Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:56 pm
Rush Limbaugh, who thinks women who assert themselves are sluts, is mighty unhappy that CNN is actually leting women talk about how Trump talks about them. You know, instead of having a bunch of men talk about how women feel about Trump talking about them, which makes so much more sense in the conservative universe.
Speaking on The Rush Limbaugh Show Wednesday, Trump expressed his outrage that our reality did not have anything in common with his fake facts:
During the break I was watching on CNN. They have three women there discussing how offended they are that Trump said that Hillary always plays the women card. Can you — Mr. Snerdley, can you see three men on TV discussing how offended they are that some female candidate had said something about men? It just doesn’t happen. They have three women up there going on and on and on about how offended they were that Trump accused Hillary of playing the woman [card] which she does. She plays the woman, she plays whatever card she’s got. She plays victim card, you name it.
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Listen courtesy of Media Matters for America:
Of course we can imagine three men discussing how offended they are by a female candidate. We see it every day on Fox News. Who is he kidding? What’s funnier is him saying Clinton plays the woman. She doesn’t play a woman – she IS a woman. You’d think people so obsessed with who can use which bathroom would get that distinction at least.
And Hillary Clinton playing the victim card? He can say this after years of a Republican smear campaign over one invented charge after another? Clinton doesn’t play the victim and never would, but if ever there was somebody entitled to play that card, it is Hillary Clinton.
We understand Limbaugh comes from a different world, a place where Fox News regularly appoints panels of white men to talk about not only what women can and cannot do, but how women feel about things, because who better to mansplain things to women than men? And we won’t even get into the panels of white people who share the black experience with their fellow white viewers. Ah, the alchemy that is Fox News.
Yet it’s not only Fox News. Allegedly leftist MSNBC does it too: Remember when they had an all-male panel mansplain that Hillary Clinton needs to speak more softly? Or the GOP mansplaining to women that they shouldn’t care about equal pay? And then there was Ted Cruz trying to mansplain the Constitution (which is funny because Cruz has obviously never actually read the Constitution).
And surely you will never forget the time Fox News appointed a panel of men to determine whether or not women should be allowed to wear leggings. Don’t ask a woman. Not on Fox News. Because if it can’t be mansplained, it shouldn’t be mentioned. And gods forbid it should not be creepy as hell by having women model for them while they joked about pre-treating themselves with nitroglycerin.
Republicans have convinced themselves that women should just back off and let the men handle it and tell them what they think and how they feel about everything, just like they have all through history. Rush Limbaugh is just the loudest of a sad, pathetic bunch of would-be men confronted by women who reject being their entertainment.
Real men aren’t afraid of women, which tells you just about all you need to know about Rush Limbaugh.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
