{"id":234689,"date":"2017-05-23T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234689"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:25:16","slug":"how-do-you-tell-misinformed-people-theyre-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/23\/how-do-you-tell-misinformed-people-theyre-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Tell Misinformed People They\u2019re Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Christine in New Orleans. It\u2019s great to have you, and welcome. I\u2019m so glad you waited.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My grandson was saying, &#8220;Hang up, quit waiting.&#8221; You see? Perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you go.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There you go. Never give up. Never, ever, ever give up.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely. I\u2019m 67 years old, I\u2019m from New Orleans. The last time I spoke with you, Rush, you were on AM in New Orleans in the eighties. I think it was the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It was, and even some into the nineties, yes.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah, yeah, you\u2019re great. You don\u2019t need validation by any means, but in case there are any listeners out there who doubt anything you say about the liberals, and especially the Clintons, my brother was a liberal attorney in New Orleans for the Indians, the Navajos. He worked for the Clintons for years. I was his confidante. He told me everything.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222782 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ClintonsUneasyb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ClintonsUneasyb.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ClintonsUneasyb-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>CALLER: Everything. I was his sister. I was his best friend. I\u2019ve been offered lots of money to write a book and I like oxygen too much to write it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But everything you say about Hillary &#8212; and he said she\u2019d never be president because everyone hated her. He\u2019s dead now, God bless him, that\u2019s why I can finally speak. But it\u2019s really true. I mean, I saw it firsthand, front-row seat from the sixties on. And everything you say about them is absolutely true, and everything you say about the liberals. Not that you need that validation, but in case there\u2019s a listener out there who might doubt you, they can call me. Because it\u2019s almost like you were there. I mean, you know details that no one else could possibly know that I know are true.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve never been there. Trust me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Never been where? With the libs?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Clintons. I\u2019ve never been there with the Clintons.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, I got you. I\u2019m saying the things you say about the liberals and the things you say about their agendas, et cetera.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s just \u2019cause I\u2019ve studied them. I know them as well as I know anything or anybody else.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s uncanny. And I appreciate your time. I have a 13-year-old who\u2019s an honor student who loves you. Can he please ask you a question?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Here you go.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. I was wondering, so for my generation, it seems as though the politically correct culture is just very, very high right now. And it seems as though it\u2019s being very subversive, and it\u2019s almost to the point where it\u2019s like totalitarianism. And I wonder, what do you think we can do in order to bring our generation to, you know, a path that\u2019s actually true?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What is your name, young man?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m John.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: John, I appreciate the question. I\u2019ve gotta go here in 10 seconds so I\u2019m gonna answer it on the air. I have pondered this question my entire career. How do you tell misinformed people that they are wrong?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, on this question of young Millennials who know everything but don\u2019t know anything. They\u2019ve been lied to. They\u2019ve been totally misinformed. They have believed everything in their pop culture media, late-night comedians, the Drive-Bys news, the New York Times, whatever they read. How do you combat that? How do you tell somebody, maybe your child, that what they know is wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RushMillennials-Rush.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RushMillennials-Rush.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/RushMillennials-Rush-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And I\u2019ve thought about it. It\u2019s something that fascinates me. I don\u2019t have a perfected method, so I\u2019ve thought about, would you do it with lightheartedness and humor? Would you do it with real focused intensity? Would you sit a person down and be very serious with them? Not from a preaching standpoint, but from a position of really caring a lot because you don\u2019t know what you know, and what you think you know is dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been fascinated with trying it. I\u2019ve never done it. Not in a compressed or actual session of it. I\u2019ve run into people who are the kind of people we\u2019re talking about, and I\u2019ve listened to \u2019em go on and on. And they are almost uniformly arrogant and conceded about what they know. They think everybody else are the idiots, and they\u2019re very brash, and some of them can be rude and impolite in their attitudes of what they know and how stupid you are. And it\u2019s all part and parcel of how you would approach them.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve found that in many cases, like when I was their age, and this is true, I had profound respect for people older than me. I automatically concluded they knew more than I did. And I concluded that they had more experiences than I had, so I thought they had more wisdom than I did, including my parents. I didn\u2019t rebel against my parents from the standpoint that they were idiots and didn\u2019t get it. I rebelled in that I didn\u2019t want to follow their pathways. But I never thought that they were dummkopfs and idiots and all that.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of young people today have not only erroneous information and sadly incorrect beliefs, but because of the attitudes that are present on social media that they\u2019ve adopted, there is almost an arrogance and an unwarranted conceit in some of them. So how do you deal with that? And I have to tell you, I haven\u2019t had a chance to put my various theories into practice. So all I have done is imagined it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052317-Limbaugh-Institute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052317-Limbaugh-Institute.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-052317-Limbaugh-Institute-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And I\u2019ve imagined sitting down and letting them lead the conversation, you know, ask a question open-ended and let them lead it and say whatever it is they say. And when they\u2019ve uttered something that is just grossly incorrect, stop them. &#8220;Do you really believe that?&#8221; Ask them, &#8220;Why do you believe that?&#8221; Get as much validation from them, evidence as you can. It won\u2019t be much. And then I imagine embarking on correcting them and telling them the truth. I have no idea how it would go. I imagine I would be rejected. Some of these people have built cocoons around themselves. They don\u2019t want to know the truth. They\u2019re comfortable in whatever misunderstandings or lies they have accepted.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s what the snowflakes are. Anything that challenges this little belief system that they live in is considered a threat that has to be dispatched and done away with. So I could only answer this theoretically. I\u2019ve always thought that a very serious, and with some breaks in it &#8212; I don\u2019t mean, you know, pedal-to-the-metal intensity, but seriousness in the sense that you care that they understand what they know is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And then you have to be armed with what is correct. And you have to be able to refute every claim they make in a way they\u2019ll accept it or understand it, otherwise you\u2019ll lose them. I think I\u2019m uniquely qualified to do that. But the actual getting their attention and holding it, I don\u2019t know. And the old adage, &#8220;They\u2019ll grow out of it. They\u2019ll get older and they\u2019ll grow out of it.&#8221; That\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n<p>My generation of these kind of people was the sixties. And they\u2019re worse today than they were. They know less. They are more corrupt. Their intelligence is more polluted. Their knowledge is more polluted than it even was when they were my age, well, in the sixties, 19, 20, 25. It\u2019s just piled on itself. And there\u2019s no convincing them. In fact, it\u2019s kind of stark and shocking how completely, totally misinformed, ill-informed so many people are. And I\u2019m not talking about nuance. I\u2019m talking straight fact versus lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It&#039;s kind of stark and shocking how completely, totally misinformed, ill-informed so many people are. 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