{"id":7139,"date":"2015-02-09T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:40:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T18:40:57","slug":"midwestern_values_and_love_of_liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/09\/midwestern_values_and_love_of_liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwestern Values and Love of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Phil in Melbourne, Florida. Hi, Phil. I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s your turn, and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Rush, I grew up in Cape Girardeau four years behind you and had a similar childhood. In a small town like that we had unbridled freedom. You\u2019ve mentioned it many times. I played pinball in the same bus station you did. We\u2019d leave on Saturday morning and say, \u00c2\u201cWhat time\u2019s dinner?\u00c2\u201d We\u2019d be home at five o\u2019clock. Our parents didn\u2019t know where we were. Rush, that\u2019s what makes you the perfect host at doing what you\u2019re doing. You have realized freedom and how wonderful true freedom is, and you\u2019ve realized down through the years that liberalism, liberalism in every form takes away our liberty. It\u2019s not necessarily what they attest to, like liberal laws concerning incarceration and things, but every time something like that does happen, they chip away at our freedoms and our liberties in this country. It\u2019s something that I just wish everybody could understand, that when it comes to you, not knowing you personally, but knowing how you grew up, you have to love liberty and freedom. You do, and I know you do. I can tell you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, of course.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s what we need in this country. We need a fresh dose of that, for people to be afraid to have their kids go outside, their kids are not expressing themselves, they don\u2019t have freedom themselves, they grow up thinking, what\u2019s the big deal about freedom and movement, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me find something. Speaking of which, I put this I think in the middle to back of the Stack, but you will not — it\u2019s about further — up. I just found it. More speech restrictions at the University of Michigan. Now, before I get to that, Phil, let me thank you and add to what you said. This is Phil in Melbourne. He said he grew up in Cape Girardeau, which is my hometown. You say you were four years behind me there or ahead of me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Behind you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Four years behind me. All right. Now, I was once asked, just to kind of buttress Phil\u2019s point here, at the risk of offending him, I don\u2019t want to offend people, but I was asked once way back a long time ago if I thought growing up in the heartland, in the center, the middle of the country, small town, was a factor in my success in terms of being able to attract a large national audience, as opposed to succeeding in a region here, region there, but maybe not working in a region over there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d never thought about that until I was asked the question, then I thought about it. And I thought the answer to it was “yes.” I thought it was a clear factor, but I didn\u2019t want to offend anybody with the answer, but I do think there was something about Midwestern small town values and the way that I learned life growing up. And coming from a family that was steeped in — politics doesn\u2019t cover it. Yeah, we talked politics, but it was more we talked what was happening in the country. And we heard opinions about it. This happened all the time. And the freedom and liberty, I do not take that for granted. I think so many people do. You can\u2019t blame \u2019em, they\u2019re born to it, few have ever had to fight for it.<\/p>\n

The periods every year where we remember those who died fighting for it or are becoming less and less prominent, Pearl Harbor Day, June 7th, D-Day, these days as the survivors are dwindling, there\u2019s less and less — I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s attention or less and less — I don\u2019t want to say respect, but it\u2019s become old news. It\u2019s way back there in the way-back past when a lot of people weren\u2019t alive. So I have a profound appreciation for it and the Constitution. That\u2019s why I\u2019m writing these children\u2019s books<\/a>. I mean, you nailed in part there, because I don\u2019t take it for granted, not just because of my job. To me it\u2019s rooted in the uniqueness of this country. Why is this country so great? I\u2019ve asked this question all the time.<\/p>\n

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How do you think it is that a group of people, us, Americans, in less than 250 years, have become economically, militarily, culturally dominant in the world like no other group of people, population, country ever has? When countries have been around thousands of years. There\u2019s an answer to this question. It has to do with our Constitution. It has to do with the Declaration of Independence. It has to do with the entire American spirit and existence. Now, revolutions are not unique, and civil wars are not unique, although ours was in a way because we were fighting slavery and a number of other things. Over half a million people died to defend it, defeat it.<\/p>\n

But, yeah, these are things that I do not take for granted. I think a lot of people can\u2019t help themselves that do. But there\u2019s another thing about growing up in the Midwest. I\u2019m kind of afraid to admit this. I didn\u2019t know, I mean, really, folks, I did not know until I was in my thirties that people had second homes and that they would go someplace different for the summer or go someplace different for the winter. We had one home and everybody in town had one home and you lived is there year round, and you took vacations in the summer. That\u2019s the only time you could. That\u2019s when the kids were out of school. There was no spring break then.<\/p>\n

So one of the vacations we went to Florida. I grew up thinking nobody goes to Florida in the summer, everybody leaves \u2019cause it\u2019s so hot. The only time we were able to go was the summer. And, yeah, it was hot. But, so what? That\u2019s when we went. So there\u2019s just some cultural things. Now, there was a family that had a house in Michigan and they went there for a couple weeks in the summer, but they didn\u2019t live there. It was just a rental. It wasn\u2019t a cultural thing like when I found in New York that everybody had two homes, and everybody who was anybody had two homes. You had one in the city and one in the country.<\/p>\n

The one in the city might have been a cracker box, matchbox place that you slept in Monday-Friday. Not everybody, but the people I was working with and so forth, it was considered gauche to stay in the city for the weekend when I moved to New York. You were really oddball weirdo if you stayed in the city for the weekend. I\u00c2\u2019d look out, \u00c2\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people here.\u00c2\u201d “Yeah, but they\u2019re nobody. People loath this city if they stay here. They don\u2019t want to stay here every weekend. You see the restaurants are closed and all that?” I said, “Maybe so.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, all that stuff was new to me. I learned it quickly. But even now I\u2019ve got one house. The whole notion of two houses just\u00c2\u2026 I see these people, these wealthy people got four or five, and I can\u2019t imagine the hassle. I cannot imagine the hassle. (interruption) What do you mean, wait a minute? (interruption) I have one house. I sold my New York apartment \u2019cause of New York tax audits. I sold that a long time ago. I\u2019m not complaining. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just trying to buttress what old Phil here was saying.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I think there is something to it. I don\u2019t know if I had grown up — now, this may not be true. For me, if I had grown up, say, in New York and had only that as a childhood, I don\u2019t know that I would have succeeded at this program. Snerdley thinks I would have. (interruption) Okay. All right. Snerdley is saying that I would have succeeded no matter where I grew up \u2019cause I had the right parents. Well, thank you. That\u2019s a factor, too. No question. Anyway, we\u2019ll never know \u2019cause I didn\u2019t grow up in Boston, New York, or Washington. I grew up in Missouri.<\/p>\n

Anyway, these speech restrictions, I think people are losing freedom and liberty every day. It\u2019s gotten to the point when you speak up about liberty and freedom, there\u2019s some people who will laugh at you. \u00c2\u201cOh, come on, we\u2019re not losing our liberty, get off of it. Would you come up with something real? We\u2019re not losing our freedom.\u00c2\u201d That is a standard reaction when you start talking about one of the things that the nation\u2019s threatened by with the Obama administration. \u00c2\u201cYou know, you\u2019re gonna criticize him for anything, right? What do you mean, losing our freedom. That\u2019s silly. We\u2019re not losing our freedom.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think political correctness is? What do you think being afraid to say this or that because you\u2019re here or there is? What do you think tax law is? What do you think net neutrality, if they ever get that done, what do you think that really is all about? There\u2019s no question that this is happening. And on campus especially, where, I mean, what is the academy? The academy is where people of disparate points of view gather and share a wide array of opinions. Yes, the academy is where diversity of thought and diversity of ideals, diversity of life\u2019s experience all meet to combine a rich textured mosaic of the beautiful landscape that is — BS. There\u2019s no such thing on campus anymore. No, diversity isn\u2019t permitted.<\/line><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cDozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan caution students not to say things that might hurt others\u00c2\u2019 feelings, part of a new \u00c2\u2018Inclusive Language Campaign\u00c2\u2019 at the state\u00c2\u2019s flagship public university that cost $16,000 to implement. Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include \u00c2\u2018crazy,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018insane,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018retarded,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018gay,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018tranny,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018gypped,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018illegal alien,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018fag,\u00c2\u2019 \u00c2\u2018ghetto\u00c2\u2019 and \u00c2\u2018raghead.\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n

Those words are no longer permitted at the University of Michigan. But that\u2019s not all. You are not permitted to say<\/a>, on campus, within earshot of anybody else at the University of Michigan, “I want to die.” You are not allowed to say, “My God, that test almost killed me.” You are not allowed to say, on campus at the University of Michigan, “Man, that test raped me.”<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u201cStudents have been asked to sign a pledge to \u00c2\u2018use inclusive language\u00c2\u2019 and to help their peers \u00c2\u2018understand the importance of using inclusive language,\u00c2\u2019 according to campaign materials. Though only in existence for one semester, the Inclusive Language Campaign has maintained a strong presence throughout the university. Students roaming the campus frequently encounter posters of all sizes reminding them: \u00c2\u2018YOUR WORDS MATTER,\u00c2\u2019 and asking questions such as: \u00c2\u2018If you knew that I grew up in poverty, would you still call things \u00c2\u201cghetto\u00c2\u201d and \u00c2\u201cratchet\u00c2\u201d?\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n

You are not allowed to talk about the ghetto on campus \u2019cause it might offend somebody who actually grew up in one. And you are not allowed to say “that test raped me” because you might offend an actual rape victim. You\u2019re not to trivialize rape by saying that a test raped you because it\u2019s impossible for a test to rape you. You cannot say, “Aw, jeez, you know, I want to die,” because that might create insensitive for someone to kill you. I\u2019m not kidding. You can\u2019t say “that\u2019s so ghetto.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why you can\u2019t say ratchet, unless it\u2019s an insult to Hillary, Nurse Ratched? Why can\u2019t you say ratchet? What does that mean? When I hear ratchet, I think of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest. And when I think of that, I think of Hillary and the testicle lockbox. The university budgeted $16,000 for the campaign. The program comes at a time when the university\u2019s raised tuition and fees for the last two consecutive years. I\u2019ll bet that you complaining about the cost of tuition is also not allowed.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Words you can still use, University of Michigan. Tea bagger, cracker, redneck, right-wing fascist, Nazi. Those words are still permitted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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