Ban Political Correctness

RUSH: As I predicted, as I warned you all yesterday, gun control has become the central theme of the Drive-By Media after the tragedy here, the massacre at Virginia Tech. By the way, speaking of something that we were just talking about, this guy was sending out clear warning signs that he was not right, and nobody would do anything about it on the campus. I mean, they sent him to counseling. They don’t know how that went. He might have been taking anti-depressants. We don’t know what the effect of that was. He went to some institution for a while. We don’t know how that went. We also have just learned that the guy’s writings, which we did know about, but what we just learned is that the guy’s writings were so scary that there were people that refused to go to his class. They refused to actually go in the classroom when this guy was there. So there clearly were all kinds of warning signs about this that were not heeded in a serious way. As I say, it’s very easy to start running around saying, ‘Well, ban guns! It’s the GOP’s fault. It’s Bush’s fault! Get rid of the NRA,’ rather than actually deal with what circumstances people had known for years prior to this guy committing this random act.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As I predicted, as I warned you all yesterday, gun
control has become the central theme of the drive by
media after the tragedy here the massacre at Virginia TECHT
by the way, speaking of something that we were just
talking about, this this guy was sending out clear warning
signs that he was not right, and nobody would do

(00:21):
anything about it on the campus. I mean, they sent
him to counseling. They don't know how that went. Uh,
it might have been taking antity pressents. We don't know
what the effect of that was. He was he went
to some institution for while we don't know how that went.
We also have just learned that the guy's writings, which
we did know about, but what we just learned is
the guy's writings were so scary that there were people

(00:42):
that refused to go to his class. They refused to
actually go in the classroom when this guy was there.
So they're clearly we're all kinds of of warning signs
about this that we're not heated in a in a
serious way. And it's said, it's very easy to start

(01:03):
running around and say, well, band guns, it's a GOP's faults,
Bush's faults. Get rid of the n r A rather
than actually deal with what circumstances people had known for
years prior to this guy committing this random act yesterday.
And by the way, I think the Democrats heard me,
Dingy Harry's out there. So no, we can't start talking
about gun control now, yo, yeah, don't. Let's not rush

(01:23):
to gun control is the headline of the story on
Dingji here. There's no question that Democrats are drive by
media didn't but but the Democrats did. But I want
to explore something entirely different than banning guns, and that
would be a ban on political correctness. You people, and
you know who you are. I'm getting emails from you,
some of you have called, and you're you're lamenting the

(01:46):
soft structure of the American child these days, the American
young person. Why didn't they gang tackle this guy? Why
why why didn't they just overpower this guy once they
started firing. And I'll and they all everybody's got their theories.
And one of the theories, one of those common theories
that I'm hearing in my email and on the phones here,
is that we're gonna come on rush. I mean, from

(02:08):
kindergarten on they're taught conflict resolution, don't defend anybody, don't
make anybody mad. And and and well what is that
if not political correctness? And it may be a factor. Uh,
I don't really know, but let me put it to
you in the form of a series of questions. What

(02:28):
might have had a better chance of preventing the carnage
on the campus of Virginia Tech. A law banning guns
which they had that was a gun free zone, or
a law banning political correctness. Now I know what some
of you saying, but rush, but rush, but rush. It
was two guns. And by gosh, that's true, folks. Thanks
for reminding me there were two guns the guy here.

(02:49):
But let me remind you the killer was a senior.
He was in that university for four years, and his
mental state was not a secret. And this university is
an institution of higher learning. They have lecturers, they have advisors,
they have teachers, professors, deans, and all these people have degrees,

(03:12):
postgraduate degrees, doctorate degrees. Before he was in this university
for four years, he was in a half screwel. And
before he was in the half screwel, he was in
the middle school. Not even now we are just beginning
to learn some of the warning signs, the flares, these
were not it's not even this guy was sending up
flares and didn't anybody notice? Was everybody so concerned with

(03:36):
the trumped up global warming scare they didn't notice a
real threat? For example? And how about this guy's Korean,
he's Asian? How many people refused to do anything about
it or even complained about him because they would be
tagged as racists And not just because he's Korean, but
he's a minority. How many people in our school system,
from you know, k kindergarten on up through the senior

(03:56):
in high school and all that have been have been
have been by virtue political correctness. You you don't you
don't comment on people who are in a minority, no
matter what they're doing is you're gonna be called bigoted,
You're gonna be called prejudiced. That worse, you might even
be called a racist. So I wonder how many of
the students at this campus live in daily fear of

(04:19):
global warming because of what is no doubt being taught
there and every other college campus. Uh, that's a you know,
a trumped up scare and they don't even notice a
real threat. Well, it's hard to say that because somebody,
a lot of people noticed something wrong with this guy,
whether that equal to threat to them? Well, we know
that it did with some because they refused to go

(04:39):
to the class where he submitted all these writings. You
do not have to be a talk show host. You
don't have to be a conservative or a Republican or
a moderate to ask this, how is it that we
have outlawed standards of behavior? Where is our where is
our sense of community and civic responsibility? Has all that

(05:04):
has held our society together? Been swept away by political correctness?
Well you might have some people come on rethew can't
think that about it. He was he was just doing
his own thing, and we didn't want to invade his faith. Uh,
he's Asian. We we we didn't want any fibl right lawfuit.
If we tingle him out for aber behavior, where would
it stop. So this, this is the paralysis caused by

(05:28):
political correctness. But the fault, my friends, lies in ourselves.
Not in a gun shop, not in a gun not
in a not in a not in the hall of Congress,
House and Senate, not in Washington. Easy to say that
we need more gun laws, But what's not so easy
to say is that we need less political correctness and

(05:49):
we need a lot more return to some sensible values
that exists. Uh. You know, one of the tenants of
political correctness. You can't judge anybody. You can't judge him,
even when you know that there's something wrong with him.
They can't offend them. You can't offend them. So what
do you do? You just don't go to class when
this guy shows up with his wacko writings. Uh, you

(06:13):
do your best to send him to an institution some drugs.
But even that you know you can't offend, you don't,
you don't, you don't judge. Uh, it's you just leave
people alone. It's none of your business, this sort of thing.
And uh, this leads to paralysis, which is part of
It's one of the many things that we had at

(06:34):
Virginia Tech earlier in the week. I just finished a
brilliant monalogue on the concept of banning political correctness for
the good of our kids and the good of our society.
I want you to listen to this montage here of
NBC's Meredith Vieria wolf Blitzer. Have a psychotherapist Karen Stark,
Chris Matthews of Hardball. I still wonder if he's going

(06:55):
to resign and let a minority take his position at MSNBC.
Remind me to bring that up because I think it
running a pole at Russia lymball dot com. Who at
MSNBC should resign to allow a minority to have a
primetime show? Uh? In fact, we are going to do that.
I'll give you the choices here in in just sex.

(07:16):
So we got Matthews, We've got brand Williams. We've got
a forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Morrison h and Larry King,
and they're weighing in on the very thing we've been
talking about. The profile of this guy, the shooter and
uh and and and the warning signs were all there.
Listened to these frustrated questions from the drive by media
types and the psychotherapists. Is there a profile for someone

(07:38):
who would do something like this? It seems like the
classic profile. He's Alona, which fits the profile. What do
you do when you have a kid who looks like
the profile who might go on a rampage? The classic
profile of the loner who exhibited trouble? Isn't that a
trend that deserves now more resources? We see the typical
profile of a mass murderer. Is there anyway to spot

(07:59):
them before? Can we profile this type of person? Love?
How does this happen? They all end up asking the
same question, can we end up profile? Can you imagine
if if this guy was Islamic? Would we be asking
the question? Now? They want to profile Asian Americans. Now,
they want to profile people that they think can be
identified as people are gonna go out and shoot thirty

(08:21):
two people in one morning, And I'm telling you that
can't be profile. I don't care what these people say.
It doesn't happen enough. You can't profile somebody's gonna do
that just because they're a loner, just because they play
video game, just because they have a gun. All these
things may add up. The thing you profile is he
was a nutcase, and they're all asking is there something
we can profile? Yes, it was all over. The guy

(08:41):
was screaming what's the thing? The left says it was
a desperate cry for help? What Mr Snrdley, what's the question?
You're interrupting me here in the brilliant riff. Its better
be a good question. M hm. That's exactly what I'm saying.
We can't profile them if they kill three thousand. We
cannot if we can't profile the Islamo fashion, No, no, no,
we can't. We can't even profile them in those uh

(09:04):
the Transportation Safety authorities they were you go through the
metal detectors. There can't profile them in there. No, your
little grandmother might get wanted, your six year old might
get wanted. You might have to give up your your
shaving lotion or shaving creamer. What we can't know, We can't.
The same people who agree that we shouldn't be profiling

(09:25):
Islamo fash just not want to profile people like this.
And there's there was a profile. Nobody paid any attention
to it in a serious fashion. Nobody paid it to
I mean, they tried to give him drugs, and they
sent him to the funny farm and all, but nobody
didn't think about getting him off campus. Uh See, that's
why I said, it's so easy to start talking about guns.

(09:47):
These guys don't know how they're undercutting your own argument.
What what are they saying? Are they asking? Isn't there
a way to profile a madman with a gun? Uh?
These people are so out of it they don't even
realize how they set themselves up for people like me.
Where where are these same questions after nine eleven? In fact,

(10:09):
we've gone just the opposite. They can't profile them at all.
David and Columbia, Mississippi. Hello, sir, welcome to the Rush
Limball program, Ali Rush, thanks for taking my call. Greetings
from Trina Ravage, South Mississippi. Right, Yes, you made a
point about gun control's impotence, another law not being relevant
and m Columbine, what three gun laws were violated? Another

(10:30):
one wouldn't have mattered. You know, this guy had chained
and lucks. You could have had a five gallon gas
tank of gasoline and would have done a lot of damage.
Of course I made that point. Yes, a fertilizer and
so forth, blew up the mirror building. And but you
can get this guy filed the serial numbers off the
gun too. I mean it clearly indicates a criminal intent. Right. Well,
you know you've made the point about folks not being prepared. Um,

(10:51):
you know before the nine eleven hijackings, people weren't ready
for that. After nine eleven, they wouldn't have put up
if people trying to take over the airplane. Uh, same
thing about Virginia take today. Somebody would be able to
do something like that. We did have Columbine, though we
did have precedent about schools being attacked. Um, your point
about political craignis is only really semi tongue in cheek.

(11:12):
For instance, you know one of the guys at the
one of the victims, was an eagle scout and he
was trained to be to keep his head. He was
shot in the leg and ruptured his female artery and
if he hadn't kept his head, he would have bled
to death. But he was able to staunish the bleeding
and tie his leg up with electrical cord while shot.

(11:32):
I'm gonna have to take a break here. I'm gonna
hold you through the break. I want you to get
to what you called about, because I thought I could
squeeze you in a minute and a half. Back to
David and Columbia, Mississippi. All right? And where were you
headed with this the eagle scout? And then my point
is that people American citizens can be trained to react
under pressure or in emergencies. Um, this guy was trained

(11:54):
just as in the voluntary organization. It doesn't require a
lot of extra work. If you would have you know,
if if they would just have a portion of emergency
preparedness in Wait, wait a minute, Wait a minute, are
you talking You're not talking about emergency service training like paramedics.
You're you're you're talking about in this case, the students
who are watching this guy shoot the gun learn what

(12:17):
to do to stop him. Yeah, keep their heads. Uh.
I mean obviously you can't train them to be commandos,
but you can train people to keep their heads and
think logically, what if somebody had just passed a big
heavy But you know, we got a we got a
we we got generation after generation of political correctness that
we would have to somehow erase from people's minds to
do this. Um I I look, I understand what you're saying.

(12:39):
And this seems to be a budding theme out there
that we need to do something here to to get
people to toughen up in these circumstances, average citizens who
are involved in whatever these events happen to be, rather
than to sit around way to or run away. Uh.
I want to take you back to Columbine. Remember after

(13:00):
the Columbine massacre. Uh, there was the Clinton administration mounted
this huge push for new gun control and it was crushed.
And do you remember I doubt that many of you
will remember this. Do you remember what the given reason

(13:21):
was that the conventional wisdom on why the two Columbine
shooters did what they did. I will tell you we
were told that they were teased. Those two boys were
teased and laughed at and made fun of by their classmates.
And from now on we should be careful of that

(13:42):
sort of behavior, because if we start teasing people and
making fun of them and making them outcasts, then they
might act on some of the movies they see, or
the video games they play, or the television shows that
they watch, and so forth. So let's let's extrapolate that
and move forward here to Virginia Tech. Uh, how would

(14:03):
it manifest itself? Well, don't call him, don't don't call
this choga a newt, a nut, don't don't you know,
don't don't don't point him out to others. Don't don't say, oh,
this guy's a wacko. Don't just just he might explode.
He might, this guy might blow up. Just let's just
no go to class when he's there. Let's just accept
the problem is he did explode, and we don't know

(14:25):
whether he was teased or not. But I mean this
is this is an outgrowth of political correctness. Uh, don't
tease him. And of course, what is the real meaning
of this, the real meaning when you when you came
up with this conventional wisdom, those boys were being teased.
They were they were made to feel like outcast. In
the process of doing that, you you in a way,
you justify their actions. Well, yeah, what do you expect

(14:48):
him to do? They put on those long black coats,
that grabbed their machine guns, they went on this shooting.
What do you expect them to do? They spent their
whole youth being laughed at and made fun of. Girls
wouldn't go out with him on dates. They made fun
of their acne and pimples and zips and so forth.
And that's that. That is how this political correctness is
justified because you then come out and you justify what

(15:08):
they did because of the actions and behaviors of others,
regardless whether it's mass murder or is the commission of
a bank robbery or something like that. And that's where
political correctness has taken us. And of course the umbrella
under all this, don't offend anybody, don't insult them, and
don't don't don't make the mad. Uh they might go

(15:29):
nuts when they're gonna go nuts anyway at some point. Uh.
And it's not because of being laughed at or made
fun of. They've got something wrong with them, which was
clearly evident. Uh in the in this guy's case, authors
what checked the timing on this? This um? This hit
last night about nine o'clock. Authors of a new comprehensive

(15:50):
analysis of antidepressants for children and teenagers say the benefits
of treatment trump the small risk of increasing some patient's
chances of having suice titled Thoughts and Behaviors. The risk
they found is lower than the one the Food and
Drug Administration identified in two thousand four, the year the
agency warned the public about the drugs risk in children.

(16:12):
So you can sit there and you can say, uh
that that well, yeah, yeah, it might get suicidal. But
that's a small risk compared to what might happen. I
only bringing this up because it's we were told this
guy was prescribed at any precedents. I don't if he
took them or not. This is David from parts on
on in Pennsylvania. Welcome to the E I B Network. Sir,

(16:34):
Hello Rush, this is a privilege. Thank you sir, I
think you hit the nail on the head again with
implying that political correctness is causing paralysis to action. I teach,
and we've noticed recently that students do not participate in class.
And this is a bunch of colleges, and we actually

(16:57):
think that perhaps political correctness has gotten them in a
situation at any time they open their mouths, they're afraid
they're going to get dumped on or they're gonna offend somebody.
Are they gonna make somebody mad? And that's going to
lead to them getting dumped on. That's right, And I
think it is a very good idea that you hit
that nail on the head. I think, thank you very much.

(17:17):
I appreciate that we in case you missed this about
an hour and a half ago, I positive theory. And
rather than band guns, we need to ban political correctness.
We just need to get rid of it. It leads
to paralysis, It leads to fear, and it leads to
people not being who they are. You want to give
me a couple of examples of it, and this this,

(17:38):
these are true stories. London Sunday Times headline don't stare
at Muslims says advice to schools. Pupils and teachers have
been told by an official body not to stare at
Muslims for fear of causing offense. The document, intended to
educate against religious intolerance and sectarian is um, urges to

(18:00):
cheers to make this quote and make pupils aware of
the various forms of his Lamophobia, i e. Stairs verbal abuse,
physical abuse. Osama, said, a spokesman for the Muslim Association
of Britain, accused officials are going too far. Look, there
are more, far more serious elements of his lamophobia. People
people look at all sorts of things that that can
just be a glance, a glance at the stare at

(18:21):
two different things. Glances happen naturally with all sorts of
things catch your eye, whereas a stare is probably gawking
at something. Personally, I've not encountered much of a problem
with people staring. I don't know how you would legislate
for that. That's not going to stop them. I mean,
good for him for speaking out, but don't stay there there.
They're they're they're they're not this, They're gonna be stopped.

(18:43):
I'm just telling you that the pupils and teachers they
will continue to be told don't stare at Muslims, that
might incite them. Then try this from this was Tuesday,
same paper, a different paper. This is the UK Telegraph.
Don't stare at the apes zoo tells visitors. Most people

(19:05):
visit the zoos to see the animals, but visitors to
Antwerp Zoo in Belgium are being told not to look
at the apes. Now here's why. Visitors are now confronted
with signs telling them that making prolonged eye contact with
the apes leaves the apes sad and withdrawn. Zoos staff
reckons staring can result in the creatures becoming less sociable.

(19:30):
Multi culturalists usually claim to be respecting people from different cultures,
while in fact treating them with a decided lack of respect.
That's the conclusion of James Taranto at the best of
the web dot com. So two different days, two different
UK newspapers, don't stare at Muslims and it's that that's
his homophobia, And don't stare at the apes and the
zoo because the apes will will become sad and withdrawn. Well,

(19:54):
I don't know if they're crying out. How do you
know if they're crying out for attention. I I why, why, Yeah,
just wink at him. If you want to have eye
contact with the apes, just wink at him. Uh why
stop of the apes. Don't wink. Don't stare at the tigers,
don't stare at the lions. Don't stare at I mean,

(20:16):
you could go even for don't stare at your own pet.
Might cause your own pet to become sad, and withdrawing
might give your own pet an inferiority complex. This is,
this is. These are the outgrowths of political correctness. I
know it sounds funny, and it is, but these people
are dead serious. You know, there is insanity all over

(20:38):
the place, and some of it is located in positions
of power and authority. All over Our society is the
Western democracies. Clyde and Boise, Idaho. Welcome to the E
I B Network. S. I'm good, Thank you you bet Listen.
I've been listening to you and I heard you talk
about all the people that knew about this nut case

(20:58):
in Virginia and nobody did anything. And I want to
know if you'd have been one of those people wh
knew about him exactly directly, what would have what would
you have done, what could have been done? You're talking
about the Virginia Tech situation. Well, this is this is
a this is a question actually for the people in
um in positions of authority there, and they did, uh

(21:19):
do certain things. I put him on antidupressants, and they
did send him. He went to a mental institution in
two thousand five. But uh, none of that apparently had
any impact or had any effect. Uh. But I know
what you're getting at. You're getting at, and it's a
valid point. There was there really any way to stop
these things? My my only point in mentioning this is

(21:40):
that you don't forget the context. Everybody said, we gotta
ban the guns. We've got to get the guns out
of it. I'm said, there was all kinds of information
long before the guy started pulling the trigger that something
wasn't right with him, and so banning the guns, Manny,
that's not the solution to this at all. It would
have had no impact. What's in fact, they already have
banned guns on that campus. But this guy was able

(22:02):
to go out and get one because the guy that
sold him the gun didn't know ainying about him. The
people at the school knew that something wasn't right about
this guy. Uh, and I don't. I don't know what
you do other than take him out of school and
institutionalize him. His parents felt he was suicidal. That were
all kinds of warning signs. What is what? What is
your ultimate point with us? Have I touched? I've heard

(22:26):
other talk shows to say that people were remissing not
doing anything. And I've been associated with the courts enough
to know that we can't arrest a guy because someday
he's gonna kill somebody. And no, we're not talking about
a lot we can do about people like that. We're
not talking about nobody's talking about arresting him people. We're
doing this a context of either sequestering him or getting

(22:46):
him some serious help. And and the talk of paralysis
enters the fray enters the picture when we start introducing
the notion of political correctness, well, because we don't want
to be critical because it might hurt his see things
that might set him off. I understand that. Okay, I
just want to know if you had a solution that
I mean, if I'd have been there and knew this guy,

(23:08):
There's not much I could do either, So I hear
all the criticism about why did everybody let this go on? Well,
there's not a whole lot in society that can be done.
M hmmm, LU and attorneys, and we got the Constitution
and we can't just jump in and do something in

(23:29):
voluntarily on these people. Uh. Well, you know what, you're
inadvertently making the case for what people here are saying,
because you're gonna have people like the A. C. L
You'll come along. If the school had tried to do
anything just to quester the kid until he could have
been you know, properly analyzed and treated, uh and so forth,

(23:51):
he might have been able to get some A C.
L U lawyers. I don't know that's that speculation too.
But you're you're you're illustrating the problem at the same
time you're making a point. I mean, I have people
email me today, well, if we don't get rid of
the guns, we're just gonna have an okay corral every day.
We don't have an okay corral in this country, and
we got all kinds of guns out there, video games
and everything else. Thanks Clyde