Monday, January 10, 2011

Rush Limbaugh on Gifford's attack

Rush came out today heated and angry at the guff that has been thrown at him and others over the weekend after this Arizona tragedy.

Normally I only share a couple of excerpts from his monologues, but these have to be read by everybody - 99% of the hits on this blog for the last two days have been with the keywords "Rush Giffords shooting'. Everyone wanted to know what Rush had to say on the subject. Here it is:

RUSH: What an embarrassing weekend it has been for the media. I mean, utterly, childishly, silly embarrassing. I knew it was going to happen the minute I heard about the shooting. I got on the horn with some people, said, "You wait. It's in the template. It's gonna follow." So predictable, so childish, so immature, and it has led to a number of people making abject fools of themselves. The sheriff of Pima County has made a fool of himself. I don't know if he knows it yet or not. Most in the State-Controlled Media, the Drive-By Media, are illustrating why we call them "the Drive-By Media." They are literally making fools of themselves to take an incident like this and to try to turn it into a political advantage by accusing people that have nothing whatsoever to do with this sordid, unfortunate event, as accomplices to murder. It's silly on its face.

It is beneath the people who made the attempt, but it's who they are. Now, what they've done is essentially take aim at a majority of the people in this country. A majority of the people in this country identify more with the Tea Party movement than with the Democrat Party today, with liberalism. This is not 1988. This is not 1993 when this program was the only New Media out there and they still had the ability to control the message; they had the ability to suppress the news they didn't want anybody to hear about. They had, frankly, total control over what was news, what wasn't news, and what was commentary on the news. And ever since they have lost that monopoly in the media, they have been their own version, to one degree or another, insane. Now, one of the first acts of insanity is to take an obviously deranged, insane, irrational kid and try to analyze him with sanity and with rationality.

We're talking about a genuinely mentally disturbed kid. My question is: Who are the parents of this kid? I find it fascinating that the media and many in the Democrat Party want to try to blame people who don't know this kid, that the kid never knew, that the kid never heard, that the kid never was exposed to. They want to try to blame people, genuinely, who are ancillary, who are irrelevant to this for what the kid did for pure political reason -- and there is a pure political reason for this. And I'm gonna tell you what it is. Let me do this here at the outset, folks, because this is what all of this is really all about. It is all political. I was blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. We all know that Mark Penn said that an Oklahoma City-type event is what Obama's gonna need if he wants to get the American people back.

After 9/11 happened, Democrats are running around lamenting that it did not happen on Clinton's watch. After the Times Square attack happened, Mayor Bloomberg said: It has to be an angry Tea Party person upset at Obamacare. It's the template. It's the narrative. There's never any evidence. Every projection, every prediction, every association that any act of violence has been made with the conservative right has fallen on emptiness. There has never been any evidence of it. To the extent that politics is involved in assassinations, Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK, he was a communist back from Moscow.

There's one example that nobody's talked about that I'm going to cite. Remember Jim Jones? There's one sitting congressman who has actually been killed in the line of duty. His name is Leo Ryan, and this is Jim Jones and that cult down in Guyana. You may not be old enough to remember that, but during the course of the program today I'm gonna refresh your memory. A full-fledged communist and Democrat killed a Democrat congressman. Now, when these types of events happen, I don't recall -- and I'm not aware -- of one conservative, one Republican, one conservative blogger making a mad dash to a microphone, a camera, or a computer to blame a Democrat or liberals for what happened in Arizona on Saturday. But a mad path was beaten.


Don't kid yourself. What this was all about is shutting down any and all political opposition and eventually criminalizing it. Criminalizing policy differences, at least when they differ from the Democrat Party agenda. One of the more disturbing things about this incident is that someday the left will finally get their wish. One of these days it's going to happen. This is all setting the table for it. Groups are large. Many people populate groups -- and within any group of people, a sample is gonna find those who are unstable, deranged, and so forth like this kid. You are eventually, at some point, going to probably find somebody who could be more closely identified with a particular political movement. This kid is just a nut, and they've done their best...

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RUSH: Let's not forget, folks, that during the Bush administration second term there were two (we were told) enlightened literary and film events, both about the assassination of George W. Bush, that we should not react to in an outraged way, that we should understand the literary and artistic intention of the artists involved. One was a movie made in Canada that actually depicted George W. Bush being assassinated. The other was a book by somebody, I think, living in Washington: How to assassinate George W. Bush. There was no attempt during these two events to do anything to castigate these people or to associate them with extreme insane lunatics who might act it out at Daily Kos or the Democrat Underground or the audiences of MSNBC. But I don't think you can find one illustration of...

You know, I'm not even gonna address the premise. I've seen people say about Gabrielle Giffords, "You know, she doesn't even fit the profile of somebody the Tea Party would not like." I'm not even gonna defend that premise. The point is the Tea Party doesn't run around committing assassinations. The Tea Party doesn't commit violence, period. There is no need to defend the Tea Party under the premise set forth here that they're a violent mob, which is exactly what the left wants us to do. We don't right books about how to assassinate anybody and if it happened I guarantee you Secret Service would be on our case. And if such things did happen, we would be defending it as art and telling people, "Back off now. Don't be hasty about reacting. We must understand what the artists are telling us."

Whether they dip a crucifix in a jar of urine or whatever it is they do, we're told, "Oh, react with reason and restraint here." I just said that this is even beneath them, and I gotta correct myself. Unfortunately for the country we're learning today that nothing is beneath today's mainstream media. Nothing is beneath the Democrat Party. Nothing is beneath the American left. We on the right, ladies and gentlemen, have led the charge against Congress and the professional political class for noble and obvious reasons. I can't speak for others who do what I do but I'm not gonna be silenced by this. The people leveling these charges on baseless, nonexistent evidence have racked up a $14 trillion national debt.

The people who are desperately hoping to make some significant, legitimate tie-in between Sarah Palin and this kid are on the verge of bankrupting the country. The United States Congress has an 11% approval rating for a reason. They have done a lousy job. They have spent the money of children and grandchildren. And I and people who do what I do have pointed this out, pointed out their folly every step of the way, but at no time has anybody who does what I do or I ever called for violence. I have never subtly promoted it, have never gone anywhere near it. Thomas Jefferson said, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

The fact of the matter is it is our right and our duty to continue to criticize the very people who have put the fate of our country in peril, and it is. So I would say to all who do what I do; "Hold your heads high and turn this back on the media and the Democrats who are coconspirators in policies that are bankrupting this country and risking the future for our children and grandchildren." Here we have a disturbed kid. Do you realize that Mr. Loughner has been stalking Gabrielle Giffords since at least 2007? He has. Way before anybody heard of Sarah Palin. Way before there even was a Tea Party. This guy has... You've probably all seen by now a woman who the media is trying now to call a sellout, she's described herself as a left-winger Libertarian at times who knows this kid is telling everybody who will listen what a left-wing radical he was if anything at all.


They're now trying to destroy her. And she's anonymous up until then. All she's doing, whether she even knows it or not, is going against the grain of the template and the narrative that they're trying to establish here. So you have this obviously deranged, insane, emotionally disturbed kid, and what I want to know is: Where is the left's vaunted safety net? We've spent hundreds of millions, billions, trillions by now -- trillions of dollars at local --state, and federal levels to kind of catch these disturbed people and fix them before they harm others. Where is the evidence that their compassion for people like this works? There isn't any.

What evidence do we have that they are willing to use events like this that they privately approve of events like this for the sake and the opportunity to advance what are obviously sick and perverted political ideas. They will use anyone. They will use any event. They will take what is a genuine tragedy and with no evidence whatsoever attempt to massage it for their own political benefit, and they can't do it by touting their ideas. They can't do it by explaining the virtue of their ideas, their beliefs, and their system because they can't. So what do they have to do? They have to impugn, destroy, get rid of, regulate out of business their political opponents in media if they are to have a chance.

In other words, the only way the modern Democrat Party, the American leftist movement is to have a chance is if there is no opposition. So a genuinely sad event like this is immediately used to advance a political notion. And not that liberalism is good. Not that liberalism, socialism is the answer. No. The attempt here is to impugn, to besmirch, and to destroy the ideas of those of us who are trying to preserve the country we all know and love as it was founded. What they fail to realize is that this isn't 1995 anymore. This isn't 1963. It isn't 1975. It's 2011. We have seen them through the Wellstone memorial.

We have seen them take the unfortunate death of one of their own and the memorial service to his memory turned into a purely out-of-control political effort. They ended up losing the midterm elections that year in large part because of it. They got trounced last November down to dogcatcher level through 95% of this country. In continuing this template and narrative that the Tea Party, that Sarah Palin, that talk radio, that Fox News is inspiring violence, they forget that in the process of so doing they are attacking what is now a majority of Americans. They are accusing a majority of Americans of being accomplices to murder. They are accusing a majority of Americans, 'cause it isn't just Palin; it's the people who voted for her.

It isn't just me; it's the people who listen to me. It's not just all the other names that have been mentioned, Beck and Levin and Hannity and Fox News people. It's the people who listen and watch. Over half the country has been indicted -- Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, all day yesterday, and much of today -- for the actions of one lone, deranged person (and, by the way, the FBI is out now with a profile). Yes, is, ladies and gentlemen, ABC News grimacing and reporting that the FBI director Robert Mueller said "Congresswoman Giffords was definitely the target of the shooter. His team was working with local officials here and the investigation is moving fast.

"Mueller's investigation is showing a clear picture. There was a lone, angry, disenfranchised young man who was solely responsible for this shooting." That's a branch of the Obama government saying that: "Lone, disenfranchised angry young man." But American left and many in the media are trying to say that he was inspired by you if you listen to me, if you voted for Palin or McCain or what have you. This is where they're not getting it. People can see through their manipulative attempts now. Because they are common and they are routine, and they are predictable. They're also very destructive, which is another purpose they have in my mind: Keep everybody at odds with one another, keep everybody roiled.

I actually wondered what she looked like. I saw her for the first time today: Liz Sidoti, Liz Sidoti, this AP reporter. We read from her deranged pieces frequently on this program. She was on TV this morning explain what this really meant was how the American people want to move to the center, and how they did in the November election and I'm looking at this and I'm scratching my head. "Do you realize what you're saying? You've just undercut 36 hours of attempts by your friends to blame this on Republicans because this great unwashed independent center moderate movement voted Republican."

They clearly expressed what they don't want any more of, and it's the Democrat Party. Nobody talks about a Republican federal judge was killed, appointed by George Bush 41. Have you heard anybody on my side of the aisle, anybody who does what I do try to therefore claim this guy's a big lib 'cause he shot a Republican-appointed federal judge? It's not the way we think, and we certainly don't look to these events to move our political agenda forward. But the left is depraved, empty, and without any substance whatsoever, and about all they've got is to take tragic events like this and to turn them into events of a political advantage for them. A party which seeks to profit off of murder. A party, a movement which seeks to profit from disaster. A party and movement who, as you shall hear
in a moment, openly wishes for such disaster, in order to profit from it.

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