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RUSH: Steve in Sacramento, my adopted hometown. It\u2019s great to have you here, sir. Hello. <\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Good day. By the way, thank you for your efforts with this Cure-A-Thon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: In fact, it\u2019s a perfect model for the disease we see in our country. And that is, some of the funds, as you know, of course you\u2019re right in the middle of it, go to alleviating symptoms, and some of the funds also go in the treatment phase for adult bone marrow transplant. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But there\u2019s also more and more of the funds that are going into prevention, okay? More and more, as they\u2019re learning more in the area of cell research and that kind of thing. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, come back to the country, our country. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s an important point, too. <\/p>\n

CALLER: So can I frame that, then —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah!<\/p>\n

CALLER: — with Lincoln\u2019s statement, and that is, as you know, ‘The philosophy of the classroom in one generation becomes the philosophy of the government in the next.\u2019 Now, what we see in the government is a disease, is a cancer. But we see more and more of the electorate that\u2019s also got the cancer. Now, we commonly complain about our public education system — which I am now officially renaming our ‘public mis-education system\u2019 — and if we don\u2019t put more of our focus, refocus more of our energy on time and effort to completely refurbish that public education system — starting, of course, it\u2019s the curriculum which is mush. But the administrators have minds of mush, and what do we expect our kids are going to have? They\u2019re going to have the minds of mush that you\u2019re talking about all the time. We almost think that it\u2019s hopeless to do this, but it\u2019s not, because we are paying the bill for it. We are paying 100 percent of the bill for it! So if we don\u2019t refocus our energies off the symptoms of the disease and back on to the root cause of it and to prevent it for the future generations, it ain\u2019t going to happen, Rush. We\u2019re not going to cure this disease. <\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question our society is in the process of being dumbed down and has for many generations. The hideous thing is that it\u2019s done purposely. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course it is. We know that. It started way back in the early last century, and we know who did it. Most people don\u2019t want to take the time to hear about it, but it\u2019s real. I was even part of the conspiracy myself as an educator and as a former staunch atheist, humanist and evolutionary biologist. I was part of it. I know what\u2019s going on behind the scenes. Nobody wants to hear about it.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Okay. Well, wait a second. What saved you? <\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling) Who can save anybody? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know who saved me. There\u2019s only one person and that\u2019s the ultimate truth. The person that saved me got my head and straightened it out, was when I started reading the scripture and realized how brilliant it was. But that\u2019s way before I came to God. <\/p>\n

RUSH: But, wait. The people you\u2019re talking about say the scripture is a recipe of socialism. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course they\u2019re going to say that. That\u2019s what I said all those years. That\u2019s part of the battle! The point is: What is truth? If we say we\u2019re truth-seekers we can\u2019t use misinformation to bring people to some so-called truth because that\u2019s not a genuine truth-seeker. And here\u2019s the deal. We have to refocus all of our time, and effort and resources on completely refurbishing the entire public mis-education system. If we do not, we are wasting our time for the future. That\u2019s it! You\u2019ve talked about it a lot, but if we don\u2019t refocus and take care of it, because every single administrator in all the curricula are all with mush. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. I hear about it <\/p>\n

CALLER: And we cannot expect to cure the disease without taking care of that. We cannot do it. It won\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll give you a story, tell you a little story. I know someone who has high school-aged children in the school district. This person tells me some of the most outrageous things. I\u2019m going to tell you one story. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Before you do that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was involved in the conspiracy. If your producer wants to get back to me…. Look it, my life has been threatened just to bring this stuff out. If you want to get back to me I can at least feed you some more information as we go forward. <\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll get your number before you go, but I want you to listen to this. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Fine, fine. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This teacher was teaching ostensibly a history class, and used the class each and every day to proselytize extreme liberal politics. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What she said in this class was no different than what you would see on MSNBC or CNN or read the New York Times. It contained every cliche, mischaracterization and character assassination of conservatives. This woman, this teacher was giving tests to students after she had given them the answers. There was no history taught in this class. It was pure current event, current-day, present-day politics. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s how it\u2019s done. <\/p>\n

RUSH: She gave them the tests so that the administrator would think her history class was going well and that her class was learning history — and if you\u2019re a kid and you\u2019re a junior in high school, who wouldn\u2019t want that? I mean, the kids are not going to stand up and oppose this. Now, a couple kids tell their parents about it. That\u2019s how I found out about it. But the parents didn\u2019t want this mentioned publicly because they were afraid of maybe some bad things happening to their kids in the school. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: So they want to try to deal with it at the PTA level or talking to the principal. But that\u2019s often ineffective. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Part of the whole strategy is intimidation. That\u2019s part of it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But it starts with misinformation and you need to know some stuff. What\u2019s going on, it\u2019s been going on for a couple of decades most people don\u2019t know about it. You need to know it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: We hear about it. We hear about it. I\u2019ve got students. In fact, we\u2019ve had a ration of students calling here in the last month or so at the high school and college level describing things, for example, about me in their textbooks. We know what\u2019s going on out there, and it is a problem. It\u2019s not only mis-education, it is un-education. A lot of kids are simply being dumbed down and they certainly aren\u2019t being taught the facts and the truth of the founding of this country, and they\u2019re not taught about American exceptionalism. They\u2019re taught to think Obama\u2019s brilliant when he runs around apologizing for the country. Seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds thinking their country needs to be apologized for? For what reason? Not that they\u2019re old enough to know. They just haven\u2019t lived long enough. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Steve. Thanks very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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