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Dec. 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Now, folks, I hope I've established myself in the last two hours as somewhat competent, because I'm about to do something that if you're not a professional is sometimes dangerous to do.
And I I've been in radio long enough I consider myself a professional.
I got a number of stories that are completely unrelated, but they have a common theme, and I will attempt now to weave them together.
We'll see.
The first, though, is as I said at the end of the last hour, the great new tactic from the left to undermine the fabric of Western civilization itself, to undermine conservatism, to undermine the country.
We are seeing this.
Sometimes it's intentional.
Sometimes it's not intentional, but it works out the way they want.
It is the embed.
Maybe they learned it from the reporters in the Iraq War.
You know, they they embed themselves in conservative organizations.
They embed themselves at Fox News and then try to write these books about Roger Ailes that aren't true.
I mean, if you've ever met Roger Ayles, and full disclosure, I'm a Fox News contributor.
And Roger Ailes, not only is he a genius.
When I was discovering my love of politics, he wrote a great book back in the day.
You are the message that if you're ever interested in politics, you should check out his book.
He's just a wonderful guy.
It's a wonderful network.
But these guys, they come out of there and the media heralds them as heroes for daring to speak truth to power.
Well, there's the story.
The Daily Signal over at the Heritage Foundation has this story.
A teacher has been awarded 1.95 million dollars essentially for her hurt feelings.
You see, she worked at a Catholic school run by a Catholic chur church in a Catholic diocese.
And the Catholic Church and the Catholic diocese at the Catholic school had a contract that the teacher signed that said she acknowledged and understood that she's got morality clauses in her contract and in how she can behave and what the church will and will not do and will and will not tolerate in her behavior as a teacher in a Catholic school of a Catholic church and a Catholic diocese.
Well, she wanted in vitro fertilization, and the Catholic Church disagrees with that.
Now, I say this out of the gate.
You can agree to disagree with the Catholic Church on the merits of in vitro fertilization, but it is a Catholic church issue, a Catholic church teaching.
And she decided she didn't like it, so what she sued and she won.
Now they're probably going to appeal and they'll probably get the better of it on appeal given the Hosanna Tabor case from the Supreme Court a few years ago.
But it take take the Catholic doctrine out of it.
This is this isn't a theology lesson here.
This is what the left is doing over and over and over.
They they are attempting now to get into places, embed themselves, then cry foul, they don't like whether they go work at Hobby Lobby, which closes on Sunday, which pays its employees more than their competitors do because they believe as they're a Christian mission and they got to take care of their employees.
They close earlier than most.
They give them great benefits, but they're not going to pay for abortion.
And so the left gets in there and then they complain.
I can't believe I'm working for these misogynists.
Well, you knew that going into it.
Or they go work for Fox News.
I can't believe I'm working for these people.
They're just they're not good.
And they produce these tell all books and the New York Daily News and MSNBC put them on TV.
They herald them as heroes, they herald them as martyrs.
It is by design that they're doing this.
And it's not that the media falls for it.
It's that the media is complicit in it.
Complicit in driving these stories, in giving them airtime, in making them be sympathetic.
They do not pay attention to the consequences.
So for example, in Massachusetts, and now I believe there are other states involved as well.
The Catholic charities provided adoption agencies, provided um medical facilities.
The left decided that the Catholics needed to go along with gay adoption, go along with abortion, things the Catholic Church says no to.
And guess what?
They got to close the adoption centers.
They got to close the hospitals unless they bend to the will of the left.
Now, I have a saying I coined several years ago.
And you can many of you, if if you've ever read Red State, if if you've ever heard me, you know the saying.
You will be made to care.
They will make you care about issues you didn't think you had to care about.
And it's not just social issues, it's fiscal issues.
It is across the board.
The left intends to make you care.
You think you can sit on the sidelines.
You think it doesn't affect you.
They're going to make it affect you.
They're going to make you take a position.
And if you dare take the wrong position, they will come after you.
They will drive you from your job, like the Mozilla CEO who wrote the check on Proposition 8.
They will drive you from your job.
They will shut you down.
They will shut you up.
They want to drive you from the town square.
And they really don't care about the impact they have on other people so long as they get their way on these issues, the ones they want you to care about.
Take poor people, for example.
Here's a great story.
Came out over the weekend, hasn't gotten a lot of attention.
Egg prices are going up.
Do you know why egg prices are going up?
They're going up because in California, voters approved a liberally backed proposition on the California.
By the way, this is why I oppose direct democracy.
There are too many nuts out there who can be conned and taken advantage of in these sorts of things.
So Proposition 2 abolished the closed confinement of farm animals in cages and crates.
So Californians had to go to free range chickens to lay their eggs.
So now instead of getting their eggs in a hatchery, they got to go out and search the grass for the eggs.
So guess what?
The price of eggs is going up 50% thanks to the tree huggers in California who don't want the chicken poop confined to one place but spread all over America.
Just like so many of their policies.
You will be made to care.
You'll be made to care about this stuff.
People think I joke about it.
No.
And they don't care about the poor.
That's the thing.
They're willing to take from the rich and subsidize the poor.
They don't care about raising the poor out of poverty.
They don't care about getting the poor off the social safety net.
The more people on the social safety net, the more people addicted to government, the more people dependent on government, the more they get their way.
They can expand spending at the federal level.
Egg prices are going up, so you mark my words.
This next Congress, you'll see Nancy Pelosi come out, the representative from California, concerned about the poor people in California who now have to pay more for the price of an egg.
A basic necessity of life to be able to eat the incredible edible egg.
They're gonna do it.
Because they gotta let their chickens poop all over a yard and lay their eggs wherever they want.
There's a metaphor for liberalism there if I've never heard one.
It's just amazing.
But that's not all now.
That's not all.
You'll be made to care about obesity too.
Now, this Atlantic profile of me, they called me chubby.
I knew it was gonna happen.
I I, you know, I I am I they said that I'm losing my edge.
That's the question they ask.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you're darn right I lost my edge.
I tell you, my wife knows how to make a pie.
I am not ashamed of it.
But this Washington, this is in the Washington Post.
Morbid obesity is a disability.
Employers should start treating it that way.
You'll be made to care about fat people too.
First, I mean they're gonna tax them on their eggs, they're gonna drive up the cost of the eggs.
They're gonna make Catholic charities cover things that the Catholics don't want to cover, they're gonna make employers cover The costs of the morbidly obese.
Not say that there's something you can do to change your life.
I could have turned down that slice of pizza in that beer the other day.
Or not eaten that slice of it.
They were really good.
It was worth it to me.
But you know, m the morbidly obese now.
It it's a medical condition.
And let me just read this.
It is clear to me, writes who is this person?
Helen Leahy.
It is clear to me that morbid obesity is often a disability irrelevant of the cause.
Irrelevant of the cause.
They're gonna make you care about these things.
The left is ever encroaching on your liberty, on the liberty of employers.
And now they're doing that tactic.
They embed into places, and then from the inside tell you how bad it is.
I guarantee you, so there's the the New York Times is crying foul over police behavior.
Citations for traffic violations fell by ninety-four percent during the the time frame of December 20th to December 30th, 2013, compared to the same period now.
Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination plunged, even parking violations lunch.
Now here's the thing.
The New York Times, the left, which routinely says we are an over policed, overmilitarized police society.
They're actually complaining that crime is down in New York City.
Because the police aren't doing that.
They want to have it both ways and all of these things.
All of these stories, they are different stories from different outlets about different topics, but they all involve the same thing.
The left wants their way, and they will get it through dishonesty, they'll get it through mendacity, they'll get it any way they can.
They will get it through embedding in organizations and then writing exposes about how terrible they are.
They will write attacks on the police, saying the police are doing their job too well, they're doing their job too efficiently, they're arresting too many people.
And then when they stop doing it, instead of saying, hey, crime went down, I bet they'll one day give De Blasio credit for crime going down in New York City during that period.
But right now, they're saying, It's those police.
They refuse to do their job, the very job we hate them for doing.
They will get their way no matter what they the only thing that stands between them and completely corrupting and collapsing this country are you, me, and a handful of conservatives in Congress willing to fight.
We gotta send them reinforcements.
Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbo.
We'll be back with your calls in just a minute.
People are sending me now by email pictures of the screenshot of the Williamson Uma catalog chicken coop.
I guess if they're switching the deer, God, those things are expensive.
Go get yourself some chicken wire and learn how to nail some nails, people.
My goodness gracious.
Just amazing.
All right.
I I want to go to Caleb Bonham now.
And I I'm Caleb, look, I'm I'm sorry I didn't tell people before we got out of break that you were coming.
And I saw this story the other day on your site, and I wanted to uh talk about it then, and now here we are, and this is uh you're talking about Daniel May is it May L. Yeah, Daniel Maul.
Daniel Maul, yeah, at Brandeis University.
I just I find these stories so fascinating, Caleb.
And by the way, folks, uh sorry for the interesting campusreform.org is Caleb's site.
And he's got the story about the student.
Caleb, you probably better explain it.
You know it better than me.
Yeah, so uh Campus Reform is uh Project of the Leadership Institute, and we work on exposing, you know, bias and abuse on campus from liberals and and uh and we were reporting on what the you know liberals are doing uh at our institutions of higher learning.
And and this is a crazy story.
So after the tragedy um, you know, in New York City, when the two police officers were assassinated, execution style.
This this uh, you know, arrogant little um liberal uh decides she's going to tweet out that she has no sympathy for the NYPD officers who are murdered today.
She says she starts uh, you know, talking about in her tweet how she's laughing her little butt off, uh, and that she doesn't have any sympathy with cops that are shot, and that this is a racist country.
Okay.
So all that's that's the the beginning of the story.
Well, the the good folks over at Truth Revolt and Daniel Mall uh found us.
Daniel is uh is a little rabble rouser over at Brandeis University, and he started the report on on her tweets because she's a student leader.
She is a uh undergraduate department representative, which means she trains up and coming, as Rush would say, young little skulls full of mush uh that are coming up.
So she's training these young students.
And she's tweeting that out.
So he simply writes a report on her tweets, because those are highly offensive, highly inflammatory, outrageous remarks.
And this is where it gets interesting.
Then the whole university, not the whole university community, but many of the liberal activists on campus.
And Brandeis is well known for its liberal activists.
Right.
Start getting outraged at at uh at the comments.
Not the comments of Miss Lynch, this young woman who tweeted out this anti-cop rhetoric, but at Daniel Maul for tweeting or for reporting on this.
And they start giving him threats.
They start uh a petition to get him uh the university to have him held accountable for his slander, which I think is hilarious because it was written, not spoken.
Young fool young skulls full of mush, you don't know what the word slander actually means.
Exactly.
And uh and so they they're tweeting out that uh and I quote from the change.org petition, which if any of you guys are uh are interested, you gotta go to campus reform.org and check out this change.org uh petition.
They say that this is libel.
This is defamation of character.
They they do say it's libel because they corrected themselves eventually.
Uh defamation of character.
This is cyberbullying.
This should not be condoned.
Cyberbullying, yeah.
So so hold you i highlighting her own words as cyberbullying.
Exactly.
Reporting on her talking about how she has no sympathy for cops that were literally lined up, execution style, and brutally assassinated.
It's outrageous.
The the petition finishes with this.
And this is what we see here at campus reform all the time.
How liberals are um rising up on campus.
They say that that the Brandeis University administration really needs to realize that this is selective belit belittling of the girl that sent these tweets out.
Selective belittle.
Eric, you want to know what selective belittling is?
Selective belittling is calling out two cops that were just murdered and claiming that you have no sympathy for them and that this is a racist country, and that essentially that they deserve to die.
That's selective belittling.
That is horrible.
And Daniel Mall should be commended for his reporting and the work that he's doing.
Now I read somewhere I thought that that even faculty were upset with this guy daring to point this stuff out.
Well, you have the the whole uh Brandeis University faculty seems to have their their ideology all you know messed up because they're the same university there was uh going to be giving the the um honorary degree to um her ziali, the the feminist activist that is supporting uh fem uh uh women's rights in the Middle East.
Oh, we can't have that.
Because you know, she came out with anti-Muslim remarks when she's talking about the real war on women.
Um yeah, the university administrators were calling for him to be held accountable and and all that sort of stuff, and it it showed how to do it.
This goes exactly to what I I've been talking about here.
That they they want to make you care about these things.
And if you care the wrong way, they want to drive you from the public square, deny you your first amendment rights, hound you out of your job, hound you out of your school.
Uh they will abide they said dissent was patriotic when George Bush was president, and now if you dare to sit from the liberal zeitgeist, they want to shut you up, shut you down, or drive you away.
Exactly.
And that's why we're seeing such um I think division in the national level of of politics is because we're seeing a new generation of American citizens rise up, those that have been taught uh through our institutions that you know America is to blame for pretty much all the the world's problems, that America is a racist country, that America is an unfair and unequal uh country.
And so when it gets to that level, it's because of what they're being taught at the campus level.
It's uh I mean, you got great institutions like Hillsdale out there that that Rush and I love, and and you got uh conservatives on some campuses, and uh they want to make us be fearful and whatnot.
Look, Caleb, I got a hard break coming up, but tell Martin Black while I said hi.
Campus Reform and Leadership Institute are just I dearly love both organizations.
I was trained when I became a political consultant by the Leadership Institute, uh fine folks, and this is just such a good story, indicative of these people hounding good people out of the public square for daring to speak up and highlight uh just the the demeaning just awfulness of the left.
They will make you care.
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There's a report from Amanda Myers at the Associated Press.
They're directly relevant to uh what Caleb Bonham and I were talking about, uh Caleb from campus reform.
The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56% this year, and included 15 ambush deaths.
Now, they quickly note in the second sentence gun-related police officer deaths remain far below historic highs, lower than the national average figures of the past decade.
But there certainly does seem to be a trend here, doesn't there?
By the way, in 2011, 73 officers were killed in gunfire, the most in any year in the past decade.
Wow.
Notice they don't know.
If this if it was happened during the Bush administration, you know they would tie it into the Bush administration.
But since it's happened during the Obama administration, they're not tying it into him.
Chipotle, you know, the overrated fast food chain.
Uh it's two chief executives have had to apologize to New York City police officers who were greeted by a restaurant employee making the hands up don't shoot gesture.
Hands up, don't shoot.
That never happened by the left is good at creating these mythologies, and let's not let the facts of police deaths and that Michael Brown never had his hands up saying don't shoot.
Let's let's not let that disrupt the situation.
And then we've got an autopsy report released Monday on a 25-year-old black man killed in confrontation with Los Angeles police.
It appears, based on the autopsy, that in fact he had struggled with the police officers leading to a close range shooting, but let's not let the facts of that struggle get in the way of hysteria over the police.
You know, Crowdhammer was on, I guess it was on special report the other day on Fox.
Said it looks more and more like we've got a war on police than a war on anything else.
The left tells us all the time, all the time, that if we just if we keep saying all this bad stuff, well, bad stuff is gonna happen.
They tell Republicans all the time, if you keep saying all these terrible things about the president, well, of course people are gonna hate him and they're gonna wish him harm and and do something.
You know what?
If the logic applies there, does the logic not apply to police officers?
You you drum up all these stories about police officers innocently gunning down people.
And guess what?
People take out there's another story about a kid who put up on on some social media site a picture.
Here it is, yeah.
Montre Tolliver, 17, arrested Monday for terroristic threats.
He posted a photo online of a replica gun pointed at a police car with the caption reading in part, should I do it?
I mean, it seems like it's open season on the police.
Now, I I want to say something here that some of you might not like, but I I feel like it needs to be said that there are bad cops.
And there are innocent people who have run afoul of cops who did nothing wrong.
I'm here in Atlanta.
There's a black minister here in Atlanta, LeCraig Crump, who's married to a white lady who has on more than one occasion been pulled over as the police go up to her to make sure she's not being held hostage.
Good people.
Things happen.
It's we shouldn't be painting classes of people.
We should, as conservatives, be focused on the individuals.
But this I I cannot tolerate, though, and I'm I'm seeing conservative libertarian types wanting to paint very broad brushes against the police in general.
They're there to protect and serve.
And if you're going to guess what, you you you, the media want to go out and paint every police officer or somehow bad.
Every police officer is somehow corrupt, and that in your storytelling is what you're doing.
You're painting with such broad brushes.
And now you're you're ringing your hands and say, Oh, we can't believe people are going out gunning down police officers.
Well, why don't you tell the great stories about what police are doing?
Why don't you focus on some of that too?
Focus on the police helping.
When I was here this past Friday, there was the story about the guy whose car was stolen with all his Christmas presents.
It was the police officer who took the report who came back with other police and firefighters and basically bought all the presents for the family's Christmas.
Those stories don't get told enough.
Saying everything here is negative.
We don't hear a good word about Barack Obama.
I mean, I here's a great word for Barack Obama.
He spends his time on the golf course, and every moment on the golf course is less of a moment of him to screw up the country.
There's a kind word for him.
Does the same not apply to the police?
Does the same not apply to the military?
I the the logic there, I guess, escapes them.
All right, let's go back to the phones.
Tim in Salem, Oregon.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Eric Erickson, and I'm glad that you're with me.
Hi, Eric.
I've wanted to ask this question forever.
And I'll give you a couple of examples.
The first one is what is the definition of low information voters?
Yeah, look.
51% of reg registered or eligible voters don't vote.
Are they low information?
A number of them are.
If you uh know or you're informed and you don't take action or you low information.
And the last one.
If you're a legislator and you can't create options, if you can't associate cause and effect on your low information.
They've never heard anybody define it.
Well, look, uh let's let's say of those who don't vote, there are some out there who have become so deeply cynical because of the information they have.
They've just set it out.
They've decided uh pox on both their houses.
I'm not voting for any of you, Yahoos, I'm gonna stay home.
Uh, and I don't know that we can define those as low information voters.
I will tell you, uh as Rush defines low information voters, and he's uh better at defining these things than anybody else.
They are the people who they sit at home and they get their news from People Magazine and from Entertainment Tonight and ABC C B S N B C from their local newscasts that are focused on the celebrity of the here and now.
They they focus on like Miley Cyrus.
Okay, I've got a nine-year-old Tim, and when I guess last year when she was eight, we're driving home, and she told me we needed to pray for Miley Cyrus.
She goes to a Christian private school.
I asked her why do we need to pray for Miley Cyrus?
And my daughter just matter of factly said, I'm pretty sure she's with the devil.
So now there's a report out over the weekend that Myrley Cyrus got on Instagram and exposed herself on Instagram in the name of women being able to roam the countryside topless.
The low information voters are the people who follow Miley Cyrus' Instagram and take her as gospel truth.
Uh and then they go out and they vote for Barack Obama because that they found out that someone like that wants to do that.
They the the insanity of that position anyway is absurd.
Now, there are also low information members of Congress.
And we should address that side of the equation as well.
There are low information members of Congress who take as gospel what they get from their lobbyist friends on K Street and from leadership and don't actually pay attention to what they're voting for.
They they don't sit back and listen to their constituents.
Those are the low information members of Congress, and we should spend as much time trying to clean up that mess as we try to educate low information voters.
That, my friends, by the way, is why I believe Rush Limbaugh will never be out of a job and will never go away.
Because there will always be low information voters who need to hear the siren call of truth.
And the golden EIB microphone is about the only place they're going to get the God's Honest Truth from these days.
The media's not going to give it to them.
They're going to go with the entertainment celebrity story, and that's that too is the truth.
Eric Erikson in for Rush.
We'll be back.
Welcome back, Eric Erikson, filling in behind, well, it's not I'm in Atlanta, so I don't have the golden EIB microphone.
Maybe one day when I get good enough to play golf and go to the Southern Command.
In any event, you're listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Patrick Howley over the Daily Caller has a report.
Another Jonathan Gruber video or audio has surfaced.
President Obama's health care advisor Jonathan Gruber said that the Affordable Care Act would definitely not be affordable while he was writing the bill with the White House as Gruber continues to withhold documents while he awaits a call back for more testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the new year.
More shocking information is coming to light.
Gruber said that Obamacare had no cost controls in it and would not be affordable in an October 2009 policy brief presented exclusively by the Daily Caller.
At the time, Gruber had already personally counseled Obama and served on Obama's presidential transition team, even though Obama, meanwhile, was telling Americans their premiums would go down.
So no cost controls.
By the way, Gruber, guess what he said?
The only way to control costs.
What was it?
Effectively deny treatment.
Come on, friends.
Two words.
Say it with me.
Death panels.
Yes.
Oh, and then they go nuts when you say it.
I can hear the left screaming right now.
No.
Mordor right now is in complete conniption fit that we just use the words death panel.
Thank you, Sarah Palin, for defining that force.
And it's true.
You gotta deny, you've got to deny coverage.
You've got to let people die.
You gotta let them get sick.
That's the only way to cover costs in Obamacare.
Ultimately, is to deny people coverage.
You're sick, you're old, just get used to the sound.
Getting getting gunning.
Instead it's gonna be like a pulling the plug.
Boo.
Yeah, that sound.
That's the one you want to get used to.
I mean, they they're just they're gonna let people die.
They're going to deny people health care.
If Obamacare plays out, if the Republicans don't stop it, ultimately that's where we'll go to.
Death panels.
Now the left flies into hysteric rage, and the reason the left flies into hysteric rage over it is because it's true.
They have no way to rebut it, so the only way they can try to rebut it is to generate the sound and fury of the forces of Mordor coming to attack you, opening the black gates to storm out and surround Western civilization and collapse the free enterprise and private sector and shut us all up for daring to point out what they've done.
And the question is, will the Republicans rally and stop it?
That to me, I think is the big issue here.
I mean, the the left flies into hysteric rage over this stuff.
It's so real.
Jason in Tulsa, Oklahoma, let's go back to the phones.
Welcome, Jason.
How are you?
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Eric.
Great show.
Always love listening to you.
You're a great voice for the right.
We really appreciate you.
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Although I I gotta tell you, I really I've got like a face for radio and a voice for print, but I appreciate you listening.
I always enjoy listening to you.
But I got a question for you.
Um kind of about consequences.
With um, you know, Michael Brown's father saying, you know, burn this down, and then last weekend having Eric Garner's daughter put out on Facebook the home addresses of all the policemen that responded to that scene.
Are there any consequences to that for anybody?
Um, or are they just free to do that?
Can you can they just be that?
I mean, that just boggles my mind that there are no consequences to things like that.
Well, there are consequences for things like that, Jason, but you've got to be a conservative or Republican.
Is that the key?
Yeah, that's the key.
If you're a conservative or Republican, the media will burn you down.
But if you're a Democrat, a liberal, you can play with it.
Yeah, look, uh the victimized society, the media has winners and losers, and the winners can never be conservatives, can never be small government.
When it comes to stuff like this, they're just they're victims.
And they're just slashing out because they're victims, and we've got to give them a pass.
It really is staggering to me that the media incentivizes this stuff and then does these hand-wringing exposes about how it's others who have incentivize.
It's not the media.
No, no, they have clean hands.
They're just telling the story when they're whipping people into a frenzy.
Yes, for those of you who don't know, if you haven't heard the story, uh, What Jason is talking about, Mike Brown's stepdad wanted people to burn the place down, burn Ferguson down.
Eric Garner's daughter put out the home information of police officers.
Not only that, you know, De Blasio, his wife's chief of worked for Al Sharpton.
He had to quietly let her go because her, I don't know if she's married or not, husband, partner, significant other and and child.
Their Twitter, yeah, okay.
Their Twitter accounts were.
The the the boyfriend, yeah, okay.
And they were putting stuff on Twitter.
Um harassing, just cheering on the the harassment of the cops.
Yes.
And they they let it go.
The media lets it go.
They don't hold that side accountable.
Does it take the death of a policeman?
Is that what it takes?
Apparently not.
I mean, we we've got two dead police officers and the street the attacks keep going.
That's true.
That's true.
I don't know what it takes.
You know, I I think what it's going to take, honestly, don't do I even do I say let me let me say I don't hope I hope it doesn't come to this.
For those who want to attack me for saying what I'm about to say, I hope it doesn't come to this.
But I think if the police officers do stop doing their job and New York goes to anarchy, then maybe they'll realize they do have to have a police force.
I hope that doesn't happen.
In fact, that's the commendable thing of these police officers in New York.
Despite the lamentations of the New York Times and the left, uh these police officers, two of their colleagues get gunned down, they show up at the funerals, but there are a lot of police who can't show up at the funeral because they're out working the beat doing their jobs while everyone else can go to the funerals.
They are good people and collector are bad individuals in every organization, but we should not tar and feather the police in general, and that the left, the media is willing to turn a blind eye to this and let it go and not hold those people accountable for harassment and incitement.
It really it shouldn't boggle my mind because it's par for the course with them, but it really does.
It's just it's profoundly disappointing.
Uh sometimes, though, it's good that you realize there really are two teams and they're not on the same side at all.
Eric Erickson here, Infor Rush Limbo.
We'll be back.
Welcome back, Eric Erikson Infrarus Limbo.
John Ward, he's a reporter in Washington, senior political correspondent for Yahoo News on his Twitter account.
He tweeted out, well, let me read you his tweet just so you know.
Uh so Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, and Scalise himself basically implicitly acknowledged Steve Scalise, knew who he was talking to in 2002.
Um that that's John Ward's tweet, three statements.
But uh the interesting thing to me is that Boehner and McCarthy have released statements they're standing by Steve Scalise.
They think this will blow over.
And again, as I said, it is not the media.
We shouldn't be hijacked by the media Democrat machine over who we can have in leadership.
I just I would personally like the Republican leaders in Washington to hold themselves to the same standards they hold all the other Republicans to, all the other conservatives too.
If if if Ted Cruz, Louis Gulmert, Tim Hules Camp had had done something like this, how quickly would they rally around them and release statements of support?
I I just I wonder.
I'm deeply skeptical of it, but it wasn't them, it was a Republican leader.
Uh and so they will hold themselves to a different standard.
Folks, I am out of time.
I believe Buck Secton's gonna be in tomorrow.
I'll be back on Friday for rush.
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