Feb. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Hi, how are you folks? | |
| Welcome back, Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida. | |
| It's open line Friday. | |
| The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882 and the email address, oh Rushboat at EIBNet.com. | |
| Remember, when we go to the phones on Friday, the content's all yours. | |
| I don't have to care about it. | |
| If you think something needs to be said that hasn't been said, or if you have a question, uh comment, just feel free. | |
| 800-282-2882. | |
| Again, the number. | |
| Now, um, still no still no seminar uh callers. | |
| Not one has uh has made it through here. | |
| You know, I saw this, I saw this uh headline uh and I I thought it was a story about Charlie Sheen, but it's not. | |
| A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer drinking habits that he's picked up. | |
| He's uh fathered several baby chimps as opposed to well, what other kind of chimp you do would you father? | |
| An adult chimp. | |
| The uh beer and cigarettes were ruining him. | |
| He would he would pester passers by for booze. | |
| This guy, this this chimp uh uh in the circus, and they had to transfer him to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps. | |
| Uh and uh somehow this chimpanzee ended up with uh cigarettes, learn how to smoke them and in beer. | |
| Now, I'm watching the networks here, and they're they're getting ready for the press conference from SeaWorld. | |
| Uh this is the the the the most amazing thing. | |
| They've got the podium and microphones set up in front of the tank with a glass wall. | |
| You can see the you can see the uh the the killer whales all swimming around, and one of them keeps coming to the glass as though it wants to say something. | |
| It and it's it's right there at two microphones on this podium, and that thing keeps swimming up and gets right, puts his nose right on the edge of the glass, looks around, drifts off, and comes back. | |
| Now, at some point there's gonna be somebody up there speaking at this press conference with his back turned to the tank, and that that that whale is gonna come up there. | |
| Uh this is I mean, and these whales, you know, they're just big dolphins. | |
| They are just the largest dolphins. | |
| They are said to be among the smartest animals uh on the planet. | |
| And obviously it wants to say something. | |
| It knows what's going on, it can see the crowd, it can see the press in there. | |
| I mean, they can see through the glass, it knows there's a big audience in there, and uh and these things are used to performing. | |
| Anyway, for those of you, for those of you who think uh that there's no difference in the two parties, that there's not a dime's worth of difference in the two parties. | |
| I have a list here that's put out by the National Journal. | |
| I think it's uh hotline bunch uh people. | |
| And what we have here, we have a list of the ten most liberal senators, and guess what? | |
| They're all Democrats. | |
| I mean I was a shock to see this. | |
| The ten most liberal senators shockingly are all Democrats. | |
| Who would have believed that? | |
| The ten most conservative senators were and you're not gonna believe this, we're Republicans. | |
| Now, this is gonna be tough for some people to digest because they think there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. | |
| Now, in addition to this, if you're not already reeling from this news that the ten most liberal senators are democrats, and ten most conservative senators are Republicans, get this. | |
| In the middle, the ten most centrists and uh House and Senate are all Democrat. | |
| There's not a one Republican st uh centrist in the National Journal list, not one. | |
| Yet Independent voters are flocking to the Republicans right now. | |
| So I uh I don't know that's necessary to even go through the names here with you folks. | |
| The news is just is this shocking enough. | |
| All right, there's the press conference, and look at those whales. | |
| Um swimming around. | |
| What a what what a staging area. | |
| I mean, this is an incredible uh way to stage this press conference. | |
| So I'm I'm looking, I have to list four or five names here, but the ten in the middle, from most liberal to most conservative in the House and in the Senate, they're all Democrats. | |
| Every damned one of them is a Democrat. | |
| So um I mean, the only place you find Republicans in this list is conservative uh uh conservatives is on a Republican side. | |
| I I know that this is a shock to many, many, uh many of you out there. | |
| Uh but and this is a the national journal, and they're doing, and they're ranking this by the way these people have voted. | |
| It's not it's not their opinion, it's the way they have voted. | |
| All the centrists are Democrats. | |
| Now, that means one thing. | |
| They're all liberals. | |
| There's no such thing as a centrist. | |
| There's no such thing as a moderate. | |
| They're all Democrats. | |
| They're all liberals. | |
| I have a most amazing economic story here. | |
| It's amazing because it actually reports the truth. | |
| It is from state-controlled AP. | |
| The economy rocketed ahead at a 5.9% pace in the final quarter of 2009. | |
| Now it's stronger than estimated. | |
| Now remember the the initial report was 5.7%, and we were all expecting the revision to go down, because they always do. | |
| They've revised it up to 5.9. | |
| Now you would think state controlled AP. | |
| 5. | |
| Whoa! | |
| Let's let's break out the band and the champagne. | |
| Let's get those Zaki players from Canada, smoke some cigars. | |
| The stimulus worked. | |
| Wouldn't you expect that to be what follows in the story? | |
| You would be wrong. | |
| The economy rocketed ahead at a 5.9% pace the final quarter of 2009, but the growth spurt isn't expected to carry over into this year. | |
| I could not... | |
| Oh, I'm I'm told that's not a killer whale. | |
| Um uh that's Rosie O'Donnell. | |
| I'm sorry, I'm not watching this in high definition. | |
| So here you have state-controlled associated press. | |
| You still with us in there, Wendy. | |
| Uh Wendy is our substitute transcriber today. | |
| Uh the growth spurt isn't expected to carry over. | |
| AP is saying it doesn't matter. | |
| It's a fake number. | |
| And it they're reporting it truthfully. | |
| It's a fake number because it's all about replacing inventories. | |
| It's not about any private sector consuming going on. | |
| They admit in the story that the consumer market is dead. | |
| The uh the fresh reading on the nation's economic standing released by the Commerce Department today was better than the government's initial estimate of a month ago. | |
| Mark the strongest showing in six years. | |
| Even so it didn't change the expectation of much slower economic activity in the current January to March quarter. | |
| Roughly two-thirds of last quarter's growth came from a burst of manufacturing, but not because consumer demand was strong. | |
| In fact, consumer spending weakened at the end of the year, even more than the government first thought. | |
| Instead, factories were turning out goods for businesses that had let their stockpiles dwindle to save money. | |
| If consumer spending remains lackluster, as expected, that burst of manufacturing will fade. | |
| And the signs are not hopeful. | |
| Consumer confidence took an unexpected dive in February. | |
| Unemployment stands at 9.7%. | |
| Home foreclosures are at record highs, and many Americans are still having trouble getting loans. | |
| I can't believe what I just read. | |
| This is the first honest and truthful story on the economy in the AP in years. | |
| Not just since Obama was immaculated, but in years. | |
| I can't believe I'll guarantee it. | |
| Ron Emanuel sees this, and Exlarod sees this, and somebody's heads on a chopping block at AP. | |
| You mean to tell us that you got a 5.9% fourth quarter growth rate, and you write a story about how it's phony and it isn't gonna last? | |
| What are you doing to us? | |
| Do you not know who you're working for, Emmanuel will say? | |
| A stunning, stunning story. | |
| There's um something else in this foreclosure business. | |
| Uh Obama is gonna he's just gonna move in there and say you can't foreclose uh to the banks. | |
| Where I gotta find this. | |
| Uh he's just gonna say that you can't foreclose. | |
| That's it's not it's not America. | |
| He's gonna make these banks continue to uh keep people in their houses and not foreclose, regardless. | |
| The federal government is gonna order. | |
| I'll find that story somewhere here in the uh in the stack of stuff. | |
| A couple more sound bites before we go to the break. | |
| I want you to hear Kent Conrad from the health care summit yesterday afternoon of Blair House. | |
| Uh if you think that the death panels are out of this bill, uh listen to Kent Conrad. | |
| Five percent use fifty percent of the money. | |
| Who are they? | |
| They're the chronically ill. | |
| People who have multiple serious conditions. | |
| A study was done with 20,000 patients, and they put a care coordinator on each one of them. | |
| These are chronically ill patients. | |
| And what they found was by coordinating their care, and the first thing they did, by the way, is go into their kitchen tables, sit down, get out all their prescription drugs. | |
| On average, they found they were taking 16. | |
| They found that by looking at them they can eliminate eight. | |
| The result was hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings per patient. | |
| Now, who do you think this five percent using fifty percent of health care money is? | |
| Who do you think the chronically ill are? | |
| The elderly, exactly right. | |
| And don't forget, the New York Times declared war on the elderly in one of their blogs this week. | |
| We told you about that, about how you know these people they're soaking up all the freebies, they're getting all the benefits. | |
| It's just not fair out there. | |
| So here's Kent Conrad. | |
| Five percent use 50 percent. | |
| And you know what else? | |
| They're a bunch of druggies. | |
| Walk in there and they got 16 different prescriptions. | |
| We find out they can get by with eight. | |
| Uh, you think that there aren't death panels. | |
| Think again, John Boehner eloquently destroyed Obama's bill yesterday and its entire premise. | |
| Having a government takeover of health care, and I believe that's what this is, uh, is a dangerous experiment with the best health care system in the world. | |
| At a time when our economy is struggling, the last thing we need to do is be raising taxes on the American people. | |
| You've got the individual mandate in here, which I think is unwise, and I too believe is unconstitutional. | |
| Mr. President, what we've been saying for a long time is let's scrap the bill. | |
| Let's start with a clean sheet of paper on those things that we can't agree on. | |
| Whoa, he just sat there and told the BAMster that his bill's unconstitutional. | |
| These guys were on fire yesterday, and they were likable when they were on fire, and it was a Democrats that looked like a bunch of spoiled rotten little brats, uh, petulant little creeps, arrogant little smug you know what's. | |
| We'll be back after this. | |
| Hey, quick, Schnerdley. | |
| You know the name of this group. | |
| It couldn't you couldn't be called that today, I don't think. | |
| It's average white band. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay. | |
| Here's the story. | |
| Uh, President Obama and his administration are floating an idea to prohibit lenders from foreclosing on a home unless the borrower has been considered for the government's home affordable modification program. | |
| A proposal would require servicers to initiate contact with all borrowers who are 60 or more days behind in their mortgage payments and offer them access to the federal modification program only after the homeowner has been screened under the hamp guidelines, and it's uh determined that a loan can't be saved, could foreclosure proceedings commence. | |
| I know it take years. | |
| If it's not constitutional, like programs backlogged, it's unconstitutional. | |
| This guy's reaching into the private sector and say, here's how you're gonna run yourself. | |
| And then I'm gonna run you. | |
| Uh Nobody's gonna go into this business anymore. | |
| President Barack Obama is is is essentially saying to mortgage lenders, you exist to lose money. | |
| You exist to lose money. | |
| All right, to the phones we go. | |
| This is Betty uh from Alfretta, Georgia. | |
| Great to have you on the program. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk with you. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | |
| You bet, thank you. | |
| Uh I'm calling to thank you for helping to keep me informed, but also to thank you for helping to keep me fit. | |
| And late last year I started swimming to try and get some regular exercise and I was swimming laps, and that very quickly got very boring, so then I got a waterproof case for my iPod and I started listening to music, but after a while that got boring too. | |
| So then a few weeks ago I realized I could download your podcast and listen to your show. | |
| So I started doing that every night, and now when I'm swimming each morning, your show kind of makes the time fly. | |
| I swim for about an hour and twenty minutes every day. | |
| That's two miles for me. | |
| And so I stay up to speed politically. | |
| I'm just a day late. | |
| Uh and my only complaint is that when you say something funny, I start laughing, and that can get a little dangerous in in the water. | |
| I mean, just the other day when you reminded us about Biden asking that guy to stand up who was wheelchair bound and comment. | |
| Oh, God loves you. | |
| And and I started laughing, and other swimmers probably wonder why I had this big smile on my face, but I'm just happy because I'm listening to you, I'm getting informed, and uh but I want you to realize the trouble that your jokes could be causing. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| Very, very much I'm I'm still trying to revision this. | |
| Uh I I know that they have underwater encasings for iPods, but what about the headphones? | |
| What about what how do you think? | |
| It comes with uh waterproof earplugs too. | |
| And it hooks I have well, I have a number of iPods, but I use my generation one, that little uh square, and then it hooks onto the back of my goggles to that band. | |
| And uh and it it's I mean I don't even know it's there, and I it it works amazingly. | |
| It's so weird to be swimming through the water and listening to very high fidelity sound. | |
| I don't sound like I'm underwater when you're doing this. | |
| No. | |
| Not at all. | |
| It sounds terrific. | |
| I mean, it sounds perfect, it's very weird. | |
| I can imagine. | |
| Uh well that's that's that's great. | |
| I'm I'm I'm I'm happy that you told me that. | |
| I did not know that uh iPods were that flexible uh underwater. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean it it's I hate water, really world for me. | |
| And uh now I mean it is so easy. | |
| It takes me about one minute to take out your show from that I listened to that day and then reload in your show from from that day that you just Yeah, through iTunes. | |
| I through iTunes. | |
| And I just have you set up as a podcast because I'm part of your whatever your monthly show uh where I can pay to be a You are you are a subscriber. | |
| Uh that's the word I'm looking for. | |
| Uh Rush Limbaugh, as opposed to a premium member. | |
| You are I don't know, am I? | |
| I don't know. | |
| No, you're a subscriber. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, I think I'm a pre I think don't you have to be a premium member to be a subscriber. | |
| We don't no, we don't we don't we don't uh we don't discriminate and uh we don't categorize. | |
| You're either a member you're not, you're a subscriber or you're not. | |
| We have a free side, which is in i it it only exists to entice people to join. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh it offers just enough to make you want more. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's the old performers create. | |
| Just always keep them wanting more. | |
| Well, I join I mean, I I join because I pay something. | |
| It's a pittance, but every month I pay something. | |
| Well, we offer many different subscriber plans. | |
| You can offer you can join for the year by two years, a combo with the limball letter, or you can pay monthly. | |
| Well Which is really great for us. | |
| I know. | |
| Uh you love me because I pay monthly. | |
| But you know, I'm glad you called about this because um the people who who put my website together every day, Coco and Coco Jr. up there, um they they they never say anything to me, but I just well, they they send me, hey, we just posted this. | |
| If you want to plug the site, we just okay that transcripts up there, if you want to say that the media can now purposely go misquote you. | |
| We've I have a phobia about about saying, hey, folks, go to my website and become a member. | |
| I just i I'm very uncomfortable doing it, and I don't do it nearly enough. | |
| And this and the podcast, I don't I don't even know how many of you people know that we offer this, but it's the latest in portability. | |
| We've been doing it a couple years. | |
| Uh, but you can download podcasts. | |
| Each hour of this program is its own file, and it made available between a half hour and an hour after each day's program. | |
| And you can download it through iTunes, or you can download it through uh our website. | |
| Even if you do iTone iTunes, you have to set it up through Rushlinbaugh.com. | |
| And it really is a uh it's a way a lot of people do it, use it the way you're doing it uh for portability. | |
| You can't listen at the time the program's on or what have you. | |
| And now one other thing, you you have given me an opportunity here to answer questions because there are people signing up for the podcast each and every day, and I get emails from them. | |
| Rush, how come I don't hear your theme song? | |
| How come I don't hear the parodies? | |
| Uh I don't uh how come why uh is this something I'm doing wrong? | |
| No, we're not allowed to. | |
| The royalty rates, uh we we already pay uh you know a pretty stiff royalty uh for broadcasting the stuff, but the uh the royalty charges are just absurd. | |
| They're ridiculous uh for online, be it a parody song or be it anything that's copyrighted, and it just it it would make we'd have to charge so much for this that you it would not make sense for you to buy it. | |
| I don't know why these people don't get we're trying to change the royalty rates and charges, but they're not being uh open in reducing it. | |
| So until that happens, you're gonna be dry like they are. | |
| The saga continues. | |
| What was that, Snurdley? | |
| I do I know I don't do what. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Who's blaming who on Sn. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| We're gonna get we're gonna get to Wrangle here in just a second. | |
| Uh Wrangle is blaming his staff for all of his tax cheat stuff. | |
| Uh and the Democrats are now calling for Wrangles Gavel, and I think I'm pretty damn sure because of where these two guys are from, this is racist. | |
| Early today, Representative Paul Hodes, a Democrat from uh uh New Hampshire. | |
| Oh, wait. | |
| Wait a second. | |
| Yeah, see, he wants Wrangle to quit his powerful committee post, and that was quickly followed by similar statements from a pair of deep South Democrats that had to put in there at the politico. | |
| Mississippi representative Gene Taylor and uh Alabama representative Bobby Bright. | |
| Hodes facing an uphill battle in a tough Senate race, released a statement saying, I honor and respect Wrangles' lifetime of service as a soldier serving our country and Korea and as a public servant, but Washington must be held to the highest ethical standards, regrettably, with the findings of ethics violations, Charlie Wrangle should step down from his leadership position. | |
| And then Taylor, 10-term representative from the Gulf Coast, uh got in there and agreed. | |
| Uh but Wrangle is blaming his staff for this. | |
| Uh it's just that's typical. | |
| I didn't do anything wrong. | |
| The staff did it. | |
| But this is a this is a problem for Pelosi. | |
| Folks, I have to apologize to you here for a second. | |
| I just I I'm sure it's because of the uh degree of fatigue that I'm feeling today brought about as a result of a late night of revelry last night. | |
| I just got sucked in big time. | |
| I I just I just read this and I uh I fell victim to what we all fall prey to now and then, and that is wanting to see a change. | |
| I just shared with you this AP story in which a fourth quarter 5.9% growth rate was slammed. | |
| The AP said it ain't gonna hold up. | |
| It's not even because there's any real consuming going on out there. | |
| This is just a bunch of people replacing their inventories, but there's no sign that consumer activity is going to jump up anytime soon, and in fact, uh consumer confidence is at all time low uh last month, and I we haven't seen a story like this from the AP in years, but particularly since Obama was immaculated. | |
| Every economic story has been filled with rosy predictions and hopeful signs. | |
| We've got a recovery going on out there. | |
| It's admittedly very slow. | |
| But the signs of recovery are coming. | |
| I I I'm sorry to admit that I missed this. | |
| It is apparent now to me. | |
| The word has gone out that it's now more important to push for yet another stimulus bill than it is to try to talk up the economy. | |
| I think the AP and the Democrats probably realize now that they aren't going to be able to fool anybody outside their lunatic fringe base that the economy's doing well. | |
| I think they've given it a year. | |
| They've given it everything they've got. | |
| But every time they take recovery is happening, uh job losses are slowing, some bit of news comes out. | |
| It just it just nukes whatever good news they were trying to spread. | |
| So apparently uh what they're the the the the instructions to the White House have gone out to the AP, start building up support for the next slush fund. | |
| Because an election's coming up in November, and it's time to buy some votes. | |
| They're gonna have to buy some votes if they have a chance of holding on in some of these races. | |
| So if if I were myself today, I would have not been fooled by this. | |
| I would have immediately recognized this one. | |
| I didn't see the stitches on the fastball today, and I apologize for it. | |
| Uh I I should have known. | |
| There's no reason the AP would all of a sudden go honest on us. | |
| Uh that's that's no different. | |
| I chide you people when you tell me that you want the mainstream media to finally understand that we're right and start taking our side on things, and I tell you it's never gonna happen. | |
| Well, what did I just do here? | |
| I just assumed the AP had finally gotten something right. | |
| And of course, that's that is an embarrassing error that I'm I'm admitting to. | |
| Uh this two days in a row here that my opinion audit it's never fallen, but it's gonna have to fall when the next report comes out. | |
| My opinion audit has always gone up. | |
| Or it's at least it stayed the same, but it well, the global warming thing is big, I mean, because that's that's 20 plus years of being right, I know. | |
| But Snerdley, you know, I d y when you're up at 99.5, you gotta be right a thousand percent for years to move it to ninety-eight nine ninety-nine point six, but to move it from ninety-nine five to ninety-nine three just takes one screw up. | |
| So I'm I'm I may have trouble opening the next report. | |
| I'll probably look at it the same as if I think it's a letter from the IRS saying you are being audited. | |
| All right, back to the phones. | |
| I really am sorry, folks. | |
| Uh let you down on that. | |
| Kathy, Canton, Ohio. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hello, Rush. | |
| How are you? | |
| Fine, thank you. | |
| This is one of the highlights of my life, but I think I know why you haven't gotten any seminar callers. | |
| Oh, I'd like to know this because the president has asked them to do this. | |
| I figured we'd be flooded. | |
| Well, I think it's because they're not up yet. | |
| Oh. | |
| I hadn't thought of that. | |
| Really, you start at twelve o'clock. | |
| Come on. | |
| That's a little early, don't you? | |
| Yeah, and in fact, 9 a.m. out there on the left coast. | |
| That's an excellent point. | |
| I I don't think they can manage that. | |
| Do you have a minute for me to tell you just a little story about my 23-year-old old daughter who is a rush baby? | |
| Sure, by all means. | |
| Well, um when she went out from under our insurance and was about to go take a job that did not offer insurance, uh, she wanted to just go without. | |
| And of course, you don't tell a twenty-three-year-old what to do, but we did make a suggestion, and we said, why don't you go and do some research to see about the most inexpensive insurance you could get that would just cover your major medical. | |
| And she did that, and for about seventy-five dollars a month, she's covered for anything major. | |
| The rest of it she plans to take care of on her own. | |
| No. | |
| Yes. | |
| She's a rush baby. | |
| Come on. | |
| She's going to be hated. | |
| I know. | |
| She's going to be despised. | |
| She's going to be called incentive. | |
| You mean you are going to pay for sh sh she's going to be accused of bragging. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Uh being out of touch. | |
| I hope she's prepared. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Well, she doesn't worry about it. | |
| Good. | |
| She takes it. | |
| But I think she takes better care of herself because she knows that if she has to go to the doctor, she's paying the bill. | |
| She probably knows. | |
| She doesn't want to go to the doctor. | |
| Right, exactly. | |
| She likes to spend her money on other things. | |
| Thank you. | |
| So I decided I'd let you know that all of the talk of people cannot get health care. | |
| It's a crop. | |
| You know it. | |
| You know it and I know it. | |
| All of this, this it did nothing but sobs. | |
| The Democrat Party exists to this day by making this country sound like it's a gulag. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Run by Republicans, that there's no compassion, there's no warmth, that nobody has any heart. | |
| Uh and and it and the only people that have anything have it because they've stolen it from the people who really should have it. | |
| Uh and sob story after sob story after sob story. | |
| Talk about props. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| It gets tiring. | |
| Very much so. | |
| Well, what what is your daughter's name? | |
| First name. | |
| Her name is Rachel. | |
| Where does she live? | |
| She lives in Indianapolis. | |
| Oh, and well, you tell her that we are proud of you and her. | |
| Because this is you've and you said something very interesting. | |
| Twenty-three, you can't tell a twenty-three-year-old what to do. | |
| Not very much. | |
| You can give advice. | |
| Yeah. | |
| She's almost to that turning point where she's beginning to ask us for advice. | |
| Aha. | |
| So it won't be long before she realizes how smart you really are. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, good. | |
| But she she loves you. | |
| She's listened to you against her will when she was very small. | |
| A heartwarming story. | |
| I'm glad you called it. | |
| Thank you very much for sharing that with me. | |
| Oh, thanks, Rush. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's uh uh. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh thanks very much for the call. | |
| Uh no, no, I'm looking, I'm looking at I had a meeting. | |
| We're talking education here, right? | |
| I I had a meeting with uh Dr. Larry Arne, who is the grand poo bah of education at Hillsdale College. | |
| Now we've talked to you about Hillsdale College a lot on this program. | |
| They have 1,300 students. | |
| They do not take a dime of federal money. | |
| Student loan, none of it. | |
| They want no finger of the government anywhere involved in their education. | |
| They focus on the Constitution. | |
| Nobody gets out of there with a 4.0. | |
| Well, I shouldn't say nobody, but I mean you can count the number of people get out of there with a 4.0 uh probably on two hands. | |
| Now we got over the course of the next couple of weeks, we're gonna have actual voices of students uh in as part of a commercial message. | |
| I after talking to Dr. Arn, I'm gonna go up there and I'm gonna sit in on one of his constitution classes. | |
| Uh they go three hours. | |
| And I was he he was telling us how they approach education at Hillsdale in this at this meeting, and he said uh our biggest challenge is to find a way to tell a student they're wrong when they're right. | |
| At Hillsdale, ah, got your attention there. | |
| He told this story. | |
| He's big on Plato and Socrates. | |
| And he's big on the whole notion that what separates us apart from everybody else is that we can speak, and is our speaking ability that lends us to this notion of reason and thinking, that being able to speak and reason and think are are are interrelated. | |
| And he talks of uh opening a class on the Constitution. | |
| He he told me a uh called on a student to explain a question that he had posed to her. | |
| And it's like a brain twister uh question. | |
| I don't remember what the question was, but she aced it. | |
| And he said to me, it took me nearly ten minutes to make her feel uncertain. | |
| It took me ten minutes to make to for for me to make her lose confidence in her answer. | |
| And I said, Well, of course, of course, at Hillsdale, nobody's ever right at Hillsdale except the professors. | |
| He sleeps smiled and laughed and said, No, that's not the point. | |
| We push them. | |
| We push them, even when they're right. | |
| We want them to not quite be so they'll keep pushing and keep pushing to the point that they know they're right, not because they've memorized it or have been taught it, but because they've arrived at the conclusion themselves. | |
| They are thinkers and critical thinkers. | |
| And the only way you can push critical thinking is to make them think and to challenge them. | |
| And sometimes if they're right, we'll tell them they're wrong. | |
| It took me ten minutes to shake this woman. | |
| The toughest challenge he said he's ever had with a student. | |
| Now some of you might why this sounds awfully cruel. | |
| No, this is not cruel at all. | |
| This is education as it was meant to be. | |
| You know, they have this monthly digest, in primus. | |
| It's got a circulation of some 1.8 million. | |
| You get that free just by going to Rushforhillsdale dot com. | |
| This is a great great switch in Michigan. | |
| It is a tremendous this this woman that he was talking about was an Iraq war veteran who'd come back to complete her education I and and she'd uh she's she was advanced educated anyway. | |
| But he's is really put together a fine institution there and primus is something they do offer free and they occasionally do constitution seminars on the internet but that's what they teach constitution morality where did all of this come from who inspired the founding fathers to put all this together. | |
| By the time you graduate from this college you have no doubts about what an American is you have no confusion about what America is, how it came to be why it is why it's great and so forth and you come out proud and you come out of there supremely confident in yourself. | |
| So just go to uh rushforhillsdale dot com look sign up for Imprimus and and the tool around the uh uh the website there so you'll see what I'm talking about. | |
| I gotta take a quick time out here we'll be back and continue right after this a black cat can cross my path any time Stevie Wonder here's another thing that Dr. Larry Arne said to me so they tell the students this all the time we will we will give you the F, | |
| but we'll feel terrible about it I'll guarantee you this there's no graduate that comes out of Hillsdale College that doesn't know instinctively that the drive by media is a propaganda machine. | |
| That's a thing it's not taught enough anywhere is thinking. | |
| We just ramrod whatever propaganda facts Al Gore movies we want in the kids' heads these days and we teach them to react to things in a knee jerk way not to think things through and largely because half the teachers teaching you they don't know how to think either because they're a product of the same corrupt institution. | |
| Anyway, I'm gonna be off of my high horse on this here's uh Jared 21 years old Columbia South Carolina great to have you on the program. | |
| Hi. | |
| Hi Rush um uh I was thinking this was supposed to be called flattery Friday so I don't want to give you an ego boost or anything like that. | |
| Well that that's I'm just I appreciate that I really do. | |
| Well you know I've um I actually called in one time when I was uh ten years old I've been listening to your show for a very very long period of time um eleven years and I can say that you know what your last segment about um you know the youth and thinking for themselves is I wanted to talk to you about health care a little bit and how you know it really doesn't matter that much at all because what's going to happen is in about fifteen years when the baby boomer generation, | |
| you know, your generation you know starts to die, you know what's left is my generation. | |
| And the sad thing is is we don't think for ourselves. | |
| It's it's rather horrendous. | |
| And you know healthcare is a simple Wait a minute Jared wait just a second you haven't heard the baby boomers don't plan on dying. | |
| Oh that's uh at least half of them that's just too unfair. | |
| Yeah you know I don't know it was immortality effect or something like that. | |
| Yeah yeah. | |
| Well I I just what I what I'm thinking is that my generation we're very lazy you know we're educated but what happens it's whatever force said to us. | |
| You know I guarantee you with your how many listeners do you have like thirty million something like that. | |
| Oh yeah easy. | |
| Yeah well with a good percentage of those listeners, you know they take what you say, you know, right away. | |
| They don't they don't ever uh judge whatever you say. | |
| Um the same thing goes with as you say the drive by media. | |
| And so what happens is I am I I consider myself a mild anomaly. | |
| I get all my world news um uh from very liberal sources including like MPR and you know USA Today and I read the New York Times from every once in a while and I can get it. | |
| But you know I listen to you every single day as well. | |
| And so what happens is I try to create this unbiased realm around myself until I can distinguish what's right and what's wrong and I I form my own opinions. | |
| When it comes to socialist issues I'm as liberal as they come, you know, I'm twenty one so I'm not liberal in those means I think I'm stupid but the thing is is when it comes to money in terms of government I'm very anti think government, and I'm as capitalistic as they come. | |
| And what happens is we Well, you are rare. | |
| You are you are but actually I I you know I think there are probably more people your age that do think for themselves than you realize. | |
| I mean, I th the baby boomers, I'm one of them. | |
| But also, you know, the 60s radicals are baby boomers. | |
| I have nothing in common with that bunch. | |
| And they're running a country right now. | |
| So you your generation is still gonna have uh all kinds of different capabilities and people in there with different ideas and and uh abilities. | |
| But young people are particularly easy to manipulate because they're idealistic. | |
| Uh and and all you have to do is appeal to that. | |
| Oh, don't you think everybody ought to have health care coverage? | |
| And before you understand the economics, of course everybody should. | |
| Who could be against that? | |
| And you own them. | |
| But they're also very cynical. | |
| And they don't vote quite as often as everybody thinks, which is a great thing for our country. | |
| I want to correct just one thing that Jared said uh mere moments ago. | |
| I this audience, I don't I don't know that he meant to say this, uh but this audience is not a bunch of nine-nun robots. | |
| You people don't believe it just because I say it. | |
| This audience is among the most thinking media audiences in the country. |
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