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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, I remember shortly after the Parkland shooting — and you will remember this too. Shortly after, remember when I said, “These kids, everything they\u2019re saying on television sounds exactly out of the Democrat Party playbook,” and then do you remember the cascading cacophony of criticism I received?\u00a0 I was not alone in making the observation and others who made the observation also came in for big-time criticism.\u00a0 I, of course, don\u2019t care.\u00a0 It\u2019s a measure of success for me.\u00a0 But they went nuts.<\/p>\n
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“You can\u2019t say that! These are traumatized kids.\u00a0 They were facing death.\u00a0 They were facing gunfire.\u00a0 They were facing the bullets of an AR-15.\u00a0 And you? You want to reduce their heroism and their trauma to the fact that they\u2019re behaving and talking and sounding like the Democrat Party?”\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Exactly like that.\u00a0 My point was they were getting help.\u00a0 My point was their tragedy had been hijacked by the Democrat Party and converted into the advancement of the Democrat Party, the leftist agenda.<\/p>\n
And I said this, well, within days of this.\u00a0 I tell you what, of any forgot the monologue.\u00a0 I ended up… You know, I started out by praising some of the kids and some of the things they\u2019d said that I truly was impressed with the poise and the knowledge, the ability to speak and so forth.\u00a0 But then on the activism side, I said, “It\u2019s awfully suspicious.\u00a0 I mean, these are 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, and they sound like Chuck Schumer? They\u2019re 16, 17 and they sound like Pelosi or take your pick?”<\/p>\n
Well, my friends, it turns out from no less than BuzzFeed: “The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have the Backing of These Huge Organizing Groups<\/a> — Some of the largest organizing groups in the country are helping the” students advance their gun control agenda. “Several large progressive organizations, donors, and a high-powered public relations firm are backing the March for Our Lives movement, which is” on March 24th.\u00a0 Exactly as I said.\u00a0 I\u2019m not trying to do a See, I Told You So here.\u00a0 But I\u2019m just making note of it.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, this story from BuzzFeed on all of the left-wing groups helping the kids and their rally on March 24th, this thing prints to 16 pages. So I\u2019ve had to really rush through this thing to find the names of the groups who are involved, and here\u2019s what I\u2019ve been able to determine in a short period of time.<\/p>\n Everytown, which is the Michael Bloomberg bunch. Giffords, that\u2019s the Gabby Giffords bunch. MoveOn.org. Planned Parenthood. And the Women\u2019s March LA. These are just some of the left-wing organizer groups that have unified, banded together and basically are doing the organizing effort for this student march on Washington on March 24th.<\/p>\n In addition to that, the article says — and this not a shock, either — that Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz, a Democrat congresswoman, Broward County resident for nearly 30 years, she says that she\u2019s been in touch with the students, helping them connect to state legislators, and she helped \u2019em plan their trip to Tallahassee last week.<\/p>\n That\u2019s another thing. They don\u2019t have any money on their own to do any of this. And let\u2019s see. Also help from Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, John Lewis, and the American Federation of Teachers. So these are just some — and it\u2019s according to BuzzFeed, a left-wing outfit itself. So these are just some of the groups.<\/p>\n Now, my point in mentioning it. They are free to do what they want. Don\u2019t misunderstand that. I just want to remind you that when I suggested that this was already happening, I was raked over the coals by the usual suspects in the Drive-By Media for the usual insensitivity and how dare he say something like that, you know, that kind of garbage.<\/p>\n But it was right on the money. And it had to be the case because 16-, 17-year-olds don\u2019t have any money on their own. They wouldn\u2019t know how to organize something this massive. It was patently obvious. But, see, the Drive-Bys don\u2019t want this to appear to be political. Remember the magic here. The way this is all portrayed publicly is these are the victims.<\/p>\n These students are the victims. Their reaction is real, and it is from their hearts and it has nothing to do with politics. Therefore, whatever they say, whatever they advocate, if they hate the NRA, if they want to get rid of guns, if they start ragging on Republican politicians and Trump, well, then you can\u2019t criticize them. Because they\u2019re the victims. And they\u2019re not being political. So what they say, what they do is been hoisted up to a level supposedly above politics. And it makes them unassailable.<\/p>\n Another name for this is triangulation. So essentially the student victims are placed at the top of the triangle with the conservatives and the leftists and the Democrats, Republicans occupying the lower points of the triangle. And up there, they\u2019re not political. They\u2019re above it. We can\u2019t talk about it, and we can\u2019t criticize it. And it\u2019s the same thing with this David Hogg character, the 17-year-old telegenic — has CNN hired him yet? He\u2019s on there so much it\u2019s almost like they have.<\/p>\n This guy\u2019s entered the political fray, which is another thing. Once anybody enters the political fray they become fair game in it. But the Drive-Bys, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Not allowed. Mr. Hogg is a distraught victim. You weren\u2019t in his shoes. He was shot at. You haven\u2019t been. Therefore he knows more than you about how rotten the NRA is.<\/p>\n That\u2019s how the arguments go. He was in the line of fire and you weren\u2019t. As such, you\u2019ve got no right. You\u2019ve got no right to talk about what he\u2019s saying or anything else. But he is entitled to believe and say anything. And that\u2019s how it all works. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re in the midst of now. And that\u2019s why this gun control and high school shooting stack just continues to grow each and every day and doesn\u2019t fade away, because the Democrats have placed a lot in this.<\/p>\n Once again, it\u2019s just like the thing that happened in Indiana after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed into law by then Governor Pence. The Drive-Bys covered that as though all of America was outraged by what the state of Indiana did, what a bunch of hayseeds, what a bunch of knuckleheads. And in truth the vast majority of America agreed with what was going on in the state of Indiana. They were just never reported on, found, stories on them were not done.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the same thing here. And these companies that do not buckle, these companies that do not sever ties — \u2019cause this isn\u2019t about the NRA. And this is what informed and educated people know. The NRA\u2019s just a convenient target. What this is is a gigantic public relations move to make the Democrat Party and its associated groups look bigger and more powerful than ever. Well, it is about the NRA in a sense, in that these people would actually love to do away with it, damage it, and cause them irreparable harm. But right now the NRA\u2019s just the vehicle for the advancement of the agenda.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/650-110717-NRA.jpg\")
I just want to remind you again, the Morning Consult has gone out and done a pretty extensive poll,<\/a> and they have found that pretty much all the companies who have announced that they are severing ties or relationships with the NRA have lost considerable favorability among the American people.<\/p>\n
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And what it essentially is, if you end up on a no-fly list, if you\u2019re on the government no-fly list, then you can\u2019t pass a background check, you can\u2019t buy a gun. Right now, it would affect something like 3,000 people who are on no-fly lists. And when it was originally proposed before people really thought about it, they said, “You know, that\u2019s a great idea. Of all the people that shouldn\u2019t be getting guns it\u2019s people on the potential terrorist list.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022118-Student-Protest-Parkland-Florida-1.jpg\")
But I had Tuesday off, so I decided to go downtown and see what was going on. I went down a little early and saw nothing big, but I was surprised to see middle school kids with a teacher rehearsing chants against guns. I thought it was just for high school. I came back to the high school at the time for the walkout, and there were a lot of parents outside in their cars. One of them was actually blasting out, “We Are the World.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-022018-Kids-hate-guns-1.jpg\")
CALLER: That\u2019s one of the points. There was at least one teacher there with junior high. Other teachers told kids they respected their decision in high school if they decided to walk out, but I texted my daughter while I was on hold with you, and she texted me back just now that everyone thought that this thing was student led, even the Democrat progressive students who were leading it. And they were very upset to find out when they got down there that it was the adults leading it. Very upset, a group called Fort Collins for Progress.<\/p>\n