{"id":265441,"date":"2018-02-22T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=265441"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:24:23","slug":"if-nikolas-cruz-was-bullied-who-bullied-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/22\/if-nikolas-cruz-was-bullied-who-bullied-him\/","title":{"rendered":"If Nikolas Cruz Was Bullied, Who Bullied Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"RUSH:\u00a0 No, I wanted to make a point<\/a>.\u00a0 The media early on was portraying Nikolas Cruz as a victim of bullying<\/a>.\u00a0 He was portrayed as being bullied — that he was mocked, that he was laughed at — and then the media dropped that.\u00a0 That characterization of the shooter being bullied and mocked, laughed at, humiliated? That didn\u2019t last in the Drive-By Media very long, because the media realized, “That\u2019s not gonna help us here, \u2019cause somebody had to be doing the bullying. Somebody had to be doing the laughing.\u00a0 Somebody had to be making fun of the guy.”<\/p>\n

I mean, if he was laughed at and made fun of — if he was mocked and if he was bullied in that school — well, then, somebody had to do it.\u00a0 The media says, “Wow.\u00a0 We have to drop that,” and they focused back on the guns — or refocused on the guns, \u2019cause they never really leave that focus.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 The point that I made in the first hour that the Official Program Observer wishes me to make again is this: In early reporting after the shooting at the Parkland, Florida, high school… We got the media stories here to back it up and prove it.\u00a0 Miami Herald referred to shooter as bullied, mocked, laughed at, made fun of. Any number of early Drive-By Media reports focused on that, as they learned about the shooter, learned about how everybody knew who he was. He had 39 visits by local authorities, the FBI ignoring two warnings. All these signs, a plethora of them.<\/p>\n

In the reporting on all that, it was also reported that the guy felt ostracized by fellow students, was eventually kicked out of the school. He never fit in. He was made fun of and laughed at and they mocked him all over the place.\u00a0 My question to that was, “Well, who did that?\u00a0 Who did the laughing at the guy?\u00a0 Who did the mocking?\u00a0 Who was making fun of him?\u00a0 Who was making him feel like a kook and an oddball and not wanted?”\u00a0 We all know how mean and vicious high school can be.<\/p>\n

Do you realize how many adults are still haunted by their high school days?\u00a0 You know, if you don\u2019t realize that, do a little test.\u00a0 If you know somebody you went to high school with but you don\u2019t live where they live anymore… You\u2019re still in touch with them now and then but you\u2019re separated, and you don\u2019t talk to them much. The next time you do, wherever the conversation goes — you\u2019ll find an opening — say something like, “You know, my high school days? I tell you, I really still feel haunted by something,” and they\u2019ll say the same thing to you.<\/p>\n

\"\"The reason you do not say it to people is \u2019cause you think you\u2019re the only one.\u00a0 But high school is one of the most formative events in every one of our lives, because it can be mean and vicious, and there are the cliques. There are the established students and the outsiders. You\u2019ve got the nerds. You\u2019ve got the cool crowd.\u00a0 Everybody knows this.\u00a0 Lo and behold, this guy, the early reports — as we always do — asked, “Why did he do it? Why did he feel the need to go to the school is start shooting it up?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when we got the explanation that was laughed at, made fun of, mocked, all these things.\u00a0 So the question is, “Well, who did that?” Now, Mr. Snerdley, why do you think that is salient?\u00a0 Why do you think that that is a point worthy of repeating — aside from the fact that you don\u2019t think my name has been in the news enough lately? (chuckling) Well, it is an area of commonality.\u00a0 It is. Every one of these shooters, even in the case of the Columbine kids. There were two of them there. You\u2019ll find that early reporting of the shooters has much in common with their feeling left out, pointed out, made fun of — kicked out of school, even.<\/p>\n

“Bullied!”<\/p>\n

That word is used in practically every early description of these perpetrators.<\/p>\n

“Bullied.”<\/p>\n

But in this case, the Drive-By Media dropped those characterizations really fast, and we stopped hearing about those characteristics of the shooter.\u00a0 And they were replaced by other things.\u00a0 But somebody had to do the bullying.\u00a0 Somebody had to be doing the laughing.\u00a0 Somebody had to be making fun of the guy.\u00a0 And who was that?\u00a0 Well, the little angels.\u00a0 High school\u2019s a vicious place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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