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RUSH: To Toronto, Canada. Steve, I\u2019m glad you waited and great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? I\u2019m a big fan of yours from Canada.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wish we had an equivalent Rush down here for us to listen to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t have everything. I understand that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I wanted to say is, I think the Republicans are total suckers. I mean, we have a conservative government up here, and when I look at blogs and posts, we\u2019re talking about money, deficits, government spending, the phony green movement, things like that. I look down there, you guys are talking about abortion, religion, contraception. Isn\u2019t this the Achilles\u2019 heel of the Republican Party?<\/p>\n

RUSH: We —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re always letting the libs control the narrative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have all that stuff on our blogs, until the whole question of contraception was raised by George Stephanopoulos on March 7th, and then it came up recently again. You\u2019re right. It was the Democrats, it was Obama who put this into the public dialogue — and the reason he did is because he acted in this totally extraconstitutional way by mandating contraceptives be provided by the Catholic Church and at schools and so forth. That\u2019s what entered all this stuff into the public arena.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And didn\u2019t it take Romney<\/a> last time \u2019cause he\u2019s a Mormon?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The religious aspect?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. This had nothing to do with taking down Romney <\/a>last time. What took down Romney last time was Huckabee and McCain and Charlie Crist.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I remember the Mormon thing seemed to be talked about quite a bit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but in terms of abortion and contraception?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. The fact that he\u2019s a Mormon. It was talked about a lot and I don\u2019t really understand the Mormon religion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh. Oh. You\u2019re introducing a second element of the discussion. Oh. Well, what\u2019s going on down here is that Obama is losing his butt! Obama is in deep trouble and needed to stir up his base. He was really polling poorly with women, and they had to drum up this phony contraception business. The Republicans were not talking about it, Steve. The Republicans didn\u2019t care about it until Obama, in violation the First Amendment, mandated that churches and insurance companies provide it “free.” That\u2019s a violation of religious liberty, and he did this on purpose to stir up his base. Even now, I\u2019m getting e-mails even now from supposed friends and acquaintances and people who feel the need to advise me. I\u2019m making them nervous by continually discussing this, and they\u2019re just begging me.<\/p>\n

“Would you stop it? Would you stop it? They\u2019re saying things like, “Women don\u2019t follow this. Women are not logical! Rush, you\u2019re losing \u2019em. You\u2019re doing great harm! I know you\u2019re trying to help but women don\u2019t think this way, and when they here contraception they don\u2019t think of religious liberty and Obama. They\u2019re thinking Republicans want to keep \u2019em in the kitchen!” Okay. So I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019ll do. No more! I\u2019m gonna put a restriction on Open Line Friday, which we hardly ever do. No more discussion of contraception. No more discussion of abortion. I will not mention anymore that Obama believed in infanticide.<\/a><\/p>\n

Because it makes you so nervous. I will not discuss how Obama is violating the First Amendment and taking away religious liberty. I\u2019m not gonna discuss it. We will not discuss abortion; we will not discuss contraception. We will not discuss abortifacients in any way. We just will not do it. Too many of you people are getting nervous and thinking that I am leading the party down to certain doom and defeat. So that\u2019s it. If you don\u2019t want to hear it discussed, you think it\u2019s a guaranteed loser, fine. We\u2019ll let Romney and Santorum <\/a>and these guys determine what\u2019s talked about, and Obama, and we\u2019ll go from there. We\u2019ll move on to pond scum. That\u2019s what we\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCIRPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, a special treat for those of you watching on the Dittocam. I\u2019m going to put the equivalent of a condom on my microphone. I used to do this on the Rush to Excellence Tour way back in the late eighties. I would put a condom on my microphone to protect people from any profanity that I might utter. The condom would shield it all out, it would never escape the microphone down the electrical circuitry to the Speakers, the amplifier or any of that. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a latex glove here. It will serve the purpose of a condom, and you watching on the Dittocam will watch me deploy this. So if I utter the word “contraception” or if anybody wants to talk about “abortion,” you won\u2019t hear it. Oops, it\u2019s a little tight. Let me try that again. And there we go. See how this works? See how easy this is? And now, ladies and gentlemen, you are shielded, you are protected. Even if somebody tries to, it will not happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s nothing wrong with your radio or your radio station. If you\u2019re just tuning in, I got a latex glove on the microphone. It\u2019s doing the job that a condom would do, \u2019cause Republicans in my audience are tired of me discussing… well, I can\u2019t say. They think it\u2019s gonna drive off all the voters that we\u2019re gonna lose, social issues stuff. So I got this latex glove on the microphone acting as a condom to protect you from anything that you might not want to hear. Let\u2019s see if it works. Abortion. Did you hear it? Yeah, but it wasn\u2019t clear. Contraception. Did you tell hear it? Well, I\u2019m trying, anyway. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, folks, our condom was not actually working. I said the word “abortion,” and everybody heard it, and I said the word “contraception,” and everybody heard it. So I\u2019ve removed the latex glove which was sufficing as a condom from the Golden EIB Microphone. But you get the point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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