Losing Your Temper Is Good for You!

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember post-Lewinsky, in the second term of Bill Clinton, that AP ran a series of stories — picked up by all of the other Drive-By Media — telling us that lying was good? ‘Little’ lies were helpful. They spared people’s feelings. ‘Everybody does it.’ It actually has redeeming social quality and value, if not done too much, but even then, you know, within reason, lying is actually a well-calculated way to get through life, causing yourself less pain and, obviously, others less pain. Well, you won’t believe this. So Clinton appears on Fox News Sunday this past Sunday — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday — so it’s four days ago, and I have here, ladies and gentlemen, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from our buddies at the Associated Press by Jocelyn Noveck:

‘Is It Cool to Lose Your Cool? … That’s one of the questions of the week as we evaluate and re-evaluate Bill Clinton’s finger-pointing, knee-poking interview with Chris Wallace on Fox. The first debate, of course, was whether Clinton had actually lost it at all — a ‘full-bore tantrum,’ one conservative columnist called it — or knew exactly what he was doing. But splitting the difference for a moment, the interesting issue becomes…’ I kid you not. (laughing) I can’t say this with a straight face. ‘Can public anger in politics, business, and elsewhere be a good thing?’ (Laughing.) Yes! Let’s have more road rage. Let’s have more threatening of journalists. You hear what Ailes said? Ailes came out and said this was ‘an assault or an attack on all journalists.’ He said Clinton was totally over the top. I’m not kidding you, folks. We have a story here from the AP on how this is really good!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen. Do you remember in the in the
at what point in the nineties was this Mr snard Lee?
Was it pre or post Lewinsky? That A A P
did this post Lewinsky? So it was in the second
term of Bill Clinton. You you all remember ap Ran,

(00:20):
a series of stories picked up by all of the
other drive by media telling us that lying was good.
Little lies were helpful, they spared people's feelings. Everybody does it, uh,
and it was just it's it's a It actually has

(00:41):
redeeming social quality and value if if not done too much.
But even you know that within reason, lying is actually
a well calculated way to get through life, causing yourself
less pain and obviously others less pain. Well, you won't
believe this. What's it been about ten days since the

(01:05):
Was it this past Sunday? It's four foot time? So
Clinton appears on Fox News Sunday Show this past Sunday?
Though Monday Tuesday? Was it? So it's four days ago?
And I have here, ladies and gentlemen in h in
my formerly nicotine Stained Fingers, A story from our buddies
at the Associated Press by Joscelyn Novak. Is it cool

(01:29):
to lose your cool. That's one of the questions of
the week as we evaluate and reevaluate Bill Clinton's finger pointing,
knee poking interview with Chris Wallace on Fox. The first debate,
of course, was whether Clinton had actually lost it at all,
a full bore tantrum, one conservative columnists called it, or
knew exactly what he was doing, but splitting the difference

(01:51):
for a moment, the interesting issue becomes, I kid you
not can I can't see this with a straight face.
Can public anger in politics, business and elsewhere be a
good thing? Is? Yes, Let's have more road rage, Let's
have more threatening of journalists here what Ailes said? Ales

(02:15):
came out and said this was an assault or an
attack on all journalists. Uh. Clinton was totally over the time.
I'm not kidding you what. We have a story here
from the ap on how this is really good? Uh,
public anger, politics, business and elsewhere it could be a
good thing. Is a little tantrum now? And then just
what's called for? Well, they went out and they found

(02:35):
somebody who agrees with their question and answers it the
way they wanted under the right circumstances, Yes, say some
analysts of social behavior when's the last time, folks, anybody
ever told you it was good to have a public
display of temper? When was it? When was the last
time anybody praised you for doing a smart thing and

(02:55):
the right thing by losing your cool. Well, just as
b j's are now not sex, so is road rage
a good thing. Blowing your cool, losing your temper in public,
even in business, is the right thing to do under
the right circumstances. According to um A senior associate dean

(03:18):
at Yale's School of Management, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, it's more important
than ever to cut through the clutter. All of us
are so overmanaged these days. Public figures have platoons at protectors.
It's more important than ever to show authentic, real emotions.
Sonenfel believes that Clinton's anger was genuine and yet intentionally uncensored,

(03:42):
and he says Clinton has told him personally in the
past that when your critics are wrong, your fireback on
all cylinders, taken on with the full force, and don't
let up. In the Fox News interview, Clinton pointed his finger,
leaning sharply in toward Wallace, poked his leg all in
animated response to the question of whether his administration had
done enough to pursue Osama bin Laden. I went back

(04:03):
to my website. I wanted to find out exactly when
all these stories about how good it is to lie?
We're we got it. We have a whole segment on
it and the essential stack of stuff and it ran
this October two thousand five, almost a year ago. Will
we see stories on how healthy lying is? And we
chronicle here on the website all of the stories that

(04:24):
came out in the sea from February through um September
on how healthy it is to lie? Cleveland playing dealer.
They want Clinton to be a saint, Boston Herald to
tell the truth Clinton's troubles, get couples talking, Rocky Mountain,
Knews when if ever is lying okay? And CNN in

(04:45):
Time Magazine the truth about lying. All of these stories
were we're oriented around how healthy it can be. UH
spares people's feelings, and we we wonder if if the
same sentiment will be extended towards good or libby Because
Clinton lied under oath in a grand jury deposition. Of
course he's lying about sex. He had to do a a

(05:07):
smart thing to do to protect the family, protecting daughter,
protect everything else. It's a two way street. And now
we've got this story from the AP. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an
associate dean at Yale's School of Management, saying, Hey, none
of the right circumstances, blow your top, cut through the clutter.
It's too controlled out there. It can be. It'd be

(05:29):
a really great thing to do out there. Public anger, politics, business, UH, elsewhere,
and there's a let's see who else. Kathleen hall Jamison,
an analyst of political communication UH, said that none of
Clinton's gestures is necessarily indicative of a loss of control.
What we usually see from politicians are scripted moments or

(05:51):
interviews that are puff pieces. We rarely see a tough
one on one Kathleen, do you ever watch Meet the
Press when Dick Cheney's on UH or when Donald Rumcell's
on somewhere? I continue to be mystified. But at any rate,
ladies and gentle feel free blow your top, have a
little road rage out there. UH. It's cool, therapeutic and

(06:14):
a very helpful