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Oct. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Back for yet another hour of broadcast excellence on the Rush Limbaugh program, the uh fastest three hours in media.
Great to have you along.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882.
Email address is rush at EIB net.com.
All right, here's a story.
WBIR news director Bill Shore.
This is a television station in Tennessee.
We have heard from many viewers regarding our special coverage following Tuesday night's debate between Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr.
These are the Republican and Democrat Senate candidates in Tennessee, respectively.
Many people at WBIR play a part in shaping our news coverage, and all of them have a voice in our editorial decisions.
However, the final decisions and the responsibility for them are mine.
Last night we made a mistake.
After we broadcast the Senate debate, we brought you 30 minutes of discussion and analysis, because we know that the candidates never say what they mean, and you don't know what they've said until we tell you.
I just added that.
He didn't really admit that.
This segment included our anchor, another journalist, and a supporter of Harold Ford Jr., but no supporters of Bob Corker.
That wasn't right.
But we got away with it anyway.
Who cares what our apology today means?
He didn't say that.
I'm just adding it myself.
That happened because of some last minute changes, some of which were beyond our control, but while that's an explanation, it's not an excuse.
Out of their control to get a corker supporter.
Last minute changes.
Anyway, it is kind of uh interesting.
Uh this apology from the news director of a TV station that broadcast the Tennessee Senate debate.
Um did you learn I'm curious when they figured out that they were short a supporter.
What was what was it before the debate?
Was it during the debate?
Was it during the analysis after the debate?
Or was it after the show totally was over that they re Hey, you know what?
We forgot to get a corker supporter in here.
You think it's the last one after the show they realize that I mean when you're putting this together and you got your guest lineup and you got the guests in the green room, and they gotta get there early for it.
When do you realize that you have screwed up?
But still, I mean the apology is amazing.
You have to admit, uh apology is amazing.
All right, uh, from the Washington Times today.
Jennifer Harper has a story.
Here's another challenge for political strategirists hoping to woo the public to their candidates' cause as midterm elections loom, and that's the timid voter.
Some Americans are too put off or even fearful of strident partisan divisiveness to reveal their political opinions, according to research released yesterday by the Ohio State University.
What's more, these apprehensive Americans are reluctant to publicly participate in a political campaign via contributing money or working for a candidate.
They don't like to display bumper stickers or even call in to talk radio.
No.
The more political polarization there is, the greater the potential for conflicts at Andrew F. Hayes, an assistant professor of communications and co-author of the study at the Ohio State University.
In a polarized, hostile political climate, some people decide not to participate because they're afraid of the social ramifications of doing anything that might reveal their opinion to others.
Some may be uncomfortable expressing an opinion, such as putting up a lawn sign for a candidate when they know or speculate that their neighbors have a different political position.
Well, now come on.
As though this is something new, what would you what what what label would you use to describe the people that are being discussed in this story in this research?
That's exactly these are moderates.
That's exactly what they've just defined moderates, a bunch of wusses.
Afraid of offending anybody, afraid of having it known what they think.
They want to be above all.
This is casting these people as a bunch of cowards and wusses and people gripped by fear.
And they're they're they're just they're just afraid that their neighbors might know what they think.
There are 142 million registered American voters.
Their turnout at the polls varies by election.
Voter dismay is in evidence this season, however, just 15% cast ballots in this year's primaries.
An all-time low, according to American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate.
Turnout in presidential elections runs the gamut from a low of 49% in 24 to a high of 63% in 1960.
There was a 60% turnout in 2004, compared with 51% in 2000, 49% in 96, and 55% in 92.
Meanwhile, those who keep their political opinions to themselves also are less likely to take part in public political activities, said the researchers at the Ohio State University.
Based on interviews with 781 persons across the nation, the uh researchers found that timid citizens also were less likely to raise funds for or contribute money to a candidate or attend a political meeting.
People witness politics in print and broadcast journalists don't deny that the media overplays conflict.
Louder and nastier means more coverage.
However, typical citizens just don't want to get mixed up in the mess.
So typical citizens have just been defined here as timid by researchers at the Ohio State University.
So they really don't do anything.
But these are the people that we're told are the most important in the election.
The independents, the undecided, the moderates.
This is who everybody apparently pursues.
And we're told at the same time that negative campaigning works, yet that people despise it.
Now, if negative campaigning works, how is it that it also works on these timid people who don't like any conflict whatsoever, who don't like to be drawn into it?
They don't contribute, they don't put yard signs up, they don't involve themselves in debates.
Um they don't vote as much.
So why are these people the target of everything?
Mr. Snerdley, do you agree with this research?
Do you agree with the majority of that it says that there's a I don't know, but majority, but a lot of them.
A lot of these people are ti- who are these, besides, aside from being moderates, and we all know that, who are these people?
When you when you listen to a discription of these apprehensive Americans, reluctant to publicly participate in a campaign, uh the more political polarization there is, the greater the potential for conflict.
In a polarized hostile political climate, some people decide not to participate because they're afraid of the social ramifications of doing anything that might reveal their opinion to others.
Who are these people?
Who are they?
Oh, come on.
You don't have an idea.
You don't You can't oh come on, you know I I know people like this.
I know people Yeah.
They're wimps, but there's also something else about them.
They think they're better than her, but because they're above it all.
They refuse to get drawn in to the base level of politics.
I don't, I don't know.
Uh bottom line is they're living in uh in fear.
I got an interesting note from a subscriber to my website.
Hi, Rush.
You know that bit of advice you give about never counting on anyone but yourself to make yourself happy?
I have someone who really needs that advice now.
Uh I have written it down, but it doesn't have the same punch as when you tell it.
I've scanned your website for it, but I can't find it.
Would you talk about it on the show so I can print it out?
Like I said, this person really needs to hear it.
Oh, I know exactly what the emailer here is referring to, and this sort of this story here reminds me of.
When you when you were living in fear of what other people think, and that's what I take from now, Dawn, why what are you what is that facial expression mean?
You know, her facial expression.
Oh, here he goes again.
Hearing.
Let me take a break.
I'll come back and explain what I mean, because I think these two can be tied together.
Uh it will Dawn, I'm just kidding.
Now don't start crying.
I don't need that.
And we're back.
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You know that bit of advice you give about never counting on anybody but yourself to make you happy.
Someone who really needs that advice now I've written it down, but just doesn't have the same punches when you tell it.
I don't remember exactly word for word what I have said about this, but this story on these timid souls that don't like getting involved in politics, strident politics silences them.
They're afraid that people will know what they think.
Um that to me indicates people who live their lives gripped by fear.
And fear is the biggest obstacle to moving forward and uh having achievements in life that there is.
Uh the fear of trying, the fear of failure, uh the fear of what other people will say.
I have found in my life, and I've fallen victim to this, that one of the most imprisoning aspects of human behavior is caring what other people will think of you.
By virtue of what you say, by what virtue of what you do, uh it just imprisons.
It did me, and it I think it imprisons uh a lot of people.
Now we're all raised, there are exceptions to this, but we're all raised with the uh notion that we should be nice to people.
And uh some of us are raised with the idea we should never ever offend anybody.
Uh and we're we're raised with the with the uh with the notion that our purpose in life is to make other people happy.
That isn't possible.
It is simply not possible to make, and I know that a lot of people disagree with this, uh because you think you are making somebody happier.
Somebody else is making you happy right now, and you think I don't know what I'm talking about.
We're all raised with this notion that we can make other people happy.
Somebody's down in a dump, somebody's uh having a blues, somebody's in trouble.
We can say something to them uh that is going to automatically make them feel better and make them happy.
And that isn't true.
I don't care what anybody says, that all of this has to come from within.
Uh after the words that you utter to try to make somebody happy are are uttered.
If there is a momentary uh good feeling on the part of the recipient of your words, it vanishes after a while because it'll always revert to what's in them, uh, what they are thinking about themselves.
Most people are imprisoned in this whole circumstance of thinking whatever it is they think about themselves is based on what they think other people think of them.
And so a lot of people set out in life to make sure that people don't think ill of them, don't think poorly of them, don't dislike them or what have you.
And when you do that, when you gauge every person you know, every relationship you're in on the basis of do they like me, you are subconsciously behaving in a way that you think they want you to behave.
And in the process, you are denying them in truth who you really are.
And you're denying it to yourself, and you end up making totally bad mistakes in forming relationships, because you're not giving yourself a chance to be known for who you really are.
You're gauging what somebody else wants you to be, and you're trying to do it.
Everybody does this in um in in uh male-female relationships, dating relationships, especially at the outset.
We all know this.
This doesn't even have to be said.
First date, first couple of two dates, cut your toenails, trim your ear hairs, nose hairs, do all of this stuff, making sure that The impression you make is fine, and they're doing the same thing.
After you get to know somebody for a while, the hell with the nose hair, to hell with the ear hair, to hell with even taking a shower, shaving before you go out, because now you feel comfortable that they know you and you feel comfortable to be yourself.
And some people never get to that level of just being comfortable being who they are.
They still phoning it up and fake it up because they don't have the innate confidence that who they are is gonna is going to be liked.
And that's because they don't like themselves.
That's because they think there's something wrong with them.
And that, by the way, is not entirely their fault.
That's reinforced on all of us.
Everybody that we know is trying to tell us one way or another that what we're doing is wrong.
Everybody has a better idea for what we're doing than the way we're doing it.
Everybody thinks they can do what you do better than you're doing it.
Everybody thinks that you should be doing what you're doing in a different way.
And they and some people will tell you this.
And then so you start doubting yourself, and you don't want the doubt, and you don't want the pain that go along with the doubt, so you accommodate what you think the disagreements people have with you are and try to get rid of those negatives or disagreements by making them like you.
In the process, all you do is um uh take yourself down a couple notches in terms of liking yourself and being who you are, satisfaction and so forth.
Uh and really what you're doing, and this is a little rehab lingo here, but it's it's it's I think it's right out of money.
What you're actually doing when you deny who you are to yourself and everybody else is medicating pain.
You're suppressing it, you're trying to avoid it, uh and and because nobody wants to feel pain, emotional, real, or otherwise, so you do what you can to avoid that.
And in the process, uh you make yourself a bigger mystery to yourself and a bigger mystery to people, and you end up making relationships with people based on totally false and phony notions that you're somebody that you're not.
And eventually, at some point, the real you, and by the way, everybody's doing this.
This is what this is what makes relationships I mean, be they the spousal romantic or just friendships, it what's makes them what's making what makes them tough.
Because both sides do this.
It's so natural.
Uh because nobody wants to be disliked.
And that's why I had this E.E. Cummings quote yesterday that said the biggest fight in life is to resist all the changes everybody is demanding you make.
The biggest fight in life is to go through it being who you are.
Uh but that's that's that's the way to to real uh personal and internal satisfaction.
Now, again, there I shouldn't have to say this, but we're not talking about if you're a rapist or if you are a CAD or if you're an SOB or what have, but there are SOBs, and thank God that they are.
You can spot them right off the bat.
Nothing worse than a phony SOB who you find out as one later on.
Uh but there's I'm not saying there's virtue in every behavior, don't misunderstand.
I'm just talking about the people that imprison themselves by trying to be what everybody else wants them to be, uh, are actually screwing themselves up and they're being phony and they're not helping uh relationships at all, and you become you become just uh filled with self-doubt, lack of confidence, and you spend your whole day asking, wonder what they think of me.
You'll meet somebody for the first time.
You go out and talk to them, what a business relationship doesn't matter.
And if your reaction is, let's say you have a business meeting, and you go out and you're trying to sell somebody your product or your service or whatever.
You go, you make your sales pitch, you think it's gone pretty well, you don't have an answer, you walk out of the meeting.
If the first thing you say is, I think they liked me, you have blown it.
Because that's not the purpose.
I think they like me.
That shows what you want, and I want somebody to like me.
So you probably didn't sell anything in there, certainly not yourself, but you walked out of there trying to feel good because you thought whoever it was liked you.
In some cases, the person you're meeting with is probably doing the same thing because everybody, you you think, give you another example.
You go to a party, and you think there's something wrong with you.
Your dress doesn't fit, or your suit's not right, or your tie doesn't match what you're so self-conscious.
I wonder if they're gonna notice that I think I look like an idiot.
Well, everybody else in the party's doing the same thing.
It's natural and it's normal.
Uh while you Think everybody's looking at you.
Everybody else in the room thinks everybody's looking at them, making the same judgments, wondering if they fit, wonder if they look right, instead of just going in and being who they are.
It's it's uh being too self-conscious and being negatively self-conscious as well.
And it just it leads it leads to the bottom line is people don't want to deal with the pain of all this, and they end up making rotten decisions oriented towards suppressing the pain.
So how does this relate to these timid voters?
Very simple, folks, and I hope a lot of them are talking to pollsters and lying through their teeth just so the polsters will like them.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Hi, welcome back, EIB Network and L. Rushball, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Kent in Chicago.
Glad you called, sir.
Appreciate your patience, and welcome to the program.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Great pleasure to talk with you.
I just wanted to tell you it did snow out here.
Yeah.
So you know.
All right.
The point I wanted to make was uh, you know, I was listening on satellite radio yesterday to Mr. Wrangle's comments, and I was so offended, they kind of, you know, brought me back to uh that Paul Wallstone memorial where the Democrats, you know, acted completely obnoxious and because of their behavior, they were held accountable by the you know, by the voters of Minnesota.
You know, and it you know, it's amazing to me how the Democratic Party keeps blaming the Republican Party for the way they act, you know.
And I guess my question to you is is that because they're dumb or because they think we're dumb.
Um I think it's I think it goes deeper than that.
I don't I don't think it has to do with dumb, uh, although I do think that they think most people are stupid.
I I think liberals do have an arrogant condescension about themselves.
But the reason they blame others for their behavior, uh I think probably is found in the uh uh it would be the best way to say this.
Um they're infallible.
And yet they know they're doing some things that are bad for them.
They're they're behaving and saying things that they they know are harming them.
But since they are infallible and they are good people, it has to be this unfair climate that's that's forcing them to respond in ways that they that they otherwise wouldn't.
Uh and so their behavior and their their rudeness or whatever is always somebody else's fault because somebody is forcing them to do things that they wouldn't otherwise do.
Um it's it's like when you when you talk about uh elections, uh in the they come out and uh uh blame voters uh for not being able to uh use a butterfly valid, or they uh they blame machines uh for not recording votes correctly rather than examining what are they doing wrong.
I'll give you the best analogy I can give you is let's say this will never happen.
But let's say over the course of a six-month period, the Arbitron Rating Service reports that 30% of this radio audience is uh vanish.
Go somewhere else.
I look at the numbers.
Well, we've lost 30% of the audience here the past six months.
Now, if I were a liberal, the first thing I would do would be to go public and blame Arbitron for cheating, accuse them of being paid off by somebody to purposely shaft my ratings for whatever reason, then I would blame the audience for being stupid,
what isn't they don't get, and then I would just be more and more of whatever I was doing that was causing the audience to leave in defiance, and then as the audience continued to leave, I would continue to blame the audience for being idiots and stupid or trickery on the part of the rating services or what have you.
That's what the Democrats are doing.
However, if I if that ever happened to me, which it won't, but if it ever did, the first thing I would ask myself is what's different about this show that causing people to not like it as much.
The Democrats refuse to do that because they're incapable of it.
Liberals are incapable of assuming people don't like them.
They're incapable of assuming that people don't love them.
They're incapable of believing that people are tuning them out and not voting for them.
So every election is stolen from them, or every election has technical glitches, or there's been redistricting, or there's something they can't overcome, but it never is that maybe They're behaving and voting and talking in ways that repel people.
Uh they just they haven't they haven't the the ability to see anything wrong with uh with themselves.
They're such elitists and they're such superiorists that when things don't go their way, it's the result of marketing and packaging that fooled the idiot voters.
Remember, they think you're idiots anyway, whether you vote for them or not, they still condescend toward you.
They still have contempt for um average people.
And they're and they're train until they until they start examining why people are leaving them in droves, they're never going to fix the problem.
Mel in Minneapolis, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Limbaugh.
I uh let you know that I've been listening to you since I think I was about 15.
Uh I'm uh I'm a Kirkian Republican.
My dad is a Buchanan fan over uh Bush City.
Here we have a rush baby uh on the radio.
Welcome uh to the program, sir.
Yeah, it's a pleasure.
Uh you know, I take a little umbrage to your statement that we have uh timidity in our blood merely because I don't put out my sign or or uh I don't uh take out a flyer as to my Republican uh leanings.
I'm I don't know.
Wait a sec, wait a sec.
I didn't say this.
Researchers at the Ohio State University said this.
No, I believe that the researchers there said that we are timid.
You said that we were wusses.
Uh well, that's true.
Yes, I I did editorialize and and and but not no, not because you don't put a yard, I don't put yard signs up, not because of the yard signs.
I'm people will not tell you what they think about political issues because they're afraid of the reaction.
People that are people that are afraid of debate or afraid of conflict or afraid of somebody disagreeing with them.
That's who I call wusses.
I uh I am uh I am not a wuss.
Uh I know of one person only more conservative than myself, that'd be my father.
Um, and I I'm one of those guys that, you know, I see a rally going on out here, I go and heckle the the rallies like uh Bush was in town here a couple years ago at the XL Center.
My friend and I went down, he had his uh O'Reilly t-shirt on, and uh, you know, I managed to get a few of those crazy libs to agree with me before they realize what they were agreeing to.
I mean, I always have a good time arguing, but I'm I'm not I'm reluctant to give my opinion immediately because I think it's very important that as a conservative we back it up with uh thoroughly.
Well, no, no, you're missing the point.
What is the plan?
You you this this story from the Ohio State University doesn't even apply to you if you're going and heckling liberals at a rally.
Well, I don't think.
And if you're talking nobody's talking about you're you're mi I I think I think maybe it was something I said or the way I read the story.
It's not these are people that don't express their opinion, period, ever for any reason.
That's the definition of timid.
You are interpreting this to mean you'll go express your opinion in a reasoned way, but you won't roll up the f the the the shirt sleeves and really pound on people.
It's not what they're saying.
These are people that don't participate in it at all.
That's that's true.
You know, and it's a little tough here in Minneapolis.
You know, obviously, you know the liberal leaning state, and heck, I even work in the public interest.
I'm at the law school here, I'm a third-year student, and I'm Native American Rush.
They're they're surprised every time they find out that uh there are fewer uh writer-leaning Republicans than I'm I. Uh so it's uh it's a real pleasure to talk to you, and uh unfortunately I have to get back to work.
All right, I'm still not sure what you're saying, though.
You are you are you are you saying you are you one of these quiet types, even though you go echo liberals?
Uh yeah, w what uh on occasion, Rush, on occasion, you know, I'm not gonna, you know, if I'm in law school, somebody's like, yo, you know, I'm gonna go out and uh ensure that church has no uh uh no interaction with government.
I'm not gonna pick up an argument right there and then and tell them where I'm leaning.
I mean, obviously I want to I want a base of clientele that's gonna be as broad as possible.
Ah, okay.
Now now we're getting now I understand it.
Now you can go back to work.
I will comment.
Uh you've got business considerations.
You need every potential client to be a customer, and you don't want to alienate them by getting into politics.
That's the Tiger Woods philosophy.
It's a Michael Jordan philosophy.
They will never say a word about politics.
I mean, you remember back in um then and then but they're not timid.
We're not we're we're talking about average unknown people here that supposedly make up the the presidential uh well, the electorate.
But I remember uh this was late 90s, and there was uh a f uh A ceremony at Shea Stadium in New York, uh retiring Jackie Robinson's number from baseball.
Number 42.
And Bill Clinton asked Tiger Woods to go to it and be part of it.
Tigerson, nope, not showing up.
Remember, they said, how do you diss the president?
How do you say no to the very clear?
I need to sell American Express credit cards.
He didn't say this, but but but there was he there was nothing in it for him.
And plus, I mean I'm guessing here, I don't think he wanted to be tokenized.
Um Jackie Robbins and Tiger Woods, he didn't want to be drawn into politics of it.
Michael Jordan doesn't, Michael Jordan, big Democrat.
I've met him.
Big, big, he was nice as Elkity as he could be to me.
But uh he says, you know, Republicans buy tennis shoes too.
So I understand that.
If you if you're not, you know, you don't want to run the risk of uh of alienating people in business, but you still are not the person that the researchers here from the Ohio State University are talking about.
Ray in Putnam, Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Mega retired Air Force Ditto.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, listen, Charlie Rangel statement that he made uh with Neil Cavuto yesterday.
Yeah.
I picked up on what he said was I noticed that the jets were launched, although after the fact.
There is no way you could have launched them before the fact.
All those aircraft that fly up and down the East River, helicopters in the center and fixed wing on either side, and it occurred within a few seconds.
I mean, that was a it was just a dig.
Yeah, but see, Ray.
Yeah, I know what you're saying sounds good.
But if Bush were any good, and if we really had a a a post-9-11 plan that works, we would have had four F-16s scrambled the second that plane entered Manhattan airspace, even if it was only two seconds later hit the building.
Yeah, but reasonable people realize that had they been on combat air patrol over the city, they couldn't have got to him.
I know they couldn't have shot it down anyway.
Nothing they could have done to it.
Nothing.
Uh but that's that is a great example.
Here's Wrangle taking the occasion of a really sad and unfortunate accident, and still trying to blame George W. Bush for it.
That's right.
And Russia, if I could add, uh what you were talking about previously.
Uh Air Force, when we did uh training for our noncommissioned officers, the young guys, what you were talking about is exactly what we taught.
Leadership is a results contest, it's not a popularity contest.
If you're going to be in charge of somebody, you better be in charge and not try to be one of the guys, because if you do, you're gonna fail.
And that's what you were talking about.
Exactly right.
I appreciate the support on that, sir.
Thank you uh very much for the call.
A quick timeout, brief break back after this, my friends.
Stay with us.
Hey, a big day for you novelist uh novel readers uh and book readers out there.
Vince Flynn's latest hits uh today.
So some people uh uh were able to get it yesterday.
I, of course, as a powerful influential member of the media had mine last week.
I'm in the process of reading it.
It is called Act of Treason.
It is just awesome.
I the I the the guy uh and I've I've finally met him now.
He's uh uh he's just a peach of a guy, and he doesn't care what people think of him, by the way.
And it is a I just threw that in snerdly.
It's just a fabulous book.
I'm I'm I'm not even halfway through it yet.
Uh and I've had a lot of things going.
It's been really tough to put this thing down.
I even brought it in yesterday to read in the morning here during uh a little bit of show.
I I took time out from show prep to read some of it.
Also, an intro act of treason, Vince Flynn.
Also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, got an interesting note.
Rush, I just wanted to share something I heard my mother say more than once.
When you worry about what people think of you, you'd be surprised how seldom people are thinking of you.
And that is true.
It's a g just to illustrate, you go someplace as a group of people, and you're so worried what everybody thinks of you, everybody's doing the same thing.
They're not thinking of you.
They're thinking about themselves.
Everybody's a mental case in this regard.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
If I want to say one more thing about this, because and this this to me is uh is passionately important, and I have learned, I have learned that when there is drama in any relationship, just turn around and walk away from it, run away as fast as you can, because I'm gonna tell you what the drama is.
There are way too many people who think that it is somebody else's job to make them happy.
This is sadly the case in marriages, boy-girl relationships, and what have you.
It's because one of the two is so deficient in being able to make their cells themselves happy that they put that burden on somebody else.
And that leads to some of the most controlling behavior, and then you are in prison.
When somebody tells you you have to do X to make them happy, or when they're constantly griping at you because the way you are makes them unhappy.
They're trying to control your behavior, and if you succumb to it, you are going to be miserable.
The minute this happens, turn around, walk away as fast as you can.
If you can charter a jet to get out of there.
You do not want somebody demanding that you behave in a certain way so that they are happy because it's not possible.
You simply can't make somebody else happy.
It is impossible.
And no, I'm not subtly no, I'm not singling out women.
There are there are in business.
I don't care.
There are all kinds of these pressures brought to bear on people.
It's up to you to make this work.
It's up to you, and that and the this is somebody's somebody else's job or somebody else's project or what have you.
There's so much controlling behavior, and you succumb to the controlling behavior because you want to please.
And you think you can please.
What you end up doing is buying peace.
Because somebody acting that way is miserable to be around.
They're always unhappy because you're never meeting their expectations, and they're putting the burden of making themselves happy on you.
So you're you just you are gonna be you're gonna be finally agreeing to do anything just to shut them up.
But it never works.
You can't purchase peace with people who are not innately happy.
No, Dawn, I was not singling out women.
This happens, this is this is people stuff.
And by the way, this is if if I had kids and I don't, thank God.
This would be among the most uh crucial stuff I would teach them.
Because this is where it all gets, and they try to please their parents, they try to it it's they blame themselves if there's problems at school and so forth.
And you it just it's it's it's it's the dis the the the it's destructive behavior.
It doesn't accomplish anything.
It stunts development, all kinds of stuff.
I wish I had learned this stuff when I was 15 or 16.
Here is Beth in uh Acton, Missouri.
Well, no.
Act in Massachusetts.
It's Massachusetts.
Yes, hi.
Hi, Megadiddos Rush from uh Liberal Massachusetts.
Right.
I think the study got it wrong.
I think that actually um liberals are very overwhelming.
Republicans and conservatives tend to be very polite, and so that's why they don't really state their opinion.
It's because they don't want to be yelled at or Do you understand what I'm saying?
I do ever been around liberals.
It's not that Republicans are too shy or worried about somebody else's opinion of them.
It's that they're not rude, and they're they don't know how to deal with somebody who is.
Well, I I know exactly what you're saying.
I don't think the researchers at the Ohio State University were actually talking about conservatives versus liberals.
That is left up to us to analyze.
Uh, but what you're saying is is uh is is true.
I I um I know very well and have seen it.
Um, you know, liberals, I hear about it, but liberals get in people's faces and point fingers at them, it's just easier to avoid all that uh by by not provoking them.
Um but liberals do have this this overbearing, condescending, arrogant way of approaching people, and they never debate issues with anybody.
They never debate ideas, they just start attacking you personally for what you believe, and start yelling at you because they can't debate you in an idea, and the last thing they want to do is try because they know they'll lose, so they start criticizing you personally and ripping you over the coals.
And so, by the way, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I asked you a question.
I asked if you knew what the latest must-have Hollywood accessory is.
Uh, snurdly couldn't figure it out.
Nobody could figure it out.
I waited a few pregnant seconds before I provided the answer.
The latest Hollywood accessory can be found on the headline, Madonna to adopt African Child.
The story was that the child is a poor orphan.
It's the kid's not an orphan.
The kid has a father, Madonna made a deal with the dad.
Today, Madonna took possession of the latest Hollywood accessory.
She's adopted a little African child.
And there are people not happy about this for a host of reasons.
But we're out of time to go into them now.
Quick time out, my friends, back after this.
Stay with us.
Getting lots of emails from women.
Rush, how long have you known my husband?
You gotta go, folks.
Tomorrow open line Friday.
We'll see you then.
Look forward to it.
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