Rush Limbaugh is An Idiot, Part 564...

As if you needed more proof, from a blog I subscribe to:

If it's one thing I missed from my publik skool edujacshun, it was any exposure to Classical Studies. I've had to get that on my own, after I graduated.

Rush is the number one listened to talk show host on the planet for a reason. He talks sense. People should study something that is going to get them a job on the outside world, a "classic" job

Rush is retarded, as are you, EP.

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Rush attended half a year of college and never graduated. I graduated college.

I'll happily trade places with him, though I would retire from radio immediately.

Well, I don't think the framers were channeling Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato. None of those gentlemen were classical liberals. If anything they were classical conservatives as in Philosopher Kings, Divine Right Kings, City State Kings, but still autocratic philosophies. John Locke and Mr. Hobbs were more the classical liberal (classical liberal = modern day conservative) types. Now if Rush would like, and I'm sure he would, he can talk about Nouveau Liberalism which would draw from Marx, the humanists, Trotsky, Lenin over on the far fringe et.al.

^You did not graduate college. You may be a graduate of a college, having graduated from that college.

Experience has taught me to give little or no credence to second hand criticisms of Rush Limbaugh.

Especially since the ones criticizing so often don't pay attention to the context and hear only what they want to hear.

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Once again experience proves correct. And the critics prove to be a group of folks protecting their rice bowl.

Hm, interesting. What happens when right-wing anti-intellectualism meets the right-wing fetish for exalting classical -- that is to say, Western -- culture above all others?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2...sad_sack_story_of_a_classical_studies_scholar

Here's the transcript.

His points are:

#1 Current classical studies have been dumbed down and mutated into crap by the liberals who have a choke hold on the schools.

#2 Getting a classical studies degree as your major is useless. It's not going to get you a job. And he's right.

Heaven forbid anyone should learn for the sake of learning.

How ya gonna keep 'em voting for Republicans after they've seen Paree?

Please spare us the bullshit.....

Do you know how this whole thing started?

Some girl wrote on a piece of paper this:

"I graduate college in seven months with a useless degree in Classical Studies. I have worked very hard and am on track to graduate with Latin. I am in a Greek organization with many volunteer hours under my belt. My job prospects, zero."

And she was angry!

She actually thought such a degree would land her a job.

She wasn't studying this for the sake of learning. She was studying this because she thought she could make money off this degree.

Yet no one told her and she obviously didn't have the brain power to understand that such a degree is useless in the job world.

I might have had some sympathy for her if she studied engineering or business but classical studies? You really think that's going to roll in the money?

Exactly! Give me 100,000 dollars and I'll teach you how to be happy on 100,000 dollars less than you ever thought you needed.

You can't put a price on that!

I said in a different thread that a big reason kids can't find jobs these days is because they major in something that doesn't have any job or career potential.

Learn the classics if you want, but don't make it your major.

She made two mistakes right there. One is lying...you don't earn a degree in classics in seven months. Two is the "graduate college" thing.

You don't graduate the college. The college graduates you. Anyone who can't master the basic concept "I graduated from college" shouldn't be surprised if their application is round-filed.

Oh, and the third penalty: Misuse of upper case in "classical studies."

Best stick with the original topic:

"How is Rush an idiot?
Let me count the ways..."

Put the weed down woman......

There's nothing wrong with learning for the sake of learning. It's kind of boneheaded to pay to do it, though -- well, unless you plan to join the OWS miscreants and then demand that your buyer's remorse be sated by a refund on the taxpayer dime.

You know, for a writer your skills come up on the short side sometimes.

To me it appears as if she is to graduate in seven months from an unknown amount of time already spent in school.

I guess the frothing about Rush must have clouded your thinking there.

Take all the basket weaving classes you want, but don't bitch about not finding a job weaving baskets when you didn't put any forethought into whether it is a marketable career!!

I believe Garamet was making the point that if this girl is looking to get a job from those sorts of studies, she should probably try and do basic things like use language correctly.

So instead of "I graduate college in seven months" it should have been something like "In seven months time I shall graduate from college".

I've probably made fundamental grammar mistakes in this post, but then again I'm not trying to get a job from studying a bachelors degree in "hey everyone look how smart I am".

Stop making excuses for the old hag.....

I'm not making excuses, it's genuinely how I assumed she meant her post to be read and so I was more confused by the responses to it.

Could be indeed, but that wasn't what I was refering to. My comment stemmed from her claim of the girl lying, not anything to do with her grammerical effiency. I'll give her that, she was 100& correct, for a person in her line she should be flawless if she's to get anywhere with it.

It just gives the appearance of a bloodlust has ensued towards Rush, we see it a lot of that around here.

It's like starting a conversation with a negative and setting yourself up to have to trudge through for the sale when you've shot yourself in the foot and the air is thick enough to cut with a knife.

People tend to shut down any further input. Zip! That's it, off to the races!
There exists a medical name for it but I can't recall it.

Does Rush have id10t moments? Sure, we all do.

Any-hooo, just my take on an obvious froth bathed outlashing.

That post made my brain hurt.

Mine?

Nope, the college passed the tests I gave it and everything.

I hate to say it, but I can't disagree with Rush's point...and this is coming from someone with a liberal arts degree.