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Aug. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Isn't it though?
Snerdley is in there drinking a bottle of two if by tea.
And he just is commenting on how good it is.
Thank you, Mr. Snerdley.
I appreciate that.
He said it's incredible.
It is.
It's the best iced tea in the country.
Anyway, folks, I was just watching what I had time for.
Some of the, I guess it's a live appearance by the parents of James Foley.
A man beheaded by ISIS on video.
James Foley's parents are truly appear to be incredible people.
They are obviously in great pain, but they are projecting incredible strength here and gratitude for their son.
We thank Jim for all the joy he gave us.
We've never been prouder of our son.
He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.
We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages.
Like Jim, they are innocents.
They have no control over American government policy in Iraq, in Syria, or anywhere in the world.
We thank Jim for all the joy he gave us.
He was an extraordinary son, brother, journalist.
He was a photojournalist and person.
Please respect our privacy in the days ahead as we mourn and cherish Jim.
That statement from the mother, Diane Foley.
And they are currently, looks like in their front yard speaking to the media about this got got I can't imagine the pain that they are feeling.
And these ISIS people isolates the same thing.
ISIS, ISIL.
These are genuine human debris.
In the express way that term is meant.
They are indeed animals.
This uh the the video tape.
You watched it, Snerdley?
Yeah, he told me he did.
The ISIS member who actually committed this atrocious deed spoke with a British accent.
And I saw today where ISIS apparently has been successful in recruiting several British subjects, uh citizens into their movement to give them a different appearance from Al Qaeda, even though that's what they are.
ISIS is Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
But there's no way to nuance this.
They simply have to be obliterated.
They they have to be destroyed, essentially.
That's the only way you deal with people like this.
Uh here's the story out of Salt Lake City, our caller who mentioned right before the end of the hour in the previous hour, that there was a shooting that sounds very similar to what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.
It was August 12th.
Family of man fatally shot by Salt Lake City Police want justice.
A day after Salt Lake City police shot and killed a man whose family claim he was unarmed.
Questions about the shooting remain unanswered.
Dylan Taylor, 20 from Salt Lake, was exiting a 7 Eleven with his brother and cousin around 7 p.m. on Monday when the Salt Lake City police arrived, responding to a report of a man waving A gun in the area.
The officers ordered the men to the ground.
Two of them complied, but Dylan Taylor, who police say matched the suspect's description, did not comply.
It came in as a 911 call that there was a man with a gun, said South Salt Lake police sergeant Darren Sweeton.
He was verbally challenged and ultimately was shot.
Sweeton did not release further details on the shooting on Tuesday.
Now note the similarities to the to the Michael Brown story, except in this case there's no evidence that the victim actually committed a crime, as there is in St. Louis.
And note the total absence of any mention of race in this story.
There is absolutely no mention of race.
Now, from all accounts, Dylan Taylor didn't obey the cops' orders because he was wearing headphones.
He may not have heard the order to get down.
He reportedly was trying to pull up his pants in order to get down on the floor.
Any case, he didn't resist.
He didn't hit the cop.
He didn't try to flee, and yet he was shot dead.
The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on administrative leave.
But there was in this story no reference whatsoever to race.
Now, our caller said that the police officer that pulled the trigger is black.
Except the media in Salt Lake City is not referring to him that way.
They are referring to the officer as other than white.
Which reminds me of George Zimmerman becoming only the second known white Hispanic.
A title given by the New York Times.
George Zimmerman, white Hispanic, shot black innocent kid, Trey Von Martin, you know the drill.
And in St. Louis, in Ferguson, it's white police officer Darren Taylor.
Darren the names are running together now, Darren and Darren Moore.
Wilson, Darren Wilson shoots innocent gentle giant who's thinking about first day of college classes in the middle of the street at 215 on a Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.
Ferguson.
It's all St. Louis.
They can't wait to mention the racial aspects in St. Louis.
They can't wait to.
They don't talk about the racial aspects in Chicago, and there aren't any racial aspects here in Salt Lake City.
However, our caller said that the media says the cop is other than white.
So I said, well, what was the Hispanic illegal alien when no, no, no, he's a black police officer, but the media will not say that.
You see, folks, it doesn't matter.
There is, I don't know what the word, agenda, there's a mindset out there.
And the way it works in situations like this, only people of color can be victims.
A white person can never be a victim.
It just can't happen.
That's not permitted.
That's not allowed because it isn't the case.
The whites are the oppressors, they're the majority.
In the liberal worldview, every majority is an oppressor, whether they're white or whether they're all oppressors.
The minority is always the victims.
And the victims are with whom we should always sympathize, no matter what.
And the victims are permitted to do anything precisely because they're a minority.
And I'm talking about in numbers, not skin color.
They're outnumbered.
The evil majority does horrible things to the minority.
And so the minorities, be it skin color or numbers, harbor, always victims.
And because and many times victims of abuse, generational discrimination.
And so anything they do is justified.
And we must understand, try to understand the rage.
But in the current climate in the United States, a black person can never be The oppressor.
And a white can never be a victim.
And that's how you have a corrupt or perverted news business in Salt Lake City, refusing to identify a black cop who may have shot an innocent person.
That doesn't, that's not gonna, oh God, can't deal with that.
That destroys the whole picture we've been creating here for centuries.
Why that, oh no, that could totally destroy the uh the image that we've been trying to concoct.
Oh man, that could blow it sky high.
That's just not supposed to happen.
And so they come up with these things to hide it.
Or to not reference it at all.
It is what it is, folks.
Now from the politico, Ferguson media, get into the story.
The line between news reporting and opinion is blurring in Ferguson, Missouri.
Folks, believe me, that line has ceased to exist for years.
News reporting has been opinion for I don't know how long.
And in fact, speaking here as a broadcast professional.
It has almost been required that that news become opinion because straightforward dead dryball news sadly doesn't get any ratings.
It is opinion journalism that fires people up.
It creates drama, but it creates all the the human characteristics that lead to magnetism, that make people want to keep watching or listening or reading or what have you.
But let's stick with the story as written just for the fun of it.
The line between news reporting and opinion is blurring in Ferguson, as some national journalists inject their perspective and even themselves into the story.
No way.
I don't believe it.
Who knew?
Are you kidding me?
National journalists injecting their perspective in a story?
When did that begin?
And even themselves.
The conduct of a few prominent members of the press on the ground at the site of the police shooting of Michael Brown has drawn the attention of media observers and prompted the wrath of conservatives who see an anti-law enforcement bias in the media.
On Monday night, CNN's Jake Tapper blasted the authorities' heavy-handed response to the demonstrations, which he deemed nonsensical.
Wesley Lowry, Washington Post reporter, arrested last week along with Ryan Riley of the Huffington Puffington Post, has called police conduct militarized and aggressive.
Don Lemon on the air for CNN even offered personal assistance to the parents of Brown.
He said to them, and I quote, if any of you ever need anything, you know how to get in touch with me personally.
He said during an interview.
Well, where's the objectivity?
Where's the impartiality?
Where is the desire to get the story?
Where is the fairness?
It's out the window, see.
You know why it's out the window?
Because there's some real bad victims here.
And there's some real bad and worse oppressors.
And when I say bad victims, I mean there's some really sorrowful victims.
And so the media is acknowledging in this story that they have chosen sides.
Amy Simons, an assistant professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism, which is reputed to be one of the best in the country, said that when she saw Don Lemon tell the Brown family, if you ever need anything, you know how to get in touch with me personally.
Here's my number.
She said to me that was a line that was very clearly crossed.
He'd gone from being an independent journalist to clearly advocating and making it known which side of this issue he's on at the moment.
Amy, uh speaking for a vast majority of Americans, we already knew that because we watch CNN a lot.
We've been watching CNN since 1980, and we know what side of the issue they are on.
We didn't need Don Lemon offering aid and comfort to the Brown family to know it.
Now, if you've just figured it out, that's cool.
Don Lemon and Jake Tapper both declined to be interviewed by Politico for this story.
Wesley Lowry, the Washington Post journalist who was arrested alongside Ryan Riley, has given several media interviews since his arrest, engaged in public battles with his detractors, including Joe Scarborough, who suggested that Lowry should have been more compliant with the demands of law enforcement.
Lowry said on CNN, I would invite Scarborough to come down to Ferguson.
Get out of 30 Rock where he sits sipping his Starbucks smugly.
Oh.
So Scarborough can't possibly have any bodifies.
Scarborough can't possibly know what's going on.
He's sitting at 30 Rock sipping Starbucks.
He's not on the ground making friends with the victims.
Lowry also did not respond to a request for an interview, but he's made his feelings known on Twitter.
On Tuesday, he tweeted, no journalists should be getting arrested for doing their jobs.
Asked by one user if there was a danger of putting journalists capricious arrests above other capricious arrests of protesters, Lowry replied, no.
Even in the age of digital media, where Twitter has allowed for excessive commenting on every development, the injection of media narratives into the Ferguson story has drawn notice and in some cases criticism.
They actually think this is the first time this has ever happened.
They're actually reporting on this at Politico as though this is the first time that journalists have ever crossed over to the other side and actually become advocates for one of the sides.
Stunning.
But there you go.
It's a long story.
It goes on for a couple more pages, and we'll link to it at Rushlinbaugh.com.
Right now, a brief timeout, back with more.
Your phone calls coming up after this.
To the phones we go to Torrell, Texas.
Might be Tarot, Texas, not sure, and this is Joe.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Uh anchorman ditto see you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That's right.
Uh that's right.
I am America's anchor man.
That's exactly right.
America's real anchor man, doctor of democracy, too.
Right on.
I got a proposed question for you that I would propose if I could ask Obama Barack Obama wants you to answer.
Why is it necessary that we have to allow ISIS terrorist army to come over here and spill American blood when we could stop them now by fighting them on their own territory?
Well uh what what have I missed?
Is ISIS here?
No, I'm saying why should we allow ISIS to come to maybe our southern border?
Uh and spill American blood.
Oh, we can fight them on their turf and stop the stop the uh progress now.
Well, Obama did bomb them uh over there.
Well, he did.
I know, but the war is over there.
Yeah, it is it is, but it's it's uh the the national security threat.
It's I mean.
A border is wide open.
We've got what is it, two thousand miles of border.
Could they not easily come up that border with guns blazing?
Well, yeah, I guess it's possible.
I mean, the other day, James O'Keefe crossed the Rio Gran River as Osama bin Laden and nobody stopped him.
Now, everybody knows Bin Laden's dead.
He should have dressed up as Awen Amon Alzawahiri, But not enough people might know who that was or is.
But if you're talking about the lack of security at the border because of this with the fact that we've lost control of it, that's a legitimate point.
Any number of bad actors could be getting in.
I think the thinking now is that drug cartel and gang members are actually the ones that are crossing the border now setting up operations here and recruiting.
But you're right, it doesn't mean that any of these terror groups around the country couldn't try to get into the southern border as well.
I appreciate the call.
I gotta take another brief timeout, though, folks.
America's real anchor man back after this.
Let's turn to Rick Perry.
Rick Perry went in and was fingerprinted and mug shot Ed yesterday on this silly indictment for executing a constitutional power, the governor in Texas has a line item veto.
Tom Delay was also indicted by the Travis County D.A. And has had some very interesting things to say about this because of an old, old Texas controversy.
Yeah, Delay was a he eventually had the whole thing thrown out after nine years.
They they got what they got see.
I don't want to spend a lot of time rehashing this, but but the Democrats were going after Delay for the longest time because he was the Republican whip in the House.
He was called uh the the hammer, the hammer because he got the votes for Newt and the Republican leadership.
He was able to keep that caucus unified and in line.
He whipped the votes, and he did a great job of it.
The Democrats hated him because he was effective.
They hated him because he was an exterminator before getting into Congress.
He was not a political professional.
He got rid of bugs, like the Oregon man.
And he was so fed up that he got into politics and rises to the third highest position in the Republican leadership.
Well, the Republicans, as they so often do, decided to show the Democrats and the country how high-minded they were, and how above the fray they could be, and how even-handed and how decent.
Because of course, the Republicans are always racist, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and what have you.
They're mean-spirited extremists that do nothing but hate.
And so the Republicans, always eager to show everybody that none of that is true, instituted a rule which said if any of the leadership were ever under indictment, they would be forced to resign.
The Democrats have no such rule.
That kind of thing is a resume enhancement in the Democrat Party.
But the Republicans were trying to illustrate how above board they all are, and how decent and so forth.
And the Democrats said, is that all we got to do?
Just indict this guy for something, and he's gotta go.
We can't beat him at the ballot box.
So the Republicans are gonna tell us how we can get rid of him?
Yep.
And so they found what was it, three they had to go through Ronnie Earl had to go through three grand juries before they would indict Delay.
It was so preposterous.
But Ronnie Earle, the DA at the time, finally found enough grand jury members that would give him an indictment, and Delay had to step down.
And he was in the weeds on this for nine years, I think.
Well, the same Travis County DA indicted Rick Perry for exercising the line item veto.
The veto denied funding to the Travis County office.
Rick Perry had seen videotape of this female Traffic Lemberg is her name.
The DA got caught driving drunk three times the legal limit.
And the videotape of her arraignment is one for the ages.
I mean, the woman is just wild-eyed hammered and threatening it.
They had to put a spit rag on her.
Have you ever heard?
Dawn, you probably know what a spit rag is as much time as you spend in jails.
*cough*
Well.
Anyway, Spitrag is a is a mask.
It's kind of like a gag that is that is over the mouth and the nose because the suspect is so angry and out of control that they're spitting on everybody.
So they put the spit rag on her, they put her in a wheelchair and strapped her into it, and she was still going bananas.
And Rick Perry said, I think it's that Texans deserve better.
I'm not going to fund this office with somebody like that running it.
This is absurd.
So this was payback, the indictment of Rick Perry.
Now, what I was going to say is, because of an age old Texas gripe, long ago, it's a long story, but long ago, there was another governor that was legitimately behaving way, way outside the bounds.
And it was decided that this particular DA's office could indict statewide officials, not just people inside the county.
And that has been the case ever since.
I mean, for decades.
And it's just a quirk of Texas jurisprudence.
So anyway, they indict Perry for exercising this veto.
He's responded to it extremely well, but he's always going to have the word indicted now in every headline.
And he's going to have a mugshot in every story.
Although I don't think he will.
I don't think he will, because he's learned.
There are ways to do mugshots.
And the way to do a mugshot is to make it look like an official portrait.
You go in there dressed well and you smile.
You smile and you look happy.
And the media will not use it, particularly if you look good.
Now, the female, the drunk beyond control DA at Travis County, her mugshot looks like you would think a mugshot of a perp looks.
I mean, it's not flattering.
But Perry's looks like GQ.
So they won't use it.
Very, very smart on Perry's part to smile and look.
This looks like an official state portrait, his mugshot.
So it won't be, but the word indictment will be in there.
And so now the headlines are already out there.
The four, one of the uh, well, four of the top Republican presidential hopefuls are now involved in legal scandals.
Yes, NBC had the story yesterday.
It's Chris Christie, Scott Walker, uh, Rick Perry, and I forget who the fourth is, but this is exactly the Democrats got what they wanted.
They got Rick Perry indicted.
They got the word indictment in every story.
So he shows up to be fingerprinted and to uh get his mugshot.
And before he was booked, he held a press conference and spoke about the charges.
We have two sound bites.
Here's the first.
I'm here today because I did the right thing.
I'm gonna enter this courthouse with my head held high, knowing the actions that I took were not only lawful and legal, but right.
And if I had to do so, I would veto funding for the public integrity unit again.
He wasn't finished.
This indictment is nothing short of an attack on the constitutional powers of the office of governor.
There are important fundamental issues at stake.
And I will not allow this attack on our system of government to stand.
I'm gonna fight this injustice with every fiber of my being.
and we will prevail And we'll prevail because we're standing for the rule of law.
Now, uh, for whatever it's worth, there are a lot of Democrats who are joining the chorus of people who think this was really, really, really botched, that the Texas Travis County DA just really overstepped.
Not a lot, but there are a few.
And they've shown up on Fox, and they have uh said so.
Now, the indictment technically, uh, Perry was technically indicted for exceeding his executive powers.
And I find it fascinating.
Nobody in the drive-bys sees the irony.
I mean, here you have Obama who really has exceeded his executive powers countless times, waiving Obamacare all those times, adding things to it, executive orders.
You talk about somebody who has exceeded his executive power.
It's Barack Obama hands down, and everybody knows it.
Everybody agrees.
Just nobody wants to do anything about it.
Perry went off got ice cream after he was mugshotted and fingerprinted.
All right, here's Chris Christie.
By the way, you gotta hear this.
This was yesterday, Long Branch, New Jersey.
Governor Christie held a town hall event.
And this is part and parcel of what I am talking about.
There was a woman in the audience at the town hall meeting holding up a sign that said, indict.
This is what the Democrats want.
They got the picture.
Here's a town hall meeting, and the cameras record some stupid idiot standing here with a sign says indict.
Because what the Democrat Party is about, like I said yesterday, Democrat Party Obama is all about eliminating the opposition.
That's what is going on.
Criminalizing the opposition.
So an identified and unidentified woman during the QA at the Chris Christie Town Hall.
Get this question.
She said, I thought that Bruce Springsteen asked that none of his music be played at your events because he doesn't believe in your politics.
Is that true?
I thought Springsteen said that you couldn't play any of his music.
No, never did that.
No, you're wrong.
In fact, I saw Bruce just a week and a half ago.
If you're gonna be cute, we should get the story right.
Listen, I know him, and you're wrong.
And I understand you're now expressing your politics.
You're now expressing your politics and your objection, and that's fine.
Don't put it in Mr. Springsteen's mouth.
Put it in yours.
Because I know Bruce and I've spoken to Bruce, and you're wrong.
Okay.
So back to Springsteen.
I mean, I mean, this is how you hurt Christie.
You know, Chris Christie loves this guy, Springsteen.
He just idolizes him.
I mean, the most exciting day in his life.
He's he said this was when Obama put Springsteen on the phone after hurricane, whatever it was up there.
Yeah, Hurricane Sandy.
You know, Obama and uh and Christie are doing the moonwalk there on the beach, and they're getting together for one and ever and solve all the problems, and yep, yep, yep, yep, yah, who one week before the election.
And uh Obama puts Springsteen on the phone, and Christie's almost starts crying.
Oh my god, Bruce Springsteen, oh geez, my hero!
Oh, I can't believe it, I can't believe it.
And then Springsteen made a joke on a late-night comedy show making fun of Christy over Bridgate and hurt Christie's feelings.
Oh, gee, I thought the guy liked me.
I thought we were best buds now, blah, blah, blah.
So now they're going at Christie, I mean, holding up a science indict, and then hit him with, by the way, I thought, I thought Bruce said he didn't like your politics.
You can't play his songs.
And and they've reduced Christie here to.
Oh, no, no, I know Bruce.
I know Bruce likes me.
I like Bruce, but no, no, no.
You're just wrong, he's wrong.
Bruce, Bruce, I just spoke to Bruce last week.
Well, Bruce and I are cool.
and we'll be back.
Don't go.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I happen to pass along to you the information that Phil Sims, who used to be a conservative, and Tony Dungey, have decided they are not going to use the word Redskins during NFL telecasts this fall.
Tony Dungey is going to call them Washington whatever and Sims.
Well, they're just not going to do it.
They're just going to call them Washington during the whole game.
Well, the Hall of Fame has a very outspoken member by the name of Mike Ditka, who still works at ESPN, but probably not for long.
Ditka was interviewed, uh, let's see here, on the Redskins Historian.com website by Mike Richman.
And during a discussion about this this need to change the name of the Redskins, Mike Ditke unloaded.
What's all the stake over the redskin name?
There's so much more sh it's incredible.
We're gonna let the liberals of the world run this world.
It was set out of reverence out of uh pride to the American Indian, even though it's called a redskin.
What are you gonna call them?
A brown skin?
This is so stupid, it's a poly.
And I hope that owner keeps fighting for it and never changing it because the red skiers are part of uh American football history, and it should never be anything but the Washington Redskin.
That's the way it is.
He wasn't finished.
It's all the political correct idiots in America, that's all it is.
Hey, listen, I went through it.
I went through in the 60s, too.
I mean, come on.
It's fine to protest, you know.
That's your right, and you don't like war to protest.
You have a right to do that.
But to change the name, that's ridiculous.
You know, change the constitution.
We got people trying to do that too, and they're doing a pretty good job.
Yeah, it's not just stop at changing the name.
You got people trying to change constitution, he's talking about Obama.
But Ditka is speaking up for traditionalists who know that when the Redskins were named the Redskins, there was no intent whatsoever.
This is a manufactured, a manufactured circumstance where supposedly millions and millions and millions and millions of people are all of a sudden offended.
And it's it's very classic, I think, the way the media does this.
They present this story as though everybody agrees with them, and everybody agrees this has got to go to.
Out of nowhere.
This is just the agents of intolerance on the march demanding that everybody agree with them.
It's the same thing and the same myth that's propelling the Ferguson story.
There's a myth here that this nation is fed up with the name Washington Redskins.
There's a myth that everybody wants it changed.
There's a myth that numbers, millions of people are routinely profoundly offended by it.
None of that's true.
Again, we're dealing with a politically correct minority intent on having their way.
Uh and we're in the and Ditka is just speaking up for people who what the hell is this?
And no real issue here.
Nobody really upset.
There's more important stuff going on.
Leave it alone.
Hope the owner hangs in there.
Anyway, he works at ESPN, but I don't know.
I mean, once you know, this at least got to be suspended, doesn't he?
Students in the high school in Ferguson, Missouri, still closed because of rioting, are not just missing classes.
They are missing their free lunches.
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