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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the last time I played a sound bite featuring all-female anchors at CNN, I referred to it as “the clucking hens.” This did not sit well with a young blogger at the Washington Post who had never heard the term and thought that (I don\u2019t remember the exact word) it was despicable of me so soon after the Sandra Fluke thing to refer to achieved, accredited female anchors as waterfowl — uh, domestic fowl, domestic fowl. Chickens. My mother and her friends were known affectionately to me as the Blue-Haired Bloody Mary Gang, and I referred to them as “clucking hens.”<\/p>\n
This is a term of endearment that husbands since the cave days have used to describe it when their wives or girlfriends get together: Clucking hens. They sit there and they chat and they talk and so forth. But this was instructive for me \u2019cause this person (who had to be young) had never heard the term, thought it was outrageous, thought it was insulting and just violated every tenet of political correctness. “Why, how dare anybody say something like that! Here are achieved women. They\u2019ve reached the pinnacle of something. They\u2019re anchors at CNN. And they\u2019re better than clucking hens.” So I\u2019m going to try to learn from this. I will not call them “clucking hens.”<\/p>\n
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But we do have another sound bite of these women. Who is it? It\u2019s Carol Costello, who it has been said CNN has assigned to stalk me, journalistically, and [Katharine] “Poppy” Harlow. Now, that\u2019s a new name. I don\u2019t watch CNN so I don\u2019t know who “Poppy” Harlow is. But anyway, this happened on CNN\u2019s Newsroom this morning. And we have a montage here of Carol Costello and correspondent Poppy Harlow, not to be confused with the actress Poppy Montgomery of some primetime TV show. It\u2019s Poppy Harlow in this case. And they are in crisis over the Occupy protests fizzling out. They\u2019re devastated. They\u2019re terribly upset that they\u2019re not working. And here is that montage…<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: They\u2019re back! This was their show of strength less than six months ago. (Swoosh!) And this is their fizzled fury today. This is a live picture of a modest turnout in New York City. (Swoosh!) CNN\u2019s Poppy Harlow is in New York\u2019s Bryant Park. Not many people there.<\/p>\n
HARLOW: Not many people here. It\u2019s early. They tell me it\u2019s gonna get a lot busier this afternoon. Uh, it\u2019s a very small turnout, 40 people representing a movement.<\/p>\n
COSTELLO: It\u2019s raining and it\u2019s cold and maybe later on in the day more people will gather. If there\u2019s not a huge turnout in these 135 cities across the United States, what will that say about the movement itself?<\/p>\n
HARLOW: It hurts them. I think they need this to be a day when they really are visual all over the media.<\/p>\n
RUSH: These are news reporters advising this group what they need to do in order to be taken seriously. They need this day to be a big day when they are really visual all over the media. Now, this reminds me of the old days of the NOW gang, the NAGs. (Probably a lot of people don\u2019t appreciate that nomenclature). But the NAGs would call a March or so and ten of them would show up and every network would be there. Ten women marching against whatever. Every network would be there covering it.<\/p>\n
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Who\u2019s on the phones? Mike in Cleveland. Thank you for waiting, Mike. It\u2019s great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, thank you very much for the call. You\u2019ve been actually a really good source of motivation. I\u2019m really glad I got through today.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I just wanted to say, I\u2019m here in Cleveland. Obviously, you have heard about the group of people trying to blow up the bridge here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, they\u2019re being characterized in the media that we\u2019re seeing “right-wingers.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, they were actual members of the Occupy movement.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Of course. They\u2019re leftist anarchists.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, and it has been verified. Our local news reported on it, and someone actually from the Occupy Cleveland movement, the head of it, confirmed that they were members of it. But they said, of course, that their actions were in no way representative of their beliefs or the way that they do things.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How many were there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It was five total. They bought these fake explosives from one of the undercover FBI agents. Some of them were confirmed members of the Occupy movement. So I don\u2019t know what these other two are. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen their pictures, but they…<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, we looked at their Facebook pages and on their Facebook pages they say that they were at Occupy Cleveland.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. So what\u2019s your definition of Breaking News for MSNBC? ‘Cause if these guys were actually a member of an extreme right-wing terror group or an extreme right-wing group, that would be MSNBC\u2019s version of Breaking News.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, what happened in that case is that MSNBC would blow up the bridge —<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: — and then claim that the Occupy guys did it, if they were right-wingers.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So, yeah, I\u2019ve been watching, and, no, they\u2019re conveniently leaving out that they are in fact members of the Occupy Wall Street movement.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m thinking here that Poppy Harlow at CNN\u2019s gotta be disappointed.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It doesn\u2019t surprise me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: She gets dispatched to Bryant Park where there are 40 Occupiers not doing anything, yet in Cleveland five of \u2019em get close to blowing up a bridge. That\u2019s where the real news was and Poppy\u2019s in Bryant Park —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — chatting with Carol Costello about what they have to do to get noticed. The Bryant Park people forgot to blow something up.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They are sending cornstarch, however, to banks and buildings, trying to make it look like it\u2019s anthrax or something. So they\u2019re sending cornstarch out there. By the way, his reference to MSNBC, in case you missed it: About 40 minutes ago, MSNBC had a chyron on the bottom 25% of the screen, the bottom fourth of the screen. Honestly, folks, we couldn\u2019t make this up. I doubt some of the best satirical writers at the Onion could have done this. Scott Ott might have been able to get close. MSNBC actually ran a giant headline at the bottom of the screen that said, “Breaking News! Osama Bin Laden Killed One Year Ago Today!”<\/p>\n
“Breaking News!” at MSNBC was something that happened one year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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