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RUSH: Hey, folks, did you see that CNN\/Obama whatever it was on gun control last night? It was kind of surprising. It was shocking, in fact. Anderson Cooper did not roll over for Obama. They had Chris Kyle\u2019s wife in there. She made mincemeat out of Obama on this. And Obama even addressed this “silly conspiracy” he talks about that people think that he wants to get guns out of everybody\u2019s hands so he could declare martial law. But if you watched that thing last night, how in the world can you conclude anything but Obama wants to take as many guns away from people as he possibly can?<\/p>\n


\nI\u2019m not commenting on that martial law business. This is the point. But the whole idea here is for Obama to get guns taken away from people. It\u2019s what he wants to do, and he sits up there and denies it? He starts talking about Australia, and denies it? Then a rape victim — for whom he did not have a tear, by the way. A rape victim wants a gun in her home to protect her and her two kids and Obama says, “Well, you know, guns in homes lead to tragic accidents.” And then he wants in the next breath to have us believe that he\u2019s not interested in taking people\u2019s guns away from \u2019em?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Barack Hussein O and his free propaganda opportunity for gun control last night on CNN. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what he thought it was going to be. Now, Anderson Cooper. Follow this. It\u2019s interesting. Anderson Cooper explained that the idea for the town hall… See, everybody\u2019s thinking Obama called CNN or CNN called Obama and they coordinated because Obama had a big to-do, a pep rally for this in the White House on Tuesday or Wednesday, and the natural thing to do is get together with CNN, do a joint grand slam. Blanket the country with this.<\/p>\n

But Anderson Cooper said that the idea for the town hall came up way, way back when the radical jihadists, the San Bernardino Two, killed 14 Americans and wounded 11 others. Now, stop and think about that. That turned out… That was a Muslim, a militant Islamic terrorist attack. CNN looked at it and said, “Hey, you know what? This is a great opportunity for a gun control town hall!” Really? Not a town hall on terrorism? Not a town hall on how we\u2019re dealing with domestic terrorism? You got a terrorist event, the San Bernardino Two; they\u2019ve got far more than guns in their arsenal.<\/p>\n


\nThey\u2019ve got IEDs. They\u2019ve got rockets, RPGs. They\u2019ve got all kinds of weapons that go way, way beyond what you can get at your average, ordinary hated and despised gun show. And despite all that, CNN says, “Wow, we got an opportunity here to do a gun control town hall!” I\u2019m sorry; I\u2019m not buying it. I mean, I know some leftists went there looking at it as, “Hey, it\u2019s an opportunity here for us once again to promote our ideas of gun control!” But that was a militant Islamic terrorist event. So that\u2019s just one thing.<\/p>\n

Now, folks, have to tell you here, I was surprised quite often because this thing was fairly balanced. It was a fairly balanced question-and-answer session with Obama. Now, the NRA wasn\u2019t there and Obama kept hooting and hollering and making a big deal. They\u2019re cowards! Why didn\u2019t they show up where he invited \u2019em? You know what? The NRA was invited. You know what they were told? They would be allowed to ask one question and then they could sit there and just watch the rest of the thing, and they said, “Why should we sit there being only allowed to ask one question while we know we\u2019re going to be the target for derision all night long?”<\/p>\n

So they said, “To hell with it. You guys are not serious,” which they weren\u2019t, and they didn\u2019t go. I think the NRA would be very happy to invite Obama for another debate. Just them. Just Obama and the NRA. You know, with no audience, no crowd, just do that. It\u2019ll never happen. But they\u2019re not afraid of it at the NRA. Now, Obama did succeeded in distracting the country from actual problems, which is always what he\u2019s trying to do. Whatever he claims to be focused on, he is. But it\u2019s usually also serving as a distraction. Now, his executive action on guns — and he admits this.<\/p>\n

He admitted it solves no problems, and he agreed and admitted with everybody who pointed out that every executive action he\u2019s talking about implementing would not have stopped any of these recent attacks. And he admits that, too. He admits that his executive actions on guns would not stop terrorism, that they wouldn\u2019t stop the shootings in Chicago, that they wouldn\u2019t deal with what\u2019s going on in gun-free zones. He admits all that, but what does he get away with? He gets away being portrayed as the guy who cares.<\/p>\n


\nIt was the Limbaugh Theorem on full display last night. Barack Hussein O was portrayed and seen as the guy fighting the entrenched power in Washington that he\u2019s not part of. If you just landed from Mars and turned on CNN last night, you would leave thinking the NRA is the president, the Supreme Court, the Congress, and it runs all the lobbying shops. You would think the NRA and the Republican Party run Washington and Obama\u2019s a lone outsider terribly distressed over all the unnecessary violence and killing.<\/p>\n

He is just up against these unsurmountable odds trying to solve it! He\u2019s portrayed as the man who cares. Do you remember how Paul Ryan, at a…? It was not a town hall; it was a meeting of congressional leaders at the White House with Obama during the pre-Obamacare days. Remember how Paul Ryan took Obama to school and informed everybody what Obama\u2019s objective really was? This town hall was somewhat like that in many ways. It did not go well for him, unless his claims to care more than anyone else is all that ends up mattering to people who watched. But there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. What I mean is, Paul Ryan schooled Obama on Obamacare. Actually, that\u2019s not the right way to describe it. I mean, nobody can take Obama to school because in Obama\u2019s mind only he knows anything. But what I mean is that Paul Ryan told everybody what Obama\u2019s real game plan was and how it was gonna bomb and it was not gonna succeed anyway and how it couldn\u2019t. Ryan ran the numbers and told everybody at that panel how Obamacare just simply can\u2019t work the way Obama said.<\/p>\n

Obama was steaming, and he was… Well, this is much of what happened last night. Obama thinks he\u2019s gonna be on a little bit of a smooth-sailing effort and he had a lot of stuff thrown right back at him. And, of course, he\u2019s not accustomed to this. Most of the Democrats are not. Obama usually gets away with controlling the narrative, gets away with inventing his own facts and straw men. And when he can do that, he comes off as a pretty reasonable guy. Everybody else seems like they\u2019re the bogeymen.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t happen last night. Obama didn\u2019t get away with that last night. Chris Kyle\u2019s wife just handed Obama his lunch and did it making it look like she was one of his biggest supporters. It was really well done, really classic. But Obama set the debate in the country on the Second Amendment. He said, “Those who are concerned about violence and those who are not.” That\u2019s how he defined this debate. That is typical Obama. So he\u2019s got a problem with guns. The way he sets it up, his side — him and his side — are loving, understanding, tolerant, compassionate.<\/p>\n