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RUSH: You know, speaking of this ‘coarsening of the culture\u2019 business, one of the things that caused me to reach the boiling point — and it takes me a while to reach the boiling point, I should tell you, because it happens all the time and to me (sigh). Well, when you get in this arena, those are the kinds of things that are going to happen. This is the big leagues. It\u2019s hardball out there, and I\u2019m not going to spend every day whining or moaning or complaining about this stuff, but there are just certain things that cause you to reach a tipping point or a boiling point, end up harboring some of these things for a long time. One of the things that led me to (sigh) my outrage in the previous half-hour was this thing of Barack Obama yesterday, The Politico blog\u2019s Ben Smith talking about Obama\u2019s comments about Virginia Tech and Imus and there\u2019s a common link and it is the incivility and talk radio, ‘verbal violence\u2019 on talk radio. Verbal violence on talk radio! He was praised for his larger-than-life view, comparing verbal violence on conservative talk radio with what happened at Virginia Tech. The only connection that what happened at Virginia Tech has to anybody on the radio (that would be Don Imus) is N-B-C, ladies and gentlemen!<\/p>\n

NBC is the network that is coarsening the culture at this point with this story, but after commenting on Obama yesterday — and I said, ‘We\u2019re going to have to hold his feet to the fire on this because this is outrageous what he said,\u2019 a guy named Jon Sanders, a policy analyst and research editor at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., has a little piece here. ‘Obama, the Humanity! — Hours after the Virginia Tech massacre, Barack Obama spoke at a campaign stop in Milwaukee. Obama could have shown compassion unalloyed with politics, what one hopes to find in a leader when disaster strikes. But he didn\u2019t. In the grand tradition of leftist orators, Obama repackaged the awful news of the day to ‘reflect\u2019 on his own political themes. ‘I hope,\u2019 the candidate said about the massacre, ‘that it causes us to reflect a little more broadly on the degree to which we do accept violence in various forms all the time in our society: we glorify it, we encourage it, we ignore it, and it\u2019s heartbreaking,” and he mentioned ‘verbal violence\u2019 and he cited Imus. ‘In other words, some deranged madman just perpetrated the greatest shooting massacre in the nation\u2019s history, and Obama wants us to ‘reflect\u2019 on whatever ‘violence in various forms\u2019 that he can say we\u2019re responsible for,\u2019 and that was my point yesterday.<\/p>\n

He just indicted his whole country for this episode at Virginia Tech with that statement. We\u2019re all contributing to it, he said. We\u2019re all perpetuating this culture of violence. ‘While people were crying on each other\u2019s shoulders in Blacksburg, tensely waiting by hospital beds and telephones, or gathering in candlelight vigils across the nation, [Obama] was in Milwaukee trying to put the national nose in a corner to think about what we\u2019ve done… Because some deranged lunatic just shot up a college campus in a way never before witnessed in America, candidate Obama thinks we need to use the occasion to reflect on Imus and pensions and the minimum wage and\u2019 other verbal violence. This is the American left! They see this violence out there, and, of course, in their perverted worldview, the country\u2019s responsible for it. Because America, ladies and gentlemen, is subpar! America is flawed, and so when a single deranged madman conducts something like this, these visionary, farsighted, smarter-than-the-rest-of-us liberals, blame all of us — not himself, because he\u2019s smarter than the rest of us.<\/p>\n

No, no, no, no! Blame the country. Then, of course, you have these sponge-brained liberal media types who hear this and go, ‘Oh… Oh! Oooh!\u2019 and they have an Obamagasm, and they squeal in joy at how brilliant and farsighted his stupidity is, his insulting stupidity! You think that doesn\u2019t coarsen the culture, with the American left every day trying to tell all of us how rotten our country is, how rotten all of WE are because, after all, what is our country if it\u2019s not us? Our country is immoral; it\u2019s destroying the world with its prosperity, and global warming is the result, and we\u2019re destroying poor peoples of color in Iraq and in the war on terror — and we\u2019re ‘creating enemies\u2019 with our actions in the Middle East, when everybody with half a brain understands that we were attacked on 9\/11, and for 25 years prior, without doing diddly-squat about it — and we weren\u2019t attacked for anything that we\u2019ve done to these people. We\u2019re attacked because this is an ideological battle. Militant Islamofascism, is an ideology, and they\u2019re very blunt and open, they tell us what their plans are. Wipe us out! Some people have trouble accepting it because they don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

‘Ah, come on! These guys? They\u2019re going to wipe us out?\u2019<\/p>\n

Well, in the UK, you can no longer can teach the Holocaust because Muslim students are offended because they don\u2019t think it happened. In the UK, in schools, kids are being told, ‘Don\u2019t stare at the Muslims! It might set \u2019em off. It\u2019s not polite.\u2019 There are a number of different ways things can go bad. One of the most dangerous, because it\u2019s so slow and seductive, is passivity and it is all over this country, sponsored and bought and paid for by the American left.<\/p>\n

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