RUSH: And so the left has created another victim, converting a genuine champion into a victim, with the willing participation of the victim. And now we got another Trump slayer on the come. Another person the Democrats hope can bring down Donald Trump after an endless parade of people who failed led by Comey and Mueller and you name it, now it\u2019s Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team who\u2019s gonna bring down Donald Trump. Yes, sir!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Then I find out here that they have this parade from the Canyon of Heroes in New York for the women\u2019s soccer team, and it amazes me. Megan Rapinoe is I guess the captain of that team. It\u2019s a championship team. It\u2019s a team obviously of great women\u2019s athletes, and that be damned. What it\u2019s really worth is its political value in advancing some equal pay misunderstanding and an effort to get Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019ve been invited to go to the White House, and she\u2019s speaking for the whole team: We\u2019re not going to the White House. There\u2019s no way we\u2019d go to the White House. We\u2019re only gonna go to Washington to talk to people that agree with me. I\u2019m willing to do that, but I\u2019m not gonna go.<\/p>\n
Why would you want to tarnish a really terrific and great athletic performance and championship by allowing it to be politicized? And I know she\u2019s LGBTQ. I understand all that. And I understand the left politicizes everything, and I\u2019m asking the question rhetorically.<\/p>\n
I honestly think it is a shame what happens to people on the left. Very rarely do we get high merit performances from people on the left because they\u2019re not programmed or raised to do that. They\u2019re raised to be victims. Now here comes this woman willingly allowing herself to be made a victim. She\u2019s just captained the team that won the women\u2019s World Cup in soccer, and what is she? A victim. She\u2019s a victim of an unfair America. She\u2019s a victim of unequal pay. She\u2019s a victim of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
And she allows this? When I say “allows it,” maybe it\u2019s not a matter of allowing it, maybe she relishes it. But she\u2019s more than willing to have this great athletic performance and this championship be converted into a political blunt instrument in some forlorn hope of getting rid of Donald Trump, which is what all of this is about on the left, however it is described, camouflaged, or couched. It\u2019s all about getting rid of Donald Trump. Equal pay, unequal pay, all because of Trump, all because Donald Trump is a misogynist, all because Donald Trump is a mean guy.<\/p>\n
So after winning the World Cup, the women\u2019s World Cup, Megan Rapinoe admits there is unfairness. The problem for women\u2019s soccer, according to Megan Rapinoe — I\u2019m just reading her tweet — there aren\u2019t enough fans going to games, aren\u2019t enough fans buying merchandise, aren\u2019t enough fans buying season tickets and there\u2019s insufficient word-of-mouth about the sport.<\/p>\n
You know, that\u2019s what really bugs them. Can I tell you what really bugs them? It really bugs them that they can\u2019t draw crowds like men do. And they have been politicized, and everything with women today on the left is a competition with men. And whenever you get to athletics, they\u2019re gonna lose. Women are gonna lose to men in athletics no matter what you do. And it\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault. It\u2019s called the design plan of the universe.<\/p>\n
Now, I saw something the other day, and it was a soccer coach, a women\u2019s soccer coach, is what it was. There\u2019s a belief here that if you\u2019re coaching a women\u2019s soccer team, you can really make them play better, you can really hone their skills, you can really size \u2019em up and prep \u2019em and get \u2019em ready by having \u2019em play against men. And whoever was interviewing this female soccer coach, “Really?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, but once you get past the age of 14, it loses its effectiveness.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWait, what?\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cYeah, as long as the women are playing against 14-year-old boys or younger, it\u2019s worth it. But once the boys turn 15 and 16, the women have no hope, the women have no prayer.\u201d It\u2019s the women\u2019s soccer coach saying this. They\u2019ve got no prayer of beating a team of 15, 16, much less 20, 21-year-old boys or men.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not Donald Trump. It\u2019s not conservatism. It\u2019s not the Republican Party. It\u2019s nothing to do with race. It\u2019s simply the way people are built, the way people were designed, if you will. Once you fail to accept that reality, you fail to accept that there are differs between men and women, “Oh, my goodness, there are? That\u2019s not fair.”<\/p>\n
If you think it\u2019s unfair that men and women are different, you are lost, you\u2019re down a rabbit hole, and nobody\u2019s gonna ever be able to dig down deep enough to save you and bring you back to the surface \u2019cause you\u2019re unable to face basic fact. This is not a criticism. It\u2019s not in any way a judgment. It\u2019s just the way it is! It is just the way things are. It\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault, doesn\u2019t mean anybody\u2019s better or worse than anybody else. It\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not me saying it. It\u2019s a female team, soccer coach. Adult women\u2019s soccer team, once you start practicing against men that are 15 years of age or older, it ceases being productive because they don\u2019t have a chance. Nevertheless, Megan Rapinoe comes along and is upset here. Her tweet on how fans can support the fight for equal pay: come to games, buy jerseys, become season ticket holders, tell your friends about it.<\/p>\n
So according to Megan Rapinoe there aren\u2019t enough fans going to games, there aren\u2019t enough fans buying merchandise or season tickets, and there\u2019s insufficient word-of-mouth about the sport. That\u2019s because of discrimination, see? It\u2019s unfair. It\u2019s because men rule the world and men are making sure that nobody goes to watch women\u2019s soccer. At least not in the same audience sizes, crowd sizes as show up to watch men.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing new about it. It\u2019s always been the case. So she clearly allows herself to become victimized and politicized in order to advance a prong of the ideological demands of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
So let\u2019s take a look at it. From Hillary, to Comey, to Clapper, to Brennan, to MI5, to MI6, to Christopher Steele, to Stormy Daniels, to Michael Avenatti, Megan Rapinoe, and even Jeffrey Epstein, the left\u2019s search for someone to bring down Donald Trump continues.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the only person who can really bring down Trump is Trump. And so far, Trump is not bringing down Trump. But just to give you an idea of how really unfortunate things are. Here is a young woman who has achieved something really unique and great, champion, women\u2019s champion of the world in women\u2019s soccer, and immediately accepts the role of victim. What a celebration.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Went back to the archives and found what I remembered. Anson Dorrance, the best and winningest women\u2019s soccer coach in America, longtime coach of University of North Carolina women\u2019s team. He used to explain that the Carolina women\u2019s team, which was equivalent to the national team through the 1990s, could scrimmage boys only up to a certain age, around 13 to 14.<\/p>\n
Beyond that age, it was guaranteed to be a beat-down that would do nothing to help his team, only demoralize. It\u2019s a male coach of a female soccer team. And what he\u2019s saying here, that his girls soccer teams, women\u2019s soccer teams could scrimmage boys only up to a certain age, around 13 or 14. After that, it was guaranteed to be a beat-down that would do nothing to help his team, would only demoralize \u2019em.<\/p>\n
So he never has his college girl soccer teams play boys teams older than 14. It ain\u2019t me saying it. It\u2019s a very famous girls\u2019 soccer team coach in North Carolina. But, you know, this kind of typifies and exemplifies what has been one of the biggest problems with feminism since the earliest days of its origins, and that has been its attempt, in competing with men, it sought to become men. It wanted to dress like men, behave like men. It was guaranteed to fail under such premises.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s what it became and that\u2019s what it is now. And they\u2019re guaranteed to never measure up when that\u2019s the criteria. So they\u2019re forever accepting victimhood as an explanation for why they can\u2019t accomplish their own intergender competitive goals.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I fully expect to catch hell. In America today, you cannot express common sense fact if it violates some premise of the left. If it violates some political tenet of the left, you cannot hit them with common-sense fact without causing an eruption.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m sure the first half hour of this program, the last 20 minutes of it, created numerous eruptions out there with the simple relaying of factual-based discussion, men versus female athletics. Design, capability, you name it. I think one of the trademarks of the era in which we live is that fact is so upsetting because so many people have constructed false realities, alternative realities, and they surround themselves in some little cocoon where only the alternative reality exists.<\/p>\n
And whenever there is any challenge to it, they can\u2019t handle it. They\u2019ve not been taught to handle it. They\u2019ve not been taught to deal with adversity. They\u2019ve been coddled and they have been promoted, as they believe in this absolute gunk that is the construct of liberalism, and whenever something reaches the border of that cocoon and threatens to penetrate, then there\u2019s abject panic, and then they lash out. And what they attempt to do is silence whoever it is that\u2019s making them so uncomfortable, how dare you say that? It\u2019s not fair. And bammo, we\u2019re off to the races.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t care. I can\u2019t fake it, and I have no desire to dial it back so as to be understood and not be offensive because I refuse to sit here and construct myself and my behavior on the basis that it might offend somebody simply because it\u2019s factual and common-sensical.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, I really think — you know, I know people\u2019s emotions on all this go up and down. But I really meant it. If you want to construct a timeline of sorts as a means of illustration, what we\u2019ve been through and continue to go through the past two and a half, three years, from Hillary Clinton to James Comey, to Robert Mueller, to Brennan and Clapper, to Christopher Steele, to Fusion GPS, to Andrew Weissmann, is to Stormy Daniels, to Michael Avenatti.<\/p>\n
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Now, I can\u2019t mention everybody here, of course. And now Megan Rapinoe and Jeffrey Epstein, the left\u2019s search for somebody to bring down Donald Trump continues. And it\u2019s amazing to watch it. Every potential king destroyer gets propped up and then promptly knocked down, and they go find another one. Megan Rapinoe is the most recent one “I\u2019m not gonna go to the White House.”<\/p>\n
Wait a minute. You\u2019re from the political branch that believes in openness, togetherness, oneness. Everybody getting along. (imitating Rapinoe) “I\u2019m not going to the White House. I am not gonna grace that place with my presence as long as that ogre\u2019s in it. I\u2019ll go talk to people who agree with me, but I\u2019m not –” Donald Trump\u2019s never said one thing — you know, she said (paraphrasing), “Make America Great Again, all that means is taking America back to where gays and lesbians and trannies were in the closet.”<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s not said one word about LGBTQ in anything. He\u2019s never given any indication he believes anything of the sort, and yet here they come trying to pummel him with that? And then trying to impugn the whole concept of Make America Great.<\/p>\n
This British ambassador who has a problem with it has been forced to resign because of the things he was saying about Trump in those leaked cables and memos. Now he\u2019s been forced to resign, and one of his great complaints about Trump was this whole Make America Great thing. Why are people threatened by that?<\/p>\n
I mean, there\u2019s a very sensible answer, if you understand them. America being great shouldn\u2019t threaten anybody. Certainly not our allies. A great America should threaten our enemies, but the U.K. is not one of our enemies. Why the hell be threatened by a great America?<\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s because of the New World Order that\u2019s been constructed. The New World Order does not include a great America. It includes a transformed and revised America that isn\u2019t so much great anymore, in terms of liberty and freedom of the individual.<\/p>\n
America great again stands out to these people because it means the American people remain in control of their destiny, and that\u2019s not acceptable in this so-called world order. Citizens being in charge of their destiny? No way, Jose. Governments are in charge of destiny and not for individuals. In the current world order, individuals don\u2019t matter. Governments do and states do and bureaucracies do and agencies do. But not the individual.<\/p>\n
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Make America Great Again is a throwback and a haul-back, hallmark to the founding of the country where it was the citizen around which and whom everything revolved, not Washington, not the government. That\u2019s the great threat, not to mention the fact that these European weenies are worried that America being great again means that they\u2019re no longer gonna be able to pick our pockets financially.<\/p>\n
But it really is about freedom and liberty for the individual. That\u2019s the great fear. The rest of the world\u2019s not trending in that direction. At least the elites of the world do not want it to trend in that redaction. The elites of the world want to trend it toward not only no boundaries but really no citizenship. Screw citizenship. We\u2019ll replace citizenship with residency.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere do you live?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI live in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, so you\u2019re an American?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you a citizen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019re getting rid of citizenship.\u201d So there aren\u2019t any citizens, you see. There are only residents. And we get rid of the concept of citizenship, replace it with residences, then we can get rid of borders down the road. And when we get rid of borders, what will we actually get rid of? America.<\/p>\n
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Now, I can understand this point of view, as I say, if it was reflected by our enemies. But why would our allies sign on to something like this? Because they are allies in name only. Ideologically they are opponents of ours. They are statists, in some cases Stalinists, in all cases leftists to one degree or another.<\/p>\n
And there isn\u2019t a leftist anywhere in the world who believes in the primacy of the individual and the citizen. Nope. Citizens can\u2019t be trusted, individuals can\u2019t be trusted to do the right thing, live the right way, think the right way, treat the people the way they should be treated according to the way the state demands. Individual liberty and freedom constitutes a terrific threat to leftists, statists, Stalinists, you name it, whatever derivatives of liberalism that you want to describe.<\/p>\n
And the United States and Donald Trump Make America Great Again celebrating the power and the primacy, the relevancy of the individual living in freedom, that\u2019s the great threat. So now here come people who have no idea what they\u2019re talking about, “I\u2019m not gonna go to the White House. I don\u2019t want to meet Trump and I don\u2019t like Make America Great Again. That\u2019s just an attempt to take this country back to the old days where white guys ran everything.”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not what it means, but that\u2019s what they\u2019ve got people convinced. And this is why to the mainstream American population, these people appear to be wacko lunatics. And, folks, these are desperate left-wing ploys. And if you study them objectively, you have to conclude that they are imploding.<\/p>\n
I mean, what\u2019s the latest surefire, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna get rid of Trump with this one, finally we \u2013” How many surefires have there been in the last two and a half years? The Access Hollywood video, how many examples of that? \u201cWe got him, we got him, we\u2019re gonna get rid of Trump,\u201d how many of those have there been? However many, they don\u2019t last long, they fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n
The latest one, Megan Rapinoe, followed by Epstein. And Epstein\u2019s the big one. The idea that Jeffrey Epstein, known pedophile, donor and buddy to Democrats is somehow gonna finger Donald Trump — figuratively speaking — is a joke! Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s gonna bring down Donald Trump? Megan Rapinoe\u2019s gonna bring down Donald Trump?<\/p>\n
Robert Mueller couldn\u2019t bring down Donald Trump. Andrew Weissmann couldn\u2019t bring down Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton couldn\u2019t do it. Clapper, Brennan couldn\u2019t do it. MI5 couldn\u2019t do it. CIA couldn\u2019t do it. Chuck You Schumer couldn\u2019t too it. And now look at Mueller. Mueller doesn\u2019t even want to testify. Mueller is turning chicken on everybody. He doesn\u2019t want to show up!<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ve told you why. He doesn\u2019t want the questions that he\u2019s gonna get asked or be asked by Republicans. He doesn\u2019t want to be asked, “When did you he know that this entire investigation was a sham? When did you know, Mr. Special Counsel, that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign or Trump and Russia? When did you know that?” The answer: The day he took the job, because there never was any.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Mueller, why is every investigator on your team a donor or fundraiser or attendee to Hillary Clinton or Hillary Clinton foundation? He doesn\u2019t want to answer that question. \u201cMr. Special Counsel, did you the Steele dossier, did you attempt to confirm or verify it since so much of was used to propel your investigation?\u201d He doesn\u2019t want to answer these questions.<\/p>\n
I guarantee you he — maybe not the term chickening out, but he\u2019s signaling he doesn\u2019t want to do this. And the attorney general William Barr earlier this week, “I would totally support Bob.\u201d They\u2019re good buddies, you know. “I\u2019d totally support Bob revising his idea to testify.\u201d Meanwhile, look what\u2019s happening. ABC\/Washington Post poll this week. Uh-oh. Trump is kind of creeping up there in the polls, higher than he\u2019s ever been in these left-wing news media created polls.<\/p>\n
I wonder why that is. One of the factors is this insanity and lunacy that\u2019s on parade and on display every day from the Democrat Party, be it their debates, be it their campaigns, be it just their members of Congress going to a camera and microphone, opening their mouths, to the latest, greatest, surefire, “We got Trump now.” Megan Rapinoe and Epstein when Mueller couldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start on the phones with Paul in Salt Lake City, Utah. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s honor to talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, I\u2019ve been listening for days about this equal pay from the women\u2019s World Cup and waiting for somebody to mention the fact that fresh off their 2017 world championship they were beaten 5-2 by a bunch U15 boys club in Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly what you were saying earlier.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have the story right here in my formally nicotine-stained fingers. Paul, I appreciate your call. I really do. This is just gonna tick everybody off. This is the second illustration. We have the University of North Carolina women\u2019s coach saying, “Look. Scrimmages against boys are fine until they\u2019re 14 or older and then our gals get beat down so bad that it\u2019s demoralizing.”<\/p>\n
Look, here\u2019s the thing. It\u2019s ridiculous to have to say this, but I\u2019m gonna say it anyway. This doesn\u2019t mean anything. It doesn\u2019t mean women are lesser. It doesn\u2019t mean men are better. We\u2019re just different. There\u2019s different kinds of body structure for different purposes. Men, for example, until the AGBQ crowd fixes this, don\u2019t have wombs, until the LGBTQ people get around to fixing this, men can\u2019t have babies. Women can. It requires a certain body structure for that act to happen!<\/p>\n
But since that\u2019s a disease, I\u2019m not allowed to talk about it as honestly as I would like to. Women are made differently, designed differently. Whether you believe in God or not, women are designed differently. Doesn\u2019t make \u2019em better; doesn\u2019t make \u2019em worse; they\u2019re just different.<\/p>\n
The story is from April 4th, 2017. The friendly, which means the scrimmage, \u201cthe friendly match came as the U.S. looked to tune-up before taking on Russia on Thursday night in a friendly. Of course, the match against the academy team was very informal, should not be a major cause for alarm,\u201d it says here in giant, red letters. Don\u2019t worry! The CBS story: Of course this match against the 15-year-old boys is very informal, should not be a major cause for alarm.<\/p>\n It shouldn\u2019t be a major cause for alarm because the U.S. women\u2019s team is not competing against men in the World Cup. They\u2019re competing against other women. That\u2019s called fairness. Unless they\u2019re from East Germany, then we don\u2019t know what they are. Well, the old East Germany. Hell, we may not know what they are now in the American league, for that matter. But I don\u2019t want to go there. I could have said that, but I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Who\u2019s next? Amy in Los Angeles. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, I\u2019ve listened to you for years, and I\u2019m so excited that I got through. And there\u2019s so many things to tell you. I was talking last night with one of my best friends, who played soccer in college, and they are disgusted by the behavior of this team. I mean, they\u2019re not showing good sportspersonship. And the globalists that are so threatened by Donald Trump and had to take their masks off, they identify as Democrats, they must be terrified if they\u2019re trying to get these people to represent them.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah. You mean this particular women\u2019s team is representative of the global effort to oust Trump and —<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. And I think cranky Kamala is trying to — they must have gotten the memo to be nasty, to be mean, to not be civilized.<\/p>\n RUSH: Does she need a memo?<\/p>\n CALLER: She\u2019s cranky Kamala.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah. Look. I misjudged the clock. I thought I had one minute more than I had. Can you hang on?<\/p>\n CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s gonna be a few minutes, maybe, if you don\u2019t want to hang on the phone we would call you back but I\u2019ve gotta go right now. We\u2019ll let Snerdley negotiate with you on future appearances.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let\u2019s go some audio sound bites here before we finally move on. Megan Rapinoe last night. We\u2019ll get to her today in a moment. She\u2019s on with Anderson Cooper 690 last night on CNN, and he said, “What is your message to the president?” Now, who cares what her message to the president is? What is she, captain, I guess, of the women\u2019s American soccer team.<\/p>\n So I guess she has to have a message to the president? See, they\u2019re propping her up. She\u2019s the latest great hope to take down Donald Trump. Now, the context here may be that they got an invitation to go to the White House. Let\u2019s listen.<\/p>\n RAPINOE: Your message is excluding people. You\u2019re excluding me, you\u2019re excluding people that look like me. What you\u2019re saying about —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a minute. Stop the tape a minute. Have you ever heard Trump criticize people with purple hair? She\u2019s got purple hair, for those of you that haven\u2019t seen her. I\u2019ve never heard him criticize anybody with purple hair or anything else. Donald Trump is not excluding people. He\u2019s not excluding her. Before this, I doubt he even ever heard of her. But certainly not excluding people that look like her. What does she look like? She looks like a woman with purple hair and some tats. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite.<\/p>\n RAPINOE: What you\u2019re saying about Make America Great Again. I think that you\u2019re harking back to an era that was not great for everyone. It might have been great for a few people and maybe America is great for a few people right now, but it\u2019s not great for enough Americans. It was not a great place for a lot of people. It was a very oppressive place.<\/p>\n RUSH: What are we supposed to take from this? Somebody help me, is she LGBTQ? Okay. Okay. Then that\u2019s what this means. She\u2019s talking about the oppression of gays. And Trump wants to bring that back. That\u2019s what Make America Great Again means. He wants to go back and he wants people like her in the closet.<\/p>\n There\u2019s not a single utterance ever from Donald Trump on the subject. And, you know what? Anderson Cooper doesn\u2019t care, as long as she\u2019s saying it, mission accomplished. Cooper then said, “Can you see a day where you do put your hand over your heart and sing the national anthem?”<\/p>\n So here we have the captain of the American women\u2019s soccer team reluctant to sing the national anthem. You know what I think this babe may be angling for? Kaepernick. She wants a Kaepernick deal with Nike. Damn straight. She\u2019s angling for a Kaepernick. She\u2019s showing Nike she can be just as anti-American as Kaepernick. Give me a chance. Let me do the LGBTQ angle of Kaepernick.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think they would pay her the same. Well, I say that. Who would ever know? We don\u2019t know what they\u2019re paying Kaepernick. We would only know if they pay her the same as Kaepernick if we find out what they\u2019re paying Kaepernick. But she would demand to be paid the same as Kaepernick. But then she would have to perform like Kaepernick. They\u2019d have to design a set of soccer shoes that had the American flag on it, she\u2019d have to say, “Nope, not wearing \u2019em. Don\u2019t sell \u2019em,” and they would say, “Okay. We won\u2019t.” Or whatever. Anyway, here\u2019s how she answered the question.<\/p>\n RAPINOE: Yeah, I\u2019m very hopeful for that. Absolutely. I mean, I think it\u2019s gonna take a lot of years and a tremendous amount of work by this country, but I\u2019m absolutely hopeful for that.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, she\u2019s very hopeful, folks, that someday she will be able to put her hand over her heart and sing the national anthem. She\u2019s very hopeful. She\u2019s very hopeful that someday — it\u2019s gonna take a lot of years, she said. Oh, there\u2019s a lot of work ahead before I, Megan Rapinoe, can do that. It\u2019s a tremendous amount of work by this country before I — well, this country\u2019s got so much work to do before I, Megan Rapinoe, will deign to sing the national anthem with my hand over my heart.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t do us any favors. You know, we\u2019re not all out here waiting in bated breath for this to happen. No, no. Snerdley\u2019s asking me if I think she thinks this is gonna help fill up soccer stadiums. Look, these people are so cockeyed, she may think so. They think this is the kind of stuff that\u2019s gonna defeat Trump. They think this is the kind of stuff that\u2019s gonna take Trump out. They think this the kind of stuff that the Democrat nominee is gonna win saying.<\/p>\n And who can blame \u2019em? They got this idiot corporation rewarding this lunatic pro football player that can\u2019t get a job with fame and wealth for doing this kind of stuff. The more I hear of her the more think she\u2019s angling to be the LGBTQ Kaepernick for Nike. Now, let\u2019s go to today. New York City. This is after the parade, the Canyon of Heroes, for the soccer team. She spoke there at New York City hall.<\/p>\n RAPINOE: If this team is any representation of what you can be when you do that, please take this as an example. This group is incredible. We took so much on our shoulders to be here today, to celebrate with you today. And we did it with a smile. So do the same for us. Please. I ask you. (cheers) New York City, you the mother (bleep) best!<\/p>\n RUSH: (interruption) What do you mean you\u2019re the mother what? You don\u2019t know what to fill in the blank with? She said, \u201cNew York City, you are the mother\u2026\u201d and then put John Kerry\u2019s favorite word there, \u201cbest.\u201d But boy, did you hear how hard it was to get there today? We took so much on our shoulders. You don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like playing against a bunch of 14-year-old guys. It was really hard work to get here.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Grab sound bite number 7.<\/p>\n Christine Brennan, sports reporterette, Washington Post, USA Today, any number of places, now CNN sports, she was on with Poppy Harlow today. And Poppy Harlow said, “You know what? It made me think, does this woman, does Megan Rapinoe have a future in politics?\u201d Now, why would anybody think that? The woman has just celebrated winning the World\u2019s Cup in women\u2019s soccer, and — I love it when people make my point. They\u2019re converting her now into a political weapon because she refuses to go to White House. Yeah, she\u2019s telling Donald Trump what-for. She\u2019s telling Trump that he\u2019s no big deal to her.<\/p>\n Megan Rapinoe on the heels of Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels and Jeffrey Epstein now the latest to take down Trump. And here\u2019s CNN fantasizing, does this woman have a future in politics? What will her next chapter be? And here\u2019s Christine Brennan\u2019s answer.<\/p>\n HARLOW: And which candidate is she going to endorse?<\/p>\n BRENNAN: Yeah. That will not be an insignificant moment in this 2020 presidential campaign. You already see Senator Kamala Harris has been tweeting nonstop about this team. Others have as well, Elizabeth Warren. So when does she decide to join, and maybe with Alex Morgan and a few others on the stage, that would be a photo-op that any candidate would love to have.<\/p>\n HARLOW: Oh yeah.<\/p>\n RUSH: You heard it. Here we have two women on CNN, Christina Brennan and Poppy Harlow fantasizing over who Megan Rapinoe might endorse and what a blockbuster that would be. \u201cOh, my God. That will not be an insignificant moment in the presidential campaign. Can you imagine the photo-op?\u201d<\/p>\n And so the picture is being painted of all of these breathless Democrat nominees, these candidates begging, hoping, praying to get the endorsement and photo-op with Megan Rapinoe on the belief that it will turn the tide of the election. Now, do we need to define the word “delusional” for anybody?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is funny. CNN\u2019s counting down the minutes until the labor secretary press conference where they\u2019re hoping and praying that he resigns. And then they\u2019re hoping that if he doesn\u2019t resign, that Trump shows up to kick him off the stage.<\/p>\n At the same time they\u2019re doing that, they\u2019ve got this graphic up there, “Special coverage: The Robert Mueller testimony next Wednesday.” It\u2019s only a week away. Are they gonna have a seven-day countdown for this? I\u2019ll bet they do. Gotta get Trump.<\/p>\n Greetings. Great to have you back with us. El Rushbo executing assigned host duties flawlessly here at the Limbaugh Institute.<\/p>\n One more sound bite on all this women\u2019s soccer stuff before we move on, and this is — couple of the sisters — oh! Oh. I got an email, I got an email during the break. “Dear Mr. Limbaugh: There are a bunch of videos on Twitter — and I know that you do not tweet or Twitter — there are a bunch of videos on Twitter of the women\u2019s soccer teammates on their float today in the parade and they look like they are roaring drunk and foul-mouthed. It\u2019s really gross, Mr. Limbaugh. I have never seen any men\u2019s winning team act so nasty at their parades.”<\/p>\n Well, I haven\u2019t seen these videos. I mean, I saw coverage of the parade. They did their damnedest to make it look like there were lots of people there. I have to give them credit. And they had people, you know, throwing the confetti from the office building down there. Frankly, I couldn\u2019t tell \u2013 do I even say this? I couldn\u2019t tell which float had the team members on it. There were a bunch of floats, and I couldn\u2019t tell. I mean, there were some strange looking guys on some of these floats. (interruption) What, that was the team? No, no, no, no. Not what I saw. I couldn\u2019t tell. And I couldn\u2019t see any signage.<\/p>\n Anyway, one more sound bite. This is a couple sisters at CNN. You know, one thing I detect in all of this — and it\u2019s not new — it\u2019s a characteristic of the entire feminist movement, how angry it is and how competitive. Meaning competitive with men. Men are the enemy. That\u2019s not news. That\u2019s the construct here. But it\u2019s amazing to me nevertheless \u2019cause I remain at my base level a fairly naive person.<\/p>\n My naivete is informed by my optimism and my trust that things in the end are gonna end up okay, that the good guys are gonna win. And then in the midst of all of this you see these various things, they just cause me great puzzlement. Why the anger at men in general? I can understand being angry at a certain guy now and then or in your life, but this gender-related anger, to me, it\u2019s unnatural, it\u2019s unhealthy, and it\u2019s not productive.<\/p>\n And, of course, it\u2019s being exhibited by people who at the same time claim that they are the exclusive rights holders, if you will, of love and unity and devotion, and yet they are the ones that portray all of this rage at people they don\u2019t know just because of gender differences.<\/p>\n So this morning on CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow, she is speaking with the cohost of her own show, Brooke Baldwin, and they\u2019re covering the ticker-tape parade in New York City for the U.S. women\u2019s World Cup soccer team, and Poppy Harlow says to Brooke Baldwin, “How did you get so lucky to get this assignment?” Meaning, how do you end up here? How did you get the great, once in a lifetime assignment to cover the ticker-tape parade for the women\u2019s soccer team?<\/p>\n HARLOW: That\u2019s what women need to do.<\/p>\n BALDWIN: \u2026to be surrounded. I raised my hand and I wanted to cover the parade and I wanted to get up really early to be surrounded by all these young ladies and boys here as well lining this parade route. Right, girls? Equal pay, what does that mean to you?<\/p>\n Unidentified Girl: Getting the same respect, getting the same everything as men because we deserve it, we proved it and I think we earned it.<\/p>\n BALDWIN: Preach sister!<\/p>\n HARLOW: Clearly, preach, sister. And I love your message, Brooke. Raise your hand for what you want and that\u2019s what all these women are doing.<\/p>\n RUSH: She\u2019s a journalist! She\u2019s joining the story! And one anchor says to the other, \u201cClearly I love your message, Brooke. Raise your hand for what you want. 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BALDWIN: Because I asked for it. (laughter). Because I wanted\u2026.<\/p>\n