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RUSH: Here\u2019s Betty in Springfield, Illinois. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve loved you for years, ever since Sacramento.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well. Well, well, well, well. You used to live there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, I live where I live right now, but I\u2019ve been listening to you since Sacramento.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You listened to me shortly after I left Sacramento, because I wasn\u2019t syndicated in Sacramento. Now, our station there, 50,000 watts, could have reached Springfield, Illinois at night, but I wasn\u2019t on the air there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I heard you somehow out in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve gone out there and done a couple remotes, and I\u2019ll bet that\u2019s what you heard.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. But, Rush, I have three short points to make about the Virginia Tech shooter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m very concerned about this. My first point is, I submit that if we strip away all the mental illness garbage that we\u2019re hearing about this guy, what we\u2019re going to see is a suicide bomber. My number two point is that he had an agenda, just like they all do: kill as many filthy Americans as you can. My number three point is, his agenda was driven by hatred of America, just like all of them. We\u2019re too rich. We\u2019re too decadent. We have to be destroyed, and I don\u2019t think he was mentally ill. I think he was a suicide bomber — shooter in this case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the mentally ill, it could be kind of tricky — I understand what you\u2019re saying — because it was his acts. The sane will look at what he did and say, ‘Gosh, you\u2019ve gotta be insane to do this,\u2019 but if you look at his behavior that day, it was normal, other than what he did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He made plans. He went to the post office between episodes. He addressed the stuff to NBC. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Plus, he was an immigrant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was able to record it, get the pictures of the video clips assembled and send it off to them. He casually and purposely strode to the area of his targets, and then let loose with the trigger. Some people would say this is cold and calculating, not insane. That\u2019s a matter for the mental health people. People are going to resist any notion that this had anything to do with, say, Islamic-type terrorism but there\u2019s no way to describe this other than to say it was a terrorist act. This was the ultimate terror act, whatever the motivation. I think it\u2019s not really complicated, but we all try to find explanations for behavior we don\u2019t understand, and all the things that you mentioned are applicable, but I think at the root of it is, we just had an evil guy, and a lot of people don\u2019t even want to think about the concept of ‘evil.\u2019 As Barb Oakley said yesterday in the New York Times in a column, they\u2019ll talk about evil in abstract in college classrooms all over the country, but real life evil is hardly ever encountered, confronted or dealt with as a real life issue and when evil shows itself, people say, ‘No, no, no! It\u2019s not evil. It\u2019s gotta be something else,\u2019 because people don\u2019t want to face the concept that there is evil walking around among us. But sometimes it\u2019s the most simple explanation where people are looking for complicated explanations for behavior like this. It\u2019s one of these things so extraordinary, it doesn\u2019t happen every day, and that\u2019s why the reaction to it has been what it is. I think (sigh), as I\u2019ve always said, there\u2019s good in everything, and sometimes it takes awhile to see it and sometimes it takes awhile to manifest itself, but there\u2019s an opportunity, at any rate, for good to happen here in terms of training students how to deal with these kinds of situations if it happens again. It\u2019s a long shot that that will happen, but it\u2019s possible. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: RUSH: We just had the call from a woman in Springfield, Illinois, theorizing on the shooter at V Tech. I just found an amazing piece. I\u2019m going to link<\/a> to this at RushLimbaugh.com, because it\u2019s too long to go through the whole thing, but his headline here is: ‘Was Cho Taught to Hate?\u2019 Here\u2019s the pull quote: ‘Whatever [Cho] learned in his classes — did it enable him to rage at his host country, to hate the students he envied so murderously? Was he subtly encouraged to aggrandize himself by destroying others? Was his pathology enabled by the PC university? Or to ask the question differently — was Cho ever taught to respect others, to admire the good things about his [country in which he lived], and to discipline himself to build a positive life? And that answer is readily available on the websites of Cho\u2019s English Department at Virginia Tech.\u2019 <\/p>\n

James Lewis writes the piece. Here says, ‘This is a wonder world of PC weirdness. English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking, and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated. They show up in a lot of faculty writing. Not by all the faculty, but probably by more than half,\u2019 and then he says, ‘Just check out the websites,\u2019 and he has the links to the websites for the English department that this guy attended. Marx is celebrated, a number of other things. You go to ‘the English Department\u2019s official frontpage reaction to the murder … a few days ago,\u2019 and this is what it says: ”We do not understand this tragedy \/ We know we did nothing to deserve it \/ But neither does a child in Africa \/ Dying of AIDS \/ Neither does the baby elephant watching his community \/ Be devastated for ivory \/ … \/ Neither does the Mexican child looking \/ For fresh water \/ … \/ Neither does the Appalachian infant killed \/ By a boulder \/ Dislodged \/ Because the land was destabilized\u2019 In other words: We didn\u2019t do nuthin.\u2019 It ain\u2019t our fault. It\u2019s greedy capitalism\u2019s fault.\u2019 This is a James Lewis<\/a>‘ opinion but we\u2019ll link to it so you can read it because it\u2019s eye opening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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