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Aug. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
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Breitbart News has a story here.
The number of protesters arrested in Ferguson, 78.
Only three were Ferguson residents.
I mean, that's the, it's an illustration.
It's not the total story.
This is just arrests.
But it is an illustration of just how many outside agitators have flown in there or driven in there.
However, to further the myth.
This was covered by Fox News reporter Steve Harrigan reported only three of the 78 protesters arrested last night during the clash between the cops and protesters.
Only three were from Ferguson.
78 arrests, just three of them from here in the town of Ferguson, and a lot of them are from elsewhere in Missouri.
Some come from as far away as California and New York.
The Washington Post was unable to get these numbers, even though it was right there on Fox.
And the numbers come from officials, not Fox didn't make it up.
The Washington Post story does not mention it, because, of course, it goes against the myth.
You see, the myth contains many elements.
But for the myth to survive, it has to be the town of Ferguson that's fed up.
It has to be the town of Ferguson that can't deal with this anymore.
It has to be Ferguson is going to be the last place where a white cop guns down an innocent black kid.
It's not going to happen anymore.
We're fed up with it.
We're tired of it.
It isn't going to happen.
As though it happens regularly.
And Ferguson is the last straw.
So a lot of people on the left and in the Civil Rights Coalition and the Democrat Party are working overtime to further this myth.
Now, I mentioned in the opening hour of the program that Politico has a story excusing the fact that Obama is not going to St. Louis.
In fact, he can't go there.
And we had this, I mean, this is just so perfect for the illustration of the Limbaugh theorem.
There's a story from, I think, what did I say?
It was theHill.com.
He can't go.
The White House is not letting Obama go.
The White House hasn't decided yet whether Obama is going to go.
See, he's not even in charge of where he goes and when he goes.
He's not in charge of the White House, meaning not Obama.
I mean, it was classic.
But the political piece, why Obama Can't Go this actually written by Todd Perdum.
There's a name ring a bell, Tom Perdum.
Todd Purdum.
Yeah, Mr. Dee D De Myers used to work for the New York Times and is now married to Dee Dee Myers, who worked in the Clinton administration.
She was the first White House press secretary for Clinton.
It's a paradox of Barack Obama's presidency.
The first African-American to run the country finds himself in the tensest racial confrontation of his tenure, but is constrained from addressing the nation's original sin in anything but the loftiest, most dispassionate terms.
Now, that paragraph, in terms of myth-making, is a doozy.
Now, what's going on in Ferguson can remind everybody of America's original sin.
Yes, sirie, Bob, slavery is now on the table.
Slavery is actually what was going on in Ferguson.
Slavery is what has continued to take place in America.
So here he is, the first African-American press to run the country, is constrained from addressing the nation's original sin in anything but the loftiest, most dispassionate terms.
Then Perdum goes on to describe Obama's statement as being anodyne, meaning as the least provocative it could be.
He quotes Obama saying, we've made extraordinary progress in race relations, but we have not made enough progress.
Perdham says, that observation is so obvious as to be anodyne.
But Obama has good reason to confine himself to Joe Friday generalities in the face of the discordant street demonstrations, belligerent police tactics, and unfinished official investigation at Ferguson.
Belligerent police tactics.
What is that in reference to?
Last Friday night, the police backed off and let the looting occur.
Yeah, they've thrown some tear gas in there.
And yeah, they've appeared to be militarized, but that's only because the federal government militarized police departments with leftover items and equipment from the Pentagon.
I can't, look, folks, sorry to keep hammering this, but it's crucial.
I cannot get over what a fraudulent news story this is.
There's no reason for wall-to-wall coverage like this.
It is just stunning to me.
It's all based on a myth.
Blacks are killed in this country by blacks.
That's what's common.
That is what happens way too much.
That is something that these people involved in this myth do not even want raised.
They don't even want it brought up.
Weekend death and wounded statistics from Chicago are so high every weekend that they have ceased being news.
It's become so common to get up on Monday and read the dramatic numbers, deaths, people wounded by gunfire in Chicago every weekend that people don't even think about it anymore.
Which is my point.
There's no news there.
There's no common.
I mean, it's so common, they don't do any stand-up news reports.
They don't worry about all the black kids dying in Chicago.
You're really worried about African-American death.
I mean, there's places you can go to highlight it, put it on the news, portray it as a very, very bad problem.
But that will not further either the Democrat Party agenda, it will not further the race industry agenda, and it will not further the Civil Rights Coalition agenda, and therefore it will not further the myth.
It's just mind-boggling when you stop to think about this.
So back to why Obama can't go.
Ever since he first judged that the Cambridge, Massachusetts police had acted stupidly in 2009 by arresting Skip Gates in his own doorway, Obama's most candid comments on race have been just as likely to inflame a significant segment of public opinion as to soothe it.
Last year, when Obama made the indisputable observation that Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago, many conservatives reacted with outrage, whether real or politically inspired.
You see, whenever the myth is in full swing, anybody calling it out is illegitimate.
It's not real criticism.
That's just their right wing.
They're just trying to advance policy.
They're just being political.
So there's no politics in this, you see.
There's no politics in this myth.
The only politics and people like me who criticize it.
Yeah, but there's no politics going on here.
And of course, it's all political.
Everything about this story in Ferguson is political.
Everything.
The political far outweighs the racial in this story.
But of course, those two are actually aligned and side by side in the Democrat Party.
So Mr. Perdum writes, so there is now little practical percentage for Obama in doing anything but balancing his assertion that in many communities too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear, as he did Monday, with an even-handed warning that giving in to anger by looting or carrying guns and even attacking the police only serves to raise tension and stir chaos.
So Perdum is saying, see this guy, he can't say anything.
He's saying both sides.
He's trying to satisfy people on both sides and get out of there without causing any controversy and without getting in any trouble.
And so you see, the analysts who tell us that Obama can't go do so strictly on the basis of political analysis.
Will it hurt Obama or will it help Obama?
And if it cannot help Obama, then he certainly has no reason to go.
Really?
Well, if the myth were true, and if a white cop were shooting innocent black kids routinely, do you think Obama would go to one of the locales?
If the myth were true, if white cops every week were shooting innocent black kids, you think Obama would go to one of those things?
You think Obama would do something about it?
You think Obama would speak up?
You think he would go instead of sending Holder?
One of the reasons I'm telling you he doesn't go is because this is not common.
But here it is right here in Politico.
The main reason he's not going is because the political calculation is he can't help himself.
Stop and think about that, though.
Here we have the greatest orator ever in the White House.
I mean the greatest speaker ever, the most powerful and the most influential.
He's just the best.
He told Harry Reid he just has a gift.
Here we have a man who was going to end these kinds of things in America.
It was going to be an end to all this racial partisanship and strife.
Here we have the first black president who was elected, I maintain by a large number of people hoping that this kind of stuff would never again happen.
That the election, I know for a fact that there were a lot of white people that voted for Obama really thinking and hoping that it would mean that their vote, that if the black people of America could see that white America would elect a black president, that they would finally see that there is no racism and there's no slavery and there's no bigotry and this stuff needs to stop.
You know it as well as I do that a lot of people voted for Obama with that dream.
Speaking of dreams, you know that the Republican Party, the white majority, has been on defense for I don't know how long about this to prove they're not racist and that they're not sexist and that they're not bigots and that they're not mean-spirited and that they're not homophobes and that they're not this or that.
Practically everything the Republican Party and the white majority do in this country is in a defensive posture trying to say, no, we're not, no, we're not, no, we're not.
And it was in that framework and frame of mind, I think, that a lot of white people voted for Obama to show every, no, we're not what you say we are.
We're not racist.
We know.
And they thought that by voting, and then by saying so, and by openly, proudly, publicly supporting Obama, that they could display for the world that they were not racist.
It could finally convince the Ralph Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons and the Trayvon Martins and their families.
Well, they finally convinced them, bro, once and for all, don't you see we are not racists?
We don't hate you.
We're not afraid of you.
That's what was behind the vote.
A desire to send that message.
And now the truth is, you can send that message all day.
You could send that message all day, every day for a year, and it'd be thrown right back at you.
And the establishment of this myth is evidence of that.
I mean, if electing the first African-American president, in part to end racism or to show that majority of white people are not racist and they're not bigots at all, that's what the purpose was.
And yet the events keep happening, and maybe even some would say it worse.
You have an event like this happen, purely mythical in its scope.
And now we've got stories left and right.
The president cannot go.
The first African-American president can't win by going in to talk about this.
He just, it would cause more problems than he could solve.
He just can't come out on this one side or the other.
But this is the guy who was the recipient of all of those votes, which were intended to say, we're not.
We don't.
Stop hating us.
Stop judging us.
Stop calling us racist.
Stop calling us bigots.
We're not.
Look, we voted for the first African-American presidential candidate and we helped elect him.
And those people today, six years later, still being told they're racist, still being told they're bigots, still being told that they support white cops killing black kids.
Nothing's changed.
In fact, as I say, it may have even gotten worse.
So as Todd Purdham writes here, It has fallen to another African-American with a much smaller microphone, the Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, to give personal voice to the feelings of so many black parents at the shooting of yet another unarmed black teenager.
See, the myth, the shooting of yet another unarmed black teenager.
I'm not denying that it happens, but it doesn't happen regularly.
And the vast majority of black deaths in this country are the result of black perpetrators.
And those are the stats.
They don't lie.
By the way, folks, it's not just President Obama who's not going in there.
Mrs. Clinton isn't anywhere near.
Al Sharpton is asking for Hillary to come in.
Even some people have asked for Jeb Bush to show up and talk about this.
But there's a political story that references how few Democrats have answered the call or spoken up much on this.
You've got people on MSNBC demanding to the president, get on a plane.
These are your people.
He stays in Martha's Vineyard.
See, the politics just isn't right.
There's something not right about the politics for these national Democrats to get involved.
This is something about this.
This isn't right.
And the reason it isn't right is because it's a myth.
It's not working.
Here's Bill in Detroit as we head back to the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you.
With all of the news media coverage that I've watched and read about, I can't believe, you know, every interview is exactly the same.
The people are the same.
Their comments are the same.
I can't believe that there's not, they can't find one black person in that town that has a different opinion.
And it's pretty clear that they're trying to portray that there's a certain image going on here.
And I think that the image is being directed at other black people to keep them in line politically.
I don't think they care what the rest of the world thinks.
And even today, looking at some of the still photographs that they've taken and some of the reporting of it, it reminds me a lot of when they report on the Palestinians.
You have the young people hiding their face and they're throwing rocks.
It almost seems too scripted.
And I know you've talked about that quite a bit, that there's something else here.
You are exactly right.
Let me tell you what you've zoned in on, Bill, very, very adroitly.
That means skillfully, for those of you in Riolinda, there is no news.
You're exactly right.
You're not watching news out of Ferguson.
You're watching politics in action, and you've caught it.
They don't find anybody who disagrees with the myth.
Not one person in that town, huh?
Ladies and gentlemen, our last caller from Detroit, Bill, reminded me of something that is, once again, crucially important in analyzing, dissecting, and understanding all of this stuff that's going on.
He made the point that every network, no matter which one, all looks the same.
The story is the same no matter where you go.
In print, probably on radio locally, and probably no doubt on cable news, it's all the same.
Is there not one black store owner, for example, in Ferguson, that is not down for all this?
Are there not people in Ferguson, Missouri fed up with this and wish everybody pack up and get out of town?
Everywhere you look, it's identical.
Same pictures of the same people.
Interviews of the same people.
The guests migrate from network to network.
The state senators, the Democrat Party officials, all everywhere.
Everybody commenting on this is everywhere saying the same thing from network to network to network.
It's all the same.
And here's why that matters.
In addition to the obvious.
The obvious obviously says, well, then maybe this is manufactured, scripted.
Maybe there's an agenda behind this.
Maybe they're not really just standing out there and watching what goes on and telling us.
And see, that's the bottom line.
The reporters in this story are not in Ferguson and watching dispassionately and then telling you and me what they see.
There is a myth at play here, and therefore there is an agenda and there is an objective to be reached in this story.
There is a good ending and a bad ending.
There's the right ending and the wrong ending and the right ending is where they're all slanted and headed.
And in fact, that ending has already been reached.
Right now it's in the stage of this is what should happen.
No matter where you look, the proper outcome has already been determined based on the politics of the people in charge of this.
And the purpose of this is to advance a liberal agenda, the Democrat Party agenda, to turn out black votes for the November midterms.
Let's go back.
I want to remind you of a point that I made in this discussion about the Washington Redskins name change.
It's a tactic that the media and the left use.
It is an attitudinal tactic.
I have told you, I've regaled you with stories of media people who have gone to Redskins games and Redskins practices and how angry they've been when they encounter Redskins fans happily wearing Redskins gear, happily singing hail to the Redskins.
This is not set well with the media people that have gone.
The media, in presenting the story of the name change, does so with an attitude that everybody agrees that it needs to be changed.
That there's not a soul out there who supports it anymore.
Well, there might be a few, but they're kooks, don't you see?
They're old-fashioned.
They're racist.
They're not hip.
They haven't gotten with the times.
They're holding on to a long-ago past that can never, ever be again.
The real hipsters, the people in the know, the vast majority of people, realize that Redskins is horribly racist, demeaning, and insulting.
The vast majority of Americans realize it's got to go.
And yet, that's how it's covered.
That's how the story is presented.
And every liberal story is that way.
Everything the media covers, the assumption is everybody agrees with them.
There is no longer any debate.
There is no disagreement.
There is no contrary point of view other than those Tea Party extremists who are marginalized and put over there as racists and bigots and what have you.
It's a fundamentally important technique in establishing the proper psychiatry in any movement.
And the objective that they seek is to make everybody who doesn't agree with them to think they're in the smallest of minorities have no chance of stopping whatever is on the agenda to change.
And furthermore, they're kooks and oddballs and weirdos for opposing it.
The smart people goes the thinking.
The assumption is all the smart people, all of the really sophisticated, erudite, reasonable people know that the Redskins name has to be changed.
Likewise here.
All the sophisticated, erudite, sophisticated and elite people know that this cop shot an innocent white or black kid and that it happens all the time and we've had enough of it and it's got to stop.
And if it doesn't stop, it just proves what a horrible place the United States of America remains and is why we must engage in fundamental transformational change.
And if you oppose that, you become marginalized.
And the way the story is covered is to make you think that you're alone in opposing it.
That everybody, everybody agrees with the leftist agenda.
Everybody supports it.
That's the tone in reporting every story.
So here we have Bill in Detroit and his observation.
And no matter where he looks, it's all the same.
The coverage is the same.
The desired outcome is the same.
The only outcome is the same.
The only decent outcome is the same.
The guests are the same.
What the guests say is the same.
The reporters, network to network, all say the same things.
They all end up talking to the same people.
They all end up showing the same pictures because they're all like-minded.
And in doing so, an image is created that everybody thinks this way.
Everybody agrees with all this.
And if you don't, you are really odd, backwards, old-fashioned, unhip, uncool, out of it, wrong.
Take your pick.
This is exactly how it's done.
This is political correctness on the march in one sense.
The news has ceased being news.
The reporters on the ground in Ferguson are not standing there with notebooks and cameras and microphones and recording what happens and then trying to be the first to tell everybody.
They are all trying to find things that will fit their version of the story that already exists.
They are going to find people who will give evidence of proof that the myth in all this is exactly what happened.
I have, I hope I printed this out.
I've got a couple of stacks here.
I know I did.
There's a story in all this about how the journalists have become the story that the line of demarcation between what is news, here it is.
Here it is.
And lo and behold, my friends, it's a political story.
And lo and behold, I'm going to take an obscene profit timeout.
And when I come back, I will share with you the details.
Don't go away.
You know, criminal prosecutors often say, well, it's not often, criminal prosecutors do say that if several people report an event exactly the same way, it proves that they have gotten together and scripted their stories.
You know the old saw that the more times you tell a story, the more it changes.
Like I would tell Mr. Snerdley something.
Mr. Snerdley will tell Brian.
By the time Brian hears it, it's not quite the way I told it to Snerdley.
Snerdley's not purposely distorting it.
It's just that he heard certain things that I say that sounded interesting Morrising and others or whatever.
And those are the ones he emphasized.
Brian does the same.
By the time Brian tells it to somebody and that somebody tells it to somebody, it's probably going to be much different than the story I told Mr. Snerdley.
But if people in a progression of people tell the same story, detail down to detail, and it doesn't change, prosecutors tell you that it's scripted.
They will tell you that people have gotten together and arranged the story and don't deviate from it.
Now, if that happens to be true about, say, witnesses in a court case, why couldn't it be true of the drive-by media?
Is it not stunning?
You know, I used to say back in the early days of this program, if you miss this program, you miss this program.
There's nowhere else you can go to hear what happened on this program.
But if you missed CBS, no big deal, watch ABC.
And if you missed ABC, no big deal, watch NBC.
If you missed all three of those, no sweat, turn on CNN.
If you missed all four plus CNN, turn on MSNBC.
If you miss all five of those, go to the newspapers, try the New York Times.
If you miss the five networks and the New York Times, go to the Washington Post and so on.
And whatever you do in the mainstream media, you'll see or hear or read the same thing.
You can get it all in one outlet.
You can bet that of the three nightly newscasts every night, essentially you're going to see the same stories, maybe in different order, but you're going to see the same stories.
And more importantly, you're going to see the same treatment.
And you're going to see the same stories not covered, which has become as important an item in media analysis as covering what they do cover, pointing out what they ignore.
But if you miss this program, where else are you going to go?
You've got to go to rushlimbaugh.com.
The only place you can go to pick up what happened here if you miss it.
So if witnesses can get together, make sure their stories don't change, why can't the drive-bys do it?
And I've always maintained the drive-bys don't have to have a meeting every day, just like Obama doesn't have to send a memo to Lois Lerner to tell her to get to tea party.
She already knows to do that because she's working for Obama.
She knows what he wants.
Well, by the same token, the drive-bys are the drive-bys.
They are hired because they already think a certain way.
So it's trusted that they're going to report things the way it is desired.
So I appreciate, Bill, that's a great observation, Bill in Detroit.
He hasn't seen a thing different, no matter where he goes.
Now, I want to get to this story from also the politico about the media becoming the story.
But let me get back to the phones first because I need to keep a good balance here.
This is Scott in Plano, Texas.
Thank you, sir, for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Megadidos from Texas.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to follow up on the first black post-racial president.
And we should never mind that he's actually half Caucasian and was raised mainly by Caucasians.
But if you're going to go there, if you're going to go in that direction, you have to point out he was raised by a typical white grandmother.
That's true.
All right.
That's a very good grandmother that's afraid of blacks, right?
He said that.
Yes.
Well, he threw his grandmother under the bus.
Rush, he's eminently qualified to go to Ferguson and fix all of this because he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
He just wears that bling around his neck and everyone's going to bow down.
You know, that is another brilliant caller observation.
Callers are two for two today.
You know, Scott, you and Bill deserve special commendation today because that is so true.
This guy, he got the Nobel Peace Prize, what, two months after being sworn in?
And they asked the committee, wait a minute, peace prize winners normally have done something.
Well, we know he will.
Oh, there's never been better prospects for peace.
The election of Barack Hussein O.
And here we are.
Now we've got the absence of peace in St. Louis.
We've got militarized police due to the regime.
The regime's Defense Department has militarized local police departments.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, he can't go to St. Louis because the White House hasn't decided whether or not to send him.
And he can't go because, well, he just can't go.
So maybe if he continues to do nothing, he'll win it again when he leaves office.
You never know.
Scott, thank you.
James, Salt Lake City, your turn.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
How are you today?
Excellent.
Thank you for taking my call.
Hey, I was calling you from Salt Lake, and we had an officer shoot an unarmed white man, and then we found out later that it was a other than white officer is how they reported it.
Wait, wait, wait a minute now.
You're in Salt Lake City.
An officer shot an unarmed white man.
Yes.
And the officer in the media was portrayed as other than white?
That is correct.
Was he an illegal alien comp?
Well, at first we thought he might be, but then they said that no, he wasn't African American.
They will not release his name or the video from his camera that he wore on his vest or the 911 call that was placed because of the shooting.
When did this happen?
Last week, I believe Wednesday or Thursday.
Last week.
Has Anderson Cooper been there yet?
Again.
Shep Smith, has he been there yet?
No, nobody's been here.
As a matter of fact, I thought with all the rioting and looting that's going on here, somebody would have come by and at least filmed it.
Is there rioting and looting that's going on there?
None whatsoever.
No rioting and looting.
There's no Shep Smith.
There's no Anderson Cooper.
There's no.
Has Michael Eric Dyson or anybody been into town yet?
No, and I thought maybe we would put a call into Al Sharpton and see if maybe he could come down and give us a hand because this could really turn up.
So this is a white person shot by an other than white cop.
That's a fact.
And they had the cop, the other than white cop was wearing a camera.
They've suppressed that feed, and they have suppressed the 911 call.
Yes.
Wow.
I know.
It's amazing.
And nobody will report on it except all of the stations here, of course.
You did, of course.
Other than white cop.
Okay.
The Salt Lake City shooting, the crime we just heard about, August the 12th.
I am, as we speak, gathering the data.
And while we get back, while we're waiting to get back, I'll cover it.
I'll find out everything I can, including what they're trying to suppress, and have it for you.
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