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March 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I guess congratulations are in order.
President Obama, Al Sharpton, Attorney General Eric Holder.
St. Louis is on fire again.
Ferguson, Missouri, couple of cops shot.
Protests.
People still think it hands up, don't shoot happened.
The Attorney General sends out this report.
Ferguson Police Department, racist.
Ferguson Police Department filled with prejudice by it.
What do they think is going to happen?
What in the world did they think was going to happen?
After all of those months of perpetuating what everybody knew was a lie, hands up, don't shoot.
They had to give the crowd something in the final report.
And they did by pointing out the Ferguson Police Department's racist.
Then the cop, the police chief, resigned.
You know why the police chief resigned in Ferguson?
It wasn't over any of that.
The Justice Department investigation found out that the police chief was working in concert with other town officials to raise money for the town by increasing traffic fine citations, which we all know or we all have suspected police departments do all over the place.
Fill the monthly quota, stop people for speeding, be a little bit more vigilant on it.
So the police chief resigns.
And we have a town on fire.
George Soros is in town.
Our Blowtorch affiliate in St. Louis, Camo X, has been saying all morning long that there are 30 different groups, if I have this right, being sponsored and paid for by George Soros in St. Louis who are conducting what are supposed to look like spontaneous protests, but they're being bought and paid for.
But I mean, what do you expect is going to happen?
I mean, ever since this event happened, we have been promulgating, not we, we've been fighting back against it.
The powers at B have been promulgating a lie.
Hands up, don't shoot, happen.
The white cops shoot black kids all the time, and this is it.
This is the last draw.
We're not going to take it anymore.
It doesn't happen.
It's not regular.
It is not something that happens.
It's not anywhere near a routine event.
It was totally manufactured as such.
The truth of this event in Ferguson has long been known, and it's long been denied because it's been used as a weapon to advance a civil rights agenda, leftist civil rights agenda.
And the truth, of course, falls by the wayside, doesn't matter, even when it's known.
People who know the truth, the highest positions of leadership, and therefore with the highest presumption of authority, respect and authority, knowingly promulgating falsehoods.
Now, what do they expect to happen after months and months and months of this?
See, Attorney General Eric Holder is out there saying he's repugnant, and they don't agree with it.
Great to have you with us, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone at 800-282-2882 in the email address, illrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Two officers shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early today as demonstrators gathered.
And again, supposedly 30 different groups bought and paid for by George Soros, Who, of course, is interested in promoting the mainstream leftist agenda, which has at its heart the desire to tear apart the fabric, the very spine of this country, the very backbone, just shred it and tear it apart.
And that's what they're doing.
That's what they're attempting to do.
I don't know why anybody is surprised.
I mean, you cannot lie to people for this long and not expect this kind of reaction.
You know, it's doubly sad, too, because now the impression is with people because it's been said in an official report from our own Department of Justice that the police department, Ferguson, and by extension, the police in America are just a bunch of racist pigs.
And the work they do and the safety that they engender, the effort they make to make it possible for everybody to go about their business, for everybody's business to stay open and not be looted, gets overrun by another myth that the cops are just a bunch of racist pigs.
I mean, it's terribly disappointing and it's devastating.
Now you've got two cops shot and there are people who wrote, well, hey, Rush, I mean, you can sit there and say all this you want, but we've got a dead kid in the street in St. Louis, too.
So a moral equivalence is drawn, tit for tat.
The problem is that vengeance never provides closure.
Everybody thinks that vengeance, revenge, is going to provide closure, and it never does.
Witness this event.
This is not going to be the end of anything.
And people are not going to think, okay, okay, maybe the gentle giant did indeed rob the store, and maybe the first thing about hands-up don't shoot wasn't true, but he didn't deserve to die either.
So two cops have been shot now, and they're going to say, slate's wiped clean.
And that's not going to happen because vengeance never provides closure.
It just doesn't.
It isn't possible.
The cops are alive.
They were conscious when they were carted away.
Here's the St. Louis County police chief John Belmar this morning in Clayton, Missouri at a press conference, a QA.
Reporter, would you consider this, what happened last night at this point, to be a random act?
Was it just a random shooting?
As much as you can plan security, if someone wants to go on a hill and shoot, is this just a random thing?
This is really an ambush, is what it is.
I mean, you know, you can't see it coming.
You don't understand that it's going to happen.
You're basically defenseless from the fact that it is happening to you at the time.
And that is something that is very difficult to guard against when you have a group of officers standing in a large group and then, you know, you have gunfire, certainly gunfire directed at them.
And Belmar, sorry, Belmar continued with this.
I'm going to be honest with you.
This is beginning at times to be very difficult for any law enforcement agency anywhere to really wrap their arms around.
I want everybody here to understand how difficult this is to do it the exact perfect way.
It's very tough.
Cops are getting fed up with being targets.
Enough of this.
Where's the condemnation?
Well, we've got a little bit of a condemnation from the Attorney General, who's retiring.
He considered it, called it a repugnant affair, a repugnant attack, and totally unwarranted and unjustified.
Yet, these are the people that knew a hands-up don't shoot didn't happen.
They knew it.
This is the height of irresponsibility.
The president, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, they all knew Hands Up Don't Shoot was dangerous.
It was a dangerous lie to perpetuate, and they did it.
They watched international sports stars wear t-shirts for the express purpose of publicizing that lie.
They watched a couple of guys, the St. Louis Rams, during player introductions prior to a game last year, walk out with the pose, hands up, don't shoot.
They did nothing to stop it.
They said, well, this is what the community thinks.
We have to recognize and respect the community attitude.
The community thinks this, the community feels this, and we must give them a wide berth and respect and understand their rage and anger.
Well, if it's fueled by untruth, why not tell them the truth?
Why not tell them the truth?
Why not tell them that Hands Up, Don't Shoot didn't happen?
But even now, they know it.
The grand jury report is out.
But you see, we've had such highly respected authority figures.
I mean, I'm going to tell you that the Department of Justice with an African-American attorney general in the White House with an African-American president is going to trump a local grand jury every day of the week in terms of respect and authority.
So the grand jury can release its information.
Everybody knows what happened.
But if the DOJ and the White House say something else, they're going to trump what a local grand jury says, just in terms of the respect that those places have, the departments, the White House and the Department of Justice.
Worse than that, they didn't do anything to stop the spread of these lies that have perpetuated these protests.
You get George Soros and people paying for these protests to continue.
And the cops become sitting ducks and targets.
And then an entirely new narrative is created about who the police are and what the police are.
And the police become the enemy.
The police become the problem.
And nobody stands in the way to stop this.
Nobody speaks up to correct it.
Not in official Washington.
So the cops were smeared.
This after Darren Wilson was attacked, after Darren Wilson was forced to defend himself, and after Darren Wilson had been entirely exonerated.
He continues to be smeared.
The cops were smeared knowingly.
See, there's blame here that extends beyond these shooters.
Those that perpetuated this hands-up, don't shoot lie need to explain why they are not part of the problem.
And everybody knows now that hands-up, don't shoot didn't happen.
It never did happen.
There was never any legitimate data to suggest it did.
It was a political movement from the get-go.
And then every investigation that was undertaken confirmed that it didn't happen.
But before the investigations began, both the grand jury in Ferguson and at the Department of Justice, before those investigations began, the lie was perpetuated.
And if the Department of Justice, you know, Eric Holder flies into St. Louis and tells people, don't sweat it.
If the locals screw this up, we're going to be here for you.
We'll make sure you get justice.
If the locals screw you again, like they always do, this was the coded message.
We run the Justice Department now and we will take care of it.
So they had created this expectation that the cop was going down.
They created the expectation that cold-blooded murder had taken place.
And then they do their exhaustive investigation and they find out not only was there no cold-blooded murder, but that Officer Wilson may, in fact, have used a little bit more restraint than he should have.
He was entirely justified.
So now they're stuck.
They have created all these expectations.
They've Essentially, they promised the community that they're going to get justice for this.
And now, what do they do?
So, they have to issue a report that exonerates the cop.
And they do it in 82 detailed, chock-filled pages, leaving no doubt.
That's not good.
That doesn't give the community what the community has been expected and what they've been led to expect.
So, they tack onto it.
By the way, this is a racist, sexist department.
And the crowd got its energy from that.
They had to get something.
They were promised, and the investigation did not deliver the goods.
So, they had to do it another way.
And that was just okay, this cop, this particular cop, this particular incident, nothing to see here.
He was entirely within his bounds.
There was no hands up, don't you?
But take Wilson out of this department.
This is a racist, biased, prejudiced department.
What do you expect is going to happen?
And it did.
We'll take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Roll right on after this.
Don't go away.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rushland Boss, serving humanity simply by showing up and being here on the EIB network in a somewhat related story.
And quite obviously, ladies and gentlemen, there is black rage in America.
I mean, it exists if it wasn't being fanned.
It exists in its own universe and by virtue of its own inertia.
And it's only going to get worse.
There's a Fox News story.
This is something, by the way, I don't expect anybody to remember, but I've been predicting this all the way back in my Sacramento days, back in the 1980s.
And I'm going to assume you have probably, because I've mentioned it a number of times, you have probably heard me discuss this.
But it's becoming, it's getting closer and closer to a reality now.
Here's the headline: NAALCP battles Latino groups over push to open public scrueles for non-English speakers.
A plan that would dedicate two public has scruples in suburban Washington to immigrants and students struggling with English is pitting black and Hispanic communities against one another.
The Prince George's County, Maryland chapter, the NAALCP, strongly opposing the plan, which would take effect in the next scruple year and cover about 800 students having English language difficulties, claiming that it'll pull resources from other students and unfairly redistribute them to Hispanic students.
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, there has been for the longest time under the surface an ongoing battle for number one minority status because the number one minority always gets the greatest share of federal money that's been redistributed, benefits, if you will.
And the NAA LCP knows that African Americans have been the number one ranking minority in the United States and as such have always had first dibs and the first claim on benefits, federal benefits.
Call them what do you go to them?
Employment benefits, welfare benefits, food stamp, whatever you want to call it, the African-American community has laid claim to number one status.
But now, and it's been going on for quite a while, but it's now surfacing in ways and becoming visible.
The Latino community, the Hispanic community, is getting closer to making an actual claim that they are the number one minority.
And this is because the record number of illegal immigrants pouring into the country and more and more of them coming in do not speak English.
And as such, there are many strikes against them.
It's simply unfair that so many newly arrived future Democrat voters don't speak English and therefore can't fill out the forms to get federal benefits.
And so the government must take steps to see to it that they become educated in English.
And they are taking money that the NAALCP considers to be its and reallocating it to newly arrived illegal immigrant Hispanics.
And this is setting up and causing quite a lot of friction.
As it says here in Prince George's County, Maryland, the NAA LCP chapter there strongly opposes the plan to open two public schools for non-English-speaking students that would take effect next year, cover about 800 students having English language difficulties.
The NAA LCP says that that's going to pull resources from other students and unfairly redistribute them to Hispanic students.
And some critics go so far as to compare the plan to segregation.
The NAA LCP is on the verge of charging segregation because money they consider to be theirs as the number one deserving minority is now in the process of being diverted to Hispanics and Latinos.
There's more to this, obviously.
We'll take a break and be right back.
What do you mean am I tired of talking about Hillary?
I've been tired of talking about Hillary for 20 years.
But I'm going to, yes, I've got the Washington Post story.
There's a Washington Post story.
Democrats are very worried about Hillary.
They're very worried that she doesn't have the ability to win.
And the main reason for this story, the main excuse given this story, is that she's being treated like a Republican in the media, and that alarms them.
But believe me, they know.
If Hillary's being treated like a Republican, it means she's being treated like Sarah Palin to an extent, which means the media is out to destroy her, which means it could.
It's not nearly as focused and targeted as the media is going after Republican, but it's different this time.
And the Democrat Party powers that be are worried that Hillary doesn't have the ability to overcome this and the overall image that's being created by this media attack.
It's not universal.
Not everybody in the media is going after her, but it's generational.
A lot of the media that was around in the 90s is not all of them, but most of the media from the 90s that covered the Clintons and adored them and loved them.
They're the ones not excited about all this and not eager to help her through it.
Some of the younger drive-bys who don't have real hands-on experience with the 90s are much less inclined to beat Hillary up over this.
But yeah, we'll get to all of it.
Something else.
I got a note about an hour before the program today, which said the following.
Durbin was just on the Senate floor saying that it is a constitutional right for illegal aliens to get citizenship.
I didn't hear it, but a friend of mine told me.
So I said, hmm, it's believable.
I want to track this down because it's entirely believable that somebody like Dick Durbin could go to the Senate floor and just say that illegal aliens have a constitutional right to get citizenship because we know what this is all about.
We know that illegal immigration is all about future Democrat voters.
It's about Democrat voter registration.
And we know full well, whatever happens with this, however this executive amnesty goes, however legislative amnesty goes, one thing we know for sure that's going to happen is that part and parcel of it, in order to get it through, people are going to say, hey, now this is not a right to vote.
This is not citizenship.
It's just bringing them out of the shadows, just acknowledging that they're here.
We already know how much financial benefit they're going to get.
Four years of earned income tax credit payments.
It's obscene.
We've been through that once.
But what's going to be said is not long after it actually happens, somebody like Chuck Schumer or Durbin, Obama, somebody, will run to the nearest camera microphone and say, you know, it's unconscionable.
We have just brought these people out of the shadows.
We have just given them amnesty.
They have been living here and working here for years in the shadows.
They have been paying taxes.
They've been doing all these wonderfully contributory things.
It's just not fair.
They can't vote.
It's just not fair that we are denying them citizenship.
And so the next phase will be the process, the plan of granting them citizenship much sooner than the original legislation or executive amnesty.
So that's why I could believe that Durbin would go to the Senate floor and say that it's a constitutional right for illegal aliens to get citizenship.
But that's not what happened.
We tracked it down, and this is what did happen.
David Vitter, Senator Republican, Louisiana, has introduced a measure that would end birthright citizenship as an amendment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
It's a bipartisan bill currently under consideration in the Senate.
And what Vitter wants to do is stop this trend of birth tourism.
People travel to the United States to have their babies, which makes them automatically citizens, which have then qualifies them for benefits and all the other thing.
And then creates the anchor situation where the parents then eventually will become citizens because the kid is, their kid is.
And Vitter has introduced a bill, wants to change this in American law because it's now resulted in this phenomenon called birth tourism.
And it was that Durbin was responding to.
Durbin was on the floor saying it's a right of children born in the U.S. to be citizens, even if their parents are not.
And as it stands now, Durbin is right about that.
If you're born here, you're a citizen, whether your parents are or not.
That's right, isn't it?
Yeah, of course it is.
And even if your parents are citizens and you're born in a foreign country, you're a citizen.
Is that right or not right?
That's right, too.
See, even I, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, even I have gotten, I'm prone to being confused about all this where it is.
But anyway, that's what Durbin said.
And as far as it goes, he's right.
But truth of the matter is that it's the next phase of this because this is the sole reason on the Democrat side why they care about this.
They need a constant, never-ending underclass, a permanent underclass.
The Democrat Party can't exist without a permanent underclass.
They need low-skilled, uneducated, subservient, dependent people who will vote for them because it's the only way they can live.
And if we have to import them via illegal immigration or however, that's what we're going to do.
This is why it's always been so maddeningly confusing to see the Republicans supporting it too when everybody knows what this is all about.
Anyway, I'm covering ground that we've previously trod.
I want to get back to this story out of Washington, Prince George's County, because this is going to bubble up, folks.
This is effervescing and it has been off and on for decades, but it's going to intensify now.
With all this talk of amnesty and with blanket amnesty on the horizon, we're talking five, ten, maybe as many as 15 million illegal immigrants, many of whom can't speak English.
They are challenging or going to end up challenging African Americans as the number one most deserving minority in this racist, prejudiced, discriminatory country called the United States.
And that NAACP chapter in Prince George's County is all upset that money is being siphoned from them to build a couple of schools for illegals that can't speak English.
Bob Ross, president of the Prince George's County Branch, NAALCP, told Fox News that this is a slap in the face.
Ross believes the proposal to open two new scruels violates Brown versus Board of Education.
1954 Supreme Court case.
Really?
Is that where they want to go?
See, the Brown versus Board of Education is inviolate.
It can mean anything civil rights activists want it to mean now.
So Bob Ross believes the proposal to open two new scruples for illegal immigrants who don't speak English violates Brown versus Board of Education that ruled separate schools for black and white students violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
He said it risks turning Prince George's county into a segregated scrule system, adding that he realizes the need for better education in the county, but believes it should not come at the cost of existing students.
In other words, what do you mean you're going to take money that we've earned as the number one minority?
You're going to take it out of our pockets and give it to them?
You can't do that.
Brown versus Board of Education, separate but equal.
You can't do it.
That's segregation.
Never mind that segregation seems to be the objective these days of the modern civil rights movement.
Now, the Latino advocacy group, Casa de Maryland, sees it differently.
Casa de Maryland, which has pushed for the scruples, argues that it is not a violation of the Constitution because the scruples are not mandatory.
And they're being built to provide options to immigrants.
The magic word they're being immigrants, you see, because we are a nation of immigrants.
We are all immigrants.
And it's simply not fair to single out this particular group of immigrants and say that we are segregating them.
But what this is all about is money.
And when your only source of money is an agency or a government that's going to give it to you, you're going to do everything you can to make sure they don't give it to somebody else.
Now, the obvious solution to this is to not depend on the government for what you have.
But saying that is met with derision and ridicule.
The easy way out of this problem is start living your life in a way that you don't depend on the government.
You can't say that.
That's racist in itself, and it's mean-spirited, and it's extremist.
Is it really?
Well, yeah, you can't say that.
Self-reliance, yeah, that's all those code words for America as a discriminatory place.
It's not for everybody.
Why isn't it for everybody?
What if everybody just threw an autal say, you know what?
I'm not going to rely on myself.
I'm not going to depend on me.
What if everybody did that?
Where would we be?
It is the route.
It is the way out of all this problem.
To me, the riskiest thing in the world would be to be dependent on the largesse of others.
What if they get mad at me?
What if they run out of money?
What if somebody else comes along and makes a better case for it than I can make?
What happens to me if they decide not to give it to me?
And that's where we're headed because the word entitlement is now going to take on an entirely different meaning.
And we're going to have a new subset of strife in this country within the minority communities itself.
You make my.
And to the phones we go to my adopted hometown of Sacramento.
This is Brian.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
How are you doing?
What an honor to speak to you, Ref.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I just had an idea.
I've been hearing all this stuff, and I'm waiting for someone to start a movement in America that simply states, I am not racist, or we are not racist.
And I guess if I was on Facebook or social media, I could be the one to start it, but I'm not.
But, you know, I know you have power.
I know other people start these movements.
I'd like to have someone do hashtag, I am not a racist, and see if we can make this catch on all across the nation.
It could be you, and it could be George Bush, and it could be Obama.
It could be Sean Penn.
It could be anyone who wants to join.
I am not a racist.
Why don't we get that movement going in America?
What do you envision as the end result of this movement?
Well, I thought about that.
I don't know.
It seems like if a liberal person who claims to support equal rights did it, they'd be championed.
If someone like you or George Bush or someone else did it, I guess you'd be called not authentic or not realistic or I'm not sure.
I don't see how it could harm things to get this going and see how fast it would grow, see how large it would grow and see how many people's face we could get this in front of, that America is not racist.
Well, I understand the desire you have for this, but where do you see it going?
I mean, how do you see it?
If it works, what happens?
What changes?
I guess they get movements to call us racist and start all these things in Ferguson.
See, here's the thing.
I'm actually glad you called with this because there's a lesson here.
Your objective, if I have you right, your objective is to get them to stop calling us racist, right?
Right.
That's never going to happen.
No, no, no, no, no.
Wait, folks, do not laugh.
I'm being dead.
This is not the way to beat them.
You are not going to stop them.
Have they ever stopped us?
I mean, they haven't stopped me.
They've tried.
I come, I show up here every day.
They do, they can throw whatever they want at me.
They do not stop me.
They may stop others who have different concerns and bow out.
I don't.
We're not going to, we don't stop them.
And they're not going to stop us.
That's not how they've sought to attack us.
Now, Obama, I can correct myself.
There are exceptions to the point that I just made.
Obama, as a campaign practice, does eliminate his opposition, but not by stopping them.
Not by making them stop what they're doing.
He destroys them.
He gets rid of them.
They get taken off the ballot.
Both of his opponents in the state Senate and in the United States Senate races, both of his opponents were driven from the race.
They were driven from the ballot.
He didn't make them stop what they were saying about him.
We are not going to get them to stop calling us racist.
So that's not how to beat them.
That is not how to overcome this.
And so many people engaging in this battle who want all this kind of stuff to stop.
It isn't going to stop.
That's not how.
These people on Twitter, I mean, Twitter has become a cesspool.
It's a literal leftist, ideological cesspool.
And it isn't going to stop.
You're never going to get them to stop saying or tweeting what they tweet.
You're never going to shame them.
You're never going to guilt them.
You're never going to convince them they're wrong.
You're not going to get them to stop.
That is not how you win.
We're not going to beat the Democrats by having them stop telling lies about us.
And the problem I have with your, I understand the emotion behind your thinking.
You're fed up with it.
You're not a racist.
You're tired of the media spreading these lies.
So you want to stand on, I'm not a racist.
When you do that, you're acknowledging and validating their premise, which is a really dangerous thing to do.
Trust me on this.
I know.
I've been doing this for 27 years, and I've gone through every possible way of responding to this there is.
And denying it has never worked.
It just does all it does is fuel even more criticism because the attackers think, aha, we've scored.
They feel the need to deny, and they just pile on with more of it.
The best thing in certain circumstances is not to reply at all.
Now, this is not to say they can't be defeated because we beat them all the time at elections.
I mean, look at the election midterms 2010, 2014.
I'm just, I'm talking strategy here.
You're not going to get them to stop saying what they say about you or me or whoever it is, the Republicans, conservatives, they're not going to stop.
And there's nothing you can do to make them stop.
You can't sue them and make them stop.
You can't threaten to sue them to make them stop.
It's not going to happen.
What you have to do is discredit them.
That's what they've done to the Republican Party.
They've rebranded the Republican.
Doesn't matter what the Republican Party says, to certain subset of Americans, the Republican Party is ABCD and none of it good.
No matter what they say.
Anyway, I'm out of time here.
Got to take a break.
We'll continue this if you care.
Don't go away.
Okay, so you disagree with me on this, okay?
Let me ask you if you remember somebody.
You remember Richard Nixon saying, I am not a crook?
What do people think Richard Nixon was?
They think he was a crook, precisely because he said he wasn't.
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