{"id":321685,"date":"2019-09-12T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=321685"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:45:51","slug":"new-iphone-triggers-trypophobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/12\/new-iphone-triggers-trypophobes\/","title":{"rendered":"New iPhone Triggers Trypophobes"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This story, I was gonna lead with this, but then I decided the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd<\/a> would be upset, so I\u2019m gonna move this to later in the program. Have you heard \u2013 (laughing) you know, Apple announces the new iPhones on Tuesday. But you know what, folks? In fact, in that announcement, there is a marvelous lesson about capitalism in that Apple announcement and in the new phones.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I realize that many of you think that I\u2019m an Apple Fanboy and so when I start talking about it, I have a little bias, which kind of makes you mad because you think Apple is a very leftist, culturally leftist corporation. And you think that I am overlooking that because of my Fanboy status about their products. I assure you that is not true. They are culturally left on a lot of things, but they are one of the most pure capitalist companies going in many ways, not in all, but in many ways.<\/p>\n

This new iPhone announcement on Tuesday, there is a golden teachable moment in it about how capitalism works and about how people don\u2019t understand it. Even journalists assigned to cover Apple don\u2019t understand it. And I\u2019m gonna talk about it, I\u2019m gonna mention it as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

But what I was going to say, the new phones, the top of the line new phones have three cameras so you can see the three lenses on the back. There\u2019s a super-wide, brand-new super, super-wide lens, a telephoto lens, and then the normal, regular lens. Guess what? Here\u2019s a headline from the Washington Post. I\u2019m telling you, there is an anti-Apple bias in the media that kind of boggles my mind. They are hated. They are hated by tech media, and they are hated, apparently, by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the Washington Post: “Does the New iPhone Creep You Out?\u201d<\/a> What do you think about the new iPhone is said to be creeping people out? You would never guess it in a million years! You would never guess this! Which is why I, El Rushbo, will tell you.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the rest of the headline: “Scientists” — note, scientists — “Scientists Grapple with Why Tiny Holes Scare Some People.”\u00a0The three camera lenses are causing people to have panic attacks when they simply see a photo of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Apple debuted its newest iPhones on Tuesday, a striking new feature took center stage: a three-lens setup that puts a near-professional camera in the hands of anyone who can afford,\u201d a thousand dollars or $1100 to buy one. \u201cThree lenses are a lot better than two,\u201d unless they send you into fear and disgust.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThat is the unexpected reaction \u2013” ready? \u201c– of thousands of Apple fans,\u201d on social media sharing their fears as the images spread. One Twitter user wrote, ” The new iPhone is creeping me … out with the three little cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twitter. Here we go. Twitter. Here it is. Classic. Some anonymous goofball on Twitter writes something, and the Washington Post bases a story on it! It boggles my mind how Twitter has become the tool of lazy journalists as a stand-in for mass public opinion! One person writes that the three cameras freak her out. Creep her out. Now we\u2019ve got a whole story on a new phobia.<\/p>\n

You know what this phobia is? Trypophobia, T-r-y-p-o-p-h-o-b-i-a, a fear of clusters of small holes. Have you ever heard of this, Brian? Have you ever have heard of trypophobia? Have you ever heard of it, Dawn? Mr. Snerdley? Nobody\u2019s ever heard of trypophobia. It may not even be a legitimate whatever this is. Syndrome?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe backlash comes from people who say they suffer from an obscure and perplexing condition called \u2018trypophobia\u2019 \u2060 \u2014 a fear of clusters of small holes like those found in shoe treads, honeycombs \u2013” Did you know that people are creeped out and scared by honeycombs, folks? I never heard of this, but they are. Even lotus seed pods are said to make people frightened.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversity of Essex Professor Geoff Cole, a self-diagnosed trypophobe and researcher in Britain who studies the condition calls it \u2018the most common phobia you have never heard of.\u2019\u201d It doesn\u2019t exist. I think this is manufactured and made up, bought and paid for by one of Apple\u2019s competitors and used eagerly and happily by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

And now it\u2019s extrapolated, thousands of people? Now, this phobia, trypophobia is \u201cnot recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.\u201d Did you know that there was one of those? Look at everything you learn as a regular listener here. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. What have I told you about us having to create our own phobias in order to think that we are facing stress? This is a classic example of it!<\/p>\n

Life is so easy in America today compared to times in the past, but the stress that we manufacture is real. It still affects you the same way, but we\u2019re having to invent it. People are having to invent these phobias. And I guarantee you the kind of people doing this, who are they? I guaran-damn-tee you they\u2019re not conservatives.<\/p>\n

The conservative mind doesn\u2019t work this way. To see a picture of a new phone and not see the technological advance, not see the technological marvel, but instead get frightened and panicked? These are the kind of people that go to a socialist convention and worry about gender surnames and sensory overload. They\u2019re liberals.<\/p>\n

“The phobia isn\u2019t recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which psychologists and psychiatrists use to diagnose patients. But self-described sufferers…” Sufferers! You look at an iPhone and you suffer! (Gasp!) Oh, my God! “But self-described sufferers and some researchers claim the images can evoke a strong emotional response and induce itching, goose bumps, and even nausea and vomiting.” There\u2019s mass puking going on on Twitter over the pictures of the new iPhone.<\/p>\n

I guarantee you this is bought and paid for by some Apple competitor — and, if it isn\u2019t, if it\u2019s some legitimate liberal with a fear… Who knows! They are so crackpot today; it could well be a legitimate liberal mental disorder. “Trypophobia was only named in 2005 after the word began appearing on Reddit and in other online forums…” Well, bingo! There you go. Once again, social media makes itself known as an absolute cesspool of one mental disorder to another. There was “a post by an Irish woman named Louise who belonged to an online community of self-described ‘weirdos who have an irrational fear of HOLES.'”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how this all got started. These are not that small, by the way. Compared to other iPhones, these camera cutouts are larger than they have been before. But this is just… You know, another thing. This is the kind of thing 25 years ago, we\u2019d hear about it, and we\u2019d laugh about it. We said, “Nobody\u2019s gonna fall for this,” and now look. We have people who genuinely, legitimately think they have something called trypophobia and they\u2019re puking and get nauseated over a photograph of three cameras on the back of an iPhone — and the Washington Post decides to do a story about it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a picture. Nobody\u2019s even seen the phone yet. The phones have not been released. (interruption) No, this is not the marketing story or the capitalist example of the story. No. I\u2019ll save that for later. I don\u2019t want to go into Apple overload. But, folks, it\u2019s fascinating, I guarantee you. If you know that it interests me, then you know I have a way of magically making it interesting to you. That\u2019s one of the many highly skilled specialties and talents exhibited here. But you\u2019re gonna want to hear this? It\u2019s a fascinating… I\u2019ll tell you what it is, in a nutshell. It explains…<\/p>\n

Well, no. You know what? I don\u2019t even want to tease it yet. It\u2019s about high prices and how (sniveling) “people are so — so — so objecting and mad at high prices, and who do they think they are at Apple?” and this kind of stuff. I want to explain \u2019cause it\u2019s classic. It\u2019s Capitalism 101 being executed flawlessly, and you can see it in the introduction of these three new iPhones that happened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I predicted something, by the way, to Mr. Snerdley. Thirty minutes before the program began, he brought me the story in his Stack about people being afraid of the camera holes on the new iPhone, trypophobia. I said, “You watch. We\u2019re gonna get somebody that claims to be a legitimate sufferer.” He said, “No ho-ho! (laughing) No,” and we got one, and he was telling me, “You were right,” which should not be a surprise now after over 30 years. But, yes, even the staff still doubts me now and then on some things. It\u2019s just human nature. So we\u2019ve got that caller on hold. He\u2019s coming up. He\u2019s in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jeff in Atlanta. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s wonderful to have you here with us, Jeff. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: First of all, I\u2019d like to say I\u2019m in no way endorsing anything the Washington Post says or Twitter kooks. But Trypophobia is definitely real. I\u2019ve had it my whole life, and it sucks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Trypophobia, this is the fear of clusters of small holes, and you are a sufferer?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a sufferer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How does this manifest itself? Can you give me example of a cluster of small holes —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I can.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that triggers it?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: There was a commercial for termite control, and the termites were coming out a bunch of little small holes in a tree. And like they do with all commercials, they ran it a billion times, and every time I watched it, I noticed these little holes. And it\u2019s not a fear, it\u2019s more like a revulsion. And it got to be so bad I couldn\u2019t watch the commercial anymore. I had to put my hands over the holes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was it the holes or was it the termites?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it was the holes. It\u2019s really weird. I thought was the only person on the earth who had it until I read about it couple years ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you seen pictures of the new iPhone with three cameras on the back?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I haven\u2019t. And I\u2019m sure that, you know, Washington Post, they\u2019re doing their agenda. I\u2019m calling you from an iPhone. If I could buy the iPhone 11, I would. So I\u2019m not —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then, you\u2019re not totally affected by it because that\u2019s the source of the story in the Washington Post, that people are afraid of the cameras on the iPhone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think they\u2019re taking a condition and using it to advance their agenda, personally. I haven\u2019t —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s an Apple competitor paying somebody to say they\u2019re suffering from the disease when they see the new iPhone. I think this is a — anyway, look. I don\u2019t have much time. Just need to thank you for — I know it was a brave act to call here and admit to this, and I\u2019m flattered. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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