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July 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honoured to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here, and in return, 3,000 U.S. taxpayer-funded guns get to vacation with Mexican drug cartels under the Eric Holder Justice Department Coffin Industry Stimulus Program.
You know, it makes sense.
Rush is away today, but he returns live tomorrow with the real deal: three hours of Made in America excellence in broadcasting.
It's just the cheap foreign knockoff today coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
Just a lonesome moose track south of the Quebec border because you never know when you might have to make a run for it.
It's such a quiet stretch of the border up here.
Federal agents don't even bother gun running here because they've got to wait too long to find any clients.
Mr. Snerdley's running the show from New York City.
Rupert Murdoch is testifying before the House of Commons in London, and everyone's carrying it live.
CNN, CNBC, PMS, NBC, the whole lot.
Are they still showing it, Mr. Snerdley?
You were raging in my ear about what's up with these Brits.
Is that what you were saying?
What?
Oh.
Really?
Oh, he's been hit with a pie.
Okay, Mr. Murdoch has been hit with a pie in the House of Commons by not, I take it not.
Oh, no, but was it by one of the committee members?
Things are getting out of hand there.
We're not getting it up here.
On our premium cable service, we've got high school girls basketball from Littleton, New Hampshire, and live coverage of a zoning board meeting from Dixville Notch.
But maybe they'll cut into the zoning board meeting and give us the Rupert Murdoch coverage.
1-800-282-2882.
Why do you think?
Why do you think?
No, because we don't get CNN.
You can only get CNN in airports.
I've never seen it outside an airport.
You get CNN at Gate 73 in LaGuardia.
That's the only place I ever see it.
1-800-282-2882.
Why do you think every one of these cable networks, American Cable Networks, is showing live coverage of a House of Commons committee meeting?
The House of Commons, last time I checked, is not in the United States.
Why are they showing live coverage of a House of Commons committee meeting about phone hacking at a Fleet Street tabloid that 98% of Americans have never heard of?
Why do you think the New York Times is covering this story?
Is it no, it's not.
Mike in the control room says it's because the Women's World Cup soccer is over.
So they just know we're not getting into that again.
I got into too much trouble with the Women's World Cup thing yesterday.
We ain't going there.
They're showing this because they smell blood.
There are stories, there were stories leading up to Mr. Murdoch's appearance today that if Rupert Murdoch gave a poor performance in Parliament, he might have to step down as head of News Corp.
The New York Times thinks it can take out its principal rival, the Wall Street Journal.
CNN thinks it can take out its principal rival, the Fox News Network.
And this is why they're slavering over a story that ostensibly is of very minimal interest.
You would think to American viewers and American readers.
I mean, what do they care about what's in the news of the world, an obscure British tabloid that nobody reads over here?
And if the objection is to illegal telephone surveillance, the New York Times is hardly in a position to speak because, after all, they were happy to run with that story about an illegally acquired transcript of a telephone conversation between Newt Gingrich and John Boehner all those years ago.
And I think the guy who had his, I think in the end, the guy who tapped that phone or who monitored that conversation wound up having to pay some kind of settlement to John Boehner.
But the point is, the New York Times and CNN, the establishment media, think they can kill.
This is their best chance to drive a stake through the heart of their principal rival.
If you look at what's been happening in the United Kingdom, if you look what's been happening to the stock price, Rupert Murdoch has been badly hit by this scandal.
He's had to abandon a cable television bid in the United Kingdom.
There's talks that he'll have to sell the London Times and The Sun.
And already, the guy who runs the Wall Street Journal in the United States has been toppled over this.
Les Hinton, amazing.
I mean, he's been Rupert Murdoch's one of his right-hand men for 53 years, 53 years, since they were both starting out at a little newspaper in Adelaide in Australia in the late 1950s.
He's gone.
I spoke to him at a lunch just three or four weeks back, and he's gone.
He's history.
The chief executive of the Wall Street Journal of Dow Jones has already been toppled in this scandal.
So they think, who do we have left to get now?
Maybe we can get the big guy himself.
Maybe we can knock off Rupert Murdoch over this.
That's what it's about, folks.
When you look at what's happening, by the way, in this committee meeting, everybody thinks it's some kind of democracy in action.
Here are the people's representatives grilling, grilling this rapacious predator of a press lord and calling him to account on behalf of the people.
Let's just consider that for a moment.
If the issue is accountability, the newspaper that Rupert Murdoch owned that did all this alleged phone tapping, and by the way, it's not clear to me that this phone hacking is even illegal in the context in which it was done in Britain.
But they hacked into the families of British servicemen who were killed in Afghanistan.
They hacked into the telephones of relatives of 9-11 victims.
They made themselves very unpopular.
So he acted.
He's fired people.
He's closed the newspaper.
And now we're seeing government hectoring Rupert Murdoch, government politicians, the political class, hounding Rupert Murdoch and talking about imposing a whole new structure of regulation to prevent this kind of thing happening again.
You know, Rupert Murdoch, as I said, the newspaper's gone.
He's closed it.
It's history.
It was the most read newspaper, the biggest selling newspaper, not just in Britain, but in Europe.
The biggest selling newspaper in Europe.
It's gone.
It's history.
In nothing flat.
That's the accountability of the private sector.
What is happening, by the way, if politicians are so concerned about ethical standards and about accountability, why don't they try applying that first and foremost to the issue of government before they get started on anything else?
I love this headline.
USA Today, fabulous headline today.
Federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs.
Okay?
It's not being a federal worker isn't like being the editor of a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, where one morning you pick up the phone and there's Rupert on the line from his plane telling you to clear out your desk and be out of the building in 20 minutes.
Federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs.
This is in USA Today.
Federal employees' job security is so great that workers in many agencies are more likely to die of natural causes than get laid off or fired.
A USA Today analysis finds.
You can't get laid off or fired.
You just sit there and you either retire or you die.
Death, rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs.
Death is the primary threat to job security at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget, and a dozen other federal operations.
In the private sector, the private sector fires about 3% of its workers every year for poor performance.
If you work for the federal government, it's virtually undetectable.
It's 0.55% of its workers ever get fired for poor performance.
The Federal Communications Commission, 1,800 employees, the Federal Trade Commission, 1,200 employees, they didn't lay off or fire a single employee last year.
You can't get fired.
The spokesman for Housing and Urban Development says his housing and urban development, by the way, housing and urban.
Have you looked at housing lately?
Have you looked at the state of the U.S. property market?
The government killed the U.S. property market.
They undermined one of the bedrocks, part of the bedrock of free society, which is private property.
But the housing and urban development spokesman, Jerry Brown, says his department's low dismissal rate shows a skilled and committed workforce.
So the reason they don't fire anyone is because everyone there is so talented.
That's why if you work for the Department of Housing, if you work for the Environmental Protection Agency, if you work for any of these government agencies, you're more likely to keel over from a stroke from having to bend down and pick up your bonus check from the desk than from being fired for poor performance.
In my National Review colleague, Ian Murray, he's got a new book out called Stealing You Blind.
He's got a story in that book of how there was a municipal employee in Arizona who was not fired even after he was accused of six murders and they couldn't fire him.
It was impossible to fire this guy.
He remained a municipal employee until he was sent to death row.
Only on death row, only when he was actually convicted and put on death row, did he lose his job as a municipal employee, as a government employee.
That's true.
He had to kill six people and get on death row for in order to get fired by the government.
Now, I mean, I think, I think the poor guy, you can sympathize with him.
I mean, if you're on death row in this country, it's not like, you know, when you watch a Western, you're sentenced to hang, and then five days later, they take you out to the scaffold and you're desperately waiting for the telegram for the governor to come through as you're walking to the scaffold.
And now you've got 20 years of appeals.
You've got 20 years of appeals if you're on death row.
Why shouldn't this poor municipal employee in Arizona, the sextuple murderer, Why shouldn't he have been able to stay a municipal employee collecting his government salary while the 20 years of appeals are going on?
You can't get fired from government.
Government isn't like working for Rupert Murdoch's News the World.
If you watch this, this footage will be all over the evening news and everything tonight.
Rupert Murdoch, you know, they hacked into telephones.
So now we're having these big scams.
Rupert Murdoch has been called to account before the people's representatives in the House of Commons.
Why don't the political class start by doing that to government, first of all?
Why doesn't government have ethical standards?
Why doesn't government call its own workers to account?
Why isn't Franklin Rains or Jamie Gerellic from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Why aren't they being grilled in front of a committee and being threatened with losing their jobs and their lucrative bonuses and all the rest of it?
That's the issue here.
That's the issue here.
You don't have to worry.
This is all misdirection.
You don't have to worry about Rupert Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch is accountable to his stockholders.
He's accountable to the readers of his newspapers.
Who is government accountable to?
Who is government accountable to?
1-800-282-2882-Mark Stein infra rush.
Mark Stein infra rush live on the EIB network.
I just want to go back, by the way.
Rupert Murdoch.
I was talking about the difference between private sector accountability versus government accountability.
And actually, what's happening in the House of Commons right now is a very good example of this.
Rupert Murdoch is sitting there testifying to this House of Commons Select Committee, and he gets attacked by some guy with a pie.
And, you know, it's not one of these real pies.
It's like one of these silent movie pies.
It's a pie crust filled with shaving foam.
If you're lucky, if you're lucky, by the way.
But this guy is.
I'm looking here at a picture from Reuters or somebody, and it shows the guy.
He's not dressed.
All the other fellas, they're members of parliament and they're the news court people, so they're all in suits and ties.
This guy is in a Czech shirt.
Looks like if he was in New Hampshire, it would be a plaid shirt, but I assume it's some hideous English polyester equivalent.
So he's in a Czech shirt and he's got this pie and he's within about 18 inches of Rupert Murdoch.
And Rupert Murdoch has Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy Deng, she's Chinese, so she's a diminutive Chinese lady.
She has to attack him and prevent this guy.
This guy's about to hurl the pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, and the sweet little Chinese lady is the one who has to provide the security and take this guy down.
Okay, so here's a very good example about the difference between private sector accountability and government accountability.
There's like wall-to-wall security at the Houses of Parliament.
We're told, you know, Al-Qaeda, everybody, the IRA, before Al-Qaeda, the IRA, they assassinated people in the House of Commons car park.
So it's got tight security.
You can't get anything in there because the IRA, Al-Qaeda, everyone's busting in to try and kill people.
So it's got really tight, tight security.
How does a guy who looks like some kind of bum, looks like a vagrant, how does he get in there with a pie?
Huh?
They happen to be lucky.
This pie is presumably just one of the old shaving foam pies and would have just wrecked Rupert's expensive Savile Rose suit, and he'd have had to send out for another one.
But suppose it hadn't been.
Suppose it hadn't been.
How does this guy get into a small committee room, get within two feet of Rupert Murdoch with this pie?
And here's the point.
Who do you think in the House of Commons Security is in danger of losing their job over that?
Nobody.
Nobody's not going to affect that guy's job.
Not going to affect that guy's pension.
He's going to go on.
He's going to be able to carry on, get his government pension, retire at the government age, 53, while everyone else, all the taxpayers, are working until they drop dead to support the guy who retires at 53 on a government pension.
He doesn't have to worry about that.
That's the issue.
This whole thing is an exercise in misdirection.
I'm all for making people accountable for when they screw up.
But who is accountable in government?
And let's be bipartisan about this, because I said this.
If you go out there on the internet and you look up my column written three days or whatever it was after September 11th, I wanted to know why nobody had got fired from that.
All the big name Fancy Pants acronyms screwed up.
All your CIA, FBI, FAA, all the money-no object acronyms screwed up on that.
Then we have the big, essentially the big subprime meltdown.
Again, the subprime meltdown is caused by the government interference in the movements of the market.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which at the time of fall of 2008 had a piece of 50% of the mortgages in this country.
In other words, we governmentalized the system of home ownership and ruined it, wrecked it, wrecked it for everybody.
Wrecked it now.
We wrecked one of the pillars of free society.
Who's going to be on the hook for that?
Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorellik get huge, huge bonuses and move on to their next cozy sinecure.
Where's the accountability in government?
You're being hoodwicked here when you're told about the big, wicked private sector bogeyman who's being hauled up before the people's court to justify the evil and wicked things he's done.
Because no private sector bogeyman is as unaccountable, is as unaccountable as government.
And that is the one great lesson of everything that happened in the last has happened in the last few years.
You know, Thomas L. Friedman, who is what passes for a great thinker at the New York Times, in his column on Sunday, he was writing about Greece and Egypt.
And he said what they had in common was that when you were out on the streets, you heard people talking less about freedom, quote, and more about, quote, justice, unquote.
And he was saying that is because capitalism in Egypt and Greece had resulted in theft.
There was no capitalism in Egypt and Greece.
Greece is just some socialist backwater, a swamp of lethargy.
And Egypt was run by the Mubarak family as a private kleptocracy.
That's nothing to do with capitalism.
And nor is what happened in 2008.
That was where capitalism started dancing to government interventions in the market.
And nobody has been held accountable for that.
Mark Stein, in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Yes, Rush will be back tomorrow with all American excellence in broadcasting, but it's the cheap, outsourced foreign knockoff today, talking about the difference between private sector accountability and government accountability.
Why don't we hold government to the same accountability standards as the houses of parliament are currently holding Rupert Murdoch?
The hearings suspended right now while they deal with this guy with the pie who got within a foot and a half of Mr. Murdoch and had to be taken out, Not by any top-secret 007 license to kill type, had to be taken out by a 4'10 Chinese lady.
That's great, isn't it?
That's terrific.
But nobody's don't have to worry about it.
They're not going to fire M. They're not going to be telling Judy Dench she's not required anymore.
They're not going to be doing that.
Whoever was responsible, whoever fell down on the job when it came to House of Commons Security, they're not going to have to worry about that.
Government workers, government workers.
I'll just pull these off today's stack of stuff at random.
From Ohio, the Associated Press, Columbus, Ohio, Ohio officials are investigating allegations that some county Medicaid workers, by the way, that phrase right there is a good example of why this country's doomed.
County Medicaid workers, that some county Medicaid workers inappropriately advised men posing as Russian drug dealers on how to get government health care benefits.
Conservative activist James O'Keefe posted undercover video on his website Monday suggesting workers in three counties helped the men after being told they were illegal immigrants whose young sisters performed sex acts for drug clients.
Okay, here's how it works if you're in Ohio.
If you happen to be just on a driving through Ohio, you're on a little summer motoring vacation.
Just pull into a county Medicaid office.
Say you're an illegal immigrant whose sister performed whose underage sister performs sex acts for drug clients.
And the county Medicaid worker will say, hey, no problem.
We can still sign you up for Medicaid.
What's the big reaction from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services?
The spokesman, Ben Johnson, says the video is quote extremely troubling, unquote.
So it's not just troubling, not just troubling, it's quote, extremely troubling.
And the Franklin County worker who suggested that this would be no obstacle to them receiving Medicaid benefits has been placed on paid administrative leave.
That's nice, isn't it?
That really shows her.
So instead of being able getting to fulfill herself and her career ambitions by whiling away the day offering Medicaid benefits to Russian drug dealers whose sisters perform sex acts, she's now got to sit at home and watch TV all day at taxpayers' expense.
The poor woman, that will really show her.
She's got to sit there, watch TV all day.
There's nothing on TV except wicked, evil Rupert Murdoch being called to account because he doesn't have the high ethical standards of government workers like this lady in Franklin County who wanted to give Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrant Russian drug dealers whose sisters perform sex acts on drug clients.
Just plucked at random from the snack of stuff.
Plucked at random from the stack of stuff number two.
A Missouri rabbit raiser.
I mentioned this story when I was on this show a couple of months ago.
John and Judy Dollahite of Nixer, Missouri.
They have three acres of swamp in Missouri.
And they got their kid a couple of rabbits and rabbits do what they do.
And pretty soon they got a whole bunch of rabbits.
And they've only got three acres of swamp.
So they decide to sell some of these rabbits for $10 a piece.
Uzdas, Uzda's rabbit, the rabbit police at the United States Department of Agriculture, the crack rabbit agents, have threatened John and Judy Dollarheight with fines of $4 million.
They sold, do you know how much they made from selling all these rabbits that were breeding like crazy on their piece of land?
They made $4,000 over the years selling these rabbits.
But Uzda have said they were selling these rabbits illegally, and the fine for that, which has been plucked out from the buttocks of the relevant Uzda inspection agent, the fine for that fine for selling rabbits in Missouri is apparently $4 million.
So they're going to destroy the lives.
The Uzda Rabbit Police are going to destroy the lives of John and Judy Dollahite of Nixon, Missouri.
They've got until July the 29th to cop a plea with Uzda.
That's great now, isn't it?
You've got a copper plea for selling rabbits.
You've got a copper in the U.S. Republic, founded by Jefferson and Madison.
You have to cop a plea for selling rabbits.
And they've got until July 29th to agree to the rabbit police deal that they're being offered, or it's $4 million in fines.
So these rabbit police are destroying the lives of John and Judy Dollarheight of Nixon, Missouri, destroying their lives.
$4 million.
But they're not going to be called to account.
They're not going to be sitting in a committee room saying, what do you think you're doing?
You know, Rubert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's guys, they tapped into the cell phones, which is easy to do in Britain because until a couple of years ago, all the cell phones came with two default passwords, 0000 or 1234.
And most people don't bother changing the password from the default because they can't be bothered.
And so if you're a journalist and you want to hack into somebody's cell phone, all you've got to do is try 0000 and 1234.
And 0000 got them into Hugh Grant's cell phone.
And 1234 got him into, I think it was Prince Harry or Prince William's cell phone.
It's easy to do.
It's easy.
You don't have to be a genius.
And because they did that, they didn't ruin Hugh Grant's life.
They didn't ruin Prince William's life.
These Uzda bureaucrats here, they're destroying two people who did nothing except sell a few rabbits.
$4,000 worth of lousy rabbits, and they're looking at fines of up to $4 million.
Where's the accountability for that?
Where's the accountability for three counties, at least three counties in Ohio, which suggests, by the way, that if you were to try it in other counties, they wouldn't be averse to the thought either.
Three separate county Medicaid officials saying that being an illegal immigrant Russian drug dealer whose young sister performed sex acts is no obstacle to getting Medicaid government health care benefits.
Where's the accountability in government?
Let's go to John in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Backman-Paulenti state, the state that is generating a higher proportion of presidential candidates than any other this season.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, thanks, Mark.
You're my second favorite guest host behind Walter Williams.
I don't want to appear racist, so, you know, I got to go with those.
No, no, it's nothing to do with racism.
Even if you are racist, Walter is the best guest host.
So be as racist as you like.
He's still number one.
I'm going to get right to it.
Say, I just want to expand on your little riff here about accountability because it's only in government that their failure is proof.
It's evidence that they need even more money in power.
The schools, the government schools crash and burn.
Well, it's just proof that you're a tightwad and they need more money.
You know, the housing market crashes because they force people to give mortgages to people who couldn't pay them back.
It's proof that we need bailouts and we've got to reform all of this, the financial regulations and put the burden back on you.
Yeah, that's the exact point, John.
You know, years ago, when you used to get in conversation with great communist thinkers and you'd point out to them that millions of people had died in the Soviet Union and millions of people had died in the People's Republic of China and that everywhere it had been tried, it had failed.
They always say, oh, yes, but no, no, no, that wasn't pure communism.
It's still correct in theory.
It just in practice on the ground, it just went a little askew.
But if we just do it one more time and we do it right, the whole thing will work.
And that doesn't apply just to communism.
That applies to government in general.
It applies to big government.
As you say, whenever they screw up, they say, no, no, no, that just means we need to do it to you even harder, even more painfully, even more brutally.
We just need more, more, more of this thing.
That's the argument that respectable people make about the stimulus.
Oh, the $1 trillion stimulus failed.
That just goes to show we should have had a $3 trillion stimulus.
The problem is they didn't do it to you enough.
And you're right, that every government failure is a pretext for more government.
Every failure is a pretext for more of what failed in the first place.
And I bet you live in a kind of purpley state, John.
Is that how you'd characterize it?
Mini Minnesota?
Purpley blue.
Would you say?
John?
Oh, he's gone.
He's gone.
John, but John, yeah, John lives in a kind of purpley blue state.
And it's a northern state, and it's one of those ones where you kind of have north country hard scrabble self-reliance.
And what is distressing to me is how, even in a state that has actually quite a robust attitude to these things, that people over the years get mired in this idea that somehow government is, you know, when Enron fails, nobody says, oh, we just need to have supersized Enron.
When Rupert Murdoch's tabloid screws up, nobody says that just shows we need three times as many Rupert Murdoch tabloids.
But when government screws up, the argument is always that just goes to show we need even more government.
He mentioned education, and education is a very good example.
We spend more per capita on the American education system, spends more per capita than any other developed nation except Luxembourg, which at least is something to show for it.
And whenever you have all these failures, all these failures in the American education system, the solution from candidates on the stump is that, oh, that just shows we need to invest in teachers, i.e., we just need to, you know, throw more money down the great sucking moor of the wasteful public education system, whereby any rational measure, 40% of the money going in there, is entirely wasted.
But that just goes to show that we need to waste even more.
The only way to fix our schools is to waste even more, to toss even more money down the great sucking moor of the sinkhole of the public education system.
Mark Stein inferrush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein inferior.
Is this chic, Mike?
Is this chic?
Good times, these are the good, yeah, good times.
These are the good times, these are the good times.
I used to groove, I used to take to the dance floor.
I had my big old afro.
I shouldn't say this to Mr. Snurdley because he'll think it's just pathetic.
And yeah, I did a platform shoes.
It's very bad, actually, because if you're like in a, if you're if you're in a low-ceiling room and I'm in my platform shoes with the big afro, the afro keeps getting snagged in the glitter ball and it's just like embarrassing.
But good times, chic, good times.
These are the good times.
God, I hope that is not true because if these are the good times, who knows where we're heading?
We're talking about this bizarre business today that everybody has to be accountable except government.
Government isn't accountable at all.
Rupert Murdoch has to be accountable.
Rupert Murdoch had a highly profitable tabloid newspaper that he was shamed.
He was publicly shamed into shutting down a newspaper that had been in business for a century and a half.
Biggest selling newspaper in the world for much of its history.
In the 1950s, it was selling 9 million copies.
Every issue was selling 9 million copies, bigger than any newspaper anywhere today.
And he had the biggest selling newspaper in Europe, and he had to close it down in a week because of public shame.
Where's the public shame, for example?
Public shame.
Where's the public shame in Atlanta, Georgia?
Atlanta, Georgia, you know this story?
You probably haven't heard much about this.
It's the Atlanta public school system, which has spent the last decade cheating on its tests.
Not the schoolboys, not the schoolgirls.
They haven't been doing the cheating.
They've been filling in on their forms what they think is the correct answer.
And then what happens is the teachers all take them home and have what they call changing parties, where they invite a big bunch of teachers around.
They sit around with extra supplies of erasers and they score out all the incorrect answers.
Because you know what it's like in the public school system.
So they put, what is the capital of Paris?
What is the capital of France?
And the kid puts Moscow or whatever.
So they erase Moscow and they write in Paris after looking it up and checking first.
Because with some of these teachers, you can't be too careful.
So they correct the thing, they put the correct answers in, and they mail them in to Washington with enough correct test answers so they can qualify for no child left behind, which is a classic federal program.
In order to get the money, you've got to reach a certain threshold.
So what does that mean?
Instead of teaching the kids to reach that threshold, I mean, come on, man, get real, get reasonable.
That's way too much like hard work.
It's easy just to take the stupid kids' stupid answers and take them home and write in all the correct answers yourself.
They've been doing this for 10 years.
The superintendent approved of it.
The union approved of it.
38 principals approved of it.
And at least, I think at last count, it was something like 187 teachers or educators, as we should say.
I was, if you remember, a few months ago, we had Sharon the Educator.
Sharon the Educator who called into the show.
Sharon, by the way, I'd love to hear from Sharon again, Sharon the Educator, and let me know if this is still going on in Shannon the Educator, I should say, Shannon the Educator, if this is going on in your school district.
So we've got here 44 of the 56 school districts in the Atlanta public school system have been systemically cheating for over a decade.
These are kids.
You know, it's about the future of all our children.
Well, where's their future gone?
Their future has been completely screwed by fraudulent teachers who just write in the correct answers and don't, because it's a lot easier than teaching.
And the human resources person, Millicent Few, had an early report into test tampering destroyed because she didn't want to stop the federal gravy coming.
The superintendent, by the way, the superintendent who presided over a systemically corrupt, rotten regime is a lady called Beverly Hall.
She's got the National Superintendent of the Year Award, the Administrator of the Year Award, the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Keystone Award for Leadership in Education, the Concerned Black Clergy Education Award, the American Association of School Administrators, F.E.H. Jones Humanitarian Award.
She's got all the other phony baloney backslapping awards that the American education racket can give her.
Do you think any of those are going to be rescinded?
Where's the public shaming?
Where's the public shaming for Beverly Hall and the 44 of the 56 school districts in Atlanta who basically engaged in systemic child abuse in rendering those kids' education meaningless for the last 10 years?
Where's the accountability?
Oh, we've, but Rupan Murdoch, oh, he hired journalists who tapped into Hugh Grant's phone.
Can you believe that?
Where's the accountability?
Government in an age of, when you're looking at government hauling up citizens and pointing the finger at them, it's the wrong way round.
It's the wrong way round.
Citizens should be holding government to account.
And what's happening with Rupert Murdoch and the pie-throwing guy and the rest of the circus in London is exactly the opposite of what a healthy society of genuine citizen legislators and accountable government would really be doing.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
How do you like this for a book title?
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb.
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb.
It is ticking.
It is ticking.
The author is Peter Ferrara.
He was formerly with the Reagan and Bush Senior administrations, and I'm going to be talking to him in the next hour about America's ticking bankruptcy bomb.
He's just not a doom and gloom guy like me.
He's actually got some hardcore solutions as to how we can disconnect the bomb.
You know, like you see in the conspiracy thrillers where the guy's got 15 seconds to disconnect the red wire from the green wire and all the rest of it.
He actually knows how to defuse America's bankruptcy bomb.
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