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Aug. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Readings, my friends and good neighbors and friends and folks and all that.
How are you?
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, revved up, ready to go behind the golden EIB microphone.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
So the JV team has beheaded an American reporter, a photojournalist, actually, James Foley.
Beheaded on videotape.
Mr. Schnerdley said that he looked at it.
I did not.
I haven't.
And I've I've looked, I saw Daniel Pearl, the video of that, but I didn't uh go look at this.
They're threatening to be head yet another American journalist, the JV team.
Obama Obama called ISIS the JB team.
Yeah, within the past couple of weeks or something.
He found out about it on the way back to vacation to Martha's Vineyard.
He was in the air when he found out about it.
And stayed in Martha's Vineyard, although there's a statement.
Media says breathlessly awaiting President's statement on ISIS beheading of James Foley coming up.
David Cameron, the U.K. Prime Minister, was also on vacation.
He wasn't at Martha's Vineyard.
He probably would like to be, but he wasn't.
He went back to work upon hearing this.
So the uh the president making a statement.
Ferguson, Missouri, the um uh the attorney general's touchdown, ladies and gentlemen.
And the news networks were on scene at the St. Louis Airport to show Eric Holder arriving, touching down at the airport in a giant United States government Boeing 757.
I'm wondering did the waters of the Mississippi River part as Holder flew over the Mississippi en route to Lambert St. Louis International Airport.
Have the Lions laid down with the lambs?
Are the Crips making peace with the Bloods?
Is it all better now?
Because Eric Holder is touched down.
The Attorney General, the top cop on the ground in St. Louis, and this has begot a debate in the media and at the White House on should or should not President Obama go.
And Politico has a long story explaining why Obama can't go.
And the main thrust of it is there's nothing he can do.
Now stop and think about that for a minute.
The first, the historical first African American president cannot go to an area of racial strife because he couldn't do anything.
It would cause more problems than it would solve.
It's a fascinating piece, and I, of course, El Rushbo eagerly share this story with you as their program unfolds.
The Hill.com today says the White House undecided on whether to send the president.
And by the way, this is a classic example.
Classic, folks, of the Limbaugh theorem.
The way this story is written.
Headline, White House hasn't ruled out sending Obama to Ferguson.
See, it isn't even his decision to go.
The White House is going to decide whether or not the president's gonna go to Ferguson, Missouri.
And here's the first paragraph.
The White House has weighed sending President Obama to Ferguson and has not ruled out a visit in upcoming weeks.
According to sources familiar with the internal decision making.
For now, the White House believes a trip by Obama to Ferguson would do more harm than good.
By diverting resources on the ground at a pivotal time for law enforcement.
So you see, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's not calling the shots.
He doesn't even determine where he goes.
This is why Bush didn't go to New Orleans.
The White House decided Bush wouldn't go to New Orleans.
The White House decided Bush was just going to do a flyby.
Well, Bush got the blame because Bush was the White House, but Obama says that's a perfect example.
Limbaugh Theorem, what were we talking about yesterday?
This Obama appearance of being disengaged and bored and having checked out with the job, not challenged, not interested in it anymore, is the greatest cover for political activism that you can imagine.
Here's a country that is on the march to a transformation unlike any we've ever seen.
We are on the march for the biggest transformation to socialism/slash whatever is in that you want to call it.
And it's happening while the leader of that movement is supposedly detached and doesn't care and has checked out and is on never-ending vacations.
Is that not a brilliant piece of positioning, or is that not a brilliant piece of positioning?
And then and then here it is in the Hill.com, White House hasn't ruled out sending Obama.
And on top of that, by the way, in addition to the article making it plain, Obama's so out of control, meaning so far removed from power, that he doesn't even decide where he's going to go.
On top of that, the article is trying to let Obama off the hook for not going to Ferguson and continuing his vacation, because it'd be too much of a burden on the local authorities.
They've already got their hands full, dealing with the looters, you see.
But it's funny, that excuse didn't flag when Bush didn't break off his vacation soon enough to visit New Orleans, as snerdily pointed out.
In fact, some of the very same people who rip Bush are now trotting out the same excuse for Obama, like Claire McCaskill.
And then that takes us to this idiotic.
It takes us to the governor.
Who is this guy trying to the people on the ground at Ferguson, they want the prosecutor, the district attorney, prosecuting attorney, Bob McCullough, they want him to quit.
They want him to recuse himself.
He's not qualified.
You know why?
Well, I think uh see what's up.
Well, it doesn't matter if he's a Democrat.
Oh, a police officer fatally shot.
No, uh, uh uh uh uh his police officer father was killed in the line of duty when he was a kid.
And so because his father was a cop was killed in the line of duty, he can't be fair.
He was perfectly fine for this role up till this case.
Bob McCullough perfectly fine as a prosecuting attorney.
Now, all of a sudden, the fact that his dad was a cop killed in the line of duty means he cannot be fair.
And of course, it's not about fairness, it means he cannot find for the civil rights movement.
That's what I mean, folks.
You you have to admit now with everything going, you know.
You know what this is all about now.
You know where this is gonna end up.
None doesn't the fact that he's a Democrat is not enough here.
It's not enough, and it may not be enough for Governor Nixon.
I mean, why do you send Holder in there?
The whole point of sending Holder in there to say that none of the locals know what the hell they're doing.
The whole point of sending Eric Holder in there is that this town, Ferguson in St. Louis, can't possibly do what the right thing is here.
They don't know.
Everybody there is a buffoon.
Everybody there is an idiot.
Everybody there doesn't have the slightest idea how to do their jobs.
We gotta send the big people in.
We've got to send the adults in.
Why would you send Holder in it?
I mean, if you create the impression the locals can't handle it, uh the federal government is where you always have to go to get justice, to get the right thing, to get fairness, to get solution, to get closure, whatever.
Federal government, only place you can go.
So many messages behind sending um Eric Holder in there.
He's gonna, what's he gonna do?
Eric Holder is gonna be on the scene to make sure that no one's civil rights have been violated.
He's gonna go in and make sure that everybody's protected, that everybody's civil rights are protected, and nobody except for some people's civil rights, you don't count anymore.
Speaking of civil rights, this is that the governor Jay Nixon has called for the vigorous prosecution of Darren Wilson.
He didn't mention him by name.
But who else could be prosecuted?
You know he's not talking about the looters.
You that's the point.
He has already proclaimed him guilty.
Why do you think Nixon Nixon's not stupid?
I don't care how he looks.
He's not stupid.
This is pure pandering.
This is pure.
Did I say how he looks?
I mean I meant to say how it looks.
No matter how he's not stupid.
This is pure pan.
Claire McCaskill.
They're all pandering to the black vote.
They're all pandering to the Civil Rights Coalition.
This call for vigorous prosecution is nothing more to build a bridge with the uh the civil rights movement, the black community in Ferguson and everywhere else throughout the state, over in Kansas City, too.
That's all this is.
That's what they're saying.
They wanted they want this cop prosecuted.
They want him found guilty yesterday.
So here comes a governor.
Yep, yep, I agree.
He doesn't say I agree with you, but he says it in a sense by calling for the vigorous prosecution.
I mean, charges yet.
You know, if we're talking about grand juries, you know what we learned?
The grand jury that indicted Rick Perry had a Democrat Party activist on it.
And we know that because she's out there bragging about it.
A female Democrat Party activist and party member was on a grand jury that indicted Rick Perry, and she's out swinging singing a sweet song and just bragging about it, how cool it is.
So you can see the ducks are being lined up here.
Eric Holder flies in, the waters of the Mississippi part.
They're playing lands, the cameras are there to document the giant 757 carrying the attorney general because nobody locally can handle this.
Nobody locally can keep the lid on, nobody locally can figure out how to handle this, and there's nobody locally that can put their fist down and say this is how it's gonna be.
So the attorney general go in there and say this is how it's gonna be.
You guilty, you guilty, you know.
There's only one guilty you innocent, you innocent.
There's only one person guilty.
Here's gonna be the cop.
And if they can get rid of McCullough, he'll be guilty by association.
The DA.
But it's all about, and meanwhile, the White House is still trying to figure out whether or not send Obama.
It's just unreal.
And with the politico, this piece about how, well, it makes perfect sense Obama wouldn't go.
What do you mean we have the first African American president in history?
This is why he was elected.
Grab the audio sound bites.
Let me prove this to you.
It's not just me saying this.
This is uh Spike Lee, somebody's two and four.
Last night, Spike Lee, Anderson Cooper 95.
And uh Cooper said, Look, study came out yesterday, spike old buddy O'Pell, about how people's perception of what happened here in Ferguson and how radically they differ among African American and Caucasian Americans.
Uh, does it still surprise you, Spike old buddy O'Pal, that there's a divide in perception and how Americans see this in different ways, largely in many cases based on you understand what the question was.
Basically, no, no, no, no.
What what he's being asked here in a roundabout way by old buddy O'Pal Anderson Cooper is.
Spike isn't it the case that despite the election of first black president, nothing's changed.
That's the question.
And here's Spike's answer.
And so I wish it was true, but it's not.
Many people thought that the moment that President Obama put his hand, Abraham Lincoln's Bible and took the oath, as a president of the United States of America, racism would disappear.
Abricadabah Hokus Hocus, gone.
But the so-called post-racial era.
That is not the case.
Ah, damn it.
Damn it, our hopes were so high.
I mean, People were hoping and praying, hoping and changing for hope and change.
I mean, it would just people bet everything, voted in a way they otherwise wouldn't, hoping to end all of this.
And Spike Lee.
I don't know why Spike Lee, frankly, is there.
I don't know why he's a guest, but he is, and so will comment.
So Spike Lee confirming that which I'rushbo have been castigated for for pointing out that it hasn't made any difference.
And in fact, it's obviously gotten worse.
And so here we have the first African American president.
And excuses are being made why he can't go.
Because he couldn't do anything.
This to me is stunning.
Now I understand security.
I understand that it would divert resort.
I understand all of that, but it doesn't stop presidents from going where they really want to go, folks.
He'll tie up traffic in Manhattan or any other city for three days in a row.
Doesn't, if he really wants to go, the president will go there, any president.
The idea they'll hear the White House is going to keep Obama from going.
He really wants to go.
Don't you know that?
You low information voters, he really wants to go.
He just so badly wants to leave Martha's Vineyard.
He doesn't want to be playing golf today.
He doesn't want to play 18.
He doesn't want to play 30.
He wants to go to Ferguson, but the White House is saying no.
And the politico says he can't anyway, because it wouldn't make any difference.
Spike Lee says it hasn't made any difference.
Now the other day I was asking on this program.
Snerdley was smirking at me.
He said, How many, I accused these uh or predicted that the news media would set up bureaus in Ferguson.
This story's not gonna end before November.
This story is gonna at least have legs to get it through the November elections.
That's why it's happening.
And I said there might even be some bureaus.
Shep Smith might not be coming home.
Well, maybe Shep Smith is home, but Anderson, whoever, whoever they've got, Don Lemon may not be coming home.
Hell, the journalists are becoming part of the story.
Wait till you hear about this.
I mean, so much is transforming dramatically.
Journalists are eagerly now becoming part of the story.
I mean, Don Lemon's giving his phone number out to people.
If you need anything, you let me know.
To the looters.
And to the other family members, yeah, I got time for one more.
So here's here's here's uh Anderson Cooper.
See, Spike, you say it's obvious.
The Ferguson Police, State Police National Guard, don't have a handle on this, don't have a clue.
Explain what you mean by that, Spike.
My wife and I, Tanya, while we were watching the Madison Television last night, we said, you know what?
Retired lieutenant general Russell Honore is the person who could bring order.
And you know firsthand what General Honra did with Katrina and New Orleans and the Gulf.
So I'd really think I called him up.
Stop the tape, stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Very quickly, play just a few seconds of Soundbite Three.
This is me predicting this yesterday.
I want you to hear just a little of this.
Number three.
How long was Shep Smith and those boys?
Uh, how long was uh Anderson Cooper?
How long did they stay in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?
And then how much time did they spend in Houston tracking down the refugees from the United States?
See, so there I was yesterday talking about it, and last night they asked for Honore to come in and fix it because nobody there can.
You know, I would think, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama has everything we need to stop what's going on in St. Louis.
Because obviously, now it's it's too bad.
Captain Ron Johnson, highway patrol, last Thursday.
Remember, we went in there.
He was given control of the situation by the governor Jay Nixon because the Nixon said that the county cops just bungling everything, the bunch of inspector clusos.
So he pulls them off the case, puts a highway patrol on it, the state cops.
And Ron Johnson goes in there and looks really good.
He is he marches with the protesters, and uh looking fine Thursday night last week.
This guy's the next governor of Missouri, and then Friday.
The looting begins, and Captain Johnson ordered the cops to let it happen, because it would be less tension filled, less provocative, less contentious if the cops just let the looters loot, take what they want, get it out of the system.
And with that, there went his chance at the gubernatorial shot.
Still got a reality show, probably, but his chance at the governorship blown in one day.
So now they got to send Holder in there.
Because nobody in St. Louis, the governor, the uh DA, the local cops, Keystone can't do anything right.
And Obama can't even go.
And what is Obama, if the greatest orator in the world, the guy's the most persuasive speaker?
What did Harry Reid say to him?
And he said, Yeah, Harry, it's a gift.
If there's one guy who can talk sense into these people, make them get peaceful, it's Obama.
Hi, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rushlin Boy, here behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
You notice how often Obama says he's powerless to do anything, even stop the rioting in Ferguson.
Powerless to do anything about Benghazi.
He's just powerless to do it.
He told the Hispanic community, hey, look, I can't just do amnesty.
You know what?
I'm just the president.
There's this thing called a constitution.
I can't do it myself.
I'd like to, but I just can't.
He loves telling people.
And he loves having it said about him, how powerless he is.
And this is the guy who had as his campaign slogan, yes, we can.
Now his new slogan is, no, I can't, while he goes out and does everything he does.
Look, I want to revisit something yesterday because I don't ever want uh one of the themes I think is important here to be lost in the daily avalanche of new developments.
Remember that everything happening in Fergus, Ferguson, Missouri, is a myth.
Everything is a myth.
The fact that this happens all the time is a myth, and that's what's driving this.
Even Spike Lee in a soundbite that I didn't play, but I've got it here, uh, talks about now there is a war on black men in America.
There's a war on black men.
And the implication is it's a war being conducted by white cops.
But of course, Spike Lee conveniently forgets to talk about all the black on black crime in this country, which is the majority of black crime is black on black.
The majority of black murder victims killed by black murderers.
Chicago, Detroit, you name it, black on black crime is the number one criminal problem for African Americans.
But that just won't do.
That that that we have to we have to sweep that aside, don't even report that.
You can't run on that, but you also can't fundraise on that, and you also can't further the idea that this racial divide hasn't improved since the days of slavery on that.
And you can't perpetuate myths like are being perpetuated in Ferguson, Missouri.
I just want to again remind you of something.
This is not common.
It does not happen all the time.
And yet, this story is being covered and treated by everybody involved as though it goes on so much that we've had our fill of it now, and we finally got to stop it, and the only way to stop it is to convict this cop.
Because it's just going on with way too much.
The black people of America are fed up.
This has got to stop.
The only problem is it isn't happening.
It is irregular when this happens.
It does not happen.
It did happen a lot in the 60s.
It did happen a lot prior to that.
It did happen in the early 70s in the South, primarily when Democrats were in power.
But it doesn't happen anymore.
When it when some when this happened, just to give you an example of what I'm talking about, when the Ferguson story erupted, what was the most recent example people hearkened back to?
Rodney King.
When did that happen?
About 1990, 1991.
Over 20 years ago, was the last memorable case of cops killing and mistreating a white or a black perpetrator.
Now there have been some intermittently, but they didn't make the news.
I mean, they were not national stories like this is.
This is a myth, folks.
It is a total myth.
A myth is the fuel that perpetuates this.
Give you another example of how it's a myth.
Last week, from the moment the story was reported until Friday, the assumption was that a gentle giant was walking along the street on a beautiful sunlit Saturday afternoon, thinking about of all things, his excitement at beginning college very soon.
Yeah, right.
And then disaster struck.
The media had been demanding video from a convenience store where a robbery took place, where the gentle giant might have been.
Finally, that tape, that video was released.
The media had been demanding the release of that video from the convenience store.
The federal government, the DOJ, had been suppressing that video.
They didn't want it released.
The police chief finally relented and released it.
And what did it show?
It showed the gentle giant, not being gentle.
It showed a gentle giant robbing a convenience store and roughing up the proprietor.
Box of cigars.
It was crystal clear.
It was unit was unquestionably the gentle giant.
And then from that moment on full out, civil unrest began.
Why?
What was on that video?
It wasn't doctored.
It wasn't made up.
It wasn't fake.
It had not been photoshopped.
It was real.
And it showed the gentle giant not as a gentle giant.
It totally destroyed the myth.
And that's why everybody lost their minds.
They had this in the bag.
They had the cop in jail.
They had the cop convicted until Friday when the video hit.
The myth was totally nuked.
The myth was totally destroyed.
Here we had more evidence.
Here we had more information, which everybody was demanding and everybody was clamoring for, and we got it.
But because it went against the myth, it went against the narrative.
All of a sudden, rioting began and looting began.
Why?
It was more truthful information.
The only reason the looting began is because the myth had been blown sky high.
Now it wasn't clear-cut, and it wasn't going to be easy to put this cop in jail.
Because now the entire circumstance changes.
And it's we've had even more information.
Now we know that the cop was really roughed up.
He might have a blown orbital eye socket bone arrangement, whatever.
The gentle giant was not just trucking down the street minding his own business, thinking about going to college, and was harassed and taunted and killed by a white cop.
That's not at all what happened, but that's what the myth was, and now the myth.
So now that the myth has been destroyed, they still have to somehow get back to it.
And one of the ways they're doing that is to go after the DA.
Now it's the DA, McCullough.
The DA cannot possibly be fair.
He's been DA for who knows how many years.
He's 56 years old, he's been a Democrat.
Nobody's ever had a complaint about the guy.
At least not that anybody's ever heard.
He's been trucking along, doing the job fine and then.
Now all of a sudden, Bob McCullough is unqualified.
He needs to recuse himself.
He needs to quit.
He can't be fair.
No.
Bob McCullough may not get back to the myth and act on the myth.
They can't trust that Bob McCullough will ignore all the evidence that disproves the myth.
They're afraid that Bob McCullough might actually include the evidence that destroys the myth, and so he's got to go.
Because the myth must survive.
The myth must triumph.
Why does McCullough have to go?
Well, he can't be fair because his father was a cop and was gunned down in the line of duty in 1964.
And because of that, I just saw it on CNN.
I just thought black Democrat Senator State of Missouri said he can't be fair.
His father was gunned down.
He cannot be fair.
He's biased toward the cops.
What that means is we can't guarantee the outcome we want with this guy.
Oh, McCullough even said that.
McCullough, this is a big mistake.
McCullough goes on TV and starts talking about his job and how he's going to deal with this.
And he thinks that he's being proper when he says he will not guarantee an outcome because he doesn't yet know all the evidence, and the grand jury hasn't heard it.
When he said that he can't and won't guarantee an outcome, it was like last Friday all over again.
And now he's got to go.
And further evidence of how it's impossible for him to be fair.
His mother worked for the police department, too.
Did you know that?
Oh.
Yeah.
And he's been really, really close to the cops all of these years.
Really?
He's a DA.
He's been close to the cops.
Who would have thought that?
Are not most state attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, district attorney, whatever you want to call them.
Federal prosecutor, are they not close to the cops?
They are on the same side.
And you see, any prosecutor is going to be on the side of the cops.
That's the way the system's set up.
At any rate, he's got to go.
He said, can't guarantee an outcome.
Father killed by a cop.
So he's the latest challenge to the myth.
He was minding his own business.
So he's come out and said, okay, you want to get rid of me.
You got to have the governor do it.
The governor's the guy you have to go to.
Grab somebody 25.
Here is Bob McCullough.
I don't, he might pronounce it McCullough.
I'm not sure I haven't heard his name pronounced.
So it's either McCullough or McCullough.
But he was he was interviewed the other day about the grand jury commencing today.
And here was uh his thoughts, is what he said.
He undermines everything except uh the cover that he's pulled over his head.
And that's his sole purpose in this.
He said absolutely nothing last night that is in any way, shape, or form meaningful, and it only aggravates the situation.
We're gonna proceed, you know, as I've laid out to people, until I'm told, if I'm told by the governor that I can't.
And the most devastating thing that can happen is if a week from now, a month from now, he decides that uh he's taking me off this case.
You know, then everybody's starting over.
So stand up, you know, man up.
Stand up and say, I have this story, I am not removing McCullough.
I am removing McCullough, and let's get on with this.
This family deserves nothing less than that.
He's talking about the governor of the beginning of the sound by the governor said demanded a vigorous prosecution.
Now, this governor, he he's he's just uh pandering.
He's just pandering to Democrat voters.
That's how shameless that is.
He's not an idiot.
Just pure pandering, and Claire McCaskill is engaging in some of the same pathetic pandering to Democrat voters and African Americans.
I mean, what business is the governor have demanding a vigorous prosecution before the grand jury has even heard the case and returned an indictment or not?
I've reached that moment where I must take an obscene profit break, so we'll be back.
Don't go away.
I mean, all of this, folks, this is I I I think this is crucially important.
All of this, the the foundation, the reason for all of this media coverage is a myth.
And the myth is so powerful that if there is even a hint of real evidence that contradicts it, that has got to be blown up, and whoever brings it forward's got to be blown up and done away with.
I believe a microcosm of the Democrat Party and politics.
If the truth behind any of their policies is ever revealed, what happens?
Whoever reveals the truth becomes a target, and the nature of the evidence of the truth is obliterated, nuked, and destroyed.
It really is, this is quite a display.
It's a it's a very, very teachable moment.
And it's not even referenced the emotions involved and how they are being manipulated and used in the furtherance of this myth.
Here is uh Steve in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as we start on the phones.
I'm glad you called, and I appreciate your patience in waiting.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Lindball.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm just calling.
I have a thought as to why the president is either choosing to stay on vacation or is being advised to stay away from Ferguson.
Um might happen if he goes to try to calm things down and then is not received very well by the African American community.
That would be quite embarrassing to the president, and I think it would actually be quite destructive to the Democrat Party if the president got booed and hissed by the African American community.
What leads you to think that would happen?
Well, I we've we've seen some of the the sound bites from the people in Ferguson that the president is not doing what he said he was going to do for the African American community.
Minor minor minor correction.
I think I've got the story somewhere here.
It's something like 90% of the agitators and protesters are not from Ferguson.
And if that weren't happening, if they if they weren't bussing in new Black Panther Party members and others from Oakland, who knows what might be going on there?
This is so artificial.
This whole thing is so unreal that it's not even the people of Ferguson that are making all the noise.
I mean, it's it's it's not even close.
It's all outside agitators.
Now, there have been signs.
Uh Steve, you're right.
I've seen people in the uh still shots and in the video of the rioting and the looting signs that are unflattering to Obama.
And we've had the new Black Panther Party president say Obama's worthless.
Why do you come here and help us?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it, I mean, I don't doubt that that is a calculation that the White House would be making.
Because every one of Obama's appearances are staged, usually now in front of young, low information college students in a controlled environment, with Obama on the campaign stage, campaigning for something, complaining about one of his own policies that the audience doesn't realize is his own policy.
Obviously low information.
But an environment like that they couldn't control.
And so, yep, I think you may have a point.
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