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RUSH: Here\u2019s another example, another in the mind of a consumer how the truth doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s an AP story about the UVA rape story that was in Rolling Stone magazine, who, by the way, have not retracted the story. All they\u2019ve done is apologized for some things. They have not retracted it. You can still read it. It\u2019s still on the website. They\u2019ve not retracted that. And it didn\u2019t happen. But look, from an AP story about the fake UVA accuser, Jessica\u2019s friends, one of whom is — Jessica\u2019s the so-called victim. One of her friends is quoted as saying, “But if anything, the takeaway from all of this is I still don\u2019t care if what\u2019s presented in the article is true or not, because I think it\u2019s far more important that people focus on the issue of sexual assault as a whole.” <\/p>\n

So if Rolling Stone runs a totally made up story about campus rape by a fraternity, it\u2019s good even if it\u2019s all lies, even if none of it\u2019s true, because it still focused attention on campus rape, even though there wasn\u2019t one. It still focused attention on sexual assault. <\/line><\/p>\n

I think there is an outgrowth, by the way, to all of this caring. I\u2019m gonna admittedly have to be very careful here, \u2019cause this just hit me last night. We all know the NFL\u2019s in a lot of trouble for a whole host of reasons. The NFL, what year was it they began October is pink, the month every season that they devote to consciousness raising for breast cancer. Ever since that began, the NFL has been plagued by one bad story after another. Despite all the consciousness raising, despite all of the attempts at doing good, look at instead what has happened. That month of October hadn\u2019t bought \u2019em any credibility or good vibes or anything. <\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s another result of all of this that — hell, I don\u2019t know. Let me just ask this question. This is the first formulation of the question, so give me some time to work on this. But is it good for the country at large for people to be running around all day, every day thinking that they might have a deadly disease or that they might get one later today or tomorrow? All of this consciousness raising about things, how many hypochondriacs is it creating? How many people are doing nothing but thinking about disaster befalling them with all of this? <\/p>\n

How many people go through every day now with just a minor malady, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, did I drink too much coffee today? Am I gonna have a heart attack? Oh, my God, oh, my God.” I know I\u2019m treading on dangerous water here, but a lot of this has turned everybody inward and self-conscious and the things that are just ups and downs and hills and valleys of life are now daily potential tragic disasters. <\/p>\n

Dawn, are you rolling your eyes \u2019cause you think I\u2019m on thin ice or do you think I\u2019m being brilliant here? See, they all think I\u2019m on thin ice, and I probably am. I\u2019m not being critical of anybody. I\u2019m just — (interruption) No. No, I don\u2019t want to go back to the day when people got sick and didn\u2019t know about it. (interruption) Didn\u2019t have health care? Health care is worse today than it was before Obama got hold of it. That\u2019s my point. We now need consciousness raising about assault on campus, and for what purpose do we want to raise consciousness? We\u2019ll do a lie. <\/p>\n