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December 2, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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So moments ago.
Now, those of you watching on the DittoCam can see that I am seated here at my official busy broadcaster desk.
The microphone here and the computer monitor surrounding me.
What you can't see are the TV monitors.
I'm pointing at them and they're right where the camera is.
The actual DittoCam is between two, what are these?
55-inch, 30, 55-inch monitors in here.
So, and I have to get up from this chair to walk around the desk to get to a cornered room you also can't see on the ditto cam to change cochlear implants to put on my real radio announcer, cochlear implant.
And as I did that, did I happen to glance up at the top monitor, which always has, unless there's a golf turn or some sports event going on, CNN on it.
And I looked at it, and there were three women hugging and greeting each other, crying, maybe, I'm not sure crying, but there was an outpouring of emotion clearly was occurring.
And it had occurred earlier today on CNN.
It was the magic of videotape.
And then I looked at the caption or the headline at the bottom of the screen.
And I don't have it exactly to paraphrase.
It said, three Cosby rape victims meet for the first time.
So I'm looking at this and I, you know, using God-given intelligence that I have, I immediately concluded here that CNN found three Cosby, three women allegedly raped by Bill Cosby and had them on the network today.
They'd never met each other.
It looked like a reunion.
I really stopped in mid-stride looking at this because I had never seen anything like it.
I've never heard of anything like this happening before.
And I wondered, do all of the women allegedly accosted by Bill Clinton get together on some network and hug and commiserate and share experiences as a means of getting past the trauma?
They don't.
You never seen that?
Well, I had never seen, I'd never seen this.
Well, you won't see the Clinton women.
Right, you won't.
Anyway, so I saw that and it immediately just, my mind starts, okay, who conceived this?
Who thought this a good idea?
What's the point of it?
My mind just starts racing through all of this.
And I just, isn't it a, isn't it a shame that you get together, three women get together, and the only thing you have in common is being sexually abused by a comedian?
And for that, you make it on television?
I thought, how sad.
Anyway, I'd never seen anything like this.
I mean, I guess I have.
It just never registered the way this did.
Anyway, folks, it's great to have you here.
We're now composed and ready for the rest of today's busy program hosted by me.
Telephone number, again, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushmo at EIBNet.com.
Yesterday, during the discussion of the aftermath in Ferguson, Missouri, and what I characterized as power, not truth taking place.
The truth is a variable.
The truth is definable based on who has the power to do that.
And in the aftermath of Ferguson, they didn't get what they wanted in Ferguson.
So now they're trying to, they're trying to read.
Rich Lowry had a great line in his column today.
I think I saw it was the New York Post.
And it was about the aftermath of Ferguson.
And it was about the meeting at the White House with Sharpton and Obama and Eric Holder.
And Lowry said, well, what are they going to do?
What are they going to do now?
What are they going to do to win?
They're going to go out and they're going to find another cop to falsely accuse of racial assassination and attempt to railroad into an indictment and conviction.
What are they going to do?
What are they going to do?
And I got to thinking, what are, how would you like to be a police officer right now in this climate?
If you're a police officer in this climate, you're almost, you almost might, well, you might conclude you see a crime in action, whatever kind of crime, a robbery or somebody beating somebody else up.
You maybe just don't do anything.
Just let it happen, particularly if there's a racial component involved.
Just don't even go there.
Just let the crime happen.
The safer route to be might be just to let that happen.
Given the climate that's out there right now, I mean, they clearly, they didn't get what they wanted in Ferguson, and they're going to get it somewhere.
They're going to find it somewhere.
And Obama and the boys are now trying to recreate this scenario that what happened in Ferguson and the grandeur and all of that's irrelevant.
What now matters is how people feel about this.
In the House of Representatives today, the Congressional Black caucus, the Congressional Black Caucasians, walked in with their hands up saying, don't shoot.
No, I'm not kidding you.
And it was led by a guy named Hakeem Jeffery, or Jeffries.
Do you remember?
Remember the name Leonard Jeffries?
Does the name Leonard Jeffries ring a bell?
It does.
Leonard Jeffries was the notorious chairman of the Black Studies Department, CUNY, New York, right?
City University of New York.
Leonard Jeffries.
Leonard Jeffries is the racist who promulgated the claim that Jews financed the slave trade and used the movie industry to hurt black people.
Leonard Jeffries also claims that white people are ICE people and black people are sun people.
Now, he was fired by CUNY after a time.
I mean, they tried to hang in there and be tough, but Jeffries was fired by CUNY for all of this.
He sued Scruel to get reinstated, claiming all he was doing was exercising his First Amendment rights.
So it was his son leading the Congressional Black Caucasians into the House today.
Hakeem Jeffries leading the Congressional Black caucus into the House chamber.
And we have it on audio tape.
Here it is.
This is Hakeem.
It's actually last night on the House floor.
This is what happened.
Let me now yield to my good friend, the distinguished Congresswoman who represents the neighboring district at home in Brooklyn.
She's a fighter for justice, a voice for the voiceless.
And it's now my privilege to yield to Congresswoman Yvette Clark.
Hands up, don't shoot.
I thank my colleague and friend, Mr. Jeffries.
See, it used to be, I thank the gentleman of New York for yielding, and then you go into your spiel.
But now the Congressional Black Caucasians are saying, hands up, don't shoot, Mr. Chairman.
Well, each other and the chairman, you know, the speaker.
Hands up, don't shoot, Mr. Speaker.
I thank my colleague and friend, Hakeem Jeffries, noted progeny of the famous Leonard Jeffries, CUNY, New York, last night on the House lot.
You know, I'm going to circle back to this, but this Rams business and those players coming out, the five Rams players during player introductions and raising their arms, raising their hands, and they quote, don't shoot.
I'm telling you, there's going to be blowback on this.
The Rams have not figured.
Maybe they know it.
But this is going to be a bigger problem the NFL realizes.
And I don't know if I should spend time detailing what I think the problem is going to be.
let it happen and then say afterwards, I told you, I told you, there's already some blowback.
I don't even know if the Rams are aware of it, but this is, this is, I'll tell you why people are getting fed up is because here come these guys out raising their hands in in uniform as it hands up, don't shoot.
The grand jury, it didn't happen.
The grand jury established factually that that didn't happen.
I mean, and everybody knows this.
This is my point about truth and power and how power overpowers truth.
If it's in the right or, depending on your perspective, wrong hands.
But an effort is being made to convince as many people as possible that the gentle giant was surrendering, that he had his hands up, and this racist cop assassinated him.
This racist cop went hunting.
He found a gentle giant.
He raised his hands.
He surrendered and he got shot.
And that's not what happened.
And the grand jury and the autopsy and every shred of evidence that was heard disproves it.
And yet here come these players with their hands up.
They're clueless.
So who's telling these players whatever it is they know?
I'm sorry, Hakeem Jeffries is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, not the son.
It's a minor point.
But I want to be correct here.
There's nothing wrong with being Leonard Jeffries' son.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying he's a nephew.
Well, still some people, right?
And I'm still a nice guy.
That hasn't changed.
But who's telling these players what it is they believe that didn't happen?
Hands were not raised.
He didn't say, I surrender, and he didn't get shot in that circumstance.
Oh, I know.
I know the entire, I know who's telling.
I'm asking rhetorically, but the point is they're believing it.
And they said they were asked about it.
Well, no, no, we just wanted to show support for the community.
What community?
The community knows what this didn't happen.
The community knows.
And I don't mean just the black community.
The community of Ferguson, St. Louis, knows it didn't happen.
And now there's a big spat.
You know, the Police Officers Association wanted an apology from the Rams, and they think they got one.
And then the Rams are, oh, no, you didn't.
We called you, and we sent you a note, but we didn't apologize.
The Rams are making tracks to the media.
We did not apologize.
Our players are free citizens that can say or do things, and it's up to them.
But I have the commissioner on tape suggesting that kind of behavior would not be tolerated in the NFL if, say, somebody like me was involved.
So, anyway, there's blowback over whether or not there's been an apology.
With the cops thinking they got one, the Rams could have just said, okay, fine.
No, no, we didn't.
We didn't.
We want to be very clear about this.
And, well, that's the point.
Eric Holder is going to end racial profiling.
And Obama said he had a meeting up there yesterday at the White House with Al Sharpton, who may as well be the vice president now, and said, this is, in fact, let me, before moving up, let me grab that soundbite, and I've put it at the bottom of the stack.
So let me, let me, if I grab soundbite number two and three, because this is Obama yesterday at the old executive office building, the OEO, after meeting with law enforcement community leaders, we have two soundbites.
They both matter.
Here's the first one.
A problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area and is not unique to our time.
And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.
Too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly.
And as I said last week, when any part of the American family does not feel like it is being treated fairly, that's a problem for all of us.
Okay, so you see, ladies and gentlemen, the truth is irrelevant here.
The truth doesn't matter.
The grand jury results don't matter.
It's instead how people feel about it.
And there's also a point that I made yesterday about why I could never succeed in politics because politics is not about what is.
Politics is not about the way things are.
Politics is about the way things seem.
And this is Obama trying to make things seem like it doesn't matter what the grand jury said, doesn't matter.
None of that matters.
What matters is that I have constituents of mine who say they're young people of color and they don't think they're being treated fairly throughout the country, not just in Ferguson, but all over the country.
And as long as that's going on, as long as any part of the American family doesn't feel like it's being treated fairly, it's a problem for all of us.
I don't care what the grand jury said.
I don't care what the facts of the case are, it doesn't matter.
So you see, the first black president acknowledges that his presence has not mattered a whit in improving race relations.
And not only have they not mattered a whit, he is going to capitalize on the fact that he has failed to smooth over race relations.
He's going to take advantage of it.
He's going to use it.
Here's the next bite, which illustrates that.
Part of the reason this time will be different is because the president of the United States is deeply invested in making sure that this time is different.
Stop the tape.
Every African American in this audience, look at me.
Look at your radio.
Look at me.
We are at the end of the sixth year of the historic presidency of the first African American elected to be president in this country.
And he just said less than 24 hours ago, this time is going to be different because this time the president is invested in making sure this time is different.
What's been going on these last six years now?
Why is he only getting involved in this kind of thing now?
It's going to be different.
How many, and maybe not just to you, African American, how many of you ICE people voted for Obama hoping that his election would mean the end of this kind of BS?
And you're hearing him say, all right, all right, it's going to be different this time because the President of the United States is involved.
It's going to be deeply invested in making sure this time's different.
This time's going to be different.
How's it going to be different?
The grand jury spoke.
The grand jury had reams and reams of evidence.
We know what happened.
What do you mean we're going to make it different?
I don't know.
Got to take a break because of time.
I wish I didn't have to because I'm going to roll.
I know, but I have to.
I have no choice.
In our first soundbite that we played of Obama, he starts out by saying, Ferguson laid bare a problem that's not unique to St. Louis or that area.
What?
What laid bare?
What problem was laid bare in Ferguson?
I'm serious.
I know I'm a naturally funny guy, but I'm not trying to be funny here.
And I'm not trying to be outrageous.
When somebody explained to me, what problem was laid bare in Ferguson?
That it's a problem you can't attack a cop.
You can't rob a convenience store.
You can't try to take a cop's gun and we've got to change that?
What problem was laid bare?
The problem in Ferguson, we're being led to believe, is the cops.
The problem in Ferguson, the cops are making the residents nervous and feeling like second-class citizens.
What the cop?
It's a civil rights.
Folks, it's 180 degrees out of phase.
It is senseless.
What problem was laid bare?
And now Obama's out there.
Well, we're going to put cameras on every cop.
By the way, just as a side note, that didn't come out of yesterday's meeting.
Obama advanced that idea way back long before the election.
He's just trying to revive it to get credit for it in this aftermath.
But how is a camera on a cop going to clean up criminal activity in a community?
If you want to put cameras on people, you need to put out a message.
Hey, members of the community, whatever community, if you're going to rob a convenience store, you must first come and attach this Obama body cam so that we will have clear evidence of how somebody unfairly stopped you from robbing the convenience.
This is so out of whack.
This is so out of phase that people are going to go insane trying to keep it all straight.
Which is the idea in part.
No, I just think it's, I don't know, it would be horrible.
I mean, it'd be sad to think that having a big reunion or get together because you've been sexually assaulted by the same guy and that that's a reason to get together and have a, well, I don't know, party on TV?
Did you guys hear what Mitt Romney said?
Mitt Romney said recently the Republicans need to swallow hard and go all in on comprehensive immigration reform.
You may have missed this.
This is why I want to point it out to you.
He said the Republicans need to head Obama off at the past, take advantage of the fact that all Obama did was executively amnestize 5 million people.
And he said, We got a golden opportunity now to go all in, all the way and get credit for it.
We got to do it.
We got to go all in.
We need to do comprehensive.
Mitt Romney said this.
Now, back to this.
This is really fascinating what's being attempted here in St. Louis and in Ferguson.
It's not by any means the first time, but this is the most brazen that I can recall.
We have an event that happened.
We've had hours, days, weeks of evidence, testimony.
It's been corroborated.
The liars were discovered and thrown out.
We know what happened.
And yet that wasn't the desired result.
And so that result doesn't count.
And it's being rebuilt into a new problem.
And the problem in St. Louis is the cops.
The problem in Ferguson is the police.
If you doubt me, listen to what Eric Holder said.
This is after, I mean, and this is more outrageous than what Obama said.
Because Holder takes Obama's comments.
Basically, what Obama said is that Ferguson demonstrates that racism is everywhere in America.
And now he, Obama, is on the case and he's finally going to deal with this and he's going to end it.
But Eric Holder decided to add to or to build on Obama's claim that Ferguson demonstrates that racism is everywhere.
Here's what Holder said.
Problems we must confront are not only found in Ferguson, the issues raised in Missouri are not unique to that state or to that small city.
We are dealing with concerns that are truly national in scope and that threaten the entire nation.
What happened here?
Again, they want to make it look like this happens every day, multiple times a day.
They're painting a picture here that innocent young blacks are assassinated by cops who are hunting multiple times.
It happens frequently, and this is it.
This is the last straw.
We're not going to put up with this anymore, even though it's rare.
It doesn't happen anywhere near regularly, which is one of the reasons why this one made such news.
But anyway, the truth has been learned, and it's not what was desired.
And so Eric Holder says, in the coming days, I will announce the updated Justice Department guidance regarding profiling by federal law enforcement.
This will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling once and for all.
And here is the money, quote, our police officers cannot be and cannot be seen as an occupying force disconnected to the communities that they serve.
So Eric Holder is now gone full in Hamas.
Cops are now an occupying force.
Cops are not peacekeepers.
Cops do not keep the order.
Cops do not protect the innocent and property.
The cops are an occupying force in neighborhoods of color all over the country.
Problems we must confront are not only found in Ferguson.
Isn't it interesting?
This is the exact way this bunch talks about Israel, folks.
They talk about Israel as an occupying force with Hamas and other terrorist organizations being the victims.
And the Israelis are the mean-spirited, extremist, racist occupying force.
And now Eric Holder's gone all in with the cops being the same thing.
And he wasn't finished.
Eric Holder, problems exposed by Ferguson threaten the entire nation.
He was speaking to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
He said the nation needs to confront the broken relationship between group after group and this.
Now let's see.
What's happened here in the last six years?
Gays got gay marriage.
Hispanics got amnesty for illegals.
And African Americans apparently are going to be able to riot without anybody stopping them if they want to.
Apparently, they're going to be able to engage in civil disobedience and an excuse is going to be offered.
Well, it's just their feelings.
The president said they don't feel right.
They don't feel welcomed.
They don't feel like they're part of the community.
We all got screwed with Obamacare, so everybody's getting something from this regime.
The problems of Ferguson, Missouri are radical leftists in the government and the media distracting from the destruction of free markets, separation of powers.
So yes, problems exposed by Ferguson do threaten the entire nation, but not in the way Obama and Holder are discussing.
Now, I have here, you might think, an unrelated story.
I want you to listen very carefully.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.
Let me read to you the headline, stories from yesterday.
Spree of Newark violence stirs action by mayor and police.
Listen very carefully, folks.
Newark, New Jersey officials on Monday vowed a crackdown on violence after a bloody Thanksgiving weekend that left three dead and multiple people injured in 11 shootings.
Mayor Raz Baraka said at a news conference, our mindset is that it's an emergency here in our city.
This is the first time we've had all these shootings to this extent.
11 shootings, three dead, multiple injuries.
State of violence illustrated a broader challenge for Newark, which has long been one of the state's most dangerous cities.
But the long Thanksgiving weekend brought a level of gun violence Newark hadn't seen in some time.
Mr. Baraka said officials said that they were worried about losing gains made against crime earlier in the year.
Now, you say, okay, so what's the big deal, Rush?
Well, hang on here.
In the first place, there are no protests are being planned for the three dead over the Thanksgiving weekend.
The president and Eric Holder haven't talked about this at all.
You got three people dead.
11 shootings.
There is no talk of problem in the community.
There's no talk of needing to sit down and have a confab at the White House to figure out what went wrong and how to fix this.
But if you read the rest of the story in the Wall Street Journal, you know what the reaction from the leaders of the community is?
You know what their solution to the problem is?
Take a guess.
Everybody's calling for more cops.
Everybody is calling for more police.
The Obama administration in Ferguson and in St. Louis are trying to portray the police as the problem.
The police did not burn down anybody's building.
The police did not destroy anybody's business.
The police did not rob a convenience store.
The police didn't get in a fight with themselves and try to abscond a weapon and use it against each other.
None of that happened.
So the regime in Ferguson is trying to blame everything that went wrong on the cops.
In Newark, three people were dead on Thanksgiving Day, 11 shootings, and what everybody there is demanding is more police.
They're going to send in more police.
Governor Christie is even going to send in state highway patrol troopers.
The police are going to bunker into Newark to protect innocent bystanders from being gunned down in the streets.
Now, wait a minute, how does that jive with what we're being told about what went on in Ferguson?
How can you have three people dead, 11 multiple shootings, and the solution in Newark is the cops?
The solution is more cops.
The solution is more armed troopers and uniformed cops to come in and keep the peace and protect things.
In Ferguson, seems to be just the exact opposite.
The problem is the cops.
The citizens don't feel right.
The problem's the cops.
The problem's the grand jury.
The problem's everybody else.
I thought if you listen to Eric Holder, the police are an occupying force in every community.
Problems we must confront are not found only in Ferguson.
The issues raised there are not unique to that state or small city.
Our police officers cannot be and cannot be seen as an occupying force, disconnected to the communities that they serve.
I would bet you that before this happened in Ferguson, they were not seen that way.
I bet they were not seen as an occupying force.
I bet they're not seen that way in too many places.
But in Newark, and you know it's a Democrat state and it's a Democrat mayor and it's a Democrat everything, they've got out-of-control gun rampage and the call, the solution, is for more cops.
Pull quote from the story: Bashir Akenyele, teacher who works for the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, said many of the problems stem from poverty and broken families.
The unemployment rate's more than 10%, higher than in much of the country, even as the city's downtown has teemed with new development.
I actually mentioned the true source of the problem.
Broken families, unemployment.
Too bad we can't work on those to fix it, isn't it?
Too bad we really can't.
Why, they've actually even identified the problem in Newark.
Broken families, unemployment, the Obama economy.
Too bad they're even unable to talk about that.
No, no, we can't even get to the root cause because we're in the process in Ferguson of obliterating the truth.
And we're going to use everything we can.
We're going to use Al Sharpton.
We're going to use the media.
We're going to use St. Louis Rams.
We're going to use whatever we can to rewrite the truth using the power we have to do it.
And we're going to portray the cops everywhere as an occupying force except Newark, where more of them are needed to stop rampaging murderers.
Back after this, don't go.
Just a reminder to every police officer in this country.
You are being watched.
And I'm very serious about this.
Rich Lowry had it right in his column today.
You cops had better keep a sharp eye because the powers that be are looking to find another cop they can accuse of racial assassination and railroad, indict, and convict.
That's they lost on this one, and they're not just you are in.
I think police officers in this country are in dangerous jobs at great risk right now because they have a target on them.
They have a bullseye that is being painted, is being drawn by the highest positions of power in this country.
It's a very dangerous circus, very dangerous situation taking place here, folks.
And the cops right now are in the crosshairs of the most powerful forces in this country.
They fail to get what they wanted in Ferguson.
They're going to find a way to get, didn't really get what they wanted out of Florida and white Hispanic George Zimmerman and all that.
They didn't get what they wanted in the Duke La Crosse case.
They really want a win.
And the cops are the focus, the target for that next win.
I try to get a phone call in the first hour.
Don't always succeed, but I'm going to pull it off today.
Montezuma, Iowa.
This is Kenny.
Kenny, thanks for calling and welcome.
It's great to have you here with us.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Well, you hear all this stuff like Al Sharpton and everybody out there causing all this trouble, and you know, that's job security for them.
But, you know, they come up with all these cute little slogans and everything.
You know, I keep hearing this hands up, don't shoot.
That just drives me nuts.
That's got nothing to do with the reality in this situation.
I think the chan ought to be pants up, don't loot.
Yeah, well, who's going to say that?
Apparently, nobody.
Hands up, don't loot.
No, you are failing to exhibit the proper sensitivity and understanding of the tension that is felt by the looters and by the rioters.
And your insensitivity is only feeding the problem.
And you calling here and making insensitive, smart-ass comments like that is only going to make the situation worse.
What do you mean, hands up, don't loot?
Don't you know that the problem here is the cops?
That's pants up, don't loot.
Pants up, don't loot.
Yeah, pants up, don't loot.
That's reality.
They need to take a little more, have a little more respect for themselves and for where they learn.
So now you're making fun of fashion choices in addition, in addition to everything else.
See, people like you are the problem.
I bet you listen to talk radio all the time and get these cockamaming ideas there, don't you?
As a matter of fact, I do, Rud.
These people are so easily predictable.
Sad thing is, that's the way they look at it.
Hey, Kenny, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
By the way, folks, this Rams business, this whole hands-up thing, I haven't spent probably the time I should spend on this in terms of sharing with you my concerns.
I really think this is going to have a blowback that nobody's contemplating yet within the NFL.
And I don't even know how far I want to go in explaining this yet.
I'll give you some idea.
Yeah, within the NFL, I mean, they're going to have some business problems with this.
They're going to lose some spots.
I'll just look at it.
I have to take a break now.
I'll come back and I'll explain what I mean in just a second.
No, don't go.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post says that Obama is not properly using the bully pulpit on Ferguson.
He looks like a 98-pound weakling.
It's not playing well.
We'll have details immediately not happy with whatever Obama is or isn't doing.
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