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Nov. 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You've seen some of the notebook entries, not the signs on the protest march.
Some of these uh so-called college students at Occupy Wall Street, other places around the country are writing their sad sack stories on notebooks, notebook paper, and like this, and then they're holding it up and people taking pictures of it, and they're lamenting the worthlessness of their education.
Um there's no future, uh, they've invested all this time and money in their student loans and then no jobs.
Basically, you've seen those.
And I here's one.
This is an example, but I think uh, ladies and gentlemen, I have detected here what's really going on with all this and how these sad sack students are just a bunch of dupes, and in fact, useful idiots.
Now, I'm gonna have trouble reading this.
This is a camera photo of uh a protester's scribbling in a loose leaf notebook here.
I graduate college in seven months with a useless degree in classical studies.
I have worked very hard and am on track to graduate with um well I can't read of some Latin, I think, as a is untrack to graduate with uh Latin I am in a Greek organization with many volunteer
hours under my belt.
My job prospects zero.
So basically, here's a person who's taken Latin and is about to have a degree in classical studies and doesn't have the slightest idea.
She's in her job prospects are zilch, and she's ticked off.
Now, do you think somebody going to college, borrowing whatever it is in this case, $20,000 a year to get a degree in classical studies ought to be told by somebody at the school that it's a worthless degree?
Well, I don't know what the minor was.
It might be Latin.
Um I can't read it's a lousy picture.
I can't read the woman's printing her handwriting.
But uh at any rate, why why is it that no one in her life told her that getting a degree in in in classical studies would not lead to employment?
In fact, how many college students do you think believe that just getting a degree equals a high paying job?
Probably a lot of them.
Not that you can blame them.
That's what they've been sold on.
That's what they've been told, ergo, that's what they expect.
A college degree equals success, riches, whatever, not work.
This is this is key now.
Snerdley's in there laughing at me, but I'm you stick with me on this.
Get the degree.
The degree and the diploma are all you need.
That's the guarantee.
So this student says she wants a degree.
I'm assuming it's a she.
There's no picture of the students, I don't know.
But this person goes in there with a degree, wants to get a degree in classical studies.
Now I think the colleges ought to be held accountable here.
You show up, you want a degree in classical studies, you need to be told what that really means.
Well, how do you want to use your degree in classical studies?
Do you even know what it is?
Well, yet I want to study the classics so that I can be an expert in the classics so that I can then study them further, like, and you know, help others.
Really?
Okay, uh, how much money do you expect to make doing this?
Well, if it's a as a college graduate with classical studies degrees and maybe a Latin minor, a $200,000 a year, enough to pay off my student loans in the first four years, and and then, and then after that, who knows?
Well, can you tell me where do you go to apply for a job with a classical studies degree?
Well, anybody who's interested in studying classically, uh, I would think would be interested in my services because I'm going to be an expert.
At that point, somebody at the university ought to say, babe, you are wasting your time in a nothing major.
We are stealing your money.
You're going to be qualified for Jack excrement when you get out of here.
But they don't.
Now, this is part of the trick.
This is the ruse, and it's actually clever.
Snerdley's in there laughing uncontrollably.
I know I'm a naturally funny guy, but follow me on this.
So here you have Miss Brain Dead, freshly out of college with her classical studies degree, who thinks that she wants to go classically study, and that there's and that people also want to study classics studiously and classically,
that she's going to be very higherable, is a very marketable and so forth, gets out in the real world and finds her only chance is occupy Wall Street, and to write a note for a TV camera about how worthless her degree is.
Well, that's what she does here.
Her job prospect zero.
Yeah, they are, and they have been since you declared that major.
And somebody should have told you that from the moment you declared the major in classical studies.
Tell me.
Any of you at random listening all across a fruited plane, what the hell is classical studies?
What classics are studied?
Or is it learning how to study in a classical way?
Or is it learning how to study in a classy as opposed to unclassy way?
And what about unclassical studies?
Why does nobody care about the unclassics?
What are the classics?
And how are the classics studied?
Oh, because you're going to become an expert in Dickens.
You don't.
You're assuming you're assuming it's literature.
See, this might be you're assuming we're talking classical literature here.
What if it's classical women's studies?
What if it's classical feminism?
Who the hell knows what it is?
One thing I do know is that she, the brain-dead student, doesn't know what it is after she's got a major in it.
Because all she knows to do with it is go down to Occupy Wall Street and complain.
And write a note for the cameras.
But as I said, this is deviously clever.
Socialists, liberals work undercover for decades taking over higher education.
And then they dilute it and they make higher education anything but higher.
Really, nothing special about it unless you go specific into the law or medicine or something where you really have to know it.
But most of these majors are useless.
Such as black women's studies, women's studies, whatever studies, postmodernist theory in the new modernist world, whatever they get a degree in.
The socialists that run universities dilute the education.
They offer useless majors.
And then they lie about the quality of these useless majors.
They lie about the happiness and the jobs and the money that awaits you after you get the degree in something like classical studies.
Then, and this is where it the payoff is.
After a generation or two of such students, after a generation of two of such worthless degrees, after generation or two of deceived students with worthless degrees, out in the world finding themselves very unhappy, very unemployable, and without money to do all the fun things they want.
What do they then demand?
Socialism as a remedy.
They demand that everybody else take care of them.
And my friends, this is not an accident.
I think this is part of a strategy that the left has had, part of many strategies they have used in taking over the education system.
We know they propagandize.
We know they indoctrinate.
We know they dumb down.
They also teach the uh preference of communism, the moral superiority of liberalism, socialism, communism.
They teach that capitalism is immoral and unjust.
They promote all of this worthless education.
And then these bright-eyed, bushy-tailed know nothings get out of school with what they think is their ticket.
And it's a ticket to ride nowhere.
What do they then demand?
Everybody else take care of them.
Ergo, you get Occupy Wall Street.
Ergo, you get young generations of students asking for government control of everything.
Because it was so unfair.
They did everything their parents told them they did everything.
Everybody told them they went to school, they got a degree, and these evil businesses won't hire them.
These dirty rotten CEOs are stealing all the money and they're giving it to themselves in bonuses and salary, but they won't give it to the college graduates who rightfully deserve it, who've worked hard and have applied themselves, they got great degrees like classical pss studies.
They're unhireable, unemployable, and that's just unfair and unjust.
And ergo, here comes the clamor and the clarion call for socialism for government to fix it.
I would love to steal this technique.
I'd love to take over education and steal this technique and put our values in here and reverse some of this stuff, because this is part and parcel of what is happening in higher education today.
I for all of you young skulls full of mush out there, and I realize that many of your parents are quite angry with me over the past ten days because it is thought that I have been trying to encourage you to punt college and forget it, you don't need it.
It's not what I said.
I said be very careful.
If you're going to go to college, do not do classical studies.
What the hell is it anyway?
Somebody can.
You sent something down to me?
Well, good.
All right.
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, you sent that to me.
Did you took it, you sent it to me in an email?
Right, okay, so I won't be able to get to it till I go to commercial break.
So it's worthless to me right now.
You can tell me.
Yeah.
I'm I expect it to be worthless after I read it, and it's it's worthless because I can't go to it because I'm in the middle of a segment.
Anyway, HR found the classical studies department at the University of Pennsylvania.
He Sent to me what it is.
Can't wait to find out exactly how right I am about this.
In fact, let's take a break.
I'll take a break.
An EIB obscene profit timeout, and I did not need a college degree to know how this works.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh, here on a cutting edge of societal evolution.
I get an email from a friend of mine who's a renowned newspaper columnist whose name it's probably best I don't mention.
For her sake.
She says, uh Rush, I have a degree in classical studies.
It's Greek and Latin.
I worked my way through college.
I only borrowed a thousand dollars to do it.
I can't agree with you that degree is worthless.
In a world with so many less than literate people, classics majors have an edge.
Now I can understand that.
But where?
And I really question some of these people graduating with a major in classical studies if they really are learning anything.
We know that people graduate high school unable to read the diploma.
You all remember the story of Dexter Manley.
The name Dexter Manley ring a bell.
Dexter Manley was a great football player, primarily for the Washington Redskins.
And I think his university was Oklahoma State.
I know he's an athlete.
But a discovered, well in his professional career, he could not read.
He graduated.
A big eight university school, big eight conference school.
Now I know it's athletes and stuff.
But this woman or this person who wrote the note, complaining about zero job operators, does not appear to be representative of somebody who's seven months away from a degree in classic classical studies.
Classical studies, try this.
Did a lot of research during the break.
Carl Marx was a classical studies scholar.
Carl Marx, philosopher, political thinker, studied Latin and Greek, as did Churchill, I found out.
Marx received a PhD for a dissertation on ancient Greek philosophy entitled The Difference Between the Democratian and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature.
Now you'll note nobody hired Marx, so what he had to do was figure out a way to destroy humanity on his own, and he was able to do it.
But nobody hired him.
His classical background is reflected in his philosophies, indeed the term proletariat, which he coined from the Latin word referring to the lowest class of citizen.
So Karl Marx was a classical scholar.
Ancient philosophy and literature.
Here's what the University of Pennsylvania says about their department.
Welcome to the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
For over two hundred years.
The University of Pennsylvania has offered a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs representing all aspects of the broad field of classical studies.
From languages and literature to history, archaeology, and cultural studies.
The department encourages interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to teaching and research and maintains productive ties with a variety of programs, including religious studies, English, comparative literature, medieval studies, philosophy, linguistics, Italian studies, pasta, the history of art, and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
I don't know about you, but it does not make me want to sign up for a major in this.
This sounds like my all-time favorite comedian, Erwin Corey, answering the question, Do men wear shoes?
Which he said was a two-part question.
Okay.
Question is actually Johnny Carson asked him why do men wear shoes?
And Professor Corey said, Well, brilliant, brilliant question, Sir Carson.
Brilliant two part question.
The first part of the question is the word why.
Why what?
Why now?
Why then?
Why anything?
Why the unanswerable quest for knowledge and thirst for knowledge?
And we should all ask why every day, every night, every morning, every day, and with women we do.
Why?
Do men wear shoes, yes.
That's what I was reading when I read the University of Pennsylvania description or classical studies anyway.
It still doesn't change my theory of what's going on here.
You steer people to useless degrees.
They come out, don't know how to do them, use them, don't even know what they're qualified to do, don't even know where to go.
And when it doesn't work out, then you demand the government take care of it.
Demand socialism or a job retraining center or some such thing.
What's the question, Snurley?
A program observer is a question, yes.
Yes, that's very true.
Useless people would be useless regardless of their degree.
No question about it.
Useless people.
There's no degree that's going to change a useless person into a useful person.
No college degree is going to turn anybody into any.
In fact, one of the big problems I think that a lot of people have with a college degree is that they expect it is the ticket.
Not the work.
That it is the ticket.
Victor Davis Hanson, by the way, he's another.
He's a uh he teaches classical studies.
He is an expert on ancient Greek history, by the way.
But he's a farmer.
Victor Davis Hansen is a farmer and he is a writer.
Columns and so forth.
He's at the Hoover Institute, the campus at uh at Stanford, writes for National Review Online and other things.
And that's where he derives his income.
He doesn't go to classical studies office.
I was just realized here, we better get some phone calls mixed into this show or...
You've got to be a balance problem.
Um my newspaper columnist friend has assured me it's okay to use her name.
So it would be Deborah Saunders at the uh San Francisco Chronicle.
I met Deborah first time uh in Sacramento back in the uh in the 1980s.
Yeah.
So and and uh she I hear from her mostly when I have made a grammatical error.
And she corrects me.
Well, Deborah.
I did well, well, you know, email Walter Isaacson.
I know Walter Isaacson uh.
You know, I bet people don't know the well, no people know it because it got reported.
But when Walter Isaacson ran CNN, remember they they wanted me to do a Sunday morning show on CNN and a Sunday morning football show.
The two would go back to back, and uh Roger Ailes at Fox.
Uh because it it caused all kinds of uh internal consternation at CNN when employees there found out.
This is when the works, and what Roger Ailes heard about, he said this is the first time I've ever heard a CEO needing a security detail in his own building.
Uh speaking of Walter Isaacson.
Ailes gave that line to Maureen Dowd at the at the New York Times.
Uh Walter is not the uh Aspen Institute, and I've stayed in touch with him.
Uh Deborah, yeah, at the Chronicle, mainstream.
She's not mainstream media.
She's not, she's uh.
Not in the sense that we use the term mainstream media, that is a mainstream publication.
And she ranks high there.
But uh her head's still screwed on straight, and nobody knows grammar like she does.
I hear about it.
You know, when I when I uh when I screw up, okay, let's go to the phones.
We're gonna start Salt Lake City.
David, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, Megadiddo's here from Salt Lake, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thanks very much, sir.
Uh, I read the best thing yesterday, and it just had to make me chuckle.
Um, our friends down at the Occupy movement are trademarking the name Occupy Wall Street.
Yeah, I saw that myself.
Uh so you're telling me that anti-capitalists are capitalizing on being anti capitalist.
Exactly right, and they're also trying to figure out a way to keep the homeless from coming in and stealing their food.
Ah, so great.
And we've also learned that it is the homeless who are being directed to Occupy Wall Street by the cops.
The New York police departments telling the homeless where Occupy Wall Street is.
And then go down there.
They got booze and food.
It's uh it's a homeless person's delight.
And the homeless are showing up and they're one, and and so the cooks at Occupy Wall Street say, hell with it.
So what we need to do is these these classical study people, we need to send them to me, and I will pay them how to study the classified ads to get a job after college.
Well, you know, uh it's it's obvious as I look into this classical studies business.
It is obvious at one time it was uh something of great esteem, something of tremendous important value.
I have to think like everything else in higher education today that it's been dumbed down.
In fact, about Victor Davis Hanson.
Um the classics program at the University or California State University Fresno in 1984.
Uh and he was professor there until recently.
He uh he created it because of the deterioration in the whole field.
Because of how it's it's just it's lost whatever specialness that uh it it it once had.
But I think you know, there's all kinds of theories to explain what's going on in higher education.
For for example, it's not new that college graduates don't know anything.
That's not really that new.
Now, I think it is relatively new, two generations that worthless degrees are being constructed and taught and awarded.
But generally what's happened is that American employers have have taken these ill-educated graduates and they've turned them into productive employees after a lot of investment.
But in this economy, in the in the Obama economy, employers don't have the money, they don't have the wherewithal, and they don't have the confidence or the money or the time or the patience to go out and hire uneducated people and turn them into something.
Because they can't get a handle on what faces them next year with Obamacare, what other regulations might be awaiting them.
So this woman or person, whoever it is, I'm assuming it's a woman that wrote this note, Occupy Wall Street, lamenting the fact she's gonna have zero job opportunities with her classical studies degree, the villain is Obama.
There'll be a time where the economy will be able to absorb these people again, but it's down the road a bit.
Because after you get a degree in classical studies, what do you need?
You need reality studies.
And reality studies is what you get when you get out of college and you start going to work and you learn what you don't know.
And if you don't have the ability to admit that you don't know anything, then reality studies is going to be a cold slap upside ahead.
And it isn't gonna be pleasant.
Who's next?
John in Indianapolis.
Hello, John, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB.
Hello.
Thanks, Chris, for taking my call.
Did you know you can get a you can get a degree in queer musicology at UCLA?
Uh well, I don't want to be taught by a union teacher.
Thank you.
Uh you're gonna be taught by a union teacher.
You know I wouldn't blame you.
Queer musicology is a degree at UCLA.
Okay.
Excellent.
Um don't ask me what it is.
Don't ask me what it is.
You can get a golf management degree at the University of Birmingham, Florida Gulf Coast University.
Well, just don't tell their parents.
See how useful this is.
Yeah, just don't tell the parents is exactly right.
You can get a degree in Star Trek at Georgetown University.
Oh, geez.
I'm not kidding.
A degree in Star Trek, John.
You've thrown me off, Rush I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
What what uh you didn't call to talk about useless degrees.
Uh no, I I've I've spun that record before.
Um Thank you.
Um anyway.
Uh Did you call to talk about the fact that uh Bank of America is dropping the five dollar a month debit card charge?
Absolutely not.
You didn't call about that either.
Well, I'm sorry.
What what is it that you call about?
You're killing me.
Uh I called about the fact that last week you uh introduced that uh Mr. Herman Cain would be advertising on your program.
Yes, and he still is.
In all 57 states.
Paying in advance, yes.
And yet, 24, 48 hours later, I told Mr. Circle, because he is the best call screener in America.
Give that man a raise.
I told Mr. Sergley that uh I didn't know what date that was.
And yet, 48 hours later, it's a national scandal because he's advertised on your program.
Oh, I see where you're going with this.
Cain starts advertising on the EIB network, his numbers start ticking up, and all of a sudden, we gotta take Kane out.
I see.
Exactly.
I thought absolutely almost uh you know, beyond belief.
Well, the way you've explained it, it's not beyond belief.
It's uh it's it's entirely called, you know, these I tell you what, the Herman Cain ads uh could be responsible for his record fundraising.
I mean, that's what happens to other people advertise here.
It's what happens when I advertise on my own show for two if by tea dot com.
Uh let's see.
You um John, was there anything else?
I I I I I got you uh your subject wrong when I was there.
Was there anything else you wanted to add to that?
Yes, I do.
I think that uh I think that the uh 2010 midterms will carry over 2012.
I think that America is smart enough to realize and have our internet savvy.
And by using websites like yours and other right-wing websites that I think that that will be the Achilles heel to the day of the city.
Well, plus Americans are angry.
Well, not only that, and I also think that what what what Eric Holder has done with South Carolina as well as Utah and Arizona and what's going on.
They're suing South Carolina over their immigration policy.
Yeah.
That's coming up in the uh plus and furious and so I I don't think I really don't think the people in the beltway quite understand the degree of rage the people of this country have over what's happening to their country.
I really I think the people inside Washington, establishment, both parties just look at this as the usual political game, the ebb and flow back and forth.
I don't think they understand the degree of real rage that exists in the country over what Washington has done to the country and the future.
And I don't I don't I I think they're in denial about what the 2010 elections meant.
And I think a lot of people are gonna be shocked and surprised a year from now when the presidential race results are in.
John, thanks much for the call.
I um I really appreciate it.
Fuck.
Yeah, they are.
The uh Bank of America dropping its plan to charge customers five dollars a month for using the debit card.
The uh move is a dramatic retreat following decisions by several rivals in recent days to also drop their new fees.
Sun Trust and Regions Financial Banks also said Monday that they will stop charging customers for debit card transactions.
What?
That's exactly what I was gonna say.
You if you're sitting out there applauding, you ought to stop and bend over, grab the ankles.
You think they're not gonna get this five bucks from you someplace else, you're crazy.
The thing is, you would have seen them take it with a debit card charge.
Now you're not gonna know where it's coming from, but they're going to get it from you.
The views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have to the audio sound bites this Chris Salism from the Washington Post blog, postpolitics.com.
He was on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington this afternoon.
And she said, when do we uh what do we do in trying to sort this out?
Where can you come down?
What he's had at the moment, Andrew, is a relatively united front among conservatives, people like Rush Limbaugh, and basically saying this is the mainstream media trying to tear down a conservative.
The problem with that storyline in that narrative is that as it becomes clear that he's remembering things he didn't remember 24 hours ago, and let me say, just out of my own personal reflection, it seems to me that these would be moments that you would not forget if there were these allegations made against you.
I just don't see it going away anytime soon, Andrew, because of the tack he took.
He said, not true, 100% denial.
Well, if it's less than 100% denial, even if it's only a 95% denial, there's still room there to ask questions and wonder what really happened.
It's fascinating to study this just to live.
So hoping that there's something there.
So hoping that Herman Cain steps in it.
And every time I hear one of these people go on and on and on about you, let's take what is the worst that could have happened here.
What done what?
Done what?
What?
Okay, we're talking about a gesture.
By the women's own admission, there was nothing overtly sexual, right?
So what is the worst thing that could have happened here?
Whatever the worst thing is, it pales when you compare it to anything done by Bill Clinton, John Edwards, or Ted Kennedy.
Now, where Chris Salizza is the sense of proportion, you people in media love to talk about the sense of proportion.
Where is it in this story?
He keeps changing his story.
Things he said then aren't what he's saying now.
This is something you would never forget if you had been accused of sexual harassment, and he's saying he didn't remember it.
If somebody accused me of sexual harassment and then said I had done nothing overtly sexual, I would be so confused I wouldn't know what to do.
I'd be scratching my head.
What the hell did I do?
If somebody said I sexually harassed them, but that whatever it was was not overtly sexual.
How could you plead guilty to it?
My uh my friend Andy McCarthy has recently posted on this at National Review Online.
And here's what he says is I'm not I'm not sure how conflicting Herman Cain's statements about this nonsense are.
And I frankly don't care.
Caines made a number of conflicting statements on matters of substance, i.e., negotiating with terrorists, abortion, the propriety of killing Al-Qaeda's Alaki.
We got abundant basis to probe how consistent Herman Cain is, how deep his convictions are, and what all that says about his suitability, just like we ought to be probing conflicting positions taken by other candidates.
But on the politico sensation out of nothing report, the real story is how confident the left is that it has set the terms of and the traps in our public debate.
Unfortunately, that confidence seems well placed.
So, as far as Andy's saying here, the real thing to note is how confident the left is in their ability to set traps and nail somebody.
Uh, on the right, set traps and nail a conservative.
There's something seminal that has taken place now in this Herman Cain story, And it is this.
The press has given up on the crime.
The press is no longer concerned with what Herman Cain did.
Now they're trying to get Herman Cain on the cover up.
Even if they have to make up the cover-up.
They've they that there's their story today, I should have it in front of.
I've got it in the stack.
Their story today basically at the end of it, they're asking these women to come forward.
Damn it.
Help us here, they're saying.
About how much easier this would be.
And about how much how important it is for these women to come forward, put their names to it and nail this down.
Damn it, the women won't come forward.
What are we going to do?
Okay, so they have to give up on the crime.
This is very important, folks.
They're now, you just heard what Chris Salizza.
Now they're trying to nail Herman Cain on his inconsistency on the cover-up, how his story is changing.
Quick time out.
We'll be right back.
Don't go anywhere.
Wow, another busy broadcast hour has come to an immovable screeching halt.
Here's the end of the political piece, by the way.
Republican strategists privately speculated Monday that Cain's campaign could suffer grievous damage if one or both women came forward with no details.
Begging these women to come forward.
I am more interested in what you think of this.
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