{"id":9931,"date":"2014-03-11T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-11T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T18:40:20","slug":"history_educator_nails_it_liberals_teach_feelings_not_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/11\/history_educator_nails_it_liberals_teach_feelings_not_truth\/","title":{"rendered":"History Educator Nails It: Liberals Teach Feelings, Not Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ryan in Louisville. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Good afternoon, Dr. Limbaugh. How\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s fine and dandy here, sir. Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I\u2019m a PhD student in American history, and I am absolutely in love with your book<\/a>. I haven\u2019t actually had a chance to obtain my own copy yet but I\u2019ve used them, previewed them. My oldest is 7 years old, and, at the time the first one came out, I was, like, “I love it, but she\u2019s not ready for it yet.” And, over the last few months, a couple things have happened, and I wanted to share them with you. First of all, thank you for giving us tools that educators like me can use that care more about truth than feelings. The sad thing is that a lot of history and historical fiction is used to generate feelings and not to provide truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boy, is that ever right. That is such… I hope that\u2019s one of the things you\u2019re doing in your PhD.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Man, you have nailed it. Like everything else, they\u2019re substituting and writing fiction to generate feelings rather than give facts and truth. That just nails what\u2019s happening to education.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s sad. The second thing is that with my oldest over the last few months, she\u2019s been gaining skills in reading, and the first sign that I realized it was about to be time for your books was, there\u2019s a website that her school uses that also has an app and all these other ways to access it that allows them to read and then it tracks their progress. And this particular assignment was on Justice Sotomayor, and it was, to put it nicely, glowing. (laughing) It could not have been more biased. And she came to us telling us about all these things, and I was like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. We need to sit down. So we talked about it,” and I realized it\u2019s time because if we don\u2019t tell her, then I\u2019m afraid that she\u2019s never going to see it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask: The purpose that thing was to make her feel proud of a country that would nominate the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court? No matter what this woman\u2019s view on the law was, no matter whether she was qualified or not, that didn\u2019t matter. It was just that this was a great country, she was supposed to feel good because we had done that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. I was really proud of her for reading this book because it was a challenging book, but it was the second thing that made us realize that this summer for her birthday she\u2019s getting both of your books. She was reading this book about a gorilla who had been kept in a department store and then was transferred to a zoo, and it was a wonderful story. It was fictionalized off of a real gorilla, but it was a very engaging story, but her biggest question about it was how did these people make the owner get rid of his gorilla? And why was that a bad thing? And so that book was a little bit more challenging than she had been reading, and so I realized she\u2019s ready for the reading level of your book.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you what, I\u2019ve got a break coming here I\u2019ve gotta take. Can you hang on, Ryan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Be right back after this. Just a little obscene profit break that we gotta take her, and we\u2019ll be right back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we are back with Ryan in Louisville, who is PhD candidate in American history. Look, I just wanted to hold you over and thank you for your testimonial for my books. When you said that you are incorporating those books in your PhD studies, you made my day. That\u2019s big. You\u2019ve gotta be one of few who would be doing this, and I think what you said about the way history is taught is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — so spot on and it\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re trying to counter. They take events, they make them up in order —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: — to create good feelings, and they don\u2019t teach the truth. They try to teach good feelings with a leftist tint to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they call that history. Now, this book that your daughter talked about, Sonia Sotomayor, was that by any chance Scholastic Level 3 Reader? “When I Grow Up: Sonia Sotomayor,” by AnnMarie Anderson, a book about famous Americans that you should know about, something like that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That sounds like it. It\u2019s an excerpt, though, from it. It wasn\u2019t the entire book. It was purposely pulled out in sections in order to test her reading level and comprehension levels and things like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I just did a search and I found this thing called Scholastic Level 3 Reader, When I Grow Up and from the description of this thing is: “Meet the first Hispanic woman justice to serve on the US Supreme Court. These brand-new easy readers are the perfect introductory biography series for young children. Each book will feature a recognizable figure and will take the reader on an exciting journey from obscure childhood to famed adulthood.” So I\u2019ll bet that\u2019s what she was exposed to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But nevertheless, I just wanted to thank you and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: My pleasure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to send you a copy of each of the books since you said you didn\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You need them. If you\u2019re gonna do your PhD studies, you need the books, Ryan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. I know. Like I say, it was on our list of things to get this summer, but I appreciate it very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, just hang on here. Mr. Snerdley will get the address necessary and we\u2019ll get \u2019em out to you as quickly as we can. Make sure the address is FedEx. It\u2019s easier for us if you use FedEx or UPS, as opposed to snail mail. Folks, he is so right about — now, I will tell you this. In the books that I\u2019m writing, the Rush Revere time-travel series, time travel adventures of exceptional Americans, there\u2019s a lot of feel-good stuff in here, but it\u2019s based on the truth of American history. The objective here is not to evoke good feelings by manipulating things. The purpose here is to evoke pride in America. The purpose here is to teach people the truth, young kids the truth. He just described what his daughter is up against. The reading level test that she was given was propaganda, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re all up against. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just that, it\u2019s not that they want the people to start hating the country, but that is an element. The importance of Sonia Sotomayor is that she\u2019s Hispanic and female, and that\u2019s not what\u2019s important about her. But that\u2019s what they want people to think is important about her. What\u2019s important about her is what she holds as her view of the legal system. That\u2019s what\u2019s important about her. It\u2019s important why she was chosen, all of these things. But in terms of people wanting to hate the country, it\u2019s not wanting to hate the country. Look at this syllabus, this description: “From obscure childhood to famed adult.” This whole notion about becoming famous and you, too, could be — all of it\u2019s wrong. <\/p>\n

This is what, folks, that we are attempting to counter with something just as simple as the truth presented in a way that takes your kids who read the books right to these events as they happened. The books take the kids right to the event. They\u2019re in the event when they happen. That\u2019s the beauty of the mechanism of the time-traveling horse. Look, I could go on. I\u2019m so proud of these things, I could go on and on, but I know you get tired hearing about it. You know me, I love to share my passions, and I\u2019m really passionate about the possibilities here. (interruption) What do you mean, I haven\u2019t talked about these books very much? Snerdley is saying in the whole scope of time they\u2019ve been out, I haven\u2019t talked too much. Maybe that\u2019s true, but, look, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time today on this one because today is the first day it\u2019s for sale and all that.<\/p>\n

But, I mean, this is exactly what we all talk about. You know a friend of mine just became grandfather for the first time, and I congratulated him, and he said, “This is why we care.” And he\u2019s right. And what he meant by, “This is why we care about what is happening to the country.” So he\u2019s got an infant now. He\u2019s a grandparent for the first time and there a lot of people scared over what the future holds. People are always afraid of the future. But this is real. This is different. The country hasn\u2019t faced these kind of challenges in modern times. <\/p>\n

You almost have to go back to the founding to find challenges like this, in truth. And that\u2019s what\u2019s under attack, is the founding. That\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s why this is so maddening, because when you strip it all away, when you get past issue by issue by issue what Obama and the Democrats, what their ultimate aim is to re-found the country based on what they think was wrong with the original founding. That\u2019s the objective. That\u2019s as simple as I can put it. It is the founding of this country that\u2019s under attack. The way it was put together, why it even came into existence. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, I have a long piece here. I may have to put this off until tomorrow. It\u2019s from Business Insider, and it is the result of massive research. And the conclusion is that Millennials are deeply confused about everything. Of course they\u2019re confused. They\u2019ve been through 12 years of public education in its worst era in history. They\u2019ve been through four years of college in its worst era. They have been the recipients of this attack on the founding. Gosh knows what they\u2019ve picked up in that confused mess called education in America. Who knows what they came out expecting, thinking. <\/p>\n

Their parents, the Baby Boomers, among the most screwed-up people that you could ever hope to find. They\u2019re the most self-centered, self-focused generation \u2019cause they had to so easy. We had it so easy. I\u2019m a Baby Boomer. I\u2019ll throw myself in the mix. There are a lot of stories out there about this poll and this survey, and most of \u2019em like to point out how the results simply show that they\u2019re all liberals and are never gonna be conservatives, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it. They\u2019re confused. And if somebody could come along with the right answers for \u2019em, bingo. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re here for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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