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RUSH: Let me get to the phones here.  Gonna start with Wayne in Columbia, Missouri.  Wayne, great to have you on the program, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  Longtime listener, third-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Rush, I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy of the left again. When George W. Bush was president, the left actually made a movie about his assassination, and nobody made a big stink about that. I mean, that was just, “Oh, well, you know, that was just a joke.”<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH:  You know, he\u2019s right, and there were two things.  There was a book, I don\u2019t remember who.  I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever heard of the author, but he was nevertheless reputed as esteemed.  He wrote a book on how to assassinate George Bush, and it was received with acclaim that, yes, the left acknowledged it was sort of out there, the theme, the subject matter, but the literary effort was well worth our time. That it was rich and well done and certainly worth our delving into to experience the literary effort that it was.<\/p>\n

And then there was a movie made in Canada, actually made a movie depicting the assassination of George W. Bush.  And that movie was also acclaimed, and we were advised, look, it may offend you but you should watch this to understand how some people feel.  So the advocacy of violence against the president was heralded twice by the Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n

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RUSH:  So, as usual, I checked the email and a lot of doubters think I\u2019m making it up about the movies.  Okay, here we go: “Death of a President (2006), British docudrama, political thriller film. From the UK Daily Mail September 20, 2006: “George Bush Assassination Film Wins Top Award,”<\/a> and from the article, “British director Gabriel Range\u2019s “Death of a President” stirred up a strong reaction even before it premiered at the festival, but it won the Prize of the International Critics. The jury of film critics cited the film ‘for the audacity with which it distorts reality to reveal a larger truth.'”<\/p>\n

So it was awarded for telling a series of lies in order to justify the “larger truth” that Bush needed to be assassinated, and the movie ended up winning a total of six awards.  And there was a book published by Krandall Kraus 2007, “The Assassination of George W. Bush: A Love Story.” It was in paperback.  So there was a book and there were movies, a movie about assassinating Bush, done by leftist “artists.”  I point all this out… Once again, folks, this is not a defense. I\u2019m not mounting a spirited defense of Trump, although I\u2019m happy to.<\/p>\n