{"id":265439,"date":"2018-02-22T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=265439"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:24:27","slug":"cnns-so-called-town-hall-facilitated-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/22\/cnns-so-called-town-hall-facilitated-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s So-Called Town Hall Facilitated Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Well, well, well. I certainly hope everybody watching, if you are watching, this disgrace CNN put on last night, trying to call that a town hall: I hope if you watched that, you see what I\u2019m talking about. I hope you saw, I hope you noted how the last thing that was about last night was the safety of children. It had nothing to do with what was going on last night.<\/p>\n

Anyway, greetings, folks. As always, great to have you with us, and thank you for joining us. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

The media just cannot stop fawning over the courage and the high moral standing of the Parkland students, those who rushed the stage last night at the CNN so-called town hall and told NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch that they wished she would burn, meaning literally burn or burn in hell. It wasn\u2019t just Parkland students in this crowd last night. I think there were about 5,000 people there. And the moderator, Jake Tapper, didn\u2019t do very much at all to keep the thing civil and to keep it going<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dana Loesch and Marco Rubio basically showed up to be thrown to the lions, is what happened last night. There was no appreciation shown. You can\u2019t reach across the aisle to these people, folks. You cannot. It\u2019s just not possible. They\u2019re not there for that. Those people in that crowd last night were not there for any kind of understanding. They were not there for any kind of agreement. They were not there to cross the aisle, compromise, any of that.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t there to learn anything, and they weren\u2019t there to get to the bottom of what happened. They weren\u2019t there to protect the lives of children. That\u2019s not what this thing was about last night. This thing was a vehicle for frustrated leftists to once again vent their hatred and vent their outrage over the fact that they were rejected at the ballot box in November of 2016. If you were one of them, you\u2019d be mad too. Everything they believe in bombs, blows up, and doesn\u2019t work, from Obama administration policies to ways they want to make children safer.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, if you boil it all down, the government cannot protect your kids at school. It\u2019s the government in charge of it. It\u2019s either a state government, elements of the national government, certainly elements of local government, they can\u2019t keep your kids safe. There have been no changes in techniques, stratagems to keep kids safe since Columbine. There is no changes. All there has ever been is an outraged, petulant, childish cry and demand and a spewing of hatred for the NRA.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, actually stopping these events, discussing ways to prevent and stop these events is met with jeering and allegations of racism and bigotry, the usual insults that the left begins to shout. They are vacant intellectually. They are vacant in terms of ideas. And they are governed entirely by a continuing and building rage and hatred for anything that is in opposition to what they claim to believe.<\/p>\n

It was reported, was it not, early on that this perp, Nikolas Cruz, was bullied in this school. Is that true, Mr. Snerdley? Have you read that that\u2019s one of the feature — (interruption) You read that he was the bully. That Nikolas Cruz was not necessarily bullied, that bullying Nikolas Cruz had nothing to do with turning him to the monster that he — that he was the bully, that he was the aggressor.<\/p>\n

You sure you haven\u2019t seen anywhere that he was bullied? Do that. Double-check for me. Find out. It shouldn\u2019t be difficult to keyword search at DuckDuckGo if you don\u2019t want your search to be tracked, or Google if you want Silicon Valley to know what you\u2019re thinking and doing. In your search term just put Nikolas Cruz and “bullying,” see what you get, see what happens. We\u2019ll get into this in more detail, but it was exactly what I thought this event was gonna be. It\u2019s exactly what I predicted that it was going to be.<\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019m not being lazy and copping out by saying, “Hey, I told you it was gonna be that way.” That\u2019s not the point. The point is anybody could tell what this was gonna be from the moment CNN puts their countdown clock up there. It didn\u2019t take long for anybody to realize what was really the purpose of this so-called town hall last night. And I asked the question, what\u2019s the point of showing up?<\/p>\n

And I know the Republicans will say, “Rush, we have to show up. We can\u2019t live in a vacuum. We gotta show up. We gotta reach them. We gotta reach across the aisle. We got to try to make them understand.” This is not the place to do it. An event sponsored by and moderated by CNN is not the place to do this. It\u2019s a setup. It always will be a setup. There is never a circumstance where it is otherwise. It\u2019s always a setup for the Republicans, slash, conservatives who were there.<\/p>\n

So Mr. Snerdley\u2019s search is proving fruitful. ‘Cause I thought I had seen this. Can you give me a source for what you\u2019re typing up there? Miami Herald: Nikolas Cruz was mocked, he was ridiculed, and he was bullied. He was ostracized for his odd behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, granted this is not reported frequently, because this guy is the villain and reporting on him as a victim of being bullied makes him a victim, obviously we can\u2019t have that. But I just have to observe that there you have it right smack-dab in the middle of the Miami Herald, he was mocked, he was ridiculed, he was bullied, ostracized for his odd behavior. Could we say, could we throw in the mix that that might be one of the reasons why he flipped out? Could we say that?<\/p>\n

Well, it is said about others quite frequently. They were bullied, they were mocked, they were laughed at, they were made fun of. If we say that and if we point that out, then upon whom does that fall, who did the bullying? Who was doing the mocking? Who was doing the ridiculing? And who was doing the laughing? Who was unmercifully making fun of Nikolas Cruz?<\/p>\n

I will leave it to you to answer the question, and then fill in the blanks. Because the leftist advocates here are solely focused on the NRA and want you to blame them and the gun. I am amazed. I really am, at how little anger there is at the shooter. Look at the venom for Marco Rubio and Dana Loesch last night. Look at the literal, raw, almost out of control hatred for two people that had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n