Limbaugh: To Leftists, 'Jenner Is Just An Object'

"Jenner is now a way for people to find out how rotten women really have it in America."

On his radio show Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh discussed former Olympic superstar Bruce Jenner's transition to "Caitlyn Jenner," who Limbaugh said is now just another person the left intends to use as an "object" to push their America-loathing agenda.

During a discussion of Jenner calling himself the "new normal," Limbaugh played a soundbite of transgender actor Ian Harvie who told CNN's Brooke Baldwin that now that Jenner was living as a woman, (s)he would really learn how awful it is to be a woman in America:

HARVIE:  Jenner does have financial privilege.  At the same time, I do have to say that Jenner is stepping out and giving up all of their male privilege.  They will have to deal with things that they never had to deal with before as a woman.

BALDWIN: Mmm-hmm!

HARVIE: Get cat called on the street. She'll have to worry about her safety walking down the street. She will have to watch her weight. She will have to watch what she eats! She'll have... I mean, there's all of these just that I personally, as a transman, do not have to contend with.  I have this instant privilege that people think... I don't know. I -- I -- I should be paid more, and there's all of these things that she is actually giving up.

Calling the moment "illustrative of the convoluted way these people think," Limbaugh said that Jenner has now become just another way the left will try to prove how "rotten"and sexist America is:

LIMBAUGH: I mean, here you've got, in all honesty, somebody who really needs some serious help here, okay?  And we have it reduced to, "Well, you know, now that Bruce Jenner has become a woman, you'll find out how rotten a deal that is.  M'yeah!  Bruce Jenner is not gonna feel safe walking down the street anymore.  Bruce Jenner is not gonna feel safe, and he's gonna get catcalls! ...

"Oh, man, he doesn't know what he's in for! He's gonna have to watch what he eats and he's gonna have to watch his weight, because people are so punishing of overweight women! These women, nobody knows how hard women have it, and Bruce Jenner is gonna find out.  He thinks it may be a cakewalk! But he's gonna have to do all these things that woman have to do in this horrible country, and be mistreated, and he's gonna find out. He's gonna find out! You wait. He's gonna find out.  He's not gonna be paid! He not gonna be paid as much as he was when he was a man. He's gonna find out how rotten it is to be a woman in this."

That's the point.  What is it with the way these people think? So Jenner, to this person, is a great way... Jenner is just an object. Jenner is now a way for people to find out how rotten women really have it in America.  Yeah.  That's the value here.  That's the real value in Jenner doing what he did.  People are gonna find out how rotten it is. 

Transcript via RushLimbaugh.com.

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