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So she is in the bathroom of her congressional office, and a Capitol Police officer is asking for her whereabouts. “Where is she?”<\/p>\nRUSH: Are you all aware of the latest with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? It is a fascinating thing to bear witness to. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that she is a sexual assault survivor from January 6th in the Capitol Building. “New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday revealed that she is a survivor of sexual assault.”<\/p>\n
Have you seen this video, folks?<\/p>\n
If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s amazing acting. She was “speaking to more than 100,000 people on Instagram Live, described what she went through during the Capitol riot and addressed suggestions from some Republicans that Americans should ‘move on\u2019 from the Jan. 6 attack.”<\/p>\n
Come on. You can\u2019t keep living off of what did or didn\u2019t happen on January 6th, she was told. “‘The reason I\u2019m getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on … these are the same tactics of abusers,\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez said. ‘And I\u2019m a survivor of sexual assault,\u2019 she continued, her voice breaking. ‘I haven\u2019t told many people that in my life.\u2019<\/p>\n
She “went on to tell the more than 130,000 viewers that no matter what kind of abuse or neglect they have experienced, ‘trauma compounds on each other.'” She “detailed frightening experiences during the siege, including how a man she believed to be a rioter broke into her congressional office as she hid in the bathroom. She recalled hearing him yell, ‘Where is she? Where is she?\u2019<\/p>\n
“‘This was the moment where I thought everything was over,\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez said. ‘I thought I was going to die,\u2019 she said. ‘I have never been quieter in my entire life.\u2019 Her legislative director later told her to come out, explaining the man was a Capitol Police officer.” This woman, need I remind you — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — is a member of Congress.<\/p>\n
So she is in the bathroom of her congressional office, and a Capitol Police officer is asking for her whereabouts. “Where is she?”<\/p>\n
She got frightened for her life. She thought that she was gonna die, folks. She thought a sexual abuser was waiting for her. She told 130,000 people this. It turns out that there was a Capitol Police officer looking to secure her safety, and now she claims she\u2019s a sexual assault survivor because of this. She was not sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen the video. She talks about this. She hid behind the door; she made sure the door didn\u2019t hit her as people were opening it. She was never quieter in her life. She never did a better job of hiding her existence. I mean, this is just not normal. I don\u2019t know how else to categorize this. Now, there\u2019s a story about this at Spectator U.S., and it\u2019s titled, “AOC\u2019s Body Politics.” <\/a><\/p>\n Let me just give you some pull quotes. Here\u2019s the first one: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “who has somehow not yet dried the well of public sympathy for the January 6 storming of the Capitol, linked the experience to an alleged sexual assault she suffered in the past…” Oh. I\u2019m sorry. I misunderstood. I watched the video. I thought she was saying this event was sexual assault.<\/p>\n Apparently, it\u2019s something that happened in the past.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the quote: “‘The reason I\u2019m getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it\u2019s not a big deal, that we should forget what\u2019s happened, or even telling us to apologize — these are the same tactics of abusers. And I\u2019m a survivor of sexual assault and I haven\u2019t told many people that in my life, but when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other.'”<\/p>\n “[T]rauma compounds on each other.” What does that mean? “Trauma compounds on each other.” Now, whatever, this is gross manipulation. It got me. I\u2019m a master communicator. All of you know this. It is my primary job skill, and she words this in such a way as, if you watch the video, you will be convinced she\u2019s talking about this event.<\/p>\n Now, she purposely obfuscates this, I believe, to make it look like she can have it either way. Either, “No, no, no, no,” if you misunderstand; she was talking about this event being sexual abuse. “No, no, I didn\u2019t mean that. I meant I did something in the past.” She wants this both ways.<\/p>\n “This is gross manipulation, and AOC should be ashamed. Not for sharing that she was sexually assaulted — I have no way of knowing whether or not her story is true and, ultimately, it\u2019s irrelevant to the issue of the storming of the Capitol.” What\u2019s it got to do with the issue of storming the Capitol?<\/p>\n “The real story here is that [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] used her alleged trauma as a cudgel against her political opponents. She has weaponized her alleged experience [of sexual trauma] to silence anyone who criticizes her…” This is from the article. It\u2019s a pull quote. Amber Athey is who wrote this, and that is exactly right, and this is classic of how the left uses speech to silence all opponents.<\/p>\n She has taken “her alleged experience [of sexual assault] to silence anyone who criticizes her.” You\u2019re not allowed to criticize her. She suffered trauma. You\u2019re not allowed to be critical. No, she was sexually abused. You can\u2019t prove it; you have to go on what she says as being true. But she\u2019s got no evidence. She doesn\u2019t advance any evidence.<\/p>\n She “had to bring sexual assault into her discussion about the Capitol riot because her telling of events is indeed overly dramatic and,” according to Amber Athey, it\u2019s “delusional. Most people will be discouraged from saying so because they don\u2019t want to be accused of being misogynistic or insufficiently sensitive to her ‘trauma.'”<\/p>\n So most people besides Amber Athey aren\u2019t gonna have the guts to properly characterize this<\/a>. But you ought to see this video if you haven\u2019t. I mean, it\u2019s filled with acting and gyrations of the body in order to transmit the nature of the assault she feared was happening all over again. And it was a sexual assault that she was being reconnected to.<\/p>\n So you have no right to be critical, because this is a traumatic event, and so forth and so on.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Amy in Los Angeles. Welcome. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s always a pleasure to speak to you, and wishes and prayers for all the best for you.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: As you\u2019re talking about President Trump and libraries, it occurred to me that President Trump will do branch libraries. Imagine a Trump presidential library in every state, in every major metropolitan area. They will not know what to do with that.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, that would take a lot of money.<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, people… That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n RUSH: I mean, 50 libraries — or 48, 47, whatever — that would take a lot of money. I guarantee you, if they raise that much money, the temptation to use some of it to go out and buy the latest iPhone is gonna be really tempting.<\/p>\n CALLER: They would be smaller libraries, though. You could have —<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, “smaller.”<\/p>\n CALLER: You could have a bigger one in, you know, where Trump wants it. And then you\u2019d have like a smaller branch library —<\/p>\n RUSH: Ohhhh.<\/p>\n CALLER: — like a sub-library, so —<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s interesting. It\u2019s interesting to ponder. Could drive \u2019em nuts. It also says up here that you think I\u2019m in deep trouble now because you think that I\u2019m gonna make a lot of people mad over my Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comments on sexual abuse. What did I…? What did I do wrong?<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. It really hurts me to think I agree with her, but let me just say that, Rush, you probably never have been — experienced trauma or abuse. And I certainly didn\u2019t —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Why do you think that?<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019ll tell you why. Because as you\u2019re describing what AOC said, what she\u2019s talking about is, if you\u2019ve experienced a trauma or an abuse and then you experience another trauma or another abuse, that trauma piles on. It — it —<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n CALLER: It doesn\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n CALLER: And so she had this trauma on the 6th, and it sort of gins up past traumas.<\/p>\n RUSH: Which is sexual abuse.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s what (crosstalk) by it.<\/p>\n RUSH: So you think I went over and off the rails because I was, what, making light of it?<\/p>\n CALLER: I think that any woman, any person who\u2019s ever been sexually abused or been through trauma is gonna find that insensitive and —<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. I appreciate it. I\u2019m out of time. But I appreciate that. I\u2019ll have to think about this.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. Answer me this. Why didn\u2019t AOC ever mention her sexual abuse, alleged sexual abuse during the #MeToo movement when that was hot and heavy? Where was she then?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: So Amy in Los Angeles says, “You gotta be very careful here because if you make it sound like you are insensitive to sexual abuse, they\u2019re gonna come after you.” The only thing… Look, I have no idea whether she was sexually abused or not. But if you see the video, it does look like that it is something worthy of exploitation, that she thinks it can be exploited.<\/p>\n It raises a question: Why did she never mention her alleged sexual abuse when the #MeToo movement was hot and heavy? Did she believe the sexual assault charges against Biden? What was that? Tara Reade, was that her name? Did she believe those charges what Tara Reade made them, \u2019cause I recall, not very many people on the left gave Tara Reade the time of day.<\/p>\n So she supports Biden now while an alleged victim of sexual assault. Look, you know, there are generational separators here. Like Amy in Los Angeles said, “You obviously have never been abused.” You know, there\u2019s all kinds of abuse, folks. There\u2019s sexual abuse. There\u2019s mind control. There\u2019s manipulation. I mean, I could give you any number of different definitions of abuse.<\/p>\n Now, those of you who have had to deal with something like that know full well that it is, and you have to develop ways of dealing with it — for your own peace of mind, for your own survival, for your own whatever you want to call it. I submit to you that there are many different definitions of abuse. Not sexual abuse, but many definitions of abuse.<\/p>\n There\u2019s Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, which you could say is along the same lines of abuse. That would be PTSD, primarily people that have had very unsettling experiences in combat, military combat and so forth. But they\u2019re just… It\u2019s a generational thing. It\u2019s so prevalent that in older generations, it\u2019s just something that you dealt with.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something that you had to deal with and come up with ways of getting past it. In current generations, it\u2019s not that at all. It\u2019s far more serious. It\u2019s given much more weight. It is considered to be much more damaging in terms of shaping people\u2019s personality and their decisions that they make as they live. It\u2019s just… There\u2019s a new sensitivity to it, and I\u2019m fully aware of that.<\/p>\n But I just think it came out of the blue, and we haven\u2019t heard about this ever. We didn\u2019t hear about it during the #MeToo movement when that would have been the ideal time for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tell everybody, “Oh, this is really good. I\u2019ve been sexually abused.” She didn\u2019t do it then. We don\u2019t know what she did about Joe Biden being accused of sexual abuse by Tara Reade.<\/p>\n But part of abuse is trauma, is it not? And my only assertion here is that all of us experience trauma quite often. I\u2019ve been fired seven or eight times. All but one of them was traumatic. I had to call my parents and tell them. You think that wasn\u2019t traumatic? (interruption) No, I\u2019m not comparing it to sexual abuse.<\/p>\n Also, I was reading you pull quotes from a story at the Spectator U.S. by Amber Athey, so let\u2019s not get totally lost here because some of the pull quotes I read, you might have assumed I was making the statements. But I, as your host am not insensitive to sexual abuse in any way. But I know liberals. I know how they work. I know how they attempt to silence and discredit opposition.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m telling you, this by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a classic, as Amber Athey writes here. “The real story is that [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] used her alleged trauma as a cudgel against her political opponents. She has weaponized her alleged experience to silence anyone who criticizes her…”<\/p>\n And to show you how it\u2019s working, I have a friendly supporter who calls and says, “You better be real careful what you\u2019re saying here. It\u2019s obvious you\u2019ve never been abused.” How is it obvious? Maybe I should be proud that I don\u2019t wear that around. That\u2019s also something generational. You just didn\u2019t talk about things. You just lived your life. You dealt with it as it happened.<\/p>\n Now, you wear the badge. Generational changes, generational shifts. But Amber Athey believes that AOC “weaponized her alleged experience to silence anyone who criticizes her.” I know the left does that. They have become champions at that, in fact.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Jenny in Vail, Colorado. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you called. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi. Thanks for having me on.<\/p>\n RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n CALLER: — because obviously the 6th of January has completely put her over the edge.<\/p>\n RUSH: So you think that it would be more appropriate or a better use of the information to put forth the idea that maybe she\u2019s been so traumatized here that she\u2019s not qualified; she needs to get help instead? That\u2019s what you think would be a…?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, I think we all go through really incredible, horrible, bad times, and we have to seek the help we need at those times. And if this is something that is now opening up for her because of this trauma on the 6th of January, then she really obviously needs to be helped. And, you know, she\u2019s gonna wear the badge, she needs to address what it is to be a victim and how to overcome it.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right. But for us to say that that means she should resign and take this seriously, that wouldn\u2019t be met with any kind of approval. That would be… They\u2019d try to rip that one to shreds as well. But you\u2019re doing this on the basis of compassion? Is that what you\u2019re suggesting, this is on the basis of compassion rather than politics?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, kind of. I\u2019m just trying to think outside the box a little. Because instead of running around accusing each other of, you know, all this stuff, maybe you deal with your problem and become strong for it instead of announcing it to 130,000 people, and you haven\u2019t seriously addressed it in your own life, and so, clearly she\u2019s facing PTSD issues. How well can she represent her constituents?<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. Jenny, I appreciate your input on this. I\u2019m looking for… I\u2019ve got two stories on this, maybe three. Let me make sure. I\u2019m looking for the one that mentions the 130,000. (shuffling papers) That\u2019s not it. What did I do with it? Is it in the Stack? Okay. Well, here the two stories. One\u2019s from the New York Post.<\/p>\n “New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday revealed that she is a survivor of sexual assault. The 31-year-old Democrat, speaking to more than 100,000 people on Instagram Live, described what she went through during the Capitol riot and addressed suggestions from some Republicans that Americans should ‘move on\u2019 from the January 6 attack.”<\/p>\n Oh. See, there it is. She\u2019s reacting to people saying, “Come on, you guys drop it. January 6th. This was almost a month ago. Can we move on?” and she\u2019s saying (summarized), “Look, I have been a victim of sexual assault, and that\u2019s what people say: ‘Can\u2019t you just move on?\u2019 Well, no, because these individual assaults compound.”<\/p>\n In other words, the trauma gets added. It doesn\u2019t go away. The trauma compounds. “‘And I\u2019m a survivor of sexual assault,\u2019 she continued, her voice breaking. ‘I haven\u2019t told many people that in my life.'” That\u2019s true. She hasn\u2019t. She didn\u2019t tell anybody during the #MeToo movement. She didn\u2019t tell anybody when Joe Biden was accused of it during the Democrat campaign.<\/p>\n She “went on to tell the more than 130,000 viewers that no matter what kind of abuse or neglect they have experienced, ‘trauma compounds on each other,'” meaning each incident of trauma compounds on all previous incidents.” So, it doesn\u2019t go away — it gets worse — is what she\u2019s saying with “her voice breaking.”<\/p>\n “‘There\u2019s no, something really big happens to you and then you deal with it and you move on, and then when something else happens to you, you deal with that,\u2019 she said.” She later “detailed frightening experiences during the siege, including how a man,” and this… It gets somewhat confusing because if you watch this video, you almost conclude — it would be a mistake to do it, as we\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n But you would conclude that she\u2019s comparing being sexually assaulted to this person who is opening the door to her office, to her bathroom in her office, shouting, “Where is she? Where is she?” She assumes somebody\u2019s come to kill her, somebody\u2019s come to do big damage, somebody\u2019s come to harm her. And you could mistakenly conclude that she\u2019s talking about that as potential sexual assault since it\u2019s the happened before.<\/p>\n “Her legislative director later told her to come out,” it\u2019s safe; the guy is just “a Capitol Police officer.” She says, “This was the moment where I thought everything was over,” in her bathroom, in her office, in the Capitol Building on January 6th. She\u2019s saying because she was a survivor of sexual assault, this incident compounds on that, and she was really scared.<\/p>\n In other words, you don\u2019t… Her theory is, you don\u2019t get used to the abuse. It\u2019s not something that ever normalizes. It\u2019s something that stays with you forever, and then it happens again, and it only worsens, which was her point. Here\u2019s Amy in Rochester, New York. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush. So nice to talk to you today. And you\u2019re sounding great lately. I\u2019m so, so thankful.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, thank you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. Wait. Wait. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. I\u2019m having trouble following you here. I just want to make sure I understand. You had to go through as a prosecutor?<\/p>\n CALLER: No, no, myself. As someone who really is a survivor of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, you are. (crosstalk) You\u2019re a victim and survivor, and you had to go through a full trial of everything.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right. Yes.<\/p>\n RUSH: And the person accusing harassing you got a life sentence?<\/p>\n CALLER: Right, yes.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. So you experienced all that, the trauma and everything associated. Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right. So when you have Christine Blasey Ford and AOC as someone, you know, pretending — and what they did to Justice Kavanaugh — what it does to people who really lived through it —<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: — is it minimizes or diminishes —<\/p>\n RUSH: What a great example.<\/p>\n CALLER: — those of us who go through it.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right but then to the people who really do go through things, then it makes it… You don\u2019t know who to believe, right, because you hear these stories. And I can tell you as someone… What it did for me is it inspired me to become a prosecutor. I went to law school, went to UNC, and then I got to help people. So I kind of think what she\u2019s saying… I agree with the last caller; maybe she just is unable to do her job. Because I went through it, and I went to law school. I have an MBA with honors, and I\u2019m doing just fine. You don\u2019t forget it, but you can\u2019t let it ruin your life. How about that?<\/p>\n RUSH: Does she sound like somebody that you think is letting it ruin her life?<\/p>\n CALLER: No. She\u2019s saying that to manipulate people who listen to CNN and read the New York Times.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n CALLER: Just like the high-pitched voice that Christine Blasey used.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, yeah, ending each sentence so the uptake. That is done to make yourself sound vulnerable. (impression) “I\u2019m so scared. I don\u2019t even… I don\u2019t feel comfortable being here. I — I\u2019ve just… It… It\u2019s just really scary.” That kind of thing. Yeah, it\u2019s another technique, folks, that has been developed and used, and it\u2019s designed to manipulate people, and Blasey Ford was great at it.<\/p>\n But remember, again, she had the entire Democrat population and committee behind her and backing her up. She had the entirety of the media backing her up and amplifying her allegations. She had Senator Dianne Feinstein backing her up and amplifying her allegations. So she didn\u2019t have to face as much trauma trying to bring forth her story as many other people would because the objective was political.<\/p>\n It was to destroy — keep Kavanaugh off the court.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: And here\u2019s Jimmy. Jimmy in Gainesville, Georgia. Glad that you called, Jimmy. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. Firstly, I\u2019d really quickly like to thank you for all you do for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Leukemia took both my brother and my wife in the past — and speaking of my wife, she was a victim years ago of a violent attempted sexual assault, and she never spoke of it. She never spoke of the physical scares or the emotional or mental scars.<\/p>\n But when she was ever in a situation where she felt physically threatened, it all came back, the PTSD, the whole thing. And my question is, there are plenty of things to question and even attack AOC on. This is not one of them. This is not. You don\u2019t need to go here. How would she not have felt threatened in that scenario? How would anybody not have felt threatened, especially somebody as high profile as AOC with a crowd — and she may not have known it, but they\u2019re outside chanting. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, you have a good point. I must concede you have a good point. If you\u2019re in your bathroom in your office and some guy\u2019s opening the door and shouting, “Where is she?” whether you\u2019ve even been traumatized in the past or not, it can be unsettling —<\/p>\n CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n RUSH: — if you think the place is under siege by whoever you think is conducting this operation. I can understand. Of course. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n CALLER: The crowd was not an AOC-friendly crowd. It just was not, and I shudder to think what they would have done if they had physically encountered AOC or Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or even Mike Pence, because they were hell-bent for leather and ready for blood.<\/p>\n CALLER: Enough of them.<\/p>\n RUSH: Pardon?<\/p>\n CALLER: Enough of \u2019em. It only takes one and the whole… You saw the video like I did. I also saw AOC\u2019s comments when she made \u2019em live and it broke my heart, because whether or not she\u2019s telling the truth about the physical or sexual assault, she is telling the truth. She was in the Capitol, and she was under siege, and she had to have felt threatened. Had to.<\/p>\n RUSH: I don\u2019t disagree.<\/p>\n CALLER: Why make light of it?<\/p>\n RUSH: She\u2019s not the only —<\/p>\n CALLER: Why make light of it? You\u2019ve got so much more material to work with. You don\u2019t need to go here. You\u2019re better than this.<\/p>\n RUSH: I wasn\u2019t making light of it. I\u2019m sorry that I have been misunderstood about this. I was a couple steps ahead on this. I was not making light of it. I\u2019m looking at… Everything I do I look at it from the political because I think everything is been politicized.<\/p>\n CALLER: Let me rephrase. You don\u2019t need to make it out to be a political tactic on her part. If it was, shame on her, but it doesn\u2019t need to because she was (crosstalking).<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s… That is where I naturally go because that is what I do. That is how I attempt to analyze how we are being attacked, criticized, whatever by our political opponents. They have politicized virtually everything. They did it, not me. That\u2019s how I look at it, in many other ways too.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me apologize to anybody who misunderstood what I was saying. It\u2019s my bad if that happened. I\u2019m a master communicator, and my objective here, whatever the issue being discussed, is to be perfectly understood. And apparently some people got the wrong idea from what I was saying about AOC and her claim to have sexually abused and that that trauma added to trauma she was feeling during the siege of the Capitol on January 6th.<\/p>\n So, it doesn\u2019t matter why.<\/p>\n I just really regret that anybody didn\u2019t understand my primary point or reaction to this. It was not disputing that she has been abused. I have no idea whether she has or hasn\u2019t. So if anybody thinks I was making light of it or laughing about it, it\u2019s not the case. But it\u2019s not your problem, it\u2019s mine for not effectively communicating what I really felt about it.<\/p>\n So, I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n Here is Jared in Brainerd, Minnesota, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s truly an honor to speak to you.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: And prayers to you all the time. So, way to clear that up. I think this is definitely a touchy subject. It doesn\u2019t matter what side of the fence you\u2019re on. I don\u2019t dispute her claims of abuse, not one bit. I think she should definitely get her voice heard, but I also think I don\u2019t agree with her politics. But as soon as you politicize this and turn it into a political issue, I think it warrants a discussion.<\/p>\n RUSH: And what is that discussion?<\/p>\n CALLER: We can\u2019t use abuse to politicize, “Hey, listen to me.” I have a 3-year-old daughter at home, and she can say, “Hey, my cousin hit me,” and I was watching them. Her cousin didn\u2019t hit her, but she just wanted to get some attention, and she politicized her alleged abuse. And, you know, it didn\u2019t happen in this instance.<\/p>\n Up next is Pamela in Canyon, Texas. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m good. Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: Prayers for you and your family, and we just hope you keep strong and keep going.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n CALLER: Now is not a good time to go. (chuckles)<\/p>\n RUSH: (chuckles)<\/p>\n CALLER: We need to you to stay.<\/p>\n RUSH: Amen.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes. Please. Listen. (sigh) In talking about AOC, you were not making fun of her. You were reporting what she said, and I look at it as she\u2019s always negative towards the American people. She\u2019s always talking about how much she doesn\u2019t like America. She wants to do things that she has no idea… You know, it\u2019s like she\u2019s this boss who has no experience doing anything telling people what to do on how to do it.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m just, like I say, I just… I\u2019m tired of people. It just seems in her case she\u2019s just using things for attention. And when people call her out on it, she doesn\u2019t like it. I just… You know, I\u2019m just… (groans) I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s true or not. I don\u2019t want say her experience is true or not; but, you know, there\u2019s a lot of women who use this, and they hurt men or other people in the process. I think it\u2019s very unfair.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, but there are a lot of woman to whom it does happen.<\/p>\n CALLER: Exactly, and I got that, and I know that\u2019s the case, but —<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s vicious.<\/p>\n CALLER: It\u2019s just such a hateful and evil thing to do for attention. And I just, like I say I am… I\u2019m just, you know, when her, with AOC, when I see her, I just ignore her because, I mean, she\u2019s just not —<\/p>\n RUSH: And you\u2019re doing that because of the politics that you associate with her. That\u2019s why.<\/p>\n CALLER: Absolutely. But she just… You know, policies that she wants along with I look at the Democratic Party and half of the Republicans, they\u2019re not American policies. They\u2019re not liberty. They don\u2019t want individuals to have freedom. They want to control with power and along with power and control you get money.<\/p>\n RUSH: Since we\u2019re talking about the politics, let me talk about the politics of this that is happening right now. Black Lives Matter movement yesterday, okay? The Black Lives Matter movement on Monday put its weight behind ‘Squad\u2019 member…” You know, AOC\u2019s little political group is called The Squad. This particular member\u2019s name is Cori Bush. She is a Democrat from Missouri.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020221-AOC-Instagram-3.jpg\")
Like, for example, a hypothetical: Let\u2019s say that your spouse makes you think that he or she is serious about committing suicide practically every time you have an argument, every time you have a disagreement. It\u2019s scary as hell, and you use that… At its base level, that\u2019s an attempt at control. It\u2019s an attempt at manipulation. Is that abuse?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/APP-061119-EIB-Callers.jpg\")
CALLER: I just wanted to reframe it a different way, because, like you said, we\u2019ve all been victimized, we\u2019ve all had trauma, and certainly the amount of women that have been victimized is something like one in four. But what I would say is instead of saying, “Oh, gosh, why didn\u2019t she come forward?” or, “Oh, gosh,” you know, whatever, what about looking at it like why is she in office if she\u2019s on unstable and so victimized? Maybe she needs to resign because she\u2019s not a stable person at this point —<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020221-AOC-Instagram-1.jpg\")
CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. I just wanted to say, so, I\u2019m from Rochester, New York, and I\u2019m a former prosecutor in Ft. Lauderdale, and as someone who has really gone through a sexual abuse and had to go through the full trial and go through everything and then the person got a life sentence; so it\u2019s a real trial, I take issue with AOC in —<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-071019-Blasey-Ford-FRAUD.jpg\")
RUSH: What a greatly example. Christine Blasey Ford and all these people piling on Kavanaugh. You talk about trauma, being lies about with the most disgusting stories (crosstalk) all over the news every night for two weeks?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/APP-010720-Trump-Riots-1.jpg\")
RUSH: Some of them. (crosstalk) Wait a minute, now. Some of them, not all of them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/APP-020221-AOC-Instagram-2.jpg\")
RUSH: Yeah, I understand. You know, that\u2019s a challenging moment there for a parent, though, a 3-year-old daughter at home. She can say these things, and you have to react to it in a way that\u2019s gonna affect the formative development of your daughter going forward. That would not be an easy thing to do. But, Jared, I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n
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And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats are trying to use the “insurrection,” quote-unquote, to expel more than 100 Republican congressmen from Congress, because they somehow wanted to object to the certifying of the 2020 presidential election in the Electoral College, on January 6th, before Congress. Now, that\u2019s who these people are.<\/p>\n