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RUSH: \u201924,\u2019 they\u2019ve hired a woman named Cherry Jones. They\u2019re going to have a female president on next season\u2019s \u201924\u2019, and people, you know, little red flags are raising, ‘Wait a minute, \u201924\u2019, female president?\u2019 ABC already tried this with Geena Davis and it bombed out. Is there an undertone here? Is the network taking control of this show? Is the network insisting on something like this in order to lay the groundwork for the acceptance on the part of the American people of a female president in an already popular show? (interruption) Is this president pretty? You can\u2019t ask me that. I have an opinion on it, but why do you set me up with asking me that kind of a question? (interruption) Does she look like anybody?<\/p>\n

Well, she was in ‘Oceans 12,\u2019 and she played Matt Damon\u2019s mother in Oceans 12, I believe. (interruption) She\u2019s motherly, yeah. We\u2019re not talking about a swimsuit pinup here. She\u2019s got a great personality, fabulous person. That\u2019s what matters anyway, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

At any rate, you know, this whole business of female presidents on television has not worked. It hasn\u2019t worked for Katie. It didn\u2019t work for Geena Davis and that ABC show where she was commander-in-chief. That show didn\u2019t last but two or three episodes, really, before it was canceled. Will this president Cherry Jones show cleavage the way Hillary did after her womanhood was challenged by Elizabeth Edwards? (Laughing.) The last time was when she danced on the beach down there in the swimsuit with Clinton when there was no music playing. Remember that photo-op?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the question. The \u201924\u2019 female president, we\u2019ve had a number of other efforts in the media to put forth this notion of a dominant woman. The show was called ‘Commander-in-Chief,\u2019 Geena Davis, and what\u2019s interesting about this to me, is the people that do this, if they\u2019re doing it for political reasons — and, by the way, Hollywood producer Rod Lurie, who created the TV show Commander-in-Chief, made no bones about his goal. He was tilling the soil of popular culture so it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office. That was his purpose. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the case on \u201924.\u2019 It hasn\u2019t been in the past. But you look at CBS, they brought Katie Couric in to do the Nightly News. One of the things that is the foundation for this, is this belief that women will unilaterally and universally support another woman.<\/p>\n

Remember the French election when S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal, the female socialist candidate, lost out to Sarkozy who is basically conservative? That was big, and she didn\u2019t carry anywhere near a female majority in France; he did. The women commentators in the Drive-By Media here were scratching their heads, were confused, how did she not do better with women? Because there\u2019s this assumption out there, and I think this is born of the modern era of the feminist movement, that women view men as predators and enemies and something that has to be avoided and they feel totally comfortable with women, and I\u2019ve always thought that insulting to most women. The fact of the matter is many women like men. There are a lot of women who are married to men. Women are willing to vote for men because they live with them. They are their husbands, their sons, their brothers, their friends. Men are not some other being against women and against whom women need to circle the wagons, but that\u2019s how it\u2019s portrayed, that if a woman is going to get someplace, every other woman in the organization has to get behind her and pull for her simply because she\u2019s a woman.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s insulting also to believe here that all women think alike and that the first thing that unites women is the sisterhood. It hasn\u2019t proven out. This television show with Geena Davis bombed. Now, partly because it was a lousy show, but it also bombed, it was to set the stage to get the American public ready for a real female president. Here\u2019s Katie Couric at CBS doing the evening news, bombing out royally. The Politico, the Washington website, says if these two things are any indication, the failure of the Geena Davis show, and Katie bombing out, that Hillary may have a tough road ahead. Some are apparently figuring out, folks, that women will not flock sheep-like to vote for a candidate simply because they share the same gender. Now, the problem for those who would like to construct or rely on such scenarios is that, unlike minority races or even religious faiths, women are not an insular minority in this country, where they stick together because in some sense they feel slightly embattled. Women have been made into victims, the Oprah audience, for example. But in terms of sheer numbers, they\u2019re not a minority, and they don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re embattled, and they don\u2019t feel like they\u2019re being set upon by men and that only a woman can save them from this terrible onslaught. So, whether or not this is going to impact Hillary remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jeff in Kansas City, Missouri. Hey, Jeff, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Kansas City Stroud\u2019s dittos to you, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Hey, I wanted to make a comment about the show \u201924\u2019 —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that you mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually, the producers of the show are being very consistent, because if you look back on the history of the show, the president\u2019s they\u2019ve had in the past have been two black males and one white male, of which the white male turned out to be the evil of all the presidents. So them introducing a female is just being very consistent with what they\u2019ve already done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the thing. It\u2019s time for full disclosure. I have become friends with many of the creators, producers of the program. I don\u2019t know any more than you do about this, but I do feel it necessary to disclose this or to remind people — I\u2019ve disclosed it countless times before. The one thing that I\u2019ve noticed — I\u2019m just speaking as a fan here — other than the first black president on the show, Dennis Haysbert, every president has been a wuss or has been corrupt or has been weak, has been malleable. If this first female president is an iron fist and is totally competent and is what we all expect a president to be, what will be your reaction to that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, then definitely that would be going toward the angle of a Hillary. I think actually the white president being corrupt actually played into the hands of bringing in a second black president, and that\u2019s kind of my feeling on it. But that is just what I initially thought when I first heard about the female president. And if they do make her a very strong person, yeah, I think a lot of people would portray it as being that angle, but yet it\u2019s like you said, the first black male president was very strong, and I don\u2019t think even bringing in his younger brother was in any way trying to maybe shape Obama for the presidency, do you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, of course, want. I don\u2019t think this is about shaping Hillary for the presidency. But everybody\u2019s going to talk about it as though it is. They already are. There are stories out there already about how Geena Davis\u2019 show as a president bombed out and the producer of that show claimed it was done specifically to prepare the American people for the likelihood of a real female president, Hillary. He admitted it. These guys, I know them. They just want to write a television show that has surprise after surprise after surprise in it. They studiously avoid trying to attach elements of the show to actual real-life political events because they start filming next month, and the first episode\u2019s not going to run \u2019til January. They don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to be happening in real-life politics in January. So as they\u2019ve always done, they\u2019re just trying to write a very unpredictable, fast-moving, fast-paced show that has all these different surprises in it, and they have to, they\u2019re in their seventh season.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got two choices at \u201924,\u2019 I think. They can start to recycle the same old things that worked in seasons one through four or one through five, or they can try to go in a whole different direction. But that\u2019s the choice they face because last season was a ratings disappointment for the last half of the show. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re shaking things up. I just brought it up today because I know that people are going to start, when the show starts airing — why would this make news, by the way? Why does it make news? Because people are going to correlate it to the real presidential campaign. And guess what? The show is going to debut next January right about the time we\u2019re getting all hot and bothered about the Hawkeye cauci and the New Hampshire primaries. So you know the people are going to link it. I\u2019m telling you that the producers are just trying to do an entertaining television show with a new element they haven\u2019t done before.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, you\u2019re probably right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not probably about it. I know I\u2019m right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my initial point is, having the two black male presidents and now the female president, they are going against the norm of society because that has never happened to this point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. So you\u2019re right, there\u2019s a precedent here for this kind of a decision.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a second. I\u2019ve forgotten — my memory, I apologize. We have already had, Jeff, our first black president, in real life.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh yes, I\u2019m sorry —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Real life. Bill Clinton. He probably thinks that he was the first female president, too. It probably had to great him to talk on Good Morning America what a great female president that his wife is going to be when he thinks he\u2019s been it first.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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