{"id":37292,"date":"2011-01-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:10:08","slug":"the_majority_will_not_be_silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/01\/10\/the_majority_will_not_be_silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Majority Will Not Be Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Let\u2019s not forget, folks, that during the Bush administration second term there were two (we were told) enlightened literary and film events, both about the assassination of George W. Bush, that we should not react to in an outraged way, that we should understand the literary and artistic intention of the artists involved. One was a movie made in Canada that actually depicted George W. Bush being assassinated. The other was a book by somebody, I think, living in Washington: how to assassinate George W. Bush. There was no attempt during these two events to do anything to castigate these people or to associate them with extreme insane lunatics who might act it out at Daily Kos or the Democrat Underground or the audiences of MSNBC. But I don\u2019t think you can find one illustration of…<\/p>\n

You know, I\u2019m not even gonna address the premise. I\u2019ve seen people say about Gabrielle Giffords, ‘You know, she doesn\u2019t even fit the profile of somebody the Tea Party would not like.\u2019 I\u2019m not even gonna defend that premise. The point is the Tea Party doesn\u2019t run around committing assassinations. The Tea Party doesn\u2019t commit violence, period. There is no need to defend the Tea Party under the premise set forth here that they\u2019re a violent mob, which is exactly what the left wants us to do. We don\u2019t right books about how to assassinate anybody and if it happened I guarantee you Secret Service would be on our case. And if such things did happen, we would be defending it as art and telling people, ‘Back off now. Don\u2019t be hasty about reacting. We must understand what the artists are telling us.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Whether they dip a crucifix in a jar of urine or whatever it is they do, we\u2019re told, ‘Oh, react with reason and restraint here.\u2019 I just said that this is even beneath them, and I gotta correct myself. Unfortunately for the country we\u2019re learning today that nothing is beneath today\u2019s mainstream media. Nothing is beneath the Democrat Party. Nothing is beneath the American left. We on the right, ladies and gentlemen, have led the charge against Congress and the professional political class for noble and obvious reasons. I can\u2019t speak for others who do what I do but I\u2019m not gonna be silenced by this. The people leveling these charges on baseless, nonexistent evidence have racked up a $14 trillion national debt. <\/p>\n

The people who are desperately hoping to make some significant, legitimate tie-in between Sarah Palin and this kid are on the verge of bankrupting the country. The United States Congress has an 11% approval rating for a reason. They have done a lousy job. They have spent the money of children and grandchildren. And I and people who do what I do have pointed this out, pointed out their folly every step of the way, but at no time has anybody who does what I do or I ever called for violence. I have never subtly promoted it, have never gone anywhere near it. Thomas Jefferson said, ‘All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is it is our right and our duty to continue to criticize the very people who have put the fate of our country in peril, and it is. So I would say to all who do what I do; ‘Hold your heads high and turn this back on the media and the Democrats who are coconspirators in policies that are bankrupting this country and risking the future for our children and grandchildren.\u2019 Here we have a disturbed kid. Do you realize that Mr. Loughner has been stalking Gabrielle Giffords since at least 2007? He has. Way before anybody heard of Sarah Palin. Way before there even was a Tea Party. This guy has… You\u2019ve probably all seen by now a woman who the media is trying now to call a sellout, she\u2019s described herself as a left-winger Libertarian at times who knows this kid is telling everybody who will listen what a left-wing radical he was if anything at all. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re now trying to destroy her. And she\u2019s anonymous up until then. All she\u2019s doing, whether she even knows it or not, is going against the grain of the template and the narrative that they\u2019re trying to establish here. So you have this obviously deranged, insane, emotionally disturbed kid, and what I want to know is: Where is the left\u2019s vaunted safety net? We\u2019ve spent hundreds of millions, billions, trillions by now — trillions of dollars at local –state, and federal levels to kind of catch these disturbed people and fix them before they harm others. Where is the evidence that their compassion for people like this works? There isn\u2019t any. <\/p>\n

What evidence do we have that they are willing to use events like this that they privately approve of events like this for the sake and the opportunity to advance what are obviously sick and perverted political ideas? They will use anyone. They will use any event. They will take what is a genuine tragedy and with no evidence whatsoever attempt to massage it for their own political benefit, and they can\u2019t do it by touting their ideas. They can\u2019t do it by explaining the virtue of their ideas, their beliefs, and their system because they can\u2019t. So what do they have to do? They have to impugn, destroy, get rid of, regulate out of business their political opponents in media if they are to have a chance. <\/p>\n

In other words, the only way the modern Democrat Party, the American leftist movement is to have a chance is if there is no opposition. So a genuinely sad event like this is immediately used to advance a political notion. And not that liberalism is good. Not that liberalism, socialism is the answer. No. The attempt here is to impugn, to besmirch, and to destroy the ideas of those of us who are trying to preserve the country we all know and love as it was founded. What they fail to realize is that this isn\u2019t 1995 anymore. This isn\u2019t 1963. It isn\u2019t 1975. It\u2019s 2011. We have seen them through the Wellstone memorial. <\/p>\n

We have seen them take the unfortunate death of one of their own and the memorial service to his memory turned into a purely out-of-control political effort. They ended up losing the midterm elections that year in large part because of it. They got trounced last November down to dogcatcher level through 95% of this country. In continuing this template and narrative that the Tea Party, that Sarah Palin, that talk radio, that Fox News is inspiring violence, they forget that in the process of so doing they are attacking what is now a majority of Americans. They are accusing a majority of Americans of being accomplices to murder. They are accusing a majority of Americans, \u2019cause it isn\u2019t just Palin; it\u2019s the people who voted for her. <\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just me; it\u2019s the people who listen to me. It\u2019s not just all the other names that have been mentioned, Beck and Levin and Hannity and Fox News people. It\u2019s the people who listen and watch. Over half the country has been indicted — Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, all day yesterday, and much of today — for the actions of one lone, deranged person (and, by the way, the FBI is out now with a profile). Yes, is, ladies and gentlemen, ABC News grimacing and reporting that the FBI director Robert Mueller said, ‘Congresswoman Giffords was definitely the target of the shooter. His team was working with local officials here and the investigation is moving fast. Mueller\u2019s investigation is showing a clear picture. There was a lone, angry, disenfranchised young man who was solely responsible for this shooting.\u2019 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a branch of the Obama government saying that: ‘Lone, disenfranchised angry young man.\u2019 But American left and many in the media are trying to say that he was inspired by you if you listen to me, if you voted for Palin or McCain or what have you. This is where they\u2019re not getting it. People can see through their manipulative attempts now. Because they are common and they are routine, and they are predictable. They\u2019re also very destructive, which is another purpose they have in my mind: Keep everybody at odds with one another, keep everybody roiled. <\/p>\n

I actually wondered what she looked like. I saw her for the first time today: Liz Sidoti, Liz Sidoti, this AP reporter. We read from her deranged pieces frequently on this program. She was on TV this morning explain what this really meant was how the American people want to move to the center, and how they did in the November election and I\u2019m looking at this and I\u2019m scratching my head. ‘Do you realize what you\u2019re saying? You\u2019ve just undercut 36 hours of attempts by your friends to blame this on Republicans because this great unwashed independent center moderate movement voted Republican.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They clearly expressed what they don\u2019t want any more of, and it\u2019s the Democrat Party. Nobody talks about a Republican federal judge was killed, appointed by George Bush 41. Have you heard anybody on my side of the aisle, anybody who does what I do try to therefore claim this guy\u2019s a big lib \u2019cause he shot a Republican-appointed federal judge? It\u2019s not the way we think, and we certainly don\u2019t look to these events to move our political agenda forward. But the left is depraved, empty, and without any substance whatsoever, and about all they\u2019ve got is to take tragic events like this and to turn them into events of a political advantage for them. A party which seeks to profit off of murder. A party, a movement which seeks to profit from disaster. A party and movement who, as you shall hear in a moment, openly wishes for such disaster, in order to profit from it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, speaking of Sarah Palin and George W. Bush, how is it they\u2019re still alive? Folks, the assault — the verbal assault and even pictorial, the visual assaults — on insane Democrat websites. Democrat Underground, Daily Kos (however you pronounce it), on Palin and Bush? ‘Bush = Hitler.\u2019 How are these people still alive because you had an entire television network, MSNBC promoting such vitriol against Bush and Palin each and every night for a number of years. Who since Reagan has been attacked more than Sarah Palin or Bush? And speaking of Reagan, Reagan was shot 1981. Did the news media and the rest of the left demand that commentators dial back the anti-Reagan, anti-conservative vitriol back then? They didn\u2019t. I was alive, paying attention. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t remember anybody suggesting that the relentless attacks on Reagan or conservatism by the then-media monopoly or the rest of the left had anything to do with John Hinckley\u2019s actions. They didn\u2019t rush. No, they waited to find out who he was. ‘Oh, the kid\u2019s disturbed. Oh, just a terribly disturbed kid.\u2019 Never once did they try to say the kid had anything politically motivated. They didn\u2019t warn anybody to dial back the anti-conservatism that was all through the media. It didn\u2019t happen. Let somebody today write a book or make a movie on the assassination of any president other than Bush and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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