During his radio program on Thursday afternoon, February 22, conservative icon Rush Limbaugh hammered the “so-called Town Hall” that aired the previous night on the Cable News Network as a “disgrace” and the result of “a lifetime of propagandizing and indoctrination in the schools.”
Limbaugh also noted that the safety of children “had nothing to do with what was going on last night,” and the “rally” was instead “a vehicle for frustrated leftists to once again vent their hatred and vent their outrage over the fact that they were rejected at the ballot box in November of 2016.”
The people in the audience “weren’t there to learn anything, and they weren’t there to get to the bottom of what happened” because everything liberal Democrats “believe in bombs, blows up and doesn’t work, from administration policies [under former President Barack Obama] to ways they want to make children safer.”
He continued:
Last night, somebody in that CNN crowd went public very loudly with what the real ultimate objective is, and that’s the confiscation of all weapons currently out there in the country. That’s the objective.
The leftist advocates here are solely focused on the [National Rifle Association] and want you to blame them and the gun.
“I am amazed. I really am, at how little anger there is at the shooter,” the radio host continued, especially since police officers “were called to Nikolas Cruz‘s house 39 times.”
In addition, Cruz “was suspended from school. The FBI was specifically warned about the shooter just that month. He had guns. He had disturbing Instagram photos.”
“He had made it public that he wanted to kill people, and he very proudly stated that he wanted to be a professional school shooter, as though it is something to aspire to,” Limbaugh added. “And nothing was done.”
Instead, participants including Senator Marco Rubio -- a Republican from Florida -- and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch “basically showed up to be thrown to the lions. Look at the literal, raw, almost-out-of-control hatred for two people that had nothing to do with it.”
“Those people in that crowd last night were not there for any kind of understanding,” Limbaugh stated. "They were not there for any kind of agreement. They were not there to cross the aisle, compromise, any of that.”
“I mean, if you boil it all down, the government cannot protect your kids at school” because there have been “no changes in techniques, stratagems to keep kids safe since Columbine,” the conservative host noted. Instead, “all there has ever been is an outraged, petulant, childish cry and demand and a spewing of hatred for the NRA.”
“Meanwhile, actually stopping these events, discussing ways to prevent and stop these events is met with jeering and allegations of racism and bigotry, the usual insults that the left begins to shout,” he asserted, because liberals “are vacant in terms of ideas. And they are governed entirely by a continuing and building rage and hatred for anything that is in opposition to what they claim to believe.”
Limbaugh then stated: “And I know the Republicans will say: ‘Rush, we have to show up. We can’t live in a vacuum. We gotta reach across the aisle. We’ve got to try to make them understand.’”
“This is not the place to do it,” he stated. “An event sponsored by and moderated by CNN” is “always a setup for the Republicans, conservatives who were there.”
However, “in the eyes of the media and some of the attendees last night,” Limbaugh continued, Rubio and Loesch “had everything to do with it because one of them’s a spokesbabe for the NRA and the other one takes money from the NRA. So in that convoluted world, it makes them responsible.”
“In fact, not only is there no anger aimed at Nikolas Cruz, there is some sympathy,” he added. “See, this is part of the way this is done. There can be only one villain here … well, two villains: the NRA and the guns.”
Limbaugh then compared the “town hall” to similar events held by Obama, which he described as “classic liberalism. Don’t solve anything. Just talk about it!”
Meanwhile, “CNN last night was a facilitator of and a promoter of rage, anger and deranged, unhinged, barely civil behavior,” Limbaugh stated.
“I’m sure that hard-left viewers -- socialists, communists, Democrats -- were probably thrilled with what happened on CNN last night,” the radio host noted. “But … in terms of having anything meaningful toward a solution, the CNN event may as well not have even happened.”
As NewsBusters previously reported, the audience at the CNN event repeatedly heckled Loesch by calling her a "murderer” and even questioning her motherhood.
