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RUSH: As a setup to the story CNN did defending the Breck Girl against allegations that his looks are a factor in the election, a story here that I found Friday night. This is from LiveScience.com<\/a>: &ldquo;Man-Of-Steel Mentality Helps Guys Heal Faster.&rdquo; Now, we\u2019ve heard all the stories over the years about how men don\u2019t ask for directions, despite taking wrong turns all the time. Just being individual, &ldquo;I\u2019m going to do it on my own! I\u2019m going to get there on my own! I\u2019m not going to stop and ask somebody directions,&rdquo; and all these other clich&eacute;s. &ldquo;The stereotypical ‘tough guy\u2019 or ‘real man\u2019 rarely asks for help or shows signs of weakness, because then he wouldn\u2019t be a guy, right? While many scientists have considered these masculine tendencies to be barriers to health and recovery,&rdquo; meaning if you don\u2019t ask for help and you don\u2019t admit your weakness, then that\u2019s a sign of a lack of health and a chance to recover and get stronger and so forth. <\/p>\n

However, &ldquo;a small study of about 50 men suggests the opposite. The man-of-steel mentality, often associated with military men and those in other high-risk occupations, can boost and speed up a guy\u2019s recovery from a serious and\/or traumatic injury possibly. ‘It has long been assumed that men are not as concerned and don\u2019t take as good of care of their health,\u2019 said lead study author Glenn Good of the University of Missouri, Columbia, ‘but what we\u2019re seeing here is that the same ideas that led to their injuries may actually encourage their recovery.\u2019&rdquo; Even though it\u2019s not cited here, I recall the story we had last week that talked about genius men, creative men, and how it\u2019s impossible for them to stay wedded to one relationship. They\u2019re constantly out there needing new challenges and new thrills because they\u2019re easily bored and it\u2019s this high-risk-taking factor of creative men. Einstein was cited as an example. You wouldn\u2019t believe the number of guys I had, friends of mine, e-mail me wanting copies of that to show it around, because after that story, every guy that heard it thinks he\u2019s a creative genius now — as a means of, I guess, granting him the internal authority to proceed as he wishes. <\/p>\n

So here we have this story about how man of steel mentality may get guys in trouble, but it also helps them heal faster. ‘The annual incidence of traumatic brain injuries in the United States is greater than that of all cancers, Good writes in his study, and men account for three-quarters of such injuries. The number will increase if the Iraq war continues, he said. &hellip; But, men who focused on their careers, success, power and competition reported better relations in their community.\u2019 The docile wusses, the pansies, the linguini spines, were miserable, and they\u2019re always waiting for feedback. They\u2019re waiting for approval to make them feel good about themselves because they don\u2019t have the innate ability to do it within themselves. Men who focused on their careers and their success and their power, the man of steel mentality participants showed greater improvement a year after their hospitalization. <\/p>\n

<\/a>”The immediate message here is to encourage psychotherapy along with traditional methods of healing,\u2019 Good said. Therapists trying to help men recover from serious injuries could encourage men\u2019s masculine tendency to seek success but discourage them from believing it\u2019s appropriate to exert power over women, he wrote.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what that is all about. Had to drag that in there. But anyway, just another one of these clich&eacute;s that may be willing to fall by the wayside which, of course, takes us to the Breck Girl. CNN is very disturbed that there are assaults on the manliness of the Breck Girl that are taking place out there. Carol Costello in this report Friday on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.<\/p>\n

COSTELLO: It\u2019s sad how much looks play a part in this election. As for John Edwards, there is an orchestrated campaign. The politics of pretty is getting ugly. Now that he\u2019s front and center and looking fabulous in a laid-back GAP kind of way, [he] has paved the way for his political enemies to brand him the equivalent of a dumb blonde. Take a peek at Rush Limbaugh\u2019s website. Edwards appears in a wig, and Limbaugh often refers to him in feminine terms.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Also we\u2019ve decided any further John Edwards news we will use this tune as official update theme for the Breck Girl.<\/p>\n

CNN AUDIO: (Helen Reddy\u2019s ‘I am Woman.\u2019) <\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Are you listening, Ann Coulter? <\/p>\n

<\/a>COSTELLO: All of this climaxed with neocon Ann Coulter\u2019s now infamous Edwards slur. Some say it was meant to further feminize Edwards, to make him appear weak. As to why neocons would pick on John Edwards? Well, one pundit says some believe Edwards is the guy who will eventually move to the head of the pack, and this is the strategy they\u2019re using to cut him down early. Others told me it was just mean-spirited fun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is a pathetic report. In the first place we don\u2019t use Helen Reddy, Carol. We use the Breck Girl singing the song. I\u2019ll let you hear it. We\u2019ve been calling him the Breck Girl since 2004. Where have you been? It was a woman who referred to him as potentially the first female president. It was Kate Michelman<\/a> who said that of all the men out there, John Edwards has the greatest ability to get in touch with women. For some reason he understands them better. Of course, this led to the claim just like Bill Clinton is the first black president, that the Breck Girl could be the first female president. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re just reacting here to what Democrats are saying out there. Well, we did invent the Breck Girl. It\u2019s a take-off on the hair. <\/p>\n

Now, Carol Costello. Somebody call her up, and tell her next time she does this report, this is the tune to use. This is the official John Edwards Breck Girl Update Theme Song. <\/p>\n

(Playing ‘I am Woman\u2019 parody song.) <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, there you have it. A little bit of ‘I am Woman.\u2019 That\u2019s Paul Shanklin\u2019s vocal portrayal there impersonating the Breck Girl. How about the opening line of Carol Costello\u2019s story, &ldquo;It\u2019s sad how much looks play a part in this election. As for John Edwards, there may be an orchestrated campaign out there.&rdquo; Carol, we\u2019re not part of anything that\u2019s orchestrated here. We are the leaders — and if there are followers, more power to us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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