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May 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hope you had a great weekend.
We're off and running here for yet another busy week of broadcast excellence as the year just speeds by.
One week today is going to be Memorial Day.
You believe that?
Here we are already approaching the end of May.
Great to have you as always, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program and the email address lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Boy, they are just nervous as they can be out there at well in Baltimore, but they are nervous as they can be out on the Democrat Party and in their related drive-by media, where of course you have Democrat hacks disguised as journalists.
It was funny, the Washington Post poll, the ABC News Washington Post poll has Trump leading Hillary by by two, 4644.
But you you would barely know that if you read the Washington Post story about it.
The Washington Post story tried to focus on Trump's negatives.
And you had to dig deep to actually find where Trump leads Hillary by two, 4644.
It's margin of error, and of course it's it's uh that is a statistical tie.
And that's not the point.
You can tell when a poll comes out, the loser always says something like, I don't believe polls right now.
They're meaning That's what Hillary's saying.
A loser always talks about how polls don't mean anything.
The winner either ignores the polls or amplifies on the little leader uh uh does that.
But this wasn't supposed to happen.
See, Hillary was supposed to be coronated by now, and over on the Republican side is where the knockdown drag out was supposed to be happening.
And they were supposed to be beating themselves up, and whoever won the nominee was supposed to have been destroyed in the primary process.
And it's the exact opposite.
Crazy Bernie is going postal on Hillary and on the Democrat Party on Deborah Debbie Blappermouth Schultz, and he's promising never to go away, and Hillary is still having to fight that battle out there way, way, way, way out on the left plank.
Not flank.
She's out on the left plank.
Uh there's no momentum on the Hillary side.
There's no excitement on the Hillary side, and there's something devastating.
I, folks, this is one of those things that the drive-by's are not going to make a big deal of it by design, but it's going to get out there.
And this is going to be one of these things.
If Hillary loses, this is going to be one of the reasons that people will eventually learn was a reason post-election.
They're kind of ignoring it now, but if she loses, and they're doing the post-mortems, they're going to go back to stories like this.
Do you realize that this woman in the last two years has made $21 million delivering speeches, mostly to banks?
21 million.
I don't think there's a speech for less than $225,000 on the list, and they're all listed.
Some of them are as high as $400,000, but it's generally in that range of $225,250 up to 400,000.
And every bank you've ever heard of, and then some, and every hedge fund and that you've ever heard of, and then some.
Every investment house that you've ever heard of, and the $21 million in two years.
Speeches alone.
Not Bill.
This is Hillary.
So what's the big deal?
Well, most of these speeches are delivered before Wall Street firms.
Read banks.
Who do Bernie Sanders supporters despise?
Banks.
Corporate America.
Hillary Clinton is owned by corporate America.
Hillary Clinton's presidency, if it ever happens, has already been bought by corporate America, and who knows what the foreign donors are and how many There there are, but that's a hundred million dollars that has been given to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
The Hillary Clinton presidency has already been bought and purchased, meaning the policies, the initiatives, what have you, have already been bought by foreign governments, foreign entities, and United States, corporate entities and banks.
And this is the kind of thing that your average left-wing Democrat voter is going to learn.
There are enough Democrat websites out there ticked off at Hillary over this.
They're going to report it.
The drive-by's won't.
They won't make a big deal of it.
But some of the some of the other uh left-wing blogs will.
And Democrat voters are going to hear about it.
And it's going to tick them off, and there's a related story.
What is this?
Something, let me find this with 20.
They're shocked out there that something like 20% of Bernie voters claim they're gonna vote for Trump now, some such thing.
I just printed this out.
I just put it in the stack, and I can't remember exactly where I put it in here.
Uh but it is stunned over all of this.
Uh she's in trouble with Hispanics, where she really needs to win big.
Meanwhile, Obama is over apologizing again, uh posing for pictures in front of dead communists.
He did Shaguera Cuba.
Now he's posing in front of statues or whatever Hochi men in Vietnam.
Uh so I mean it's all adding up here.
Um that Mrs. Clinton is in deep trouble.
And she knows it.
That's why she's running around talking about how polls don't matter.
So we'll get to all this in in due course.
I'm gonna find this.
Let me see if I could real quick, folks, because I want to make sure I get that I said 20%, and that's what my it'll come to me.
I'll find it here somewhere.
I can't write now.
Um Baltimore.
Freddie Gray, arresting officer Edward Nero, found not guilty on all charges.
Not guilty on every single charge.
He rejected a jury trial and chose a bench trial.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means he let the judge decide.
It was a wise, wise move.
I mean, obviously figured he couldn't get a fair and impartial jury in in uh in Baltimore.
Given the racial component here.
Now, this case, you know, let's go back and listen to Marilyn Mosby.
She's the state attorney here, and this is the day, it's May 1st of 2015, so just a little over a year ago.
She's announcing all of these charges.
And it took her 15 minutes to recite these charges, if you recall, you may not recall, I do.
I was here.
Fifteen minutes to recite all the charges.
She overcharged this.
I actually think there's a part of me that thinks that Meryl Mos, she had to know she wasn't gonna get convictions on on very many of these charges.
I think the point of making the charge was to satisfy the mob at the time.
Because, you know, many people think a charge is the equivalent of a guilty verdict.
The way the criminal justice system is reported on, all it takes is for somebody to say, and such and so have been charged with first degree, third degree, fourth degree, fifth degree, accessory after guilty, is the assumption people make when they hear this.
Because they why would law enforcement waste their time charging people that are not guilty, it wouldn't happen.
So they don't so she, I think was trying to buy some time with this excessive charging and buying herself some insurance in case uh verdicts came back not guilty, but I don't think she's planning on not guilty on everything.
That's why she overcharged.
One of the reasons she overcharged, get guilty on something, even if it was just blowing your nose in a no-crossing zone, something like that.
Anything, but she didn't even get that.
Well, let's go back and listen to Marilyn Mosby and remember that she was her politics were being worn on her sleeve on her bra strap where you couldn't miss them.
To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America.
I heard your call for no justice, no peace.
Your peace is sincerely Needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man.
To those that are angry, hurt, or have their own experiences of injustice at the hands of police officers.
I urge you to channel the energy peacefully as we prosecute this case.
I've heard your calls for no justice, no peace.
However, your peace is sincerely needed.
It was never about the facts.
It was always about the politics.
It was always about cultural and other socioeconomic things.
It was never about the facts.
And as evidenced by her comments.
I'm standing here on the courthouse steps, and I'm an attorney.
I'm a prosecutor, and I'm not going in there with facts.
I'm going in there to satisfy you.
I've heard your calls, no justice, no peace.
That's what I'm taking in this real building with me when I turn around and walk in it.
Yay!
Yay.
And of course, no justice, no peace is not supposed to have any place in the proceedings.
And this is this is the next bite.
Tell me if this doesn't sound a little bit like Obama in front of the plastic columns at Denver in his acceptance speech.
Last but certainly not least, to the youth of this city.
I will seek justice on your behalf.
This is a moment.
This is your moment.
Let's ensure that we have peaceful and productive rallies that will develop structural and systemic changes for generations to come.
You're at the forefront of this cause.
And as young people, our time is now.
Our time is on what they got to do with what's that got to do with him?
Our time is now.
I will seek justice on your behalf.
This is a moment.
This is your moment.
Well, it turns out to have been a dud.
I mean, this moment blew up in everybody's face because Freddie Gray arresting officer Edward Nero has been found not guilty on all counts by the Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams.
Edward Nero faced charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and two counts of misconduct in office.
Now, according to the reports at the time, which you may not remember, but I do, the prosecution began with the prosecution of officers Porter and Nero, Porter.
That trial ended in a mistrial back in, I believe, December.
It was a uh a hung jury, not to be confused with a hanged jury, a hung jury and a mistrial back in December.
So officer Porter and Officer Nero, they went first because Mosby believed these were the two most likely cases in which she was going to get a conviction on at least one or some of the charges.
Now, Edward Nero waived his right to a trial by jury.
As bench trial began May, twelve final arguments were heard.
Thursday, verdict came today.
Not uh, I mean, all told, we're looking like 10 days here.
Um, and I think it was smart to pass on a jury trial.
The other officers might be well advised to do the uh the same thing.
In case you forgotten, uh, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man from the Sand Town area of Baltimore, died April 19th last year, spinal cord injury he sustained while in custody.
His death set off more than a week of protest, followed by looting, rioting, and arson in his name, of course, that prompted a citywide curfew.
Edward Nero is one of six cops charged in relation to the death of Freddie Gray, the second to be tried, William Porter's trial, as I say, in the hung jury, and a mistrial in December.
There are four other officers, Garrett Miller, Lieutenant Brian Rice, Sergeant Alicia White, Officer Cesar Goodson Jr. have not yet been tried.
Now, Goodson's trial, Cesar Goodson Jr.
It's been delayed once, is now set to start on June the 6th.
He was the driver of the van that transported the young man, Freddie Gray, from the spot where he was arrested at the police station.
When the van arrived at the Western District police station, Gray was critically injured and unresponsive.
So they say something went on in there.
Goodson, the driver, faces charges of second degree depraved heart murder, manslaughter, second degree assault, two counts of vehicular manslaughter, and misconduct in office.
Isn't that all?
So the the drive-by is the report from the CBS Eyeball News affiliate and uh Baltimore WJZ, they're already moving on to the next defendant.
They couldn't even bother.
In this story, they couldn't even bother to list the crimes that Officer Nero was found to be not guilty of.
Couldn't even do it.
So that's that.
That's out of Baltimore.
And everybody's waiting to see now if Marilyn Mosby will go back down to the steps and continue to ask for peace.
And address the people of no justice, no peace crowd, and say she continues to need peace while she seeks convictions for these remaining officers to see what happens.
Anyway, a brief time out, my friends, our first obscene profit break.
21 million dollars.
Corporate America bought Hillary 21 million dollars in speeches.
20 minute speeches, I should add.
These are not hour and a half stand-up routines.
This is 20, maybe 25 minutes.
Script is different.
You know where she goes in there?
And I don't even know what kind of audiences she draws.
Probably the bank directors require a certain number of people to show up.
And you know what she does in it?
A reason she won't release transcripts.
She goes in there and lauds the banks.
She goes in, I mean, she sings for her supper.
She goes in there and she tells them how great she thinks the banks are and applauds them for all the work they're doing on trying to spread home ownership to everybody, including people that can't afford it.
I guarantee she's not in there ripping them.
She's not in there criticizing them like she is on the campaign trail.
She probably goes in there and has her private powwow with the big wigs before making the speech to the whole executive team.
And she says to him, look, you gotta understand, out there on the campaign trail, I gotta hit you.
But believe me, I don't mean it.
It's not personal.
I gotta do it.
You understand, and they have, of course, Mrs. Clinton, of course we understand.
It's not about that.
It's about after you get elected.
What you're gonna do for us.
All this other stuff.
Uh we don't care.
We don't care.
Just remember, for when you're in the White House, why you're here.
Twenty minutes, twenty-five minutes, twenty-one million, two years.
You know as well as I do.
Your average left-wing lunatic Democrat voter.
This is gonna set them off on all kinds of levels.
I knew I saw it, and it's in the audio soundbites.
It's the audio soundbite roster.
And actually, the news is buried deep in that ABC Washington Post poll story and the Washington Post.
Here it is, John Carl of ABC, this on Good Morning America Today with Stephanopoulos, who said, Look, we've seen Trump making strides in unifying the Republican Party now that Ted Cruz and Kasich have dropped out.
Hillary Clinton still has a battle uh undergoing in that regard.
The most astounding number in this poll to me, George, was this.
Look at this.
Twenty percent of Bernie Sanders supporters say that they will vote for Donald Trump if it comes down to Hillary or Trump.
One in five Bernie Sanders supporters saying they would vote for Donald Trump.
The key thing for Hillary is she has got to find a way to get the Sanders supporters on board.
Right.
Uh isn't it interesting how things have worked out?
Trump was going to be the guy to blow up the Republican Party.
Trump was going to be the guy to make sure the Republican Party in no way could unify.
It was going to remain fractured.
It was going to remain split.
It was going to remain at odds.
It's going to be all kinds of hatred and anxse out there.
And the Democrats, they were going to unify.
Mrs. Clinton was going to spread The wings of mercy, whatever you do as nurse ratchet, and bring everybody in, and it was going to be Kumbaya and Hunky Dory, and in fact it's just the opposite.
The GOP is starting to unify around Trump.
There are some holdouts, some big money donors, by the way, still holding out.
But for the most part, there is some unifying now going on around Trump, and there's none happening yet with Hillary and Bernie.
And it is, it was buried deep.
20% of Bernie supporters say they will vote for Trump.
Now, the drive-bys are very much aware of this.
And there's a story in the stack today.
You know the empathy question in all the polls that I've cited the last two elections cares about people like me, Obama 81, Romney 19.
They're trying to get ahead of that, the drive-by czar by saying, you know what, Trump's biggest problem, he does not have empathy like Obama had empathy.
And that they are really misjudging.
But I'll explain all this as we move right on.
And that 20%, by the way, in the ABC News, Washington Post poll, 20% of Bernie Sanders voters would vote Trump.
That's up.
I mean, we had a story at some point last week, and the number was 10%, between 8 and 10% would vote for Hillary.
This poll showing 20%.
Remember now, the drive-by-this stuff is biblical to them.
They don't reject any of it.
I mean, it's gospel.
So when they see in their own poll that 20% of Bernie's voters would go Trump, that's Panic City.
And then there's this that is from about 11 days ago, back on May 12th, Red Alert Politics.
Bernie Sanders supporters may be feeling the burn for their own candidate, but nearly half of them are planning to give Hillary the cold shoulder in November.
This is a UGO poll.
It was released on Wednesday, May 12th, I think that was the date of Wednesday, showed that 45% of Democrats who preferred Bernie Sanders in the primary do not plan on voting for Hillary in the general.
Now, that, if that's anywhere near true, that that's that's a stretch.
Nearly half of the people who prefer Bernie don't plan on voting for Clinton.
Not that they're gonna vote for Trump.
They may just not vote.
And you crosstab that with the Washington Post poll that says 20% of Bernie's people will vote Trump.
Now I know it's offset a little bit.
I mean, on the Republican side, you've got some Republicans saying that they're gonna vote Hillary instead of Trump.
And you still have this uh fantasized third-party candidate thing going on out there on the Republican side.
But the directions that both parties are going is different.
The Republicans are showing that the direction everything's moving is toward unity.
It's not there yet by any stretch.
The Democrats, that can't be said.
Mrs. Clinton is just she's not an exciting energetic, infectious, charismatic candidate.
She's there precisely because she's owed.
Now, I want to go back to these speeches, and I want to give you some points of comparison.
I think this is this is shocking.
Story is in the New York Post, and and that does not qualify as drive-by.
It may be a little close, but it doesn't qualify.
And I don't think you're gonna see this story in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
I don't think any of the nightly newscasts are gonna make a big deal of it.
It's gonna be the kind of thing that if she loses in their post-mortems, they're gonna go back to and say, you know what?
We miss this when this happened, but the exit polling will show it.
If people thought she was inexorably tied to corporate America, you know, you know how on the mainstream left much they hate corporate America.
And the reason is the Democrat Party has made corporate America its number one enemies list.
The Democrat Party, for as long As I've been alive, has been targeting big this and big that, and they have been drumming up hatred and suspicion and revulsion for all of these big corporate.
That's why Citizens United is so despised.
That's why you have leftists running around and say corporations are not people.
They hate them.
And here's Hillary Clinton.
Twenty one million in two years.
And these Democrat voters, no way.
10 to 12 of them combined are never going to earn 21 million in their lifetimes.
And they're going to ask, what is she doing that's worth all that?
I've seen her speak.
I wouldn't pay 10 cents for it.
What what what?
People are going to ask all these kind of logical questions.
Then they're going to see all the banks.
They hate the banks every bit as much as they hate corporations.
They despise the banks.
I mean, Occupy Wall Street was drummed up because the banks.
They hate them, folks.
I mean, really hate, not just dislike.
But a friend of mine who was in the in the golf business, the uh managed players and so forth, sent me a note, said that back in the days when Arnold Palmer was healthy.
You know, golfers, professional golfers do outings for corporations.
Uh, when they're not playing in a tournament or they have a day off in a week, they'll sign up and do an outing for the XYZ corporation, and they'll go in wherever the corporation is located, and they'll play golf with big clients, and they'll do lunch and this kind of stuff.
But you have to pay for it.
And they're called outings.
And this guy tells me that at the peak, when he was healthy, at his peak that you could get Arnold Palmer for $150,000 all day.
Now, who would you rather spend a day with?
Whether you play golf or not, Ano Pama or Hillary Clinton.
If you want 20 minutes with Hillary, and you don't get 20 minutes with him, you get 20 minutes, you have to listen to that screeching voice lie to you.
That's 225,000.
For a hundred and fifty, you can have Ano Pama all day long.
And play golf with him and pose for pictures and have him tell you stories.
And he's not the only golfer.
They all do it or did.
I assume it's still, yeah, it probably still happens.
And they've all got different prices, but Arnold Palmer being the king.
Nicholas was, what was Nicholas?
Uh Nicholas, same thing, 150, something like that for all day on these outings.
By the way, Jack Nicholas has come out for the Trumpster.
Because he's turning the world upside down and he likes that.
Jack Nicholas has joined the Trump brigade.
What are you frowning at in there?
Oh, wow, you hadn't heard that, huh?
Yeah, let me find it here in the stack.
But I did just uh you know, I've been so lucky.
I've I've played golf with these guys.
They're all great.
They're just exactly all these guys are exactly like you want them to be when you're thinking of meeting them, and so they're not they're humble, they're funny, they're polite, they help you.
It's gotta be for for a pro that can play golf, it has to be torture to have to spend the day with a bunch of hackers.
It just has to be torture.
Because all the hackers want the secret.
All the hackers hope the pro, the Nicholas the Palmer, can unlock the one thing they're doing wrong to turn their game.
Of course, they can't, but they try.
Every time I've been with, they try, they're helpful.
Uh and they put the the the game of the of the hacker they're playing with first.
They all do.
It's uh it's amazing.
Well, I've I've put it in, I've got two different stacks here, and I obviously put the uh yeah, it's gonna be in this stack.
I don't even know why I need to find it.
I just told you it's true.
Jack Nicholson.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Here it is.
Jack Nicholas, this from I just want to get this source, it's Washington Post.
Jack Nicholas's Donald Trump is turning America upside down in a good way.
Jack Nicholas, latest member of the sports world to endorse Trump, the presumptive report and Trump, in a way, is a competitor of Nicholas.
Nicholas designs golf courses, Nicholas has clubs, like the Bears Club here.
Trump has his own.
He said he was on the CBS Sunday morning show yesterday.
He said, I like what Donald has done.
I like that he's turning America upside down.
He's awakening the country.
We need a lot of that.
Nicholas said that his business experiences with Trump, who attended the ceremony when Nicholas was honored with a congressional gold medal a year ago, had been positive and that he didn't want to get political about this.
Reluctantly said he knows how he's likely to vote in November, even though he says Trump probably isn't as smooth or as politically correct as he should be.
But he says, I like the guy.
He's a good man, and certainly if he's the one that's on the ticket, I'm gonna be voting for him, Jack Nicholas.
You could have Nicholas at your corporate outing for 150 grand all day.
Same thing with Arnold Palmer, Hillary Clinton.
I'm just just to put this stuff in perspective.
No, I don't know.
Excuse me.
I'm I'm tell folks.
Twenty, twenty million dollars, twenty-one in two years of twenty or twenty-five minutes.
There's nothing that screeches out of touch more than that.
That is just huge.
And my must take a break.
We'll come back and it's time to to uh start squeezing in some phone calls.
By the way, are you aware that we've all been misled about the Quran promising terrorist 73 virgins?
It's Farid Zakaria GPS on his global positioning show yesterday, had a uh Islamic scholar on who said everybody's got this wrong and he can't let it go by any longer.
It's not 73 virgins they get, it's 73 raisins.
Elijah Cummings, the Congressional Black Caucasians, has weighed in on the verdict, the non-vertic, well, the the not guilty verdict on all counts of Officer Edward Nero in Baltimore.
This on CNN's legal view.
Ashley Banfield speaking to Congressman Cummings, who's from Baltimore, and she said, I want to get your personal feelings about today.
This is the way the justice system works.
And so in the first trial uh with Officer Porter, there was a hung jury.
And here, the judge, Judge Barry Williams, who I've known for over 20 years, a very fair uh judge and uh runs a strict courtroom and brilliant young man, made a decision.
In many of these cases, uh charges are never born.
There is no trial.
Again, this is the way justice rolls.
There are always gonna be people who are not gonna be satisfied with the decision.
Oh man.
Keep in mind, we also have five more trials to go.
Can you can you imagine this reaction after the Rodney King police officer beating screen?
Wait, you know, that's the way justice rolls.
That's uh that's just the way it is.
A judge of great, I know the judge 20 years, a fair man.
Hey, you know, in most places we wouldn't even have gotten a trial.
So I'm looking at this as a win.
We got a trial.
Judge is a great guy.
It's how justice rolled.
We've not heard that reaction.
You imagine that reaction after uh after well, take your pick.
You imagine that reaction if Ferguson, you know, when the grand jury came, well, that's just the way justice rolls.
We gave it our bed shot.
We blew up every store we could, we turned over and set the fire every cop car we could, but we lost.
We got a great grand jury in there, the guy who runs it's very I know the guy in 20 years, great, great, great lawyer in there.
Can you imagine that?
So, what explains this?
Where is Reverend Sharpton?
Where is the uh Reverend Dax?
This is a second trial where the accused zip.
There's a reason for this, folks.
This was always well, I'll let you fill in the blank.
There's a reason why Congressman Cummings is not the least bit upset here.
Tom in Glenville, New York, as we start on the phones.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello, how are you, Russ?
Thanks for taking my time.
Doing great, thank you.
Uh my comment is I I'm just looking for your take on this 6.4 million dollar settlement that the city of Baltimore or Stephanie Blake, the mayor, whoever it was, agreed to award the uh the family after Freddie Gray's death,
and the fact that it looks to anyone, I believe, as a a guilty verdict immediately, an apology for misconduct on the city's part, and you know, did it restore any faith that this verdict actually came down this way after something like that happened.
So what do you say?
You think you think that the verdict the uh the payment to the family was what?
Um an indictment in and of itself, an admission of guilt, a a reprimanding of their police force.
I mean, uh it I can't believe that they actually were able to and I'm glad the the results I think are justified that this that this poor guy's gonna be.
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Stipulate that, agree with that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I I think it was an advanced payment on peace.
Okay.
I mean, if you pay the guy's family six million, it's okay if nobody riots.
Then let the neighborhood go to the family and say we want our share, let them deal with it.
You give the family six million, they've never seen that kind of money before.
It takes care of the neighborhood.
It takes you care, and she gets a not guilty verdict, uh still got to pay off.
It's the city buying no riots, no peace, no justice, whatever they're buying.
Well, that makes sense.
And do you do you think that not going with a jury trial like you said had any effect on that?
Oh, yeah.
In fact, this judge is going to handle, I think his judge is going to preside over all of the Freddie Gray trials.
Absolutely.
It's a huge deal.
Absolutely that they choose not to go before a jury there.
Well, I you know, I it's interesting your take on the payment, and I understand that, but I do it does restore some of my faith in society.
Well, look, I'm not trying to talk you out of your opinion totally.
I think it can be a combination of things.
It it could well be that that the the mayorette and the prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, they may have, oh my god, oh my god, our cops are guilty.
You know, these are liberals.
They think the cops are corrupt to begin with.
Even their own cops.
So they may think, oh my God, they're not, oh, gee, oh, this is horrible.
They're gonna pay off, payoff it's the fastest way, pay them off, and then you're you're buying insurance and you're taking care of your acting as though there is guilt involved, which is what the mob wanted.
So, I mean, you they they they potentially killed a bunch of birds with one stone here.
And then and in light of that, this judge still did what I think is the right thing, apparently.
Of course, I haven't seen all the evidence, but I mean, uh, in light of all that and in light of the pressure.
Come on, these cops should have never been charged with anything in the first place.
That's the bottom line here, and that's what everybody knows, and that's what Elijah Cummings knows, and that's the that's that's why he's out there praising the judge and not calling for more justice and peace or whatever it is they do to incite people.
He's trying to calm everything down here.
I mean, if Elijah Cummings, who who represents that town in Washington, if Elijah Cummings is not gonna be mad about it, then there's no reason for any other anybody else to be.
I mean, that's the desire.
That's that's the hoped for reaction when he goes out, praises the judge.
I've known I got twenty years.
This guy, why he's the fairest judge anybody ever could have had.
He's just the greatest guy I've known him for.
All of that is is designed to tamp down uh violence, which look no city wants.
I understand that.
Um I think they probably knew that no jury was ever gonna give Freddie Gray six million dollars or family.
Well, well, they didn't know that.
May you know, is it a third thing?
Maybe they thought if it went jury and went civil, that that they could end up paying way more than six million if it if it uh went went the wrong way on them.
So there's probably three different reasons and maybe more why they uh decided to do that.
But I don't think the primary reason is because uh oh, our cops did it.
There's guilt everywhere.
We're gonna pay off.
I I think that's a factor, but I don't think it's what drove the payment of uh six million.
And by the way, I predicted the drive-by sports media livid at another Washington Post poll that showed 90% of African of uh Native Americans don't care if the Washington Redskins call themselves the Red doesn't matter.
They don't care the drive bys.
I think they should care, and they're telling them so.
This is kind of cool, too.
So what do you think the Reverend Sharpton's cut of $6.4 million is?
I mean, when they announced that the family Freddie Gray was getting $6.4 million, he was awarded every wrongful death.
The Reverend Sharpton was there with the family.
What do you think his cut was?
Well, what are you laughing at?
What?
Okay, all right.
Well, sit tight, folks.
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