{"id":15979,"date":"2012-04-12T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:17:38","slug":"obama_regime_declares_war_on_moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/12\/obama_regime_declares_war_on_moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Regime Declares War on Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What a great teachable moment. What a fabulously wonderful and welcome teachable moment about the hostility on the left for average, ordinary Americans. It\u2019s just wonderful. It\u2019s such a great opportunity. And we\u2019re gonna explore it as deeply as necessary to make the point to you. In addition, everybody is shocked and surprised the unemployment number is up, unexpectedly, new claims for unemployment. The media is laughing now. Even CBS is laughing at Obama and his focus on the Buffett Rule<\/a>. Dana Milbank is laughing. Ezra Klein: George Bush tax cuts worked. The Democrats actually admit this. All we\u2019re talking about is raising rates on the top 2%. Yeah, yeah, Washington Post, Ezra Klein, the new wunderkind. <\/p>\n

Yeah, and we got the George Zimmerman arrest to discuss. A lot of pressure, by the way, in Florida on this. What\u2019s the name of the law down there? Stand Your Ground. I think we need to change the name, \u2019cause they\u2019re trying to get rid of it, when in fact it\u2019s not to blame for anything, but how about changing the name of the law to Resist We Much? Instead of Stand Your Ground, Resist We Much. You\u2019d have to pay Sharpton a royalty, but I\u2019m sure that Eric Holder could see to that. The Resist We Much law. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, hi, folks. How are you? Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute. Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. <\/p>\n

What? What\u2019s the question? I\u2019ll get into that, I\u2019m gonna get into that in just a second. I\u2019ve gotta do this Hilary Rosen stuff here, because this is big, and because it\u2019s such a teachable moment. This is such an illustration of who these people are, the left. It\u2019s such an illustration of the phoniness of feminism. It is an illustration of the absolute hostility that the left has for women <\/a>who stay at home. I thought this issue of stay-at-home moms and so forth, remember the original objective of feminism was equal pay for equal work, and now we find out in the White House that women are underpaid. Women make 18% less than men make in the Obama White House. That was the original organizing moment, supposedly, about feminism. <\/p>\n

Now we find out that there is genuine hostility for women<\/a> who do not work, who only stay at home and raise their families. So the Obama administration has just effectively, whether they know it or not, launched a War on Motherhood <\/a>via Hilary Rosen on CNN <\/a>last night. Obama and the Democrats are not content to just divide men and women. They want to go deeper and divide working mothers from stay-at-home mothers, and they want to attach the virtue to working mothers and assign no virtue to stay-at-home moms. <\/p>\n

Now, you talk to most women, even those who consider themselves feminists and got caught up this way back in the seventies, they will tell you that they thought that was a battle that they fought and won and ended years ago. <\/line><\/p>\n

But I, El Rushbo, have known that there\u2019s always been hostility for women who don\u2019t go to work. They are letting down the sisterhood. This has been one of my main contentions throughout the entire history of this program. But in one fell swoop, Hilary Rosen has reopened this wound and is allowing everybody to see in that the real hostility — and how is this gonna play with all those precious independents? The real hostility is for women who stay at home. And make no mistake: Hilary Rosen was hostile. She was hostile in her original comment and she was hostile as she ratcheted it up after the original comments. <\/p>\n

Go to the audio sound bites. Last night on CNN Anderson Cooper. The guest was Hilary Rosen, and they\u2019re talking about Romney\u2019s appeal to women and this War on Women which, by the way, the Democrats are now saying that they never called it that. The Democrats are saying it\u2019s a Republican term. We never called it the War on Women. They are sending out fundraising appeals with the War on Women name in them. Pelosi has sent one out. They\u2019re all over the place. Obama refused to condemn the term War on Women when asked about it. They\u2019re literally denying what they are saying. So here is Hilary Rosen, she\u2019s upset that Romney cited his wife as someone he listens to on economic problems faced by women.<\/p>\n

ROSEN: What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying, “Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues. And when I listen to my wife, that\u2019s what I\u2019m hearing.” Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She\u2019s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why we worry about their future. There\u2019s something much more fundamental about Mitt Romney. He just seems so old-fashioned when it comes to women. And I think that comes across. And I think that that\u2019s going to hurt him over the long term. He just doesn\u2019t really see us as equal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ann Romney has had breast cancer. Ann Romney has MS, multiple sclerosis. She has raised five boys while undergoing breast cancer treatment and being treated for multiple sclerosis. Hilary Rosen\u2019s complaint is that she doesn\u2019t know what life is really like for real women because she doesn\u2019t have any economic problems. So she can\u2019t relate to women who do have economic problems and therefore it is totally erroneous for Romney to hide behind her skirt, which she says later. Romney should stop hiding behind her skirt because she\u2019s never worked a day in her life. She doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about and Romney doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. They don\u2019t have any clue what life is really like. <\/p>\n

Now, these are the people, the same people, folks, you\u2019ll remember who hammered Sarah Palin for daring to go to work when she had a Down syndrome child. These are the same people that hammered Sarah Palin for daring to go to work when she had so many kids to raise. You couldn\u2019t do both if you\u2019re a Republican. You couldn\u2019t do both. You couldn\u2019t have it all if you\u2019re a conservative. If you have a lot of kids and one that\u2019s special needs, you don\u2019t go to work. If you do, you are not exhibiting proper responsibility. If you\u2019re Ann Romney and you have five kids and you have cancer and multiple sclerosis, and all you do is raise your kids, you have no way of understanding what real economic hardship is, and therefore it\u2019s asinine for you to tell your husband about the economic plight of women and it\u2019s stupid for your husband to actually listen to you. This is what Hilary Rosen was saying, and she continued to say.<\/p>\n

Since this remark, Axelrod of the campaign, Messina of the Obama campaign, have distanced themselves. “She doesn\u2019t work for us. She works over at the DNC, doesn\u2019t work for us.” She\u2019s visited the White House 36 times since Obama was inaugurated. That averages out to once a month. She has seen Obama personally three or four of those 35 times. She works with Anita Dunn. She is a PR specialist, by the way, that\u2019s her title. She used to be a lobbyist for the recording industry, by the way. She and Anita Dunn were behind the all of the PR moves that Sandra Fluke engaged in. These are the two architects, Hilary Rosen and Anita Dunn. The Democrats, the Obama campaign, is trying to say, “Whoa, she has nothing to do with us. She works for the DNC.” Yeah, she\u2019s meeting with Obama. This is Obama. This is the campaign. This is the reelect bunch. This is all of them. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter where they are stationed. It doesn\u2019t matter where they\u2019re assigned. They\u2019re all working for the reelection of Obama and the destruction of any opponent who gets in their way. But they\u2019ve gone after the wrong woman here. Ann Romney is not disliked. Ann Romney is not unlikable. Ann Romney isn\u2019t controversial. Ann Romney is not telling anybody else how to live. Ann Romney knows full well what life in America is all about. Ann Romney\u2019s a role model. I don\u2019t care what you think of Mitt. It\u2019s not the point here. She is a role model for living and trying to live a fulfilling life. And the economics here — it\u2019s so perfect. She\u2019s apparently wealthy, so she has no way of knowing what life is really like. <\/p>\n

Do you think her kids are running around with silver spoons? Do you think they\u2019ve been taught to work? Do you think her kids are facing economic reality? Do you think the Romneys are giving their kids everything, setting them up for life without ever having to work? Do you think the Romneys don\u2019t know what life is like in America? You don\u2019t think they don\u2019t understand hardships? Everybody understands it. Even Warren Buffett\u2019s hard up. He owes the IRS a billion dollars, is resisting paying it. But this is who they are. This is exactly how they think. This is how they feel. They are angry, and they are hostile, and they are not compassionate, they are not nice, they have no manners. In the basics of human existence, they are reprobates. <\/line><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t understand politeness. They are rude. They are crude. They are thoughtless. They are selfish. They are mean. And it is all come out in one display in this one appearance, Hilary Rosen on CNN. This morning on CNN\u2019s Newsroom, Carol Costello spoke with Hilary Rosen about her remarks about Ann Romney that she\u2019d “never worked a day in her life.” Costello said, “You said Ann Romney never worked a day in her life. This is a woman who suffered breast cancer, has MS, raised five boys. That\u2019s hard work.”<\/p>\n

ROSEN: I have kids. Being a mom is the hardest job in the world. That\u2019s the truth of it. I\u2019ve said consistently that the issue… Look, Mitt Romney\u2019s brought his wife into this conversation. This is not about Ann Romney. This is about the waitress at a diner in someplace in Nevada who has two kids whose daycare funding is being cut off because of the Romney-Ryan budget, and she doesn\u2019t know what to do. This isn\u2019t about whether Ann Romney or I or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. Most women in America, let\u2019s face it, don\u2019t have that choice.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: And the choices are narrowing because of Barack Obama, not Paul Ryan, and not Mitt Romney. Ryan and Romney haven\u2019t done diddly-squat. Ryan\u2019s idea is on paper. What is she talking about? Waitress in a diner, someplace in Nevada, two kids whose daycare funding is being cut off because of the Romney-Ryan budget? There\u2019s no daycare being cut! The fact that this woman, this mythical waitress in Nevada, may be having problems is because of the Obama economy. It\u2019s because the real economy where that waitress lives and works is shrinking, because Barack Obama is taking more money out of it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s less opportunity for that waitress because of Barack Obama. There\u2019s less opportunity for that waitress because of the Democrat Party, because of liberalism, because of their political beliefs. To try to lay this off on Mitt Romney and now to come out and say, “Oh, it\u2019s not about Ann Romney.” Not about Ann Romney? Most definitely it\u2019s about Ann Romney! There is a genuine hostility for Ann Romney. Ann Romney\u2019s everything Hilary Rosen would love to be. (interruption) What, you think that\u2019s wrong, Snerdley? (interruption) She what? (interruption) Yeah, well, why does she hate Ann Romney? She resents Ann Romney!<\/p>\n

I maintain to you that envy and jealousy are the primary ingredients for hatred and rage. And Ann Romney hasn\u2019t done a thing to anybody, and yet she is despised by this woman. What does she…? All that happened was, Mitt Romney happened to say he listens to his wife! I thought feminism was about couples working together, and husbands taking their wives seriously, and having a coequal relationship and listening to each other and sharing ideas. I thought it was about getting rid of male chauvinism. I thought in the old days Mitt Romney would get in trouble for saying, “Ah, my wife? She doesn\u2019t know anything about economics! I\u2019m not gonna listen to her.”<\/p>\n

In the old days, that\u2019s what Romney would get in trouble for. Today, Mitt Romney gets in trouble and his wife gets in trouble because he says he respects her opinion? Isn\u2019t that what we were taught as feminism took hold? We were supposed to respect the opinions of women. Romney respects the opinion of his wife and now that is reason for her to be ripped to shreds? I know. They\u2019re Leave It To Beaver. They\u2019re Donna Reed. They\u2019re all this. They\u2019re looked as old-fashioned throwbacks who can\u2019t relate to life in America. Well, I guarantee you: You don\u2019t have to live a certain economic circumstance to understand how hard it is.<\/p>\n

But Romney wasn\u2019t born wealthy. Romney worked for everything he\u2019s got. He didn\u2019t inherit this. To say these people don\u2019t understand economic hardship is classic on the part of liberals to try to take conservatives out of the realm by suggesting they have no way to relate. And note, the only way that you can be accredited and respected is if somehow you understand and sympathize and are able to reach out to directly touch failure. Failure is the virtue. Economic depravity is the virtue. People like Ann Romney should be role models for what she\u2019s endured, what she\u2019s had to go through, the way she\u2019s lived her life. Not be derided by a political operative for the president.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: You remember how the media fawned all over Elizabeth Edwards, do you not? She had breast cancer. They fawned all over Elizabeth Edwards while they were fawning all over her faux husband, John Edwards. Even Michelle Obama has been dragged in to do damage control now. Michelle Obama just tweeted,<\/a> “Every mother works hard. Every woman deserves to be respected.” If being a mother is so easy, why all the abortions, Ms. Rosen? If staying at home and raising the kids isn\u2019t really work — and staying at home and raising kids while you have breast cancer and multiple sclerosis is not qualification for discussing or having knowledge of economic circumstances of other people — then why all the abortions?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t women get abortions \u2019cause they don\u2019t want the hassle of raising a child? So it looks like what we\u2019ve got here is we\u2019ve got a war on mothers. The Obama administration has launched its War on Moms. Now, the Washington Examiner has dug up Hilary Rosen\u2019s thoughts on a Democrat candidate\u2019s wife. That would be Michelle Obama. In 2008, Hilary Rosen said, “You know, essentially you\u2019ve taken on sort of the most sympathetic person in the candidate\u2019s realm: the wife — the wife, who has taken care of the children, supporting the husband, doing everything she can because she loves him.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Hilary Rosen talking about Michelle Obama on the same show, Anderson Cooper, according to a CNN transcript May 19th, 2008. Hilary Rosen said of Michelle Obama, “Michelle Obama\u2019s a pretty terrific woman, I have to say, and I think attacking her is a dumb strategy on the Republicans\u2019 part.” I don\u2019t know who was attacking Michelle Obama, but Hilary Rosen defended her because she\u2019s sympathetic: The wife taking care of the kids, supporting the husband, doing everything she can because she loves him. It\u2019s unseemly to attack the wife, Hilary Rosen said in 2008, before she attacked Ann Romney last night.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Michelle Malkin has a great column or a great post today on her website called, “The left\u2019s war on conservative women: We\u2019re damned if we stay at home; we\u2019re damned if we don\u2019t.” And she\u2019s got the video clip of Hillary Clinton back in the \u201992 campaign, saying, “Well, you know, I guess I could stay home and bake cookies and have tea, but I\u2019m not gonna do that.” And there\u2019s a quote from Teresa Heinz Kerry about Laura Bush. Teresa Heinz Kerry: “Well, you know, I don\u2019t know Laura Bush, but she seems to be calm and she has a sparkle in her eye which is good, but I don\u2019t know that she\u2019s ever had a real job. I mean, since she\u2019s been grown up.” So this is a theme.<\/p>\n

We have Hilary Rosen last night: Ann Romney, telling her husband about economic circumstances for women? What does she know? She\u2019s never worked a day in her life. Romney has no business bringing his wife in the campaign. Romney has no business hiding behind her skirt. (What business is it of Hilary Rosen\u2019s what Romney and his wife do here?) As I say, they\u2019ve even trotted out Michelle Obama who tweeted, “Every mother works hard. Every woman deserves to be respected.” Obama\u2019s War on Motherhood. By the way, some interesting numbers for you. Hilary Rosen is a partner with Anita Dunn in a public relations firm that coordinates with the Democrat National Committee and the White House and the PR firm that coordinated Sandra Fluke.<\/p>\n