{"id":383360,"date":"2021-02-25T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=383360"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:48:40","slug":"what-rush-learned-as-a-college-dropout-walking-among-the-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/25\/what-rush-learned-as-a-college-dropout-walking-among-the-elites\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rush Learned as a College Dropout Walking Among the Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: I was thinking about how Rush — and he used to talk about college all the time, and I liked the way he framed it.<\/p>\n

I think it made people feel great because in this country, you can do anything you want. You don\u2019t need college. He rejected the notion — Rush rejected it — that you are better than someone else because you have a degree, because obviously. Well, for proof of that, just look at Joe Biden\u2019s cabinet and try to keep a straight face.<\/p>\n

No, seriously. Seriously. Listen to Little Red Lying Hood. What\u2019s her name? Psaki. Listen to her, the press secretary, for two minutes and then say, “Okay. I don\u2019t need a college degree.” In fact, Rush always felt college was kind of a clique, and it can be very cliquey depending what school you go to. I love the way he used to talk about that, because that is one of the core principles of conservatism.<\/p>\n

You should be judged on your merits, on your achievements, on your ability to get the job done, how you carry yourself (all those things that are not allowed to be taught in schools anymore), not a fancy reference with a fancy degree that isn\u2019t applicable to real life. Here\u2019s Rush explaining more in his own words.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor University of Tennessee, has a USA Today column today, and he\u2019s a man after my own heart. He makes the point here that it might actually be necessary to save the country to elect a president who did not graduate from college. And he makes the assessment not because he\u2019s anti-college. He\u2019s a law professor at Tennessee.<\/p>\n

His point is if you look at everybody in the D.C. elite, they\u2019re all from the Ivy League: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Maybe lesser colleges if there are such things in the Ivy League, but they\u2019re all from that geographic part of the country and from that academic experience, and they\u2019re all elites, and it\u2019s really an exclusive club with these people.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not in that club you\u2019re not getting in it and you\u2019re not gonna be given respect. You\u2019re not gonna be given any sort of half chance. He sent me a copy of the column, and I wrote him back, I said, “You know what, it\u2019s just obvious, it\u2019s apparent to me that there are a whole lot of people, particularly those who fashion themselves as our elites.<\/p>\n

“Those who think they\u2019re better than the rest of us. Those who look down their noses at us. Those people who strike me as they never got out of high school. The clique structure in high school stays with them to this day and is one of the animating aspects of their existence.”<\/p>\n

The idea that you must be a member of a unique club, a relatively small membership and you only get in it by having done the same things these people did. If you\u2019re not in the club, you\u2019re not serious. If you\u2019re not in the club there\u2019s no way you can get in because you had to go to an Ivy League school and graduate.<\/p>\n

\"\"And if you\u2019re not in the club, no matter what you do, no matter how much you accomplish and no matter how much money you make, you\u2019re still gonna be considered riffraff. And I think that\u2019s pretty much on the money. And it\u2019s not new. It\u2019s been that way for quite a while. The stories are legion<\/p>\n

of all the great Americans, successful, who have not graduated from college. And of course the two names that come to people\u2019s mind right off the bat are me and Steve Jobs. And then some people throw Gates in there. So there are three people who have reached the pinnacle, who have not gone to college, and those two or three names get bandied about all the time in this discussion. But it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

To the elites, that doesn\u2019t matter, it doesn\u2019t mean that they are qualified to be in the elite group. And the elite group in Washington is what we call the ruling class or the D.C. establishment, both parties, or what have you. And it\u2019s especially bad in the Drive-By Media. That is one of the most exclusive and I should say exclusionary groups of people that you can imagine.<\/p>\n

If you look at it as a club and look at the admittance requirements, it is one of the most exclusives things to get into. It doesn\u2019t matter how successful you are, doesn\u2019t matter how much money you make, whether you\u2019re more successful than they are, whether you earn more than they do, whether you have a bigger audience than they, doesn\u2019t matter, you are not getting in that club.<\/p>\n

There are certain things that you have to do, but more importantly, you have to have a pedigree. And so, anyway, Glenn Harlan Reynolds\u2019 point is, and it may be, he says, to save the country. And I don\u2019t disagree with this, by the way. There are far many more people who do not graduate college than do, and college graduates today, it\u2019s not the same as it was decades ago.<\/p>\n

The learning is different. The amount of debt college graduates have when they get out of school these days is something that previous generations didn\u2019t have to deal with. But it\u2019s more a point of relatability, understanding. Ordinary people, the people that make the country work, it\u2019s all about being able to relate to them.<\/p>\n

And the inside-the-Beltway elites not only can\u2019t relate, they don\u2019t want to. I remember shortly after I moved to New York, which is 1988, I was at a party. I did these things early on, certain things you have to do when you\u2019re starting out that you don\u2019t have to do after you get there.<\/p>\n

This was a party that people at National Review and New Republic sponsored, if you can call it a party. What it actually was, was an attempt by both publications, National Review conservative, the New Republic liberal, they wanted to combine sales efforts. They wanted to combine their sales staffs and go out and approach potential magazine advertisers as a combined unit and sell the genre rather than the specific content of each.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know whatever became of it, but that was the reason for the party. There were a number of these elites that I\u2019m talking about who were there, and I\u2019ll never forget, I walked up and met one of them, a woman. You\u2019d know her name. I\u2019m not gonna mention a name because the point is not to embarrass anybody.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just to illustrate the story. I\u2019d been up and running about two years, and everybody knew it. It was the beginning days, the program was on a rocket ship escape, and it was just shooting straight up. Everybody knew about it and it was the talk of everything because there was not anything like it at the time.<\/p>\n

Remember, there was no Fox. There was no other talk radio. The only other national news organization is CNN. And this woman, I walked up to introduce myself to her. I\u2019d read her work. I admired her work. I walked up and I introduced myself to her. “Oh, yeah, you\u2019re the guy that has all the farmers and truck drivers listening to him during the day.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I thought, is she serious or is she using jocularity here to say hello? It turned out she was serious. It was an insult, with a beaming smile, by the way. And that, by the way, that attitude among certain of those people has not changed to this day.<\/p>\n

KEN: What an amazing story and so true, what Rush said, now more than ever. And we got to see it unfold before our very eyes, although President Trump did go to a good school. He was an outsider. He was not in the clique. So we got to see firsthand.<\/p>\n

How are the Republicans and the Democrats and Hollywood and academia and the unions gonna treat just some business guy? Now, grant you, he\u2019s not just some business guy. But in the world of Washington, D.C., President Trump is an outsider because he speaks his mind, he does his best to follow the Constitution.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t owe anybody anything because he can do what he wants with his own money. He doesn\u2019t need donors to run. So right there, he\u2019s out of the clique. But what that woman said to Rush with the truck drivers and the farmers, you know, you think about that level of ignorance. That is how people in the bubble look at us — or my parents, contractors, businesspeople (self-made, didn\u2019t go to college or they left).<\/p>\n

I think about some of the successful people in my family, and some of them dropped out, some of them went to college, but at the end of the day, it\u2019s your choice, and you will make of it what you want to make of it. It\u2019s that simple. But in places like New York and Washington, D.C., it\u2019s gotten out of hand. And it\u2019s hurt the country because now our government is a collection of cliques, putting themselves first, not America First.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

KEN: In this next sound bite, Rush explains why he did not go to college, and he shares this hysterical story about being in speech class.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me clear up this education business. ‘Cause I didn\u2019t go to college. I was forced to go, never wanted to go. I couldn\u2019t wait to get out of high school. I\u2019m not telling this story in order to have it be inspirational. I\u2019m not trying to convince people to do what I did. I\u2019m just explaining to you why I have the attitudes and the views about it that I do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not for everybody. The problem is that college is something in our society that\u2019s supposedly for everybody. If you don\u2019t do it, then you automatically have a mark against you. If you saddle people with that, guilt trip \u2019em, and people are gonna go to college that have no business being there simply because they think if they don\u2019t they don\u2019t have a prayer.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, back in the days of the Great Depression, and the World War II, Korean War, we had a different economy. That probably is where this all gets rooted. And at one time it no doubt was true. But it isn\u2019t the case today. But there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. If you want to go to college, if your parents want you to go to college, fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not doing this to talk anybody out of it. It\u2019s just for me, I knew that I didn\u2019t want it. I knew. I hated school from age eight or nine, and I know that I\u2019m not common in this. So again, I\u2019m not saying any of this for it to be instructive to others, but I do think it\u2019s necessary for you to know. Now, many of you have been listening for a long time.<\/p>\n

You think you know the story, but I\u2019m gonna add something to this I\u2019ve never admitted before, something I\u2019ve never told anybody about why. You know, I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight or nine years old, and it was an obsession. It wasn\u2019t, “Gee, I think I\u2019d like to do that.” I knew what I wanted to do, and anything that was not related to helping me do that sooner rather than later, get better at it, I had no interest in.<\/p>\n

And that was most of school. The things in school that I thought I was gonna need, I aced. And that\u2019s the thing about college. I mean, I remember in high school, they said (muttering), “When you get to college you\u2019re an adult. They don\u2019t call the roll and it\u2019s up to you to show up and it\u2019s all up to you. If you don\u2019t go, it\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n

Your grade will reflect it, but nobody\u2019s gonna babysit you.” And I get to college and it was worse than it was in high school. The things that we had to take? Ballroom dance taught by former drill sergeant in the WACs as a PE course? I just looked at it as a waste of time.<\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019ve told you this before. I flunked speech. Speech 101. I flunked it. I went to every class and I gave every speech. The reason that I flunked… Well, actually I didn\u2019t. I came close to flunking. I was given an opportunity to pass the course if I redid one of the four speeches or five speeches I had to do during the semester.<\/p>\n

There was the interrogative, the declaratory, the informative, the entertaining, all these different kinds of speeches you gotta do. Well, by then I\u2019d already developed a way that I felt comfortable doing public speaking, and it did not involve using notes. It certainly didn\u2019t involving outlining. So I show up, I give every speech, and I get an F “pending” because I didn\u2019t outline any of the speeches.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t turn in any outlines. I just got up and delivered the speeches. And it was that that I used as an example. “See, they shouldn\u2019t have called this course Speech 101. They should have called it Outline 101.” And people said, “No, you\u2019re missing the point. This is to teach you to follow directions, to accept the parameters of instructions and to execute them.<\/p>\n

\"\"“Because this is what you\u2019re gonna find in the world. You go to work for some company and they\u2019re gonna tell you to do something. You had better do it with the ingredients they ask for or you\u2019re gonna be in trouble.” I said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that, but I don\u2019t work for these people. I\u2019m just trying to get outta here.”<\/p>\n

I did four speeches. They were good speeches. The speeches on their own got good grades. So I got a redemption. I got a chance to redo the informative speech. I forget what my original informative speech was, but I went to a friend of mine who had taken the course three years before me, and he told me, “You know, I gave a speech on the funeral business.”<\/p>\n

I said, “You gave a speech on the funeral business?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I gave a speech on the funeral business and how it\u2019s a rip-off here and a rip-off there.”<\/p>\n

“Really?”<\/p>\n

He said, “I got a B on it.” So he gave me the stuff. He had kept it. He gave me the stuff that he\u2019d used to make the speech, and I gave that speech, and the instructor thought it was one of the greatest things he\u2019d ever heard — same teacher who had heard the same speech three years earlier!<\/p>\n

I later came to find out it\u2019s a speech that anybody can find in CliffNotes about the funeral business and how it\u2019s rip-off. I found out later the reason it was so appreciated was because it was simply an attack on what some people think is an unfair business that takes advantage of people\u2019s sorrow and guilt.<\/p>\n

It turns out that this professor happened to have a personal belief about that industry, and the speech, he didn\u2019t care who he heard give it. As many times as he did, he was gonna grade it with at least a B or an A. And after that happened, I said, “What am I really learning here? I don\u2019t want to learn that I\u2019ve gotta copy somebody else.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t want to learn that I have to say what the professor wants to hear in order to get outta here.” That just went against the grain of everything that I wanted to do in my life. I\u2019m not a conformist and I don\u2019t want to do things others have done, and I don\u2019t want to say things others have said, and I don\u2019t want to say things in a way others have said it.<\/p>\n

Now, this is just me. And for me, it was not a good place. That\u2019s not to say that that\u2019s the case for everybody else. I am not suggesting any of you hearing me today don\u2019t go to school because of my experiences. I\u2019m just giving you the reasons why I have the attitude about it that I do.<\/p>\n

There are nine presidents, but they are from the early days of the country, who didn\u2019t graduate — nine presidents who didn\u2019t graduate to college — George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman. (interruption) Yes, that\u2019s true. Mr. Snerdley is making the point that some businesses, some vocations require a college degree, no question about that. I\u2019m not disputing that.<\/p>\n

\"\"My point is: Do what you want. Do what you need to do. I\u2019m just telling you that for me it was not helpful. It got in my way. I was so obsessed. I mean, I was so desirous. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. When I think back on my life, and people ask me questions about it, things that are related to my success, I never, ever think of things that happened when I was in school that led me to where I am.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think of those.<\/p>\n

Now, I do have favorite teachers. I have a couple things I\u2019ve cited, great things that did happen in junior high and high school on the football team and that sort of thing. But the experiences that I cite that helped me get where I am all come from real life. And I didn\u2019t consider school real life. I considered it prison.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s where I had to go because of my age. It\u2019s what my parents and everybody else decided I had to do: Go there, be there at this particular time of day at this age, \u2019cause that\u2019s what\u2019s required. And for me, of course I did it \u2019cause I had no choice. But it was not fun. I mean, I literally felt like I was in prison.<\/p>\n

If the classroom had windows it was torture. ‘Cause I\u2019d look through the windows and I would see everybody driving around, walking; that to me was the essence of freedom, and I was in lockdown. So, anyway, it\u2019s not for everybody.<\/p>\n

KEN: Think about how liberating that segment must have been the first time Rush Limbaugh spoke about it on the EIB Network — liberating to people that may not have ever heard somebody as successful as Rush talk that candidly about the freedom of picking the course you want.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, that you don\u2019t need everything the news media or whoever tells you. So obviously you have to develop a skill somehow, somewhere, some way. But think about that. Here is someone who is heard by millions and millions and millions and millions of people, and he basically…<\/p>\n

And this is why I think so many people in academia… Well, many lean left, but they have a problem with conservatism for that very reason. Because we don\u2019t think we need all the things they tell us we need. Like, “Well, you have to a degree. You have to be… If the government isn\u2019t bigger, how are you gonna…?” and on and on and on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

KEN: Leslie in Irvine, California. Leslie, you\u2019re on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Mega dittos to Kathryn and all of the Rush Limbaugh family and condolences. So I was calling because when you played the clips of Rush talking about college and not wanting to go to college it just made me think of all these high school students that think they need to go, and they\u2019re suffering through high school with all the peer pressure and all the cancel culture and then they go off to college and it gets worse, and then all the politics involved. It just reminded me of just a perverted version of Mean Girls.<\/p>\n

KEN: You know, and something else that\u2019s heartbreaking now, Leslie, is the way that what I like to call the “scamdemic,” the overhyping of COVID when it wasn\u2019t as bad as the media wanted us to believe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

KEN: It pretty much gutted education for a year. So you had all these children from age six up to young men and women in high school, like you say, and college. And they don\u2019t have any socialization at all with — and I\u2019m not talking about socialism. They\u2019re running around en masse; they can\u2019t see their friends. Imagine a 7- or 8-year-old being, in essence, isolated from humans.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

KEN: What is that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s horrible. I\u2019ve seen my grandson go through it.<\/p>\n

KEN: Yeah, it\u2019s heartbreaking. How old is your grandson?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Seven.<\/p>\n

KEN: Seven. Oh, my gosh. I mean, they\u2019re hungry for that. The other thing that drives me crazy is these little kids, their faces are covered, and then the adult faces are covered. So we are taking such a valuable skill from these children: The ability to read a face to interpret good or negative. They can\u2019t see people smile, they can\u2019t get a laugh of approval — and in our state, you can\u2019t hug people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh! It\u2019s horrible. Really horrible. Finish your thought.<\/p>\n

KEN: Well, thank you, Leslie. I appreciate it. I do want to thank you for calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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