Rush Limbaugh: Jared Loughner & the Tucson Tragedy, Sheriff Dupnik’s Left-wing Politicizing, & Violence in Films & on TV (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 10, 2011
Left-wing zealot at Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas blamed conservative Sarah Palin before any information was released about Tucson murderer Jared Loughner, a leftist with mental problems who loves the books 'Mein Kampf' and 'The Communist Manifesto'... no mention of violence in TV shows, films, and video games playing a role in the bloody shootout and attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh weighs in on the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. He specifically addresses the mental problems of gunman Jared Loughner, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s politicizing of the shooting, and the irresponsible attempt by left-wingers to connect conservative speech to violence with no evidence or facts, yet they ignore the influence of escalating violence on TV, in video games, and in films.
Brilliant points of observation made.
The Irresponsible Sheriff Dupnik Ignores All Real Evidence in Case
Rush Limbaugh Show
Broadcast January 10, 2011, EIB NetworkBEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Fox News is reporting that the Loughner family has taken down their kid’s shrine to the occult. He had a skull. It was really a weird thing. The police are banning all media from the street and from his parents’ house. That’s understandable, but there have been pictures taken. You could see it at certain places on the Internet, pictures of the shrine. There’s a skull back there. It’s really weirdo consult stuff.Also there’s a friend of Loughner’s who’s finally spoken out at Mother Jones who said that he had a real animus toward Gabrielle Giffords, that he went to a number of her public appearances, asked her questions, was not satisfied with her answers, thought that she was not respecting him and so forth — and this is somebody who knew the kid.
People in school where he went were afraid to show up. They sat next to doors because they feared he’d bring a gun and start wiping everybody out. This sheriff out there, Sheriff Dupnik, you know, this guy, he’s gotta be very careful. If I were him I wouldn’t say another word about this. The Loughner family has just hired the Unabomber attorney to defend their son (which everybody has to have an attorney, no big deal there). But the sheriff is out saying that everybody but the kid’s responsible for this. This sheriff is creating a defense for this kid in which his attorneys can say, “Well, even law enforcement authorities here in Pima County are blaming talk radio and Fox News and Sarah Palin.”
“Well, where’s the evidence?”
“Well, there’s no evidence. He’s in law enforcement.”
I’ll tell you what. I’m just wildly speculating here, but this kid sounds like he was well known as an unstable, dangerous element in the neighborhood and at school and so forth around town. If this kid… If there are any reports in this sheriff’s office like if people have phoned in, made phone calls, “Hey, we’re worried about this kid. He’s running around threatening here.” If the kid, if this kid’s run around and if he’s made death threats to anybody… If there’s a file in this sheriff’s office about this guy’s behavior, if there is, then the onus is gonna be on this sheriff and the rest of the liberal safety net. Where is all the stuff in place to stop this? Where is it?
We spend trillions of dollars on a safety net designed to help just this kind of deranged person and to make sure they don’t pose a threat to anybody in their immediate orbit. Where was local law enforcement? It might well be that the sheriff is out trying to dump on everybody else to absolve himself and his own office. Who knows? But if I were the sheriff, I would be very careful here because he’s constructing defense scenarios for the kid and the legal team that might not bode well. And he’s admitting, he admitted to Megyn Kelly on Fox yesterday afternoon, that he has got no evidence for what he’s saying. And they asked him, ‘You want to back down from that?”
“Oh, no, no! I’m not gonna back down. Everybody knows political discourse is too vitriolic. We gotta get back to people getting along,” and he wants to try to tell everybody he’s nonpartisan! Heh-heh-heh-heh. Just — just typical.
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This is the full interview conducted by FOX’s Megyn Kelly with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: “Why Are You Politicizing This Tragedy?”
Limbaugh’s transcript continues:
RUSH: The sheriff. Clarence Dupnik, Pima County, Arizona. Megyn Kelly talked to him on Fox yesterday. “Sheriff, why? I feel silly asking the question. Who can explain the mind of somebody like this? Was there something about Giffords that set the shooter off?”
DUPNIK: There are a whole lot of people in this country that are very angry at the politics of people like Gabrielle. There was a lot of vitriolic statements made night and day on radio and TV about her support of health care, about her support of some of the other things, and some of the vitriol got a lot of people agitated. You took the words out of my mouth. You’re talking about irrational behavior here, and there’s no way that I think of that you can rationalize irrational behavior.
Sheriff Dupnik mentioned only Rep. Giffords’ stance on ObamaCare — “some of the other things” he conveniently omitted was that some liberal zealots were angry at her for cracking down on illegal immigration, supporting the Second Amendment, and trying to secure the Arizona border. She received many dangerous threats from the left for her moderate views, for her courageous stance on making our country safer from illegal aliens — as a leftist law enforcement officer who announced to the press last year that he would NOT enforce AZ SB 1070 if it passed into law, it appears that Sheriff Dupnik deliberately concealed the conservative/moderate politics of Giffords to strengthen his groundless claims against the “vitriol” of conservatives while hiding the hate and vitriol that was directed at her from liberals.
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RUSH: All right, so you just heard him blame me and talk radio and all of this stuff. Megyn Kelly said, “Do you have any evidence, sheriff?”
DUPNIK: I don’t have that information yet. The investigation is in its very initial phases. But my belief, and I’ve been watching what’s going on in this country for the last 75 years, and I’ve been a police officer for over 50 years. There’s no doubt in my mind that when a number of people, night and day, try to inflame the public that there’s going to be some consequences from doing that, and I think it’s irresponsible to do that.
KELLY: Sounds like you’re being very honest that that’s just your speculation and it’s not anything that’s fact-based at this point.
DUPNIK: That’s my opinion, period.
RUSH: No facts.
You got a man of the law saying: “I don’t have any evidence, I don’t have any proof. There’s no facts. Of course not, I’m a Democrat! I’m nonpartisan. I’m a Democrat, what do I need facts? I don’t need evidence.” We all know what’s going on here. That’s what he wants everybody to believe. That’s irresponsible to boot.
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RUSH: Has anybody found any evidence what this Loughner guy listened to on the radio? Has anybody fond any evidence he listened to talk radio? No. Has anybody found any evidence that he watched Fox News? No.
Has anybody found any evidence that he read Sarah Palin’s Facebook page — and if he did, what of it? The guy listened to heavy metal music. That’s what he was into: Heavy metal, and some of the anarchical stuff that you find in heavy metal and the devil worship or the, you know, weirdo occult religious stuff that you find on heavy metal. Now, see if this doesn’t jog your memory. Over the course of the 23 years that I have been doing this program, there have been several occasions where conservatives have appeared before congressional committees.
I think one of them one time was the wife of James Baker and the wife of Algore. Yes, that’s right. Susan Baker and Tipper Gore joined forces to try to get all violence on television taken off, on the theory that violence was not good for our culture; that all the violence on television, all of the violence in our music was coarsening our culture. Did the left agree? It did not. They pooh-poohed the notion. Hollywood, the TV and movie industry mobilized and got right in the face of all of those who wanted to have warnings and do other things to limit the amount of violence in television and movies. They hee-hawed, and they pooh-poohed the notion that violence in movies or on television could in any way be said to have a causal relationship with violence in real life.
“Violence in movies? Come on, it’s just a television show! Come on, it’s just a movie!” There were people that wanted to try to say Columbine was the result of the Matrix movies, if you’ll recall and the Hollywood establishment, which you all know is a bunch of liberals, said, “You can’t make that association! That’s silly. That’s stupid. These are two deranged kids. Now, but now they are sooo upset and sooo concerned that some kid might see a target symbol on a website from a year ago and be moved to kill. So we’ve gotta get rid of “rhetoric.”
We have to get rid of conservative speech. We have to silence Fox News. We have to silence talk radio. We have to silence conservatism.
But violence on television? All I’m pointing out here is that these people are nothing but pure political partisans and hypocrites, and they are embarrassing. Watching mass murder in movies? Saw I through Saw V? Nightmare On Elm Street X. All these things that young kids flock to? “Oh, no, no. That doesn’t have any effect. Violent, vile stuff and hip-hop or rap? No, no, that’s not a problem! That would never affect anybody. Come on, that’s just entertainment.”
Only conservative speech can incite violence they say. That’s what they’re asking people to believe, and I’m sorry, the American people are waaay ahead of them now. The silly notion that conservative speech that this guy never even heard, that websites he never visited?
This guy’s too busy building occult altars, listening to heavy metal. This guy zonked out on dope most of his life. This guy is so into marijuana, he wants it to become the new currency of the United States! We’re dealing with a genuinely, unfortunately, insane individual, and everybody around him knew it. Who did anything about it? Nobody. And now that this kid’s finally acted, “We gotta get conservatives off the air!” It’s laughable. Truly laughable. One more of the sheriff Clarence Dupnik with Megyn Kelly yesterday afternoon on Fox. She finally said, “I know you ran for office. I’m sure some of our viewers are asking themselves why you are putting a political spin on this. They may be asking you, ‘Sheriff, you’re just not focused on the facts here, you don’t have any evidence.’”
DUPNIK: I grew up in a country that was totally different from the country that we have today. We didn’t have this kind of nonsense going on, and it used to be that politicians from different parties could sit down, forget about their ideology, and work on the country’s problems. We don’t see that happening today. As a matter of fact, we see just the opposite. We see one party trying to block the attempts of another party to make this a better country.
RUSH: There you have it. That’s a sheriff, the Pima County sheriff upset that “one party is trying to block the attempts of another party to make this a better country.” In other words, one party wants to make this a worse country. Now, we know who he’s talking about here. This guy wants us to believe he’s nonpartisan. This guy is an anti-conservative, anti-Republican. He’s no different than the media. He has taken the occasion of this, a law enforcement officer, to politicize it, to advance his own political agenda, which he claims he doesn’t even have. He’s that pure. Like I say, this guy better dial it back because he’s creating a defense for this guy that the crafty team of lawyers that are gonna be assembling here will be able to use.
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RUSH: Brian in Tucson. Nice to have you, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, thank you, sir, for taking my phone call. Mr. Limbaugh, it is an honor and a privilege to speak with you, sir.
RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
CALLER: The reason for my phone call, Mr. Limbaugh, I am listening to the show. I’m not a big listener, but I am a staunch conservative and many, many of my clients and my friends here in Tucson know. But I am getting sick to my stomach at the way the liberal media is portraying Tucson and portraying the Tea Party activists out here and how they are causing damage to the way we are out here. We are a community of just under a million people. It’s a diversified melting pot. Sure, we have our problems just like any other city out here in the US. But what this certain individual did was something that he did on his own accord you without any help from anybody. Now, I will tell you this, though. The house that he has this little cult, the statue of skulls in is not at his mother’s house. His mother had no idea that this was going on because he didn’t live with her. He lived in another area, in another place and had this going on. Now, this is only with what I’m getting from the local scene here from people that are around in this area.
RUSH: Well, I’m hearing conflicting reports. Fox News even sent a reporter out there and a neighbor let ‘em in. The police had it cordoned out, but a neighbor let Fox News and their cameras in to try to get a picture of the altar, but the reporter from Fox said it’s been taken down. There are reports about the young man’s parents. I’ve just seen one. The neighbor said they’re loners. They didn’t talk to anybody. If they did see anybody they ran back into the house. They didn’t seem to have any friends or any of that. Frankly, I don’t care where the altar was. He had one. It’s an indication of his mental disposition. At any rate, you’re upset that this is happening to Tucson.
Well, welcome to the Drive-By Media. They blew into town on Saturday. Their cameras and microphones are shooting everything up, and by the middle of the week they’ll be gone for the most part (there will be some stragglers) and they’ll be on down the road headings for the next place to shake up and roil and moving on to gun control. That’s where this will next go.
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RUSH: One of this kid’s friends is on television saying he didn’t like political discussions. He’d rather talk philosophy. He didn’t like political discussions. Right. A kid that didn’t like political discussions was inspired to commit murder because of conservative rhetoric, but he didn’t like political discussions at all.
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RUSH: Steve in Sterling, Illinois, you’re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I had to work over the weekend so I really didn’t have time. I wasn’t attached to the news very much, so I had to do a lot of catching up Sunday night. And I looked and I looked and I looked because I heard everybody talking about this guy, “Oh, he’s influenced by Sarah Palin. He was influenced by this kind of rhetoric,” but nobody ever said anything about his possible political leanings — and that made me curious right then and there ’cause every time like the way they did with Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Whenever you hear the media be very silent about those kinds of things, it usually doesn’t mean that they were a right-wing kind of person because if they were, if they found a…. If it was the opposite of what happened to Kaczynski, if they found a dog-eared copy of Sarah Palin’s book in his room, at his house, you woulda heard about it within a couple hours. But I had to search and search and I finally found I think it was the Tucson paper, Phoenix paper, I’m not sure which one it was, that made a report about former classmates of his that were sending her tweets and she was Twittering about his very left-leaning rhetoric and that he was a very liberal, angry young man, and you don’t hear about that. I’m not hearing about that anywhere.
RUSH: No. What you are seeing, if you look carefully on the blogs and other leftist websites, they’re doing their best to destroy that female student friend of his. She described herself as back and forth, liberal to Libertarian, but they’re doing their best to destroy her as a source because she’s describing this guy as, if he was anything politically, he was a leftist.
CALLER: I mean anybody comes out with anything, like you say, that doesn’t fit their template, you have to destroy ‘em. It doesn’t matter whether she’s telling the truth or not, that doesn’t even enter into the equation.
RUSH: Exactly right. Exactly right. Was there a time, Steve, how many years ago where you would have been believed Sarah Palin was behind this, that you would have believed all the media is saying?
CALLER: Oh, me myself? No.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: See, that’s where I was saying. During the whole Unabomber thing I remember following that very closely.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Then when the brother turned him in, even years later, unless it’s somebody like you or Sean Hannity, if you don’t listen to your show, you’d never know.
RUSH: That’s right.
Via an interview with ABC News, Sheriff Dupnik has blasted the “rhetoric from people like Rush Limbaugh” as “irresponsible” for Limbaugh’s commentary and Dupnik believes it is linked to the Tucson shooting. He neglected to cite in his interview with ABC News any of the left-wing mistruths, vitriol, concealment of information about the shooter, and the negative assumptions made in the media that have openly blamed Sarah Palin, the tea party movement, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other conservatives for the shooting.
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