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Sept. 8, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I'm glad I'm back from vacation.
There's no question about it, but I still I wish Congress was still on vacation.
I wish Obama was still on vacation.
I mean, we are in deep, deep peril.
We are in deep peril every second.
I know the speech, the little indoctrination speech to the young skulls full of mush, starting right at the moment my first words were uttered after being gone for a little over a week.
There's Obama indoctrinating the young skulls full of mush.
The timing is not a coincidence.
We are not going to jip it.
We are rolling tape.
We've seen the transcript of the speech anyway.
We'll have some comments on it.
Great to be back here with you, folks.
Hope you had a fine week while I was away.
I see, even when I'm gone, the process continues.
The things that we set up fell right into place.
Great to be back here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Obama was in the recording studio to prepare for today.
All set, Mr. President.
Okay, here we go.
Students of America, welcome to a new and exciting school year of hope and change.
As part of your assignment today, you will be required to write a letter to yourself about how you can help me.
Excuse me.
I think that's the old script.
But that's what's on the screen.
Don't worry, just wing it.
Okay.
After protest from some parents, we have instead given everyone another choice for today's activity.
You can get a semi-removable tattoo of my image on your forehead.
Maybe that's a little too obvious.
Learn the Obama youth theme song and sing it with your friends on YouTube.
I think the wrong direction.
Turning your parents for protesting?
Perhaps a little too far to the left.
I'll tell you what.
Just fold your hands and think about me quietly.
Separation of church and state.
What do you think I should do?
We'll get something new up on the teleprompter for you, sir.
Hold on a second.
Rob, I'll go get Rob.
And it's the Rush Limbaugh program on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
An abbreviated week, it's back to normal.
The National Football League kicks off on Thursday night with the Titans at the Steelers.
And we had college football all weekend long and so forth.
But we're back to normal here.
Congress is back with the lowest approval ratings ever.
Unemployment has now hit 9.7%.
Youth unemployment is at an all-time record high of over 25% since records have been kept on that starting in 1948.
And nevertheless, President Obama and Vice President Biden keep telling us how their stimulus plan is working.
And now he's going to tell us tomorrow night how well Obamacare is going to work.
And the magic is gone.
The bloom is off the rose here for President Obama, ladies and gentlemen.
This is speech number 112 on healthcare tomorrow night.
Speech number 112.
And every time he goes on television to make a speech about it, the numbers plummet even further.
And I expect this to happen again because substance has taken over the cult-like belief that people held in Obama.
The fact that he's a centrist is out the window.
Nobody believes he's a centrist.
Nobody believes that he's anything they thought he was.
Pew Research Center has a poll out.
He is fast losing support.
It's in the LA Times.
Of all places, the L.A. Times, he is fast losing support among white voters.
Now, make no mistake, that's not an accident that it's in the L.A. Times.
That's purposely placed, purposefully placed in the L.A. Times, setting up the notion that the criticism to Obama is all based on race.
It's not based on substance.
That's the reason for the poll, and that's the reason to place it in the Los Angeles Times.
Now, Van Jones, I was on Beck's show long before I went on vacation.
We talked about this guy, and another one just like him over the FCC, the FCC diversity czar, is a guy named Mark Lloyd.
And I followed this a little while I was away.
I was over the big island in Hawaii playing golf.
That's the only place I went, one of the 57 states I announced I was visiting before I left.
And following this, and I'm reading all these stories.
Well, how did this guy get past the vetting process?
And why didn't the press cover any of this?
And look at folks, Van Jones is Jeremiah Wright, is Bill Ayers.
It was not an accident that he's in the White House.
Van Jones is Obama.
Mark Lloyd at the FCC is Obama.
Jeremiah Wright is Obama.
There's no difference.
The only difference is that some of them make reckless public statements.
But in terms of what he believes, Obama is necessarily no different than Van Jones.
It's why he was in the White House in the first place.
As the green jobs czar, dealing with diversity and so forth, the guy hates Republicans.
He's a Marxist.
He's a communist.
He's a 9-11 truther.
He's a wacko.
He's a nut.
He's one of these far-left radicals.
And Valerie Jarrett, who is one of Obama's most trusted left-hand, right-hand people, put him in there.
The administration's full of people like this.
You know, what's frustrating about this is that so many of us tried to warn the country about this long before the election took place, all during the campaign.
And I keep going, well, the New York Times didn't report on it.
And the Washington Post didn't report on it.
Of course they didn't.
Why would you expect them to?
There's two reasons.
You know, Byron York has a piece in the D.C. Examiner today that headlined, Why Did the Press Ignore the Van Jones scandal?
And I think people make a mistake in assuming that the primary reason that they don't report on this kind of thing is because they're trying to help Obama.
I mean, clearly that is true.
But I think the far more motivating factor is their hate for us.
Remember, the drive-by media, the state-controlled media, the American left, thinks that you and I face, pose a greater danger to them than any foreign enemy that's armed with weapons, including nukes.
We are the problem.
And anytime we have success, they're going to do everything they can to blunt it or ignore it or discredit it or what have you.
So clearly, they're trying to support Obama by not reporting the story, but they also don't want to report the story because they just hate us.
And this is why I have always said, if you're looking for validation by finally seeing fairness and accuracy in the state-controlled media, you are forever setting yourself up to be disappointed because it's never, ever going to happen.
Bias is one thing, and it's undeniable that the drive-by is that the state-controlled media are biased.
But the bias is not just what they love.
The bias is not just what they support.
The bias is also what they hate, who they hate and who they dislike.
And, you know, that's why they love to focus on some of the kookier conservatives out there, both in the blogosphere and in media, to try to make them the focal point spokesman or what have you.
The bottom line is, though, that none of this is working.
Well, that's a little, that's maybe too optimistic to say.
Their monopoly is gone, as we've repeatedly said, we're instrumental here in breaking up that monopoly.
But the American people have been informed of what's in the health care, not by the people whose job it is to tell them that, but by people who are doing their jobs for them, us.
Now, there's also, I read a piece, did massive show prep late yesterday afternoon or last night, and I don't even remember who wrote this piece.
It might have been Quinn Hillier at American Spectator.
He said, look, it was a great August, but don't get giddy here.
Don't get all excited.
This is nowhere by any means over.
And he made a point.
I love seeing it because it's a point that I have been drilling home ever since Obama took office.
All this chaos fits right into his plan.
9.7% unemployment is exactly what the doctor ordered.
All of this chaos, all of this disarray is exactly within our culture, within our economy, is exactly what he wants.
He thrives on it.
He's not unnerved by this.
He may be a little bit unnerved that the healthcare thing didn't happen as he planned it, but he's putting the full court press on this.
And look at this.
White House considers drafting health care bill.
This is from CNN on September the 4th.
And indeed, on Wednesday night, we may get the first ever announced set of details from Obama on a health care plan.
Now, why is that?
He hasn't had a plan that he can point to.
He's been letting Congress do all the dirty work, but he wants to get this thing passed before the August recess.
It doesn't get implemented until 2013.
The reason he wanted to keep it hidden, of course, is because he didn't want anybody to know what was in it and what it was going to entail.
Now major changes supposedly are being worked on, but don't buy that.
Whatever they end up with, if there is a health care reform bill that Democrats in the House and Senate passed and sent up to hit the sign, it is a government-run health care plan.
I don't care what kind of language they use to try to convince you that there won't be a public option.
Barack Obama is governing against the will of the American people.
And the purpose of the speech last night is to cast you as the enemy, is to cast the American people as the enemy while he attempts to cajole you and manipulate you.
And his audience really is going to be more Democrats in Congress than it is going to be the American people.
He's lost you on this issue.
He's lost you, and he's lost 23 Democrats in the House.
Right now, as we speak, 23 House Democrats have said they're going to vote against it if it's got this massive public option in the bill as it exists now.
She needs, Pelosi needs, she needs to 38.
If 38 Democrats defect on the health care bill, then she's in trouble in the House.
There are up to 23 announced defections as of now.
That could also change on a moment's notice, depending on how arm-twisting Rahm Emanuel and the boys at the White House want to be.
But we, I think, are well advised not to get giddy and understand that 9.7% unemployment in Wisconsin, 86% of the people who call to check on their unemployment benefits get hung up on.
They're not getting any answers.
All home foreclosures.
There's nothing decent happening in the U.S. economy.
Nothing.
I mean, even folks, even where I live, Palm Beach, Florida, which is, I think, one of the top five most affluent zip codes in the country.
No, no, it's not number one, Sterling.
Jupiter Island up the road is number one.
And I don't know that we're number two, but we're in the top five.
Doesn't matter.
The local paper, the local paper today or Sunday had four or five, a story on four or five people whose lives have fallen apart.
Not because of Madoff or Madoff, but because of the economy.
Even here, I mean, there's nothing.
The point is, there is no good news in the economy out there, and yet nothing.
You're going to pile this health care on top of it.
I'm telling you, Van Jones, notwithstanding Mark Lloyd over at the FCC, that's who this administration is.
And the sooner everybody realizes it, the better.
Barack Obama does not want to change the United States within its current political system.
He wants to blow it up.
He wants to blow up the political system and completely remake it.
And there are those of us who have known this since early on in the campaign, simply by knowing who his associates were, simply by knowing where he grew up and what he believed and things that he did as a community organizer.
More and more people are starting to figure it out, but that doesn't unnerve him.
He doesn't mind governing against the will of the people.
He wants to make it so that you're powerless to stop him in the first place.
And that's the objective.
I got to take a break here.
We'll come back.
We've got a great soundbite roster, too.
Some sound bites proving my prophetic powers regarding the Kennedy funeral and some stuff that happened during the week when I was gone that we want to comment on a review.
Plus, your phone calls again at 800-282-2882.
Be back right after this.
Don't go away.
All right, folks.
I had an opportunity here to listen to a little bit of Obama's cheerleader speech to America's Young Skulls Full of Mush.
And I am here to tell you that he didn't believe a word of what he said, not at least what I heard him say.
This was an inspiring, motivational speech.
You got to rely on yourself.
Don't let your failures define you.
Nobody's born great.
And that's not true, by the way.
There are people who are born good at what they do.
I am doing what I was born to do.
And I knew at eight I wanted to do it.
Champions sometimes are born.
You might want to be the greatest baseball player in the world.
You might want to be the greatest golfer, but you just, you don't have what it takes to be no matter how hard you work, no matter how hard you work at it.
You have to find what you really love and what you're really good at, then work hard at that.
But that's splitting peas.
He just gave a speech that he doesn't believe a word of.
If he believed anything he said today, then he would not be trying to accomplish one item in his agenda.
His agenda is based on the fact that you can't take care of yourself.
His agenda is based on the fact that you are incompetent to make the right decisions.
His agenda is that you need guidance and you need leadership and you need somebody making decisions for you.
You need a big government nanny because you're incompetent and incapable.
He goes out and tells these students, it's all up to you.
Their country needs you.
We want you to work hard.
No, he used the word I.
It's the middle of the day, so I couldn't do a drinking game.
But if this speech were given at night and I took a drink for every time he said the word I, I would now be inebriated.
I, this, I'm going to, I'm doing my best to get you your textbooks.
I'm doing my guest to get you a good environment.
You got to do the work.
He doesn't believe a word of this.
So why do this?
Why do this speech to the nation's skulls full of mush?
There are three reasons.
One, got to get those poll numbers up.
Let's go to the poll, a Pew Poll, it shows him losing vast amounts of support from white voters, particularly independents, the precious independents.
The second reason, it's actually tied to the two reasons, the three reasons, the last two of the three are tied together.
Set up healthcare tomorrow night.
Set up the healthcare speech.
So here's a guy who goes out.
Remember now the Alinsky rule: you speak within the realm of your audience's experience.
The American people want to hear children motivated to be good, to do the best they can, to work hard.
Okay, so go out and use the language and use the philosophy that makes your audience comfortable with you when your objective is the exact opposite of what you say.
Barack Obama wants as many of these kids in school to grow up needing government services as he can.
He's going to put tax increases on these kids to the point that their hard work is going to be pointless.
It's just absurd.
But he goes out, he makes this speech, which was unlike any speech I've ever heard him give.
And again, I only heard paper grand total three minutes of it, but it's in direct contradiction to everything he believes.
It's in direct contradiction to everything in his agenda.
So he sets up, he's got this big healthcare speech before a joint session of Congress tomorrow night, which is a sure sign of panic, by the way.
He's got this joint speech, and it's going to come after this wonderful, inspiring, motivational speech to America's young skulls full of mush.
So this thing is to, you will get the state-controlled media after this speech tomorrow night.
How can anybody disagree with this president?
How can anybody say that this man does not want the best for his country?
After this speech to the young skulls full of mush, the young skulls full of mush, Obama did do one right thing.
He kept it short here.
His speech was shorter than my opening.
Well, no, I actually took a break before he did.
But most of these kids probably just want to get to lunch and so forth.
But remember, what he was originally going to do was, you know, write letters to what you can, how you can help me, his original intent.
Somebody had to dial him back in.
Somebody ran him back.
Somebody had to protect him from his own instincts.
So he got the teleprompter up there.
The teleprompter put the right words.
I'm telling you.
He didn't believe a word of it.
He wouldn't have guys like Van Jones in his administration if you believed this stuff.
He wouldn't be talking about green jobs.
All this garbage is not going to matter a hill of beans.
He would not be talking about nationalizing health care and trying to nationalize as much of the U.S. economy.
He wouldn't have taken over General Motors.
He wouldn't be shutting down almost 90% of the Cadillac dealerships in the country.
He wouldn't be doing any of this stuff if he would leave us alone.
You wait till you hear highlights of this speech.
We'll play some for you here before the program closes today.
And you tell me, when you hear it, why he doesn't just get out of the way and tell us this.
Why did he give a speech to the American people?
We expect great things from you.
Your country depends on you.
He doesn't say that, does it?
He says the country depends on him.
The country depends on government.
The country depends on working together with our enemies.
He apologizes for the United States.
I'm telling you, this is a feint, a fake, and it's to set up health care tomorrow night, get the poll numbers up, because he does not believe a thing that he said to America's skulls full of mush mere moments ago.
No, Mr. Snerdley, President Obama did not explain to the young skulls full of mush today why he opposes scruple choice for the poorest among them, unlike his own kids.
He did not explain that.
He did not explain why he wants people to stay in decrepit, broken down, run-down school buildings with worthless administration.
He did not explain.
He said, you got to go out and take responsibility for yourselves.
The theme of his speech, which was not the original intent of the speech, by the way, original intent of the speech was a dear leadered kind of thing.
Right out of the pages of that potbelly dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
That's what it was going to be.
You got to think about me all the time.
You got to write a letter to yourself about how you can help me.
And they finally, somebody says, no, you can't do that.
So, they go out with this thing today, which sets up health care tomorrow night.
The theme of his speech today was: take personal responsibility, which none of his policies encourage.
None of his policies even allow it.
You want to take care of your own health care in no way.
You're going to get a government-mandated health care plan regardless, and you can't do anything about it.
You can't assume responsibility for your own health care.
You can't assume responsibility for your own job.
You can't assume responsibility for your own car.
No, no, no, you're too stupid to do any of that.
So, he goes out and tells his kids, got to take personal responsibility.
He never even does that in his own life.
I got an interesting email here during the breakdown rush.
I've waited all weekend in a long day of labor for you to return to the golden EIB microphone with some words of hope.
And what do I hear you say?
Obama doesn't care that people are against his policies, he doesn't care about his falling poll numbers.
He has his right where he wants us.
My question is: why even voice our opinion and concern since it doesn't matter anyhow?
I'm totally stressed out, and everything seems hopeless to me.
The author of this email is a woman named Linda.
Linda, don't misunderstand.
All I really want to say is, don't take the great August and think it is an end game victory.
What happened in August is going to be required behavior of all of us for the remainder of this guy's first term.
I'm simply trying to reiterate, which I feel like a broken record here because these things we've been discussing since during the presidential campaign.
When I say he doesn't care about public opinion, I mean in the sense it's not going to change his mind.
He does care about his public polling.
The speech today was trying to get polling up.
I mean, all politicians, all presidents care about that.
But at the end of the day, look, he's out on healthcare.
He's saying, Okay, the debate's been good, but it's time to end the debate.
Why?
Why is it time to end the debate?
Because he says so.
He's going to do a speech tomorrow night on healthcare.
And here's the bottom line: he is so desperate to get some health care bill, he's even resorting to telling us about it a little bit.
He doesn't have a plan, but he's working on.
He's going to tell us a little bit about his plan tomorrow night for the first time.
That's how desperate he is to get something done.
Now, Linda, the point that I'm trying to make here is that this is a vigil.
And we are all going to have to be vigilant and never let our guard down because what you hear from Barack Obama during times of his crisis like this is not what he really believes.
We have been successful, but he is campaigning against the American people.
Look at where do you think all this talk about Nazis showing up at town hall meetings and unruly mobs?
Where do you think this came from?
It came from the Oval Office.
It came from the office of the President of the United States.
He knows what he wants, and he's going to find a way to ram it down our throats whether we like it or not.
Now, he would prefer to be able to use language that would make us all accept it.
And that's what this speech to the young schools, scrolls full of skulls full of mushrooms, all about today.
But there's all kinds of reasons for hope.
I'm just saying we are a nation that is a great nation, but we're in grave risk every day.
This is an administration which is trying to turn this country upside down from the way it was founded and the way we grew up in it and the way we want our kids and grandkids to grow up in it.
As Quinn Hillier points out in the American Spectator, and his actual point in that piece was: hey, you know, don't get lulled into a false sense of security here.
not dealing with Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was a buffoon.
Jimmy Carter tried to change the country within the political system.
Obama is not a buffoon and he is trying to change the country outside the political system.
He has reoriented all of these czars.
Nobody knows what they make.
They don't fill out the questionnaires that cabinet secretaries do.
They don't have to get vetted.
Van Jones wasn't vetted.
They knew who he was.
It didn't matter.
That's why there are czars so people don't have to get vetted.
But we're also working here with a media that has long ago cast aside its responsibility.
And that responsibility has now fallen to, quote unquote, the new media.
The new media for the longest time has been doing the job that the legacy media should have been doing.
And now we are the enemy.
And they hate us.
And the last thing they want is for us to succeed.
So it's, I mean, August was a great month, and it was a time for being encouraged and so forth because it shows we can beat this stuff back.
I'm just saying it's going to be a constant daily battle.
We're only seven months into this administration.
Just seven months.
It feels like a lifetime already.
We're only seven months into it.
And all the agenda items that he has in store, he hasn't given up on any of them.
Cap and trade, massive tax increases coming, this healthcare debacle.
And these people, one way to try to understand who's running the country is, if you remember all the 60s radicals that were blowing up bank buildings and wearing their tie-dye t-shirts and so forth, they're now running America's higher institutions of learning, and a bunch of them are in this administration.
And this is their golden opportunity to get what they want.
And it's just going to require a constant, ongoing, everyday exposure and expose of who they are and what they're doing.
And it's going to be tough because there's still a significant number of people who don't want to believe the truth about the president of the United States.
People want to love their president.
People want to respect the president.
They want to hold the president in high esteem and high regard.
That's part of Americanism.
And so it's a tough sell.
We've been convincing people, trying to convince people here for a year and a half, two years.
And what's it really taken?
It's really taken Obama being who he is, which is not the way he behaved during the campaign for people's eyes to start opening up.
And even now, there are people who don't want to believe it.
But my optimism is not wavering at all.
And I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, feeling defeated all his life.
If that were the case, I would not have come back.
You know what?
If that were the case, I'd go someplace and spend all my money before Obama's going to take it.
If I'd cashed into chips, you wouldn't have heard from me again.
Well, you stop yelling at him in there.
He's yelling at him again.
Just hang up.
You know, just thank him for calling and move on.
You know, you're misread.
Snurdly, let me argue with them.
You don't have to argue with them out there.
Let me argue with them, unless they're calling to complain to you about something.
Now, I'm always right.
I'm always right about this stuff.
Now, here's something Obama said in this speech to the kids.
When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school.
So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself Monday through Friday at 4.30 in the morning.
Now, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early.
A lot of times I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table.
Whenever I would complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, this is no picnic for me either, Buster.
Well, a question, why didn't Mr. Obama's mother have the money to send him to the school where all the American kids went?
His stepfather worked in Indonesia as a government relations consultant with a big U.S. oil company, Mobile.
I mean, that surely was a high-paying job.
And if he didn't make enough money, they could have gotten help from Grandmom Toots, who was the vice president of a bank in Hawaii, and who a few years later was able to pay the very high tuition for Obama to attend one of the most expensive private schools in Hawaii.
And furthermore, why did Obama's mother have to do these lessons at 4.30 in the morning?
She doesn't seem to have had a job at the time.
But even if she had, why couldn't she have scheduled these lessons at some other time, such as in the evenings?
Wouldn't making a young child get up so early hurt him in school later in the day?
I don't believe this for a minute.
I'm a blinking at heart.
I'm nothing.
I chopped wood over there in Indonesia after I got my 4.30 in the morning school lesson.
He just, it's one of these fantasies he throws in there to make his speeches seem a little bit more dramatic.
Like his, look at bogus claim that he met Michelle in college.
He didn't.
Or his claim that he wouldn't have been born if his parents had not marched in Selma.
It makes this stuff up.
It's Quintin-esque.
Quick time out.
Be right back.
Here, we have some soundbites from the Obama's speech to the young scowls full of mush this afternoon.
Arlington, Virginia, Wakefield has screw-o.
Have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something that you're good at.
Every single one of you has something to offer.
And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.
That's the opportunity an education can provide.
Personal responsibility.
He does not believe in this.
He doesn't even believe it for himself, but none of his agenda items rely on personal responsibility.
He would never give this speech to the American people.
I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something that you're good at.
Every single one of you has something to offer, and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what it is.
That's the opportunity an education can provide.
Great stuff.
Great stuff, but that's not what he believes.
Here's the next sample.
At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life, what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home, none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school.
That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of school.
There is no excuse for not trying.
Now, this is laughable.
I'm sorry if this sounds controversial, folks, but no excuses.
He was elected by a bunch of whiners who wanted him to take care of them.
That's who voted for the guy.
Well, and some guilty white people who thought that maybe they could get rid of the nation's racial past by voting for the guy.
But he was elected by a bunch of whiners who thought he was going to fix everything.
That's why he's in trouble.
Everything he's done to fix something has made it worse, and people are starting to scratch their heads.
Here's the final sample.
This isn't just important for your own life and your own future.
What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.
The future of America depends on you.
What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
Well, he doesn't know how right that is because they're not learning the right stuff in school today.
They're not being taught about the nation's founding.
They're not being taught about the founding principles in most of these schools.
They're learning self-esteem and conflict resolution.
The future of America depends on you.
This is a standard.
This is a standard graduation line.
The future of America is in your hands.
You'll leave here today, and you alone determine the future.
And of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
But nevertheless, he's out there saying this stuff that is so foreign to his agenda.
I mean, let him give this speech to the American people.
He never would.
It contradicts every aspect of his agenda.
Southern California, this is Larry.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Hi.
I wanted to point out something that is being missed about what's going on before.
And unless you're a school administrator, you wouldn't even know this.
Normally, when something like this happens, a request will come from the U.S. Office of Education to the local school districts and give them the option of whether or not they want to put this on.
In this case, it did not.
It came from the Office of Education directly to the teachers and principals.
In effect, bypassing the school boards, the school boards are the ones that have, you know, in a democracy, are the ones who have traditionally made decisions about whether or not these sorts of materials would be shown or provided to classrooms.
This is a very anti-democratic way of approaching this.
This has not been done before.
Anyone who's worked for the U.S. Office of Education will know that this is not the routine way these things are done.
You ought to send this through the school boards first to give them the decision.
I read that some school boards said they were not going to carry this because the parents had an outrageous reaction to this, as they should have when the original intent of this speech was not anywhere near what the content of this speech actually ended up being.
But I think I read that some schools in Chicago said, we're not going to do this.
We're going to tape it.
May play it later.
From a practical application, what difference does it make the process by which the speech was approved to be shown in classrooms?
Well, the difference is that if you go through the normal channel, the way this is normally done, you give the school board, which is elected, the decision whether or not to air this material.
In this case, the school boards were completely bypassed.
The local administrations and the school district offices were completely bypassed.
This was not done by accident.
These decisions are not made at the U.S. Office of Education by accident.
This was very clearly a message to local school boards that, you know, you elected officials, you do not count.
We're going over your heads.
We're taking this directly to the teachers.
And it's a very, very anti-democratic message.
Well, okay, going through the teachers' unions and so forth.
I may be missing something, but I know it's anti-democratic, but what's new about this administration?
I mean, that's school boards would have probably said yes.
I mean, it's the president asking for crying out loud.
It's the content of this speech and its purpose that remains, to me, the important thing and the focal point.
I don't know if people realize just how opposite everything Obama has said previously and is doing this speech was or is, in its content, personal responsibility.
You realize every agenda item he has is based on the fact that you don't have any, that you're not competent to have any, and that you're you're not going to be given the power to exercise your personal responsibility.
I think there's a clear indication that, based on polling numbers and a lot of other things, they know that they're in trouble.
So again, it's a Linsky item.
I mean, here you come.
You come speak within the realm of the experience of your audience.
He knows parents are upset.
This is to calm them down.
And the whole thing was just a fib.
We'll be back.
I'll tell you this.
If Barack Obama really wants to help kids in school, he will cut their parents' taxes and cut the taxes of their employers.
We all know the original lesson plan here was to accompany this speech.
The politics of this ploy is now out in the open.
He got caught trying to get the NEA union surrogates of teachers to begin the process of endearing Obama to the students.
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