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Aug. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Sometimes I feel like I've fallen into a time war peer.
A Democrat governor has just sent in the National Guard to shut down a bunch of black protesters, and Democrats are doing sit-ins in the offices of somebody named Nixon.
I mean, this is, if you stop and think about it, if you're old enough, this is really uncanny.
I know how this is going to turn out.
It's in the cards, folks.
This is a fait accompli.
This is so intense.
There is so much rioting on the line in this incident in St. Louis, which is not common.
It is not often.
But that is the last thing anybody wants to hear.
And let's just put it.
They're going to send this to the grand jury.
What do you think the grand jury is going to do?
23 people, you know, they're all going to be worried that their identities are going to be learned and discovered.
And when they figure that out, what do you think they're going to do?
They're going to indict the cop.
No matter what.
That's in the cards.
You got the Washington Redskins taking the field last night in a preseason game against the Cleveland Browns with their arms up as though they're being held up.
They're running out of the tunnel onto the field with their arms raised in solidarity with the gentle giant.
And the arms are saying, stop, stop, don't shoot.
And they caught up with one of the Redskins players, Ryan Clark, free safety from the Steelers the last four years.
This is on the radio.
And this is Ryan Clark explaining how important it was.
I mean, now, take a moment to remember what's going on in Washington.
We've got Tony Dungy and Phil Sims have announced they're not going to say the word Redskin this season on the air.
You didn't hear that?
Oh, you didn't hear that.
Tony Dungy and Phil Sims have said they're not going to say the word Redskins.
Jim Nance says he's going to say the word Redskins because he doesn't get caught up in causes.
Not his job, not his business.
So in Washington, they're trying to, I can think of a word, the owner of the Redskins and get his mind right because he won't change the name from Redskins.
The Redskins players, in fact, the fans last night sang as loud as they could hail to the Redskins when the team came out.
But the team came out, raised arms.
Solidarity with Michael Brown.
Here's what Ryan Clark said.
That could have been any one of us.
That could have been any one of our brothers, our cousins.
They came to me and said it is something I would want to do.
And I was like, absolutely.
You know, and everybody was in it.
Everybody was together.
When you get an opportunity to make a statement and be more than a football player, it's good.
Right.
When you get an opportunity to make a statement and be more than a football player, it's good.
Which is one of the problems in sports.
The fans want you to be a player.
The fans don't go to the stadium to be preached to politically.
But that all ended with Pink October in the NFL.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday on this program, I was handed in the middle of a program an updated news story out of Ferguson, Missouri from the Washington Post.
And the Washington Post story said that one of the autopsies had discovered marijuana in the gentle giant's system.
Today, the National Journal has accused me of character assassination for mentioning that.
The National Journal has also accused Matt Drudge of character assassination for posting a link to the Washington Post story.
Here's what it says.
Conservative thought leaders such as the Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh seized on this new bit of information, but smoking pots, hardly a smoking gun, nor is it indicative of a criminal mind, as Coloradans and Washingtonians would attest.
The character assassination of Michael.
The Washington Post and the Washington Post doesn't come under any criticism here.
Let's see if we're going to make sure of that.
Doesn't say anything about the Washington Post, and they're the source of this.
Doesn't say anything about it.
Let's go to Michael Baden, audio soundbite number 11 last night with Greta.
She said, does the fact that they found marijuana, does that exclude the fact that there might be other drugs in his system or even the marijuana was laced with anything?
Is that the final analysis?
Or could there be more information to come in terms of toxicology, Dr. Baden?
Very important with marijuana is the levels of the different drugs that are present in marijuana to have an opinion as to whether or not he might have been affected by the marijuana so that he may have been acting in a crazy way and may have done things to the police officer that normally he would not have done.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What was that?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Marijuana may have had the gentle giant acting crazy.
Whoa, crazy?
Is that right?
I want to hear very important marijuana is the levels of the different drugs present, blah, blah, blah, news, so that he may have been acting crazy in a way that may have done things to the cop that normally he would not have done.
Oop, oop.
I wonder if we'll get a retraction from the National Journal.
Because the National Journal said there's nothing to marijuana.
It doesn't turn you into anything.
Ask them in Colorado.
Ask them in Washington.
Accuse me of character assassination for simply reporting what's in the Washington Post.
And here we have Dr. Michael Bodden.
So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, this is easy to spot.
It's easy to predict.
We can tell what's going to happen.
How many FBI agents investigated the Tea Party scandal there with the IRS?
How many, how many?
None.
Is there.
That's right.
There were no FBI agents investigating what happened to Catherine Engelbrecht, Catherine Engelbrecht at True the Vote or any of the other Tea Party groups that were.
Oh, let's see.
Okay.
How many FBI agents went to Benghazi to investigate what had happened over there?
That was zero again.
At least for the first two weeks.
Zip zero.
Now, we were told that sending the FBI to Libya would be bad, bad, bad foreign policy.
It would not be kind to the host nation.
It would not inspire confidence.
It would be seen as an insult.
So, see, how many FBI agents we sent to St. Louis?
40, 40, 40 FBI agents are pounding the pavement in Ferguson in St. Louis.
And guess who's showing up tomorrow?
Good old Eric Holder himself, the Attorney General, the ultimate boss, the maximum leader of those 40 FBI agents is showing up.
He'll probably stay in Clayton.
Ritz Carlton, nicest place in town, or one of the nicest places.
I doubt that the Attorney General will be staying in Fergus.
Just my guess, but I could be wrong.
He might not even stay overnight.
It might not even take that long to go in there and tell everybody how this is going to end.
You got all these guys, Obama and Eric Holder and Governor Nixon, and they're all running around decrying the militarization of police forces, and they're the ones that did it.
Where do you think the militarization equipment comes from for these police departments?
It comes from the U.S. Department of Defense, the DOD.
It's unused, leftover, unneeded, what have you, weapons, ammo, and other type of equipment that the Department of Defense has sent to numerous police departments all over the country, not just Ferguson.
And they sit there and they decry and they wring their hands and they whine and moan about the militarization of the police department.
And they're the ones that did it.
It's clear, ladies and gentlemen, Ferguson, Missouri is attracting a lot of people who, like Obama and Holder, wish they had been alive during the civil rights movement in the 60s.
And that's another thing that's going on here.
This is a flashback.
This is an opportunity.
Remember, Obama, Obama has wistfully spoken of the 60s.
He wasn't around then, but he says he wishes he had been.
Well, here's a chance to relive some history.
Here's a chance to flash forward.
Here's a back to the future moment, if there ever was one.
The 60s civil rights movement, all of a sudden, is back in full glory.
And this kind of thing, don't you know, just happens all the time in America.
And it's about time it stopped.
Obama can finally, once and for all and officially be down for the struggle.
And so can Attorney General Holder.
So a lot of people wish they had been alive during the civil rights movement in the 60s can now.
Yippie, yippie, we can do it.
We can actually be there.
Some of the Ferguson protesters, like the new Black Panthers, are claiming to be the new civil rights movement, which I guess only natural.
The civil rights era is the only period in our nation's history that's glorified in the schools these days, and it is.
But, you know, Ferguson's not just about reliving the civil rights era.
The Democrats are using Ferguson, Missouri to try to ramp up black turnout for the midterms.
They're trying to paint a picture that this is what America has always been.
And that's the myth that I spoke of yesterday.
The myth is that this happens all the time.
The myth is that young innocent blacks are gunned down by white police departments every day in this country.
And of course, that isn't true.
It's far from true.
It's nowhere near true.
The Democrat Party, when they're willing accomplices in the drive-by media, are doing their best to take this singular event and make it appear to be part of a normal, common series of occurrences that happen in this country.
They have always, always intended to play the race card, one way, shape, manner, or form for turnout in the November midterm elections.
Here comes this event, and it is made to order.
And I think it explains a lot of what we have been seeing, including the DOJ demanding the withholding of information like the videotape of the convenience store robbery.
And they did.
You know, the police chief caught a little flack for releasing that videotape of the robbery last Friday, but it was the Department of Justice that demanded it be withheld.
They suppressed it.
And they did that for a reason.
They did that to keep the protesters' outrage white hot, so to speak.
They wanted them really mad out there.
They wanted them to really think there was some conspiracy.
They wanted them really thinking, the protesters, they wanted them really thinking they weren't being told everything.
And then when they were told everything, then the conspiracy doubled and tripled because they thought they were being lied to.
In case you have any doubts about any of this, there are now photos of the Democrat voter registration tent that has been set up in Ferguson.
The death of Michael Brown is being used to register Democrats in Ferguson, Missouri, practically right next to the memorial for the kid.
So this thing, it encompasses everything that the Democrat Party is.
Everything.
Voter registration booth next to his memorial.
On top of that, we've got the Justice Brothers.
That would be the Reverend Dax and Al Sharpton.
And they are now conducting voter registration drives in churches and fast food joints in Ferguson.
Don't bother asking why the IRS lets them get away with that.
Voter registration drives.
Redskins players walking out with their hands up as if to say, don't shoot in solidarity.
40 FBI agents on the ground interviewing witnesses, trying to get the skinny, the straight scoop, the story.
Obama haven't even gotten to his appearance yesterday.
His little TV comment about this.
Oh, and let me share with you a headline.
Mr. Snerdley is asking, why doesn't the cop just give himself up right now?
No, that I don't, no, no, no.
I'm sure the cop is holding out hope that it'll all turn out okay for him.
Because what happened happened.
And there are supposedly 12.
There's an NPR reporter for St. Louis, in St. Louis, who happened to tweet, and she's gone off grid.
They're hunting her down here trying to find out what she was thinking.
You heard about this?
She just tweeted that her sources have told her that the cops have interviewed 12 eyewitnesses who back up the cop story.
So she tweets that.
And there's, I mean, there is literal outrage.
How dare she?
What was she thinking?
So the cops supposedly have 12 eyewitnesses.
I mean, there's an ongoing effort here, folks, to have this end up the way Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Obama and all these people on the left want it to end up.
You can see it as well as I can.
And look, I've got a headline here.
I've got a headline, and it's on NBC News: Falling Stars, GOP's top 2016 hopefuls embroiled in scandal.
It is exactly what I said yesterday with this indictment of Rick Perry.
All four, or at least four, prominent Republican presidential hopefuls indicted or facing criminal charges or have faced criminal charges.
Here it is: GOP's top hopefuls embroiled in scandal.
Here it is.
This is how they do it.
Got to take a break.
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Here's the story from CBS Washington and the Redskins players.
And it's the second paragraph here that I want to note to you.
Well, here's the first paragraph, too.
From nearly 1,000 miles away, several Redskins players used the Monday Night Football stage to draw attention to the situation that has been unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, by running onto FedEx Field with their hands up in the air.
Now, what every liberal in the country is probably saying to themselves after seeing this is: hey, if the Washington team really wanted to honor Michael Gentle Giant Brown, they would change their name.
What is this?
Hands up, snuff.
Do something.
But here, listen to this paragraph.
Ferguson, this is CBS News story in Washington.
Ferguson, Missouri, is where unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9th.
Witnesses have said he was not aggressive toward the officer and had his hands raised above his head before he was shot.
As a result, the words hands up, don't shoot, have become a rallying cry of protesters both in Ferguson and online.
That's a stunning paragraph.
That is simply so biased, and it's based on myth.
Once again, it's just incredible.
You can see them setting the table here.
You can see that they're going to do everything they can to get the outcome they want.
Doesn't matter what really happened.
Because what really happened is going to be determined by what whoever wants to have happened.
That's the politics of it.
And they're going to take, they're going to try to convince as many people before the facts are known what happened so that when the facts, if they contradict the narrative, are not believed.
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All right, here is the story.
Actually, I thought it was an NPR reporter, but this report says it's a St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter.
That it was an NPR reporter.
I saw it.
Anyway, here are the details.
St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter says that Ferguson, Missouri police confirmed that more than a dozen witnesses to the shooting have backed up the account of the innocent offered by the cop.
ST. Louis POST Dispatch reporter, Christine Byers, tweeted Monday that police told her that an account of the you know what.
Maybe she's not in PR.
I still cannot read Twitter.
I don't know.
I cannot figure it out.
I shouldn't admit this.
You know, here I am.
I am MR. Tech.
I can answer everybody's question.
I just had a guy say I can't install the new beta with Xcode.
It isn't working.
Do you know how I can do this?
I fired him and reply, yeah, it's easy.
Here's how you do it using ITunes.
Anyway, I look at Twitter and I still can't figure out who's who I don't know.
In a line of Twitter, in a thread of Twitter chats, I do not know what gets attributed to who.
I don't know who's saying what.
So I could have sworn that.
What I saw was an NPR reporter who had who had tweeted that there were 12 witnesses.
Now this story says it's a ST. Louis POST Dispatch reporter and that her name is Christine Byers and that it was she who tweeted.
Now, maybe this woman is also an NPR reporter.
I don't know.
But here's the tweet from Christine Byers.
Police sources tell me that more than a dozen witnesses have corroborated cops' version of events in shooting.
And there's, there's uh, there's a another confusing thing.
Yesterday, Don Lemon went on CNN and said that he had found a transcript of a call to a radio show in St. Louis that had backed up what the cops said.
But now people are saying that's a fraudulent, phony call.
It's not real anyway.
The point of all this is that everybody is supposed to be confused and throw up their hands, so to speak, and be frustrated at not knowing what happened, so that, when the facts are finally learned, nobody believes them, unless they're the facts that the American left and the Democrat Party want to be true.
That is exactly what's.
This whole thing's a myth anyway.
The idea that this is a common occurrence, the idea that America in 2014 is no different than America in the 60s I mean belie and believe me this idea that finders and people who were not alive in the 60s but wish they had been during the 60s, they're.
They're gonna take this and run with it as an opportunity to be part of something they missed and, as such, they're gonna turn it into whatever their dreams want it to be, and the American left it's.
It's real simple to them.
You want to boil it down to its essence.
It's real simple, the gentle giant died because he's black.
Had the cop arrested a white kid who, Who had identical circumstances, identical circumstances, would not have been shot.
The cop would never have pulled a trigger on the white kid.
That's the template.
That is the narrative.
This is solely about race.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
I had this in the stack yesterday.
It's a Time magazine piece that he was a former Lakers player.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, nice man, but has always had intellectual pretensions.
And he writes a very pretentious intellectual piece in Time magazine.
The headline of his piece is, the coming race war won't be about race.
And if I can synthesize, which is what we do here, we make the complex understandable, he makes a slew of points in this thing.
In fact, it starts out fairly reasonable, and then he gets to a certain point where it just all falls apart and degenerates into conspiracy theory 101.
And I'll explain what I mean in a moment.
But his point is, the first point that I'm synthesizing for you is that this really is about class warfare.
It's really about the disappearing middle class.
It's about the lack of prosperity opportunity for a growing number of people.
And that's what the coming riots are really going to be about.
They're really going to be about that.
They're going to be about economics more than race.
Well, let me just tell you that there are a bunch of leftist commentators who are taking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar out back to the woodshed because Kareem is not saying race is the number one reason that there will be national riots, that this is all about race.
There's a bunch of leftist commentators who are saying, you know, we love Kareem.
Kareem, very smart guy, very early days and so forth.
He's got some good ideas, but he's just a little off base here.
Just a little off base.
Because if he doesn't say that this is about race, nothing else he says matters.
So to the left, the only thing of note that anybody needs to notice here is that a white cop shot a black kid because that is America.
And Kareem didn't say that.
Kareem's veering off into class and inequality being the number one problem.
But this idea that it happens regularly, that it happens routinely, and in addition to that, the white cop always gets away with it.
That's the myth.
And it's growing roots right now.
They're planting roots of this, very deep roots.
And I just, I hearken back to 2008 and the campaign and how so many people voted for Barack Obama because they believed that alone would end these kinds of things.
They really did, folks.
I mean, a lot of white people voted for Obama with the belief that that statement that America had elected a black president would end this because blacks would see once and for all that there's no reason to be mad.
See, we're not racist.
We elected a black guy for crying out loud.
Don't jump our chili.
Well, now look, some would argue it's worse than ever.
Now we're taking a rare occurrence and transferring it into a myth that happens all the time.
And the election of Barack Obama is irrelevant.
The election of Barack Obama has meant nothing in this regard.
We're right back.
And dare I say that I was one of a very few voices back then telling people that the election of Barack Obama was not going to solve any racial problem.
In fact, said I, it's only going to make them worse.
And I had my share of cat calls back then.
What do you mean?
You're just trying to stir it up.
That's what you do.
You're just so irresponsible.
What do you mean?
I said, I'll tell you what I mean.
Because now with the first African-American president, there will be no criticism permitted.
Otherwise, you're going to be called a racist.
And people don't want to be called racist.
It's a very unflattering and mean term.
And it kind of clings to people for their life if they ever actually get that label tagged to them.
And they don't want it.
So they'll shut up.
They're not going to say a word.
And the president of the United States will have free reign to do whatever he wants to do because there will be utter paralysis.
And I would ask, what do we have?
We have a Republican Party afraid to push back on anything because they don't want to be called racist.
So we have the President of the United States who cannot be criticized, cannot be opposed.
It is thought by elected officials who otherwise would be opposing it because they disagree with the policies and ideas, but they don't dare go there.
So that's where we are.
All of this has been for nothing, particularly in terms of race relations, because the Democrats and the left are intent on manufacturing this myth and pounding it and pounding it so that it becomes a reality.
Because the more they can make it a reality, the more they can cement the notion that America is fraudulent.
America was founded fraudulently, unjustly, immorally, and that gives them free reign at the United States Constitution, which they despise because it limits government power.
And that's what they want to maximize.
So it is crucial that when this is all over, the verdict be, America is still slave racist, at least attitudinally.
There's a lot of money, by the way, in that, too.
Ask Jesse Jackson.
Hell, in addition to Democrat voter registration drives, not far from the memorial of the gentle giant, the Reverend Jackson's fundraising for Operation whatever it is, the monochrome coalition.
They're fundraising.
They're registering voters.
Got to take a break.
We'll get to your phone calls, too.
That's coming up, so sit tight, my friend.
Lebanon, Indiana, we start on the phones with Tony, and welcome, sir.
Great to have you here with us.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Longtime listener, first-time cohort.
Great to have you here, Tony.
Thank you.
Rush, as this Ferguson, Missouri thing is unfolded, I run through the logic like you're going through now with why things are happening from a political standpoint.
I guess it is a template.
You know, I followed you a long time.
I understand it's a template.
What I do become a little bit frustrated Because I think that the Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons of the world are making they're using this event to gain political bank points, if you will, at the exploitation of this young man's death and exploitation of his family.
Your comment on that?
You're tired of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making hay out of this.
Is that what you said?
Yeah, a lot.
And getting full media support by it, too.
You know, and as somebody that says, hey, look, that's the point.
You got to understand something.
This is far bigger than the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton.
In fact, Sharpton's getting booed by some of these protesters.
These people, they've been at it so long.
Sharpton, people in the community are finally starting to ask, what the hell are you doing here?
What are you going to do?
Sharpton, let me tell you what, there's a report about Sharpton that I saw that he actually told the family, I wish I could, I didn't print this out.
And I read so darn many blogs, and I just can't print everything, and I probably ought to couch this with, I can't confirm it, no insult to the blogs.
It sounds believable, though.
I just, I can't remember where I read it, but apparently Al Sharpton charged the family money for his help, and they told him to go pound sand.
Apparently, he needed money.
He wanted payment for leading the effort with their son.
And I'm sorry, I can't remember where I saw it.
Let's say that that's not true because I can't confirm it.
I can't back it up.
But I'm telling you, I wouldn't be surprised if it's true.
But this is the Democrat Party, folks.
This is the President of the United States is in charge of what's happening here.
I think it is time for everybody to come to grips with a simple reality.
I don't care what scandal you name.
Ben Ghazi, Fast and Furious, take your pick, IRS.
Has anybody involved in any of these scandals been fired?
Not a single person.
Now, if you are President of the United States and you've got these rogue employees and they're out doing this outrageous stuff that you would never sanction, I'm telling you heads would roll.
But nobody's been fired.
Which means that everybody involved in all of these scandals, I don't care if it's Lois Werner, I don't care who it is, they are doing what the White House wants done.
As I have stated, sorry to say this over and over from the beginning.
When this first came up, you remember when Van Jones was outed as a communist, somebody high up in the regime, and people said, gosh, how did this get past Obama?
We had a couple of people call here.
How did this, how did it, I mean, how did it get past Obama?
Don't you understand?
Obama hired the guy.
Van Jones was there because Obama wanted him there.
And just because they've gotten rid of Van Jones doesn't mean they didn't replace him with the same kind of person.
The reason why there's no smoking gun memo from Obama to the IRS is because there doesn't need to be.
The people at the IRS know what Obama wants done.
This is about wiping out the Republican Party.
This is about doing away with the two-party system, folks.
This is about full-fledged, unbridled power and the grab for it.
There's not even a pretense here.
What do you mean, all of these executive orders or threatened executive orders without Congress?
This is all about wiping out any and all opposition.
And that has been Obama's modus operandi since he got into politics.
The old honor code and the rule of law and all of these guidelines that everybody's abided by in the political system where you abide by the vote, you campaign fairly, whatever you do, oh, it's out the window.
This is about wiping out the Republican Party.
This is about wiping out the Libertarians.
This is about wiping out anybody who opposes Obama.
Every bit of this, this isn't Al Sharpton.
This isn't Jesse Jackson, dude.
They're just tag-alongs now.
This is Obama and Holder.
But all of this is Barack Obama.
Every event, every detail, every occurrence is Obama.
And the end result is the end and absence of any opposition.
So that's what Ferguson's all about, like all of the rest of this has been about.
Well, another exciting and busy broadcast excellence must come to an unfortunate end.
But it's not that unfortunate because we rev up and we get right back at it in a mere matter of mere moments.
More busy broadcast moments right straight ahead, Rush Limboy.
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