{"id":8951,"date":"2014-07-09T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-09T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T16:44:24","slug":"where_is_the_telethon_for_the_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/07\/09\/where_is_the_telethon_for_the_children\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Telethon for the Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Where is the Hollywood telethon for the suffering children crossing the border? We do “We Are the World” for the starving in Ethiopia. Where is the telethon? <\/p>\n

Where is the massive leftist outpouring of compassion and fundraising for these hungry, thirsty, ill, sick, victimized-through-no-fault-of-their-own children<\/a>? It\u2019s just like you said to me yesterday, “Rush, you may as well give it up. You\u2019re not got gonna win this.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Win what?” <\/p>\n

“You\u2019re not gonna convince people to send the kids back.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Why does somebody think that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing?” <\/p>\n

“Rush, there\u2019s nobody under 25 in this country who sees a bunch of poor, sick kids crossing the border<\/a> who thinks they ought to be sent back.”<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t think that. My concern for these kids goes far deeper. I mean, Tom Coburn said (paraphrasing), “First class airfare. Send them back home for much less than the $3.8 billion Obama wants.” But the point was, “Rush, they\u2019ve already won the issue. Nobody sees this is a problem. It\u2019s just some kids that showed up. Okay, it may be 300,000 or 50,000, it\u2019s no different than a poor kid showing up at your back door. You do not send him away.” And I think it\u2019s part of the trick that\u2019s being played. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, where is a telethon? Why not? Why won\u2019t there be a telethon? Why? I mean, this is made to order for some rock group like Bono, U2, Sting, Bon Jovi, take your pick. Angelina Jolie. Well, does she sing? It actually doesn\u2019t matter if she sings, right? She can do whatever she wants and we\u2019ll watch. Where is the telethon? (interruption) See, that\u2019s the answer. You can\u2019t tell the story. If you\u2019re gonna do a telethon, you have to explain why you\u2019re doing it. You have to tell the story. “We Are the World” and you\u2019re doing a national worldwide fundraising effort for starving in Biafra, you can blame it on America. You can blame it on some dictator. You can blame it on global warming. <\/line>You can explain, but you can\u2019t tell the story here. <\/line><\/p>\n

You start doing a telethon, start raising money, start asking people to donate, you gotta tell \u2019em why. Then you gotta present the personal history stories of these kids. You gotta go back to their native countries and find out what\u2019s so bad there, why they\u2019re coming here, how they got here. And that\u2019s something nobody wants to shine any light on. Nobody wants to really tell the story. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Another reason why there will not be a telethon to raise money for the children: These kids are all fleeing socialist countries. Not only that, they are fleeing preindustrial environmental paradises: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. I mean, these are the places that Hollywood leftists have always considered heaven on earth, and you can\u2019t tell the story without that.<\/p>\n

I mean, you have to tell the story if you do a telethon, and you cannot explain what\u2019s wrong in El Salvador or these places that were supposedly the garden variety of what the planet should be. You cannot. These leftists cannot do a telethon which basically would have to conclude that socialism fails. So there is that. But I ask the question rhetorically anyway just to make the point. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, I have a couple questions, just a couple questions here. If it\u2019s so bad in El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras, and the kids are leaving — and they\u2019re coming to the United States to escape utter chaos, the breakdown of civility — when are the children of Chicago gonna leave and try to get into the United States? I mean, it\u2019s bad there. <\/p>\n

Did see the shooting statistics coming out of Chicago? When are the kids there gonna leave? And speaking of all this, why hasn\u2019t there been a hashtag? Where has the first lady been? We did a hashtag for the kidnapped kids in Nigeria, #BringBackOurGirls. Where\u2019s the hashtag? There\u2019s no telethon, there\u2019s no tweet campaign to donate, and there\u2019s not even a hashtag here! <\/p>\n

<\/a>Well, now, you may laugh, but, folks, I\u2019m telling you something. I know it sounds funny. I sometimes naturally am. But the fact of the matter is, the very fact that there aren\u2019t any of those things that usually accompany liberal causes means something else is going on with this. I mean, they are quick to do hashtags; they are quick to show solidarity. The natural thing here would be a hashtag, just based on what Obama said.<\/p>\n

Obama has publicly said that he doesn\u2019t want these kids. He\u2019s told the parents down in these countries, “Keep the kids. Don\u2019t send \u2019em.” He has not made a big deal of it, but he said it a couple times. A natural hashtag would be #KeepYourKidsAtHome, or #DoYouKnowWhereYourKidsArerRightNow, or some such thing.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no hashtag. There\u2019s no telethon. There\u2019s none of the usual accompaniments that liberals attach to their causes that are designed to make an emotional connection with people and tug at people\u2019s heartstrings. They\u2019re not doing that. In fact, they\u2019re trying to keep it all secret here! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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