{"id":249126,"date":"2017-10-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=249126"},"modified":"2017-10-03T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:21:03","slug":"the-left-politicizes-las-vegas-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/02\/the-left-politicizes-las-vegas-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Politicizes Las Vegas Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Well, this Las Vegas shooting is absolutely terrifying. This is a cold, calculating, calculated killer. And this is the kind of thing that a lot of people either consciously or subconsciously worry about when out in public because you cannot, no matter what you do, you cannot secure every building, every window, every rooftop. You just can\u2019t do it without really restricting the daily ebb and flow and freedom of the population.<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends. Welcome. Rush Limbaugh and a brand-new week of broadcast excellence here. The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

Fifty-eight people are now dead, 500-plus have been taken to hospitals after a shooting across — well, it was from the Mandalay Bay. There was a country concert across the street. Shooter on the 32nd floor and had nothing in his way whatsoever. And, folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you, the left is already, they are salivating trying to politicize this, and before it is all over, it may end up having political motivations behind it. We don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

\"\"We know that ISIS is claiming credit for it. We know that ISIS is claiming the shooter is a recent convert. We have to put that in some sort of context. Does ISIS have a history of falsely claiming responsibility for terror acts, and if they were to start falsely claiming responsibility, how would that affect them and of course their actions, which is a matter of importance to them.<\/p>\n

Now, the left, it\u2019s just unseemly. I mean, it didn\u2019t take \u2019em a half hour, and they started ranting and rolling about gun control now. Tom Brokaw, Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time that you stopped being a cliche? Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time to stop being so predictable? Your comments are unworthy. They\u2019re unhelpful. They are just worthless.<\/p>\n

“‘Stand Up to the NRA\u2019: Hillary Clinton Calls for Gun Control in Response to Las Vegas Shooting.” This is a classic example of how gun control wouldn\u2019t matter. This guy\u2019s gonna get a gun no matter what. Gun control does not keep guns out of the hands of the criminally intended or the criminally minded. And the gun doesn\u2019t hate anybody. The gun doesn\u2019t hate the national anthem. The gun doesn\u2019t know anything. The gun is an inanimate object until it\u2019s picked up by somebody. And this is the thing the left doesn\u2019t want to deal with. That\u2019d be really, really dangerous to start speculating here, but that doesn\u2019t hold them back, does it? It doesn\u2019t give them pause whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Here is a little bit of Tom Brokaw. This was NBC\u2019s live coverage of the incident in Las Vegas before President Trump spoke. The former assistant director of the FBI Shawn Henry, said, “There\u2019s a lot of investigation to do, looking at who this guy was and who was he communicating with, gotta do that. Who do they find with the search warrants that indicates the motivation?”<\/p>\n

\"\"BROKAW: We\u2019re gonna have to find out where he was able to get that kind of a weapon. They\u2019re not supposed to be able to buy that as a civilian where, on full auto, military rounds are being fired. Everybody goes to the far corners of the NRA defending the right to own guns, people want to eliminate all guns. We\u2019ve gotta find a way to talk about this in a reasonable fashion. And I would hope the president this morning would begin that discussion in a way that we can move forward together.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This has become a cliche. We have an incident involving race, and they say we\u2019ve got to start talking about it. That\u2019s all we\u2019ve been doing is talking about it. Now every time there\u2019s a gun incident, “We\u2019ve gotta start talking about this and we\u2019ve gotta get the president on the –” We always talk about this. We talk and talk and talk about the things that the left demands that we talk about. “We\u2019re gonna have to find out where he was able to get that kind of weapon.” That\u2019s gonna be incidental.<\/p>\n

If you ever find that out it\u2019s gonna be incidental to explaining this, unless — and here goes the speculation — unless ISIS is responsible for this and they found a way to get him the weapon, but I\u2019m not even comfortable going there. We don\u2019t even know much beyond who the guy is and his brother is out there saying: I\u2019m just totally shocked. I didn\u2019t know my brother was capable –” He\u2019s one of these guys that engages in this active that nobody who knew him ever thought he was ever gonna be capable of anything like this.<\/p>\n

Now, we are alive, we are living in a highly charged era. We are living at a time where there is rolling and rocking angst and nervousness. People don\u2019t even have a chance to breathe if they watch news anymore. If you watch the news, you\u2019re gonna be constantly on edge. The odds are that you\u2019re gonna be deeply pessimistic and\/or angry. And it\u2019s just impossible to get away from it. You can\u2019t even get away from it now, things that roil our culture, by tuning into college or professional sports. That\u2019s not even a respite anymore.<\/p>\n

\"\"But Hillary Clinton, “‘Stand up to the NRA.\u2019 Hours after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted a statement attacking the National Rifle Association and firearm suppressor laws.
\nClinton asked followers to ‘put politics aside\u2019 in the wake of the attack and ‘stand up to the NRA.'”<\/p>\n

That is politics, Hillary, you are injecting politics into this. The NRA doesn\u2019t have anything to do with this. We don\u2019t know that this guy was an NRA member. We don\u2019t know anything yet. But man they\u2019re setting the table. They just can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s some of the latest news. Reuters is claiming that the Islamic State says the Las Vegas shooting is the result of a recent convert to Islam. The shooter was a recent convert. From the article, and again this is Reuters. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed at least 50 — it\u2019s now 58 people — and wounded over 500 in Las Vegas early today, and said the attacker had converted to Islam a few months ago.<\/p>\n

“‘The Las Vegas attack was carried out by a soldier of the Islamic State and he carried it out in response to calls to target states of the coalition,\u2019 Amaq news agency said in reference to the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group in the Middle East.” The Las Vegas attacker converted to Islam a few months ago. Now, that\u2019s from Reuters.<\/p>\n

Now, ISIS takes credit for mass shootings. We know that. But have they claimed credit falsely? That is, have they ever claimed something to be a Muslim terror attack that turned out not to be? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m asking the question honestly. I don\u2019t know if ISIS has made false claims that are on the record. The reason I ask is because everybody would like to know if what they\u2019re claiming here is credible.<\/p>\n

There have been so many of these kinds of attacks, it\u2019s hard to keep up, but somebody probably has — well, somebody, homeland security, FBI, somebody knows whether or not ISIS routinely or sporadically makes false claims of responsibility.<\/p>\n

Now, get this. You know, I\u2019m half reluctant to even mention this. The Daily Caller has a story<\/a>, a top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, says that she\u2019s not even sympathetic for the victims of the shooting at this festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Quote, “If they wouldn\u2019t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing.”<\/p>\n

\"\"She wrote this on Facebook. Maybe she\u2019s referring to Sandy Hook on Facebook. She said, “I\u2019m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”<\/p>\n

This is a top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold. That\u2019s hyphenated, Geftman-Gold. How do you even think this way? But if this is accurate, if this is a post that she really wrote, it\u2019s a clear illustration of how the left politicizes and corrupts things. This is just outrageous. If she actually wrote this, if it\u2019s not some fake post written by somebody else in her name. She didn\u2019t mention that they might be Trump supporters, but that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

You know that people on the left are laying in wait hoping, wondering if they\u2019ll have something with which to politicize this. Above and beyond all that, as I say, we live in an era, this is the deadliest mass shooting in American history. There are a lot of angry people in this country, and that suggests a question. Why are so many people angry? What are they doing that\u2019s making them mad? Is their anger of natural origin, is it organic? Did it bubble up inside them without any external influences? Or is the anger being generated? And if it is, by whom and for what reason?<\/p>\n

Now, you know where I\u2019m going with this. For the last year, there has been an intense amount of undisguised, full-fledged hatred since the election last November. For almost a year now that hatred has not abated. That hatred has metastasized, and it has intensified. And that hatred is widespread. And that hatred has created other hatred in response to it. So it feeds off of itself and then as I say, metastasizes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to say that the shooter doesn\u2019t bear responsibility in any way, shape, manner, or form. But I do know that the officials here, law enforcement and so forth are desperately seeking a motive, because the fact that the guy\u2019s just evil and bad and did a horrible thing is not enough. There are people who want to know the specific reason, some legitimately for remedial purposes. Others for selfish political reasons, which can\u2019t be denied.<\/p>\n

U.K. Independent just published an article with news that ISIS had taken credit for the attack, basically says ISIS is quite disciplined, seems to be more right than we think. This is the U.K. Independent. Here\u2019s from the article: “A simple tabulation of past claims of responsibility for attacks in the West shows that Isis has been surprisingly disciplined in only claiming attacks that the terror group has either directed, enabled or else inspired,” Rukmini Callimachi, a New York Times correspondent focusing on Isis and al-Qaeda, told The Independent.<\/p>\n

In other words, we don\u2019t have much evidence they make things up. When they claim responsibility, it pretty much has been true. They\u2019re surprisingly disciplined. They do not claim credit for something they had nothing to do with. Also from the article. And again, this is the U.K. Independent. “Making false claims would also leave the group open to accusations they claim attacks they have not committed, which while spreading fear and dismay, would undermine trust among supporters.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The group\u2019s Amaq news agency –” do you know ISIS has a news agency? Like a PR firm, but they\u2019ve got a news agency, the Amaq, A-m-a-q, news agency, “thrives on accuracy,” said an expert on ISIS. “He said some Isis supporters told him they view the group\u2019s media as more accurate than Western reporting.”<\/p>\n

So ISIS has its own news agency \u2019cause they don\u2019t trust the American Drive-Bys to get it right. And you know why that is? Why do you think ISIS doesn\u2019t trust the American Drive-Bys? No. Because they know that the American Drive-Bys do not want ISIS being credited with this stuff. The American Drive-Bys want other people to be blamed. The American Drive-Bys and the American left, there\u2019s no such thing as militant Islamic terrorism, right? There is no such thing.<\/p>\n

So when there is, the American Drive-Bys do everything they can to avoid crediting militant Islamic terrorism with such acts. I think we\u2019ve even discussed this in the past about how this tends to irritate ISIS and Al-Qaeda. They go out and commit terror acts, and the American Drive-By Media do not credit them when they claim it.<\/p>\n

And the reason they don\u2019t credit it is because it\u2019s an operative point in the Washington establishment that there is no such thing as militant Islamic terrorism. That was true in the Obama State Department. It was true at the Obama defense department. It was true at the Obama Department of Homeland Security. There was no such thing as militant Islamic terrorism, remember? Well, when there is and ISIS is responsible for it, they get ticked off when they don\u2019t get credit. So they form their own news agency. We\u2019ll just have to wait. We\u2019ll come back. The president had a brief message for the country this morning. That comes up right after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the latest from the FBI. They claim they have found no connection to ISIS whatsoever. Aaron Rouse, press conference, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

ROUSE: As this event unfolds we have determined to this point no connection with an international terrorist group. As this investigation continues, we will continue to work with our partners to ensure that this is factually, thoroughly, and absolutely investigated, to be able to bring comfort and peace back to this community.<\/p>\n