[HiJinx]

She hated them (cochlear implants) with a passion.

Why? Because then, a hearing impaired (deaf) person regains control of their own life.
And the person who has compassion for the deaf no longer has a cause, no longer wields power.
What a pitiable pathetic shame that is...

[anniegetyourgun]

This is the same type of Episcopal priest who gives shopping carts to the homeless and $10 to the beggar working the corner. Then she walks away about to break her arm for all the reaching over her shoulder to pat herself on the back.

Smug liberals make me want to puke. I think it's safe to say that Rush feels the same way about them.

[Lorenb420]

I remember talking to our substitute priest about cochlear implants. She hated them with a passion. The deaf community, she insisted, was actually superior to the hearing community. It amounted to a kind of "cultural genocide" to encourage deaf people to make use of a technology that would enable them to hear.

That was a plotline on Law & Order. Some deaf girl wanted to get a cochlear implant, but the guy she was with didn't dig that, so he killed her. Well something like that :)

[Pete53]

Rush is best when he responds to News not talking to callers. Most of the callers are trying to push their own points.

[Ross Amann]

This pastor is truly nutty.

If there were deaf, why would they want the hymns to be signed? It won't help them sing...since you need to know the words ahead of time to sing...and churches that take singing seriously provide hymnals with the words - and post the hymn numbers before the ceremony.

Signing the sermons would make more sense....though printing the sermons ahead of time would make more sense.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Good article. Wonder why he didn't change to a less fashionable but less politicized church (I went from Episcopalian to Southern Babtist for just that reason).

[Tony in Hawaii]

"...priest at our church. She..."

Well, there's your problem. Priests should:

1. Be male,

2. Be older than I am, and

3. Speak with an Irish accent.

[AshleyMontagu]

What?

[1L]

The deaf community, she insisted, was actually superior to the hearing community. It amounted to a kind of "cultural genocide" to encourage deaf people to make use of a technology that would enable them to hear.

This is not universal, but it is an attitude present within the deaf community. There are, however, more serious problems. My wife used to teach deaf kids and one problem is that many parents simply don't want to learn to sign. Perhaps they are in denial. But one thing to think about: with the success of some minority groups in getting preferential treatment (e.g. affirmative action) can you really blame others for trying to get on the bandwagon? Disability rights groups, gays, and anyone with an ax to grind want to get their free piece of the pie.

[FormerLib]

A few years back, we had a substitute priest at our church. She...

Note to the Author: you had a substitute priestess at your church. It is important to note the different because the lack of priestesses was one of the things that has always differentiated Christianity from paganism.

...was typical of the contemporary Episcopal pastorate: female, overweight, with a bee in her bonnet.

God works in mysterious way. I believe He was telling you to find another Church!

[Terrorista Nada]

Rush, retire now while you're still on top! Seek professional help.

Personally, I think you're losing touch with reality after what you said today (05 Nov 2001) on your show about the "no smoking rules" on the Greyhound busline causing the three bus hijackings that killed and injured scores of people in three separate bus crash incidents in the last 3 weeks.

I'm a long time listener (1984) to your show, but now I also listen to Dr. Micheal Savage.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Anybody remember the sign-language interpreter fo Bob Dylan at X42i's first inaugural?

[OWK]

Rush Is Deaf

Russia's death?

Come again?

[B. A. Conservative]

Losing your hearing may be unfortunate, but it is a gross exageration to call it tragic. If tragic applies to hearing loss at all, Rush's case comes close to having the potential to be tragic. Beethoven didn't have to hear his music performed, he could feel it in his mind. On the other hand, to some extent a significant portion of Rush's magnetism for his listeners are his imitations and off the cuff parodies. His deafness makes it almost impossible to control the modulation of his imitations and thus restricts his ability to do the off the cuff parodies. Worse, his own voice is changing. Those mellow ringing words are now higher pitched and when he gets excited, they become almost shrill. My parents were among his most devoted listeners. Now they only listen in the car; at home they watch Fox news in preference to tuning into Rush. I don't think that bodes well for his ratings as an entertainer in the future. It however doesn't change anything with regard to his intellect and his wonderful concise clear conservative thinking. In the past, he has always pooh-poohed a political career because he couldn't afford to take the cut in income. If his ratings decline, I suspect there will be some tracking of his income related to declining ratings. He has also stated that he could not stand the fund raising aspects associated with political campaigns.

Rush, even considering the bully pulpit, your voice for hope for the conservative movement and the restoration of Constitutional government to the United States may be the most important. Losing your thinking and input into restoring sanity and Constitutional law to the United States would indeed be tragic. I hope that you will consider that this could be a push, maybe even a sign from God, that it is time for you to consider moving on to bigger and better things, like a run for public office. You could do a lot worse than following in the foot steps of Ronald Reagan. You have said many times that Sacramento is your adopted hometown. Maybe the message is that the first step of your political career is as a run for governor of California to start by restoring sanity in our nation's largest and most misguided state. It is unlikely that Dick Cheney is going to seek the Whitehouse after President Bush's time in office is over. There is absolutely no one on the political horizon who could bring the number of votes without any campaign that you could bring to the arena. And there is no one more committed to living up to the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".

The issue of campaign finance is another matter. While the Founders delivered the finest system of government ever devised by the mind of man, it was not perfect. Among the defects is the failure to give us TERM LIMITS for memembers of Congress and for the federal judiciary. Clearly they recognized the importance of placing the judiciary outside the political process as much as possible while still allowing some measure of input from the political process, but life terms was clearly a mistake. TERM LIMITS is the only meaningful form of campaign finance possible.

And Rush, in your case, there is a means to fund your campaigns without asking anyone for any outside funding. Excellence in Golf is there and yours for the asking. I hope that you will recognize that
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