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RUSH: It\u2019s day five of the Hillary photo and my brilliant monologue on Monday about our culture addicted to perfection, and where I ask the salient question: ‘Will people want to watch a female president age daily before their very eyes?\u2019 The coverage has now reached Bangkok, ladies and gentlemen. Ellen Wulfhorst, writing in the Bangkok Post: ‘Hillary Clinton is not only battling for the presidency but, as a controversy over insulting remarks on a conservative radio program showed, she is also combating female stereotypes still prevalent in the United States. Influential talk show host Rush Limbaugh, noting his country was obsessed with appearances, exposed the old prejudices when he launched a salvo at [Mrs. Clinton]. Referring to an unflattering photograph of a haggard, wrinkled Clinton…\u2019 I did not describe the photo that way. I didn\u2019t. They are. I didn\u2019t use the words ‘haggard\u2019 and ‘wrinkled.\u2019 I just referenced it. I didn\u2019t even describe the photo. ‘…Mr. Limbaugh questioned whether America would want to see a woman age, as presidents tend to do, while serving in the White House.\u2019 They go on to quote some of the things I said. They go out and talk to these experts. ”We\u2019ve come a little way,\u2019 said Kathleen Dolan, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of ‘Voting for Women: How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates,” says:<\/p>\n

”We\u2019ve come far enough that it\u2019s OK for Hillary to run for president, but we\u2019ve not come far enough for it to be OK for her to run as a creature without gender,\u2019 Dolan said. ‘She\u2019s still a woman running for president and brings all that baggage about stereotypes and image and attractiveness.” I think she\u2019s responsible for that, folks. And then: ‘Remarks such as Limbaugh\u2019s have little influence among voters, said Susan Carroll, political scientist at Rutgers University … ‘People who support Hillary Clinton will continue to support her, and I don\u2019t think a few wrinkles will scare them off, and people who listen to Rush Limbaugh by and large are not Hillary Clinton supporters,\u2019 she said.\u2019 This, ladies and gentlemen, is not entirely true, as Tom Daschle told us after the 2002 midterms. It continued on television last night on the Fox News Channel on The O\u2019Reilly Factor. He had on Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall to talk about the controversy. His question: ‘Bernie, everybody in the world, including you and Jane, you\u2019ve been photographed — me, of course — in an unflattering light. Is it legitimate for the press to use something like this?\u2019<\/p>\n

GOLDBERG: If they\u2019re using it in order to make her look bad, no, it\u2019s not legitimate. It\u2019s out there for two reasons, Bill. Rush Limbaugh made it an issue, and the liberal media hate Rush Limbaugh, so they picked up on it, and because this is one of those subjects that makes some people feel uncomfortable. It\u2019s not fair. It\u2019s not fair that women who are getting older are looked upon one way but men who are getting older are looked upon in a much better way. Well, you know what, it may not be fair. A lot of things are unfair.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bernie\u2019s got it right. That was the point of the monologue! Did you hear the monologue, Rachel? You heard it? All right, then it was the point of the monologue. So my sincerity is now being questioned. Can you believe that? My, El Rushbo\u2019s, sincerity about really being concerned of this unfairness is being questioned. Next, O\u2019Reilly said, ‘Jane Hall, this should go right up your wheelhouse here.\u2019<\/p>\n

HALL: Hillary Clinton is running on experience. We want experience and we don\u2019t want wrinkles in a woman running for president. It\u2019s a double standard. Rush Limbaugh said do we really want to see a woman age as the leader of this country day to day. Maureen Dowd said when you want to go after a woman and you don\u2019t like what she stands for, call her a hag. I think the media are deciding that Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign is in trouble, and this becomes one of those things that people who don\u2019t agree with her put out there and say she\u2019s old and tired.<\/p>\n

O\u2019REILLY: I think it was mean-spirited.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So O\u2019Reilly thinks that it was ‘mean-spirited.\u2019 So, ladies and gentlemen, the story continues to survive and thrive out there and will continue to do so, no doubt, because as I said yesterday, I can play these people like a Stradivarius. I can play them like a violin. I know what\u2019s going to tick \u2019em off. I know what they\u2019re going to focus on. So we\u2019ve been in control of the news cycle on this for five days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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