From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Summary Tue 10/6/92
Keywords: Unofficial Summary Rush Limbaugh
Date: 11 Oct 92 20:34:10 GMT
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Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
From John Switzer's  "Most Excellent"
->Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show
->for Tuesday, October 6, 1992
->Rush will talk a little about Sinead O'Connor although he
->doesn't want to spend too much time about her since she is an
->"irrelevant bald chick."
-
-	Misogyny again. Picking on her because she has decided to
-adopt the skinhead look. I'm not sure that RL would enjoy jokes about
-his bulk. It's the Golden Rule -- treat others the way that you would
-like to be treated.

Do you listen to the program? (Honest inquiry.) I heard this part on the
radio and rolled my eyes upward in humor when the comment was made.

Actually I enjoy a few jokes on Rush's ... rotundity. The only problem
is most remarks about his ... size are generally really slanderous and
aren't really that funny. Hence I roll my eyes upward in humor.

->However, he does want to mention two
->words - "hate crime." Rush wonders what would happen if someone
->tore up a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the same way that
->O'Connor tore up a picture of the Pope last Saturday night.
-
-	The Pope == MLK Jr.? Not everybody would make that equation.

Okay. Come to UNC and tear up a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., in
front of the student body and see what sort of reception you get.
[Story: many students want a free-standing "black cultural center" here,
and are challenging the administration to construct one or else they'll
be slandered as racists.] Go vandalize a picture of Prime Minister Rabin
with a swastika and see what sort of reception you get. Tear up a
picture of the Pope in Spain or in Italy and you will probably get
[whatever the European equivalent is to "tarred and feathered and burned
at the stake"].

->Evidently all of the activists who would rise up in great anger
->over this sort of attack on King think it is fashionable when any
->aspect of Christianity is attacked or despoiled. Rush adds that
->he'll have more to say about this on his TV show.
-
-	Somehow, I suspect that if RL was shown a lot of Jesus
-Christ's teachings (or at least those attributed to him by his
-biographers), he would sneer that JC was a *liberal*. Examples:
-
-	JC: Sell everything you have and give your money to the poor.
-	JC: A camel (or thick rope) will go through the eye of a
-needle easier than a rich man will make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
-
-	RL: That guy _hates_ successful people. Just like a typical
-liberal -- wants everybody poor.
-
-	JC: Don't try to accumulate wealth here on Earth; it rusts and
-decays and gets stolen. Look at the lilies in the field; they don't
-work their butts off.
-
-	RL: I can tell he's a liberal. He hates hard work and prefers
-living off of handouts.
-
-	JC: Love your enemies, turn the other cheek, let a thief who
-wants your coat to have your shirt, if a soldier makes a beast of
-burden out of you, let him do it some more, etc. etc.
-
-	RL: Exactly how those liberals want us to treat criminals and
-Commies. Who is this nutcase?
-
-	JC: When you pray, don't go out in public and use long and
-meaningless words like those pagans and hypocrites do. Just pray in
-private. And when you fast, don't put on a sad face for all to see.
-
-	RL: We must _hide_ our faith away? Just like those liberals,
-who oppose prayer in schools.
-
-	JC: If you look at a woman with lust, you are guilty of
-adultery in your heart.
-
-	RL: Is this like sexual harrassment? Just another
-demonstration of how the liberals and the feminazis want to deprive
-men of their virility.
-
-	JC: There are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the
-sake of the Kingdom of Heaven.
-
-	RL: See?
-
-	JC: If you call your brother a worthless fool, you will be in
-danger of the fire of Hell.
-
-	RL: So I have no right to call the liberals and econuts and
-feminazis what they really are? He must be some liberal big on
-Political Correctness.
:) Read PJ O'Rourke's _A Parliament of Whores_. The introduction
describes how God is a Republican and Santa Claus a Democrat.

->Phone   Karen from San Antonio, TX
-
->Karen is a working mother and she wants Rush to explain what his
->term "feminazi" means. Rush says that a feminazi is a feminist to
->whom the most important thing is to see to it that as many
->abortions as possible take place. A feminazi gets angry whenever
->a woman is talked out of an abortion. There are probably only 25
->feminazis or so in the country.
-	An opponent made of straw for him to knock down.
-	I've never heard of _anyone_ who advocates abortions for the
-hell of it.
	
	Fortunately neither have I.
	But I have heard of many feminist leaders who scream whenever a
woman decides NOT to have an abortion. I see feminist leaders try to
ensure that abortions are safe, legal, and unrestricted rather than
making sure that abortions are _prevented_. 

-	But given the tone of his remarks, you would get the
-impression that "feminazis" are everywhere.
-	It is true that there are certain feminists who are rather
-extreme in their opinions, but "feminazi" is uncalled for.
-	It's like repeatedly denouncing "shylock bankers", but then
-stating that this refers only to the small minority of Jewish bankers
-who are nothing better than loansharks.

	I hope you find Rush's book soon and start reading it. Here's
the paragraph which I think is applicable to this discussion:
	"I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really
are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly
regarded professor of economics at the University of California at
Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any
point of view that challenges militant feminism. I often use it to
describe women who are obsessed with perpetuating a modern-day
holocaust: abortion. There are 1.5 million abortions a year, and some
feminists almost seem to celebrate that figure. There are not many of
them, but they deserve to be called feminazis."
	--- Rush Limbaugh, _The Way Things Ought to Be_ p 193, para 2.

->As to what a feminist is, Rush doesn't define the term himself.
->Instead he lets the media define it by who they present as
->experts and leaders of the feminist movement. Feminism is
->therefore defined as whatever these feminists think is feminism.
-
-	Conveniently evasive.

Okay.	"I believe the women's movement started out as a genuine and
sincere effort to improve conditions. The original concerns of
feministsm such as equal pay for equal work, were laudable and
justifiable. People had a right to be upset at the treatment some women
received, and some of their activism and protests were understandable.
	Then gradually there was a shift in their approach and in the 
type of women who were attracted to groups like NOW. The profile of the
NOW woman came to be that of a loud, militant person whose views were
based on a belief that women no longer needed men. They seemed to
believe that to love and need men would somehow compromise women and set
them back. They set out to avoid and attack the traditional role for
women because they believed it was responsible for making them
subservient to men."
	-- Ibid. pp 189-190.
-	Is there any mainstream feminist that he has _ever_ had any
-appreciation for? Gloria Steinem? Betty Friedan? Susie Bright?
	He hasn't mentioned Steinem, Friedan or Bright as often since
they don't make news that often. Oh well.
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
Biomedical Engineer 1993	Never take me too seriously.
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
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