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RUSH: I\u2019m going to go to two sound bites here, one from Dick Durbin, the other from Barack Obama. I warned everyone yesterday that this was what was coming. First Senator Durbin on the Senate floor this morning.<\/p>\n

DURBIN: Just yesterday, reports that a car in a garage of an Illinois state court judge on the north side of Chicago, was damaged by gunshots. The sad reality is that violence and threats against our judges are on the rise. Between 1996 and 2005, the number of threats and inappropriate communications towards judges has gone up dramatically, from 201 in 1996 to 943 in 2005.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Now, before you hear the rest of this bite, I want to ask you a question. When it comes to people in our society talking about judges, who would you say maligns judges more? Would it be Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee that you see televised? They\u2019re trying to say these people are not qualified. ‘They are extremists. They are out of the American mainstream.\u2019 They go out and about their way to try to destroy their character and their reputation. Who is it in this society that spends all this time ripping judges to shreds? Now, here\u2019s Durbin\u2019s theory.<\/p>\n

DURBIN: There may be many reasons for this increased violence against judges, but one of the most regrettable is a rise in criticism and condemnation of these fine men and women, not only in the halls of Congress, but in some of the shock radio shows that go on and pass as news on some cable channels and radio stations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa ho-ho-ho! So now it\u2019s talk radio, and who do you think he means when he says ‘talk radio\u2019? Of course he means me when he\u2019s talking about what happens on talk radio — and cable news? What cable news channel do you think he\u2019s talking about? He\u2019s talking about Fox! So all the criticism of judges is occurring on talk radio and on shock radio and this sort of thing. So you have the whole Imus thing lurking over there as something that\u2019s still sprouting branches for these guys to hang from and make this statement. Now, here\u2019s Obama, and this is Monday in Milwaukee at a fundraiser.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Obviously, what happened today was the act of a madman at some level, and there are going to be a whole series of explanations or attempts to explain what happened. There\u2019s also another kind of violence, though, that we\u2019re going to have to think about. It\u2019s not necessarily physical violence, but violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways. Last week the big news, obviously, had to do with Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at young women who were role models for all of us, role models for my daughters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Verbal violence! So you have Durbin and Obama. Now, this is not unprecedented. Remember, the Clinton administration attempted to blame me for the blowing up of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. We called them on it and they ‘apologized.\u2019 They went out there, and (Clinton spokesman Mike) McCurry said, ‘No, no, no! We\u2019re talking about the short-wave radio communications of the militia, the Michigan militia or some such thing,\u2019 but make no mistake about it, they take every opportunity. So now all of these acts of violence are being blamed on the ‘shock talk.\u2019 I told you this Imus thing was about far much more than him, and now you\u2019ve got this Virginia Tech issue, which is used as a launching pad to go after the one area of media that is perhaps the home of more openness, more free speech, more diversity of speech and thought. But because the dominance of talk radio is conservative, it is a target, and it is going to be dealt with as best these people can. I read a story on CNN today. I don\u2019t need to read it to you, but the story was typical and it\u2019s something that I predicted about the Virginia Tech shooting. It amazes me. All the talk about gun control! Here we have people on the campus who said that this student was nuts. <\/p>\n

They knew he was nuts. They reported him as nuts. They sent him to a mental institution for a while. We don\u2019t know what happened there. His writings were nuts, and there were red flags sprouting up because of all of these things. Shouldn\u2019t there be a way to deal with nuts on campus? This guy clearly was disturbed and a whole lot of people knew it. Why wasn\u2019t there some way to deal with this guy before the fact? Everybody thinks, ‘Well, get rid of the guns, and we\u2019ll stop the OK Corral from taking place.\u2019 We don\u2019t have an OK Corral going on in this country! This is not something that happens every day or every month or every year, and that\u2019s why the reaction to it is extraordinary. So we have all these people who had clear warning signs about the guy, but, I don\u2019t know — because of political correctness or the unwillingness to judge somebody or what have you — nobody did anything about it. The gun seller, the guy that sold the guy\u2019s guns didn\u2019t know he was nuts but the people at the school did. Everybody wants to focus on the gun seller and the gun, but people at the school knew that this guy was not right. I\u2019m not second-guessing here. I\u2019m just responding to the clutter of talk that\u2019s out there. <\/p>\n

Now, we have in what we\u2019ve learned about this guy, a reported attempt to set a fire in the dorm. We have sicko writings noticed by a professor. He was recommended for counseling. We don\u2019t know anything about that, if he went or not. We have reports of him stalking female students. Yet it\u2019s much easier to yell, ‘Gun control! Gun control! The NRA is bad! Bush the GOP are responsible!\u2019 It\u2019s much easier to just go out and say that, than to deal with this kind of aberrant behavior on campus because of all the PC rules that are in place, both the formal and the informal PC rules. But why not focus on that? Why not focus on the clear and early warning signs that something was not right with this guy? Have you read some of the things he wrote? It\u2019s all about death and killing and dying and these sorts of things. The guy was just nuts, and a lot of people knew it. Now, I\u2019m not saying this to lay any blame. I\u2019m just trying to point it out, and they\u2019re going to have an after-action review of this. They always do. The governor\u2019s office is going to do it, and I wonder if they\u2019ll include this aspect in their after-action review. It looks to me like the people in charge here had plenty of early warning signs, not that he would slaughter 32 people, but that he was nuts. Nobody\u2019s going to ever be able to predict that somebody\u2019s going to murder 32 people. You\u2019re not going to be able to predict that. But, people don\u2019t just wake up one morning and decide to slaughter other people, and that\u2019s the point, not gun control. How could a guy like this get a gun? Well, now we know how: Nobody fingered the guy as a potential danger to the community! That\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Can we go back, Mike? I want to go back to the Obama sound bite, which would be number three. This is Obama Monday at a Milwaukee fundraiser, and he connects what happened at Virginia Tech with the kind of ‘verbal violence\u2019 that was on the Imus show.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Obviously what happened today was the acts of a madman at some level, and there are going to be a whole series of explanations or attempts to explain what happened. There\u2019s also another kind of violence, though, that we\u2019re going to have to think about. It\u2019s not necessarily physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways. Last week the big news, obviously had to do with Imus and the verbal violence that was directed at young women who were role models for all of us, role models for my daughter. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I knew, and I said so yesterday, that it was only a matter of time before this connection was made to what happened here at Virginia Tech with ‘shock radio\u2019 and so forth. Ben Smith\u2019s blog at ThePolitico.com, of course, talks about how this guy\u2019s pretty smart, this Obama guy. ‘It\u2019s worth a listen.\u2019 The bite I just played for you. ‘It\u2019s worth a listen, and it captures what moves a lot of people about Obama, and bothers others: His instinct for abstraction and large themes, and his sense that America\u2019s problems have at their root solutions that have as much to do with hope and process as with any specific course of action. Other politicians would — and will — stay with the concrete. They\u2019ll talk about this tragedy, and, soon, gun control. But while Obama mourns the slain students, he takes the massacre more as a theme than as a point of discussion. ‘Maybe nothing could have been done to prevent it,\u2019 he says toward the end. So he moves quickly to the abstract: Violence, and the general place of violence in American life,\u2019 and then he talks about there\u2019s another type of violence: ‘Verbal violence.\u2019<\/p>\n

So Ben Smith, who writes the blog at ThePolitico.com, is very, very, very, very, very, very excited with the way Obama is handling this. Now, to me, Ben Smith and others who will swoon over the sound bite you just heard from Obama, are simply impressed with people that talk BS nonstop, because that was a BS bite. It may sound worldly and above the fray and we need to deal with violence. We don\u2019t need to ‘deal with\u2019 violence. Our whole society is built on dealing with violence! The idea that we\u2019re not trying to deal with violence is absurd. So according to Obama, this is America. You have to look at what these people say, not in the abstract, but take a look at what they really say. This is America — and we need to ram this down his threat and everybody else who\u2019s thinking Obama is this greatest guy to come down the pike, because this is his America. We have ‘verbal violence\u2019 everywhere. We have violence all over the place, not just what happened at Virginia Tech. <\/p>\n

But see, the problem with what happened at Virginia Tech is this is not about America! This is not about common Americans or Americans in general. This is about a lone nutcase who slaughtered other people — and any politician who would dare, as Obama has done, to go out and paint his fellow countrymen with such a stupid view doesn\u2019t deserve to lead us. Now, Mr. Smith at The Politico, I\u2019m sorry to disagree with you, but this is how I look at it. This is not something earth-shatteringly new and foresighted and brilliant and so forth. He just got through saying this is typical of America. We have violence here. We have violence Virginia Tech. We have violence on the radio. We have ‘verbal violence\u2019!\u2019 We don\u2019t! This is not a typical American circumstance or event that happened at Virginia Tech yesterday. I had to make that point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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