Fox News hosts echoed Rush Limbaugh's accusation that President Obama will use children as “human shields” at a White House event on stronger gun laws. However, President Bush also had children in attendance during bill signings and announcements.

Limbaugh and Fox News attacked Obama over the announcement that the president will propose measures to reduce gun violence on Wednesday at the White House. The administration invited children to the event who had written Obama about their safety concerns following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

On the Tuesday edition of The Five, the co-hosts aired Limbaugh's “human shields” accusation, then voiced their own disgust. Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said the children were being used as “political pawns,” while Eric Bolling said the event was in “bad taste” and “offensive.”

But as co-hosts Dana Perino and Bob Beckel noted, this is not in any way an unprecedented event. In fact, Perino's former boss, President George W. Bush, had children attend the signing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2002:

In addition, Bush invited the families of so-called “snowflake” babies to the White House when he vetoed federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.