Today as he started his show Rush Limbaugh implied women might be to blame all of the NFL's recent problems .
Look, I'm asking because I don't know and I'm wondering -- this is a pop culture thing, and there are a lot of comedians out there on the Internet that you don't run into. Okay, well, anyway, there is a comedian out there by the name of Bill Burr, and he thinks -- you're probably saying, "What's this got to do with the Secret Service?" Just hang in for just a second here.
The guy thinks that women are ruining the NFL. He thinks everything going wrong in the NFL is the result of either women muscling in on it or men who are afraid of women, allowing women to come in and influence the culture of the game and the business. He said that it's not the violence, it's not the domestic abuse, it's not drug usage, no, none of that is to blame for what's wrong with the National Football League. He said it's women who just can't deal with the simplicity of the male mind. He said, "You know what makes women happy? Nothing. And that's why they are slowly taking over the NFL."
He says, "I have a simple male brain, and I can just sit and watch football and enjoy it." And that annoys women, that men are so simple that they can just sit on their butts for five hours on a Sunday and watch football. They don't like it and either want to get involved in it to change it or get men away from it, and that's why they are ruining the NFL."
I don't know who this guy is, but I just ran across it. There are people who, political correctness, you know, what are the origins of it. We on this program have of course jokingly, ahem, in the past, ladies and gentlemen, discussed the chickification of our culture in education and the news business. You've got female news directors. You got female assignment editors. And of course the male and female brains are different. Men and women are different. That's news to TIME magazine. But there is a difference.
Limbaugh then launches into an attack on the head of the Secret Service. Why? Because the Secret Service is headed by a woman, and he blames her for the recent intruder at the White House.
You know, some institutions and traditions are supposed to be immune from cultural vagaries, the ebb and flow of what's permissible and tolerant and what isn't. There are certain things that are etched in stone and don't change, and one of them is protecting the life of the president of the United States. There's no way that any cultural change, rot or otherwise, can change that mission. It's mind-boggling to me.
What's the Secret Service Being Told to Ignore?
Really Rush? A woman's perspective is what's ruining the sport of football and rendering the Secret Service ineffective? How can anyone in the 21st century be so ignorant and misogynistic? Apparently Limbaugh doesn't realize that
44% of Football fans are Women.
UPDATE: The head of the Secret Service Julia Pierson has resigned.
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