{"id":17237,"date":"2011-12-02T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:45:34","slug":"newt_lights_a_firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/12\/02\/newt_lights_a_firestorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Lights a Firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Newt Gingrich has lit a firestorm out there with his comments on poor kids and work. Yeah, he has. It\u2019s predictable, too, that it would happen. We\u2019ve got the sound bites. Yeah. He said, we need to have kids getting up with a sense of purpose, get up, go to work, get paid; find out what this is like rather than…<\/p>\n

The only time these kids in poor sections of the country are working, it\u2019s illegal. We gotta do something with the child ladbor laws. You get up, get \u2019em go to work, get paid, find out what that\u2019s all about. Everybody is having a cow over this. This is all predicted by me, El Rushbo, over the past 23 years. It\u2019s all been predicted. From not keeping score in little kids\u2019 football and baseball games, to little Johnny being told two plus two is five is correct because he\u2019s trying, to giving awards to kids that don\u2019t deserve it so that you don\u2019t humiliate \u2019em, we\u2019ve created a young bunch of skulls full of mush with self-esteem classes. Everybody thinks they\u2019re special for not doing anything! As kids they\u2019re treated with kid gloves. 2 + 2 = 5?<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s right, little Johnny. Until you learn it\u2019s four, that\u2019s good. You\u2019re trying. We don\u2019t want to humiliate you, if you think 2 + 2 = 5, keep it up little Johnny. That\u2019s wonderful.” We\u2019re not gonna keep score in kids\u2019 softball games. No losers. It\u2019s unfair that somebody should lose. By the same token in those same sporting events everybody gets a trophy for being a Valuable Player even if there are fat slobs sitting on the bench waddling to first base, they still get a trophy. The problem is they grew up and they entered the real world and they found out the real world isn\u2019t anything like that. You don\u2019t get a trophy for doing nothing, there are winners and losers, and there is right and wrong — and when that reality hits you, and you haven\u2019t been prepared for it because you\u2019ve been raised as a baby by a bunch of other babies, you join Occupy Wall Street. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned earlier that Newt Gingrich is in trouble because of his comments on poor kids. This was in Des Moines yesterday at a campaign event.<\/p>\n

<\/a>GINGRICH: Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. … There\u2019s no habit of staying all day. There\u2019s no habit of, “I do this and you give me cash,” unless it\u2019s illegal. You have kids who are required under law to go to school. They have no money. What if you paid them part time in the afternoon to sit at the clerical office and greet people when they came in? What if you paid them to work as the assistant librarian? And I\u2019d pay them as early as is reasonable and practical. … What if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom, and you paid \u2019em?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, folks, do you know the firestorm that\u2019s erupted here? (interruption) No, not the janitor thing. It wasn\u2019t any one thing. It was the notion that they should work, because it\u2019s none of Newt\u2019s business and he\u2019s making discriminatory statements about circumstances he doesn\u2019t understand. He\u2019s putting down a whole group of people as basically worthless idiots that don\u2019t work, and he\u2019s calling attention to it, and who is he? It\u2019s a similar reaction I\u2019ve always gotten when you talk about the homeless. “A lot of them should go get a job,” and people say, “Well, easy for you to say!” You think he\u2019s not catching on? What do you think Occupy Wall Street\u2019s all about? Occupy Wall Street is made up of the kind of people that Newt\u2019s talking about here. <\/p>\n

Let me review for you very briefly here some points made over the years by me on this program. I remember every — we\u2019re talking about kids. I remember, for example, when I first heard — and I think it was in Florida — that they weren\u2019t gonna keep score anymore in Pop Warner Football because there was a team so much better than all the others that it was embarrassing the other team. They were winning 72 to nothing, and so the first thing they did was penalize the better team like minus-36 before they started. They were 36 points in the hole, and then after that didn\u2019t work, then they thought, “You know what? We\u2019re just not gonna have any winners,” and then that picked up to all kinds of kids\u2019 sports. <\/line><\/p>\n

No winner in softball, no winner in football, no winner here. Then everybody made the team, everybody had to get an at-bat; then we went to T-ball because it was being too dangerous if some kid got hit by a pitched ball. So we continued to sissify, wussify, and chickify. We refused to let any kid lose at anything because it was too humiliating and the parents didn\u2019t want to deal with the tears and disappointment. Nobody was allowed to be the most valuable player because that meant none of the others were valuable if somebody was the most valuable. So if somebody got an award, everybody got an award — and I remember pointing out on this program this is not good because that\u2019s not life. They\u2019re not gonna encounter this kind of baby-fied culture when they grow up.<\/p>\n

When they leave home and they go to school — when they get out of school and go to work — they\u2019re not gonna have any preparation for it. They\u2019re not gonna have the slightest idea. Remember, we couldn\u2019t even grade papers in red for a time because red was an intimidating color, and then we didn\u2019t grade papers — and then Little Johnny had outcome-based education. Do you remember? Outcome-based education. If the little kid thought 2 + 2 = 5, it was 5 until he figured out it was 4. They were never wrong. They were applauded (clapping) for trying. They were applauded for effort. There was no separation in school of the bright kids, the average kids, and the slow kids. Everybody was put together, and the fast kids were dumbed down.<\/p>\n

Just like the left wants to do with income: Rather than elevate those at the bottom, they want to decapitate the top of society and lower everybody to the lowest common denominator. There were all of these, and we did parody after parody after parody of this stuff. Then we had the whole chickification of culture anyway. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: We had the Oprahfication<\/a> of women. Little Johnny praised for 2 + 2 = 5. So all of this happening, and where are we now? Now what we have. Those kids are now adults, and they are at Occupy Wall Street, and they are the ones who run around and look at life\u2019s winners as criminals. They\u2019re no longer getting awards for doing nothing. They\u2019re no longer being picked to be on the team (i.e., get a job). They weren\u2019t prepared for it. Liberalism has doused the hopes of another generation, is my point. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, a couple of quick sound bites here and then back to the phones. I want you to hear media reaction to Newt saying that these poor kids — and I don\u2019t know why it has to be just “poor kids,” but get these kids a job. Get them accustomed to getting up and going someplace, getting paid, the whole thing. This is something that\u2019s foreign to them, and there are media catcalls to this. The media is outraged over Newt suggesting that young people be taught the concepts of work and compensation. We have a montage here of a bunch of media types (most of this MSNBC, some are Fox) up in arms over Newt\u2019s comments about the poor kids.<\/p>\n

SHARPTON: (screaming) Newt Gingrich goes after poor people! The Republicans\u2019 presidential front-runner blames poor children — again! This one\u2019s a shokka, even for a heartless Republican Party!<\/line><\/p>\n

F. CHUCK TODD: Quintessential Newt, making broad assertions.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Newt Gingrich has never looked into these single moms\u2019 eyes. Newt Gingrich has never seen the struggles that happen every day in the Bronx, in South Central LA, where the truly disadvantaged live.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: On Sunday, it will be 17 years that he was talking about disadvantaged kids going into orphanages.<\/p>\n

ROLLINS: Newt has a tendency — hes\u2019 a very smart guy — he thinks out loud sometimes, and he makes statements that he doesn\u2019t realize make more impact than just the words.<\/p>\n

JANSING: …talking repeatedly about putting little kids to work.<\/p>\n

CAMERON: Seem to suggest that poor kids grow up unable to make money without breaking the law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. So you see? Now, this is where we are in the culture. My… (sigh) Gosh, I hate this. You know, when I was young I said, “I\u2019m never gonna grow up and be an old fogy, and I\u2019m never gonna say, ‘When I was young, I walked to school in ten feet of snow with no shoes!\u2019 I\u2019m not gonna do that like my parents,” but I have to. I\u2019m sorry. I have to remark on that. Newt Gingrich was blaming teachers. He was blaming parents. He\u2019s not blaming the kids. He was not being cold-hearted toward the kids. If anything, Newt is worried about the culture. You have Al Sharpton saying, “Going after poor people, blame the children again”? He wasn\u2019t blaming the kids. He wants to help. This is an example of compassion. Work in the old days was something honorable. <\/p>\n

To want to get a job… I shined shoes when I was 13. That was my first job. I made $50 in three months shining shoes at a barber shop, and my dad was beside himself with pride. He was excited. Yeah, and even when I was growing up, people said, “But the Limbaugh kid doesn\u2019t need the job.” That was out there, but I wasn\u2019t aware of it at the time. I\u2019m 13. It certainly wasn\u2019t a stigma! It wasn\u2019t something I was doing wrong, and the people who encouraged me to work were not SOBs. Now, look. Somebody tell me what is wrong with wanting to teach somebody the concept of work and being paid for it. What\u2019s wrong with it? Particularly if they are poor. What is the route out of poverty? It ain\u2019t the Democrat Party. The route out is not endless benefits. That\u2019s merely a way to sustain one in poverty, but it\u2019s not a route out of it. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s it: Newt dares to suggest that the parents have a role in raising their kids. That\u2019s the government\u2019s job now, don\u2019t we understand — and that\u2019s where Newt\u2019s off the deep end. He doesn\u2019t understand anymore. “It\u2019s the government\u2019s job to pay for those kids, the government\u2019s job to make sure those kids do whatever they do and have whatever they have. It isn\u2019t Newt\u2019s. Who the hell doesn\u2019t think he is?” But this is where we are. When you suggest something genuinely helpful and educational to people, to poor kids especially, you get castigated. You get raked across the coals for insensitivity, cold-heartedness, extremism, heartlessness, all of those other adjectives. So last night on ABC\u2019s World News Tonight, Jacob Tapper interviewed Newt and said, “Another concern is your propensity to make outrageous, interesting, whatever remarks, like child labor laws being stupid and so forth.”<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Young children who are poor ought to learn how to go to work. It would be great if inner city schools and poor neighborhood schools actually hired the children to do things. Some of the things they could do would be work in the library, work in the front office. Some of them, frankly, could be janitorial.<\/p>\n

TAPPER: But Democrats could very easily take that comment and say Newt Gingrich wants inner city kids to become janitors at age ten.<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Right, and the correct answer is: That\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So, yeah. Democrats could very easily take the comment and say Newt Gingrich wants inner city kids to become janitors at ten. Doesn\u2019t make it true. Who cares what Democrats say? Democrats are the problem. Work is not the problem! Lack of jobs is the problem brought to us by the Democrats. Who cares what they say? I don\u2019t, frankly. I don\u2019t have any problem with standard, decent, good old, traditional values. None whatsoever. Besides that, janitor is a union job! It\u2019s SEIU. The SEIU represents janitors. Folks, I\u2019m telling you this is how we end up with kids in Occupy Wall Street. Adults defending doing nothing, adults criticizing people who are trying to come up with helpful ways to get certain people out of the doldrums that they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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