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RUSH: Let me get to the audio sound bite number 21. This is yesterday on ‘Lean Forward; It Won\u2019t Hurt Much,\u2019 MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan\u2019s show. He interviewed Virginia Democrat congressional nominee Krystal Ball. That\u2019s with a K. And during a discussion about an alleged double standard in politics regarding racy photos of male versus female candidates Ratigan says, ‘Krystal, can you explain a double standard?\u2019 I saw a picture of this woman, and at first, just to… Since this is about ‘racy photos…\u2019 There are ‘racy photos\u2019 of her out there and she\u2019s complaining about it, just so you\u2019ll know. I happened to see this woman on TV 45 minutes ago now and then I noticed we have the sound bite here on the roster, and I thought I was looking at Demi Moore at first. That\u2019s what she looks like. So now the question: ‘Krystal, can you explain the double standard as you see it?\u2019<\/section>\n
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KRYSTAL BALL: For years women have been delegitimized and denigrated by being portrayed as whores, and I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m on your show saying that word, but I think that\u2019s true. The new twist is that now that we have Facebook, now that so many of us live so much of our lives online and so much of it is recorded digitally, what does that mean? I think I\u2019m sort of the first person who\u2019s had to face this particular thing, but I certainly don\u2019t think I\u2019m the last. So part of the reason that I believe this story has gotten so much traction is simply because we have to ask ourselves as a society, as people of my generation, both young men and young women [who] come of age and decide to run for office: How are we gonna handle this particular issue?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) I should not admit this, but… Let me find the appropriate thing here in the sound bite to react to. ‘I think I am the first sort of person who\u2019d had to face this particular thing.\u2019 Krystal, I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve had to ‘face.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what news outlet has reported on whatever you\u2019ve had to face, but I, El Rushbo, don\u2019t know what it is. Do you know, Snerdley? Have you…? (interruption) I don\u2019t know what it is. (interruption) Well, of course racy pictures. I understand this, too. I was one of the ones who first sounded the warning bell about all these young people who want to vomit every bit of information about themselves on MySpace, My Butt, Facebook, all these places out there. They\u2019re totally willing to give up their anonymity.
\n Everybody wants 15 minutes of fame and will do anything to get on TV. I said, ‘This is gonna lead to nothing good. Nothing good\u2019s gonna come out of this because at some point these people are gonna regret that everybody knows everything about \u2019em.\u2019 We were talking about this yesterday: How many of us could run for office and withstand an average media exam of our life? I mean, how many of us would want whatever we\u2019ve done in our lives plastered all over television by a political opponent? So apparently something she did, or something published about her that she thinks is negative, has happened \u2019cause she\u2019s running for office (First District, Virginia), and apparently it relates to Facebook or whatever.<\/p>\n

There are racy pictures of her out there somewhere, and now somebody\u2019s called her a whore. I don\u2019t know if somebody called her a whore. I know somebody called Meg Whitman a whore, and is not apologizing for it, and I also know that when Scott Brown ran for the Senate in Massachusetts, weren\u2019t all kinds of beefcake pictures of him all over the place? I mean, it\u2019s not just aimed at women. Didn\u2019t he pose for some magazine? (interruption) Well, yeah, but did he pose for some magazine? (interruption) He posed for Cosmo. That\u2019s what he did. He posed for Cosmo, and so it\u2019s not just women. (interruption) Okay, I\u2019m being told that there was a photo of… (interruption) Oh. (laughs) I can\u2019t tell you what it\u2019s a photo of. Never mind. I\u2019ve been told what she did but I don\u2019t dare say it. (interruption)<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I can\u2019t tell you! I\u2019m just learning here through a Flash note what there\u2019s a photo of her doing. (interruption) Yeah. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s years ago, years ago. The picture is six years ago. She sounds kinda young now. I don\u2019t know how old she is now. (interruption) She\u2019s 28? Okay, so this is when she was 22, and the point is she said, ‘Ah, this happened way back in my past. Facebook, My Butt, MySpace, whatever, and I\u2019m the first this has happened to.\u2019 ‘No, Krystal, you\u2019re not. Krystal, you\u2019re not the first person to whom this has happened. This is the thing when I always tell you, ‘People think that history began the day they were born,\u2019 this is what I mean. Everybody\u2019s historical perspective begins the day they were born. So poor Krystal Ball here thinks that this is the first time something\u2019s happened like this, happened to her.<\/p>\n

No, Krystal. We\u2019ve had Fanne Foxe. We\u2019ve Wilbur Mills. Oh, my gosh, there have been legions of them before you, Krystal. (interruption) There\u2019s no trying to coax me to tell you what the picture is of her doing. (chuckles) Now, those of you have seen the picture know why I can\u2019t describe it. You know why I can\u2019t describe what she\u2019s doing. Not on this show. I wouldn\u2019t do it. (interruption) No, it\u2019s not a Monica situation. Well… Wait, wait. No, I can\u2019t. I can\u2019t with ontological certitude say that it isn\u2019t. The picture was taken at a Christmas party. Let me see if I can say this without saying it. Okay? Christmas party. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Rudolph the Red NOSED Reindeer. So people in costume. Rudolph the Red … Nosed … Reindeer is there. Red Nosed.<\/p>\n

Except it\u2019s not his nose. It\u2019s…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another body part. They\u2019re in there looking for the pictures now. The man was supposed to be Rudolph, but wasn\u2019t. I can tell by Snerdley\u2019s eyes he\u2019s found the picture now. Folks, you\u2019ll be happy that I didn\u2019t describe this for you when you eventually see this. (interruption) Yeah, think of Pinocchio. Think of Pinocchio, and think of a… (sigh) Well, then you don\u2019t have the right picture. If she\u2019s not doing anything, if she\u2019s just looking at Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer — if she\u2019s just looking at it — then you don\u2019t have the right pictures. There are nine pictures, all told. If you just found one of them, then you haven\u2019t found the one that she\u2019s… (interruption) Okay, now that you know as close as I can get to telling you what this is all about, let\u2019s play the sound bite again. Yesterday she\u2019s on ‘Lean Forward; It Won\u2019t Hurt Much,\u2019 MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan\u2019s show. She\u2019s running for Congress, First District-Virginia. She\u2019s named Krystal Ball and this conversation is about an alleged double standard in politics regarding racy photos of male versus female candidates, and she is asked to explain the double standard.<\/p>\n

KRYSTAL BALL: For years women have been delegitimized and denigrated by being portrayed as whores, and I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m on your show saying that word but I think that\u2019s true. The new twist is that now that we have Facebook, now that so many of us live so much of our lives online and so much of it is recorded digitally, what does that mean? I think I\u2019m sort of the first person who\u2019s had to face this particular thing, but I certainly don\u2019t think I\u2019m the last. So part of the reason that I believe this story has gotten so much traction is simply because we have to ask ourselves as a society, as people of my generation, both young men and young women [who] come of age and decide to run for office: How are we gonna handle this particular issue?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I find it fascinating she thinks it\u2019s the first time it\u2019s ever happened and she\u2019s the first person it\u2019s happened to. Well, it proves another theory of mine that people\u2019s historical perspective begins with the day they\u2019ve been born. Look, folks, there\u2019s no way I could win this. If I withhold the information all I\u2019m doing is enticing you to go find it. If I tell you where to go find it and you see it you\u2019re going to be mad at me. There\u2019s no way to win here. (interruption) Okay. Okay. You finally saw the one. Did you…? (interruption) What\u2019s the website that you saw it at? Tell me what website. (interruption) All right, that\u2019s where it is. That\u2019s where it is. All right, folks in the audience, I know I\u2019m driving you nuts. This is unfair, totally unfair. I\u2019m not doing this on purpose. I\u2019m not… (sigh) I can\u2019t describe the picture. I wouldn\u2019t describe it. I mean, I could easily describe it, but I\u2019m not going to. And I could tell you to go look at it yourself but if you did you still get mad at me for telling you to do that. And some of you are gonna hear this on the podcast later and you\u2019ll be listening with your kids. I\u2019m telling you this is a no-win, so you\u2019ll just have to use your imagination. If you want to find out what this is all about, you are on your own just like I was.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to tell you, if you go look at these pictures — there are nine of them in total — if you find the website, know this. These pictures are fairly innocuous compared to what the kids are putting up there today. I mean this really is nothing — depending on your generation and age — this is nothing compared to what else is out there because of MySpace, all these sites, cell phone cameras and so forth.<\/p>\n

By the way, you want to laugh? Robert ‘Fibbs,\u2019 the White House press secretary, just told the White House press corps that the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf and Alaska was based on policy process that got done faster than expected. Right, okay, fine, just in time for an election, but here\u2019s the dirty little secret. Somebody called Fibbs and said, ‘What about the permit process? Yeah, you may have lifted the moratorium, but how many permits have you granted for people to start drilling?\u2019 You can lift the moratorium and still make sure there\u2019s no drilling if you don\u2019t give any permits.<\/p>\n

You know, people are still asking me about the pictures. It is a challenge, it is a communications challenge. I\u2019m a specialist. I\u2019m a highly trained broadcast specialist. I\u2019m still struggling for a way to try to explain this to you without getting myself in trouble. The photos look like ornaments you would see on Bill Clinton\u2019s Christmas tree. If you try to conjure that image, the ornaments on Clinton\u2019s Christmas tree in the Oval Office, you\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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