{"id":264974,"date":"2018-02-19T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=264974"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:54:15","slug":"reactions-to-my-appearance-on-fox-news-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/19\/reactions-to-my-appearance-on-fox-news-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to My Appearance on Fox News Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I was overwhelmed with email reaction to <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/02\/18\/rush-on-fox-news-sunday-with-chris-wallace-2\/\">Fox News Sunday<\/a> yesterday, more than ever. I\u2019m hard-pressed to figure out why. I think it\u2019s probably \u2019cause I don\u2019t do these things very often and we\u2019re in the midst of massive audience growth and so forth, but I just want to thank everybody. And even those of you who were snarky about the glasses, I love you. I absolutely love you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/02\/18\/rush-on-fox-news-sunday-with-chris-wallace-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-1-Glasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-1-Glasses.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-1-Glasses-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look like Harry Potter.&#8221; You know, every time I go on TV, I prove what it is about TV. The only thing that matters is how you look, and I passed with flying colors yesterday even among the snarkers. By the way, speaking of that, we have decided to put everything that happened on Fox News yesterday with me on the free side at RushLimbaugh.com.<\/p>\n<p>So just to avoid any confusion, all<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/18\/rush-on-fox-news-sunday-with-chris-wallace-2\/\"> video and the transcripts<\/a> of yesterday\u2019s Fox News Sunday appearance is on the app and the website on the free side. You do not have to be a paid member to access all of it. All of the video, there\u2019s a lot of video, and of course the transcripts that go along with it. Normally we don\u2019t do this. But it was such a home run yesterday that I decided to make it available on a mass basis.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, the Fox News appearance. There are a number of ways I can do this. I could play the sound bites by themselves that we have edited and carved up here, for those of you who did not see. Or there\u2019s another way of doing it. We could play reaction to me by the media as they have aired excerpts and sound bites of my appearance. And that might be the best way to go about this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Rush-FOX-SUNDAY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Rush-FOX-SUNDAY.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Rush-FOX-SUNDAY-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just want to share with you some headlines from print media about my appearance yesterday. From the Huffing and Puffington Post: &#8220;Immediately After Interviewing Parkland Students, Fox News Invites Criticism Of Them &#8212; &#8216;Marches aren\u2019t going to solve it,\u2019 conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh said.&#8221; It\u2019s amazing. These people quote me accurately and it\u2019s amazing how they don\u2019t understand what I\u2019m saying. And I think it\u2019s genuine. I think they don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/fox-news-parkland-limbaugh-interviews_us_5a89bfd8e4b05c2bcacc120f\">Immediately After Interviewing Parkland Students, Fox News Invites Criticism of Them<\/a> &#8212; Rush Limbaugh says marches are not going to solve&#8230;&#8221; I\u2019ll have details of all this coming up. From Mediaite: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/rush-limbaugh-student-survivors-bashing-the-nra-doesnt-solve-the-problem\/\">Rush Limbaugh: Student Survivors Bashing the NRA Doesn\u2019t Solve Problem<\/a>.&#8221; That\u2019s not so bad, because there\u2019s no opinion in it and that happens to be accurate. &#8220;Rush Limbaugh&#8230;&#8221; What is this one? Carbonated.TV &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonated.tv\/news\/fox-news-chris-wallace-rush-limbaugh-florida-survivors-march-gun-laws\">Rush Limbaugh Bashes Teen Shooting Survivors for Demanding Gun Control<\/a>.&#8221; I didn\u2019t &#8220;bash&#8221; anybody. But I can live with it.<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek.com: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-rush-limbaugh-dreamers-immigration-810364\">Rush Limbaugh Thinks Undocumented Immigrants Should Get Citizenship but Not Vote for 15 to 25 Years.<\/a>&#8221; This is funny. These people had never heard this. These people on the left didn\u2019t know, just like Wallace didn\u2019t quite know what to do yesterday when I announced that. He was kind of silent for, what, a few seconds? It sounded like, oh, the pregnant seconds in there. I did not have a video feed so I could not see Chris or anybody in the Washington studio, but it sounded like there was a pregnant pause in there.<\/p>\n<p>I was stunned at the number of people who haven\u2019t heard the idea and don\u2019t quite even now understand my point.\u00a0 &#8220;Wow, did you see that?\u00a0 Limbaugh actually said he\u2019s support amnesty!&#8221;\u00a0 Then somebody said, &#8220;Yeah, but did you catch that they can\u2019t vote for&#8230;? &#8220;What! He said that?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah.&#8221; They stopped hearing me after they heard me say I would support amnesty.\u00a0 When they get the rest of it, they don\u2019t know what to do with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-264927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-2-side-smile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-2-side-smile.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021818-RUSH-Fox-News-Grabs-SEG-2-side-smile-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Politico: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/02\/18\/limbaugh-guns-schools-concealed-carry-416864\">Limbaugh: We Need Concealed Carry in Schools<\/a>,&#8221; which I said.\u00a0 But of course, any headline\u2019s out of context.\u00a0 Washington Examiner: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/rush-limbaugh-defends-nra-calls-out-students-politicizing-latest-shooting\/article\/2649415\">Limbaugh Defends NRA, Calls Out Students Politicizing Latest Shooting<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I didn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t call anybody out.\u00a0 But we\u2019re gonna delve into this in much greater detail than a seven-minute or 12-minute segment yesterday afforded.\u00a0 Finally, Salon.com: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/02\/18\/rush-limbaugh-admits-his-immigration-fears-are-about-voting-not-security\/\">Rush Limbaugh Admits His Immigration Fears Are About Voting, Not Security<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subhead: &#8220;Limbaugh said he would agree to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants, but they can\u2019t vote for 15 to 25 years.&#8221;\u00a0 That is admitting my &#8220;immigration fears,&#8221; quote, &#8220;are about voting, not security&#8221;?\u00a0 Something else is not headlined here.\u00a0 I thought it would really tick \u2019em off, if this did. It was reminding everybody Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass of ill-educated, dependent voters.\u00a0 I guess they were so ticked off at other things I\u2019d said, they didn\u2019t quite have that register. (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it is? (interruption) Oh, they&#8230;? (interruption) Oh, good, good, good. I thought they were slipping.\u00a0 Okay, if that\u2019s in the story, fine.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the deal, as we set this up.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna come out and we\u2019re gonna use the sound bite version of replaying my sound bites &#8212; the media reaction sound bites &#8212; as a way of airing what happened yesterday on Fox, for those of you who didn\u2019t see it or watch it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We start Saturday morning, Fox &amp; Friends Saturday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/02\/15\/the-federalization-of-everything-has-failed-lets-experiment-with-something-new\/\">this is something that I had said on Friday<\/a>.\u00a0 They pick it up and repeat it.<\/p>\n<p>GRIFF JENKINS:\u00a0 Rush Limbaugh weighed in on this, and he said, &#8220;Look, maybe this fall through the cracks because the FBI is so focused on other things.&#8221; Here\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh had to say about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-265079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.50-PM.png 840w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.50-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.50-PM-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>RUSH ARCHIVE:\u00a0 Is it possible, ladies and gentlemen, that the FBI may not have the resources to deal with complaints like this?\u00a0 How many people at the FBI are still trying to prove that Trump colluded with Russia? &#8230; Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have the FBI so occupied tracking down something that didn\u2019t happen, they may not so the resources to pull this kid off the street.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 So&#8230; And then it was the next day that Trump tweeted this, his famous tweet storm.\u00a0 They brought in, though&#8230; After this bite, they brought in Tim Clemente, who is a former FBI counterterrorism agent, and after the clip that you just heard, Griff Jenkins said, &#8220;So, Mr. Clemente, what do you say to that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-265080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.58-PM.png 830w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.58-PM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-4.03.58-PM-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>CLEMENTE:\u00a0 I would say that Rush is one of the greatest communicators in the history of communication, and I think what he\u2019s saying is partially true. When you can have guys like Peter Strzok, lawyers like Lisa Page, administrators like McCabe at the top of the FBI very, very, very politically active and acting not like objective observers and investigators to try and find the truth. They weren\u2019t seeking the truth.\u00a0 They were looking for political things. They were looking for political flaws in their enemies &#8212; their political enemies &#8212; so they could go after them.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re doing that, you cannot be at the same time maintaining the security of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Now, that\u2019s interesting, is it not?\u00a0 Because the president tweeted it out on Sunday, and the media immediately thought that it was over the top and unrealistic, and they started making jokes about, &#8220;You mean to tell me that the FBI field office agent &#8212; the special agent in charge of the office in Ft. Lauderdale &#8212; is working on the Trump investigation?&#8221; They wanted to, you know, again portray Trump as just over the top and not really in touch with reality.<\/p>\n<p>That was not my point when I made the comment.\u00a0 I\u2019m just trying to illustrate things in different way; I love using satire, parody, and humor to do it.\u00a0 The truth of the matter is, the FBI can chew gum and walk at the same time.\u00a0 What happened down in Florida with the FBI not following up on this shooter, that\u2019s a whole different set of problems, and I\u2019ll tell you what I think the root of those problems are.\u00a0 A combination of multiculturalism, liberalism, and political correctness has led to government and a whole lot of people being afraid to act on anything that someone might think is profiling or judging.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t judge people anymore! You can\u2019t prejudge anybody, even the bad guys.\u00a0 It\u2019s discriminatory.\u00a0 It is bigoted.\u00a0 And if there\u2019s anything about them that strays from what we call the norm? Then you\u2019re really in trouble, because then you\u2019re picking on a victim who\u2019s a member of a minority.\u00a0 And so it\u2019s&#8230; Because there has been so&#8230; There have been so many assaults on people using political correctness and profiling that the safe thing to do is to not act and roll the dice.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there has to be a reason the FBI didn\u2019t do anything with this, beyond the fact that they\u2019re lazy.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that they\u2019re lazy.\u00a0 Is it that they didn\u2019t take it seriously?\u00a0 Is it that they don\u2019t trust the tipsters?\u00a0 Is it that they think the tipsters are a bunch of kooks?\u00a0 With so many people lying through their teeth every day on social media, with so much BS out there every day in the public domain, with the rising reality that our country has a growing population of kooks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021518-Florida-Shooting-09999988888888888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021518-Florida-Shooting-09999988888888888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021518-Florida-Shooting-09999988888888888-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>You put all of that together, and what must the FBI think of all the&#8230;? Now, in this case, 36 calls to the house and two different warnings the FBI.\u00a0 There still has to be a reason that they didn\u2019t act on this, and it\u2019s not that they couldn\u2019t because of the Constitution.\u00a0 They could have surveilled him. They could have done any number of things.\u00a0 But what prevented them?\u00a0 And again, if we\u2019re really interested in solving this, then we\u2019ve got to ignore the knee-jerk reaction that happens after every one of these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>And the knee-jerk reaction is on full display. The knee-jerk reaction is the first words out of anybody\u2019s mouth are either a combination of NRA and gun control or one of the other first.\u00a0 Which is why I made the point yesterday that the next shooter is already out there. The next two or three shooters are already out there.\u00a0 They\u2019ve already got their guns.\u00a0 They\u2019re already widely known by people who know them.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s firsthand knowledge that whoever these next shooters are are wacko, kooks, deranged or whatever, they still are known.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know when they\u2019re gonna act, but they are.\u00a0 There\u2019s gonna be another one of these, and then there\u2019s gonna be one after that &#8212; and we never, ever do drill down to getting to the answer to it.\u00a0 We never, ever do start talking about what would solve this. Because, again, we are not being honest with ourselves about what is causing this.\u00a0 I could go through the whole scenario all over again.\u00a0 People that want to blame the Second Amendment?<\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment\u2019s been with us since the founding of the country.\u00a0 I like my analogy to the \u201950s.\u00a0 Whenever people wish we could return to what they think was the innocence and the much simpler time of the \u201950s&#8230; It was the post-World War II boom, and we have an economy that was just exploding after World War II, and the country was on a big upswing. In the culture the perception today looking back on it is that it was very tame, it was moral. There was a definite sense of right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>There was a concept of shame that attached to people who behaved badly.\u00a0 All of that is out the window.\u00a0 People long for a day of innocence, the days of innocence and more simplicity.\u00a0 But when you do that, you have modern-day leftists mock you and say, &#8220;You can\u2019t do that! You can\u2019t turn back the clock.\u00a0 That\u2019s silly.\u00a0 You can\u2019t&#8230; Besides, if you did that you would get rid of all the progress that\u2019s been made.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s all of the so-called progress that\u2019s been made that has many people wishing for the simplicity of the era, the Ozzie and Harriet days.<\/p>\n<p>But isn\u2019t it interesting that when a mass shooting occurs, who is it that longs for a simpler time?\u00a0 Who is it that starts wringing their hands and talking about how it didn\u2019t used to be this way, and they wish they could go back to a simpler time where this didn\u2019t happen?\u00a0 Well, okay.\u00a0 Then you better start being honest with yourself what happened between whatever time period you want to go back to &#8212; \u201950s, \u201960s whatever. What happened between now and then?\u00a0 Why were there no kids shooting up schools in the 1950s?<\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of guns all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>There were even guns in schools in the \u201950s, folks.\u00a0 There were guns everywhere, just like there are today.\u00a0 Per capita was same number.\u00a0 We might not have had 300 million guns then like we do now, but based on the population, the percentages are the same.\u00a0 Why weren\u2019t schools students shooting up schools in the \u201950s?\u00a0 Well, you want to be honest about it?\u00a0 How many families in the \u201950s were busted up, redefined, single parent?\u00a0 I mean, if you\u2019re not willing to analyze all this, you\u2019re not really willing to get to the solution to this.<\/p>\n<p>These school shootings are the one instance where the perpetrator is never sought, blamed, and the actions of the perp never analyzed seriously to try to find out what we can do to prevent further incidents like this. No. The knee-jerk reaction, go for the NRA, go for gun control. Get the guns.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unrealistic. And I\u2019m not invested one way or the other on the whole gun business, aside from the fact of the Constitution and the Second Amendment. What I know is the American left, the worldwide left, what their dream is is the confiscation of every weapon. And it\u2019s never gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s another thing. That\u2019s never gonna happen. I don\u2019t care who, what, when. There will never, ever be what they ultimately want, the total confiscation of every gun in this country. And as long as they\u2019re going to pursue that, they\u2019re never gonna change and get to anything that is useful in terms of solving this.<\/p>\n<p>Their objective is impossible, it is impractical, and it\u2019s totally political, and it\u2019s totally political, and it has nothing to do with this incident that happened last week or any of the incidents that happened prior. And each one of these incidents then permits these people to energize the agenda yet again, under the guise &#8212; I mean, every time this happens, they say, &#8220;This is it. No more. We\u2019ve had it. We\u2019ve got to do something.&#8221; Every one of them. It\u2019s the same thing. It\u2019s like Groundhog\u2019s Day. It\u2019s an endless loop with the same villains and the same solutions and nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Look at bump stocks after Las Vegas. There is not a weapon you can buy where you pull the trigger and it keeps firing. That is an automatic weapon. An AR-15 does not do that. You have to pull the trigger every time you want a bullet fired. The left, the Drive-Bys are out trying to characterize the AR-15 as a semiautomatic weapon, pull the trigger once and a bunch of bullets spray. Not true. That\u2019s why you need a bump stock. And a bump stock is simply a third-party add-on to the stock of a rifle that causes a recoil on your shoulder that makes your finger continually pull the trigger, effecting automatic fire, mimicking it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Fox-Sunday-TEAR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Fox-Sunday-TEAR.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021918-Fox-Sunday-TEAR-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And remember, after Las Vegas, everybody said, &#8220;We\u2019ve gotta do something about bump stocks. We\u2019ve got to stop bump stocks.&#8221; Nothing has been done. Not a thing has been done. You ask yourself, why? Bump stocks would be a decent thing to do. There\u2019s no reason to modify a gun to make it an automatic-fire weapon. There\u2019s no reason whatsoever. Military, fine. There\u2019s no reason for that. And yet that would be a simple fix.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA came out and supported getting rid of bump stocks. Nothing has been done. I saw Wayne LaPierre once, who is the grand pooh-bah of the NRA. He was on This Week with David Brinkley. It was a Sunday, and it was during the \u201990s. It was the Bill Clinton administration and there had been a mass shooting somewhere. I don\u2019t remember which one.<\/p>\n<p>And Wayne LaPierre said to David Brinkley, who asked the question, I think it was Brinkley, said, &#8220;I think the president is comfortable with a certain level of violence.&#8221; I saw that and I sat up straight and I said, &#8220;I can\u2019t believe that. I can\u2019t wait to see what kind of reaction to that there is.&#8221; And there was no outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne LaPierre had just said that the president was okay with a certain level of killing, a certain level of violence, because it advanced the political opportunity. And I thought that there would be mass anger, mass protest, mass outrage over what LaPierre said. There was little bit of it, but nothing like what I expected, and certainly none on the show.<\/p>\n<p>And what he meant was the Democrats like the issue, and they don\u2019t want to solve the issue. Just like they don\u2019t want to solve immigration. They don\u2019t want to do anything. They don\u2019t want to have anything solved this year where Trump gets the credit for it. They want to do nothing but stall and stall and prevent anything, total chaos and make it look like Trump can\u2019t get anything done, that Trump is ineffective, that Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing, that Trump\u2019s out of his league.<\/p>\n<p>Now, meanwhile, the people of this country think the Democrats are devoted to solving issues. They\u2019re devoted to the DREAMers, they\u2019re devoted the kids and stopping the killing. And the Democrats are not interested in stopping anything. The Democrats are not interested in solving anything, especially this election year.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, a quick question. And I gotta be very, very, very, very careful with this. In fact, I\u2019m gonna save this. I\u2019m gonna save this for when I get to the sound bites from the early part of the interview with Chris Wallace. It will work better that way.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, moments ago on CNN John Berman, one of their anchors, decides to play an audio sound bite of me &#8212; well, video, because it\u2019s television. Video sound bite, video portion, excerpt of me on Fox News Sunday yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>BERMAN: I want to play Rush Limbaugh, who was talking about this over the weekend. Let\u2019s listen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-265014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-2.08.23-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-2.08.23-PM.png 840w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-2.08.23-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-19-at-2.08.23-PM-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>RUSH ARCHIVE: The solution is we need concealed carry in these schools. If we are really serious about protecting the kids, we need a mechanism to be defensive when this kind of thing &#8212; if we\u2019re not gonna take action to stop it, we better have mechanisms in these schools to stop it when it breaks out. If we don\u2019t do that, then all rest of this is nothing more than political posturing for the 2018 midterms and the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>BERMAN: You know, he totally says it\u2019s no more than political posturing for 2018-20. I\u2019m not sure that people like the political posturing on this for the elections. It\u2019s a tough issue for candidates sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Uh, yeah, but it\u2019s tough to disagree with the fact that it\u2019s political posturing. It\u2019s maddening to me. There are solutions. There are things that we can do that we\u2019re not doing. And it\u2019s about time we start being innovative and new rather than this broken record of gun control, NRA, gun control, NRA, Republicans, Trump doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s time to get rid of that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s our society that has changed from \u201950s to the present, \u201970s to the present, from 1999 to the present. Guns have not changed. Guns are still what they are. Guns are still who they are. Guns still work the way they\u2019ve always worked. We\u2019ve tried to make it harder to get them. We have background checks. We have all kinds of things designed to weed out the wackos from getting a hold of guns. The wackos still get a hold of guns.<\/p>\n<p>The president even said over the weekend he would be in favor of expanding the whole background check thing. Yep, let\u2019s just add on to what we\u2019ve already done. In the meantime, the children are dying, and there\u2019s not a mechanism in sight to stop it. And it\u2019s just, sadly, completely unrealistic to focus on the elimination of guns. There are 300 million of them out there.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I say all of this is political posturing. It\u2019s an election year. Democrats don\u2019t want anything solved. Not with a Republican in the White House. So nothing\u2019s gonna get done. You had best resign yourself to it. This is totally political. 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