“Bill Clinton, with the sound bite you just heard, just gave the kooks out there an excuse to be violent,” Limbaugh said. “He just offered them an opportunity to be violent.”
One of the Clinton sound bites that set off Limbaugh was the former president’s saying “right-wing, radio talk-show hosts” kept people in “white heat” in the period leading up to Tim McVeigh’s bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building April 19, 1995, killing 168 people.
Clinton said, “We didn’t have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward were basically the right-wing, radio talk-show hosts, and they understood clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time, and it happened that they got much bigger listenership and more advertisers and more commercial success if they kept people in the white heat.
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