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Feb. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hi, folks, how are you?
Greetings and welcome.
Great to have you with us once again, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, El Rushbo on President's Day.
And you know, it's it's getting funny now.
And I used to complain all the time.
I'd show up here on these Monday holidays, and I would not realize it was a Monday holiday till after I got here.
So I was too late to do anything about it.
And I always complain that the staff withheld these Monday, because I'm not focused on vacation time.
I'm not focused on days off.
And so I don't look for those.
I'm not like many lazy people who, you know, in a job interview, I need to know the vacation and sick time I get, and uh, do you offer free dog to the vet days?
I'm not like that.
I don't focus on time off.
So I always, nevertheless, ended up thinking that I got sort of screwed by not realizing on these these weirdo Monday holidays.
You know why you know why this is a holiday?
There's one reason why this is a holiday, nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents.
Lincoln, Washington, or Ottawa.
Nothing to do with that.
The ski industry.
The ski industry got this as a three-day weekend.
Right here we are in the middle of February, uh, for economic purposes.
That's why they call it President's Day to make everybody go along with it, get it to reason.
He can't call it three-day ski weekend holiday.
That wouldn't pass.
Well, it might now, but it wouldn't have then when we did this.
So if you're used to seeing people, for example, you turn on TV today, and uh some of your favorite personalities are not there.
I guarantee you they're on the ski slopes.
If they ski, that's where they are.
And a lot of people schedule big long semi-spring break weekends, but I, El Rush, but I never skied.
Maybe the lodge a couple times, but that's um that's it.
Brian Williams skiing today, it doesn't matter.
By the end of the day, he will have been.
You watch the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary.
By the way, folks, there's hardly any news today.
It's such a holiday that the newsmakers decided it's all ISIS.
It's all ISIS today, and and then I I need to step back a couple of steps, maybe a step and a half on John Boehner, because he was good yesterday on Fox about the upcoming Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
And I kind of raked, didn't rake Boehner, I raked the Senate Republicans over the calls last week about this.
And it was somewhat justified.
We have to walk it back a little bit.
Because it's actually, as I said last week, and I doubt anybody's gonna remember, but it really is the Senate Democrats who are willing to shut down DHS over this.
It's not the Senate represent this the Senate Republicans' problem is that they don't apparently even have the guts to say that.
Uh and this is all about the budget in December and all about trying to stop Obama's executive amnesty on illegal immigration by not funding the parts of the home uh Department of Homeland Security that are necessary for it to implement.
And the House has done its job, and the Senate Republicans are sitting on it, have the usual fear, even though they're the majority.
You know, there were some people at a theory last fall, and I kind of poo-pooed some of them, but they may have had a point that the might have been some Republicans who did not actually want to win last September because they didn't want the pressure of being in the majority while being in the minority,
meaning the majority in the Senate, but the Republican Party's the minority given that they own the White House, and there were some people running around, you know, the Republicans really don't want to win the Senate this year.
Well, I said, well, they better not punt because if they don't win it this year, there's a less of a likelihood they'll win it in 2016 with the presidential turnout year.
But anyway, I need to close the loop on that.
Um But anyway, did you watch the Saturday Night Live uh 40th anniversary show?
I I didn't either.
When I figured out I hadn't been invited, uh, and I've never, but they wanted me on that show one time.
And boy, I must tell you, I almost did it, and had I done it, it would have been one of the biggest career mistakes I've ever made.
Lauren Michaels actually called, this is back in the 90s, and they wanted me to come out and come and play Santa Claus on their Christmas show.
And I learned later that the whole thing was intended as a setup for Al Franken's book.
He would he was still a writer there and an occasional performer.
And Lauren Michaels got on the phone, and this was a pleasant conversation.
I talked to him about what he wanted me to do.
We want you to be our Santa Claus.
They didn't want me in a skit.
They didn't want me as a as a guest host or co-host, whatever they're called.
They just wanted me in there as a punching bag or whatever.
And my instincts, they've never steered me wrong.
My instincts said, don't do this.
Anyway, the point about I didn't watch the show either, but I'm reading about it, and they just dumped all over Brian Williams on this show last night.
Jim Carey got started, got it somebody asks, is anybody, he's asking people, NBC, this is the red carpet walking in, where are you hiding Brian Williams?
We can't find him.
Does anybody know where you have him stashed away?
And then Martin Schwartz said, the audience is made up of NBC executives.
You know, the roof, the literal roof could cave in on this show right now.
And it would be the least of NBC's problems.
Jerry Seinfeld, who you think, you would think would have some sort of uh bond with Brian Williams, meaning that both are on the talent side, said, I didn't know until tonight that Brian Williams was in the original Saturday Night Live cast back in 1975.
Now the point is, they're making jokes about this on an NBC 40th anniversary show.
There's also this story that we're just run.
This is uh page six in the New York Post.
This is the strangest thing.
Contract morality clause could determine Brian Williams' future.
Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams' fate beyond his six-month unpaid suspension, could hang on a morality clause in his contract, which means he could be fired if he offended a significant portion of the community or brought himself public disrepute, contempt, scam.
Why do they even need this?
The anchor has lawyered up with Bob Barnett, the distinguished attorney who has repped Ann Curry.
He doesn't have an agent.
He's always used Barnett.
It's nothing new that he's got Bob Barnett.
You know Bob Barnett, I mean, just he's married.
Who was the uh Rita Braver, the NBC, the former NBC uh CBS.
Info babe, Rita Braver anchored the news during the rather days when he was on the CBS.
She's Barnett's wife, or was, I assume still is.
But Ryan Williams has never had a TV agent per se.
Um, oh, I take it back.
There is another subject brewing out there, and it all well, Scott Walker actually is brewing in a number of facets.
Going to be interviewing him after the program today for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, but it's all about college degrees.
It's all about how far you can go in life with or without a college degree, and in whose mind do you need one in order to be considered for job X or job Y. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, has a USA Today column today,
and it's a man after my own heart, and he makes the point here that it might actually be necessary to save the country to elect a president who did not graduate from college.
And he makes the assessment, not because he's anti-college, which is a law professor at Tennessee.
His point is if you look at everybody in the DC elite, they're all from the Ivy League.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia.
Maybe lesser colleges if there are such things in the Ivy League, but they're all from that instant, that that that geographic part of the country and from that academic experience, and they're all elites, and and it's really an exclusive club with these people.
If you're not in that club, you're not getting in it, and you're not going to be given respect, and you're not going to be given any sort of half-chance.
And it's it this the I wrote him back, he sent me a copy of the of the column, and I wrote it back.
I said, you know what?
It's just obvious, it's apparent to me that there are a whole lot of people, particularly those who fashion themselves as our elites.
Those who think they're better than the rest of us, those who look down their noses at us, those people to me strike me as this it never got out of high school that the the uh the click structure uh in high school stays with them to this day and is one of the animating aspects of their existence.
The idea that you must be member of a unique club, a relatively small membership, and that you only get in it by having done the same things these people did.
And if you're not in the club, you're not serious.
If you're not in the club, there's no way you can get in because you had to go to an Ivy League school and graduate.
And if you're not in the club, no matter what you do, no matter how much you accomplish, and no matter how much money you make, you're still going to be considered riffref.
And I think that's that's um that's pretty much on the money, and it's not new.
It's been that way for quite a while.
Uh the stories are legion of all the great Americans, successful who have not graduated from college.
And of course, the two names uh that come to people's mind right off the bat are me and Steve Jobs.
And then some people throw gates in there.
So there's uh there are three people who have reached the pinnacle who have not gone to college, and those those two or three names get bandied about all the time in this discussion.
But it doesn't matter to the elites, that doesn't matter.
It doesn't mean that they are qualified to be in the elite group.
And the elite group in Washington is what we call the the ruling class or the DC establishment, both parties, or what have you.
And that's why, and it's especially bad in the drive-by media.
That is one of the most exclusive and I should say exclusionary groups of people that you can imagine.
The if you look at it as a club and look at the admittance requirements, it is one of the most exclusive things to get into.
Doesn't matter how successful you are, doesn't matter how uh how much money you make, whether you're more successful than they are, whether you earn more than they do, whether you have a bigger audience today doesn't matter.
You are not getting in that club.
There are certain things that you have to do, but more importantly, you have to have a pedigree.
And so anyway, Glenn Harlan Reynolds' point is, and it may be he says to save the country, and I don't disagree with this, by the way.
There are far many more people who do not graduate college than do, and and college graduates today it's not the same as it was decades ago.
The learning is different.
The amount of debt college graduates have when they when they get out of school these days is something that previous generations didn't have to deal with.
But it's it's more a point of uh the relatability, understanding ordinary people, the people that make the country work, it's all about being able to relate to them.
And the inside the beltway elites not only can't relate, they don't want to.
I remember shortly after I moved to New York, which is 1988.
So I was at a party.
Uh I did these things early on.
Certain things you have to do when you're starting out that you don't have to do after you get there.
And this was a party that uh people at National Review and New Republic sponsored, if you can call it a party.
What it actually was was an attempt by both publications, National Review Conservative, the New Republic Liberal.
They wanted to combine sales efforts.
They wanted to combine their sales staff and go out and approach potential magazine advertisers as a combined unit and sell the genre rather than the specific content of each.
I don't know whatever became of it, but that was the reason for the party.
And there were a number of these elites that I'm talking about who were there, and I'll I'll never forget, well, walked up and met one of them, a woman.
You'd know her name.
I'm not gonna mention a name because the point of it is not to embarrass anybody.
It's just It's just to illustrate story.
I'd been up running about two years, and everybody knew it.
It was at the beginning days, the program was on a rocket ship escape, and it was it was just shooting straight up.
And everybody knew about it.
And it was the talk of everything because there was not anything like it at the time.
Remember, the only there was no Fox, there was no other talk radio.
The only other national news organism, CNN.
And this woman, I walked to introduce myself to her.
I'd read her work.
I admired her work, and I walked up and I introduced myself to her.
Oh, yeah, you're the guy that has all the farmers and truck drivers listening to him during the day.
And I was she's serious or she using jocularity here to say hello.
It turns out she was serious.
She was, it was an insult with a beaming smile, by the way.
And so that that, and that by the way, that attitude among certain of those people has not changed to this day.
And so the point about Scott Walker not having college, have you ever seen the drive-by media worry about somebody on the left who doesn't have a college degree?
Have you ever seen them get all agitated and worried about whether or not they're qualified or are a good fit because they don't have a college degree?
You never, this is cut this out of the clear blue.
And a New York Times columnist, Gail Collins, wrote a piece last Friday, and she doesn't know it, but she just profoundly embarrassed herself by getting something terribly wrong.
The New York Times ended up writing a very short, meager correction.
She asserted that Scott Walker in 2010, after having, I think mentioned he didn't go to college.
I'm not sure she threw that in there.
But her point was that he had cut unions, he'd cut back the public school curricula, he destroyed teachers' jobs in Wisconsin, and he's a bad guy.
The only problem was he didn't serve and start serving as governor in 2011.
He couldn't have done all the things that she chronicled.
But before they ran the correction, our old buddy Ron Fournier, now at National Journal, after Gail Collins ran her little hit piece on Scott Walker, followed up with a tweet.
It said something I'm paraphrasing, I don't have it in front of me.
Scott Walker, you're on notice.
Gail's going to be watching you, meaning we all are going to be watching you.
And so now Fournier has had to run a little half-baked Twitter apology, claiming that he he goofed up.
He jumped in too soon and uh he became something that he's not, and that I'm paraphrasing the apology too.
But it all orients around the fact that Walker isn't one of them.
And one of the reasons why, besides the fact he's conservative and Republican, he didn't finish college.
He went to Marquette, left second semester senior year.
I just see the clock, break time back in a minute.
Don't go away.
So I checked the email, and uh bunch of people.
So, Rush, what's wrong with an Ivy League education?
Don't you know that parents all over this country would love to send their kids there?
Yeah, I know that.
And I'm telling you, your kid would be better off not going there.
If you care about education versus liberal indoctrination, because that's what we're talking about here.
It has me, the Ivy League, if if you're talking about obviously, hell, even if you get into science, it's gonna be liberalism.
Because liberalism's corrupted every aspect of education there is.
So even if you go into science in the Ivy League, you are going to be inundated with the global warming, the climate change, mumbo jumbo.
But the point is it's it's a liberal indoctrination.
And everybody involved knows it.
That's what its purpose is.
It is to turn out career, government, banking, elite personnel, to train them, to educate them, to uh uh acculturate Them.
It's what it does.
And that's what Glenn Reynolds' point is today in his USA Today column.
And he makes no bones about it.
Is that we might, in order to actually save the country, we might be required to elect the next president sometime down the road pretty soon.
Somebody who does not graduate from uh from the Ivy League.
Tell me where they're not messing things up.
Tell me what they're doing.
That's that I mean, they don't have any desire to to uh even understand.
They think they do, by the way.
That the reason they have no desire to understand the heartland or what they call fly-over countries because they think they do, to the extent they think it's important.
But you you, if if I say the people who make the country work to them, they think I'm talking about them.
Uh it is an elite group and an elite club that most people are not in.
And it protects itself, quite obviously.
And it's it's just people that never got out of high school attitudinally, anyways.
Gotta be back in just a second.
People are feisty in the emails they're sending me today.
Just check them again during the break.
Rush, why are you putting down education?
Why are you encouraging people to not send their kids to school?
I'm sorry if that's what you think.
I'm not doing that.
I'm I'm I don't I'm all for education.
It it education ideally happens every moment of the day for people.
Education is something that should never stop.
Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees, because the learning never stops here.
You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.
Now you're talking about a formal college education out of the Ivy League, there's no question that that it is.
If you're not in that group, you're never going to be in that group.
You have to do certain things.
Now, maybe other groups are the same, country club memberships and this kind of thing, but this the Ivy League and its preparatory attitude for people in government running for government and this kind of thing.
Clearly we're we're we're creating leaders that have less and less and less in common with the people voting for them.
And I don't think that's good.
And I guess one of the anything you got a group of people that think they are light years better than other people.
That's no good.
That's absent humility.
And it's really vain as well.
And vanity is not something that's worth bragging about.
And you know what one of the first signs of vanity is, and this is this will shock you.
And folks, there really is in terms of news out there, it's not much out there today.
Everybody's decided for some reason uh to go skiing today.
Because, I mean, there's ISIS out there.
There's the usual stuff about how Obama's destroying a country, but that's we can do that every day.
Uh and and the Department of Homeland Security funding, that's that's that's newsworthy.
But there really isn't a whole lot of stuff out there.
So I'm gonna just improv it today.
The the the point about vanity, uh, you know one of the best ways to identify vanity in people?
Now you would think that it's easy, somebody's constantly looking at themselves in the mirror, or somebody that's constantly it if they are if you know people that are absorbed or possessed with what people think about them, you are looking at vanity.
And most people would probably be surprised to hear that definition of it, but make no mistake about it.
If you're absorbed, possessed, obsessed, concerned with what other people think of you.
The only thing that can be is vanity.
Now let me clear up this education business.
Because I didn't go to college.
I was forced to go, never wanted to go, never had I couldn't wait to get out of high school.
I'm not telling this story in order to have it have it be uh inspirational.
I'm not I'm not trying to convince people to do what I did.
I'm I'm just explaining to you why I have the attitudes and the views about it that I do.
It's not for everybody.
The problem is that colleges is uh something in our society that's supposedly for everybody.
If you don't do it, then you automatically have a mark against you.
And you saddle people with that, you get a guilt trip them, and you're gonna end up people gonna go to college, have no business being there simply because they think if they don't, they don't have a prayer.
Now, back in the days of the Great Depression, into World War II, Korean war, we had a different economy.
That probably is where this all gets rooted.
And at one time it no doubt was true, but it isn't the case today.
But there's nothing wrong.
If you want to go to college, if your parents want you to go to college, fine and dandy.
I'm not doing this to talk anybody out of it.
It's just for me.
I knew that I didn't want it.
I knew I hated school.
I from age eight or nine.
And I know that I'm not common in this.
So again, I'm not, I'm not saying any of this for it to be instructive to others.
But I do think it's necessary for you to.
Now, many of you have been listening for a long time, you think you know the story, but I'm going to add something to this I've never admitted before.
I've never told anybody about about why.
You know, I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight or nine years old.
And it was an obsession.
It wasn't, gee, I think I'd like to do.
I knew what I wanted to do.
And anything that was not related to helping me do that sooner rather than later or get better at it.
I had no interest in.
And that was most of school.
The things in school that I thought I was going to need, I aced.
And that's the thing about college.
I mean, I remember in high school, I said, now when you get to college, you're an adult.
They don't call a roll, and it's up to you to show up, and it's all up to you.
If you don't go, it's up to you.
You'll get great or reflect it, but nobody's going to babysit you.
And I get to college, and it was worse than it was in high school.
And the things that we had to take, ballroom dance taught by a former drill sergeant in the wax as a PE course.
I just looked at it as a waste of time.
Folks, I, I've told you this before, I flunked speech.
Speech 101.
I flunked it.
I went to every class and I gave every speech.
The reason that I flunked, well, I actually I came close to flunking.
I was given an opportunity to pass the course if I redid one of the four speeches or five speeches I had to do during the semester.
There was the interrogative, the declaratory, the informative, the entertaining, well, these different kinds of speeches you had to do.
Well, by then I'd already developed a way that I felt comfortable with public speaking.
And it did not involve using notes.
It certainly didn't involve outlining.
So I show up, I give every speech, and I get an F pending.
Because I didn't outline any of the speeches.
I didn't turn any outlines.
I just got up and delivered the speeches.
And it was that that I used as an example.
See, this is this, they shouldn't have called this course speech 101.
They should have called it outline 101.
And then people said, no, no, you're missing the point.
This is to teach you to follow directions, to accept the parameters of instructions, and to execute them because this is what you're going to find in the world.
You go to work for some company and they're going to tell you to do something.
You had better do it with the ingredients they ask for, or you're going to be in trouble.
And I said, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that, but I don't work for these people.
I'm just trying to get out of here.
And I just did speech.
I did four speeches.
They were good speeches.
The speeches on their own got good grades.
So I got, I got a redemption.
I got a chance to redo the informative speech.
Now I forget what my original informative speech was.
But I went to a friend of mine who had taken the course three years before me.
And he told me, you know, I gave a speech on the funeral business.
I said, you gave a speech on the funeral business?
Yeah.
I gave a speech on the funeral business and how it's a rip-off here to rip off there.
And so really, I said, What do you?
He said, I got to be on it.
So he gave me the stuff.
He hadn't kept it.
He gave me the stuff that he'd used to make the speech, and I gave that speech.
And the instructor thought it was one of the greatest things he'd ever heard.
Same teacher who had heard the same speech three years earlier.
And it was a I I later came to find out It's a speech that anybody can find in Cliff Notes about the funeral business and how it's uh and I found that later the reason that it was so appreciated is because what it was was simply an attack on what some people think is an unfair business that takes advantage of people's sorrow and guilt.
And it turns out that this professor happened to have a personal belief about that industry, and the speech didn't care who he who he heard give it as many times he was going to grade it with at least a B or an A. And after that happened, I said, what am I really learning here?
I don't want to learn that I've got to copy somebody else.
I don't want to learn that I have to say what the professor wants to hear in order to get out of here.
That just it it went it went against the grain of of everything that I wanted to do in in my life.
Not a conformist, and I I don't want to do things others have done, and I don't want to say things others have said, and I don't want to say things in the in the way others have said it.
Now, this is just me.
And for me, it was not a good place.
That's not to say that that's the case for everybody else.
I am not suggesting any of you hearing me today, don't go to school because of my experiences.
I'm just giving you the reasons why I have the attitude about it that I do.
And that takes us now to what is happening to Scott Walker.
They are descending on this guy.
They can't find much if all they've got is he didn't go to college.
I didn't graduate college.
There are nine presidents, but they are from the early days of the country who didn't graduate.
Nine presidents who didn't go to college, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman.
Yes, that's true.
That's the Mr. Snerdley making the point that some businesses, some vocations require a college degree.
No question about that.
I'm not disputing that.
Do what you want.
Do what you need to do.
I'm just telling you that for me, it was not helpful.
It it it it got in my way.
I was so obsessed.
I was, I mean, I was so desirous.
I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
And when I think back on my life, and people ask me questions about it, things that related to my success, I never ever think of things that happened when I was in school that led me to where I am.
I don't think of those.
Now I do have favorite teachers.
I have a couple of things I've cited that great things that did happen uh in uh junior high and high school on the football team and that sort of thing.
But the experiences that I cite that that helped me get where I am all come from real life.
And I didn't consider school real life.
I considered it prison.
It's where I had to go because of my age.
It's what my parents, everybody else decided I had to do to go go there, be there at this particular time of day at this age, because that's what's required.
And for me, of course I did it because I had no choice, but it was not.
Uh I mean, I literally felt like I was in prison.
If the classroom had windows, it was torture.
Because I'd looked at the windows and I would see everybody driving around walking at that to me was the essence of freedom, and I was in lockdown.
So, anyway, it's not for everybody, but and try this.
Found this during the break.
Like Scott Walker, 68% of Americans do not have a bachelor's degree.
It's the uh Washington examiner.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans ages 25 or older do not have a bachelor's degree.
That translates to 142 million potential voters who could end up being offended by attacks on Walker and the fact he didn't finish college, because part of the attack is you're not qualified.
You're not good enough if you didn't go to college.
And going to college is one thing, but how you do there is another.
And nobody knows that.
And then you look at the NFL and you look at all these guys, the every damn one of them came out of college, it seems.
To what end?
Remember Dexter Manley?
Dexter Manley played for the Washington Redskins, and it was learned in the eighth or ninth year of his career.
He couldn't read.
Yet he graduated from the University of Oklahoma.
Or or Oklahoma State.
I forget which one.
Anyway, another timeout, but we'll be back with more after this book.
Sit tight, don't go away.
And I'm gonna tell you something else here, folks.
This is for you parents, and also for those of you who um who have not yet decided whether you're going to college or not.
The average graduate now comes out of college owing 100,000.
Student loan debt has skyrocketed.
You know what that means?
It means no longer can young people who are responsible for their student loans go to college without knowing exactly what they want to do.
College is not a place to wander around anymore.
College, it's too expensive to just take those four years off while you figure out what you want to do and go through the motions of going to this class or that class, because that's what it always was to a lot of people.
In the old days, and it's gonna be offensive to some, it was where women went to meet husbands.
That's not the case anymore by a big stretch, but it used to be.
Things change.
For a lot of people, college was a way station.
I don't know what I want to do, did well go to college, little Johnny, and while you're there, maybe the light will go off.
It's too expensive now.
College is just too expensive to spend four years not knowing what you want to do when you get out, or even worse, not knowing what you want to do when you go.
It's too expensive to wander around aimlessly now.
It'd be better to get a job out of high school and find out what you want to do while you're earning money in the work world.
Because that kind of debt is crushing to most people.
You can spend the rest of your life paying that off.
And with the Obama economy, there aren't there aren't as many career jobs to be had anymore.
What with Obamacare?
Let me grab a call quickly here before we uh have to conclude the hour.
This is Stacy, Inglewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, hi, Rush.
I just wanted to um comment on what you've been talking about regarding the Ivy League schooling system.
Um I went to uh University of Pennsylvania.
I graduated in the late 1990s, and um I'm with you now.
I have two little girls, and as I'm raising them, I'm like, I don't know if I can handle them going there now.
When I went, I don't think it was nearly as bad as it is now, but I mean I recall my I was a history major and I recorded.
Now what do you mean it's not as bad now as or not as bad then as it was now?
What do you mean?
What I mean is the I feel that the liberal indoctrination now is at such an all-time high.
When I was there, I I wasn't a particularly political person one way the other.
Um, you know, I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, but my by immigrants um who so I we were more conservative minded um in my home, even though I'm from the Bay Area.
But I went to school very non-political, and then while I was there, you know, I was very dewy-eyed, very hopeful of learning about history.
I I had some amazing classes like Bruce Cook Cookwick, the uh founding fathers, learned a lot of things you meant you talk about.
Well, that is not taught today.
I've just I just ran into a statistic.
Uh where is it?
Uh here it is, 1999 survey found that 80% of seniors at 55 of the best colleges and universities earned a D or an F on a high school level American history test, and that's 1999.
80% of seniors got a D or an F on a high school level, American history test.
That is something that is not taught anymore.
Well, Not the American history that was real.
American history has been bastardized.
It has been politicized.
It has been corrupted.
It is a it is a it's a shame what has happened to the teaching of American history in uh on college campus that's nice.
So you're absolutely right about that.
No, no, no, no.
I didn't mean we're not going to talk about it.
Of course we're going to get there.
We're going to get to ISIS and what's going on there.
And it's getting worse.
And one of my predictions is finally coming true.
Somebody at AP went out and found a psychiatrist, Brian Williams.
Everybody does it.
Everybody lies.
Everybody exaggerates.
Brian just did it in a more visible place.
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