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Aug. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You are tuned to the nation's most listened to radio talk show, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio talk show host in the nation, and the most talked about host and show in the nation.
I am America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, and America's doctor of democracy.
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I mentioned in the previous busy broadcast hour that out of the blue, a forensic audiologist has discovered a new audio tape of the shooting, of the incident in which the gentle giant was shot.
And this audiologist has been all over CNN all morning long, and CNN's been all over the story.
And if I had to summarize CNN's coverage, it would be the gap is the thing.
You see, apparently, folks, there's a gap.
The first six shots, then there's a gap.
And then there are four other shots.
And I guess this actually surfaced last night.
We have a portion here of the anchor Don Lemon's report of exclusive audio tape of the shooting of the gentle giant.
The audio is said to be a man recording a video chat with a friend on his computer when the gunfire is taking place outside in the Ferguson neighborhood.
So to set the stage, the gentle giant has just left the convenience store that he robbed.
No, let's not do that.
The gentle giant, forget the convenience, let's go back to a very pristine beginning.
The gentle giant and his friend are walking down the street on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.
It's 2.15.
The gentle giant is on the way to grandmother's house and is excited about his soon-to-begin college classes.
And then he was accosted by a white cop who shot him for no reason other than he was black.
He was shot in the back while running away with his hands up surrendering.
That was the original story that we had for five days.
Now we are told that somebody living nearby was conducting a video chat on their computer with a friend when the gunfire took place and this video chat, like FaceTime or Skype, whatever, picked it up.
And the guy got hold of an audiologist and gave the chat or gave the audio of the chat to the audiologist.
And now we think there's a new piece of evidence.
And here's how it was reported.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and has reached out to the FBI for confirmation of their interview with the Ferguson resident who says he made the recording.
Here it is.
Listen.
You are pretty.
You're so fine.
Just going on with some of your videos.
I'm going to have to get it.
So that's it.
I was talking to somebody.
Tell you, you're so pretty.
You're so fine.
Just going to some of your videos.
And there's gunshots ringing out in the background.
You heard the first six and there's a gap.
And then there's four more.
You want to hear it again?
Yeah.
Okay.
Here it is again.
I'll tell you what, Mike, just play it twice, you know, so that people get it in their minds.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and has reached out to the FBI for confirmation of their interview with the Ferguson resident who says he made the recording.
Here it is.
Listen.
You are pretty.
You're so fine.
Just going over some of your videos.
I'm going to have to get.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and has reached out to the FBI for confirmation of their interview with the Ferguson resident who says he made the recording.
Here it is.
Listen.
You are pretty.
You're so fine.
Just going over some of your videos.
I'm going to have to get that's the strangest sounding thing I think I've heard.
No.
That's my same reaction.
I mean, here's apparently gunshots going on close enough that this guy's computer microphone could pick him up and he doesn't even skip a beat.
He doesn't miss a beat.
He's so excited to be talking to this babe and watching this babe's videos.
There's gunfire outside the window and he's not even phased.
And then after a week or more goes by, then this guy realizes what he's got and turns it over to somebody.
That could have been anywhere.
That could be in Chicago.
That could be in Detroit.
How are they ever going to confirm this?
But it doesn't matter because as far as CNN's concerned, it's real.
And they've had expert after expert after expert, audiologist, forensic audiologist after forensic audiologist on CNN all morning long analyzing this as though it's real.
And what does it mean?
And every CNN analyst said, this is not good for the cop.
This indicates that this cop was on a vendetta.
You should have heard some of this analysis.
I mean, this analysis this morning was just flat out, irresponsible, like so much of this has been from the get-go.
And even CNN said, we can't confirm it, the FBI, whatever.
But didn't stop the audiologists.
This is more evidence this cop was bloodthirsty and couldn't stop pulling the trigger.
And how come there's not an eye?
If there were 10 shots, don't you think there'd have been an eyewitness that had heard 10 shots before now?
And what's the gap?
That's their trend of what's the gap.
What does the gap explain?
The gap.
The gap is everything.
The gap.
It was a sex chat.
What's going on there?
That's what.
Oh, man, you are pretty.
You're so fine.
Just going over some of your videos.
People being shot, dying in the streets, and this guy is lost in his sex chat.
No, you know, I am not going to go there.
I am not going to say that in this neighborhood, gunfire is probably an everyday occurrence.
A lot of people would like me to say that.
I'm not going to say that.
I don't think it is.
But I don't know.
Anyway, that has revved up the drive-bys.
They now, this is proof, the fact they're glomming onto this.
The story had changed.
But to them, it does.
The drive-bys, they're looking, anything, anything to reverse the fortunes and direction of this case.
Because it's slipping away from them.
The case is slipping away from them.
This might enable them to get it back in support of the original myth.
Now, here's this story.
We had a caller.
The guy's name, I think, was from Utah last week, James.
I'm not sure.
But he told us that there was a Ferguson-like shooting in, what was it, Park City?
No.
I guess Salt Lake City.
I forget where.
And he was describing it for us, and he said that the media, it was the exact opposite of Ferguson.
He had an innocent, unarmed, white victim shot by a cop that the media referred to as other than white.
So I've been waiting for details of that story to appear, and they finally have, albeit in the Washington Times.
The headline is, Ferguson-like attack in Utah Escapes Media Notice, Race Bias Scene.
On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical.
Michael Brown and Dylan Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts, shot to death by police officers two days apart.
But while the world knows of the highly publicized situation involving the 18-year-old gentle giant, whose August 9th death in Ferguson touched off violence, protests, and an angry national debate, most people outside Utah have never heard of 20-year-old Dylan Taylor.
Critics say there's a reason for the discrepancy in media coverage, and that difference is race.
Mr. Brown, the gentle giant, was black, and the officer who shot him was white.
Mr. Taylor wasn't black.
He's been described as white and Hispanic, and the officer who shot him August the 11th outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake was not white.
Even the Washington Times refers to the cop as something other than white.
The perceived double standard is fueling resentment and talk of double standards on conservative talk radio and social media, where the website Twitchy has compiled a list of Twitter comments asking why Mr. Brown's death has been front-page news for weeks while Mr. Taylor's was a footnote.
Well, this is not hard to explain.
I mean, it's the media soap opera.
It's the narrative.
It's the template.
This is easy to explain.
That's why I spent so much time trying to make people understand this whole thing in Ferguson is based on a myth.
And the myth is that white cops are shooting innocent black kids all the time.
That's the myth.
And it's now this thing in Ferguson, last straw.
Okay, we've finally had it.
We're not putting up with it anymore.
This is the end.
And it doesn't happen all the time.
But if the same situation happens in reverse, not news.
It's not, it doesn't, the media isn't, the media isn't about news, folks.
The media is about driving an agenda anymore.
There's no news.
And so an other than white officer shooting a white or white Hispanic kid doesn't advance the agenda.
In fact, it hurts it.
In fact, to report it would undercut the myth that they're trying to build in St. Louis.
I don't know why people continue to be surprised at this.
Angry is another thing, but surprised by it, I don't get this is easily, this is predictable, understandable.
There are all kinds, I dare say that there are probably a greater number of crimes committed by black perpetrators on white victims than the other way around.
And that is never going to be substantiated or reported, and certainly not while they're trying to build a myth in St. Louis.
It just isn't going to happen.
And it's proof positive that the media is not about news at all.
Brief time out, my friends, as time rolls on.
We'll be back and continue here in just a second.
Ha, here are you.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Count me a skeptic on this new tape.
And I don't know how they're ever going to, I mean, for crying out loud, this guy doing his sex chat with his babe there could have had the TV on.
There could have been shots on the TV.
But I'll tell you how real this sounds.
Let me tell you how things happen here.
Don't forget the doctored 911 tape that NBC did in the Trayvon Martin investigation.
You remember that, folks?
They doctored the tape of a 911 call from George Zimmerman to make it look like he had accosted Trayvon Martin because he was black.
They edited out the dispatcher asking for a description.
They edited out the question.
They just had Zimmerman describing the guy as the first thing he said was black.
And it was outrageous.
Now, you might remember KTVU, San Francisco.
Do you remember Asiana Flight 214 crashed on the landing in San Francisco?
KTVU, Eyeball News in San Francisco, put a graphic up of the names of the crew.
Somebody had scammed them.
Somebody passed themselves off as officials of the airline and gave them the names of the crew.
And they put the names up on a Chiron graphic.
These three producers got fired.
The captain was named as Sum Ting Wong.
Might have been Harry Reid that did this.
The co-pilot's name was Wee Too Low.
One of the flight attendants.
Holy Fuk.
Except I'm not pronouncing that like the way it was written.
And then another crew member was named Bang Ding Ow.
And it was up.
Leland Yee probably got offended by it.
A whole bunch of people out there.
And these three people ended up getting fired.
This situation was this all of a sudden brand new audio tape with four additional shots in the middle of a sex chat by a local resident near the scene of the shooting.
Anyway, here's Jerry in Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, Sir Jerry.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
I possibly have an explanation for why there would be a gap in the officer shots, if indeed this was the actual shooting that this gentleman recorded.
The reason being is in Florida, at least, law enforcement officers are taught to shoot until the threat is eliminated.
Therefore, if the subject's still coming at you, you're going to start over your shooting or you're going to continue shooting.
So it could have been the officer shooting six times, pausing, thinking, wow, that's a lot of shots.
And then the gentleman still continuing forward, so the officer had to shoot more times for him to stop.
CNN would never ever report that.
I agree with that.
CNN would say the cop was so racist and so angry and so biased that he just kept firing until he didn't have any more ammo left.
Right, I agree.
And the gap was to reload or some such thing.
Right, right.
I understand.
Yes, there is definitely logical explanations if this is indeed the actual incident.
It can't be.
It can't be.
This is the timing of this.
Why after a week, all of a sudden there's a show up?
Why only one person who didn't hear the shots for real?
He was so into his sex chat with his babe that it wasn't until he viewed the sex chat that he hears, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And how come nobody else heard 10 shots?
Do you think where's the evidence of the other four shots in the autopsy?
Could have missed him.
But the gentle giant was, I mean, he was running back.
Oh, wait, he was running away.
No, but we know he wasn't running away.
No, we know he wasn't running away.
This is jury tampering par excellence.
This is grand jury tampering.
Who knows what's going on here?
But Jerry, I appreciate the call.
Who's next?
Sal in San Diego.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the Russian Baught program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Megadittos from Sunny San Diego.
Thank you, sir.
I just want to mention that I started listening back to you when you were having technical difficulties on the air with your hearing, and I was wondering if the talent on loan from God was coming to an end.
I'm glad it didn't.
When you started listening to me, I was having my hearing loss.
And you were wondering if the talent on loan from God was coming to an end?
Yes, sir.
Well, obviously not.
Correct, correct.
So that's why I kept hearing to see when it was going to come to an end, and it didn't.
So that's good news.
It's miraculous news.
It's great.
Is your name Sal?
Are you from you're from San Diego, right?
Yes, sir.
Okay, because it says here you wanted to talk about Obama being an example of people.
Yes, yes.
I did have a question and a comment, and I wanted to ask that question.
Yeah, well, time is dwindling is the reason I bring that up.
Okay.
Just wanted to mention that when you made a statement back about five or six months ago about the president's missed opportunity, I didn't.
What missed opportunity?
Snurdley, I think you got scammed there.
Either that or he just choked because he's nervous.
Why did you take?
I don't know.
No, he didn't hang up.
That was a gunshot.
That was a gunshot.
He didn't hang up.
Don't try.
Look at.
I know gunshots when I hear them on the phone, and he didn't hang up.
I heard that was a gunshot, and now he's gone, right?
Oh, no.
We must take a brief time out and collect ourselves.
Okay, I'm going to move off of this phantom audio tape depicting four additional gunshots.
If you want to keep calling about it and talk about it, that's fine.
But there are other things out there.
Move on to audio soundbite number 19, Sunday night football on NBC during the halftime break.
The reporter Josh Elliott, who is one of the new heroes in waiting at NBC News, he's going to be one of the new saviors.
Today's show, Dateline NBC, whatever.
And they were featuring him in halftime of the game between the Seattle Seahawks and I don't even know who they played.
I didn't even know.
I'm embarrassed.
I didn't even know there was a game on TV Sunday night.
It was the Packers.
Where was the game?
Do you know where the game was played?
Was it Green Bay or Seattle?
Look at this.
Nobody knows.
Folks, this is unheard of.
I can't believe that I do not know that I didn't watch a Sunday night football game week three, dress rehearsal of preseason.
And it was the Seahawks and the Packers.
And I didn't even, I was at home Sunday night.
I was doing show prep.
In fact, I turned the tube on at 9 o'clock to watch Ray Donovan, that depraved family.
Did you, by the way, did you watch that?
Did you do what I suggested yesterday?
Folks, I'm telling you, if you think your family is an embarrassment, if your family, if you think it's the most dysfunctional family in America, and if it embarrasses you, and if you do not ever want to get together with your family again, you've got to watch Sunday Night's Depraved episode of Ray Donovan on Showtime.
Because the depiction, in the first place, everybody forgets the 14-year-old boy's birthday.
Nobody remembers.
His parents don't remember.
Nobody remembers it's his birthday.
So in order to make it up to him, parents ask, what do you want, Corn?
What do you want?
And he says, I want family party, and I want my convict grandfather here.
I want everybody in the family here.
That doesn't go well.
But since they feel guilty at forgetting the kid's birthday, they get everybody there.
And it is an absolute, I don't even want to try to describe it.
I don't want to do spoilers.
You've got to see this.
And it will hearten you.
It will renew your, well, it'll tell you that your family, no matter how bad it is, isn't that bad.
But I was watching that.
That's when I turned the tube on at 9 o'clock.
I didn't even know there was a football guy.
I can't believe.
Anyway, Josh Elliott at halftime interviews cornerback Richard Sherman.
And I guess the NFL has instituted more stringent contact rules for the defensive players, particularly defensive secondary this season.
They're going to not be as tolerant of incidental contact downfield beyond the five yards of the line of scrimmage.
And it's going to cause probably the game to be slowed down some.
They're going to be calling more penalties, throwing more flags.
And of course, the defensive players don't like it at all.
But Richard Sherman thinks he's figured out why the league is doing this.
And I've told you, back last Super Bowl, when Richard Sherman went off on Michael Crabtree, I've tried to tell everybody in this audience, at least who might not know, that Sherman is a bright guy.
He's a really, really, he's educated, extremely, extremely intelligent, smart.
So listen to what he says here.
Josh Elliott of NBC says, points of emphasis by the NFL this year, specifically the cracking down on the illegal contact holding in the eyes of the referees.
Do you feel like those are points aimed directly at you guys?
Is the league tightening down on this because you guys are too good as a secondary?
If you look at the statistics, the way the preseason has gone, it's rarely ever affected us in a game.
But, you know, when the fantasy football numbers need to be what they need to be, then the league needs to do what it needs to do to get it done.
You know, and this is a money-driven league.
Richard Sherman is saying that the rules changes are for because the number of fans playing fantasy football is growing exponentially at geometric proportions.
And that fan group consists of a lot of people who are not even football fans, but they understand following a player and points.
They may not know what slot right 60 pre-event hook and go is.
They might not know what a cover two Tampa 2 defense is.
They might not know what a double rollover zone is.
But they can draft players and they can follow points being scored.
And fantasy football players don't care about teams.
They care about individuals.
Many of them, in fact, folks, many NFL drive-by media purists hate fantasy football.
You know why?
Because fans are not fans of teams.
They are fans of individuals.
And the drive-bys don't like the focus on the individual.
It's a team game.
In fantasy football, you, any number of ways of doing it.
I was in one of the first ever fantasy football leagues back in 1980.
I was the commission of the PFL, the paper football league.
That's what we called it.
There are six of us.
The name of my team was the Limbaugh Laxatives because our team was full of whatever.
And it was fun.
The way we did it, we had a draft at a bar on a Saturday afternoon after the final preseason game.
I think we drafted 25 players each or 20 or whatever.
And every week, Saturday noon, we had to activate 11.
All offense.
No defense, no kickers, just offense.
Quarterbacks, receivers, and running backs.
And there were points assigned for, I'll tell you if there were kickers.
You had to have a kicker.
Points assigned for field goal, length of field goal, and touchdowns, length of the touchdown, quarterback, pass, touchdown, running touchdown, all this.
And you tallied the points.
And so we began watching football a whole different way.
We cared about how our individual players did, as much, if not more so, than whatever teams we liked.
Now, back then, the internet hadn't yet come up.
You had to wait Monday morning for all the box scores to find out who had scored and in what way in order to get the final points tally.
But today it's gotten so big that during live game broadcasts, the networks fill you in on fantasy football results, what running backs are scoring and what quarterbacks have thrown TV passes or whatever.
Sherman is saying here that for the fantasy football fan to be kept interested, there have to be points scored.
And if you want points scored, you've got to make it easier on the offense to score points.
Ergo, the penalties, are going to be more closely called on the defensive backs.
Pass interference, holding, what have you.
And he's saying, no, we haven't as a team.
We haven't been affected by these rules because our cornerbacks are good.
We don't have to cheat in order to beat the other guys.
But what he's saying is the league needs to do what it has to do to get done.
Fantasy football, money-driven league.
There are all kinds of people buying into fantasy football leagues on ESPN and other websites.
It is huge now.
So it's an interesting take.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this with much more.
Don't go away.
Man, I am so embarrassed.
The Seahawks didn't play the Packers Saturday night.
That's the opening Thursday night game.
Somebody told me that the Seahawks played the Packers Sunday night, and I'm so out of it, I thought that was true.
This is embarrassing.
No, for me, it's embarrassing.
I used to know this stuff in my sleep.
I mean, this is just how distant it's becoming.
The Sunday night game was the Cincinnati Bengals and the Arizona Cardinals.
That's where the Sunday night crew was.
And I guess they just talked to Sherman of the Seahawks from Seattle during halftime as an interview.
And that's, geez, man.
Well, that's just embarrassing.
Anyway, folks, I'm happy to inform you that Sal in San Diego was not shot 20 minutes ago.
That's not why we lost his call.
He's back.
His cell phone battery died or his connection or something.
So, Sal, we're happy to hear you didn't get shot.
And welcome back to the program.
What's up?
Thank you, Rash.
I'll get to my question.
You have made a statement back about five or six months ago about the president's missed opportunity.
This was about the time that you had mentioned that if Republican allegations started coming out at about this time, close to the next election, because the Democrats were cleaning house by convicting or causing some of their people to resign because of bad things going on on their end.
But because the president is a big example, is what you mentioned.
And my question is, is the president setting a precedent for working people that it is okay to slouch on the job by playing golf?
Or for all the unemployed people, since there's no work, might as well take a hobby and maybe golf is it?
Well, I don't.
Here's the honest answer to that question is, Sal, he doesn't care about the unemployed.
I'm sorry.
I know that he just doesn't care.
This is a president who flaunts his access to the good life.
He flaunts it.
He wears it proudly.
He's in your face, our face about it.
He and his wife flying to the same place on two separate jumbo jets four hours apart in one vacation example.
So I think the president buys into his own myths.
And one of the myths that's out there is that we're in an economic recovery and the job creation is happening.
And I think that's the president lives in a buzzword, in a PR world, an image world, not in reality.
And if his media will report what his regime says, that there's an economic recovery going on and that jobs are being found now, then that's all that matters.
What you can make people think, what impression you can make or leave, what image you can create.
But even when we were acknowledged to be at the low point of a recession with no job creation, Obama was still partying.
And the excuse was, well, the American people want to see their president keeping an even keel.
They know he works hard.
They need to see him taking time off to understand that he's recharging mentally and emotionally and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Sending a signal to the unemployed that he doesn't care.
I don't think he, I don't, I don't think he cares.
I don't think he cares about the problems with Obamacare.
Not the individual problems.
He doesn't care about that.
All he cares is that it's the law of the land.
And that was his objective.
He got it passed and signed.
That's the objective.
And in time, whether you like it or not isn't going to matter.
The government's going to be in total control of your health and health care.
That's all that matters.
How we get there, yep, bumps in the roads, fine.
Whatever it takes, end result, but little bumps in the road, individual suffering, nah, not that big.
Look, I mentioned earlier in the program, Luis Gutierrez, the Democrat from Illinois, just can barely contain himself.
Well, he's running around all over telling everybody, get ready, because Obama, by Labor Day, folks, that's just a week.
Labor Day is Monday.
Is it right?
Is that right?
Labor Day, by Monday, by this weekend or Monday, he's going to grant amnesty to at least 5 million illegals.
Executive order.
Luis Gutierrez running around happily telling anybody who'll listen, telling everybody get ready.
What's that going to do for the job market?
What's that going to, how in the world?
That's the end of any deportations if that happens.
I mean, this is going to be, it's an absolute, it's going to set this country ablaze in a whole host of ways.
He doesn't care.
I really, this is where when people say the jobs above him are the jobs beneath him and he's so far above us and he's so far down the road we cannot even hope to keep up.
That's where, I mean, this kind of thing is where that's true.
He doesn't care about any of the things that aren't working.
They're just all part of the process to get where he wants this country to end up being.
In fact, some people are going to have to experience a little pain.
Damn it.
They deserve to.
This country's had it too easy for way too long.
This country, compared to the rest of the world, we've had life has been a piece of cake.
It's about time we found out what real suffering is.
It's about time some people in this country found out what hard life is really all about.
I think some of this is programmed into this transformation.
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