{"id":25759,"date":"2007-05-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:37","slug":"mrs_barack_obama_and_mrs_bill_clinton_dominate_the_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/05\/29\/mrs_barack_obama_and_mrs_bill_clinton_dominate_the_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Barack Obama and Mrs. Bill Clinton Dominate the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: We\u2019ve got a lot of news today about Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s all over the place. All kinds of news about Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Obama. Have you seen the story on Mrs. Obama? Yeah, she\u2019s getting some good press, but here, let me give you the headline: &#8216;Michelle Obama likes to razz her husband.\u2019 I mean, the point of this story is that her husband, Barack, is just your average lout of a husband, just like all of you husbands are and like I, as a former husband, have been a lout. I\u2019m not a lout anymore. Well, I can\u2019t say that, but when I really was a lout was as a husband. It goes on to talk about she\u2019s not going to kowtow to her husband, it\u2019s got all kinds of &#8212; oh, yeah, you know what? The guy takes off his dirty socks and leaves them on the floor. He doesn\u2019t put them in the hamper. &#8216;When we finish dinner he doesn\u2019t put the butter up.\u2019 And she\u2019s been praised for this. I guess this is to make these people look like average Americans. &#8216;Men in a strange sort of way understand leaving butter out and socks laying around. It humanizes the guy,\u2019 says Thomas Patterson, a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. It says, &#8216;This might even earn him some points with men.\u2019 Really? Leaving your socks out, leaving the butter out, a story about how your wife talks about how you\u2019re a lout is going to &#8212; guy may have a point now that I think of it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There are actually two Michelle Obama stories out there. This one, in which she refers to her husband as just your average lout, well, she doesn\u2019t use the word, but I mean the complaints here and the references here and the fact that she doesn\u2019t kowtow to her husband, and this is designed to show that Barack\u2019s just your average, ordinary berated guy. That\u2019s supposed to build a bridge of relatability between Barack and the average American out there. Then there\u2019s another story out there on Michelle Obama, which is the exact opposite. She\u2019ll do anything to support her husband. She\u2019ll bake cookies. I found that an interesting thing for her. Of all the things that she said she would do, she\u2019d be happy to bake cookies, she will do anything for her husband\u2019s campaign, including be quoted in the story about the fact that he doesn\u2019t pick up his socks or the butter and so forth. They have a quote on the story, &#8216;We have a rule in our house that I can tease and he can\u2019t.\u2019 (Laughing.) It sounds like the typical marriage. It just really does. Except she\u2019s going to pay a price for baking the cookies. <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, how about this headline? This is from the 26th, just three days ago. I saw this headline and said, &#8216;No, don\u2019t do this to me. This is too tempting. I\u2019m a prominent media figure, a radio talk show host.\u2019 I can\u2019t ignore this headline. I should ignore it. It\u2019s fraught with danger, but I can\u2019t ignore it: &#8216;Clinton Says She\u2019s Not Blowing Off Iowa.\u2019 You know, the name &#8216;Clinton\u2019 and &#8216;blowing off\u2019 in the same headline is a huge risk for someone like me. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say. Gotta be these genes, the 99.9% we\u2019re all the same genes. Strangely Monica Lewinsky is not mentioned in the story. It\u2019s about how Hillary was being advised to avoid Iowa because she can\u2019t win there, and she\u2019s like, &#8216;No, I\u2019m going to go.\u2019 From the Associated Press today, in Manchester, &#8216;Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it\u2019s time to replace an &#8216;on your own\u2019 society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.\u2019 She said that &#8216;the Bush administration touts as an &#8216;ownership society\u2019 really is an &#8216;on your own\u2019 society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.\u2019 You know, that is not true. There\u2019s some financial data, the bottom fifth income quintile, the way the think tank crowd and others study one aspect of the American economy is income level and they divide income level into five quintiles. The bottom fifth, the lower fifth income quintile showed the fastest percentage gain in income and wealth, as a percentage, from 1991 to 2005. That group, the poor, the lowest quintile, lowest fifth segment of the economic pie had the greatest percentage increase in their income and wealth. <\/p>\n<p>So this gap between the rich and the poor, that it\u2019s constantly spreading and widening, is just another one of these media myths, and here\u2019s Mrs. Clinton, we\u2019re back to &#8216;It Takes a Village.\u2019 She says, &#8216;I prefer a &#8216;we\u2019re all in it together\u2019 society. I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.\u2019 That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.\u2019 It\u2019s taking care of itself. If you listen to the things she says, they\u2019re quite indicative of the fact that she\u2019s far left. &#8216;I believe our government can once again work for all Americans.\u2019 It does work for all Americans, but it\u2019s the wrong way to put it in the first place. The fact of the matter is we\u2019re all working for the government first and foremost, generally through the middle of May we work for the government. That\u2019s when our tax obligations have been settled and that date in May keeps getting later and later and later. &#8216;Shared responsibility.\u2019 It\u2019s another word for socialism. This is Mrs. Clinton attempting to reach the vast majority of people who have been victims of class envy and they have been told over the years how they\u2019re being short-changed, that trickle-down economics took from them, and that\u2019s how the rich got rich. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We\u2019ve got a lot of news today about Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s all over the place. All kinds of news about Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Obama. Have you seen the story on Mrs. Obama? 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