Talent on loan from Michele Bachman
by digby
This is likely the stupidest thing Rush Limbaugh said all week ... and Fox News is pimping it.
RUSH: Remember what we talked about yesterday: How is it that the mainstream media get everything wrong. Not just slightly wrong, but major, profound wrong? How is this possible to be this stupid, this ignorant? How is it possible to not know instinctively that men and women are different?
Why is that such shocking news that Gayle King says, “Why didn’t we know this before?” Norah O’Donnell, who is a CBS infobabe, and Lesley Stahl wrapped it up with this exchange…
O’DONNELL: Lesley, if we metabolize Ambien differently, do we metabolize statins differently? I mean, the list could go on and on, because men and women are taking the same amount when it comes to Lipitor and other pills.
STAHL: We. Don’t. Know.
RUSH: We don’t know! No, no! You mean we don’t know? Oh, no, you mean we could be dying? Oh-ho noooo! We don’t know! (Gasp!) Folks, this is simply… I don’t know how to describe it. This is just… We’re in trouble. We’re in big trouble. Because these people are the primary source of news for most people the country. We’re in big trouble.
Evidently Rush "instinctively knew" that women had different lungs than men and that "everybody" should "instinctively know" that men and women's basic human physiology is different in spite of the fact that it looks exactly the same. Maybe Rush can tell a female liver from a male liver but I doubt it.
We know what he's really saying, in any case. He's saying that Lesley Stahl, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell ("info-babes") are all stupid bimbos who think that men and women should be equal when "everyone knows" that women are inferior. All his "differences are obvious" bullshit is quite clear.
But setting that aside, he simply ignores the fact that these women were referring to pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers who have not been testing these drugs on both women and men --- and that doctors are prescribing drugs to both sexes the same way. Talk about missing the point.
And yet he's the one calling other people stupid.
Personally, I think he must be back on the little blue babies. He sounds positively insane in that clip.
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