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RUSH: Now, do you remember back Thursday, April the 19th, we were talking about the massacre at Virginia Tech? Well, here\u2019s what I said. We\u2019ll go back to the audio sound bites. We\u2019ll just play this because I want to tell you it worked. The Media Matters people fell for it, and the Drive-By Media fell for it, and this is a perfect illustration of what I was talking about on that day and what this illustration was about. The critics of this program do not listen to it. They go to these ‘watchdog\u2019 websites that are bought and paid for by the Democrat Party (and the Clinton machine in the case of Media Matters), and that\u2019s where they get what I said — and then they take it, and they run with it as though some giant controversy has arisen when there is no ‘controversy.\u2019 There was no ‘controversy\u2019 when I said what I said. Here is the first part of this illustration.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, if this Virginia Tech shooter had an ideology, what do you think it was? This guy had to be a liberal. You start railing against the rich, and all these other things? This guy is a liberal. He was turned into a liberal somewhere along the line. So it\u2019s a liberal that committed this act. Now, the Drive-Bys will read on the website that I\u2019m attacking liberalism by comparing this guy to them. That\u2019s exactly what they do every day, ladies and gentlemen! I\u2019m just pointing out a fact. I am making no extrapolation. I\u2019m just pointing it out. I can tell you from the history of this program, starting way back in the early nineties, when there was any kind of an incident, crime or what have you, that attracted national attention, in the early days of this program, the Drive-By Media went out and they tried to connect the perpetrator to this program. They did everything they could. In fact, it went so far as Bill Clinton blaming me for influencing Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Murrah Building. These are the people sponsoring lies and distortion for the purposes of dividing this country and creating hatred. There are just double standards all over the place, folks. I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m fed up with listening to who it is that\u2019s supposedly coarsening the culture when I watch it on television every day, and I read it on obscure websites every day. These are the people that write books about how to assassinate George W. Bush!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sure enough — sure enough, folks — the Drive-By Media, national and local, across the fruited plain, are running with the story: ‘Limbaugh Calls Cho a Liberal.\u2019<\/p>\n

INSIDE EDITION ANNOUNCER: Political pundit Rush Limbaugh is under fire for this remark, claiming Cho\u2019s envy of wealthy students means he was a liberal.<\/p>\n

LIZ CHO: Rush Limbaugh, stirring up controversy about the Virginia Tech massacre. Limbaugh said it had to be a liberal who committed such an act.<\/p>\n

JIM DOLAN: Rush Limbaugh appeared to blame liberals for the shooting, claiming that the assailant just must have been one.<\/p>\n

TAINA HERNANDEZ: There is controversy this morning over comments talk show host Rush Limbaugh made about the Virginia Tech shooter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, there wasn\u2019t!<\/p>\n

SCOTT WAHLE: Limbaugh was pondering what the shooter\u2019s ideology must have been and said that he, quote, ‘had to be a liberal.\u2019<\/p>\n

MIKE WALTER: After Don Imus, I\u2019d think, what radio commentators would want to do that?<\/p>\n

ANDREA ROANE: Not this one.<\/p>\n

MIKE WALTER: Rush Limbaugh now has created a lot of controversy.<\/p>\n

JOY BEHAR: Rush Limbaugh just said [sic–days ago] this guy who killed all those kids at Virginia Tech was a liberal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is this not the greatest thing? They fell for it hook, line and sinker. This illustrates exactly what I was talking about last Thursday about the way all this stuff happens. The point is, there was no ‘controversy.\u2019 There was no controversy on this program. There was no eruption on this program Thursday or Friday. Not until yesterday when the Drive-Bys heard about it three or four days after the fact, and then they dreamed it up! The only controversy is with them because they think I called \u2019em out. (Laughing.) You people at Media Matters, you\u2019re going to have to learn not to be baited when I\u2019m baiting you, because you end up illustrating and proving exactly what I\u2019m saying — and, by the way, speaking of this, there\u2019s one more thing. Last week — and I did this on purpose. We hadn\u2019t played it in a while, but last week we played ‘Barack the Magic Negro,\u2019 with Paul Shanklin impersonating Al Sharpton through the bullhorn, and guess what? In the past three days various elements of our PR apparatus have received calls from individuals all over the country expressing their disappointment and their shock and their outrage.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been playing this song for a month, maybe longer! But last week we played it, and of course these people heard it for the first time. It\u2019s all over YouTube. It\u2019s all over a number of places and we\u2019re getting phone calls from ‘solid citizens\u2019 who are very concerned that in ‘the Post-Imus Era,\u2019 these kinds of comments are going on, and we tell them, ‘You know what? This is a great example. You don\u2019t listen to Rush\u2019s show. You hear about what happens on Rush\u2019s show from a bunch of biased individuals, and then you have this cow, and you go bonkers.\u2019 So we explain to them, ‘You understand…? It\u2019s right in the lyrics of the song: the LA Times called him a ‘magic negro.\u2019 It was a black columnist complaining about the fact that Barack had no substance.\u2019 Prior to that, Al Sharpton, the New York Post reported, is a little jealous that Barack was being called the first clean and articulate black presidential candidate when Sharpton ‘bathes every day.\u2019 Joe Biden said this. So there was a little jealousy out there, and a little contretemps going on between Sharpton and Obama. So we put the song together to illustrate it, but if you don\u2019t listen to this program or you don\u2019t understand the context and if you don\u2019t understand that we have railed against this kind of discrimination and so forth…<\/p>\n

The LA Times has had two or three columns already on, ‘Is Barack Obama Black Enough?\u2019 It\u2019s not happening here. It\u2019s happening out there. We simply chronicle it, laugh at it and make fun of it, and then people hear it out of context and they go bonkers, and we send them the LA Times piece. What it all means, folks, is that there are these little nerdlings out there that are monitoring their radios in ‘the Post-Imus Era,\u2019 and they\u2019re looking for any, any shred of evidence that could make me the next to get his butt kicked off of major American airwaves. But it isn\u2019t going to happen because everything here has a political point, and bounces off something somebody else said — especially our parodies and so forth, but it\u2019s illustrative of what I mentioned to you when we first started talking about this, and that is that the people that are raising all this hell don\u2019t listen. They get it second- and third-hand, out of context, and they\u2019re out there as an army trying to create this stink. But it won\u2019t work. It\u2019s just funny to chronicle it all, particularly the supposed controversy over my calling the guy at Virginia Tech a liberal. What controversy? Everybody that listens to this show agrees with me, so how can you possibly have controversy there?<\/p>\n

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