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RUSH: Okay. Back to the phones we go to Scottsdale, Arizona. Heather, I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi! Okay, I didn\u2019t hear you say my name so I didn\u2019t know if I was on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are Heather, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. You are on the big show.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Yay! Okay. First-time caller. I\u2019ve listened to you on and off over the years. I\u2019m nervous so I\u2019m gonna have a little shake in my voice. I have a mental illness, and my son has a mental illness. (sigh) I raised him as a single mother. It was so difficult because the help is not enough to provide for somebody to get well, to not be ill. You know, you always have the illness, but you can stabilize it for many people if they get all the help they need. And the one area where the biggest problem is that I see for all these shooters, is they have endured rejection from society. They\u2019ve been rejected from other kids, they\u2019ve been made fun of, they\u2019re different, and it cuts them off from having —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. Yeah, I\u2019ve heard that theory.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe it. I mean, that\u2019s what I believe from what I\u2019ve seen with my son.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think it explains picking up a gun and mowing people down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know what you mean by if it “explains” it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, does it justify it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s not justified. It\u2019s sick!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re making it sound like it makes sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s sick. It makes them sicker, is what I\u2019m saying. It makes them sicker. They need… Everybody needs to be accepted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s my problem, and you probably don\u2019t need this information.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve been rejected all my life. I\u2019m rejected every day —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — by —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You don\u2019t have a mental illness.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m rejected every day by gazillions of people. In high school I was rejected. We all are. Everybody is! Everybody\u2019s not let in the clique. Everybody\u2019s made fun of.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s laughed at.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Were you the kid that was in the hallway that everybody made fun of and nobody talked to you and you were all alone, a loner? They call these people “loners.” Why do you think they\u2019re alone? ‘Cause they can\u2019t connect. If they can\u2019t connect with society —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am a loner to this day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right. Then let\u2019s change the topic because I\u2019m not gonna win this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, no. You don\u2019t have to change. Don\u2019t run away from it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t run away from what you believe. That\u2019s not my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My point is that whatever you can say about Adam Lanza you can say about a vast majority of American kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Take out the mental illness part, because not everybody suffers a mental illness. But everybody\u2019s rejected, and everybody\u2019s laughed at, and everybody has jokes told about \u2019em. Everybody\u2019s made fun of for something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s my only point. But not everybody seeks revenge the way he did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s the mental illness that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And not everybody is mentally ill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are certain parts of life that we\u2019re never gonna be able to change. You\u2019re never gonna be able to change some people being rejected by others, being made fun of by others or laughed at. I don\u2019t care —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can we minimize it, though? As a society, can we minimize it? Can we be nicer to people? When we\u2019re walking down the street and we see someone can we make that eye contact and say, “Hey, have a good day”?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhh… Well, how do you make that happen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I do all the time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know you do, but not enough people do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So how would you make others do it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bring awareness for mental health. Everybody has a mental health status, including your dog. The way you treat people, you are bioengineering their brain as well as your own. And when society is (sigh) rejecting someone —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s dog is also potentially unstable?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think everybody\u2019s dog has a mental health status.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I guess the first thing we could do would be to stop bullying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly where I\u2019m headed! That\u2019s one thing. That\u2019s just one thing. There are so many things that need to take place for persons with mental illness to be able to be productive, happy, and stable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is the nature of…? You said that you suffer from mental illness.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the nature of yours?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have bipolar disorder and also substance abuse disorder, and I\u2019m 13 years clean and sober —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — which I could not achieve until I found the right psychiatric medication to help me with pain and anxiety —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and here I am having an anxiety attack right now. But —<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do you, today, deal with people who aren\u2019t nice to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (big sigh) I don\u2019t know. It depends on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did they teach you? What did they teach you in your efforts to get sober about that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What did…? Okay, ask that again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I assume in your effort to get sober you had some counseling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had counseling and I went to AA.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Okay. So what do they tell you about people being mean to you or saying things about you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (big sigh) I don\u2019t know how to answer that. I don\u2019t recall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They say: Don\u2019t give them the power to offend you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t give them the power to affect your feelings, and do not assume that it\u2019s your role to make everybody happy. It\u2019s their job. Were you told that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think so, yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s the way people who go through what you went through are taught to deal with mean people or people who would bring \u2019em down. Don\u2019t give \u2019em the power. Don\u2019t listen to \u2019em. “Boundaries,” it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If somebody says something to you that\u2019s not right, if they\u2019re lying about you, let it bounce off. Don\u2019t process it. Don\u2019t let it screw you up. Just say, “To hell with you,” and move on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So, but that\u2019s part of the coping skills for the part of the problem. Because when a person is sick, unstable… Here\u2019s another thing. We do not have a chemical imbalance. We have chemical imbalances. We have different areas where our brain will go that is not stable. So whether you\u2019re experiencing that, you\u2019re not stable internally. There\u2019s no self-esteem to say, “That guy is wrong. Who are you say to that about me?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve heard this theory, too. Basically what you\u2019re saying is that we really don\u2019t have minds of our own, that we are prisoners of our own brain chemistry. Some days our brain chemistry\u2019s okay and other days it isn\u2019t, and we whack out and we lose control and we really aren\u2019t in control. And medical science, by the way, is furthering this belief with discovery after discovery.<\/p>\n

For example, if you\u2019re overweight it\u2019s \u2019cause there\u2019s something in the brain that\u2019s not turning off when you\u2019re full. So you have to use discipline. If you listen to this stuff carefully, we really have no self-control. We have no force of will. We\u2019re preprogrammed by however we were created and we\u2019re gonna be whoever we are based on that, and it\u2019s a constantly struggle and so forth. There are people that believe this, too. Anyway, I have to run. But, Heather, I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite instructive here, folks, if you actually heard what she said, because it\u2019s…<\/p>\n

Let me think about it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be back in just a second.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The phrase I was looking for in that last call is there are more and more people who think that we have no free will as human beings, that we have none, that we\u2019re all robotic, prisoners to brain chemistry, other aspects of our bodily chemistry. You know, one of the things I\u2019ve said to people, and you\u2019ve probably heard me more times than you wish over the years. I think this plagues the Republican Party. People are so concerned about what others think of them. Most people are. Most people, in fact, are governed by it. Most people do what they do hoping for reactions that they choose from other people or to be thought of in a good way by other people. <\/p>\n

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Do you realize how few people really do what they do just because that\u2019s who they are and they want to be who they are and they don\u2019t care what anybody thinks? Do you realize how few people there are? Most people are imprisoned by what other people think of them. They\u2019re raised that way. And it\u2019s a tough thing to escape. But this notion that there is no free will is a rising way for people to explain away their faults. Science is providing it, and the Democrat Party is right in there advocating it. You\u2019re really not responsible. You have this disorder. That\u2019s what I mean when I say the Baby Boomers, we had to invent our own traumas because our lives, compared to our parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019, frankly, folks, have been a piece of cake. <\/p>\n

But everything is relative and we did not live through the hellacious times of our parents and grandparents, so we can\u2019t relate. All we can do is try to understand. Our point of reference is our own lives. As far as most people are concerned, in a lot of cases, have never been worse. The economy has never been worse, or people have never been meaner or what have you. But the number of people — I think you\u2019d be surprised — is growing. The number of people who think that nobody\u2019s responsible for what they do, and that all of us are balanced precariously psychologically, and all of us could be set off with the smallest, slightest thing at the wrong time. <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

PMS excluded, yes, of course. There are always exceptions. Don\u2019t give me that. PMS, they just discovered, doesn\u2019t exist. That excuse is out the window. You need something else now.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, as always, I checked the e-mail during the top-of-the-hour break here and a surprising number of people “Rush, why don\u2019t you ever talk about the things people say about you? You are criticized all the time. You are lied about. Why don\u2019t you ever complain?” Folks, I\u2019ve had to evolve my own life lessons. When I started this program in 1988 not one person who knew me thought I hated anybody or thought I was a racist, sexist or bigot. And within six months of this program starting I was all of those. And it was reported daily all over the country. Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I didn\u2019t know how to deal with it. I didn\u2019t know what to do about it. <\/p>\n

I sought advice from everyone. There wasn\u2019t one person that could tell me the way to deal with stuff, I mean, people literally lying about you. And so what I had to do — and it took me four years. I tried a whole bunch of different ways. And no matter what I did it just made it worse. Any reaction to any criticism delighted critics, and all they did was pile it on. I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It\u2019s the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report. I would do media interviews, and I would attempt to tell them, “No, you\u2019re wrong about me.” There was no convincing them. The point of the interview was to get me to confirm for everybody that I was what they were saying I was. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not the one to provide lessons on this \u2019cause I would never advocate anybody do what I\u2019ve had to do, and that is I\u2019ve had to learn to take being hated and despised as a measure of success. Nobody is raised that way. Hitler may have been, but nobody is raised wanting to be hated. Nobody is raised running around smiling talking about how much they\u2019re disliked. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they\u2019ll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person. <\/p>\n

In those rare moments early on back in the early nineties when I would confide with friends, “This is really hurting my feelings.”<\/p>\n

They\u2019d say, “Come on, that\u2019s why you earn the big bucks.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Oh, earning a lot of money, that\u2019s the price to be lied about every day, mischaracterized?” <\/p>\n

“Yep, yep.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what people who had not experienced it, that was their theory. And others said, “Hey, this is what you signed up for. You\u2019re gonna go out there and tell people what you think, you\u2019re gonna irritate half the people that hear you,” and that\u2019s true. But through all of what I\u2019ve experienced, I do really believe that it would be a benefit to everybody. The more people who could learn to be unaffected by what people think of them, the better off those people would be, but, again, nobody\u2019s raised that way. People that grow up in prominent families have it especially bad. From the moment they\u2019re born, they\u2019re told how they\u2019re supposed to act and how they\u2019re supposed to be perceived and can\u2019t dishonor the family name. The Kennedys did it anyway. <\/p>\n

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But there\u2019s all kinds of pressure like that brought to bear on certain people. I\u2019m only saying this because we had a couple callers who said it\u2019s understandable that some people might crack, go get a gun and start killing people if they\u2019re rejected and laughed at and isolated and made fun of. My belief is that everybody is, either all of their lives or at some point in their lives, and not everybody cracks that way. I just don\u2019t think that is a valid excuse. There has to be some underlying mental illness that promotes some instability first before the cracking takes place. But I\u2019m even uncomfortable talking about it at the risk of sounding like I\u2019m complaining. I\u2019m not. Another thing I believe is reality. I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. It is what it is. <\/p>\n

We live in a country right now where an increasing number of people do not care about the truth and don\u2019t want to be anywhere near reality. They live in cocoons, and if you puncture the cocoon and force them to face things they don\u2019t want to face, they\u2019re gonna lash out, and that\u2019s just part and parcel of what happens. But like I say, I wouldn\u2019t want everybody to have to learn to take being hated as a sign of success, although you\u2019ve heard the phrase “I\u2019m honored by my enemies.” That\u2019s true, too, depending on your mettle and so forth. <\/p>\n

Some people just can\u2019t handle be disliked. Some people just can\u2019t, no matter what, they can\u2019t handle it, and it really bothers them. And I\u2019m like everybody else; it did for the longest time to me, too. I mean, even before I started my national radio show, we\u2019re all disliked or envied or whatever. That\u2019s my point. Everybody experiences this, and they deal with it in their own way. But not everybody grabs a gun and starts mowing people down. It\u2019s not an excuse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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