Thursday, August 15, 2013

Rush Limbaugh plays portions of Ashton Kutcher inspirational message to teens at Teen Choice Awards, audience screams approval at Kutcher's self empowering remarks

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Rush notes it's an unusual and tremendous message for teens or anyone to be hearing today. Video of 8/12/13 Kutcher 4 min. speech at end of this post.

8/14/13, "Ashton Kutcher's Profound Speech to Kids," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"I want to get to these Ashton Kutcher sound bites...This is Sunday night, the Ultimate Choice Award he got at the Teen Choice Awards. He stars as Steve Jobs in the movie "Jobs." By the way, I will be reviewing that movie....I'm gonna try to watch it later this afternoon. We have three sound bites from Kutcher here. The Teen Choice Awards, low-information audience. I want you to listen to this. Here's the first one.

KUTCHER:  I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.  I've never had a job in my life that I was better than.  I was always just lucky to have a job.  And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.  And so opportunities look a lot like work.

RUSH:  Right on.  Now, don't ho-hum this, folks.  This is a message that young kids today are not hearing except maybe in their homes from their parents, but they're not hearing this. They're not hearing this from Obama. They're not hearing this from presidential or political leadership.  This kind of message of hard work, the traditional American route to success and happiness is what's being made fun of, it's what's being said is not possible anymore. The reason why there is a malaise, this fog of depression that has rolled in over this whole country, is because young people particularly don't think there's any opportunity for them. They don't think there's any left. They don't believe there's any prosperity out there for them. 

They have been told that evil corporations and evil Republicans and the rich have taken it all from them.  Do not laugh.  The vast majority of even college graduates are taught this.  So when Kutcher, at the Teen Choice Awards, stands up and offers a traditional, uplifting, motivational, and inspirational speech on how he became successful, it's remarkable.  I say remarkable because the low-information crowd watching it is hearing it. They ended up cheering it, and they're not hearing it, except perhaps in their homes. We don't know of course what goes on with their parents, but we know that everywhere else they go, we know that the songs they listen to, we know that the movies they watch, we know that the classrooms that they attend, do not give them this message.  Here's the next bite. He went on to talk about the importance of intelligence, which he says is what's really sexy. 

KUTCHER:  The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart and being thoughtful, and being generous.  Everything else is crap, I promise you.  It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less.  So don't buy it.  Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous.

RUSH:  I find this profound.  Kids watching this show, that age group, are not hearing this message.  Smart is made fun of.  Smart is mocked.  Smart is something that's a sellout, to some people.  I know, Ashton Kutcher is a Democrat, I think....

(continuing, Rush): What he said at the Teen Choice Awards is not being said to kids.  Again, I'm gonna hold out the possibility that some of their parents do tell them this traditional message, but in the pop culture media they don't hear this message. Hell, they're all depressed. There is a fog of depression, fog bank, fog just rolled all over this country.  There's pessimism, particularly among young people, and it's because they do not think there's any prosperity left for them, they don't think there's any stuff left for them.  They don't think there's any money to be earned; it's all gone.  Their parents or grandparents' generation were the last ones that really had it made.  And they're certainly not hearing this kind of message from anybody in politics that they vote for. 

They're not hearing it from Obama. They're not hearing it from any Democrat.  They're not hearing a can-do. They're not hearing America is great. They're not hearing about American exceptionalism. They're not hearing anything about opportunity equals hard work. They're not hearing the message that hard work pays off. They're not hearing the message that having a job is a great way to become successful and prosperous.  They're not hearing about how one job's a steppingstone to another job, where you climb, they're not hearing this, folks.  They are not hearing this.  Admit it; this is one of the things that has been quietly eating away at all of us.  All the things that we were raised by, all the things we were raised with growing up, they have vanished, they're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of because it's not possible anymore....

This next sound bite is [sounds like] Steve Jobs.  And this is how he finished in his remarks Sunday night. He was receiving the Ultimate Choice Award at the Teen Choice Awards.

KUTCHER:  Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you And you can build your own things.  You can build your own life that other people can live in.  So build a life.  Don't live one, build one.  Find your opportunities, and always be sexy.

RUSH:  And he pointed at his head when he said, "Always be sexy."  Not below his waist....Being smart, being intelligent, is sexy.  Now, this last sound bite, one of the reasons I think that there's a tremendous Steve Jobs influence in this is because that last sound bite is Steve Jobs. That's practically a direct quote from Steve Jobs.  Steve Jobs wrote and spoke often about being young, growing up, and entering the adult world....

(continuing, Rush): I want to go back to sound bite one because what's happening, the audio sound bite we have is a clip that's been edited by the Drive-By Media, and Ashton Kutcher actually was a little bit more detailed.  So here's sound bite one again, and I'll tell you what was left out of this.  It's important.

KUTCHER:  I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.  I've never had a job in my life that I was better than.  I was always just lucky to have a job.  And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.  And so opportunities look a lot like work.

RUSH:  Now, that clip, obviously, would make you think he's talking about acting jobs.  What was edited out of that was that he described the first jobs he had.  He helped his dad carry shingles to the roof.  He washed dishes at a restaurant.  He worked in a grocery store deli.  He swept up factory floors.  He mentioned all these things. They just cut that out, whoever we got the bite from edited all that out.  This is what he was talking about, and he listed these jobs as jobs that he did not think he was better than.  He never had a job he thought he was better than, and he mentioned these things that you didn't hear on the bite.  Carry shingles to the roof, wash dishes at a restaurant, working at a grocery store deli, and sweeping a factory.  The full quote was found on Business Insider.

Now, Steve Jobs' version of what Kutcher said in the last sound bite was this:  "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."  Don't let other people talk you out of believing in yourself.  Don't let other people talk you out of believing that what you want to do is valid and good and worthwhile.  Don't let other people's structure and formula make you feel second-rate or inconsequential."...

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8/12/13 Kutcher speech, 4+ min.





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