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April 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the fastest three hours in media.
It is already Tuesday and we've only got one busy broadcast hour remaining.
By the way, folks, this Friday is our annual leukemia radio-thon to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma.
We do it annually.
And you all have been great over the years.
You have stepped up like no other audience has, the amount of money that's been raised, donated, generated by these radiothons.
We do it one day a year.
We don't even devote the whole show to it.
We combine the curathon with the regular programming of Open Line Friday.
And it's amazing how much money you all have generated.
And we're going to be doing it again this Friday is wanted to let you know that it's coming up.
Annual cur-a-thon to cure the blood cancers, leukemia, and lymphoma.
So it's something to put on the calendar.
I want Friday to show up and just spring that on you without you having any ideas.
So that's that.
And we've been promoing it on the website as well.
But I wanted to tell you officially here from behind the EIB microphone.
So on April 6th, the Washington Post has a blog.
And it is, what's it, let's see, I forget the name of the, what's the name of the blog?
The answer sheet.
And what has happened here is a teacher resigned, wrote a resignation letter.
The resignation letter surfaced on the internet about a week ago, and it has since gone viral.
It was first published by a Syracuse, New York paper.
And basically, Washington Post by Valerie Strauss, April 6th, 2013.
Increasingly, teachers are speaking out against scruple reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession.
Some are simply quitting because they've had enough.
Here's one such resignation letter from a veteran teacher, Gerald Conte, social studies teacher at West Hill Haskrule in Syracuse, New York.
Now, I'm not going to read the whole resignation letter because it's quite lengthy.
Let me read you some excerpts.
With regard to my profession, this is a third paragraph.
With regard to my profession, I have truly attempted to live John Dewey's famous quotation, which is now likely a cliché with me.
I've used it so very often.
Education is not preparation for life.
Education is life itself.
I have attempted to live that.
This type of total immersion is what I have always referred to as teaching heavy.
Working hard, spending time researching, attending to details, never feeling satisfied that I knew enough on any topic.
I now find that this approach to my profession is not only devalued, but denigrated.
And perhaps in some quarters, despised.
STEM rules the day.
S-T-E-M.
Now, what is that?
It's obviously some kind of program.
You with kids probably know what it is.
The letter doesn't say what it is.
STEM rules the day.
Data-driven education seeks only conformity, standardization, testing, zombie-like adherence to the shallow and generic common core, along with a lockstep of oversimplified, so-called essential learnings.
Creativity, academic freedom, teacher autonomy, experimentation, innovation are being stifled in a misguided effort to fix what's not broken in our system of public education, and particularly not at this school, West Hill.
So, the teacher, Mr. Conte, is writing about how he's got to indoctrinate people.
He's not allowed to teach them.
Lockstep, oversimplified, so-called essential learnings, shallow and generic common core creativity, independent thinking.
None of this is permitted.
My profession is being demeaned by a pervasive atmosphere of distrust, dictating that teachers cannot be permitted to develop and administer their own tests, which are now called assessments.
Teachers can't even grade their own students' exams.
After writing all of this, I realize I'm not leaving my profession.
In truth, it has left me.
Teaching no longer exists.
I feel as though I played some game halfway through its fourth quarter.
A timeout's been called.
My teammates' hands have all been tied.
The goalposts have been moved.
All previously scored points and honors expunged.
And all the rules have been changed.
For the last decade or so, I've had two signs hanging above a blackboard at the front of my classroom.
They read, Words matter and ideas matter.
While I still believe these simple statements are true, I don't feel that those currently driving public education have any inkling of what they mean.
So, here you have a public school teacher who is STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, rule of the day, data-driven education seeks conformity, standardization.
There is no creativity, there's no improvisation, and there really isn't any learning because there's no teaching taking place.
All it is is indoctrination.
And so, he quit.
His name is Gerald Conte, social studies department leader at the West Hill Central Schruel in Syracuse, New York.
Now, as I say, that resignation letter has gone viral all over the internet.
By the way, STEM, and you have to forgive me for not knowing, folks.
I know the basic problems in education.
They're simple to understand and know.
But I don't have a child in Scruel, and I know the details of this STEM.
But I have found out what it is now: science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
And basically, it refers to the interrelated form reform issues that pertain to teaching all four of these disciplines.
And it basically is just agenda-oriented education.
Ideologically, agenda-oriented education.
This guy's had his fill of it because to him, there isn't teaching anymore.
And nobody's learning anything.
And I find that really interesting.
The signs on his blackboard, words matter, ideas matter, is they don't anymore.
And boy, is that ever true.
Words mean things.
No, they don't.
Not anymore.
Marriage doesn't mean what it means.
Infertility now doesn't mean what it meant.
And any number of words.
Now, earlier in the program, I spoke about Mrs. Clinton.
She'd been given a $14 million advance to write a book, it'll be ghostwritten, on her years as Secretary of State.
And I think the title ought to be, What Difference Did I Make?
Because if you go around the world, Secretary of State, everywhere she's gone, it's a disaster.
Benghazi, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Syria, Latin American countries.
What is there to write home about about U.S. foreign policy?
We don't stand for freedom around the world.
We don't look at ourselves any longer, not this regime anyway, as the defenders of freedom around the world.
That's not at all what we're about.
And Mrs. Clinton, I have never drank the Kool-Aid.
Ever since the Clintons first came on the scene, we were told that Mrs. Clinton is the smartest woman in the world.
Smartest woman in the world.
And in truth, pretty much everything that she's done has been in one way or another a failure.
Even aspects of her husband's campaign and administration that she was in charge of.
And I've explained to you why Hillary occupies this lofty perch in the Democrat Party.
And I'll go through it again for you very quickly.
You've got to go back to Hillary and Bill's Ivy League days, where they met in young love and bliss.
And Hillary was a student at Wellesley, and Clinton was at Yale, and then she ended up at Yale, and somehow they were drawn to one another somehow.
And they fell in love.
And while this was going on, people who knew Bill Clinton said he's going to be president someday.
This guy is going to go all the way.
They said of Mrs. Clinton, she could write a ticket, this woman had it all.
Remember now, this is the early days of modern feminism.
I mean, this was the day where you didn't tie your down to relationships, tie yourself down to relationship.
You didn't get married.
You didn't do anything.
You just went full bore into changing the world, full bore into the career that you, whatever it was.
But Hillary sacrificed all of that.
Mrs. Clinton abandoned her own dreams.
And instead, she decided to marry Bill Clinton, tie herself to him, and then take over wherever he ended up, allowing her relationship to be responsible for where she ended up.
Her marriage determined where she ended up.
Not her independence, not her own career.
She decided to subordinate all of that to Bill Clinton's career.
And then the ultimate sacrifice, she, this woman of the Ivy League, moved to the swamps, the sticks of Arkansas.
Mrs. Clinton essentially cast herself in a movie in a place like where Deliverance was filmed.
And she went there while her husband earned $25,000 a year as a governor and was having all the fun times with Jennifer Flowers and whoever else.
Well, she went to work at the Rose Law Firm and earned all the money for the family to live on.
And she stood there and she sat there and she endured all of that humiliation.
All to make sure that his career was not derailed.
Because if his career was derailed, so was hers.
Then he gets to Washington and the same stuff happens.
He's still catting around.
She still hangs in.
She defends him.
She does everything she can to maintain his presidency.
They gave her health care to run as a partial price.
They had tried getting rich quick in whitewater.
They tried any number of things to be big people.
She gave up everything.
This is the way the left looks at it.
She gave up everything.
She could have been her own person.
She could have had her own career.
She didn't need to tie herself to Bill Clinton.
And look what happened to her because she did.
Arkansas, Arkansas.
May as well have gone to Mississippi.
Alabama.
Arkansas.
And stayed there.
And so 2008 was to be her grand payback.
The nomination for presidency of the Democrat Party.
It was hers.
Except it wasn't.
Because out of nowhere came a young senator who was said to be the best at what he did than anybody.
Better than Bill Clinton, better than Hillary Clinton, better than the Kennedys, better than anybody.
His name was Barack Hussein Obama.
And he decided he wanted to be president.
He didn't care what Hillary had been promised.
He didn't care what the Democrat Party had guaranteed her.
He didn't care that it was her payback for enduring all of those years subordinating her life to her husband's.
And when push came to shove, the Democrat Party chose the young black guy who had never done anything.
And once again, Mrs. Clinton was rejected and cast aside.
After all she'd done, she had saved her president's career countless times.
She had made her own career, carved out her own life with her own successes while saving his.
And they still dumped on her.
Her campaign for president left her horribly in debt.
She owed Obama.
Obama wanted her to be Secretary of State.
Who knows if she really wanted to do it, but she had no choice if she wanted to pay back her campaign debts.
So she did it.
And there's nothing really to write home about it, except they are going to write home about it in a book called What Difference Did I Make?
Well, that won't be the title.
That's just my suggested title.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the media, the Democrat Party, is a buzz.
With Mrs. Clinton for president in 2016, finally, she's going to get what was hers since the 80s.
What has been hers since she moved to Arkansas and what has been denied her since she moved to Arkansas.
Finally, 2016.
And they're all talking about it now.
And the odds are that some young whippersnapper is going to pop up between now and 2016 that will move her off of center stage.
But until that happens, everybody is now on board with Mrs. Clinton as the next Democrat nominee and thus the next President of the United States, which sets up the sound bites which are coming up next.
Let's go back, December 17th, 2007, on this program, because this sets up what comes next.
Everybody's trying to make themselves look different, and in that situation, in that case, they think they're making themselves look better.
It's just the way our culture has evolved.
It's the way the country is.
It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.
So the question is this: Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
And I was discussing Mrs. Clinton there, and it's 2007.
It's her upcoming presidential campaign.
And I was talking about, it was a sympathetic statement, by the way, but it was talking about the obsession that our culture has with Ute and model-like waif thin beauty, which everybody knows exists.
The thigh gap, have you heard of the thigh gap?
That's the latest rage among young girls.
That's when young girls are standing, either nude or in a bikini with their knees together.
There is a gap between the thighs and the upper regions.
It is highly desired.
Mrs. Clinton obviously does not have that.
Very few women do, but it is what people are shooting for.
And I was talking about, do the American people, will the American people want to vote for somebody, a woman, and actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
I was asking this in straight-up political analysis.
Now, understandably, this caused a tornado in the drive-by media.
The next day and the day after, the media literally had a fit.
Because even though my question was asked in a sympathetic way, the whole monologue, don't have time to play the whole thing, was delivered in a sympathetic way to middle-aged and older women.
The media nevertheless went baddie.
And I'll play that coming up.
Okay, after asking the question, after a sympathetic, you have to trust me on this.
And those of you who were listening back in 2007, remember it was, I can't believe it, it's six years ago.
But nevertheless, I delivered a sympathetic monologue, Mrs. Clinton, presidential aspirations, and does the country want to watch, given preoccupation with looking perfect on the tube.
Sympathetic aspects of my monologue totally missed.
They heard only in the media an insult to Mrs. Clinton.
Here's just a sample of December 18th and 19th of 2007 of the media outrage.
Rush Limbaugh put it, will the country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
Sexism hits the campaign trail as Rush Limbaugh asks if voters want to stare at an aging woman as president.
A story that's expected to reverberate throughout the day.
The question of sexism in politics.
The stuff that Rush Limbaugh has been saying is totally over the line and sort of generating some sympathy.
Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.
Please, this is so sexist.
And of course, it was so dumb, ignorant, and short-sighted of all of those people who never even endeavored to find out what I was actually saying.
And that I had delivered a sympathetic monologue.
Remember, it was I on this program at Kevin Operation Chaos to try to save her candidacy in 2008.
Anyway, last night, lo and behold on CNN, Aaron Burnett out front talking with a Democrat strategerist Kiki McClain.
I think it used to be Kiki Moore.
Kiki got married to somebody named McClain and they were talking about Hillary running for president again because that is the Democrat Party theme.
It's if we're finally going to let Hillary have it.
And so they're talking about this and Aaron Burnett brought this up in a shocking way.
What about what Rush Limbaugh said that made a lot of people really mad?
But you know what?
It made him mad because at the time he said it, it was probably true.
Here's what he said.
Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?
That's what he said of Hillary Clinton Kiki back in 2007.
And you know what?
There's a truth in that.
Has that changed?
She is saying that the reason people got mad is because there was truth in it.
It was a legitimate question.
And she's asking Kiki McClain, Democrat strategist, strategist, if that has changed.
And so here's what Kiki McClain had to say.
There will always be people who care more about what's on the skin than what's in the brain.
But the reality is most Americans are going to pick who serves them based on what they believe they can do for them and the kind of leader they can be.
And I think if we spend all our time thinking about how someone's hair looks, what the hem on somebody's skirt may or may not be, that doesn't really get to the issues.
This from a woman representing a party that doesn't see anything but the skin and its color and doesn't see anything but the gender and then its orientation.
This from a party which has to acknowledge that one of the reasons Obama was elected was because he's black and a lot of white people thought they could erase racism forever from the American existence by showing they weren't racist anymore by voting for a black guy.
Kiki McClain actually wants to talk about there will be people who care more about what's on the skin than what's in the brain.
She's just defining her party.
Back to the phone's wheel.
Carol in San Francisco.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you for waving.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you today?
I guess we're getting to the end of the program, and Snerdley told me to stay focused, so I'm going to stay focused.
Hillary Clinton, go ahead and run her.
Guaranteed she will not win if the Republican or the conservative candidate, hopefully conservative Republican, will get up there and just say failure, failure, failure, failure, failure.
She's an absolute failure.
And she's an old absolute failure.
Their bench is so shallow that they're going to go back to Hillary Clinton from the 90s.
And all she has done is buy elections.
They're not going back to her because of what she's done.
They're going back to her because of guilt.
They aced her out.
They aced her out in 2008, and they've got to make good on it.
And so, again, I don't accept the conventional wisdom that she's automatically the nominee.
What if Bite Me wants it?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's a joke.
The reality of it is: if Bite Me runs, he's going to lose too.
He's too old.
She is too old.
The people in this country, first of all, the blacks will not vote for her.
They will not come out.
They only vote and they all say it.
They will not get the black.
You know something?
It's turning, Rush.
It is turning.
You can get 100 conservative women up there, and they'll just point success, success, success, success.
You get Hillary Clinton up there, and if they have the balls, it will be Benghazi.
It will be Iran.
Yeah, but see, that's the question, Carol.
That's the question.
They're going to have the balls.
Or is our candidate going to talk about how much respect he has for Mrs. Clinton?
How great her contributions are?
Is it going to be another minority candidate?
It can't hit the girl.
We can't attack Obama because he's black.
We can't attack Hillary because she's a girl.
So we, once again, we've got to pull our punches.
If they tie their tongues, well, then you get what you buy.
But I got to tell you, there are a lot of people out there that are not tying their tongues, Rush.
There are a lot of people out there.
I understand that, but how many of them are running for office, Carol?
That's the point.
Well, their bench is very shallow.
I believe their bench is very shallow.
What about ours?
Honestly, our bench is not shallow, Rush.
It is deep.
Now, maybe, you know, 2014 is going to be very interesting.
The potential there, hopefully, for the Senate.
But we are working, but I want to stay focused on Hillary.
I was told to stay focused on Hillary.
Well, you can call back tomorrow if you want to be unfocused, and we'll put you on at the beginning of the program.
I've got to tell you, though, you look at the world is just going down the crapper.
And a lot of it is State Department.
The State Department, the 25-year-old in Afghanistan, the State Department, the State Department has been blowing up.
She was a 25-year-old out of George Johns Hopkins.
I think it was Johns Hopkins, yes.
Who are we talking about now?
Well, we're talking about the State Department.
Hillary was the ran the State Department.
Benghazi was absolutely gone.
Where are the men from Benghazi?
Oh, I see.
I misunderstood you.
I thought you said she was a 25-year-old out of Johns Hopkins.
No, no, no.
They're the State Department woman this week that was killed in Afghanistan.
Oh, I got you.
I got you.
Failure.
This is the failure that the fingers of the failures.
You'll have to forgive me, but we've been going through failure for five years and nobody cares.
We have had one disaster after another.
We've had the almost purposeful destruction of the U.S. economy.
Nobody can find a job.
It doesn't attach itself to the Democrat Party.
So I'm not counting anything ever again as a lock.
Not until I see some shift in the culture and the society toward a public that is more than low information.
And so I'm just, you know, I'm not that I'm going to lose my optimism or any of that, but I'm just not going to count things hatched before that happens.
I'm not going to count on the fact that somebody's going to stand up and say, Mrs. Clinton, you're a failure.
I don't see any evidence that anybody's going to say that about her.
Nobody has yet.
Why are they going to start in 2016?
Anyway, Carol, I appreciate the call.
It needs to happen.
I agree with you.
And it's true.
That's why my fake title of her book is what it is, which I've now forgotten with my own fake title.
What's my own fake title?
Yeah, what difference did I make?
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Carol.
Thanks very much.
Okay, get the ditto cam back on in just a second.
Hang in there and be tough.
In the meantime, Stephen Little Rock, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
I just have to say that I'm calling from the beautiful state of Arkansas, which I love and which I moved back from Texas to start a business here.
And I just wanted to call and say I was kind of at 50 talking about Arkansas the way you were.
I know that we have our people that are, well, a little off the edge, like Bill and Hillary.
I always gag when I say the Bill and Hillary International Airport.
But, you know, we have a lot of neat people, too.
We have a lot of neat industries here as well.
Axiom, we have, you know, Rifland Foods.
We have Walmart here, which, you know, those are pretty big names.
And we've got some pretty good.
Well, you know, you've got a point.
I should have made something clear.
I don't think that of Arkansas.
My mother was born in Searcy, Arkansas.
In fact, my mother was born the exact same day Margaret Thatcher was, the identical day, same year, same day.
I was speaking of Arkansas the way the Ivy Leaguers back in the 70s would speak.
She's going to Arkansas with that Hick Clinton.
I don't think that of Arkansas.
I don't think that of anywhere in this country.
I'm telling you, the elites in the Northeast couldn't believe this deliverance as far as they're concerned.
You need a visa to go there.
So thank you for calling and allowing me to clarification.
Okay, we have already created the book cover for Mrs. Clinton's upcoming biography, What Difference Did I Make?
And I want to show you it on the ditto camera.
This is the graphic at rushlinbaugh.com.
That is what we think her book cover should look like.
What difference did I make?
That's an actual screenshot.
My website.
You can see it for yourself at rushlimbaugh.com.
Folks, here it is.
I told you, Mitch McConnell's office was bugged.
Mother Jones has tapes of conversations inside Mitch McConnell's office.
The LA Times, reporting on this, is referring this or to this as anatomy of a smear.
Ashley Judd being bashed in a secret tape of McConnell.
Anatomy.
So the LA Times celebrating the fact the office was bugged.
Sympathetic story.
Ashley Judd smeared in McConnell's office.
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