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Aug. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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I just became aware, and I'm gonna have to try to pass this on to you via memory.
Because I don't have this written down.
But I just became aware of officer uh uh Darren um uh the mental Darren Wilson's account of what happened.
And it's well, needless to say, it's markedly different than the myth that is being told.
Essentially, the officer's version of events is he's in his patrol car, and he encounters Michael Brown and his buddy, Jaywalking, they're walking in the middle of the street, and he tells him he approaches him in the car and tells him to get off the street into the sidewalk.
And then the officer admits at that point he's he's heard a radio call on the robbery at this point, but he doesn't know that this guy's the suspect yet.
But he's heard the call.
He sees that Brown is carrying what looks like a box of cigars, might in fact be the suspect in the robbery.
But remember now, Brown does know that he robbed the store at this point.
The gentle giant knows that he robbed the store, and it's safe to assume that he thinks the cop knows.
I mean, if you just robbed it, if you had just robbed a convenience store ten minutes earlier and a cop approaches you, you've got to think that's already, I mean, the cop knows.
So that is going to factor into his behavior.
Then the cop's version of events is that that Michael Brown reaches into the car and attempts to get the gun and and uh engages the officer, Darren Wilson physically, pushes him and so forth, tries to get the gun.
You've heard evidence of that, that uh some of the media poo-pooh that that couldn't be, it would never happen in Gentle Giant, blah, blah.
And at one point did get the gun.
And then the officer got out of the car and somehow got the gun back.
The officer's account is he said that that the gentle giant appeared to be on something because he got the gun back.
There was a uh the first shot was an accidental discharge.
There was not the gun hadn't been aimed or anything.
And after the suspect reached in the police car, shoved the cop, taunting the cop, then the cop gets out of the car and the suspect runs away.
With the cop giving chase.
Then the suspect stops, turns around, and starts taunting the cop and saying, You'll never shoot me, you'll never shoot me.
And some more shots ring out, and then the suspect bum rushes the cop.
Starts running right for the cop.
That's when the cop said, in his opinion, it looked like he was on something.
There were more shots, one to the forehead, which uh is now the one on the top of the head in the autopsy, and that the suspect then fell to the ground three feet from the officer.
No shots from behind.
This account has apparently been repeated by somebody who is a friend of Darren Wilson, who um told this story after having heard it from Darren Wilson, told it to other people.
And so there's there's two versions.
Well, the th the two people telling the same story.
So that's it, and I'm sorry, that's as much as I've got, as much as I was able to grab in the brief break at the top of the hour, that the officer was bum rushed by the suspect.
The suspect reached in the window of the cop car, attempted to get the gun.
The officer thought the suspect was on something.
Uh, And if this version is true, if that's what actually happened, it is a far cry from the story that has been out there all week long.
And that story is innocent young gentle giant just eagerly anticipating his first college classes on his way on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to his grandmother's house over the river through the woods to grandmother's house, was accosted by a typically white racist cop and gunned down for no reason.
That's been the story that's been out there all week.
And the latest, by the way, from the Washington Post, just to reiterate, if you haven't heard this, the county medical examiner, Mary Case has revealed that Michael Brown was shot from the front, and by the way, all the autopsies so far agree with that.
There were no shots to the back, and that he had marijuana in his system.
So that's the Washington Post participating in its character assassination and smear of the suspect.
So I want, as I say, uh I'm repeating that largely from memory.
I made some real quick notes as I was hearing this be described.
But that's the officer's version of things, the officer's account.
And he did say he was afraid, and he was afraid for his life because the suspect appeared out of control, had reached into the window of the cop car, was bum rushing him after some shots had already been fired, was taunting the cop, you'll never shoot me, you'll never shoot me.
And it was when he bum rushed the cop in the middle of the street that the shots, the fatal shots, were fired.
So that's that.
And I'm I'm sure as that version gets out there, it's gonna cause probably more looting and more rioting and more agitation from the people like Michael Eric Dyson and Mark Lamont Hill, and let's see who else.
Uh Eric Holder.
Uh who else would be out there upset with this?
Uh governor probably upset with this.
Who knows?
A lot of people will be irritated that this account has gotten out there because the myth has been carefully carefully crafted.
Now to Rick Perry.
This is this is uh when I when I first heard this over the weekend, I can't tell you how uh outraged I was.
Scott Walker, Chris Christie, and now Rick Perry, three potential Republican presidential nominees, all smeared, all targeted via indictment and criminal charges simply because of political differences.
And I don't care what happens here.
The media will see to it that from now on for the rest of his life, every news story featuring Rick Perry will have the word indicted in it.
In the first paragraph, every story for the rest of his life.
Every other headline, the indicted governor, formerly indicted, acquitted, yes, but still indicted.
Remember now we're talking presidential candidate.
I don't care how far gone we are, with low information voters, they are never gonna support an indicted Republican.
They'll support indicted Democrats left and right.
So it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter the outcome here.
This is you you want to talk about a smear.
This is a smear.
This is character assassination.
But I want to tell you a little bit about who did it.
It's not just Travis County, it's not just the DA and the grand jury in Travis County.
This all started with a report by a group called Texans for Public Justice.
It's a report that is it it claims to document 100 wealthy donors who have sought corporate welfare, relaxed regulatory rules or other government favors in exchange for their political largesse in Texas gubernatorial races.
Texas or Texans for Public Justice calls these people that it targets profiteers, says that the ranks of the profiteers include corporate welfare kings, snake oil salesmen, money launderers, tax evaders, tort dodgers, tobacco hacks, toxic waste dumpers, Texans for public justice.
The director, Craig McDonald, says a disturbing number of these profiteers made a fortune off government handouts, or by bending or breaking regulatory rules.
This report was published in January of 2000, and it was targeted at then Governor George W. Bush, who had just launched his campaign for president.
Texans for public justice.
Now, George W. Bush and Rick Perry are not the only Texas conservatives seeking higher office who have been charged with crony capitalism by Texans for public justice.
Texans for public justice leveled similar charges against John Cornyn, Senator from Texas in January of 2002 while Cornyn was the Texas Attorney General preparing to run for the United States Senate.
Texans for Public Justice issued a scathing report entitled Cornen's Corporate Sponsors.
Now Texans for Public Justice, according to Mark Pieson, is a left-wing attack group that seems to issue scathing crony capitalism attacks on Texas conservatives just as they prepare to run for national office.
Texans for Public Justice gets funding money from George Soros and other left-leaning foundations.
They're not even from Texas.
Texans for Public Justice is not even Texas.
And nothing about them is public.
And they're not interested in justice.
Texans for public justice first appeared in Texas in 1997 when veteran operatives from groups like Ralph Nader's Public Citizen came to Texan, Texas to set up the organization.
Now there may or may not be something to the crony capitalism charges against Rick Perry.
We're going to find out more as the presidential campaign unfolds.
But what we have here is a group of left-wing activists, much like media masters, media matters goes after media people.
Here's a group, not even of Texans, not even from Texas, that attempts to smear conservatives in Texas who are on the verge of seeking higher office, either the Senate or the presidency.
You throw this in with what happened with Rick Perry, and you can see that the Democrat Party is doing its level best to criminalize what are essentially political differences.
And this is not new.
The attempt to criminalize the opposition has been a tactical effort of the Democrat Party and the American left for the last 25 or 30 years.
It is done in large part because the left knows they cannot defeat conservatives and Republicans in a quote unquote fair fight in the arena of public ideas.
They just can't do it.
And it is an ongoing thing at this point.
Some people are hoping, gee, maybe people will finally find out what the Democrat Party is really all about.
I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
The indictment of Rick Perry is two counts.
It's all of two pages.
It charges Rick Perry with abusing his office by threatening to veto legislation that had been approved and authorized by the legislature of the state of Texas to provide funding for the continued operation of the public integrity unit of the Travis County District Attorney's Office.
Unless the Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lemberg resigned from her official position.
That's it.
That is the indictment.
That's it.
That Rick Perry threatened to veto legislation funding that office unless they got rid of her.
And the reason he did so, and he says he would do it again over and over, is because this woman is a drunken fool.
And all aspects of her drunken foolness have been on tape, have been captured.
She blew three times the regular, the legal limit in alcohol in a breathalyzer.
She was abusive, she was threatening, ugly.
It was just when they dragged her into the police station.
I'm a Democrat.
I'm the DA, you can't do this to me.
And it was just ugly.
And it was it was ugly all the way around it.
Rick Perry said, I am not going to fund an office with somebody like this running it.
Ethics and public integrity mean more than this, and I'm not going to do it.
And he was simply exercising a constitutional provision.
The veto.
It would be no different here.
If the Republicans tried to indict Obama for vetoing something, that would never happen.
It is it folks, it is just not funny, and it is not a farce.
It is deadly serious because you never know where this could go.
If they're able to criminalize a line item, and this is line item veto, if they're able to criminalize this.
And you just never know once it gets into a legal system that's been populated by leftists everywhere in the judiciary.
There's a grand jury that handed up this indictment.
So, Same office that indicted Tom DeLay, again for political differences.
In his case, it was fundraising.
But that's all they've got.
Threatening to veto legislation that had been approved.
The veto is a constitutional power.
And now every news story about Rick Perry is going to carry the word indicted.
And you know, as well as I do that in this country, everybody believes law enforcement.
Everybody except in Ferguson, sorry.
And LA if OJ's involved.
And Wisconsin when Scott Walker's involved.
But for the most part, everybody believes the prosecutor.
Everybody believes the cops.
Why would they waste their time on people who aren't guilty?
Just law and order and justice and the uniformed people that stand for it.
They always are believed.
Roswell, Georgia, and Bob, great to have you.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
My wife is going to be really upset because she has tried to call you over and over again.
And uh the fact that I got through is gonna, she's just gonna be floored.
And she will be envious as she can be.
She certainly will.
I called, I called about something I saw on television this morning, but I was gonna make a quick comment about what you were just talking about as far as as far as the indictments on the on the three gentlemen you know the GOP candidates uh isn't this the same thing that President Obama did to his competition as he came up through politics in Illinois I mean he would he would file lawsuits he's make allegations and then the things would not get resolved until after the election and by then it was too late.
Well he would he would engage in character assassinations what Obama was famous for doing was having secret court documents unsealed and released divorce records and um and other such things which ended up besmirching the character of his opponents and they re they they oftentimes just resigned and he didn't have any opposition.
Right.
Now I'm I'm out of time uh I've got to go take a break but uh hang on since you didn't get to what you really called about hang on just a second we'll get back don't go away okay back to Bob in Roswell Georgia you called about the press conference with the family today.
Right the uh we watched the press conference that had the attorneys for the family and uh Dr. Baden and the gentleman that was helping him with the autopsy and the thing that got my attention was the first gentleman that spoke he keep he kept using the term how the policeman executed the young man.
That was the family attorney, Mr. Crump.
He was from Florida.
Well, he was the Trebon Martin family lawyer.
Well, just using the word executing, what does that say right there?
You know, obviously it sounds like maybe he's, to use what you spoke about earlier, maybe he's trying to reestablish the myth, if you will.
And what else is he doing?
He's out there potentially souring the jury pool if this all comes to a trial, because this man, I've heard it at least twice and maybe more, he kept referring to the policeman that executed the young man.
Right, because that's what everybody already thinks.
So he is, the myth has already been established.
The myth was established early last week.
He's just perpetuating it with that.
And that's, that to me, I think that's irresponsible.
But of course you can't say that, because he's a minority and therefore a victim, and we have to understand the rage, and we have to understand their anger and so forth.
that's incendiary to me.
This whole thing is incendiary this whole thing is a myth.
The whole thing is based on a myth that it happens all the time this whole thing is based on the fact that this is a common occurrence not just in St. Louis but in America and as part of the myth once again the minority community is fed up with it and they're not going to put up with it anymore and so they burn and
loot their own neighborhoods.
To talk about this as an execution is, it poisons the jury pool, but it also is designed to make sure that if there is another version of this that's the truth, then it won't be believed.
Poisoning the well, I think this is called.
But remember, this is a family press conference, a family lawyer, and this is designed to convey the family's feelings about all of this.
Anyway, I'm glad you called, Bob.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for holding on.
This is Thomas, Southside of Chicago.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
This whole thing with Perry, it's unbelievable.
The whole Democratic Party aspect is they're all crooks, they're all corrupt, they're all all criminals and uh I'm from Cook County and that's where they learned it.
So whether it's Travis County or Cook County or Dade County and I forgot to tell you screener you can throw in Hennepin County in Minnesota they're all the same.
They use they use and recruit their prosecutors based on their political bent and and it's used as a weapon it's it's the tip of the spear and they use an indictment instead of the ballot you know or the uh and I'm an ex-precin captain for the Democratic party I've I've recovered I've uh right seen the like.
Well, you can bet, you can you can bet if the Republicans ever tried something like this to indict a Democrat governor for exercising a veto.
I shudder to think what the news would look like that day.
I shudder to think what cable I don't think you could bottle the rage.
I don't think you can keep it contained on TV.
I think your TV would be smoking.
Your TV might catch fire.
The rage of commentators would be so uncontrollable.
But when this app boy, this is a smart, smart move, because they got Perry when he wasn't looking.
Here's Perry, he's really feeling his oats.
He's thinking he's scoring some major points, and he's also helping the state.
He's taken on Obama and the left on this illegal immigration business.
He's doing his best to represent not only the people of Texas, but he's representing a majority of Americans, and he's feeling really good, and he's got a lot of media attention, and he's on a comeback trail from his previous presidential campaign, where he didn't shine so well, according to some.
But now he's putting it all together.
He's coming back for a new run, and out of the blue comes this.
Governor of Texas indicted.
Forget what follows.
The low information crowd isn't gonna hear or care.
All they're gonna do is hear that a governor has been indicted.
Meanwhile, people like Ted Kennedy walk free.
Bill Clinton gets a standing ovation wherever he goes for whatever it is, he is celebrated for getting away with.
Make no mistake, that's why they love him.
Because he got away with it.
Dan Rather is given a journalist award after making up a totally phony story about George W. Bush.
That was to take Bush out in 2004.
Bush and the National Guard.
They have been on this road of criminalizing conservatism for as long as this program has been on the air.
Their desire to do it, they have never in these past 26 years, um, had the kind of success with it they've had over the last five.
Look at Chris Christie and Bridgegate.
Whatever you think.
I mean, that was just preposterous.
Scott Walker, look at what they tried in Wisconsin with him.
And he beat it all back.
He ought to be one of the biggest Republican stars out there.
The Republican Party itself should have made him one.
But he's too conservative for them, I guess.
Uh but I think I know I know this is this is just uh it's it's it's outrageous.
I I don't know how you go about informing low information people.
Hell.
And even people that aren't low information.
And this is, you know, this group of people paying for this, not even from Texas.
Texans for public justice and all these efforts to criminalize Republicans in Texas for crony capitalism.
In addition to this thing, in addition to this indictment from the Travis County DA.
It is clear, I'll tell you one thing.
The Democrats are playing a different game than the Republicans are.
I don't think the Republicans even know which field to take.
And it doesn't matter, really, because whatever field they end up, the Democrats own it.
The aggressor always sets the rules.
In any conflict.
Uh there's the story out of Detroit.
This is from the UK Guardian.
Detroit police chief James Craig, who's nicknamed Hollywood for his years spent in the LAPD, has repeatedly called on good and law-abiding Detroiters to arm themselves against criminals in the city.
And his words have not fallen on deaf ears.
Patricia Champion, 63-year-old lifelong Detroiter, grandmother, retired educator, decided to get her concealed pistol license two years ago after her son said he was increasingly worried for her safety.
Champion's a resident of Northwest Detroit, mostly keeps her gun, a nine-millimeter clock 19, in her house.
Imagine this.
You think the Democrats are fit to be tied on the second amendment?
Police chief in Detroit urging people to buy guns.
It's also, I would think, a bit of an admission that they can't, that the cops cannot totally defend people and protect people.
Isn't it?
And he pretty much saying, hey, look, don't count on us.
We may not be able to get to each one of you in distress.
You better arm up.
Who runs Detroit, by the way?
And who has run Detroit for all these years?
And be Democrats, where are all these white cops that are killing black people in Detroit?
Where is all that happening?
If this myth, if this is if this is so common in America, when's the last time it happened before Ferguson?
Gotta take a brief time out, but don't go anywhere because we're coming back after this.
Here's Mike in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the show.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Yes.
First time caller, longtime listener.
Great to have you here.
Quick question for you.
About the uh Michael Brown case.
The video that was released showed the uh Michael Brown and an accomplice.
Clearly shoplifting or robbing, if you will, uh the convenience store.
Uh my question is, why hasn't the accomplice been arrested?
Uh you know, he's come out as a material witness in what happened uh later on in the shooting, but he hasn't been arrested uh as an accomplice in that uh crime.
I don't know.
Um and he may have been, I don't know either, but I think that's interesting.
Well, he he's uh he's not the primary perp.
We may never know.
I don't think he's gonna be wrecked.
Can you see him arresting him now?
You see him make a No, well, no, I guess you're right, but uh at some point he uh he needs to uh he needs to pay for what he did.
Well, he's the only eye witness.
Oh, I take it back now.
There's another eyewitness.
There's a 19-year-old woman as an eyewitness, and she happened to be videoing it.
And I have the transcript of what she said, and it is a problem because she clearly says that he's running away, and then turns around and runs back at him.
And she run it at him.
The next thing I know and think the dude started running.
And then she also garbled something.
He took it from him, meaning Michael Brown took the gun.
There is another witness to this.
Well, the one, the witness that I'm talking about, of course, was with Brown in the store, and the video clearly shows that.
Yeah, but but I I don't have the memory of the video right in front of me, but I the uh I don't I don't remember much about the witness.
I I remember the gentle giant, and I remember the proprietor comes up to him as he's walking out the door, uh, and the gentle giant pushes the proprietor away, points a finger at him, and the proprietor slinks away.
Just gentle giant being a gentle giant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, what's mine is mine.
Possession nine-tenths of the law store owner, and I've got it.
Right now, anyway, uh, I really the the eyewitness is uh been lost in the mix for at least as far as I'm concerned.
If there's anything to know about it, I'll find out.
And if it's worthy and relevant, I'll let you know.
Now there's some things I didn't get to today.
Well, I do, I'm I'm thinking of talking this.
David Carr, New York Times, thinks Ferguson didn't become a story to let Twitter hashtag make it a story.
I cannot let that stand, but there's more to it than that.
The fact that he thinks that shows the lack of confidence that people in the drive bys have right now about their own business.
And Kareem Abdul Jabbar had one of the most nonsensical pieces, quasi intellectual pieces in Time magazine about Ferguson.
And I may take a stab at analyzing that.
But that's gonna be hard.
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