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July 21, 2014, Monday, Hour #3

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	So I checked the email.
	I always do.
	You never know.
	You find some gems in there.
	And uh you've got another call reacting to Robbie.
	This guy Robbie must have fired people up out there.
	I can't believe I actually had a caller say, hey Robbie, grab your 12 gang, shoot your TV or so.
	That was so mean.
	I would never say that to a call.
	Anyway.
	A couple of snarky emails.
	So, when are the gay activists going to demand that Tony Dungey be fired at NBC?
	When do you think that'll happen, Rush?
	Because if you're just joining us, and it has now been confirmed, Tony Dungey did tell, and he's he well, he's the moral authority of the NFL.
	Tony Dungey is, I mean, it when it w when there is a moral dilemma or conundrum, they turn to Tony Dungey.
	The league does.
	Uh other players do.
	They seek Dungey's counsel on things.
	He's achieved that status.
	It's a man of God.
	Um he's considered uh to be uncorruptible, incorruptible.
	And he told a Tampa Bay Times that he would not have drafted Michael Sam if he were head coach in the league, precisely because Michael Sam was gay.
	He would not want to deal with the mess.
	Meaning the media circus.
	And he said, it's not that I'm opposed to Michael Sam having an opportunity to play, I just wouldn't have picked him.
	Which there is you I've these you people emailing me wondering about snark comments.
	There are.
	I have seen, I have found a couple of many snark comments in in drive-by sports media.
	And the first half of the story is Dungey unassailable, Dungey moral authority, Dungey understandable, Dungey Distant.
	But then at the end of the story, but this is where Coach Dungey runs into trouble because if it's okay to discriminate against minorities because of too much trouble, then where would he be in the league today?
	So I don't know what's gonna happen here.
	I I you would think that Dungy would uh I don't know, be immune.
	But even in some of the drive-by sports media, they're gonna have problems with this.
	Uh you want to ask me an NFL marketing question?
	By all means, ask me the NFL marketing question.
	What is it?
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Uh well.
	Um perhaps.
	Certainly wants to know, could it be that drafting uh the first openly gay player is a marketing ploy by the Rams because you know it's gonna sell tickets?
	It might attract uh it might expand the NFL audience to include gay people who may not be football fans who might now be converted to football.
	Is that what you mean?
	Or who just want to be supportive.
	Okay, so the Rams might sell more tickets than they otherwise would have because people just want to be supportive of the decision that they made.
	Uh uh it's uh it's an it's uh I anything's possible.
	I mean, if you can have the whole month of October as pink month in the NFL, you could you could have a rainbow day, you know, one Sunday rainbow sundae, uh rainbow you can do a rainbow month as a as a marketing opportunity.
	Yeah.
	I suppose it's entirely possible.
	I don't see why not.
	If they thought that it if they thought it was a marketing opportunity, what do you mean if Dungey blames Republicans?
	Who said he blames Republicans?
	What is it?
	Oh.
	Oh, well, but he didn't say that.
	Let's not start putting words in his mouth.
	Let's not start putting words in his mouth.
	Look at any words I put in Dungey's mouth, the media's gonna write that I said.
	I'm not gonna do that.
	Everybody's asking me, well, Rush, what about this?
	What about this?
	You guys go get your own shows, and then you raise those questions.
	What do you mean?
	What if Dungey had said, well, the Republicans aren't gonna stay fans anymore.
	They didn't say that.
	Why bring the Republicans into this?
	Oh, you mean like blame the Tea Party.
	The Tea Party must have gotten to Dungey or something.
	I don't think that well, anything is possible, but anyway, it is the news.
	Dungey did say it.
	It has been confirmed, and there is there is some there is some discomfort and unease out there in the sports drive-by's.
	I've already detected some.
	It's very, very carefully worded right now, as they tiptoeing into the water of this, waiting for media brethren to sign on and support any sentiment that might be opposed to Tony Dungy on this.
	You know.
	It is.
	The sports media is dumber than the regular news media, and it's more liberal.
	Hey, I am not the only one who thinks that.
	I know I'm the only one who said it.
	That's true.
	I mention I mentioned uh, well, I am courageous in that way.
	I can't tell you, I was at a I told you there's a golf tournament over the weekend.
	I I can't tell them as a record number of people on the golf course and the uh the associated related social functions.
	People didn't even introduce themselves.
	They came, don't stop what you're doing.
	I haven't heard that in I don't know how many years.
	Don't stop what you most people, hey, great to meet you, appreciate it, love listening to your show, blah blah blah.
	Don't stop what you're doing.
	Well, the staff has always told me that, yes.
	But I'm talking about members of the audience as a specific thing to say.
	I mean, there was a there's the sense of urgency and fear behind it all and appreciation.
	I got it.
	I did.
	I mentioned Kyle Smith in the New York Post, the July 19th, a couple days ago.
	Uh, late it was posted on their website late Saturday night, ran a Sunday paper.
	Could the next generation of Republicans already be here?
	And his column is bouncing off the latest results of a looks like it's a pew survey for the people in the press.
	And it was published in The Economist magazine on July 12th.
	Here's how he opens the piece.
	Again, could the next generation of Republicans already be here?
	In fact, you're gonna find this fascinating because we have discussed this very thing for years on this program, the generational shift of one generation, a finally single generation maturing and saying, screw the world as it is, screw the country as it we're simply not gonna live your way, dad and mom.
	We're just not going to.
	This column purports to assert that we may have reached that generation.
	There's probably never been a time when humanity was not collectively in a torment and an uproar about what its young folk were up to.
	And that's true.
	My parents thought the length of the Beatles' hair was one of the most counter-culture things they'd ever seen.
	The long mop head hair.
	I said, hey, it looks no different than than Moe on the three stooges.
	Well, they're funny.
	They didn't get the music, they didn't get finally my mother, I said, Mother, I want to I want to play you some Beatles songs recorded by the Holly Ridge strings.
	And when she heard the lyrics is some of the most beautiful stuff she'd ever heard.
	And the last thing it was was was counterrevolutionary.
	Anyway, it's true that every generation thinks it's young people are going to the dogs.
	But in contrast with our image of decadent, self-centered, pleasure craving youth.
	In many ways, today's young people are throwbacks.
	They're spurning drugs, spurning crime disorder.
	They're being sexually responsible.
	They're making sound choices about education.
	They might be the least disaffected, least rebellious kids since the Kennedy years.
	And that might have a surprising political implication down the road.
	A July 12th Economist piece reviewed some surprising data, finding that contrary to popular belief, teenage drinking and binge drinking have fallen sharply in recent years.
	The percentage of high school seniors who have ever taken alcohol, for instance, fell from 80% to 71% from 2000 to 2010.
	In 1980, the figure was 93%.
	Asked whether they'd had a drink in the last 30 days, only 41% said yes in 2010.
	In 2000, it was 50%.
	1980, 72%.
	And similarly, the teen pregnancy rate, slightly more than half what it was in the mid-90s, and teenagers are waiting longer to have sex than they did then.
	Violent crime arrests for people from age 10 to 24 are half what they were in 1995 for men, down 40% for women.
	Juvenile incarceration is at its lowest rate since 1975.
	Teenage smoking peaked around 1997 and is now at an all-time low of 17%, less than half what it was in 1997.
	Now, the use of marijuana is the exception to the trend.
	23% of half-school students regularly get high, but the evil weed is still less widely used today than it was in the 70s or even in 1999.
	Now, what is behind all of these surprising numbers?
	Mr. Kyle Smith, the author of this piece says, I can't say, but it's hard not to notice that a decline in destructive behavior associated with peer pressure has happened at the same time the U.S. became a fully wired nation.
	Now here's the point.
	His point is that peer pressure has reduced considerably, that it's peer pressure that causes young kids to go drink or engage in risky behavior because everybody's doing it.
	And you do it to be cool.
	And you want to be a part of big click, the big click's doing X, so you go do X to be accepted by the big click, peer pressure.
	But peer pressure is rapidly diminishing as broadband internet access is expanding.
	Which means that restless young people do not have to go along with whatever the local ne'er do wells are up to.
	Because they have their own little world with their own peers online.
	Now it's not all positive, of course, but they can find their community of voice.
	A lot of people lament that young people are withdrawing from life.
	That they're sitting around in their basements in their underwear and they're doing nothing but texting and instant messaging and emailing and so forth.
	They're not getting out and they're meeting people or not meeting people, they're not getting to know social skills.
	They're hiding behind their phones and their pads and their TV screens, and they're not doing anything.
	At the same time, they're not getting into any trouble.
	There isn't any peer pressure.
	They're not out Engaging in destructive behavior.
	What they're doing is watching YouTube videos or playing video games, they're staying in and getting fat.
	A frustrated pub owner in England, where pubs have been closing in huge numbers, said to the economists, kids these days just want to live in their their own little worlds in their bedrooms watching Netflix and becoming fat.
	Sounds right, but at least no one ever got pregnant from eating Cheetos watching YouTube.
	So anyway, the point is that the decline in all of this destructive behavior, and it's been dominant demonstrated by the polling data, is explained precisely by the solitary nature kids are living now with their wired status.
	No peer pressure, no engaging in all this behavior outside the home.
	There are other problems obviously associated with this, but nevertheless.
	According to a Pew survey, when trying to find out how these people are politically, well, here's the news that's going to require some further explanation.
	All of these kids withdrawing, my word, not in the story.
	Again, it's demonstrable here that engaging in this kind of destructive behavior is down in certain age groups, is because there's less peer pressure, because there's less activity outside the home amongst people who promote destructive behavior.
	So the question then became well, how are they politically?
	And according to Pew, they are liberal Democrats who sound an awful lot like conservative Republicans.
	Let me take a break there, and I'll come back and continue with this after this.
	Now, back to this survey here on the Utes.
	According to a Pew survey, the next generation left, meaning liberals, has a huge generational disagreement with older traditional liberals.
	Among the older liberals, 83% identify circumstances as the cause of poverty.
	But the next generation liberal, the young liberals today, are split.
	47% blame circumstances.
	42% blame lack of effort.
	56% of the older Democrats think that Wall Street does more harm than good.
	56% of the younger ones think it's just the exact opposite Wall Street does more good than harm.
	There is a transformation taking place here.
	There's still more to this, however.
	Plus your phone calls on the other side of another brief obscene profit timeout.
	Ah yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	I think in this survey that I have run across here, voting Democrat is probably the most destructive behavior these young people engage in.
	But the point here is that they're voting, or they claim they're going to vote Liberal Democrat, they actually are conservative Republicans.
	And there are two reasons why they don't vote conservative Republican.
	That's where all this is leading.
	Next generation liberals tilt hugely left on social issues, and this is the reason they vote Democrat, they say.
	And in many cases, because of the social issues, they admit voting against their stated economic beliefs.
	A commenter on a New York Times piece in the Pew survey ticked off a list of economic beliefs that placed him to the right of center.
	And then he said, the Democrats hold on to us only because of the Republican obsession with religion, sexual repression, and environmental denial.
	So these young nexties, the next generation, these young people that we've all predicted would finally grow up and say, enough, we don't see the world this way, mom and dad.
	They're rejecting old-fashioned liberalism, slowly but surely, but they're continuing to vote liberal Democrat because of what they say is the Republican obsession with religion, sexual repression, and political freedom.
	and environmental denial.
	Now, is there really Republican obsession with religion?
	Is there really Republican sexual repression?
	And is there really Republican environmental denial?
	Or is it that the media has made them think that?
	So I think the media has successfully tainted Republicans as obsessed with these things when they are not.
	Let's take them one by one.
	The Republican obsession with religion, all right?
	Whenever the media start the Christian right, the religious right, they create the impression that Republicans are these Victorians and that they're anti-fun and all that.
	The sexual repression, I'm telling you, that is the war on women.
	Do you remember it was either last week or the week before when I shared with you a conversation I had with a guy who said, you know, Rush, you're missing the boat in this contraception business.
	You're you're sound like you're against sex.
	We we don't care who pays birth control pills.
	We just want women to have them.
	Because we want the sex.
	And when you start running around talking about it's a personal responsibility issue, that you can't get pregnant without taking some kind of action.
	It sounds like you're ripping sex, and we like sex, and we don't want to vote for people to be associated with people who don't like sex.
	And we think you're trying to deny us having sex when you start talking about how women ought to have to buy their own birth control pills.
	You remember when I told you that.
	And remember how depressed you were that these people were totally missing the boat.
	Why when birth control pills are nine bucks a month?
	It's the whole idea that government should be providing all this if you want to have a birth control pill, it's not denied to you.
	Go get it.
	Go pay for it.
	Your access is not being denied.
	There's not one Republican policy against contraception.
	There's not one Republican policy against, well, Well, uh there really isn't.
	Birth control pills or any of that.
	But these people think there is.
	So the Democrats' successful war on women has made people think.
	And the other thing here is uh environmental denial, global warming.
	Um, gay marriage used to be in this mix, but this story says that that issue's run its course now.
	Let me read it to you.
	The gay marriage debate is winding down and maybe over by 2016.
	Some Republicans are outflanking the Hobby Lobby decision and making a huge step in a libertarian direction by calling for over-the-counter birth control.
	Just this will make it available.
	You know, like aspirin.
	Republicans are supporting this in order to counter this idea that they hate sex.
	It's a silly idea, but these kids believe it because of the media.
	It all goes back.
	Folks, I've got a story, haven't gotten to it.
	MTV is going to have a new series, popularizing incest.
	I'm not kidding you.
	It's being produced by, is being produced by a couple of famous gay producers, and it's popularizing incest among young people.
	Now, now, see, if you come out and oppose this, what are you?
	You're going to be portrayed as old fuddy duty, and you're not with it, you're not hip, and you're not cool.
	Uh but it's the media doing this stuff, is my point.
	The media is without without the media, half the stuff people believe they wouldn't believe.
	We dealt with that great detail last week.
	The environmental denial is simply if it's a on the incest thing, I'm dead serious.
	Let me find the story.
	You don't believe me on this?
	Why do why why do you not?
	Why do you why?
	Why do you not believe me?
	Do you think I could make this up?
	Certainly, I mean it's coming up here in this second.
	Uh Well, I tell you MTV does.
	Step here it is.
	It's it ran on newsbusters.
	Step right up to MTV's incest plot.
	This this is how the culture gets debased and denigrated.
	It's it's not by big things, or these little kind of little things the media tacitly approves of.
	For those who predict the coming collapse of Western civilization is always MTV for proof.
	At this year's Television Critics Association summer tour in Hollywood, MTV put on a panel discussion for the press with the cast and creators of a forthcoming series called Happy Land, the female star of the show announced the new MTV motto, Incest is hot, and we're gonna have fun.
	Lisa de Mores at Deadline Hollywood website reported the pilot episode.
	This is a show for teenagers.
	This show exploring the underbelly of a popular theme park includes a clip of Santos making out with his amusement parks, new hottie, only discover he's her brother.
	The assembled TV critics and reporters ask the obvious question.
	So why the twist?
	Why the brother and sister making out thing?
	How does that relate to the other things in the show?
	And without getting too heavily into spoilers, where does this go after she realizes it's her brother?
	Well, we all know the answer to number one.
	The incest twist is MTV digging ever deeper for their precious edge until they dulled the shock of every perversion.
	The show's creator, Ben Epstein, boosted the notion this was this like a fairy tale.
	Handsome prince sweeping a maiden off her feet.
	He just adds MTV edge to it and makes it all weird and crazy about incest.
	Incest is hot.
	We're gonna have fun.
	Hey, you think I would come here make this up?
	It's the same thing with with the young people have this attachment.
	I've I've told you about how the my little young tech bloggers are just totally convinced we're destroying the planet.
	Totally, and I know why they glom onto it.
	They can give their life meaning by trying to stop it.
	They can they can their their parents have come along and killed a polar bears.
	Their parents came along and drove all these these filthy pollution spewing big cars and SUVs.
	Their parents came along and did all this rock that stuff, but they are gonna save the planet.
	It's a chance to give their life meaning, a social cause, and so forth.
	It's uh and you can join this effort while on YouTube, and you can join this effort while sequestered in your basement.
	Big environmentalist, you care, and so forth.
	It's uh and they they do not hear, they never hear that global warming is a hoax.
	They're never exposed to any of the media that they access.
	They are they do not know about East Anglia universe.
	They do not know of the email hoaxes.
	They don't know the fake hockey stick, they don't know anything.
	All they know is the cause, and it'll give their life meaning.
	The incest thing, that's that's just designed to dull the senses.
	Once again, that's that's just with a fem the female star, the female star of the show, said incest is hot, and we're gonna have fun.
	To the TV critics when they were you really gonna do this?
	You're gonna you're gonna you're gonna oh, yeah, incest is hot, and we're going to have fun.
	I gotta take a break.
	We'll be back after this.
	Don't go away.
	Back to the phones.
	This is Corey Eagle River, uh River, Eagle River, Wisconsin.
	Great to have you.
	Thank you so much for waiting.
	Hi.
	Oh, no problem.
	Thank you.
	Um I'm really nervous to talk to you, but I gotta tell you, first of all, it's an honor to talk to you.
	And from 11 to 2, it's my favorite time of the day because I get to spend it with you.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	I have a question for you.
	This weekend, I read a short story on Drudge, and it talked about Apple considering moving Jay Carney as their their face of PR.
	And I just wanted to know what you thought about that.
	Well, I don't know if it's true.
	That's it's uh it's somewhat confusing.
	The story first broke, and then uh uh a guy who who once again happens to be an infallible Bible on Goings On at Apple.
	He's a blogger by the name of Jim Dalrymple.
	His blog is called The Loop.
	He uh he said, Nope, not true.
	Tim Cook has never even met Jay Carney.
	So the story went away.
	And then two or three days later, it surfaced again that Carney is still talking to Apple, or vice versa.
	And that if this latest story I saw means it's up to Carney to decide as though the job has been offered.
	Now, normally Dalrymple is wired on this stuff.
	Um I don't know what what the truth of this is.
	I don't know if Jay Carney's putting the rumor out himself.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea about it.
	Uh well, I think you should be the spokesperson for Apple because you do a great job.
	Well pointing their product and making me thinking that I need to buy an iPad this summer.
	So I would I would be discouraged if Carney got the job because I might have to turn in my Apple product.
	Well, I know how you feel.
	You know, I had a bunch of people.
	I can't well, gee, why Jake Carney, the guy that told the truth since he started working for Obama.
	Who's gonna believe it?
	Oh, I've had I can't say the number of people.
	I don't think it matters.
	Uh he's just gonna be BSing the media and and they're used to it.
	Uh yeah, he's good at that.
	But I understand if you're depressed, I know why.
	I am I am uh you hate my day.
	Honestly, you're taking my phone call.
	I uh it's an honor to talk to you.
	You have no idea you've changed my life.
	I just my way of thinking.
	My daughter's wife, she's sitting right next to me in the car, bobber pulled over talking to you.
	Well, I'm I'm I'm really flattered.
	I I thank you so much.
	I love it.
	You make a world of difference.
	Thank you so much.
	Well, you're you're more than well, I love making people's day.
	Um I wish everybody knew what that felt like.
	Happens to me all the time.
	No, it doesn't.
	It's really that's that's unique compliment, and I I really appreciate that.
	Uh, Corey, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't worry about this Jay Carney thing.
	Uh PR at Apple has always been a an invisible thing.
	Now I think they do want to change it a bit.
	The the gal they had at PR was, you know, the mirror image of Steve Jobs, and they're trying to make it a little bit friendlier and all that, but Carney, I know.
	I got I understand people who cringe.
	My friends, that's it.
	Sadly, we have run out of busy broadcast time for the first day back here of the busy broadcast week.
	But fear not, we just got started.
	Tomorrow, right around the corner, 21 hours.
	I look at I love being with you all every day.
	You make my day by being out there.
	I can't thank you all enough.
	I appreciate it.
	And I'll see you back here tomorrow.
	Thank you so much.

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