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Theories on the Vegas Shooter: Anti-Trumper? Radicalized by Militant Islam?
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 4, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/04/2017 12:53:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: The Las Vegas massacre has now reached the full politicization stage as a motive continues to be elusive. There are people however who don’t think the motive is elusive. There are people who think the motive is known and because it’s not preferred by certain personages and affiliations, that it is not being announced.

There are two ongoing theories of motivation that I have been able to determine are the, quote, unquote, most popular. One of them is that the guy is, in fact, a Never Trumper or that his girlfriend is. There’s a lot of mysteriousness, mystery about this babe. Things that have been alluded to about her that still remain not nailed down, such as she is highly influential, held great sway over the guy, and is herself a political radical of sorts, or knows people who are.

So one of the theories is that this guy was targeting Trump supporters with the prejudicial belief that a country-western concert would draw and attract mostly Trump supporters. There are others who believe that the guy had become radicalized by militant Islam.

There is a video out there. You remember shortly after Trump was inaugurated all of those women that took to the streets of America wearing those vagina hats, except they didn’t call them vagina hats. They called them the pussai hats. Well, Pamela Geller has found a video and done some still shots where she thinks the guy, the shooter, was wearing one of those hats at an anti-Trump rally.

I’ve looked at it, and I do not know. From what I see, I couldn’t confirm it, but there are others that are trying to make the case, and that the girlfriend was there very nearby and also in the shots, and she was holding anti-Trump signs or what have you. He was wearing a pink vagina hat, if it’s the same guy, and so because of that there are people who think, “See, this guy, this guy was anti-Trump, Never Trumper, radical leftist or what have you.”

The sheriff has alluded to the fact that the shooter may have been radicalized. Just kind of a throwaway line. Let’s go to a couple of sound bites. The sheriff is Joe Lombardo. He had a press conference last night in Las Vegas. During the Q&A a reporter said, “Can you tell the current whereabouts of Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend?

LOMBARDO: All I know is the Philippines, and we are in conversation.

REPORTER: Is she a suspect?

LOMBARDO: Currently she’s a person of interest.

RUSH: So is she a suspect? No, she’s currently a person of interest. Another reporter, “You talked about motive, Sheriff Lombardo. You talked about premeditation. You want to learn why he did what he did. Can you tell us the number of interviews you’ll have to do that? How many interviews is it gonna take before you get to a motive? You talked about reviewing cameras, videos, computers. Who do you want to talk to?”

Sheriff gives update on Las Vegas shooting

LOMBARDO: You’re probably saying, “Well, Jesus, Sheriff, it’s 2017, how come it’s taken so long for you to evaluate that?” Because it’s evidentiary. There’s chain of custody issues associated with that. We have to ensure we’re dotting the Is and crossing the T, because you know there’s criminal defense attorneys out there, right? And there’s this thing called the Constitution. We have to ensure that we’re abiding by that and we ensure — I don’t know if we have possible future prosecution. You know, you heard me say that we’re comfortable that we have the suspect in custody, but something more may come of that investigation. And I want to understand the motivation that you describe, okay, to prevent any future incidents. You know, did this person get radicalized unbeknownst to us?

RUSH: See, he just throws it out there at the end there. Everybody, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait just a second. What do you mean by that, did this person get radicalized?” Also, “You heard me say we’re comfortable we have the suspect in custody.” The suspect’s dead, right? So who’s he talking about here? Or is that a slip of the tongue, or am I missing something? We have the suspect in custody.

Now, I know he’s speaking in generalities when he says, “Well, it’s evidentiary, and I’m not gonna tell you what evidence we got here ’cause I don’t know where this is going.” Obviously they don’t have anything dead solid that they want to hang their hats on, but we have been told every time it’s come up, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nope, nope, ISIS is wrong, they have nothing to do with this.” They have been saying so with ontological certitude.

You know, it’s amazing. This happens, 59 dead, over 500 wounded, within hours, “This is not militant Islamic terrorism.” Go to Benghazi. “What we saw here was not militant Islamic terrorism. It was a riot because of a video.” These people — I’m not talking about the sheriff — these people don’t have a lot of credibility here, especially Hillary Clinton who’s speaking in continued bromides right out of the Democrat Party playbook with nothing unique and nothing individual.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: lvmassacre; paddockantitrump; paddockisis; rushlive; rushtranscript
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1 posted on 10/04/2017 12:53:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Good for Rush, not accepting things at face value.


2 posted on 10/04/2017 12:55:17 PM PDT by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: Kaslin

I have a theory about the shooter.

My theory is: We will never know truth.


3 posted on 10/04/2017 12:55:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin
A visit to Dubai and a Filipino girl friend (moslems are plentiful and dangerous in the Philippines) lend credence to the jihad theory.
4 posted on 10/04/2017 12:56:05 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Kaslin

With zero proof, theories remain just that - theories.


5 posted on 10/04/2017 12:58:06 PM PDT by gdani (Everyone is a snowflake these days)
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To: Kaslin

Islam may be the answer.

And they did lie about Benghazi.


6 posted on 10/04/2017 12:58:10 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Kaslin
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7 posted on 10/04/2017 1:04:41 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: BenLurkin

I support alternative three—patsy.

He was in the room, but the deed was done by at least one other person in the room. The patsy was the first one killed. They dressed as a first responder and waltzed out of the hotel in the confusion.


8 posted on 10/04/2017 1:07:00 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Kaslin

I have to admit that I find it quite interesting that somebody can have virtually zero digital fingerprint these days. I try to minimize my own, including deleting “my” page(s) from spokeo.com and the like.


9 posted on 10/04/2017 1:07:33 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: TigerClaws
As good a place as any for THIS one
10 posted on 10/04/2017 1:09:04 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: TigerClaws

reigned is a typo, yes?


11 posted on 10/04/2017 1:13:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

From 4chan. Rained.

Although I guess he ‘reigned’ the area with bullet power for about an hour...


12 posted on 10/04/2017 1:14:41 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Gay State Conservative
A visit to Dubai and a Filipino girl friend (moslems are plentiful and dangerous in the Philippines) lend credence to the jihad theory.

If he was a Jihadi radicalized at age 64 and killing for Allah, he'd have made this known.

Have you ever been to Dubai? I have several times. You'll find more Islamic radicals in Paris than Dubai. Dubai doesn't want anything to do with militant Islam. Dubai is like Disneyland for rich people and they keep the Muslim nutcases far away where they can't screw anything up.

The girlfriend apparently is Catholic, like 80% of Filipinos are. Muslims only make up 5% of the population.

I'm not buying the Jihadi theory.

13 posted on 10/04/2017 1:15:57 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Kaslin

I don’t believe it was Mr. Paddock that committed the crime.
If he really was the shooter, I say he was on drugs. His family has repeatedly told us that he had no religious/political affiliation that might inspire him to commit this crime. With every other mass shooter, we find out in a matter of days that they were either Islamic extremists or leftist lunatics. I’d like proof beyond just one obscure blurry photograph.


14 posted on 10/04/2017 1:18:34 PM PDT by Mafe
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To: Gay State Conservative
I don't know about the visit to Dubai. Dubai is a modern city that is a major tourist destination in the Middle East and also a hub for international airline flights.

If he had gone to Pakistan or Yemen it would have been a different story, for sure.

15 posted on 10/04/2017 1:20:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: BenLurkin

You are right. We will never be allowed to find out the “truth”.

After 9/11 the film footage has been very tightly controlled... Some surveillance video has never been seen outside government circles.

This is to control your reaction. After 9/11 it was all about making sure we didn’t blame Saudi Arabia and the Wahabbists and take the entirely appropriate action...

This time it’s about making sure we don’t retaliate against the guilty parties; and that by the time the guilty are revealed, they hope to have taken away your ability to retaliate effectively.


16 posted on 10/04/2017 1:25:34 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: TigerClaws

Bump. And the guy was 64 years old. Does not fit the profile, IMO.


17 posted on 10/04/2017 1:26:07 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Kaslin

Why would Paddock ship Marilou safely out of the country and then finger her by wiring $ and using her ID to check into the Mandalay?


18 posted on 10/04/2017 1:26:28 PM PDT by glenduh
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To: jiggyboy
I can see that being the case for someone in a certain age group -- say, 50 and above. I'm sometimes surprised how many people I've come across who have very little presence online simply because they never bought into all the modern social media hype.

The one thing that stands out to me is that this guy apparently had a lot of money but not much of a verifiable employment record. That -- coupled with the lack of a "digital fingerprint" -- would seem like the profile of someone who has been involved in some kind of shady dealings (money laundering, drug/arms trafficking, etc.).

19 posted on 10/04/2017 1:27:29 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: glenduh

The report I saw today was that he sent her out of the country to keep her from learning about his plot. He apparently knew her well enough to figure that she would have reported him to the police.


20 posted on 10/04/2017 1:29:03 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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