{"id":269712,"date":"2018-04-03T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=269712"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:04:56","slug":"the-media-shames-itself-with-easter-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/03\/the-media-shames-itself-with-easter-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Shames Itself with Easter Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know what the second most threatening assault on our culture and society<\/a> is? Stupidity. The stupidity or ignorance, I don\u2019t know what you want to call it, of many Americans who don\u2019t even know the foundational things that make up Western civilization simply because they\u2019re no longer taught.<\/p>\n

Have you ever looked at what the Washington Post or the New York Times write about Easter? I paid attention to this over the weekend. It is astoundingly embarrassing. NPR. They did a report on Easter. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea what it is. And it\u2019s only the bedrock of the Judeo-Christian ethic here that forms one of the serious foundations of Western civilization.<\/p>\n

You know, there\u2019s an anti-Christian sentiment throughout the American left today, and it permeates the media. They don\u2019t even know what Easter is! A guy named Jon Meacham — does that name ring a bell? Jon Meacham used to be the editor of Newsweek. He\u2019s considered one of the world\u2019s greatest presidential historians. He doesn\u2019t even know the story of the Trojan horse! He got that wrong! He has no idea.<\/p>\n

\"\"Okay. So I said contingent instead of contiguous, whatever, when describing — who\u2019s calling you? You got the speech police bugging you on the phones? Well, I know they\u2019re annoying, these know-it-alls. This is the equivalent of a typo here, not a lack of knowledge. Contingent, I said. Contiguous is the correct word. I could blame it on a staffer who wrote the wrong word for me, but I\u2019m not gonna do that because I don\u2019t slough it off on the highly overrated, arrogant, conceited staff who think they know everything. I\u2019m not gonna do that. I\u2019m gonna take the full hit for screwing up contingent versus contiguous.<\/p>\n

And I have not lost my place here despite having been distracted. Jon Meacham, Meacham, don\u2019t know how you pronounce it, doesn\u2019t even know the story of the Trojan horse. Got it dead wrong. But the point is, he\u2019s a heralded, supposedly world-renowned presidential historian. He\u2019s just a leftist journalist. And I\u2019m telling you, journalism, they\u2019re not teaching history. And they certainly aren\u2019t teaching the fundamental elements of Western civilization in American history.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care, you\u2019re not a Christian, fine. You don\u2019t believe in Christianity, fine. But you have to know what Easter is. You have to know that is a holiday, it\u2019s a celebration of the vast majority of the population of this country and always has been. You can sit there and say as a journalist that you\u2019re not Christian and that you don\u2019t like Christians and you think Christianity is a bunch of bugaboo. But you have a duty as a journalist writing about these things to know what it is! And they haven\u2019t the slightest idea.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, the abject — I don\u2019t know another word for it. Stupidity. It used to be you would say ignorance; they just don\u2019t know. But I don\u2019t think it stops at ignorance, because there\u2019s an arrogance to this ignorance. There\u2019s almost a being proud of not knowing various things. I just think it poses a tremendous problem because so many people still access Drive-By Media for historical reference points, and the people that are being hired into this business themselves have not been taught or they have and they reject it.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, I think this stupidity is also a great threat to the survival of what I consider to be a distinct and unique human culture, American culture. It is distinct and unique. And contained within it is the concept of American exceptionalism. The Morning Update today. There\u2019s a woman in Sacramento, she\u2019s selling her house, 60-year-old house, has antique furnishings in it. So she put it up for sale. And as long as you are not a Trump supporter, you can bid on it.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re a Trump supporter, this woman is not gonna sell it to you. So we looked at fair housing laws. And there\u2019s nothing in the fair housing laws that says you can\u2019t discriminate against people on the basis of politics. You can\u2019t discriminate on the basis of race or religion in making a decision who and who not to sell your property to. But not when it comes to politics. So this woman\u2019s free and clear.<\/p>\n

But what percentage of the market is she eliminating? She wants to sell her house. She isn\u2019t gonna live in her house after she sells it. And yet she\u2019s obsessing over who is. And she cannot bring herself to sell it to somebody that supports Trump. To me that\u2019s just stupid. Sure she has the right to do it, but what kind of effect is that having on the price that she could get for the house? I find all of this stuff funny.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Here is how the NPR blog described Easter.\u00a0 Ready for this?\u00a0 “Easter \u2014 the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere at all, but rather arose into heaven \u2014 is on Sunday.”\u00a0 That is the NPR! This is what liberals swear to and they swear by it.\u00a0 NPR is their primary source authority.\u00a0 Let me read this to you again.\u00a0 This is NPR\u2019s blog describing Easter.<\/p>\n

\"\"Quote, “Easter \u2014 the day celebrating the idea that Jesus did not die and go to hell or purgatory or anywhere at all, but rather arose into heaven \u2014 is on Sunday.”\u00a0 So according to NPR, Jesus was wandering around one day after coming off the cross and just shot up to heaven!\u00a0 Didn\u2019t go to Purgatory, didn\u2019t die, didn\u2019t go to hell. He just shot up there to heaven. He rose up there and a bunch of stupid, idiot Christians are gonna celebrate this or something like it on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Now, as I say, I totally understand people that are not Christian.\u00a0 I think this anti-Christian fear — and that\u2019s exactly what it is, and it\u2019s been the growing, and it\u2019s been going on really intensely I\u2019m telling you for it is last 30 years, if not before.\u00a0 There\u2019s always been an anti-Christian bigotry in this country, but they were the minority.\u00a0 But now it\u2019s swelling, and it is an active part of the Democrat Party platform — anti-Christianity, — for a host of reasons.\u00a0 We\u2019ve discussed them over the course of the years.<\/p>\n

But again, there\u2019s still this thing called scholarship.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a journalist, you have to have some knowledge of history to be able to put things in perspective, in context.\u00a0 No idea what Easter is!\u00a0 They could probably tell you everything about Ramadan that you wanted to know, and they\u2019re fearless in displaying their stupidity and ignorance about what Easter is.\u00a0 And of course contingent in that is (laughing) a little insult.\u00a0 “You people are so stupid! Look at what these Christians believe and celebrate.\u00a0 What a bunch of idiots!”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The NPR explanation of Easter to its audience was embarrassing. And Jon Meacham, formerly of Newsweek, now noted worldwide presidential historian, can\u2019t even get the story of the Trojan horse straight? You can\u2019t understand, you can\u2019t really understand Western civilization without knowing and learning the ancient Greeks. The Iliad. Aristotle. Socrates. Now, not that they\u2019re taught specifically. I mean, they are, depending on what you elect to learn. But the sum total of the knowledge is indeed, has always been a part of the curriculum that enforces the idea encompassing Western civilization.<\/p>\n

And it is a target, because it\u2019s what defines America, and it\u2019s under siege and has been. And when America\u2019s journalists who are supposed to be profoundly educated in history, American history, I don\u2019t know how you can be a qualified journalist without having a significant understanding of American history and scholarship in the elements of what makes America America.<\/p>\n

\"\"But if you\u2019ve grown up, if you\u2019re raised, if you\u2019re brought up to resent all of that, to be opposed to it, then all you\u2019re gonna be taught is what\u2019s wrong with America, what\u2019s wrong with this, the Christians are whatever they are. And so whatever they believe, we\u2019re gonna mock and make fun of because they pose the greatest threat to minorities. And we find ourselves in the midst of this now.<\/p>\n

So I think those are the two things that pose the greatest threat to our culture maintaining its predominance and its identity. And there\u2019s no question our culture is under assault and has been for — well, it always is, actually, since the founding it always is. But it\u2019s beginning to appeal, these efforts to mock and impugn by lying about America and American history, it\u2019s been going on long enough now that enough people that you would consider mainstream American citizens are being taught a bunch of garbage, and they\u2019re growing up believing it.<\/p>\n

And essentially they believe that America is unfair, unjust, immoral, and has behaved the badly as a citizen of the world. And that\u2019s why we\u2019ve gotta let everybody else in the world in. It\u2019s not fair the United States is so big, it\u2019s not fair the U.S. is so rich, it\u2019s not fair the U.S. is so prosperous, we must share. Because ultimately we are not rich because we are inherently different or better. We are rich because we\u2019re thieves. This is the garbage that\u2019s been taught.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ve now reached a generation of Millennials where it\u2019s subscribed to not just by aggrieved, victimized minorities, but now various mainstream aspects of the population as well. And if Hillary Clinton had been elected, this onslaught would have doubled down in intensity, and I guarantee you right about now you would be experiencing feelings of hopelessness \u2019cause there wouldn\u2019t be any stopping it. Donald Trump and his election remains the number one bulwark and obstacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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