{"id":237509,"date":"2017-06-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=237509"},"modified":"2017-06-20T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:57:15","slug":"bernie-sanders-wrote-the-script-for-hodgkinson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/19\/bernie-sanders-wrote-the-script-for-hodgkinson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Wrote the Script for Hodgkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Requests are pouring in to replay the ad for Georgia 20. Let\u2019s remember here that this guy, Hodgkinson, he had a diatribe against her as well. He hated her, called her a b-i-itch and any number of other things. And it\u2019s interesting. When you look at his criticisms of Handel, it\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s hearing said and written by other Democrats. The guy was not original. He was a copycat. He was a plagiarist. He was clearly getting his talking points, some would say marching orders, from the people he believes, or believed, I should say, on the left.<\/p>\n

And have you seen all of these stories out there talking about how unremarkable the guy was? Exactly my point. He blends in with all the other nutcases on the left and you can\u2019t even spot him. That means they\u2019re all — I mean, way, way, way too many of them may be similarly disposed as this guy. I\u2019ve worried a long time and I have really believed that the left is in the process, Democrats and the media are in the process of turning their base voters into enraged — I overuse the word “lunatics,” but I think they\u2019re mad.<\/p>\n

I think they\u2019re living on the edges of psychological health. I mean, how many times can you stand there and be told that Republicans want to take your health care away, want you to starve, want to kick you out of \"\"your house, want to push your grandmother over the cliff in her wheelchair. Remember, these people are not critical thinkers. They don\u2019t have the ability to look at these kind of things and sift their way through them. They just look at this stuff and they believe it because their heroes are the ones saying it.<\/p>\n

And so they look at Paul Ryan and they see a guy who might actually push an old lady in a wheelchair over a cliff. You know, everybody wants to say, “Well, Bernie Sanders, he\u2019s not responsible. Bernie Sanders didn\u2019t do anything.” Bernie Sanders made hay out of this concocted association that Scalise supposedly had with the Klan. Now, this is irresponsible stuff and my problem and point with the left is that they are entirely, totally irresponsible in their criticisms and what they say.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t win on ideas. They cannot enter the arena of ideas and prevail. The only hope they\u2019ve ever had, really, is to eliminate opposition, so they don\u2019t even face any. But they have no desire to debate ideas. They can\u2019t. Their ideas are minority. So the tactics they have are character assassination and image destruction. And that\u2019s what they engage in.<\/p>\n

Anybody on the right who comes along who has credibility, who has popularity, who has an ability to be persuasive, they get the long knives out, and they seek to destroy whoever that might be, whether it\u2019s one or 10 people. And they do it so that those people will never, ever have the ability to reach Democrat voters and persuade them or even cause them to question things because they have attacked their credibility. They\u2019ve attacked their honor so that nothing they say is believed. Everything they say is considered suspect.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s been a common ploy that they have been using for much of the time I have been doing this. It\u2019s coming up on 30 years. And you can\u2019t have that protracted amount of time spent destroying people and have it not create hatred and maybe even create unbalanced people.<\/p>\n

The Democrats personalize everything, and the way they\u2019ve gone after Republicans, the Republicans are gonna starve your kids. The Republicans are going to take your parents\u2019 Social Security away. The Republicans are destroying your planet. The Republicans are poisoning your water and your air. The Republicans want women barefoot and pregnant in kitchens all over America, and they would prefer if women never were allowed to speak.<\/p>\n

\"\"They say this stuff. And all of this time, the last 25 years, let\u2019s say, some of it\u2019s been so over the top ridiculous that we made parodies and satire out of it thinking nobody is ever gonna believe this. Little did we know that Democrat base voters were not only believing it, they were absorbing it, they were soaking it in, they were accepting all of it.<\/p>\n

And the impact was cumulative because the Democrats kept coming up with new assaults and allegations. Why do you think the Democrats, about a month ago, began to walk back this whole notion of impeachment? They know. They know what they\u2019ve been doing. They know that they\u2019ve created this expectation. One of the reasons they\u2019re so hell-bent on this collusion business is because they know their voters have been made to believe it.<\/p>\n

Democrat base voters believe that Donald Trump worked with Vladimir Putin to steal the election from Hillary. They believe it because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been told. And it\u2019s not just a couple of times. They hear it four or five times an hour. There are hearings in Congress and at the FBI that have been convened to prove it.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re an average Democrat voter and you\u2019re loyal to these people, you don\u2019t question it. You believe it. And everything else they\u2019ve been saying about Trump, taking the country away, doing this or that. No wonder they\u2019re doing plays where Trump is assassinated. The left, the media, the Democrats have scared their voters to death. They\u2019ve made them paranoid and they\u2019ve got them believing all of these allegations.<\/p>\n

And it doesn\u2019t matter how many times Comey or Adam Schiff or Dianne Feinstein say, “We don\u2019t have any evidence of collusion. We have never seen any evidence.”
\nThey followed that up by saying, “That just means we need to keep looking harder. We know it\u2019s there. We just need to keep looking harder.” If you\u2019re an average Democrat voter loyal to all this, could you be blamed for believing that the election was stolen from you by Trump and Putin and the only thing that has to happen is proof. But it\u2019s there, because your people are telling you it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n

So we got all these investigations, even though we hadn\u2019t found any proof in over a year, and even though there isn\u2019t any proof because it didn\u2019t happen. But try telling them that. So as nothing happens, as they are told that Trump stole the election, that Trump profited from the election, that Trump has secret bank accounts all over the world in the Cayman\u2019s and the Cook Islands. He\u2019s got a bunch of shell corporations that he\u2019s getting rich off of being president, so\u2019s Ivanka, so is Jared, so\u2019s all of his kids.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re told this every day and then you\u2019re told that they\u2019ve got the goods. “We\u2019re gonna get Trump. He\u2019s gonna be impeached. We got the independent counsel now, it\u2019s only a matter of time.” But nothing changes, nothing happens. The only thing that happens is more criticism.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s there every day, and he\u2019s having meetings, and he\u2019s traveling around going to the Saudi Arabia summit, meeting with NATO, and he just canceled climate change. I mean, the cumulative psychological effective on these people like Hodgkinson, don\u2019t tell me the Democrats are not responsible for it. They have created the mind-set. They\u2019ve created these monsters out there. And all for what purpose? Because the Democrats refuse to get in the arena of ideas and debate those.<\/p>\n

They refuse because they can\u2019t win. And to see how lacking those ideas are, just listen to the insane ramblings of Hodgkinson. Just look at the things that he talks about. Just look at the class warfare, the class envy, the things that he believes. It\u2019s fringe crazy. But he believed it because that\u2019s what he\u2019s been told. The Democrats, therefore, can\u2019t take that stuff in the arena of ideas. They\u2019d be snookered.<\/p>\n

\"\"So what they have to do is destroy the credibility, the integrity, the honesty, the reputations of every one of their opponents, and that\u2019s what they do. That is what they\u2019re doing now to Trump. They\u2019re trying to destroy Trump and anybody around him as having no decency. He\u2019s got no honor. .He\u2019s got no integrity. He\u2019s a thief, he stole the election. The idea that we have a heated political atmosphere and a growing divide.<\/p>\n

And, if you want to assume the Republicans are equally as bad. No, they\u2019re not. The Republicans are a bunch of pansies. They\u2019re always talking about crossing the aisle and working with these people. The Republicans run around when they campaign, “I\u2019m the guy that can cross the aisle. I\u2019m the guy that can reach compromise. I\u2019m the guy that can work with the Democrats. I\u2019m the guy that can show cooperation. I\u2019m the guy that can demonstrate Washington can work.”<\/p>\n

The Republicans don\u2019t do what the Democrats do. They don\u2019t even get close to doing what the Democrats do and the media. ‘Cause the media\u2019s actually leading it. But Bernie Sanders, if you go look at what Bernie Sanders says, if you go read what he\u2019s written — I hate to say it this way, I could have the evidence for you here. I had it last week but I threw all that stuff away and didn\u2019t have time to reconstruct it. This guy Hodgkinson was an echo chamber.<\/p>\n

Whatever Bernie Sanders said was this guy\u2019s letter to the editor. This guy went on a rant. He went into a sports bar and just started ranting and maybe everybody nervous as hell in there. He made the female bartender nervous. He came across like a sexual predator, and he was angry and deranged, just started on a rant. He wasn\u2019t even teed up. He walked in with this giant chip on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

The AP reports that Hodgkinson “took his car to a mechanic one day before the shooting. He wanted the mechanic to verify that his tires would make the trip back to his home in Illinois. But while he was there, he started venting his rage about President Trump.” Crist Dauberman, the mechanic, said, “This man was just so passionate and hateful toward (President Donald) Trump.”<\/p>\n

“Among other things, Hodgkinson said Trump had screwed up the country ‘more than anyone in the history of this country.'” He said, “It was more than the average person who had maybe voted for Hillary. This was different. It was deeply rooted to where his whole tone and composure changed. His voice got loud and deep. There was so much anger in it.”<\/p>\n

Now, listen to what Bernie Sanders was saying just a few days before Hodgkinson\u2019s outburst at the garage, this mechanic\u2019s place. “Today in the White House we have perhaps the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country, and we also have not to be forgotten extreme right-wing leadership in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.”<\/p>\n

Sanders makes that speech on June the 10th. It was reported on in many Drive-By elements on June the 11th and June 12th, one day before Mr. Hodgkinson shot Scalise. The New York Times even noted that particular quote in the opening paragraph of a story immediately after the shooting. So Bernie says, “Today in the White House we have perhaps the worst and most dangerous president in the history of our country.”<\/p>\n