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RUSH: Now, this Tim Tebow thing. Tim Tebow, you all know the story, Tim Tebow\u2019s mother was advised to abort him late in her pregnancy because there was a threat to her life. She decided to have the baby and the baby is Tim Tebow. He\u2019s a Heisman Trophy candidate this year, a big prospect in the National Football League and a genuine, all-around good kid. So Focus on the Family\u2019s ponied up two or $3 million, whatever the cost is for a 30-second spot in the Super Bowl to tell their story. I haven\u2019t seen the ad and I don\u2019t know the text but that\u2019s the basic theme, and all of a sudden the NAGs… and I knew heads were going to explode. I knew heads were going to explode over this, and the NAGs have come along and proved my point that I\u2019ve been making since 1988. I can remember when I first started making this point. Everybody got mad at me like they always do. <\/p>\n

‘How can you say that? How can you think that! It\u2019s just so extreme.\u2019 What I\u2019ve been saying all along is that if they have a chance to stop a birth and cause an abortion, they\u2019ll do it. If you have an abortion clinic very close by to a counseling place where women can go to be talked out of an abortion, the Planned Parenthood people will actually try to intercept those women and get \u2019em in to have the abortion. The NAGs, the National Association of Gals, have actually opposed this ad. They want CBS to not run this ad. CBS had already approved it. Their objection is, ‘We really think this is divisive. On a day when we all come together for the Super Bowl, why do something that will divide us?\u2019 What are they afraid of? What are they afraid of? What in the world could possibly be wrong with them telling this story? Why do they feel threatened? <\/p>\n

‘If pro-choice is pro-choice, well, the mother had a choice. She chose birth!\u2019 They should be happy. But see, this proves that pro-choice is not pro-choice. It\u2019s pro-abort. And the stories that I saw on this actually refer to these people as ‘pro-abortionists,\u2019 and that\u2019s exactly what they are. I know this is an uncomfortable subject for people because it\u2019s so deeply personal, and it delves into people thinking that people want to tell them what to do with their bodies. It really isn\u2019t that. It\u2019s just people trying to make the case for the sanctity of life and pointing out that pro-choice is not pro-choice. I mean, when I saw that the NAGs were pressuring CBS to not run this ad after committing to it and after approving it? Why? What are they so afraid of? Ask yourself. What is so threatening to the pro-choice crowd to have this story told during the Super Bowl? It answers itself: A successful baby taken to term where an abortion was suggested threatens the political nature of their cause — and make no mistake: Abortion is not about a woman\u2019s right to choose. Abortion is not about freedom. Abortion is not about any of these things that they use to describe it. It\u2019s liberalism, folks, and liberals lie. Abortion is about advancing liberalism. Abortion is simply taking an event in someone\u2019s life and being the people that make the decision for a woman. It is sick, and the people that are on that side are just liberals. And I know it sounds easy to say. ‘Rush, is everybody that\u2019s a liberal bad?\u2019 Yes, folks! I mean, it\u2019s not a gray area here. This is black and white, and the sooner a lot of people understand this, believe me, the better off this country and our future will be.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the official story — this from LifeNews.com on the Tim Tebow story. What I want to get is the statement from Jehmu Greene, president of the Women\u2019s Media Center. She said: ‘An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year — an event designed to bring Americans together.\u2019 An ad that uses sports to divide? Would somebody explain to me what is divisive about a mother and son, who was almost aborted, but the mother decided to take the dangerous pregnancy to term? What in the world is divisive about that kind of a wonderful story? What in the world is divisive? Who are these people? Who the hell are they to oppose a message that promotes life? You understand these are the kind of people you support if you run around and tell yourself you\u2019re pro-choice. These people are not pro-choice. This proves it. Tim Tebow\u2019s mom made a choice. She took the risk against the odds given to her by doctors. She wanted to have her baby, she did, and now look, it\u2019s Tim Tebow. This bunch of people, the NAGs say this is divisive and it\u2019s being used to divide people in a day where we all come together. What do you mean where we all come together? You think Saints fans and Colts fans are coming together here on the Super Bowl? This is typical liberal crap, jargon and syntax, lexicon. <\/p>\n

These people, I\u2019ll tell you, better understand something: Pro-choice is not pro-choice, and this proves it. I have sought to illustrate this in countless ways over the past more than 20 years, and every time I\u2019ve done it, ‘You\u2019re so politically incorrect, you\u2019re so insensitive. You can\u2019t tell a woman what to do with her own body.\u2019 I would never. I would just try to get to somebody\u2019s heart about the sanctity of life. But we do tell women what they can and can\u2019t do with their own bodies. It\u2019s called prostitution laws and a number of other things. So that specious argument you can throw out the window, too. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kim in Jacksonville, Florida, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my God. I am so excited to talk to you, Rush. I love you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was 15 years old and I\u2019m 35. I just adore you. Anyway, I\u2019m sure you get that a lot. So we\u2019ll move on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It never gets old, believe me. It never, ever gets old.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling) I think… I really do. I just think you are so great, you\u2019re so insightful and you say this stuff that I think people need to be saying. So I just love you for that. But the reason that I\u2019m calling is about the football player commercial. I can\u2019t remember the guy\u2019s name. It\u2019s slipped my mind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, him. Okay. The problem with the situation is that, you know, the liberals don\u2019t want people to be educated. They do not want people to understand that if you go out and you have an abortion, you could potentially be murdering an excellent human being. They don\u2019t want that out there. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. <\/p>\n

CALLER: They don\u2019t want you to know that the person, that the baby that you\u2019re killing could be awesome. You know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something, Kim. You\u2019ve been listening for 20 years so you know. I\u2019ve been trying to convince as many people as possible that the pro-choice movement is nothing to do with choice, and they\u2019re just illustrating it here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. It has everything to do with the exploitation of women. This is coming… You know, I\u2019ve listened to you forever but let me tell you: When it came to abortion, I was a feminazi. I totally supported abortion. Now, after looking at the science and everything else, there is no way that you can look at the science on abortion and see the life cycle of a human being and tell me that that is not a child.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You got a heartbeat very early on. You get a heartbeat and you get a brainstem very early on. It\u2019s not an unviable tissue mass. But don\u2019t discount the fact that there\u2019s a lot of money riding on this. These pro-abort people make a lot of money. Always follow the money, always factor the money into any of these kind of things and you\u2019ll find an answer. Greg in Durham, North Carolina, I have about a minute and a half here, I wanted to get to you, though.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Brother Limbaugh, thank you and Mr. Levin for keeping me sane in the last year and a half.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re quite welcome, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I appreciate it. Thank God for you, Rush, and what you\u2019re doing. My job as caller is to make the host look good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There are about 50 things I\u2019d like to talk to you but let me say this: Wasn\u2019t it just a couple years ago that some feminist group said that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of violence against women? Now is that a double standard or was that divisive?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was false. It was a totally made up statistic. It was longer than a couple years ago, and you\u2019re exactly right. But there\u2019s a piece de resistance type of information associated with that, and I can\u2019t remember it. It was the same group that had accused me of doing something, I believe, that was also fallacious. But it\u2019s just a bogus group of people with a fax machine and a logo and they send this stuff out to their compatriots in the Drive-By Media, and it just got published because it fit a template. ‘Oh, yeah! Men are brutes. Men are predators. And men beat up women — especially on Super Bowl Sunday.\u2019 It was all about advancing a political cause. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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