{"id":274238,"date":"2018-05-18T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=274238"},"modified":"2018-05-21T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:07:33","slug":"deranged-media-plays-to-deranged-audiences-leading-to-deranged-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/18\/deranged-media-plays-to-deranged-audiences-leading-to-deranged-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Deranged Media Plays to Deranged Audiences Leading to Deranged Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You want to know why? I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s the media. You know, we need to stop beating around the bush about this and just cut straight to the chase. All this you can trace back to the media and the unhinged way the news in this country is presented each and every day. All they\u2019re doing is feeding the unstable, the insane, the unhinged, and they are providing the fuel to make these people act in these destructive ways. There\u2019s no doubt about it.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Right, so you have some guy that walks into Trump\u2019s golf course down in Miami, Trump National at Doral. The guy starts shooting up after mouthing off about Trump. What\u2019s this guy so upset about? He obviously watches the news all day. The media is playing to the unstable. They are playing to the infirm. They\u2019re playing to the loosely coagulated in the brain. They\u2019re prompting this stuff. They\u2019re making people feel desperate. They\u2019re making people feel hopeless, and all to advance their own political agenda.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now these insane people out there doing horrible things because of the hysteria they see in the media every day. Congressman getting shot at baseball practice, for example, shooting up the lobby of a Trump resort.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, folks, I\u2019m not kidding here. The media is constantly working people up into a frenzy. Now, there are some people, I think a lot of Trumpists have just tuned it out. And that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think Trumpists are responsible for any of this. I think the Trump supporters have basically tuned all this stuff out. They\u2019re sick of it, it doesn\u2019t affect them, they just pay no attention to it. It\u2019s anecdotal, but we get calls from Trumpists here all the time who don\u2019t watch the news anymore.<\/p>\n

Why would they? All it is is watching them get criticized, them get ripped to shreds, the people they hope do well ripped to shreds. They don\u2019t watch it anymore, don\u2019t pay attention to it. But the left does. Now we have a school shooting in Texas, and I want to remind you people of something.<\/p>\n

Back after the shooting at the Parkland, Florida high school — you know, and I could be snarky. That\u2019s not my personality type, but I could be snarky. I could ask some questions today. Well, okay. I won\u2019t ask \u2019em, but I\u2019ll give you an example of what I would ask if I would ask them, okay? But I\u2019m not really doing this. I\u2019m just showing you what I would do if I were a snarky type of guy.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. Why would another student grab a gun and go shoot up his school after seeing what happened, the misery caused, the suffering and all the attention paid after the Parkland school shooting? I mean, there were meetings at the White House. There were strategy sessions. There was a gigantic march against guns and all this stuff. We\u2019re supposed to have fixed this. The Parkland students, remember, everybody praised them, these kids matter, these kids represent the future. Well, then why didn\u2019t this happen?<\/p>\n

Now, I know the answer to that would be — and I\u2019m not really asking. Folks, this is what I would ask if I were snarky. I\u2019m just giving you an example. And of course it sets up another opportunity to charge into the whole “we need to get rid of guns” thing. It\u2019s gonna be tough for the media \u2019cause the Russia thing, they don\u2019t want to let go of. But they\u2019re gonna have to have some of them let go of it and start focusing on the school shooting in Texas.<\/p>\n

But seriously, with so much attention paid after the last one and so much sincere work done, so many people contributed so much. There was so much caring by the Parkland students. There was so much blaming. There was such sensitivity awareness. Consciousness raising was all over the place. How can this have happened again? Hmm?<\/p>\n

And I distinctly remember in the midst of all the predictable, “We\u2019ve gotta get guns away from people as fast as we can” debates, I said to everybody listening that day, “My guess is that the next shooter is already out there. The next shooter already knows who he is, and more than likely, the next shooter already has the gun that he\u2019s going to use. And probably the next shooter after that.” Because as I said after the Florida school shooting, “There\u2019s gonna be another one. No matter what these people do or say, no matter what policies are enacted, it\u2019s gonna happen again.”<\/p>\n

\"\"So all these efforts to deal with the aftermath create the illustration that there are people involved in fixing this, and nobody is yet fixing this. Nobody is seriously tackling the cause of this. You know what we\u2019ve learned as the aftermath from the Florida shooting has continued? We\u2019ve learned that the perp down there, Nikolas Cruz, was exempted something like six times because of the PROMISE Program! The guy was on the street and at home and able to get and use his gun because of an Obama administration policy called PROMISE.<\/p>\n

And they wanted to blame the guns, and they wanted to blame Trump, they wanted to blame criticism, they wanted to blame the NRA. In fact, you could trace it right back to a policy of keeping guilty people out of jail because the Obama administration was convinced that the nation is racist because the prison population is so largely made up of African-Americans. And that proves that the country is racist.<\/p>\n

With African-Americans anywhere from 10 to 12, 13% of the population but yet 30, 35% of the prison population, that\u2019s got to be racism. So the Obama administration, working with a superintendent in Chicago whose name was Robert Runcie, came up with a program called PROMISE. I forget what it stands for, but what it was was a program that was designed to let young felons go, to basically not charge them, to keep them out of prison, to somehow change the prison percentage — the racial percentage of prisoners in the population.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s bogus from the get-go. The prison population is what it is because those are the people who\u2019ve been convicted of committing crimes. But Obama and the left want you to believe that the majority of African-Americans in jail are innocent, have never committed a crime, were falsely convicted and so forth and so on. And there is some of that, but against everybody; it\u2019s not primarily racial. The judicial system makes some mistakes.<\/p>\n

But on balance, people convicted by juries and judges are convicted for legitimate reasons. So Obama, the left tries to paint the nation as racist because the percentage of African-Americans in prison is way out of what can\u2019t compared to their population percentage. So the PROMISE Program was created by this guy Runcie, adopted by Obama, and it essentially refuses to charge African-Americans or minorities with felonies if they\u2019re young. It\u2019s a way to make America make amends for all of the racism and bigotry of its past.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a way to extend a second chance to a young perp who may not have known what he or she was doing — and once you start exempt African-Americans, you pretty much have to exempt everybody else. So a bunch of young felons were, essentially, let go. This guy Nicholas — and, by the way, Robert Runcie, the creator of this program in Chicago is now the superintendent down in Parkland, Florida!<\/p>\n

And we have learned that the perpetrator, Nikolas Cruz, was caught and apprehended five or six times, and the PROMISE Program is the reason why he was never apprehended, why he was still at home. There were all the people who had warned everybody the guy was a loose cannon. There were even a couple of specific warnings he was gonna shoot up a school. Nobody did anything about it, despite knowing enough to do something about it. But we ignore all that and we start blaming the NRA.<\/p>\n

We start blaming guns and then the kids from Parkland go out and do their national march and George Clooney and the wife send 500 grand and everybody starts feeling really good about themselves because of how much they show they care. Meanwhile, the root cause is never even properly mentioned, much less dealt with, and so it happens again. President Trump has weighed in on this at the White House. Two sound bites. Here\u2019s No. 1…<\/p>\n

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THE PRESIDENT: Unfortunately, I have to begin by expressing our sadness and heartbreak over the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Just took place moments ago. We\u2019re closely monitoring the situation, and federal authorities are coordinating with local officials. This has been going on too long in our country, too many years, too many decades now. We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, folks, there was at least one that I know of roundtable meeting in the White House with parents and students and survives of Parkland. I remember we carried some of it because it happened while this program was on the air, and I distinctly remember a number of proposals to put the equivalent of armed guards inside the schools. You remember the cacophony of objection that was heard? “You can\u2019t do! You\u2019re go in make the schools more dangerous.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re silly. That\u2019s crazy. You can\u2019t put guns in hands of…” And we find out at Parkland the people that were carrying guns didn\u2019t even go in! They “secured the perimeter” while the shooting was taking place. We found out that the sheriff and law enforcement down there were just not prepared emotionally, professionally to deal with an incident like it. But at that Trump-sponsored seminar, whatever you want to call this at the White House, a lot of solutions were put forward.<\/p>\n

One solution was, “You know, the police departments could theoretically open satellite offices in schools. Uniformed cops in schools. It\u2019d have to be a legitimate annex of a police station rather than have, you know, concealed carry security guards roaming the halls.” People said,
\n“We can\u2019t have that! What if those people overrun by a bunch of students and the gun was stolen?” Well, theoretically the students wouldn\u2019t know who the undercover guard is because he\u2019d be concealed carrying. But the left simply said, “You can\u2019t have guns in schools! That\u2019s a problem.”<\/p>\n

But here again it was a gun today that ended this spree at the school in Texas. The shooter, a student, somehow (the story is) entered art class and started firing until somebody else came in and put him down. But we had the meeting at the White House. We had all the people get together. We had parents. We had parents of kids that were killed at Parkland, the school, Marjorie Douglas Stoneman.<\/p>\n

And when it was over, people thought, “We\u2019ve done something here. We have mattered! This has been meaningful.” Well, what happened? What came out of it? We don\u2019t know. But now it\u2019s happened again, and the president back saying how much he is pained by it and so forth, and how long it\u2019s gone on. “Too many years, too many decades we grieve for the loss of life.” He\u2019s the next thing the president said…<\/p>\n