{"id":31576,"date":"2009-01-30T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:50:05","slug":"an_apology_for_carrie_in_goshen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/01\/30\/an_apology_for_carrie_in_goshen\/","title":{"rendered":"An Apology for Carrie in Goshen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Carrie in Goshen, Kentucky, where it is freezing. They had major ice storms this week. It\u2019s nice to have you, ma\u2019am, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, this is Carrie, yeah, I\u2019m sitting here. It\u2019s all right. I\u2019m sitting here in my freezing car and my freezing house where the electricity has been off in the last three days and I\u2019m waiting for Obama to show up on my doorstep to turn on the lights and my electricity.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is where you\u2019re going wrong.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Where you\u2019re going wrong. You are going to have to turn your thermostats down when they come back. He can turn his up \u2019cause he\u2019s the great leader. The environmentalist wackos want this: no electricity because it pollutes, no coal. Obama wants no coal plants. This is what life would be like if these people got their way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, Rush. I guess I\u2019d better get to my point. First of all, I want to announce that I moved. I had the courage to move from blue state Maryland to red state Kentucky. So I feel very bold in saying that. But back to why I called. Today, there\u2019s going to be a big meeting, you know. The RNC is choosing their chairman. You\u2019re aware of that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. No biggie, but I\u2019m aware of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I challenge — and I hope they\u2019re listening.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I challenge whoever that leader is going to be to be bold and not lukewarm. There is a class that my daughter just had in her Christian school where they were taught in a class to be bold and not lukewarm, and that\u2019s what we need to challenge our RNC leaders to be. We also need to use new approaches to communicate our conservative ideas. We are losing young people. They don\u2019t understand what socialism is. Look at the education rate. People are not even graduating from schools. How do you communicate to a populace that doesn\u2019t even graduate, what socialism is? How do you do it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, these are very good questions. How do you reach the illiterate? How do you reach the brain dead? How do you reach people that have been weaned on things like MTV and some of the other rotgut culture out there? How would you explain socialism to a skull full of mush that doesn\u2019t get it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we need to get down on their level and be able to communicate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying, how would you do it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Through new — new-type media. Get down. We need new leaders with new ideas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no! I\u2019ll tell you what we have to stop doing. We need to stop saying what everybody else ought to do, and we ought to start saying, ‘What am I going to do?\u2019 What is this, ‘We need new leaders. We need to do this. We need to do that\u2019? How about, ‘I need to do more?\u2019 Not me. How could I possibly do more than I\u2019m already doing? It\u2019s easy to stand on the sidelines and say, ‘Yeah! You go! You stand up for us. You don\u2019t back down. You better not back down. You better keep going; I\u2019m watching you.\u2019 Really? Well, I haven\u2019t got time to watch you behind me \u2019cause I\u2019m moving forward. What is this notion, ‘What are you going to do?\u2019 You want to know how to teach socialism to a kid that doesn\u2019t understand it? <\/p>\n

‘Give me all your money, kid. Give me all the toys in your room.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Why?\u2019 <\/p>\n

”Cause they\u2019re not yours.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Why?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, because some other kid doesn\u2019t have any. I\u2019m going to take half, at least, of your toys and give them away.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No! No, you can\u2019t! They\u2019re mine.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, they\u2019re not. In socialism, you don\u2019t own anything. The state owns it and determines what you get.\u2019<\/p>\n

Case closed. We don\u2019t need a new leader to teach this. We just need to do it. We all know it. We just need to do it. You all have kids. Why are you gonna let the schools have their hand at it? The schools are teaching your kids socialism. The schools are making your kids skulls full of mush. The schools are taking boldness out of your kids and making your kids compliant little wimps! Okay, so they come home, and you tell \u2019em what a bogus bunch of BS they\u2019ve just faced for the last eight hours, and you set \u2019em straight, instead of asking who\u2019s going to run the RNC. (sigh)<\/p>\n

Chico, California. This is Aaron. You\u2019re next, sir, nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega Sierra Nevada global warming dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I must say, since you came back and every day since you\u2019ve been back, you\u2019ve been on fire and on point, and I love it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s not a fire hydrant around that could put me out, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The only sanity I\u2019ve had out in California is subscribing to your website and then joining. It\u2019s like you said, it\u2019s inspiring, but it\u2019s also the only positive thing out there. But my point that I called was that girl\u2019s basketball coach that got fired for scoring 100-to-nothing against the other team.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was wondering what you would think the outcome would have been if it would have been the all-girls basketball team that beat an all-boys basketball team, if that coach would have been fired.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, if… If the… (laughing) I want to make sure I understand your circumstance here. We got a girls\u2019 basketball team coached by a guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Beats a boys\u2019 basketball team, by a score of 100-to-nothing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the boys\u2019 basketball team is coached by a guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would the girls\u2019 coach be fired?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And also do you think, if that was true, would the boys\u2019 basketball coach would have been fired for on getting their butts whipped by a bunch of girls?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Why not?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think… Well… (chuckles) You people should not ask me these questions.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I was interested to hear the answer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t look at this in a conventional way. Okay, here\u2019s your scenario. Let\u2019s talk about these two coaches. You\u2019ve got a boys\u2019 team and they lose 100-to-nothing. Will that coach get fired? No. That coach should get a raise. That coach has made sure that every one of those boys has found a way to advance his ideas with girls. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You don\u2019t hit the girl. A lot of people would look at this and say, ‘My gosh, these girls wiped these guys out! What a bunch of wimps.\u2019 No, no, no. Chivalry. Chivalry. Now, should the girls\u2019 coach get canned for wiping out the guys 100-to-nothing? No, he would be celebrated. The feminists would love this. ‘The girls had exacted all of this great revenge,\u2019 but the boys\u2019 coach? No. This guy… (sigh) We\u2019re not talking here about if it were boxing or something else that were contact sports where strength was a factor, then the guys would be wimps, but not here, this is just basketball.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You\u2019d have to go out and make sure you had the boys team which could have magically differential — or height differential advantage on the girls, but yeah. (interruption) Snerdley is sending me a note that there\u2019s no boys\u2019 team alive that would ever let themselves get beat like that, by girls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, I\u2019m also wondering, now that you mentioned it, that if the girls\u2019 basketball team did beat the boys how long would it be that the mantra would be, ‘Well, they let them so that it wasn\u2019t really even or fair or what not for the boys\u2019? <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s my point, because it\u2019s the only way it could happen if the boys let them and the reason for the boys letting them is for progress later off of the court.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I wish to extend heartfelt apologies to Carrie in Goshen, Kentucky. She was very excited to call this program. She\u2019s freezing to death with no power in her car. She finally got through, and call ended a little prematurely and I was (according to Dawn) very mean. And we fear here that Carrie is in her car crying over my perceived impatience, and we don\u2019t like that. Everybody that calls here, it\u2019s one of the momentous, most momentous days in their lives, like those kids in Green Bay and Obama\u2019s inauguration was ‘the most momentous event in their life,\u2019 getting through the phones here, talking to me, calling this program is probably the most memorable moment in most people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n

Carrie, I want to apologize. I had a moment of frustration there. I asked you three times how you would teach socialism to a kid, and you kept saying, ‘We need new leaders.\u2019 (interruption) What now? I\u2019m not chastising! I am explaining why I\u2019m apologizing. See, this is a teachable moment. You can\u2019t even apologize without being criticized for how you do it. I\u2019m doing the right thing, but I\u2019m not doing it the right way, so I may as well not be doing the right thing. So, Carrie, I\u2019m sorry. I did not mean to yell. I did not mean to shout. I did not mean to be short tempered. I\u2019m just, you know, a harmless, lovable little fuzzball. But seriously, if you want to teach somebody socialism, just tell them that half of everything they have is not theirs and you\u2019re going to give it away. It really works with a kid. It works with your chocolate milk. It works on cigarettes, whatever the kid loves. Condoms. <\/p>\n

Okay. (sigh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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