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April 19, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 19, 2007, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And they say, ladies and gentlemen, that talk radio is coarsening the culture.
Yes, they do.
The drive-by media and the Democrat Party say that talk radio is coursening the culture.
Well, I'm just going to tell you up front here.
We are not going to run any audio from the shooter and the package that he sent NBC.
NBC has now aired all of that more times than this guy pulled the trigger.
Family members were slated to go on the Today Show today and refused after NBC aired the package, the goods that were in the package sent to them by the uh by the shooter.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It is NBC and their cable affiliate that are coarsening the culture today.
They are promoting it.
They are routinely, repeatedly running the footage of the Virginia Tech killer.
They are allowing this guy to reach out from the grave, assault the parents of the victims, the students, the faculty at the college, the public in general.
He lives beyond the grave.
He has achieved immortality as he wanted.
This didn't happen with the Columbine guys.
And that's the only reason for that is that the drive-by's did not get hold of that.
But the uh they got hold of this, and uh we'll we'll talk about it in uh in great detail as the program unfolds here in mere moments.
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A couple of housekeeping things here.
We uh we continue our poll at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host.
You have three options.
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, or Tucker Carlson.
This is an electronic vote.
We uh we put it up at uh two o'clock Eastern yesterday afternoon with uh with one hour of the program left.
We've kept it going all night long, a tremendous number of votes.
It's very close.
Matthew is now with 49%, Olberman forty-seven percent, and Tucker Carlson at four percent.
And we don't know what to attribute that to, other than many people may not know who he is.
But uh the poll is up, and it's uh we're we're gonna keep it uh at least through the end of the program today, maybe maybe a little bit longer, uh, since there are some other things distracting.
This is done in conjunction with Al Sharpton's National Action Network Convention.
Uh and and of course, the um MSNBC guys were all lamenting the fact, well, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton lamenting the fact that there were no uh minority hosts on MSNBC from 3 p.m. to midnight, and that's true, and we agreed with them about that.
And of course, these hosts were going on and on and on about the racial inequalities in our country and how unfair and uh the things are, how how discriminatory and and and bigoted uh prejudiced uh things are in this country.
So we've suggested that one or two of them resign and give their show to a uh minority as a show of leadership, a show of compassion, and uh basically, you know, make it more than just words, guys.
Deeds.
So uh which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann or Tucker Carlson.
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It's very close.
These guys may demand a recount before this is all said and done.
There's no paper trail either on our on our poll.
We're so this is strictly electronic.
We trust it implicitly.
Also, we got some pictures up from last week's Cigar Aficionado Night to Remember Dinner, and the one on the website uh features me with Governor Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani.
So it's up there.
You've got to hear this audio.
You have to hear this Barbara Boxer yesterday at the National Press Club.
I know this is a very hard and emotional week.
Uh given everything that's happened.
Uh continuing violence in Iraq.
Horrific.
The terrible news about the accident that our good dear friend Governor Corzin is suffering from.
The Virginia Tech tragedy that brings back in almost in a post-traumatic stress way to many of us.
Uh the violence that exists to far too much in our society.
And today a Supreme Court decision that I believe endangers uh women's health.
And of course, the global warming challenge.
You heard right.
Global warming gets lumped in with all of the things that have rocked her world this week.
Corzine driving 91 miles per hour, not wearing a seatbelt, is in the same category as a killer shooting 32 students and and uh and and teachers in a university setting, uh, which is like global warming.
And did you did you note she's upset at the partial birth abortion decision yesterday, which if if you if you take what she says and what what she means literally, you have to say, you have to conclude that Barbara Boxer says that killing babies is okay, but killing college students is bad.
She's upset that there has been a limit on this this horrific practice of partial birth abortion.
Oh, that's horrible.
It's in the same ballpark as uh as as killing college students and uh Corzine's accident.
Uh uh what else did she mention?
Oh, the continuing violence in Iraq and global warming.
Now, honestly, folks, let me ask you a question.
How many of you would ever, regardless what you think of global warming, how many of you would ever equate how many of you have had it on your mind this week, given all that has happened?
I mean, this is this, but this is who these people are.
It is nothing but doom and gloom.
Um comparing the shootings at Virginia Tech to losing the right to kill a baby halfway out of the womb, and they wonder why there's no respect for human life uh in the in this country.
It's um I I heard this uh this morning.
I was I didn't know whether to laugh when I did laugh.
Uh and I I I but I I was just I was stunned.
I got it each time I say I'm stunned by what some liberal says, I keep telling myself you shouldn't be stunned.
Because I'm the one who knows these people.
I know these people better than anybody, and uh who's not one of them.
And nothing they do should uh should surprise me.
As I said, ladies and gentlemen, we are not going to play the audio of the uh of the Virginia Tech shooter on this program.
It's airing constantly on cable.
I think Fox News finally just suspended the all video, both on their website and on the uh on the network, but the repeated replay of this stuff is literally nuts.
You know, sports networks, well, the the big networks that televis sports refuse to televise some idiot that leaves the stands and runs around nude on the field or whatever.
They don't do that because uh they don't want to encourage copycats.
Well, look at what's happening here, and they're they're they're they're groaning to us at NBC about how tough this decision was.
I don't believe that for a minute.
I think they got this, they said, whoa, look what we've got.
We've got an exclusive, and they wrapped their hands together probably so fast and so hard they could start a fire.
Um I'm telling you, this is flirting with disaster.
The constant replay of the video and the pictures of the shooter on cable TV is truly obscene.
There's nothing newsworthy about playing this stuff thousands of times.
So who last night and into this morning is responsible for demeaning and coursening our culture?
It isn't talk radio, ladies and gentlemen.
Who's giving this killer the perverse legacy that he sought?
It is not talk radio, ladies and gentlemen.
It is one of your major big three networks, NBC.
He mailed this stuff to NBC not to talk radio.
Can you imagine if he had mailed this stuff to me, what they would be saying today?
If this in the middle of the I don't care when he did it, snurdly, yes, in the middle of the carnage, he takes time out, but he chose NBC for a reason.
I don't know why, but I would love to know.
He could have said it anywhere.
He could have sent it to ABC, he could have sent it to CBS, he could have sent it to Talk Radio, but he chose NBC, and I would love to maybe it's the only address he had.
I don't know what.
But can you imagine if this guy had sent this stuff to me?
Uh what they would be saying.
I'm gonna tell you, if they had sent it to me, I would have contacted the authorities, I would have turned it over, and I would have not aired it.
Because I don't want to be involved.
I would not want to compromise any investigation that's going on or anything of the sort.
NBC's out there say, oh, no, no, no.
We we turned this over to the authority.
Well, they did, but that was after they made copies of it and started using it before the authorities now in Virginia had had gotten a chance to analyze it, and they've said there's nothing new here, really.
We knew all of this.
This is this is not anything that's uh that's that's earth-shattering.
So if there are copycats, now I mean the the column guys, Columbine guys live in infamy and immortality in the sense that people know what they did, but not in a way that Cho is going to.
He has secured his legacy.
Uh it is a perverse legacy.
He wanted it.
There's no why I'll send this stuff to a network.
Uh he mailed this stuff to NBC, and if there are copycats who get ideas from the constant playing and you know, people look at look at all these websites we've got now.
We've got myspace.com, we've got YouTube, we've got all these all these spaces where kids and young people are putting every detail about themselves and their lives on the internet because everybody wants fame.
Everybody wants to be known outside of their circle of friends and family.
Everybody is seeking some sort of adulation, feedback, recognition, what have you.
So the idea that there might be copycats here is not a uh not a forlorn thought, well, it's a forlorn thought, but it's not a stretch to assume that it would happen.
So if there are copycats who get ideas from the constant playing of these video clips and photos, who's going to be responsible for this?
It will not be the National Rifle Association.
It will not be the fault of the gun that the next user uses, and it will not be the fault of talk radio, and it will not be the fault of George W. Bush.
Who will be responsible for the next copycat if there is one.
You know, they pretend that the constant playing of this stuff is newsworthy, and maybe once or twice it might be.
Uh, but to go overboard like this uh is shameless.
So what can we say?
These are the people that sit in judgment of what's proper and improper in the media in all forms of media, and they routinely sit out there and they rip the internet and they rip talk radio because of course there's no editor and there are no boundaries, and it's just it's full of hate speech, it's full of all of this, and you know, this this mantra's being picked up.
I'm reading more and more newspaper columns, read a guy in Cincinnati who wrote an absolutely nonsensical piece blaming talk radio for the incivility that exists in our culture today in the uh in our society.
And I am I I'm gonna tell you this guy cannot possibly ever have listened to me.
He quotes me in this thing out of context.
Uh they have no sense of humor whatsoever, but there's an all-out assault on talk radio now ever since the IMAS thing, and it's actually preceded IMUS, but guess what?
Guess what?
If you want to see this rot gut, if you want to see this insane lunatic, where do you have to go to see it?
Not talk radio.
You have to go to the internet, or you have to go to NBC cable TV.
So let's set these people up once, folks, for what might come after this.
Let's set them up.
Let's focus on them.
Let's see that they have, let's make sure that they have some accountability and uh and responsibility for this.
I got to take a little break here.
We'll um by the way.
Does it is it is it just me or or does it appear to all of you that the drive-by media just loves this story?
They just love it.
That may be the worst thing about this Virginia Tech situation, how much the drive-bys love it.
Shameless and sickening.
They just love it.
They flood the campus with their own reporters, disrupting cell service for people who live there.
Uh they just the quintessential definition of what the drive-by media is all about.
Why did this mass murderer decide to send this garbage to NBC?
And you'd have to assume that one of the reasons he sent it is because he thought and knew that they would do exactly what they're doing now.
They're out there saying, I've I've actually read some idiocy out there that that says, well, you know, this Virginia.
Well, Obama said it.
The the the uh the Virginia Tech situation and the IMA situation, they have a lot in common.
The course culture talk radio and so.
Let me tell you something.
the only thing that Virginia Tech and the IMA situation have in common is NBC.
Now let me let me make a comparison for you.
Here is NBC playing this stuff over and over and over again.
However, when terrorists dispatch and decapitate Iraqis or Americans, that can't be shown.
Oh no, no, no, no.
That's too graphic.
We can't look at the replays of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's too emotionally dreaming.
It's too soon.
Why, even when the movie United 93 came out, people in New York said, it's too soon, it's too traumatic.
We can't watch this.
But we can certainly watch video of snipers from Al-Qaeda in Iraq taking shots at American soldiers on CNN.
But we cannot see terrorists decapitated Iraqis or Americans.
That can't be shown.
We can't see any of the horrors perpetrated by our enemies, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, no, no, Mr. Limbaugh.
That's just too traumatic.
Why the people can't handle that.
That's not the real reason.
Maybe it's because it might anger and make resolute the American public against vicious killers who have no regard for human life.
So while we can't watch that, we are treated to this over and over again.
This guy's gotten, I mean, as I'm saying, they've played this stuff more times than this guy pulled a trigger.
And you can look at this as a as an unpaid advertisement for the next crazy.
Go ahead and come out and blaze away, give us the scoop, and you'll get all kinds of coverage.
What's the message NBC is sending with this?
Now I know uh it's disgusting to watch this bastard rant on and on and on.
Uh and as I say, playing this tape is the drive-by media at their worst.
And I hope there is a backlash out there against this.
Uh at some point the public will turn on this.
You can only handle so much of it, you all this Anna Nicole Smith and these stories that end up being 24-7 for five or six days in a row, at some point people, I think that's one of the reasons talk radio is so successful, in fact, folks.
Because while these networks talking about all this other stuff 24-7, we're actually doing news here.
I like to say we're doing the job, the drive-by's.
Well, I don't know if they ever did it, but they did a better job of uh covering news in the past than they than they do now.
Now, I know there's always going to be, you know, the the car wreck syndrome, the rubber necker syndrome in this country.
People want to see the car crash.
Uh, there will always be the prury and interest in in the public.
That's why there needs to be responsibility on the part of people who deal with the public in this way.
The responsibility seems to have evaporated.
And you have to know, you have to know there are countless unbalanced minds out there being inspired to become famous like this guy.
That's not the odds of that happening are better than not.
And we have uh we have evidence for it.
So now all you have to do is go out and commit your atrocity, because NBC's advertised for you.
NBC has sent you the message.
You want to go make a make a copycat action here, you be the first to send your video tapes and uh reasons why and so forth to NBC, and you too.
If you give them the scoop, you too will be made famous.
Like this sicko at Virginia Tech.
So I mentioned we had uh had 15 people staying with me this weekend and had a big party of 35 or 40 people came over and it was amazing the uh the discussions.
And they were all like-minded people.
I don't I don't pepper my parties with token libs just to sprice things up.
I don't do it.
Uh not not.
Not nope, not even because they're not entertaining, snurtly.
It's not they're not, they just it they just it it they can shut discussion down in a whole bunch of.
I don't I'd when I'm throwing a party and it's it's for the purposes of having a good time.
I'm not gonna make sure there are a couple of loopers there, a couple of ringers, tokens here, just a supposedly spite.
I'm not gonna use them as circus axe like they use us.
Uh uh, I want people to have fun.
We were all talking about multiple times the state of the drive-by media in America today, what it's become.
And it's uh, you know, it was said by by one of my guests, it's no longer just they're not just not trustworthy any longer and irresponsible.
They've now become dangerous.
The drive-by media has as simply and purely become dangerous.
Listen to this.
This is Meredith Vieira today on the Today Show, how she opened the program.
I will tell you that we had planned to speak to some family members of victims this morning, but they canceled their appearances because they were very upset with NBC for airing the images.
Well, see, you hear something like that, uh, and it it gives you hope.
Um, this these families did not want to be exploited, and they didn't want to have to look at this stuff and then offer commentary, all for the benefit of NBC.
What would have been the benefit of this?
And they sensed that and understood it, and they cancel their appearances.
Brief time out here as the EIB network takes a an obscene profit break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
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The poll continues at Rushlimbaugh.com, which MSNBC anchor should resign to make room for a minority host, Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, or Tucker Carlson, affectionately known here as Chatsworth Osborne Jr. from the old uh Dobus Dobie Gillis show.
Now, before we move into a new area of this, I just want to say one thing here in repetition of what I said in the first half hour of the program.
As I get I really do get fed up with all these elitists, these little snot-nosed, snivelly little liberals in their enclaves of newsrooms writing these worthless uh uh uninformed pieces on how talk radio is coarsening the culture.
Now the internet, some parts of the internet are coarsening the culture.
I want you to ask yourself who is responsible for demeaning the culture last night and today.
It isn't talk radio.
Who is giving this killer at Virginia Tech the perverse legacy he wanted?
It isn't talk radio.
He mailed this stuff to NBC, not to anyone in talk radio.
And if there are copycats who get ideas from the constant playing of these video clips and these photos, who's going to be responsible for that?
Well, when it happens, I'm going to make you a prediction.
If and when it happens, the next such event as this, the template will be out in full force.
It'll be the NRA's fault, it'll be the guns' fault, it'll be gun control, it'll be George W. Bush's fault, it'll be Charlton Heston's fault.
But I want you to know, and I want you to remember that if there is a copycat or are copycats.
Neither talk radio, neither NRA, neither George W. Bush, nor nor uh Charlton Heston will be responsible.
It will not stop them from trying to make the claim, but it is not the case.
Let's move back to the audio sound bites now.
Here's a portion of the uh chief of police Steve Flaherty's remarks.
After the program uh yesterday, he held a press conference.
NBC News in uh New York.
Received correspondence that we believe uh to have been from Cho Song Choi.
Begun and responsible for the fatal shootings in Norris Hall.
The correspondence included multiple photographs, video, and writings.
Upon receipt of this correspondence, NBC News immediately notified authorities.
And I certainly want to commend NBC News for what they've done, the way that they've secured this information, the way they've handled it with dignity.
All right, now that was after the program yesterday, and that's the uh Virginia State Police Chief saying that Uh NBC turned over the materials immediately.
But next up we have Steve Capus is the president of NBC News, and he sort of contradicts that.
He got a question on hardball last night with Chris Matthews, who, as far as I know, has not offered to resign to make his slot available to a minority.
How did you learn about this package coming through Rockefeller Center and how did you deal with it?
When it arrived at NBC headquarters was originally flagged by the letter carrier who uh pointed out to NBC Security that it had a return address from uh Blacksburg and uh so it was immediately brought to the attention of security even before anybody opened it.
NBC security um opened it uh and handled it appropriately, and you know, uh everybody who who touched it wore gloves and uh to uh you know keep everything uh intact and we immediately contacted uh authorities and uh that that set forward the the the chain of events.
Uh they requested that we not release some of the information until they had a chance to to take a look at it, and we honored that request.
All right.
Now I want you to hear what comes next, because Matthew said, Well, did you await the authorities before opening the package?
Uh no, the package was opened by NBC security, and uh you know, as I say, they handled it uh in the appropriate manner, and everything I've seen is uh is uh copies that were made so they didn't it's not as though they were, you know, pushing around the originals around here.
Whoa, of course, so you want to you copied everything so you would have it to use.
You turn it over to the authorities, yeah, but you copied everything so that you would have it to use.
So even they they they knew at at some point last night that they they had the they had to do a duck and cover on this.
Uh and they've got the uh the positive word from the from the authorities down there, but uh the state police chief.
But it is clear what this is about.
It's about ratings, and I I if anybody doubts that uh it's about ratings and competitions.
He can say, well, market forces drove this, but that's that's and they're always saying they're always well, where is the responsibility in the alternative media?
Where is the responsibil?
Where's the responsibility in the drive-by media needs to be the question that every American needs to be asking?
Where's their responsibility?
Where's their judgment?
Where's their fairness?
Where's their objectivity?
To get rid of Don Imus and use this, the same network?
I mean, they may not be mutually exclusive, they can do what they want, but they are compounding IMAS tenfold, ladies and gentlemen, with the airing of this putrid obscene crap.
Uh and and granting immortality and a legacy to the to the shooter.
Now, uh a couple of other things here.
As you know, bombarded diluted, uh, deluged with phone calls yesterday, wondering why students and professors, one professor did, why students didn't stand up to this guy, try to disarm him, why didn't they just try to overpower and overwhelm the guy?
And people theorize, well, they're they're taught not to do that.
Conflict resolution, passivity, uh they're the new Castrati from the time they get to kindergarten, uh, they're taught not to offend anybody, particularly if they're minorities.
Political correctness was offered up as the reason why nobody did anything to try to stop the guy.
So you might be interested here.
This is um a website of fifty odd students here from Virginia Tech, and the headline compassion, students forgive Virginia Tech Killer, students say he's a human first, a murderer second.
And a pool quote just from a CBS story about it.
Chung Sung Hui, or Hugh, I'm I haven't heard his name pronounced, so I don't know how the correct what the correct pronunciation is.
Anyway, the shooter lived 8,489 days.
I and no reasonable person or deity could or should allow the events of one of those days to discount the other 8,488 days.
That's what's on uh a a website of fifty odd students from Virginia Tech.
And I just mentioned this to you because it dovetails illustrates what we were talking about.
Yes, even now, uh some fifty students want to look at the good works that the guy supposedly did and say that what he did uh by shooting 32 people earlier this week shouldn't, shouldn't uh discolor his reputation because he's a human first.
And this is all about uh the murderer second.
They were they were trying to forgive him, and so forth.
Well, I understand forgiveness.
I mean, that's that's we never own debate about that, but it's the thought process.
I mentioned this to you not really to criticize the students.
I'm not doing that.
This is how they've been raised.
This is this is how they've been taught.
This this is political correctness, this is non-judgmentalism, this uh this moral moral relativism is exactly what this is.
Moral relativism.
Well, yes, he did this, but how about the other 8,000 plus days of his life?
Who are we to condemn what he did is I guess the um the theme here.
Now, I don't know about you, but I have been treated to a number of newspaper stories.
I guess I guess the PS de Résistance on this is a story by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times.
Laws limit options when a student is mentally ill.
Now listen to this.
Federal privacy and anti-discrimination laws restrict how universities can deal with students who have mental health problems.
For the most part, universities cannot tell their parents about their children's problems without the student's consent.
So you bring the kid in, you analyze your study, and you proclaim that uh you or you discover the student's insane.
You gotta ask the student, can we inform your parents?
Uh they cannot release any information in a student's medical record or their grades without consent.
And they can't put students on involuntary medical leave just because they develop a serious mental illness, nor is knowing when to worry about student behavior and what action to take always so clear.
Well, it might be clearer to parents if they were allowed to know.
But look, stick with me on this because you may not know where I'm going.
And you will when I get there.
The headline: laws limit options when a student is mentally ill.
At the University of Missouri, if someone makes a suicide attempt, they mandate four counseling sessions, for example.
Um, who is an author, the guy says Dr. Caddison, author of uh College of the Overwhelm, the campus mental health crisis, and what to do about it.
Universities can find themselves in a double bind.
On the one hand, they may be liable if they fail to prevent a suicide or murder.
Uh after the death in 2000 of Elizabeth Shin, a student at the uh at MIT, who had written several suicide notes and used the university counseling service before setting herself afire.
The Massachusetts Superior Court allowed her parents, who had not been told of her deterioration, they allowed her parents to sue administrators for 27.7 million dollars.
The case was settled for an undisclosed amount.
Last month, Virginia passed a law, the first in the nation prohibiting public colleges and universities from expelling or punishing students solely for attempting suicide or seeking mental health treatment for suicidal thoughts.
Well, all right, what now what do we have here?
Well we have here is the law gets everybody off the hook.
And let me tell you something about this New York Times story.
I'm sorry, this I I need to correct something.
This this the the website of the 50 students I read, they were not Virginia Tech students.
They were they were other students from outside.
They were not Virginia Tech students.
I'd uh correction on that.
They were not Virginia Tech students.
At any rate, uh the purpose of this New York Times story is to get the university off the hook, and to get everybody else off the hook except the NRA.
I know the drive-by media, and I know liberals, and the purpose of this is to get everybody off the hook.
But here are the questions we need to ask.
Laws limit options when a student is mentally ill.
Well, guess what?
We have every one of these laws also provide everybody involved with an alibi.
They can all raise their hands and say, it's not my fault.
I mean, it's the law.
We We couldn't do anything.
So we've got this excuse.
It's the law.
Well, who made the laws?
The people who make the laws are among the spectators looking at this as though they had no impact in it.
But we all know who makes laws.
They are made by human beings and sometimes for selfish and stupid reasons.
Laws are made for money and power.
Many laws are not made to protect us from anything.
They can cause a ripple effect of horrible unintended consequences.
These laws that protect college students also removes their parents from their lives.
It takes the responsibility of the parent away, gives it to the university, but then it ties the hands of the university to act because the law says not only can you not tell your parents or the parents what's going on with a kid, we can't do anything about the kid.
Who writes the laws?
It's insane.
It's stupid.
Started out feeling like a good thing.
Oh, this is really we're going to be passionate, we're going to be understanding, we're going to be tolerant of these people that have problems, and we end up making everybody prisoners to them.
We treat laws as though they're gifts from God because they come from government.
But they are not gifts from God.
They are gifts, if you will, from supremely fallible men and women.
And they can be changed, and they can be revoked, but that almost never happens because we worship laws.
We need to be focusing.
Everybody's upset about the university and everybody's upset about the uh everybody.
Look, if you're if we're going to have a story, laws limit options when a student's medally.
Well, who writes the laws?
Who comes up with these newfangled ideas?
Quick timeout, we'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
Once again, I want to make this clear.
I misread something here.
The um story about compassion, students forgive Virginia Tech killer, say he's a human first, a murderer second.
Talk about all the days of his life before he uh murdered 20 or 32 people, and we can't remember him just on the basis of one day of his life.
I made the mistake of saying it was 50 students, uh, 50 some odd students on a website from V Tech.
It was not from Virginia Tech.
Students were not from Virginia Tech, students from elsewhere.
Um here's Jerry and Phoenix.
Jerry, you're up first today.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good day, Professor.
How are you doing?
Fine, sir.
All right.
You also have the problem where you have the ACLU and other socialist rights groups won't allow us to do anything with the homeless.
When Mayor, then Mayor Giuliani was trying to help the homeless, for example, they were like taking them off the streets and putting them in like drug treatment and.
Well, you know, that's right.
This goes back to the early 90s when the PC crowd and the ACLU said, you can't keep mentally unstable or deranged people locked up.
You've got to let them loose.
You gotta let them out.
You're violating the civil rights.
And this is uh that that has that has uh it's been expanded now to go all over the place.
You know, this this story, this this New York Times story about laws.
Uh the university's hands are tied, they can't tell the parents, uh, they can't expel the students uh is outrageous.
These policies allow predators to roam this campus, which is gun-free, by the way, this predator for four years until he finally lashed out.
And this underscores everything we were talking here about about political correctness and how it is what needs to be banned, not guns.
So no parents, no gun carrying allowed, uh, and that this leaves students to the devices of the PC crowd that run these places.
And this has become the priority above the safety of other students.
So mental health experts uh emphasize that whatever a college's concerns about liability, the goal of campus policies should be to maximize the likelihood that those who need mental health treatment will get it.
I'm gonna tell you, as long as this is the view, no campus is safe.
Last month, Virginia passed a law first in the nation prohibiting public colleges and universities from expelling or punishing students solely for attempting suicide or seeking mental health treatment for suicidal thoughts.
This underscores the depth of the problem we face today, raising and educating kids.
Uh because once again, as political correctness does, and political correctness equals liberalism, liberalism focuses on the people they think are victims.
And uh proclaims that they're victims because of their minority status, and that there's an oppressive majority, whatever it's made up as, that are contributing to these people's problems.
And so we can't discriminate against them.
And so those that we would consider normal in society end up being not protected.
In exchange for all of these rights, for the genuinely mentally disturbed, the nut cases out there, and and as long as this exists on college campaign around the country, not one of them is going to be safe.
The Virginia State Police Chief has changed his tune after NBC aired.
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