leaked out; she changed her story in the succeeding days to “clarify” it.

The public figured this one out fast and everybody from the democrats to the media couldn’t run away from it fast enough. Now, Limbaugh radio show is back to normal, with advertisers fighting for the privilege of sponsorship. I predicted this within one week of the incident occurring; Rush is back and as a result of the attempted assassination has picked up more listener’s than before.

The Problem With The "Just Kidding" Defense

If there was a non-birth-control medicine that prevented ovarian cysts, you would expect it to be covered by health insurance, right?

There are a lot of reasons why Rush Limbaugh is still serving as the punching bag almost four weeks after his initial three-day rampage against Sandra Fluke. One of them, certainly, is that his apology was worded so badly. The "just kidding" defense is one of the worst in the playbook, and everyone knows it.

What's infuriating about "just kidding" is that it allows the bully to keep bullying, while at the same time denying the victim's right to be hurt by the bully's words.

If Person A calls Person B a "slut," then says "Just kidding!" we all know that Person A wasn't really kidding. If Rush Limbaugh had been kidding, he would have called her a "knowing tool of the alien conspiracy." If he had actually just been playing it for laughs, he would have said something funny like "Sure, and next let's cover her diaper costs for having Bill Clinton's baby."

We have already veered off into Bizarro World, because Rush Limbaugh apparently didn't actually listen to Sandra Fluke's testimony before he called her a prostitute. Sandra Fluke never asked to have her own birth control covered for the avoidance of pregnancy. She asked to have her friend's birth control covered for the avoidance of her ovaries exploding.

Birth control isn't just "pre-abortion," the way a lot of right wing nut jobs would have you believe. Birth control can also prevent ovarian cysts. If there was a non-birth-control medicine that prevented ovarian cysts, you would expect it to be covered by health insurance, right? So what's the difference?

The difference is, Rush seems to have willfully disregarded the actual argument at hand, and went straight to demanding the sex tapes of every "feminazi" who wants to have birth control covered by health insurance.

No one believes that Rush Limbaugh was kidding when he said what he did, for three straight days in a row, in the face of mounting public outrage. For Rush to issue the "just kidding" apology, it's frankly worse than if he had never apologized at all.

Just like when a bully, pressured by his parents, shows up at your front door and mumbles "I was just kidding, geez."

The worst thing you can do, in a situation like the one Rush has created for himself, is to appear insincere. But insincere he was, and I doubt he even cares, except in so far as he's lost most of his advertisers.

Rush Limbaugh's Concern

Consequence of Silence

Is there a silent majority? And if there is, who is it, Conservatives, Liberals, who? And, of course, the big question, what happens if they stay silent? I don’t have the answers to these questions, but I do have opinions.

Is there a silent majority?

There is a silent majority. In any group of human beings there are a small number of whom who attempt to exert their will on the others and another small number of whom who will simply do whatever they want to do. That creates the classic bell curve leaving the majority of the group, who do not feel motivated to act out to either extreme. This majority simply keeps its opinions to itself, works hard and depends on their own labor to survive and prosper. They are generally disgusted with the two other groups, but are tolerant and allow them to live as they wish, unless their actions impinge on lives of the silent majority.

And if there is, who is it, Conservatives, Liberals, who?

The group who attempts to exert their will on others is liberals. If you doubt this, examine the current war on Christianity where Liberals are attacking prayer, public evidence of the Christian faith and the teachings of the bible. The group who do as they wish is the “far right” who simply want to live as they wish and not interact with the other groups.

The Silent Majority is composed of conservatives who work hard, keep their heads down and continue to move forward, in many cases supporting the activities of the other groups, in both treasure and life.

The big question, what happens if they stay silent?

We determined that the Silent Majority is primarily made up of Conservatives. If Conservatives stay silent the Liberal group will become more active with every small victory. The Liberal group’s strategy in the past has been based on taking small victories that cause grumbling but not outright opposition from the Majority group. These small victories eventually amount to large impositions of Liberal will on the Majority.

Today, that Liberal strategy has been thrown out the window. Liberals are emboldened by their victories and the fact that they are in control of the government. They believe the opportunity is ripe to make dramatic changes to the American way of life.

To answer the big question, what will happen if the Silent Majority stays silent; The Liberals will change the basic way the country works and it will be changed unalterably and be unrecognizable as the America we know in 10 years. If you’re in the Liberal group, this will be great. If you’re in the Silent Majority, not so much!

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