Why Levin's Book Scares the Left

rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 3/24/05 | rushlimbaugh.com

[paltz]

RUSH: Here's Janet in Sacramento. Welcome to the program. Great to have you with us.

CALLER: Hey, Rush.

RUSH: Hey.

CALLER: Major dittos from Sacramento.

RUSH: My adopted hometown. It's great to have you with us.

CALLER: Yeah. It was great to have you with us for a time. Listen, I want to go back to what you were saying about education because I think you're on to something.

RUSH: I always am.

CALLER: Yeah, you always are. I'm a private school teacher in California. I won't work in the California public school system because you can't teach in the public school system in California. Teachers are really stand-ins for what the government wants to teach these kids that are coming through. So you can't pay someone to be passionate about this stuff, and that's why, I mean, you get so much teacher burnout. You're not really allowed to teach in the public school system.

RUSH: Give me an example of that.

CALLER: For instance, we exalt heroes now in California. For example, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks. There's days that we focus on social studies issues in regards to these people, which are good people --

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: -- and if the kids want to talk about these people, great, then we can get a really good discussion going. But if you're required to cover these subjects so that they can pass some test that the state requires, you have to know this, you have to cram this information into the heads of these kids to pass this test, but if you're not passionate about it the kids aren't going to remember it.

RUSH: Well, it's all well and good that kids get taught about Rosa Parks and so forth. The problem is what they're not being taught, and I would assume that if you say you can't teach kids what you want to teach them and what you're passionate about it must be because of the curriculum. Now, I did an interview today, a little interview on the phone with an info babe from U.S. News & World Report. You know, Mark Levin's book has been as high as #3 on the New York Times list. It's at #5 now, and the Washington Post ran a story on his book Sunday and they went out and quoted all these legal scholars at Georgetown and Harvard, and they said they're mystified by why this book is there. They hadn't read the book; they don't intend to read the book, but they just can't believe it. So she was intrigued. "How come a book that is apparently selling so well to make it all the way to #3 in the New York Times list is not being read by a certain segment of the legal community and the public?" She wanted to know what I thought, and she also wanted to know why I thought the book was doing so well, and let me answer the second one first.

I said, "The reason why the book is doing so well is because it's education. This book that Levin has written, Men in Black, teaches people about the Constitution, the founding of this country, and judicial history that used to be taught in schools but isn't anymore because we're too busy teaching about how corporations are destroying the planet via global warming and pollution and all this. We're being taught about Rosa Parks. We've got 15,000 chapters in however many textbooks on how great Bill Clinton was but we don't have any history on the Constitution. The education on the founding of this country and what makes this country the way it is, is so woefully inept that a book like Levin's comes along and people go shazam! They're hungering for it and they're thirsting and they're reading for it." She said, "Well, why are so many people ignoring it and playing it like it doesn't exist?" and I said, "Because they're the people threatened by it. They're the elites. They're the elites, and these people love the fact that the courts are out of control, that the courts are now patrolled by judges who implement their personal policy preferences, and they look at Levin as two things. They look at him as a typical conservative -- which means he's an extremist, hayseed, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, a bunch of closed-minded bigots -- and the second thing is they fear him because he's a competitor."

I said, "It's no different they're ignoring the Levin book than how they ignore talk radio, or try to impugn talk radio. They used to have a monopoly. The Democrats in the media used to have a big monopoly." I'm telling her all this and I can hear her writing it down, keyboard, whatever, on the phone -- and you reminded me of this because of what you said about education. It is amazing what isn't being taught in schools today about the founding of the country, and one of the reasons this whole Schiavo case features so many... Do you people know how much blatant, blithering ignorance there is that is informing people on this case? You have genuine glittering jewels of colossal ignorance who think they know it all, forming opinions on this case. They call here; they talk to me; it's embarrassing. Quite honestly it's embarrassing to listen to some of these people tell me what they think. It's so embarrassing. It seems pointless to argue with them. It seems fruitless. They don't even have a basis of knowledge and understanding of the court system, Congress and the Constitution where I can even penetrate this wall, this boundary that rejects all facts that might challenge their already-conceived point of view -- and this is largely the fault of the deteriorating public school system in this country.

It's more like an indoctrination system than an educational system, and they're teaching about all these great social causes, and activism, and we heard in the campaign of 2004 that school kids were being taken out -- where was it, in Michigan? -- taken out of class, fourth and fifth graders to go campaign for Kerry, and so forth, and this was called "education" and "part of the process of teaching people about how our electoral system works" and all this sort of thing, it's mind-boggling. You ought to see people when I start telling them about Article 3, and when I start describing to them Congress has jurisdiction over the courts. You ought to see mouths fall. First they get mad and think I'm an absolute idiot and am lying to them just to win the argument. It's stunning. It is stunning. It's like telling people two plus two is four but they think of five all their lives and they damn well are not going to accept that it's four even though it is, and in dealing with it, after four days of this, I will admit to you, folks, I am talked out. I am frustrated trying to talk to these blockheads about this. You do not know, folks, you do not know the depths to which I have sunk -- better said, the heights to which I have risen -- to maintain my patience and decorum in dealing with some of this. Because, frankly, you know, after awhile, it becomes pointless, fruitless and frustrating to talk to blithering ignorant idiots, and they're so all over the place out there that it is just frightening. It is just literally frightening. And, boy, the left owns 'em. The left has made 'em, the left has dumbed 'em down, the left has made 'em comfortable being dumbed down, and they own 'em. But we're not giving up. Don't misunderstand. I'm not suggesting giving up. I'm just being honest with you about how frustrating it has been this week to try to talk to some of these -- not all of them. Some of them had glimmering signs that they might be receptive and open to certain things but a lot of them, a lot of them -- half the people calling here to argue with me don't even listen to the program, they're just on phone banks out there. They've been ginned up by the likes of Democrat websites or whatever and it's like running push polls for death, push polls for death are being run out there. Just unbelievable. Mark in Jupiter, Florida. It's great to have you, welcome to the program sir. RUSH: Thank you. Cigar-smoking dittos there, Rush, we shop at some of the same stores. CALLER: We do? RUSH: Enjoying a nice Rocky Patel ( story | company ) right now. CALLER: Well, that's great. CALLER: Listen, I want to talk to you about this Terri Schiavo thing and what I think is a great cultural disconnect here, and part of the reason why so many otherwise common-sense Americans are calling in and blithering, as you say, and that is that anyone over a certain age, say 30, you know, remembers when this whole "right-to-die," "death-with-dignity" thing got going, and it was all about allowing terminally ill patients who were long past their natural life span, we were torturing them by keeping them alive, yada yada yada -- and now we are here 20, 25 years on, and we're talking about starving a woman to death simply because, you know, her presence here has become inconvenient, and what I challenge the media of America to do is to get in there and insist that we get some current video of this woman, with what you just said notwithstanding, and I think it would go a long way towards informing the American public that that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about -- RUSH: My point -- you go get the video if you want. I'm not suggesting you don't. All I was saying was the video is irrelevant to me. What the video shows is not relevant. I mean, if it showed that she's talking, of course, and swallowing and this sort of thing, I'm not saying I wouldn't be moved by it, but I don't need a video to have my belief here. I don't need video. I don't need it. I'm not looking at it on the same terms these people are. I'm not trying to prove this woman's worthless. I'm not trying to prove that she has no right to live. I'm not trying to prove to anybody that I think she is so far gone or so worthless that we ought to kill her for our own sakes. I don't want to go there. That's not my point in this. I'm trying to discuss the whole issue on the basis of the sanctity of life, and if hers isn't worth diddly-squat then someday ours isn't going to be. Yours isn't going to be. You just wait till somebody wants to get rid of you for whatever reason. These things have ramifications down the road. You just said it: This movement's been going on for 30 years, and where is it headed? This is not the end of it. We're not solving a problem here. We're prolonging one and we are exacerbating one. Now, if there were a living will here and if she had said without question that she didn't want to live this way, then this wouldn't even be a story. It wouldn't even be an issue. If her husband... Look it, we're told she can't feel; she's in a vegetative state, then why does it matter whether this is a painless death? Why does it matter whether there's euphoria? If she's a vegetable, she won't know any of that. Why do you have to tell us that this woman is going to be in a euphoric state? "It's going to be peaceful. It's going to be dignified. She'll feel nothing!" She can't feel anything anyway! According to all of you, she's a vegetable! Why do you tell us all this? You must be concerned she's feeling something, and you don't want us to be upset, but you're contradicting yourselves left and right. On the one hand she's a vegetable; she's worthless. Then you have to tell us she won't feel anything. It's peaceful and she's in a euphoric state and all this. If she doesn't feel anything, if she's a vegetable, and if her life inconveniences no one -- and it won't because her parents have said that they're willing to take it over -- all her husband would have to do is say, "You know what, Mr. and Mrs. Schindler? She's yours." He won't do that and he won't do it because he's on record in court as saying she told him. He can't back out of this now. But that would be a bit of a solution to it. Look at this. "The Terri Schiavo drama has focused renewed attention to the euthanasia law in the Netherlands, and the Dutch ambassador to the US disputes assertions that Dutch euthanasia guidelines have put his country on a slippery slope towards state assisted murder. 'At least we have enabled by a debate in our parliament to nail down our approach. We consider that a strong point on our part.'" So he came to America, he defended the Dutch euthanasia law and started to lecture us on killing innocent people. That's where it's headed, so, you know, made the bed, live in it. END TRANSCRIPT

[odoso]

Anything that informs or empowers the "individual" scares the left!

[bmwcyle]

As we head down the road to the World Government of Socialism that will be demanded by the emotional liberals want. We will have God removed and Satan to rule us.

[smiley]

That's why the left are clinking their champagne glasses today over the Terri Schavio case....

[Publius6961]

I've been meaning to order Men in Black...

[odoso]

"As we head down the road to the World Government of Socialism that will be demanded by the emotional liberals want. We will have God removed and Satan to rule us."

How profound, as I believe we are living in the end times.

[JZelle]

"Anything that informs or empowers the "individual" scares the left!"


You're right! Listen to all the hysteria about Foxnews. A lot of the books by conservatives are published by Regnery. The larger publishers won't touch them because of their liberal slant. It's just a matter of time before the runaway train of judicial tyranny turns its sights towards Foxnews, and any other medium it feels threatens the liberal/socialist cause.

[bmwcyle]

Millions for charity, but not one penny for tribute!

AMEN to that

[Unknown Freeper]

I went into the local Border's (not my usual bookstore but I was nearby) to pick up Men In Black the other night. I looked through the new books in the front, the bestseller section, the section behind the service desk where they have the hot books and behind the cash registers. No books. Of course, I was not amused to see it missing and thought the only reason it had better not be anywhere was because it was sold out.

I went to the desk and asked the guy for the book. He took me to the murky depths of the politics section and picked up one of the four copies sitting there. I could see and feel his disgust as he handed it to me. Being nice, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, thanked him for the book and hoped that, since he was young, there would be time for him to learn more about the Constitution, politics in America and customer service.

He then watched as I walked over to where he was, picked up the remaining copies and took them to the non-fiction best seller section in the front of the store. I then waited around a few minutes to make sure they were not returned. I paid for my book and will begin reading this weekend.

I am tired of walking into bookstores and being bombarded with bookcovers showing Bubba's and Crusty's mugs. I hope Mark's book stays on the bestseller list for years. People need to wake up.

[HarleyLady27]

I don't know if my question belongs here or not, but I'm going to ask anyways:

We are headed to a World Government, I believe it was started by the Freemasonary??? or so I heard years ago it was, so do the libs want this, are they afraid of World Government, or is it the Republicans that want it and if so why does anyone want World Government?

Wouldn't World Government be alot like the United Nations?

[sasafras]

Levine book bump!

[TrailofTears]

Nothing brings greater fear to the heart of someone who hates truth than the clear pronouncement of truth being spoken. Nothing can shake up these anti-truth morons better than taking over their influence on our society. Every time they speak they ought to be challenged, and booed and hissed till they just shut up. We can not afford to allow them the opportunity to keep on with their pronouncements unchallenged.

[Popman]

I read it, it's a very good book. Exposes the serious and nature of the out of control judicial branch.

Written an a level even a DU'er could understand.

[hattend]

BTTT

[WeaponOfMassInstruction]

It's a great read, though it isn't exactly uplifting in its conclusions as to the future of the USA if the tyranny of the unelected Judiciary is allowed to continue unchecked.

[subterfuge]

We are headed for a "World Government". Some Republicans want it, though they probably won't admit it.

Liberals believe World Gov. is the salvation of the world and they embrace it.

Conservatives loathe World Government scenarios on any scale.

[CGVet58]

please do so. It is an excellent book, and yours truly being the legal layman I am (put it this way, when reading typical legalese jargon, I fall asleep faster than I would on thanksgiving after eating a pound of turkey), Mark's thoughtful approach in explaining things in common terms is priceless.

[Glenmerle]

He then watched as I walked over to where he was, picked up the remaining copies and took them to the non-fiction best seller section in the front of the store.

I love reading stuff like this!

[KC_Conspirator]

I think I am going to get Men In Black. If anyone has read it let me know how it is.