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Dec. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 1, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving.
And you're revved and ready for the remainder of the Christmas season, which officially begins today.
Well, I guess it actually began Friday with the day after.
So we got we've got Black Friday, we've got Cyber Monday, and everybody looking for deals and price cuts because nobody's got any money.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
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Happy to have you as always.
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Thank you.
Stand by for it.
The um the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, is, I think, a great illustration of exactly where we are in this country in our politics on practically everything.
Over the weekend I did a lot of thinking about where we are and the struggles that we have, the um the arguments that we have, the ability we have to try to turn things around in the country, and every day I'm reminded uh how insurmountable the task seems to be because something has happened, and we all know this.
I I just I've been struggling with ways to actually verbalize it.
I'm not going to say anything here anybody doesn't know, but I'm I'm gonna put it in ways maybe I haven't put it before, with words that I haven't used before.
You know, I always say I'm the mayor of Realville, which means that the thing that matters to me most is what really is.
Whatever it is on anything, trying to find the facts, the truth, and then hoping that the facts and the truth carry the day and will end up being persuasive.
But we're nowhere near that.
In fact, we're getting farther and farther and farther away from that.
We're getting farther and farther and farther away from fact and truth having any meaning at all.
And it just so happened, what got me started on this is watching a British TV show from way, way back in the early years of this decade, 2002, 2003, is a program called Wire in the Blood.
I'm not recommending the program.
It's it's a it's a Brit show.
I don't even know.
I mean, you might be able to find out on Amazon Prime, but I'm not mentioning it to get people to watch it.
If you want to find it fine.
It's about a psychologist, a profiler working with the cops, and he's got all the answers on every criminal, and nobody believes him until the end of the episode where he's right.
And the point is the guy's right all the time, and nobody ever believes him.
He's always a kook, he's always a nut until the end of the show.
No other cop believes him, none of his bosses believe him.
He's thought to be an absolute stupid idiot, weirdo quirk, not stupid, but he's always right in identifying killers and their characteristics, and yet for six years this show ran, and he was always an idiot.
He never persuaded them he was right.
He never maybe a couple of characters now and then would begin to trust him, but overall, he was never trusted, even though he was always right.
And he um in in one episode, he is explaining to the detectives in this mythical town in the UK what they're up against.
And he says, we have a killer here who believes in power, not truth.
We have a killer who believes that everything is relative, including the truth, and that power will overpower truth every time it's employed.
In other words, it is power that defines the truth.
The truth does not define itself.
Facts do not define themselves.
That power, and this it immediately I don't know why, but that made a connection with me.
All things are relative.
And it is people with power who interpret events as they choose them to be.
In this case, reported.
I think this is a great way to understand modern American media.
The truth is what they say it is.
They've got the power to define it.
They have the power to implement it.
They have the power to destroy the truth.
They have the power to define it whatever they want it to be.
And I think when you when you watch the media each year, one of the one of the great sources of frustrations I feel, and I'm guessing a lot of you do too, is that the truth seems to have no power whatsoever.
The truth seems to have no impact whatsoever with an entire political party in this country, and everybody who buys into that political party.
And then we're left with, okay, well, what do we do when the truth doesn't matter?
You know, politics.
Policy, one of the problems that I think conservatives have with politics.
Politics is not about what is.
Politics isn't about the way things are.
Politics is about the way things seem.
Politics is about the way things are perceived.
And we have all of this on perfect display in the aftermath of what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.
We have a grand jury decision that is rooted and based on hours and hours and days and days of testimony and documents.
And it's it's there.
We know pretty much what happened, but because that truth is not acceptable and is not usable and is not productive, it is being ignored.
And another truth is being created, and the people who have power to define truth seem to be overpowering the real truth with the truth that they want everybody to conclude.
And that is that the grand jury was wrong, the grand jury was biased, the grand jury didn't get it right, the grand jury was racist, the grand jury, the country is racist, and on and on and on.
And so the divide deepens between people in this country, the divide of the racial divide deepens and widens.
I don't know if you uh if you saw this yesterday, the St. Louis Rams hosted the Oakland Raiders at the Dome in St. Louis.
Did you see this?
Did you see videotape of this?
During, well, now wait, during the uh, you know, Snerdley's out there ripping what happened, this disgusting display.
Well, but this is this is this is all part and parcel of this.
During the player introductions, we had five black players for the Rams come out and with hands up, showing solidarity with Michael Brown and that side of the story that he had his hands up and was surrendered.
He wasn't.
His hands were not up.
He was not shot in the back, he was not shot surrendered, doesn't matter.
Truth doesn't matter.
What the grand jury said doesn't matter to a whole lot of people.
And this is all politics, it's all political.
And we're now being told that, well, the grand jury is one thing and that truth is, but that's not what we need to be focusing on.
We need to be focusing on the racial divide and why it exists and what we need to do to overcome it, which doesn't, in my mind, get us any closer to solving the problems that we have than anything else that that side is suggesting.
The players, and by the way, I think the NFL has said there's not going to be any punishment for this.
Let me set this up a little bit.
The Rams hosted 50 business owners in St. Louis at the game yesterday.
The Rams hosted 50 business owners of some people and cleanup crews from Ferguson.
And these were people who had had their businesses destroyed, like the cake lady.
The Rams hosted them as their guests.
The businesses have been destroyed or ruined in the uh in the aftermath of the grand jury announcement.
Not not prior, in the aftermath of the grand jury announcement, their businesses had been destroyed.
People that had nothing to do with the grand jury decision.
People had nothing to do with the grand jury, period, had their businesses destroyed, had their businesses ruined, had their businesses attacked.
So the Rams invite these people as guests.
Because the Rams are trying to promote community solidarity.
They're in St. Louis, and this is what sports teams in towns do.
Five players during player introductions, or maybe maybe it wasn't during introductions, maybe it was during the when the when the player should.
I saw a video tape of it, I don't know.
Introductions or or when they just came into the field, the team in Toto.
But they had their hands raised.
It was almost like an Olympic moment.
The Mexico Olympics, remember uh John Carlos with the raised uh fist in solidarity.
And the players had their hands up, uh, showing solidarity or appearing to show solidarity with Mike Brown and the fact that he was gunned down in uh cold blood while surrendering, which it didn't happen.
The St. Louis Police Officers Association has issued a statement saying that they're profoundly disappointed with the members of the Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County grand jury and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive, and inflammatory.
It's unthinkable that hometown athletes would so publicly perpetuate a narrative that has been disproven over and over again.
That's the point, folks.
It hasn't been disproven to people.
The truth doesn't have the power to disprove what they want to believe.
Maybe that's not the right way to say it.
I'm I the the truth doesn't have the power.
If it's what it seems, it's the way it seems to be.
The St. Louis Police Officers Association said that forensic tests did not support the claim that Brown held his hands up.
After the game, one of the Rams in the demonstration, uh, wide receiver Kenny Britt said the players were not taking signs.
He said, Oh, no, no, no, not at all.
We just wanted to let the community know that we support them.
The officer said they would demand a very public apology from the Rams and the NFL today.
Team had no comment.
The NFL today said no action will be taken.
I think the NFL's got a bigger problem.
Once again, I think the NFL has a problem here that they are trying to sweep under the rug.
I think this means that there's a lot more to this.
This incident is bigger than it looks in terms of what it indicates and what there's there's, you know, I'm I remember the day when I was told that no, no, no, no, we don't do politics in football.
No, no, no, no, no.
We don't do politics here at ESBN.
No, no, no.
We don't do now, politics is taken over everything.
And the reason politics is taking over everything is because the purpose of politics taking over everything is to obliterate the truth.
The truth has become relative.
Those of us who live in Realville, those of us who expect the truth to to be powerful and persuasive, are finding.
Let me give you another example of this.
Rich Lowry was on Meet the Press yesterday during the round table, and he recited what he thinks is the lesson of all this.
And he is being destroyed today.
He's being ripped to shreds all over the media today for daring.
You've got the soundbite.
Here it is.
This is what he said.
He was on Meet the Press yesterday.
Andrea Mitchell, you should have seen her when he was when Lowry was going through this.
She couldn't believe it.
She couldn't believe what she was hearing.
She couldn't believe it, Lowry was saying it.
She couldn't believe Lowry had the guts to say it, because she lives on the other side of the truth.
Here's what Lowry said.
Perhaps.
But you look at Ferguson specifically.
This is an area where the governmental structures haven't caught up to the demographic change over the last two decades or so.
And that's something you take care of simply by organizing and voting.
But what I really object to is you can discuss all these problems, but let's not pretend that this particular incident was something it wasn't.
If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic.
Don't rob a convenience store, don't fight a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun, and when he yells at you to stop with his gun drawn.
Well, just stop.
Did you hear Andrea Mitchell before he finished?
Whoa!
Whoa.
Now what he what the reason it's controversial, Mr. Snerdley, is because he had the audacity to accept the truth of the grand jury finding.
And he recited what anybody could learn from the grand jury result.
We have the video of Brown robbing the convenience store.
There's no question that happened.
We know that Brown tried to force his way into the cops' car, tried to get the cops gun.
But that truth is being obliterated by people with the power to make that truth obliterable.
And they're trying to construct another truth to overpower it, and that truth is that racial relations in America are such that no black can ever trust any cop, and that you have to take time to.
Do you know Obama's conducting a seminar at the White House today?
And among the things that are being discussed at the White House today are how to set up in American classrooms memorials to Michael Brown.
I'm not kidding you.
People on the other side of the glass are rolling their eyes and going, oh my God.
Oh, yeah, that's exactly what Obama is doing.
That's just the tip of the iceberg about what's happening here.
Got to take a break here, folks, because of the constraints of time, but sit tight, we'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
So Rich Lowry says if you look at the most credible evidence, evidence, not opinions.
If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic.
Don't rob a convenience store.
That ticked them off.
How dare you say that about the gentle giant?
Don't fight a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun.
It's indisputable it happened.
Grand jury witnesses confirmed.
And everybody's pointed out how many people showed up and lied to the grand jury.
I mean, there were lots of people called us that just openly lied, contradicted all the physical evidence.
And the grand jury had to weed through it and did.
And when the cop yells at you to stop at his gun drawn, just stop.
And Andrea Mitchell, NBC News on Washington.
Whoa!
Whoa, what?
Andrea.
Eugene Robinson was on the panel.
He said, we're not in the re-litigation business, so we won't go into the whole thing, but there was conflicting testimony.
There were witnesses who simply were not believed who said otherwise, and there were witnesses.
Yeah, witnesses who came in and could not have what they said corroborated by the evidence.
And that's who Eugene Robinson wants to focus on here.
This is all about the battle between power and truth.
With the truth being a relative and the truth being up for grabs, because our politics is not about what is.
Our politics is not about the way things are.
This is explained, this explains also why the Republicans have so much trouble in campaigns.
Deal with problems as they are, offer real-world, real-life solutions.
Democrats fake emotion.
Democrats fake caring about all this stuff.
And that carries the day over facts.
Facts are considered to be cold-hearted, insensitive, unfeeling, or what have you.
Washington Post article that talked about all of this.
Perhaps the reason for the disinterest in the ballistics report, perhaps the reason for the disinterest in the autopsies, perhaps the reason for the disinterest in other similar information.
In other words, perhaps the reason why the facts don't matter here is that for at least some of Brown's supporters, the facts are irrelevant.
because of what the gentle giant is metaphorically.
He's a symbol of injustice, regardless of what happened.
And the Washington Post agreeing with this take on things.
He's a metaphorical symbol of injustice, regardless of what actually happened.
He later wrote, based on my initial reads, so far as I can see, there are no significant inconsistencies between the physical evidence and Wilson's grand jury testimony.
Other reviews have likewise not identified.
Readily apparent examples of problems with Wilson's testimony, for example, a review of the grand jury testimony by three AP reporters noted.
Numerous examples of witness statements inconsistent.
Everybody knows that what the grand jury reported and came out with was as close to what happened as is possible to get.
And the fact that that doesn't matter and is irrelevant and is reason for unrest and further riots.
I don't know, it just deeply troubles me.
Maybe it shouldn't, but it's guiding light, Rush Limbaugh.
Devoted to the truth.
24-7, executing a scientist host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Okay, so now everybody's demanding that we have conversations about race.
You remember when uh Eric Holder, way back in the beginnings of the regime.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna tell you about the truth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just be patient, we're gonna get a snerdly wants to know if I'm gonna unveil the truth about the Ray Rice.
Yes, I'll tell you exactly what happened there in mere moments.
Because people are trying to wade through that too.
That's also not very complicated in terms of understanding why he won his appeal.
It's gonna be once I explain this to you, it's gonna be very simple to understand.
But we'll get to there in just a second.
Remember when Eric Holder said that we were cowards?
And uh we because we didn't have the guts to uh to talk about race.
Where we're gonna, yeah, well, yeah, we we were too afraid to have the conversation about race.
And of course, now the left is demanding that we all engage in a conversation about race.
And of course, when this conversation takes place, there must be something that there is something that must be avoided at all costs.
And that's the evidence in the Ferguson case.
As we discuss race, as we shed our cowardice, as we get rid of our fear, and we openly embrace a conversation about race, we must all agree to ignore the evidence in the Ferguson case and discuss it from an entirely different perspective.
And this the perspective that they are demanding that we cowards accept is that Brown and the evidence of the case is irrelevant because the gentle giant is a metaphor for the symbol of injustice in America today, between the cops and black citizens.
Now it's an it's a total non sequitur.
It is taking the facts and ignoring them, establishing a new narrative that is based on accepting the lies that were told about the evidence here as real.
And what we have, we have a contest.
We have a contest of power over truth.
And on the side of those using the power to define truth, they have the drive-by media.
We have the White House, we have the Democrat Party, and they have the civil rights organizations.
And they are up against police officers, police officers and their organizations, uh, union representatives and so forth, and citizens who might not have a voice much anywhere.
Because you see, the truth is relative.
The truth is whatever we can end up making it.
And every time the truth gets obliterated and destroyed, and then redefined, if I had to guess, you get a little bit more dispirited.
Because we've all thought for the longest time that the real key to reversing the destructive directions this country is headed in is the truth.
And the persuasive power of the truth and the ability of the truth to inform.
And there's a political apparatus in this country that just can't deal with it.
The truth would rip them to shreds.
The truth would literally destroy them.
You know, the facts of the Trayvon Martin case ended up not fitting the claims of the media and others.
So Trayvon Martin had to become a symbol.
and still is.
Just like the facts of the Duke La Crosse stripper case.
Ended up not supporting the media's claims, so she had to become a symbol of past grievance, which didn't happen either.
They don't win each and every time they try, but they are hell-bent on this one.
Grab audio soundbite number five.
Here is Calypso Louie.
Minister Farrakhan was in Baltimore on Saturday at Morgan State University.
You may not want to fight, but you better get ready.
Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can't bite.
We're going to die anyway.
Let's die for something.
As long as they kill us and go to Wendy's and have a burger and go to sleep, they're going to keep killing us.
But when we die and they die, then soon we're going to sit at a table and talk about retire it.
We want some of this earth because we'll tear this goddamn country off.
And there you have it.
Calypso Louis promising future actions if he doesn't get his way on whatever it is that he wants.
Now keep in mind, I I hate to keep reminding people this, but this is all happening after the election of the first African American president in this country.
This is all happening in the midst of a genuinely historical event.
The election of the first African American president, which many people believed would bring to a screeching halt, all of this.
Many people voted for Obama in the hope and dream that his election, whatever else it meant, would prove that there is no racism, that there is no racial hatred any longer in America, certainly not anywhere near a majority, and that we would begin the process of healing.
And of course, it has only gotten worse.
It's only gotten worse, and the flamethrowers are in charge now.
of the gasoline.
That's exactly right.
Because what Obama is doing at the White House today is community organizing.
He's not acting as president.
The official White House African American education Twitter account, which is run out of the White House, has retweeted an article from the Huffing and Puffington Post, what they're discussing today.
Community organizing is what they're discussing at the White.
There's a panel of people at their holders up there, Al Sharptons up there, and what they are doing is uh Is coming up with five ways to teach about Michael Brown and Ferguson.
And here they are.
In the classroom.
Ask students what they know and what they want to know.
And of course, after the students ask, then of course, implied here is you have the right answer, which is not what the grand jury said.
Number two, help students make connections.
Number three, ask students to write letters and become agitators themselves.
Number four, create a classroom memorial to the gentle giant.
And number five, carry the theme for the rest of the school year.
This is what is being discussed and advocated today in a White House committee meeting on how to move forward, not from the Michael Brown incident, but from the grand jury.
From the grand jury announcement, how to move forward from the because the story and the truth now is becoming the grand jury, not the gentle giant, and not what the gentle giant did.
The story is becoming the symbol of injustice that has existed for centuries, regardless what actually happened here.
Let's forget and never, ever be reminded of what actually happened here.
And instead of saying what happened, we'll reconstruct a scenario that is symbolic of the injustice.
Jesus.
No matter what actually happened.
Time magazine.
Ferguson protesters have gained the lead in Time's person of the year poll.
Seven days to go in the voting.
Unrest in Ferguson and around the country focused attention on race and policing helping to lift Ferguson protesters into first place.
In the Time Reader poll, 10.7% of the vote.
Time magazine has their person of the year, man of the year.
We used to be man of the year, but you can't do that anymore.
So it's now person of the year.
And they've opened it up for public voting as a PR gimmick.
And leading, we are to believe, leading, leading the public vote on person of the year are the Ferguson, Missouri protesters.
Don't be surprised.
Do not be surprised if Time magazine's person of the year is the gentle giant, witnesses all said and do not be surprised.
Hey, did you did you hear what uh what Mitt Romney said?
I can tell by the look on your face.
You haven't heard what Mitt Romney said Republicans should swallow hard and pass permanent amnesty.
Head Obama off at the pass, swallow hard, and pass a permanent amnesty bill in the wake of Obama's executive amnesty that even Romney conceded would encourage more illegal immigrants to enter the country.
Romney mentioned this on Spanish language Univision.
Said Obama's giving people false hope.
Communicating to people outside the country, hey, get into the U.S. illegally and stay because they'll always let you stay.
What's false about it?
Not false hope, it's real hope.
It's what Obama's doing.
There's no false hope there.
Obama has sent the signal.
Get into the country, hang around, you'll get amnesty.
Romney's solution, this isn't Breitbart.
Romney's solution is for Congress to pass a permanent clarification of our immigration laws so that people know where they stand because Obama's executive amnesty is only temporary.
So we should head him off at the path.
We should beat him to where he wants to go and steal the glory, I guess.
I guess that's what Romney is suggesting.
I've just I've just telling you folks.
I'm just, oh, it's gonna get worse.
It's gonna get well, I don't know if it's gonna get worse, but but it's I mean, it's this is this is what it's like everywhere you turn.
This is I'm you know, I'm watching uh what was the game as I was watching yesterday?
It was local because Sunday Ticket didn't have it because it must have been the Packers.
It was the Packers Patriots.
Packers Patriots and at halftime into the local station went to the news.
And I couldn't believe what I was watching.
They did a celebration of the end of hurricane season.
The hurricane season ended yesterday.
They did a celebration as though we've all been devastated by hurricanes all year.
And finally it's over.
It was the funniest thing.
Local TV news celebrating the end of hurricane season.
Like, man, God, thank God it's finally over.
over we haven't had a hurricane in five years it was I don't know it just it just sort of boggled my mind uh and there's even a story here in at Reuters Quiet Atlantic hurricane season spares U.S. for ninth year running long time longest time without a hurricane since the Civil War the headline should be global
warming hoaxers proved wrong yet again anyway let me grab a phone call always try folks always try to grab calls in the in the opening hour don't always succeed but always try and we start in Brooklyn this is Carrie I'm glad you called sir great to have you on the program hello hey Rush how are you I'm great thank you.
First, let me say I had the honor of witnessing your talk show you had in New York years ago during college week.
I was a part of the Brooklyn College contingent and at the bastion of ultra-liberalism.
I remember college week at the Rush Limbaugh TV show, absolutely.
Yeah, it was really a pleasure to hear you and see you.
I've been listening to you since I was in high school.
Were you there for the episode?
We played musical chairs.
I was a game of musical chairs to illustrate a point.
snerdily lost he's the last one to he didn't get a chair and he called me a bloated bigot and walked off the stage did you were you there for that one?
I don't remember that oh you should have been there for that one.
I tried to make a point about musical chairs, and Snurdly got aced out, and he got mad, called me bloated bigot, and left.
Oh, my gosh.
Snurdly, what are you doing?
He didn't really mean it.
That's why I knew he didn't.
He was just frustrated.
He wanted a seat.
He didn't get a seat.
We were making a point about self-reliance and struggling, and he had waited around too long, expecting a seat to come his way.
It didn't happen, and he lost out, and he got mad at me.
It was a great point to make, actually.
Anyway, what did you call about, Kerry?
Basically, about what's going on in Ferguson, how do we compete with the mainstream ultra-media when everything is being distorted?
How can the truth ever get out there?
Well, it gets out.
I mean, the truth is out there, and it's in competition.
And the truth prevails.
It doesn't always go down to defeat.
Sometimes the truth prevails.
What is – you know, I'm naive.
I will be the first to admit that I am naive in many ways.
My naivete is – it's actually not naivete.
It's a romantic investment in goodness and a belief that it will prevail.
And that's – I would chalk up to my naivete.
What fascinates me is the people who can so easily ignore it and rewrite it.
I mean, the Democrat Party is who – these are – they're communist Marxists.
Socialists, Democrats, whatever you want to call them.
I couldn't do it.
By the way, it's one of the reasons that people say, why don't you run for office?
I could never do this.
I could not fake emotion I don't feel.
I could not get away from.
You know, politics, as I said, is about the way.
It's not about the way things are.
But that's all that matters to me, the way things are and making them better.
Politics is about the way things seem.
And the people that have the power to create.
create The way things seem.
The Clintons are experts at this.
Bill Clinton is an expert at concocting false, phony narratives, phony compassion, creating victims.
You know, all of the things that it seems Democrats have to do to succeed.
And of course, what was it that got Democrats shellacked in this last election?
I mean, if you if you're wanting something positive, what was it that caused this landslide defeat for the Democrats in the November election?
What was it, Sturdley?
Quickly, what there's one word.
The truth did them in.
The truth won.
In terms of that election in that universe.
Now, what's happening in the aftermath is a whole different story.
I have time to develop now.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Ray Rice may be able to win a pretty sizable lawsuit against the NFL.
Now, a lot of people are like, how in the hell can that happen?
Beat up your wife and win in a yeah.
Strangely, it it could happen.
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