Limbaugh: Liberals and the Violence Card
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 11:39AM Great piece by Rush Limbaugh in today's Wall Street Journal. He uncovers another of the Democrats vaunted "cards":
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.
From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.
Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.
Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-peddling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence?
Few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City. Last week—on the very day I was contributing to and raising more than $3 million to fight leukemia and lymphoma on my radio program—Mr. Clinton used the 15th anniversary of that horrific day to regurgitate his claims about talk radio.
At a speech delivered last Friday at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., the former president said: [T]here were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our domestic economic problem was the federal government itself. And we have to realize that there were others who fueled this both because they agreed with it and because it was in their advantage to do so. . . . We didn't have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts and they understand clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time."
Timothy McVeigh was incensed by the Clinton administration's 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It's no coincidence that the bombing took place two years to the day of the Waco siege. McVeigh was not inspired by anything I said or believe and to say otherwise is outright slander. In the aftermath of the bombing, I raised millions of dollars for the children of federal employees killed in that cowardly attack through my association with the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation.
Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.
A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.
Reader Comments (4)
What a contrast to the Bertha Lewis remarks posted yesterday
This is a great column, but unfortunately Liberals will not read this article because they have been instructed not to listen to anything Rush says. One of the first things the left does is indoctrinate people that everything coming from the right is evil and that they shouldn't risk exposing themselves to it. The little people shouldn't be burdoned with having to form their own opinions. They should simply let the left "interpret" the truth for them.
I think I liked Bill Clinton more when he was treating the White House like a frat house, chasing chubby interns around his desk. Kind of like Benny Hill chasing around girls in bikinis 40 years younger than him. Oh for the good ol' days. (cue Yakity Sax background music)
"Aw, slow down Monica, I can't keep up with you. How are we going to play 'naughty schoolgirl gets punished by stern head master' if I don't catch you?"
"Technically it's the cigar having sex, so Hillary won't mind. She's been frigid for 20 years anyway."
"I'll be John Kennedy, you can be Marilyn. It's the same desk"
An excellent article. Perhaps the next time Rush should list his future articles 'written by Anonymous'. Then I think he'd get more readers and then once they have finished reading, and heaven forbid they agree with what is written, I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they discover it was written by Rush and watch their jaws drop to the floor.
JB and TLW love your perspective on the article..Rush is spot on as usual with all of his
messages and his thoughts are honest,streight foward and based on his common sense
thinking and always backed up by facts....The liberals that viciously and falsely accuse
Rush and others are falling faster than Barack Obama's poll numbers and increases his
listeners by thousands and his popularity as each day goes by...
I just hope Rush will keep it coming until november when all conservatives and true loving
Americans can and will make a difference at the voting booth...