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January 11, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2

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	Because I'm still stunned that Democrat Congressman James Clyburn would go after me like this after I single-handedly fought to preserve his position of real leadership in the Democrat Party.
	Remember when they, I forget what it was, it was after the election, Jim Clyburn faced the prospect of being out.
	Stenny Hoyer wanted to move up and Pelosi wanted to move up and, I mean, right, lost the position because they weren't in the majority anymore.
	Well, I know Clymer didn't go after me precisely here, but by joining all this talk about what's responsible for this, he's joining the fray of blaming everybody but the guy who did it.
	And of course, yeah, Clymer lost the election to Stenny Hoyer, which we all knew was going to happen.
	And I raised the possibility that they'd better do something other than give him an affirmative action leadership position.
	I was in Clyburn's camp.
	I was in his corner because I saw what was happening out there.
	And yet Clyburn with Sergeant Schultz says, all this stuff, well, I'm not going to play Sound by 27.
	I'll just read it because it's not good phone quality.
	All of this stuff about delegitimizing the president, the United States, that's uncalled for.
	All this stuff taking place in the chambers the other day when the Constitution was being read.
	All that stuff is uncalled for.
	I'm a big believer in the Constitution.
	I have a fetish about it, as you know.
	And Clyburn claiming that reading the Constitution on the floor of the House was uncalled for.
	Greetings and welcome back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh.
	This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, great to have you here.
	Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
	Sheriff Clarence Dupnick is on the path here of attempting now to expressly personally associate me with this event in Arizona.
	I've asked myself, is there another time in recent history where we have seen a law enforcement officer act so brazenly political?
	We have a law enforcement officer, the sheriff of that county, admitting he's got no facts for what he's speculating about.
	That he has no evidence.
	A member of the law, the sheriff, saying he's got no evidence to support his contention that the Tea Party did it first, and it was Sarah Palin and now me.
	Sheriff Dupnik is supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer of Pima County.
	He keeps running to the microphone and spewing uninformed opinions like he's the mayor of New York City or something, which is this is not the way real law enforcement people act.
	They don't give opinions.
	They bend over backwards to make sure they don't say anything that'll detract from the criminal investigation, in fact.
	And they certainly don't provide on purpose defenses for the accused.
	And I really want to point out again, this mugshot, Mr. Wofner, and he's smiling deviously.
	He's getting everything he wants here.
	He's obviously craved attention.
	He's getting a lot of it now.
	And he's sitting in jail knowing full well he's got a major political party in this country running interference for him.
	I know that may be hard for some of you to hear and accept, but how else would you explain this?
	We have the Democratic Party and its allies in the media doing everything they can to blame anybody other than this guy.
	He's a victim.
	He's a victim of incendiary rhetoric found only on Sarah Palin's website and on this program and at Tea Party gatherings and other television radio talk shows.
	So no wonder this guy would be smiley.
	He's got the sheriff running around, the chief law enforcement officer, who had every chance to arrest him for three years, who had every chance to see to it he didn't get a gun.
	Sheriff taking none of that preventative action, if you will, now running interference for the defendant by claiming that other things made him do it.
	And he's got a first-class legal team which will know how to use this.
	As I say, law enforcement officials bend over backwards to make sure they don't say something that'll detract from the investigation.
	I don't know, maybe Pima County would have been better served by a real sheriff, one who spent his time trying to lock up nutbags and criminals rather than finding ways to excuse them, which is what he's doing.
	The sheriff has actually embarked on a course here that he doesn't stop, will provide an escape hatch one way or the other for the accused.
	And all the while, he's yet to offer a shred of evidence that Loffner listened to me or read Sarah Palin's website or attended Tea Party rallies.
	He hasn't pointed out a single thing that I have said that would inspire such a heinous act.
	And unlike most media, he didn't even make something up.
	At least when the media want to accuse me of stuff and it's not there, they make it up, like during the ill-fated attempt to be part of the St. Louis Rams ownership group.
	I mean, I made up slave and race quotes I'd never made.
	And they got full use out of them until they had to admit that I never said them.
	And then they said, well, at least we know he thinks it, but this sheriff has not even made anything up, much less produced a scintilla of evidence that anything I've said would inspire such behavior.
	And when somebody lays out, and it's a serious accusation, if I were to public figures, this is actionable.
	If somebody lays out such serious accusations without a scintilla of evidence, why it should be plain for all to see that it's done out of political motivation or some petty personal vendetta, which I don't think this is, I don't know the guy, he doesn't know me.
	Megan Kelly confronted him on Sunday.
	A lot of others have and asked to back up his accusations.
	And having failed to do so, you would think that he would be quiet, get back to the facts of the case, but he isn't.
	He's standing by it and he's being praised in the media for standing by it.
	He's being praised in the media for not backing down.
	Can you imagine me or Palin being praised for not backing down on anything?
	No, we're ridiculed for it.
	This guy is being praised for not backing down despite having no evidence whatsoever.
	Now, this is a degree of vanity that is not healthy in law enforcement.
	Look, it would be trivial if he were an ordinary citizen, but he's not.
	He has a badge.
	Sheriff Dupnik has a badge and a gun and the power to enforce or not enforce the law as he sees fit.
	And he's proven over the last four days that facts don't mean anything to him or very little to him.
	You'd have to think that throughout the state of Arizona and elsewhere, serious law enforcement people are cringing over the way he is engaging them.
	He's undermining law enforcement's ability to really investigate and prosecute this case.
	He is influencing the jury pool, potentially, with his endless media appearances and intemperate remarks.
	He's handing sound bites to defense counsel to use in an insanity defense.
	He's displaying a reckless, unbalanced nature that poisons the entire investigative prosecutorial process here.
	And all the while being praised is a stand-up guy.
	He's got courage.
	He's got guts.
	He's not backing down.
	He's standing by what he says.
	I had from this website yesterday, and I didn't use it because I'd never heard of the website.
	It has since shown up everywhere.
	The website is thechalajumps.wordpress.com.
	And the headline, Jared Lofner is a product of Sheriff Dupnik's office.
	This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday, January 8th.
	The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident.
	His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a preemptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office.
	Six people died on his watch.
	He could have prevented it.
	He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.
	Jared Lofner, pronounced by the sheriff as Lochner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation.
	Of course, he meant Scott or Irish, but that isn't the point.
	The point is, he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past, and that's how he knows how to pronounce the name.
	Jared Lochner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County, including staff of Pima County College, radio personalities, local bloggers.
	When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system.
	It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved.
	As Jared Lochner has a family member that works for Pima County, Amy Lochner is a natural resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation, his mother.
	My sympathies and my heart go out to her and the rest of Mr. Lochner's family.
	This tragedy must be tearing them up inside, wondering if they had done the right things and trying to manage Jared's obvious mental instability.
	Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against him.
	Perhaps with a felony conviction, he would never have been able to lawfully buy the Glock 9 Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.
	And of course, where did he get the money for it?
	As this website says, thecholejumps.wordpress, this is not an act of politics.
	This was an act of a mentally disturbed young man hell-bent on getting his 15 minutes of infamy.
	The Pima County Sheriff's Department was aware of his violent nature.
	They failed to act appropriately.
	This tragedy leads right back to Sheriff Dupnik, and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact.
	Additionally, Sheriff Dupnik once told residents in part of his county to buy guns to protect themselves because he didn't believe his department, given its limited resources, could adequately do the job themselves.
	Dupnik expressed his views about mentally ill people not being institutionalized to the Tucson Citizen newspaper September 1999 after four people have been shot by local law enforcement officers in the course of a single week.
	The citizen published the sheriff's remarks in its September 21st, 1999 edition, in a story by staff writer Michael Graham that ran under the headline, Dupnik, guns drink, making streets unsafe.
	Each day, a higher percentage of the population is armed, and a lot of them are emotionally disturbed, violent, psychotic, and they drink too much.
	Dupnik told the citizen.
	Why they drink and lose their temper in a firearm is available or when they pose a threat to society.
	I'm not sure it's safe for anyone on the streets today.
	That's Sheriff Dupnick in 1999.
	According to The Citizen, Sheriff Dupnik said he did not believe the public was becoming more violent generally, then he blamed an element in our society for no longer institutionalizing mentally ill people.
	And that party's got right.
	And that goes back to what I said in the first hour of the program, which has to do with the Libs' idealistic view of the world.
	If people were just controlled by them, if people would just listen to them, there wouldn't be any crime.
	There wouldn't be any poverty.
	There wouldn't be any real wealth.
	Everybody would be the same.
	And so they look at institutionalized people and say, let them out.
	It's not fair.
	You're violating their rights.
	We can handle it.
	Let everybody out.
	Nobody should be in jail.
	Sheriff who suggests this, Terry Jeffrey at Cybercast News Service, sheriff who suggested talk shows may have incited attack, was asked by fellow Democrats to apologize for inflammatory remarks on immigration.
	This is a story, Terry Jeffrey, that ran yesterday.
	So Sheriff Dupnik seems to have problems dealing with this suspect over the years that he would rather not be known.
	Hence, his very public statements on this issue as an act of deflection, perhaps?
	Who knows?
	At any rate, we'll get to your phone calls when we come back after this brief but profitable EIB timeout.
	I just got a horrified note.
	A horrified note from a friend.
	Oh, no, I'm skeptical about what you just read, Rush.
	That Chala Jumps blog author, he says that the source is confidential.
	He's not even standing by all of that.
	I'm really worried.
	Those claims have still not been substantiated.
	How does it feel, Sheriff?
	A blog out there says things about it might not be true, Sheriff.
	It's just some guy's opinion at a blog that has been circulating.
	I mean, it would be quasi-journalistic malpractice of me to ignore that this is being said about you.
	Oh, who knows?
	It might not be true.
	I guess we'll find out in due course.
	The most famous public official who reminds me of Sheriff Dupnik is a prosecuting attorney by the name of Mike Nyfong.
	The Duke La Crosse case.
	Democrat DA for Durham County, now removed and disbarred, running for office at the time of the Duke La Crosse team rape nonsense, of course.
	When is Sheriff Dupnik's next election, I wonder.
	To the phones we go, Justin, Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
	Hello.
	Hi, Rush.
	Megadittos.
	Thank you.
	My point basically is that if anyone is inciting violence with their dangerous rhetoric, wouldn't it be the sheriff himself who's basically?
	Well, he certainly is not promoting what he's calling for, and that is more civility and less inflamed rhetoric.
	No, you're right.
	He's absolutely not.
	He's leveling baseless false accusations against you and your listeners of labeling us as accomplices to murder in a way.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Accomplices to murder.
	He's done it all weekend.
	He didn't mention your name until maybe last night, but hours after the shooting.
	And he must be covering his own butt.
	Well, let's go to audio soundbite number five.
	He mentioned my name.
	I called him out yesterday because he was calling all of us out, not by name.
	I mean, he starts talking about voices on the radio.
	Come on.
	Fox News and all this sort of stuff, Sarah Palin.
	So he starts calling all of us out.
	And I asked, Sheriff, what am I supposed to do?
	Just sit by.
	What are we supposed to do?
	Because he made a comment.
	One party's trying to destroy this country and another party is trying to help this country.
	I'm supposed to sit around and just, oh, okay.
	And the name is civility.
	I'm not going to respond to that.
	Here you have a law enforcement official basically saying that the Democrat Party is trying to save the country, do good things for it.
	I happen to believe just the opposite.
	And I asked, what am I supposed to do?
	Just sit around here, Sheriff, and ignore this?
	Sorry, I'm not going.
	Our country has a $14 trillion debt.
	Congressional approval is at its lowest ever, 11%.
	This country's future has been spent.
	Children's future, grandchildren's future has been spent.
	We are in debt close to bankruptcy.
	And for the last two years, one party has had not one shred of power to do one thing about it, and that party is the Republican Party.
	The Democrat Party has not had any opposition in terms of votes in the House or Senate.
	Republicans have not been able in the past two years to stop anything.
	Any problem the Democrats had in getting their agenda done was recalcitrant Democrats.
	It wasn't Republicans because they couldn't have stopped it.
	So the sheriff is admitting the country is in trouble, but he's blaming the party causing the problem.
	I'm sorry, it's no different than if, what's his name, Michael J. Fox is going to enter the political arena and start making political, just because you suffer from a disease or because you're an elected official doesn't mean that you get a pass when you enter the political arena and you're able to speak uncontested.
	That's...
	We no longer fall for those tricks anymore.
	And we are here, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair to Concord, New Hampshire.
	John, thank you for calling.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello, sir.
	Hello, Rush.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Live free or die dittos to you.
	I don't know if you, you know, is Ditto still.
	I haven't called in a while, so is it still fashionable?
	Yes.
	It's one of those things that even if I wanted to erase it, I wouldn't succeed.
	It's a part of, never goes out of style.
	It's part of the fabric of the program.
	Okay, well, what I was going to say is mega super alto primo dittos.
	And just wanted to say thank you for being our champion.
	And also to maybe extend an offer to the sheriff and just tell him, hey, let's make a deal.
	You stick to law enforcement and I'll stick to the opinion.
	This sheriff has a political agenda is the point.
	He's a member in good standing here of the American left, and he has been for quite a while.
	I don't know if he's in over his head.
	Boy, you would think so.
	There are a lot of microphones.
	Let me tell you something.
	If I were making allegations like this on the radio and I had no evidence, the weight of the world would be falling down on me here.
	If any of my buddies who do what I do were doing what the sheriff's doing, folks, I have to tell you, we wouldn't be praised for standing by it.
	There'd be demands.
	Proof.
	Give us your proof.
	What is your evidence that this leftist inspired the shooting?
	We come out with baseless claims like this.
	I guarantee you, all hell breaks loose.
	This guy's being credited for not backing down.
	Now he's stuck now.
	What's he going to do?
	I mean, to show his manhood, he's got to stick with his position here.
	But he can't back down now.
	So now the question is, what's he doing?
	Is he working with Media Matters?
	Has somebody given him a grant?
	Do you think he's got staff pouring through transcripts of this program, which we post each and every day?
	He's going through.
	Do you think he's trying to find transcripts, looking for places where I told people to go out and buy guns, start shooting people?
	I guarantee you he is now.
	He honestly probably thinks it's possible.
	Somebody's out there going through that trying to find this.
	That's the place they find themselves in now.
	They're out there making this claim.
	Or are they going to go out trying to find evidence of incendiary things I've said that even though this guy never listened to me might somehow have made its way to him?
	I guarantee you they are.
	That's just the, you know, he's an accredited member.
	In fact, last night when I really was taking some time off from show prep last night and got a note from my brother, are you aware of this?
	And there's a web link to Drudge that the sheriff had started blaming me.
	And I hadn't heard my first thought was, who has he been talking to the last 12 hours?
	Who, if anybody, in the Democrat apparatus is coaching this guy?
	That was my first thought.
	He's not a lone wolf out there anymore.
	It's got to have, it's my thinking.
	There had to be somebody coaching the guy.
	Somebody had to be guiding him through this.
	And of course, since he's saying what the media wants said, he's not being challenged on it.
	I'm being blamed for causing it, for calling him out yesterday.
	So he may find himself in over his head now.
	But this is a position he wanted.
	I mean, this is a stake out that he wanted to be involved in.
	He's put himself in it.
	Eric in Little Rock, Arkansas.
	You're next on the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	How are you doing today?
	Very good, sir.
	Thank you.
	Global warming dittos from Little Rock.
	Can I borrow a snow shovel?
	How about that?
	Yeah.
	I know this was presumptuous of me on my first call, but I have to kind of minorly correct you on an issue.
	What's that?
	The left does believe in lone whack jobs, as long as they're from a constituent group like Muslims or any other group they're afraid to confront.
	Oh, you're taking issue with my saying that no individual could ever do something.
	They don't accept the notion of individual responsibility, and you're giving me evidence to the contrary.
	Right, like the Fort Hood shooter, because, well, you know, he couldn't be a Muslim terrorist.
	And even though he had contacts with the Imam Halawi, was shouting Allah Akbar as he was shooting.
	Yeah, that still doesn't mean that he had any association with anybody else.
	I see your point.
	Yeah.
	He's a lone wolf acting on his own.
	We shouldn't jump to any conclusions.
	Of course not.
	That was just someone obviously with mental problems.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, you're right.
	I will stand corrected on that.
	And it's a good catch.
	Thank you very much, Rush.
	You bet.
	Eric, you have an iPad?
	No, actually, I don't.
	Do you want one?
	Sure.
	Well, I got some engraved EIB iPads, and I'd be glad to send you one.
	It's very rare that somebody who is right, it's very rare that anybody ever corrects me.
	But it never happens that, well.
	Well, I know, but it's also, so it never happens by somebody polite.
	And you have been polite.
	So I want you to hang on.
	Some nice man or woman, depending on who gets the phone in there, will get all necessary information to, well, FedEx this thing to you.
	We don't send everything regular mail because that means we would have to go to the post office.
	So FedEx, somebody here will come pick it up.
	You hang on.
	We'll get all the information to send it out to you, okay?
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Don't hang up, just to stay on hold out there.
	Appreciate it, Eric.
	This is Ginny in Hilton Head, which was one of the locations we used to shoot the Haney Project.
	I know you did, Rush, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to go over the May River and watch you play from one aficionado of golf to another.
	I'm really looking forward to your debut tonight with Hank Haney.
	Thank you.
	I have a couple of questions.
	I'd like to know if you were able to accomplish everything you wanted to with him.
	And also, what was it that made you go to him in the first place?
	Well, I have, if I answer your first question, I'm giving away more of the show than I should at this point.
	For example, if I say, yeah, then, yeah, okay.
	If I say no, then why watch?
	That's true.
	What was it that took you to him in the first place?
	I mean, I saw a clip of it while we were watching a football game, or actually golf on TV, and it seems like you have a step like Gary Player after you swing.
	Well, that's because what does that have to do with why I went to Haney?
	Well, I'm wondering if that was one of the things you wanted to correct or if you just wanted to get more.
	I'll tell you this much.
	One of my physical problems or challenges playing golf was finishing.
	Finishing the turn.
	Right.
	I got into my, after I hit the ball, I basically just stopped, figured the whole process was complete.
	And I had to be taught how to turn through.
	My backswing turn was fine, but turning completely through, and of course, the old adage, have your belt buckle face the target, that's what I had problems with.
	So what you probably saw was the early stage of Haney trying to teach me to do this, and I was off balance at the finish, which is why I was taking a step forward to stay in balance.
	Oh, I see.
	Okay.
	Well, I look forward to it.
	I have been waiting with bated breath.
	Well, you knew I was in Hilton Head.
	This was back in early.
	I played the same course you played the following week.
	Ah, well, it was a beautiful course.
	We actually didn't play the course, played two or three holes.
	That session was getting out of trouble in the woods, on the pine straw, out of weird lies in the sand traps.
	That's going to be a fascinating episode.
	But the overall question, how did I choose Haney?
	Actually, the golf channel people approached me last spring and asked if I would be interested in being the next student on the Haney Project.
	And I had not seen, I still haven't seen any of the Charles Barkley series or the Ray Romano.
	I still haven't watched it on purpose.
	Oh, I see.
	Well, I missed the Charles Barkley, but I did watch the Ray Romano, and I'm looking forward, like I said, to seeing how you progress.
	Well, make sure you don't miss an episode then.
	Have you noticed the difference in your golf score now?
	Yeah, and that's as much as I'm going to say.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But you can't say that.
	I wish I could answer your questions out there, Jenny.
	I really do.
	Yeah.
	I really do.
	Again, like I said.
	Let me just say this.
	I'll just say this.
	My guess is that there have been very few times in Hank Haney's career as an instructor when he has been this happy.
	Whoa, that's wonderful.
	Yeah, but you may, I'm not going to tell you when that happened.
	It certainly didn't happen the first episode.
	There were also many times, I'm sure, during this when Haney said, why did we choose this guy?
	So it runs a gamut out there.
	That's why it's a good series.
	Well, I think he actually chose a great person to showcase his instruction with.
	I'm sure you seem to be more of a devotee of the game where you want to be better and you'll work at the game if you can.
	Well, I don't mean this to be critical of any other instructor, but I've actually never taken full-time instruction before this.
	I have taken a day here with somebody, a day there.
	But because they knew it was just going to be a day, I don't think either of us really put ourselves into it.
	This was a full-fledged commitment on both sides.
	Plus, you know, there's the added pressure.
	You've got a television show out there.
	I mean, one of the reasons I did this was to get better at something I'm naturally not good at.
	And you'll hear me say in this series that the one place in life where I totally lose self-confidence is on the golf course.
	And that's one other thing I wanted to correct.
	And so I've done some media interviews.
	And why are you willing to do this in front of everybody on television?
	I said, well, because that adds to part of the challenge in succeeding at it.
	Weren't you afraid of being humiliated or embarrassed?
	Oh, no, I got over that a long time ago.
	I couldn't do what I do if I had that kind of fear.
	So this is all about putting as much pressure.
	I remember the first time I played in an AT ⁇ T or a Bob Hope.
	I mean, you go out and you play in a professional tournament as an amateur with all the gallery and crowds.
	I don't care how many people I've stood before at a public event.
	That's when I'm in control of it.
	I'm speaking.
	I know what I'm going to say.
	Golf is, that's, I mean, it's a prayer every swing.
	Well, not only that, you never know who shows up at the T.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So it's all been good.
	The whole process has been fascinating, and it's been fun.
	It was also, you know, I told the golf channel guys today, I did a little interview on the golf channel today with their two morning show hosts, and I said it was fascinating to be working with somebody who is as committed to success at what he does as I am at what I do.
	And a lot of people were thinking that's going to lead to a visually fun clash.
	Because if USA Today even ran an ad yesterday in the paper, lesson one for me is stop talking.
	And they have no clue how little I spoke in the first day of that.
	I mean, I couldn't do what I do if I weren't a good listener.
	That's how you learn things.
	At any rate, so it was the whole experience.
	We still got two episodes to go.
	And we're still putting together ideas for the grand finale.
	So it's going to be, we have two episodes to go.
	I just, in fact, I just, I'm holding right here my formerly nicotine stained fingers, the DVDs of the rough cuts of episodes four and five.
	See, I have total editorial control over what ends up on TV.
	So they send me these things so I can review them.
	But I'm glad you asked about it because I think you're going to be a big kick out of it.
	Well, good luck with you with the follow-up as far as your game goes.
	I wish you lots of strokes taken off your game.
	Thank you, Jimmy.
	It has happened.
	It has happened.
	Now and then.
	Still not consistent, but that's just part of playing more.
	And a brief time out, and we'll be right back.
	Don't go away.
	Now, if somebody wanted to tell me that me talking about golf angered somebody, never mind.
	I don't even want to go there.
	Just a lighthearted attempt at humor.
	Ladies and gentlemen, NBC Eyeball News Chicago, NBC TV affiliate Ram Emmanuel is saying the Giffords shooting is not a crisis to exploit.
	I have the web link.
	I'll send it up to Cookie here in just a moment.
	We'll actually hear this being stated.
	Mark Halperin, Time Magazine, blamed the anger of the right-wing commentariat, and he included George Will, for the controversy started when CNN and other media outlets began tying the shooting in Arizona to Sarah Palin and the Tea Party activists.
	Mark Halperin, Time Magazine.
	Now, it was pointed out to Mark Halperin that conservatives, Sarah Palin, were the ones who got smeared, not the other way around.
	And Halperin said, well, they should have just turned the other cheek and stopped defending themselves, and they would have shut this thing all down.
	So, yeah, just, that's what they used to tell women who were raped, wasn't it?
	Just sit back and enjoy it.
	Put some ice on it.
	Like Clinton says, put some ice on the lip.
	You ask for it.
	Your dress asked for it.
	Just sit back and enjoy.
	Isn't that how they used to tell raped women to deal with it?
	Oh, so now Mark Halperin, Time Magazine, just, you know, turn the other cheek and it'll all go away.
	You just sustain this if you fight back.
	Robert, I'm sorry, Patrick Kennedy, who lost two uncles to assassins' bullets, says there's an obvious connection between the violent rhetoric of today's politics and the massacre in Tucson.
	He says, when Sarah Palin puts targets on people's districts, or you have 10,000 signs on the wall during the healthcare battle saying bury Obamacare with Kennedy, first, I would like to see some proof that there were 10,000 signs.
	But it says here, Politico, that Saturday's tragedy touches on both elements of Kennedy's new mission in life, helping somebody after they've been afflicted by a brain injury and ensuring universal access to mental health services.
	Mr. Kennedy, your uncle was shot by a communist, Lee Harvey Oswald.
	Your other uncle, Robert Kennedy, was shot by a militant Islamist, Stirhan Sirhan.
	In neither case were your uncle's assassins related to Sarah Palin in any way.
	So I keep hearing about toxic rhetoric, the toxic rhetoric, Sarah Palin talk shows.
	What about when Democrats were lying to constituents at town hall meetings about Obamacare?
	Except it wasn't the liars or their union goons being tagged for spewing toxic rhetoric.
	But isn't the toxic rhetoric all the lies the Democrats have been explaining about their policies and job creation?

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