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RUSH: Now, I may or may not get in trouble. A little story here from Columbus, Ohio. “Lending a helping hand was more satisfying than winning a state championship Saturday for Meghan Vogel.” The story is from the Springfield, Ohio News-Sun, circulation 100. It\u2019s a tiny little paper. Nothing wrong with that. I\u2019m just trying to tell you as much as I can about the source. <\/p>\n
“The West Liberty-Salem High School junior was the surprise winner in the Division III girls 1,600 meters in the finals of the state track meet at Ohio State\u00c2\u2019s Jesse Owens Stadium. She broke away from race favorite Tammy Berger of Versailles and Delainey Phelps of Toledo Christian with 300 meters to go. She won going away in 4:58.31. It was the first time she had broken the five-minute mark. What Vogel did at the end of the D-III 3,200 meters, however, got her a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
“Within 20 feet of the finish line, Arden McMath, a sophomore from Arlington High School, collapsed in front of Vogel. Rather than run by her, Vogel helped McMath to her feet and helped her across the finish line. The crowd came to its feet with the roar growing louder with each step. ‘Helping her across the finish line was a lot more satisfying than winning the state championship,\u2019 admitted Vogel. By rule, a runner in track or cross country is automatically disqualified for aiding another runner. In this instance, however, meet management took no action. McMath was given 14th place in 12:29.90 and Vogel 15th in 12:30.24. Vogel made sure McMath crossed the finish line first because she had been ahead of her. ‘What a selfless act,\u2019 said Arlington coach Paul Hunter. ‘She could have just gone around Arden. But she chose to help. I\u00c2\u2019ve never seen that at a state meet. That\u00c2\u2019s real sportsmanship.'”<\/p>\n
“The last two installments in The New Criterion\u00c2\u2019s year long series ‘Future Tense: The lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval\u2019 <\/a>appear in our June issue, now winging its way to subscribers throughout the civilized world and available online now at www.newcriterion.com<\/a>. In ‘The Fourth Revolution,\u2019 James Piereson asks whether America is ‘on the verge of a new upheaval, a “fourth revolution” that will reshape U.S. politics for decades to come?\u2019 There are signs, he suggests, that it is, that ‘we may already be in the early stages of this twenty-first-century revolution\u2019 that follows the earlier upheavals of the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the widespread cultural transformation wrought by FDR\u00c2\u2019s New Deal. In ‘The Lessons of Culture,\u2019 I ponder some of the prerequisites of cultural confidence. ‘History,\u2019 Walter Bagehot noted in his little masterpiece Physics and Politics, ‘is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.'”<\/p>\n I could leave it there, leave it for you to connect, think and discuss amongst yourselves, but then I\u2019m saying, “Do people understand yet what I have said?” Some people might, but do I need to do a more direct correlation here? Do you think it calls for a more direct correlation here of what Mr. Piereson is suggesting we are in the throes of, it\u2019s already beginning to happen, that is the decline of our culture with the decline of hard manliness, at the expense of liberalism rising and the women\u2019s track meet in Ohio? I don\u2019t know. This could be fun just to leave it as it is and let people do the linkage themselves. Some might not make a link at all, see a link. Others might. <\/p>\n I\u2019m reminded, ladies and gentlemen, when I first heard way back in the late \u201980s that in competitive high school football and junior high school football that some teams were so good that they were penalized as much as 30 points before the game even started. In other words, their opponents were given 30 points in order to make it fair. And then I learned that adults started demanding that no score be kept in competitive sports events, intramural and organized, during the summer and during the school year. And that there was virtue in not winning. There was virtue in acknowledging that it wasn\u2019t fair to be better than anybody else. There was virtue and almost a hero-like status that attached to people who recognized it might not be fair they were so much better than everybody else and didn\u2019t laud it over them. <\/p>\n And so the measure of determining who was best was eliminated, keeping score. So at the end everybody had a pleasurable experience and nobody ended up with hurt feelings or being humiliated because there were no winners and losers, everybody had just gone out for a good time. The problem with it was, though, the kids were keeping score even as the adults weren\u2019t. The competitive fires could not be quelled no matter what the adults and the well-intentioned touchy feely liberals saw to achieve. Winning is becoming stigmatized. Winning is considered to be unfair because somebody loses. And that means somebody\u2019s feelings get hurt. And that means somebody\u2019s potentially humiliated, depressed, maybe cries even. <\/p>\n So we have to stop winning. Everybody just plays. And it is this that Mr. Piereson\u2019s writing about in the New Criterion in which he suggests that you gain a little progressiveness, gain a little liberalism at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness. Meghan Vogel on Twitter is a hero. She is a true athlete and even a saint for what she did.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now Snerdley asked me an interesting question. As you know Tiger Woods won in Columbus, essentially, in Muirfield Village at the Jack Nicklaus tournament: The Memorial. Tiger won. And Snerdley said, “Is Tiger back?” I said, “I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. So many things about what happened yesterday we don\u2019t yet know.” For example, the golf sports media community has been very distressed that Tiger has not been performing well, because that means fewer viewers. Ratings are down.<\/p>\n And, frankly, it\u2019s less exciting when Tiger is not playing well or not in a tournament. And a lot of people in the golf community have been hoping: “Come on, Tiger! Come back! Make the game interesting and bring people back to the game.” Well, Tiger starts out that tournament last Thursday and plays well. Plays well on Friday. Plays well on Saturday. How do we know, folks…?<\/p>\n If we were to learn that Rory Sabbatini and the rest of the field in the Top 5 purposely did not try to beat Tiger Woods so that Tiger would win and feel better about himself, “It\u2019s been a long time. The game needs Tiger back.” Everybody knows this. Everybody talks about it. Everybody admits it. Everybody wants Tiger to be happy again. What if we were to learn that all of these competitors who had a chance to win basically chucked it? Not noticeably, but nevertheless purposefully.<\/p>\n Just so that Tiger would win and the game of golf overall would benefit and they would benefit by losing, because the game\u2019s popularity might thus return. Money might thus return. Viewership might increase. Sponsorships might increase. All it would take is Tiger winning here and there. Now, Snerdley says, “What are we talking about? It would never happen. These guys are too competitive. They wouldn\u2019t lay down on purpose to let Tiger win.” Ah-ah-ah! That\u2019s not what we\u2019re learning is rewarded.<\/p>\n My question is (I\u2019m just asking a question): If we learn that this happened, would Rory Sabbatini become a Twitter hero? Would the media applaud Rory Sabbatini? “You know what? You did a great thing. You purposely lost so Tiger could win so he would feel better and so golf would benefit. You know what? We\u2019re going to give you championship money even though you didn\u2019t win, because you did a selfless thing.”<\/p>\n If we were to learn this is what happened, would Rory Sabbatini become a hero on Twitter for great sportsmanship and for great thinking? “Selfless behavior! It\u2019s so selfish to want to win and yet Rory Sabbatini set it aside.” If we were to learn this… I\u2019m not saying it happened. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m just asking. But if we learned that Sabbatini was so unselfish that he purposely lost so that Tiger might win — for the benefit of Tiger and his self-esteem and golf in general — would Sabbatini be awarded and applauded (clapping) as a hero on Twitter today?<\/p>\n I\u2019m just asking.<\/p>\n And if you say, if you\u2019re shouting at the radio, “Come on, don\u2019t be silly! What are you saying? It\u2019s insane”? It\u2019s not insane. It happens all over this country. We hear about it in amateur athletics, in a high school in Ohio. It happens! People purposely lose. People penalize themselves so that others might not experience the humiliation or defeat, so that others might find out what it\u2019s like to experience the joy of victory so that everybody can be happy. It happens.<\/p>\n I\u2019m just wondering: If it happened in this case, would you applaud it?<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Adam in Chicago. Adam, I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush. The reason I\u2019m calling is the story you talked about earlier, the one woman falling during the track race and other person helping her up and everyone stood up and congratulated her. I think that just goes to show that America\u2019s, that\u2019s not what America\u2019s all about. It\u2019s supposed to be just like the competitive nature in the workplace. The best man for the job is supposed to have the job. Where has competitiveness gone? All of a sudden —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait, wait, this was a women\u2019s high school track event. <\/p>\n CALLER: Maybe so, but if I was the coach she would never run again.<\/p>\n RUSH: Neither of these two women was going to win. Neither of them was in first place. <\/p>\n CALLER: No matter what you do you always do it 100 percent in life. That\u2019s what you should do. That\u2019s what people aren\u2019t doing. She could have done better. Maybe she would have gotten fifth, instead of 14th.<\/p>\n RUSH: I only have limited broadcast seconds remaining. Let me take over. I know where he\u2019s leaning with this. If we had time, he would say that we\u2019re losing our competitive instincts in this country. Nobody wants to be competitive anymore. That\u2019s not entirely true. The problem is that there are still plenty of people who are competitive and they will eat you up and spit you out if you\u2019re not. And if you don\u2019t learn to be competitive at some point in your life, you\u2019re going to be chewed up and spit out, because there are still lots of people who are very competitive and who thrive on it, and you can\u2019t legislate it out and you can\u2019t good feelings it out and you can\u2019t strip it away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Now, I may or may not get in trouble. A little story here from Columbus, Ohio. “Lending a helping hand was more satisfying than winning a state championship Saturday for Meghan Vogel.” The story is from the Springfield, Ohio News-Sun, circulation 100. It\u2019s a tiny little paper. Nothing wrong with that. 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