How can Rush Limbaugh distinguish himself from the pack?
He showed us how yesterday on his show: he blamed feminism for the shooting. Or, to be precise, a caller (who may or may not have been an actor, if news reports from a few years back are correct ) blamed the shooting on feminism, and Limbaugh eagerly agreed.
CALLER: ... I think that feminism, modern-day feminism is the main problem, and I think that —So Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people because feminists don't want men to be allowed to "do whatever they think they have to to get women." We should leave Harvey Weinstein alone (and Donald Trump, for that matter) unless we want innocent children to die.
RUSH: Wait a minute. How so? How is feminism at the root of this brain washing? I happen to agree with you about it. I would phrase it a bit differently, but I agree. How is feminism at the root?
CALLER: Well, I think that women turning their back on God and Christian values and expecting schools or day cares to raise their children — and I think that feminism is what’s wrong with our economy. I think that, you know, the way kids are being raised these days. I think that feminism is the ultimate problem that we’re facing today.
RUSH: You mean as in the instance of the chickification of our culture, the demasculinization of men?
CALLER: Oh, yeah, that too. I really think that all problems stem from modern-day feminism.
RUSH: ... I think basically feminism is a bunch of people unhappy with human nature. They don’t like their assigned roles — by human nature.
Not by men, or not by earthly things. They just don’t like human nature, and they’re trying to change it, creating a bunch of artificial realities that they are forcing people to live in, and these artificial realities are in grand violation of human nature....
... I trace that back to ’69, ’68, 1970, in that period of time. The attack on men just for being men began intensely at that time.
Men became predators. Men became brutes, uncontrollable beasts who punished and abused. And it’s just mushroomed from there. And I think we’re actually living in a culture which has beaten masculinity out of a lot of guys. Remember, men... I get in a lot of trouble for saying this because people don’t understand what I’m saying. Men will do whatever they think they have to to get women, to get relationships. They’ll do whatever they think they have to.
It’s what makes the world go ’round. There’s nothing obscene about it. There’s nothing filthy about it. But it has become that with this intensification of modern feminism....
...a bunch of guys who are really nobodies — they’re ignored, they’re laughed at and made fun of — decide they want to be big guys, and so they go out and grab guns and start shooting people. And I think it is the lack of masculinity that makes these outcasts become even more vulnerable. It isn’t masculinity itself. This is 180 degrees out of phase, in other words.
Right. Got it.
I think that if the US goes to nuclear war with North Korea Rush Limbaugh would blame it on feminism.
Rush Limbaugh is the poster child for retroactive birth control.
Or for an abortion gone horribly wrong.
I wonder if Cruz's lawyers are paying attention. Free legal advice from Rush Limbaugh is a blessing.
"RUSH: ... I think basically feminism is a bunch of people unhappy with human nature. They don’t like their assigned roles — by human nature.
Not by men, or not by earthly things. They just don’t like human nature, and they’re trying to change it, creating a bunch of artificial realities that they are forcing people to live in, and these artificial realities are in grand violation of human nature. I trace that back to ’69, ’68, 1970, in that period of time. The attack on men just for being men began intensely at that time."
Funny how only the ones who "human nature" put at the top of the food chain are complaining about the change. I wonder why?
"Men became predators. Men became brutes, uncontrollable beasts who punished and abused. And it’s just mushroomed from there. And I think we’re actually living in a culture which has beaten masculinity out of a lot of guys. Remember, men... I get in a lot of trouble for saying this because people don’t understand what I’m saying. Men will do whatever they think they have to to get women, to get relationships. They’ll do whatever they think they have to."
Men didn't "become predators" "brutes" and "beasts" in the late 1960's, they have been enjoying their patriarchal dominance of the planet since before recorded history began. Society has just evolved enough to start challenging those preconceptions of who get's to be in charge. It's no longer a valid assumption to say the oldest male in the room has the most intelligence, knowledge and skills required to make sound decisions.
The only people who seem to think that is still a valid concept are generally those who know they suck, lack any useful skills, are not very intelligent, are unattractive and or socially awkward, and know that the only chance they have at achieving anything resembling success is if the majority of people are intentionally prevented from competing. In other words they expect to be handed everything simply because of what they were at birth, not because they earned it.
Why Limbaugh is on radio and not TV
Limbaugh and his callers. Well, there it is, there you have it.
Loosely related, I think. Anyway, just watched the whole ( or hole ) screed of Trump at the CPAC thing. Uh---------------. Well, there it is, there you have it. "Crooked Hillary" and "Lock her up" continues to elicit warm fawning's from Quisling Murica to The Quisling In Chief. Conservatism feminism at its best.
Limbaugh is the only person I'm aware of who belongs to a whites-only and gentiles-only country club. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't allow women to be members either, just mere guests.
He's the archetype of the modern conservative.
Sounds like Snerdley is a black guy who knows his place.....working for a white supremacist. In conservative-speak that means he's "one of the good ones."
Who else would work for a member of a whites-only country club? Sounds like Lush Dimbulb really does suffer from an excess of white privilege.
God Limbaugh is a fucking idiot. So the problem is that women want to be more than simple brood mares confined to a home? They actually want to enjoy their lives and be treated as independent beings capable of making their own decisions based upon their own desires? Funny how he just happens to be a member of the group that he thinks should be calling all the shots, I wonder if he would be saying the same thing were he confined to a home and expected to pop out and raise 5 or 6 kids?
Just what is my assigned role, Mr. Limbaugh?
In conservative/Limbaugh world you 'have no role.'
We didn't have all these problems when women knew their role.
I love that commercial
Mr fat fuck himself.....has he gone on any trips with little boys lately or visited his drug dealer for oxy?
It's my understanding that Rush applied for citizenship in the mythical kingdom of Jeffersonia.
Yep, conservatism is all about bowing your head and knowing your place in society. For an ideology that attempts to pride themselves on being rugged individuals, they're extraordinarily submissive.
It's a weak man who has to try to tear women down to elevate himself.
Was it Rush's mommy's fault he was a drug addict (who used a woman as his drug mule)?
Indeed, only the truly weak and pathetic will argue that certain groups should be subservient to others. The strong react to an increase in competition by welcoming it and striving to better themselves. People like Rush are truly weak.
leftists are the truly weak ones. The men seem to want to be women and the women want to be men. And some want to be both
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Let me know when a team of women win the super bowl.
I'm so glad I didn't have a mouthful of tea
The first test tube baby was born in 78. We have the technology.
I am all for women playing in the NFL, if they are good enough. I am wondering if you even understood the point of my post?
Your response is a strawman. It has no relevance to what I stated.
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Rush is a comic political entertainer who makes provocative comments to keep his ratings. I listen 2-3 times per year because he is very entertaining. But he isn't an original thinker. He just excels at taking the mood of those who agree with him on various ideological stands and creates monologues that ensure continued listeners.
Any thinking person know that the feminist movement takes it's roots from Marx's philosophy of destruction of the traditional marriage and family unit. Paraphrasing, Marx said women should be free to be sluts and be free of the slavery of marriage.
Once again, what do you think of Rush's opinions? As I stated, your continued attempts to avoid discussing them leads me to believe that my assessment of you is 100% accurate.
Actually disregard, just read your other comment, and my assessment of you is indeed 100% accurate.
That test tube baby still needs a uterus. Do you have one?
Creating a human embryo in a petri dish is different then having the ability to gestate an embryo for 40 weeks.
Sounds like you don't understand what a "test tube baby" is, given that even today you still need a woman's womb to gestate and birth your experiment.
I think Dean realizes now that his comment was pretty dumb
The confusion seems to be with you livefreeordie..
Caitlyn Jenner is a republican. Amazing how easy it is for you to make stupid comments and then find out that the horrible confusion (in your mind) of being transexual crosses party lines.
This seems like a personal attack.
Why can't people be who they are? How are your affected by a trans' person living their identified gender? Androgynous and intersexed people have always existed.
You seem to be bothered by a world that isn't strictly binary and determined by your conservative religious belief. Kindly don't project your problem on to others.
I need to learn to read other replies to dumb comments before I post a reply!
I'm not surprised that Larry jumped from whining about feminism to whining about transgender folks.
It seem that any violation of rigid Bronze-age gender roles threatens these bible-babbling extremists.
R u speaking of "Larry" what's his name Robinson?, or something from Newsvine ?
We should pity people like livefreeordie.
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That’s because of government regulations not a lack of ability to do it.
Then fight for the government funding I bet a lot of women would love not having to deal with back aches, swollen ankles, acne, flatulence and my personal favorite....heartburn
Butt, Larry swore on his Bible he would move to Belize or Costa Rica if Obama won a 2nd term, did he not?
Caitlyn Jenner may be a high profile trans woman but she doesn't have the support of a majority the trans community because of her political views. She deserves to be happy as a woman but her opinions are not shared by most of the transgendered community.
Sounds like you don't understand what civil rights are or why they exist.
Bingo.
Equal rights are there to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. The majority will always have their rights by the fact that they are the majority. It doesn't matter if it is 10% of the population or just one person among 350 million people. They have the very same right to act as they wish even if you disagree with their belief or actions, despite your opinions. That idea is the very essence of freedom.
Trans people have been using the bathroom of their gender identity for years without a problem until conservatives learned that they could use this issue for partisan goals. Why is it that trans people bother you, or is it the fact that they exist and don't have to ask your permission to do so?
How are you forced to accommodate letting a trans' man use the male bathroom? If a trans man is forced to use the female bathroom then any male pervert could claim to be a trans man and use the female bathroom or didn't you think that through. They wouldn't even need to dress in drag to do so. Maybe if you bothered to understand gender identity you wouldn't be so ignorant and afraid. Bigotry/hatred is based on ignorance so the cure is education.
Same person. He has literally been an expert at every profession and everyone...I mean EVERYONE is a communist, except him.
Is Feminism beyond reproach? Are we not allowed to critically examine some of the results of feminism?
I would say feminism has done some good. I think it has also done some things that may be bad for society. When you declare that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" what kind of society do you end up with? What do children grow up to be?
Over the last few decades, more and more women have hired someone else to raise their kids during the day. Sometimes this is necessary, but I have known many well-off women who honestly didn't need nannies. So who is responsible for the moral education of children? Anyone?
And when you take away the roadblocks - legal or moral - to divorce, you end up with more boys who don't have a father in the home. What kind of young men does that build?
I'm certainly not going to claim that this is the one and only cause in a specific situation, but these are questions we have to be willing to ask if we honestly want to try to solve some of the problems we have. We shouldn't just discard them because Rush Limbaugh said it. It's an actually an idea that has been expressed publicly since the 1960s - sometimes by people who aren't conservative talk radio hosts.
Don't fathers bear some responsibility for their children's moral and ethical education?
Some time father bears are known to consume their young
Independent and capable of making their own decisions based upon their own desires and understanding that actions have consequences?
Still the parents. That has never changed.
And when you have the roadblocks, and a woman is essentially trapped in an abusive relationship, what kind of young men does that raise? I definitely think people take marriage and having children too lightly, but making it harder for people, especially women, to get divorced is absolutely not the solution.
Forcing a person into a specific role because of their sex at birth is bullshit. Like it or not, women are not going to go back to being second class citizens, it is not going to happen. Society, and by that I mean men for the most part, are going to have to adapt to a society where we don't get to say "jump" and the women around us ask "how high?" In other words we are going to have to treat them as equals and see them as equals, and not pretend that they are destined for some singular purpose in life or in some way subservient to us. We are going to have to adjust.
But always view women as something other than equals.
You repeated all of the KKK talking points.
sniff... sniff... do I smell a beta male?
The seeded article has nothing to do with blacks, yet Norman gravitates to the subject with ease.
We must conclude a racial hostility and prejudice exists.
Yep, 100% beta male lol.
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Why do you hate women?
I'm guessing he has a little one like Trump's...ok, maybe not THAT small!
What kind of young men are created by a home environment where the wife desperately wants out but can't because she's locked in either legally or morally? It creates the same kind of man who's likely making their mother so miserable she hates her life and cries herself to sleep at night wishing divorce was an option but continues to stay with a verbally or physically abusive spouse because her Church or the law don't allow for divorce.
I'm very glad you and your ilk weren't involved in the raising of my daughters.
Where is the support for equal rights for women and others, or are only men to have rights and freedoms? What classical freedoms do feminists want that men don't already enjoy?
When have your constitutional rights of free speech being infringed? You have the right to insult or criticize someone but they also have the right to cxall you out for your insults. Prohibiting them from replying to or criticizing you is an infringement of their free speech.
It must be tough to be an aggrieved pathetic white male where the only person who respects you is Rush Limbaugh.
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Forcing two incompatible people to continue to live together because of a conservative religious belief does not create a nurturing household.
Why is it that conservative men the world over have a problem with women being their social equals? This is a common idea in all patriarchal religions that women must be subservient and remain in the home.
That statement belies all the whining you've been doing about feminism.
Have you ever looked up the word, "irony"?
Rush, for YEARS railed against drug addicts....then.....
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oops LOL What a flaming hypocrite. And a blatant misogynist, no wonder cons love that POS.
Limbaugh has had four marriages, three divorces, and no children, so I'm not sure why he's trying to tell anyone else what's best for families.
My guess is that Rush has a difficult time getting it up around women, thus his misogynistic rage and his frequent viagra-fueled trips to Dominica, the center of child sex tourism in the western hemisphere.