RUSH: Have you been following this sex-selection abortion business? My sense here is that this is off people\u2019s radar a bit. Now, I could be wrong. I utilize empathy, it\u2019s a primary characteristic of a successful media figure, empathy with the audience. What I mean by that is, in real terms, the host knows when the audience has their finger poised to change the channel in the car and does something to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen. That\u2019s empathy. I know you never change stations here. Once you start here, you\u2019re hooked here. This abortion story, it\u2019s a social issue story. Some people are obviously very interested in it, but it\u2019s not old enough yet to have taken deep root, but it should, because it\u2019s profound. <\/p>\n
Now, my version of the story is from LifeNews.com. “President Barack Obama appears to oppose the ban on sex-selection abortions that the House of Representatives debated yesterday and will be voting on today.” Now, it\u2019s pretty self-explanatory, sex-selection abortion. To explain this, I want to go back to the late eighties or early nineties. I could remember back in the early days of this program\u2019s history discussing abortion. Yeah, some people liked it, but a lot of people and a majority of the audience got nervous. I remember, I went back to Sacramento, did a Rush to Excellence appearance there. I\u2019m trucking along and I\u2019m doing great and I\u2019m doing wonderful, and I wrap it up with something on abortion as it related to the issue at that time. And I could sense a cooling in the audience. It was an uncomfortable thing. I mean they were passionate about it, but it made people uncomfortable to discuss something that people thought was a very personal and private issue, and they considered it proselytizing. <\/p>\n