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Aug. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
So after all of this talk about the police being too militarized, what does the governor do?
He calls out the National Guard, which is the military.
And you know what else?
He didn't tell Obama.
Nixon didn't tell Obama.
Somehow that's big news.
Obama didn't know they're going to call out the guard.
Apparently Obama didn't want the guard out.
Once again, a video being blamed for all the problems.
First of video in Benghazi.
Now a video in St. Louis.
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Mr. Snerdley walked in and said, Boy, this this thing with Rick Perry.
Can you believe what a farce?
It's not a farce, folks.
Now, I'm I'm not going to be getting to Rick Perry right off the bat here, but I wanted to mention something about it to get it on the table.
It's not a farce.
It isn't a joke.
It isn't, sadly, it's not even a laughing matter.
This is dead serious.
Not that he's done anything wrong.
That's what's dead serious about this is the Democrat Party and their ongoing effort to criminalize political differences or opposition.
All the governor did, and it's spelled out in the end, this is the stupidest, weakest indictment, probably going to be thrown out by the judge.
And they know that, but that doesn't matter.
Because now for the rest of his life, every time Rick Perry's name appears in the headline, so does the word indictment.
Or indicted.
And the purpose of that is to taint and damage any political aspirations he has.
It's no coincidence, and he's been at the forefront of the anti-illegal immigration movement in the past uh couple of months.
This is Travis County, the same place that went after Delay.
The difference uh between Delay and Perry is that they'd spent years demonizing Tom Delay, so that when their indictment finally came with the well-known Ronnie Earl prosecutor, it was no big surprise.
It was just the next shoe-a-drop.
This came out of the blue.
And if you've seen the videotape of the of the uh Democrat Party official drunk driving, abusive to the cops, I it's just it's astounding.
And it's not a joke, and it isn't a farce, and it's not a laughing matter.
It is exactly what the Democrat Party is.
It is exactly what the Republican Party's been up against for years and refuses to recognize, push back against, or do anything.
So I just I wanted to get that mentioned because I'm gonna not gonna be able to get into it in great detail until a little bit later, because of course what's happening in St. Louis is the soap opera leading item of the day.
So many myths, ladies and gentlemen, are on display each and every day in this country.
So many myths and the myths are what make up the daily drive-by news agenda, and that is the daily news agenda of the Democrat Party.
The myth that is driving what happened in St. Louis is that white cops shoot black kids all the time.
That is the myth.
That is the image being created.
That is the purpose of all the coverage.
It is rare.
The truth of the matter is it is rare.
Simple fact of the matter is that the greatest incidents, the most the largest number of criminal incidents against blacks are perpetrated by blacks.
The fact that this is rare is why it's on television.
Well, there's another reason why it's on television, another reason why it's a big deal, and that is because it furthers the myth.
And it furthers the Democrat Party agenda, uh, that the only protectors of the black population in this country, the Democrat Party, and the myth is that the uh the white police cops' forces are every day killing black kids.
But if it were common, if it were something that did indeed happen all the time, it wouldn't be this big a story.
The very fact that it's this big a story is Evidence of its rarity.
And I realize that is a really do you know how controversial that is to say?
I mean, that is so far off the beaten path to say that you wait and see what the drive-by media and their media watchdogs do with that comment later today.
Well, it's true, especially if it's true.
That's exactly why they're going to be coming after me later, especially because this is true.
It is rare.
It doesn't happen every day.
It doesn't happen often.
How many times on this program have we talked about the murders that take place in Chicago every weekend?
The murder of black kids, teenagers, and younger.
Is the media there?
Is the media telling you about even one of those murders?
At any time in this past year, they are not there.
Why aren't they there?
It doesn't further the narrative.
The template, and that is that it's white cops that kill black kids.
In Chicago, it's black kids killing black kids, it's gang members killing innocents and so forth.
There's no news there.
They can't perpetuate a myth.
That would be actually damaging to the cause.
So we can't report that, and we don't report that.
And even when it's mentioned, it is poo-pooed.
The number, I mean, the numbers in Chicago in the course of a weekend have reached as high as 42 to 45 in a single weekend.
And there hasn't been a single individual story about any of those people that were shot dead.
Any of those young kids.
Not one, but in St. Louis.
We have here a gentle giant who was murdered by a white cop, murdered, not murdered by a white cop.
The coverage and the attention is intended to make the people of this country think that this happens all the time.
It is evidence of the racial strife and tension that still exists in this country that has not been solved.
The racism and bigotry that's still front and center.
This country is still plagued by it, and that's what they want everybody to conclude.
They want everybody to conclude we've made no progress in race relations, despite the election of the first African American president.
Doesn't matter.
They'll do everything they can to shield Obama from having any culpability of this because this was supposed to stop with his election.
This wasn't supposed to happen.
We were supposed to have fixed this kind of thing.
But it's a greater story furthering the agenda, the myth to continue to focus attention on this as though it's common, rather, of course, than to focus attention on the fact that Obama's election really hasn't meaned anything in terms of these incidents occurring less and less.
You remember how this story was first reported?
Oh, and by the way, folks, if I might, I ran into something yesterday in the New York Times.
This is a little bit off the beaten path because it's uh it's media.
Well, actually, that doesn't make it off the beaten path.
David Carr, writing for the New York Times, claimed that nobody knew about this story until Wednesday of last week.
And that this story didn't become a story until Twitter got hold of it.
This story became a story because of a hashtag.
That's that's all that happened here.
If it weren't for Twitter, you wouldn't know about this.
That is as bogus and irresponsible as I can think.
We've been talking about this since before last Wednesday has been all over the place since before last Wednesday.
It happened last weekend.
So I want I want I want to get into that too, because the fact that that that, and Carr, by the way, writing for the New York Times is not all that happy about that.
It's not good.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is nothing more than a real-time news feed of citizens.
Who needs the New York Times.
If you've got Twitter that's making the news, if Twitter makes something a story, and what made it a story?
The fact that people outside St. Louis finally found out about it.
Twitter did that, not the New York Times.
And that's not good for the New York Times.
See, the New York Times and the drive-bys used to determine what you thought was news.
They used to determine what was news and what wasn't.
Now Twitter's doing it, and they don't like that.
Who needs David Carr anymore?
If a bunch of citizens tweeting each other can make a story, can create a story before the New York Times issues its story on the matter.
So that's another thing I got to put over here, because that's an important aspect of this as well.
It constitutes and illustrates a changing media.
Uh what?
Media graveyard media, just it's a it's to me, anyway, it's fascinating, and since it's fascinating to me, I have the ability to make it interesting to you, which I which I will.
Now, in um, let's see, what was it?
Uh I don't know, was it was it New York, the New Yorker magazine or the New York Times, Michael.
Michael Brown is 18 years old, walking down the street in Ferguson, Missouri, from his apartment to his grandmother's at 2.15 on a bright Saturday afternoon.
He was, for a young man, exactly where he should be, among other things, days away from his first college classes.
That's that's how all of this began.
Not on Twitter, by the way.
This all began in the New Yorker after the incident.
That's how, and that was picked up by all the drive-bys.
That was picked up by AP.
That was picked up by all the cable news, and that is how the country first learned who Michael Brown was.
Gentle giant, minding his own business, walking down the street, just couldn't wait for college to begin, man.
When he just days away from college classes ramping up.
Oh, yeah.
And then he encountered a white cop who started firing even after the gentle giant put his hands up and surrendered.
That was the story.
Only it wasn't.
Because we later learned that he was not walking from his grandmother's.
He wasn't where he should be, and he probably wasn't thinking with excitement about college classes beginning.
He had just robbed a convenience store.
A box of swisher sweet cigars, which is what you use to make marijuana joints out of.
Blunts.
You get a razor blade, Dawn, here's how it works.
You weren't here Friday, you don't know about this.
Your kids don't do dope.
Here's how it happens.
You get these swisher sweets, they're long, thin cigarillos, and you take a razor blade, you slice them open lengthwise, you strip the tobacco out, you put the marijuana in, you got a blunt.
You re-roll it.
That's what Swisher Sweets are for, it's what he was stealing.
What he stole.
Now we have come, and there were now they've released a video of this.
Of the bank of the of the of the robbery of the holdup.
So now we have an entirely different story, and then people say, why did they wait to release the video?
Why didn't they release the video right away?
And everybody on Friday was trying to figure that out.
Well, now we know.
There were two reasons why the video wasn't released.
And according to some in the drive-bys, Eric Holder, the Justice Department, wanted that video suppressed.
It turns out that the videotape of Mr. Brown allegedly the gentle giant robbing a convenience store was withheld at the request of the DOJ, meaning Eric Holder, which means Barack Hussein Obama.
Are you shocked to hear that?
I'm not.
We even said we thought it was being withheld by the police.
But there's a second reason why.
Let's go back to Friday.
And by the way, what I'm going to tell you next, we didn't know when the program ended at 3 o'clock.
All we knew was when the program ended at 3 o'clock, we had the video.
And the robbery had taken place, and there was no question it was a gentle giant who had robbed the convenience store and his buddy, the only eyewitness, well, except now there's another one.
With a story that doesn't help the myth.
What?
In due course, we'll get to that.
So the gentle giant robs the store, leaves, and the next thing we know he's encountered by a cop.
Well, we left here at three o'clock on Friday.
The assumption was that the cop was tracking down a known robbery suspect.
Except after the program ended at three o'clock on Friday, the police chief announced no, no, no, no, that the officer did not know that there had been a robbery.
Well, that caused the media and everything.
Well, then why did what uh but then what uh why did you release it?
All kinds of confusion ensued once again.
Well, here's the key to this, folks, at least in the video side.
The cop didn't know that there had been a robbery.
And the cop did not know that the gentle giant was a suspect, but the gentle giant knew.
The gentle giant knew he had robbed a convenience store, and his buddy who was with him knew that they had together robbed a convenience store.
And probably the gentle giant assumed that the cop knew.
At any rate, the fact that the cop didn't know is one thing, but the fact that the gentle giant did know that he had just robbed a store, and here's a cop on his tail, has everything to do with the behavior of the gentle giant.
And I think that's why they released the video for a trial down the road.
Because it goes to establishing attitude on the part of the suspect.
Cop may not have known.
He may not have known.
I mean, he stopped the guy for jaywalking.
He was walking in the middle of the street and uh wouldn't get out of the middle of the street, so the cop took action to get him out of the middle of the street, and then the suspect started behaving in odd ways.
The cop just didn't randomly pull the gun and start firing them.
Although the myth wants you to believe that.
The myth wants you to believe the cop just because the suspect was black and big, felt frightened, felt scared because the cop's racist, don't you know?
And so no matter what the gentle giant did, it was intimidating because he's black, and so the cop pulls a gun and starts firing, and we are where we are.
Except the gentle giant knew he had robbed a store, he didn't know the cop didn't know.
So now there's controversy about that video.
So here we are again, another video being blamed for whatever.
First Benghazi, now this.
Audio sound bites on this coming up, have to take a break, sit tight, there's much more, barely scratched the surface, as is the case on every program at this point in time.
Don't go away.
And we're back, Rushlin Boy on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
The fact that the cop did not know that the gentle giant had just robbed a store, but the gentle giant knew he had robbed a store, would explain the cop being shocked and surprised and taken aback at Brown's reaction to being told to get off the street.
This is crucially important.
The gentle giant knew he had robbed a store, had to think the cop knew, but the cop didn't know.
The cop thought he was dealing with somebody walking in the middle of the street who wouldn't listen to him.
And I checked the email during the break.
Rush, I don't understand this myth.
What's the purpose of the myth?
Okay, I don't mind explaining this over and over.
What is the myth?
The myth is that white cops shoot black kids, innocent black kids all the time.
That's the myth.
It's not true.
White cops do not kill innocent black kids all the time.
It doesn't happen that often.
That's why when it does, it's always such a big story.
But when black gangs kill black kids in Chicago in the tunes of the 20s and 30s in terms of numbers of deaths, it never makes the news because it doesn't further the myth.
And of course, to answer the purpose of the myth, you have to understand what?
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
The politics of it.
There's a whole lot of money in the race industry.
The Reverend Jackson's out there, he tried to fundraise today in front of a crowd, and he was booed by the crowd.
He wanted to raise money off of this.
That's what the myth is.
The myth is that there is continued black victimization and harassment every day, all the time, by white cops.
That's the political agenda that advances.
The killing of Michael Brown is supposed to represent something.
What is it supposed to represent?
You have to answer this properly to understand it properly, you have to know what the politics of this are, and as is the case.
Folks, with everything, particularly every leading story in the drive-by media, it is all politics.
They disguise it as having to do with other things like sorrow and sadness and compassion, but this is all politics.
What what what is the what's the sign here?
What what what does this mean?
Why is this a story?
The myth, the myth is that whites who are associated with Republicans, white cops murder innocent black kids all the time.
And that's why we need people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and a nation of Islam and whoever outraising money on this, trying to do something about this never-ending discrimination, which never does seem to end, does it?
At least the reports of it never seem to end.
No matter how much progress is ever made, we never hear about that.
It's every time there is a single example, even if it's once a year.
It becomes a lead story in the media for as long as necessary to make the political point and to keep the money flowing in.
And right behind all this you'll find a Democrat Party, which needs, as we have chronicled and stated, I don't know how many times, a permanent underclass of subservient, poor, low-skilled dependents on government, voting for them.
There are lots of them, and if you run out of them, you import them via illegal immigration.
And that is exactly what this is.
The Democrat Party, I think, profits from racial strife.
Something like this happens behind closed doors, they kind of rub their hands to go, oh man, oh man, right before the midterms.
And what an opportunity we've got here.
Like the Rick Perry indictment.
Do you think it's coincidental, ladies and gentlemen, that suddenly all of the top candidates for the Republican presidential nomination now have been tarred by phony criminal complaints?
Scott Walker, Wisconsin, how many times?
Governor.
Chris Christie, Bridgegate, come on.
New Jersey.
Now Rick Perry.
And let's not forget the criminal attempts that the efforts to criminalize Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, this is the Democrat Party, front and center, everything that is a lead story in the news is to advance the Democrat Party agenda.
And all the coverage, the way the story shaped, flamed and formed is designed to do the exact same thing.
And it's all predicated on a myth here that this happens all the time.
And isn't that sorrowful?
And isn't it such a terrible thing about our country?
I looked it up.
32 people were shot, five dead in Chicago this past weekend.
Those numbers don't change much from weekend to weekend.
32 people shot, five dead in Chicago over the weekend.
Now, other reports claim twenty nine were shot, not 32.
And that seven people died, not five.
But you get the point.
Is there any national media in Chicago?
I was watching uh CNN last night, Mark Lamont Hill, who was a commentator analyst for CNN.
He said, and he said very happily, by the way, that most of the agitators on the ground in St. Louis are from Oakland.
Had you heard that, Mr. Snertley?
And get this.
The head of the new Black Panther Party in Oakland is out claiming they are in charge, that they're running the show.
They even told the uh the Missouri Highway Patrolman, Ronald Brown.
Hey, we got this under control.
We're handling this.
Outside agitators are coming in from Oakland.
That according to Mark Lamont Hill, who's in favor of it, by the way.
Don't you know?
That's another myth that the people of St. Louis are marching.
It was my point the other day when saying it just down the road of Bush Stadium, sold out baseball game, Cardinals and Padres, right at the roads Ferguson.
Wait a minute.
And then St. Louis was on fire.
These looters.
Does it make sense that looters would tear up, burn down, and destroy their own town?
Why don't they figure out that, hey, you know, six blocks over and they can destroy other people's stuff?
Why their own?
Well, what if they're from Oakland?
And it isn't their stuff no matter where they go.
There's so many myths, folks, so many uh myths, misrepresentations, falsehoods, templates, narratives, and they're all BS.
And it's going to get increasingly difficult to get to the bottom of this.
Let's go to the audio sound bites because this video reports out today that uh the videotape of the gentle giant robbing the convenience store were withheld at the request of the DOJ, which is Eric Holder, which is Barack Obama.
Are you surprised to hear that?
What's Washington got Washington didn't know that Nixon had called out the guard.
What do you mean they're suppressing the video?
DOJ is claiming they had the video suppressed because they were afraid it would inflame the situation and turn Ferguson into another Benghazi.
They didn't say that I added that because Benghazi's nothing but a cheap Republican scandal, don't forget.
Nothing really happened there.
Nothing to see there.
Jeremyhead, Rob Reiner, the stupid idiot, that uh that is considered to be Hollywood brilliance, came out and said, you know what?
He was being interviewed by Larry King on Larry King's internet show, which means nobody saw it.
Rob Reiner said, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tea Party, Hamas, same thing.
You need to deal with them the same way.
You need to eliminate them.
You know, wipe them both out.
Tea Party, Hamas, same thing.
There you go.
Larry King there nodding.
Oh, that's for interesting point of view.
Looks like Ken Starf is an alien, kid smoking cigarettes, so uh Clinton in the bedroom, right?
So Holder and Obama suppressed the video.
Because they were afraid the facts of the case might damage or dampen the rage against the cops.
I mean, here you remember now.
The original report, Michael Brown, gentle giant, walking down the street, so excited, just left his grandmother's house and whatever he's so excited.
He just days away from college classes, and now all of a sudden there's a video release.
Uh oh, not so much walking down the street a few short minutes in the grandmother's house, eagerly anticipating history 101.
No, he was robbing a convenience door.
Speaking of information that's been suppressed, we have learned also today that the results from the autopsy commissioned by the Brown family showed that all the shots were fired from the front of Mr. Brown.
That's three autopsies now.
Three St. Louis authorities did one, the feds did one, and the family did one.
And the family hired Michael Biden.
And Biden went out there.
There was a press conference today.
Do you know what?
Even the public is getting into press conference.
The public is getting in there pretending to be journalists.
They probably all tweet.
The public was asking better questions than some of the media.
What was that?
Oh the what?
Yeah, the uh what the question from the member of the public to Michael Bod said, well, now you know they're doing a clinic clinical explanation of the shots of six of them and arms and uh head, top of the head.
And and a member of the public, disguised as a journalist.
Whoa, were any of these fatal?
Which ones could have been survived?
And by, you know what?
Hey, that's a fascinating question.
You know what?
I am glad you asked that.
It took a member of the public to ask a question that everybody would like to know.
And he said four of them were survivable.
Four shots, two of them to the head.
Likely not.
And everybody's making a big deal out of the shot to the top of the head.
Gentle giant 6'4 bending over.
What the hell is that?
How does he end up being shot top of the head?
6'4, gentle giant short cop.
How does it work?
Must have been murder.
That's how it works.
I'm sorry.
So the bottom line is, though, that all these autopsies contradict one of the first things we heard that the gentle giant had surrendered and was running away.
Shot in the back.
How many of you remember hearing that?
You remember hearing that, Mr. Snerdley?
Gentle Giant was shot in the back.
I mean, last week, you remember hearing that?
I do too.
I said, Oh, that doesn't look good.
That's not cool.
Well, today we learned he was not shot in the back.
Hmm.
Three different autopsies.
Holder said, Yeah, we gotta do our own, because you know you can't trust these local yokels.
Well, he didn't say that, but what else does he mean?
What happens if they do another autopsy and they say, uh, uh, uh, uh, we've got an autopsy here.
We found a bullet wound.
Looks like it actually came from the rear.
What happens then?
Well, this news that all of the shots were fired in front of the gentle giant did not sit well with the New York Times, who first reported it.
I have it right here.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
They buried their own scoop.
Because this was such a blow.
This was such a blow to the narrative that Dr. Baden and the family's lawyers had to hold this press conference today to try to explain away this because being shot in the back was such a fundamental aspect of the case.
And now the autopsy says, no, no, no, no, no, there were no shots fired from the back.
That's why they called the emergency press conference today.
And uh and explained about other things.
But but but don't worry because Holder has ordered uh uh actually it's two autopsies.
He's ordered a third, uh, which I don't guess they're gonna keep uh looking.
I got audio sound bites to support all this, and you gotta hear them because it's it's it's mythming 101.
And we will be back.
Don't go away.
Let's go to audio sound bites, and we have a montage Saturday and Sunday of a bunch of drive-by media people talking about the video being blamed for the release of the video in St. Louis, being blamed for the violence and looting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Nights of looting and violence following the release of this video.
A piece of video becomes a new flash point.
Anger here, apparently sparked in part by the release of the surveillance video.
Protesters very angry that the police there released this surveillance video.
Violence erupting after police in Ferguson, Missouri released surveillance video.
The pot boiled over Friday when the Ferguson police chief released this surveillance video.
Protesters were outraged over the release of the video.
Federal authorities did not want police to release this video over concerns of further escalating the situation.
It escalated Friday night after Ferguson police released a video.
There was peace, but then the local police chief released that video.
Releasing that video, which seemed to just really inflame people.
This video of the shoplifting.
It changed the storyline.
Why?
Would somebody tell me why?
There is a misconception out there until the video is released.
The misconception is that a gentle giant was walking down the street eager to start college classes.
And a murderous, racist white cop came up and for no reason, without much provocation, shot him.
And then this video gets released on Friday, and it shows that the gentle giant was not innocent.
He had shoplifted.
More information was added, not less.
Nothing was changed.
No lies had taken place.
They just released a video.
And this is enough to cause looting and riots and so forth.
Why?
When are these looters and rioters going to figure out that all they got to do is move five or six blocks and they can destroy other people's stuff instead of their own town?
But why would the release of the video?
No, I'm talking about in a sane world.
Why would more information hey, this changes things a little bit?
Because it destroyed the myth, folks.
That's why.
Because it destroyed the myth.
The phony narrative that had been created all week long, all of a sudden destroyed, because now the gentle giant could no longer be seen.
The way he was originally portrayed.
I've got no dog in the fight.
I'm just, you know, I'm I'm like anybody else.
I hate seeing all this.
But I'm not going to sit around here and join this chorus of people thinking you gotta understand the rage.
We gotta back on.
You know, on Friday night, I think it was Friday night, I've lost track of the day.
The cops just backed off and let it happen?
What's the purpose of police force?
Defend and protect property, private property, and people.
The looting begins.
They back off.
The highway patrol captain said, Yeah, we thought it would be less provocative or some such thing.
We thought maybe let them just burn off some tension and steam.
Well, they're they're destroying people's property in the process.
Like saying we better not try to catch them or stop them, it's just gonna make them matter, and they'll just riot even more.
Well, using that logic, we shouldn't ever try to apprehend any bad guy if all it's gonna do is make matters worse.
Now remember this video release.
The key thing to remember about this is that at the time of the incident, the cop, Darren Wilson, didn't know.
This was announced a little bit uh you know, a few hours after the video was released.
The cop didn't know that the gentle giant had robbed a convenience store, but the gentle giant knee that he had robbed a convenience store and had to think that the cop knew.
I mean, if you rob a convenience store, and six to ten minutes later you encounter a cop on the street, what are you gonna think?
You're gonna think the words out, you've been caught, and they're coming after you.
And it might have some influence in the way you behave in that encounter.
But the cop didn't know.
Well, I don't think the release of the video was done uh to taint the suspect or the gentle giant, I think releasing the video was done to explain the actions of the cop, particularly when it comes out later that he didn't know.
But the gentle giant did.
That's the suspect knew what he had done.
The cop didn't.
Therefore, the cop has no way of making sense of his behavior.
Hey, young man, get off the street.
Not allowed to be walking here in the middle of the street, and whatever reaction happened is not commensurate with somebody who's just being reprimanded for jaywalking.
But the cop doesn't know.
I think it's fundamentally crucial and important.
Jay Nixon, the governor piled on too.
He uh he thinks that the uh place was peaceful.
They had peace there.
They had peace in Fergus until the cops released the video to smear Michael Brown's character.
How do you how do you how do you smear some and more of the myth?
How do you smear somebody's character?
Who who who would who had just choplifted?
How do you s how do you do that?
How does that happen?
Now you add to all this, all these low information twerps out there soaking all this stuff up.
Imagine how much they think they know about this, and they're dead wrong about 90% of it.
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