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RUSH: You people know what Sunday is. It\u2019s Father\u2019s Day. Now, TIME Magazine<\/a> is famous for a number of things: The cover on me, ‘Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?\u2019 asking, ‘Is there too much democracy out there?\u2019 Fidel Castro, ‘Lion in Winter,\u2019 trying to save his great little communist nation; and the cover story on TIME Magazine: Startling new research data indicates that boys and girls are actually born different. That was a cover story. Now, TIME Magazine has a story on the Father\u2019s Day weekend. Let me just read to you the opening paragraph, shall I? <\/p>\n

‘The folks at Hallmark are going to have a very good day on June 17. That\u2019s when more than 100 million of the company\u2019s ubiquitous cards will be given to the 66 million dads across the U.S. in observation of Father\u2019s Day. Such a blizzard of paper may be short of the more than 150 million cards sold for Mother\u2019s Day, but it\u2019s still quite a tribute. What\u2019s less clear is whether dads — at least as a group — have done a good enough job to deserve the honor.\u2019 TIME Magazine actually with a story on whether or not you dads deserve a Father\u2019s Day, because you\u2019re screwing up so bad. ‘Worldwide, 10% to 40% of children grow up in households with no father at all. In the U.S., more than half of divorced fathers lose contact with their kids within a few years. By the end of 10 years, as many as two-thirds of them have drifted out of their children\u2019s lives. According to a 1994 study by the Children\u2019s Defense Fund…\u2019 Now, let me tell you. The Children\u2019s Defense Fund may as well be Hillary Clinton. She and Marian Wright Edelman set up this thing, and it\u2019s nothing more than a sinkhole for liberalism. This is like saying, ‘According to a 1994 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute…\u2019 That\u2019s Planned Parenthood. <\/p>\n

So the Children\u2019s Defense Fund is just another way of saying it\u2019s Hillary front group. ‘[M]en are more likely to default on a child-support payment (49%) than a used-car payment (3%). Even fathers in intact families spend a lot less time focused on their kids than they think: in the U.S. fathers average less than an hour a day (up from 20 minutes a few decades ago), usually squeezed in after the workday. Anthropologists are trying to figure out why. Homo sapiens produces the most slowly maturing young of all mammals. Among foraging humans, children need 19 years — and consume 13 million calories — before producing more food for their community than they take from it, according to research by anthropologist Hillard Kaplan.\u2019 I kid you not. ‘You\u2019d think fathers would be hardwired to provide for such needy offspring, and yet there is more variation in fathering styles across human cultures than among all other species of primates combined.\u2019 I mean, this just gets better. As you read this it becomes more incredible by the sentence. ‘Many of our primate kin are far better fathers than we are (investigators at the California primate center discovered that baby titi monkeys are in the arms of their fathers for as much as 90% of daylight hours); many are far worse.'(interruption)<\/p>\n

Hang on. We\u2019ll discuss what the mothers are doing in just a second, Snerdley. Just chill out in there. We have this handled. I can handle it here. I\u2019m hosting the show. Everything is under control. Okay, so, ‘titi monkeys are in the arms of their fathers for as much as 90% of daylight hours; many are far worse But all are at least consistent within their species. Why does paternal care in our species vary so much?\u2019 Well, because we are hardwired but we also have souls! A titi monkey doesn\u2019t have a soul. It\u2019s just a God-programmed robot! You people who have cats, have you ever scratched a cat\u2019s butt right above the tail? What does the cat do? It starts licking its left-front leg. Every cat in the world does this! Why do cats bathe themselves? No one taught them to. They just do it. This business that we are no different than animals, it\u2019s kind of like the whole concept of pollution. Do you realize that whenever an animal poops in your yard, that is ‘nature\u2019? That\u2019s fertilizer. That\u2019s whatever. Whenever an animal eats another animal, it may be brutal, but that\u2019s ‘the law of the jungle.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Whenever animals or any other living organism engage in what they do, they don\u2019t even know they\u2019re doing it. They\u2019re preprogrammed by God. You think the bees have to be told by mom and dad, ‘Bee, go to that flower and pollinate the thing\u2019? They just do it! They may learn by following, but they\u2019re not thinking. They don\u2019t have any souls. We on the other hand build a smokestack and we\u2019re destroying! We are not part of nature, you see? This has long been one of my bugaboos about the whole environmental movement, is that human beings are by our own nature, intruders. How can this be? We are as much a part of nature as anybody else. ‘Well, it\u2019s not fair, though, Rush because we can invent and produce shotguns that kill \u2019em.\u2019 Let me tell you something. If the tiger could get a shotgun, it\u2019d fire back. But we\u2019re not wrong because we can invent shotguns or rifles or whatever else or space shuttles. But all the stuff that we do intrudes on nature, destroys it. Everything these primates do…<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re being compared to titi monkeys! The other day we\u2019re being compared to cockroaches. ‘Yes, cockroaches can learn, just like us.\u2019 No, they don\u2019t learn, otherwise if they saw the Raid can, they wouldn\u2019t sit there and soak it up! (sigh) So, anyway, here we are. I don\u2019t care what the mother titi monkey is doing, when the stupid idiot father titi monkey is sitting there holding his baby for 90% of daylight hours. More interesting to me is what this guy is doing at night. The mother\u2019s out there. This guy\u2019s probably got it wired. The mother is probably out there working and finding food and bringing it home for the family. All the guy has to do is sit around and hold the baby, you know, get credit for caring and lounge around all day. He doesn\u2019t have to change any diapers. The little titi monkey throws up. ‘Yippee! Lick it up.\u2019 They\u2019re animals, for crying out loud. Anyway, here\u2019s TIME Magazine. It doesn\u2019t have to go out get little gummy bears. It doesn\u2019t have to pop popcorn for little monkey at midnight four nights in a row. It doesn\u2019t have to do any of this. I\u2019m not complaining. I\u2019m just making observations here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This TIME Magazine story, they\u2019re dead serious about this, and two women wrote the story: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy [sic] and Mary Batten, and it\u2019s all about how you dads out there don\u2019t deserve Father\u2019s Day because you are screwing up. You are not as good a father as the male titi. (By the way, it\u2019s t-i-t-i. I never heard of a male titi monkey until this story, but (sigh) I have now.) ‘One thing that draws a human male to a child of his is that, hormonally speaking, men are a lot more similar to women than many of us realize, particularly during the critical survival period approaching a child\u2019s birth and its infancy. As in some other mammalian species, human males are known to have high levels of prolactin (a hormone usually associated with lactating mothers) toward the end of a partner\u2019s pregnancy. Canadian biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards and psychologist Anne Storey…\u2019 So far, everybody quoted in this story is female, and everybody who has written the story is a female. This biologist and psychologist ‘have shown that the similarities don\u2019t stop there. New or expectant fathers holding either their baby or a doll wrapped in a blanket that recently held — and still smells of — a newborn experienced a rise in prolactin and cortisol (a well-known stress hormone associated with mothering) and a drop in testosterone. <\/p>\n

‘When the men listened to a tape of a crying newborn and were shown a videotape of a newborn struggling to nurse, the ones who reported the greatest urge to comfort the baby were the ones whose hormone levels had changed the most. But dads have to spend time close to babies for hormones to kick in, and this hasn\u2019t always been possible. Today we take child survival for granted, but in traditional societies, 40% of offspring might die before age 5.\u2019 (Gasp!) ‘To keep infants safe, it made sense for them to be held at all times. With Mom often caring for more than one offspring and Dad busy rustling up food, the job sometimes had to be outsourced to grandmothers, aunts and others.\u2019 So there you have it. We don\u2019t deserve Father\u2019s Day. We\u2019re just no good at it, certainly not as good as the titi monkey — and I\u2019d have to say, it seems that TIME Magazine here just can\u2019t find itself to ‘celebrate diversity\u2019 in different styles of fathering, which is rather judgmental of them, don\u2019t you think, especially when we have so many nontraditional family units that we\u2019re supposed to embrace out there? The ‘family\u2019 has been redefined by liberals to include pretty much anything you want it to be, and we\u2019re supposed to accept this out of diversity, but we\u2019re not supposed to respect the diversity of different methods and styles of fatherhood. The real question is — and I\u2019ll tell you where this is leading — ‘Who needs a father anyway?\u2019 It takes a village to raise a child, and we know that even the dads that stay home, they\u2019re a bunch of predators. Child Services is but one phone call away. <\/p>\n

Thank you, feminists. Thank you for taking us down this path. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to expand for just a second, seriously, on this whole fatherhood business in TIME Magazine and how we humans are compared to animals. Animals do everything right. In nature, everything but us, we are not part of nature, but everything that happens in the animal world is perfect. The only thing that screws up the animal world is us — and you know this has been one of the central tenets of the environmental wacko movement, and of the animal rights movement as well. It\u2019s always amazed me, and frankly, I will admit whining about the fact that we humans are somehow considered intruders on nature and that whatever we as humans do is destructive by virtue of our nature. But every other living organism on this planet is absolutely pristine, wonderful, and harmless to nature, to the environment. You know, a guy called here yesterday, and he asked, ‘Do we have the capability to hurt our environment?\u2019 The fact is, we are as much a part of nature and what we do is every bit as natural and okay as what any other element of nature does, and many elements of nature are destructive. Maybe we should ban the oceans! Maybe we should start blaming oceans for what happens during hurricanes. Somehow, we want to end up blaming us. <\/p>\n

The only way to blame us for hurricanes is for us taking a risk for leaving near the shorelines where these things are most destructive. That is something we do. We assume the risk. We pay a premium for it. We assume the risk, but all of a sudden a hurricane comes along, and what do we do? We blame us for causing the hurricane or setting circumstances up which led to more powerful hurricane. So this notion that we are destructive helps the libs push Algore\u2019s global warming hoax and any number of other aspects. We\u2019re destroying victims of our own species, victims of nature. We\u2019re just horrible people. But humans, like every other form of life, have to alter its environment in order to thrive. When people do it, we call it ‘wasting natural resources\u2019 and ‘causing pollution.\u2019 When other forms of life do it, we call it ‘nature\u2019s beauty.\u2019 Why is that? Do you know a forest alters the climate compared to if the forest wasn\u2019t there? It\u2019s the same with grasslands, oceans, everything else. Even the climate system, through its own natural processes, creates dead zones on earth. Why do you think we have deserts? It is not because not enough people care. It\u2019s because the climate has created them, and we even consider them beautiful. <\/p>\n

Fine. You think it\u2019s beautiful, go live there, and hope Sally Struthers shows up with a tuna fish sandwich for you. Oh, yes, the deserts, they\u2019re absolutely beautiful. Climate, you know, created dead zones called deserts. Maybe humans have some small impact on the climate just like everything else does on earth, but so what? Why is nature allowed to affect climate but we aren\u2019t? We\u2019re as much a part of nature as any other species. Folks, I\u2019m serious. I want you to think about this, because the idea that — and I think it stems from the fact that we are considered superior and therefore we have dominion, and so we have responsibility, and all these things are true and all these things I agree with. But we are part of nature with those characteristics. We didn\u2019t become superior because we belittled the other creatures on the earth and made \u2019em feel bad, robbed their brains, took them ourselves. We\u2019re it. We were created just like everything else is on this planet, and our quest since the beginning of time has been to improve our standard of living. Doing that, when you start getting into liberalism and socialism, is considered destructive because it leads to ‘inequality,\u2019 and it leads to ‘hurt feelings,\u2019 and it leads to some having more than others, and this just isn\u2019t right. <\/p>\n

Now, these are all philosophical questions, and people need to realize that other forms of life have no greater right to use the environment and modify the climate for their purposes than we do for our own. I mean, I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not a cow or a steer, but we\u2019re all who we are. I\u2019m glad I\u2019m not a salmon. I wouldn\u2019t mind being my cat, though, I\u2019ll have to admit that. You get to have your butt scratched all the time and lick your front paw. Cats have staff; dogs have masters. At any rate, I digress. As is the case in all of life, folks, there are winners and losers in the process of life on this planet. There are winners and losers every day. It just seems that some species use other species for their own benefit. We are one, and there are others that do, too, and this creates all kinds of guilt. You need to get over your guilt regarding the use of natural resources. It\u2019s what humans do. It\u2019s what we have to do in order to thrive, and thrive, improve our standard of living, is our quest. If we\u2019re hardwired for anything, it\u2019s that. The idea that we should leave the environment in its original state is just a religious belief, and who\u2019s original state? Somebody tell me: When\u2019s the last time it was in its original state? When was the environment on the planet in its original state? Was last week? Was it before we built Las Vegas and all those casinos? Was it before we built all the skyscrapers in New York? Before we came to America, is that when it was? <\/p>\n

When was the environment original? It\u2019s sort of like the NASA guy\u2019s question. Well, who says that the climate today is the optimum climate, and if it changes we\u2019re all in deep doo-doo? Now, here\u2019s how you help the environment. This is what the commie libs don\u2019t want to hear; this is what socialist don\u2019t want to hear. History shows — and I\u2019ve tried to make this point for the longest time, every time they accuse the United States of being guilty of all this pollution in the world: Go to the Third World. Go to underdeveloped countries. Go to the Soviet Union back in its day. Go to China today. Go to North Korea. Go to any Third World outpost, and then come home, and you tell me where conditions are the more sanitary and where you would prefer to live. The reason for this is, wealth is the key. Wealthy nations of the world can afford and do clean up their messes, and they also have the lowest rates of population growth. If people really want to help the environment (and reduce population growth, if that\u2019s something that you think matters and that they\u2019re interconnected), you should be supporting policies that help generate wealth. Now, when\u2019s the next time you think environmentalists will starts doing that?<\/p>\n

Name for me an environmentalist group that will start promoting wealth as the key to a clean environment, wealth as the key to lower population rates, wealth — and I\u2019m not talking about super wealth. I\u2019m just talking about the opportunity for it, growing, productive GDP, a wealthy society, a wealthy nation. You tell me the next environmental group that\u2019s going to suggest, ‘You know what? We need to go more capitalist in the world. We need to have more wealthy countries who are pursuing their own self-interests because that will create the wealth necessary to clean up the messes they make and they\u2019ll have fewer kids.\u2019 None of this is arguable, folks. Everything I\u2019ve said to you here is not arguable. You can call and you can try to argue with me about it but it is inarguable. It just takes something other than faith, something other than guilt to accept it. It takes a willingness to get rid of all of this propaganda that you\u2019ve been subjected to for all these years about the selfishness, the mean-spiritedness, the dirtiness of mankind, the notion that we somehow really don\u2019t have any right here, and we don\u2019t have the right to exercise all of our God-given abilities — our intelligence, our creativity, fulfilling our ambitions. No, whenever we do this, whenever we build subdivisions, whenever we expand towns and neighborhoods, ‘Oh, we\u2019re destroying a pristine environment! Why, why, we\u2019re getting rid of wetlands; we\u2019re getting rid of grasslands! The earth needs this stuff.\u2019 Every species alters its environment in order to survive — and we are not destroying an environment, and we are not destroying a climate, we are, frankly, doing just the opposite. What we\u2019re doing is good for the world, good for ourselves and those who accept our help, we\u2019re doing good for them. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Case in point. What I was just talking about. It\u2019s an Australian newspaper called TheAge.com: ‘Carbon Footprint of Rich Twice That of Poor. Rich, well-educated Australians are contributing twice as much to climate change as average households, according to new analysis of consumption habits.\u2019 So you see, the truth is, it is the creation, the pursuit of wealth, the realization of wealth. Wealthy nations clean up their messes! Folks, take the test. Go anywhere in the Third World. Go to any jungle. Go to any Eastern Bloc country that still hasn\u2019t come out of its travails with the Soviet Union, and you tell me where you want to live, in terms of where is the cleanest place, where is the hygiene best, where does the sanitation work best, where is the garbage pickup work the best. I mean, you have to leave Rio Linda out of this, but for the most part countries that produce wealth are the cleanest places in the world. This whole thing, carbon footprint, is based on the false premise, the hoax that CO2 is a pollutant. Well, if that\u2019s true (exhale, exhale, exhale), I have just polluted you three times. Well, at least the room I\u2019m in, with really big exhales. So the hoax CO2 carbon footprint, the environmentalists will never tell you the truth that it is wealth, because their purpose in the environmental movement is the advance of socialism, big government, anti-capitalism, and that\u2019s primarily what they are, and the vehicle just changes. It\u2019s either feminism or militant environmentalism or animal rightism, abortion, what have you, the immigration bill, amnesty, they\u2019re all just code names. They\u2019re distractions that allow liberalism undercover to advance. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We move on to New Bern, North Carolina, and Dean. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush? Dittos to you. Listen, I was listening to the show and that TIME Magazine article that you went on about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, folks, if you missed this, TIME Magazine has a story in this issue, written by two women — every expert in it is either a female biologist or a female psychologist and it\u2019s all about how this is Father\u2019s Day Sunday, but most American fathers may not actually deserve the honor because they\u2019re so bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but I lost my dad almost two years ago, and there\u2019s not a day I don\u2019t think about him, and it\u2019s just… I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s just that I loved him so much, and I just can\u2019t understand how other people just don\u2019t have the same kind of relationship. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re all different. We\u2019re all different. Did the TIME Magazine story offend you or bother you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it does, because it\u2019s not speaking for a majority of people who love their father dearly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. It\u2019s liberals. It\u2019s a bunch of liberals trying to trash the country. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hundred percent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the chickification of our culture. It\u2019s the demonization of men which has been going on since the modern era of feminism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Something which has personally impacted me in ways that are not positive. I see stuff like that, and I just light up because I know these people, and I know the exact reason why this story is in the magazine. It\u2019s liberals trying to push an agenda, and there are all kind of things behind it here. It\u2019s to empower women in child support custody cases; it\u2019s to promote family and medical leave paid by the employer because the husband can\u2019t be depended on to help. It\u2019s designed to paint women as ultimately at the same time victims, but great heroes and heroines, because they\u2019re doing two jobs: mother and father.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, all I gotta say is God bless you, Rush, and keep up your good work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Dean. Yeah, I don\u2019t want to repeat this because I have too much stuff to do but if you missed it, you can get it on the TIME magazine website. We will (unfortunately) link to it because that\u2019s the only way we can let you see it at RushLimbaugh.com. But it\u2019s an amazing assault — and, of course, one of the anthropologists in the story, one of the biologists in the story, draw their comparisons. See, normally TIME Magazine would celebrate the ‘diversity\u2019 of the different techniques of being a father. ‘Fatherhood? There\u2019s not one simple rule book for it. Fathers decide different philosophies and different things, and of course some fathers run away,\u2019 but the implication here is that mothers are clean and pure as the win the driven snow. Never, ever do mothers abandon them, not take care of them. No, no, no! That never happens. It\u2019s always the father. But the implication in this story is that animals, particularly the titi monkey, why, that father spends 90% of the daytime hours with his kid. Now, that\u2019s a responsible father! So we get compared to monkeys and cockroaches in the same week.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Chris in Indianapolis, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, dittos, Rush, from the racing capital of the world.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I wanted to exception with the story about the fathers and the monkeys. I resent the comparison. I\u2019ve been a father basically for the past 31 years. I\u2019ve got a 31-year-old is my oldest and my youngest is nine. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, it\u2019s a good thing you said your son\u2019s 31 years when you said you\u2019d been a father for 31 years, because if there had been a difference in the numbers…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah, I\u2019m pretty good at math, but when I got divorced back around 1980, and I got custody of my four kids —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we all know what that means.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My son at the time was five, around five, and I had twin daughters that were about a year old, and when we went to court I told the judge I did not want child support. I\u2019d do this on my own. I had a job. I\u2019ve been doing the same job about 30 years. I\u2019ve got legal guardianship of one of my grandsons, since he\u2019s been through months old and he\u2019s ten now. So I\u2019ve gone out of my way to try to be a good father. My father, you know, he was around my entire life \u2019til he passed away about five years ago, and I think, you know, to be a father, you have to put yourself secondary to your kids\u2019 needs. I think some men have a problem with that, and that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with certain families. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, there\u2019s no question we can get into anecdotal stories and get examples of all kinds, good fathers, half decent fathers, rotten fathers, and, of course, fathers that abandon their families and so forth. The point of this story, though, was generalized.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was to present the picture. When your premise is that Father\u2019s Day may not be justified anymore because not enough fathers around who deserve it, ah, you can tell there\u2019s an agenda behind this — and, of course, the story mentions nothing about mothers that screw up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, and there\u2019s plenty of those, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah. Yes. Human beings are what they are. We all have our flaws, and there are a lot of people that have kids that really have no business doing it. They just do it for, well, any number of reasons, the worst reason being it\u2019s the next stage in the relationship; we think we should, blah, blah, blah, blah, then don\u2019t stop and think about what they\u2019re getting into.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People plan it, make sure that they understand: okay, once you start having a family, you have to — especially once you get to ten or 12 I think you… I shouldn\u2019t even say this because I\u2019ve not been one. I\u2019m just an uncle, but I know this. I know enough to know that the reason I\u2019ve not done it is because to be honest. I was not willing to make myself second. I was too focused on what I wanted to accomplish and achieve professionally, and I came of age in the era of feminism, where that was considered uncool. Fathers and so forth were defined as good fathers by they stay home and help raise the kids during weekdays, change the diapers at three o\u2019clock in the morning. I\u2019m sorry, I think the kids I didn\u2019t have are the luckiest non-kids ever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) Well, I\u2019ve got six kids, and I\u2019ve got eight grandkids, and I love \u2019em all, and I do what I can for them, and I don\u2019t hold \u2019em 90% of the time during the daylight hours, but when you have a job, you can\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s a great point. What he\u2019s talking about is, let me read the passage in this story about that. ‘Anthropologists are trying to figure out why fathers don\u2019t spend nearly enough time with their kids. Humans produce the most slowly maturing young of all mammals. Among foraging humans, children need 19…\u2019 What is this, foraging humans? I\u2019ll get to that later. ‘[C]hildren need 19 years and consume 13 million calories before producing more food for their community than they take from it.\u2019 What? Food for their community? Well, anyway, this according to research by an anthropologist. ‘Now, you would think fathers would be hardwired to provide for such needy offspring who can\u2019t go out and provide for themselves until they\u2019re 19,\u2019 and I know many of you have 19-year-olds who wish they\u2019d start thinking about that pretty soon. ‘But there\u2019s more variation in fathering styles across human cultures than among all other species of primates combined. Many of our primate kin are far better fathers….\u2019 Now, get this. ‘Many of our primate kin are far better fathers than we are. Investigators at the California Primate Center discovered that baby titi monkeys are in the arms of their fathers for as much as 90% of daylight hours. Many are far worse, but all are at least consistent with their species. Why does paternal care in our species vary so much?\u2019 Because we\u2019re not primates, and that titi monkey father has no clue. It\u2019s not an active decision that he\u2019s making. This is whatever you want to call it. It\u2019s instinct, whatever you want to attach to animals. But he and the wife didn\u2019t get together and discuss this, and he agreed to hold the baby for 90% of the daylight hours. <\/p>\n

CALLER: It generalizes that, too, because there\u2019s as many various parenting styles among primates, the different types of primates as there are humans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, the titi… You think the male gorilla is going to sit around and hold Baby Koko for 90% of the daylight hours?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not going to happen. So they find one example where this idiot monkey goes out and holds his baby for 90% of the time and we get compared to that, and of course we\u2019re going to fail! What man who\u2019s worth his salt has that kind of time?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I know I\u2019m too busy. I coach Little League for my kids. I get involved with their extracurricular —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I\u2019m not talking about that occasion. It\u2019s called work. It\u2019s called producing for the family. It\u2019s called generating an income. It\u2019s called providing for the kid! This is a derelict father, if you ask me. He\u2019s leaving it up to the woman to go out there and provide the food or whatever these titi monkey families eat, but to be called worse than a monkey, folks, by TIME Magazine.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, I couldn\u2019t take this any longer. I never heard of a titi monkey so I went and looked them up, and I know now know why the father holds the baby 90% of the daylight hours. In the first place, the titi monkeys live in South America, from Colombia to Brazil, Peru, and north to Paraguay. ‘They prefer dense forests near water. They usually jump from branch to branch, earning their German name, ‘the jumping monkey.\u2019 They sleep at night but they also take a midday nap. They live in family groups, consists of parents and their offspring about three to seven animals. They defend their territory by shouting and chasing off intruders. Their grooming and communication is important for the cooperation of the group, typically be seen in pairs sitting or sleeping with tails entwined.\u2019 Well, you know what this means? You have to hold onto the stupid little baby monkey or it will fall out of the tree! TIME Magazine presents this as a loving titi monkey dad holding the baby. If you read the whole story, you\u2019ll see this, because that\u2019s forming a bond, and it\u2019s helping to raise it. No, it\u2019s a little baby that will fall out of the tree otherwise. <\/p>\n

Now, if you think I\u2019m being harsh here, and you think I\u2019m being anti-animal, you can\u2019t possibly think that. I swoon, I\u2019m a cream puff for animals — and I\u2019m like you. I think it would be cool to have one of these big cats as a pet. I\u2019m just not stupid enough to think it\u2019s possible and try it! Let\u2019s talk about these giant emperor penguins, not the Happy Feet penguins but the emperor penguins that live down in Antarctica. Now, this was a little documentary called March of the Penguins, and I watched March of the Penguins, and I, frankly, was amazed and I was stunned. The crux of this story is that the breeding season for these penguins is basically their lives, and the breeding results in the pairs of penguins going to this desolate part of Antarctica, cold as it can be, temperatures of 30 below. The female lays the egg, and then the father is the one who incubates the egg, and it\u2019s cold as hell when the egg is laid. So they have to transfer the egg from female to male very quickly or the embryo can freeze to death. I mean, it\u2019s 30 below. <\/p>\n

Then the fathers cover these eggs, and they band together, get as tight as a group — millions of them, thousands of them — and huddle together, and they each take turns moving from the outer edges of the group, the rim, to the inside, because if you\u2019re on the outside, you got nobody breaking the wind so you\u2019re colder. So they do all this, and this takes months. While all this is happening, the mothers flee. They head off to feed. It\u2019s an arduous process. It is a long trek. Nobody with any sense would live this way. So then the mothers come back, and the fathers have lost almost all their fat. Now, the reason — and this is nature, folks. But by nature, I mean, these penguins are not choosing this. Do you think if these penguins knew about, let\u2019s say, Antigua, that they wouldn\u2019t get the hell out of the Antarctic and move there, except they\u2019d die because it\u2019s too hot? They\u2019re there for a reason. They were created and put there for a reason. Who knows what? I don\u2019t care. The whole earth is used by all living organisms, and it\u2019s so cold down there that these things have to have the ability to survive it, and they do. But the fathers have more fat; they\u2019re larger so they can incubate the eggs longer than the mother could. It\u2019s just that simple. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an agreement. It\u2019s not in the prenup. You know, when mother and dad penguin get married, it\u2019s not something that one is ordering to do or offering to do. It\u2019s nature. They\u2019re programmed to do it. I\u2019m telling you, you don\u2019t think if they thought about it, if they had the ability to think about this, they wouldn\u2019t get the hell out of the Antarctic as fast as they could? You think if they knew that there were things like a Motel 6, they would head there? My point is it\u2019s the same thing with the titi monkey, and I\u2019m making a big deal out of this because what TIME Magazine\u2019s done here is totally irresponsible, and this is not just something casually unimportant. This is a magazine that has an agenda, and it\u2019s anti-male. They\u2019re never gonna get Father\u2019s Day canceled. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re trying to do, but when your premise of your whole story is that Father\u2019s Day may not be ‘deserved\u2019 or have been by ‘earned\u2019 by some of these people, some fathers, you realize what\u2019s going on here. So a titi monkey, a male titi monkey holds its baby for 90% of the daylight hours every day after it\u2019s born, and that in this story, that\u2019s good. <\/p>\n

‘That\u2019s great! Why don\u2019t we do it that way? Why aren\u2019t male fathers, human male fathers not thoughtful?\u2019 They\u2019re not ‘thoughtful\u2019! The titi monkey is not thoughtful. Do you think that if it could find a way to not live in a tree, it would? See, we put our own context in it. We wouldn\u2019t want to live in trees! Well, we\u2019re not made to live in trees. They are. It\u2019s totally natural. That\u2019s their world. The koala bear? Well, they\u2019re never going to move because they get high all day; they get drunk. They eat those berries in the trees and they sit there and zone out. Of course, they never have to go rehab, you know? They\u2019re never cited for DUIs or any of this sort of thing. It\u2019s who they are. It\u2019s what they are. So the point is, to compare to us all these other species who are flawless, we are told, and they do it perfectly. It\u2019s just absurd, and it\u2019s insulting, and it goes back to what I was talking about at the top of the program: ‘Human beings intrude on nature. Every element of nature is just pristine; it\u2019s wonderful; it\u2019s beautiful; it\u2019s not destructive. But we? We are intruders on nature.\u2019 We are as much a part of nature as anything born and living on this planet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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