{"id":7081,"date":"2015-02-16T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:42:13","slug":"scott_walker_and_the_value_of_higher_education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/16\/scott_walker_and_the_value_of_higher_education\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker and the Value of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Scott Walker is actually brewing. We\u2019re gonna be interviewing him after the program today for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter, but it\u2019s all about college degrees. It\u2019s all about how far you can go in life with or without a college degree and in whose mind do you need one in order to be considered for job X or job Y.<\/p>\n

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. His point is if you look at everybody in the DC 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. 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


\nThe 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. 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.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not new. It\u2019s been that way for quite a while. The stories are legion 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.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t matter. 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 DC 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. 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.<\/p>\n

Ordinary people, the people that make the country work, it\u2019s all about being able to relate to them. 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. 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.<\/p>\n


\nEverybody knew about it and it was the talk of everything because there was not anything like it at the time. 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

So the point about Scott Walker not having gone to college — have you ever seen the Drive-By Media worry about somebody on the left who doesn\u2019t have a college degree? Have you ever seen them get all agitated and worried about whether or not they\u2019re qualified or are a good fit because they don\u2019t have a college degree? You never. This is out of the clear blue.<\/p>\n

And a New York Times columnist, Gail Collins, wrote a piece last Friday, and she doesn\u2019t know it, but she just profoundly embarrassed herself by getting something terribly wrong. The New York Times ended up writing a very short, meager correction. She asserted that Scott Walker, in 2010, after having I think mentioned he didn\u2019t go to college, I\u2019m not sure if she threw that in there, but her point was he had cut unions, he\u2019d cut back the public school curricula, he destroyed teachers jobs in Wisconsin, and he\u2019s a bad guy.<\/p>\n

The only problem was he didn\u2019t serve and start serving as governor \u2019til 2011. He couldn\u2019t have done all the things that she chronicled. But before they ran the correction our old buddy Ron Fournier, now at National Journal, after Gail Collins ran her little hit piece on Scott Walker, followed up with a tweet. It said something, I\u2019m paraphrasing, I don\u2019t have it in front of me, “Scott Walker, you\u2019re on notice. Gail\u2019s going to be watching you.” Meaning we all are gonna be watching you.<\/p>\n

So now Fournier has had to run a little half-baked Twitter apology claiming that he goofed up. He jumped in too soon, and he became something that he\u2019s not, and da-da-da-da-da. I\u2019m paraphrasing the apology, too. But it all orients around the fact that Walker isn\u2019t one of them, and one of the reasons why, besides the fact that he\u2019s conservative and Republican, he didn\u2019t finish college. He went to Marquette, left second semester, senior year.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked the e-mail, and bunch of people, “So, Rush, what\u2019s wrong with an Ivy League education? Don\u2019t you know that parents all over this country would love to send their kids there?” Yeah. I know that. And I\u2019m telling you, your kid would be better off not going there. If you care about education versus liberal indoctrination, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n

The Ivy League, even if you go into science it\u2019s gonna be liberalism, because liberalism\u2019s corrupted every aspect of education there is. So even if you go into science in the Ivy League, you are going to be inundated with the global warming, the climate change mumbo jumbo. But the point is, it\u2019s a liberal indoctrination, and everybody involved knows it. That\u2019s what its purpose is. It is to turn out career government, banking, elite personnel, to train them, to educate them, to acculturate them. It\u2019s what it does. And that\u2019s what Glenn Reynolds\u2019 point is today in his USA Today column.<\/p>\n

He makes no bones about it. He said, in order to actually save the country, we might be required to elect the next president sometime down the road pretty soon, somebody who does not graduate from the Ivy League. Tell me where they\u2019re not messing things up? I mean, they don\u2019t have any desire to even understand. They think they do, by the way. The reason they have no desire to understand the heartland or what they call flyover country is \u2019cause they think they do, to the extent they think it\u2019s important.<\/p>\n

But if I say, “The people that make the country work,” they think I\u2019m talking about them. It is an elite group and an elite club that most people are not in, and it protects itself, quite obviously. It\u2019s just people that never got out of high school, attitudinally, in many ways.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: People are feisty in the e-mails they\u2019re sending me today. I just checked them again during the break. “Rush, why are you putting down education? Why are you encouraging people to not send their kids to school?”<\/p>\n

All right, I\u2019m sorry if that\u2019s what you\u2019re thinking. I\u2019m not doing that. I\u2019m all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees \u2019cause the learning never stops here. You know, education\u2019s a pretty big umbrella. If you\u2019re talking about a formal college education out of the Ivy League, there\u2019s no question that if you are not in that group, you\u2019re never gonna be in that group. You have to do certain things.<\/p>\n

Now, maybe other groups are the same. Country club memberships and this kind of thing, but the Ivy League and its preparatory attitude for people in government, running for government and this kind of thing, we\u2019re creating leaders that have less and less and less in common with the people voting for them. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s good. Any time you got a group of people that think they are light years better than other people, that\u2019s no good. That\u2019s absent humility and it\u2019s really vain as well. And vanity is not something that\u2019s worth bragging about.<\/p>\n

Do you know what one of the first signs of vanity is? This will shock you. And, folks, there really is, in terms of news out there, there\u2019s not much out there today. Everybody\u2019s decided for some reason to go skiing today. I mean, there\u2019s ISIS out there. There\u2019s the usual stuff on how Obama\u2019s destroying the country, but we could do that every day. The Department of Homeland Security funding, that\u2019s newsworthy. But there really isn\u2019t whole lot of stuff out there, so I\u2019m gonna just improv it today.<\/p>\n

The point about vanity, do you know one of the best ways to identify vanity in people? Now, you would think that it\u2019s easy, somebody\u2019s constantly looking at themselves in the mirror. If you know people that are absorbed or possessed with what people think about them, you are looking at vanity. And most people would probably be surprised to hear that definition of it. But make no mistake about it, if you\u2019re absorbed, possessed, obsessed, concerned with what other people think you of, the only thing that can be is vanity.<\/p>\n

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. 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, 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, 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, if you want to go to college, if your parents want you to go to college, fine and dandy. 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.<\/p>\n

Many of you have been listening for a long time, you think you know the story, but I\u2019m gonna add something to this I\u2019ve never admitted before. 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. And that was most of school. The things in school that I thought I was gonna need, I aced.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the thing about college. I mean, I remember in high school they said, “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, 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. 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.<\/p>\n

So I show up, I give every speech, and I get an F “pending” because I didn\u2019t outline any of the speeches. 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, 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.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that, but I don\u2019t work for these people. I\u2019m just trying to get outta here. 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, 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. 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 he didn\u2019t care who he heard give it, as many times, 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. 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. And it takes us now to what is happening to Scott Walker. They are descending on this guy. They can\u2019t find much if all they got is he didn\u2019t graduate college.<\/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 go to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman. 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, 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. And when I think back on my life, and people ask me questions about it, things that related to my success. I never, ever think of things that happened when I was in school that led me to where I am. 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. It\u2019s where I had to go because of my age. It\u2019s what my parents, everybody else decided I had to 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 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 lock down. So, anyway, it\u2019s not for everybody. And try this. I found this during the break. “Like Scott Walker, 68 Percent of Americans Don\u2019t Have a Bachelor\u2019s Degree.” It\u2019s the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n

“Sixty-eight percent of Americans ages 25 or older do not have a bachelor\u2019s degree. That\u2019s 142 million potential voters who might be offended by attacks on Walker,” and the fact he didn\u2019t finish college. Because part of the attack is you\u2019re not qualified, you\u2019re not good enough, if you didn\u2019t go to college. And going to college is one thing. But how you do there is another. And nobody knows that.<\/p>\n

Then you look at the NFL and you look at all these guys, every damn one of them came out of college, it seems. To what end? Remember Dexter Manley? Dexter Manley played for the Washington Redskins, and it was learned in the eighth or ninth year he couldn\u2019t read, yet he graduated from the University of Oklahoma, or Oklahoma State. I forget which one.<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: And I\u2019m gonna tell you something else here, folks. This is for you parents. Also, for those of you who have not yet decided whether you\u2019re gonna go to college or not, the average graduate now comes out of college owing $100,000. Student loan debt has skyrocketed. You know what that means? It means no longer can young people who are responsible for their student loans go to college without knowing exactly what they want to do. College is not a place to wander around anymore.<\/p>\n

College, it\u2019s too expensive to just take those four years off while you figure what you want to do and go through the motions of going to this class or that class, because that\u2019s what it always was to a lot of people. In the old days — and it\u2019s gonna be offensive to some — it was where women went to meet husbands. That\u2019s not the case anymore by a big stretch. But it used to be. Things change. For a lot of people, college was a weigh station. “I don\u2019t know what I want to do, Dad.”<\/p>\n

“Well, go to college, little Johnny, and while you\u2019re there maybe the light will go off.” It\u2019s too expensive now. College is just too expensive to spend four years not knowing what you want to do when you get out, or even worse, not knowing what you want to do when you go. It\u2019s too expensive to wander around aimlessly now. It would be better to get a job out of high school and found out what you want to do while you\u2019re earning money in the work world, because that kind of debt is crushing to most people. You could spend the rest of your life paying that off. And with the Obama economy, there aren\u2019t as many career jobs to be had anymore, what with Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Let me grab a call quickly here before we have to conclude the hour. This is Stacy, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Hi, Rush. I just wanted to comment on what you\u2019ve been talking about regarding the Ivy League schooling system. I went to University of Pennsylvania. I graduated in the late 1990s, and I\u2019m with you now. I have two little girls, and as I\u2019m raising them, I\u2019m like, “I don\u2019t know if I can handle them going there now.” When I went, I don\u2019t think it was nearly as bad as it is now, but, I mean, I was a history major, and I recall —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean, it\u2019s not as bad then as it is now? What do you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I mean is I feel that the liberal indoctrination now —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — is at such an all-time high. When I was there, I wasn\u2019t a particularly political person one way or the other. You know, I was raised in the San Francisco Bay area by immigrants so we were more conservative minded in my home, even though I\u2019m from the Bay Area, but I went to school very nonpolitical. And then while I was there, you know, I was very dewy-eyed, very hopeful of learning about history. I had some amazing classes, like Bruce Kuklick, the Founding Fathers, learned a lot of things you talk about —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that is not taught today. I just ran into a statistic. A 1999 survey found that 80% seniors at 55 of the best colleges and universities earned a D or an F on a high school level American history test, and that\u2019s 1999. Eighty percent of seniors got a D or an F on a high school level American history test. That is something that is not taught anymore. Not the American history that was real. American history has been bastardized, it has been politicized, it has been corrupted. It\u2019s a shame what has happened to the teaching of American history on college campus. So you\u2019re absolutely right about that.<\/p>\n

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Elliott in Wilmette, Illinois, great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re on the EIB Network, and hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, real good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I called to tell you about Woodrow Wilson, but while you\u2019re right on the subject, I gotta say that the reason that health care and college are so expensive is that they are free, that is, a third party makes it such that there\u2019s no more communication by price.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Anyway, I called to tell you on Presidents Day that Woodrow Wilson was the first president with a college degree, at least if I\u2019m not mistaken, and his background was in philosophy of what they call philosophy of history. And he was one of these people then who are saying that we now know, because we are so smart based on history, that we can tell exactly how to run the government and the country in order to do things the best way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Come on, let\u2019s just cut to the chase. Woodrow Wilson was the first flat-out extremist progressive president we had.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was Obama before Obama was born.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Precisely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he\u2019s just like Obama in the sense he\u2019s smarter than everybody else. He knows more than everybody else. Or, in his case he knew more than everybody else. All right, now, are you making a point by saying he\u2019s the first president you think with a college degree, are you making a point about that or are you throwing that in as a idle fact?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the idle fact, but he was the most progressive of progressives and was the first one to really put that all into high gear.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question about it. He was an effete snob, no question. I appreciate the call, Elliott.<\/p>\n

Brooksville, Kentucky. This is Vickie. Vickie, welcome the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. What a privilege.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019ll get right to my point. I know you\u2019ve got a lot of callers and less time. Number one, I think that back when you were talking about the colleges and the Ivy League crap, I\u2019m 61, you\u2019re 64, we\u2019re of the same generation. And to our parents, an Ivy League education was the be-all and end-all. You know, if you were smart enough to get into one of those, your life was made. And then the colleges themselves perpetrated that to the next generation, the next generation, and so it goes. It doesn\u2019t have a damn thing to do with education. It has to do with the title. It\u2019s vanity. So that\u2019s my take on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, she\u2019s right, folks. It was not true of my parents. My parents would have been happy if I would have agreed to go to Anaconda Junior College for six weeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hear you. (laughing) I hear you. You have given us some information on your background, and I can understand them wanting you to go to Anaconda College.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s because I wasn\u2019t gonna go anywhere. I\u2019ve explained it. My dad came out of the Great Depression. If you didn\u2019t have a college degree then, you didn\u2019t have a prayer getting a job. It was the most impactful event in his life, formative. It informed every aspect of his life, saving being employed, respecting authority, \u2019cause it was hell on earth for people that were out of work, and even for people that had jobs, the Great Depression was. They didn\u2019t want their kids to ever go through it and therefore they wanted their kids equipped to deal with it if it happened again. And the key to it was a college degree.<\/p>\n


\nWhen I steadfastly refused, actively said, “I don\u2019t want to,” I mean, my father thought he was a failure for that reason alone, failure as a father. But, anyway, you\u2019re right. Look, everybody\u2019s parents want them on the honor roll wherever they are. I made the honor roll one time for penmanship. My mother was not that thrilled. I was still on the honor roll, name in the paper, but for penmanship. The blue-haired Bloody Mary gang, it\u2019s not American history, ol\u2019 Rusty got his honor roll on penmanship or whatever. Means I wrote really legibly. Anyway, there\u2019s a point about this I want to make, but sadly again, out of busy broadcast time for the moment.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Tony in Oklahoma City, you\u2019re next, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Getting back to Governor Walker, that he doesn\u2019t have a college degree. We ought to look at what the college degree, or the collegiate academians have already given us, trillions of dollars in debt, got foreign and domestic policies that don\u2019t work, got a health care law that I meant who could understand it? I think Governor Walker ought to go on the offensive instead of the defensive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m gonna be talking to him here in 20 minutes. I\u2019ve got an interview with him after this program for the Limbaugh Letter<\/a> and I\u2019m gonna ask him about that and you\u2019ll be able to see what he says in the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter. Now, on this college education business, I want to be very clear about something. You just made the point here that all these graduates from the Ivy League, what have they done? They\u2019ve seen contributed an $18 trillion national debt and so forth.<\/p>\n

Timothy Geithner, Harvard or Yale or wherever, could not even do his own tax return, and here he is the Treasury secretary, and he has degrees in finance from Ivy League schools and couldn\u2019t do his own, and cheated on his own taxes because he said he didn\u2019t know how to do \u2019em. That was his excuse, anyway. It\u2019s an attitude that\u2019s cultivated. Not just what\u2019s taught. It\u2019s an attitude that people come out of these places with, that holds people unlike them in contempt rather than having respect for them. It cultivates this attitude of elite, above-it-all, that is not good for leaders to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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