{"id":13101,"date":"2013-02-27T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-27T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:41:50","slug":"extra_takes_issue_with_my_oscar_commentary_feminists_take_issue_with_seth_macfarlane_s_jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/27\/extra_takes_issue_with_my_oscar_commentary_feminists_take_issue_with_seth_macfarlane_s_jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Extra” Takes Issue with My Oscar Commentary; Feminists Take Issue with Seth MacFarlane\u2019s Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Normally I tell the broadcast engineer, “Forget sound bites two and three. That\u2019s just habit. I\u2019m not gonna play sound bites from an Entertainment Tonight-type show,” but I may have to change my mind because that\u2019s also about me. Well, it\u2019s not ET. It\u2019s “Extra.” It\u2019s Maria Menounos and Mario Lopez. You know, I met Mario Lopez at the Miss America Pageant. I\u2019ve told this story. The actual night of the telecast is Saturday night, and all of us judges are down there on the floor right by the stage.<\/p>\n

Mario Lopez was the emcee, and he winked at me from the stage as an acknowledgement, one media professional to another. I happened to be the only media pro in the judging panel. The others are former pageant winners or what have you. I\u2019m not putting them down. He just winked at me, one media professional to another. But here they take me to task for somehow not being fully supportive of Michelle Obama\u2019s hijacking of the Academy Awards. In fact, they get mad at me for referring to it that way.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here are the sound bites from the TV magazine show Extra. Last night, first off, co-host Maria Menounos was talking to the other co-host, Mario Lopez. They have this exchange about Moochelle Obama\u2019s hijacking of the best picture award at the Epidemic Awards<\/a>…<\/p>\n

MENOUNOS: We start with Operation Mrs. Obama. The top-secret mission to get her on the Oscars.<\/p>\n

LOPEZ: Yes, and the first lady has taken all kinds of heat for that appearance. Personally, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. I thought it was a nice surprise to see her at the end of the show.<\/line><\/p>\n

MENOUNOS: Yeah, it was nice.<\/p>\n

LOPEZ: She had the troops in the background and everything.<\/p>\n

MENOUNOS: Absolutely, and today one of the men behind the big surprise is here telling us how it all went down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So then they get the guy “behind the big surprise” to tell \u2019em how it all went down, and after the report, they of course had to introduce the villain — and who do you think the villain is?<\/p>\n

JERRY PENACOLI: (bouncy music) Let me get this straight. This was a bad thing? Michelle Obama, amazingly, finds herself in the crosshairs of criticism today, after a surprise Academy Awards show appearance some are calling “Oscargate.” The biggest mouths on the right [are] calling it political propaganda.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: It was out of place. It was unnecessary. It was unneeded.<\/p>\n

JERRY PENACOLI: Rush Limbaugh calling it a political hijacking!<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: She\u2019s got nothing to do with Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, once again, they miss the big point here. So let me once again explain for you what the real irony was. Here you have the first lady, the wife of the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief is responsible for security of all United States employees at embassies around the world. She\u2019s giving an award for the best movie. It turns out to be Argo, which is about what? The successful rescue of six American embassy personnel from Iran in 1979.<\/p>\n

Did nobody see the irony of having the first lady of this regime, which failed to protect the lives of American citizens in Benghazi, present the award? Four Americans died at the US consulate in Benghazi<\/a> and there\u2019s the first lady of that regime giving out the best picture award to a movie celebrating the successful rescue of six Americans. I think that was as ironic as it could be. Now, I didn\u2019t call it “Oscargate,” and Moochelle was not in my “crosshairs of criticism.”<\/p>\n

I just openly wondered. You know, you\u2019re trucking along, you\u2019re watching the show and in the last minute of a four-hour show — actually the show went on 3-1\/2 hours, maybe 3:05. I forget. It wasn\u2019t four; it just seemed like it. So in the last minute or so, out of nowhere, you get Michelle Obama with some waiters dressed up as military people in some room in the White House and it just didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know. It didn\u2019t flow. I openly wondered, “Even low-information people, are they gonna say, ‘Wait a minute. We don\u2019t want you popping up everywhere we go\u2019?” Since we\u2019re on this, dadelut dadelut dadelut. We\u2019re gonna go back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, ladies and gentlemen, because the feminazis are fit to be tied over Seth MacFarlane and some of the things he did hosting the Oscars on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

(playing of Feminist Update Theme Song)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, our Feminist Update Theme, one of many that were in the rotation back in the nineties. That\u2019s the Forester Sisters, that we did there… That\u2019s actual audio from a women\u2019s pro-choice rally on the steps of the Capitol in Washington sometime back in the early nineties. “We\u2019re fierce, we\u2019re feminists, and we\u2019re in your face!” We did not make any of that up. We didn\u2019t have an actress reciting the lines.<\/p>\n

It was actually recorded with mad feminists on the steps of the Capitol during a pro-choice rally. Back then, they didn\u2019t have a sense of humor, and they still don\u2019t. “Two female California state lawmakers have condemned Oscar host Seth MacFarlane\u2019s comments during Sunday\u2019s awards presentation as degrading toward women…” I guess Seth MacFarlane has “made headlines for his argumentative statements,” too.<\/p>\n

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“Two female California state lawmakers” are upset with Seth MacFarlane because he was “degrading toward women and [they] asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to use better judgment in the future. Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, both Democrats who lead the Legislature\u2019s women\u2019s caucus, sent a letter to Academy President Hawk Koch on Tuesday, requesting that the organization disavow MacFarlane\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

“They objected to the comedian\u2019s focus on the physical appearance of several actresses and quips about nude scenes. ‘Furthermore…'” This is from their official statement in anger. “‘Furthermore, there was a disturbing theme about violence against women being acceptable and funny,\u2019 the lawmakers wrote. ‘From topical jabs about domestic violence to singing about ‘boobs\u2019 during a film\u2019s rape scene, Seth MacFarlane crossed the line from humor to misogyny.\u2019 …<\/p>\n