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March 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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So I did.
I gave a homework assignment late in the program on Friday.
In the last ten seconds of the program.
And the reason I did, I intended to discuss this story all day on Friday, but I didn't get to it because it was open line Friday.
It was uh it was caller focused on Friday.
But Hannah Rosen has a piece in the March 19th Its You of the Atlantic, entitled The Overprotected Kid.
And give you some of the pull quotes.
Like most parents my age, I have memories of childhood so different from the way my children are growing up that sometimes I think I might be making them up, or at least exaggerating my childhood experiences.
Back in graduate school, the clinical focus had always been on how the lack of parental attunement affects the child.
It never occurred to any of us to ask, what if the parents are too attuned?
What happens to those kids?
See, this is one of the ways it began.
The baby boomers began.
They were told in graduate school, or just culturally.
They were taught and made to feel guilty about the lack of parental attunement or awareness, the lack of attention being paid to the children.
And they weren't asked to ponder what the impact would be of too much attachment, too much concern, uh, too much attunement.
What happens to those kids that are babied, sheltered, protected.
They grow up thinking they're not capable of doing anything on their own.
They grow up totally risk averse.
They grow up basically afraid of reality.
If they've been sheltered and protected and provided for, they're raised and they end up with no confidence, which gave rise to the self-esteem movement in our screws, because we realized our children didn't like themselves because they had not been given a chance to develop love for themselves.
They were so overly protected, provided for, taken care of, sheltered, that they didn't grow up.
And one of the focal points was risk.
They just weren't allowed to take any.
Because the fear of failure or the fear of damage, fear of the risk resulting in pain, I guess that's probably the primary thing that these overprotective parents wanted to avoid was any pain or suffering on the part of little Johnny and little Sally.
And if they could do that, then they would be a good parents.
There's enough trouble out there without little Johnny and little Sally being protected from it.
So we need to protect them from any pain, any suffering, and as such, we end up with really strange.
But unprepared kids.
Another pull quote.
One common concern of parents these days is that children grow up too fast.
But sometimes it seems as if children don't get the space to grow up at all.
They just become adept at mimicking the habits of adulthood.
They learn how to how to act like adults, but they don't really become adults.
And as research shows, children used to gradually take on responsibilities year by year as they grew up.
They crossed the road on their own.
They went to the store on their own.
Eventually, some of them got small neighborhood jobs until the local town came and shut them down like they do today for the improper license.
You can't even set up a limitate stand today without some town authority coming and shutting you down.
Their pride, children's pride in long ago days wrapped up in competence and independence, which grew as they tried and mastered things they hadn't known how to do the previous year.
Now that sounds perfectly sensible, totally wrapped up in common sense.
The notion of achievement, accomplishment.
Doing something on your own.
Way too many kids are being denied that opportunity because they're being overly protected.
Parents either think they can't do it.
How many of you had parents who told you that you were never going to amount to anything?
How many of you had parents that you can't do that?
I mean, a lot of kids do.
It's not healthy, obviously.
But other parents are totally laissez-faire, and you go try it and do what you want.
But there was pride in competence, learning you were able to do something.
There was pride in being able to take care of yourself.
There was there was a sense of achievement in independence, being able to handle things yourself without having to run to mommy or daddy.
And as they got older and tried more things and mastered more activities, they grew.
And they learned to take on greater risks.
And then they learned to assess the risk.
These days, middle class children at least skip all of this.
They spend a lot of time in the company of adults, so they learn to talk like them and think like them, but they never build up the confidence to be truly independent and self-reliant if they come from overprotective parents.
Here's another pull quote from the homework assignment.
Children are born with the instinct to take risks when they play.
Because historically, learning to negotiate risk has been crucial to survival.
In another era, they would have had to learn to run from some danger, defend themselves from other dangers.
They'd had to learn to be independent.
Even today, growing up is a process of managing fears and learning to arrive at sound decisions.
By engaging in risky play, children are effectively subjecting themselves to a form of exposure therapy in which they force themselves to do the thing that they're afraid of in order to overcome their fear.
But if they never go through that process, the fear can turn into a phobia.
Paradoxically, our fear of children being harmed, mostly in minor ways, may result in more fearful children and increased levels of psychopathology.
Researcher cites a study showing that children who injured themselves, falling from heights when they were between five and nine years old, are less likely to be afraid of heights at age 18.
Risky play with great heights will provide a desensitizing or habituating experience.
You know what's happened here?
In many cases, uh this the the over we assumed that all this stuff that I'm describing is good was a problem.
The risk-taking, the independence, the competence.
A bunch of uh liberal socialist architects came along, and we know better.
We could be we can raise your kids better, you're not qualified to raise your kids.
We can do it better for you at the government level.
And so they began these social experiments.
The laboratory, childhood became a laboratory for social experimentation, and we've gotten the point now where we're gonna have to go back to the way it was to establish normalcy because these people have so screwed it up.
So now a st years ago, this story, the overprotected kid, would not have even been written.
Because it was such a rarity, the overprotected kid was such a rarity.
And that kid, I'm not gonna use the word to describe what the overprotected kid was.
We all know what that kid was.
Now we got a whole bunch of people like now.
Now we got a problem, so we're having to revert back to the way it was and get rid of all the social laboratory experimentation.
But there is Mr. Snerdley pointed something out to me right As we were going to the break.
When I had mentioned to Lisa, our first caller, now, yeah, you and I, we can talk about how carefree it was when we were growing up.
Leave home at eight in the morning, come home at five in the afternoon, we're ten years old.
Parents never worried.
Snerdley said, well, there weren't any sexual predators out there then.
And that's because the left had not overly sexualized the culture.
And that is a factor.
This is, in fact, I was talking to Bill Donahue.
The Catholic League interviewed him for the latest issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
You should read it.
They should read every issue of the limball letter.
But this is we just finished an interview with Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, who just did Bill Donahue, the Catholic League.
And he had something, he said something, I don't have the interview right in front of me.
But he made the point that practically everything the left culturally is trying to move everything that their interest, every cause, every issue, everything about what the left is trying to do is related to sex.
Contraception, everybody being there whatever it is, the left is obsessed with everybody, anybody having sex with anybody, whoever, wherever, whenever they want, with no limits and no judgment on it.
And it got me to thinking all the things that I've heard.
I remember back in the in the 90s on this program, uh, when it became fashion, the age crisis.
Okay, so we've got to start teaching kids to use condoms.
They'd say cucumbers to class, and they'd use condoms or balloons, and then that eventuated to parents actually agreeing to letting their kids have sex, their teenage kids have sex in their houses rather than the backseat of the car because as one parent told me on the phone, at least I know it's clean in my guest bedroom.
And the parents that rush, they're gonna have sex, we can't stop them, which became the liberal mantra.
We can't stop them, Rush.
They're going to do it.
You can't stop it.
Now, when I tried that same line of thinking on smoking, they wouldn't hear of it.
Well, wait a minute, once they start smoking, you can't stop them.
So why don't you put a pack of cigarettes on the nightstand for when they finish sex?
No, no, no.
That's bad.
We're not going to let them smoke.
That's that's well, but you say they're gonna have sex no matter what.
Yeah, that's right.
And his point was that no matter where you look, be it the abortion debate, be it the contraception debate, be it be it whatever attempts to destroy the Catholic church, the left, it's always related to sex.
And he may have a point, but it is true that pornography is just rampant today.
It's much more visible, readily visible, easily accessed, than it ever was 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Part of that's the internet.
But television has also played a role in the oversexing, and and the the making it look like sex anytime, anywhere with anybody is normal.
In fact, that defines whether you're not hip or not.
Defines whether you're cool or not.
And it has, in a suggestive sense, given license to uh to people.
Uh and this has led to sexual predators uh who are you know that they're they're in much greater visibility today than they were when I was growing up, for sure.
There's no question about it.
I'm not even granted I came and grew up a small town, but it was nothing anybody in our town was concerned about.
And I think in in many places, particularly non-big city areas, that was probably the way it was.
But there's no question that the oversexed pop culture has created all kinds of of limitless, apparently limitless, which equals cool behavior, And it has led to some detrimental things.
And this has caused parents who are think they're responsible to end up being overprotective and trying to protect their kids from that.
But if you don't believe this, I mean, all you have to do is look at teenage pregnancy, teenage single motherhood.
I mean, it is rampant.
It is just it's almost uncontrollable.
And you're not allowed to condemn it.
You're not allowed to speak factually correctly about it, the damage it does to both mother and child.
The obstacles that that circumstance puts in people's way.
It's because that, well, that's it's a product of their poor poverty, socioeconomics.
It's the problem of that's a rich have caused all this.
And they turn every aspect of this, then becomes politicized.
But I had not thought of it the way Bill Donovan described it in the uh in the interview.
So you throw the sex angle, obviously is relevant, but I think also the the limiting, the elimination of prevention of risk, the denial of opportunity to succeed, to become competent, to become independent.
Uh as has taken us to a point now where all of a sudden it's it's thought that we had a problem.
And we have a problem precisely because leftist engineers began to take over the whole notion of child rearing.
And through the power of media and suggestion, they began to intimidate parents into believing they didn't know what they were doing, and so they go out and buy books written by these leftists on how to do it.
And all of those books were aimed at was simply giving the state as much control over people as possible.
It was rooted in the belief that you, as a parent, were incompetent yourself.
You don't know how to raise a child.
You didn't know how to raise yourself.
You don't know how to spend your money the right way.
You don't know a right kind of car to drive.
You don't know the right way to eat.
And this is what the le you you're not responsible enough even to get the right health care or health care policy.
We have to do that for you.
You're not responsible enough to get yourself point A to point B. We got to get you there in mass transit, and we gotta put you in the right kind of car if you're not going to use mass transit.
And so it's become a just a total as much control over all of life as they can secure for themselves, rooted in their belief that you are incompetent.
And they have succeeded in influencing parenthood to the point that they've raised millions of kids that are incompetent now.
With no confidence, no ability to achieve independently.
That's why I assigned this piece as homework over the weekend.
It's all relevant to everything that we discuss every day here on this program.
Let me cut to the chase.
I mean, here's a one of the I think the simplest way of illustrating the differences.
My parents raised me to be independent.
What I remember, I couldn't wait to leave home.
I wanted to be on my own.
I wanted to be responsible for myself.
I wanted to be my boss, my own boss.
I did not want to be dependent on anybody.
I didn't want anybody having that power over me.
But the difference today is that the Democrat Party, the American left is raising their own kids, and they want all kids to be raised dependent on them, dependent on the state.
That's from where they derive their electoral power, is everybody being dependent on them on the government or what have you.
And so these kids are raised, being taught about the beauties of the state and the wonderment of government and the fairness and the equality of all of it.
At the same time, they are raised being warned of all of the meanness and the unfairness and the inequality and extremism that's out there.
And you've got to be careful because everybody wants To harm you and damage you and take advantage of you and relegate you to insignificance.
And that's the difference.
Kids aren't being raised to be independent today by design and on purpose.
By liberals anyway.
Here is Joseph in Long Island.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome.
It's great to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
Uh long time listener.
Love your show.
Thank you.
I just I'm in a little quandary regarding an issue at school with my child, and uh I just wanted your opinion on it.
If I could give you a little background for your screener.
Um my daughter's in sixth grade, and for her, I'm a little nervous, so excuse me.
My child is in uh sixth grade, and um she was shown the inconvenient truth last week by Al Gore in her science class, and I'm having a problem with how to handle it and what exactly I should do um regarding whether I should discuss it with the principal, my feelings about what was done, or if I should do it anonymously.
I'm a little worried about repercussions for my child, but that's the common obstacle that every parent has when they find out that kids are being taught things that they don't agree with or don't think they should be taught.
You're afraid, if you make an issue of it, that they'll take it out on your daughter with bad grades.
I'm not even worried about the grades as much as being possibly ostracized by the teacher as much.
You know, it's sixth grade, uh, you know, grades are not as important at this level.
Um I just don't want to put any pressure on my child and make her feel different, so to speak.
But I'm also trying to lead teach a lesson here about standing up for what you believe.
All right, well, let's talk.
I've got to take a I've got to take an obscene profit break here, but you hang on, and and we'll talk about that.
As uh I have some ideas I run by see how you feel about them after we get back.
And we're back with uh Joseph in Long Island, whose daughter is in the sixth grade and was shown by the school Al Gore's fraud of a global warming movie entitled The Inconvenient Uh Truth.
Exactly.
Uh before you I need to ask you some questions here, Joseph.
Are you the only parent you know of upset by this?
As of now, yes.
I've I've told one other parent, and um, you know, they they seem to react kind of neutrally, you know.
I don't I don't know their opinion on the subject, and and uh and and their opinion is almost irrelevant.
It's the the issue is you know to show one side of a story and not the opposing view.
What about your daughter?
What does she think on her own?
Well, she's been doing a lot of studies regarding climate change and such, and um, you know, I'm I'm loosely involved in trying to show her, you know, that there's other um possibilities and as far as um Earth and what's what may be causing any of the changes that we're having.
Um I think she's kind of on the fence, not sure what to believe, and uh I'm very careful not to force what I think upon her.
My my whole goal with her is to is to have her think independently and not just accept what I think or anyone else and and to challenge it and dig for the truth as best you can.
Um so she she's not fully in agreement, certainly, with that movie or or uh man-made climate change.
Well, it won't be long before she is, because she's not going to you're you're going to be the only counter veiling view she hears.
Well, which gives me no choice.
I mean, if I'm right, which is why I have to step in, which I don't like to do, but see that's the thing uh they don't know any better.
If you if you go to the school, it the odds are the odds are that everybody in that school is as close-minded about this as anybody else is.
They are in they're they're in education to indoctrinate your daughter, not teacher.
In fact, I have a let me find this.
I've got won't take me here.
I've got a story about the um teachers' union head in Chicago.
Here it is.
Listen to this.
This is what you're up against.
Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis wants schools to teach social justice, not consumerism.
She spoke about ways to avoid consumerist messages while teaching subjects typically seen as apolitical, like math.
You want to talk about organizing, you want to talk about social justice.
People always talk about how there's no political um uh value in math that you can teach math without a place social justice.
But you can.
You can teach social justice in math.
And she goes on to explain how to do it.
So they have politicized education, and they are being openly honest about their intention.
Social justice is nothing but socialism.
That's all social justice is.
And she's she's admitting that they want to indoctrinate the students, not educate them.
Now, my guess is that the people at your school, from the principal on down, and then there are going to be exceptions to this.
It's not everybody, the vast majority of them believe global warming is happening just because they believe it.
It's just it's all they've been taught.
And Al Gore to them is is as close to a uh singular authority god as as you can get on this.
So you're you're not I don't think you're going to persuade them.
Well, I don't I'm not looking to change their minds on what they believe.
My issue is you're showing this documentary or a mockumentary, whatever you want to call it, and with with no opposing view of the other side, and that's the part I find unacceptable.
Well, see, that's the point.
There is no I guess what I'm trying to say is if you went to the teacher, if you went to the principal, and you said, Look, if you want to play Gore's movie, fine, but where's the other point of view?
They'll tell you there isn't one.
Well, that's I printed Lord uh Moncton's 35 Inconvenient Truths, and I wanted to present that to them because it's fantastic.
But and paid for by the oil industry, they'll tell you.
No what's that's no no no no?
Look, wait, wait, you cannot reach these people using standard logic with the facts in evidence.
That's not why they believe what they believe.
They have agreed they don't believe global warming because they intellectually believe it.
It is a cause.
It's it's not an educational issue, it's a cause.
Where you have to work on what you is your daughter.
Of course, and that's what I'm trying to do with with you know pulling out certain facts and such.
I mean, just for example, with the polar bear, she she told me, you know, how the other kids in our class reacted to when they saw the polar bears swimming and and and stuff, which which was deemed uh basically untrue, and they weren't told the fact that there's more polar bears now than there were in 1940.
You know, they weren't given that fact.
So a kid walks away from slogan.
Let me give you let me give you another fact.
Now you're the parent of a sixth grader, but let me ask you how this would go over.
Now, I let me tell you something.
You know, I've I've started writing children's books for this very reason, Joseph.
And it's a challenge.
Uh my age group is 10 to 13.
And it's a I bought your book, by the way, for my daughter.
She has a tennis to yet, though.
So cool, thank you.
But I mean, I there's no question that that I'm I'm on a mission here to counter what they're being taught, but it's a real delicate thing to do it.
I need to ask you, if you were to tell your daughter, I'm gonna give you a truth here.
If you were to tell your daughter that every picture that she saw in that movie of a polar bear on a very small piece of ice or glacier, was faked and fraudulent.
Would she does she have the ability to process that and believe it?
If you, her father tell her that.
Yes, I believe she does.
She's a very child.
It happens to be true.
There the Gore is knowingly using photographs, knowingly taken to mislead by photographers.
They that picture is made to go with the notion that it's getting so hot that the ice at the North Pole is melting, and the picture of the polar bear on that ice is supposed to convey to the young skullful of mush that we're killing the polar bears, because that's that's his home.
That's his house.
Once that melts, he's gonna die.
And it works well.
Uh, you know, when they target children, the child, you know, it's it's it it works well, obviously, and and that's uh how to you know, how do we control that?
It's a difficult thing.
The way that's why I'm asking you if your daughter is is mature enough to accept facts.
I mean, the fact here is that a polar bear can swim 60 miles.
The pictures were faked.
You said it yourself.
There are more polar bears than ever.
In fact, the Arctic has more ice now than it's had in a long long.
It's not melting.
Everything they're saying is a lie.
Every Al Gore even sold his his failed TV network to Al Jazeera, which is oil-based.
I mean, if here's a guy who's condemning his based his career in environmentalism on the evils of big oil and how they are single-handedly responsible for climate change and global warming.
He starts this network, current TV, it bombs, he sells it to the oil-rich sheikh of Cutter.
They own Al Jazeera.
He sold out the big oil, took his profits from the very enemies he claims, are destroying the planet.
The man's a total hypocrite on this.
Now, I know your daughter's probably not uh old enough to be able to process all of that, but you are.
Yes, absolutely.
And it's it's you know, this is a it is a serious, serious thing because kids today are being lied to about the founding of the country, they're being lied to about and the the what's happening to your daughter is that it's subtle at her age.
But part and parcel of showing her that film is to have her and others in her class end up accepting responsibility.
And I it one of the things that's happened as a result of this movie is kids have seen it, have gone home and started bitching at their parents and blaming them for destroying the polar bears.
Mom, look what you and dad have done it.
I am not gonna behave irresponsibly like you have.
Kids have gone home and and and criticize their parents and yelled at them because the movie makes them think that their parents, the adults are driving these these beast cars and and destroying the planet, and the kids don't want the planet to them.
Mom, you've got to stop.
And the parents who don't want their kids to hate them, then go out and start doing things to make the kids.
It's it's a it's a snowball process.
Many of the children on Long Island and even in the school have been influenced to believe that um Sandy was caused by man-made climate change, when nothing is further from the truth.
We've had much worse storms in the past, but they haven't been taught about the hurricane of 1938.
And here we have Sandy, and the, you know, we have Governor Cuomo coming down and and uh it all on climate change.
Well, look, there's there's good news here.
The polling data is showing now that the vast the growing majority of people don't believe this.
And that's why the educators, uh I'm sorry, the liberals in the schools are doubling down on their efforts to propagandize the students like your daughter.
I was stunned that a seven-year-old piece like this was shown in a class.
I I, you know, I I I really thought it was maybe if it was shown five years ago.
Seven-year-old piece, I mean it's the gospel, Joseph.
It's the gospel.
For sure.
For this movement.
The thing is, I can't give up and say, well, what am I going to do?
There's times to make a stand, and especially with your children.
Now, look, raising your child is your business.
And I I do not have any.
All I've got's nephews and nieces.
But I'll just tell you that if one of my little nephews and nieces is wrong about something and I know they're wrong, I tell them.
I don't give them a chance to be open-minded and be wrong.
I tell them.
And I don't get in their face and point fingers.
Um, I just I I just I know open-mindedness is great, but coming to the wrong conclusion isn't.
And it at 10, 13, 15 years old, uh, this formative years, this is where this is the best chance you're gonna have until life experiences take over for them.
I appreciate your dilemma, hear from it all the time.
Parents constantly disagree with with the with the propaganda their kids are being hit with, but they feel powerless, just like you do.
You go to the school, if it's in high school, they worry about the grade, junior high school.
In your case, elementary school, they worried about just gonna be mean to your daughter, treat her as second class student because of her nutcase dad, which you don't want.
So uh it's it's uh there's no question it's a dilemma, but this is where you gotta take over and pick up slack if it's that interesting to you.
I gotta run.
I appreciate Joseph, the phone call.
Sit tight, my friends.
We've got much more after this.
Don't go away.
Hey, since the subject has been broached, a couple of more things here uh on this whole global warming hoax.
It is genuinely truly important that you parents get this right because it is one of the primary vehicles used to inculcate your kids into becoming state supporting good little liberals.
It is crucial.
It's crucial to raising kids that are ending up self-reliant, able to take care of themselves, that's learning how to deal with failure.
When you have a bunch of kids raised who have never been allowed to fail because of the pain, they're going to be scared to death of doing anything that has any degree of risk.
And as such, they're never going to accomplish anything really.
And at worst, they're going to end up being totally dependent on some outside institution to take care of them.
More than likely the government.
And this global warming hoax is one of the building blocks for young people to become good card-carrying liberals.
Now, John Hindrocker Powerline has a good post over the weekend about global warming.
Do you know what climate alarmism, climate change global warm, do you know what it is based on?
It's based on one thing.
Climate models.
It is not based on empirical evidence.
It is not based on empirical observation.
It is not based on real data.
The entire theory of global warming, and I am not exaggerating, is rooted in computer models predicting the future 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years down the road.
And that is it.
And the computer models are put together by biased scientists who have a financial interest in producing an outcome that their donors want.
A computer model is only as good as the data that's put into it.
And the whole global warming movement is predicated on computer models that are manipulated to generate predictions of significant global warming because of CO2.
There is no scientific evidence backing it up.
It is all a supposition that they use the computer models to back up.
Then they go and get a picture of a polar bell, a polar bear on a small little piece of ice.
They present this fraudulent picture as evidence of ice melting at the North Pole.
And then when that ice melts, that polar bear's gonna die, and a little kid will believe that.
Because a little kid doesn't know a polar bear can swim 60 miles.
A little kid doesn't know that that little piece of ice is where the polar bear goes to take the vacation.
The polar bear is there vegging.
The polar bears seek out these little ice flows just to take a break.
And then they jump off, they'll see a fish, bam, jump off, go get it and come back.
And it's true there are more polar bears today than ever than than in the last 10 or 15.
There's no truth to any of this alarmism.
The models that are put together obey the input of the people that create the model.
And by the way, the left uses economic models the same way.
The Congressional Budget Office will use economic models to project what something is going to do in the future, tax-wise, the only thing they have to go on is the data Congress gives them.
It's all a hoax.
But the thing that I don't there they're just there is no empirical data, past or present, that's utilized in these predictions of global warming.
They do not, the models do not accurately predict the past.
The hockey stick thing that the guy at Penn State came up with to show what the medieval warming, it's not.
It's totally made up.
As the emails from the University of East Anglia fortunately illustrate, the models do not account for many features of the present climate.
And again, this concept may be a little bit hard for a kid to understand, but it's all also rooted in the belief that whatever was going on 15 years ago is the normal for planet Earth.
And they just made that up.
They just decided that the average high and low, whatever the climate circumstances were 15 years ago, was normal.
And so anything that happens from 15 years ago is bad because we're not holding it normal.
And ideally we would hold it normal or reduce.
But the earth is always changing.
It's never constant.
The whole thing is such a bogus hoax.
Gotta take a break.
Be back after this.
No, no, no, I've not forgotten about it.
In fact, I'm gonna get it.
Get it in next.
This episode with the Obama media and Matt Drudge and a simple little tweet that he sent out Friday about how he had to pay his Obamacare penalty because he doesn't have insurance.
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