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Dec. 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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And it's kind of funny.
It is kind of funny.
You know, I'm watching the news here during the breaks.
I know it really isn't the news.
It's just a short way to tell you what I'm watching.
I mean, I could say I'm watching the daily Democrat agenda, which is really what the news is.
And, you know, all the networks have their reporters in Hawaii with Obama, covering Obama's every move.
That's what White House reporters do.
Well, I've gotten to know a little bit about Hawaii as a sometimes multi-times a year visitor.
And all of these reporters are standing on the beach at Waikiki.
And I can tell this because you see Diamond Head in the background.
The only problem with that is Obama isn't staying on Waikiki.
He's nowhere near Waikiki.
And he couldn't be in Waikiki having lunch because it's only 8 a.m. in Hawaii right now.
I doubt he would come into Waikiki for breakfast.
Obama's on a completely different, he's on the, well, if Oahu perfectly aligned north and southeast and west, he would be on what would be the northwest, northeast side of the island.
But there is no way that Obama might see Cocoa Head from where he, but he's not going to see Diamond Head.
Not like it's seen.
These guys, my point is these guys are not with Obama.
They're on the beach at Waikiki while reporting on Obama.
And I just, I just find it funny.
I don't know why, but I just do.
Anyway, folks, great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
President Obama's USA Today, President Obama, a sports fan who makes a living dealing with political issues, says that more sports stars should speak out on public matters.
In an interview with People magazine, Obama praised LeBron James and other athletes who protested grand jury refusals to indict police officers involved in the deaths of African American males.
Obama said, you know, I think LeBron did the right thing, he told people, referring to the decision by the Cleveland Cavaliers to wear an I Can't Breathe t-shirt at a recent game.
Obama noted there's been a rich tradition of athletes speaking out on public issues, particularly during the volatile 1960s.
We forget the role that Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, and Bill Russell played in raising consciousness, the president said.
But that tradition has dimmed in recent years.
We went through a long stretch with well-paid athletes.
The notion was just be quiet, get your endorsements, and don't make any waves.
LeBron is an example of a young man who has in his own way, respectful way, tried to say, I'm part of this society too, and focus attention.
He said, I'd like to see more athletes do that.
Not just around this issue, but around a range of issues.
He might be surprised at what he would get there if that happened.
You know, I've had, interestingly enough, I have had numerous conversations about this very subject with people that have worked in executive positions in the media and with some owners, owners of sports franchises and so forth.
And believe me, everybody's uncomfortable with it.
On the endorsements, for example, you know how much money Michael Jordan did on eBay last year?
You want to take a guess?
Take a stab at Michael just eBay, Michael Jordan stuff on eBay this past year.
Try $175 million.
Michael Jordan, you may know, you may not know, he's a Democrat, but he also knows that Republicans buy tennis shoes and he doesn't want to tick them off.
So that's been the largest reason why a lot of athletes have not gone political.
He is as polarized as society is, you literally would anger half of your fan base if you did.
It's why General Powell, you know, tried to run for president without enunciating his position on abortion.
He didn't want to disturb his 75% approval rating that he had.
But the big point about this is that I think Obama did the right thing.
Obama's saying LeBron James did the right thing in protesting grand jury refusals.
See, this is where this breaks down.
Do you know what?
Do you think justice, if I were to make a statement to you, the justice system is about finding the truth?
Would you say yes or no?
Justice system or justice, I can remember, I'll remember to the day I die, my dad's long dissertations on this subject at the dinner table.
And it was complicated trying to understand it.
So I'm going to synthesize as best I can what he said.
But do you believe that the justice system or justice is about finding the truth?
If you said no, you are closer to being right than not.
So if the justice system is not about finding the truth, what is it?
The justice system, and this is, by the way, this is going to infuriate some, which is going to end up making the point.
The justice system is about the peaceful, peaceful, it's about the peaceful resolution of disputes.
Now, now, it's never going to get everything exactly right, and that's the point.
When it doesn't go your way, you still respect it.
If it's going to work, if the justice system is going to work, it has to be respected, whether it goes your way in a particular case or not.
And you have to know that it usually, well, it's never going to go totally your way all the time.
The justice system is like any other system set up and devised by mortal human beings.
It is flawed.
It isn't perfect.
Our justice system is forged from, by our founders, forged from what they believed the best systems at the time from all over the world in history.
The British judicial system is different from ours.
They've got a Miranda warning.
You need a dictionary to follow it, but they've got one.
For example, but the British don't have a constitution.
There is no UK constitution.
Well, the EU people might have tried for one, but Great Britain itself never has had a constitution.
But yet they do have their own system of justice.
The president instead of this is this is incendiary to go out and say we need more athletes speaking up against grand jury.
No, unless you're trying to tear down the system.
And look, look, no, I know, I know you're going to have grievance.
We have the whole Democrat Party now as one big grievance industry.
And they're going to claim that they never get a break.
And it always is a stack deck against them.
That isn't true.
Especially now, it isn't true.
My God, we've been over backwards some of the other way.
I mean, look how the cops almost sometimes give up trying to catch bad guys because how quickly they're released now.
Technicality here, technicality there.
Don't we've swung so far the other way now that affirmative action.
I mean, you know, there's any number of steps that we have taken here to quote-unquote try to make amends for our original sin of slavery.
But the grievance industry is not going to acknowledge any of them.
The grievance industry is based on the fact there hadn't been any progress.
The grievance industry is the Democrat Party and the civil rights coalitions that make up that particular facet of it, and there never can be permitted an acknowledgement of any success or of any improvement.
But the legal system, you try to tell people justice isn't about right or wrong, justice isn't about the truth, and you'll lose them because they think that's civics 101.
The purpose of a trial is to get to the truth.
Not for the defense.
Nine times out of ten, the defense is trying to obfuscate the truth or create doubt about the truth left and right.
If the justice system were about the truth, the defendants would be required to confess.
The justice system is about the peaceful, I say, peaceful resolution of disputes with the full recognition it's not always going to go your way.
We have so many built-in safeguards.
The idea, look, I'll tell you what's repugnant in our system in terms of people that founded it.
The thing that just scared the most was wrong convictions.
Our justice system bends over backwards to make sure that the innocent are not convicted.
That's why the appeals process is what it is, and it's even been expanded upon.
What did you say about injustice?
What was your question about injustice?
What is the perspective on injustice?
I need a specific.
What do you mean the perspective on injustice?
Largely, I'm trying to give you an umbrella explanation for it.
I've told you at the outset that there's going to be, for everybody that hears me, there's going to be, well, wait, what about X?
So we're going to have to use, if we wanted to delve into this deeply, we would have to, we'd have to, I mean, really, really get into the weeds on it.
And I understand that.
I mean, if it's easier for people to think that the purpose of the justice system is to find the truth, go ahead.
I'm not trying to talk anybody out of that, but that's not really what it is.
There are a lot of assumptions made here, by the way.
Assumption that everybody's going to be honorable, assumption that everybody's going to accept results, assumption that It was fair.
If any of those assumptions go by the wayside, then the hell with peaceful.
That's not going to be part of the resolution.
And then you have the people that don't like the justice system anyway, or they get bogus and rigged and so forth.
So you're trying to destroy it.
I think it's amazing it's lasted this length of time with as many assaults.
But I'll tell you how bastardized it's gotten.
You know how bastardized it's gotten.
It's gotten to the point now where whatever ends up being disputed in terms of legislation and politics.
Nine people who wear black robes now determine what's legal and what isn't.
Everybody has knowingly invested in that proposition.
The Supreme Court is the final word.
And that's particularly on political matters is a little risky.
But even then, you have to realize you're going to win some, you're going to lose some.
I realize here that the attempted, simplified explanation of the justice system is not about truth.
That makes people sit up.
What do you mean?
It's not about truth.
If it were, then the defendants who were guilty would have to confess.
No, Mr. Limbaugh, because you have to prove it.
And therein, you have now just unknowingly, perhaps, made my point.
It isn't about the truth.
A trial.
A trial.
Is it about the truth?
The trial about perceptions, trial about theatrics, trial about performances.
There are a lot of factors, characteristics here.
But look at my overall point is the justice system used to be a backstop.
It used to have the moral authority just by virtue of its own existence.
And it could have, and I said this on Fox News Sunday, the president ought not out there inciting anger over grand jury decisions.
That is the height of irresponsibility.
Go on, praise LeBron James for disagreeing with a grand jury decision and urging more athletes to take up steps and action or whatever against grand jury.
No, presidents, attorneys general ought to be coming out and explaining to people the grand jury system and telling them what all went on here and giving them as much of the evidence that was presented as possible to show them why what happened was the truth.
But there doesn't seem to be anybody in this administration, certainly not the mayor of New York City, certainly not the Civil Rights Court.
Nobody seems to be interested at all in trying to quell any of this upset.
Okay, let me take a timeout now.
We'll do that.
And there's stuff besides all this out there.
Of course, there always is.
See, we don't allow ourselves to be distracted by things for the whole show, anyway.
So we'll come back and we'll get started on the phones as the program continues to unfold before your very ears.
Do not go away.
This is somewhat sad news.
Rock and roll super crooner Joe Cocker has passed away.
Most people think that Joe Cocker's best song was what?
You are so beautiful.
I My favorite Joe Cocker song, High Time We Went.
You probably haven't heard it.
But you need to listen to High Time We Went with that Compeller Turned On and that compressor thumping.
You need to hear High Time We Went the way it was heard on AM radio back in 1971.
That's you are so beautiful.
I guess a song that gave every ugly guy in the world hope is the way I thought of that song.
I did.
How did that song give every ugly guy hope?
Because it sounded, well, never mind.
We're talking about audio perception here.
It just sounded like I can't win here.
I just have realized here that just trust me.
I think it's perfectly stated.
A song that gave every ugly guy hope.
Now, one more thing.
Now, because I mentioned Joe Cocker, I don't really have time to be fair with next caller.
That caller is going to be Dan from Virginia Beach.
Dan, hang on for just a couple more minutes.
We'll be to you.
A criminal trial, I just want to tell you, is not a search for the truth.
You hope you get there.
Don't misunderstand.
You hope you get to the truth, but that's not what it is.
In the case, if you're up against the government, what the purpose of a trial is to determine whether or not the government can prove it or whoever your accuser is, state government, feds, if it's a criminal trial, can the people doing the accusing prove it?
The burden is on them.
And if you did it and they can't prove it, you walk.
Some people don't think that's justice, but it is.
You know why it's justice?
Because both sides had their chance.
Injustice is when the court is closed to you.
Injustice is when the judge tells you you can't come in.
Injustice is when your lawyer is disqualified and you're not allowed to get a new one.
Injustice is when somebody says you don't have a right to a trial.
If you think somebody's probably guilty, it's not enough.
It's got to be found not guilty.
In some cases, it means the truth might be served, but it also might mean that presumptions in favor of innocent are served as well.
There's all kinds of things that happen, but truth as a quest is not one.
Welcome back.
It's Rushland Baugh executing assigned host duty flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
You know, just let me share a couple other things here about this.
Just to do as much as I can of closing the loop here.
On the purpose of trials and the legal system, the justice system, not necessarily being about a pursuit of the truth.
As I said, if it were solely about the truth, we wouldn't allow defendants the opportunity for lawyers to present their case and try to confuse everybody.
We demand that they confess.
If we had the evidence, if we knew they were guilty, what the hell?
It's about truth here.
Wrap it up.
Be done here in five minutes and move on to the next one.
Just confess.
It's not what happens, is it?
And get this: we bend over backwards for defendants.
And you, if you'll just search your memory, how many times have you remembered being, can you remember being frustrated at somebody you thought was obviously guilty but was let go on a quote-unquote technicality, might be was not properly mirandized, might be the cop had a conflict and he didn't announce any number of things had nothing to do with the actual deed the bad guy did, but he walks.
Even though we know the truth, still walks.
You know it, and I know it.
You've been frustrated by things like that.
If what we were doing with the certain, this is why Obama is really conducting a disservice on all of this by encouraging people, sports stars, anybody else, to rag on the justice system, such as grand jury proceedings.
This is irresponsible.
He is the number one law enforcement officer in the country swears an oath.
This is outrageous.
He should be doing the exact opposite what he's doing and throwing cold water on all this fire.
And he's not doing that.
Neither is his idiot mayor.
And of course, if they're not going to do anything about it, why should lesser people, if the people who set the example are going to punt, then why should anybody else worry about it?
Lewis Brandeis commented on that, just a second, former Supreme Court justice.
But other privileges.
For example, a priest cannot divulge the details of confession.
A wife or husband cannot testify against a spouse.
We do not allow it.
There's the attorney-client privilege.
Your defense lawyer might not take your case unless you tell him whether you did it or didn't.
Your defense lawyer may assume that even if you did it, you're lying about it.
Still takes your case.
But whatever you've told him, he can't tell a soul.
Well, how can we possibly say we're searching for truth here if the defendant has all these exemptions or privileges?
So the privileges demonstrate that the justice system considers some social relationships and professional relationships so important that we elevate them over the importance of arriving at the truth.
If you did it and your wife knows you did it, but she doesn't have to testify, then you can't say the system is about getting to the truth.
The system in this case is about hiding it, in fact.
Therefore, it's up to the other guys to prove it despite the privilege.
Because the dirty little secret here, and this is why this system needs to be defended at the highest positions of authority and consistently, we would rather have a guilty person go free than an innocent person convicted.
That is one of the foundations of this system.
Now, I know, I know, if you happen to be a minority, you think I'm the biggest blithering idiot.
You don't know what your life, I don't know what your life is like.
What do you mean?
They don't care about our innocence.
They convict us when they don't.
I know the grievances.
I'm fully aware of them.
But the system is like any other human device system, depending on people involved, is going to have corruption here.
It's going to get it wrong.
But the key to it is everybody accepting it and working within the bounds of it to change it when it doesn't go your way.
But the way to fix it is not what's happening, shooting cops, kill cops dead now.
We want them dead now, marching in the street, telling people, hands up, don't shoot, didn't happen, telling them it did happen when it didn't.
That's not the way to deal with what you think is an unfair justice system.
All this is doing is destroying it.
And that's why it is imperative that people like the president and people like the mayor and people like the police commissioner and people who are going to get involved in this fray do the right thing where the system is concerned.
And you notice, by the way, Al Sharpton now bleeding that he's got some people threatening him.
Oh, yeah, let me find the soundbite here.
Grab number nine, audio soundbite number nine.
This is Sunday at National Action Network headquarters, Sharpton Media.
To blame the mayor and others is not what we need.
Yeah.
The blame game will only lead to further kinds of venom and further division.
Stop the tape of second.
Stop.
This is not what he said two weeks ago.
He was saying, this is just the first chapter.
We have been knocked to the canvas, but we are going to get up and we are going to come out.
We are not going to cut our gloves off.
We are going to come out and we are going to keep fighting.
Well, bang, bang, cops, you're dead.
This is why I'm telling you, these people, people like Sharpton, the Democrat Party, I don't care.
When you look at this guy in the campaign that literally thought Mitt Romney killed his wife, remember that ad?
It was an ad that Obama's campaign babe, Stephanie Cutter, put together.
Some poor guy's wife died, and it turned out to be Romney's fault because something to do with insurance, pre-existing conditions, or some such thing.
I forget the details.
But the Democrat Party is running an ad.
Mitt Romney killed this guy's wife.
Or she died, Mitt Romney didn't care.
And because he didn't care, she didn't get the proper care.
She died or what had.
And then Romney hates his dog, dogs on the roof of the station wagon during family vacations.
I'm telling you, to have this kind of rage and hatred daily and consistently, these people are being taught.
They are being propagandized, manipulated.
Gasoline's being poured on them.
I mean, it's just, this is not a natural state for human beings to exist in.
It's constant rage and hate.
That has to be fed.
And that's what the modern-day Democrat Party and the community organizer movement and every unions, you name them, this is the end game for them.
And while they've been doing that, they have been ripping to shreds all of the counterbalances, all of the great institutions and traditions and people and their reputations who provide a counterbalance to this stuff so that the credibility of people and institutions that oppose this has been destroyed while this enraged insanity has been fed.
Finished the Sharpton bite.
I began receiving threatening phone calls and hate.
The language is: hey, N-word, stop killing innocent people.
I'm going to get you.
And I have several like this.
So we are now under intense threat from those that are misguided by those that are trying to blame everyone from civil rights leaders to the mayor rather than deal with an ugly spirit.
An ugly spirit rather than deal with an ugly spirit.
You mean the kind of spirit that's created when the grand jury doesn't go your way.
And so you say, well, it isn't over.
This fight isn't over.
We're not going to cut off our gloves.
We're going to go back to our corner.
We may even be on the campus.
We're going to get back up and we're going to keep fighting.
What kind of spirit are you talking about here, Reverend?
Now, we are under intense threat now from those misguided by those trying to blame everyone from civil rights leaders.
The mayor, the mayor, publicly said that he has to warn his own son, who has a police escort every day to keep him alive.
He has to warn his own son to beware of the cops because his son is part black and the cops.
What does your son need to be warned about, Mayor?
Tell you, folks, these people, you know, it needs to be done and it's easy to do.
And because of that, it gets rejected as too simplistic.
But I'm telling you, this is all liberalism/slash socialism, leftism, whatever.
And it's a technique.
It's a strategy that's being employed.
Because all of this has as its ultimate aim, votes.
All of this.
The death of the gentle giant, political opportunity.
The death of Eric Garner, political opportunity.
That's what's sick about it.
Not the system.
Not the cops.
Anyway, Dan of Virginia Beach, it's been great talking to you.
I'm just kidding.
Dan, I promise, if they have to muzzle me coming out of the break, you are next.
So don't go away.
The phone's coming up.
Okay, here we go.
Dan in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
I really appreciate your waving and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
First of all, my sincere condolences to the families of the slain New York City police officers and all of the NYPD police family.
Now, like many Americans, this weekend, I found myself just wondering what could motivate someone to this level of hatred and violence.
So I was doing some research on this despicable Brinsley character, the murder of the New York police officers.
And what I found out is that Brindley is a member of a Baltimore gang called the Black Guerrilla Army.
And the article I was reading, curiously, it did not give any information on the theology of this black guerrilla army gang.
So I did a Wikipedia search on it.
And what I found out, Rush, is that one of their fellow organizations or groups that they're linked to is none other than the Weather Underground, which was co-founded by a fellow community organizer and cop killer Bill Ayers, which is one of Barack Obama's early.
Who remains unrepentant, by the way.
Yes.
In fact, the only degree to which he's repentant is that his bombs didn't kill more.
Right.
Now, I don't believe in guilt by association, Rush, but the link here is chilling, and it's not isolated.
I was just curious as to what you thought about the link.
Frankly, I hadn't thought about the direct link between Obama and Ayers to this guy.
But it doesn't matter.
The point to be made here, and I do have a short little story on the details of the suspected.
See, even though we know, we can't say we know.
We know the truth, but we can't say it.
We have to say supposed, suspected, alleged.
They still have to prove it.
And there are going to be some witnesses that will lie through their teeth.
You just wait, just like they were in Ferguson, Missouri.
And the DA in that place has finally come in.
He's released some of the actual bullshit, the lies that the grand jury was told.
People came in and purposely, they lied under oath intentionally, and they were able to disprove them one after another.
Well, you know, see, that's we're not going to do perjury because that would just incite more oppression and so forth.
The man suspected of gunning down two cops on Saturday afternoon, reportedly a member of a gang that called for the murder of NYPD officers just a few weeks ago.
According to the New York Daily News, Ismail Brinsley, the man who police reportedly believe orchestrated the execution-style attack on the two cops, may be a member of the black guerrilla family.
The organization reportedly put a green light on officers in response to the deaths of Eric Garner and the general giant at the hands of police officers.
As far as the link is concerned, look, you don't even need a direct link.
And it would be difficult to trace one anyway because it's been going on for years what's been happening here.
I still maintain to you that way too many average American liberal supporters, Democrat voters, have been driven into a literal insanity.
By that I mean they have a constant, unnatural anger and rage.
And it's fed every day, and it's fed with propaganda and lies.
And it has a purpose.
You always must ask who benefits from all this.
And it isn't these people who are being driven into this constant state of anger quivering in their boots, rage.
It's not them.
The people they end up voting for are the people who actually benefit.
And the people they donate to end up being the actual beneficiaries of this kind of thing.
I could be wrong, but I would guess that in this Brooklyn neighborhood where this happened, I would venture, I would safely assume that well over half of the minority population there doesn't want stuff like this happening in the neighborhood.
They don't want the cops gunned down.
They don't want this happening.
Well, okay, then, okay, good.
It's a lot more than half.
It's a lot more.
Another false impression is being created that the entire quote-unquote minority community is now lined up and supporting this kind of stuff because that's what it looks like the way the media reports it.
And like most of liberalism, it is a minority.
It's an elected minority.
It's a minority of thinking, the thought process.
They're nowhere near the majority, but media attention and media technique makes them look like they are unbeatably large, and yet they're not.
Look, all I can do is repeat myself on the question of the link here.
There is behavior.
There is action.
There are words.
There are deeds that the president and the mayor could take that would quiet this.
And they're choosing not to.
And in the case of the president, he's doing both.
He's out there acknowledging now, since I said this on Fox News Sunday a couple Sundays, now Obama's out talking about the progress that we've made in racial relations.
All of a sudden, now he's talking about anything to prove me wrong.
But while he's talking about all the progress and he's saying, I wish there were more LeBrons who would show up in public and disagree with the grand jury decision, nope, nope, nope.
Wrong thing to say.
As always, the fastest three hours in media, ladies and gentlemen.
Proof.
Two of them are already gone.
And it doesn't even seem like 10 minutes has gone by.
My favorite.
Yeah.
Perfect timing.
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