{"id":297411,"date":"2019-01-23T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297411"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:56:24","slug":"nick-sandmann-stares-down-savannah-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/23\/nick-sandmann-stares-down-savannah-guthrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sandmann Stares Down Savannah Guthrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay. We\u2019ll try again here on the phones. Blaine in Charleston, South Carolina. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Just a quick comment about the Savannah Guthrie interview with the young boy. Asking him about wearing the red hat causing all that? Isn\u2019t that akin to, like, a rape victim getting asked if because of the way she was dressed is the reason she was assaulted?<\/p>\n

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\nRUSH: Yeah, exactly. I made the point yesterday when it was discovered that the MAGA hat was the trigger, and we had the Catholic priest say they had no right to be wearing the cap<\/a>. The Catholic priest — Father Beck something or other was his name — said they had no right to be wearing the cap! No right to be wearing the cap? From their own diocese, I think. So I asked a simple question: Now, wait a minute. When women are targeted for abuse, sexual abuse, rape and so forth, if you dare say that they were dressed provocatively, you were shouted down.<\/p>\n

You were told to shut up. Women cannot be blamed because of their attire, because of their manner. There\u2019s no excuse whatsoever. Here we have a situation where the Catholic priest… He\u2019s a CNN commentator. We played the sound bite of the guy talking about this. “They have no right to wear a Make America Great Again hat!” Now, imagine, imagine anybody on CNN saying to a woman who has been raped or molested that was on TV, “You\u2019ve got no right to be wearing those short shorts! You have no right to be wearing dresses with cleavage like that.”<\/p>\n

Imagine the reaction to it! Here\u2019s the thing. The “Make America Great Again” hat was a trigger. It was a trigger for these people on our side who had a conniption over this. All they saw… All they saw was a bunch of kids that support Trump — and since they hate Trump, they hated the kids. Let me ask you this, folks. Do you think we would even be talking about this if that kid, Nick Sandmann, had not been wearing a MAGA hat? I\u2019ve had people tell me that. “If he hadn\u2019t a worn that hat, this would have never become a story.”<\/p>\n

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“The video would have been uninteresting,” and there may be something to it. But I don\u2019t think that does anything but indict further the bigots! What is this? We\u2019re supposed to worry about triggering the media? We\u2019re supposed to worry about triggering the left? So don\u2019t wear the “Make America Great Again” hat? And that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna be happening. “Look, let\u2019s not wear the hat. We don\u2019t want to become targets. We have to hide what we believe. We have to hide what we support so that we don\u2019t become targets, so we don\u2019t get the media defaming us.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where this is gonna go. There are elements of conservatism that already advocate this kind of thing for people. “Don\u2019t make yourself a target.” What it results in is a bunch of conservatives going silent and not voicing anything anywhere because they don\u2019t want to be targeted like this kid has been targeted, like these kids have been targeted. So it\u2019s another form of censorship. It\u2019s another form of politically correct censorship that we cave into and let people get away with.<\/p>\n

What do you mean, being triggered by a cap? Even so-called conservative intellectuals on our side, and Savannah Guthrie… Let\u2019s get to the audio sound bites of the interview. We have them here. I\u2019ve been waiting for the proper transition. It was on the Today show today. Now, when I first discovered that the Sandmann family had decided to do their interview with the Today show, I said, “Okay, who\u2019s advising them here?” By the way, you know what? That brings up a whole other can of worms.<\/p>\n

There are people out there now starting to criticize this family for going and getting a PR firm. “They have no right! They\u2019re getting a PR firm? A PR firm is purposely to spin and not tell the truth!” Now they\u2019re getting ripped for getting a PR firm. Sandra Fluke had a PR firm. Do you know that? The whole thing was staged and orchestrated like everything on the left is! PR firms are among the first people Democrat campaigns hire. I said, “Why are they doing the Today show?” But then it didn\u2019t matter. I thought Mr. Sandmann held his own, was pretty good. Let\u2019s go to these sound bites. This was this morning, and these are in somewhat chronological order.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Savannah Guthrie with the first question…<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? Do you see your own fault in any way?<\/p>\n

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SANDMANN: As far as standing there, I had every right to do so. I don\u2019t… My position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips. I respect him. I\u2019d like to talk to him. I mean, in hindsight, I wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing. But I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m sorry for listening to him and standing there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, did you notice this question? (impression) “Did you feel from this experience…?” What are we listening to, Christine Blasey Ford? What\u2019s happening to these women in journalism? Do they feel like we\u2019re talking to an infant here, or they want us to think they\u2019re talking to somebody with a single brain cell, an amoeba? “Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?” Do we not by now know what happened? He doesn\u2019t owe anybody an apology!<\/p>\n

He is owed the apology by you in the media and by Nathan Phillips and by the Black Israelite Confederates or whatever they are and the Drive-By Media at large! He doesn\u2019t owe anybody an apology! Apologize for wearing the cap? Apologizing for smiling? Well, what does he have to apologize for? And, by the way, I have to give Mr. Sandmann here a bunch of attaboys, because he did what few would. Most would say (hysterical crying), “I do! I want to apologize! (sobbing) I\u2019m soooo sorry! I didn\u2019t mean to be wearing the cap! God, if I could take it back! Oh ho-ho-hooooo!” (wailing)<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what most Republicans would do. They would cave in the face of this heat from the Drive-By Media. But Nick Sandmann says, “As far as standing there, I had every right to do so. My position is I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips. I respect him. I\u2019d like to talk to him. I wish we\u2019d have walked away,” \u2019cause who wants to be in this kind of imbroglio? But I have nothing to apologize for. What is this question, “Do you feel from this experience you owe anybody an apology?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the question you ask before you learn the truth of this, Ms. Guthrie! All right. What\u2019s next? The question from Savannah Guthrie (impression), “Do you think it was a good idea to start chanting back at the protesters?” They weren\u2019t chanting back. You know what they did? They did their school song. They were getting in on the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. So the Indian\u2019s out there banging the war drum and doing his chant. The Congressional Black Israelites are over there shouting their profane invectives. So the kids said, “Hey, let\u2019s get in on this.”<\/p>\n

(impression) “Do you think it was a good idea to start…?” So she is hell-bent on still portraying these kids as the provocateurs, and here is what Nicholas Sandmann said in reply…<\/p>\n

SANDMANN: In hindsight, I wish we had just found another spot to wait for our buses. But at the time, being positive seemed better than letting them slander us with all of these things. So, I wish we could have walked away.<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: Did anyone shout any insults back or any racial slurs back at the group?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, come on! What is that?<\/p>\n

SANDMANN: We\u2019re a Catholic school and it\u2019s not tolerated. They don\u2019t tolerate racism, and none of my classmates are racist people.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I can\u2019t believe this! All right. (impression) “Do you think it was a good idea to start chanting back at the protesters?” Anything to try to make sure somebody, anybody sees the kids as guilty. Then he has another great answer. “I wish we had found another spot to wait for the buses.” Who wants to be part of this circus? “But at the time, being positive seemed better than letting them slander us with all of these things.”<\/p>\n

In other words, “Why should we have to sit there and take being insulted verbally the way we were?” And then her next question: (impression) “Did anyone, uh, shout insults back or any racial slurs back at them?” So the Congressional Black Israelites or whatever, they can say whatever they want, and she\u2019s not questioning it. But she wants to dig. “Did you dastardly kids act like racists and insult them back?” So in her mind, the kids are guilty, and the objective here is to entrap them and to demonstrate that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have two more bites here. The next question from Savannah Guthrie,”The center of the firestorm is what critics characterize as a ‘smirk\u2019 on your face. Some say it was an attempt to stare down” the beloved Indian chief and Vietnam War vet, the frail, barely able to walk and stand up man of nature beating on his drum smack-dab in your face. What do you think that looks like,” your smirk, your whiteness, your MAGA hat, your sarcasm, your whiteness and your MAGA cap? “What do you think that looks like” to people, you jerk kid?<\/p>\n

SANDMANN: I see it as a smile saying that this is the best you\u2019re going to get out of me. You won\u2019t get any further reaction of aggression, and I\u2019m willing to stand here as long as you want to hit this drum in my face.<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: What some people see is a young kid with a smirk on his face!<\/p>\n

SANDMANN: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

GUTHRIE: What would you say for people who see that and are making a judgment about who you are?<\/p>\n

SANDMANN: Well, people have judged me based off one expression, which I wasn\u2019t smirking but people have assumed that\u2019s what I have, and they\u2019ve gone from there to titling me and labeling me as a racist person, someone that\u2019s disrespectful to adults, which they\u2019ve had to assume so many things to get there without consulting anyone that can give them the opposite story.<\/p>\n