{"id":213845,"date":"2016-06-24T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/24\/dershowitz_dem_sit_in_hurt_hillary\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T21:26:01","slug":"dershowitz_dem_sit_in_hurt_hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/24\/dershowitz_dem_sit_in_hurt_hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz: Dem Sit-In Hurt Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a Politico story, and I\u2019m probably gonna be the one to catch hell for pointing it out. But I don\u2019t know how you do this. I\u2019m looking here at a photo of many of the Democrats who conducted that childish little sit-in on the floor of the House this week to try to deny the American people their constitutional rights and the Second Amendment. And, by the way, speaking of that, Professor Dershowitz at Harvard thinks it was a bonehead move.<\/p>\n

He thinks that it has the potential of redounding profoundly negatively. You know what I did? I went back and I looked at a little of it. I actually watched some of it, and I tried to watch it the way anybody else would watch it. You know what I saw? I saw the Wellstone memorial. I saw what I thought was a repeat of the same kind of attitudinal arrogance of the Wellstone memorial. And then I went and I specifically looked at media reaction to it. And, folks, they were having public orgasms over it. It was one of the most embarrassing displays — and that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n

I mean, from Luke Russert to people over at PMSNBC. Well, that\u2019s where he is. People on CNN, they were just so, so excited that these Democrats had done this. It was, oh, my! It was nirvana. It was nirvana. They couldn\u2019t be happier that the Democrats had commandeered the floor of the House and sat down there to protest the Second Amendment. It was the greatest thing, and I don\u2019t think… Just like the Wellstone memorial, I don\u2019t think these people have the ability whatsoever to realize how it looks to people outside their partisans.<\/line><\/p>\n

And Professor Dershowitz is a liberal Democrat, and Professor Dershowitz said that this stunt, this sit-in at the House could hurt Hillary\u2019s chances to win the presidency. He said (paraphrased), “I\u2019m a liberal Democrat; I\u2019m a supporter of Hillary Clinton.” He told this to Don Lemon. Don Lemon was one of these guys that was going nuts deliriously over this. And Professor Dershowitz, he said they hurt her. “They hurt Hillary Clinton by making fools of themselves.<\/p>\n

“Sitting in on Congress and pulling this kind of stunt? If Hillary Clinton\u2019s gonna win, she gonna win because she has gravitas and because the Republicans are a bunch of buffoons, but now it\u2019s the Democrats that look like the buffoons sitting on the House floor. This can\u2019t help. They have to be serious. They have to show gravitas if they\u2019re gonna win this election against Trump. Passion and anger determine votes, and passion and anger could bring Trump to the presidency.”<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s one thing about this. I have a lot of respect for Professor Dershowitz. I\u2019ve actually met him in the halls of the old affiliate in New York back in 2 Penn Plaza next to Madison Square Garden. He was eyeing me suspiciously. He knew who I was, but he was eyeing me suspiciously. He had just finished a rant on the radio about John Sununu being untrustworthy \u2019cause he was Arab or some such thing. But I introduced myself to Professor Dershowitz. “Oh, I know who you are,” as he eyed me suspiciously. “I know who you are.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, I think what Professor Dershowitz ensconced there in the ivory-colored halls of Harvard may not recall is that your average, ordinary liberal Democrat — as epitomized by your average, ordinary commenter or poster on social media — might not look at that sit-in as childish. They might look at it as brilliant tactics. I don\u2019t know. But in his circle, clearly it was an embarrassing thing. But over here on The Politico… This is what I don\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m just telling you: If I did this on my website, folks, there would be a controversial storm that would cancel out whatever news there is on Brexit. I have here a picture of James Clyburn and Pelosi and John Lewis, and there are a couple other Democrats here. But front and center is John Lewis with a pained look on his face and the other Democrats surrounding him. And it looks like the… I don\u2019t know what\u2019s… (interruption) Yeah, it\u2019s the House chamber behind. The House chamber. And they\u2019re quite a ways away from it.<\/line><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s out of focus the background. But the focus center of the photo is John Lewis. And the headline of this story… Should I…? I\u2019m running a risk reading the headline, am I not? It\u2019s a Politico headline. “Democrats: Gun Sit-in Just a Taste of Guerrilla Tactics to Come.” Now, not with this picture. They didn\u2019t do that. “Guerrilla” is spelled differently than that of the beast in the Cincinnati Zoo. I understand that. “Guerrilla tactics” happen to be Third World, banana republic tactics.<\/p>\n

But if I had done this on my website, Politico would want me gone. They would be using this as an example to suggest that I am unfit for the public airwaves. Even after Muhammad Ali died, they gave him a little grief for having used that word to describe Joe Frazier. “Democrats: Gun Sit-in Just a Taste of Guerrilla Tactics to Come — The floor rebellion could mark a turning point for the House and set a risky precedent for future fights.” I\u2019ll tell you what the precedent that\u2019s been set is that the C-SPAN cameras are now irrelevant.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need C-SPAN anymore.<\/p>\n

You just need the Facebook app or the Periscope app and you can video broadcast anything that your camera on your phone can see. But I hope they do keep this up. It\u2019s Wellstone memorial-type stuff. It really is. And Dershowitz is right: It\u2019s going to come back and bite them.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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