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Rush Limbaugh Cares What Women Think

Colleen Kane — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:47:00 GMT

Have you met Rush Limbaugh? He's the radio personality who popularized the term "Feminazi" and applies it with glee to any woman who sticks up for herself. Now he's wondering why there's a 31-point gender gap in his listenership. To find out just why he is so unpopular with the ladies, he held a Women's Summit on his program this week, where he asked women to phone in and tell him why they don't like him.

Not too surprisingly, women are not painted too well, even on this women's summit.

One caller claimed women don't like to put on a pretty skirts (um, hello? I love pretty skirts!) and "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."

Riiight. So there's only two options for women: pretty and traditional or angry and screaming. Here's more.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I have three things you can do to close your gender gap by at least 15 points.

RUSH: Thank you. I want to hear what they are.

CALLER: Okay, get your pencil. First one. Make women believe you care more about them than their own husbands do.

RUSH: Hmm.

CALLER: Second one. You need to project an air of vulnerability. You need to let women think they can roll you.

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Rule me?

CALLER: Roll.

RUSH: Roll or rule?

CALLER: Roll. Well, one and the same. One and the same, very clever! You can do this! It's not beyond you!

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.

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's 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're religious, just drop the sacrament of abortion.

OK, so in addition to being pretty and docile things or angry and screaming, women are also easily manipulated saps.

Rush's conclusion? "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. "

What- evvvs.

For the morbidly curious, the transcription is here.

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RNC Delegate, Robbed By Hooker, Speaks Out In Favor Of More War

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:29:00 GMT

Have you guys heard about this smarmy, sniveling Republican toolbox who got robbed of "$120,000 worth" of crappy personal effects during the Republican National Convention? Yeah, he deserved it...

Check out this video that's been floating around, thanks to LinkTV, of Colorado schyster Gabriel Nathan Schwartz discussing the foreign policy he'd love to see John McCain enact:

For the sake of sanity, we're hoping he's being satirical. Something, anything.

Anyway, if you haven't heard about this guy's story, here's the rundown: Schwartz, an RNC delegate, met a woman at a bar during the convention in Minneapolis and took her back to his hotel. Red flag #1: she made the drinks. Red flag #2: she told him to get undressed. In case you don't know, these are clear indications she was attempting to subdue, rather than seduce, the dashing young buck.

He's not sure what happened next, since the prostitute (see Red flag #2: she "ordered" him to get dressed, according to his report to the police... sounds like pro talk to us) had slipped some sort of pill in his drink. When he awoke, he was out of the following:

$30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring, a necklace valued at $5,000, earrings priced at $4,000 and a Prada belt valued at $1,000

Um, yeah. He had a thousand dollar belt and he's worried about his taxes under Barack Obama?! Dude, you better worry about your shopping insanity, first...

Via Minnesota Independent.

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Today in WTF: Virginity Pledges Actually Work?

Emily Farris — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:11:00 GMT

According to a new study (that we're thinking might have been funded by neocons?), virginity pledges could be an effective way of keeping teenagers celibate until marriage. If you consider engaging in "sexual behaviors that fall short of full intercourse" staying true to one's pledge.

A study by the Rand Corporation research institute found that 34 percent of youths who took such pledges as teens had had sexual intercourse within three years compared to 42 percent of similar teens who did not make virginity pledges.

The Rand team said they had taken into account differences such as religious beliefs, parenting and friendship characteristics....

"Making a pledge to remain a virgin until married may provide extra motivation to adolescents who want to delay becoming sexually active," said Steven Martino, a psychologist at Rand who led the study.

"The act of pledging may create some social pressure or social support that helps them to follow through with their clearly stated public intention."

The Rand report cited estimates that 23 percent of U.S. females and 16 percent of males have made a virginity pledge...

"Waiting until you are older to have sex is good for teens from a health standpoint," Martino said in a statement. "There are lots of reasons for more kids to wait until they are older."

Martino and colleagues surveyed 1,461 adolescent virgins aged 12 to 17 in 2001. About a quarter said they had taken a virginity pledge.

The researchers interviewed them again one and three years later.

"These findings do not suggest that virginity pledges should be a substitute for comprehensive sexual education programs, or that they will work for all kinds of kids," said Martino. "But virginity pledges may be appropriate as one component of an overall sex education effort."

Really? It sounds to us a lot like making kids swear off of drugs. We won the D.A.R.E essay contest in fifth grade, pledging to keep our friends and family off of drugs and alcohol, and then spent our entire senior year in various stages of intoxicaiton.

[Reuters: Virginity pledges help some delay sex: study]

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Founding Neocon Had a Thing for Jackie Kennedy

Bryan Christian — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:09:00 GMT

Sometimes history can be fun. Like when we learn from Craig Unger on the Huffington Post that Norman Podhoretz, a founding voice in the neocon movement that you may have noticed is kind of destroying the world, has always been both totally full of himself and thoroughly wrong. How full-slash-wrong? Enough to think that he had a shot with a recently widowed Jackie Kennedy.

"He thought she was coming on to him and he had a terrible crush on her," says someone who knew them both. "She was just trying to make new friends," says another source with knowledge of the episode. "It was a very fragile time in her life. She wasn't looking to have an affair. She was just trying to have a normal life. But he thought she wanted one and he was telling everyone."
When Podhoretz finally cornered Jackie at a cocktail party and made his feelings known, the source says, she looked at him with an icy gaze the meaning of which was unmistakable. "Why, Mr. Podhoretz," she said. "Just who do you think you are?'"

Now to be clear, we're pretty sure that Podhoretz was, at the time, a lefty thinker and not the clueless, embittered chickenhawk that he is today. So we have to wonder... was this really the thing that sent him away from liberalism? More importantly: do you think Jackie looked anything like The Venture Bros.' Doctor Girlfriend when she gave him his chilly smackdown? Now that would be hot.