Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
I guess the Democrats got tired of waiting on Elizabeth Warren because I'm just seeing here that Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialists from Vermont, formally announces he's seeking a Democrat presidential nominee.
He's going to get a lot of money too from those wackos out in California.
So, I mean, not going to go anywhere at the end of the day.
It's going to be Hillary.
If if the winners are determined by who's got the most money, it's going to be Hillary and Jeb.
And that's what the smart money thinks.
But it's way too soon to make such predictions.
That's why we hold off.
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I called it, ladies and gentlemen.
Another bit of evidence here demonstrating how you listen to this program regularly.
And you will be on the cutting edge of societal evolution, and you will know in advance.
What is going to happen in the world of liberalism?
On Tuesday on this program, this is the day that we had the remember the mom, Toya Graham, was inside her house.
She's the mother of six kids in Baltimore, does not have a job, does not have a husband, relies on the Democrat Party for everything, and she doesn't have anything.
Is she watching television?
And all of a sudden, she sees her son, one of her sons, as a rioter.
He's out there, got a brick or something in his hand, and she's beside herself.
Because she likes people, think that the cops are going to damage or harm her son.
So she runs out there and she accosts her son and she slaps him upside the head and drags him out of there and tells him he's stupid.
What in the world is he thinking?
An immediate reaction was to applaud Toya Graham.
You remember Dawn.
The immediate reaction was to applaud.
Well, this is great.
This is exactly if if nobody's gonna talk sense into the kid, it's the best that his mother does it.
That's exactly what mothers are supposed to do.
Rather than everybody bending over and just accommodating all these people because we feel sorry for them or whatever, just stand up and tell them what they're doing is wrong.
And she was praised, and I said, Do not go there, folks.
Because the left is not going to be happy about this.
The left is not going to be happy about her being praised.
The left is not going to be happy about the action that she took.
And I jokingly, that would be with jocularity for those of you in real linda, said that I wouldn't be surprised if somebody somewhere on the left charges her with child abuse.
A bit of an exaggeration, granted, uh, but nevertheless to make a point.
Well, it took a couple of days.
But let's go to the today's show today.
A portion of fill-in co-host Tamron Hall's report about the criticism now that Toya Graham is facing for smacking her son upside the head and disciplining him for participating in the riots.
Michael's mother is also facing some backlash for beating her son in such a public manner, with some on social media questioning the hypocrisy of praising Graham amidst all the violence in Baltimore.
For her part, Graham says she was only concerned with protecting her son.
However, about him walking out my front door.
I do.
It's just the life that we live around here.
You don't know if you walk out the door if you're gonna walk back in the door or not.
Now two things.
First, obviously my prediction was true, and we got another soundbite coming up demonstrating.
Do we have one?
Actually got three more coming, two more coming up to prove it.
Um being criticized now.
Exactly as I called it.
And for exactly the same reasons.
Uh backlash for beating her son in such a public manner.
Now the initial reaction was good for her.
The young man needs some discipline.
He's engaging in reckless, dangerous behavior.
A parent doesn't want a child unnecessarily doing that, and went out and meted out discipline in a traditional way.
And I knew, I knew it wasn't gonna be long, you know, after the initial wave of praise, the left wasn't gonna like that, and they have set upon her.
Let's go ahead and do the other two sound bites.
I want to come back to another point.
Next up is CNN's newsroom.
Info babe, Carol Costello speaking with the cultural critic, the Kayla Angela Davis.
Looks like little orphan Annie.
Mixed race little orphan Annie.
And if you want to get a picture, you know who I'm talking about, Brian.
You want CNN in there, mixed race, little orphan Annie.
It's Michaela Angela Davis talking about this, about Toya Graham's actions of smacking her son upside the head as he was participating in the riots.
The infobabe Carol Costello says, she's been hailed as a hero by some, and others think those images may do more harm than good.
So Michaela Angela Davis, you do not think she's a hero.
It's a sad day when a traumatized, terrorized, desperate mother beating and cursing her child becomes mom of the year.
She is a symbol, not a hero.
She symbolizes what incessant brutality, violence, desperation, systemic violence on her, right?
And the daily struggle to survive that, that's what that looks like.
When your only option is violence, right?
When your response is violence.
They're very good at imitating us.
So if she meets him with aggression, he will meet life with aggression, right?
And then how else was he supposed to work out his trauma?
He's a boy throwing rocks if you can't make Heidner Hera that join the club.
That is as confused and disoriented logic and analysis as you could possibly hope to hear in this situation.
But this is what passes for enlightened thought on the left.
And uh one more but we'll come back to these and analyze them, but one more bite.
This is also Michaela Angela Davis.
CNN's newsroom with the infobabe Carol Costello, who said, I want to read you a bit of a Washington Post op-ed.
It's titled, Why is Baltimore Celebrating the Beating of a Child?
It's called spanking, it's called discipline.
It's called a mother trying to save her kid.
And I told you this is gonna happen.
Now this woman has become the object of ridicule and criticism.
She's engaging in aggression, child abuse, she's doing it publicly, and she embarrassed the movement.
So Costello says, this Washington Post opened his title, Why is Baltimore Celebrating the Beating of a Child?
She writes, The celebration of Graham reflects the belief that black youths are problematic and criminal and out of control, and the video supports the idea that black fathers are absent.
You talk about a guilty conscience.
Can you imagine who wrote that?
Is that what you saw when you saw that incident?
Did you see let me just ask you?
You remember, I want you to visualize this.
The mother Toya Graham runs out of her house, accosts her son, who she is scared to death for because he is in a riot, holding a brick.
She doesn't want him anywhere near that scene because she's afraid of what'll happen to him.
And I don't know, she may be, we don't know this, but she might also not really like the fact that he's out there participating in a riot.
There's no future in that, but we don't know that.
All we know is what she said.
She fears for his safety in the riots, throwing bricks and stuff, the cops might retaliate and so forth.
Now, and you watch that.
Do you conclude that black youth are problematic and criminal and out of control?
And black fathers are absent.
I mean, that's what's written in the Washington Post about the incident, and to me, that is whoever wrote this sharing with us their guilty conscience.
Anyway, here is what Michaela, Angela Davis, said about that proposition.
Beating our children will not stop the police from killing them.
There are men who are buried who were beat.
There are men in prison who were beat.
You know, Freddie Gray, his mama might have beat him too.
There is no evidence to say that beating my kid will stop him from being arrested or going to jail.
In the first place, we've see what this has become beating.
Become a public beating.
It's not what this was.
This was discipline.
This was a parent.
These people have no clue.
They really have no idea what this really was.
They have no idea why Toya Graham went out and did what she did.
That's why she's being criticized now.
That's why she's thought of as a problem.
Oh no, she's oh gosh, making the movement look bad.
People on our side are not supposed to be engaging in child abuse.
Our mothers don't beat our kids.
It's the cops that beat our kids.
It's a mayor that beats our kid.
It's a states.
It's the man that beats our kid, but our mothers don't beat our kids.
What's she doing?
So it's an embarrassment to all of them.
But this is the most convoluted upside down logic, if you can call it that.
There are men who are buried who were beat, men in prison who were beat, you know, Freddie Gray, his mama might have beat him too.
No evidence to say beating my kid will stop him from being arrested or going to jail.
There's that word beating again.
I'll bet there is a lot of evidence that people that don't participate in riots don't get hurt during them.
Would you think that would be true?
That people that don't participate in riots are not as likely to be harmed in one.
I mean, you might say that somebody can be an innocent bystander.
Anyway, I think all of this is really tragic.
Let's go back to the first soundbite, the one with Tamron Hall.
I worry about him walking out my front door.
It's just the life we live around here.
You don't know if you walk out the door, if you were going to walk back in the door or not.
Can you imagine living that way?
I'm not denying she does.
I think it's it's tragic.
In the United States of America, we have people with these kinds of she lives in a city majority populated by African Americans.
What in the world I don't understand.
I didn't think they were dangers to each other.
I didn't think they posed threats to each other.
I thought all of this was racial.
But this is a town that's run by liberal Democrats and has been for 50 years, outside of one four-year mayoral term in 67.
I mean, who who's she been voting for?
There's no she's been voting for Democrats left and right, and I guarantee you the people she's been voting for have been promising her all of these times, all these campaigns, all these elections, that it's going to get better.
Vote for them, and this kind of stuff is gonna end, and it never does, does it?
They keep voting Democrat and life gets worse.
They keep voting Democrat and they get more and more frightened.
They keep voting Democrat and they get less and less happy.
You got an African American president, historic, first time ever, and things are worse.
You can imagine there's total confusion here on the part of many.
You don't know if this is in both this where she lives.
She lives surrounded by her community, and she has a legit fear that if she walks out the door, she may not walk back in.
I I this that's that to me would be unacceptable.
If I were a Democrat politician in that town, and I'd heard of a citizen in my district or community feared for her life daily like that.
I I I wouldn't put up with it.
It would not be acceptable to me.
But see how easy it is you blame the Republicans for it.
You blame George W. Bush, or you blame Ronald Reagan.
I mean, pick a Republican, and you've dealt with the problem.
It's just this is the kind of stuff that's genuinely depressed.
This is so unnecessary.
This woman doesn't have to be living this way.
There's a way out for her, but it's never going to happen if she keeps voting Democrat.
It isn't gonna happen if the people that run that city keep running that city.
It isn't gonna happen if the same kind of people that have been running the city for all these decades continue to.
And don't get mad at me.
I'm just sharing the evidence, the reality, life on the ground in Baltimore.
You heard her, and who's been running that town for I don't know how long.
Anyway, brief time out, my friends, you sit tight, much more straight ahead on the I had I had a statistic wrong yesterday.
I mentioned that the gay population talking about the same-sex marriage oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
Whoa.
Speaking of which, I didn't know this until today.
They're really mad at Justice Scalia on the left because of a reaction he had to an anti-gay marriage protester that got into the court's oral arguments.
Scalia's reaction to this guy when he stood up.
The left is really mad about it, and I love it.
Anyway, I was wrong about the percentage of the population that's gay.
I way, way overestimated it.
And how many of you watch the Sunday night TV show, Madam Secretary?
It stars Tea Leone as Hillary Clinton at Secretary of State.
And Sunday night's episode, I'm still not sure I believe they did it.
All that coming up after this.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, I meant to mention this when I was playing the soundbites of Toya Graham in the...
And the esteemed media analysts who are now criticizing her, exactly as I predicted, by the way.
I don't want you to forget that.
I told you that after this woman was made a hero by average ordinary Americans for her disciplinary action on her child, that she was going to be attacked by the left.
And it only took a couple of days.
In that, the reference was made to Freddie Gray.
There is a front page story on the Washington Post today.
That would be, let me repeat this, a front page story on the Washington Post.
And it looks like the Freddie Gray story is going to go the same way as the gentle giants.
The gentle giant was walking around town on a beautiful Saturday.
And he stopped into a convenience store to pick up some things that he wanted.
He left the convenience store with a friend.
And he was very excited, the gentle giant was about his upcoming first year at college.
Yes, looking forward to higher education.
Looking forward to life as a college man.
Even though this was in the late winter and early spring, we were told a gentle giant was eagerly anticipating the start of the college year in August or September.
Just feeling good.
Walking down the middle of the street.
And a cop came up.
And accosted the gentle giant, asked him what he was doing in the middle of the street.
I'm thinking about my first days at college.
The white cop said, screw that, and shot him.
But before he shot him, the gentle giant put his hands up, surrendered.
Don't shoot, don't shoot.
Cop fired anyway.
Cold-blooded murder.
That was the story.
What really happened was this.
The gentle giant muscled his way into a convenience store and stole some Swisher Sweets and shoved the proprietor out of the way when the proprietor tried to stop it.
The reason he stole the Swisher Sweets was he wanted to roll some marijuana.
Inside them, make some blunts out of them.
And as he was walking down the street, not thinking about going to college, but rather heading on the way to roll his blunts.
The cop driving around got a call about the convenience door robbery.
Got an ID on the suspect, driving around, sees the gentle giant in the middle of the street.
They've been having a problem with people in the middle of the street in Ferguson.
The cop stops him, says, police get off the sidewalk, supposed to Walk there.
Gentle Giant got aggressive and ultimately attacked the police officer, tried to get his gun, followed him into the car.
The police officer waited and waited, finally, as a last move, got the gun and shot, Gentle Giant died.
That was what really happened.
To this day, there are activists in the civil rights community who are still lying to people about hands up, don't shoot.
The entire fabricated story is still considered to be what really happened in the clueless and used civil rights coalition community in the country.
And I'm I I knew when this I knew this hands up don't shoot when those Rams players came out, player introductions, hands up, don't shoot.
When this kept being repeated, I knew that this was going to have bad ramifications all over the country.
Lo and behold, the Freddie Gray story appears to be shaping up as just the same kind of bogus.
Washington Post tells us back in a minute.
A minor nitpick correction.
That incident was not in March.
I was getting that confused with the kids flooding the southern border from Central America.
That's what was going on.
The Gentle Giant incident was in August of last year.
And of course, the grand jury conducted hours, days, testimony.
It was it was conclusively established what happened.
Witnesses who were lying were clearly exposed.
There is no ambiguity.
There is no other side.
There is no aversion.
The gentle giant did not put his hands up.
He did not try to surrender.
He was not shot in the back.
He was not shot in cold blood.
And most people involved after having heard the evidence said they would have fired sooner than the cop did.
Okay.
Now he moved forward to Freddie Gray.
The story is that Freddie Gray, an innocent young man of 24-25, was enjoying himself on a delightful weekend afternoon in Baltimore, like he does every afternoon.
And the cops came up and accosted him in a very rude and mean way and threw him violently into a solid metal cage in the back of one of their paddy wagons.
And in the process, 80% of Freddie Gray's spinal cord was severed, and he was screaming in outrageous pain.
And the cops couldn't have cared less.
They did nothing to help poor Freddie.
And in fact, after putting Freddy in this metal cage inside the paddy wagon, they stopped and picked up a couple other vagrants on the way to the hospital.
And they didn't care about Freddy.
And because they didn't care, Freddie passed away.
We have since come to learn, the front page of the Washington Post today, that Freddie has a rap sheet as long as both of his arms.
So, That he probably wasn't able to read.
He hadn't gone to much school.
He was a career criminal for whom the cops were constantly on the lookout.
And a prisoner inside the, but that was not a metal cage either.
It was just a standard ordinary prisoner van.
Like every other prisoner van in every other police department in the country.
There wasn't anything special about it.
Another prisoner in the van, this is in the Washington Post, said that Freddie Gray was throwing himself around in there.
That Freddie Gray was trying to injure himself is what this other prisoner said he thought was going on in there.
And now the city of Baltimore says that uh they are going to delay the report on what actually happened to Freddie Gray.
But the facts on the ground as we have them now might not support the claim that Mr. Gray died because of police brutality.
This was the automatic conclusion, the automatic assumption, just as it Was with the case of the gentle giants done on purpose to inflame a community, to cause riots, to cause unrest, to further this idea that white cops mistreat black men constantly, daily, every day, all the time, no end to it.
Because that's part of the political agenda.
Well, this would explain a lot of things.
It would explain why the details of his injuries have not been released.
It would explain why they are now not even going to be released to the public on Friday, as was originally planned, because the authorities have to give space to those who want to destroy space and time.
If you had conclusive evidence that the police didn't do anything to Freddie Gray, why wouldn't you release that?
Why would you withhold that?
Why would you withhold it and fuel the suspicions and the premonitions and the prejudice of an already rioting community?
Can somebody explain this to me?
Well, it's as Obama has said.
If Americans don't see any rioting, if Americans don't see any looting, if the American people don't see any burning on their TV, they might not realize that billions of more tax dollars are needed on welfare benefits.
I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what Obama said.
That's the gist of what he was saying.
If we don't have this stuff on TV, then the public isn't going to realize how bad it is.
And if they don't realize how bad it is, they're not going to realize how much more money is needed, and federal control is needed.
So just like in the case of Ferguson, where the facts of the case were known from the first autopsy, the facts of the Freddie Gray case have to be suppressed for as long as possible in order for the Obama administration and the rest of the professional radical left to squeeze everything they can out of this incident.
And make no mistake that's what's going on here.
Remember Ron Emanuel.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
And they've got a built-in manufactured crisis here, and they want to milk it.
They want to extract every benefit they can't, best benefit from this that they can.
They want to squeeze everything out of this incident.
And it may not have even been an incident.
But you can't let a crisis go to waste, even if it is made up.
Remember the Baltimore police chief Anthony Batts, the police commissioner said a couple of weeks ago, Freddie Gray was being violent in the van, the police had to stop to put leg restraints on him.
He was being violent, the police chief admitted this.
That would indicate that he didn't yet have a spinal injury, and two that he was thrashing himself around for some reason.
The media has ignored all of this.
Remember after Toya Graham went out there and now, as they're saying, beat her son upside the head when she saw him rioting.
Remember the police commissioner Anthony Batts said more mothers should be like Toya Graham.
In fact, you remember on Monday?
I made a big deal here out of telling you, and I played the sound bites for you, of all the people there focusing on the children, and how parents need to get better control of their kids.
It's up to the parents.
He had the police chief saying so, the mayor saying any number of officials.
It's up to parents to control their kids.
And everybody was saying, why what do kids have to do with this?
And that's when we learned that the stuff that happened on Monday had nothing to do with Freddie Gray.
It was all with that riot.
The mall, the sponsored by the Flyer promoting a movie that imagines what life would be like without any rules.
So we're they've got a pattern now, folks.
The gentle giant meme or narrative, if you will, is very likely being repeated here in Baltimore.
So all of this is happening for what very well could be no reason whatsoever.
At least in terms of oppression and justice and all the usual things that we hear.
Now let's add back to the audio sound bites.
Last night, your world with uh with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel.
They have a correspondent out there doing a bunch of good work.
His name is Leland Vidert.
And uh Cavuto spoke with Leland Vidert about new information from the mayor's response to the Baltimore riots.
Neil Cavuto said, Did the mayor say let the protesters loot, Leland?
This is coming from a very senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the orders that were given by the mayor and by her police commanders down to the very core of the police riot control units.
And what I am quoting now from him is quoting the mayor, let them loot its only property.
Oh no!
Here comes another one against the mayor that she's gonna have to go out and explain why she didn't really say what she said, or how we are misunderstanding what she said.
The police, according to another report, were told to stand down during the riots.
We know that's true.
We know the police were told to stand down.
Remember, there's this convoluted theory out there that a strong police presence increases riots, and a silent or invisible police presence makes things more peaceful.
It's just the exact opposite, by the way.
But it the idea that strong police presence creates riots fulfills the narrative that the cops are to blame, you see, which is what the left wants everybody to believe.
So here's Leland Vidert, and he's got a senior law enforcement official, direct knowledge of the orders given by the mayor.
I'm quoting now from him quoting the mayor, let them loot.
It's only property.
Here's the thing.
Knowing what you know of this mayor and things that she's already said, you can almost believe that.
Yesterday on America's Newsroom, Bill Hammer interviewed the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake.
And there's this little exchange.
This goes by fast, nine seconds here.
So there was no order to hold back.
No.
Or was there?
No, you but you have to be you have to understand it's it's not holding back.
It's responding appropriately.
It's not holding.
No, no, no, it's not holding back.
It's responding appropriately by not responding.
Yes.
There wasn't any holding back.
What do you talk about holding back?
And here's Leland Vidert.
Mayor said, let him loot.
It's only property.
Um people are having trouble digesting this.
Surely she couldn't have meant what she said.
I that's what I heard on Monday.
Got here on Monday, played the mayor's statement about giving me Zona Destroy space to do it.
Had people say, Rush, come on, you know she didn't mean that.
You gotta cut some people some slack sometime.
Then she went out and tried to explain what she meant and kind of made it worse.
Let's go back and revisit Saturday night, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and her press conference responding to the violent protests over the uh the death of the um uh Freddie Gray.
Yep.
I've made it very clear that I uh worked with the police and instructed them to do everything that they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their uh right to free speech.
It's a very delicate balancing act because while we uh tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other you know things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.
Now, what she says she's saying is we backed off and we gave the peaceful protesters room to do it, and then we got snookered.
Yep.
We we were being nice to the peaceful protesters, and the bad actors came in there, and they took over, and since we had given the good guys space, the bad actors took it and they had the space and they wanted to destroy.
And that's what she says she meant when she said, you know, things were going on.
We also gave those who wished to destroy space to do as well.
She's saying that as a regretful, you know, oh my God, we ended up giving the people that want to destroy things space to do as well.
She walked back and said she really didn't mean it.
Now we hear.
First hand witness quote, mayor says let them loot.
It's only property.
And the Maryland Sheriff, a Maryland sheriff, has confirmed the stand down orders were given.
That coming up when we get back.
Don't go away.
We are back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Saying what I say, loving, hearing myself saying what I say, because I'm documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
Here's Mike Lewis, who was on Hannity last night.
He's the uh Comiko County, Maryland Sheriff.
And Hannity asked him about the uh police response to the riots.
A number of high-profile law enforcement people in Baltimore have all confirmed that a stand down order was given on Monday by the mayor herself with the comment: even if there's looting on the ground, it's only property.
Have you heard that?
We got there.
I was told by a number of senior officers, commanding officers who were a delegated authority throughout the city that we had orders to stand down, that orders had been given to stand down, and there were many, many Baltimore City police officers.
They were clearly, clearly worn out, and they were embarrassed.
They apologized to us many times for having to come to Baltimore City.
They said we're embarrassed that our mayor told us to stand down.
This is ridiculous.
I heard people actually saying, I'm done, I'm through.
My heart broke for these guys and girls.
All I could hear was retreat or stand down.
Stand down.
This was over the radio.
I heard it with my own ears, and I couldn't understand for the life of me what was going on.
Yeah, well, now everybody knows.
He heard it.
He heard the order.
Stand down.
Stand down.
Retreat, stand down.
While the rioting was going, we know this happened.
You know, I made mention of something mere moments ago when I was talking about Toya the mother, Toya Graham.
And I was talking about how just how unacceptable is it that this woman actually says that she feels he very well might not re-enter her house if she ever leaves it.
Yeah, you know, sometimes you leave your house, you're not in the front door, you're not sure you're going to get back in the back door.
I should properly point out that police officers leave home that attitude in their heads every day.
But police officers sign up for it.
They understand the possibilities for it for a citizen of an American city to have a daily fear of leaving home and maybe not being able to return.
What is happening here?
And there are reasons why this exists.
Thank you.
It's not just in her head.
And you know, there are acts of violence and murders and mayhem take place near where she lives.
Six kids, no husband.
Take a look at this.
You know, Freddie Gray, uh, everybody with one of the benefits of all this time taking place, or of these events taking so much time, is that there is time to actually dig in and learn about things.
And what is being learned about the education system in Baltimore and the status of it, it's an embarrassment.
It's a literal embarrassment.
And anybody in the Democrat Party or in city or government, uh, state government running around, federal government asking and demanding more money and claiming they don't have enough.
This is absurd.
School attendance.
This is from the Justice Policy Institute and Prison Policy Initiative.
In Freddie Gray's neighborhood, half of the residents don't have jobs.
Almost 50% are chronically absent.
60% of the people in Freddie Gray's neighborhood over 25 have less than a high school diploma.
And you hear all this, and then you remind yourself that all these government officials are running around blaming the fact that there are no jobs.
And that's why these people have to interesting, and no jobs, that's why people join Al-Qaeda in ISIS.
And no jobs, that's why people are rioting here in our great city.
Well, is it any wonder they don't have any jobs when half of them are chronically absent, sixty percent have less than a high school diploma.
Which means it's a frightening percentage who probably don't even know how to read.
You know, you look at Freddie Gray's rap sheet, and it's long.
Freddie Gray has been arrested...
I mean, literally dozens of times.
And there's an oh there's an interesting way to look at that.
Look at how many times the police did not kill Freddie Gray.
I mean, this rap sheet is amazing for somebody 24 years of age.
A number of times the cops could have really damaged him, but they didn't for some reason.