{"id":255207,"date":"2017-11-17T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=255207"},"modified":"2017-11-17T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:12:35","slug":"male-female-relations-are-approaching-the-status-of-race-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/17\/male-female-relations-are-approaching-the-status-of-race-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Male-Female Relations Are Approaching the Status of Race Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Okay. I just have one more thing here before we swerve back into the sexual harassment story. And I have to tell you, folks, there\u2019s a part of this that is beginning to make me nervous, as an umbrella thing, not specifically. I\u2019m just spotting a trend, and I know you have too. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only person in this crowd. But you know, this business of sexual abuse is quickly approaching the same dynamics as racism in our culture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Liberals650-020217-Liberals-Undo-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Liberals650-020217-Liberals-Undo-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Liberals650-020217-Liberals-Undo-1-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And just as racism is a horrible thing to be accused of, and depending on how it\u2019s done it\u2019s sometimes hard to disprove it, it\u2019s the same thing here with being accused of all kinds of improper behavior against women, especially blind allegations, they can be really tough to defend, especially the way the table is being set today. That women never make it up, that women don\u2019t lie about it, that women must be believed. This is not an anti-woman screed. Now, don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m addressing this as though we\u2019re all human beings. Forget sex, gender, and all of that. I\u2019m just assessing where our culture is going. And it\u2019s because of the politicization of everything, because we have politicized relationships now. We have politicized the way men and women interact. That all began with feminism in the modern era of the late sixties. We politicize everything. The NFL is politicized, you name it, it\u2019s all politicized now. And so since it\u2019s politicized, those who use politics as a weapon then seize on everything that occurs and they use it as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>And so now male-female, man-woman, boy-girl relationships end up being weaponized by the people who have an agenda attached to them. And so if you\u2019re going to come along, if we as a society are going to agree because of the hot-button tensions of the moment that the women must be believed, and I\u2019m just pointing it out here. This is not yet a direct criticism of this. I\u2019m just chronicling that this is happening where we are.<\/p>\n<p>If that is going to be our standard as a society as we strive to fix this problem, if part of our decision, part of our technique to fix it is to say women never make it up, women must be believed, then it\u2019s gonna be very, very difficult to ever defend against a surprise allegation that comes out of the blue. And what\u2019s gonna happen is is that people are going to become more distant from one another. People are going to be suspicious and cognizant and sensitive to even the most innocently stated thing or innocently-engaged-in behavior could be grossly misunderstood and a life or future destroyed because of it.<\/p>\n<p>And so people, to guard against that, are gonna clam up and they\u2019re gonna avoid, because look what happens here. Take the case of Roy Moore and you\u2019ve got the original allegation. Now how many of them are there? Five or six? And what\u2019s happening? Every woman is believed because of the politicization of this. Every woman is believed, not doubted at all. It\u2019d be the same thing with Franken except in his case we\u2019ve got a photo, and in his case we have a body of evidence that backs up the allegation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-255274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Franken-Book-m-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Franken-Book-m-1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Franken-Book-m-1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/>But there\u2019s gonna be a time where somebody totally innocent is accused of this and isn\u2019t gonna have a photo that would disprove it. So I\u2019m just alerting you. I mean, you know how paralyzing the allegation of racism is. And you know how the whole subject of race, even though we have gone to war, even though 500,000-plus Americans have died to end slavery, we may as well have not taken one step toward ending slavery as the entire subject of race is used as a political weapon in America today.<\/p>\n<p>And because of the immediate benefits, the perceived immediate benefits here politically of identifying somebody as a reprobate or a thug or a pig, you name it, the politically oriented are glomming onto this, and it has the potential of spiraling way out of control because, as you know, not every one of us is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.<\/p>\n<p>Not every one of us is honest. Not every one of us is satisfied with how much money we have. Not every one of us believes that the way to get more money is to work hard for it. Not every one of us believes innocent \u2019til proven guilty. Not every one of us is willing to offer the benefit of the doubt to people that make us mad or offend us.<\/p>\n<p>We wish that was the culture we lived in. We wish that was the society we. But we don\u2019t anymore. We live in a &#8220;get even with \u2019em as fast as you can-ism&#8221; kind of country now. We live in a &#8220;take \u2019em out before they know what hit \u2019em&#8221; culture now. And of course the reason we hit \u2019em before they know what\u2019s hit \u2019em and the reason we want to take \u2019em out, that\u2019s political too. It doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re nice people or not. It doesn\u2019t matter if other people love and respect them, doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>If somebody can get rich quick, if somebody can get rid of a political enemy, if somebody can get rid of a president, then who cares if some small fry people fall by the wayside in the process. Now, it\u2019s even risky to say what I just said, because it could easily be demagogued. You could easily see a story later: &#8220;Limbaugh thinks sexual harassment is never happening and is criticizing women who lie when they come forward.&#8221; And I didn\u2019t say anything even approaching that, but this is how it now works.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-255249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/democratplaybookwaronwomenSHORT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/democratplaybookwaronwomenSHORT.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/democratplaybookwaronwomenSHORT-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/>If you don\u2019t get with the groupthink, if you don\u2019t adopt immediately the cultural and conventional wisdom, if you don\u2019t loudly and publicly let everybody know that you think like everybody else does and you agree with what everybody else is agreeing with, then you are identifying yourself and you\u2019re painting bull\u2019s-eye on your back. And I of course experience this daily because I purposefully do not follow conventional wisdom precisely because it is groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>And if I ever find myself thinking like the group does, I immediately grab hold of myself and say, &#8220;What am I doing wrong?&#8221; Or, &#8220;What am I not thinking through?&#8221; Or, &#8220;What\u2019s happening?&#8221; &#8216;Cause never, ever do I go with the flow. Well, I can\u2019t say never, ever. I mean, there have to be times where I agree with the majority, but I\u2019m just saying as a general principle, when you\u2019re talking about the political conventional wisdom of the day, I am not a practitioner. Just the opposite. I go the other way, in some cases on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>But just my announced and professed concern with the quasi-warning about where we might be headed, could be and probably will be twisted into saying something I never said. And then the allegations will be out there, and I\u2019ll have to come to you the next time and start defending myself for something I didn\u2019t say. Whereas other people are going to be in the precarious circumstance of defending themselves against something they didn\u2019t do. This is precisely how groupthink and politically correct tyranny triumph by literally frightening people into not saying anything that doesn\u2019t already comport with the conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Now, you can pooh-pooh what I said. Feel free. But let me just ask you a couple behavioral questions. As you know, the way we have been created as human beings, there are various roles that men and women have been assigned that we call human nature. And, of course, with everything there are exceptions. So nothing is uniform. But it has genuinely been accepted human behavior over the course of millennia that men chase women. Correct? Nothing wrong with that. Men face a lot of rejection. Women have to get good at doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Allen said, &#8220;The only difference I\u2019ve noticed about success is being rejected by a higher class of woman. That\u2019s all success has meant to me.&#8221; Yes, there are women who pursue men. I know this. But the general rule of thumb has been that it\u2019s men who propose, men who ask women out on dates. The question is this: If the politicization of male-female relationships continues on its present path, and if men become afraid of even that behavior, if simply asking for a date is considered stalking or is considered harassment &#8212; and don\u2019t think it can\u2019t get there.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re on that path now. Then what happens? What do men do? Rather than run the risk of being accused of being a stalker or harasser? Because, look, sometimes you have to ask a woman out four times before she\u2019ll say &#8220;yes.&#8221; In the old days &#8212; right, Snerdley? &#8212; sometimes it took more effort than that. What if the second time is considered stalking? What if the third time is considered harassment? So what are men gonna do if they decide, &#8220;Okay, screw it! I don\u2019t even want to run the risk, and so they stop the pursuit?&#8221; The healthy pursuit, I mean.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-Grope-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-Grope-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-Grope-1-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>What happens? Do women pick up the slack? Does it become acceptable for women to then become the, shall we say, aggressors, the person of action in a couple scenario like this? I don\u2019t know. I have no answers to this. I could guess. But men are amazingly adaptive. Men want to be around women and will do whatever it takes to succeed. They will fake being pro-choice, for example, like in Hollywood. They\u2019ll totally lie about it. They will say, &#8220;Oh, yeah, man! I would love to go to the museum and look at elephant tusks.&#8221; They\u2019ll do anything, if they really want to be with a woman.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the adaptation gonna be if even the slightest approach or bit of attention runs the risk of a stalking charge or an harassment charge? Back off! Don\u2019t do it. Find some other way. (Hello, Playboy magazine? I don\u2019t know.&#8221; And maybe nothing. I mean, I could be, you know, exaggerating this to the point none of this is gonna happen. But I nevertheless ponder it, because take the circumstances we\u2019re all facing now with race. I mean, look how race is permeating everything. We have ended slavery, 500,000 Americans died, and it may as well not have ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL is destroying itself over the premise, essentially, that that didn\u2019t happen, that we haven\u2019t solved anything, and that there is still wanton lynching and murder of innocent African-American men. You know it as well as I do. And there are lies aplenty. &#8220;Hands up, don\u2019t shoot.&#8221; It didn\u2019t happen, and yet how many of these NFL players protesting still to this day probably think that it did? So how does that affect other people who don\u2019t want to go anywhere near being accused of racism. They just stay away, right? It leads to segregation, in that case, in that instance. Will that happen with men and women? I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>Human nature will take over and prevail, regardless.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the feminists never understood.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I tell you what\u2019s gonna happen. If asking a woman out on a date becomes sexual harassment or stalking, I tell you what\u2019s gonna replace that: Sex robots. There are already stories of sex robots that are out there and being tested and supposedly enjoyed. Don\u2019t laugh, folks. People are very creative and resourceful when it comes to sex.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to the phones to Sea Bright, New Jersey. Denny, you\u2019re next, sir. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, long-term listener. First time I was able to get through. I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HillaryThree3-time-loser-E.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HillaryThree3-time-loser-E.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HillaryThree3-time-loser-E-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>CALLER: A question about the sexual harassment thing. Do you believe, as I do, that this sexual harassment explosion that\u2019s been going on over the last couple of weeks is possibly a by-product of Hillary losing the election?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No. I actually don\u2019t, in this case. But I\u2019d like to know your thinking on this. Why do you think it might be?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, we were supposed to have the first woman president, everyone thought it was going to happen. I know a lot of women who voted for Hillary strictly because she was a woman and no other reason. And she was taken down by a powerful man, and is this whole thing about women taking down powerful men? Is that what\u2019s going on here?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There could be a strain of that. Can I ask you another question here about the women you\u2019re referring to that just wanted to vote for Hillary strictly because she was a woman. Why did that matter? What did they think? I don\u2019t know if you talked to them to get them to explain why. I never chose a guy running for president \u2019cause he was a guy. Now, naturally there weren\u2019t women on the ballot, but there have been women on down ballot elections and it\u2019s never mattered to me. You know, I\u2019ve never thought male solidarity here, I\u2019ve gotta elect the guy.<\/p>\n<p>So what is this about women were gonna vote for her simply because she was a woman? What did that mean to them? I can understand African-Americans voting for Obama because they thought that meant &#8212; well, we know what they thought it meant. But what do women think it was gonna matter, that Hillary was president? Why? What\u2019s the deal?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, this was a presidential election. She would have been the first woman president in the history of the country.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. But other than something historic which lasts about five seconds after it happens, what\u2019s the benefit to women? What is she gonna do for women? What was it gonna mean to them? Self-esteem?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They just wanted to see a female president. Now, I\u2019m not saying that all women did this.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But I do a lot of women who wanted her to be president strictly because she was a woman.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I know. I just don\u2019t know why, beyond &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t fully understand it myself.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; allegiance to the skirt? What is it? It escapes me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t fully understand it myself, because as you said, men do not vote for a male candidate just because they\u2019re a man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-255295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryDNCDOUBLE-1-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryDNCDOUBLE-1-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryDNCDOUBLE-1.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>RUSH: No. It has to be rooted in the fact &#8212; there has to be some animus toward men women like that have, if voting for Hillary because she\u2019s a woman means &#8212; it escapes me. I don\u2019t think that way, so I strive to understand why it matters to women. How\u2019s it gonna manifest in their lives? How\u2019s it gonna improve their lives day to day that a skirt is in the White House? Or a pantsuit, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Actually a pantsuit. Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: As to your first question, there\u2019s a reason why it\u2019s happening now all of a sudden, but, look, Weinstein\u2019s real. What Weinstein was doing was real, and it was bad, and it was punitive, and it was harming women, it was hurting women. And he\u2019s not alone. Apparently that whole community out there in Hollywood is nothing but a bunch of Weinsteins and Weinstein Jrs. And the media and people out there knew about this for years.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, what made it all of a sudden okay to report on it? What made it all of a sudden okay for the New York Times to blow the lid on Harvey Weinstein? And the fact that Hillary lost, I don\u2019t know. &#8216;Cause it is a real &#8212; this is horrible behavior. These guys needed to be called out on this years ago.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, that\u2019s another suspicious thing. Why has it taken so long? Why is it now? Why not years ago?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, because look, politics has touched everything. Everything\u2019s become politicized, therefore things have become corrupt. But with somebody as big and powerful as Weinstein, there\u2019s also fear. If you\u2019re gonna do it, you better take the guy out or you\u2019re finished. And there wasn\u2019t a woman around all those years who felt she alone was powerful enough to prevail. I totally understand that too.<\/p>\n<p>But the question about timing and what were the circumstances that all &#8212; you know, all the dominoes fell at just the right time. Does it relate to political desires that the Democrat Party has? Did somebody say, &#8220;Look. If we\u2019re gonna go after Trump &#8211;&#8221; \u2019cause they all knew about Weinstein, they all knew about all these guys.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If they\u2019re gonna go after Trump on this basis, do they say to themselves, &#8220;Look, we\u2019re gonna have to clear the decks on some of this behavior on our side so it doesn\u2019t hold us back&#8221;? I don\u2019t know. But the thing is it\u2019s rotten behavior, it\u2019s despicable behavior, it\u2019d been going on for a long time, and the very people now calling attention to it looked the other way for all of those years.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I\u2019m certainly not defending what these men did, if any of the allegations are true. But it just seems a little odd to me that there\u2019s been this explosion over the last couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushCombat-Drive-Bys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushCombat-Drive-Bys.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/RushCombat-Drive-Bys-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: Well, look, I can relate. You know, shortly after Obama was elected, maybe two weeks after, it seemed like the whole country had become the Soviet Union. It seemed like it happened overnight, progressism, liberalism overnight. &#8220;When did this happen?&#8221; I was asking myself. But it didn\u2019t happen overnight; it\u2019s been creeping up on us. And all it took was the election of one guy who was thought to be simpatico and a leader, and they came out of the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d been there all along and they\u2019d been raising hell all along when Bush was president and even Clinton. But it really hasn\u2019t come out of the woodwork. I mean, gay marriage has been a thing trending for years. It\u2019s been happening. What we all thought was, it was never going to reach majority status. What you\u2019re really seeing is a bunch of this stuff seems to have all of a sudden overnight become majority status, and that\u2019s what you can\u2019t square.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And I can\u2019t, either. Now, before you go &#8212; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; would you like a new iPhone?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I would love one.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Now, again, you don\u2019t have to say you want him. You won\u2019t hurt my feelings. But I can\u2019t just randomly offer &#8212; like if I offer the previous guy a phone and then don\u2019t offer you one, what you are gonna think of me? So once I start it I have to offer every caller a phone. I love doing it, but you don\u2019t have to take it. I don\u2019t want you to feel obligated. You\u2019d be foolish not to take it, but I\u2019m giving you the option to go either way on it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, good timing on my part. I would definitely take it. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. So which would you like?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The X would be great.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okey-doke. What\u2019s your carrier?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Verizon. Fine and dandy. I should tell the other guy, too, these phones that you\u2019re gonna get, they\u2019re unlocked. They will have a SIM card in them but they\u2019re not tied to any carrier. You can take this phone to any carrier and it will work. In your phone, you can take it any carrier, and it will work. It has a Verizon SIM card in it. If you want to swap SIMs, you can do that, but it\u2019s not locked to any carrier or any account, okay? It\u2019s important if you take it to a phone store that you tell \u2019em it\u2019s a gift and it\u2019s unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So hang on. You\u2019re also gonna get a one year subscription to the Rush website, Rush 24\/7, RushLimbaugh.com, a new tumbler and the goodies that go along with that, so we need to get an addresses and other data from you so don\u2019t hang up and Mr. Snerdley will be with you next.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There\u2019s a piece at The Week. It\u2019s a website. A piece here by Damon Linker. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/737817\/al-franken-just-beginning\">Al Franken is Just the Beginning.<\/a>&#8221; This is somewhat close to the monologue that I delivered one hour ago. Would that be right? Yeah. If you missed it I\u2019m not gonna run through the whole thing, but you might want to revisit RushLimbaugh.com later today for the monologue on what all this means, where we\u2019re headed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you the way to search for it, is that we\u2019re approaching male-female relations as being similar to race relations in this country. I mean, it\u2019s getting to the point where the slightest misunderstanding could lead to the ruination of a reputation or life. And I think that\u2019s what this piece is, &#8220;Al Franken is Just the Beginning.&#8221; A couple of pull quotes from the piece.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-111617-Franken-2-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>&#8220;Now think of all the pages and interns and young staffers cycling through all of those offices on Capitol Hill, year after year, decade after decade. And the countless thousands of staffers who\u2019ve passed through the White House and executive branch departments and agencies across Democratic and Republican administrations. And all the Supreme Court clerks and assistants. How long until one of these pages or interns or staffers or clerks or assistants, or dozens of them, or hundreds of them, begin to talk and make credible accusations against leading public figures of both parties? How many terrible men will go down?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Mr. Linker here is assuming that every allegation\u2019s true, that there could be hundreds of women &#8212; and men &#8212; who have been harassed and abused and stocked and what have you over many, many years in Washington, and that the Franken news could open the floodgates and all kinds of people could surface, \u2019cause it happened with Weinstein. I mean, women came out of the woodwork after Weinstein. And Mr. Linker here is assuming that they would all be telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So he writes, &#8220;How many terrible men will go down? There\u2019s no way to know. But one thing of which we can be fairly certain is that President Trump will survive. The time for him to suffer the consequences for the appalling behavior he described (and bragged about) on the Access Hollywood tape is long past. He got caught admitting his predatory sexual entitlement and abuse, and he won the presidency anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the left is not done with him, Mr. Linker. So Linker writes, &#8220;That\u2019s why it\u2019s oddly fitting that of all the sexual harassers and coercers who have been and will be exposed, Donald Trump should remain untouched by the rising political maelstrom.&#8221; By the way, I happen to opine that early in this hour for the exact same reasons. Trump has already triumphed over whatever allegations that he admitted to. He was elected president. But that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gonna not stop looking for other women to bring forth so they can have new stories about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But Linker thinks Trump\u2019s gonna survive \u2019em anyway. And he says, &#8220;In some ways, we owe it all to [Trump].&#8221; See, knew this was coming. In some ways we owe on all of this to Trump. &#8220;There\u2019s no way it\u2019s a coincidence that it was within the first year of the Trump administration that women at long last overcame their fear and shame to tell their stories and take down the perpetrators. It\u2019s as if each perp is in some small way a vicarious stand-in for the sexual predator in the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So you see? Our last caller said, is this happening because Hillary lost? No. It\u2019s happening, you see, because Trump won. Mr. Linker says that Trump winning has so enraged legitimately harassed women that they have decided to come out of the woodwork in droves. So in his view, Ashley Judd and some of the others that stood up and nailed Weinstein did it because of Trump getting away with it. That\u2019s what they want to believe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-225958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-008-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>But, you see, it misses the point. The point is, Weinstein did it. Trump only ever talked about this stuff. There isn\u2019t any evidence Trump did anything like Weinstein did. And yet they want to try to lump Trump in, and they want to lump Trump in with Roy Moore. There isn\u2019t any evidence of Roy Moore. There are just allegations. And now Gloria Allred still will not produce this yearbook that she claims proves everything. Weinstein did it. All of these other Hollywood guys did it! Trump just talked about it.<\/p>\n<p>So Mr. Linker here is mad. Trump\u2019s gonna get away with it. Trump\u2019s the guy that caused all this, Trump\u2019s the guy that made women so mad they couldn\u2019t stay silent anymore. Trump is living rent free in every progressive brain, which doesn\u2019t leave much room in those small brains for anything else, and you can tell.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/gillibrand-bill-clinton-should-have-resigned-conversation-about-trump\">Kirsten Gillibrand thinks that Bill Clinton should have resigned.<\/a> Thanks, Kirsten, for nothing. And Fauxcahontas says that Franken\u2019s behavior unacceptable, deeply disappointing. 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