http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/03/14/make_no_mistake_leftists_are_to_blame_for_anarchy_at_trump_ralliesMake No Mistake: Leftists Are to Blame for Anarchy at Trump Rallies
March 14, 2016
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RUSH: Obviously, the violence that happened on Friday that resulted in Trump canceling an appearance in Chicago... Folks, let me ask you a question about that real quickly. We're in the primary season. Why are these anarchists and Democrats and leftists protesting Trump now? And make no mistake, this is all on the Democrats. I think it's unfortunate there are people trying to blame Trump for this. This has never, traditionally never been a Republican problem.
Republican protests don't happen, to your chagrin. How many of you have called me over the years wishing you would see some? You're tired of the Democrats getting away with the protest march. You're tired of the Democrats exclusively being able to shut down events. And make no mistake, this was Black Lives Matter. This was MoveOn.org. This was a rent-a-mob. This mob had been bought and paid for. They were there for the express purpose to shut down the Trump appearance, and they were celebrating after they succeeded in doing so.
The event had not even started.
There wasn't a Trump supporter that did a thing to any of these people.
They showed up. This is all bought and paid for by the Democrat Party and its donors: George Soros, MoveOn.org. It goes on. The list is long. It's the same bunch of people that were in Ferguson, Missouri, the same bunch of people that were in Baltimore, the same bunch of people that have been in Berkeley, the same bunch of people that rioted for Rodney King and the OJ trial. It's the same crowd. Different names of the organizations, same people. It's all leftists. It is all intolerant leftists. And, in fact, grab audio sound bite number four. Saturday at the Democrat National Committee fundraising event in Dallas, President Obama...
OBAMA: And what's been happening in our politics lately, it's not an accident. For years we've been told we should be angry about America and that the economy's a disaster and that we're weak and that compromise is weakness, and that you can ignore science and you can ignore facts and say whatever you want about the president and feed suspicion about immigrants and Muslims and poor people and people who aren't like us.
RUSH: Sorry, Mr. President, that's not gonna work here, making it look like you're an innocent bystander here while all this raucous protesting is going on, brought about by the unfair treatment of you. Let's go back September 17, 2008, in Elko, Nevada, during a campaign event, Senator Barack Obama running for president...
OBAMA: I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to 'em whether they're independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with 'em and get in their face.
RUSH: "Get in their face." And Obama's protesters have been in our face since he encouraged it back in 2008. But who was it in 1968? It was a bunch of leftists and anti-war protesters then who were protesting the Democrat National Convention, in Chicago, of all places. The left owns this. Do you remember Obama? Here's a Politico story from June 14th of 2008. "Senator Obama..." It's a Politico story, and Obama was in Philadelphia, and he said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun, because from what I understand, folks in Philadelphia like a good brawl. I've seen Eagles fans." And I couldn't believe it that McCain and the Republican national committee actually pounced on that line and used it to illustrate what Obama was doing.
So this idea that Trump's responsible for this?
It just isn't the case, folks.
Do not lose sight of who does this.
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RUSH: So it's Obama. "Get in their face. They bring a knife, you bring a gun. Get in their face. I want you to argue with them." Look, folks, Donald Trump supporters are not leaving Trump events and going to Hillary events or going to Bernie Sanders events and beating people upside the head. Trump supporters are minding their own business.
Now, look. Don't misunderstand me on this, but I'm telling you this is crucial. This is why I have been so hell-bent over the years that people understand the left, that people get an ideological education and they understand what we're dealing with here, because disruptive, intolerant, violent public protest is wholly owned by the Democrat Party. It's an entire subsidiary of the American left and the Democrat. They own it; it's part of their operational blueprint. They are there to shut people down. They are there to deny people their presence on the field.
We talk about a level playing field. They don't want a level playing field. They don't want an opponent on the field. Their objective is to shut down. It's happening on college campus. It's happening everywhere in America. They're intolerant. They do not want to hear anything they disagree with. There is no First Amendment. There is no open exchange of ideas. There's nothing but authoritarian shut-them-downism. And it's not the Trump people that are doing it.
"But, Rush, but Rush, I saw that Trump guy hit the guy at the Trump rally." Yeah, who started it? Who shows up with the express purpose of disrupting the event? Bernie Sanders supporters. Bernie Sanders supporters, whether they're from the Bernie campaign or not, Hillary supporters, Democrats are infiltrating, trying to get in there.
This clown that nearly got to the stage at the event in Dayton on Saturday, I did a little investigation to find out who this clown is, this 22-year-old guy named Tommy DiMassimo. He is a leftist through and through. John Hinderaker at Power Line did a great bit of investigation into this guy, as have a number of others.
Now, if you read about this guy on the left, he's written about with great praise and courage, but the fact of the matter is he is a committed leftist from a deeply liberal Democrat, radical leftist family in Georgia. He went there to shut Trump up. And the idea that Trump is encouraging this? Some people want to say that when protesters show up at Trump's event that Trump's encouraging his supporters to be violent against them. Remember what's happening here. Look, I have no defense -- it's not the point here. This wouldn't be happening if these people were not infiltrating and getting into Trump events. It's these people who are starting the misbehavior.
And I'm gonna tell you something else. You may not like hearing it, but there are all kinds of reasons why Trump is getting the support he's getting, and this is one of them. I'm here to tell you that a bunch of Republican voters -- and I don't care whatever else they are; they're evangelicals, they're men, they're women, they're old, young, whatever, there's a huge number of Republicans for my entire life who have been slowly simmering that there's never any push-back on this kind of stuff. That there is never any opposition to the left and its radicals destroying events, shutting events down, committing violence, blowing up buildings or what have you.
Donald Trump is the first Republican candidate in my lifetime who, in the middle of the one of these things, openly says, "Get them outta here" instead of trying to engage them fairly and have a discussion with them or talk about how wonderful the First Amendment is or the right to dissent. It's a one-way street here. The left has, just like everything else they do, they have gotten away with being able to shut down, to destroy and then with their allies in the press, mischaracterize what goes on at these Republican events, for years, not just this campaign, but for years.
Code Pink, I don't care who we're talking about here. Cindy Sheehan, the Iraq war, the number of people that are getting into Senate hearings? How'd they get in there? Had to be getting invitations from Democrat senators to get into those things. Some people that don't support Trump are happy to see the way he deals with this at his rallies. "Get them out of here. Get 'em outta here." People are there to hear Trump. They're not there to hear a debate. They're not there to see Trump engage these people. And that's not what these people want. These people are trying to shut down not just Trump, but any other Republican that they become frightened of.
Take you back to my question. Why in the world are they protesting Trump now? We're still in the primaries. Why now? I'm leaving that open. There may be some obvious answers. But here's what happened in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday. Trump was speaking in an airplane hangar there at the Dayton airport. And all of a sudden you're watching it and you see Trump give a startled look, his mouth flies open, he looks behind him and looks down, but you don't see that 'til you review it. Really what you see is these four or five Secret Service agents storming the stage, Trump looking behind him and, "What happened? What happened? What happened?"
Then it replays either in slow-mo or whatever and you see, if you get the right angle, you see the guy jumping the fence and making his move on the stage. And what he says he wanted to do was just stop Trump and get up there and call Trump a racist. He wanted to take Trump's microphone away from him and call Trump a racist. But he wanted to shut down the event. Who is the guy? Tommy DiMassimo.
Now, Trump originally suggested the guy could be an ISIS sympathizer but the reason he thought that was because there was some hoax thing on Twitter or Facebook, I forget which one, that had this guy portrayed as an ISIS member, but it was somebody that hoaxed it. It was not genuine. But the guy was photographed standing on top of and stomping on an American flag. He is a fourth year acting major at Wright University. A four-year acting major. So he's just biding his time. He's just in school 'cause it's someplace to be. His age is reported as anywhere from 22 to 32. He's from Georgia. His father's a schoolteacher. His mother is a deeply involved, committed radical leftist in their town in Georgia. They come from Cobb County.
On his Facebook page Tommy DiMassimo proclaims his hate for America. Makes no bones about it. He's a Bernie Sanders supporter. The media will no doubt treat this as irrelevant. The media, in fact, in many places is praising this guy as a young example of dissent, this is the kind of greatness, this is the kind of thing we had when we formed and founded our country. This is this kind of trace backs to history that leads to our greatness, so forth. This is nothing of the sort. This guy's a rabble-rousing, America hating, classical America hating leftist. As such, he's a mainstream Democrat.
He has a little manifesto up on Facebook. This is a part of it.
"Let’s get rid of unions. Let’s get rid of economic regulation. Let's allow every act of religious freedom to get passed. Let’s never hold police accountable because their jobs are hard. Let’s continue to spend trillions to [sic] the military industrial complex. Let’s never address our ecological crisis. Let’s just give them everything they want. I want them to see what the world they want truly looks like."
You know, we have people on our side, "Let Clinton win so everybody will find out what a rotten guy he is and how bad the Democrats are, what the country will come." That's his thinking. He believes, actually, the opposite of all of that. (interruption) Is he gay? I don't know. I can't tell if someone is. Until you asked me I had no idea if he's gay. No idea. Anyway, that's who the guy is, and there's nothing virtuous about him. There's nothing that you can trace back in the form of greatness to the American founding.
He's just your average Bernie Sanders-supporting anarchist, crazed radical leftist, and that's who it is that does all of this. I know a lot of people are very angry at Trump for a whole host of reasons, and they want to try to make the case that Trump is equally responsible because of what he says during these protests at his rallies. I'm gonna tell you, you may say two wrongs don't make a right, fine and dandy. But don't forget where this stuff starts. It all starts with the Democrat Party. It all starts with leftist radicals.
Barack Obama actively, as a candidate, encouraged taking "a gun to a knife fight", "getting in people's faces," and arguing with them. And his people did it. How many Tea Party rallies did union people show up and actually engage in violence, and there wasn't any hand-wringing over it! The Drive-Bys pretty much ignored it. But the thing that you have to remember is, Trump's supporters are not infiltrating Sanders rallies or Hillary rallies. If they went to a Hillary rally, they'd be the only ones there. Now, you may say that Trump supporters are engaging in violence and people...
Yeah, but they're minding their own business until these people come up and start beating up on them or harassing them or shoving them and trying to disrupt the Trump event. It's a one-way street here. Now, we can argue whether the way Trump deals with it is wise or not, but Trump is not at the root of this. And there are a lot of people trying to get rid of Trump, defeat Trump, thinking this would be the way to do it. It may be. I don't know. But he's not responsible for this. His rally hadn't even started on Friday night in Chicago.
There hadn't been a thing take place.
Trump canceled it in advance for whatever reason. He says he canceled it for safety and security reasons. He says he talked to the cops. The local cops said, no, he never talked to them. So there's some disagreement about that, but Trump apparently unilaterally canceled the event. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. And still, in celebration, the protestors poured out into the streets. It looked like Chicago 1968 all over again minus the fires. Even after they got what they wanted, they're out there bragging, shaking hands, applauding.
"We shut Trump down! We shut Trump down!"
They're still out there raising hell. Don't forget who they are.
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RUSH: Let me tell you how this manifests itself, folks. I'm holdings here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers... Somebody actually sent me a black-and-white picture of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It's a picture of Trump standing at a rally in St. Louis. He was there on Saturday. Can I read you the caption of this picture? "Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in St. Louis. He was scheduled to go to Chicago for a rally but canceled it as his supporters became violent." Now, see? This is my whole point.
His supporters never "became violent." His supporters were there in anticipation of him showing up. They started to show up. But it was not Trump supporters that got angry. They didn't get violent. They weren't protesting anything. They were invaded by a bunch of leftists Bernie supporters. Look, I'll tell you who this is. It's Black Lives Matter, which used to be Occupy Wall Street, which used to be some anarchist groups. It's the same bunch of people they're out there protesting global warming. They're protesting for feminazism. It's the same bunch of people.
Many of them are rented.
Many of them have to be purchased to show up. But I wonder how many other leftist rags a story similar to this caption ran. He "was scheduled to go to Chicago for a rally but canceled it as his supporters became violent." His supporters have never been violent. His supporters have never started violence. His supporters have never been to a Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders rally. That is not what Republicans do. Anyway, this is why I have been so insistent over the years that people understand the difference between liberalism and conservatism.
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largeRUSH: Now, I checked the e-mail during the break and there's some people saying, "Rush, you keep saying Trump's innocent here. Trump's just like Obama, Rush! Trump's been out there telling his people, 'Punch 'em in the face! Get 'em outta here! Kick 'em outta here! Get rid of 'em." I understand that, but Trump is being creamed for that. The Drive-By Media's all over him. It's all part of trying to blame Trump for it.
My only point is -- and I don't want to get caught up in this two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right business. I understand that. But I do believe: Who started it? If there were not protesters in Trump's rallies, Trump wouldn't be behaving the way he is. But I'm just here to tell you... You can believe me or not, but I am here to tell you that Trump's behavior, when his events are interrupted, is one of the reasons why his legion of supporters love him. You might think it's crass. You might think it's crude. You might think it's dangerous.
You might think it's inciteful, that it would be better if Donald would politely ask them to leave, or if Donald Trump wouldn't say anything; just send his security guys in there to escort them out, and therefore nobody would know. Donald should ignore the protest, not acknowledge it; should you not steer the media cameras to the protests and instead quietly deal with it and so forth. Well, that's not who he is. He sees an opportunity to score points and further establish his identity with his crowd. And I don't know how to say this, other than the way I've said it.
Don't also misunderstand any justification here. I know it's sometimes tough to weed through a tone of voice, but I'll just tell you: I'm one of them. I have been so livid over the years at what the left gets away with on these protest marches, starting back in the sixties when I was a teenager, high school, first year of college -- well, first semester 'cause I didn't finish the second semester. But I was livid at it and I have been livid at it ever since. I have been more livid at the way Republicans don't deal with it.
originalAnd then I've been livid with it when it was happening in Ferguson, when it happens on college campuses, when it happens any presidential campaign the Republicans are raging waging, or any campaign when it happens in Baltimore. This stuff ticks me off. All this private property destruction is being tolerated as some sort of free speech expression, or we're supposed to understand the rage. We're not to condemn it. We're to understand why their grievances exist and we're to understand that their grievances are legitimate.
Screw that! As far as I'm concerned, I don't know what it is that gives people the right to destroy people's private property. I don't see where the Constitution becomes a suicide pact in that regard. And I'm just here to tell that there are whole lot of people at these Trump rallies and people who support Trump who, when they see him reacting this way to people who are trying to disrupt, interrupt, and shut down his events... He's not tolerant of it, and he wants these people made an example of. He wants them thrown out so that others are dissuaded from trying it again.
Not that that's gonna work with this crowd 'cause they're being paid to do this. But his audience loves it, folks. I'm just telling you: His supporters love it. It's the kind of action that people associate with decisiveness, courage, or what have you. But more than anything, it's Trump showing he's not gonna take anything from anybody. And so many people that support Trump are sick and tired of having to take it, having been told, "We have to take it." We have leaders that take it and don't shut it down and react to it. The protest march has been looked at, is seen by many on the right as a never-ending Democrat Party victory every time it happens.
They're sick and tired of.
Gabby Giffords gets shot out in Arizona? They're sick and tired of protest marchers claiming it's Sarah Palin's fault, and nobody on the Republican side standing up and denouncing that. Oh, yeah, because Sarah Palin somehow had a logo on her website with some map in some crosshairs. So that supposedly angered the guy out there and he went nuts shooting people at a shopping center. And it turns out the guy was a rabid leftist. He'd never been to Sarah Palin's website. Or there's a movie theater shooting, and Brian Ross at ABC News immediately tries to find out whether the guy's a member of the Tea Party.
originalPeople are fed up with this.
They're fed up with being blamed. They're fed up with being impugned. They're fed up with being denigrated, lied about, accused of doing things they don't do, accused of thinking things they don't think; accused of being racist, bigot, sexist, homophobes when they're not. So. Like much of everything else, here's a guy standing up to it and telling these people effectively to go to hell, to get the hell out of here. It's not a mystery to me. It's not a mystery to me why people supporting Trump applaud that.
And when he tells people in his audience, "Man, I wish I'd punched 'em in the face; I'll even pay the legal fees! Take 'em out. I'll pay the legal fees." "That's horrible. Trump shouldn't say that. That's horrible." Well, he's being condemned for it. It's not like he's being praised for that, other than by his own supporters. But, I mean, the Drive-Bys are all over him for it. And because of that they're trying to make it out to be his fault. Because what they want to do at the end of the day is denigrate every Donald Trump supporter as a Neanderthal, kook, fringe idiot or what have you.
And like every one of these things in the past, this is bought and paid for -- and brought to you by -- the radical left and the Democrat Party. Do you know that Bill Ayers was even part of the rally in Chicago on Friday? Friend of Obama's. Yeah. Big friend of Obama's: Bill Ayers. Reverend Wright would have been there, but he couldn't have caught a plane to get there on time. He would have been there. Certainly people like him would have been there. Where do you think this stuff comes from? Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, you name it. They're all bought-and-paid-for organizations. MoveOn.org is paid for by George Soros.
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