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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 anchor man sitting in.
	Mark Stein, honored 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 uh in return, three thousand US 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.
	Uh Rush is away today, but he returns live tomorrow with the real deal.
	Three hours of Made in America Excellence in Broadcasting.
	It's uh just the cheap foreign knockoff today coming to you live from uh Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
	Uh just a lonesome moose track south of the Quebec border because you never know when you might uh have to make a run for it.
	It's such a such a quiet stretch of the border up here.
	Uh federal agents uh don't even bother gun running uh here, because they they've got to wait too long to uh to find any clients.
	Uh Mr. Snerdley's running the show from uh New York City.
	Uh Rupert Murdoch is uh is testifying before the House of Commons uh in London, and everyone's carrying it live.
	Uh CNN, CNBC, PMS NBC, the whole lot.
	Uh are they are they still showing it, Mr. Snardley?
	You were you were raging in my ear about uh w what's what's up with these Brits.
	Is that what you were saying?
	What?
	Oh.
	Really?
	Oh, he's been he's been uh he's been hit with a pie.
	Okay.
	Mr. Murdoch has been hit with a pie or in the House of Commons by not I take it not Oh no, but but was it by one of the committee men members?
	That's uh that's that's things are getting out of hand uh there.
	We're not we're not getting it up here.
	Uh on our premium cable service, we've got uh High School Girls Basketball from Littleton, New Hampshire, and uh live live coverage of a zoning board meeting from Dixville Notch.
	But maybe they'll cut into the zoning board meeting uh and give us the Rupert Rupert Murdoch coverage.
	1800 2828 uh two.
	Why do you think?
	Why why do you think?
	No, we course we don't get we don't get CNN.
	You can only get CNN in airports.
	I don't uh 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.
	Uh 1800-282-2882.
	Uh why do you think every one of these cable networks?
	Uh 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.
	Uh why are they showing live coverage of a House of Commons committee meeting about phone hacking at a Fleet Street tabloid that ninety-eight percent of Americans have never heard of?
	Why do you think th the New York Times is covering this story is in no, it's not.
	Mike in the control room says it's because the women's World Cup soccer is over.
	So they just no, we're not getting into that again.
	I I got into too much trouble with the women's world cup thing yesterday.
	We ain't going there.
	Um they're showing this because they smell blood.
	Uh there are stories there were stories leading up to Mr. Murdoch's appearance today that if Rupert Murdoch uh 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, uh the Fox News Network.
	And this is this is why they're uh they're slavering uh over a a story that ostensibly uh is of uh very minimal interest, uh, you would think to American viewers and American readers.
	I mean, what do they care about what's in the uh in in the news of the world, a uh uh uh an obscure British tabloid uh that nobody reads uh over here.
	And uh and if the objection is to uh is is to a legal uh telephone surveillance, uh the New York Times is hardly in a position to speak because after all they were happy to run with that story about uh uh an illegally acquired transcript of a telephone conversation between Newt Gingrich And John Boehner all those uh years ago,
	and I think the guy who had his uh I think I think in the end the guy who who uh who tapped that phone uh or who uh monitored that conversation wound up having to pay some kind of uh settlement to John Boehner.
	But the point is uh the New York Times and CNN, the establishment media think they can uh kill.
	This is their best chance to drive a stake through the heart of their principal rival.
	Uh 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 uh by this scandal.
	Uh the uh he's had to abandon a uh cable television bid in the United Kingdom.
	There's talks that he'll have to sell the London Times and the Sun.
	Uh and already the guy who runs the Wall Street Journal in the United States has been toppled over this.
	Les Hinton, uh amazing.
	I mean, he he's uh been Rupert Murdoch's uh one of his right hand men for fifty-three years, fifty-three years, uh, since they were both uh starting out at a little newspaper in Adelaide in Australia uh in the late 1950s.
	He's gone.
	I was I I uh I spoke to him at lunch uh just uh three or four weeks back, and he's gone.
	He's history.
	Uh the the the chief executive of the Wall Street Journal of Dow Jones has already been toppled in this scandal.
	So they think who who who do who do we have get uh to left to get now?
	Maybe we can get the big guy himself, maybe we can knock off Rupert Murdoch over this.
	Uh 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 uh you know, democracy in action.
	Here are the people's representatives grilling, grilling this uh rapacious predator of a press lord uh and and calling him to account on behalf of the people.
	Let's let's just consider that for a moment.
	If the issue is accountability, the newspaper that Rupert Murdoch uh owned that uh did all this alleged phone tapping, and by the way, it's not clear to me that uh this phone hacking is even illegal uh in the context at which it was done in Britain.
	But they, you know, they hacked into uh the families of British servicemen who were killed in Afghanistan, they hacked into the telephones of uh relatives of nine eleven victims.
	Uh they made themselves very unpopular, so he acted, he uh he he's fired people, he's closed the newspaper.
	And now we're seeing government uh hectoring Rupert Murdoch, uh government um politicians, the political class hounding Rupert Murdoch uh 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 wide red newspaper, the biggest selling newspaper, not just in Britain, but in Europe.
	Uh the biggest selling newspaper in Europe, it's gone.
	It's history.
	Uh in nothing flat.
	That's the accountability of the private sector.
	What is happening, by the way, uh if if politicians are so concerned about ethical standards and about accountability, uh why why don't they try applying that first and foremost to the issue of government before they get started on anything else?
	Uh I love this headline.
	USA Today, fabulous headline today.
	Federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs.
	Okay.
	It's not uh being a federal worker isn't like uh being the editor of a Rupert Murdoch tabloid where one morning uh 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 twenty 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 fines.
	You can't you can't get laid off or fired.
	You just sit there uh and then you uh uh 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.
	Uh in the private sector, the private sector fires about three percent of its workers every year for poor performance.
	Uh 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, uh 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 uh of of the uh US property market?
	The government killed the US property market.
	They undermine 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, uh if you work for any of these government agencies, uh you're more likely to keel over from a stroke from having to bend down and pick up your bonus check from the desk uh than than from being uh fired for poor performance.
	Uh uh in uh my 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 he became uh he was accused of six murders, uh 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 uh did he lose his job as a municipal employee, as a government employer.
	That's that's no that's that's true.
	He had to he had to kill 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 uh the poor guy, you can sympathize with him.
	I mean, i i if you're on death row in this country, it's not like uh, you know, when you watch a Western uh you c you're you're sentenced to hang and then five days later they they take you out to the scaffold and you're you're desperately waiting for the telegram for the governor to come through as you walk into the scaffold.
	And now you've got twenty years of appeals.
	You've got twenty years of appeals if you're on death row.
	Why shouldn't this poor municipal employee in Arizona, the uh the the sextopple murderer, uh why why shouldn't he uh why shouldn't he uh he have been able to stay a municipal employee can t uh collecting his government salary while the 20 years of appeals are going uh going on?
	You can't get fired from government.
	Uh government isn't like working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.
	If you watch this, this footage will be all over the evening news and everything tonight.
	Ruben Murdoch, you know they hacked into telephones.
	So now we're having these big scam Rupert Murdoch has been called to account before the people's representatives in the House of Commons.
	Why doesn't why doesn't 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?
	Uh why isn't Franklin Reigns uh or Jamie Garelic from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
	Why aren't they being grilled in front of a committee and being threatened with losing uh their jobs and their lucrative bonuses and their and all the rest of it?
	Uh 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.
	Uh Rupert Murdoch is accountable to his stockholders, he's accountable uh to the readers of his newspapers.
	Who is government accountable to?
	Who is government accountable to?
	1-800-282-2882 Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush, 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.
	Uh Rupert Murdoch is sitting there testifying uh to this House of Commons Select Committee, and he gets attacked by some guy uh with a pie.
	And you know, it's not one of these uh real pies, it's like one of these silent movie pies.
	It's a pie crust filled with uh shaving foam.
	Uh if you're lucky, if you're lucky, by the way.
	Uh but this this guy is uh I'm looking here at a a uh uh picture from uh Reuters uh or somebody, and it shows the guy, he's not dressed, all the other fellas, uh they're members of parliament and they're the uh newscorp people, so they're all in suits and ties.
	This guy is in a uh check shirt.
	Looks like if he was in New Hampshire it would be a plaid shirt, but I assume it's some hideous uh English polyester equivalent.
	So he's in a Czech shirt and he's and he's got this pie, and he's within he's within about eighteen inches of Rupert Murdoch.
	And Rupert Murdoch has uh Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendy Deng, she's uh Chinese, so she's a uh diminutive Chinese lady.
	She has to uh she has to attack him and prevent this guy.
	This guy's about to hurl the pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, and and the s the sweet little Chinese lady is the one who has to provide the security and uh take this guy down.
	Okay, so here's a very good example about the difference between private sector accountability and uh and uh government accountability.
	There's like wall to wall security uh at the Houses of Parliament, which old, you know, Al Qaeda, uh everybody the IRA, I mean before Al Qaeda, the RA, they uh assassinated people in the House of Commons car park.
	Uh 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 and looks like a vagrant, how does he get in there with a pie?
	Huh?
	They happen to be lucky.
	This pie is uh presumably just one of the old shaving foam pies and would have just uh wrecked uh Rupert's expensive savel roast suit and uh he'd have had to uh send out for another one.
	Uh 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 uh in the House of Commons Security is in danger of losing their job over that?
	Nobody.
	Nobody's not gonna affect that guy's job, not gonna affect that guy's pension, not gonna he's gonna go on, he's gonna be able to carry on, get his government pension, retire at the government age, fifty-three while everyone else, all the taxpayers are working till they're drop dead uh to support the guy who retires at fifty-three on a government pension.
	He doesn't have to worry about that.
	That's the issue.
	This whole thing is an exercise in misdirection.
	Uh I'm all for I'm all for making people accountable for when they screw up.
	But who is accountable in government?
	And and let's be bipartisan about this, because I said this.
	If you if you go out there on the internet and you look up my column written three days or whatever it was after uh September eleventh, I wanted to know why nobody had got fired from that.
	All the all the big name fancy pants acronyms screwed up, all your uh all your CIA, FBI, FAA, all the money no object acronyms screwed up on that.
	Then we have the big um essentially the big uh subprime meltdown.
	Again, the subprime meltdown is caused by government the the government interference uh in the movements of the market.
	Uh the the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, uh which at the time of um fall of 2008 had a piece of fifty percent of the mortgages in this country.
	In other words, we'd governmentalized the system of home ownership.
	And and uh and ruined it, wrecked it, wrecked it for everybody.
	Wrecked it now.
	We wrecked one of the pillars of free society.
	Who's gonna be on the uh who's gonna be on the hook for that?
	Uh Franklin uh Franklin Rains and Jamie Garellick get huge, huge bonuses and move on to their next cozy sinecure.
	Where's the accountability in government?
	You're being you're being hoodwicked here when you when uh when when you're told about the big wicked private sector bogeyman uh who's being hauled up uh uh before the people's court uh to justify the evil and wicked things he's done.
	Because no private sector bogeyman is as unaccountable is as unaccountable as government.
	Uh and that is uh that that is that is the one great lesson of everything that that happened in the last uh uh 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 in uh his column on Sunday, he uh 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 uh less about freedom, quote, and more about quote justice, unquote.
	Uh and he was saying that is because capitalism uh in Egypt and Greece had resulted in theft.
	There was no capitalism in Egypt and Greece.
	Uh 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 two thousand and eight.
	That was where capitalism started dancing uh to government interventions in the market, and nobody has been held accountable for that.
	Mark Stein Inforush, lots more straight ahead.
	Yes, Rush will be back uh tomorrow with all American excellence in broadcasting, but it's the cheap outsourced foreign knockoff uh today, talking about the difference between private sector accountability and government accountability.
	Why don't we hold government uh to the to the same accountability standards as uh the houses of parliament are currently holding Rupert Murdoch.
	The hearing's suspended uh right now while they uh well they deal with this uh this guy with the pie who got within uh a foot and a half of uh Mr. Murdoch and had to be taken out, not by not by uh any uh top secret double oh seven license to kill type, had to be taken out by a uh four foot ten Chinese lady.
	That's uh that's great, isn't it?
	That's terrific.
	But nobody's uh no you have to worry about they're not gonna uh they're not gonna fire M. They're not gonna be telling Judy Dench she's not required anymore.
	They're not gonna be doing the whoever whoever was responsible, whoever fell down on the job when it came to House of Common Security, they're not gonna have to worry about that.
	Uh government workers, government workers.
	Uh I'll I'm just I'll just pull these off uh 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, uh 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.
	Uh 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 if you happen to be just on a uh 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 perform 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.
	Uh what's the big reaction from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services?
	Uh 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 and the uh and and the Franklin County worker, who suggested uh that uh 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 t shows her.
	So instead of instead of being able uh getting to fulfill herself and her career ambitions by whiling away the day uh offering Medicaid benefits uh to Russian drug dealers whose sisters perform sex acts, she's now got to sit at home and watch TV all day uh a at 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 the high ethical standards of government workers like this lady in Franklin County who who wanted to give Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrant Russian drug dealers whose sisters perform sex acts on drug drug clients, just plucked at random from the stack of stuff, plucked at random from the stack of stuff number two.
	A Missouri rabbit raiser.
	I mentioned this story uh when I was on this show a couple of months ago.
	John and Judy Dollarhite 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 uh 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 ten bucks apiece.
	Uh USD's US does uh rabbit uh in uh the the uh rabbit police at at the United States Department of Agriculture, the crack rabbit agents uh have uh threatened John and Judy Dollarheit with fines of four million dollars.
	They sold, do you know how much they made from selling all these uh rabbits that were breeding like crazy on their piece of land?
	Uh they made four thousand dollars over the years selling these rabbits, but us to have said they were selling these rabbits illegally, and the fine for that, which has been plucked out uh from the buttocks of the relevant Uzda inspection agent, the fine for that fine for selling rabbits in Missouri is apparently four million dollars.
	So they're gonna destroy the lives.
	The Uzda Rabbit police are gonna destroy the lives of John and Judy Dollarhite of Nixon, Missouri.
	Uh they've got until July the twenty-ninth uh to uh cop a plea with Usta.
	That's great now, isn't it?
	You got a cop a plea for selling rabbits.
	You gotta cop in in the in the in the in the US Republic, founded by Jefferson and Madison.
	You have to cop a plea for selling rabbits.
	And they've got until July twenty-ninth to agree to the rabbit police deal that they're being offered, or it's four million dollars in fines.
	So these uh these rabbit police are destroying the lives of John and Judy Dollarhite of Nixon, Missouri, destroying their lives, four million dollars.
	But they're not gonna be called to account.
	They're not gonna be sitting in a committee room saying, What do you think you're what do you think you're doing?
	You know, Rupert Murdoch, Ruben Murdoch's guys, uh they tapped into the cell phones, which is easy to do in Britain, because uh until a couple of years ago, all the cell phones came with two default passwords, oh oh oh oh or one, two, three, four.
	And most people don't bother uh changing the password uh from the from the default because they can't be bothered.
	Uh and so if you're a journalist and you want to hack into somebody's cell phone, all you gotta do is try O and one, two, three, four.
	And oh oh oh got them into Hugh Grant's cell phone, and one two three four 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, uh 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.
	Four thousand dollars worth of lousy rabbits, and they're looking at fines of up to four million dollars.
	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, uh they wouldn't be averse to the thought either.
	Uh three medi three separate county Medicaid officials uh saying that being an illegal immigrant Russian drug dealer whose young sister performs sex acts is no obstacle uh to getting Medicaid government health care benefits.
	Where's the accountability in government?
	Let's go to John in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Bachman Paul Lenti 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 you're my second favorite guest host.
	Hi, Walter Williams.
	I I don't want to appear racist, so you know I gotta go with those.
	No, no, it's nothing to do, it's nothing to do with racism.
	Even if you are racist, Walter is the best guest host.
	So uh be as racist as you like, he's still number one.
	I'm gonna get right to it.
	Say you you 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 and because they force people to uh uh give mortgages to people who couldn't pay them back.
	It's proof that we need bailouts, And we gotta reform all of this the financial regulations and put the burden back on you.
	Yeah, that that you're the y that's the exact point, John.
	You know, years ago, uh uh when you used to get in conversation with uh great communist thinkers, and you'd point out to them that uh millions of people had died in the Soviet Union and millions of people had died in the People's Republic of China, uh, and that everywhere it had been tried it had failed.
	They always say, Oh, yes, but no, no, no, that wasn't pure communism.
	We just it's still correct in theory.
	It 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.
	Uh 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 that's the uh the argument that respectable people make about the stimulus.
	Oh, the one trillion dollar stimulus failed.
	That that just goes to show we should have had a three trillion dollar stimulus.
	The problem is they didn't do it to you enough.
	Uh and you're right that no 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 and and I bet in you live in a a kind of purpley state, John.
	Is that how you'd characterize it?
	Mini uh Minnesota?
	Purpley blue.
	Would you say?
	John?
	Oh, he's gone.
	He's gone.
	John but John, yeah, j John uh lives in a kind of purpley blue state.
	Uh and it's a northern state, and and it's one of those ones where you kind of have north country hard scrabble self-reliance.
	And what is what is distressing to me is how even in a state that has actually quite a robust attitude to these things, uh, that people over the years, people get mired in this idea that somehow government is uh you know, when when when when Enron fails, nobody says, Oh, we just need to have supersized Enron.
	When Rupert Murdoch's tabloid screws up, uh nobody says that just shows we need three times as many Rupert Murdoch tabloids.
	But when government screws up, uh the argument is always that just goes to show we need even more government.
	Uh he mentioned education.
	Uh and education's a very good example.
	We spend more per capita on uh the the American education system spends more per capita uh than any uh 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 more of the wasteful public education system whereby any rational measure, forty percent 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 more of the sinkhole uh of the public education system.
	Mark Stein for Rush, lots more still to come.
	Mark Stein in Ferrari is this uh is this uh chic, Mike?
	Is this chic?
	Uh good times, these are the good yeah, good times.
	These are the good times, these are the good times.
	I used to I used to groove I used to grow I used to take to the dance floor.
	I had my uh had my uh big old uh afro.
	I shouldn't say this to Mr. Snerdley, because he'll think think it's just pathetic.
	And uh Yeah, I did a platform shoes.
	It's very bad actually, because in uh I if you're like in a if you if if 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 uh in embarrassing.
	But uh 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 who knows where we're heading.
	We're talking about this uh this bizarre business today that uh that th 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 c shutting down a newspaper that had been in business for uh a century and a half, biggest selling newspaper in the world for much of its history.
	Uh in the nineteen fifties it was selling nine million copies.
	Every issue was selling nine million copies, bigger than any newspaper anywhere today.
	And uh he he had the uh 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 uh this story?
	You you probably uh 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 not the schoolboys, not the schoolgirls.
	They d they haven't been doing the cheating.
	They've been filling in on their uh forms what they think is the correct answer.
	And then what happens is the teachers all take them home and have uh have have what they call changing parties, where they invite uh 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 uh, you know, in the public school system, so they put uh what is the capital of Paris?
	Uh what is the capital of France, and uh the kid puts Moscow or whatever.
	So they 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 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.
	Uh so what does that mean?
	Instead of teaching the kids to to reach that threshold, I mean, come on, man, get real, get reasonable.
	Uh that's way too much like hard work.
	It's easy just to take the stupid kids' stupid answers and take them home and and write in all the correct answers yourself.
	They've been doing this for ten years.
	The superintendent approved of it.
	The union approved of it.
	Thirty-eight principals approved of it.
	And at least I think at last count it was something like a hundred and eighty-seven teachers, or uh educators, as we should say.
	I was uh if you remember uh 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 I'd love to uh hear from Sharon again, Sharon the Educator, and let me know if this is uh if this is still going on in uh Shannon the Educator, I should say.
	Shannon the Educator, if this is going on in your school district.
	So we've got here forty-four of the fifty-six 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?
	Uh their future has been completely screwed by fraudulent teachers uh who just write in the correct answers and don't because it's a lot easier than teaching.
	Uh and uh the the uh human resources person, Millicent Few, uh 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 uh that the American education racket can give her.
	Uh 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 forty-four of the fifty-six school districts in Atlanta who basically engaged in systemic child abuse in rendering those kids' education meaningless for the last ten years?
	Where's the accountability Oh, we've but Rupen Murdoch, oh, he he hired journalists who l who tapped into Hugh Grant's phone?
	Can you believe that?
	Where's the accountability government in an age of uh when you're looking at government hauling up citizens uh 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 uh with Rupert Murdoch and the pie throwing guy and the rest of the circus in London is exactly the opposite uh of what a healthy society uh healthy society of genuine citizen legislators and accountable uh government would really be doing.
	Mark Stein in Farush, lots more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
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