Well, you better start believing it because it's not the only example.
Snurdley just said to me that he can't believe that for the last 30 years, advanced placement, foreign policy education in American universities has been teaching the U.S. was at fault for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I just read you the relevant passage in the textbook, 1985.
JFK was blamed for goading the Soviets. into arming Cuba because of the Bay of Pigs and not just the Bay of Pigs, but JFK running around huffing and puffing and talking about U.S. military might and so forth goaded the Soviets.
Once again, the bad guys of the world were only made bad guys by virtue of U.S. policy or U.S. action.
That's my point.
I'm really doing a lousy job of making my point today here, folks.
No, I think I'm making a bad job.
I'm weaving around it, and I haven't hit the bullseye on it.
Well, I've hit the bullseye, but I haven't.
The idea that it's the United States, the problem in the world, and that's not just a casual thing.
I mean, it's a formative central part of people's education for the last 30 years in elite universities.
And those people who graduate end up populating elite institutions and thus end up corrupting them.
I'm telling you that that's why I'm not surprised when something like North Korea or whatever threatens this or that and hacks Sony and Sony kowtows.
At the root of that is ultimately guilt, guilt and fear.
Guilt that the North Koreans might be able to do something, guilt that maybe we're to blame for it.
We shouldn't have done the movie.
I'm telling you, it's pervasive.
It is what's guiding immigration policy.
It's what's guiding every foreign policy that this administration's in charge of that is diminishing the United States.
We are clearly a nation in decline.
And we're being told our best days are behind us.
Obama's telling us this.
It's being taught.
92 million Americans are not working because they don't think there's any reason to.
Best days are behind us.
And so we're a nation in decline.
And the way you get your stuff now is different than the old days.
You worked for your stuff.
Now you game the system or become part of the system.
But the nation is in decline because the nation deserves to be in decline because the nation has been fraught with injustice and immorality from the days of its founding.
I know I say that.
It rolls off my tongue like it's just natural syllables, but I'm telling you, I mean it with every fiber of my being.
This is what more and more young people have been taught.
The women's studies courses go even further than that.
Let me find those stories in the stack.
I mean, every day now, think, and by the way, the only reason we're learning this is because there are some really gangbuster young people doing conservative blogging and website building that are monitoring what's going on in the quote-unquote academy.
The drive-by media would never tell us.
There's some really campus reform.
There's some really great people.
They're all rush babies doing this, by the way, and I don't mind admitting that.
But they grew up with this program, and they are entering life as conservatives, and somehow they escaped the corruption.
And they're exposing the things that are being taught in a classroom that have been taught for 30 years that nobody's heard about other than, you know, little Johnny comes home from school, tells mom and dad what he's learning.
And mom and dad, what are they going to do?
They're not going to bitch about it because that'll make the university mad at little Johnny.
Little Johnny might not get his A or B.
So everybody shuts up and lets it happen and rolls a dice that little Johnny will turn out okay anyway.
And they'll think that's a one-off.
When none of this is one-off, this is SOP.
Who is Stalin?
Right.
Stalin killed 20 million.
So what?
That was then, this is now the guy that wrote about Stalin got a Pulitzer Prize.
Screw it.
Stalin killed 20 million people.
Mao killed 50 million people.
So what?
They did it for their people.
You don't understand how corrupt this is.
You don't understand.
I don't really think you understand how deeply corrupt these young people are supportering, end up supporting murderous regimes on the basis that it was done for the people.
No, there is evil.
There is evil.
The United States made all these people bad.
The United States made Stalin Kierke.
If we hadn't had designs on Cuba, if we hadn't opposed them, if we hadn't stood in their way, if we hadn't invented the CIA, the OS, whatever, then Stalin wouldn't have killed the people.
All of this, all of the problems in the world are traced back to the United States.
If you doubt me, just open your eyes.
Global warming, climate change.
You take any issue that has become prominent in the Democrat Party or in the American left, and I guarantee you all of it, every one of it, every one of those issues, you can trace it back, its origins back to the United States is to blame.
I give you the way the missile crisis in 62 is now being taught.
JFK's fault goaded the Soviets.
Khrushchev and Brezhnev are minding their own business, and we come along and we start this big nuclear buildup with their scientists, by the way, scientists from Germany, scientists from East Germany.
We stole their scientists.
Those bombs should have been theirs in the first place.
So we stole a scientist.
And then their scientists come along and help us get to the moon first.
We provoked them.
Your question, there's no good and evil, I know what you mean.
And in terms of the way it's being taught, yeah, there's no good and evil with us being the good guys.
What's being – what is Iran?
What is Iran is a fledgling nation doing what it can to keep up with aggressive enemies in the United States and Israel, wants to come up with nuclear capability to defend itself.
And why shouldn't they?
Because we have one.
And who are we to say that, and you don't even have to have Obama for that?
You can trace that one back to Ron Paul and the Libertarians.
You think Obama is seriously engaged with sanctioned talks to limit Iran from getting a nuke?
Yesterday I gave an outsized example.
You wait.
Wait, when are you going to wake up when they find out we sold them their first nuke?
And I was joking and so forth to make a point.
But there is no serious.
It's made to look serious.
But there's no attempt really to stop Iran.
Do you think there is getting a nuclear weapon?
Do you see any evidence of it?
They didn't even give it much lip service.
Let's go to the audio sound rights.
Grab audio summary number 21.
Josh Ernest.
White House press briefing today.
Josh Ernest said, hey, don't be surprised if President Castro makes a visit to America to celebrate our new accord.
And then there was a question from Jonathan Carl of ABC News.
Jonathan Carl said to the press secretary Josh Ernest, Hey, Josh, if engagement works when you're dealing with a country with a bad human rights record like Cuba or a country that behaves poorly, why not North Korea?
Which my question earlier: hey, if we're going to lift the sanctions on Cuba because it's going to improve relations and improve the plight of the people, why not lift the sanctions on North Korea?
Jonathan Carl asked the question.
There was in place a policy to try to compel the Castro regime to change that record by isolating them.
And the fact is, that policy failed because the Castro regime remained in power and continued to take steps that oppressed their people.
It's time for us to try a new strategy to get the Castro regime to better implement policies that don't oppress the basic universal human rights of their people.
Our concerns about North Korea's behavior certainly include their deplorable human rights record, but they also include other things too.
It includes significant concerns with their nuclear program.
Our concerns with the regime in North Korea are different than the concerns that we have with Cuba.
Well, okay, so Cuba policy failed, and now it's time for a new strategy to get the Castro regime to implement better policies that don't oppress the basic universal rights of their people.
Somebody tell me how that's going to be the result of this.
We're going to prop up the Castro economy.
And he has to make any concessions.
So, Castro, in good division of his heart, realizing what a wonderful friend he has in Obama, is going to open up the jails.
And I guess this message on North Korea: hey, if it's good for Cuba, why not North Korea?
Well, give us time.
Just give us time.
And then he did say in the same press conference that it's quite possible, maybe even likely, there'll be a visit to Washington, President Castro.
I don't know if that's Raul or Fidel.
Because I think Raul's the president.
Fidel is the president emeritus in bed or wherever he is.
He'd probably show up too.
I mean, it's going to be gloat time, like you can't believe.
You mentioned Obama throwing all the lights.
Okay, who's next on the phones?
Where are we going to go?
Let's see.
Enrique, Enrique, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Hi, Enrique.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's a real, real pleasure.
I got to tell you, I graduated from a very liberal university, and I was as liberal and as atheist as can be.
And one selling rush limbo by the demands of my mother-in-law that I listened to you for a day caused a complete turnaround, and I am now as conservative as they come.
That is amazing.
And you owe it all to your mother-in-law to boot.
That's conclusive.
My mother-in-law, she's a wonderful woman, but at the time I hated her like the devil.
But now I'm as Christian as can be and as conservative as can be, and conservatism is truly the answer to all of Daniel Hill.
Enrique is truly wonderful to hear.
That's a fact.
And in fact, I've tried calling you for 10 years.
10 years I've been calling you.
And I just got through today.
And I'd love to call you some future day and talk to you about black relations because that's my new pet.
I am an elected official in the city of Bridgeport.
I am a city councilman.
I'm the only Republican out of 20, and I'm the first Republican in eight years to sit in that council.
So, you know, frankly, as conservative as can be and look to repair.
Okay, let me guess what's coming next.
Let me guess what's coming next.
The lifting of the embargo is a great thing.
Well, no, look, let's not go there.
My father fought against Fidel Castro, okay?
So I don't even want to, you know, go to the point that I think that helping a regime or a Castro-like person is a good thing.
However, I do believe that free trade with Cuba, because I believe in capitalism, will liberate the people I almost after them which been the example for 53 years.
It's not 55, it's 53 years of an embargo that has not worked.
Excuse me.
Well, Enrique, look, I appreciate the call, and I am moved deeply by your announced conversion.
It's great, and I'm thrilled that your mother-in-law is your mother-in-law.
I'm really glad you called.
Thanks much.
Okay, that's two today.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
What am I talking about?
What am I talking about?
No, it's not just that.
You're leaving out a key ingredient.
We've had two people who have called Rush.
I am as conservative as this last guy.
I used to be the biggest liberal, but I am more conservative.
I'm the biggest conservative.
I love conservatism.
I used to be an atheist.
I'm a conservative.
Liberal.
I'm the biggest conservative.
And I love lifting the embargo.
You can make, look, I'll drop it.
I'll drop.
I'm not going to.
I'm not.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's just, it's a no-win in this case.
This is one of those moments where I'll hold my opinion in check.
Anyway, I just, Snerdley, I know when we have a day like this, when Obama comes along and does something that America has steadfastly stood for for decades and then reverses it, we're guaranteed, you are guaranteed to find me at least two people who claim to be more conservative than anybody in the country who love the idea.
So, no, I'm not calling.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I'm just observing how these things happen.
Well, let me take a break because we're getting close to time anyway.
Sit tight, my friends.
Much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
Now, now, don't misunderstand me, folks.
Our last caller, Enrique, we looked at him as Enrique Torres, city councilman in Bridgeport, Connecticut, might run for mayor of Bridgeport.
He is a pretty conservative guy.
I was not challenging what he said.
I just, I don't know.
This is second call today.
We got a guy calling up, man, I'm the biggest conservative in the world.
I used to be the biggest liberal.
I used to hate you, but my mother-in-law, my mother, somebody, my sister, convinced me that you're the greatest guy in the world.
I've been trying to get hold of you 10 years, and I finally have.
And I just got to tell you, I'm the biggest conservative in the world, and I agree with Obama.
Okay.
And Snurdley has found.
If you look at it that way.
Look.
Look, I know what's really going on here, folks.
I know why Obama did this, especially now the ghost is given up with the news that Fidel might, in fact, come and visit Washington, as Josh Earnest said.
It is clear what has really happened here.
Obama has relaxed and lifted all of these economic sanctions.
So he can legally import the secrets of the Cuban health care system and implement them into Obamacare and finally fix it.
Now, nobody else will have the guts to tell you that.
But that is probably what this is really all about.
However, we have to Obamacare is an absolute abomination.
It is an absolute mess.
Cuba has the best health care system, fairest health care system, the freest and the cheapest health care system in the world.
But how do you use it with the embargo in place?
How in the world can you import any aspect of it with an embargo?
So you've got to lift the embargo, you've got to normalize trade relations, and that.
Who knows?
Raul or Fredel might actually, when they come to Washington, deliver the first operations manual on how to do a correct national health care system.
Here's Yarret in Atlanta.
You're next on the Russian Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for having me in your program.
I wanted to make a comment about Obama's weak international policy.
Yes.
And actually, you know, focusing what's going on with Cuba.
He's done this in Afghanistan, in Iraq, shown a lot of weakness in this government.
I'm a proud American.
I'm also from Venezuela.
And I'm solving all the things that the Cuban government is doing in Venezuela because they're in there.
It's a narco-terroristic country.
It should be in high alert because they do harbor terrorism.
That's what's happening in Venezuela.
And I think Obama is going to do this.
And what is he going to get in return?
The people in Cuba are going to still live in the same conditions they've been living with or without the sanctions.
Because before the Perestroika, when they had even more money, the Cubans didn't get any of the goods or anything from the country.
And it's going to continue to do that.
And I want to also make a call to everybody to Google Leopoldo Lopez, which is a political prisoner of Venezuela that is incarcerated there.
And the government has ignored the UN decree to free them.
And all the Cubans are in Venezuela.
Venezuela is out of money.
And right now is the timing for Cuba to come into negotiations with the United States.
All right, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I lost you somewhere along the line.
I want to make sure I understand your point.
You think that lifting the embargo is empowering Cuba to remain a.
Well, narco-terrorists.
But in other words, you think it's a mistake.
Completely, because they're not going to change the ways.
You know, Venezuela has been basically feeding Cuba.
Wait a minute.
Well, I wouldn't.
Don't you understand?
Yarit, don't you understand?
The whole point, lifting the embargo, people are filled with hope that this will turn the Castro's into nice people.
It will not.
They're assassinating, and so was Chevy.
And you want to deny people hope?
That's what Obama is all about, hope and change.
And here is a policy.
Lifting these sanctions is designed to give the Cuban people hope and to give us hope that the Cuban people's hope will be elevated and that they will be freed.
And you're coming along and throwing cold water on it like the ice bucket challenge and saying the hope is pointless.
It is pointless.
It is pointless.
And he keeps weakening this.
I mean, I'm a Reagan woman.
I grew up basically in this country.
I'm very sad that the way this country is going is very much similar to things that are happening in Venezuela with a health care, with a foreign policy.
The backyard is right here.
It's Latin America.
Thank you for the call.
I've got to go get time.
There's the ear-splitting tone.
We will be back.
By the way, folks, tracing back to the opening moments of today's program when I made the statement: liberalism is a gutless choice that's one of the easiest things in the world to do is be liberal.
You really have to do anything.
You know, a great way to illustrate that.
In fact, maybe even a better way of characterizing it would be to actually describe how the naive are reacting to the change in our Cuban police.
And it is naive hope.
Naive hope, I think, is a central, fundamental, even a foundational element of liberalism among the great unwashed.
Not the liberal leaders.
They're clearly aware of the scam they're running, in addition to being true believers.
But your average, ordinary, I'm a good person, college student or employee, somebody, average person running around.
Okay.
So for 53 years, we've had these horrible economic sanctions, the poor Cuban people.
And we're going to try something new, and we're going to raise these sanctions and lift the embargo.
And they're going to see the wonderful, beautiful ways American functions.
They're going to be so moved by it.
They're going to force change.
That is a naive hope.
And I think people vote their naive hope.
I don't mean hope in the religious sense.
And I get caught in this every time I start talking about hope.
If I'm perceived to be criticizing it, I hear from the devout who claim that I am messing with people's minds.
I'm not dealing with biblical hope in any way.
I'm talking about the frail human emotion.
Naive hope substitutes for what is thought to be reasoned compassion.
Neville Chamberlain epitomizes naive hope.
Neville Chamberlain traveled to Germany to meet with Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler told Neville Chamberlain: you can assure Churchill and the rest of your people that I have no designs on any other country.
I'm a nice guy.
I just want the best for the German people.
We're all sick and tired of having to take a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a loaf of bread at the store.
I'm just trying to fix my country.
And Neville Chamberlain, will you sign something that says that?
And Hitler says, Absolutely, Sir Chamberlain.
Hand me the paper.
Churchill, or Hitler signs it, and Neville Chamberlain returns to Great Britain waving the paper.
See, we have nothing to fear.
He's actually a nice guy.
He even offered me some schnapps.
He was such a cool guy.
And then within days, Hitler's in Poland.
And Neville Chamberlain is left to naive hope.
I think that constitutes 80% of the Democrat Party voting base, actually.
Naive hope that what Obama says is going to happen.
Naive hope that my premium is going to come down 25%.
Naive hope that I keep my doctor.
You believe the lies.
And what enables you to believe the lies is your naive hope that it can happen.
And in this case, well, we love the Cuban people because we're good people.
And because we're good people means we love other people.
And they're suffering.
And maybe we can help.
And so we're going to lift our embargo.
And We hope that that will really make things better for them.
And that we can take credit for it because we made it happen.
Naive hope.
Naive hope is one of the greatest enemies of common sense because it's easy.
You can have an IQ of a pencil eraser and be excellent at naive hope.
You can be the class dunce and succeed as well as anybody else in the category of naive hope.
And I think this naive hope that is cultivated by Democrat Party politicians so forth is one of many things that presents our country with great problems.
Sad thing is, did anybody learn from Chamberlain?
No, that was still considered a one-off.
Still considered a one-off.
Isolated incident.
There was no lesson learned that bad guys lie, evil people lie, and will take advantage of you and use you and kill you if they have to to get you out of the way.
No, it was a one-off.
Hitler does not represent anybody other else bad guys.
No, no, Hitler was a one-off.
So the lesson's never even learned.
Because naive hope triumphs over the lesson.
Well, we hope the next bad guy will be different.
And we hope.
And I frankly, that's one of the biggest challenges that those of us with common sense have is communicating with those people.
How do you permeate naive hope?
Because anything that shatters their naive hope, threatening, frightening, and you become a threat and maybe even a bad guy.
Mean or whatever.
And the way the left operates today, do you know what constitutes harassment now on the left?
It's simply disagreeing with them.
All you have to do is disagree with the left, and you're harassing them.
You can't interrupt their hope.
Oh, no.
You shatter their world when you permeate their hope and point out that it's really nothing more than naivete.
You see where the state of Vermont is giving up on its single-payer health care?
Now, Vermont, you can't get more Petri dish, Petri dish, Petri dish.
You can't get more.
I mean, if there is a place in this country, if there is a state that is a laboratory for social liberal experimentation, it be Vermont.
And they are giving up on their single-payer health care.
You know why?
It costs too much.
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin canceling his dream plan to create a single-payer health system in the state.
He announced it yesterday.
Yeah, I'm not going to undermine the hope of achieving critically important health care reforms of the state by pushing prematurely for single-payer when it's not the right time for Vermont.
In my judgment, now is not the right time to ask our legislature to take the step of passing a financing plan for green mountain care.
So we will stick with green mountain coffee.
The tax increases that would have been required to pay for the system would include an 11.5% payroll tax, as well as an additional income tax, ranging all the way up to 9.5%.
Folks, 20% increase in state taxes on top of whatever the federal rates are for people.
And they judged Vermonters wouldn't put up with it.
And they don't have the money without taking even more from the citizens.
So they're going to blow up the laboratory of experimentation for single-payer in Vermont.
Because unlike Obama, they can't print money.
But the Obamas can now legally access the secrets of the Cuban healthcare system and find out how they do it.
Cuban healthcare is the best in the world, and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
And nobody can figure out how that happens, but the Cubans have figured it out.
And now with the lifting of the embargo or economic sanctions, we have full access to make single-payer healthcare dream come true at no cost to anybody.
The Cubans don't have a website.
You just go to the office and you get treated and you get cured for whatever you have, and then you go home.
Yeah, Michael Moore did a movie on it.
And that's what we haven't figured out.
And now with the lifting of the embargo, we can do that.
I have not forgotten.
I have these stories on the pollution of young female minds on University Campi.
The first story here is from campus reform.
Students demand law professors eliminate traumatic triggering rape law lessons.
Student organizations representing women's interests now routinely advise students at Harvard law that they should not feel pressured to attend or participate in class sessions that focus on the law of sexual violence because it might be too traumatic.
That's law professor Jeannie Such, who wrote about this in an op-ed in The New Yorker.
Such says these same interest groups encourage professors to warn their students that the rape law unit might trigger traumatic memories, and so we can't teach it.
They can't even learn about rape law because it might be too traumatic.
These are law students, and the women are asking to be exempted from it because even the lessons are too traumatic.
Okay, that's one.
That's campus reform.
It's a much more involved story.
We'll link to it at rushlinbaugh.com.
Marquette University, no free speech at Marquette.
Weeks ago, in the theory of ethics class, philosophy instructor Cheryl Abate listed several possible topics of discussion, but said one of them, gay marriage, could not be addressed because any opposition argument would offend gay students.
And besides, society has already agreed that gays can marriage.
So we're not going to discuss gay marriage at Marquette University in a theory of ethics class because it would offend some of the students.
And in this story, there actually was a man in this story on campus who said, this is crazy.
This is bad, extra, but crazy.
And they kicked him off campus.
He criticized the curriculum, said it was crazy, and they got rid of him, kicked him off campus.
And then, University of Michigan professors I Hate Republicans column sparks backlash.
A University of Michigan professor has sparked a backlash among colleagues and GOP officials after writing a column, It's Okay to Hate Republicans, including a call from the state party's chairman for her resignation.
Susan Douglas, University of Michigan department chair, and Catherine Nephi Kellogg, professor of communication studies, was posted on Monday on the website in these times.
I hate Republicans.
I can't stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Daryl Issa, or any of the other legions of these people.
These blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform, are championing fetal personhood.
She's not going to sit around and listen to Republicans champion fetal personhood.
And so she's demanding, and there's a picture over here.
You'd see it.
You'd understand.
It's okay to hate Republicans.
This is the stuff that's being taught, encouraged.
Students are being urged to learn it.
It's not unique.
It's not one-off.
It's not isolated.
It is quite common.
That's it, folks.
The end of today's busy broadcast.
And they're all busy.
Back, though, in 21 hours, revved and ready for Open Line Friday.