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Aug. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, it looks like Governor Nixon has ordered the National Guard to scram.
National Guard to withdraw from Ferguson, Missouri.
So I guess the militarized police presence is no longer necessary.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, America's real anchorman, the doctor of democracy and America's truth detector.
That's me, all combined in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball bundle.
Story from St. Louis, from Ferguson, Missouri Highway Patrol captain Ron Johnson, who was placed in charge of security in Ferguson by the governor last week when the governor decided that the county police just couldn't do the job.
So he kicked him out.
He brought in Captain Johnson, the state police, and the highway patrol.
And he drew rave reviews on Thursday night.
And then the rave reviews gave way to questionable reviews on Friday because the looting began and Nixon, sorry, Johnson, Ron Johnson, told the cops to back off and let the looting happen.
It was judged the least provocative way to handle a situation.
Let the looters get it out of their system rather than confront them, which would be provocative.
And some people said, wait a minute now, that's kind of giving up.
So he went from being the governor-elect to just getting his own reality show down the road.
But anyway, he's still in a leadership position being sought out by the media.
And he said the other day that journalists are being arrested due to safety concerns stemming from the abounding protests.
And Captain Johnson blamed unrest and chaos for the detainments of some journalists.
He's not yet explained if the arrests of media members will continue or cease.
And he said, we can't tell anymore who's a journalist and who isn't.
We don't know when we're looking at the mob who is a journalist and who isn't a journalist.
All somebody's got to do is have a camera on their shoulder and walk around.
If it's a $50,000 camera, I'm pretty sure it's a journalist.
But there's some journalists walking around here using their cell phone cameras, and it looks like we can't tell if they're a journalist or not.
And of course, members of the public are getting into press conferences and passing themselves off as journalists.
Get this.
This is a story from Selma.
Oh, yeah.
Teacher suspended after a lesson on the shooting in St. Louis.
A sixth grade Brantley elementary teacher in Selma was put on paid administrative leave yesterday after a Facebook post revealed that the teacher allegedly instructed the students on Tuesday to reenact the shooting in Ferguson.
Jessica Bond, the mother of Brantley's sixth grade student Jimmy Griffin, posted a complaint on Tuesday on the Sound Off Selma Facebook page.
And in the post, Gaughan expressed her shock after learning a teacher had told the class to reenact the shooting in which an unarmed gentle giant was shot by police on August 9th.
Apparently, Ms. Bond is a racist.
I mean, after all, this pivotal moment in American history will probably be reenacted now through the ages.
This may be reenacted as much as the first Thanksgiving before they're finished with it.
Students are reportedly asked to research the shooting online, finding out such details as how many times Brown was shot and where, and then to reenact it.
Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Now I know the problem.
Now I know the problem.
The problem is if the students were asked to research this, then they would learn details such as that the gentle giant was shot from the front, which is contrary to what his defenders claim.
So maybe the real problem here is that the reenactment will cause the students to research it and find things out that the Civil Rights Coalition doesn't want people to know.
You know how many witnesses there are that have supposedly talked to the DA's office about the version of events that support the cops version?
There are competing eyewitness accounts.
A new witness has come forward today.
A brand new witness claimed to see the shooting.
And of course, his version is the gentle giant was running away and put his hands up.
And of course, the autopsy evidence doesn't show how that can be because he wasn't shot from the rear.
But this guy's all over CNN today as a brand new eyewitness.
But Jessica Bond, the mother said in Selma, said, I don't think it needs to be talked about at school at all, let alone reenacted.
It scares me as a parent, because any one of these kids could have picked up their aunt, their uncle, or grandmother, whoever's gun, and pointed it at another child.
It could have gone off accidentally.
Well, look at the tandem out admission and how many family members there have a gun.
Could have picked up their aunt, their uncle, their grandma, or whoever's gone.
Oh, yeah.
How many opportunities does this student have to get a gun for the reenactment?
Anyway, that's one little issue.
The New York Times, ladies and gentlemen, has buried news of Officer Wilson's injury.
Officer Wilson got hurt.
It happened somehow in this conflict.
It happened in this confrontation.
New York Times has big news on the biggest story in the country today, but they buried the news 26 paragraphs deep.
Let me read it to you.
26 paragraphs in from the New York Times on police sources.
Law enforcement officials say witnesses and forensic analysis have shown that Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle in the car.
What struggle in the car?
Why was there a struggle in the car?
If there was a struggle in the car, how the hell does that happen?
The cop's the only one in the car.
How does a struggle in a car happen?
Somebody explained this to me.
And how does the cop end up with his eye socket blown out sitting in the car?
If the gentle giant is running away, what did they do?
Did the cop beat himself up with his handheld microphone on the two-way radio?
No, seriously, how did this happen?
Here's what the Times says.
Law enforcement officials say witnesses and forensic analysis have shown Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle to cart.
26 paragraphs in, they say this.
And then they say, obviously the news that Wilson was injured during his struggle with the 18-year-old gentle giant is highly relevant to the ongoing investigation.
Well, it's not to the mob.
If Wilson was indeed injured, says the Times, it doesn't automatically make the fatal shooting of Brown appropriate, but, but it does help fill a yawning fact vacuum with a piece of relevant information.
What yawning fact vacuum?
There isn't a yawning fact vacuum.
What we have here, or factor that what we have here is a myth versus facts.
And the battle is between the myth and facts and which one is going to triumph.
That's all that's going on here.
The myth is white cops are shooting dead, innocent black kids all the time in St. Louis and the country.
That's the myth.
That is what is propelling all of this.
That is how this has to end up for those pushing the myth.
Because if it doesn't, if it doesn't, if the myth is totally obliterated and blown to smithereens, the results of that are just incomprehensible from the standpoint of the myth makers.
They have got to triumph here.
They have got to win this.
But now there's a problem.
The cop has an orbital eye socket, I mean, bloodied and broken to the point he almost lost consciousness from what I hear.
His vision was impaired.
That's why there are six shots.
He's sitting in the cop car.
How does this happen when the gentle giant is surrendering and running away?
The myth is up against some powerful facts that the New York Times calls a fact vacuum.
Now, I think the fact that the Times hid its own scoop and that no other media outlets are reporting this is also very informative and it's completely unsurprising.
The Times masthead is not all the news that's fit to print anymore.
It's all the news that fits our agenda.
And here is the story from Fox News.
Missouri cop badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown says source.
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Missouri police officer's fatal shooting of the gentle giant touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital eye socket fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his weapon, a source close to the department's top brass, told FoxNews.com.
The assistant police chief took him to the hospital.
His face was all swollen on one side, said the insider.
He was beaten very severely.
Hey, if they took him to hospital, there are people there that know.
If he was treated at the hospital, there are people there who know.
All he's got to do is waive his medical privacy.
If all of this happened, he's driven to the hospital, he's treated, people know.
Easily discoverable here.
So the question once again is: why was this information withheld?
Why was the video withheld?
We know the video was withheld because the DOJ demanded it.
They leaning on him on this?
Are the myth makers the ones in power?
Are the myth makers intimidating law enforcement there on the ground in Ferguson to keep this quiet so that a myth can take roots?
You suppress all of this about the officer's injuries while seated in the cop car.
You suppress that while the myth and its roots grow deep and deep and plant themselves and begin to blossom.
And then when the myth finally takes hold and everybody in St. Louis believes the myth, then you release the information about the cop to immediately make it suspect rather than affirmative.
It's the Trayvon Martin case all over again.
Got to remember, the extent of George Zemmerman's injuries were never reported for weeks.
911 calls were doctored because the myth was in full form in the Trayvon Martin case.
The facts only came to light after everybody had already made up their minds, after the myth had taken root.
With the assistance of people like Spike Jones and Reverend Sharpton or Reverend Jack and all the others who are planting and burying and planting and digging the myth.
According to well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on the 9th of August when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Doran Johnson to stop walking in the middle of his road because they were obstructing traffic in the middle of the road.
However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence.
The gentle giant and his buddy ignored the cop.
The officer started to get out of the car to tell him to move.
They shoved him back in the car as he attempted to get out of the car.
And that's when the gentle giant leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson upside the head and in the face.
At that point, the source told Fox News the 6'4, 292-pound gentle giant charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown's skull.
This according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of the Brown family.
I have a soundbite.
Is it a soundbite or a story?
Somebody has really, really ticked him off there.
I guess it's a yeah, some let me take a break and find this.
I don't want to get it somewhere.
There's a yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's an online column.
A veteran police officer has catapulted himself into the national debate over the death of the gentle giant.
He wrote an op-ed, I guess, on CNN.
No, I don't know where he wrote.
Let me find this in the break.
It's an ex-cop who wrote a column.
Look, when the cop tells you to do anything, you do it.
Whatever it is, you do it.
If there's a problem, deal with it later.
And apparently everybody's outraged over this.
I'll give you details when we get back.
Don't go away.
Snelly, what was that?
There was this, oh, I remember.
Washington Post had a story saying that marijuana was found in a gentle giant system in the autopsy.
I reported this.
The next day, theHill.com had a piece accusing me of character assassination.
And Drudge, me and Drudge, because we reported what was in the Washington Post.
So now, what's in the New York Times and on Fox News, I will be accused of character assassination again for deigning to report what I read in the New York Times and on Fox News.
Now, the Washington Post is back at it.
They got another column, and it's written by a cop.
And CNN is so mad about it, they have posted a piece on this column in the Washington Post.
Get this.
In a single column, a veteran police officer has catapulted himself into the national debate over the death of the unarmed gentle giant in Ferguson, Missouri.
I'm a cop.
If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me, the Washington Post headline says.
The piece was written by Sunil Duta.
He's a 17-year veteran of the LAPD.
Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here's the bottom line, writes this LAPD cop.
If you don't want to get shot, if you don't want to get tased, if you don't want to get pepper sprayed, if you don't get stuck with a baton, if you don't want to get thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you, he wrote.
Duda cautions against arguing, insulting, or screaming at officers.
And don't even think of aggressively walking towards me.
Most field stops are complete in minutes.
How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?
If you believe an officer is violating your rights or bullying you, Duta says, don't challenge him then.
Save that for lodging a complaint later.
You do what the officer tells you to, and it'll end safely for both of you.
Well, it took no time for the anger over that message to blow up.
And no wonder.
Have you ever heard anything so outrageous?
When a policeman tells you to do something, everybody up till now, I guess, thought it was a suggestion.
You're under no obligation to obey the guy.
You don't have to do a damn thing.
The officer tells you to lay down.
You don't have to.
You can rush the guy.
What are people thinking?
Literally, there is outrage over what this LAPD cop wrote in the Washington Post.
And it's this line right here.
Even though it may sound harsh and impolitic, here's the bottom line.
You don't want to get shot.
You don't want to get tased, pepper sprayed, stuck with a baton.
Just do what I tell you.
Oh, no.
No way, pal.
No way.
No way.
That doesn't happen in America anymore.
Nobody gets to tell nobody nothing.
Nobody gets to tell anybody what to do.
That's what America 2014 is.
Nobody gets to tell anybody.
Nobody gets to order anybody around anymore.
What about their feelings, cop?
What about their sensitivity?
What about their race?
Don't you take any of that into account?
He doesn't know.
If you want to get out of this safe, you do what I tell you and shut up.
And if you do, we'll be finished here in a few minutes.
And then you can go on your way.
Ken White said the outrageous thing is not that he says it, it's that we accept it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have from John in Chicago.
We head back to the phones.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Thank you, bro.
It's a real pleasure to talk to you.
Hey, at President Obama's news conference the other day, James Foley's on James Foley, he said, No just God would stand for what they did yesterday.
And I'm thinking, is that kind of a slap in the face of God?
Was God taken yesterday off?
It just seemed odd that he would say that.
Wait, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Now, darn it, let me get to that stack because somewhere here, I don't think I printed out his whole statement.
I've got a couple of stories of people objecting to certain things he said.
I've got one of them here pretty handy, but I don't think I've heard that.
Yeah, it's a news conference.
Those were his direct words.
No just God would stand for what they did yesterday.
And it just came and struck me.
And I asked my daughter, I said, what do you think about that, Sarah?
And she said, I think he's talking about their God.
But if he's saying no just God, I mean, there is only one God.
I mean, people worship other gods, but God was working yesterday, and it's kind of a slap in the face to God, I think, because, you know, he is a just God, but many people believe.
I believe he's a just God.
No.
And I really don't remember this.
You heard him say it?
Absolutely.
I started this call.
I was out pumping gas, and I go, I'm going to call in because I think this is important.
So then I came home and I hopped on my TV and I went back yesterday.
I played it.
And those are exact words.
No just God would stand for what they did yesterday.
So it just struck me as odd.
And I don't think that's true.
Well, I think if he said that, don't you think he was probably attacking ISIS and Al-Qaeda's definition of Islam?
Don't you think he might have been saying that, hey, don't throw this off on Allah.
Allah doesn't believe in this stuff.
Allah doesn't do this.
He might have said it, no just God, whatever you said.
But I don't think your interpretation of this is right, because that would be so egregious that that would be the only thing anybody would be talking about today.
I think he was actually trying to say that don't lay this off on Allah.
Allah doesn't tell you guys to do this.
You did this.
No just God would.
That's my interpretation of what he meant.
No, that could very well be, but there's also a real true God who was working yesterday, and he allowed it to happen.
So it just struck me as odd that he would say something like that.
Well, okay, I found it.
He did say no just God would stand for the ISIS beheading of journalist James Foley.
That's got to be, that's got to be a slap at what they are trying to tell everybody that their God tells them to do.
I don't know.
I don't know that he would venture out to say, mention that Allah is anything but perfect.
I mean, no one would want to go that direction with this, but he's still kind of, I don't know.
I just, it kind of took me back a little bit.
Why would you say something like that?
Well, I think it goes back to his narcissism.
In this case, I don't.
I really think that he was slapping at these guys.
And they run around and, you know, Allahu Akbar, God's grace, they do this stuff.
And Obama's a guy who said that one of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the evening call of prayer at a mosque.
No just God would stand for what they did.
And that can only be interpreted one way.
And that is, hey, you guys, you know, own it.
You did it, but don't say you're doing this for God.
Don't lay this off on Allah.
That has to be what he meant.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I understand that you took it in a different way.
Depends on how you hear these things.
No just God would permit this.
If that's all you hear, sure.
So wow.
Wow, there can't even be a God.
What God would allow this?
But that's not how he meant it.
He's not that far gone to go there.
The context of this has to be within the realm of these guys laying it all off on Allah.
I think that you're overthinking it just a bit.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, grab soundbite number 26.
I think the way to look at this is that this is the soundbite that Caller was talking about.
So we've got the whole context of it here.
Obama's really ticked off at the JV team here.
Remember, ISIS was the JV team.
Hey, folks, I'm, you know, character assassination again.
I'm just reminding you how he characterized ISIS.
And Iran, small country, can't do anybody.
Iraq, Iran, there's no reason to be so concerned about ISIS, the JV team.
So here is, this was just minutes before he dashed out back to the golf course.
ISIL speaks for no religion.
Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.
No just God would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day.
ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings.
Their ideology is bankrupt.
They may claim out of expediency that they are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.
Right.
So my in-context interpretation, there's no question he's ripping these guys.
And not just the no just God would stand for this, but they don't speak for any religion.
Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim.
No faith teaches people to masquerade.
Jeez, folks, you know, that really isn't true.
Let me just, you know my old buddy Andy McCarthy.
I mean, he was in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Manhattan.
He convicted.
He was the U.S. attorney convicted of blind sheikh.
And he's written about this.
He's told the story over and over again.
Read the Quran because he couldn't believe that this guy, the blind sheikh, was mainstream.
He was reading the Quran to find evidence that this guy was a radical extremist outside the mainstream of Islam because he was trying to prep and find evidence, ways, statements the guy had made to demonstrate how extreme he was as part of attempting to gain a conviction.
And he was shocked.
He's written about this.
He was shocked to learn that much, if not most, of what the blind sheikh was out saying is right there.
And I tell you, I know Andy pretty well.
It has informed his thinking on all of this.
U.S. foreign policy involving the Middle East ever since.
And he is one of the leading American intellectuals attempting to awaken everybody to the real threat of Sharia law and what it is.
But anyway, Obama's statement there clearly is his way of slapping these guys.
It was like if you, a devout Christian, like this guy that came out today from the hospital, having been cured of Ebola and thanked God, and if somebody disagreed with the God of Christianity, it would stand up and say, come on, buddy, the medicine that we created made you.
God had nothing to do with it.
No just God's going to save you and let somebody else die.
There'd be outrage.
Well, that's what Obama was trying to slap those guys and their God by saying, don't lay it off on Allah.
That's not what Allah telling you guys to do this.
I have no doubt.
But you should read some of Andy McCarthy's books.
If any of what I have said to you is news, you haven't heard it before.
And you know, we're actually not going to, you should read this stuff.
Remember, he starts out trying to find evidence the blind shake is an absolute wacko.
Well, he may still be, but he was not outside the mainstream, is how it ended up.
Some tough truths out there, folks.
Tough truths.
Folks, I'm sitting here wondering about this picture of Obama that ran New York Daily News, I think.
I mean, mere moments after he finishes his heartfelt slap at the JV team, he's out there on the first team.
He's in the driver's seat of his golf cart, and he's smiling and he is just happy as he can be.
And I'm just wondering if the photographer who took that picture is going to be forced to apologize.
Well, for capturing Obama in a private moment that wasn't supposed to be seen.
You think that photographer might be forced to apologize, like the photographer apologized for posting the Obama picture of him taking his selfie.
Remember that?
The selfie over at Mandela's thing, that photographer apologized for taking that picture.
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