Oct. 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
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| It's Friday Let's Roll. | |
| Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
| And we've got a lot to do today. | |
| I mean, it's a virtual smorgasboard out there today, a virtual buffet of news items from across the spectrum, ladies and gentlemen, from the ridiculous to the hilarious to the serious. | |
| And you are at the one radio program that combines all that. | |
| Open line Friday, we also add your phone calls, and you and you know, Monday through Thursday, we talk about what interests me. | |
| But on uh on Friday, uh I will allow you to talk about things that don't interest me if they do interest you, if they've got enough passion about it. | |
| So here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882. | |
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| Well, they've given they've given the all clear. | |
| Up in Manhattan, uh discarded soda bottle filled with uh an unidentified green liquid was found at Penn Station, uh, which was briefly closed today during the morning rush hour. | |
| Uh uh the substance did not pose a threat to passengers. | |
| It was removed for testing. | |
| When I saw this a discarded soda bottle filled with an unidentified soapy green liquid, what's Mountain Dew? | |
| It's probably just an old stale can or bottle of Mountain Dew. | |
| But anyway. | |
| Uh well, not in Penn Station HR. | |
| It's not going to be a trucker's urine bottle in Penn Station, it's a train station. | |
| Could be an engineer's urine bottle. | |
| But nevertheless, uh, it's all clear, and the president today had a uh little press event uh in the Oval Office with the uh Hungarian leader. | |
| And I grab audio soundbite number one. | |
| I I uh I saw this, I said this had to be a joke. | |
| The uh the the unidentified reporter said, Do you think New York City is overreacted? | |
| I think they took the information that we gave and made the judgments they thought were necessary. | |
| And uh the American people have got to know that one that we're collecting information and sharing it with local authorities on on a timely basis, and that's important. | |
| Overreacted for crying out you know, this is this this proves I have I have a theory, and I've had this theory for a long time. | |
| If we had known every detail of the September 11th attacks, and if Bush had gone on television on September 10th, and announced those details and then said, Here are the 19 that we have apprehended. | |
| Don't you think this is a bit of an overreaction? | |
| How do you know? | |
| What proof do you have? | |
| This is racism, this is bigotry. | |
| This then the ACLU would be out defending uh Mohammed Ada and all these guys. | |
| We can't win. | |
| We can't win with the what overreacted? | |
| Are we kidding ours? | |
| Overreacted. | |
| In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, overreacted. | |
| Where do these people what are they thinking these people in the press? | |
| Gotta what was Bush supposed to do now? | |
| Rip uh Rip Bloomberg and cause a new kind of controversy. | |
| At any rate, folks, let me tell you a little bit about my evening last night. | |
| I I uh and I'm I'm here today, and I knew this is gonna happen. | |
| Uh I'm here today in about three hours, two and a half hours sleep. | |
| So I'm in a giddy mood, and we all know what happens when I'm in a giddy mood. | |
| The broadcast engineer's finger is poised over the uh deedle button uh at all times. | |
| Uh and uh, you know, we get close to that line uh pushing the envelope, as it were. | |
| Last night was the 50th anniversary of National Review Magazine. | |
| Now at National Review Magazine, of course, the uh creation and uh uh brainchild of William F. Buckley Jr., who will celebrate his 80th birthday in November next month. | |
| And I realize that that uh because of some of your ages, uh th those who have of you who are young, uh Mr. Buckley has passed from the public scene in a prominent way in the last five to six years. | |
| Stopped doing speeches. | |
| He stopped doing his television program firing line, and uh he's he's stopped public appearances other than for things such as last night. | |
| And I I want to take a little time. | |
| I didn't speak last night, I did narrate a 40 minute video that was put together, a documentary sort of retrospective on the 50 years of uh of National Review, and I was I was seated at Mr. Buckley's table with his wife Pat. | |
| Also at the table were Senator Joel Lieberman of Connecticut, who I'd never met, but I did meet last night. | |
| Very nice man. | |
| We had a nice uh conversation, about a thousand people there last night. | |
| It was in the National Uh Museum Building or Building of Museums or something. | |
| It I think it's the old patent office. | |
| Every time I go to Washington, there's a new building that's been there 500 years uh that I've never been in, and it was gorgeous. | |
| It was a it was an absolutely beautiful building. | |
| But I I uh National Museum building, whatever, it's it was very nice. | |
| Uh also K. Bailey Hutches and Senator K. Bailey Hutcheson uh from Texas was at the uh at the table as well. | |
| Uh Mr. Mr. Buckley uh is a is a in my life a formative figure. | |
| Uh I have told him personally, and I've mentioned it on this program, he's almost like a second father to me in the sense that fathers teach. | |
| Uh fathers inspire, fathers fathers teach, and they inspire, and and Mr. Buckley, unbeknownst to him all of his life, uh other than the last uh fifteen years when I've had a chance to tell him, uh had had that kind of effect on me. | |
| Uh back when I well, I've I've been a conservative in my heart and soul for all of my life, but like any young person, I've had the instincts, but I may not have known quite how to explain it to other people. | |
| I was inculcated well, and my father was uh uh brilliant as well and and and uh stimulated all this thought in me. | |
| Uh I left home when I was uh when I was twenty, and it it's about that time that I ran into the magazine National Review, and I had been reading Mr. Buckley's columns for you know since I was in junior high school. | |
| He was published in the St. Louis paper. | |
| And of course, uh I was I was uh in awe from the first moment I read one with his vocabulary and his logic and his manner of explaining things uh because they were inspirational educational and and and I I devoured anything I could get that Buckley had written, and I became a subscriber to National Review. | |
| It was funny too, because back in those days, I I thought National Review, you had to be a member of some club to get it. | |
| I thought you had to be you had to have you had to qualify. | |
| Uh because I didn't I never seen it anywhere. | |
| I'd in newsstands, I'd never seen it. | |
| But I kept hearing about it. | |
| Well, you you must have to be something special to get this. | |
| So one day, and I this is 1984, uh 83. | |
| I'm sorry, 83. | |
| I'm in Kansas City. | |
| Uh I decided I got courageous, and I I I called New York directory assistants and asked for the number for National Review. | |
| I didn't know if it'd be one, didn't know if it'd be listed. | |
| And they gave it to me, and I called them up, and I'm very sheepish on the phone. | |
| I said, uh excuse me, but uh uh could could I subscribe? | |
| Well, of course, of course, and I then found out that it was what it was, a magazine of uh of conservative opinion. | |
| So I subscribed, I've been a subscriber ever since. | |
| And it has been, and particularly Mr. Buckley, but all of those that he surrounded himself with uh in in putting this magazine together and publishing it every two weeks, uh, have just been instrumental in nothing more fundamental than my education. | |
| And I've always felt uh uh a great debt of gratitude uh even before I met Mr. Buckley for this, uh because he spawned so many others who do the same thing. | |
| He spawned so many other conservative journals of opinion, he he spawned others, he was the kind of figure that inspired others to want to be like him, although nobody can. | |
| There's only one William Buckley, as there's only one of every of us, every one of us, but uh he's special. | |
| Uh he's uh unique beyond unique. | |
| Uh and uh uh finally got to meet him in the uh in the late eighties or early nineties. | |
| I was invited to an editor's meeting at his home uh in New York, and it was it was uh very uplifting to be welcomed in to the uh to the movement of the circle, so to speak. | |
| And I've I've been a uh uh devotee and and fortunately a good friend for a number of years. | |
| But I wanted to tell you all this uh uh so that when I come back from the break and describe what happened the evening last night you'll understand it. | |
| And I also want to tell some of you this because Mr. Buckley uh uh may not be that known to some of you. | |
| He uh he may not be uh as as widely known today as he was because he's he's cut back on his activities. | |
| His reputation is there. | |
| Uh there's no there's no question. | |
| But he's uh I mean the best thing I guess I can say, he was like a uh a second father to me. | |
| Uh in in the qu in the terms of learning and being inspired and uh wanting to emulate someone in terms of knowing as much as there is to know about something, uh being conversant in it, uh being persuasive. | |
| Uh my father and Bill Buckley are probably the two most influential people in uh in that regard. | |
| And so it was a thrill and an honor to be asked to host uh one of the hosts, George Will was the other, along with Henry Hyde, uh one of the three hosts for the evening last night, and to narrate the video. | |
| But I've got to tell you some of the things that happened last night when we come back from the break, because it was a hoot, folks. | |
| I mean, I I uh there were had to be a thousand people there, and I I was when it was over, uh well, I was I I was there for 90 minutes, an hour and a half, uh signing autographs, posing for pictures, engaging in conversation, uh just surrounded by a bunch of people, and it was just a hoot. | |
| There were there were eleven recovering wounded soldiers from Iraq from Walter Reed uh hospital who uh who were there. | |
| Uh uh. | |
| The the uh priest that offered the invocation of Benediction. | |
| People were laughing during the Benediction. | |
| This is it was uh it was a it was a step back in time. | |
| It was refined, it was erudite, it was funny as it could be, MC'd by M. Stanton Evans. | |
| Uh, but it was there was it was it was just it really was a step back. | |
| It was it was uh the the kind of good time that was I don't want to well, I'll say it, it was just one hundred percent healthy. | |
| It there there was there was uh uh no evidence of the modern decline of public culture. | |
| Uh no cheap laughs, no easy laughs with bathroom or sex humor. | |
| It was all just really good stuff, and I was I was uh I was thrilled to be included to be a part of it. | |
| We'll take a break, I'll come back and I'll give you some of the details that happened last night because it was a stellar cast of people that showed up. | |
| Back in just a second. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Welcome back to Open Line Friday, America's anchor man Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, as you know, the uh well-known anti-American Mohammed Elberadae and the International Atomic Agency uh atomic energy agency are the joint recipients of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize awarded today. | |
| Uh Bel Beredai and the agency will get one point three million dollars, a diploma, and a medal. | |
| Uh uh folks, it is an absolute joke. | |
| You have just have to figure that nobody who is pro-American is going to be given this award during the Bush administration. | |
| It just isn't gonna happen. | |
| Here's the guy who sat there and presided over the Iranians nuking up. | |
| Uh i it it's a uh here's a guy that that one week before the presidential election in 2004 got hold of the New York Times and tried to sabotage the re-election of George W. Bush with his mythical story of all these missing bombs that we uncovered and then somehow lost in Iraq. | |
| And it it's uh it uh that probably was what won him the award, that little leak to the New York Times. | |
| But this is the the essentially, folks, the UN has been given because the El Beradiz agency is is uh is an adjunct. | |
| The UN's been given the Nobel Peace Prize here. | |
| You know, uh I how did they get how'd they miss being given the prize for the genocide in Rwanda that they missed? | |
| How did they miss being given the genocide for all the sex abuse that they've been uh accused of uh meeting out uh in uh in very various parts of uh of Africa? | |
| Uh so anyway, we'll have more on this here in just a second. | |
| I have to say a little bit about this night, because it was just it was uh it was uplifting in in so many ways. | |
| Uh as I say, but the the one of the big topics of conversation all night long was uh was the Supreme Court nomination, and people from both sides of the issue were coming up to me. | |
| You will love Harriet. | |
| Uh well what are you gotta keep doing what you're doing, Russia just saving the Republic. | |
| You just gotta keep it. | |
| Yeah, I'm just being as polite as I can and listening to all, thanking everybody. | |
| Uh and everybody was great. | |
| There, everybody in this audience was I want to thank all of the the people that were there that were so nice to me before and after the event. | |
| Uh one one uh moment just just prior in fact it was during the salad course, and I never eat at these things because I'm never seated long enough. | |
| Uh I'm standing there and minding my own business, I'm talking to somebody, and I get a tap on my on my left shoulder. | |
| So I turn around as very uh elegant uh erudite man, and he said, Hi, I'm so and so I couldn't hear his name because of my hearing problem in crowded rooms like that, but I did hear him say, I'd like to introduce you to my wife Janice Rogers Brown. | |
| So I look and it was her. | |
| It was her, and I couldn't re I just gave her a huge hug. | |
| I just she had she asked if she could have her picture taken. | |
| She wanted to thank me and everybody who had been so supportive of her. | |
| And she she said, I want to also thank you for for explaining to people what a three-year nomination battle in the middle of a filibuster does to somebody, what that's like. | |
| And I said, uh the the no, you're you're a great, you're a walking lesson. | |
| You hung in there and you didn't cave during any aspect of it. | |
| So I gave her a big hug and I said, Do I get to get my picture taken with you? | |
| Uh so her husband snapped the picture. | |
| We had a little conversation for two or three minutes. | |
| Judge Bork was there. | |
| As I said, K. Bailey Hutchison uh was there along with I met Senator Lieberman. | |
| And you may well, what was Senator Lieberman doing there? | |
| Bill Buckley is responsible for Senator Lieberman being in the Senate. | |
| Back in the 80s, Bill Buckley and the National Review staff got fed up with Lowell Wiker. | |
| They had had it with Lowell Wiker. | |
| So they set up a pack called BuckPack. | |
| And BuckPack essentially got Lieberman elected. | |
| And knew they weren't going to elect a I mean, a Republican up there, and Lieberman uh so he was there, and Buckley even his speech last night made mention of the fact that Joe Lieberman's a favored Democrat. | |
| Uh and and I would we talk a little bit about BuckPack because I remembered reading all about that in uh in National Review when it was uh when it was taking place. | |
| Uh what at who? | |
| Oh, I uh talk a little bit about his job, how he goes about it, a little bit about my job, how I go about it, um about Buckley. | |
| This night was about Bill Buckley and what everybody had in common with Buckley, one way or the other. | |
| Uh and you know, there's some some of the speakers last night took some real shots at politicians. | |
| And I caught at K. Bailey Hutcheson was on one side of our table, circular tables, and Lieberman was two seats to my right. | |
| He was on Buckley's right, I was on Buckley's left. | |
| And uh Kay would just look over at uh Joe Lieberman and smile whenever these politicians accused of selling out or whatever. | |
| But it was all it was all in good fun. | |
| Nobody got mad about it, but they're sitting there, they're taking their shots. | |
| You know, it was it was uh it was funny. | |
| But uh during this during this uh video, the 40-minute retrospective video, it concluded with uh a uh uh excerpt of Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, addressing the 30th anniversary of uh of National Review from the podium with the presidential seal. | |
| And I don't know what made me do it, but a couple times during uh the and and folks, if you ever if you wish everybody could see this uh the seeing Ronald Reagan as president being just perfect in a circumstance like this, awarding uh National Review and and commemorating it for thirty years of service and and Buck and Reagan was a subscriber. | |
| Uh the magazine was instrumental in turning him from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, in fact. | |
| But a couple times I looked over and Bill was tearing up. | |
| They were really, really close friends. | |
| Bill's Bill's gonna be 80 next month, and he's watching Reagan, and you know, there's only one Ronald Reagan uh. | |
| And uh couple days wiping tears from his eyes. | |
| It was just touching. | |
| Uh I think a lot of people in the audience uh uh were. | |
| And then Bill went up and and he gave the uh closing remarks, and uh he he choked up at the end and and uh it was just everything about the evening was genuine, it was touching. | |
| Uh but I really wish there were a way to convey uh better than I have today just how important uh Buckley and National Review uh have have been to me. | |
| He's he's just he's irreplaceable, and it's such a dream for me. | |
| I mean, this this man was godlike. | |
| Uh the only difference between him and my father was I knew my father. | |
| Uh but I never thought I would meet Bill Buckley, much less become uh a friend of his, and there I am sitting next to him at his dinner last night, and I was honored, and I'm happy to be able to share the evening with you. | |
| Back in a moment. | |
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| Of course, that's what we do here, folks. | |
| The truth, and we make the uh complex understandable. | |
| Open line Friday, 800-282-2882. | |
| Last night, I must have received 20. | |
| What's the word for this? | |
| Uh yeah, I guess proposals, solicitations, twenty requests from uh from different women uh applying to be my mistress. | |
| No, I didn't get hit on twenty times. | |
| If I said I forgot hit on twenty times, I'd say that. | |
| These were classy, upstanding females, and they they wanted to be my and they were from all over the country. | |
| There's a big crowd. | |
| Uh one uh one young woman even even proposed, seriously proposed. | |
| That's why I only got three hours sleep last night. | |
| She even gave me a she gave me a little ring. | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| I'm leaving. | |
| Uh I gotta I I guess I left the place about uh the Museum National, whatever the building was, uh at 1115, and I got out, I got out to Dulles about midnight, and I'm walking through the terminal. | |
| I'm walking through the building, and I'm I'm looking down the end of the hall, it's a pretty long hallway, and I said, That person, this woman approaching me looks familiar. | |
| As I got closer and closer, by gosh, it is, it's Andrea Mitchell. | |
| So uh stopped and said hello to Andrew Mitchell, and she said, Boy, you have been on fire this week. | |
| I said, You ought to be with me on the weekends, if you think this has been something. | |
| But uh it it was it just was uh uh a fun night. | |
| I'm happy to be able to share a little bit of this with you, folks. | |
| I wish this is one of the and there were all kinds of cameras there. | |
| There were TV cameras. | |
| I don't know if C-SPAN taped this and is going to air it sometime later. | |
| I know it's their twenty-fifth anniversary weekend this week and at C SPAN starting tonight. | |
| They're doing twenty-five hours of of uh call-ins. | |
| Uh but uh I I'm assuming that there's gonna be some video of this when it's it's M. Stanton Evans, Stan Evans was the MC. | |
| We've interviewed him for the uh Limbaugh Letter one of the driest wits, funniest had us had us laughing all night. | |
| One of the bits he did was he says for those of you who've been uh busy today, preoccupied uh with whether or not George Will's gonna survive uh be at the White House or because of all the Supreme Court nominations. | |
| There was big news today out of California, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals saying that women and minorities were not present during the writing of the Constitution. | |
| The Ninth Circuit today declared that the uh U.S. Constitution is therefore unconstitutional. | |
| Uh the reason it's funny is because it's true. | |
| It's got this element of truth to it that you can believe it. | |
| Uh might happen. | |
| Here's interesting email I got. | |
| This is from Houston. | |
| Uh a rush 24-7 subscriber. | |
| Hey Rush, ditto. | |
| I'm writing to you today because I'm so mad, and I want you to spend some time on your show spreading the word about this. | |
| I have a co-worker whose family was displaced, but hardly affected by Hurricane Katrina. | |
| Here are the facts. | |
| They lived in a lower middle class neighborhood in or right outside New Orleans. | |
| They had nice enough things, but by no means uh had expendable disposable income for any type of over-the-top things. | |
| They had all their credit cards maxed, and life at best was paycheck to paycheck. | |
| Then the hurricane happens. | |
| My co-worker's father worked for a shooting club which collected over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give him to help him with repairs. | |
| So this this the man she's talking about, father, works at a shooting club. | |
| He took independent donations, gave the guy, gave his son $250,000. | |
| The recipient is now in Shreveport, gambling with the money. | |
| Our office collected $8,000 and gave it to him. | |
| He now has new tires on his car. | |
| State Farm was going to total his house and give him a lump sum for it. | |
| He's using that money and the money he collected from the shooting club to sue state farm. | |
| His sister lied to FEMA and told him she had children, so she collected. | |
| No questions asked. | |
| She got a lump sum for them too. | |
| She makes about $60,000 a year at a chemical plant. | |
| She has suffered nothing, no loss. | |
| Rush people are totally taking advantage of the situation and blaming President Bush. | |
| Why can't stories like this be told? | |
| Please speak about this so everybody will know how much of a loser people can be. | |
| Hey, this is, this is, this doesn't surprise me at all. | |
| Sue the insurance company after they pay off, take the donations and go to a casino and max it out. | |
| This is no different than lottery winners. | |
| This is big time lottery winners. | |
| This is what happens. | |
| By the way, there's big news out there on the on the Hurricane Katrina front. | |
| Guess what, folks? | |
| I wonder where we first heard this, too. | |
| They overestimated the total cost of the cleanup, the fix-up, and the repairs by about a hundred bill. | |
| The uh original figure was 250 billion. | |
| Now it's been revised downward to 150 billion. | |
| Mary Landrew, fit to be tied that the Senate is talking about debating defense issues instead of uh grab audio somebody's 10 and 11. | |
| In instead of dealing with the uh the hurricane aftermath, this is this morning on the Senate floor. | |
| Cute little baby fat Mary Landrew is whining that Louisiana isn't getting enough cash. | |
| Federal government sent us a third-rate FEMA, offered a second rate levy system, and now tight-fisted lending policies. | |
| And then criticize us for not being more self-reliant. | |
| I have to listen to people in Washington and the power, the power in Washington, the Republican power from the White House to this Senate to the House. | |
| Tell me that people in the Gulf Coast area need to be more self-reliant. | |
| And I'm told, sorry, Senator, we can't loan you the money the way we have lent it to everyone for the last 30 years. | |
| And by the way, when we do it again in the future, we're gonna lend it to everybody under the old program. | |
| But just for you, we have a special deal. | |
| I have no idea what she's talking about here, but clearly she's losing it. | |
| Uh uh little Dick Cheney lingo there. | |
| She is uh she's she's coming unhinged, uh, folks, upset here, third-rate FEMA, a second rate levy says. | |
| So, hey, don't talk to us about the levy system. | |
| We know about the levy system, Senator, and we know that it was local corruption that led to the problems, the 17th Street Canal Levy. | |
| We know this. | |
| It has been documented and proven. | |
| Uh a lot of things have come out in the aftermath. | |
| We know of the incompetence at the local and state levels in dealing uh with all of this. | |
| We also know now it's not going to cost anywhere near the 250 billion that you requested. | |
| Uh, and of course, what's self-reliant? | |
| What's wrong with self-reliance? | |
| At some point, self-reliance has to take over. | |
| I mean, even if you just look at the money being dispersed, okay, what are you gonna do after you get the money? | |
| You gotta do something. | |
| You have to get off the sofa and just up there. | |
| This whole this whole uh uh diatribe here against against self-reliance and this whining. | |
| This is this is this is perhaps the most defensive thing. | |
| This ungrateful whining. | |
| Look at the outpouring of aid, assistance, love, and affection from the people of this country and from the comp the government, the Congress. | |
| I mean, my gosh, these people were running around spending money faster than we could print it. | |
| And here she is whining and moaning on the floor of the Senate. | |
| I she may have said thanks to somebody sometime. | |
| I haven't heard it From her. | |
| Have you? | |
| You have. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, I take it back. | |
| Well, I haven't heard it. | |
| But if she's if she's offering thanks, she's whining about ten times for every time she thanks anybody. | |
| One more little soundbite to this. | |
| It's a quickie. | |
| She says that uh she's calling Hurricane Katrina our bag dad. | |
| The reason I've been spending so much time on this bill, the defense bill, talking about this issue, is because, Mr. President, this is our war. | |
| This is our bag dad. | |
| Okay, so that's Senator Mary Landrew here uh complaining and whining and moaning about uh what isn't happening the way she would like it to happen uh down in Louisiana. | |
| Clayton in Scottsdale, Arizona, you're the first call today on open line Friday. | |
| Hello. | |
| Maha Russian, second amendment 24-7 member Ditto's. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| My wife and I are expecting our first child in two weeks. | |
| We want to make sure we do our best to teach him the importance of limited government, peace through superior firepower and ultimately be a true conservative. | |
| Any advice on how to do that, especially when they're subjected to the public school system down the road? | |
| Well, this is an excellent question. | |
| I don't know that I'm the one to answer it, given that I've never done what you're going to do. | |
| Uh and I've never had a desire to do what you're going to do. | |
| Uh, and that is raise a crumb cruncher from birth to adulthood. | |
| If I were in your shoes, I mean, just to be honest with you, I'd be praying for the next 18 years when I can kick the kid out of the house and go by faster than any 18 years in my life. | |
| But everybody tells me I'm wrong that if I ever did goof up and have a kid, uh, that I would totally change my attitude about that. | |
| But I do have some ideas for you, and I but I'm I'm I've I could rely only on my own parents uh and uh and my own father. | |
| But I uh I think you know my father never told me what to think. | |
| Uh never wagged his finger and uh except when I was you know needed to be disciplined or something. | |
| But you're talking about ideological type things. | |
| My father never told me what to think. | |
| I just couldn't escape his ideology, and he was profoundly influential and inspiring. | |
| And what it what what was inspiring to me was his knowledge. | |
| The man knew so much. | |
| I wanted to know what he knew. | |
| I wanted to be able to speak like he. | |
| I wanted to be able to be conversant in so many things uh as he was. | |
| Uh and I one of the reasons that I got disappointed with school was that I felt I was wasting my time with half of it. | |
| Half of it I didn't care about. | |
| And I and well, that's part of a well-rounded education. | |
| You don't know how to educate yourself. | |
| You're not smart enough. | |
| We have trained educators to do that, which I I understand, but you know, uh when you when you design a mass appeal education system, it's it's designed to hit the most people in a positive way. | |
| There are always going to be oddballs like me who can't wait to get out of school once they're introduced to the first or second grade because they know then that it's not for them, and that was me. | |
| So uh but but m my my father I had a couple teachers in school too that were inspirational in this way, but I think the best thing you can do is be smarter than any teacher he's gonna have. | |
| Be smarter than any principal. | |
| Uh live your life the way you want you to live uh you want him to live his. | |
| But don't make him let him see it for himself. | |
| Because he's gonna rebel against you at some point, uh regardless of age. | |
| Uh all crumb crunchers do that. | |
| But if you just you set the example, and especially one that's inspiring, uh, and I uh that all that's how what worked with me. | |
| Uh and I, you know, I don't think a human being you could I mean it's possible to take a human being and mold them and shape them and turn them into little robots, but you don't want that. | |
| You want to you want an independently uh uh uh independent thinking, uh uh curious. | |
| Uh when you tell him something he doesn't know, you want him to uh you you want to be able to explain why when he asks you why. | |
| You don't want to have to say because I said so. | |
| Uh you want to be able to tell him why. | |
| You want to be able to have the answers, and if you don't have the answers, go with him and look them up. | |
| And show him how to learn. | |
| May I ask a question about that? | |
| Yeah. | |
| One thing that I'm um and I appreciate that advice, and one thing I'm foreseeing is that if you have a uh and I I I don't want to come across as fighting his teachers, but if he comes home from school with, you know, some example that I disagree with, I don't want to see my child see me go to school to battle every student, uh every teacher he disagrees with. | |
| So how do you how do you send him into the battle, him or her into that battle? | |
| Well too. | |
| Now again, I I I I've let me take a break here and come back and deal with this after the break. | |
| I've not done this, and I've you know, I I'm probably not the best to advise on this. | |
| I'll tell you what I think. | |
| Uh uh, and the way the only way I could do it is put myself in your shoes. | |
| And uh, even though I'm sweating bullets at the thought, if I had a kid that was in school uh and this happened, I I think I know what I would do about it or how I would handle it. | |
| So that's what I'll tell you. | |
| But uh keep in mind I haven't done it, so the advice may be worth what this is costing you, which is zero. | |
| We'll be back here in just a second, folks. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Get this. | |
| Get this. | |
| And this this is good and Clayton our our uh yeah, cla uh Clayton and Scott Steele, this this this email, even though nothing to do with what you're asking me about, illustrates this uh a bit of a problem that you have. | |
| Here's an email. | |
| You didn't abuse the people last night at the Buckley event by talking football, but I bet you're gonna abuse us listeners by talking stinking football today. | |
| So here's a guy anticipating a problem that may not even happen. | |
| Well, I did talk football with some people last night because there were some people interested in football. | |
| And I may talk about it today. | |
| You know it's open line Friday for me, too. | |
| All right, Clayton, back to you. | |
| Your question basically is you don't want to have to go to school and beat the hell out of teachers that are trying to poison your kids' mind, right? | |
| Correct. | |
| All right. | |
| You do what I what I I can't what I would do is exactly what I told you first. | |
| Just uh get the fundamentals, get that base of of ideological uh belief in your son built simply by the way he observes the way you and your wife live, and the way you inspire him as a father, with your knowledge and with your ability to answer his questions and with reasons to back up why you believe what you believe by the time the kid's fifteen, no teacher will have any impact on him. | |
| I I never I had liberal professors even my first year in college. | |
| I had all kinds of but never never never never shattered me at all. | |
| Never even questioned me. | |
| But if it happens, uh I wouldn't confront the teachers, but uh it may not happen. | |
| Give us another your your son's not even born yet. | |
| It's not gonna happen for 10 or 15, 20 years. | |
| Ten or fifteen, twenty years, we may have beaten that problem for you, Clayton. | |
| We may have reformed the education system enough that it won't be a problem. | |
| But if we haven't, if your son comes home with some outrageous essay question or or some problem with the teacher, only if it results in bad grades do you take it up at the school. | |
| But he comes home with some problem or some question uh or some uh story about what the teacher did, just make him smarter than the teacher. | |
| Teachers aren't infallible, and liberal teachers obviously aren't, and they obviously don't know what's right, and they're probably even not thinking much. | |
| They're probably just like all other liberals, cool shape. | |
| Make your son smarter. | |
| You know, he's he's gonna have uh he's gonna have a chance to have a uh an average or above average IQ, which means he's gonna be able to learn. | |
| Uh that that really is the key to it. | |
| And he's got it. | |
| Make him confident. | |
| You know, don't you know, make make him uh uh let him know that it's okay to be who he is. | |
| So that his self-esteem is naturally derived and not dependent on what other people think of him. | |
| There this is another great things you can do uh that'll insulate you from all these problems from any influences he might have. | |
| Gotta go, we'll be back. | |
| Take uh just a brief break and don't go away. | |
| You want to laugh. | |
| Tom Harkin says that the conservative attacks on Harriet Myers are despicable. | |
| The Libs are loving this. | |
| We'll talk about that as the program unfolds. | |
| Open line Friday. |
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