Nov. 27, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| And I'm going to deal with it later. | |
| The show is starting. | |
| Some days. | |
| Greetings, my friends. | |
| Welcome back. | |
| Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies and broadcast excellence three straight hours. | |
| Looking forward to talk to you. | |
| Talking to you always do. | |
| Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address is rush at EIBnet.com. | |
| Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we learned that the Oprah will be campaigning for Barack Obama. | |
| I openly speculated, I wonder how long it'll be before the Oprah gets a call from Don Clinton Leone. | |
| Hi, this is Oprah, and I'm out campaigning for Barack Obama. | |
| So leave a message, and I'll call you back. | |
| Oprah, this is Bill. | |
| And you know, I wouldn't ask you to change your mind about Barack ever. | |
| And we really don't need Iowa to win anyhow. | |
| Stop lowering expectations and just tell that witch to get out of politics. | |
| Or the only books she'll be reading are books on tape. | |
| Thanks, Oprah. | |
| I knew I could count on you. | |
| By the way, also this morning on Joe Scarborough's show on MSNBC, Mark Penn, who is Hillary Clinton's pollster, appeared. | |
| You know, the Zogby poll came out yesterday, and it showed that Hillary gets beat by every Republican candidate, from Huckabee to Rudy to Romney to McCain. | |
| She gets beaten nationally by every one of them. | |
| Now, this is a poll that the Clintons don't like. | |
| So Mark Penn went on to discuss this today. | |
| And Scarborough said, hey, look, now, we've got polls coming out. | |
| The Zogby poll that you saw, everybody's talking about this morning, that shows that she's losing to all these Republican contenders. | |
| Even Huckabee's beating her by five points. | |
| What's going on here? | |
| That was Zogby's first interactive online poll ever. | |
| The Gallup poll that came out also yesterday showed Senator Clinton five points ahead of Giuliani and double digits ahead of some of the other possible Republican nominees and showed that if Barack Obama were the nominee, it would be dead even. | |
| That's a real poll that's got 50 years of history. | |
| This is the first time Zogby has done something online. | |
| It's a meaningless poll and really, frankly, shouldn't even be on your show. | |
| Yes, Joe, you shouldn't even be talking about this poll, Joe. | |
| I am Mark Penn and I'm from Clinton, Inc., and you shouldn't be mentioning this poll. | |
| By the way, the margin of error in this poll, from what I've seen, the Zogby poll is just plus or minus 1%. | |
| His sample was 10,000 voters, as opposed to the usual 400 to 800 you get with Gallup, ABC, Washington Post, CBS, New York Times. | |
| Scarborough says, so the Zogby poll is meaningless to you? | |
| It's an online poll. | |
| It's his first ever. | |
| Its methodology is completely untested and unproven. | |
| You could look at any of the real polls, including some of his real polls, that this is totally out of sync. | |
| It makes absolutely no sense. | |
| The message there is, Joe, only mention the positive Hillary polls, please. | |
| Clinton Inc. trying to control the media out there. | |
| This was the gore media approach, too, back in 2000. | |
| Don't get any bad news out there. | |
| At any rate, we've got a lot of Hillary news coming up today, a lot of campaign news, some things about Iowa and New Hampshire you may not know in terms of just who can vote there and how often in the primaries. | |
| But first, I've got to tell you a little story. | |
| Over the weekend, I had all the family in for Thanksgiving, and I was working at the same time. | |
| I mean, I'm getting the computer and I'm checking to see what's happening. | |
| I saw this story about a cruise ship that sank in Antarctica, in the Antarctic Ocean, after hitting an iceberg. | |
| And the details of this were just, you know, some people out on a cruise in the Antarctic, and they hit an iceberg, and they were all rescued and so forth. | |
| But so I made a note of that, and I'd run across this story that I shared with you yesterday that humans looking at the universe are shortening its life and all that. | |
| So I went out and I met the family outside on the patio, and they said, well, anything interesting in the news? | |
| And I said, yeah, there's this cruise ship in Antarctica, a cruise ship, a pleasure cruise ship in Antarctica. | |
| And a thing sank. | |
| And I said, what do you bet? | |
| This is a bunch of environmentalist wackos on a global warming tour, and they run into an iceberg trying to find evidence of global warming in the Antarctic. | |
| And we all got a big laugh about it. | |
| Of course, I was just speculating. | |
| But do I know these people or do I know these people? | |
| Even when I make jokes about them, I am right. | |
| From the Canadian free press or the Canada Free Press today, you'd never read this in the mainstream media. | |
| The owner of the sunken ship, the MS Explorer, leaving this huge carbon footprint at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean Friday, is an acolyte of Teensy Weencey carbon footprint crusader Al Gore, GAP Adventure CEO and Explorer owner Bruce Poon Tip and Gore have similar ideals, filling their schedules with speaking engagements on environmental change to educate global audiences. | |
| And that's straight from their website. | |
| In fact, as recently as last April, both Poon Tip and Gore gave presentations at the Green Living Show in Toronto. | |
| Poon Tip. | |
| It's Poon Tip. | |
| Sorry about that. | |
| So I expressed my admiration for Al Gore's commitment and leadership, which spans more than 20 years. | |
| I also invited him aboard our legendary polar expedition ship, the MS Explorer, to visit the Arctic. | |
| Well, the legendary polar expedition ship had at least five faults at its last inspection. | |
| Maritime records show the MV. | |
| Anyway, it was a bunch of eco-warriors. | |
| I was exactly right. | |
| There were 154 passengers, and a lot of them were eco-warriors. | |
| And they were out there doing a global warming cruise. | |
| The Antarctica ice caps expanded. | |
| How about this? | |
| Here are a bunch of eco-warriors on a global warming cruise in Antarctica. | |
| What kind of an idiot would take a cruise to the Antarctic Ocean? | |
| A pleasure cruise. | |
| But these are eco-warriors, and they're out there, and they're looking for evidence of global warming, and they get sunk by an iceberg Titanic II. | |
| I mean, it just doesn't get any better than this. | |
| These eco-warriors, by the way, did you realize how much money is in this? | |
| Here's this. | |
| What's this guy's name? | |
| You've got to be very careful pronouncing this name too. | |
| It's two days in a row. | |
| Bruce Poon Tip is out there selling tickets on his faulty ship to a bunch of idiot liberals, paying who knows how much to go look at and find evidence of global warming. | |
| The money in the environmentalist wacko business and these eco-warriors is just funny. | |
| And of course, how much, you know, what powers these kind of ships, fuel, oil, and diesel. | |
| How much of that stuff is now on the Antarctic Ocean floor? | |
| What kind of carbon footprint did the sinking of the Eco Warrior ship create? | |
| As Thomas Lifson of the American thinker asks today, will we see any polar bears or birds soaked in oil or diesel from the MV Explorer? | |
| Good thing Gore was not aboard. | |
| By the way, in all the weekend coverage of this, not one aspect of what I've just told you was mentioned. | |
| They just portrayed it as a cruise ship. | |
| Now, you know, I'm one of these guys, folks. | |
| I can read the stitches on the fastball. | |
| And there's just something that doesn't make sense. | |
| On Thanksgiving weekend, a bunch of people on a pleasure cruise in the Antarctic. | |
| We're not talking the Caribbean and Piña Coladas here. | |
| You can't stand outside in this. | |
| It's cold as a witch's upper torso in the Antarctic Ocean. | |
| This is not where you go on a pleasure cruise. | |
| But we got this, and there were pictures of the thing sinking amidst ice in the ocean. | |
| And it was just, oh, so sad. | |
| But it was a very, the story ended very, very well because all passengers were rescued on this crew. | |
| Not one aspect of who owned the ship, that he's a friend of Gore's, that it was an Eco Warrior tour, was ever mentioned in the drive-by media. | |
| Lots to do, so sit tight. | |
| We'll be right back. | |
| What did we talk about yesterday, folks? | |
| We talked about how the drive-by media can take any news story and turn it into a disaster, such as the news today that the average home price has fallen 4.5% in the last measuring period, right? | |
| And so this is supposed to be a cause for panic. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Subprime lending market going down to tubes. | |
| Home prices falling. | |
| Abu Dhabi infusing cash into Citigroup. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Oh, woe is us. | |
| Wait a second. | |
| How about for people who aren't able to afford houses and now might be able to because the price is down 4.5%? | |
| These fluctuations happen constantly. | |
| And yet what's great about it is it seems that the American consumer is not playing this time. | |
| It seems like they're not playing along with all the doom and gloom. | |
| Here's another great example. | |
| This is a story from the AP. | |
| Too little milk, not enough sunshine and exercise. | |
| It's an anti-bone trifecta. | |
| And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft bone scourge of the 19th century. | |
| See, now they're so excited to take life in this country back to the 19th century. | |
| We got rickets back out there. | |
| But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag. | |
| Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children aren't building as much strong bones as they should, a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are. | |
| This potentially is a time bomb, says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington. | |
| Now, when I read this story, I said to myself, this is a flat-out joke. | |
| Of course there's too little milk. | |
| There's not enough sunshine and exercise because cows, we have been told for how many years, cause global warming. | |
| And we've got to get rid of cows. | |
| Exercise makes us exhale carbon dioxide. | |
| Skin, sun gives us skin cancer. | |
| So we're telling the kids it's immoral to drink milk because cows and methane cause global warming. | |
| Exercise is not really all that necessary because it put more carbon dioxide out there than you otherwise would. | |
| And the sun causes cancer. | |
| Now, after telling us to avoid all of these dangers, Now they're saying avoiding all these dangers is creating the possibility of rickets in kids. | |
| You know, I constantly say to you that I'm amazed, and I should say that I'm long past the point of being amazed, but I'm really not. | |
| Because I think there has to be something going on. | |
| The media today, the old media, dried by media, whatever, is simply so formulaic. | |
| It is not the result of any intellectual pursuit anymore. | |
| And it's detectable. | |
| It's easily noticeable. | |
| And therefore, the credibility that they offer and have is shrinking. | |
| And I think they have to be in denial. | |
| I'm going to be talking about this later on as the program unfolds. | |
| So I found a story. | |
| Somebody says some research people claim that the real secret to healthy relationships is deniability. | |
| When you see your mate engaging in things that you don't really approve of, just ignore it. | |
| Because to talk about it creates tension and that poses all kinds of problems and relationships. | |
| So just, you know, we're doing little things here. | |
| Just ignore them. | |
| Just deny it. | |
| Just live in denial. | |
| Denial is healthy. | |
| And I think, I'm going to extrapolate this, ladies and gentlemen, what I think is that this is a partial explanation for the way liberals live today and the drive-by media operates. | |
| How in the world can thinking people spend 10 years telling us the sun is killing us, cows are causing global warming, which is going to kill us, and exercise, you expel too much carbon dioxide, and then, after pummeling us with this, then come back and tell us that our kids are getting rickets because they're not getting enough calcium and exercise and sunlight. | |
| They can do it because they have no memory of what they've done. | |
| It's just the template is doom and gloom and scare the hell out of people. | |
| Now, this next story, this has to be a parody. | |
| It just has to be. | |
| But I doubt that it is. | |
| It is from today, and it's from the UK Guardian. | |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinezad has offered himself as an observer in next year's presidential elections here in the United States. | |
| The proposal came in a speech to volunteers with the Basij, a pro-regime militia. | |
| He said he was prompted by a belief that Americans would vote against the current administration in a truly free poll. | |
| Now, this is what Ahmadinezad actually thinks Bush is still on the ballot. | |
| However, the terms of Ahmadinezad's offer appear to betray some confusion about the potential candidates. | |
| He said, if the White House officials allow us to be present as an observer in their presidential election, we will see whether people in their country are going to vote for them again or not. | |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinezad. | |
| This is Jimmy Carter Idis. | |
| I read this today and I didn't know what to make of this. | |
| Bird brain flu, what has overcome this guy? | |
| And then the news from Abu Dhabi. | |
| Citigroup, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi to replenish capital after record mortgage losses wiped out almost half its market value. | |
| Citigroup shares rose 3.7% early today, following acting chief executive officer Wynne Bischoff's statement late yesterday that funds from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority will help strengthen our capital base. | |
| Abu Dhabi is part of the United Arab Emirates. | |
| Abu Dhabi, of course, right down the road from Dubai, Al-Dubai and the United Arab Abu Dhabi buying up this chip company. | |
| I'm having a medal about it. | |
| Buying up his chip company makes computer chips, silicon chips. | |
| Now they're buying up hotels left and right. | |
| And now they've got a cash infusion of $7.5 billion to save Citigroup. | |
| But damn it, we are not going to let them anywhere near our ports. | |
| But here's your laptop. | |
| And your mortgage is not being funded and backed by the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. | |
| Rush, this isn't funny. | |
| This is a major security breach. | |
| Well, I'll tell you, it depends. | |
| If Abu Dhabi is going to get any management power in Citigroup, then, I mean, you might have some concern. | |
| But we have all kinds of foreign investment in this country, and some of it involves just investment with no management. | |
| Some does. | |
| That kind of stuff is monitored. | |
| Why am I so gleeful about it? | |
| Well, I'm not gleeful at Citibank needs $7.5 billion. | |
| I'm not gleeful about that. | |
| I'm not gleeful that the mortgage mess has happened, but we're in the middle of a market correction. | |
| But I'm gleeful because I just remember the panic over the Dubai ports deal. | |
| And I sat here and I tried to tell my country to be reasonable. | |
| I tried to say to the American people: do not react to this the way that you are. | |
| This is just a knee-jerk reaction here that is unwarranted. | |
| Find out who these people are and what they're doing and what the purpose of. | |
| Find out how many ports they own around the world that they already run that our ships go in and out of. | |
| Plus, it was a free market deal. | |
| And plus, there was something else behind it, too. | |
| There was an arrangement between the Bush administration and Dubai for some security control in the war on terror. | |
| Anyway, it got blown. | |
| I was watching Chuck Schumer today. | |
| He was on CNBC talking about all this subprime mortgage business and Dubai or the Abu Dhabi deal. | |
| And he was sounding so reasonable about this, about foreign investment and how he's all for it. | |
| And we've got to have this happen in order for the United States to continue to grow and be the financial capital of the world, which is what, by the way, the Emirates are trying to do. | |
| Abu Dhabi and Dubai are trying to become the financial capital of the world. | |
| And I remember it was Schumer during the Dubai ports deal. | |
| It was Schumer leading the charge of the Democrats in the Senate to oppose the deal. | |
| You people have forgotten this. | |
| This is as embarrassing as it could be to me. | |
| You had Republicans and Democrats in both the House and the Senate racing to the microphones to denounce the Dubai ports deal and stop it. | |
| The Republicans ended up getting to the microphones first and took credit for it. | |
| The American people didn't want the deal. | |
| It was sort of like the immigration deal. | |
| They got what they wanted in that case. | |
| And I remember Dingy Harry going to the microphone and say, well, the Republicans didn't stop this. | |
| Chuck Schumer led the way. | |
| So Schumer stopped the Dubai ports deal. | |
| He's on CNBC today, waxing eloquent about all this foreign investment, such as Abu Dhabi and Citigroup. | |
| And we are back. | |
| Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have all get to your phone calls here, the audio soundbites in just a second. | |
| I want to explore the subprime issue for just a second. | |
| There is an upside to it, but it's a typical upside that I notice, and that is an opportunity for people in this country to learn something. | |
| And I would not advocate this kind of mess as a teaching moment, but it has happened, and so it is a teaching moment. | |
| It lets you see how Congress fixes problems, or more precisely, makes them worse. | |
| Okay, so we've got the subprime issue. | |
| And we don't know how bad it is. | |
| It's a mess, folks. | |
| And no one, no observer, no insider can tell how messy it is. | |
| Barney Frank et al. have put together the latest mischief known as the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007. | |
| Now, to call what happened here predatory lending is absurd because the lenders are taking it in the shorts here. | |
| And who was it that made them extend these kind of loans in the first place? | |
| Once again, you have Barney Frank leading Congress acting like a bunch of innocent bystanders and bystanders and spectators. | |
| So they had no clue this was going on when they ordered lending institutions to be more inclusive of people who actually couldn't afford them. | |
| It was fairness and it was equality and it was to be anti-discriminatory and all of these things. | |
| The predators, if there were any, were in Congress and they prey on every business in this country that they put in their target sites. | |
| And that's the real predator. | |
| And now all of that, after having helped create the mess, here comes Barney Frank with a solution. | |
| Now, this is the teachable moment. | |
| Lenders, the predators, are writing off billions in bad debts. | |
| That's billions with a capital B. You got heads falling. | |
| Financial stocks are taking hits. | |
| And what does your Democrat-led Congress do? | |
| What do they want to do? | |
| They want to turn the tort lawyers on them with charges of predatory lending. | |
| That's the mortgage reform and anti-predatory lending act of 2007. | |
| These people are already, as you know, in the banks and the investment houses, the subprime market. | |
| People are getting canned. | |
| These companies are writing off billions and billions in dollars in losses. | |
| They're downsizing in a lot of ways. | |
| And so here comes Barney Frank with a, just throwing a bone to one of the biggest Democrat contingencies and constituencies out there, the trial lawyers, the tort lawyers. | |
| He wants to turn lawyers on the subprime market with charges of predatory lending, lawsuits, class action suits, seven-figure, eight-figure lawsuits. | |
| He wants to enable the people who were not suitable to receive a loan in the first place to be able to sue the lenders for taking advantage of them and causing them to lose their homes and so forth. | |
| They're literally trying to wreck the economy. | |
| And in the process, you know what's going to happen here? | |
| They're going to turn off the whole prospect of lending to those with the lowest credit ratings. | |
| Because when you turn the tort lawyers onto these people who are already really getting beat up, now they may deserve to. | |
| Who knows? | |
| I'm not making a moral judgment here. | |
| I'm talking economics. | |
| I still say that most of this, or quite a bit of it, could be laid at the feet of Congress for demanding that these unqualified borrowers be made qualified simply by the stroke of a pen in order to extend fairness and equality and opportunity and blah, I mean, markets are markets. | |
| If you can't afford to pay something back, you shouldn't get the loan. | |
| Congress comes along and tells people, no, you got to lend it to people who can't pay you back. | |
| You've got to do it. | |
| And then when you can't foreclose on them either, if you start foreclosing on them when they can't pay, but we're going to really come after you. | |
| So now the so-called predators, if Barney Frank and Congress get their way, going to have the John Edwards plaintiff's bar turned against them after they've already been losing their jobs and already taken the hit for a bad decision in the first place. | |
| Now, please note, one other point here, and this is key. | |
| This is unintended consequences. | |
| The liberals never study the dynamics of any of their actions. | |
| They continue to look at things in a static way, as though actions do not have reactions, and actions do not have consequences. | |
| So, if after this mess that is the subprime mortgage market, if the people involved in that business are now going to be subjected to class action suits of seven figures and eight figures, what is their natural reaction going to be? | |
| They're going to tighten up on loans more than they have ever tightened up before if you have even a hair's worth of being unqualified. | |
| If you just have one tiny little thing, like you put down the wrong middle initial on your application, you finished. | |
| They're going to see to it that it's going to be tougher and tougher and tougher to get a loan. | |
| Now, another thing as a teachable moment: Congress did not anticipate this. | |
| Congress did not realize it was happening. | |
| Congress did not prevent it. | |
| They caused it. | |
| In fact, now they want to politicize it. | |
| The Democrats want to politicize it for election advantage because what they hope to do with all this is to send this message to the beleaguered middle class that, well, we're not going to let these evil Wall Street people screw you. | |
| We're going to let you get back at them. | |
| And this is going to keep campaign contributions flowing from the trial lawyers, which is a huge, huge bunch. | |
| And this is your Congress at work, folks. | |
| What they're doing to banking, they want to do to your health care and they want to do to big oil. | |
| It's going to get to the point you have a headache, you got to call Barney Frank. | |
| Dr. Frank, I have a headache. | |
| Remember the watchword for doctors: first do no harm. | |
| The one thing Congress can do to fix this mess is try not to fix it, to stay totally out of it. | |
| The markets work. | |
| Let the market handle this. | |
| Look at what Citigroup has to give away in order to get the cash from Abu Dhabi. | |
| 11% interest in the firm. | |
| Well, that's a good measure of how bad this is. | |
| To give up 11% interest in the firm for $7.5 billion. | |
| We're talking Citigroup. | |
| And they're going to give up 11% interest in order to get the cash. | |
| That's just a good indication of how bad the mess is. | |
| But markets work. | |
| Congress doesn't in the market. | |
| When Congress starts meddling in the market, then you've got big, big problems. | |
| And that is where we're headed. | |
| If this ever becomes law, Jason in New Brunville, Texas, you're first as we go to the phones today. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, Rush. | |
| How are you, sir? | |
| Just fine, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| My question to you was: I was thinking about what you said earlier about how the consumers aren't playing along this time. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I sense a real generational turning point out there where you hear all this stuff about the subprime mess, and yet you hear about plasma TVs flying off the shelves at Walmart. | |
| And the two can't be, it doesn't seem like they can both exist at the same time. | |
| So I wanted to ask you: do you think we're heading towards a real turning point, generationally speaking, in the next election? | |
| Because I think that's what caused your, what'd you call it, your blue depression a couple weeks ago? | |
| Blue funk. | |
| Blue funk. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| That's just because I had to talk about the Clintons so damn much. | |
| I don't think that's what it was. | |
| What was it? | |
| I think it was when, was it Colonel Tibbetts when he passed away, the pilot of the Enoli Gay? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| I think you were thinking about, you know, that generation is really leaving us, that World War II generation. | |
| I know your dad was part of that generation. | |
| Right. | |
| But when they leave, they're leaving the baby boomers over $4 trillion in insurance policies and stuff like that. | |
| And it's really changed the middle-class economy in this country. | |
| And a lot of these young Gen Wires that are coming up, it occurred to me the other day, you've got, you know, young, what do you call them, rush babies in college, right? | |
| Exactly right, rush babies. | |
| These rush babies in college, you said some of them don't remember the Clinton administration, and you're right. | |
| And some of them don't remember Rita X and Caller Abortions and Dan's Big Road. | |
| So I was just curious what your thoughts were on, I mean, in 96, yeah, I wish Dole had beat Clinton, but it didn't feel like it was a big pivotal election. | |
| And this one feels that way. | |
| Well, see, I have previously mentioned this, and I think that you're onto something if you came up with this on your own, because I think we do have in this next election, 2008, the last dying gasp of the 60s baby boomers, both left and right, to try to grab hold of the country and make the country's future in their image. | |
| And particularly dangerous here is the 60s anti-war left, which is Hillary, which is Bill, which is everybody on their side. | |
| This is their last chance. | |
| This is their last chance to take this grand vision they had in the 60s and turn this country into some socialist utopia that they envision with themselves in total control and total power of it. | |
| And the question is whether a lot of young people come out and vote. | |
| Well, can I ask you something about that, Rush? | |
| Well, of course. | |
| And why I worry about this is if you think about when we talk about Generation Y, that is about 70 million young people born after 1980 and before 2000. | |
| And when you think about that generation, about half of them now are a voting age. | |
| Where they've spent the last three to seven years has been in college and in high school. | |
| And Rush, the people you just described, that left-wing national public radio, white wine sipping, antiquing on the weekend kind of wispy person who doesn't want to get into red state micropolitan economies. | |
| They want something safe. | |
| They go into public education. | |
| And it may be that the next election has been decided until these young people kind of get their first kid, their first mortgage, and they grow up. | |
| This isn't like Gen X, where they were growing up at 33 and 34. | |
| I haven't met a Gen Wire in over three years who isn't pursuing some other kind of side business on their own. | |
| So maybe the public school teachers didn't get to him after all. | |
| Well, it's interesting you mentioned that because I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the American Thinker Today by Charles J. Sykes, the headline, A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness. | |
| I'll give you details of this because I've got to go to a break here, and I want you to keep listening out there, Jason. | |
| But the bottom line here is that liberals are not getting everything they're trying for on college campaign. | |
| Now, you can chalk it up to rush babies. | |
| You can talk it up to generational change. | |
| Any number of things would probably be applicable and accurate here. | |
| Some interesting data in this piece. | |
| You're onto something. | |
| We'll be back and continue right after this. | |
| Our last caller, Jason, made an excellent point. | |
| Well, actually, it reminded me that I made a great point, and I had forgotten. | |
| And I can't remember the specific thing we were talking about, but it was somebody on the phone, and they were going on and on about the Clintons, and it was a young person. | |
| I said, they don't remember the 90s. | |
| They're not infatuated with Clintons. | |
| They were not old enough to have been brainwashed by the drive-by media, the Democrat Party's total love affair with the Clintons. | |
| Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, to these young kids, they're just more old fogies running around. | |
| You know, there's nothing magical about them to the younger set. | |
| And that is an excellent point. | |
| Now, here's Charles Sykes' piece, The American Thinker Today. | |
| Liberals not getting everything they're trying for on college campaign. | |
| Maybe this is how political correctness ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. | |
| Across the country, universities that had abandoned in a loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it within loco big brother programs of political and cultural re-education. | |
| And the point of the story is that a lot of students say, screw you! | |
| We're not interested in your cultural re-education and your political re-education because they're arriving on campus with principles and ideas already formed. | |
| Wonder where that might have happened at home while their parents had this program on. | |
| Last fall, for instance, the University of Wisconsin unveiled an ambitious diversity campaign designed to root out inappropriate speech and behaviors on campus. | |
| The Think Respect campaign was not as controversial as the University of Delaware's re-education program that required students to confess their racial guilt and demanded that they demonstrate correct attitudes towards sexuality and environmentalism. | |
| But the University of Wisconsin's program was just as creepy. | |
| Posters appeared around the campus that included suggestions how students could put up a no-hate sign in your room, become a big brother or sister, and confront inappropriate jokes. | |
| This is what the university wanted students. | |
| They were giving them guidelines on how to do this. | |
| By the way, a little quick question here, Mr. Snerdley, do you know how many feminists it takes to change a light bulb? | |
| That's not funny, is the answer to the question. | |
| When not confronting such inappropriate humor, students were also encouraged to inform on one another. | |
| In other words, if they heard inappropriate speech, hate speech, or what have you, they were supposed to go tattletale. | |
| At the center of Think Respect was a bias reporting mechanism that encouraged students to report oppressive and racist attitudes and behavior. | |
| Students could download a form to make their allegations, which would then be investigated by the administration. | |
| The university's website encouraged a liberal use of the system. | |
| They wanted everybody running around policing and monitoring everybody else and then reporting to them on who was saying inappropriate politically incorrect things. | |
| Students can report anything from a hate crime to graffiti to verbal harassment, it said. | |
| When this reporting system was unveiled, University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althaus said, students can report anything. | |
| And remember Chancellor Wiley's statement, we will not tolerate bias, racism, disrespect, or hate? | |
| We'll not tolerate disrespect. | |
| You know, I want students to feel good about campus life, but isn't part of campus life having rowdy debates and vigorous arguments. | |
| This program should make students worry that anything other than bland pleasantries is going to get them in trouble with the administration. | |
| And the point here is, is that even at one of the most political righteous campuses in the nation, it turned out the students did not want to rat one another out to the diversity police. | |
| As the student newspaper, The Badger Herald, reported last week, the campaign now is relegated to its spot in the vast bank of inactive organizations occupying the student organization's office web space and the bias reporting mechanism fills a similar role on the dean of students website. | |
| Anyway, everybody says, when are we going to turn this around on campus? | |
| When are we going to get rid of the liberal bias on campus? | |
| And I've always cautioned, these things don't happen overnight. | |
| It's not like you have a cold and then all of a sudden one day you feel 50% better, noticeably better. | |
| This is the kind of thing that sneaks up on you and it'll happen over time, which is why it's always so important for those of us who are in guidance positions here to never give up, even though you don't see signs that your influence is working, either as parents, other family members, as members of the community with your circle of friends. | |
| And so there is, the caller's right, Jason's right, there's a whole new generation of kids coming up. | |
| And as I have always said, at some point, they're not going to take the garbage that they are inheriting. | |
| They're not going to take the lifestyles. | |
| They're not going to take the permissiveness, whatever it is. | |
| They're going to want to form their own principles, form their own culture, and to hell with the Clintons and to hell with whoever else is demanding fealty. | |
| So there's progress. | |
| It's reason to feel good about this kind of stuff. | |
| Rush babies will change this country and turn it around back after this. | |
| We're only just getting started. | |
| I've got another story for you coming out of the breaks, top of the hour. | |
| Global warming debate is not one-sided on college campaign either. | |
| A lot of college students are saying, this is dumb. | |
| I'll have the details and much more. | |
| Straight ahead, folks. | |
| Can't wait to get back. |
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