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RUSH: Here\u2019s Marcus in Tucson. Nice to have you, sir. Welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor and a privilege to be speaking with you.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: I have one main question here, and that is why is America trying to focus, or seeming to try to focus, more on Dick Durbin\u2019s assertions about G\u2019itmo when I lost my aunt, my mother lost her sister, my uncle lost her father, and my cousins lost their mother, and this is why this happened. This is why we\u2019re doing this, and, frankly, I don\u2019t get too in a rain barrel about how we treat the people who treated us in that manner. I want to know why you think that America has become so shortsighted and no longer cares about these things.<\/line> RUSH: I have an easy answer to this, and there may be more than one, but the easy answer is we\u2019re not allowed to see pictures of it anymore. The networks have all decided it\u2019s too gory, it\u2019s too gruesome, it\u2019s too shocking and frightening to children, and so we don\u2019t see regularly the pictures of the two aircraft flying into the World Trade Center, the damage done to the Pentagon, or the remnants of the crash of that field in Pennsylvania, we just don\u2019t see it. Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1941, remember it every year. We\u2019ve had movies about it, we\u2019ve seen pictures, there is a memorial out there, we can still see oil bubbling up from the USS Arizona. It\u2019s haunting if you\u2019ve been out there. I have, of course, as a well traveled and powerful, influential member of the media, number 28, by the way, on the Forbes list. But we can\u2019t see any pictures of 9\/11, we\u2019re not allowed to. And if we did, if they showed us pictures of 9\/11 every day, I guarantee people wouldn\u2019t forget it and they wouldn\u2019t lose the emotional attachment to it that has occurred I think in the instance of many people. Marcus, I appreciate the phone call. Thanks much. Who\u2019s next? Anchorage, Alaska, this is Adam. Hello, sir.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, mega dittos here from the great state of Alaska. You actually helped make my college experience bearable. My question is, democracy and freedom work so well here in America because we fought for it, we died for it, our blood was shed. How can we be assured that the Iraqis will have that same appreciation?<\/line> RUSH: We can\u2019t be sure. There is a lot of faith here and I will tell you why I am willing to try it. I ask this question of people constantly. You thanked me for getting you through the college experience, so you\u2019re relatively young. I don\u2019t know how much you\u2019ve traveled internationally, but if you haven\u2019t, you someday will, and when you travel the world, you will see a stark difference in almost every aspect of the human condition, when compared to this country. Even if you go to civilized parts of the world, western Europe, Japan, you will see a marked difference in the quality of life. And for the moment here I\u2019m not talking about political circumstances. I\u2019m just talking about economic. You will see civilizations that have been around far longer than we have who are not nearly as advanced. You will see civilizations and cultures that are on the road to where we are, but they\u2019re not really near it, and they have been at it for thousands of years longer than we have. And you\u2019ll ask yourself, “Why? Why is this?” The first thing you\u2019ll do is say, “What is it about the United States geographically, what is it about the United States that enables us to be the leader of the world?” And you\u2019ll start looking at things like, “Well, is it because of our agriculture? Is it because of our natural resources? Is it because of the cooperation so many people on one continent have because we are part of the United States, so Arkansans freely trade with Missourians, who freely trade with Californians, we\u2019re all Americans, is it that?”<\/line>And then you\u2019ll say, “Well, wait. It can\u2019t all be that because we don\u2019t have nearly enough oil to supply our own needs, we have to get that elsewhere from around the world.” Then you\u2019ll say, “It can\u2019t be that because when I go to the store I see all kinds of products made in China and Japan and Mexico. So what is it,” you\u2019ll ask yourself, “what is it about us?” And then you\u2019ll ask yourself, “Are we different human beings? Is there something about us as human beings that makes us different than, say, human beings in Africa or Asia or Europe?” <\/line>And then you\u2019ll have to conclude, no, because a human being is a human being, regardless what a human being looks like, regardless what a human being\u2019s skin color is or where a human being is born, we\u2019re all human beings. We\u2019re no better than any other group of human beings, collectively or individually anywhere else on the planet. So why are we so far advanced in every which way, politically as well? Let\u2019s bring the political system in – and you will conclude, Adam, as I have, after many experiences and asking yourself these questions, that there\u2019s one thing that sets us apart from all these other people, and that is freedom. We as human beings here are allowed, because of the freedom we have compared to other human beings on the planet, to maximize our potential as human beings, our creativity, our industriousness, our talents. Now, we have shackles on ourselves here, we\u2019ve got restrictions and regulations, but it\u2019s nothing compared to people that live in totalitarian regimes run by dictators and thugs and so forth. It is therefore the conclusion, the theory is that guides our policy, President Bush\u2019s policy, I\u2019m sure, is that a human being has a natural yearning as a result of creation to be free and to be the best he can be. But society, culture after culture, generation after generation, when you tamp that down, step on it, you suppress it for generation after generation after generation. Now in Iraq, it\u2019s being put to the test. And I think it\u2019s succeeding. I think the Iraqis themselves are getting along much faster than we did in getting a Constitution. I wouldn\u2019t say this is a lost cause, just the exact opposite. I think what\u2019s going on over there is a sight to behold and it\u2019s a model for the rest of that region.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Ashley in Annapolis, Maryland. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?<\/line>RUSH: Good.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m calling to tell you about my high school environmental science textbook. In the back there was a chapter about the different types of economic systems, and it listed the characteristics for a company operating in a capitalist economic system. One of those was withholding dangerous information from consumers about possible hazards with a product, and another was exploiting the environment in any way possible. And personally I was very angered by that. Our teacher was pretty balanced and basically told us that the book was crap. But the book was mandated by the county, and so every student in our county that took that course read that book.<\/line>RUSH: What county in Maryland is Annapolis in?<\/line>CALLER: Annandale County.<\/line> RUSH: Oh, it\u2019s not Montgomery because that\u2019s where the weird stuff happens. This is not exactly normal. You know, there\u2019s been a long pattern of this. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re old enough to remember or young enough, have you ever watched Captain Planet on Saturday morning?<\/line>CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/line>RUSH: Well, what do you think that was about?<\/line>CALLER: (Laughing.)<\/line>RUSH: Captain Planet was all about inculcating young minds with the evils of corporations, a Ted Turner cartoon. You\u2019re fortunate you\u2019ve got a teacher here that\u2019s putting this in perspective.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, definitely.<\/line>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re also fortunate you\u2019re able to recognize what a joke it is at the outset yourself.<\/line>CALLER: I laughed out loud. I thought it was hilarious.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s the great. Keep laughing at it, Ashley, really, just keep laughing at it. You\u2019ll have more people curious why you\u2019re laughing than why you\u2019re mad.<\/line>CALLER: Nobody even thought twice about it, that\u2019s what bothered me more than anything is nobody understood why I was angry about it.<\/line>RUSH: Well, start laughing about it, and they\u2019ll ask you, what\u2019s so funny, Ashley?<\/line>CALLER: (Laughing.)<\/line>RUSH: They will. You say, “I can\u2019t believe what I\u2019m reading here, this is asinine and it\u2019s in our textbook,” and they\u2019ll say, “What do you mean?” Then bammo, you own \u2019em and then you can start telling them why what\u2019s in the book is wrong.<\/line>CALLER: And just the fact that it wasn\u2019t an economics textbook. The book was not supposed to have anything to do with economics or capitalist systems or anything. It was supposed to be about the environment and, you know, earth systems.<\/line>RUSH: Of course. Ashley, that\u2019s the point, the new home since the fall of the Soviet empire, the new home of socialists and quasi-communists is the environmental movement. It\u2019s right there in your book, it\u2019s an attack on capitalism. Make no mistake about it. Quick time-out. Laugh at them, Ashley, and they\u2019ll ask you why you\u2019re laughing.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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