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RUSH: Now, folks, we\u2019re gonna get into this today, and I want to preface it by making sure that you understand something, \u2019cause it\u2019s the same today as it is every other day.  The focus of this program is on the Democrat Party and on the American left and not letting them get away with what they get away with.  Sometimes that is as misunderstood as me defending crazy behavior, crazy language, and it\u2019s not.  I just sit here and I watch, and I get frustrated how easily these people get away with changing focus when the bias is theirs. <\/p>\n

Greeting.  It\u2019s great to have you with us.  The telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Let me tell you what the ardent Donald Trump supporter is saying about this controversy.  And I have not talked to a single Trump supporter, so I\u2019m not quoting anybody.  I\u2019m telling you what I think they are saying. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re discussing on Fox: “Is this gonna have an impact on the presidential race?”  Who knows.  You can even ask that about the convention.  The conventions usually happen in August.  Are you aware of that?  These conventions happen so early, nobody\u2019s gonna remember anything from them, and the reason they went early is because of the Olympics.  Normally the conventions are right before Labor Day so it\u2019s fresh on your mind. <\/line><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you that the average Trump supporter is out there screaming at every TV network trying to turn this into something that it wasn\u2019t.  And they\u2019re saying it doesn\u2019t matter what Donald Trump says.  Do not be distracted from what we face. The current condition of the country and our decline and the need to stop the people who are responsible for it, and that\u2019s the Democrat Party, of course politically.  That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying.  The media is trying to convince everybody that Trump was out there advocating violence. <\/p>\n

Look, I probably am the best interpreter of Donald Trump there is, and I know exactly, I know exactly what he meant with that comment. I know exactly what inspired the comment.  And it was not the advocacy of violence.  It was the recognition of a reality that exists in the minds and hearts of a lot of the American people about the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

There is no doubt, make no mistake, it\u2019s free and clear and abundant every day.  If they could, the Democrat Party, from Hillary Clinton on down, would take away every gun from every law-abiding citizen in this country, if they could.  And that is the quote, unquote, danger.  That\u2019s not arguable.  That is not a matter of debate.  I don\u2019t care what they say.  I\u2019ve even got Hillary Clinton quoted as saying she would use executive action, quote, unquote, to stop this executive violence.  What does that mean?  She\u2019s not talking about taking guns away from criminals \u2019cause it\u2019s very, very hard to do that. <\/p>\n

We all know what the Democrat Party wants.  We all know what the American left wants.  I\u2019m just gonna tell you, the reaction to this — you know, at worst it was a bad joke, which, again, the left has no sense of humor.  Everybody is so tightly wound about words, that we are letting all kinds of destructive action take place against this country that has to stop.  Words aren\u2019t hurting anybody.  Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly.  But we\u2019re so focused on the words. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just gonna tell you, folks, this reaction from everybody in the media and a lot of Republicans too, \u2019cause everybody\u2019s so tightly wound and is so afraid of what somebody\u2019s gonna say, it tells us more about what the media think of gun owners than what gun owners intend to ever do with their guns. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, I told you at the top — do not misunderstand me here.  I imagine some in the Drive-By Media are gonna say that “Limbaugh mounted a spirited defense of Trump.”  That\u2019s not what I\u2019m doing.  That\u2019s not my purpose.  It\u2019s up to Trump.  It\u2019s up to Trump and his campaign to defend himself.  I\u2019m talking about how the left goes about taking out our candidates.  I\u2019m telling you how the left goes about defeating us.  I\u2019m telling you how the left and the Democrat Party working together with the media, which is one and the same, do their dirty work, in the hope that people can recognize it and learn to spot it and not be affected by it. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s my objective.  It always has been.  To alert, to educate, to inform people how the left wins, how the left seeks to expand its influence.  And this is a classic, this is a textbook case of it.  And in the midst of it, my point is that this incident and the reaction to it from the predictable quarters, tells us more about what the media think of gun owners — and let\u2019s be honest, we already know what that is.  We know the media and the Democrat Party is obsessed with the Second Amendment, they hate it, and if they could, they\u2019d write it out.  If they could, they would confiscate as many guns as they could, if they could. <\/p>\n

And so the reaction to this is far more illustrative of what the left thinks of gun owners than what gun owners ever intend to do.  Where is the bias in this gun debate?  You know, the gun debate\u2019s like anything else:  You have a bunch of average, ordinary Americans who own weapons and do not violate the law with them.  They\u2019re running around minding their own business. They\u2019re doing whatever they do to try to get through each day.  They\u2019re trying to succeed. They\u2019re trying to raise their kids. They\u2019re trying to enjoy life. They\u2019re doing everything that they\u2019re supposed to do, and they just happen to own guns, but they\u2019re not running around committing crimes with them. <\/p>\n

On the other side of it, they are assaulted.  These people are assaulted regularly by the media and by the Democrat Party about what danger they pose and how they can\u2019t be trusted and how they are responsible for whatever gun violence takes place.  So what did you do expect them to be, if not defensive?  So where is the bias in this?  The bias, the true energy in all this can be found on the side of this debate that wants to eliminate an amendment to the US Constitution if they can and confiscate as many guns from the law-abiding as they can, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

So along comes Trump at another sold-out rally, at another overflowing rally, another rally filled with energy and excitement and a lot of people outside that couldn\u2019t get in.  And he\u2019s talking about Hillary Clinton; he\u2019s talking about the Supreme Court; he\u2019s talking about nominations; he\u2019s talking about the future and what we face, what we\u2019re up against if Hillary Clinton wins.  Grab audio sound bite number one, and this is what got all of this started.<\/p>\n