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May 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
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I mentioned moments ago that there's a police union in Baltimore has a not alleged, but they have referenced that there may be a conflict of interest between uh Merilyn Mosby, the state's attorney, and the family legal representation of Freddie Gray.
And here's what it is.
The Freddie Gray family lawyer is the ponytailed Billy Murphy.
He's got a cute little two-inch polytail.
He's a bald headed guy, got male pattern baldness.
You've seen him out there.
And over the course of many years in cable TV, he's been a respected guest, I think, during OJ and a number of other cases.
You may not know who I'm talking about now, but if you saw him, you'd recognize him.
Cute little two-inch ponytail back there.
You can only see it, you know, on a side shot.
He's their lead attorney.
There's no question that the Gray family cannot afford him.
But he's their attorney.
He was among Marilyn Mosby's biggest campaign donors last year when she ran for state's attorney.
He donated the maximum individual amount allowed, which is four grand in June, which is fine.
Don't misunderstand, not alleging anything here.
Uh Mosby campaigned just a few months ago.
She's only been in office for four months.
She campaigned on the premise of getting the police under control.
She ran unopposed in the general election.
In other words, the Republicans didn't even try.
She did not have a Republican opponent.
It wouldn't have mattered if she had.
The Republican wouldn't have gotten enough votes to actually count.
She is married to a city councilman, Nick Mosby.
And that is the near conflict that the Baltimore police union is alleging uh is relevant here.
So the question now is, will all of these charges, I mean, they are just voluminous.
The second degree murder, the uh manslaughter, unintended this, intended that, uh malfeasance over here, uh not caring about something over there.
I mean, there's a long list of charges for all six of these cops.
Will that quiet the unrest?
Will that quell the uprisings?
Because many people think that that's what this is really all about.
Because I'm telling you, I I mean I went through this in the first hour, but you go back and you look at the news yesterday, and none of what was going to happen today was reported, and we were told that what did happen today was not going to happen.
But then the Reverend Sharpton of the Justice Brothers arrived, and everything changed.
And the Reverend Sharpton, we played the soundbite earlier, is now saying essentially, you know, we tried.
We have tried working with the police all over this country, and it isn't working.
It isn't helping.
We are still a victims of injustice.
And there isn't any social justice going on out there, and the Reverend Sharpton says that basically what we need is a takeover, a national takeover of policing in this country, which they're doing with the help of Obama.
Every one of these police departments, Ferguson, and try it in New York City, but there have been 15 or 17 police departments.
Uh, After various incidents of some controversial nature, the Justice Department under Eric Holder went in, said, You guys, you want federal assistance, uh, community, you want federal money.
You're gonna have to reform your police departments under our guidelines.
And the federal guidelines choke these police departments.
And they have really no choice.
I mean, the feds, the DOJ comes calling and tells you the way it's going to be, or you don't get any money.
Well, that's because nobody has any money, so that's the way it ends up being.
And this is how Obama and the left are changing the structure and the definition, the intent, the overall purview of police departments.
And the objective is to rein them in, is to really restrain them.
Because the presumption under which all this is happening is it's the police departments who are guilty.
It is the police departments all over the country who are responsible.
And now, including Baltimore and Sharpton talking about the need now for a takeover.
You see where Obama has said after this incident, after all the rioting that's gone on in Baltimore this week, Obama said the first thing he wants to do is plant himself on a beach and start drinking out of a coconut shell.
And then after that, he wants to go back to community organizing.
Which kind of surprised me because I didn't know he ever stopped.
Community organiz.
What is community organizing?
Community organization, there's another word for it.
It's agitating.
And that's what he said he wants to go back to.
That's where he thinks he's had the most impact.
Well, before he became president.
Last night on your world with Neil Cavuto, Leland Vitter, Fox reporter, was doing a segment on the unrest in Baltimore and played a clip here of his attempt to ask the mayor questions about her actions during the Baltimore riots.
Name is Stephanie Rawlings Blake.
You will hear in this soundbite, the justice brother, Reverend Sharpton.
It's number five who started here at number five.
What do you have to say to the businesses who were looted because of your order to stand down?
Can you excuse me one minute?
You don't have anything to say?
Nothing to say to the business ownership.
What about to the police who are injured?
Excuse me.
Hey!
Why can't we ask questions?
Why can't we ask questions?
Now you didn't see it, but Vitter got shoved there.
He got pushed back a little bit.
The Reverend Sharpton said, Can you excuse me one minute?
You don't have anything to say?
Can you can you just excuse us?
Nothing to say to the business owners?
What about the police who were injured?
Excuse us, sir.
I'm sorry, hey, excuse me.
Hey, why can't we ask questions?
Why can't we ask questions?
Sharpton was shoving him out of the way.
Here is the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, explaining her path to power.
Went to the best high school in the city, Western High School.
Went to the best college that I could get to, Oberlin College.
And when I got there, I said, if I'm going to be of service, I need to know a few things.
I need to know how government works.
So I studied government, and I need to know economics.
I took three and a half years of economic.
I don't even like economics.
But I said I have to learn it if I'm going to be of service.
Then when I left there, I went to law school.
Why?
Because I thought it was important training for the work that I intended to do for my city.
And as soon as I got out of law school, I ran for city council.
And why?
Because I love this city.
Well, what's missing here?
As you listen to her basically read her resume and her education uh history.
What is missing?
She went to the best high school in the city, then she went to Oberlin.
Oberlin, by the way, that's that's uh Lena Dunham's alma mater where the fake rape happened that didn't happen.
Oberlin College, one of the most left wing, and that's saying something, universities in the country.
And she says, I needed to know how government works.
So I went to a class.
I stuttered government.
I had to know how government worked.
Okay, what are you gonna be taught about government and how it works in a classroom with a bunch of instructors at the most liberal university in the country or one of whatever you're taught, you learn it all in the classroom.
And then economics.
I knew I needed to know economics, but I don't like economics.
I hate economics, but I knew I had to learn it if I'm going to be of service.
So she learned economics in the classroom at one of the most left-wing universities all across the fruited plain.
And then after learning about government, and then after learning about economics, all on campus, she then went to law school because she figured that the work she intended to do for her city and her community, she would have to know the law.
So she went to law school and another bunch of classrooms.
And as soon as she got out of the classroom, she ran for city council.
Why?
Because she loves the city.
What's missing is any, just like Obama.
What's missing with Obama?
What's missing with everybody in the Obama cabinet?
What's missing with every high-ranking individual in the Obama regime?
Experience in the real world.
I uh I don't I don't like using the term private sector.
I actually think it's a negative.
I think when low information voters hear private sector thing, it's a bunch of Wall Street people talking about technical things that uh is not for them.
The economy.
They have no real world in day-to-day life.
Whatever she learned in the classrooms at Oberlin College is what she has taken to the mayor's office.
And now she has graduate school with the Justice Brothers.
That would be the Reverend Sharpness.
Open Line Friday, we got calls next when we get back.
Back to the phones.
This is Thomas in Fairfax, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Oh, thank you.
Long time listener.
Um I've been in tune with uh everything that's been going on within Baltimore.
I used to live in there, um, ninth town.
Uh I just wanted to bring your to your attention the another avenue that they're missing here with the uh the person who died while under custody.
Um when I was doing my residency back up in Ohio in the Air Force, the there was a um a young male who came in to the emergency room, 21, 22-year-old male came in.
He wasn't he wasn't military, but we took care of military and non-military, but he'd come in to the emergency room complaining of some neck pain and some tingling.
We did it.
CT scan and lo and behold, this guy was walking around for about 10 days with a C2 fracture, hangman's fracture, didn't even know it.
If somebody could have come up to him and just knocked him on the head, he would have been completely paralyzed.
And he had no idea.
He would walk, he had been walking around with this thing for 10 days.
And we found out he had been in a car accident ten days prior to him coming into the emergency room.
He didn't seek help the first time, which is kind of amazing.
Um, but it was just literally by the the luck of you know, of whatever, uh, that he didn't end up completely paralyzed prior to coming into the emergency room.
And so the question you have is what could Freddie Gray have been doing uh in days ahead that might have injured himself in ways not even needed.
They need to hire some sort of detective and look into it, you know, to the days prior to him getting arrested and see if there was any such incident that could have occurred that would have resulted in this.
If they can't find a really good reason for him to have gotten it while under custody, well, now it's interesting existing injury.
The state attorney made a point of saying she was not gonna release the evidence after telling us how transparent her office is.
She really did.
She said, We're not gonna release the evidence.
There's no grand jury here.
There was no grand.
I mean, yesterday, I'm telling you, yesterday they weren't gonna issue a report.
Al Sharpton shows up.
I don't know if it had anything to do with it, but it looks odd.
Sharpton shows up at the next day today, they vomit everything they've got, and they just throw charges at these six cops that nobody had any idea were coming.
We're told, now maybe I don't know, you you haven't seen the patient, obviously.
But when I heard that he he came out of that police ban with his spinal cord 80% broken or separated.
Um immediately started how what happened inside that van?
How the hell does something like that happen?
And we don't even hear about a rough ride today.
So they were certain that that he was showing signs of the injury after he got out of the van.
Well, he was when they I saw him being dragged to the van, he was complaining of being in a lot of pain.
And it looked like his legs were not functioning well when they were dragging him to the van, at least in the video.
The video doesn't show the cops doing anything to him, at least not attacking him or or any of that.
Right.
So I I uh and and he wasn't secured with a seat belt, and they're punishing these guys for that, even though that is a relative I mean, like last week implemented rule.
Right.
So I don't know how you break eighty percent of your spinal cord.
Well, I'm not sure which one what you know what exactly it sounds like he had a obviously had a uh a cervical fracture.
I'm not sure which one.
I haven't seen the report, but um there so there is it can actually happen where you can actually have a pre-existing fracture and walk around with it unbeknownst to the person who had it.
Um like like I said with our patient, it was it was about ten days prior to him presenting himself to our emergency room that he actually had to or what they call a hangman's fracture, had no idea he had had it.
And he was so lucky he didn't become paralyzed, just in the in the interval.
Okay, now I'm told that Freddie Gray did get into that police van under his own power.
So while they were dragging him, his his he was dragging his feet on the ground when they were trying to get him in the van.
And I don't know if that was his lack of cooperation, but I did see the tape.
My my reminder here is correct.
He did launch himself into the back of the van.
His legs were working fine.
That's on two different tapes.
So something happened in the van, but no cop was in the back of the van.
And they didn't talk about a rough rough ride today.
The the other thing the only other thing of to note, um, again, I don't know what fra what cervical uh vertebrae was fractured.
Um how long was he in custody before he died?
Um was it a couple of days?
No.
No.
It it it was minutes or half hour.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I I don't know.
I but I mean it could have been it's it they do need to look into this.
Well, the defense attorneys will.
The defense attorneys will do everything you're suggesting here.
They will try to look back into every day prior to this incident to find out just what uh Freddie Gray had done, what had maybe happened to him, where he was.
I mean, these are serious charges, and they're gonna have to be defended against.
And the the cops union will come up with good uh good lawyers for these for these guys.
But this is just it's it's uh I don't know.
This is what folks, another example of how you really have to fight.
It's just hard.
You have to fight getting caught up in the daily media narrative or soap opera.
Here I am caught up in it by telling you what was being reported by ostensibly serious news organizations yesterday, not fly by night obscure websites, that they didn't have any evidence that there was the medical examiner couldn't find any evidence of homicide whatsoever, that they weren't gonna release the report, and we go from that in less than twenty-four hours to six people committing second degree murder.
Manslaughter, what have you.
I it's it's un it's again I'm drawn back to that old guy on the street who doesn't believe it, thinks it's it's all for show.
That that's to be understood, too.
He's old enough probably not to trust anybody in government or in the police department, no matter what their race is.
Betty in Lubbock, Texas, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
First, I want to say we've been fans of yours since you since you were on TV and we loved your ties.
And I've given your books to grandchildren, and they are excited that you're going to be doing more.
So Before I get to my point, you've been talking about the nationalization of the police forces, and I would like to read you a quote from a campaign speech in 2008 by Obama.
Go ahead.
Okay.
A quote.
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set.
We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the U.S. military.
I remember that statement.
Good.
Good.
I remember where this is going.
You know, I remember that like it was yesterday.
I remember that like it.
You're exactly right.
He was talking about, and I remember the reaction to it.
Was he talking about a domestic military police force?
Yes, and now we hear that from Al Sharpton.
And now we hear Sharpton the ne there's a need for a national takeover of policing.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, that's I don't have any doubt that they've wanted to do that.
They're doing it with all these new guidelines that they are mandating on local police support.
They're doing all this.
You know, this has been the frustrating thing for me hosting this program for six years.
This isn't theoretical anymore.
This isn't, if we're not careful, folks, in the next five years, XYZ is gonna have it's happening now.
All of this stuff is actually happening.
And there isn't any pushback anywhere against any of it.
That's a common, common refrain.
And the more of it that goes on, the longer, harder it's gonna be to roll it back at some point.
No, no, I misspoke about that.
I did not if Freddie Gray died, uh, ladies and gentlemen, he died a week after being arrested after having surgery.
I got confused when I was talking to the um the Air Force surgeon uh uh in answering a question of his.
I was thinking strictly about what the state's attorney was saying to happen in the van and all the charges and and I just got he died a week later, which a week after the trip in the paddy wagon, and after surgery and its homicide.
I mean, I and then we've got your grab audio soundbite twenty-five and twenty-six, just to put an exclamation point on a couple of things stated recently.
First, Bobby Rush on the House floor today during general speeches.
He just excited as he can be about Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney who announced the charges against the cops today.
They thought they wouldn't get away with it.
Then no one would even think the question their decisions, their thrill thinking.
They're condom.
But thank God.
There is a woman in Baltimore who said to them to all the police officers who are like-minded, such as them.
Say to this nation.
No more.
No more.
Her essence of shouted it out than blank lines do matter.
Then blank lines do matter.
I'll tell you, there's a Democrat star on the verge of being born here today, and that is Marilyn Mosby.
This is Bobby Rush on the floor of the House.
You watched it it won't be long before you're gonna start.
You'll see it in the media first.
It'll be round table discussions from expert media analysts discussing her political future, her political fortunes based on her speech today at the podium at City Hall announcing the charges against the cops.
Here is Elijah Cummings, a former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians in the House of Representatives.
He is Congressman from Baltimore.
That was a new normal.
I've talked to police.
I mean, a lot.
And they tell me themselves that there are certain police that should not be on the board.
And so they're gonna have to help us.
We doubt those folks so that they can be the elite of the elite.
One of the things that I'm determined to do, and I'm hoping that we're able to do, is make Baltimore a model for the nation.
Yeah.
A model for the nation.
We don't have to follow anybody.
We can set the model.
You go, folks, right?
There it is.
Yes, yes, you're here in the crowd.
We're gonna make Baltimore the model for the nation.
We don't have to follow anybody.
We can set the model.
Well, the model is pretty clear what they want it to be.
I'm telling you, I the the social justice versus real justice.
You're watching social justice unfold before your very eyes.
You're watching the looting of a police force, the looting of a justice system in Baltimore going on, the legal looting, if you will.
That's it's it's clear.
And they're all excited and happy about it.
No, I've not forgotten the question yesterday.
I did pose a question yesterday, and it didn't get an answer, and I didn't answer it myself, carried over to today.
Let me pose the question again.
We'll deal with it before the program ends.
I pointed out some really relevant statistics and followed it up with a really, really relevant question.
Yeah, Bobby Rush is a former Black Panther member.
It's ironic as it can be.
You've got a Black Panther member.
We back in the 60s version, Chicago, uh Oakland, San Francisco, the whole boy, they traveled around.
Genuine hellraisers.
Now he's a member of Congress.
He's all excited about Marilyn Mosby.
Uh is the only man, by the way, to ever defeat Obama in an election.
Bobby Rush claims that he left the Black Panthers in 1974.
He says they started glorifying thuggery and drugs.
Now, how long is Elijah Cummings represented Baltimore?
Anyone want to take a stab?
The reason I ask is because everybody there has been there forever.
And these problems have existed for as long as Democrats have been running the show.
Elijah Cummings has been representing Baltimore for 34 years in the House of Representatives.
17 consecutive terms.
And some of those years he was the chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians.
And this town is 60% African American, and they're acting like that they have been the minority in this town for all of these years, and they're finally now just climbing up out of that victim status.
They're finally escaping victimhood.
And it's as though somebody else has been holding them back.
Somebody else has been holding them down.
And now they are rising up.
And if there's any rising up, they're rising up against themselves.
That's what's so comical about this.
If you can find anything comical, every grievance they've got is a grievance against themselves.
What's that?
Hall.
Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore for 34 years, not all in Congress.
He's been in Congress for 19 years, coming up on 10 terms being completed.
But he was in the State House before.
So total of 34 years, State House and Congress.
Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore.
Now I know we got some new blood here.
We got a new mayor, young mayor, new state's attorney, and so forth, but where they come from, they come from the embryos of the current leadership.
If I dare use that terminology.
Well, well, they they do.
In other words, there's there's no racial conquest here.
There's no racial takeover.
It's not it's not as though the whites have been running this town for years and it's subjugating and subordinating and mistreating and what have you.
And that we shall overcome is finally coming to fruition.
They're rising up against themselves.
That's really what is is it's another thing that's ironic to me.
This would be like I don't know.
you take um any group of people that have been running any business for years and it's losing money and they're about to go out of business and blaming it on the customers or blaming it on somebody else.
It's just it's it's and they're allowed to get away with this, with this hypocrisy and the misstatement of uh of of facts and truth.
Well, because we just we can't hold them to the same standards because of their victim status.
They've been so oppressed and so forth.
So we have to understand.
And it's a soft bigotry of low expectations once again.
By the way, a term used by President Obama and the Baltimore mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake to characterize characterize writers, has given life to a debate over the word.
The word is thug.
And a city councilman in Baltimore, Carl Stokes, told Aaron Burnett on CNN that thug is the new N-word.
And he hears somebody talk about thugs rioting, they may as well be using the N-word as far as he's concerned.
Yep, no matter how you look at it, it's a negative word.
Thug people, it's a code word, it's a dog whistle word.
Thug means the N-word.
Carl Stokes on the war path.
Shouldn't be calling our children thugs.
He's talking about the thugs that are out there rioting.
We shouldn't be calling our children thugs.
What are we going to call them?
Special snowflakes?
What uh uh gifts of love?
Well, what are we what are we gonna call them?
So keep a sharp eye out for that.
Also relevant news here, the city of Baltimore.
We discussed this yesterday.
50% chronic truancy.
Half the people don't go to school.
Sixty percent of the people in Baltimore over 23 have less than a screw education.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore School System ranked second among the nation's 100 largest districts in how much it spent per pupil in fiscal year 2011.
This is Census Bureau data.
The city of Baltimore spent $15,483 per student in 2011.
It's only gone up since then.
That was second to New York City's 19,770.
And of course, Obama and the rest of them said we're not having enough money.
Republicans are out there short changing the inner cities.
Republicans are not authorizing enough money.
Never forget this.
Twenty-two trillion dollars in redistribution from 1964 to the present.
Twenty-two trillion dollars spent on inner city education, inner city welfare, inner city food stamps, not just inner city, but all welfare, all food stamps, but twenty-two trillion dollars.
Stats from the Heritage Foundation.
Twenty-two trillion dollars since 1964.
In the mid-90s, just to show you how it has ballooned, in the mid-90s, the number was five trillion.
So it's really not accurate to say that since 1964 we've spent 22 trillion, although it's true, but since 1995, we've spent 17 trillion.
That means there's been a redistribution of that much wealth from producers to non-producers.
Taxpayers have contributed, paid their taxes, that money has gone 22 trillion dollars.
And still the same percentage of people are in poverty.
14% of the people in this country below the poverty line in 1964 when the war on poverty began in and today the population percentage in poverty is identical, the same.
And back to the phones we go.
Ellen in Roanoke, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet any time.
Thank you.
Um, I wanted to start out by saying I so appreciate your voice that you speak up for this nation.
So thank you.
Well, you're welcome.
Um, my point that I was um calling about today is back in March, I believe on March 16th is when I read this, it was announced that a pilot program was happening in six U.S. cities to put the police departments under federal control.
And the cities are all liberal cities.
I mean, totally liberal.
You've got Fort Worth, Texas, Gary, Indiana, Stockton, California, Birmingham, Alabama, Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh, and you couple that with the takeover of the cities after these riots.
And I really do believe that federalization of our police department is happening.
You do.
Yes, sir, I do.
Well, Obama basically uh he call he called for it.
Yes, and he's he's he's implementing it right now.
Uh well, I look, there's no question about it.
If you look at the um you know, I I don't have this in front of me.
I I hate to say things without the backup here.
Even though you can totally trust me, I don't make things up out of whole cloth here.
Um, but my buddy Andy McCarthy has written extensively.
Um Southern District of Manhattan.
He's is he knows what's going on in these places, and he knows how the uh the uh Department of Justice interacts with localities.
But if it it's not all personal experience, there are literal things happening.
Federal guidelines from the Holder Justice Department say to the Ferguson Police Department.
After you're in fact, remember Holder himself said it.
After the grand jury in Ferguson, the findings are made public, and everything everybody thought that was wrong about that case was blown to smithereens.
There was no hands up, don't shoot.
There was no surrender, there was no nothing.
Everything that the news media and the left had said about this thing was not true.
And the DOJ report, I remember reading with you portions of the DOJ report, which were they were they were just decimating to the gentle giant.
I mean, the gentle giant and all the witnesses were just destroyed in the DOJ report.
And I remember when it was one passage, way, way down in the summary report toward the end of it.
Despite all of this, we have found intense latent racism throughout the Ferguson police department.
Now, that after releasing an analysis, this was the DOJ.
Remember, they they went in there and they were going to make sure we got the truth.
They were going to rely on the locals, couldn't trust them.
We're going to rely on the local DOJ or the uh of the uh prosecutors and the grand jury because the Holder had gone in there early on and promised the people of Ferguson, no matter what, they were going to get to the bottom of it.
Well, when they got to the bottom of it, they found out there was nothing to get to.
There was no innocence on the part of the gentle giant.
So they had to release the details, and they were devastating, as I say.
And despite that, they had to come away with something.
So they concluded their investigation found.
While no civil rights of any kind of the gentle giants were violated.
Nevertheless, Eric Holder's DOJ report said that the Ferguson Police Department was just ravaged with racism.
It was the most incongruous thing, folks.
We had this long report exonerating everybody, exonerating the cop, exonerating the police department.
Not exonerating the gentle giant.
I mean, it was just it was a slam dunk total defeat for everybody on the gentle giant side.
And despite that, the DOJ found rampant toxic racism all throughout the Ferguson Police Department, which the report said meant that the Department of Justice was immediately going to issue new guidelines and procedures for the Ferguson Police Department to follow, even though we just had a report that said they didn't do anything wrong.
Separate investigation found all this racism.
That has happened in 15, 10 or 15 other cities where there have been not riots, but there have been crimes where people in the African American community thought that racism was behind them.
So this is how it's happening.
The DOJ is going in conducting these investigations.
They're finding racism here and racism there and demanding changes.
And the changes that are being demanded are basically handcuffing local police departments with new federal guidelines if they want the money.
So it's already underway.
Quick timeout, my friends.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
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