Rush does a disservice to all female ship captains

The captain of the Contra Costa abandoned his ship, and his passengers, and saved himself.

Rush dared to say:

RUSH: We're talking about the cultural divide and how things change. This Costa ship that hit the rock and is listing over in Italy? The captain made sure he was one of the first people off the ship (chuckling) and there are stories galore today contrasting him and the crew, the male crew, of the Titanic who all went down. "Women and children first!" They went down with the ship. This guy was the first off, and he went back trying to get the black box and his crew did a mutiny and they all tried to get off. They said, "It's every man for himself!"

The captain of the Titanic, after all the lifeboats were filled and all that was left was the crew and the male passengers who didn't make the boats at that point, declared, "All hands for yourselves now." This guy declared it at the outset. Chickification. This guy thought he was a woman. He's no different, first off. "I'm outta here, man! I steered this thing into a rock and I'm not hanging around to get caught. I'm gone." He was showing off.

So what is Rush implying? That women are bad drivers, drive their car into a pole or something and run away?

That's ridiculous. The captain of the Contra Costa was a grown man whose job it was to keep his passengers safe. Any captain, man or woman, knows that it is his job to keep passengers safe, and for crew to debark last.

For Rush to equate his cowardice with him being "chickified" is just ridiculous, and disrespects every female captain of an airplane or a ship who knows what their job requires of them.

It's interesting that of all the things he could have said about the cowardly Captain, he chose to say that he was "chickified."

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I agree with Rush on a lot of stuff but there's no denying he's a male chauvanist pig.

I remember...was it a week or so ago? ...he was complaining that Republican candidates were being criticized for unimportant things - Newt was fat and Perry had a Texas accent and sounded stupid... this from the guy who told us no one wanted to see Hillary Clinton grow old in the White House.