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RUSH: Colin in London, England, it\u2019s nice to have you on the program. Yes.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s actually Paul in London, but it\u2019s lovely to speak to you again.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, Paul. It says “Colin” up here, but I\u2019ll take the hit because I make the big bucks.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s my hideous limey accent. Yeah. Well, firstly, most importantly, definitely “Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I\u2019ve got to agree with you on that one.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/line>CALLER: Or if you can get Paul Shanklin to do “Eve of Destruction,” radically changing the lyrics of course away from those hideous ones they already have.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, yeah, that was a good one. It was by Barry McGuire.<\/line>CALLER: Barry McGuire, yeah. Listen, Rush, I agree with you on the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, but not on that Islamic school in London. I gotta say I agree with you on most things, but not that. You said it was a freedom of speech issue for them to be teaching Muslim kids that…<\/line>RUSH: Well, people may not have heard this. <\/line>CALLER: Sure.<\/line>RUSH: It was in the last hour. Here\u2019s the story. It\u2019s a UPI story<\/a>: “An Islamic school in England has been accused of poisoning the minds of its pupils with textbooks that portray Jews as apes and Christians as pigs,” and they say that this school in Britain has been accused of “teaching hate” by virtue of portraying Jews as apes and Christians as pigs, and I said, “What\u2019s hateful about that? It doesn\u2019t strike me as particularly hateful.”<\/line>CALLER: Well, this is not being done in a kind of Sesame Street way. This kind of dehumanizing is endemic across the Arab world. It\u2019s a motif. They always say Jews are pigs and Christians are apes or vice-versa. I forget. Let\u2019s put it another way: if this was a secular school that suddenly decided to have a book that, in a nasty way, portrayed black people as monkeys or something as equally hideously racist, the law would come down on them like a ton of bricks.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: But because of multiculturalism they\u2019re left alone. The other point is you start with kids. You know, from acorns oak trees grow. At the very least they\u2019re going to be Islamic supremacists when they get old older.<\/line>RUSH: Right.<\/line>CALLER: I say “at the very least.” You know, I hate to think of the very worst, but if they think of us as being apes and pigs, then maybe they won\u2019t mind killing us so easily.<\/line>RUSH: You know, you have given me an occasion here to do something that I seldom am able to do. You must be listening to the program on the Internet, right?<\/line>CALLER: I do, yes.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, well, I\u2019m going to take you off the air. The audience will still be able to hear me, but I\u2019m going to take you off; you\u2019ll still be on the Internet but you will not be out over the radio, because I have to tell you you\u2019re laboring here under a misunderstanding. I can\u2019t give the whole thing away to the whole audience, all right?<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I will be. They\u2019re going to be hearing me, but let me just explain this to you. We have a phrase here and I\u2019ve used it ever since — Mike, throw that switch so that this guy is not on the air; he can still be on the Internet. <\/line>CALLER: (nervous giggle)<\/line>RUSH: All right, is it done? Okay. Now, I have a phrase here to describe this program: “illustrating absurdity by being absurd.”<\/line>CALLER: Ah, I see.<\/line>RUSH: For almost 19 years here, I\u2019ve been dealing with stories like this —<\/line>CALLER: Mmmm?<\/line>RUSH: — and being righteously indignant and apocalyptic. “We\u2019re going to hell in a handbasket. How can this stuff be happening?” and so forth. I think, rather, that the best way to make the point of just how absurd it is, is to agree with it.<\/line>CALLER: Hmm. I should have thought this. Us Brits are always going on about irony and so this is actually…<\/line>RUSH: This is about getting you up to speed here on this. This is ridiculous. The thing is, in this country, Christians are the one group — the one religious group — you can totally make fun of and bash and destroy. <\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: Jewish people? There\u2019s a new wave of anti-Semitism all over Europe, and the United Nations I consider to be the repository for anti-Semitism today.<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019ll give you an example of how I do this. Are you familiar, Paul, with — how shall I say this? — the controversy in which I became entwined over comments made about the media; the way they reported on Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb?<\/line>CALLER: Yes, I am.<\/line>RUSH: All right. Well, we just finished our Super Bowl here and the Chicago Bears quarterback, Rex Grossman, for the last three weeks has just been slimed by the sports media in this country. They just said that he was the worst quarterback to ever play in the Super Bowl. They have been treating this guy with no mercy whatsoever. They have been predicting doom and gloom; they\u2019ve been hoping that he would have a rotten Super Bowl. They\u2019re happily reporting that he did, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yesterday, I said that I think the only reason that the media is down on Rex Grossman is because they have this “social desire” for the NFL to become modernized and so forth, get with it for the twenty-first century, and they just love trashing this guy because he\u2019s a white quarterback and they don\u2019t want him to do well.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, yeah.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I did that — I think it\u2019s safe to admit it now — because I was trying to tweak the same media who went bonkers when I said the same thing about them and the way they treat Donovan McNabb. Twenty-four hours have gone by and they haven\u2019t picked up on it, so either they knew I was joking and got the point or… Obviously they haven\u2019t picked it up so they knew that I was tweaking them. It\u2019s the same thing here: of course I don\u2019t think it\u2019s okay to call Jews apes and Christians pigs, but to simply ask, “What\u2019s so hateful about that?” is my way of calling even more attention to how absurd it is.<\/line>CALLER: Sure.<\/line>RUSH: Just a new technique here to try to get people aroused and get them attentive to something that I do consider to be something that\u2019s pretty bad.<\/line>CALLER: I totally understand.<\/line>RUSH: Hang on here just a second. Throw the switch and bring Paul back up on the air now.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, yeah, I totally get it. I\u2019ve been listening for a year on the net, and I\u2019m still learning. I\u2019m still a Rush Baby.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I\u2019m happy to be able to explain this to you. Times are serious now. It used to be that new audience members could get this show in six weeks. You had to listen for six weeks to understand the combination of serious discussion of issues with irreverent humor. The libs, after 18-1\/2 years, still don\u2019t get the “irreverent humor” aspect of it, and I didn\u2019t want you laboring under a misconception here. It\u2019s not often that I give away the so-called tricks of the trade here, but in your case you sounded so earnest and so serious, I couldn\u2019t allow you to labor any further in a misunderstanding of my attempt here to make a point in a rather circuitous and unique way. I\u2019m thrilled that you\u2019re over there in London listening. I\u2019m happy to have you as a member of the audience, and, Paul, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to make sure you didn\u2019t finish the busy day scratching your head over what had happened to me. You should rest assured, be confident, that nothing has happened to me. I have never been better. Okay?<\/line>CALLER: Yes, Rush. Thank you.<\/line>RUSH: All right. What do you do for a living, Paul, by the way?<\/line>CALLER: Oh, don\u2019t ask. You wouldn\u2019t believe me. Could you take me off the air again?<\/line>RUSH: Yeah. Throw the switch and take him off the air.<\/line>CALLER: I work for the Drive-By Media. <\/line>RUSH: Wait, wait, Paul. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. <\/line>CALLER: (Giggling.)<\/line>RUSH: Okay, now. I have 20 seconds.<\/line>CALLER: I work for the BBC. <\/line>RUSH: Reeeeeeally? <\/line>CALLER: Ha-ha-ha!<\/line>RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s not that bad. Bring him back up. He works for the Drive-By Media. He works for the BBC. And you\u2019re a Rush Baby?<\/line>CALLER: I am a novelty! I\u2019ll probably get the sack now.<\/line>RUSH: You let us know if that happens and I\u2019ll cancel an interview I\u2019m doing with them next week. Seriously, I\u2019m doing an interview with them next week. If you get canned, let me know and I\u2019ll cancel. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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