Posted on 08/27/2015 2:16:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: We have learned a lot more since we completed the program yesterday about the details behind the scenes that led to the shooting near Roanoke, Virginia, yesterday. I've learned a lot more about the shooter and his relationship with people he worked with and people he worked for throughout his career. Bryce Williams is his stage name. And it turns out...
Let me go at this from the standpoint of my experience in the business of broadcasting. I want to take you back to the early 1970s. I left home at age 20 in 1971 for my first job away from home. It was to Pittsburgh. It was actually a suburb station in McKeesport, and I was there for a year and a half, and I got a job actually in the city of Pittsburgh, KQV, which at the time was owned by ABC.
And it was at about that time that the federal government and the FCC began minority hiring requirements on all broadcasters, federal relations governed broadcasting. Broadcasting, you gotta pass certain tests, or did every five years in order to have your license to broadcast renewed by the government on the basis that the airwaves you were using were public, and so they were regulated by the 1934 Communications Act.
And we had the modern era of feminism that had just been born in the late sixties, the Gloria Steinem/Betty Friedan version that has screwed everything up now. I'll give you an example. I mean, we can give you examples left and right. The story we didn't give you yesterday about the heroics on the train in France. You know what happened in France? Everybody in that train ran for the hills except some American men.
And what you had in the rescue effort on that train was American maleness. You had American -- what used to be universal, worldwide manliness -- masculinity on display. Heroics were performed; people were saved. The situation was diffused, while people ran for the tall grass. The people that ran for the tall grass are the people have been indoctrinated by political correctness. Men who are shamed into not being men, men who have been henpecked or whatever into denying their maleness and masculinity on the basis that it is predatory.
And this is the chickification of the country. And in some parts of the world, that has taken place with the rise of feminism. And that's just a brief aside to illustrate that which I'm speaking about here. The way this manifested itself at radio and TV stations all across the country was, mandates went out from the federal government to owners of broadcast properties, that they had to begin hiring on the basis of quota and not merit.
And what happened in the early stages of this, and what I think it continues to this day, by evidence of what we saw yesterday in Virginia, is one of the end-of-the-road results of this kind of government overreach. It's mandatory minority hiring. Merit was thrown out in many cases. I saw... My point is, here I saw many qualified men who had been in broadcasting for years and climbing the career ladder in broadcasting (the way you did) lose their jobs, just get fired for no reason other the federal government was mandating that certain number of or percentage of on-air jobs be held by women and African-Americans and what have you.
And it was new. And because it was new, ownership and management was particularly afraid and therefore particularly energetic to be seen following the new federal guidelines, which were actually mandates. As such... You can argue about this. I'm not raising this to argue about the merits of this. I'm raising this to try to give you a timeline to explain some actions that took place yesterday.
So you end up having qualified people summarily fired simply to make room for what were required by government to be minority hires. They had to. It was an early way of looking at diversity demands, if you will. This is not to wring hands over qualified people being fired. I'm not doing it. I'm just telling you that the history. This goes back to the 1970s, the early 1970s. Perhaps prior to that, but I think that's when it was. I came close to being one of those let go.
But we're talking about gun control, this time.
If you really think about it, liberals are at the root of just about every problem the world faces today.
Leftist thought is designed to create conflict and division. Its purpose is the destruction of existing social and political structures. It is violent as needed and always negative and destructive. The supposed values espoused by liberals are not valuable to a sane society.
Close, but not quite. Diversity creates conflict that requires third party settlement as enforced by government. Diversity creates a need for more liberals if you will, as conservatives are busy doing something productive. So when they say, "Diversity is our strength," they are not being inclusive in that statement, effectively it means 'Diversity is a way to power for us,' for which they expect to be handsomely compensated. After all, power is always power for sale, and it is the rich with both more at stake and the funds to buy that influence.
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