Limbaugh Compares Hamilton Cast To Abraham Lincoln’s Assassin, John Wilkes Booth

Rush Limbaugh: “These Guys In Hamilton Are Following In What I'm Sure They Consider To Be A Rich Tradition” Of “Attacking Republican Elected Officials In Theaters”

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From the November 21 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): Democrat actors have have been attacking Republican elected officials in theaters -- I don't know, what, since 1865. The first known instance of a radical leftist Democrat actor attacking Republican elected officials -- John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Ford's Theater in Washington, 1865. So these guys in Hamilton are following in what I'm sure they consider to be a rich tradition. But the condescension of thinking that they are telling the vice president-elect how to do it, how to be, what to think. 

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