{"id":28856,"date":"2008-03-31T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-25T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:51:33","slug":"obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says He Doesn\u2019t Want His Daughters “Punished with a Baby”"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: When I go out and make speeches these days, folks, I usually do a little riff on the founding of this country. I ask the question of the audience that you\u2019ve heard me ask you on many occasions: ‘What is it about us as a people — less than 300 million of us in less than 230 years, how is it that we — no different than any other human being ever on the planet, DNA-wise, run rings around civilizations and nations that have been around thousands of years, hundreds of years longer than we have? How is it possible?\u2019 We always go back to the founding: the founding documents, the acknowledgment that our Creator endowed us with inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. I go through the riff. ‘Life. Liberals are against that. We can\u2019t count on liberals to ensure life. Abortion, euthanasia. Liberty? Un-uh. Liberals are not for liberty. They want to change whatever lightbulb you use. They want to force you to drive cars that you don\u2019t want to drive. They tell you what you can and can\u2019t do with your own property. The list is endless about the demands and the limitations on your liberty. You can\u2019t smoke here; you can\u2019t smoke there. You can\u2019t eat that. You can\u2019t eat trans fats.<\/p>\n

‘Don\u2019t tell me liberals are for liberty. Pursuit of happiness? When\u2019s the last time you saw a happy liberal? When\u2019s the last time you saw a liberal talk about being happy? When\u2019s the last time it was part of their agenda? It\u2019s not. They\u2019re enraged, they\u2019re mad all the time.\u2019 Every time I do this, some people in the audience say, ‘Wow, that\u2019s really reaching pretty far, to say the liberals don\u2019t like life, liberty, pursuit of happiness?\u2019 I\u2019m not saying they don\u2019t like life and liberty, but they\u2019re not for it. They\u2019re clearly not. Let\u2019s put it this way. Liberals have targeted life. We can\u2019t count on them to defend it. Liberty? We have to make end runs around them and fight them to hold onto our liberty. Happiness? Who\u2019s in charge of the daily news agenda, and what is the daily news agenda? The daily news agenda is to frighten you, to anger you, to depress you, to make you angry — even without the real events in your life, which already can do that. The price of milk, the price of bread, the price of gasoline, the price of diesel for truck drivers, already makes you mad. Then you gotta turn on the TV and listen to all this claptrap from other people saying the same thing. They\u2019re not into happiness. You\u2019ve heard this by now. Listen to this Obama sound bite. This is Saturday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Look, I\u2019ve got two daughters, nine-year-old — nine years old and six years old. I\u2019m going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don\u2019t want them punished with a baby. I don\u2019t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn\u2019t make sense to not to give them information.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Punished with a baby. Now, I know the Obama people have spent all day yesterday and today trying to ‘clarify\u2019 this, and what they\u2019re saying is, ‘No, no, he doesn\u2019t think that life is a punishment! He was trying to say that he doesn\u2019t want his girls to get pregnant in their teenage years,\u2019 but I maintain to you that when he goes off the ‘PromTer, this is exactly the way he looks at it: Punished with a baby. He\u2019s no different than half the other liberals out there. All during the abortion debate, pregnancy was a disease. It was a sickness. It was an ‘unviable tissue mass.\u2019 It was male oppression, what happened. It was all these horrible, rotten things. It certainly wasn\u2019t about the glory of life. You know, fetuses, they represented something else. It became a sacrament, almost, to the liberals. Liberalism is a religion. Abortion was the official sacrament. That\u2019s what you had to do to prove your viability.<\/p>\n

So when he comes out and says things like, ‘I don\u2019t want my daughters punished with a baby,\u2019 we get a little window into his soul and into his mind about that kind of thing. By the way, how do you get ‘punished\u2019 with a baby when you engage in the behavior that could lead to that? What\u2019s punishment? Punishment is being sent to jail for committing a crime. Well, you know, there are all sorts of other forms of punishment. But a baby he looks at as punishment? STD as a punishment? These are consequences. It\u2019s not punishment; it\u2019s consequences. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s going to tell his little girls, nine years old and six years old. Is he going to talk to them about the consequences of their actions, consequences of their behavior, or is he going to say, ‘Something really horrible could happen to you? You could get punished with a baby.\u2019 Would he say that to them? I mean, they were babies. Were he and Michelle punished? I don\u2019t think they look at it that way. But for everybody else, they get punished with a baby. It\u2019s all about actions have consequences, and liberals don\u2019t want to admit that. Nah, it\u2019s something else that they have to characterize it as — in this case, punishment.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more comment about this Obama ‘I don\u2019t want my daughters punished with a baby or an STD.\u2019 What a linkage, to compare a baby to a sexually transmitted disease like gongorrhea, as was pronounced by my health teacher in the tenth grade. This is precisely my point about the left\u2019s attitude about these things. The sanctity of life, sacredness of it, life is a political thing, liberty, political thing, pursuit of happiness, a political thing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: When I go out and make speeches these days, folks, I usually do a little riff on the founding of this country. I ask the question of the audience that you\u2019ve heard me ask you on many occasions: ‘What is it about us as a people — less than 300 million of us in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nObama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters "Punished with a Baby" - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters "Punished with a Baby" - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: When I go out and make speeches these days, folks, I usually do a little riff on the founding of this country. I ask the question of the audience that you\u2019ve heard me ask you on many occasions: ‘What is it about us as a people — less than 300 million of us in […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/\",\"name\":\"Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters \\\"Punished with a Baby\\\" - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-31T08:05:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-25T15:51:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Obama Says He Doesn\\u2019t Want His Daughters “Punished with a Baby”\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters \"Punished with a Baby\" - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters \"Punished with a Baby\" - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: When I go out and make speeches these days, folks, I usually do a little riff on the founding of this country. I ask the question of the audience that you\u2019ve heard me ask you on many occasions: ‘What is it about us as a people — less than 300 million of us in […]","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/","name":"Obama Says He Doesn't Want His Daughters \"Punished with a Baby\" - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-03-31T08:05:05+00:00","dateModified":"2020-03-25T15:51:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/03\/31\/obama_says_he_doesn_t_want_his_daughters_punished_with_a_baby\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Obama Says He Doesn\u2019t Want His Daughters “Punished with a Baby”"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/911066e449df26406b107ca78cbbde0b","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f18195e0073013fa0e16b040686c2924?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341023,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28856\/revisions\/341023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}