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April 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 28, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, now wait a minute now.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, the police chief of Baltimore is telling parents to keep their kids at home.
The police chief of Baltimore, let me get this, I want to get his exact words.
What did this guy say?
Here it is, I got it.
Take control of your kids.
Okay.
What do kids have to do with this?
Hang on.
Now the mayor of Philadelphia has spoken up.
And the mayor of Philadelphia says parents are responsible for their kids.
Parents need to keep their kids in line, something like that.
And now here is Kwa Ize Imfume.
Do you remember him, the old uh what Bobby Moore was that his name?
I never remember what Quisi's real name's first name was, but he's he's a former member of Congress.
He didn't even run the uh NAAC LCP for a while.
Uh and here's quite easy in Fume.
He's on Fox this morning saying, uh, I implore parents to know where your children are.
Now, folks, what's that what do kids have to do with this?
Hang on.
If you know, don't think I'm an idiot.
I'm leading up to something here.
Greetings and welcome.
It's great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIV network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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You know there's so many advantages to getting older.
You know, I have always wanted to be older my whole life, and now that I am uh what many would consider to be older, I don't regret it.
One of the great things about being older, uh, if you paid attention when you were younger, is you see how things really aren't new.
You see how things really don't change.
Now, to a lot of people, what's happening in Baltimore coming off of Ferguson is, oh God, it's horrible.
Why, what are we gonna do?
This is worse than it's ever been, and it probably isn't.
I remember the race riots of the 60s in Watts.
And I, of course, remember Selma.
And I remember Rodney King, and I remembered race riots frequently, cyclically happening all over this country.
Well, actually, not all over that's an that's a actually an interesting point about this, too.
They don't happen all over the country.
They happen where the left runs the show.
You know what?
One of the most fascinating things to me has been, and there are many fascinating things about this.
Yesterday afternoon when all this started happening, you know, you know, I'm looking at stuff trying to stay up to speed on it, and I'm hearing all these officials uh elected officials and otherwise in Baltimore blaming no jobs, blaming poor education, blaming all this cultural rot.
And I really was taken it back.
So, well, you guys have been running this show for I don't know how long.
I mean, they only have been two white mayors in Baltimore in decades.
And both of them were related to Nancy Pelosi, by the way.
Thomas LJG de Alessandro and Thomas J. G. De Alessandro III or something.
Those are the only two white mayors in Baltimore, and I don't know how long.
Baltimore's 60% black.
The police department's run by African Americans.
Everything in we got an African American president.
Where's all this oppression coming from?
Who's doing all this oppressing?
And that's the one thing that uh that hasn't changed.
It's another thing that hasn't changed.
The excuses given, the reasons given for this.
And every time there are riots, they are justified by people on the left.
That hasn't changed either.
There is one thing that could be strikingly different about this circumstance From others, and most notably recently Ferguson.
And that is you really have to look hard to find a racial component in this.
You don't have a you don't have a white police chief, you don't have a white mayor.
You don't have a white cop that gunned down a supposed innocent.
Young man walking down the street pondering his first days at college.
What you have here?
We have man-made city warming, if you want to look at it this way.
To take a borrow a little bit from the modern day global warming meme, Baltimore and Ferguson burn due to man-made liberalism.
That's what's on display here.
Man-made liberalism, political climate change is destroying America's urban core, not rising sea levels, not melting glaciers, not hurricanes, none of these things that we've been told are going to be the end of us.
Nope, it's man-made liberalism.
That is destroying America's urban core, rapid expansion of government, at the expense of free markets, private property rights, school choice, intact families, controlled immigration, all that's gone.
All that's been thrown out.
Other than the rapid expansions of government, rapid expansion of government has taken place at the expense of free markets, private property rights, school choice, intact families.
You know things are bad when the gangs of the city are the ones who come together negotiate how to solve the problem.
You know you've lost control.
And there are elected leaders in Baltimore running around proudly saying that the Crips and the Bloods are going to work today to clean up the mess.
Well, then who runs the city?
Obviously the Crips and the Bloods run the city.
At least you could conclude that.
Now we've got rampant immigration.
Private property rights come second to protester rights.
School choice, there isn't any.
Parents are forced in these liberal run cities to send their kids to absolutely dilapidated buildings to be taught a bunch of liberal drivel that's only making them angrier and unhappier.
And all of this is the direct result of Democrat Party politics and policies.
There's not a Republican anywhere near here.
There isn't a conservative anywhere near here.
Now, Ferguson, it was easy.
I'll tell you something else.
Not that when cities get too hot for comfort, remember people can't cool the planet, but they can burn down their own neighborhoods, right?
This hands up don't shoot thing that lie, it was just as destructive as I imagined it would be.
It was just as damaging as I thought it would be.
Community organizers involved in Ferguson, bought and paid for by George Soros, and probably now in Baltimore.
And all of this is happening because some people want it to.
Now you may think that's a controversial statement to make, but folks, that's the benefit of here being 64 years old.
I've seen this before.
And all of you my age have.
I'll bet many of you my age are looking at all this and saying, been there, done that.
You're trying to find something new about it.
You're trying to find something unique about it.
Because it does seem like it's worse than ever.
But it always does when you're living through it.
But when Rodney King was happening, everybody thought that was the worst that had happened.
When Selma was going on, everybody thought that was the worst that had happened.
When the Watts riots, oh my God, this is the worst.
Everybody thinks it's the worst when it's happening.
Ferguson, oh my God, look at people from outside the city are being busted in here to protest.
It's been there done that.
So what is different?
What is different is that in the White House is the first African American president who, Among many things that he assured us and promised us.
This kind of thing was not going to happen anymore because people were gonna be happier.
People were gonna be more loving.
This was a new kind of politics, we were told.
There was gonna be bipartisanship.
The old political arguments that had been tried and failed decade after decade were going to wash away and be replaced by a new brand of sunshine and sunlight shining on everything and lifting everybody to new levels of height.
Hasn't happened?
Just the exact opposite.
How can that be?
Why does this only happen in communities that have been run by Democrats and liberals for decades?
And every time it happens, you can guarantee who's going to get blamed.
You can guarantee that race is going to be made a factor when it isn't in some cases.
You are going to you're guaranteed to hear people demanded government get bigger.
You're going to hear that the protesters are oppressed by an unjust and immoral country.
You're going to hear that these riots are not really tied to a specific event.
It's just the building rage of African Americans since the days of the founding of this country.
Thank you, Mark Lamont Hill, who made that point on CNN last night.
Yes, there's a lot to share with you here during the course of the three hour busy broadcast today, and we will.
But one thing back to the kids.
Yes, yes, yes, I know the mayor is trying to walk back our comments on giving the protesters space.
We'll get to that.
You know where this woman graduated college?
Oberlin.
Oberlin College, where Lena Dunham went, made up the fake rape story.
This happens to be one of the most liberal college campaign in the country.
And she got a political science degree there.
So she's been inculcated.
She's been indoctrinated.
She'd been taught what she was raised to believe has been confirmed by the mentors that she probably admired and respected when she was in college.
But why all of these references to kids?
I thought this was about some poor guy who was horribly injured by mean-spirited cops when they threw him into a metal compartment in a police van named Freddie Gray.
While he was screaming, apparently in terrible pain, we learned later that spinal cord had been 80% severed, but nobody knows how that happened or even when that happened.
Metal compartment, by the way, was added to the story to make it lose just a police van.
It was an average police man they threw him into.
But if this is about Freddie Gray, why are all these city officials honing in on parents and demanding that parents keep a sharp eye on their kids because this may not be about Freddie Gray at all, folks?
And if you've been watching cable news carefully, you might have seen it because what I'm going to tell you after the break here gets mentioned in a little trickle.
A crawl, they they called it text at the bottom of the screen.
But that narrative doesn't fit the larger narrative here.
What they're desperately looking for now is a way to blame this on Republicans, even though there isn't one anywhere in sight.
They're looking for a way to blame this on the 1%, even though they aren't anywhere in sight.
I hear these people that no jobs.
You've been running the show, you've got the jobs plans, we thought.
Well, there's still there are no jobs and there's poverty and there's no money.
Well, you've been giving money away left and right ever since you've been running the governments.
What do you mean there in any money?
People don't have what happened.
Where's it gone?
All the money you've been giving away.
And what are you gonna flood the market with illegal immigrants for if there's no jobs now?
You're gonna bring in a whole bunch of new Democrat voters that you're gonna act like you care more about these newly arriving Hispanic illegals than you do about the African Americans, and don't think the African Americans aren't noticing this.
Think that might have them a little ticked off?
You'll never get anybody to admit that, but I wouldn't put it past.
I'd be totally bummed out if I were a Democrat, loyal Democrat voter 50 years.
African American, listening to all the promises, believing all the promises.
And after 50 years, I'm still angry, maybe angrier than ever.
I'm still unhappy, maybe unhappier than ever.
No end in sight to my misery and anger, and then all of a sudden they tell me that another 12 million illegal immigrants are going to be granted amnesty and they're going to flood the job market, and I already can't find one.
Yeah, and then I'm told, don't worry.
We're looking out for you.
Your real enemy is the Republicans, and we're protecting you from them.
Yeah, you've done a great job of that.
There aren't any Republicans anywhere near Baltimore, Maryland, in any of this mess.
Now looky here, folks.
I have my TV's on it here in the EIB broadcast command center.
And there's a uh there's a joint press conference going on in the Bergdoll Garden.
Right now, President Obama is celebrating a trade deal with the Prime Minister of Japan.
Now, I don't know if you are aware or not, but all of the Democrat elected leadership in Maryland is desperately waiting for Obama to say something about Baltimore.
They so want Obama to say something because Obama saying something might end it.
Or Obama saying something might give it legitimacy.
But they want Obama to be involved, and Obama is worried here about money.
Obama is negotiating a trade deal with the Japanese that most of the Democrat Party just they don't support it.
But how can this happen?
What kind of insensitivity does it take when one of your urban core electoral centers, Baltimore, Maryland, is on fire and burning with a week-long curfew.
And your priority is a press conference in the Burgdal Garden, celebrating a trade deal with Sony.
I'm sure there's some elected Democrats in Maryland saying, what what do we rate here?
What more has to happen before Obama will pay attention to what's happening to us?
Another story about kids here, folks.
A woman in Baltimore is being praised for what she did after she spotted her son taking part in the rioting in the streets of Baltimore.
News crew from WMAR videotaped her berating her son for taking part in the violence.
A woman can be seen repeatedly slapping her son and yelling at him.
The woman was reportedly watching TV when she saw her son throwing rocks at the cops.
She recognized her son.
Even though he was wearing a black face mask, and the police chief, police commissioner of Baltimore, praised this mother.
It's audio soundbite number five.
His name is Anthony Bates.
You had one mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head, and she started uh smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed.
I wish I had more parents that uh took charge of the kids out there tonight.
What did the kids have to do with this?
Stand by, folks.
They may have everything to do with this.
I referenced earlier the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, CNN's news uh new day today, the co-host Chris Kumo said, You say that uh commentators don't understand how to run a big city, commentators don't know what you may know, or the mayor may know.
Well, what do you think you know that everybody else doesn't know, mayor?
The commentators don't know how to run a city because they're not mayors of cities.
So I'm not blowing past anything.
What I'm suggesting is that the mayor is in charge.
The mayor has information that none of us in particular have.
Mayor Stephanie Rollins Blake would not want something like this to happen, and was not negligent because some of these things took place.
I mean, there is some personal responsibility here, whether it's Regarding kids in the afternoon or adults later on.
Those children have parents.
I've seen, I believe, on your station, a mother grabbing her child and saying you should not be out here in this kind of activity.
So everyone has a level of responsibility.
There we go again.
Big city mayor of Philadelphia praising a woman for getting control of her out of control kid.
Here is quite infume, former name, Frizzelle Gray.
Fox News happening now this morning.
What's been most effective for me and hundreds of other men was to go into the communities yesterday to get back out there again today.
I'll be leaving here to go back again to kind of talk sense to young people who are very, very angry, and to implore parents to make sure that they get a hold of and know where their young people are.
We're just not gonna sit back and wildly watch this.
Okay, by now, folks, you may be getting the idea that there's something has nothing to do with Freddie Gray going on here.
All of this attention to kids.
Out of control kids, and parents should step up.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh 800 282-2882 executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Okay, you have this woman in Baltimore, and everybody's praising her.
The Baltimore police commissioner, Anthony Batts appraised her.
Even the mayor of Philadelphia has praised her.
This is not the what was supposed to happen.
The parents are not supposed to stop the kids from doing this because the kids have a legitimate reason.
That's what we're to think.
Oppression.
They're being oppressed by somebody.
We're not supposed to ask who because there aren't any Republicans anywhere nearby here.
So it's just overall American oppression against a portion of the population that it loves to discriminate against.
But there's this woman out there, and she's being praiseworthy, doing praiseworthy things.
How long do you think it'll be?
And I'm not joking here.
How long do you think it'll be before some liberal activist lawyer tries to get hold of the kid and represent him and charge his mother with child abuse?
And public humiliation.
This is not supposed to happen.
I mean, a mother can leave her home and see her kid on TV, go out and slap him upside the head and try to disaffine him that when people...
When people find out about it, and then the mother gets praised and the kid gets criticized, and he's one of the glorious future protesters out there learning his uh P's and Q's and earning his stripes.
That's not what's supposed to happen.
Parents in Baltimore are supposed to be so oppressed that they don't have time, they don't have the energy, they don't have the ability to worry about their kids.
They're too easy, they're too busy trying to provide food and what have you, and withstand all the oppression.
Last thing they want is a parent in Baltimore acting as a normal, caring, responsible parent would.
That's that's not part of the narrative.
I want to take a phone call before I get back to the kids and explain what this is really, probably really all about.
But I want to before our callers decide to chicken out and hang up before I get to them.
It's a touchy subject.
This is Donna in Frederick, Maryland.
I'm glad you called.
You're up first, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, Russ.
Thanks for having me on.
Um, you know, we've been hearing a lot about the theme.
Black lives matter.
But the sad reality is that the African American community needs to take a good look at their progressive representatives who choose their party over their own citizens.
And I feel that to a certain degree, the mayor allowed too much time to pass, which allowed the situation to escalate and they're gonna try and pin it.
That is what I wanted you to say.
The mayor allowed too much time.
I mean to ask you a question about that.
Do you think the mayor allowed do you think the mayor allowed too much time because he's incompetent?
No.
Um I just think that perhaps she was maybe not as on top of it as she could have been.
Uh I think she was totally on top of it.
You want to hear why?
Yes, I do, because I'm trying to process that.
As I say one of the one of the great unspoken things that's happening in police departments all over the country, in Ferguson, in Detroit, everywhere.
The Obama administration is essentially taking over and rewriting police procedural manuals under the philosophies that Eric Holder and Obama have toward policing.
And their attitude is the police are responsible for this.
The police, particularly if they happen to be militarized in the way they look, the way they in their uniforms and the vehicles they drive around town.
If it looks like a military operation, that's really bad.
And so there's an unseen, it's it's underreported effort by the Obama administration to totally take over local police departments.
To illustrate Obama, you know, you were going to mention the, I know you were going to mention, because Snerdley says here, you were going to she was eventually going to say that the theory she holds is that the governor of Maryland who's white is ultimately going to be blamed for this.
End up blaming the governor for not acting fast enough.
And that's a logical, by the way, uh thing to think, given the Obama administration, given the media, and given that's the closest you Republican you can find is in the state capitol.
So blame him.
Now, why was his response delayed?
Because the mayor didn't call him and ask for the National Guard.
The mayor waited.
Why did the mayor not institute the curfew until tonight while everything was going to hell yesterday?
Why did she not institute the curfew until tonight instead of last night?
Now she's out trying to explain what she meant when she said that we had to give the protesters space to destroy.
She's acting like how could anybody have really thought that she actually meant that?
She tries to walk it back, have that coming up too.
I think what's actually going on here, there are many things going on.
I don't mean to focus on one thing as the key that unlocks every answer here.
But this circumstance in Baltimore will and is providing yet another opportunity for Obama, who's not even there and doesn't even appear to care about it, doesn't even appear to be talking about it, and his brand new attorney general to take over the Baltimore police department.
I happen to know, I have a news story here that says Obama called the governor, and he's urged the governor to exercise restraint against the protesters.
What that means is you keep control of your cops.
Your cops will make this worse because your cops are the reason for this.
Doesn't matter if they're black cops, doesn't matter if they're white cops.
The police force is the means of oppression.
That's the message.
The police force is how the oppressors keep the oppressed oppressed.
Now in Baltimore, they can't make the case that it's racial or racist because it isn't.
So what they have to do in Baltimore is just make this is a tough one for them, because these are big government people.
They believe in big government.
Now they have to be seen criticizing it.
It's very delicate for them.
I'm talking about Obama and Loretta Lynch and all these other libs who really want to reign in police departments.
Police departments were Ferguson's been neutered for all intents and purposes.
And it's going to happen to the Baltimore police department.
It's happened to any, it's like I think it's 18 or 19 police departments now since Obama has been president, that new federal guidelines have been issued after problems occurred in communities where the police departments were blamed.
This police department's being blamed.
And the regime is is putting out the uh the notion that the police department's what caused this and is responsible for it, simply by virtue of a presence.
And if you want these agitators to get even more agitated, you want these protesters to be more protestful, then you will use in the cops out there.
What we must do is keep the cops away.
Otherwise, you're going to provoke the protesters even more.
The benefit of the doubt is given to the protesters because that's where the sympathy is.
The protesters are part of the grievance industry.
The grievance industry is legitimate.
They're African Americans.
They are minorities.
And they are oppressed.
They have been oppressed since the days this country was founded.
And there's a commentator, a professor at Columbia, Mark Lamont Hills, on CNN last night saying that that's all this is, is an uprising.
It's not even a riot.
It's an uprising of African Americans who finally can't take it anymore.
Fed up with 230 years of oppression.
Problem for Mark Lamont Hill, again, as it is for all these people, is that the oppressors are all Democrats here.
The oppressors are all liberals, and many of the oppressors here are African American.
So you'll have to forgive them for being confused.
And you'll have to forgive them for maybe saying contradictory things.
Because normally in a situation like this, there's a nearby Republican somewhere that can be blamed for all of this, who also would happen to be white.
That doesn't exist here.
So they're having to improvise and add lib.
And that's why I think they're slipping up and praising this mother.
When normally that kind of thing wouldn't happen.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue.
Yes, yes, I'll do the kid's story.
I've strung that along enough.
I didn't mean to string it along, it just happened.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
With half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, the uh the odds are, and this is a story from the Baltimore Sun.
Odds are most of the rioting and looting in Baltimore yesterday had nothing to do with the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.
The odds are that most of the rioting and looting in Baltimore yesterday had nothing to do with the cops.
It had nothing to do with Ferguson, it had nothing to do with hands up, don't shoot, it had nothing to do with the gentle giant, it had nothing to do with Rodney King.
It's nothing to do with anything that you've heard of.
Probably, more than likely had everything to do with a simple little flyer about a 2013 movie that celebrated what would happen if there are no laws.
Buried near the bottom of this article I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers in the Baltimore Sun is this.
The incident stemmed from a flyer that circulated widely among city scruel students via social media about a purge to take place at 3 p.m.
starting at the Mondormen Mall and ending downtown.
If I'm mispronouncing that, I'm sorry, I'm simply, I've never heard it pronounced, I'm pronouncing as it looks.
Monduman, they might say.
Mondorman Mall.
Anyway.
Such memes, as it were, have been known to circulate regularly among city scruel students based on the film The Purge.
It's a 2013 movie about what would happen if all laws were suspended.
The flyer included an image of protesters smashing the windshield of a police car Saturday during a march spurred by the death of Freddie Gray.
So the bottom line is that there's a flyer circulated all over town among high school students that they were to converge at the Mondoman Mall at 3 o'clock on Monday and start acting out what happened in this movie, The Purge, 2013, which is about what would happen if all laws were suspended.
Meaning you could just walk into any store and get what you want.
If you didn't like what the store had, you could Burn it down.
You could do whatever you want.
There aren't any laws.
There is nothing to stop you.
And this is what inspired kids to congregate at the mall and act out what was in this movie.
Now the Baltimore Sun story about riots erupting across West Baltimore and downtown doesn't even get to this until the end of the story.
They feature all the details of the rioting and all of the details of the injuries, the damage, and what happened in the midst of the riots.
But they don't get to anything about this all starting on social media.
This is yesterday.
This is not what happened Saturday.
This is yesterday.
Yesterday was a new series of events, which resulted in the mayor deciding to put a curfew in place all week starting tonight, not last night, because the protesters had to be given space.
The problem is the cops.
You have to restrain the cops once the protests start.
The cops only make it worse.
A police presence, this is the theory provokes them.
The theory is you get the cops out of there.
Get all forms of uh of oppression, get all signs of authority out of the way, and you'll have much less damage than if you have a bunch of militarized or militar mill uniformed military people or police people in the way.
That will only for it's it's the same old liberal canard that we've heard all our growing up.
He better not try to catch the bad guy.
That's just gonna make him angrier.
You just, you know, you you uh somebody breaks into your house, let them have whatever they want.
Do not engage, do not make them appeasement, if you will.
Which is liberalism 101 when it comes to bad actors, bad people, just let them have their way.
Because if you stop them, if you get in the way, you provoke them, why they're gonna do twice as much damage.
And this is the active theory in deploying police officers in places like Baltimore.
That's why the curfew didn't start till tonight.
That's why she said, gotta give them space to destroy.
Those that want to destroy got to give them space, because anything else is going to make it worse.
That's the convoluted thinking.
Let me grab another call quickly before we run out of time.
Jerry Cincinnati, your next EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Yes, sir.
How are you?
Can you hear me?
Um, I hear I I can hear you, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
My uh thing is that uh back last year when they were having trouble in England, and some lady, black lady was watching television, saw her child doing uh, you know, mischief things on camera.
She called up and reported them.
And I thought, my God, how refreshing that is, you know, that uh black parent would actually call up and or any parent really would call up and say, you know, hey, we're like kids doing things wrong.
In this day and age, it's almost unheard of.
And lo and behold, if somebody didn't do that in Baltimore, I'm really surprised, aren't you?
Well, I'm I'm sorry, Jerry, we just talked about that.
Uh Mr. Snerdley didn't hear it because he's screening and answering other calls, but we just uh spent about 15 minutes on that woman uh and the reaction to her from all the uh all the mayors.
Yeah, everybody was surprised by it.
Everybody was surprised by it.
And I'll I guarantee you this, there are a lot of people not happy about it.
I mean, on the one hand, here we have a bunch of kids rioting, and it's been and it's it's it's now there's no question it was because of this flyer that was sent around.
School age kids saw the flyer, they read about it on social media, the flyer called for the rioting to start at 3 p.m.
The flyer called for rioting so they could emulate what happened in this movie that they like, the purge.
Now, Baltimore schools are closed today, so the school-aged kids will have time to rest up and get back to their deep mourning.
But the schools were not closed when this flyer went around on social media.
But on the one hand, you have here a young protester who is emblematic and who represents the average young African American who has had it with This country faces impossible futures.
Oppressed, mistreated, no job, no nothing, because of the inherent unfairness of America.
And he's out making it known.
And he's representing tens of thousands of African Americans all over the country.
And out of nowhere, here comes his mom, slaps him upside the head and brings him back inside.
And literally destroys the image that they wanted to create of this guy as he was representing so many others.
That's why they're not happy that this happened.
Back after this.
Okay, the next predictable thing has happened.
Obama has spoken.
The protests were peaceful and nonviolent until the cops got involved.
That's when the violence got started.
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