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RUSH: So did you follow through last night, Mr. Snerdley, and not watch the Oscars? Well, I watched \u2019em, and I have never been more bored. I\u2019m not trying to say this as a put-down. I don\u2019t know why I stuck with it. There was nothing else on and I was physically worn out. I\u2019d had a grueling, I mean, brutal, excruciating weekend. By the time Sunday night came around, I was just dog tired, cat tired, whatever. So, I mean, I didn\u2019t even have the energy to have my finger on the remote to change channels. <\/p>\n

So I sat there and watched. I think the reason I stuck with it, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t think American Sniper was gonna win anything. I did not buy all the hype. They won one award for best costume making in a short story having to do with promotional schemes for a movie or some such category. I don\u2019t know what it was. I wanted to see what did win, and I wanted to see if there was an the intuition of politics. Donald Trump had a great take. Grab sound bite number eight. This is the Trumpster this morning on Fox & Friends.<\/p>\n

TRUMP: It was a great night for Mexico as usual. You know, this country, the whole thing is ridiculous, but it was a great night and very unexpected, a great night for Mexico. This guy kept getting up and up and up. I said, you know, what\u2019s he doing, he\u2019s walking away with all the gold. Was it that good? I don\u2019t hear that, but it was certainly a big night for them.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: A big night for Mexico. Even Sean Penn, when giving the award to the director for the Oscar, the best picture, said, “Who gave this son-of-a-gun his green card?” Only he didn\u2019t say son-of-a-gun. He said b-i-itch. Now, supposedly they\u2019re good friends and they\u2019re good buddies and tell insulting jokes to each other all the time when Rudy Giuliani<\/a> isn\u2019t around to hear it, and there was no offense taken or any of that. <\/p>\n

There were disguised political moments throughout the night. I thought Rudy would get hit a couple times last night, but he didn\u2019t, and we\u2019ll have more on that as the program unfolds before your very eyes. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, the other big political item of the night — and I kind of perked up at it \u2019cause I thought it\u2019s a little bit out of place. I thought, been there, done that. I said, “What\u2019s with this?” There\u2019s an actress out there, and her name is Patricia Arquette. She won the best supporting female actress for her role in the movie Boyhood. Okay, now I have seen Patricia Arquette in Boardwalk, and Patricia Arquette, she\u2019s got a great voice. <\/p>\n

You know, I, El Rushbo, am a student of voices, and hers is a really unique voice. I mean, everybody\u2019s voice is unique, but she knows how to use it. She uses it as a weapon, as ammunition, as a tool. And she\u2019s starring in an upcoming TV series called CSI: Cyber. Now, they\u2019ve spun off another one of the CSI shows, and this one is about cyber, and therefore computer fraud and this kind of thing. The pilot for this was an actual episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, whatever the thing that\u2019s set in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n

And I liked it. I liked the show, CSI: Cyber. It debuts March 4th. And then I saw this thing last night and said, “Aw, darn it, why did she have to do this?” Now I don\u2019t know that I want to watch CSI: Cyber. And I was looking forward to watching CSI: Cyber. Well, she went up there and she started just shouting about women\u2019s rights. She just started shouting about equal rights and made it look like women are the most discriminated against. Now, in Hollywood it\u2019s true. She had a point about Hollywood. Women are underpaid in Hollywood compared to men, and she had a point on Hillary. <\/p>\n

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You know Hillary, when she was a senator, the women on Hillary\u2019s staff did indeed make 72 cents for every dollar that a man made. So here\u2019s the relevant sound bite from Patricia Arquette. It goes by in 20 seconds. She\u2019s yelling and screaming out there and if you didn\u2019t see this, this whole sound bite has been hijacked by Meryl Streep. ‘Cause what happened, did you see it, Dawn? Did you watch it? Did you see it, Brian? Ah, you\u2019ve got a kid. No way. So she says what she says, yells and screams, not quite Hillary screeching, but she got close. And she read it, she had it all typed out and written, she put her glasses on and read the thing and was nervous and out of breath.<\/p>\n

But when she got to the pay off, the camera cut to Meryl Streep, who is always in the front row — did you know what? I was shocked when I found out Meryl Streep\u2019s only won three Oscars. I thought she won 73. I thought Meryl Streep got an Oscar every year, sometimes five. I was shocked she only has three. Three? She\u2019s up there every year it seems like. <\/p>\n

Anyway, as soon as Patricia Arquette delivered the money line, Meryl Streep just popped up like she was a jack-in-the-box, started applauding and high-fiving and fist bumping, and as far as the low-information voters today are concerned it\u2019s Meryl Streep who said it. Patricia Arquette\u2019s comments have been totally hijacked, if you saw it, by Meryl Streep. Here\u2019s the sound bite.<\/p>\n

ARQUETTE: To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else\u2019s equal rights. It\u2019s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bam. Cut to Meryl Streep, she is outta her chair. Jennifer Lopez is right next to her going nuts, but Streep took over the screen at that point and just starts fist bumping and high-fiving and shouting, and everybody forgot about Patricia Arquette. By the way, that voice, that\u2019s not her professional voice. I mean, I complimented her voice, it\u2019s unique. That, she was just shouting, and you heard her out of breath. I\u2019m out of breath listening to that. (breathing hard) Man, gotta take a breath here. (interruption) What were you gonna say, Snerdley? What was it? <\/line><\/p>\n

Oh, it had everything in the world to do with — you remember Amy Pascal who got canned at Sony? (interruption) Well, yeah, but she found out that she was making much less than her co-CEO, and there was some other in those e-mails, in that hack, who was it? Some other female actress, I can\u2019t remember who it was, but it was also documented that the women, at least being paid by Sony, are being paid much less than the men. <\/p>\n

Patricia Arquette was really talking about women in Hollywood and women on Hillary Clinton\u2019s staff, as I found out. In the rest of the culture and society, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as big a problem as it used to be, equal pay, but this felt like a throwback. This is something I felt like I could have heard in the seventies, and here it is 2015.<\/p>\n

This is in the Washington Free Beacon<\/a>: “Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a champion of women in the workforce, but women working for her in the U.S. Senate were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years\u00c2\u2019 salary data. During those years, the median annual salary for a woman working in Clinton\u00c2\u2019s office was $15,708.38 less than the median salary for a man, according to the analysis of data compiled from official Senate expenditure reports. The analysis compiled the annual salaries paid to staffers –” <\/p>\n

See, this is what I love. It\u2019s always the left\u2019s up there standing up, yelling, whining, moaning, bellyaching, and when you find out who it is they\u2019re mad at, it\u2019s themselves. Sony was underpaying women. Now here\u2019s Hillary underpaying women. But there\u2019s Patricia Arquette, the poor woman got her whole moment hijacked by Meryl Streep. It was amazing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay. Warning. I\u2019m gonna stick with the subject of the Oscars here for a minute, but it\u2019s not about that, it\u2019s about economics. It\u2019s a lesson. It\u2019s a teachable moment. I\u2019m not delving into pop culture discussion of movies and stuff like that. <\/p>\n

Patricia Arquette was in the movie Boyhood where she played a single mom raising a kid, and that is what makes her an expert on income inequality. Don\u2019t forget that. Actresses who play farmer wives, for example, become experts on problems on the farm. So Patricia Arquette playing a single mom raising a kid in the movie Boyhood now makes her an expert on income equality. Listen to this bite again. There\u2019s something in here that I found somewhat curious.<\/p>\n

ARQUETTE: To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else\u2019s equal rights.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, stop the tape. To every woman (panting) to every woman (panting) who gave birth. Did she just diss women who\u2019ve had abortions? You don\u2019t hear this. That\u2019s a mistake, it\u2019s a faux pas. I\u2019m sure she didn\u2019t intend it, but you don\u2019t hear this kind of reference in Hollywood, particularly at the Oscars, honoring women who\u2019ve given birth. That\u2019s kind of the opposite of what happens there. What Meryl Streep did, Meryl Streep literally hijacked Patricia Arquette\u2019s moment. And she knew it. Do not think that that was unbridled enthusiasm. <\/p>\n

Look, Meryl Streep\u2019s in the front row. She knows a camera when she sees it, obviously. She knows when the red light on the camera is on. She knows it. There\u2019s a body watch camera on Meryl Streep. She knows this. I mean, she popped up at the right moment, and the director cut right to her reaction. In the movie business, that is called stealing focus. There is an actual term for it. Stealing focus. And it\u2019s taboo. It\u2019s considered bush league. Now, you won\u2019t hear that said about Meryl Streep because Meryl Streep has won 73 Oscars and speaks 115 languages with 1,400 different accents, not to mention the dialects, so you just don\u2019t attack her.<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the economics lesson. Sean Penn last night said, when he presented the best movie (imitating Penn), “It\u2019s about the movies. It\u2019s not about the money they make. It\u2019s not about this,” and he might have been talking about in terms of the awards, but it is about the money they make. That\u2019s why they do this. It\u2019s all about the money they just like any other business is. And there\u2019s a reason women are paid less than men in Hollywood. There\u2019s a reason for this, a market reason for it. It has nothing to do with discrimination. It has nothing to do with sexism or anything else. Do you know what it is?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Do you know the reason? Do you know why women in Hollywood, actresses, are paid less than men? Do you know why they make less than men? It\u2019s not sexism. It isn\u2019t bigotry. It isn\u2019t the casting couch. It\u2019s box office. And don\u2019t get mad at me for saying it. I\u2019m just telling you the way it is. Women in Hollywood don\u2019t make as much as men because they are not equal in draw. <\/p>\n

Folks, these are market research numbers. I mean, it\u2019s their business to know this. They focus group this stuff, they research this stuff. It is all about the money. When Sean Penn goes out there and says (imitating Penn), “Hey, you know what? It\u2019s just about the movies. At the end of the day it\u2019s about the movies. It\u2019s not about how much money they make. It\u2019s not about how over budget they are.” He may be talking about in terms of the awards show. But for the people that run the business, it is all about the movie, and they\u2019re not gonna overpay for people that don\u2019t — and they don\u2019t get it right all the time. They overpay all kinds of people in Hollywood. They probably underpay people in Hollywood, but they try to get it as close as they can, and it\u2019s box office, and it\u2019s who draws and who doesn\u2019t, and it\u2019s just the way it is. <\/p>\n

Male stars are bigger box office than female stars. Now, if you want to condemn American culture for that, then you have at it. If you want to say we\u2019re a racist country because moviegoers are more attracted to movies with male stars than they are female star, have at it, you\u2019re on your own. I\u2019m making no comment on that. I\u2019m just telling you this is what Hollywood market research indicates. It\u2019s just the way it is. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, obviously people are gonna try to make it out to be sexism and racism, but these are all liberals, how in the world can this be? I mean, the liberals are the ones that are running around raising all hell about this. The liberals are the ones running around accusing us and everybody else of income inequality, and it\u2019s their own house that\u2019s guilty. It\u2019s their own industry. <\/p>\n

Look at Hillary. Hillary paid the women on her staff, these are official numbers. It\u2019s not somebody\u2019s wild guess. The women on her staff made 72% of what men made. And yet these liberals are running around — this is the point of all of last week when I spent a lot of time telling you why it mattered that all of these federal agencies wanted to be in charge of what you eat and take every control of your life as possible. They\u2019re the ones that think you\u2019re imperfect. They\u2019re the ones that think you don\u2019t know what to do in decision making. You\u2019re the ones that don\u2019t have the smarts to take care of yourselves. You don\u2019t have the judgment, you don\u2019t spend your money right. They\u2019re the ones that have all the answers.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the only ones, by the way, that can ever get us to this perfect utopia. That\u2019s what they believe. They run around, they make all these allegations, and you find out that all of this injustice is happening right inside their own homes, right inside their own businesses, while they point fingers at us and everybody else for being imperfect, for being racist, for being sexist, for being prejudicial. Whenever the spotlight turns inward and shines the light of truth on these people, we find out what a bunch of hypocrites they are. <\/p>\n

And as liberals, I have a question. Since we now know and it\u2019s documented that male stars in Hollywood make more than female stars, that equals what? Why, that\u2019s income inequality. Why, that\u2019s the unequal and unfair redistribution of resources. I mean, there are X-amount of dollars coming into Hollywood every year based on the production, based on the movies and everything that goes along with it, and men are getting a greater percentage of it than women. Why don\u2019t the men give it back? <\/line><\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t the men, as good liberals, why don\u2019t the male actors, to show that they\u2019re good liberals and that they\u2019re all about fairness and that they are devoted to equality, why don\u2019t male stars say, “I am not going to do this movie unless my female co-star earns as much as I do, even if that means I will reduce my demand.” Why don\u2019t they do that? They\u2019re the leaders. They\u2019re the ones with all the answers. They\u2019re the big critics. They\u2019re the ones that recognize racism all over the place, these libs. They\u2019re the ones that recognize sexism all over the place. They\u2019re the ones that are launching constant, never-ending allegations at us, against us, for all this.<\/p>\n

So why don\u2019t they take the lead? Now that we know that women are underpaid in Hollywood, at least as compared to men, why don\u2019t these sensitive, aware, devoted-to-equality male actors take the lead on this? Patricia Arquette showed the way. Meryl Streep popped up and shouted her agreement. Male stars need to actively say to the studios and producers, “I\u2019m not gonna do this unless my female co-star earns as much as I do. And if I have to give back 20% of what you\u2019ve offered me so that my female co-star could make as much as I do in this movie, then that\u2019s what I will do.” <\/p>\n

Until they do that, shut up. Until Hollywood fixes its own house, until Hollywood can make itself the exemplar of perfection, as it\u2019s demanding from everybody else, and Lord knows they tout themselves, oh, they\u2019re great storytellers, they\u2019re great influencers, they inspire, you hear \u2019em all during the award show. The art and how much it inspires. What I saw last night was nothing more than an endless parade of misery, yet again receiving awards for it, endless misery here, triumphing over misery, being mired in misery, everybody\u2019s miserable. The constant liberal state. Everybody\u2019s miserable, everybody\u2019s unhappy, everybody\u2019s agitated, and here\u2019s who portrayed it the best. Here\u2019s who inspired us to be miserable better than anybody else did tonight.<\/p>\n

But I still think that the men have a long way to go. If they\u2019re that much overpaid, give it back in the name of equality, in the name of sameness, and, by all means, in the name of fairness. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Look, I know there are exceptions to everything. Like look, Hollywood will make a chick flick now and then. Fifty Shades of Grey. Chick flick. But what did they do? They went and found a relatively unknown actor. By “relatively,” I mean, it\u2019s not Meryl Streep in there. Not that it would be, but it\u2019s a relatively unknown actress who did not command big bucks and a relatively unknown actor from Northern Ireland in Jamie Dornan. It\u2019s all about the money, Sean. <\/p>\n

Anyway, to the phones we go, folks, kicking off brand-new week broadcast excellence. Rush Limbaugh, to Macon, Georgia. This is Bill. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. I\u2019m glad you called. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Amy Pascal is paid what she\u2019s paid not because she\u2019s a woman. She\u2019s paid what she\u2019s paid because of what she or whoever negotiated for her negotiated. She is an executive. The people at that level and a lot of nonexecutive jobs are paid that way. The companies will not pay you what you\u2019re worth. They\u2019re gonna hire the best talent at the lowest price, and if you under-negotiate yourself and you take what they offer you, you\u2019re gonna get paid at a lower rate. I\u2019m finding that out after 32 years in the military. I\u2019m considered an executive. I\u2019m 49, I\u2019m getting ready to retire next week, and I\u2019m learning all kinds of things. One of the things that they\u2019re telling us in our transition is, like I said, companies are gonna hire the best talent they can at the lowest price. So if Amy Pascal\u2019s paid more than her male colleagues, it\u2019s her responsibility.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: As a generic rule, that\u2019s true, but there are exceptions to everything. Depending on cycles that we find ourselves in, certain employees can name their price, depending on the need the business has for whatever a particular employee does and whether or not the employee\u2019s the best and how many other options employee or potential employee has. But as a general rule, you\u2019re right. <\/p>\n

Labor costs are the biggest item in any business\u2019s balance sheet, and they want to pay \u2019em as little as they can get away with. It\u2019s just standard operating procedure. Compensation, what people get paid is one of the most misunderstood elements of American life, I think. Now, look at what Bill just said here. Amy Pascal, she just got blown out of Sony. It was her account, mainly, that was hacked. Although everybody\u2019s was, her account was, I mean, really, really hacked. <\/p>\n

Virtually every embarrassing e-mail that she hoped never to be seen was seen. But one of the things there is, she was the co-CEO. There was a male CEO that ran the business side. She ran the studio and production side, and she was making considerably less than Michael Lyndon, the co-CEO. Now, Bill\u2019s point is that it\u2019s not innate discrimination. It is whoever her agent was, or whoever negotiated for her did not get the best deal that could have been gotten, obviously, if another guy, co-CEO, got more. <\/p>\n

You never know. That could be true. <\/p>\n

It could be the employee left money on the table. It could be the employee didn\u2019t care as much, wanted the job, wanted the day-to-day more. The money was not as important as it was to others. It\u2019s different, unless you\u2019re in a union. This is the point. Compensation is different from person to person to person, and that\u2019s one of the most misunderstood subjects, I think, in American economics. There are a lot of misunderstood things in economics. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe, for example, in… Now, on the surface of this, you\u2019re gonna disagree with me probably. But the concept of “overpaid,” I\u2019m not really sure it exists. It may be you think of an athlete, say an Alex Rodriguez, “There\u2019s no way he\u2019s worth $25 million when you compare it to a teacher who barely makes $60,000!” You\u2019d sit there, and you\u2019re gonna make a judgment on which is more important. Well, that\u2019s a dangerous game to play. More important to who? <\/line><\/p>\n

Whoever\u2019s paying Alex Rodriguez $25 million is, A, either stupid, or, B, really thinks that\u2019s what Rodriguez is worth, or was at the time the deal was made. As far as the Yankees are concerned or the Rangers or whatever team pays it, they have made a decision that that money is gonna come back to them once, twice, maybe three times. Then it\u2019s going to be worth it. Very few employers actually throw money away. <\/p>\n

As I said, there are exceptions to everything. Not every employer is brilliant. Not every manager makes every compensation decision correctly. But you are worth what you can get somebody to pay you. That\u2019s what it boils down to. You are worth as much as you can convince somebody to pay you. So when you start talking about somebody being overpaid at whatever dollar amount? Well, not to whoever\u2019s paying it. <\/p>\n

For some reason, whoever\u2019s paying it thinks he\u2019s got value there. To me, it\u2019s a real fascinating subject, revolving around the employer-employee relationship and the fact that most employees many never even fully understand the value they really have. Because it\u2019s largely a defensive relationship, and sometimes… (interruption) What? Meaning the boss has all the power. The employee is always on defense. If you get too aggressive, you\u2019re gonna get canned. It\u2019s a defensive position, because it\u2019s not the position of power, and I think a lot of employees totally misunderstand the power they have. It\u2019s ingrained in us, though. We\u2019re raised that way. But it doesn\u2019t have to be the case. <\/p>\n

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Okay, here\u2019s Jim in southeast Missouri. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Twenty-one-year-listener from the Sikeston\/Cape Girardeau area, and I\u2019d be remiss in my duties as a listener if I didn\u2019t tell you how much my five- and 10-year-old children have enjoyed listening to the first-through-third parts of the Rush Revere series. It\u2019s been fantastic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, Jim. I really appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I kind of want to, I guess, dovetail into the Oscars now. I haven\u2019t watched it in years. You know, it\u2019s the same old point, people who like the smell of their own flesh wounds, I guess, so I don\u2019t watch anymore, but I picked up on Ms. Arquette\u2019s comments about equality for women. It\u2019s a thing that\u2019s bothered me for years. It\u2019s a part of the hypocritical game. They talk about equality, we all know it means same pay or some of the same jobs as men, but why not extend this out to true, real equality where women who maybe want to be in the front lines of combat, we can have all women apply — or register with Selective Service. Perhaps we could have women be treated in divorce custody cases the same as a man, no preferential treatment. Maybe they get the same punishment for cocaine sentencing, and, furthermore, let\u2019s say Mary Kay Letourneau, when she got probation for having sex with a 13-year-old student years ago, why not treat her like a man? I mean, that\u2019s what true equality ought to be about, shouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but, you see, women, as minorities forever, are allowed more latitude and leeway in doing things that are not kosher, unconventional, or in violation of the law. And there\u2019s a little bit more compassion and understanding. You talk about the front lines in combat. Of course they had to change standards for women to qualify. I mean the physical differences alone are what they are, can\u2019t deny \u2019em. Same thing for women firefighters, they had to change the standards. <\/p>\n

The point is when you start making these concessions, it never ends. I remember back in the seventies when I actually took my first stab at doing a talk show at a radio station in Kansas City. I played music so it wasn\u2019t a full-fledged talk show. It was a brand-new FM station and it was a totally experimental format. But I remember that affirmative action was one of the big deals then, and I remember having on some affirmative action aficionado who was explaining the whys and wherefores of it. It was to make amends for past transgressions, among other things. It was to level the playing field.<\/p>\n

I said, “Okay, well, when does that end? At what point are you gonna say that we\u2019ve made amends? At what point are the past transgressions going to have been equalized?” <\/p>\n

He said, “Oh, never.”<\/p>\n

I said, “What?” <\/p>\n

“Oh, never.” He was very honest. This was back when people were willing to be open and honest and up front. Political awareness back then in terms of things like talk radio just didn\u2019t exist. So this guy was totally at ease telling me there wasn\u2019t gonna be any end to it. So I said, “You mean to tell me the purpose of affirmative action is not to make amends and it\u2019s not to address grievances, that\u2019s just your selling point?” <\/p>\n

He said, “For all intents and purposes, yeah.” It was to forever make the playing field unlevel, because this was the price America had to pay for the way it was founded. America had to pay this price, and it was always for the rest of its days going to pay the price. So all of these concessions that are made to the grievance industry never, ever get anywhere near solving the supposed so-called problem. <\/p>\n

You can find examples of male-female inequality everywhere you want to go, and you can find many examples where it is men on the short end of the stick. One area would be child custody. Another area would be divorce court. There\u2019s any number of places where you can make the case that the advantages are with women. And you\u2019d have just as many people shrieking that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about when I say that. But this whole notion of equality, that\u2019s what\u2019s bogus; it\u2019s not possible. There\u2019s no such thing. <\/p>\n

Just like fairness. Fairness is ephemeral. (interruption) Women are victims when they get divorced? Well, women are victims, period. I mean, that\u2019s the whole point. That\u2019s the justification for all of this. Hell, pregnancy makes women a victim. It makes \u2019em sick, gives them a disease, if you listen to the right people. Jim, I appreciate the call. <\/p>\n

This is Greg in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Long-term listener, second-time caller. I\u2019m a business owner and I\u2019d like to give you my perspective as to why the income inequality is nonsense. Now, I own a small company and I employ between 20 and 40 people depending on the time of year it is, and 80% of \u2019em are men. Now, currently I pay all my staff exactly the same based on the job that they do. But if I could pay women 72 cents on the dollar for what I pay men, I would fire all of my male employees and hire all women. And guess who would get a raise as a result? Me. I\u2019m just a small employer. Again, I only employ 20, 40 people. Can you imagine the savings in a big company like Sass or Blacks or IBM? So if they\u2019re paying men a hundred thousand a year and they could pay women $72,000 a year, well, Good Lord, that\u2019s a $28,000 savings per employee. I\u2019d fire all the men and hire women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you go, folks. Straight up and down, 100% economic common sense. If you can get women for $28,000 a year less than men, fire the men, give yourself, the business owner, a raise. But no, see, they want to tell you they exist because it\u2019s discrimination, because you, Greg, you are part of the group conducting the War on Women and you\u2019re purposely underpaying them because you know they\u2019ll accept it, and you are favoring the men. <\/p>\n

So what they\u2019re really telling you is that you enjoy overpaying the men. If somebody will do the job for $72,000 a year, you\u2019re an idiot to pay somebody a hundred thousand to do it. That\u2019s the rule of thumb, folks. Look, you may not like hearing it that way, but if somebody will do the job for $72,000, it\u2019s the same job from person to person, you\u2019re an idiot if you\u2019re paying somebody a hundred. This whole thing is hogwash anyway. These stats, once again, don\u2019t mean as much as they could because they\u2019re static stats. They don\u2019t explain the dynamics of any of this. <\/p>\n

But I also like my idea, and let me rephrase it, as it particularly relates to Hollywood. If the men in Hollywood, male leads, are being paid that much more than women, and Hollywood is the citadel of liberalism, where there is utopia, or we\u2019re soon to have it, where there\u2019s equality and fairness and equity and all this, then isn\u2019t it incumbent on the men to give back and to refuse that much more money than the women are being paid? Not only would that be good feminism, that would be chivalrous. <\/p>\n

So here you have the studio executive casting the movie, and he offers the male lead a million dollars. And the female lead is gonna get $720,000. Well, that\u2019s unfair. That\u2019s unequal. That\u2019s bias. It\u2019s discrimination. It\u2019s sexism. It\u2019s bigotry. The male lead should go to the studio honcho and say, I\u2019m not gonna let you get away with this unfairness. I demand that you only pay me $720,000 a year so that what the female lead and I make are equal. <\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it incumbent on the male liberals of Hollywood to fix this themselves? I mean, what business do they have standing up bellyaching at us, pointing a finger at us for? We\u2019re supposedly committing all these grievances and atrocities against women, where right in Hollywood we know that men are paid much more than women. There are market reasons for it, as we discussed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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