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You know what?
I mentioned this earlier in the program.
I'm going to go back.
We're going to go back to the archives, the grooveyard of forgotten hits.
All the way back to December 17th, 1992.
What is that?
Twenty years?
I think it is.
December 17, 1992, I did uh monologue on Rush the TV show.
Bob Green had written a book.
He was a columnist, syndicated columnist out of Chicago.
Title of his book, Soulless Killer will be Death of Us.
It was a column rather than a book, but he did write a book that bounced off of this later.
His column, Soulless Killer, will be death of all of us.
And what was noteworthy about it was that Bob Green at the time was a noted liberal.
He was a noted leftist.
And the killings, the young people, I mean single digit age people killing each other in Chicago.
So rattled him and so unnerved him that he started digging deeper than just we gotta get rid of guns.
He couldn't believe.
And he didn't understand why it was happening.
And I took a shot at explaining it.
Now we got two sound bites, and uh they're gonna take about five minutes total.
The first one is three minutes.
He's hit on it.
The national soul, the dying national soul.
May I ask you to think about something here for a second?
Does science talk about the concept of the soul?
Does science try to prove the existence of the soul?
Does science even concern itself with the soul?
What is the soul?
I mean, the dictionary definition of the soul is that which animates us, that gives us our animating qualities.
But the soul is what we are.
Soul is our consciousness, soul is our being, soul is what makes us unique from one another.
Because biologically, uh, we're all the same.
But it's the soul.
And science doesn't deal with the soul.
What does?
Where do you go in our society to learn about the soul?
The origination of the soul, the depth of the soul, the future of the soul.
Where do you go?
Religion.
Not any particular religion, but religion is where the soul is discussed.
Well, we can't talk about religion in America today.
In New York City and around the country, we are trying to teach kids to get along with one another.
We're doing it by giving them condoms.
We're doing them by teaching, uh, doing it by teaching them about tolerance for alternative lifestyles.
But there's this thing out there called the Ten Commandments.
We can't teach that, but there's no better lesson for all of humanity as to how to get along with each other.
But you can't teach the Ten Commandments because that stems from somebody's religion.
Why do kids take guns into schools?
Because they have no respect for the sanctity of life.
Told you that time and time again.
You can't have a million and a half abortions every year in this country for all the years that we've had, folks, without life itself being cheapened.
We can't start killing and calling it death with dignity.
We can't start killing and calling it right to die.
We can't let guys like Jack Kavorkian run around and assist people in dying, which is really killing them, and not cheapen life at the same time.
Life is the most precious thing there is on this planet.
Human life, the most precious.
Everything else is academic without it.
We can't create it from scratch.
We will never be able to recapture a lost life.
Never ever.
It is our most precious, most sacred thing, and we are cheapening it according to the convenience Of those who live.
We take kids to school and they have guns and knives in their pockets.
What do we do?
We put metal detectors up in the schools.
And if the ACLU doesn't come along and say you can't do that, that violates the Fourth Amendment search and seizure clause.
Then they get into school with guns.
And as we pointed out the other day, they show up with playguns, water guns, start shooting people, people with real guns turn around and shoot them back.
What do we do?
We get the toy gun off the market.
We don't go after the people who are shooting real guns.
We have people who think we should go after the real gun.
The gun doesn't shoot itself.
That was uh that was part one.
And again, this is from December 17th of 1992 of my television show, and it's bouncing off uh teenage killings, single-digit age killings in Chicago in a column written by Bob Green's soulless killer will be death of all of us.
That was a my memory was an eight-year-old who killed a five-year-old.
And it wasn't, it was it was in a neighborhood.
It wasn't even at school, it was in a home or something.
And it just at the time blew everybody away.
How in the world?
And even back then, it was not even a question of the gun.
What people were shocked at was how does an eight-year-old even gin up that kind of emotion it has to be because he sees it somewhere.
If you're eight years old, you have to see it.
You have to witness it.
And you have to think that it's uh harmless.
And if you watch television and dead people don't really die.
I mean, you saw that guy get shot on TV, then the next week he's on a different show.
So he didn't really die.
If you're an eight-year-old.
You might think you don't even really die.
But even if you do, no big deal.
You see it happening in your neighborhood all the time.
Life isn't taught and and revered for what it is, the most unique and precious thing there is on the planet, and everything else will become meaningless at some point.
Here's the remaining two minutes.
In my mind, ladies and gentlemen, all of this is totally understandable.
This lack of respect for life, especially in kids and teenagers.
Look at the movies they watch.
I remember I remember when I was a kid, my parents were all concerned about beetle music.
I grew up in the 60s, and in the mid-60s, Beatle music, I want to hold your hand, I saw her standing there.
All of that stuff was deemed revolutionary and bad, but look at the lyrics, they were harmless, they were love songs.
It was the hair and the appearance that my parents were afraid of.
But you look at what's out there today.
Look at two live crews mean so horny.
You know what that is about?
It's about the destruction of the female vagina by a bunch of men having a good time.
Can't ban that.
Nope.
That's freedom of speech, that's art.
We then have all kinds of uh songs by rappers like Ice T called Cop Killer.
Oh, can't interrupt that.
That's that's called freedom of expression and art as well.
We've got all these hacker and slasher movies.
We have people getting slashed to death, hacked to death, shot to death, killers get killed 25 and 30 times over, like in the Friday the 13th movies, and they always come back to life.
Life has become cheap in our society.
It's become a commodity that we can broker for our own convenience.
This should not be any surprise.
I am happy.
I am proud that I have been on the cutting edge, the leading edge of this, and I am glad and happy as I can be that Bob Green, a nationally syndicated columnist, has dare bring up the concept of the soul in all of this, because science can try to explain behavior all they want.
Science can try to explain psychological temptation, this and that.
It's the soul.
It is respect for the essence of humanity and life.
And when that is not respected, and when you can't teach that, what we have in our society is no wonder.
I hope you'll think about it.
That was uh again, December 17th, 1992.
From Rush, the television show.
And I just I I want to remind you again, just to this had a profound impact on me over the weekend.
I'm watching this British TV show about the BBC's early days, it's a TV early days called The Hour.
Many of you may have heard of it, it's somewhat popular.
And it's about, I guess, the forerunner to 60 minutes.
This television show works and all the people involved and how they go about pursuing news and the usual stuff.
But one of the lead male characters in the hiatus between the close of the first season and the episode premiere of season two.
Episode premier season two, the guy comes back, and he's been on sabbatical, he traveled the world, he got married in Paris, and a whole bunch of stuff, but he also spent time in America.
He's having conversation with his main male competitor at this network.
And he says, you know, I was in America.
And I really liked what I saw in America.
I was a nobody in a country filled with people who think they can all be somebody, and that was infectious.
So I've come back here to my home in Britain.
I've come back to the BBC, and I want some of that.
I want to be somebody.
This guy was being made in this series to play second fiddle.
He was the writer.
He was the real journalist.
He was the real reporter that made this on air presenter a star.
The on-air presenter couldn't carry his, couldn't put two sentences together if they weren't written for him.
Like Obama.
And so this guy who's been the underling, but really been the force of the show says America affected me.
I was in a country filled with everybody.
A bunch of nobodies who think they can be somebody someday.
And it was infectious.
And I want that.
1956 is when the show was said.
So the inference is clear in 1956, the British population accepted their lot in life.
Whatever they were born to, that was it.
And this guy saw that there were people around the world not living that way.
Didn't matter what they were born into.
They were going to be somebody, and that place was America.
And let's be honest, isn't one of the fears that you have that that doesn't seem to be an inspiring infectious aspect of life in America anymore.
Many people don't think they can ever be anything anymore for a whole host of reasons.
A, they're told that by a dominant liberal culture in the media.
And then when you get down to what they do aspire to, it's all cheap thrill pop culture fame.
In way too many people.
And I thought, wow, how profound is this?
I'm sitting here, I'm I'm watching this show just to escape.
Like you would read a book.
And here I am, I'm impacted, I'm hit between the eyes with a real, I didn't even know.
The line was kind of a throwaway, but I think the writer of this program intended it to be a profundity.
I don't know.
It was with me.
It was a huge profundity.
We must take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends, back with much more here on the EIB network.
Do not go away.
Okay, back we are.
Let me give you the actual facts that were responsible for the Bob Green column and the monologue.
I just want to close the loop on this so that you're able to put the monologue this we replayed in context.
Three teenagers, 15, 16, 17, 18 years old, walked into a house, neighborhood house, Chicago.
They tried to get in.
An eight-year-old boy at home, he's by himself.
He lets them in eventually, because he knows them.
And he trusts them.
And the upshot of the story is that these three, the 15, 16, 17-year-old kids stabbed him, hacked him, butchered him, tied him up, mutilated him, and he died of slow death by bleeding to death.
And they did it just for the fun of it, was the story.
They did it just because they could, just for the fun of it.
And that is what led to Bob Green writing his piece about the absence, the loss of the soul, and the uh monologue by me that ensued.
Now back to the phones, nation's capital, Washington.
This is Joe.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Uh hello, Rush.
Yes, hi.
Uh, yes, uh, I'm calling in regards to why thugs do what they do.
We we encourage abortion.
We teach the tug to get in his hoopti and take his girlfriend to the abortion clinic.
He goes and he aborts his own seed.
Later on that night, he sees a young man driving Alexis.
He pulls him out and shoots him.
And you take him to court.
Then we ask him, how can you do such a gross thing?
Well, the reason why he could do such a gross thing is because we cost we taught him abortion has taught him to kill his own seed.
If he do not have respect for his own seed life, how can he have respect for others?
We have been teaching this in the black community.
You realize you you you realize that's attitudes like this that are guaranteeing the Republicans losing elections.
That's what we're told.
We're told the Republicans have better abandon this kind of talk, abandon this kind of social issue stuff.
Nobody wants to, including powerful Republicans that make people too much who don't want to hear it.
They gotta forget it.
Just like to forget about enforcing immigration laws.
We don't we can't, and at the root of all of this is that we are all being told to pay no attention to the culture coming include.
We're told to express our concern in other ways.
But I don't know how you disagree with that in a sense.
He says abortion has made us insensitive to killing.
Abortion has certainly made us insensitive to pregnancy.
That was Margaret Sanger's idea.
I'm not supposed to say that either.
Margaret Sanger's idea was to convince people in America to abort their own seed, as he put it.
Well, you Margaret Sanger was targeting the black community.
Yes, it's true.
It's just you know that is politically incorrect to say.
Just as, you know, there are people watching Lincoln, the movie today, or reading commentary about it.
I mean, people elected officials who are uh have no clue that it was Lincoln and the Republicans who freed the slaves.
There's all this talk about there's an who is it?
I don't have his name in front of me.
The story somewhere in the stack.
Some elected Democrat and part of the budget negotiations going on.
If the Republicans don't want if in fact, if we don't stop the Republicans, they want to take us back to slavery.
They want to take us back to the days of Lincoln, is what this guy's saying.
Well, excuse me, Lincoln freed the slaves.
The Republican Party, that's Lincoln's party, freed the slaves.
But today, the truth is obscured by a pack of lies.
And the lie is that no Republican ever saw a slave that he didn't want to own.
Even today.
That's what the selected Democrats out there saying.
It's like Margaret Sanger.
Margaret Sanger, Planned Parents, all about family planning.
Yeah, but not the kind you're thinking about.
It's called the elimination of black families.
That's what Margaret Sanger was about.
Now she's long gone.
Room temperature many, many moons ago.
And uh planned parenthood.
What is a planned parenthood?
Wow, does that not sound really nice?
They're gonna teach you to plan your parenthood, plan your family.
We're gonna teach you how to do it right.
No, we're gonna teach you how to not have one, is what planned parenthood's all about.
How not to remain a parent once you become one.
And by the way, let us take care of it for 250 bucks.
What do I don't know what he would say?
I don't I have no clue.
I uh your average liberal will not believe what I'm saying.
Your average liberal is gonna chalk this up to mindless racist hateful speech.
All it is is the truth.
They don't want to know the trick and look it up, but they'll just it's alternate uh alternate universe time.
It was oh, it was it was Chuck Todd.
It was F. Chuck Todd who was relaying the comments.
It was an Obama aide.
It was not an elected official.
It was somebody works for Obama.
F. Chuck Todd on today's Joe Scarborough show said, You're gonna like this.
So I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aid to the president last week, and he said, you know, with this Republican, with this way politics of Washington today, they'd still be slavery.
Lincoln wouldn't have been able to navigate the polarization between the media, between this and what would F. Chuck said it was an interesting and depressing observation from this very smart White House aide.
So here's F. Chuck Todd of NBC HBO.
I just throw that in a rile them all up.
F. Chuck Todd, NBC HBO, telling us how smart this Obama aide is for realize that with the Republicans and the way Washington is today, there'd still be slavery if not for the Democrats.
Interesting and depressing observation from this very smart White House aide, who in truth doesn't know what he's talking about.
But F. Chuck Todd doesn't either, because F. Chuck thought it sounded brilliant.
Because what it fits the 50-year-old or longer narrative.
Anyway, brief timeout here again, obscene profit timeout, we call it.
Back with much more after this.
Okay, we're back.
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Hi.
Hi, Rush.
The impetus for my call today was that Chuck Todd comment.
And um, I used to be a Democrat, but the Democratic Party today is not my party.
Um, it's the Progressive Party.
Let me repeat the Chuck Todd comment for those of you who just tuned in, or if you're still dazzled by what we're giving away in a two-if by tea sweepstakes and if your attention still not back to the program yet, let me tell you F. Chuck Todd was on Scarborough today, and and uh he uh he said, You're gonna like this.
I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aid to Obama last week, and the close aid to Obama said, you know, with this Republican, the way politics of Washington are today, the Republicans there'd still be slavery.
Lincoln wouldn't have been able to to navigate the polarization.
There's still be slavery if the Republicans had their way today.
That's what Ellen here's calling to comment.
Okay, Ellen, take it away.
Okay.
Uh that being said about my cast, I have never in my life seen a more clueless, unsavvy party as the Republicans.
They have absolutely no strategic or communication skills.
And see I in my opinion, from 2007 on, with when Obama came on the scene.
This isn't about um their inability to articulate their ideas.
The biggest most overwhelming problem is the media.
The media plus the entertainment slash fashion industry.
If they're not biased.
They're not interested in debating ideas or putting everybody's ideas out there.
They're you know, they're basically what you always talk about, they're an arm of the Democratic Party, and I think that the Republicans have missed the vote.
They they allow the lies to be repeated, repeated, repeated.
So the low information voters just repeat those things as the aspect.
Okay, look, there's no question that she's right.
The low information voters believe all of this stuff.
This guy that F. Chuck Todd talks, I guarantee you, people watching that network are running around today believing that Obama is saving this country from slavery again by denying the Republicans their way.
But Rush, it's all over the place.
I mean, there's no difference today between the uh news anchors and Joy Behar and John Stewart and Tom Hanks.
It's all it's all the same, it's pervasive, and what I find the most offensive is that it's about our country.
It is not about Barack Obama, it is about our country.
And um I I really think that the Republicans do not understand that their line they have to fight against the media.
Forget about Barack Obama.
They need to they need to No wait, wait now Ellen, hang on.
Just just a second.
They understand it.
They just don't think they can.
They know uh there's no mystery about what the media is, and uh Republicans clearly understand the mistake they make is believing that they can change the media's mind or make the media like them uh or make the media not criticize them rather than attempt to defeat the media.
They will not in any way do that.
Well, I think that's gonna be the end of the dem uh the Republican Party then, because I I think I re I really I really believe that because you know when they start with their questions, their suppositions about Obama's balanced plans.
Where is a Republican who says, show me a balanced plan?
Show me where is his balanced plan?
Oh no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There is one.
It's Paul Ryan's.
Exactly.
But Well now, why are you laughing?
Well why?
Because the media portrays it as Obama's.
They they say that's a good idea.
No, they don't.
They they portray it as racism, sexism, bigotry, poverty, homophobia.
They they lie.
Look at it's one thing.
Ellen, for twenty-five years I've had people call here and complain about the media.
That what are you gonna do about it?
If you've got the answer, you can become a trillionaire.
I detach too much.
Um I think Are you telling me that you would oppose an income of a trillion dollars because of the tax rate?
No.
No, of course not.
I I think these people have to be challenged.
They you cannot they cannot let those lies stay out there.
They cannot repeat that stuff like Chuck Todd did today.
You you can't you know, you're they're just the Republicans are allowing these statements to be perpetuated.
And and so the stereotype continues.
It's getting I think it's getting worse.
Yeah, they're counting on people like me to refute it.
But I just I don't even think it's to the point except I'm not a trillionaire yet.
I don't even think the people that especially the moderate to low information voters who really have no clue about the issues and what's happening.
You can't even get to them because the media doesn't allow it.
So I think uh I I really Wait a minute it's I know exactly what you're saying and why.
The problem the problem with reaching low information voter.
Um I'd ask myself, if I had a room full of 'em, okay, what would I do?
What would be the first thing I did?
What would be my plan to try to talk what I believe into it sense into them?
And I uh I don't I don't know what it would be until I actually got in a room and started talking to them, but I guarantee it wouldn't be long, I'd be throwing my hands up in total frustration it's not even worth it.
Um I I I don't know.
It's it's it's an interesting point that you raise.
I do I fantasize folks will be I shouldn't say this, but I sometimes think about buying an hour of national TV and making a televised speech to the nation, and then I start okay, what would I say?
How would I start it?
Okay, so Snerdly, Snerdley been telling me how to get started if I actually did buy an hour of national TV time to speak to the nation.
And I said, and and the purpose of that would be to reach low information voters, people that are that that that are not and do not see things the way we do.
Snerdley said, look at it, it's real simple.
You go get a couple of iPhone fives and a couple of iPad minis from your prize closet in there and you take them with you.
And you make sure you've got a live audience, in addition to people watching on television.
And you start out by saying that you have gifts and you hold up those iPhone fives, you look around and say who wants one?
Every hand goes up, you just point out you, you get one.
You, you get the other one, you you get an iPad mini, you you get and then you own 'em, Snerdly says.
And he says, but the thing that you gotta look out for, you d cannot, you'll blow it if you mention work before you conclude your talk on benefits.
You've got to mention benefits first before you get to work, otherwise they'll tune you out.
Now I must confess in every fantasy I've had about this, I have never once conceived doing any of that as a as a way to reach the uh that's very cynical of you, Snerdly.
Very, very in Southampton, Long Island.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush, but I think that Schnerdley may be on to something unfortunately.
You do.
I do.
But um I and second, I am here I'm sitting here drooling over the opportunity to go to two of by T and possibly win a d win a uh win a trip down to uh South Florida.
It would be it was it was fun the last time we had people in here.
It was a blast all day long.
So I hope I hope you you you I hope you win.
I do too.
But here's my point.
I have the honor rush of escorting and taking down World War II veterans from Long Island to see their memorial in Washington, DC, and just to prove that you continue to be correct ninety-nine point six percent of the time, or is it seven?
Seven.
Seven.
Um they don't recognize their America anymore.
These men and women who saved the world from tyranny rush, they don't recognize this country.
There's so it's so far from Okay, let me play devil's advocate.
Let me what would would somebody born in eighteen hundred who was a entirely morally perfect person recognize America today?
Would anybody 70 years old recognize the America 70 years after they were born?
I b yes, I believe so.
I I I believe that I b I believe that there has been a sea change over the past thirty and forty years, Rush.
Well, I have to do with this entitlement society of the.
Oh, I agree with you.
I I'm just asking.
I agree with you.
Okay.
Because I mean you know our founding fathers here's the here's the other thing is that that I would like to say two things.
One is is that those veterans if I went out there and talked to those people who voted for Obama to re-elect him to give him a second four years to continue to do what he did in the first four wouldn't necessarily care what that generation did for America and that has really discouraged me because I just would think that anybody hearing the sacrifices let me ask you a quick question.
I got thirty thirty seconds how many people who voted for Obama three weeks ago do you think are going to be shocked and surprised at what happens in this country because he won?
In other words how many people had no idea what they were even voting for other than the cult, the personality, the history, first black president.
How many Obama voters do you think are going to be shocked and be calling here asking for forgiveness inside of two years?
Well very few in three years from now when that happens they're not going to be we're not going to see them because they're gonna they're gonna be invisible but my point my letter I don't mean it but I think it's an im it's it's a good way of illustrating the answer to that question is a good way of illustrating something.