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RUSH: Jim in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re first up today. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling about the people standing up and cheering in South Carolina, and you make it sound like, you know, the Gestapo is going to swoop in and arrest \u2019em. Have you been to a high school graduation in the last 30 or 40 years?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve spoken at a couple.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A-ha. Well, I hadn\u2019t been to one since my own in \u201964, and I went to one not too long ago, and it\u2019s a whole different ball game now, and the people in the stands stand up and cheer and dance and raise hell. You know, it\u2019s just ridiculous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What Jim is reacting to here is a story we had in the first hour that, wherever it was, I forget now, South Carolina —<\/p>\n

CALLER: South Carolina.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — there\u2019s a rule that as graduates are granted their diplomas and so forth, you\u2019re not supposed to cheer as each name is announced.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re supposed to wait \u2019til everybody is finished, then you go nuts. But seven people were arrested and taken away in handcuffs because they cheered individuals at the time they got their diplomas.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And it\u2019s probably not just cheering, it\u2019s probably dancing and waving their arms and singing and, you know, I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, that\u2019s really destructive stuff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s worth getting handcuffed for. I know the rule is the rule, but for crying out loud, handcuffs?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And cops coming in here and something on your record?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I went to a graduation. You asked me the question. I went to a graduation, this has to be mid-nineties, and there was cheering, some of the kids got cheered, others didn\u2019t, when they graduated, but nobody got carted away, and there was no rule that said suspend until everybody gets their diploma, and I didn\u2019t find anything wrong with it. If everybody wants to make their own rules and abide by them, fine, but to have the cops come in there and handcuff people and take them away, maybe you\u2019re right, maybe they\u2019re doing more than just standing up and cheering.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I think so, and I\u2019d like to see a little bit of dignity and respect for the feelings of the people that aren\u2019t cheering.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I understand that, but I\u2019ve been to too many of these things where the kids cheer each other, it\u2019s once in a lifetime — you only graduate from high school once — unless of course you have to go back later, vocational school or something. The fact of the matter is it was fun to watch these people do this. It\u2019s their graduation, there\u2019s too much fun being taken out of all of this. I mean, if you want to handcuff people, I\u2019m telling you there are plenty of things going on, I\u2019ll bet you, while this graduation is taking place of people engaging in activity who genuinely deserve to be handcuffed. This is not isolated. It starts out by saying you can\u2019t pray, you can\u2019t have any religious reference at your graduation, and then you can\u2019t cheer at your graduation, and then, who knows what it\u2019s going to be next. Everybody sits around and lets all these little, bitty encroachments take place, pretty soon the cumulative effect pops up and you realize that a lot of things you used to be able to do, you can\u2019t do. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mack in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling about the recent graduation situation out in the suburb of Cleveland. I read in the paper where the students that were wearing military uniforms were denied the right to be on the platform in uniform, and that\u2019s the way I read it in the paper. So I got a little annoyed and I tracked down the principal of this school, and the story as it appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer was completely incorrect. The true story is the school board had passed an edict that they could not graduate in uniform. So the principal compromised, and what he did was have the recent military guys that had recently graduated basic and so forth wear their uniforms, carry the colors, and stand up for a standing ovation by the public that was attending the ceremony. So when I asked the principal why the story in the paper was completely different than what he has told me, he said that he accurately reported it to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and they changed the story. So there\u2019s a perfect example of the hit-and-run media. Roger that? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Roger that. Roger that. Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Drive-By Media, hit-and-run media, same thing. They run over everybody\u2019s street and keep driving on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Roger that (laughing) and it really got me annoyed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s a good thing you called the principal. A lot of people wouldn\u2019t have done that, they just read the paper and got steamed and so forth, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he took my call, and he was an outstanding gentleman, and I promised him I\u2019d call you and report the story as it really happened and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m sure that made his day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he said the Marine was wearing his dress blues, and they just wouldn\u2019t stop applauding, and I said, you know, to take a uniform off a Marine is like trying to skin \u2019em alive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks for the call out there, Mack, great story. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: John in Coral Springs, Florida, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just had a comment for you. I — I think you\u2019re a little bit mistaken about the high school commencement exercises and the cheering.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Being — being a teacher, I\u2019ve taught in high school, public school for about ten years, and been teaching in a private school for about five years, and the — the whole idea of — of standing and cheering, it comes from — I don\u2019t — comes from a place of — It\u2019s a class kind of thing. It\u2019s undignified. Now teaching at a religious high school. It\u2019s actually a religious ceremony and a commencement exercise, and it\u2019s just inappropriate. It\u2019s just undignified, and I don\u2019t — I don\u2019t quite see that it\u2019s analogous to the — the other things that you mentioned like the turtles and the — the endangered — endangered —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The red-cockaded woodpecker.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. It — it — it\u2019s to me, and what you try to get students to understand, it\u2019s unclassy, it\u2019s undignified. It\u2019s not just that they\u2019re cheering and — they\u2019re being loud and obnoxious. It\u2019s kind of — it\u2019s kind of what — what I\u2019ve experienced. You know, you want it to be a dignified setting, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are we talking here? We\u2019re talking high school students. High school students and dignified?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) Well, we try to teach them, anyway.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re getting out of prison! <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) <\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re getting out of prison here, John. They can\u2019t wait to get out of there. They\u2019re proud that they\u2019ve graduated against the odds, that they had rotten teachers and a rotten school, and they still getting out of there with a diploma.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, but you\u2019re trying to prepare them to be — to be more than that. You — you want them to — to see what — what is possible and not just stay within —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t see the loss of freedom in this? You don\u2019t see the slow encroaching on freedom? This is a celebration! This is not a funeral.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yeah, you can clap and you can applaud.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what they did!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think — I think whether a — what — what — what — what the problem was is that it was more than that. It was beach balls, whooping and hollering and just undignified.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we didn\u2019t see that in the story, beach balls and so forth. I didn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: At least they weren\u2019t burning the American flag.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love you, Rush. I just think that, you know, I see — I see that you want it to be a dignified — an experience to remember, with class, not just like —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let\u2019s go to baseball or football game.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are we going to ban cheering for the good guys, booing for the bad team?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s a completely different setting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? We want dignity! <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) <\/p>\n

RUSH: We want manners and we want dignity. I mean this is applauding achievement. This is acknowledging achievement.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We going to call that classless?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you\u2019re doing the commencement in a — in a football stadium, okay? I can see — I can see where it would be much more rambunctious, but if it\u2019s in a church or if it\u2019s in somewhere that\u2019s a more intimate setting, something that is used not just for sporting events, but it needs to be something dignified.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean like the high school auditorium where everybody gets to play Snow White in the school play?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, then I guess that\u2019s why you tend to have it being like a sporting event. I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do you want it to be like a sporting event, or do you want it to be something more, something different?\u2019 I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is just it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs) <\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t feel, sitting from afar here, that I should impose what I think the proper behavior here for a graduation ceremony should be. Now, if I ran a school district or a school, if I was the principal, board; yeah it would be my responsibility to do that, and if I did set up rules that said, ‘There won\u2019t be any cheering,\u2019 I would I\u2019ve got trouble. I\u2019m trying to control some 18- and 17-year-olds who only want to get outta there because they\u2019ve been in prison all of their lives — and here they have finally done it, and the more restrictions I put on them, the more I\u2019m going to inspire them to break \u2019em. These are high school kids. These are kids that tried to solder the doors locked every day so they didn\u2019t have to get in there! These are kids that wrote ”89 sucks\u2019 on roofs that the paint wouldn\u2019t cover. These kids are just getting out uncontrolled energy. You and I don\u2019t have that kind of energy anymore. But I certainly would not handcuff \u2019em and have the cops come out, unless — and the story doesn\u2019t say this — they were really causing problems for other people and harassing them, and if there was some physicality here. If there were threats, if the actions they were taking threatened the safety or the security of other people, then of course that\u2019s a different thing. But if they\u2019re just cheering the achievement of their friends or themselves, then I have to be a little bit more lenient here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But there again, okay. They — <\/p>\n

RUSH: You remember back during the condom craze of the late eighties, early nineties? People said, ‘These kids are going to have sex anyway. We can\u2019t stop it.\u2019 That\u2019s why we had to give \u2019em condoms. That\u2019s when I said, ‘Okay, fine. Why don\u2019t we give them the school nurse and her office to have sex in. Have the school nurse do the sex with the kids where we know it\u2019s clean and safe. Have her put a pack of cigarettes out. Obama smokes. Put a pack of cigarettes and some matches on the bedside, \u2019cause kids ‘are going to do it anyway.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no, that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying. As a — as a — as a high school teacher, I hope to leave an impression upon the kids that there is more to life — yes, we do — We live in a society of rules, and if you want to succeed and be successful and — and — and — and achieve something more than just ordinary, then we have to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The discipline, you\u2019re talking about —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, talking about discipline.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maintaining discipline and teaching kids respect.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, morals and discipline, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right, right, right, right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, say you\u2019re before me in line at the commencement graduation exercise, and all your friends are whooping and hollering, and then, you know, they call my name — and my name is not even heard because of the noise that\u2019s created.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they should — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. No, the better analogy would be this. You\u2019re friend in front of you gets his diploma, and he\u2019s got a cheering section, and they go bonkers, they go wacko.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, and my self-esteem is going to be hurt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it shouldn\u2019t, but then you get up to line and you get your diploma and nobody showed up for you and there\u2019s hardly any noise, that\u2019s when you\u2019re humiliated.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly!<\/p>\n

RUSH: But in that indicated, you wouldn\u2019t want them to hear your name since nobody\u2019s there to cheer for you, so you would think the residual cheers are for you, because here you\u2019ve got your diploma. You\u2019ve gotta have a picture designed. Let me ask you a quick question before you go, John.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw the most amazing video today. You speak about discipline and so forth. It\u2019s a high school or college baseball game, I\u2019m not sure which. And apparently the home plate umpire has just called a rotten game. And the catcher goes out, has a meeting with the pitcher, comes back behind the plate, squats down. The pitcher throws a high hard fastball straight down the million dollars of the plate. The catcher ducks, and it hits the ump right in the face. Right in the face mask! (laughs) I mean, there\u2019s no question what this catcher did. It was no way he thought the pitch was going to be a drop-off-the-table curveball and was going down to get it in the dirt. He just got out of the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s unsportsmanlike.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course, but the ump showed no ill effects. He\u2019s wiring a mask. Now, the ump, couple days later, is going to sue!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, now, I betcha that catcher was denied the chance to cheer at his graduation and was just getting back for lost time.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I can\u2019t believe it. This happens every now and again. An innocent little story that I tell at the open of the program that is designed to illustrate the encroaching and gradual loss of freedom is causing the biggest hubbub — well, it\u2019s not the biggest, but it\u2019s a hubbub, much bigger hubbub than I thought it would be. Snerdley is livid in there. Dawn just told me during the break that at her daughter\u2019s high school — she\u2019s not ready to graduate yet, but they\u2019ve got a new rule, not only can you not cheer, the graduates cannot throw their caps in the air like they do at the Air Force Academy and the Military Academy and the Naval Academy. They can\u2019t do it because, ‘That\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh, because those caps have pointed edges that could knock somebody\u2019s eye out when they fall back from the sky.\u2019 You can\u2019t throw your caps in the air. The North Carolina mistress is berating me in e-mail after e-mail: ‘You are wrong, you are wrong, you are wrong, it\u2019s an issue of manners.\u2019 I\u2019m getting it from both ends. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Orem, Utah, next. This is Lee. You\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I heard your consternation about that one high school graduation, and ours were nothing like that. I went to a graduation a couple weeks ago, and it was nothing like that. We had horns. We didn\u2019t have any balloons or anything, but we had a lot of noise. Everybody just had a good time. There were no police, just some ushers, and it\u2019s always been that way here. I\u2019m surprised that they have such a hard time with that in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, who knows why? I\u2019m catching it from both sides on this. Let me reach into my trash paper box. I just got something I threw away because I thought the subject had played out, but here, I got it. I have an e-mail from a friend of mine in Kansas City. ‘Dear Rush: One of my sons just graduated high school. There were 25-plus valedictorians. Many had 4.2 GPAs. (Extra credit.) There were several speeches, a few by students and one by a school board member. The students gave disappointing talks even for high school, and the school board member was just terrible. It was a litany of things that kids shouldn\u2019t do, according to an overprotective mother who kept all her slips of paper from fortune cookies! I was cheering wildly when this thing was over. How about passing a rule or a law requiring that only compelling, interesting riveting speeches be given? Impose dignity on the content of those ceremonies before you even think of imposing dignity on the people who went through the nonsense and then had to endure the ceremony itself.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, our ceremony was fun — and our speeches were bad, too, but nobody paid attention to them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Most of these speeches are bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Most of them are bad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We just had a good time. We spent an hour and it went smoothly, no problems. Everybody got cheered, and went outside, took pictures, and it was a fun time for everybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but you don\u2019t have any rules, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. (laughs) Everybody kind of was on their honor, you know, and it works well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many people are involved here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, 600 people graduated.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Six hundred people graduated so that means you\u2019ve got one-and-a-half parents per student.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, went in there, and they were saving seats, two and three rows of seats, grandparents, great-grandparents, grandchildren.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Utah. I forgot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, this is Utah, right. (laughs) Yeah. But we had a good time. We really did. It was a lot of fun, and so I don\u2019t want you thinking now all these high school graduations are that way, you know, like one wherever it was, down east or somewhere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think there is such a thing as a uniform graduation ceremony. That\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody can do their own whenever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s what we did, and works fine. It\u2019s worked fine for years. Probably keep going that way, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you have a daughter, a son or which?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I had two daughters, twins, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did they graduate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, twins, yeah, okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And they had fun. Some of the students would ham it up. They had little pictures taken right before they got on the floor, on the big screen, you know, and they\u2019re all hamming it up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can they throw their hats after the ceremony?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can\u2019t do that in Florida, might hurt somebody when it falls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, all you gotta do is duck your head, you know, when the hats come down. (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I like that line: The school board member is reading a list of don\u2019ts in her speech to the graduating seniors. Reading a list of don\u2019ts to the student that was nothing different than if she had saved every fortune from every fortune cookie that she had received and was just reading off the various fortunes, ‘Don\u2019t do this, don\u2019t do that, don\u2019t do this.\u2019 He has a good point. If you make the ceremony a little dignified, make the ceremony a little interesting, you might have less of a problem with the students trying to make it interesting themselves.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Madeleine in Huntington Beach, what is this, California?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. We just went to our son\u2019s medical school graduation a week ago, at UC Irvine, and there was shouting, there were several bullhorns, there were Mylar balloons everywhere, which the California legislature is trying to outlaw now —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mylar balloons. Yes, I\u2019ve heard of the threat — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — posed by Mylar balloons.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. And the most politically incorrect thing — it was a very dignified ceremony, you know, only a hundred graduates, classical music, very nice, outdoors, they released three flocks of doves at the end.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When I saw that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the problem with the Mylar balloons, because if the doves come into contacts with them you could have a disaster.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they flew away. I couldn\u2019t figure out where the doves went. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if you were a dove would you hang around a graduation ceremony with a bunch of people whose expertise is scalpels?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Probably not. (laughing) But I really expected someone to complain or protest about the doves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? They\u2019re the symbols of peace, Una Paloma Blanca.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who would have complained about that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you never know. I mean even though this is Orange County, there\u2019s surprisingly, California is a —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know, but I mean dove releases, it happens at the Olympics, a couple of them end up getting baked on the flame every time, but they still release them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just wondered, where do they go?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe they return to their cages. They\u2019re birds. I mean, they fly around, they live in the atmosphere, trees, doves, they probably end up in New Orleans begging that guy that feeds \u2019em there in front of the church.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thought maybe like carrier pigeons, do they come back, or — I don\u2019t know. Anyway, it was noisy, it was raucous, and, you know, there were only a hundred graduates, so it didn\u2019t take forever. But in between, each graduate, as they were announced, there were all sorts of screaming and hooting and bullhorns and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, this seems to be the norm in an informal survey that I have taken here today of anecdotal evidence presented by callers. So it seems the one place that we have had heard about anecdotally today that has a sticking point is this place in South Carolina. And I think there was also a school in North Carolina mentioned in this story. I\u2019m not sure. I am certain about South Carolina. So it may well be. It may well be that there are problems there that have not been detailed for us in the Drive-By Media accounts, \u2019cause the Drive-By Media accounts say, yeah, they were cheering and then they were handcuffed and taken away. Maybe it is that the Drive-Bys were not telling us exactly what they were doing beyond cheering that might require uniformed security officials known as policemen to come in with handcuffs and take them away. Could be. I mean, it wouldn\u2019t be the first time the Drive-By Media purposely left out crucial elements of a story to help us understand and explain these things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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