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July 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friend.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge of societal evolution on the most listened to radio talk show in America.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And you know what that means, ladies and gentlemen.
Open Line Friday.
We try to take more calls.
And when we go to the phones, the content of the portion of the program is all yours.
You can talk pretty much about that, whichever you wish.
800-282-2882 is the number, the email address, lrushbowl at eibnet.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, the prosthetic nose of Michael Jackson is missing.
This is from the New York Post.
Michael Jackson wore a prosthetic nose according to a report.
It was missing from his surgically mangled face as he was in the L.A. morgue.
Left behind was a small dark hole surrounded by bits of cartilage.
It's all in Rolling Stone magazine.
Wouldn't you like sort of morbid?
Wouldn't you like to be the person that has the nose?
Can you imagine Michael Jackson knows on eBay someday?
I'm holding the nose of Michael Jackson, and you can have it for, well, Obama.
Victory, not necessarily the goal in Afghanistan.
I kid you not.
President Obama, this is Fox News, has put securing Afghanistan near the top of his foreign policy agenda, but victory in the war-torn country isn't necessarily our goal, he said yesterday in a TV interview.
I'm always worried about using the word victory because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.
Now, we just had a call from a guy who wanted to know what I thought about Obama attacking various institutions, the intelligence agencies telling the CIA, yeah, I'm going to make your job harder on you.
And now making the police have a much harder task because of acting like Mike Nyfong here and accusing the police of acting stupid in this Gates incident.
But how do you, how do you, what kind of perspective must you have if you say, I'm always worried about using the word victory, because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.
The enemy facing U.S. and Afghanistan forces isn't so clearly defined.
Yes, it is.
They may not be wearing uniforms, but we know exactly who they are.
We know exactly what they do.
We know how they do it.
We know what their intentions are, and we know pretty much everything about them.
We're not dealing with nation states at this point.
We're concerned with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Al-Qaeda's allies.
So when you have a non-state sector, a shadowy operation like Al-Qaeda, our goal is to make sure they can't attack the United States.
But he's a little edgy about using the word victory.
And the emperor didn't sign the terms of surrender in Japan anyway.
It was the foreign minister.
But what was so bad about that?
What was so bad about having the, you don't get peace until there is victory.
It's just that simple.
It's the Limbaugh doctrine.
This is striking.
I've always worried about using the word victory.
It's just unfair.
Is it too powerful?
Obama job approval is below 50% for the first time.
Rasmussen reporting today in the presidential tracking poll for Friday.
Only 30% of the nation's voters now strongly approve of the way Obama's doing his job.
38% strongly disapprove.
That's a presidential approval index rating of minus eight.
Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance.
Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among likely voters nationwide.
51% disapprove.
Now, a lot of people aren't going to cite the Rasmussen poll, but just know that the Rasmussen poll was the most accurate in predicting the final outcome of the 2008 presidential race.
Here's the story from the Chicago Sun-Times about President Obama congratulating the pitch Burley for throwing a perfect game, Mark Burley in Chicago for the White Sox.
The president congratulated him, said it was an unbelievable achievement, something that everybody will always remember.
The president told him maybe it was because he wore the White Sox jacket at the All-Star Game.
Gibbs said Obama told Burley as a fan it's extraordinary when you're a White Sox fan and know the guy who did it.
It makes it even more fun.
Burley got a chance to say a quick hello to Obama last week at the All-Star Game.
President raised eyebrows during the ceremonial first pitch.
He didn't raise eyebrows because he's wearing, oh, this thing says he raised eyebrows because he was wearing a White Sox jacket.
That's not what raised eyebrows.
The girly toss is what raised the eyebrows.
Burley said, yeah, he was taking a little bit of credit because he wore the White Sox jacket at the All-Star Game.
It's not about him, though, folks.
Not about him.
Here, audio soundbite number one.
This is not about me.
I'm the President of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the President of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the President of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the President of the United States.
This is not about me.
I'm the President of the United States.
But the guy who threw the perfect game in Chicago only did it because he was wearing, or because Obama wore a White Sox jacket at the All-Star.
It's not about him.
It's also not about him.
The story for the Chicago Sun-Times, President Obama confided to his Chicago friends Thursday night just how frustrating it is having to fight what he considers false arguments against his proposed health care reform effort.
There aren't any false arguments about it, folks.
He's the one who really doesn't know the specifics.
He speaks in generalities.
He doesn't want to get into the details.
He wants the vote.
By the way, Nancy Pelosi, remember, said yesterday, well, we're going to put the vote off till the fall.
A month doesn't scare me.
I'm not afraid of August.
And Rahm Emanuel goes on NPR says, oh, there's going to be a vote.
There's going to be a vote before the August recess.
And they want that vote precisely to see to it that as few more details as possible get out.
And secondly, they know that their Democrat members are going to go home and catch hell from their constituents during the August recess.
They want the Democrats to vote on this so that after the vote, they catch hell, it won't mean anything.
If they don't vote and go home and catch hell, it's going to be much more difficult to get them to vote for it when they come back.
And this is what the Senate could deal with.
They don't care what Dingy Harry does.
They'll deal with that.
They need this vote in the House.
They need it passed.
And there's nothing the Republicans are going to do to stop this.
This is a Democrat problem that he's got.
Even the Chicago Sun-Times makes mention of this, standing without a teleprompter in the isn't it?
It's news when our president doesn't have a teleprompter around.
Standing without a teleprompter in the living room of his campaign's former national finance chair, I think it's Penny Pritzker, Obama complained to 110 to 130 high-end donors that the scare tactics of the special interests and the lobbyists.
And I'll be honest with you, the incapacity for a sustained focus on the part of the media on the facts and the arguments.
He doesn't, he's got the most compliant, sycophantic media in the history of American presidents.
Maybe, maybe the media love JFK more than they love Obama, but it's so close you can't tell the difference.
And they've sacrificed everything.
They've met their Waterloo in Obama.
They've given up their integrity.
They've given up their professionalism.
They have sacrificed their character all to be stenographers and propagandists for Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama.
So he's upset.
This isn't about me, he said.
This is about health care system that's breaking America's families and breaking America's businesses.
This isn't about me.
There's a couple, a couple things are surfacing here.
This isn't about me.
Let me be clear.
Have you noticed how many sentences he's prefacing with, let me be clear?
And then after that, he's as obfuscated as he can be.
He's not clear.
He's purposely trying not to be clear.
At any rate, brief time out here, folks.
We'll come back.
Open line Friday.
Your phone calls are next right after this.
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, appeared on our Blowtorch affiliate in Dallas today, WBAP, 8.20 a.m. with Mark Davis.
And he said that it is possible that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist Obama's health care plan, which Governor Perry said would be disastrous for Texas.
Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which Perry and Mark Davis both described as Obamacare.
But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a number of states might resist the federal health mandate.
I think you'll hear states and governors standing up saying no to this type of encroachment on the states with their health care.
Back to the phones, Texarkana, Texas.
Natalie, you're on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, here you find.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm calling on a cell phone, so I know you hate that.
I just wanted to talk about the Gates Crowley situation.
Every officer that responds to a situation has no idea if they're running into someone with a weapon.
They're putting their lives on the line.
I don't know if the officer was married with children, but he's got a mother or possibly six or seven.
He has somebody there saying that.
He's got three kids.
Yeah, and our president has the audacity to stand up there and say that this man acted stupidly simply because he was responding to a call.
And I'm just embarrassed about that.
I'm embarrassed for the rest of the world to see that.
You want to know at the root level what I think this is really all about.
Sure.
I'll be happy to tell you then.
The cop shows up at the home of the distinguished, highly respected, big, frequent guest of Oprah, Henry Lewis Gates, and the cop didn't know who he was.
And Henry Louis Gates, how dare you not know who I am?
I am the distinguished Henry Lewis Gates Jr.
I teach at Harvard.
I am loved by Oprah.
I'm a personal friend of the president.
And you don't know it.
This is what he's thinking.
Yeah.
And this dumb cop doesn't know who I am.
How dare you?
You don't.
He didn't say this, Joe.
I don't think you don't.
Maybe he did.
Do you know who you're dealing with?
I think the root of it is that this guy's got this out-of-control ego and thought the cop upon seeing, oh, sorry, Mr. Gates, didn't mean we're just trying to police the neighborhood.
And then the cop didn't know who he was.
And that's to these elites who think they're smarter than everybody else, they're liberals and Harvard types.
That's a supreme insult.
And then you throw the race aspect of it on top of that that Gates introduced.
I mean, the cop didn't escalate this to anything.
Gates single-handedly escalated it, but he didn't.
Obama helped a lot.
Well, after the fact.
You're right.
You're right.
All right.
I mean, if any logical person, red, white, blue, or yellow, thinks that the officer thought he was responding to a white victim, and that's the only reason he went in there gung-ho, then, you know, I mean, I don't know, they're delusional.
He was responding to a crime victim.
The man happened to be black.
Someone could have also been, could have broken into his home and he didn't know they were there, like you said earlier.
And the guy should be thanking him, not, I mean, I'm just embarrassed.
I know, but see, that's not the attitude of the elites don't thank their lessers.
Elites don't respond to their lessers.
See, this is 180 degrees out of face.
That cop should have gotten down on both knees and apologized once he saw the distinguished and respected Henry Louis Gates.
And that didn't happen.
And of course, then, well, it's because the cops are racist and Obama said the cops are stupid, and this is how black men are treated and so forth.
I don't know, but as I say, Henry Louis Gates wasn't shot.
He wasn't kicked.
He wasn't hit.
Nothing happened.
He was arrested.
Charges were dropped, but he was not in any way harmed.
And now he's running around complaining that he's got a mug shot, and the mug shot's going to be all over the place.
Well, join the club, pal.
Join, I mean, you know, our local paper here, do you ever go to the Palm Beach Post website?
Well, you ought to one day at the top of the website.
Before there's any news, before there is any pictures, just up there, you know, with the top headline ban with the weather forecast and current conditions, two mugshots, the latest arrests at the Palm Beach County Jail.
And you can click on it, see the mugshots.
So everybody, I mean, before Obama's threw folks, we're all going to have a mugshot, one way or the other.
Audrey, 12 years old, Triple Falls, Wisconsin.
How are you?
Good.
Am I on?
You're on.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hi, Mr. Lamb.
I'm on.
Well, I just had a question that I asked my dad, and he told me I should call you and ask you.
So I was wondering why Obama doesn't lower taxes at a time like this instead of raising them.
Well, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, do you have your own answer, your own theory to this?
Why you think he doesn't?
Well, kind of, but I'm not really sure.
I don't know much about it yet.
I'm only 12.
Well, that's a good point.
At age 12, what is it that has created your interest in the subject of taxes and whether Obama will cut them or not?
Well, my family, they are big fans of yours.
I mean, I've got over 200 people on my family, like my close family, and they're all big fans of yours.
And we always talk about it constantly.
And I was just really, really curious to get so I could talk with them about it.
Aha.
Well, I'm going to tell you the answer.
I'll do it as briefly and simply as I can.
Okay.
The Declaration of Independence has this phrase in it.
We are all endowed by our Creator, God, with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Now, those rights granted by God and assumed to exist in all human beings by our founders present a problem and a threat to liberal Democrats like President Obama.
The biggest problem President Obama has is the liberty and freedom of the people of this country.
The freedom and liberty that the people in this country have is a large obstacle to him accomplishing what he wants, because what he wants is to expand our federal government and have more control over people's freedom.
In this most recent debate, health care, he wants to be, the government, be the ultimate decider in who gets coverage and how much and who doesn't get coverage.
So, tax cuts allow people who are working to keep more of what they produce.
More income, the more money your dad has, the more money your family has after they pay taxes, the freer you are to spend it on necessities and pleasurable things, your pursuit of happiness and your liberty, and I'm sure your family wants to invest in your future with college education and so forth.
The less money your dad has, because taxes are taken out of it, the less freedom your dad and mom will have to raise you and to provide for the family and so forth.
And therefore, the less money that people have, the more dependent on other people providing services for them they become, in this case, the government.
President Obama wants more people like your father depending on him for whatever he has, not your father and mother depending on themselves.
And of course, same thing for you down the road when you grow up and start earning money.
So it really, the best way to understand it is a freedom and liberty issue.
It is an effort to deny your family and everybody else liberty and freedom.
It really is not about raising revenue for the government to run the government responsibly, Audrey, because if it were, he would be cutting taxes.
Right now, people are losing their jobs and not paying taxes at all.
He's not bothered by that.
He actually finds it helpful to his agenda.
I have to take commercial break.
Can you hang on for three minutes?
Yeah.
Good.
I'm not quite finished.
It's Open Mind Friday.
Rush Limbaugh back to 12-year-old Audrey in Triple Falls, Wisconsin, who has a family of 200, all huge fans of me and this program.
So, Audrey, that's the short, simple answer that I think is the real reason Obama doesn't lower taxes.
Do you have any questions about what I said?
No, we covered all the Declaration stuff in fifth grade, so I really understood what you said.
You have been taught the Declaration since the fifth grade?
Yep.
Okay, good.
I'm happy to hear that's happening, at least in one state.
Did you understand the relationship between high taxes and the loss of liberty and freedom?
Yes.
Okay.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I'm happy to have an opportunity to explain this to you because a lot of people don't look at taxes the way I do.
They don't look at tax cuts the way I do.
Because a lot of people have been led to believe that the more you make, the more you should pay.
It's only fair.
The less you make, the less you should pay.
And right now, 43% of people who work in this country pay no income tax.
The top 1% of wage earners pay 47% of all income taxes, and they're going to have their taxes raised even more to pay for Obama's health care plan and cap and tax plan and so forth and so on.
What he's really trying to do here with his tax policy, Audrey, is what is called redistribute income.
He wants to punish people who have worked hard and have achieved things.
He wants to, with his tax increases, take more of what they have, destroy their wealth, and redistribute it to people for a host of reasons.
Chief among them is to keep getting their votes.
I never thought about it that way.
I don't think that's right.
I'm sorry.
It's not right.
It is tragic.
It is destructive.
It will destroy people's desire to do well.
It will destroy people's pursuit of the American dream.
If the more you make, the more the government's going to take, why earn it?
Why expend the effort and why work?
Especially if you know that your money that you've earned is going to be given to people who, in large cases, are not working.
Audrey, this president is unlike any we've ever had in our country with his ideas.
And there are many Americans who think that his plans have to be stopped.
If America is to be the same country you grow into that your parents grew up in, if you and people your age are to have the same opportunity that, say, I had or your parents had, then Obama's policies must be stopped.
Okay.
Much of what the opposition to President Obama is about is for people's children, like you.
People don't want you to grow up saddled with debt that you can't repay before you've earned your first dollar.
And they don't want you to grow up with diminished opportunity to be whatever you want to be, to be the best you can be.
There's a lot at stake here.
And it's for you and people your age and people that haven't even been born yet.
And the tax policy, raising taxes, is just one of the steps in limiting the opportunity people have for prosperity and success and, of course, exercising their freedom.
So it's a good question.
I'm glad you called and asked me.
Well, thank you for picking up.
You bet.
And tell your 200 family members I love them.
Okay.
All right.
Back to the phones to Fort Worth, Texas.
This is Fran, your next.
It's Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Well, hello.
How are you?
I'm so glad to be able to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
Same here.
I'm going to lodge a complaint because I would like for it to go around the world and most people listen to you.
I'm a 66-year-old great-grandmother.
I live the American dream.
I'm so old, I remember when California was a Republican state.
I bought my house.
I paid my taxes.
I sent my kids to college.
Now that I'm retired, I am looking at a health care bill that I believe will be somebody is going to be telling me what I can have.
They're going to counsel me according to this bill every two years.
Five years.
Five years?
Okay.
Well, they're going to counsel you on preparing you to die.
Right.
Are they going to tell me it's patriotic for me to get off Social Security and off the health care system?
Let me tell you, Betsy McCoy, who was largely instrumental in exposing all the details of Hillary's health care plan back in 1993 and 94.
Betsy McCoy has read in totality both of these bills, the House and Senate bill.
She has a piece at the New York Post today that contains the following information.
Rah Emmanuel has a brother.
His name is Ezekiel.
He's a doctor, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel.
He's already in charge of various health care administrations in the Obama administration.
He is going to be a huge central figure in Obamacare should it become law.
Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel has written, and Betsy McCoy quotes him, I don't have it in front of me, but he has written essentially that it is a waste of money to invest health care in the elderly, that those resources could be spent in our society elsewhere in a much better and more efficient way.
He has, what he plans on doing is expanding the hospice program, the nationwide, federally run, a nationwide, federally run hospice program.
Now, you know, as someone 66, you probably know what hospice is.
Oh, I know what hospice is.
Also, Rush, you know what I really believe?
I believe they're trying to get rid of the old people so they can ensure the illegal aliens for their voting base.
Well, you know, we can guess what they're doing.
I mean, there are a number of theories.
Let's just take your proposition and discuss it hypothetically.
They want to get rid of the old people.
It's fairly clear from looking at details in their plan that they are not going to provide life-saving health care for people with certain diseases at a certain age because of cost.
Now, from that, can we project that they want all people to die?
Well, let's hypothetically say, yeah, they want old people to die.
Then, okay, why?
Well, I can think of two reasons.
A, it would free up a whole lot of money to spend buying votes elsewhere.
Secondly, it would save a whole lot on Social Security.
And if they're looking to save money to spend it elsewhere in society in cultivating younger people to become wards of the state, then it all makes sense.
So now the question becomes: okay, we've discussed this hypothetically.
And I guarantee you, people are listening to this radio show and you and me discuss this.
This is not America.
I can't believe it.
What do you mean?
We're talking about killing people?
This is Soylent Green.
This is Logan's Run.
What are we talking about here?
People cannot, don't want to believe this.
I do believe it.
I do too.
I totally believe it.
It's in the bills.
The motivation is what we're speculating about, but it's in the.
Obama himself said on national television when asked a question about a healthy 100-year-old woman getting a pacemaker, he said, nah, you know, really, give her a pain pill.
Right.
And who is Obama or anybody on this planet able to decide what my health care is going to be?
That's insane.
Not in this country.
Well, now, that's an excellent question, but let me ask you this.
Who is Obama to decide what kind of car you drive?
Oh, I would never buy a Chevy or our Chrysler.
I'm speaking about the constitutional role of the president.
You're exactly right.
He has no right.
Not only he has no constitutional right, he has no business experience.
He has no business, period, running everybody's health care or appointing others to do it.
It's not in the job description.
He doesn't have that power.
He doesn't have constitutionally the power to fire private sector CEOs and take over their companies, but he's doing it all.
All right.
How do we stop him?
That's my thing.
I have been to the tea parties.
I have written my, of course, I'm from Texas.
So the Texans are saying no, but hell no.
But what influence can I have to stop this?
You keep doing what you're doing because it is working.
You know, in the midst of this health care debate, look at where the polls are.
53% of the people now don't want it, don't want the House plan.
Obama has lost a majority advantage in support of the health care plan.
How did this happen?
It didn't happen because the mainstream media is informing people about it.
It happened because an alternative media made up of talk show hosts and bloggers and conservative magazines and so forth and authors are informing people about what's in the bill, and the people are stopping it.
The people are showing up at constituents, as constituents at town hall meetings, giving their representatives hell.
They're more informed than their representatives and senators, and it's working.
The House still hasn't voted on this.
Reports are that the Democrats are not unified behind this because they're constituents back home and not crazy about it.
So you are having an impact.
Well, Bruce, I think you are having an impact.
We all are.
But the next, really what happens next is the election of 2010.
Well, Jan, if I have to go door to door saying don't vote for somebody that is for this junk, I will.
Well, you know, it's old people.
Now, I'm lucky.
I can listen to you every day.
I am informed.
I know what's going on.
A lot of people don't.
And they listen to Obama, and he sounds perfectly reasonable.
If you don't know, he's talking out of the side of his mouth.
He proved in his press conference that even when he doesn't know what he talks about, he sounds authoritative.
It's not what he says.
It's how he says it.
But this, look, it's too soon to say this guy's in trouble.
But this is not where they thought they were going to be.
And it's safe to say that the magic of the Obama cult-like personality is not enough now to get him over the hump on all these things that he wants to do legislatively.
So even if the House doesn't vote on this, they're going to be back, folks.
This is no time to get giddy.
This is really no time to be celebratory.
This is the exact wrong time to think this has been stopped.
Because even if it is temporarily stopped, they'll come back another time for it.
These people are relentless.
It's a daily battle.
The battle's going to go on long after you and I are dead.
This is the nature of liberalism.
You know, I thought of something after I did the interview with Greta Van Susser.
Thanks for the call, Fran.
I thought of something I should have said to her after the interview because I was really rocking and rolling here on the fact that Obama loves this chaos.
He's trying to destroy the United States economy.
He's trying to destroy the institutions, traditions, and amazing country that's purposeful.
And I acknowledged her.
I said, in her audience, this is something you just, as an American, you don't expect that this can happen here.
So when somebody says it is, they might be a kook.
They might be wacko.
No, I see Obama.
He's a nicest, soft-spoken, very smart guy.
Here, the history of the world.
And this is another thing that makes this country so special and so unique and so extraordinary and so exceptional.
The history of the world is tyranny.
The history of the world is dictatorship.
The nature of people who have power is more and more and more.
The nature of human beings in power is control.
Go throughout history.
Look at the world today and count up the nations that are truly free.
And we aren't as free as we used to be.
But all over the world, totalitarian regimes rule in China, in South America, Latin America, and even in the industrialized Western socialist democracies.
You still have socialism there.
You still have people who have sacrificed their own freedom and liberty for what they think is little security when they actually have none without us defending them.
The history of human beings on this planet is murder, tyranny, dictatorship, dungeons, prisons.
That's not the history of this country.
But there have been people throughout this nation's existence who've wanted to turn this country into a typical country in the world.
And just because they're born here and just because they're Americans doesn't mean that they're any different from tyrants and dictators who have lived and ruled in other countries because that mindset is as universal in human beings, regardless of nation boundaries, as it is for other people to demand and want freedom.
I'm a little long here, so I've got to take a commercial break.
But it's not unusual that it would be happening here is my point.
It's human nature, and we've now elected somebody who's oriented in that way of thinking.
And he's got a bunch of buddies in Congress who are oriented that way, too.
And it's right in front of your eyes in their legislation.
It's right there.
The loss of your freedom, the subjugation of your life to theirs, the subordination of your interests to theirs.
It's all there in what they're trying to do.
It's all there in what they're saying.
I got to go.
We'll be right back.
State-run media this afternoon, after the press conference held by Cambridge police officials who demanded an apology from Barack Nyphong regarding the incident with Henry Louis Gates, CNN anchor Tony Harris called the police union conference incendiary.
This is exactly, I knew, I was so hoping this wasn't going to happen, but the flame has been lit.
We don't know what's going to be torched here.
I want you to list two soundbites on the press conference that was incendiary.
According to CNN up first, Steve Killian, who is the president of the Cambridge Police Officers Association.
Cambridge police are not stupid.
I am proud to represent the officers of the Cambridge Police Department.
It is a great department.
As far as the president's comments, the governor's comments, and comments that I did not hear that our mayor made, I think when the time is right, they should make an apology to us.
I think the president should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country who took offense to this.
Up next, the Cambridge Police Union Alan McDonald added this.
First of all, he began his comments by saying he had a personal bias and that he didn't have all of the facts.
The next sentence should have been, so I'm not going to say anything.
Unfortunately, he proceeded to say some things.
He said that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in taking the actions they did.
Second, and more important, the president suggested that somehow, at least implied, there was a link between what happened here and the history of problems between persons of color and law enforcement.
And while that, well, is true in some localities, and it isn't true in Cambridge.
It wasn't true in this case.
Exactly.
Cambridge is an idyllic liberal setting.
These cops probably voted for Obama.
But nevertheless, CNN anchor Tony Harris called those comments incendiary.
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Once again, if anybody acted stupidly here, as we pointed out, it's President Obama who, in this recent episode, is playing the role of the prosecutor in the Duke La Crosse rape case, Mike Nifong, making judgments based on stereotypes, admittedly without any information.
And now the media is saying that the cops wanting an apology is incendiary.
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