{"id":15695,"date":"2012-05-15T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:26:05","slug":"it_s_the_economy_not_gay_marriage_stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/15\/it_s_the_economy_not_gay_marriage_stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Economy, Not Gay Marriage, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019m not surprised that only 7% of the American people think gay marriage is a top electoral issue.  And if you think 7%\u2019s low, then I need to warn you again to take extra care and caution in fighting off the media narrative every day.  I know on this one it\u2019s been tough because it\u2019s been solid for a week.  And the media has presented this as though it was a win-win for Obama.  Only because checkbooks were opened.  That\u2019s it.  The cause of gay marriage, if you want to look at it as a cause, has not been advanced at all.  That\u2019s one of the things about this that was amazing to me.  And it was so obvious to anybody who listened to Obama, when he went out and finally evolved.  It was a joke in and of itself. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_62426\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaUnemploymentMath.jpg\"\/><BR\/>The president has finished evolving and now has an announcement.  And the president, after having finished evolving &#8212; who speaks this way?  When was the last time you told your wife you have evolved and now you see her point of view?  You might have told her you see her point of view, but did you say you evolved?  When\u2019s the last time you asked, &#8220;Honey, I need some more time to evolve on this.  I\u2019m still evolving.&#8221;  See how far that would get you.  I mean you\u2019d hear, &#8220;What the hell are you talking about, Bozo?&#8221;  But Obama does it and the media swoons and then when he finishes evolving, CNN actually had an infobabe out there, the president was breaking news, &#8220;The president\u2019s evolution is complete now.  The president has evolved, and he has an announcement to make.&#8221; <\/line><\/p>\n<p>His announcement was what?  That he agrees that it ought to be a states right issues.  Well, every state has voted it down.  Thirty-two in a row.  And he just basically in his statement agreed with that.  He did say, &#8220;I think people of the same sex should be able to get married,&#8221; but he didn\u2019t do one thing to move that forward in any way, but, boy, people opened their checkbooks.  This is why liberalism is vacuous, it\u2019s empty.  It doesn\u2019t require substance.  All it requires is intentions.  You can\u2019t examine their results.  If you do that, you\u2019ll see it\u2019s a failure, liberalism is, each and every time it has tried. <\/p>\n<p>Let me ask you this.  Can somebody name for me another species that has evolved on gay marriage?  Can somebody explain to me throughout thousands and thousands of years of human history, when marriage was not a union of a man and a woman, and simply the definition of a word?  The definition of a word and then the actual arrangement, can somebody explain to me when marriage was not?  So now here we are in the twenty-first century, somehow you evolve, you get to the twenty-first century, and all of a sudden that\u2019s the new norm, as though it always has been the norm, finally we\u2019ve caught up with ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll make you another prediction.  And, by the way, I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand anything here.  I\u2019m simply doing analysis.  I looked at the television networks and the new series that they\u2019ve ordered for next fall, primetime networks.  The number of shows involving gay couples, gay married couples, is increased phenomenally.  I mean it is going to be the primary focus of primetime entertainment next fall, in both comedies and dramas.  Now, Snerdley just said, &#8220;Well, who\u2019s gonna watch it?&#8221;  Well, according to you, a lot of people, \u2019cause you don\u2019t think that only 7% of the country seeing gay marriage as a top &#8212; (interruption) 10 or 15?  You didn\u2019t think it was gonna be a majority, you thought it was gonna be 10 or 15%.  Well, I didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Snerdley\u2019s response, &#8220;Well, who\u2019s gonna watch those shows?&#8221;  Well, we\u2019ll find out, won\u2019t we?  We\u2019ll see.  Well, Dawn is saying they\u2019re gonna mix it in with other things.  It\u2019s not just gonna be about gay couples. That\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to tell you it is going to be expressly about.  Because all the people who determine what shows are gonna be ordered and produced for the networks live in that world.  They live in the world of liberalism.  Remember, now, that is a minority point of view in America.  It is a minority number of people, but what do they think?  They think they are the majority.  They think they are the mainstream.  It\u2019s no different than when these networks decide, &#8220;Okay, let\u2019s go green this week,&#8221; and they\u2019ll put their network icon, their logo up on the screen in green to try to convince viewers that they, too, want to save the environment. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_62427\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-blame.jpg\"\/><BR\/>It\u2019s all smoke and mirrors.  It\u2019s simply marketing.  This I think is gonna be taken a little step further.  We\u2019ll see what kind of &#8212; (interruption) well, I don\u2019t know.  We have to wait and see.  Snerdley wants to know if the public doesn\u2019t watch these new shows, will the public then be called names?  If it doesn\u2019t work, you might have people say, &#8220;Well, the American TV audience is not quite sophisticated enough yet to appreciate the importance of our programming.&#8221;  (interruption) Well, okay.  You doubt me.  Can I ask you to consider what happens when you call a cable network to complain about their news coverage.  What do they tell you?  They tell you that you\u2019re an idiot and that you don\u2019t know how they run their business. You\u2019re not smart enough to know how the news business works.  Look at CNN.  CNN is sitting there &#8212; you know, that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15696\">TIME Magazine cover <\/a>should actually have been that mother with CNN breast-feeding as the three-year-old. They\u2019re sitting there sucking.  They\u2019ve got 54,000 viewers, 25-54, in primetime.  Fifty-four thousand in primetime, 350,000 viewers total in a national news network, and there aren\u2019t any changes forecast. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>People ask me all the time, &#8220;Rush, your show wouldn\u2019t survive if your audience plummeted.&#8221;  That\u2019s right, it wouldn\u2019t.  &#8220;Why do they, Rush?&#8221;  Because it\u2019s a badge of honor.  It\u2019s a badge of honor.  They\u2019re sticking with the cause no matter what.  They are not bending to the flakiness of the viewing public.  They\u2019re not bending to the lack of sophistication of the audience.  They may only have 54,000 viewers, but they\u2019re the smartest 54,000 in the country. It\u2019s what they tell themselves.  And then when they get together socially, all the people at CNN, two things happen.  The competing networks behind their backs laugh at \u2019em and point fingers and talk about what idiots they are, but when they\u2019re talking to them face-to-face, they praise them, guts, may even give \u2019em an award on two for not caving and instead being loyal to the cause. <\/p>\n<p>Look at Hollywood.  You know when they have a G-rated family oriented movie it\u2019s gonna go gangbusters, and it does, and many in Hollywood resent that, even though it\u2019s bottom line success. They still produce the stuff that hardly anybody watches but that they win awards for.  When\u2019s the last Academy Award best picture that the mass public saw?  When is the last Academy Award winner, best picture something, that most Americans have seen before the awards?  You watch the Academy Awards these days and you look at the ten nominees now instead of five, and you count on one hand the number you have seen, not the ones you have not seen.  These people can\u2019t take the politics out of anything they do. <\/p>\n<p>So whereas the American people in this very own New York Times poll, only 7% say that it\u2019s a top issue for them in the presidential race.  The same thing\u2019s gonna be reflected in TV ratings and viewings.  I mean, how can it not?  So we\u2019ll see.  I could be dead wrong. We\u2019ll see what happens next fall when these shows debut and what the audience numbers are.  But my only point is, it\u2019s not a mass issue, and it\u2019s a teachable moment again, as so many things lately are, because the media narrative and template is very narrow and they have the things they want to get Obama reelected, and whatever Obama decides to make the most important issue is the most important issue, and to you, too.  If it\u2019s not, it should be, and we\u2019re gonna keep drumming it into you until it is.  And that\u2019s what happened last week.  And then when you see the news that only 7% of the American people think it\u2019s a top issue, &#8220;Wow, I don\u2019t believe it. I thought everybody &#8211;&#8221; Yeah, because you fall prey to the media template. It takes a lot of effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019m not surprised that only 7% of the American people think gay marriage is a top electoral issue. And if you think 7%\u2019s low, then I need to warn you again to take extra care and caution in fighting off the media narrative every day. 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