{"id":14804,"date":"2012-08-22T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-22T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T17:41:59","slug":"eib_audience_on_fire_over_akin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/22\/eib_audience_on_fire_over_akin\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB Audience on Fire Over Akin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Croton-on-Hudson in New York. I have spent many a Saturday afternoon at Croton-on-Hudson. It is a gorgeous place. I played Saturday afternoon water volleyball games at Roger Ailes\u2019 place, way, way back in the early nineties. Here\u2019s B.J. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. Uh, very nice to be here, uh, Rush. I wanted to let you know that I am a feminist for life, I\u2019m a single woman, and I am going to contradict you on your thinking as well as, uh, what the media said. The thing is, uh, the, uh, what this gentleman said was about the body shutting down and so forth. There &#8212; there is so&#8230; You can use this as a footnote. It comes from the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Uh, they had a publication back in 1970 which talked about rape victims, uh, their bodies shutting down. So that would be an excellent footnote, because Alan Guttmacher is an arm &#8212; a very important arm &#8212; of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66052\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushDittoheadNationMapVers2082212.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: Yes. That\u2019s very, very true.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So they could throw it right back in their face as this is exactly what was, uh, from one of their own operations. The other thing, which I was heard &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Can I ask you a question first?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What is &#8220;a feminist for life&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I think one way of &#8212; of looking at us is we\u2019re kind of the double agent in the feminism world. Uh, in other words, when usually you think of feminism you think of people who are pro-abortion. And they have even manicured &#8212; manicured &#8212; the word so it\u2019s &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Male lesbians.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. And what it does is, uh, it kind of takes away that whole sense of abortion. When you say, &#8220;Oh, I\u2019m pro-choice,&#8221; you can\u2019t leave it at that. You have to say pro-choice for abortion, because otherwise you really leave the monster masked.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve tried this over the course of many years. I used to say on this program, &#8220;I am pro-choice and I choose life,&#8221; and the feminists would call, the Democrats would call, outraged. I said, &#8220;You\u2019ve just proven my point. You\u2019re proving &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; doesn\u2019t mean &#8220;choice&#8221; at all. You are mandating that people be pro-abortion. That\u2019s what pro-choice means.&#8221; That was the point I was trying to make to \u2019em. That\u2019s what you\u2019re saying, essentially.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. But in addition to that, when I first heard&#8230; All I heard from the liberal press was &#8220;legitimate rape, legitimate rape,&#8221; and nothing else. And when I went to try to get the entire transcript of what&#8230; I couldn\u2019t find it, or it was very difficult. So when they said &#8220;legitimate rape,&#8221; I said, &#8220;What is this guy talking about?&#8221; And then what came to mind was what happened in the case of Tawana Brawley and that poor assistant DA up in Dutchess County. There was a case of a woman who said this man raped her, uh, besmirched his entire reputation. Poor guy, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing now. When it was found out it was no rape at all but she was having sex with her boyfriend, and I guess she was afraid of what her family was going to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Congressman Akin meant.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No of course it isn\u2019t! But my point &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, then why bring it up?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Because that is what the news people were trying to get across. When all they said was Akin and &#8220;legitimate abortion.&#8221; I said, you know, &#8220;What planet this guy from?&#8221; And then I thought to myself, &#8220;Well, go ahead and look at it. This is a case where there was no rape at all. The&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me short-circuit this, \u2019cause I know exactly what Congressman Akin was trying to say. There are people who don\u2019t believe in a rape exception because they don\u2019t believe it\u2019s ever the baby\u2019s fault. To them, the baby is the essence of innocence. It is guilty of nothing, no matter what else. It doesn\u2019t matter. And they believe, to be consistent, if they\u2019re pro-life and it\u2019s based on life as first and foremost above all other issues &#8212; and that the baby is the essence of innocence &#8212; then there is no way, at any time, you take the life of the baby. There\u2019s no way. Now, you have to be very articulate to explain this to people, and he isn\u2019t. And that\u2019s where this &#8220;legitimate rape\/illegitimate rape&#8221; came from. All he was trying to say was&#8230; I know it.<\/p>\n<p>He was just trying to say, &#8220;It\u2019s not the baby\u2019s fault. How can we kill a baby? It\u2019s never the baby\u2019s fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all he would have had to say.<\/p>\n<p>But he wanted to try to dress it up and stepped in it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_66049\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH: I\u2019ve got somebody trying to find this article from the seventies from the Guttmacher Institute.  Well, it\u2019s gonna be tough.  The Guttmacher Institute is, as the Feminist for Life pointed out, an arm of Planned Parenthood.  The Feminist for Life, our last caller from Croton-on-Hudson, said that she read, the Guttmacher Institute report in the seventies, that they used the term &#8220;illegitimate rape,&#8221; or &#8220;legitimate rape,&#8221; some such thing.  I was pressed for time and I neglected to ask her for the cite.  I would love to know what the date, or the name of that article was.  But our crack research staff &#8212; ahem &#8212; can find it, if it\u2019s to be found, maybe.  And then we\u2019ll have it for you, if it exists. <\/p>\n<p>You know, what the Feminist for Life said was that Akin was right. By the way, Akin\u2019s apologized for it.  Akin has said he didn\u2019t mean what he said, so the Feminist for Life was defending what Akin had just apologized for, in part. But regardless, the Feminist for Life from Croton-on-Hudson said that the Guttmacher Institute claimed that women shut down during rape.  That\u2019s what she said.  She said that\u2019s where the origin of this is.  It basically is the feminazis.  So we\u2019re gonna try to find that, just for the fun of it. <\/p>\n<p>Pam in Philadelphia, great to have you on the EIB Network.  Hello. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Must be on Sprint.  Hold it.  Pam, you\u2019re cutting out.  We got a very, very poor cellular connection.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay.  Can you hear me now?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I hear you, don\u2019t move.  Whatever you\u2019re doing, don\u2019t move.  Even if you\u2019re in the middle of the road, don\u2019t move.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay, I had another call coming in.  I think that was it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Oh, okay.  Okay.  Fine. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  My comment, I have two of them, important ones.  It appears that he\u2019s been bought off by Chicago-style politics, because we learned about sex education in grade school.  And for an educated man to make a comment like that and make an entire fool out of himself, and then after he\u2019s upset the entire Republican Party, none of this (unintelligible) there is no <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14807\">War Against Women<\/a>, it\u2019s just a bunch of you-know-what, just so they can win an election.  For him not to step down is indicative that he\u2019s been bought off.  That\u2019s my one comment &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, do you think that the Democrats bought the guy off?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I do, yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I just want to understand you.  Nobody\u2019s that stupid.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  That\u2019s my opinion.  And I think he is that stupid. I think money talks.  And I think that\u2019s what he did.  I think whatever his reason, probably for money. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I must disagree with you.  I don\u2019t think he\u2019s been bought off.  I think &#8212; and God bless me for this &#8212; I think he\u2019s&#8230; oh, this is so tough.  Clueless. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  He went to grade school, and he had sex education.  Now that he &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  What does that &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; all this and jumped into this, he needs to get out.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66050\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushCONGRESS.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a minute.  The guy &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; been bought off.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Hang on just a second.  He\u2019s 65.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I\u2019m 61, and I did not have sex education.  I\u2019m from Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, he knows about it now.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It was not part&#8230; no, you\u2019re talking about &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  He knows how babies are made.  I mean, the guy knows better.  And now that he\u2019s done what he\u2019s done, he needs to hop out and &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; Republicans &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Look, I agree with that.  I know it\u2019s hard to believe somebody actually thinks that the body shuts down because of rape, but I don\u2019t think this is about birds and bees. I think he\u2019s been told this, and I think that a lot of people believe it, in his group, and, as I said yesterday, I think they don\u2019t talk to people outside their group and they fervently believe this stuff in their heart, and they\u2019ve come up with ways that they\u2019ve devised, they think, that will persuade people of the position that they hold. People can be made to believe the craziest things, Pam.  Pam, have we lost the cell connection again?  You still there?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No, I\u2019m here.  I\u2019m here.  (Unintelligible) Because he\u2019s crazy.  It\u2019s a crazy statement, and it makes the Republicans &#8212; it tarnishes the whole party, just because of one fool that\u2019s in there.  And he needs to understand, okay, I\u2019m foolish, and I\u2019ve done something crazy, and I need to step aside for our country and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  He doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; get rid of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No.  That was my point yesterday.  He doesn\u2019t see it that way.  He now looks at himself as a martyr.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No, he\u2019s not a martyr. He\u2019s a fool, and he\u2019s ruining our country, because it just puts Barack Obama one more step toward becoming elected.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I know.  The Senate &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  There\u2019s one more point that\u2019s important I want to make.  The next point is they keep going back and forth about this $700 billion taken out of Medicare.  Why don\u2019t the Republicans just show the part that is in there, in this Obamacare, the page, and read it, and say, okay, are you gonna deny &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  They are.  They are.  Ryan especially on the stump is making &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; the page.  (unintelligible)  Because all they do is say no, that\u2019s not true.  Quote us the page that it\u2019s on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  All right.  So you want them to hold up the page from Obamacare &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  &#8212; and read.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; all the nonbelievers can say, well, you know, what do you have to say now, Obama?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Interesting.  Okay, would that work or would they say that Ryan just wrote it himself and printed it out on his laser writer and brought it with him?  (laughing) I understand your frustration.  I think they\u2019re doing a great job on this.  Look at the polling data so far, seasoned citizens love Ryan in great numbers, and including in Florida.  But I understand your frustration.  Well, I know she\u2019s hot.  Everybody\u2019s hot. Let me tell you something.  This is the country we\u2019re talking about here. <\/p>\n<p>You know, when she or me or anybody says this election is it, that\u2019s not hyperbole.  When we say we have to win the Senate, we\u2019ve got to have 51 votes to repeal Obamacare.  Forty-nine ain\u2019t gonna do it, and 50 isn\u2019t gonna do it.  We gotta have 51.  It is very serious.  That\u2019s why she\u2019s mad and passionate about it.  This isn\u2019t a time to be accommodating of stupidity because it\u2019s a nice thing to do.  This is not a time to be accepting of stupidity because we\u2019re big people.  We don\u2019t have time for it right now.  She\u2019s exactly right about this.  On this $700 billion Medicare stuff, Romney\u2019s up by 14 points in Florida now, according to the latest poll.  I think they\u2019re doing a pretty effective job on this.  But, I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019ll call Mitt this afternoon and I\u2019ll tell him to read from the bill.  Pam, thanks much. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66051\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaDoctorHealthcareMONEY.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is Connie in Monroe, Louisiana. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Glad to have you back, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My comment is: When girls do go to Planned Parenthood and there is statutory rape, Planned Parenthood aren\u2019t releasing the names of the men to the authorities. They came under fire about this a while back, and I think that needs to be brought out. That is a platform to run on. And also I saw Juan Williams. He had, I think, a documentary about the number one killer among blacks is not black young men killing each other every night &#8212; which is horrific &#8212; but abortion.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, boy! Now you stepped in it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I know. And another thing: It equates to me, like you know how they talk about &#8220;blood diamonds&#8221;? When there are babies who are being killed and most of them are black, I think they equal those WIC cards. Every time you see someone with that Women, Infant and Children Card &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, WIC.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; how do we know that that money that goes to that card is not coming from babies, black babies that have been aborted?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Where is all that money going?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; you\u2019re reeeally &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But I think there should be outrage that Planned Parenthood does not release names, anyway, to the authorities!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: She\u2019s exactly right about that. Folks, if you\u2019re hearing this for the first time, she\u2019s exactly right about it. Planned Parenthood does not release the names of men in statutory rape, because Planned Parenthood makes their money off abortion. Everybody thinks that this is a political issue, and it is. But for Planned Parenthood, it\u2019s about money. And don\u2019t think the libs don\u2019t care about money. They care about it as much as anybody else, and every <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14805\">abortion<\/a> is money to them, and they\u2019re not gonna jeopardize that. That\u2019s why, when there is a Planned Parenthood office and a (what would you call it?) an adoption clinic right next door &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; the Planned Parenthood people will do everything they can on the street to try to talk a girl out of going to the adoption clinic.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly! And one more thing, Rush, if I may. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14848\">I am still upset about Vice President Biden and what he said<\/a>, and I cannot believe the number of blacks who are not outraged. I see now that there are more blacks still on the plantation that I thought. They actually think they\u2019re off, but they\u2019re on! They\u2019re on the plantation.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1785174401001&amp;playerID=1409164951001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRjek0MS21pRzf_GTDAM-xj&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"585\" height=\"312\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tell me why. Tell me why, Connie, \u2019cause I\u2019ll tell you what I think. It\u2019s just like Howard Dean on TV a couple of weeks ago. He said (summarized), &#8220;You guys go ahead and claim Obama took $700 billion out of Medicare. There is nobody who\u2019s going to believe that Democrats cut <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14800\">Medicare.<\/a> Nobody will believe it.&#8221; Nobody\u2019s going to believe, by the same token, that Democrats want to have blacks living on the plantation. Nobody\u2019s gonna believe it. So when Biden says, &#8220;They\u2019re gonna put y\u2019all back in chains,&#8221; nobody\u2019s gonna get mad at Biden because nobody believes that Biden or the Democrats have any ill will toward blacks; only the Republicans do. It\u2019s so ingrained in the political culture.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And you know why it\u2019s ingrained? I have heard it for the longest time. &#8220;Republicans are for the rich; Democrats are for the poor.&#8221; Yeah, they\u2019re for keeping them poor! Rush, that money that they give in the form of WIC and these welfare checks is crumbs! But yet a thing about a crumb is they still have the whole pie. A crumb is just a crumb.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You still have the whole pie!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, you\u2019re singing my song. &#8220;The Democrats are for the poor? That\u2019s right. For keeping \u2019em poor!&#8221; The Democrats. If you want to ensure poverty, vote Democrat. If you\u2019re in poverty and you want to stay in poverty, vote Democrat. I agree with you a hundred percent. I\u2019ve been asking for 25 years: Why don\u2019t people wake up and see it? It\u2019s just ingrained politically. If I had the answer to it, I\u2019d be doing something else in addition to this. People would be beating down my door for advice, if there were an answer to this. I\u2019m really glad you called, Connie. Thanks much. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How about these women callers that we got today? They have been over-the-top great. You hear the passion in these women? I sit here and I think about the Democrats and their War on Women theme and how the Republicans have this desire to keep women in secondary status and so forth. And I listen to these women call here, and they are outraged! They are more passionate about this than the average guy that calls this program, and they\u2019re fed up about this. They\u2019re fed up with male stupidity, this Akin situation.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66053\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ClintonBRECK.jpg\"\/><BR\/>It\u2019s great. It makes me want to carry through with the Republican War on Women theme at the convention and get the real victims of politicians up on stage, and they\u2019re all gonna be women that have been negatively impacted by Democrats. Bill Clinton. John Edwards and the women in his life and so forth. Ted Kennedy, all the Kennedy guys. They\u2019re loaded for bear out there. This is great.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>This is Greg in North Reading, Massachusetts. You\u2019re next. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Very well thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: This guy\u2019s been bought off. It\u2019s clear and simple. No one\u2019s that stupid to make a statement like that. And you &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Which&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I talked to some other &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hold it a minute. Which statement are you talking about?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The statement that he made about rape and women. No one believes that, and nobody&#8230; I mean, even my friends who are fundamentalist Baptists or, you know, people who are Catholic or priests or anybody you talk to today would believe a statement like that. You know, this is the Twenty-First Century. And for him to come out, that\u2019s a hot-button issue that the Democrats have been using as a hail Mary for the last 35 years. And this guy\u2019s a congressman. He\u2019s been briefed on that before.<\/p>\n<p>And for him to come out and say that and to step on a landmine like that is just unbelievable. And the fact that he knew &#8212; as a congressman and as a Republican &#8212; that this could throw that election, put the Senate in jeopardy, and put the general election in jeopardy as well? And for him to make a statement like that? And, as you already know, Claire McCaskill has thrown millions of dollars into this campaign to have him as the candidate. He\u2019s already got a House seat that he can go back to, and he makes a statement like that? I think someone should look into his background. See if this guy owes a lot of money or he\u2019s gonna get a lot of money or whatever, but this guy\u2019s been bought off.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you are the second caller today to level this charge.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. You know, Democrats are great at &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And the theory is: &#8220;Nobody can be this stupid.&#8221; That\u2019s what you\u2019re thinking?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. The Democrats are great at &#8220;The Big Lie.&#8221; We saw Harry Reid with that last week when he came out and said Romney hasn\u2019t paid taxes in ten years. And the only reason why Reid had to do that is \u2019cause Ted Kennedy\u2019s gone. Ted Kennedy was the one who usually came out with those statements. Remember, like Christmas turkeys on Bush\u2019s judges and stuff like that? That used to be Ted Kennedy \u2019cause everybody felt his seat was secure. But they had Reid come out and do it last week, and this sort of like goes along the same vein. &#8220;The Big Lie.&#8221; No one believes that. It\u2019s something that\u2019s so colossally stupid, and nobody believes that. For him to come out and believe that, it\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that nobody believes it. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jim in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Great to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, you bet. Poplar Bluff!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right in the Bootheel. Hey, I drive a truck, Rush. Yesterday I was listening to the radio. By five o\u2019clock, I was all for getting Akin off, and I was about ready to tear the radio out, I was sick of listening to everybody. But I got to thinking. I was stationed in the service up there at Fort Leonard Wood, and our company motto was &#8220;Deeds, not words.&#8221; And if I look at the deeds that Akin has done, he\u2019s been conservative 100% straight down the row. And that\u2019s why I voted for him. Like I said: Yesterday, I was aggravated, and I just wanted to just throw him under the bus also. And I got to thinking about that and I thought, &#8220;No, the man\u2019s (garbled).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What were you aggravated about?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I was aggravated because of the words he said and no one was supporting him. You had Romney, you had Ashcroft, you had Kit Bond, all of \u2019em ready throw this guy under the bus just for a few words he said. And I guarantee you: All the words they have said and things they have said, we\u2019ve stood behind them. And Missouri is conservative. We\u2019re the Show Me State, and through Akin\u2019s deeds, he has shown me he is conservative. And it\u2019s time for conservatives to stand in front of that firing squad instead of circling the firing squad.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_66063\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/reid-mr-rodgers.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH: Well &#8212;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s time to grow up! It\u2019s time to grow up!<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Are we talking about &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Y\u2019know, the man said a stupid thing.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I &#8212; I talk &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: He did say a stupid thing, but we all say stupid things.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, I got a lot of <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14819\">calls from people like you yesterday <\/a>on this who think that there\u2019s a whole lot of disloyalty going on out there. And I\u2019m gonna tell you, Jim. It\u2019s simply because this is crucial! We have to win the Senate. All the rest of this is academic. We have to have 51 senators if we\u2019re gonna repeal Obamacare, and we have to have people that are gonna do it. We\u2019ve got a tremendous challenge ahead of us: Winning the White House, taking the Senate, getting rid of Harry Reid and Chuck-U Schumer and the rest of the Senate leadership.<\/p>\n<p>And what Akin did didn\u2019t further that. It remains to be seen if it\u2019s gonna hurt, but it was just unfortunate that the whole thing happened, and then the aftermath when he attempted to turn this around and make it look like he was a martyr and standing up for principle? This wasn\u2019t about abortion. It wasn\u2019t about pro-choice or pro-life. It wasn\u2019t about any of that. It\u2019s about shooting ourselves in the foot unnecessarily. We can\u2019t make any unforced errors. We just can\u2019t afford them. And that\u2019s why there was the outcry. This is not something that you would suggest somebody do or say. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  We go back to the phones to Des Moines, and Michael.  Thank you for calling, sir.  Great to have you on the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hey, Rush, how you doing?  It\u2019s an absolute pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  The reason I\u2019m calling is, I got a little different take on Akin and, you know, why he didn\u2019t back out.  You know, I was doing like most other people. I was extremely angry. I\u2019m listening to his interview yesterday, he seemed clueless and everything, but let me set this up for about five seconds.  I\u2019m in sales, and what hit me when I was listening to him is when he said he\u2019s an engineer.  And, you know what?  I\u2019m in sales right now.  When I can get someone emotionally involved, I\u2019ve got a huge chance of success.  And whenever I run into an engineer, I\u2019m in a dead end, \u2019cause you cannot get them emotionally involved; they\u2019re strictly looking at it analytically, and you just can\u2019t get \u2019em to make a decision.  And I see this guy as, you know what, he\u2019s an engineer, he\u2019s looking at, you know what, I just made one mistake, one little misstep, and to him that\u2019s such a small percentage of anything he\u2019s ever&#8230; that he can even comprehend.  He can\u2019t comprehend the emotional aspect of this situation and how it can possibly affect this thing down the road.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  He\u2019s looking at it as an engineer, and it\u2019s just like beating your head against the wall trying to get through to this man.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, wait a second.  In addition to being an engineer he\u2019s a Marine and he\u2019s a politician.  He\u2019s been a politician for a lot of years.  He\u2019s in the Missouri House of Representatives and he certainly understands politics. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  He\u2019s got to be able to reach people on a certain emotional level to get their votes.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, I agree with you there.  I just think this is ingrained in him, though.  I mean when he said it, it struck a chord with me, and all I could see is so many engineers I sit down with, and you can\u2019t get \u2019em emotionally involved.  And this is a huge emotional issue.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, one thing that I will agree with you on, I probably would understand this.  He, no doubt, thinks that he worked damn hard to get this far, and, you\u2019re right, I think, in his mind, &#8220;Hey, I misspoke.  Big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hm-hm.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  &#8220;Okay, I apologize for it.  Big deal.  It\u2019s one mistake.  I worked really hard.&#8221;  He\u2019s a stick-to-it kind of guy, and so all of these appeals from people have hardened him the other way.  I think he became a little defiant.  I know I would.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yeah, that\u2019s my nature to a point, but when he sits there and says, you know, he doesn\u2019t want to harm the party, he doesn\u2019t want to do this, he\u2019s totally detached that he is harming it and he has totally decreased his chances of winning. He\u2019s totally decreased our chances of taking over the Senate and, you know &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, now, wait, if you\u2019re saying he\u2019s an engineer, he ought to be able to calculate that, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Right, but he\u2019s still stuck on that one little statement, this can\u2019t possibly, you know, this is such a small percentage of everything I\u2019ve done in my life, that that shouldn\u2019t preclude him, and he\u2019s not comprehending that, hey, this one little thing, this can\u2019t possibly explode into this big of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  So are you making these assessments here as a means of excusing him?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  No.  I\u2019m angry with what his decision is.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  All right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  What I\u2019m trying to say is, it ticks me off in that he can\u2019t separate himself from that.  No, I\u2019m not excusing him at all.  I\u2019m definitely not on his side.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  All right.  I\u2019m not accusing you.  I just wanted to understand the vantage point that you were making this assessment from.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Oh, gosh.  No, I\u2019m for taking over whatever we possibly can, and have the best chance at it, and I just see him throwing us under a rock here. That\u2019s probably not the best term, but, you know, just making it a little bit more difficult when we don\u2019t need any distraction.  And he\u2019s a distraction, and he says, &#8220;This isn\u2019t about me,&#8221; is what he says.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No.  See, it is.  He put himself above everything else.  He did the exact opposite.  He put himself above everything. The future of the country, the cause, getting rid of Obama, he put himself above that. He\u2019s elevating himself to be more important than that, and that\u2019s what\u2019s irritating people.  Most people, I think, if they try to put themselves in a similar circumstance, let\u2019s say that you fervently believe that your country is hanging by a thread and you do something to weaken the thread, most people will say, &#8220;I don\u2019t want to hurt the cause. I do not want set this effort back,&#8221; and most people probably think of themselves behaving that way.  They would put everything else above their own personal ambition, given the objective here.  And when he doesn\u2019t do that, that\u2019s what rubbed people the wrong way afterwards, I think.  But you could be on to something with his engineering background and so forth.  I appreciate the input, Michael.  Thanks much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Croton-on-Hudson in New York. I have spent many a Saturday afternoon at Croton-on-Hudson. It is a gorgeous place. I played Saturday afternoon water volleyball games at Roger Ailes\u2019 place, way, way back in the early nineties. 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