We're Witnessing Two Institutions Disintegrate Right Before Our Eyes

Rush Limbaugh,com ^ | September 13, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[lentulusgracchus]

It’s the brain dead couch potato epsilon double minus morons that they preach to.....................

I BEG your pardon!!

That's "Delta Plus" and "Gamma Minus", I'll have you know! Plenty of honest Gammas in the Democratic Party! And they have the skanky Alpha Minuses in cadre to help keep them straight!

"Epsilon Double Minus", indeed! <snort!>

[nicmarlo]

They think that the people at ABC compete with NBC and CBS to be first. No, folks. they're nothing more than Democrats with bylines. It's all they are. They're all in the same team: ABC, CBS, NBC, and I'll tell you what team they're really on, and that's the Ivy League graduate team.

They are MEDIA WHORES, and all liars and frauds.

[Red Badger]

Epsilon Double Minus is the result of too much alcohol in the decanting solution and too much time in the bottle...............

[who knows what evil?]

(liberal rural areas)...these exist?

Yes...much of New England, especially Vermont and parts of New Hampshire.

[wm25burke]

As Rush has pointed out before:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/02/zbigniew_brzezinski_sheer_lunacy

The Brzizinski klan has been creating a narrative for American since at least 1976:

“Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision ... Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief ... Marxism, disseminated on the popular level in the form of communism, represents a major advance in man’s ability to conceptualize his relationship to the world.”

http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Zbigniew-Brzezinski/dp/0140043144

[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, so Epsilon Double Minus is really a defect grade, not a designer grade -- now I understand. Yeah, I can see their point, no point in wasting all the effort, might as well find something to do with them.

[Red Badger]

Even if they die they can still vote...................

[lentulusgracchus]

[You, quoting Rush] "They think that the people at ABC compete with NBC and CBS to be first. No, folks. they're nothing more than Democrats with bylines. It's all they are. They're all in the same team: ABC, CBS, NBC, and I'll tell you what team they're really on, and that's the Ivy League graduate team......"

Actually, that isn't quite true. Jan Crawford is a Southern girl who graduated from the University of Alabama (journalism, apparently, because she immediately went to work, in 1987, for the Chicago Tribune) and then University of Chicago School of Law (one of the best in the country), getting her JD in 1993.

Yeah, Jan's a "member of the club" but there are multiple avenues of access -- which Paul Fussell outlined in his book of 20 years ago, Class.

In Class, Fussell treats education extensively, and why it is that William and Mary and Colby and the Ivies are on one side of the educational trash line, and most small state universities like Sul Ross and Lenoir Rhyne and Southern Illinois are on the other -- even the big state universities like Arkansas and Kansas. If Crawford had stopped her education at her first degree, from Alabama, we probably would never have heard about her, except as a byline in some old Trib stories.

Fussell charges that fraud and maleducation are rampant throughout U.S. colleges and universities, which have been compromised by the mis- and nonfeasance of NEA-led secondary-school teachers and Party Line-hewing administrators. As a result, most Americans are not sufficiently educated to think as autonomous human beings, as individuals, an educational condition which endangers the American form of government.

That, he says, is the trash line.

The problem with Fussell's class paradigm, which he says is the American paradigm which he does not advocate but merely describes (he says -- a member of the uppermost, most elite group to which Wm. F. Buckley and Gore Vidal belonged -- that he would wish for us a scrapping of "class" structures and an adoption instead of bohemian individualism), is that it does preclude a great deal of the upward mobility that once typified Jacksonian America and directly led to American success, and the current paradigm does foster the kind of credentialism and invidious groupthink that Rush is complaining about in this transcript.

[geologist]

Rush is smart, and brings many points to our attention. When he refused to take a position regarding Bill Clinton back when Clinton was being impeached, it caused me to see Rush differently. He is stirring the pot. He does give clarity to happenings. But it seems to stop there. He is a communicator and makes a fortune with his show. Good for him. Still he hedges his position and we do not know what his actions really are. Same with many others. It is one thing to talk on air, it is another thing to actually take action regarding these matters. We all want to be liked. We do not want the price to be high on our actions either

[varon]

Real journalists don't do this the kind of stuff

These people are not journalists. They are agents of the Socialist administration who have infiltrated the news organizations which already have their prime-time 'sleepers' or 'sympathizers' to carry the message and to lend credibility to the propaganda.

[listenhillary]

Ping.

[nicmarlo]

How’d you get to know so much about this university/Ivy League stuff?

[lentulusgracchus]

I'm not sure if the "know so much" idea applies to me. I read a couple of books is all, and some articles. James Fallows, in some of his essays in e.g. The Atlantic Monthly 20 years ago, treated the subject of credentialism pretty seriously, and I kept his article (somewhere). The Peter Principle and Parkinson's Law talked about credentialism and hiring quite a bit, and the phenomenon of adding job quals just to cut down the crowd of interviews. Parkinson famously pointed out that anyone advertising a job that literally anyone could do, should run instead a starchily-worded ad requiring a person with knowledge of the Hungarian language, experience as a fire-eater/sword-swallower, preferably with experience as well with slack-wire acts. That's how you winnow 40,000 interviews down to just one. Mission accomplished.

[nicmarlo]

the phenomenon of adding job quals just to cut down the crowd of interviews

Understandable, especially considering the fact that there are many who are dishonest with their resumes and job history (as if they won't be found out). Anyways...the world of academia has certainly changed (much for the worse) from where it began.