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RUSH: Well, this ought to be good. The spokeskid, Jay Carney, is now getting questions about what Hilary Rosen had to say about Ann Romney. I don\u2019t care what the spokeskid says. What\u2019s gonna really interest me more are the questions, because it\u2019s the media, and they\u2019re gonna side with Hilary Rosen. The media is gonna side with her. I guarantee you. (I could be wrong about this.) I got a couple of interesting e-mails during the break. I\u2019m just gonna read one of them. “You amaze me. I thought the Hilary Rosen story would be worth a segment. I had no idea there was this much involved.” That\u2019s a e-mail from a website subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. <\/p>\n
But stuff keeps rolling in here like the Ann Romney interview in the Boston Globe in 1994 in which she talks about the economic hardships that she and Mitt went through while they were in school: $62-a-month corner apartment, concrete floor. In that piece, by the way — in that same interview — is this passage. This is Ann Romney speaking: “The funny thing is that I never expected help. My father had become wealthy through hard work, as did Mitt\u00c2\u2019s father, but I never expected our parents to take care of us. They\u00c2\u2019d visit, laugh and say, ‘We can\u2019t believe you guys are living like this.\u2019 They\u00c2\u2019d take us out to dinner, have a good time, then leave.” Now, folks, you laugh. It was a different era.<\/p>\n
Back then the purpose of adults was not to take care of kids! It was to raise them to teach them to take care of themselves. Gosh, it\u2019s scary to think that that seems so ancient a philosophy. They didn\u2019t expect help. They didn\u2019t expect parents to buy them an apartment and so forth. Anyway, here\u2019s a segment with CNN\u2019s Suzanne Malveaux (Snerdley\u2019s old flame) speaking with the co-anchorette, Carol Costello, about Hilary Rosen\u2019s remarks that Ann Romney\u2019s never worked a day in her life and that most women in America don\u2019t have the choice that Ann Romney has. And Costello says, “Keep in mind, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 71% of mothers either work or are looking for work.”<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: A lot of us were talking about this on the team and we were just saying, “Wouldn\u2019t it be great if you had the choice?” You know, if you didn\u2019t have to actually go out and work? You know, everybody kind of wants that choice. They feel like if they could stay home, a lot of people would stay home. And —<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: If you asked Hilary Rosen she would say, “Well, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Waaaaaaait a minute!<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: — exactly what I\u2019m talking about.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. I can\u2019t let that go. I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t let that go. Wait a minute. Does Suzanne Malveaux not understand how she just cut feminism off at the knees here? “Well, a lot of us were talking about this on the team, and we were just saying: ‘Wouldn\u2019t it be great if you had the choice?\u2019 You know, if you didn\u2019t have to actually go out and work?\u2019 Whoa-ho! So, Suzanne, you are working because you have to, not because you want to? I thought feminism drove you to the workforce. I thought it was having it all! I thought working, having a family, having it all, that was the epitome. I thought there was no choice. What is this, “Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if we had the choice?”<\/p>\n
Suzanne, you do have the choice. That\u2019s the bottom line. These women do have the choice. She\u2019s doing what she\u2019s doing because she\u2019s chosen to do it. (interruption) Snerdley is arguing with me, saying, “No she doesn\u2019t have the choice. There aren\u2019t enough rich men to go around anymore.” You know what? I\u2019m gonna debunk that, too, today. Because all this stuff about the income gap winding, turns out that\u2019s a bunch of hocus-pocus, too, from our old buddy Jim Pethokoukis. But, Snerdley, you\u2019re falling into the trap. Who says the husband has to be rich for the wife to stay home? You know, we can spend all day here taking phone calls from women who stay at home and raise their kids or who have whose husbands are not rich. That was Ann Romney\u2019s point in 1994.<\/p>\n
Okay, start this up from the top.<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: A lot of us were talking about this on the team and we were just saying, “Wouldn\u2019t it be great if you had the choice?” You know, if you didn\u2019t have to actually go out and work? You know, everybody kind of wants that choice. They feel like if they could stay home, a lot of people would stay home. And —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hold it a second! So all of the feminists at CNN were talking in the “team” and if they could stay home, they would? Molly Yard, you hear that? “I am outraged by it! Outraged!” I wonder Gloria Steinem thinks of this: If we could stay home, we would? Okay, so which Republican\u2019s fault is it that you don\u2019t have the choice? Which Republican\u2019s fault is it that you have to go work now? Here\u2019s the rest of it. I\u2019m sorry, folks. I can\u2019t let this stuff go by without comment. It\u2019s just who I am.<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: If you asked Hilary Rosen she would say, “Well, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Waaaaaaait a minute!<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: — exactly what I\u2019m talking about.”<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: Right.<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: Ann Romney doesn\u2019t have to go outside and work.<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: It\u2019s a luxury to be able to choose.<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: Right.<\/p>\n
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“If you haven\u2019t signed up — if you haven\u2019t joined the military, if you haven\u2019t gone and killed a bunch of commies — you have no right to talk about the defense budget!”<\/p>\n
Oh, I can\u2019t tell you how often since the eighties I\u2019ve been hit with that.<\/p>\n
So now Ann Romney, she doesn\u2019t have to work now means she doesn\u2019t have any right to talk about or advise her husband.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see if we can get through the rest of this without my stopping it.<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: That\u2019s what she was saying, that she didn\u2019t understand those 71% of American mothers who maybe have to work.<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: I don\u2019t have children, but, man! I admire… I don\u2019t know the strength it takes to raise your children right, so…<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: Yeah. We can\u2019t imagine doing it all, really.<\/p>\n
MALVEAUX: Me neither. (cackling) That\u2019s why I don\u2019t have any!<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: (cackling) I don\u2019t, either!<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, so here you have the clucking hens at CNN talking about, “Well, I don\u2019t have kids, but I can imagine.” Carol, you can\u2019t talk about the economy now. Carol Costello, you are now prohibited from doing any stories on the economy. You don\u2019t have kids, you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like. I don\u2019t know if Malveaux has kids or not. Well, it was just Costello saying she doesn\u2019t have kids. Okay, she did, Malveaux said she doesn\u2019t have kids, either. So neither of these women have kids, and they\u2019re in there ripping Ann Romney. These two don\u2019t have kids, but they can do all kinds of journalism on the economy, and they can do every story in the world about what\u2019s important to women and what isn\u2019t. But Ann Romney, who has raised five boys, while fighting breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, doesn\u2019t have the right to talk about it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s who these people are. And I\u2019m saying it on purpose, they don\u2019t have the right. That\u2019s how they think. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re not qualified. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. They don\u2019t have the right. They don\u2019t have the permission. And since they don\u2019t have the right to talk about it, Ann Romney, she does not have the right to be listened to, either, which of course isn\u2019t a right, nobody has to listen to you. So they\u2019re circling the wagons over at CNN. The White House is trying to push the wagon train outside the Oval Office, and over at CNN they\u2019re circling the wagons and the clucking hens are bragging, “I don\u2019t have kids, either. Gosh I can imagine how hard it is, oh, wow.” But Ann Romney doesn\u2019t know diddly-squat.<\/p>\n
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