{"id":213721,"date":"2016-06-02T18:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/02\/thomas_loopy_friedman_has_a_big_problem_with_testosterone_and_balls\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:43:51","slug":"thomas_loopy_friedman_has_a_big_problem_with_testosterone_and_balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/02\/thomas_loopy_friedman_has_a_big_problem_with_testosterone_and_balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas “Loopy” Friedman Has a Big Problem with Testosterone and Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Thomas L. Friedman, who is the foreign policy columnist for the New York Times.  He\u2019s in the upper 1% of 1% by virtue of marriage.  He travels the world on an unlimited expense account, basically concludes that we need to be more like China.  China\u2019s only great because they got great, smart leaders that are arranging life for every citizen. And a great, elite group of really brilliant people will be much better than just leaving it up to chance.  It\u2019s what he really thinks.  He\u2019s written about it over and over and over again. <\/p>\n

He claims that ChiComs are better at infrastructure than we are. They\u2019re better at city planning. They are better at moving people around. They\u2019re better at creating jobs. They\u2019re better command-and-control economy, and that\u2019s what we need to learn from.  And whatever else he writes about foreign policy.  He pops up on TV now and then.  He was on CNN today with Chris Cuomo and they were talking about the 2016 presidential race. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have the sound on. I was occasionally checking the closed captioning, wasn\u2019t paying much attention, but I did notice that Friedman couldn\u2019t sit still.  He was wildly gesticulating; he was leaning forward, his chin sometimes on the table; his eyes were rolling; his eyebrows were going all over the place like Peter Jennings used to do; and he was pounding the table.  And so I said, “What the hell is going on?”  It still didn\u2019t make me want to turn it on and listen to it \u2019cause I knew it wasn\u2019t gonna be anything I was particularly interested in. <\/line><\/p>\n

So when Cookie sent me the sound bite roster, I said, “Whoa.”  Apparently he\u2019s really, really anxious out there over the potential damage to our great culture if Donald Trump is elected.  He said that Trump\u2019s answer to the world\u2019s problems is nothing but testosterone and balls.  And we don\u2019t need testosterone and balls.  That\u2019s the last thing we need.  We got enough trouble with testosterone and balls.  We don\u2019t need any more of that.  And he went on to blame the GOP for making Obama a failure.  You\u2019ll hear all of this in the upcoming three sound bites. <\/p>\n

Chris Cuomo says, “We\u2019ve never had unfavorable ratings like this coming out of the conventions for both candidates.”  Meaning unfavorable, dislikable, unlikable, whatever, both candidates.  “You never had a candidate on trial for fraud and another the FBI looking into them.”<\/p>\n

FRIEDMAN:  We have a guy who is talking every day in this country in ways you wouldn\u2019t want your five-year-old kid to talk.  That\u2019s the choice we have.  I\u2019m not here to defend Hillary Clinton, okay?  If I were nominating I\u2019d be nominating someone else, but we\u2019ve gotta make a choice. And I think if you make a choice for this kind of man who is speaking this way, the impact on the country — do you realize the impact the president has in the language we use around the country, how people respond to that, how people mimic that?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  You realize he\u2019s pretty agitated out there.  He does, he sounds frazzled out there, near his wits\u2019 end.  Sounds like he\u2019s got real problems out there.  I don\u2019t think Friedman understands how they already talk on Twitter, you know, long before Trump showed up.  Hey, Friedman do you know that Lewinskys are now perfectly fine in school? They\u2019re not even considered sex.  But you didn\u2019t worry about that when that was happening.  When all that was going on, when childhood sexual information was being passed on from the White House, you said it\u2019s nobody\u2019s business, it doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s private, it\u2019s not affecting the way he does his job and everybody should shut up about it. <\/p>\n

And now we\u2019ve got Trump and all of a sudden the language that\u2019s out there, it\u2019s horrible, what it\u2019s gonna do to our culture. Hey, it\u2019s been trending this way for years, Mr. Friedman.  It\u2019s called trolling.  I don\u2019t know if the ChiComs permit it.  Your heroes.  But it\u2019s called trolling.  It\u2019s been out there all over the place.  So Cuomo is getting all excited here \u2019cause Friedman\u2019s getting excited.  So Cuomo says, “What you\u2019ve cited, he hurls insults, he hurls insults at people.  But, Thomas, it may be the truth. He may be telling the truth when he\u2019s insulting people.”<\/p>\n

FRIEDMAN:  It\u2019s full of testosterone.  If I were running for president and someone said, you know, how do we respond when the phone rings at three a.m. in the morning, you know what my answer is?  Don\u2019t answer it.  We have never been in a world since I\u2019ve been covering foreign policy, 35 years, that is as messy as it is now.  To come in now like you\u2019re Trump and saying all that\u2019s missing is a little testosterone, someone who has the balls to take down ISIS. Well, I\u2019ll tell you what happens if we take down ISIS tomorrow. We have to go door-to-door in Mosul.  These are incredibly messy situations, and if you treat them as if, you know, it\u2019s just the testosterone issue, he\u2019s telling it like it is, well, you\u2019ll get what you deserve.  You\u2019re gonna get I think someone who is deeply unstable.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  We got a guy here with problems with balls and testosterone.  I think it is patently obvious that we\u2019ve got a metrosexual here very, very nervous about testosterone and balls and discussion of such.  But I want to take you back, remind you of something I said in the first hour of the program.  You know, Obama\u2019s out there getting frustrated at Trump, \u2019cause Obama\u2019s saying (imitating Obama), “Well, just where do you have your magic wand?  What kind of magic wand you have?”  And look, here\u2019s Friedman and Obama, and they obviously think there\u2019s nothing you can do about ISIS. <\/p>\n

Friedman says when the three o\u2019clock phone call rings, don\u2019t answer it.  If Hillary\u2019s there, that might be the best thing to do.  Could be Benghazi on the other line.  Same thing as not answering the three a.m. phone.  What kind of policy is that?  Don\u2019t answer the call at three a.m.?  The ChiComs would answer it.  Leaping Jing or whoever it is, he would answer the call at three a.m., or five a.m., or whenever it came in. <\/p>\n

But, look, if you think that America can\u2019t do something, if you think America is not justified in doing something, if you think it\u2019s not America\u2019s job to do, if you think American leadership is fraudulent and the problem in the world, then of course you\u2019re gonna say there\u2019s nothing we can do about ISIS.  But if you believe in American exceptionalism, if you are a can-do guy, if you believe that good can triumph over evil, if you think all it takes little effort, you\u2019re gonna say, yeah. <\/p>\n

These guys can\u2019t relate to that.  They hear that as testosterone and balls.  And of course they\u2019ve been raised to think testosterone and balls equals predatory, brutish, spare the women and children kind of behavior.  And it\u2019s attitudes like this that have us paralyzed as we are.  We\u2019re nowhere near a can-do spirit.  If we have any kind of a spirit at all, as authored by Obama, it\u2019s we shouldn\u2019t do anything.  We have no business doing anything.  Not our business.  And in the process, we have created all of these circumstances that now somebody\u2019s out there saying they at least want to tackle and try. <\/p>\n

And then Cuomo, getting real excited \u2019cause Friedman\u2019s getting more excited, Cuomo says, “Trump supporters would say that Hillary Clinton checked every box as someone who\u2019s tired, a politician who says one thing and do nothing, that she\u2019s tired and worn out and she fills every check box like that.  What do you say to that, Friedman?”<\/line><\/p>\n

FRIEDMAN:  People are bored and they\u2019re cynical, and that\u2019s a tragic problem.  And it\u2019s a product not only of Obama the last eight years, it\u2019s also a product of a party that spent the last eight years trying to make government in Washington not work so Obama would fail.  And after a while people think the whole thing doesn\u2019t matter.  It doesn\u2019t matter, let\u2019s have fun, he\u2019s incredibly entertaining.  Do I wish we had better choices?  You bet I wish.  I\u2019m gonna choose the one who, in my view, is gonna do the least damage.  We cannot afford eight years to not have a proper education and infrastructure program to waste money building a wall.  You can\u2019t just not govern the country as we\u2019ve been doing for the last eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  The Mexicans are gonna pay for the wall.  Everybody knows that.  Obama did great with the infrastructure?  The Republicans did nothing but stop Obama?  What world is he living in?  The first two years the Republicans couldn\u2019t stop anything.  They didn\u2019t have the votes.  When they finally got the votes, they didn\u2019t stop Obama. They didn\u2019t have the testosterone or balls to stop Obama.  Obama\u2019s gotten everything he wants and then some.  He can\u2019t believe it. <\/p>\n

But according to Thomas “Loopy” Friedman, Obama has been arrested and stopped at every stage.  He has been stopped dead in his tracks.  He\u2019s not been permitted to accomplish anything, and it\u2019s all the Republicans\u2019 fault because of balls and testosterone, and, damn it, we have had enough of that, according to Thomas Friedman at the New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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