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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to do the Female Summit today, by the way. We will do the Female Summit in the third hour of the program today, and the reason we\u2019re going to do the Female Summit is Public Policy Polling in North Carolina published a national poll on your beloved host, El Rushbo. They found I\u2019ve got 46% approval, 43% disapproval, but I got a huge gender gap. My gender gap between men and women is 31%. Thirty-one percent is the differential between male approval and female approval. So yesterday I said, ‘What can I do about this? What could be done? What is the explanation for this?\u2019 <\/line><\/line>‘Cause I\u2019m just a harmless little fuzzball. I\u2019m the sweetest, the nicest, most generous, compassionate, confident, cocky, I-know-what-I-want-and-I-know-what\u2019s-right-and-I\u2019m-going-to-say-what-I-think kind of guy you could run into, and I\u2019m saying to myself, ‘What could be the explanation for the gender gap? I should try to understand it myself.\u2019 Why not do a Female Summit, with breakout groups and the whole thing, like Obama does, on Social Security and electricity and procurement. So we\u2019re going to do a Female Summit. It may take more than one day, depending on the answers we get. I\u2019ve got a lot so far in e-mail, by the way. But what will happen, we\u2019re going to take calls only from women in the last hour of the program today. Very rarely do I define requirements for callers. But today, I am going to do so. For the purposes of the Female Summit, it would make no sense for women to call and say how much they love me. <\/line><\/p>\n

We already know that there are many who do, and we know why. We need to hear from women who don\u2019t particularly love me, who don\u2019t particularly like me, or from women who do like me who know women who hate me, who can tell me why. But more than that, we need calls from women who will have suggestions for what they think I should do to close the gender gap — and, I must add, some of you may think I should not worry about it. You can say that, too. The only thing off-limits is fawning love, adulation, devotion. We\u2019ll save that for Open Line Friday. But today, the Female Summit must offer constructive criticism and hopefully some solutions, then I\u2019ll take it. You know, on a call-by-call, case-by-case basis. So what will happen right before the final hour, Snerdley will screen all the calls — or he\u2019ll broom \u2019em. <\/p>\n

At the break at the top of the hour for the third hour begins is when we will start taking calls only from women. Now, we\u2019ve done this before. We are highly trained broadcast specialists, so we know it\u2019s going to happen. A bunch of men going to call trying to disguise their voices. We\u2019ll catch you. A bunch of men are going to put their girlfriends or wives on the phone to fool us so that when it\u2019s their turn to get on the air the guy will actually be there. I want to warn you: anybody caught trying to perpetrate a trick on this program and your host will be met with in a most direct, and what you might consider unkind, way. The first moment that I sniff deceit, you\u2019re gone. I will break my rule of never hanging up on anyone and do it today. We\u2019re serious about the Female Summit. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a crisis point in our country today, and we haven\u2019t got time to fool around with jokers, practical jokers. I\u2019m the king of those. I spot them before anybody knows they\u2019re coming. So get ready. Gear up for the final hour today being the first ever Rush Limbaugh Female Summit on the EIB Network. Now, this is not nitpicking, because Obama thinks that there are 57 states. He said that during the campaign. But I need to ask you people a question: Who invented the automobile? Oh! One thing about the Female Summit: sorry, no transsexuals. We\u2019re not going to have anybody who\u2019s had an addadictomy, and we\u2019re not going to have anybody who\u2019s had a chopadickoffamy. We\u2019re going to have women from birth. <\/p>\n

Nothing against transgenders, nothing against transsexuals, but that doesn\u2019t apply because they weren\u2019t polled. Only women were polled in this. So if you had an addadictomy, you can\u2019t call here and say you used to be a woman. It ain\u2019t gonna work. And if you had a chopadickoffamy and you used to be a guy, you cannot call here and say you\u2019re now a woman. You can try it, but it isn\u2019t gonna work. Now, we ask that all of you be honest. We ask that all of you be sincere in our effort here to close the El Rushbo gender gap based on the polling from Public Policy Polling. I just got a note: ‘Can employees participate in the All Female Summit?\u2019 Can employees participate? Well, I assume so, but the employees must go through the regular channels. There will be no preferential treatment shown to callers. <\/p>\n

Nobody will be called by us. There will not be any special super-secret phone numbers. And you know what will also happen here, Mr. Snerdley. (interruption) I\u2019m not going to tell you who\u2019s asking that. It doesn\u2019t matter who it is. I\u2019m just going to say this. What might happen, and it\u2019s I think very likely, is that you will fail — not through any fault of your own, you will fail — and there will be a couple of deceitful, phony callers, seminar callers who will try to convince you of one thing, get on the air and do something quite different. This will result in something that we have done before on this program. What do we call \u2019em? Not caller seminars, but where callers were trained how to be better callers and what made them better. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t called caller seminars, but it was called caller something or other. That might automatically be brought back to life as a result of the caller clinics. They were caller clinics. In the early days of this program, folks, the callers were nice. They were doing everything they could. They were trying, but they were bad, and it necessitated doing caller clinics that I had to explain. The best calls are those that make the host look good, but that does not mean you make the host look good by calling up and going on with endless praise. That\u2019s not what I meant. So we did caller clinics. We could end up probably having one of those as part of the Female Summit. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Welcome to the Female Summit, the Female Summit exclusively all female callers in this hour. The Female Summit is the result of a poll, a national poll by a North Carolina group of Democrats called the Public Policy Polling group, PPP. They did a national poll on me. They found out I have a 46% approval rating, a 43% disapproval, but I\u2019ve got a huge gender gap, far more men approve of me than do women. The percentage of women that approve versus disapprove coupled with the male approval, disapproval, equals a gender gap of minus 31 points. I figured it was time to convene a Female Summit to find out why. The purpose of this hour, accept phone calls only from women who do either know somebody who has a big problem with me who is a woman, or as a woman herself has a problem with me, so that I can hear firsthand just what it is that causes women so many troubles with me. <\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley frustrated at the top-of-the-hour break, he had the perfect woman who hung up, a 27-year-old college student, she\u2019s taking gender studies, and she says throughout her textbook are mentions of me in the most negative of ways, that I epitomize male chauvinism, that I am a male chauvinist pig, that I am the quintessential reason women are being held back in America. And she was going say, ‘It\u2019s no wonder that you have no prayer among college-age women who are taking gender studies because your name is all over the textbook.\u2019 For some reason she could not hold on. Mr. Snerdley has broomed all calls and is now accepting calls only from applicants to our Female Summit. He has a few up there. We\u2019ll get to you in just a moment. There\u2019s one story I want to do before we get to the calls. And, by the way, don\u2019t fake it, because we\u2019ll spot you. We don\u2019t hang up on people here, but we will today. If you try to fake it, if you try to call here and present yourself as something that you\u2019re not, we\u2019ll spot it and you\u2019re gone. Don\u2019t be a guy trying to impersonate a woman. And, by the way, we don\u2019t want calls from people who already like, enjoy, or love the program, because we\u2019re not looking for praise. We\u2019re not looking for that. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking for stories from women who actually have big problems with me and are able to explain to me what they are so I can react to it. We\u2019re trying to get to the bottom of something here. We want this to work, we want this to have an effective climax so that there is something at the end of the hour from which I can learn and maybe improve and get better. We won\u2019t know \u2019til we start taking phone calls. But if you try to fake us out, if you try to — by the way, there\u2019s nothing wrong with transgenders and transsexuals, but no transgenders and no transsexuals. If you\u2019ve had an addadictomy, please don\u2019t call. If you\u2019ve had a chopadickoffamy, please don\u2019t call. We\u2019ll let you in on another occasion. This is for women who have been born women and stay that way. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We are starting on our Female Summit today with a call from Dee in San Diego. Dee, welcome. You\u2019re first up on the Female Summit today. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thanks for having me, and it\u2019s a true, true honor. I owe my listening to my father. I have to give him the accolades \u2019cause he accused me of being a liberal vegetarian, and told me I had to stop listening to NPR and listen to you at least one hour a day. So I started eight years ago and I\u2019ve been hooked. But getting to the point of my friends and associates who are females and their dislike of you and your program, it does have to do with I guess their view of you being pompous and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are these friends of yours like-minded? Are they conservatives?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I have like-minded conservatives and one in particular, you know, she just really detests your program, and she has family members —<\/p>\n

RUSH: She ever listen to it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She has listened to it once, and I was telling your screener that I think you made a great, great point when you said you have to listen for at least three weeks —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Six.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to really get the gist.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Six weeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — of the show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Six weeks. Three weeks not enough.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, six weeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, six weeks. And I\u2019ve not been able to get her to listen. Also, she\u2019s a schoolteacher. Believe it or not, a conservative schoolteacher. <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. See, now, this is something about which I can do nothing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s a woman who\u2019s listened to me one time, she thinks I\u2019m pompous. She\u2019s a schoolteacher, she\u2019s willing to profess her own ignorance by saying I\u2019m pompous after having listened to one day, and she\u2019s out teaching kids? This woman is a menace to society.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, pompous? How does she describe ‘pompous\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think the caller who was before, the 27-year-old had it more succinct than I did. What her view is from the books and how they portray you is I guess a ‘chauvinist,\u2019 and she\u2019s never used that word before, but just from the description —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. But she doesn\u2019t know and so I\u2019m supposed to react to this. She doesn\u2019t know, she\u2019s just thinks, she can\u2019t possibly know after only listening one time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you know how many times I hear negative things about people I don\u2019t know?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s very seductive. ‘Oh, really? That person sounds like an SOB.\u2019 I don\u2019t buy it anymore. I wait until I know something about somebody or meet them or what have you. I\u2019m happy to do the Female Summit here, but I\u2019m too pompous, somebody who\u2019s listened one time? Do you tell her she\u2019s wrong?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. We get in very heated debates quite often.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uninformed debates because she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s talking about, she\u2019s listened one time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s gotta be very frustrating for you. I owe you a great debt of thanks for endeavoring to hang in and straighten her out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I give it my best. Unfortunately for other women, I think too many rely on Oprah, People magazine, and The View, and they just don\u2019t really broaden —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know that, but I don\u2019t want to hear that, I\u2019ll wait to hear that specifically. I want to focus on your friend.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your friend debates you. Now, stop and think about this. Your friend argues — you listen every day. Your friend loves and respects you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: She probably doesn\u2019t think you\u2019re wrong about very many other things, does she?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. But on this, she won\u2019t even listen more than once, and still debates you and distrusts you as her friend on the basis that she thinks I\u2019m pompous?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did she ever tell you what I said or did the one time she listened?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. She doesn\u2019t have an actual quote or specific example.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is the woman married? Does she have a boyfriend?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s married. No children.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s fine. Okay. Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate the feedback. But ‘pompous\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. You know, I don\u2019t know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think I\u2019m pompous?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. I mean there are sometimes, you know, like you start to say something, and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s innate to females, that you\u2019ll start to — I do sometimes start to react but then I know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Like what? Give me an example. Give me an example. Give me an example.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: How about this. How about the last call, or not the last call. Yeah, it was the last call. Two calls ago. Sculptor. Small business. I said, ‘That\u2019s not a bad business, I just watched a movie, a sculptor in Spain lives with two babes, not a bad deal.\u2019 Is that something that you think could maybe give me a problem with certain women, because it\u2019s certainly not conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it\u2019s certainly not family values. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah. But I think like, you know, you make a great point that the public doesn\u2019t want to see women age in politics, when the issue came up about Hillary, and at first, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but see, your friend didn\u2019t cite that. Your friend cited ‘pompous.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to get ahead of ourselves. There may be somebody who will call to talk about that, I\u2019ll deal with that then, but as to this pompous stuff, that criticism, irrelevant, the woman\u2019s never listened, I\u2019m not pompous, I\u2019m not changing that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Our Female Summit, the Rush Limbaugh program, on the EIB Network. After our last call, ladies and gentlemen, we had a call. I\u2019m sure there are a lot of other women out there like this last caller, who said a friend of hers — a conservative friend of hers, a schoolteacher — doesn\u2019t like me at all. She listened to me one time. This is a teachable moment. Here\u2019s where I want to assign breakout groups. All such seminars and such as we\u2019re doing here, summits, have breakout groups. If you know a woman who doesn\u2019t listen or has listened very infrequently who despises me and this program, demand that you and her listen to the program together one day and then you report back to me on what happened. This is a great exercise here for the Female Summit, many breakout groups like this could occur all over America. Deborah in Brighton, Michigan, you\u2019re next on the Female Summit. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First I want to congratulate you on your success in radio and thanks for letting me be a part of your summit. I agree with your politics, but I don\u2019t routinely listen to your show because of certain things you say. The first time I listened to your show you were criticizing a liberal woman\u2019s blog, and I was fine with your criticism, and at the end of your criticism said something to the effect of, ‘Well, at the end of the day she\u2019s a babe so it doesn\u2019t really matter anyways,\u2019 and you were referring to the columnist. After you said she was ‘a babe,\u2019 you know, in my mind and maybe in the mind of many other women listening, you totally diminished what you had said previously about her column. And, you know, in this time I think, you know, conservatives, we really need to pull together. And you, Rush, as a great leader and speaker for conservatism, you don\u2019t need to dilute your message with who\u2019s hot and who\u2019s not. You know, leave that to someone else who has nothing better to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but what if the fact that being a babe is the most notable thing about a particular liberal blogger? I mean, I\u2019m looking for something nice to say after having ripped a liberal blogger for being wrong, because she\u2019s a liberal, she can\u2019t possibly be right, and so I\u2019m looking for something positive. If she\u2019s a babe, she\u2019s a babe. What is…? You know men can\u2019t help but notice these things. I guess you\u2019re saying, ‘Yeah, go ahead and notice, but don\u2019t mention it.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I mean, you know, she might not take that as a compliment. I\u2019m not saying I agree with liberals, but she probably worked very hard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, time-out. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a teachable moment for me. Are you telling me that there are women who do not appreciate…? See, I thought we were past this. When I was in my early twenties, Deborah, in the 1970s in Pittsburgh —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that was the birth of the modern era of feminism; and I\u2019m telling you; if you complimented a woman on her appearance, it was a negative; because they were trained as, ‘Oh, is that all you see? Well, what about my brain?\u2019 It was frustrating to me. You couldn\u2019t open a car door! I\u2019m not making this up. It was a very formative experience to me. Women do not want to be told how good they look because they thought they were being objectified or seen in a lesser stature, but men cannot help this. God created us this way. It\u2019s what ends up in there being babies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but, you know, talking about it on the radio doesn\u2019t make babies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You never know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) I don\u2019t think women appreciate that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The fertility rate of this program has been quoted as being fairly high.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) Well, I think you need to get rid of terms like ‘infobabe.\u2019 I mean, I know you might like being called an ‘infohunk,\u2019 but…<\/p>\n

RUSH: I invented the term! <\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) <\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s creative and it\u2019s artistic, and it is a signature term.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think it might be a big turnoff for a lot of women. You know, when I hear that term, I —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I would say they need to lighten up, for crying out loud! Why do I have to change who I am? Why can\u2019t they just lighten up? Infobabe! Why can\u2019t they laugh? What is the problem with being light and lovable and just smiling now and then? Why must everything be said through gritted teeth and anger?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It doesn\u2019t have to be that way, but you don\u2019t have to label it as an ‘infobabe.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughs) I\u2019m not going to change that. That is a signature. I mean, that\u2019s been picked up. Even if I stop using it, everybody else out there is using it. I guess next I should stop using the term ‘anchorette.\u2019 (sigh) Well, here we go. The Female Summit goes on. Where we going next? This is Rita in Manchester, Ohio. Rita, you\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you here on our Female Summit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m glad to be here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh, you\u2019ve got to stop talking down to people. Maybe men can take this, but women aren\u2019t going to take it very long.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do I talk down? Please help me. How do I talk down to women, or people?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You talk like you know everything and you\u2019re better than everybody, and your opinion —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ve got me confused with Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. (laughs) Well, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama talks down to people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Him, too. But your opinion doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be everyone\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It should be.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with you a lot of the times; a lot of the times you tick me off. You talk down just like I\u2019m a child and I\u2019m supposed to listen to you —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, now seriously, Rita…<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you interrupt people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s only because of time constraints. But, Rita, I really am not trying to talk down to people. I\u2019m trying to inspire. I\u2019m trying to motivate and lift people up. I don\u2019t look at people as children. I probably have more respect for the intelligence of my audience than anybody else in the media. I do not ever think I\u2019m talking down to people. That\u2019s never in my mind. I don\u2019t consider myself better than anybody in the audience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and I have the utmost respect for your intelligence. I think you are one of the most intelligent men I have ever heard speak.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. I thank you very much. I will try to be more conscious of talking down, because I really don\u2019t want to. That wounds me to the heart, because I\u2019m not an elitist. Elitists who are the people that talk down have contempt for people. I have nothing but love, admiration, and respect for all the people of this country, especially the ones in the audience. So thank you for that, Rita. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We are in the middle of a Female Summit, including breakout groups. Female Summit, brought about by a North Carolina firm, Public Policy Polling. I have 46% approval and 43% disapproval, but a gender gap of minus 31 in women. The purpose here of the Female Summit is to elicit feedback from women who have problems with me, so I can learn what the feedback is and perhaps understand better what I have to do to reduce the gender gap. In that vein we continue. This is Kaisha, did you say? Kaisha from California. She is the 27-year-old college co-ed who wants to participate. I guess you\u2019re taking Gender Studies and I\u2019m all over the textbook being maligned and impugned, right?<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Yes. You are specifically mentioned. Do you want me to read it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, a passage or two. I generally don\u2019t like people reading, but we\u2019ll make an exception here on the Female Summit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. It talks about how women who press for equality you describe as ‘lesbians, man haters, and then the words right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh, ‘feminazis,” and it goes on. They\u2019re attacking conservatism. You represent conservatism. They attack ‘neoliberal economics,\u2019 which as you know is Reaganomics. They blame it for the inequality in the system. They blame it that cutting back on the state actually cuts back on jobs for women because the state provides professional jobs and opportunities. It\u2019s sad because, you know, this is directed towards a younger age and there\u2019s no really counter opinion. All you\u2019re taught is you\u2019re instructed to go against conservatism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so basically what we have here, you have a textbook in the Gender Studies class —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that basically is written in a way to get the students to despise, hate, distrust, dislike conservatism and mentions that I am Mr. Conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Therefore — and these women who don\u2019t, most of them, listen, will now not be inspired to listen and will think that I am this hateful leader of conservatives who wants nothing more than to subjugate women into slavery or some other form of bondage?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. They attack it also because capitalism, they claim that, you know, you\u2019ll never get full employment. You\u2019ll never have anyone employed under capitalism, so that\u2019s why you need the government. And there\u2019s no voice saying that conservatism promotes women. There\u2019s no one saying directed to women, ‘Well, conservatism benefits you, promotes you. You know, you\u2019re not dependent on the government. You\u2019re to promote the individual, the individual worth, and not everything has to be fair and equal. That\u2019s what the feminists and a lot of these women in this course, they just punch against that. Everything has to be fair and equal, and any time my questioner asks my teacher, it\u2019s frustrating. It\u2019s like talking to a brick wall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What university or college is this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: California State University, Northridge.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cal State Northridge? Somewhat surprising.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this is a general education requirement, meaning I have to take this course in order to get my degree. They don\u2019t offer conservative studies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you the only woman in the class that has remained immune from the teachings in the textbook?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m not alone. I notice other people starting to question when we discuss things, I see there\u2019s a social worker in the class who\u2019s disgusted with the abuses in the welfare system. There\u2019s an older woman who\u2019s taking this class, and she\u2019s confused. You can hear her asking things because she doesn\u2019t understand. You know, I think she\u2019s like kind of on the fence, if someone would just guide her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, this is quite an indictment. I need your advice. I need your help, Kaisha.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, if anything, can I do? As Mr. Big, Mr. Conservative, what can I do to counter the rot that is in the textbook?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that just being specific and addressing women, that, you know, conservatism embraces women, that we\u2019re not against women, that we are for women. I just think women aren\u2019t hearing that. They\u2019re just hearing the negative. They\u2019re paying money to be told that, you know, Reagan was against women. It\u2019s really wrong. (laughs) It\u2019s upsetting. So there\u2019s no voice out there that\u2019s directed specifically towards women. All the voice that\u2019s out there is that conservatism is negative, defeats women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you something. You know, we\u2019re getting a liiiiittle bit astray here because we\u2019ve moved now into what is the liberal curricula at most universities.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it\u2019s anti-conservative, and it\u2019s not aimed just at women and Gender Studies. It\u2019s found in history. It\u2019s found in political science. It\u2019s found in English lit. It\u2019s found in phys ed. The universities are aligned this way, and the way to rebut this is to just let these women get out of school and grow up. You know, this involves far more than me rehabilitating myself. This is requiring an all-out reaction and response to higher education at large by the entire conservative movement, and that\u2019s one of the areas that needs focus. And there are some people doing great things on it, but I\u2019m not surprised to hear any of this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking at the faces on the other side of the glass here in the studio as you went through all this, Kaisha, and they\u2019re stunned. They can\u2019t believe that women are being taught this stuff about conservatism and capitalism. It doesn\u2019t surprise me at all. I see it every day when people descend into idolatry for Barack Obama. I\u2019ve seen it all my life. You know, I\u2019m not going to sit here and allow myself to be upset at being labeled certain things by these women who are reading it in a textbook, while they\u2019ve never listened to the program. There\u2019s nothing I can do about it, is the bottom line. There\u2019s not one thing I can do about what those women think when I don\u2019t have access to them. They\u2019re in the classroom. That\u2019s a whole different thing that needs to be dealt with. I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it, and it\u2019s highly informative and instructive, but it presents us a new vista, so to speak, as an offshoot of the Female Summit. Before you go, Kaisha, let me ask you a question. Are you still there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m still here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you spoken to any of these women in the classroom about me and this program?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know what? I\u2019m sneaky. What I\u2019ll do is I have your website up while I\u2019m on this online forum we\u2019re in, and any time she promotes things that you talk about on your show, I go to your show; I pull up links that will help defend my argument; and I\u2019m backed up. I don\u2019t ever quote you. I feel like if I mention your name I\u2019ll be slammed and labeled as you know being like an idiot or, you know, out there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kaisha?<\/p>\n

CALLER: But when I use — when I have the links to all the websites and the articles you read, it\u2019s fabulous evidence in support, and it helps me to, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kaisha?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — dispel their points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kaisha?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand. But it\u2019s time to man up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I wanted to let everybody know that I was on your show. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I have an assignment. This is a great opportunity here, playing off of the Female Summit; and that is just find one of the women in the class that buys everything in the textbook, and invite her to listen to the program with you for an hour or two or three, one day. Just one. Not because you want her to change her mind. You don\u2019t confront. It\u2019s nonconfrontational, it\u2019s nonargumentative, but you want her to understand you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want her to understand you. Make sure that you are emotive when you do this. You want her feelings to understand who you are and so forth and we\u2019ll make a little assignment. You stay in touch. You know how to get hold of us now. You report back.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will do that. I love homework. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s great. Homework, and you\u2019ll have fun at the same time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You might have the opportunity to take this as a teachable moment yourself because this woman, whoever she ends up being, is obviously not going to know anything about the program. She\u2019s going to come in with total misconceptions and preconceived notions, and you will be able to explain, delicately at first, how she is — not mistaken or wrong, but how she misunderstands something. It will be a great teachable moment, a great opportunity for you to practice your powers of persuasion.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I look forward to it. This is very exciting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do that. Keep us informed. Report back, Kaisha.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will do so!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our Female Summit resumes after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been sitting here thinking about the phone call from Kaisha and Dawn says, ‘Can\u2019t you do anything about the way you\u2019re being lied about in the textbooks?\u2019 Maybe. I haven\u2019t even looked into it because it\u2019s the old public figure stuff. But it might be something worth looking into. I do know this. If all of a sudden I announced, believably and seriously, let\u2019s say next week, that I\u2019ve rethought my position on life, and I\u2019m now against it, that I\u2019m pro-choice, and then let news slip that I\u2019ve been slapping some women around, I would be a hero in that textbook, like Bill Clinton is. Like James Carville is. (doing Carville impression) ‘Drag a dollar through a trailer park and what do you end up with? You end up with Paula Jones, that\u2019s what you end up with, trailer trash.\u2019 These books, to say that we conservatives demean women? It\u2019s exact opposite of the truth. But nevertheless, she has her breakout group assignment. We\u2019ll hear back from her after the exercise. Who\u2019s next? Denise in Greer, South Carolina. You\u2019re on the Female Summit, Rush Limbaugh. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, well, hello. What an honor, an unbelievable honor, calling you from the state of Jim DeMint, a wonderful US Senator, South Carolina. You have plenty of babes in South Carolina that listen to you and are very happy to be called babes and there\u2019s plenty of Rush Babies that listen to you during the afternoon as well. My friends and I don\u2019t sit around talking about Oprah. We discuss what you talked about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but we don\u2019t want people who love me in this hour.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. Well, I took the challenge originally from my father-in-law, George. A couple years ago he said, ‘Oh, you gotta listen to him. You gotta stick with him for a couple of days. You can\u2019t just listen to Rush for a ten-minute snippet with a child crying in the background, dog barking.\u2019 So I\u2019ve done that, I listen to you, probably four-out-of-five days a week, and if my children are done with their schoolwork they listen to you too because I home-school.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, but again, time is dwindling —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. I took your challenge. During the election, I told a friend of mine who is an extremely conservative, very bright —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but we want to hear about women who are not like you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: She was listening to NPR. And I said, ‘You gotta try to listen to Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 She did, she got hooked. You do not talk down to people, but I think that it\u2019s because women are afraid to be women, they\u2019re unhappy, they don\u2019t want to put a pretty skirt on, they don\u2019t want to be called pretty, they have been given a line that they have to be unhappy, grumpy, they have to be Hillary, they have to be yelling and screaming. They don\u2019t understand that you treasure women, that you treat us kindly. I can tell when you talk to women — I can tell you that you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Well, you know, it sounds like what you\u2019re describing to me is peer pressure. It sounds like a lot of women simply fall to peer pressure to not like me, and it\u2019s easier to just go along with the crowd than it is to stand up and be an individual. I appreciate the call, but again, we\u2019ll get to the love and devotion of the program calls — (interruption) What, Snerdley? Well, she didn\u2019t. Snerdley thinks that he got faked out by the caller. I don\u2019t think so. I think if we\u2019d have hung in there long enough we\u2019d have finally gotten to what she was going to talk about. This woman likes a lot of foreplay. <\/p>\n

Janet in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I have three things you can do to close your gender gap by at least 15 points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. I want to hear what they are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, get your pencil. First one. Make women believe you care more about them than their own husbands do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Second one. You need to project an air of vulnerability. You need to let women think they can roll you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Rule me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Roll.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Roll or rule?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Roll. Well, one and the same. One and the same, very clever! You can do this! It\u2019s not beyond you!<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so I gotta make women believe I care more about them than their own husbands do, and I am vulnerable, I can be hurt.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. They can roll you. And you can do that by just marrying an Ivy League women from Chicago, Ivy League educated women from Chicago, that\u2019s how most Democrats do it. And the third thing to do is stop saying abortion is the sacrament to liberalism. You can still say that liberalism is a religion because women like to think they\u2019re religious, just drop the sacrament of abortion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Janet, you\u2019re trying to emasculate me here. You\u2019re trying to get me to shred every vestige of my identity here, to act like I can be hurt? Everybody can be hurt, but vulnerable? Vulnerable? Leaders run around acting like they\u2019re vulnerable? I get the point, I get the point, you gotta be like Bill Clinton. (doing Clinton impression) ‘That means you gotta be able to lie. I don\u2019t know how to lie.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our preliminary report — and there will be a much more detailed report before our next Female Summit — it appears that women who have hated me have been led to me by other men and then have changed their opinion, which means something I have always known, that women do want to please their men. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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