From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Clinton Screws Up! Press Reports It!
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:23:26 GMT
Followup-To: alt.rush-limbaugh
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

jks2x@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jason K. Schechner) writes:
-john@anasazi.com writes:
->elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
->]Here in New Orleans, on WWL radio, Limbaugh runs from 1-4.  I had WWL on at
->]about 3:55 to catch the WSJ report, and heard Uncle Rush close the show.  He
->]was telling his audience of highly literate and intelligent listeners not to
->]worry about anything important over the weekend because he was going to tell
->]them how to think on Monday.  Yup, we're dealing with a serious education
->]problem in the US if Limbaugh is telling 13 million folks how to think.
->
->Of course, anyone with half a brain knows that Limbaugh is kidding
->when he says that. Listen to him for a bit and you'll realize that he
->is very much an entertainer. By the way, I was also listening to that
->show, and I heard it too, but I recognize humour.
-
-	Yeah, but the fact of the matter is that the bulk of his
-listeners DON'T have that half a brain.  Almost all (of not all) of
-the people who have access to this network are at least reasonably
-well educated and can see the obvious sarcasm in Rush's statement.
-HOWEVER, the majority of the American people aren't quite that lucky.
-(and by lucky I mean a)lucky enough to be intelligent and b)lucky
-enough to have gone to college).

FLAG THE TAPE! FLAG THE TAPE! He has now stated that most of the American
people are not intelligent! Oh, man! Jason, I hope you don't get that many
flame emails for this!

-	They hear that and it goes through their minds that he really
-will tell them what to think.  Try and remember what the smarter kids
-back in your high school were called.  Right.  The smart kids, in
-general were ridiculed just for being smart.  Intelligenece,
-unfortunately, has gotten a bad rap in American schools in the past
-decade or two.  Turn that around and this country will be back on it's
-way to the top again.
	And how do you do that? You promote EXCELLENCE, not EQUALITY!
You set high standards for everyone to reach and promote a work ethic
into the community. You promote innovation not score-adjustments (e.g.,
the Texas high school seniors who failed the math component of their
graduation exam but were allowed to take another unscheduled administration
of the exam).
	Everyone is intelligent in his/her own way. All of us have our
different talents. Rush did not go to a university (so far as I know)
and yet he is a millionaire. I think Sam Walton also has a high school
education. What we should do is individually cultivate these talents and
make them work for the benefit of our community. Some of the smartest
people I know have never lived up to their potential, and it's not because
they lost half of their brain when they turned 21 or when they started to
listen to Rush. It's also well-known that Albert Einstein was not a whiz
in school in mathematics. The point Rush is making is that you should
think for yourself and not take everything Rush has as gospel. But he also
makes very astute observations and is very well-read. Even Ted Koppel
admits his intelligence, and Ted isn't a dunce.


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Emil Thomas Chuck (Duke BME '93)		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
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