Rush Limbaugh, Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen delivered 10 December 1994, Baltimore, MD
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I heard on the way over here, by the way, that they've come up with a new nominee for surgeon general: Pee-Wee Herman, is....You don't think that would have happened if it weren't for the fact that you were all elected do you? This is a sensitive subject and I am not gonna mention it because she got canned for it, but I'll tell ya, she said much worse than this. And she said far stupider things, like “The way to combat crime is with safer bullets, with safer guns.”

— Rush Limbaugh

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I heard on the way over here, by the way, that they've come up with a new nominee for surgeon general: Pee-Wee Herman, is....You don't think that would have happened if it weren't for the fact that you were all elected do you? This is a sensitive subject and I am not gonna mention it because she got canned for it, but I'll tell ya, she said much worse than this. And she said far stupider things, like “The way to combat crime is with safer bullets, with safer guns.”" in the context of "Rush Limbaugh, Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen delivered 10 December 1994, Baltimore, MD" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joycelyn Elders

About Joycelyn Elders

Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) was Surgeon General of the United States from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994.