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Rush:

You know, folks, I gotta tell you something. We've had liberalism roaring through our culture for 50 years. At times it has been sneaky, slow, deliberate. At other times it has roared its way through. As I listen to earnest journalists in their thirties and forties describe what Herman Cain is said to have done -- no, sorry. When I listen to journalists in their thirties and forties unable to explain what Cain has done, but treating it as though it is reprehensible, I sadly conclude, we're losing this. Political correctness, which is censorship, has now spread to behavior, not just speech. It's spread to behavior. And sexual harassment now is a political weapon, and it's anything anybody wants it to be. You don't need a specific allegation. All you need is the appearance of impropriety.

That's where this gets dicey, because with this roaring liberalism through our culture, what appears to be inappropriate in the old days was nothing. I remember when Blake Edwards, who was married to Julie Andrews, he got an award during the Oscars. I think this was in the last ten years. And he praised his wife Julie Andrews, he called her the best damn broad that there ever was, and the place was outraged. It was a term of endearment to him. It wasn't a put-down. The way Blake Edwards and his buds, Peter Falk, that's the way they talked. Can't do that anymore. Can't call a woman a broad even if it's affectionate. You can't even say, "Hey, baby." No, can't even do that. What the hell did Herman Cain do here? He goes up and says, "Can maybe we go to dinner and answer the question," and that means that we've got a predator on our hands?