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April 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, as Tom Broke all once said discussing Obama, it's an interesting question.
A very interesting question.
I'm getting emails from younger people out there, millennials, who are asking me to speak up more even more about this Hillary stuff because it's all news to them.
And one of them had a really good question for somebody who doesn't know much about them because they're not old enough to know.
And now, from Sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
Yes, sir, we open line Friday, one of the greatest excursions into broadcast excellence that happens during the busy broadcast week because the host takes one of the greatest career risks ever taken in major media.
And that is turning the content portion of the program over to the callers, who by definition have zero experience doing this.
Makes them rank amateurs.
But that's what Open Friday is.
Open Line Friday, whatever anybody wants to talk about.
Here is the telephone number.
800-282-2882.
So the email question from the young person I got, this is a really good question.
And it's not going to be any big deal to those of you who are of a certain age and have uh you know intimate memories of the Clintons in the 90s.
But the question is this person has been following the news on all this and has heard that this is by no means the Clinton's first scandal rodeo, and the guy wants to know how have they survived.
And you know, it made me stop and think.
They always survived this.
I had no matter what, this where to put this, this latest Clinton scandal, the selling of influence, the acquisition of personal wealth, selling influence that in many cases is on the cum.
It's all dependent on whether Hillary becomes president, now that she's not in the State Department anymore.
Personal enrichment, I mean, it's just it's sleazy, it is filthy.
They even the latest news that's been dropped by Peter Schweitzer, author of the book, is that the Clintons profited wildly off the Haiti earthquake.
They profited even from the disaster of the Haiti earthquake.
And you know the answer to the question is they survive all of this.
There isn't anything.
This stuff all sticks, by the way.
That's the thing.
It all sticks.
But they survive it.
Now, one of the reasons they survive it for you young people is the Republicans.
The Republicans permit it.
Did you see that the uh you see only there were 10 Republicans?
I've got the names here.
Find the names.
Don't tell me I didn't put this on top.
I meant to put this on top.
Loretta Lynch was confirmed as the new attorney general.
Now, when this happened yesterday, I said to myself, why do we even need to elect Republicans?
If they're just gonna give the Democrats what they want, and if they're gonna give the Democrats what they want because they're afraid to say no because the person in question's African American, then what good are they?
And that's exactly what happened here.
We had an election.
It was a landslide Republican victory last November.
It may as well have been worthless.
And the Democrats know that the Republicans are gonna back down on all of this stuff.
The Republicans don't have the guts to oppose a liberal if the liberal is black.
And pretty soon they're not gonna have the guts to oppose the liberal if a liberal's Hispanic.
And pretty soon after that, they're not gonna have the guts to oppose a liberal if the liberal is a woman.
And the Democrats know all of this.
To the point that the Republicans have just given up, they have given over the entire congressional check and balance power to Obama.
The Senate may as well not be a factor.
So the country just continues on this spiral down the drain because the Republicans in the Senate don't want to be called names by crazy people, by literal lunatics.
You know, the the the vote for cloture yesterday.
Uh Republicans are hiding behind.
No, no, no, no.
We did not vote for her.
We voted for cloture.
But Ted Cruz said the only vote that mattered was the vote for cloture.
Not dumb enough to fall for any of this.
Here are the ten Republican senators that broke ranks and sided with the Democrats to get Loretta Lynch over the 50 vote threshold, Kelly Ayott, New Hampshire, Orin Hatch, Utah, Lindsay Gramnestea, South Carolina, Susan Collins, Maine, Jeff Flake, Arizona, Mark Kirk, Illinois, Rob Portman, Ohio, Thad Cochrane, Mississippi, Ron Johnson, Wisconsin, Mitch McConnell, Kentucky.
In the end, get this.
According to one Republican Senate aide, Lynch's race and sex did have an impact on her nomination, which was confirmed when ten Republicans voted with the 44 Democrats and two independents in her favor.
The Republican Senate aide said if she were white, I think it would have been more difficult to find the five votes needed to be confirmed.
Obviously it would have.
So you're saying, what's this got to do with the Clintons?
Well, in politics, you get away with much as anything anybody will let you get away with.
If nobody's going to stop you, if there isn't any pushback, as we've seen with Obama, then you're going to keep getting away with it.
And if the Republicans are afraid to vote down a nomination for attorney general on the basis of a woman's race because they're simply afraid of what's going to be said about them.
And make no mistake, that's probably the larger factor here.
Then the same thing likely will happen if any of this with Mrs. Clinton ever reach critical mass.
And you want some evidence, John Boehner?
Hey, you know, I've worked with the Clintons up here a long time.
They're good people.
This they may have made some mistakes here, but they're good people.
When's the last time you ever heard a Democrat say of a Republican?
No, they're good people, you know.
They're fine.
They don't say that.
They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, whatever else they want to pile on.
So in the in the whole context of this latest Clinton scandal, is it going to matter?
If you look at the Clintons, they don't look like they're bothered by any of this.
In fact, you know what the Clintons are doing?
This is classic, too.
This is part and parcel of what they always do in conjunction with the Democrat Party.
They warn the Republicans, you had better be careful.
You're going to overreach.
You're going to criticize me too much.
You're going to keep piling on and piling on, and you're going to create a bunch of sympathy for me.
You better be.
She's out saying that.
The Clinton and their team are outwarning the Republicans.
You better dial this back a little bit.
You keep this up, and you're going to end up helping me.
And lo and behold, the Republicans actually probably think that.
I know actually probably kind of contradicts.
Let me rephrase.
I think the Republicans do think that.
You can hear some of them say it.
We have to be very, very careful here.
We can't overreach.
You can't appear to be hitting the girl.
You know, this kind of thing.
So this set of Clinton scandals borders on the criminal.
We've had it referenced here as the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
Not by me, but by other observers.
We have the New York Times continuing to pulverize them.
We have the Washington Post continuing to pulverize them.
We have the politico today finally acknowledging that they are concerned about all of this.
We now have the latest shooter-drop, which is the Clintons profited handsomely from the Haiti earthquake.
How do you profit handsomely from people who are dirt poor?
You have to abscond some of the aid money.
The Haiti people don't have any money, Asian people have any money.
So here's an earthquake, golden opportunity, going to be all kinds of donations.
The Clintons are the first people on the ground claiming to do charitable work, siphoning off the donation.
How else can it happen?
But this is the world of politics.
We're not in the law enforcement yet.
We haven't got the criminal justice system here yet.
This is all politics.
If there isn't going to be any pushback on it, if all there's going to be is the author of the book, Schweitzer, and me and others, Fox News, talking about this all the time on TV.
The Clintons are going to remain unscathed.
Well, you tell me how it's going to be otherwise.
You think she's going to quit?
I think I think that there's a there's a, as I mentioned yesterday, what it wasn't me.
There's one of the uh I read so many things yesterday.
I think it was the well, I don't remember which, but somebody in the media suggested that what's really happening here is that the media is begging Hillary to get out before they have to really destroy them, meaning that there's so much more yet to come.
So much more damnable news yet to come that the media is trying to force because they don't want to destroy them.
And uh how else is this gonna happen?
Now, you might say, well, Hillary's gonna be damaged the ballot box.
That's possible.
But I'm telling you, folks, uh, you can't, if you're the Republican Party, you simply can't rely on that happening.
You've you've got to help make it happen.
God bless Romney, he's out there calling it what it is.
Did you hear this?
It appears that she's been bribed.
Of course she's been bribed, willingly.
Sometimes bribery can can have with it the uh connotation that you you you have no choice.
You know, like when the mob comes to you and demands this or that, you end up being bribed, but you have no choice.
In this case, she's selling herself.
This is not bribery in that sense.
I mean, she's been bribed, yeah, but with with willing participation.
And the uh same thing with their schlieckmeister.
My only my only point here is uh you and I, who have been around here since the early 90s when these people first assumed office.
I just want to ask you, how many times during the Clinton administration did you think, aha, got him?
Rose Law Firm billing records, cattle futures, Vince Foster, Whitewater, go down to FBI file.
This is different, huh?
How many times did you say during the 90s every time a new one was discovered?
This is different.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, so Mr. Snurdley, who is a slave to the inside the beltway establishment political way of thinking, and I know I'm not that's not being critical.
I'm not being critical by saying that.
That's the Mr. Snerdley is fascinated by that.
He the the goings on in Washington inside the beltway.
That's not a criticism.
So you think this is different.
This is different.
Mm-hmm.
Uh I know, I know it's different in the sense that Republicans are not alleging any of this.
The stories do not say Republicans claim Rush Limbaugh is radio program today, claimed.
No, no, this is the drive-by media saying it.
This is Richard Schweiker saying it.
Schweitzer, Schweitzer.
I know the same old stonewalling tactics that they've always succeeded using.
I'm not trying to be a downer here.
I'm trying to be a realist.
Don't jump off any cliffs here, folks.
There's a long, long, long way to go on this.
But understand something.
I've been thinking even more, Mrs. Clinton cannot drop out of this.
She cannot quit.
There are too many people who have given too much money, sitting around waiting for the payback.
The payback is her in the Oval Office and her husband running around doing whatever.
She could have another concussion.
But you it is gonna have to be a legitimate concussion because I'm telling you, none of these people are gonna, it's it's like it's like if you owe the loan shark 50,000.
If you owe the bank everything the bank's worth, the bank is not gonna repossess.
The bank is gonna keep you going if you're the only way they've got to get their money back.
Well, Mrs. Clinton's the only way these people have of getting their Money back in a sense, she's got to get elected.
They're not gonna, they're not gonna inflict a concussion on her.
Is that what you think?
I can't believe you think that's gonna happen.
Snurdley thinks this time is different.
We shall see.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday at 800-282-2882.
Here's the thing, folks.
Without Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State or a viable candidate for president, the Clinton Foundation is nothing.
Do you understand that?
I mean, no, no, no.
I'm I'm I'm trying I'm being dead serious.
The Clinton Family Foundation is nothing.
There's no reason why would you give any money to these people?
Okay.
All right, maybe the Bill's the strongest lobbyist, but it that pales in comparison to Hillary actually at state or running for president with the quote unquote likelihood she's going to win.
My point to you is these people are not going quietly into the night.
And if you think, if anyone thinks that these revelations is gonna cause anything like that to happen, you are wrong.
Their respective legacies may be the least of their worries.
And we know Clinton cares about that, but right now that's gonna take a back seat.
Everything is on the line here.
First of which is their money.
Do not doubt me the Clintons are obsessed with wealth, their own personal wealth.
And they have been since the 80s.
Now I know everybody wants more money.
These people have obsessed over it.
It has been the prime motivating factor for much of what they have done.
And it's the obsession is so great that they will willingly operate outside the law in order to acquire it.
But my theory is this.
No one is gonna donate to this sham charity unless they're getting something in return.
They're not gonna donate to Clinton because he's a likable guy.
They're not gonna donate to Clinton because he's got great charisma.
And there's none of that that Hillary has that would make you want to give money.
And now what's gonna happen?
We had a caller allude to this yesterday.
Now every one of these donors is being scrutinized.
All of these donors are gonna have their quote unquote investments examined.
Maybe not the same, and maybe not as intensely as if they'd been caught donating to a Republican charity like this.
But nevertheless, these donors are being rooted out.
They are being investigated, and the reason they want the Clintons' influence is being uncovered.
The Clintons have sought a way via the establishment of a charitable foundation to line their pockets.
If the Republicans were up to doing their jobs, if this had come to light while Hillary was president, she should be impeached.
But then again, that has to happen.
I don't think that's ever.
I don't think the Republicans, until there's a whole new crop of them who are not even born yet, are ever, ever gonna contemplate impeachment again.
You're talking about PTSD.
They're not going anywhere near, and the Clintons know that too, as well as does the Democrat Party.
Now we now know that Hillary Clinton and Bill conspired to allow Vladimir Putin to corner the uranium market.
I mean, that's even more flexibility than Obama promised after the election.
We're on the precipice here.
Make no mistake about this.
We're on the precipice of one of the largest cover-ups in the history of this country.
It is being contemplated as we speak.
And one of the features or factors of this cover-up is the warning that's going out from the Clintons and the media to the Republicans.
You'd better be careful.
You don't want to overreach.
You could end up helping her.
You could end up creating sympathy.
This is the Clintons and their allies advising the Republicans if they know what's good for them, they'll back off.
Just like when they advise Republicans, hey, if you really want to win the presidency, you never criticize a Democrat.
The independents won't like it.
If you really want to win the presidency, you better agree with us on amnesty.
Otherwise, the Hispanics won't like it.
The Republicans fall for all of these tricks.
And it's a feature and phase of the cover-up.
The money the Clintons received.
I mean, look, several cabinet members signed off on this uranium deal, folks.
There are a lot of people exposed here.
And the money that the Clintons received, directly and indirectly, is staggering.
Hundred million here, tens of millions over there.
Now everybody's going into CYA.
The Clintons may have been targeted by Obama, but the Clintons might take him down with them.
But that would require investigation.
It's a little that isn't overreach.
I don't think that's gonna happen.
Open line Friday, right now, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh executing his signed host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
It's the New Yorker, which contains the veiled threat to the Republicans to back off on this.
And there's no question the Hillary camp is putting this out in a desperate attempt.
The story's by Kyle Drennan, no matter, could be by any cookie cutter in the drive-by's.
In a desperate attempt to spin the escalating Clinton crime family foundation scandal as a positive for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, the New Yorkers John Cassidy.
Oh, I'm sorry, Kyle Drennan is at newsbusters reporting this.
The New Yorker story written by John Cassidy.
And he argues in an article on Wednesday that bombshell revelations about the controversy in Peter Schweitzer's book could end up benefiting Hillary.
Well, of course, you see, that's the way this works.
You have a bombshell book that reveals likely criminal activity on the part of the Democrat Party's leading presidential contender.
And of course it's going to end up benefiting Hillary.
It's how this stuff works.
And you say, well, how?
Well, John Cassidy at the New Yorker argued that with conservative media figures piling on the story.
The Clinton campaign will be able to portray questions about the Clinton Foundation of Families' finances as a political witch hunt rather than a legitimate exercise in vetting presidential candidates.
And he further declared, and if that happens, many Republicans may end up dismissing the whole thing as a partisan squabble.
Mr. Cassidy, there's only one problem with your convoluted thinking.
Republicans have nothing to do with this.
The drive-by media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Politico, USA Today, all of the favored publications and newspapers in the drive-by media are leading this.
It was the New York Times that made a deal with Schweitzer.
It was the Washington Post that made a deal with Schweitzer for exclusive availability of his book.
This is not the Republican conservative media drumming this up.
We're getting up one day reading the news.
Here's this new book out.
Lo and behold, look what it says.
We're followers on this.
We're not leading the charge.
This is this is actually being led by the drive-by media when you when you get right down to it.
I don't think there's any question about the fact that the Hillary camp's putting out this talking point that the Republicans are going to overreach.
And this is all going to end up looking like more of the Republican war on women.
That's what she is saying.
That's what they're no doubt leaking.
And they're hoping that that'll keep the Republicans and the conservative media from talking too much about this.
What they're actually hoping to do is intimidate conservative media sites and publications, Republican elected officials into not talking about it at all.
What they would really love Is for there to be no talking about this, no discussion for the issue to survive or not on its own.
And it's amazing how often this trick works.
Warn Republicans, if you if you anger the independents, wow, if you if you criticize Obama, you know the American voter doesn't want conflict.
We've heard all these tricks, and they work more often than they don't.
Go to the audio sound bites and let's listen to a little bit of this.
Yesterday in New York City at the 2015 Women in the World Summit.
How did I miss that?
How did I not get my invitation?
The 2015 Women in the World Summit, former Secretary of State, current presumed Democrat presidential nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the keynote address.
Here's a little of what she said.
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who see nothing wrong with denying women equal pay, who offer themselves as leaders who would defund the country's leading provider of family planning.
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who would deport mothers working to give their children a better life rather than risk the ire of talk radio.
And there I am, ladies and gentlemen, living rent-free once again in the brains of the entire Clinton crime family.
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who see nothing wrong with denying women equal pay.
You mean like Obama.
Oh yeah, the women on Obama's staff make much less than the men make.
You know, the Democrats start throwing these charges around, and when you examine the way they operate, they are always guilty of every charge they level at us.
There are people who pass themselves off as leaders who would defund the country's leading provider of family planning.
No, let me re-word that.
There are people who offer themselves as leaders who would defund the country's leading provider of the death of children in the womb.
She's talking about planned parenthood, and that's what they do.
And then she says, there are those who offer themselves as leaders who would deport mothers, working to give their children a better life rather than risk the ire of talk radio.
I don't think anybody is talking about deporting anybody right now.
So it's another baseless charge, advanced by the Democrats, baseless, false, and phony, but it is lapped up by the low information voter.
She even went after, remember now this is the 2015 Women in the World Summit, so it's time to go after Hobby Lobby.
America moves forward when all women are guaranteed the right to make their own health care choices, not when those choices are taken away by an employer like Hobby Lobby.
Hobby lobby didn't take any choice away.
Hobby lobby just said we're not paying for it.
You know, I I don't this we all have pet peeves, and I'm gonna tell you I have a brewing and budding pet peeve.
And I understand, but it's still I'm growing so impatient with this.
And Hillary's comment here reminds me, if you people know I, as a hobby, peruse tech blogs, because I'm a gadget guy.
I mean, when it comes to that, I'm a gadget nerd, I'm a gadget geek.
I just I'm fascinated by it.
And so I read the things that are the first to have information and opinion about some of the latest stuff.
And most of these blogs are populated by young people, millennials.
And most of the people on these blogs would qualify as nerds or geeks in the in the popular definition.
And one thing I have noticed, whether it's talking, they they hate cable TV.
They despise cable TV.
I'm You know, one of the greatest values of spending all this time in these tech blogs is it is an open window to the millennial generation.
And I don't know why.
I'm I'm I'm fascinated by the millennial generation.
Uh well, no, I do know why.
In addition to them being the future, uh, they are the first generation that think the country has seen its best days.
And it troubles me to no end, folks.
I can't tell you how that depresses me too.
They don't associate the current economic malaise with the policies of this administration.
For whatever reason, they associate the current melees, the economic situation in the country with the fact that maybe America's days are over.
They're losing faith in the country.
They do not do not, because they haven't been educated this way.
They don't, I don't know why per se, but they do not associate the current climate economics and otherwise with the Obama administration's policies that have caused the current economic situation.
Now, to you and me, it's a no-brainer.
Everything happening in this country, especially after six plus years is because of Obama policy.
These young kids and the millennials defined by anybody under 31, they don't make that connection.
Now they haven't been taught that the Democrats are frauds, and they haven't been taught about Obama, so they just they chalk it up to the fact that the country's not there for them anymore.
The opportunity's gone.
Their parents for the last generation that really had a chance to score big.
So that that attitude's prevalent.
But there's also something else.
They hate cable TV, they hate satellite TV, they hate the phone companies.
They hate the cell company.
They hate.
I mean, they literally despise.
And the reason is that these companies charge money for their service.
I can't tell you the number of times I'll be reading one of these tech blogs, and the big news is that something is free.
And they just go gaga over the concept that something may be free.
Even an app for a phone that last week was a dollar ninety-nine cents.
This week it's free, and that means you better go get it.
A dollar ninety-nine is too much to spend on an app for the phone, but it's when it's free.
And there are, like this HBO business.
The millennials are the ones who have pushed the whole idea that HBO on cable is just too expensive.
We can't afford they hate cable, they hate having to pay for TV.
A lot of them engage in uh the torrent sites and downloading pirated material, pirated content.
They wanted HBO to provide a direct stream so they can watch HBO on their iPads and phones and not have to have a cable subscription.
Because they hate Comcast.
They despise Comcast.
They hate Comcast like their parents hated big oil.
But the point is they are they are they just they're they're devoted, no, it's the wrong word.
They just want everything free.
They just think things should be given away for whatever reason.
And I'll tell you the reason that bothers me is uh, you know, I wrote one of them back.
So why have you ever thought about maybe going out earning some money to buy HBO if you like it so much?
And the answer I got back was there isn't any money.
Can't find a job, can't find a job that pays me enough to be able to afford HBO after I feed myself, something like that.
And so this constant quest and celebration of things for free, and it bothers me on two levels.
When you're obsessed with wanting things for free, who is it that promises to do that for you?
The Democrat Party and the government.
Free Obamacare, free health care, free food stamps, free.
Of course, it isn't free, but to them they think it is.
That's the first thing about it bothered me.
The second thing about it that bothers me is the expectation that people that invest And build out and build up ought to give away their product as a public service or some such thing.
Whereas the easy answer is to go out, get a job, earn the money you want to be able to buy the things you want and the things that you need.
The idea that that's such a foreign concept marks a huge generational shift to me.
I don't know if I it's like I said, it's a pet peeve.
Every time I read, and not just of the millennials.
When I read people demanding or expecting or celebrating that something is free, there's something about it since a red flag up.
Something that gets my instincts highly attuned that this is not good.
The expectation, the hope that something would be free when nothing is.
Well, that's absolutely not true.
The moon's free.
It's there for everybody.
Nature's free, it's there for everybody.
In fact, there was a Broadway tune that said the best things in life are free.
That they're there for you and me, but you don't possess them.
They are the delights of life, but you don't possess them.
And to a certain extent, that's true.
But we're not talking about the delights of life.
We're talking about things and stuff that these people want.
They have to hope and expect that it would be free.
I just when you're of that mindset, somebody comes along and promises you they can deliver, then they're gonna have you for the rest of their lives and yours too.
And here comes Hillary.
America moves forward when all women are guaranteed the right to make their own health care choices, not when those choices are taken away by an employer like Hobby.
Hobby Lobby didn't take anybody's choice away.
Hobby Lobby simply said our religious beliefs are such that we do not think we ought to be made to pay for abortive fashions or contraception.
If you want that, pay for it yourself.
I know, gotta take a break.
We're paying you.
We don't believe in it.
We want it free.
We want it, so does Mrs. Clinton.
By the way, the Washington Free Beacon has a story that Hillary Clinton campaign confirms that uh the gender pay gap analysis that they did is accurate.
Uh the Hillary Clinton campaign has confirmed the accuracy of a Washington free beacon analysis showed that the women working in Clinton's Senate office were paid just 72 cents for every dollar paid to men.
So here she is out there at this women's conference, belly aching and moaning about how unfair it is to women out there.
They're underpaid, and it happened right in her office, and it happened right in Obama's office.
Standard flat out hypocrisy 101.
These people are the champions of it.
Okay.
Always get a phone call in open line Friday, first hour.
James in Amarillo, Texas.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I uh I was wondering what you thought the chances are that uh Hillary's about to get them an index treatment.
And get indicted?
Sure.
By who?
Loretta Lynch has just been confirmed.
What better way for her to prove she's nonpartisan?
And above all politics by indicting a Democrat and know they want to get rid of Hillary.
Because they'd have to indict Obama.
Because Obama signed off on the Russian uranium deal that the Clintons brokered.
Yeah, but maybe she didn't tell Obama everything, and she can find evidence that not gonna take the chance.
You don't think the Clintons have a have a have a folio on Obama, too?
That's mutual assured destruction on both sides.
That now now look, I don't mean to it is entirely possible.
Look, folks, Mr. Snerdley may be right.
This may be different.
This is not being led by the Republicans.
This is the drive-by media.
I mean, you got Schweitzer's book out there, Schweiker's book, but then every the drive-by's are piling on big time.
And it could well be that some of them out there really, really do want Elizabeth Warren.
That it could well be that many of them in the drive-by's really, really do not like Hillary.
She's not Bill.
She doesn't have this psychotic pathological charisma charismatic uh hold over people.
She's just irritating.
I mean, it's it's it's entirely possible this could be an effort, but I don't think the regime is gonna end up indicting her.
I'd love to see it, but I just not have to see it.
Man, where'd that hour go?
I'm just revved up here, folks.
We've got much more to go as well.
There's two big exciting broadcast hours remain.
Tried to make a play or a movie out of what happened in Ferguson, and it didn't go well because the producer wanted it to be accurate.
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