Posted on 02/22/2018 2:39:29 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: No, I wanted to make a point. The media early on was portraying Nikolas Cruz as a victim of bullying. He was portrayed as being bullied — that he was mocked, that he was laughed at — and then the media dropped that. That characterization of the shooter being bullied and mocked, laughed at, humiliated? That didn’t last in the Drive-By Media very long, because the media realized, “That’s not gonna help us here, ’cause somebody had to be doing the bullying. Somebody had to be doing the laughing. Somebody had to be making fun of the guy.”
I mean, if he was laughed at and made fun of — if he was mocked and if he was bullied in that school — well, then, somebody had to do it. The media says, “Wow. We have to drop that,” and they focused back on the guns — or refocused on the guns, ’cause they never really leave that focus.
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RUSH: The point that I made in the first hour that the Official Program Observer wishes me to make again is this: In early reporting after the shooting at the Parkland, Florida, high school… We got the media stories here to back it up and prove it. Miami Herald referred to shooter as bullied, mocked, laughed at, made fun of. Any number of early Drive-By Media reports focused on that, as they learned about the shooter, learned about how everybody knew who he was. He had 39 visitors by local authorities, the FBI ignoring two warnings. All these signs, a plethora of them.
In the reporting on all that, it was also reported that the guy felt ostracized by fellow students, was eventually kicked out of the school. He never fit in. He was made fun of and laughed at and they mocked him all over the place. My question to that was, “Well, who did that? Who did the laughing at the guy? Who did the mocking? Who was making fun of him? Who was making him feel like a kook and an oddball and not wanted?” We all know how mean and vicious high school can be.
Do you realize how many adults are still haunted by their high school days? You know, if you don’t realize that, do a little test. If you know somebody you went to high school with but you don’t live where they live anymore… You’re still in touch with them now and then but you’re separated, and you don’t talk to them much. The next time you do, wherever the conversation goes — you’ll find an opening — say something like, “You know, my high school days? I tell you, I really still feel haunted by something,” and they’ll say the same thing to you.
The reason you do not say it to people is ’cause you think you’re the only one. But high school is one of the most formative events in every one of our lives, because it can be mean and vicious, and there are the cliques. There are the established students and the outsiders. You’ve got the nerds. You’ve got the cool crowd. Everybody knows this. Lo and behold, this guy, the early reports — as we always do — asked, “Why did he do it? Why did he feel the need to go to the school is start shooting it up?”
That’s when we got the explanation that was laughed at, made fun of, mocked, all these things. So the question is, “Well, who did that?” Now, Mr. Snerdley, why do you think that is salient? Why do you think that that is a point worthy of repeating — aside from the fact that you don’t think my name has been in the news enough lately? (chuckling) Well, it is an area of commonality. It is. Every one of these shooters, even in the case of the Columbine kids. There were two of them there. You’ll find that early reporting of the shooters has much in common with their feeling left out, pointed out, made fun of — kicked out of school, even.
“Bullied!”
That word is used in practically every early description of these perpetrators.
“Bullied.”
But in this case, the Drive-By Media dropped those characterizations really fast, and we stopped hearing about those characteristics of the shooter. And they were replaced by other things. But somebody had to do the bullying. Somebody had to be doing the laughing. Somebody had to be making fun of the guy. And who was that? Well, the little angels. High school’s a vicious place.
Lots of kids are bullied, they don’t go around shooting up schools.
With those dumbo ears that lil bastard heard it all
Rush did not mention today that the people who probably bullied and were nasty to this person Cruz were the very same people showing that behavior toward Repubs at the CNN hate and switch town hanging.
He is of Russian Russian Russian descent.
Yep.
It doesn’t matter who bullied him, it only matters how he chose to respond.
He chose very poorly, and he will be held to account.
Probably true.
However, Cruz response to being bullied was to go nuclear, and that is the wrong response.
Cruz has a very small cranium.
I don’t disagree. I am not making excuses for Cruz. Just pointing out an observation of mine.
I was bullied all through school until my junior year of high school. I was redheaded, had freckles, and buck teeth. After four years of braces and a lot of maturing the bullying stopped but it always stayed with me. I never shot up a school. I never even thought about it. Bullying is NO excuse for the violence kids do today.
The question here is in the title. Rush asked who bullied this kid because the media at first claimed Crux was bullied and treated bad. The media did this until they figured they had to make a choice between defending the shooter or grabbing guns.
They chose the 2nd for now. Until they move on to the next event.
That’s why the whole bullying aspect shouldn’t be brought up at all here.
And why isn’t anything being done to the kid(s) who bullied him? Or do the progressives want more Nikolas Cruzes?
I had a similar experience, at the age of ten. It was rough. Very rough. I never considered committing a crime, and never considered killing myself. But that was me, at age ten.
I make no excuses for a 19 year old doing what Cruz did. None whatever. If he’s sane, as I suspect he is, he deserves the death penalty, soon. It would save lives.
I had a similar experience, at the age of ten. It was rough. Very rough. I never considered committing a crime, and never considered killing myself. But that was me, at age ten.
I make no excuses for a 19 year old doing what Cruz did. None whatever. If he’s sane, as I suspect he is, he deserves the death penalty, soon. It would save lives.
Public schools are chaos factories.
Our Russian son with FAS (the shooter looks like he has FAS but I don’t know that he does) was homeschooled until teaching him became too hard (12 years old). Called the public school hoping to get him into one of the states many specialized schools for mentally handicapped. Even though son had a history of violence in reaction to frustration and had been in the psych ward three times, the school board said first we had to test run him at the local Jr. High - a boy who, because of his memory issues and lower intellect, was academically only second grade in all subjects.
We couldn’t offer him up to the wolves and risk him or others being hurt. But when I think about Nikolas Cruz I wonder if our son was on that path.
No kidding?
Stop thinking about this like a responsible person.
Start thinking about this like those lashing out about how awful guns are, and if we got rid of the 2A, no one would ever die from a gunshot again...
Now, who bullied him?
Who forced him to lash out?
YouTube is removing videos of the kid who had prepared lines, and flubbing them, for his press interview because it is “bullying.”
Some, no doubt.
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