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Jan. 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Live from New York City.
It's open line Friday.
Thank you very much.
Welcome.
It is Eric Erikson filling in, not exactly behind the golden EIB microphone, but on the EIB network for Rush Limbaugh, who will be back on Monday.
Thank you for having me.
Happy New Year to you.
And, you know, being that guy.
Merry Christmas to you.
There's still a few more days of the Christmas season left.
So I hope you had a great New Year.
I was smoking Boston butts and chickens and cooking and having people over.
I hope you had a good time.
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I want to begin by congratulating Republican governors.
This is big news that no one has paid attention to.
This is actually probably the biggest news of the millennium so far.
And no one has paid attention to it.
And I do mean it is the biggest news of the millennium.
As far as I know, no one has reported it, but I need to congratulate Republican governors from Chris Christie to Rick Scott to Rick Perry across the nation.
Congratulations to Republican governors for your immortality.
Not immorality, immortality.
They apparently live forever, Republican governors.
I I woke up, well, went to bed last night, and news of Mario Cuomo dying hit the wires, and this morning looking at the news and Twitter and stuff, apparently Republican governors live forever.
Because I've never seen any coverage like they're giving to Mario Cuomo.
So I I can only presume that Republican governors must just not die.
I mean, the amount of coverage they're giving to a governor of New York.
Now part of it is some of the media, like the New York Times, is the New York Times.
But the rest of them falling all over themselves.
The last time they covered a governor in this way, it was Ann Richards from Texas.
So, I mean, they do this to Democratic governors across the board.
I I just I've come to the conclusion Republican governors must live forever, and no one has reported that fact.
I mean, they are a Morio Cuomo.
He's a great speaker.
Now look.
Let's let's get this out of the way, lest people accuse me of being a cold hearted person.
I mean, prayers and sympathy to the Cuomo family.
Uh the governor of New York, Governor Cuomo, the present one, was sworn in six hours before his father died.
He he knew it was happening.
Uh that's got to be rough to lose your father.
It does.
The media coverage of it, though, look, he was the great liberal hope.
That's why the media is covering this as much as it is.
The great liberal hope.
And everything that these liberals are writing about is him.
In his speeches, he was a brilliant order.
He was also, by all accounts, I I don't know a person who encountered Morio Cuomo.
He didn't say he was a very nice guy to them.
I'm sure those people are out there.
He's yelled at someone before, but by all accounts he was seemingly a very nice guy to people he encountered out there.
But he wasn't a great governor.
He had four terms, longest serving governor of New York.
He was eventually thrown out by a Republican who had the audacity to campaign on restoring the death penalty and lowering taxes on New Yorkers.
Cuomo was an indecisive figure.
They're not going to tell you about that.
They hinted it in the New York Times, but most of them are they're fawning portrayals.
Liberals are very good at not telling you about the nature of man, but telling you about the nature of what they pretend man is.
Individual men.
That's what they do.
Fred Dicker, the Washington or the New York Post has this story out.
He covered Cuomo for 20 years.
Cuomo was Secretary of State, Lieutenant Governor, Governor covered him for three news organizations.
And he said it was a strange, infuriating and ultimately tragic experience to nearly all who knew Morio Cuomo well.
He was an underachieving enigma, brilliant yet indecisive, accomplished as a lawyer yet riddled with self-doubt as a politician, and initially Popular governor who was initially in eventually booted from office for failing to use that popularity to lead New York in a direction that would have made this a better state.
He's I mean, kudos to Fred Dicker for going against the prevailing wisdom of the day.
Now look, I'm a firm believer in not speaking ill of the dead.
I really do believe that.
But it is worth noting that the media is not going to give a well-rounded picture of Morio Cuomo because he was the great liberal hope before Barack Obama was.
He was Bill Clinton was a centrist compared to Mario Cuomo, and liberals wanted Cuomo to run.
There was this very, very famous scene where Cuomo had had these private jets parked on the runway, waiting for him to get in to fly off to New Hampshire to qualify for the election to run for president ninety minutes before qualifying closed in New Hampshire.
He came out and had a press conference and said, Oh, it's budget negotiations in New York.
I can't run for president.
He he dithered, waited, and lost his chance.
And because he lost his chance, this is really important.
This explains so much of the coverage of Mario Cuomo today.
Because Cuomo did not run for president.
He remained the great liberal hope.
Barack Obama became the great liberal hope, but it's blown up in his face.
So the left can now go back to the dream of Mario Cuomo because they've seen Barack Obama, the great liberal hope, just I mean, implode.
So they go back to Cuomo.
Here's the other thing.
And I've looked at all these reports today.
It was ninety-two.
And they wanted Cuomo to run.
They were desperate for Cuomo to run.
Because he was running against George H.W. Bush, president of the United States, who at the time, if you will remember your history, at the time he had a virtual 90% approval rating, having won the Gulf War.
Now later the economy tanked, and Bush seemed caught off guard and made a number of missteps and his popularity tanked, and Clinton came on the scene, this redneck Yahoo from from Arkansas, who even the press was making double wide jokes about and eventually became the herald figure of the left.
And then he turned into a centrist and did welfare reform, and so they had to go back and fought over Cuomo, and maybe he'll run this time.
The left relies on its mythology.
Mario Cuomo was a fine and decent person.
He is being heralded by much of the media not because of what he did, but because of what the media dreamed he would do.
He gave speeches.
Fred Dicker noted, he gave two speeches that put him on the national stage.
Ronald Reagan called the United States a shining city on a hill, and like a good liberal Mario Cuomo had to stand before the Democrats and tell them, no, actually, America's garbage.
We're a two, we're divided, a tale of two cities, rich and poor, divided as ever.
By the way, that division has grown under Barack Obama.
He had to talk down Reagan's accomplishments in order to build up a vision of liberalism that he, by the way, wasn't able completely to enact in New York because of his economy.
He was never able to raise taxes the way he wanted to.
Oh, he raised them, but not the way he wanted.
He was able to block the death penalty, but it eventually came back.
The Mario Cuomo that you're hearing about in the media today is the Mario Cuomo of liberal reporters' dreams.
And it is interesting that the way the media does these things, the way the press does these things.
With the death of the great liberal hope, Mario Cuomo, and again, a fine, fine, nice guy.
Who he was by all accounts a good family man.
He was very kind to people.
But he had all sorts of problems you won't hear about in the media today.
Yes, yeah, yeah, Edgosh, yes.
Yes, that's another story there.
Yes.
There's an interesting juxtaposition between Cuomo and the Gallup polling today.
Cuomo was a guy who wanted to campaign on what government can do for you.
Cuomo believed in a liberal state, but they're calling him progressive today.
Isn't that interesting?
Cuomo wasn't afraid to use the word liberal to describe himself.
Cuomo was a liberals liberal.
He was not afraid of the word liberal.
He lamented that people made liberal a dirty word.
They're calling him a progressive today because guys like Rush Limbaugh have successfully made liberal the dirty word everyone now recognizes it as.
Cuomo was a liberal, and he wanted to be called a liberal.
And he wanted to advocate for an aggressive activist government to do for you what he believed you were incapable of doing for yourself.
Or that government could do for you those things that would just inconvenience you.
Government was the panacea.
And the media loved it.
You see, I have been working in the media.
Now, first at CNN for a number of years at Fox now, dealing with reporters a lot.
I'm in the media, not of the media, I like to like to tell people.
And something I've seen is there's a divide among the liberals of the press, and then the overwhelming majority of them are liberal.
But the bulk of them, and this will help you understand what you're reading in the newspaper, trust me on this.
The bulk of them are liberals.
In fact, a liberal left wing sites are now the the farms farming out reporters into the big leagues.
I mean, they're the minor leagues, these left-wing sites, and they get these good liberals and they embed them within mainstream journalism to help shape stories.
They're not interested in facts.
They want to shape stories.
But there's another contingent of liberals.
And they're the good government press.
They believe government should be an agent for good and should improve people's lives.
Either way, conservatives lose because conservatives believe government should get out of our way.
Government should leave us alone.
Government should let us do.
Now the good government guys, they often sound like liberals, but they put working government, they just want government to do stuff ahead of their actual socialist liberal tendencies.
It's hard sometimes to balance between the two, but they're both there.
And Morio Cuomo, he pulled at their heartstrings.
He sang siren songs of what government can do for you.
And today that they are praising Morio govern Cuomo government, I almost said.
Mario Cuomo, they're praising him like they praised Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, when she died.
They are praising him in a way they would never, ever, ever do to any Republican governor.
Because most of the Republican governors want to let you live your life instead of government living your life for you.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back.
Welcome back, Eric Erikson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook, by the way, at EW Erickson, E W E R I C K S O N. And feel free, as many of you have found out, I do check my email.
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Harry Reid, I saw the headline earlier on Drudge that he broke his face.
I assumed it was a metaphor for what happened in 2014.
No, he actually did.
Ribs and face.
Good lord.
My wife broke her ribs last July.
She chuckles only slightly about it now.
She heard my mother-in-law yelling outside, and she thought something had happened to one of the kids who were both sitting comfortably in my lap as I read them a story.
She ran outside, tripped over a toy, fell on a rock, broke her ribs.
Painful.
There's nothing you can do every time you breathe, it hurts, and they can't rapid and stuff.
I mean, it's like Harry Reid is suddenly gonna feel what the rest of the nation has felt the last six years under Obama and Harry Reed.
I just oh, prayers for him.
Awful injury.
Awful, awful thing.
I mean, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, and of all the people I don't particularly care for life, Harry Reese.
He's on the list, but he's not not at the top of it.
Ugh.
There is all these metaphors with Cuomo dying.
By the way, someone just pointed out on Twitter that there's got to be a new great liberal hope.
I'm betting on Elizabeth Warren.
I'm thinking the media, all of the glowing hagiography of Mario Cuomo is going to be placed on her, not Hillary Clinton.
They will.
But at the same time, there's an underlying issue here.
Trust in government.
Which makes that interesting juxtaposition with Mario Cuomo, the great liberal hope of what government can do for you so you don't have to do it for yourself dying.
People don't trust government anymore.
It is a big issue in the Gallup Hole.
In fact, for the first time, it is the biggest issue.
The Washington is the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times has this story.
Yeah, the Washington Times dissatisfaction with government.
Topped the list for Americans of most important problems facing the country for the first time in Gallup Records, also marking the first time since 2007.
The economy was not the top ranking issue.
Folks, as we head towards 2016, this is a big issue.
I think I think this is probably the biggest issue.
In 2008 and 2012, Republicans had presidential candidates running who basically made the case of I'll make government more efficient.
I'll make government help you.
I will get government in such a position that you can succeed with the government's help.
People don't trust the government.
I mean, that was ultimately what did in Morio Cuomo was people stopped trusting the government of New York and they swept him out.
He was never able to recover.
With with people's distrust in government growing, Cuomo was swept out to see.
Now ironically, the news comes out the day Cuomo died.
People really distrust government greatly.
There's a vast undercurrent of discontent.
And it's made worse by both parties.
Let's just let's be real here.
Let's keep our intellectual honesty.
It's not just Democrats.
Eric Cantor got beat this past, I guess, March by his Republican challenger in the primary.
And Cantor had put up a website while he was the House majority leader on what government can do to make your life better.
How government can help people.
What government can do.
Well, Cannor got beat.
Didn't think he could get beat, and he got beat badly.
People distrust government.
I don't know what needs to happen for the Republicans to get this.
As we head into 2016, you're gonna have a bunch of people coming out saying that they're they're gonna be the next Reagan.
We need to be the bold leaders with the bold vision.
I don't want them to tell me they're gonna be optimists.
I I don't want them to tell me they're gonna be like Reagan.
I want them to show me.
Show me they're gonna run again in 2020.
What's your vision for 2020?
Not with 2020 hindsight, but with 2020 foresight.
What's the country gonna look like as you head into your second term campaign if you were to win in 2016?
What will the nation look like?
What vision do you have?
And that vision needs to be the American people should be empowered to do for themselves what they can.
This distrust of government is something that the Republicans can use to their advantage in 2016.
People want government out of their lives.
They want the corruption of Washington out of their lives.
That should be something all these Republican candidates make a play for come 2016.
They need to do that.
It's what the country demands at this moment.
They gotta, well, they gotta do something, I think.
I've in fact I've got a syndicated column nationally on that issue today, and I I make that case.
What is your vision going to be like?
Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, there's report out Rubio's coming, Ted Cruz will probably be announcing soon.
There's news out Carly Fiorina, uh formerly of HP and then did something with the RNC or what have you.
She may be running for president.
What's your vision?
I I'm really and I I don't want this to sound heretical, please.
Bear with me here.
I'm tired of Republicans saying we're going to be like Reagan.
Not that I don't want another Reagan.
It's just these guys that they they concoct an image of what they think Reagan was, and then they try to defend it, and then they rally their forces and say, Oh, yeah, Reagan, he would have supported this.
No, just tell me what you're going to do to get government out of my life.
That's what I want.
This plays into another story as well.
The growing distrust of the police, and now it's almost a war on police.
We've got in the press and others, and it all plays in this distrust of government that as we start the new year as consumers, when we come back, a lot of stories about what's happening with police out there, you should know about.
Eric Erickson in for Rush.
Welcome back.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I have some news for you.
The top of the next hour.
Uh there's some polling out that shows among Republicans, a pretty solid number of them would very much like a new speaker of the House of Representatives.
They don't particularly care for John Boehner.
And in fact, there, as I said the other day, I was aware it was made known to me, and uh that there seem to be twenty-five members of the House of Representatives, Republicans who are thinking they will vote not for John Boehner.
They'll vote for someone else.
They need 29 to stop John Boehner from being speaker, in effect to veto him.
Uh Jim Breidenstein of Oklahoma, one of the congressmen, he had pledged to support Boehner and is now not.
And he's gonna join me at the top of the next hour to explain w what persuaded him otherwise.
Louis Golmer, Congressman from Texas, going to join me as well to talk about this polling.
And we got a lot of news on Obamacare that's not getting covered.
We got a lot of that stuff.
Distrust a government day, I guess you could say.
It's also an open line Friday, so we'll be taking your phone calls.
In fact, I want to start as we begin taking phone calls with Tony in Bakewell, Tennessee.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, Tony.
Hello, Eric.
How are you today?
I'm good.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
I uh we have found our next Reagan.
Uh and and the key is is he's not out there telling us he's the next Reagan.
He's just out there doing it, and that's Scott Walker.
Scott Walker is definitely I some people are calling him a dark horse.
I don't know how he can be a dark horse having just won a second term in Wisconsin, uh a very liberal state and did so as a conservative.
That's it's gonna be interesting to see if he runs for president.
I guess he's I suspect he's going to, Tony.
Well, I hope he does.
Uh if he doesn't this time, I understand, but uh he's he's definitely a contender for some time in the future.
Well, and you know, that's interesting that that you put it this way, because if a Republican wins in 2016, that puts him out of the game until 2024, he'd be out of office uh for a significant period of time after that.
So he's kind of got a root run now or or run at least for vice president.
In fact, I think Tony, and by the way, thanks very much for the phone call.
I I think that's why Carly Fiorina is probably tipping her hat into the ring.
There's a report out today, it looks like Carly Fiorina, the who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in California.
She's never been elected office.
She she wants to run for president.
I suspect it's more the vice presidential process that she's running.
One thing Tony said that I think we should keep in mind here is not telling us but doing.
You know, let's let's show us what you've done as opposed to telling us what you think you've done or will do.
Alan in Chicago, Illinois.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Good morning, uh Central Time.
I'm doing great.
You know, uh I'm a lifelong libertarian.
I was a member of the Libertarian Committee here in Illinois.
I said a long time ago, what I want is the philosophy.
I want the ideas to survive.
I don't care who the person is, the carrier.
I'm a big fan of Rand Paul, but I want to see libertarianism brought more and more, and it's only going to come in the Republican Party.
It will never live in the uh liberal Democratic Party.
And you see more of it.
Reagan, in my mind, was very much a libertarian, and I think that's a message that appeals to young voters, and that's where the Republican Party has to go.
It has to go after the younger uh because you know, let's face it, ten years, twenty years from now, they won't be young voters.
They'll be middle age, they'll be older voters who will understand the idea of self reliance and self-control.
You know, uh I didn't uh, you know, I hate the idea that I didn't build that business.
Yes, I did.
I worked for many years building a business.
Society may have helped me, but I was the architect of what of my own success, and that's something I think is an idea I would like to see presented and followed through by Republicans.
You know, Alan, it was Reagan who said that libertarianism was the the underlying current of the of conservatism, uh a foundation of conservatism, and I think there's a lot to that.
The self-reliance, the let government let me do it myself bit.
I don't know that in the past eight years we've had a lot of Republicans who have been willing to embrace that.
In fact, uh I said in my my column today, Romney, when he ran in 2012, he won the heart and soul of the chief executive officers of the country.
He I mean that the business leaders of this country, they gravitated to Romney.
Meanwhile, he lost the election and lost on the question of who cares for me.
I think people are starting to realize that when government cares for you, it winds up being badly for you.
The whole thing blows up in your face when you rely on government to care for you as opposed to you caring for yourself or your family or even your local community.
And we do need that.
Now, whether it's Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or Rick Perry, Bobby Gendle, who you name it, the Republicans I think would be very wise to lock on to the message of you letting government get out of the way.
Not government helping you, but government getting out of the way so you can help yourself.
I it's an underappreciated message that I think we need to focus on as conservatives and get the Republican Party to it.
Democrats, you're right.
Libertarians will never be in the Democratic Party.
There was a move after 2008 by liberals to claim that there was a growing alliance between libertarians and the left.
Now many of us on the right ridiculed that, and they tried to make a plausible case, but it turned out to be the libertines, not the libertarians.
And there is a difference.
We we might as well learn it.
There is a big difference.
Those who just want to have fun with no accountability and are perfectly happy to let the government do everything, those are the libertines, and they line up very well with the liberals.
Government can subsidize their their fun.
Government can pay for their gay marriage, their pot, their abortion, everything, and they fit in fine with liberals, but they're not really libertarians who want government to get out of the way.
And we really, really need to focus on that.
Alan, thanks very much for the phone call.
One more before the break, and where I am in Atlanta, Georgia.
Welcome.
Uh thank you, Eric.
It's wonderful having you in Atlanta every day.
Thank you very much.
Um Mario Cuomo may have been a nice guy, but if I remember correctly, he did a great deal of harm.
Uh if I again, if I remembering this correctly, he gave a speech at Notre Dame in which he said that as a Catholic, he was personally opposed to abortion.
Right.
We couldn't impose that on the whole country.
And I think that did a great deal of harm, especially with the Catholic vote.
It's confusing to people.
Mario Cuomo claimed, like Nancy Pelosi and so many other liberals, to be some sort of devout Catholic, and then hid behind that declaration of being a Catholic in order to attack the Catholic Church routinely.
And not just attack the Catholic Church, but people of faith in general for their well-founded beliefs and the whole idea of how dare you impose your faith on anyone else.
Look at me.
I believe what you believe, but I'm not going to impose it on anyone.
No, he's going to impose his values on the nation.
Every law is in some way about imposing the elected person's values on everyone else.
You you find the person who represents you the best, who equates to you and your values and your worldview.
You send them to Washington and hope they'll vote that way.
And what Cuomo was saying is is hey, I believe what these conservatives believe on these social issues, wink wink nod nod, but they're just a bunch of hateful bigots.
I mean Mario Cuomo let liberalism thrive in their disdain for people who actually live their life with those values.
Maybe I shouldn't say it that way, but you know, it's true.
And thanks very much for the phone call.
Let me let me clarify myself before everybody wants to blow me up on this.
Cuomo let liberals say, I believe X, Y, and Z, but then go out of their way to not practice X, Y, and Z. He enabled people to reject his belief.
Which why do you believe something if you're going to make sure people can then reject it?
I that it never made sense to me, and Anna is absolutely right.
Cuomo went to Notre Dame and he gave this very famous speech about how he completely disagrees with the Catholic Church on every social teaching, but claimed to be a devout Catholic.
And it made liberals comfortable to be able to say that.
Well, this Jeremiah Wright would say the chickens are coming home to roost now.
When we get back, I want to talk a little bit about these police stories and the John Boehner polling at the top of the hour.
Eric Ericson in for us.
Welcome back.
Okay, have y'all heard about this complete side story.
Uh Sarah Palin posted a picture on her Facebook page of her six-year-old son who desperately wanted to help do the dishes.
Uh sweet little boy.
And the family dog was laying there, and he climbed up on top of the dog to help reach the dishes.
And the dog laid there and let him do it and was wagging his tail, and it clearly was not hurting the dog.
The dog clearly is a sweet dog who loves the little boy, and the left is gone nuts that animal cruelty that Sarah Palin would let her child step up on top of the dog.
I I can't take credit for this because I didn't even think of it.
Greg Pollowitz at Twitchy, just on Twitter, pointed out that the people who elected the guy who ate the dog are upset with Sarah Palin for letting her child stand on top of a dog who's wagging its tail the whole time he's on top of the dog.
Yes, hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to the left on these things.
I want to get into these stories on the police.
My buddy Ben Dominic at the Federalist, he wrote a story at the Federalist the other day.
I put it out on Twitter at E.W. Ericsson, you can see it.
Where he says his take is that we should be concerned with the police in New York City deciding to not do their job.
There was a story last week of the New York Times, they were lamenting the fact that the police are not writing people tickets.
They're not citing people for public drunkenness, they're they're not doing the things they've done in the past.
Now, my first thought is well, first maybe they were doing too much of it in the past.
Maybe we can reduce the size of the police force if it's not that big of a deal.
The larger point though, though it's first deeply ironic that the leftist lamenting the police not doing their job when for years the New York Times has been railing on the police in New York City for doing their job too well.
Dominic does raise an interesting point, though, one that I think we shouldn't be automatically dismissive of.
That the police are civilians.
And we have over time put police on a very high pedestal, and we've given them the means to be in effect a small militia when they're civilian.
They're not military.
They are us.
And for them to be us and to be the lawful protectors of society and decide we don't like the guy in charge.
That i it can create a long-term problem when those who are sworn to protect and serve decide they're only going to protect and serve if they like the guy the citizens have elected.
That does become a problem.
I mean, take, for example, the military.
The military, I think they have a 15% popularity rating for the president of the United States, and they're out every day doing their job, not slowing down.
That is the American military sworn to uphold, protect, defend the Constitution.
They recognize they may not like their commander in chief, but they they do Their job.
I understand Dominic's point.
You can read his article at the Federalist.
At the same time, this is not an on the other hand, it is just an at the same time.
I think we do also need to keep in mind.
I got a stack of stuff here of just outrageous stories of people turning on police in general.
The other day I mentioned that conservatives focus on the individual, not on the collective.
It is the left who focuses on the state, who focuses on the collective.
And a lot of rhetoric I've seen coming from conservatives lately has been about generically the police, not about individual police officers, but the police.
Painted with a very broad brush that the police are out of control.
No individual police officers may be, but not all police officers are.
In fact, the majority of them go unnoticed.
This way, by the way, it's it's one of those things where when someone is in scandal, and it just it becomes a a preacher, for example, falls into scandal, or even a member of Congress falls into scandal.
It's what stands out in my mind is that the rest of them aren't like that, but people paint with broad brushes.
There are bad police officers in the world, but they're not all bad.
In fact, the m overwhelming majority of them are very good.
At the same time, De Blasio is largely wanted a war with the police officers.
Well, he's gotten what he's wanted and it's gotten out of control with him.
He has a history of anti-police rhetoric.
There's a thing is at the New York Post today about the years de Blasio or de Blasio has spent trying to undermine the police force.
Well, looks like he's getting his way and he's not happy with the results.
Kind of like liberalism works in general.
They say all these grandiose things about what they want, they get their way and look at it.
I mean, they're finally starting to realize Obamacare is not as good as they wanted.
But he here's a here's a case in point.
Long Beach, California.
The family of a man who died after a violent confrontation with Los Angeles County deputies in Compton won an eight million dollar jury verdict.
The jurors found deputies liable for negligence and battery in the 2012 death of Darren Burley.
Now the family said deputies choke Burley after zapping him with a stun gun.
Some of you are nodding your head along right now.
Say, uh-huh, uh huh, it's the police.
Police brutality.
Just like in Vergerson, hands up, don't shoot.
The police would like to point out that Burley was high on PCP and cocaine.
The deputies were called why?
Because Burley was choking a pregnant woman.
High on PCP and cocaine, choking a pregnant woman, and had a heart attack from drug use while the police were detaining him.
But the jury in Compton gave the family an eight million dollar jury verdict.
I mean, this is an ongoing again, the left, the media, I repeat myself, they don't care about the facts.
They care about the narrative.
They care about shaping a story and they exclude the facts that don't play into the story.
And it shapes the news coverage of things.
And right now, they are intent on building a story of out of control police, that police in general, if you have a badge, you are an abuser of power, period.
And they are going out of their way to build this in the minds of the public so that it becomes harder and harder for police to get a fair trial in the country.
Eric Eriksen, in for rush, we'll be back.
You guys are not gonna want to miss the next hour.
There is polling that has come out from Pat Cadell, no less.
All Republicans, including Speaker Boehner, have in the past six years taken Pat Cadell's polling as if it was gospel.
He was Jimmy Carter's pollster, and he's been running polling for six years or so showing how the American public was turning on liberalism, how the American public was turning on Barack Obama, how the American public was turning on liberal policies.
Well, now he's got a poll out that shows Republicans are turning on John Boehner, Speaker of the House, and in fact, a great many Republicans Would prefer that someone else be Speaker.
The election for Speaker of the House will happen this coming Tuesday.
Someone has to get an absolute majority of the vote of the people named in order to become Speaker.
Now that's some complicated language.
I want to explain that to you in the next hour.
Congressman Jim Bridenstein of Oklahoma had said he was going to support John Boehner and has sh after the amnesty vote and Boehner's handling of these things, she's changed his mind and he's going to oppose John Boehner.
He's coming up at the next hour.
And then Louis Golmert, Congressman from Texas, is also going to be joining me later in the show to talk about this polling and support for Boehner and voting for or against him.
Should be a good show.
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