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RUSH: Dallas, this is Suzanne, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am not certain, I guess with Herman Cain\u2019s recent poll numbers showing him maintaining the lead over all these Republican candidates with more money, are we sure this attack on Herman Cain isn\u2019t coming from a Republican presidential candidate\u2019s camp?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Like who? Name names.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I suppose that it\u2019s possible that a Republican could be behind this. I doubt it because The Politico was used. If a Republican were behind this, I think a different publication would have been used. This is so liberal. Watch these people, listen to these people talk about a campaign commercial with a guy puffing on a cigarette. <\/a>These people, I\u2019m gonna tell you something, the American left and the Democrat Party and the media are so out of the mainstream of life in this country, while at the same time thinking they define it. Who but a bunch of absolute crazed feminazis could go nuts here over gestures? <\/p>\n I remember back in the early days of the sexual harassment movement there was some poor firefighter guy who had a Playboy magazine in his cubicle at the firehouse, and some female firefighter demanded he be fired because Playboy, the magazine, just the fact that it was there made her nervous and it was offensive. I\u2019ve been doing this show since 1988 and I have taken stock, I have taken note of how much our culture has changed to accommodate this bunch of wusses known as “The Offended.” I did. Oh, not just that, I predicted everything about sexual harassment. I predicted the whole cultural decay and rot that would happen when it\u2019s defined by Democrats. But this group of people that we have called “The Offended” have done more to damage common, ordinary, everyday life. <\/p>\n To listen to these reporters, Chuck Todd, some of these people talk about seeing a guy smoke a cigarette in a political ad, you would have thought somebody was about to inject them with a killer disease. It was just unconscionable, it\u2019s unacceptable, they can\u2019t understand it. These people don\u2019t even know that children\u2019s health care programs are paid for by smokers. I said last week<\/a>, smokers ought to get the Congressional Medal of Honor, for crying out loud. All the taxes they pay and all the derision that they are subjected to. <\/p>\n So I don\u2019t know, this whole thing, every detail of it wreaks of what the left considers huge stuff. Okay, so a couple of busybodies claim that Herman Cain engaged in some gestures that weren\u2019t overtly sexual, but they were really, really offensive. Who the hell are these people? What, for crying out loud, offends them? Non-overtly sexual gestures is what we\u2019re talking about here. In the meanwhile we\u2019ve got a president who was accused of rape. “Yeah, put some ice on that.” We got John Edwards; we got Anthony Weiner; for crying out loud, and we\u2019re supposed to stop the world for this? Look, anything\u2019s possible. It could be a Republican leaking this stuff on Herman Cain. Could be. It just doesn\u2019t sound like it. Folks, the Republicans are not nearly as worried about a black guy achieving as the Democrats are. You gotta understand how this worries and scares the death out of \u2019em.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: So we had a caller in the last hour who wanted to know what the likelihood would be that the Politico story on Herman Cain was planted, leaked by a Republican — and it\u2019s entirely possible. I have no idea where it came from. I also don\u2019t know this. Were these white women, do we know that? Well, if they were white women… If the women involved here… Let\u2019s look at it this way: Suppose Herman Cain were white, would the women have felt the same way about whatever he did? What is this “gesture that was not overtly sexual” that still offended them? If a white guy did it would it have bothered white women or did it bother them because a black guy did whatever he did? I\u2019m just speculating here, folks, because we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n We also don\u2019t know who leaked this. Anything\u2019s possible. It could come from anywhere. Hell, it could have been leaked by the Oakland Raiders. Who the hell knows? It could have come from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It could have come from the Republican Party, a Republican candidate. The risk to a Republican, though? If it ever came out, what would happen to that Republican\u2019s candidacy? Pick your favorite Republican candidate. I don\u2019t want to mention a name but you fill it in, fill the blank in: X is the source for this, and you\u2019re gonna tell Politico about it? Ah, A, he\u2019s gotta trust that Politico\u2019s gonna keep his name out of it, gonna trust that Politico\u2019s gonna keep his secret — and if they don\u2019t?<\/p>\n Or if they do and somebody else finds out that was it Republican X who leaked this, what, then, becomes of that person\u2019s candidacy? Plus, just the way the thing is written, the details of the story. Great to have you back here. Rush Limbaugh, this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the most listened radio talk show in America and the world serving humanity simply by being here, by showing up. Telephone number is 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, your phone calls are coming up el quicko (a little Spanish lingo there) and e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. Grab sound bites four and five. This is Herman Cain this morning on Fox. He was on with Jenna Lee, and she asked him, “Have you ever been accused at any time of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment?”<\/p>\n CAIN: Yes. I have never sexually harassed anyone, let\u2019s say that. Secondly, I\u2019ve never sexually harassed anyone — and, yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association; and I say “falsely” because it turned out, after the investigation, to be baseless. The people mentioned in that article were the ones who would be aware of any misdoings, and they have attested to my integrity and my character. It is totally baseless and totally false. Never have I committed any sort of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n RUSH: And then she said, “Well, have you ever had to settle a claim, falsely accused or not? Sometimes a settlement happens when a false accusation is made. Have you ever had to settle a claim, given money or paid someone because of a claim of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct?”<\/p>\n CAIN: At the Restaurant Association, no. Now, outside of the restaurant association? Absolutely not. If the Restaurant Association did a settlement, I am not even — I was not even — aware of it, and I hope it wasn\u2019t for much because nothing happened. So if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association. So the answer is: Absolutely not.<\/p>\n