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RUSH: I got an instant message this morning from a friend of mine who said, “Do you think the Republicans are gonna cave on gun control?” Now, I will be honest with you about what I wrote back, before knowing anything. I mean, I\u2019m aware of the latest, the proposed filibuster and all the debate arguments pro and con. I know what the Democrats want. They want to get guns out of the hands of everybody that\u2019s got them legally. I know the drill. You do, too. I don\u2019t care what they say. I don\u2019t care about their denials. They wish the Second Amendment wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care what polling data is; they just want control. So I wrote back, and I said, “Well, can you give me any evidence to suggest they won\u2019t cave on gun control?”<\/p>\n

The friend wrote back, said, “What do you mean?”<\/p>\n

I said, “Well, pick an issue, budget issue — name one. Where have the Republicans, at the end of the day, if not caved, sacrificed greatly in order to forge an agreement?”<\/p>\n

There is one instance. They didn\u2019t buckle going into the sequester, and they\u2019re being blamed for the sequester when it was Obama\u2019s idea. So there is that. They did hold firm to that. I wrote back and I said, “The way I\u2019m thinking right now, the Democrats want gun control. The media wants gun control. The Republicans want to be loved by the media, therefore we\u2019re gonna get gun control.”<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s shameless — shameful — this regime, the way they use victims, poor people, as props and pawns. I just saw that a parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook is gonna give the weekly presidential address on Saturday. It\u2019s shameful. You know exactly what the purpose of it\u2019s gonna be. “Well, aren\u2019t you doing the same thing, Rush, you\u2019re taking calls.” No, no, no, no. I\u2019m not dragging people in. I\u2019m not politicizing leukemia. I\u2019m not using leukemia, the Cure-A-Thon here, to advance my political ideas.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exploiting people that have this disease for the advancement of anything I believe. We are self-contained here. Everything we\u2019re doing in raising money to cure the blood cancers is just that: raise money to cure the blood cancers. I\u2019m not trying to defeat some presidential bill at the same time. Or I\u2019m not trying to advance some Republican idea. So I wouldn\u2019t exploit people that way, and I wouldn\u2019t exploit you. But that\u2019s just me.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: No, Obama asked this mother to do it. Obama asked this mother of a 6-year-old who was killed at Newtown to stand in for him and do the presidential address, the radio address, the Internet address on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Roger in Bloomington, Illinois, I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you very much, Rush, and mega dittos to you, and God bless you for what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: The Obama administration is bringing these parents in from Newtown, Connecticut, to lobby to congressman. Are they registered as lobbyists? And if not, wouldn\u2019t that be considered kind of like a jackleg diplomacy?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not just that. These people are being shepherded. They\u2019ve got handlers. They are being walked to offices, talking to senators. They\u2019re being shepherded and guided by administration officials, and they are lobbying. You\u2019re exactly right. But nobody\u2019s gonna shut \u2019em down. They\u2019re flying in on Air Force One. I mean, this is the full-court press. By the way, keep something in mind: While Obama is parading these people everywhere and urging them to speak to everybody, the victims from Benghazi are still being told to be quiet, to shut up, to not ask anymore questions.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Benghazi, there aren\u2019t gonna be any answers. When it comes to Benghazi, there aren\u2019t gonna be any questions. Because there\u2019s nothing politically there that Obama wants. But Obama wants gun control, he wants massive new gun control legislation, and so here come the parents from Newtown flying in on Air Force One, and you\u2019re right: They\u2019re lobbying senators.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They shouldn\u2019t be there unless they\u2019re registered. Isn\u2019t that some kind of a federal offense if you\u2019re not registered as a lobbyist?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I hate to be cynical, but, “Yeah, but so what?” There\u2019s all kinds of other laws that are being flouted here that no one\u2019s enforcing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, where\u2019s your heart, man? This is compassion! We\u2019re trying to save the children.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I feel for those parents. I would never want to lose my children that way or any other way, even to blood-borne diseases and stuff. I would never do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but look. You know, the hard work always falls to people like us. You have these people like the president and other liberals who engage in this emotional tug-of-war. They\u2019re proposing legislation that would not have changed the outcome at Newtown. There\u2019s nothing in any legislation that would change the outcome of what happened there. But they exploit the victims, they bring \u2019em forth, they make them into extensions of a political cause.<\/p>\n

When you, as I\u2019m doing now, point all this out, I\u2019m the bad guy. I\u2019m the guy with no heart. “Where\u2019s your compassion?” and so forth The root of this is that people are being used, take advantage of, exploited for the advancement of a political agenda I happen to disagree with, and the liberals do this all the time. I could give you names, Hollywood actor and actresses who have been utilized in TV commercials to advance a cause, and as far as I\u2019m concerned…<\/p>\n

See, this is the toughie. Correct me if I\u2019m wrong. Let me ask the Official Program Observer. “Would it be safe to say that the Newtown parents have now been inserted into the political aspect of the issue?” (interruption) Okay. All right, the answer has been given: “Absolutely, 100%, without question.” So if the parents of Newtown have now been inserted into the political characteristics of the issue, is it fair game to discuss them in such terms? Well, yes, it is fair game.<\/p>\n

But if you dare try it? I guarantee you, if I were to go full bore on this, the monsters of the media would be descending on me, and I would be portrayed out there as the biggest heartless boob you\u2019ve ever seen. No matter that we are all engaged here in an effort to cure cancer, fighting the blood cancers. That wouldn\u2019t matter. The fact that I would dare comment politically on the poor people and their saga, their story. “They lost their kids! How dare you, Mr. Limbaugh?” So that\u2019s how they get away with it, folks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how they turn a political issue into nothing more than an emotional gut-wrench, and they stifle any opposition to it. So now anybody, anybody that seeks to opposite the Democrats\u2019 gun control legislation is actually attacking these parents. That\u2019s the way it would be portrayed if some Republican senator decided to deal with this head on. You could guarantee the response would be, “What is it, Senator, that you don\u2019t get here? Do you have no compassion for these parents? None? Does everything be political, Senator?”<\/p>\n

The senator would say, “I didn\u2019t make this political. The president did.” This is how it\u2019s done. You\u2019re witnessing it. This is how all opposition is silenced. This is how it\u2019s done. You can\u2019t dare talk about the issue now because opposing Obama\u2019s agenda is opposing these people, is opposing these parents, is having no heart. I guarantee you, most elected officials are gonna look at this and say, “It\u2019s not worth it! It just isn\u2019t worth it, so I\u2019ll shut up. I\u2019ll shut up, and the bill\u2019s gonna pass.”<\/p>\n

Do you think the Republicans are gonna cave? It\u2019s not that the Republicans are gonna cave on the concept of gun control. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re doing. The Republicans are being silenced! All opposition is effectively being shut down here. All you gotta see is that picture of the Newtown parents getting off Air Force One — slowly, sadly walking down the steps — and then either video or still shots of them talking to the senators. Now I got a guy who calls me, “Rush, are they registered lobbyists?”<\/p>\n

“Where\u2019s your heart, sir? What do you mean? They\u2019re not lobbying! They\u2019re trying to save other people\u2019s children.” So that\u2019s how it works. It was the president who asked for this mother of a 6-year-old who died to do his speech. Senator Richard Blumenthal (Democrat-Connecticut) is using Sandy Hook to raise money in his e-mails. They\u2019re trying to turn the Newtown parents into a dozen Sandy Sheehans in a way. It\u2019s what the Democrats do, folks. They always try to hide their agendas behind women and children, and, most of all, victims. So the Newtown parents are human shields, in a sense.<\/p>\n

The Newtown parents are out there to protect the Democrats from any criticism and to shut it down. Pure and simple.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: John in Mundelein, Illinois, am I pronouncing that right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s Mundelein, Illinois.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mundelein, Illinois. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. I disagree with you, but I hope you\u2019ll hear me out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I never talk to people who disagree with me. See you later.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I feel that a group of people, in this case the parents of the children slaughtered at that school in Newtown, if a group of people want to go to Washington \u2019cause they have an opinion about an issue, and I think that there\u2019s no question that these people have a very serious opinion about the issue we\u2019re talking about: guns. If they want to go and express themselves to elected officials, not only is that perfectly a legitimate thing for them to do, I think that to imply that they\u2019ve somehow been manipulated into having a strong view on this issue or that there\u2019s something illegitimate about them wanting to go speak to their elected officials on an issue that you may disagree with them on, but to imply that there\u2019s something wrong or suspect or possibly illegal about them doing that is offensive. I think you should have enough respect for them to let them do what they want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait. Are you upset with the previous caller who tried to refer to them as lobbyists?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did. He suggested it might be illegal for them to be doing what they\u2019re doing and you seemed to agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, anybody can go talk to the congressman all day long if you can get in.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, then why did you agree with him when he said —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because I know what he\u2019s talking about. I know what he meant. The reason he said lobbyist is because these people are being set up. They\u2019re being orchestrated, it\u2019s being planned, and the taxpayers are paying for this. They\u2019re being put on Air Force One and they\u2019re being sent up there by the president and his people to go talk to these Democrats, to put pressure on \u2019em. That was his way of him saying that he thinks this is being orchestrated.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Are you implying that they don\u2019t want to go and speak to members of Congress? Are you saying that somehow —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that\u2019s not what they want to be doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m not saying anything. I\u2019m trying to tell you what this guy — empathy is one of the things I try to use here —<\/p>\n

CALLER: You don\u2019t think they\u2019re being set up. You think your caller thought that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do I think they\u2019re being set up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the parents, do you think they\u2019re somehow being set up or used?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think that there are two things happening. I\u2019m not gonna be critical of these people, for crying out loud. But I do think that their pain is being exploited for the advancement of a political agenda that the Democrat Party wants. There\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, folks I knew this was gonna happen. We talked about the situation involving the parents of Sandy Hook, and all it took was two minutes for me to offer a point of view about it, and here came a phone call. “How dare you!” essentially. “How dare you call them lobbyists! How dare you do this? How dare you that?” This is how they\u2019ve made this a political issue. The parents are now involved in a political issue, but you can\u2019t treat them that way. You may as well call it the genius of the Democrats.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how they shut down any opposition to what they want to do, but I want to walk you through some things. Is there anything…? I\u2019m gonna hit you with some logic here which is, admittedly for the emotional left, impossible for them to grasp. Is there anything Adam Lanza did at Newtown that was not already highly illegal? The answer is no. Not one thing he did isn\u2019t already covered by the law. Everything he did broke an existing law. So how many more laws would have stopped him?<\/p>\n

He stole the guns that he used from his mother. He broke into the Sandy Hook school. He carried guns into a gun-free zone. Liberals love those! (You may as well beg for somebody to come in with a gun when you say, “There aren\u2019t any guns here.”) He murdered kids. Aren\u2019t all of these things already illegal? Yes. What more is needed to stop him? What more can be done with the law, with gun control, that would have stopped Adam Lanza?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, when it comes to the victims and families in Benghazi, everybody\u2019s being told to shut up. They\u2019re not getting driven ran around on Air Force One. They\u2019re not being flown around on Air Force One. They\u2019re not being escorted by lobbyists to talk to senators — and that is happening. A Democrat lobbyist has set up more than 25 meetings on Capitol Hill for Newtown family members this week alone. So you can call here and you can say you\u2019re offended at having these parents whose kids were shot called lobbyists.<\/p>\n

But just one Democrat lobbyist has set up more than 25 meetings for these people. That\u2019s just one lobbyist. One of the, quote, unquote, “strategists” for the families is Ricki Seidman, who ran the Clinton-Gore 1992 campaign war room. One of the strategists for the families… Now, anybody can go to Washington and talk to their senator. Anybody can go to Washington and talk to their member of Congress. How many of you call the White House say, “I want to fly to Washington on Air Force One to see my senator”?<\/p>\n

How many of you could call and say, “Mr. President, I want to do the Saturday radio address for you”? “Mr. President, I want you to set me up with 25 members of Congress, not just my own.” You can\u2019t do any of that on your own. This whole issue is being politicized. I know with certain people I\u2019m losing points here, but I can\u2019t help that. Folks, I oppose what Obama wants to do with gun control laws. I oppose what the Democrat Party wants to do. I\u2019m sorry, “opposing it” means opposing it! No matter what.<\/p>\n

Everything they\u2019re doing to advance it is political. I do not have any animus whatsoever for these parents. Quite the opposite. My heart breaks for \u2019em! I just wouldn\u2019t do what\u2019s being done to them. I just wouldn\u2019t. I wouldn\u2019t exploit it like this. I wouldn\u2019t look at every tragedy that happens in this country and say, “Man, how can I turn this into something I want?” I just don\u2019t think that way and I\u2019m offended by people that do.<\/p>\n

It repulses me that genuine, real human tragedy is seen as a political opportunity by people. I just… Now, admittedly, I\u2019m not a politician; they are. But I don\u2019t care how they sell it. I\u2019m opposed to Obama\u2019s immigration law, I\u2019m opposed to Obama\u2019s gun control law, I\u2019m opposed to Obama\u2019s budget. I don\u2019t care how he sells it. Am I not entitled to be opposed to Obama\u2019s proposals? I am opposed to Obama\u2019s efforts to destroy the American economy. I\u2019m opposed to Obama\u2019s efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I\u2019m opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m opposed to all of this. Am I supposed to shut up simply because of the techniques he uses to get what he wants? Yes, we are. We are supposed to shut up. That\u2019s exactly right. And if we don\u2019t shut up, we are heartless. If we don\u2019t shut up, we have no heart, we have no compassion. So in this context if somebody says, “Do you think the Republicans are gonna cave on gun control?” Hell, yes. Everybody else is. You don\u2019t think they are? Well, maybe not in the House. Senate, who knows.<\/p>\n

My point is that everything Adam Lanza did is already illegal and, by the way, none of what is in Obama\u2019s new proposals would have stopped him. There is no new law that is proposed that would have stopped him. Do you know The Politico\u2019s even calling the families lobbyists? From The Politico: “Newtown Families: Victims Turn Lobbyists.” It\u2019s an article by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen. The Politico says that the victims have turned lobbyists. Now, who turned \u2019em into lobbyists? How many of you get to have 25 different meetings with congressmen in just one week? How many of you get handled by powerful lobbyists and shepherded around by the most powerful party strategists? I don\u2019t think very many.<\/p>\n

Have you seen the video, Joe Biden was on the Morning Joe show today on MSNBC with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. He\u2019s on CNN thanking MSNBC and CNN for all the two networks have done in getting out their message for gun control. Both Biden and Senator Manchin said, in effect, they couldn\u2019t have done it without MSNBC and CNN. So the networks are lobbyists, too. Now, imagine you\u2019re sitting there at CNN and you think you\u2019re a journalist and here comes the vice president and the senator congratulating you for your efforts in getting the message out.<\/p>\n

In the old days, that would have embarrassed the hell out of Walter Cronkite, publicly. He would have died in his chair if somebody said that about him publicly. Privately, toast him, he\u2019ll take it, but publicly, to be thanked for helping get out an administration\u2019s message like Biden and Manchin did for MSNBC and CNN? Don\u2019t tell me there isn\u2019t any lobbying going on here. Maybe we need to point out again that the only thing that stopped Adam Lanza, do you know what it was? Have you remembered what stopped him? That\u2019s exactly right, Mr. Snerdley. Armed men, armed human beings. Adam Lanza heard the cops coming, and he killed himself. Armed men, guns, the only things that stop serial killers. He chose that school for a host of reasons, but at the top of the list was he knew nobody there had a gun.<\/p>\n

This guy calls up, “You can\u2019t call \u2019em lobbyists. How dare you. These poor people.” I just wanted to take the time to illustrate it because it just goes to show how they shut down any opposition, which is what they are about. They don\u2019t want to have a legitimate debate on gun control. They don\u2019t want any opposition. Now, that\u2019s the name of the game in politics, to get what you want. I\u2019m just trying to help people become informed and learn exactly how this process is taking place.<\/line><\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

No, but all I do remember is that if you happen to be involved in Benghazi you\u2019re supposed to shut up and you\u2019re not supposed to ask for any information and you\u2019re not gonna be given any information. And none of what happened to you is gonna be used to change anything politically. You just shut up. The video is still responsible for that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, my memory is profound and my memory is long, and I want to share with you something from my memory. Do you remember when George W. Bush released a photo of himself looking out the window of Air Force One flying over 9\/11, flying over New York, remember how the left had a meltdown that he was taking political advantage of a tragedy? Do you remember all the allegations of Bush, all the charges of how Bush was trying to politicize that? I do. It\u2019s a one-way street for these people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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