{"id":264797,"date":"2018-02-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=264797"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T02:37:36","slug":"fake-news-there-havent-been-18-school-shootings-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/16\/fake-news-there-havent-been-18-school-shootings-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"There Haven\u2019t Been 18 School Shootings in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I had this yesterday and it got aced out by other things.\u00a0 But there was a popular news item yesterday that this was like the 18th school shooting in whatever period of time.<\/p>\n<p>And it was totally bogus.\u00a0 It was entirely bogus!\u00a0 It was entirely untrue.\u00a0 This year alone! It was 18 school shootings in this year alone. Of all places, the Washington Post came along and debunked it.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 The Drive-Bys will not abandon this.\u00a0 Any gun statistic that they think advances their radical cause, they will use, stick with it, lie about it. They will not abandon it. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/no-there-havent-been-18-school-shooting-in-2018-that-number-is-flat-wrong\/2018\/02\/15\/65b6cf72-1264-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html\">No, There Haven\u2019t Been 18 School Shootings in 2018. That Number Is Flat Wrong<\/a>,&#8221; and you know where the number comes from?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Everytown for Gun Safety. It\u2019s &#8220;a nonprofit group, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg,&#8221; mayor of New York.\u00a0 Everytown for Gun Safety &#8220;works to prevent gun violence and is most famous for its running tally of school shootings.\u00a0 &#8216;This,\u2019 the organization tweeted at 4:22 p.m. Wednesday, &#8216;is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.\u2019\u00a0 &#8230; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted it, too, as did performers Cher and Alexander William and actors Misha Collins and Albert Brooks. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, Time, MSN, the BBC, the New York Daily News and [the Huffing and Puffington Post] also used the number in&#8221; emergency, breaking-news fashion. &#8220;By Wednesday night, the top suggested search after typing \u201918\u2019 into Google was \u201918 school shootings in 2018.\u2019 It is a horrifying statistic. And it is wrong. &#8230; A month ago, for example, a group of college students were at a meeting of a criminal-justice club in Texas when a student accidentally fired a real gun, rather than a training weapon. The bullet went through a wall, then a window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though no one was hurt, it left the student distraught.&#8221; They counted that as a school shooting! There haven\u2019t been 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There was a popular news item yesterday that this was like the 18th school shooting in whatever period of time. 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