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RUSH: I want to remind you again: This had a profound impact on me over the weekend. I\u2019m watching this British TV show about the BBC\u2019s early days, TV\u2019s early days, called The Hour<\/a>. Many of you may have heard of it. It\u2019s somewhat popular. It\u2019s about, I guess, the forerunner to 60 Minutes; how this television show works and all the people involved and how they go about pursuing news and the usual stuff. But one of the lead male characters in the hiatus between the close of the first season and the episode premiere of season two. In the episode premiere of season two the guy comes back, he\u2019s been on sabbatical. He traveled the world. He got married in Paris, whole bunch of stuff, but he also spent time in America. <\/p>\n

<\/a>He\u2019s having a conversation with his main male competitor at this network, and he says (paraphrasing), “I was in America, and I really liked what I saw in America. I was a nobody in a country filled with people who think they can all be somebody, and that was infectious. So I\u2019ve come back here to my home in Britain, I\u2019ve come back to the BBC, and I want some of that. I want to be somebody.” This guy was being made in this series to play second fiddle. He was the writer. He was the real journalist. He was the real reporter that made this on-air presenter a star. The on-air presenter couldn\u2019t put two sentences together if they weren\u2019t written for him, like Obama. So this guy who\u2019s been the underling, but really the force of the show, says America affected me, I was in a country filled with nobodies who think they can be somebody someday. And it was infectious, and I want that. In 1956 is when this show was set. <\/p>\n

So the inference is clear. In 1956, the British population accepted their lot in life. Whatever they were born to, that was it. This guy saw that there were people around the world not living that way — it didn\u2019t matter what they were born into, they were gonna be somebody — and that place was America. Let\u2019s be honest. Isn\u2019t one of the fears that you have, that that doesn\u2019t seem to be an inspiring, infectious aspect of life in America anymore? <\/a><\/p>\n

Many people don\u2019t think they can ever be anything anymore for a whole host of reasons. A, they\u2019re told that by a dominant liberal culture in the media. And then when you get down to what they do aspire to, it\u2019s all cheap thrill pop culture fame for way too many people. And I thought, wow, how profound is this? I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019m watching this show just to escape, like you would read a book. And here I am, I\u2019m impacted, I\u2019m hit between the eyes with a real — the line was kind of a throwaway, but I think the writer of this program intended it to be a profundity. I don\u2019t know, it was with me. It was a huge profundity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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