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July 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, we lit them up here on Friday.
If you pay any attention to Internet or TV on Saturday, Friday night, Saturday all weekend.
You know, we've lit them up.
Let me ask you a question here, folks.
Greetings, by the way, great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, brand new week broadcast excellence 800-282-2882.
We know that Barack Obama often speculates what kind of man a son of his would be.
For example, Barack Obama at one point said that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, right?
We all remember this, correct, Demente.
So I have a question.
Since the president likes to speculate about having a son, what do you think?
Would Barack Obama's son have been a member of the new Black Panthers or Black Lives Matter?
Or maybe both.
What do you think?
Well, I'm just I'm just throwing it out there.
I mean, I didn't start any of this speculation.
I'm just, I'm just, you know, I learned experience guided by intelligence or intelligence guided by experience.
Uh well, maybe.
I I don't want to throw that that out there, but that's a that's a that's a foreign group.
These two groups are actually active and involved, and uh and and the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, told them to be patient, or whatever she said to them, don't give up uh after the Friday night of the incident in Dallas.
So I I'm just I'm just curious um what the president's son would do.
Well, it's speculative, of course, because he doesn't have a son, but he did say if he had a son, it would look like Trayvon Martin, he would look like Trayvon Martin.
So, would his son be a member of New Black Panthers or Black Lives Matter?
Or maybe both.
Uh here we are in the Washington Post, why so many critics of President Obama insist that he hates police officers.
Why do you think what do you think the answer to this question is going to be here in the Washington Post?
It's because of me, folks.
It's because of me.
The following April, this is a story about when when Obama the cops arrested uh Skip Gates for something or other, and Obama didn't like it and said the cop was stupid.
And that led to a beer summit out at the White House with the cop with Skip Gates and President Obama as they attempted to solve the problem of the stupid cop.
Right.
So the following April, a conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested that perhaps a tequila summit was in order because of comments Obama made about Arizona's just passed law that cracked down on immigrants in the country illegally.
Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, this is their quoting me here, he's got something in for the cops.
There's no question, Limbaugh said.
You go back to Cambridge, the guy's got a problem with police officers.
Why?
Because Obama worried that Hispanic Americans in Arizona would be harassed.
Quote, if you don't have your papers and you took your kids out to get ice cream, given the Arizona law that they wanted to pass on immigration.
If you'd have your papers and you're Hispanic, the cops could hassle you.
So that's his argument.
Create a phony hypothetical where families getting ice cream are hassled by stupid, bigoted policemen.
This is going to require a massive tequila summit before it's all over, I suppose.
Tequila summit never happened, by the way.
So you kind of get a uh a taste of this for how the drive-bys are dealing with all of this over the uh over the course of the weekend, and for whatever outrage there was aimed at me Friday night and Saturday, I'm now a man forgotten, and they have turned their attention and their fire to Rudy Giuliani.
Now, Rudy had the audacity, the one thing that you can't do in highly uh in very tense, highly charged situations Like this, you cannot utter the truth at the wrong time.
We had a uh an interview with Heather McDonald, whose uh new book is out on this, and I strongly urge everybody.
It's called the War on Cops, and I referred to it as essential on Friday, and it is.
And I asked her, I said, okay, you you have facts on your side.
The majority of blacks in this country are not killed by cops, they're killed by other blacks.
It's undeniable.
She's got the stats, their Justice Department stats there.
Local police department stats.
It's all over the place.
It's it's it's not made up.
The majority of blacks in this killed by or in this country are killed by other blacks, not cops.
But nobody thinks that.
It's the exact opposite what everybody thinks.
I asked her, what would you do?
If authorities called on you to help bridge this gap, this vast wide gap of misunderstanding.
She said, I would try something we don't try much, and that's the truth.
Well, Rudy Giuliani tried the truth on the CBS this morning, and he's catching hell.
He's catching hell for things he said on TV yesterday.
He's catching hell for going after the squeegee guys again.
He's catching hell for stop, don't frisk or frisk, don't stop, whatever.
He's catching hell for uh the broken windows pie.
He's catching hell for everything he ever did because he said, and I'm paraphrasing, I don't have it right in front of me.
He said, if black lives really mattered, then they would be concerned about all the black lives lost in inner cities like Chicago that result from black crime.
But I don't think that black men, black lives matter cares about any of that.
So he went on to call them an inherent racial, a racist organization by virtue of their title.
Black lives matter.
If you're going to start segregating things like that, doesn't it make you racist?
Now they're coming after Rudy uh full throttle, full throat, but he made an accurate statement.
If black lives matter, why don't the lives of young children, there's one shot every 14 hours in Chicago, why don't they ever go there?
Why is no effort expended to deal with that?
Why is black lives matter constantly solely focused on police shootings when they happen to be the minority of instances in which black citizens are killed?
Uh now, on the other side of that, you know the power of perception.
In politics, people say that perception is reality.
And because the PR battle has been won by the left on this, the facts at this point in time don't resonate and don't matter.
The popular perception is among leftists and minorities is that the cops are on a killing spree.
And that if it weren't for cops, black lives wouldn't be lost hardly at all.
Almost all of them are lost because of cops shootings.
Just isn't true.
So you have to deal with that perception as as a reality, though.
I mean, even though it's not true, how many people believe it to be true?
And some of the people that believe it to be true, it's decent, common, ordinary, everyday citizens who happen to believe that it's true.
When it isn't, but they think it is, and they act accordingly, they vote accordingly, they speak accordingly.
How do you reach them?
Uh they're not militant by nature, not the people I'm talking about.
They're just people that consume the news, people that consume news during highly charged times, such as such as these.
Uh the president said that untangling the motives, very difficult here.
Obama says the motives of Dallas cop killer Micah Xavier Johnson are hard to untangle.
You think they'd be hard to untangle if they thought talk radio was involved in this.
There wouldn't be any hard to untangle about this at all, would there?
They're not hard to untangle now.
The guy pretty much opened up about what it was that his what his grievance was.
The police chief in Dallas has indicated that He was going to go on an even bigger rampage that he had a uh a stock or a cache of weapons to pull this off.
And people are looking at various uh things and institutions, events that could have inspired him.
But the president said on Saturday, it's hard to untangle the motives of the shooter who killed five Dallas police officers, despite, despite the fact that the gunman told the cops he wanted to kill white officers.
No, no, no, no, it's not that simple, the president says.
Very, very difficult to untangle.
He made this comment at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, where he also issued another call for gun control in the wake of the Dallas shootings.
He said, I think it's very hard to untangle the motives of this shooter.
Uh by definition, if you shoot people who pose no threat to you, you have a troubled mind.
Stop and think.
Has Obama once asked us to pause on the basis that it'd be very difficult to untangle the motives?
Let's say the shooter Dylan Roof.
Uh but the guy that blew up the theater shot up the theater in Colorado.
In fact, they zeroed in on the Tea Party.
I mean, within what was it, 30 minutes?
Brian Ross of ABC was trying to link that shooter to the Tea Party.
I mean, it'd even try to untangle that.
They just acted on their bias and their uh and their prejudice.
So I guess, folks, short of a month's long investigation, we might never know Micah Johnson's motives for killing five white policemen.
Very no, we don't know.
The president said, no, no, no, no, no, we can't take the word of the shooter.
Shooter is a deranged, obviously unhappy person.
No, no, no.
President says hard to untangle.
It means massive investigations are going to be required.
Did what how uh even in San Bernardino, were we told to back off and wait a second, we got is not so simple here.
Yeah, we kind of were.
Well, we knew what motivated that one as well.
The president went on to say that police would be safer if America enacted tougher gun laws.
He said, if you care about the safety of our police officers, you can't set aside the gun issue and pretend that's irrelevant.
Wouldn't outlawing guns for law-abiding citizens make the cops' job even harder, since the bad guys would be emboldened knowing that almost all citizens would be defenseless.
Wouldn't that make the job of being a policeman even harder?
Then the president said, Yeah, it's been a tough week, but America is not as divided as some have suggested, he said.
Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on the police, whether it's in Dallas or any place else, Obama said at the NATO summit.
But he said it includes the protesters, includes family members who have grave concerns about police conduct, and they've said this is unacceptable.
There's no division there.
Police conduct.
What was police conduct have to do with this thing in Dallas?
They were police conduct.
Well, what is this?
Americans have all reasonably rightly outraged, including the protesters, they're outraged.
It includes family members who have grave concerns about police conduct.
Wait a minute, is there some aspect of this story I haven't heard?
Did the police provoke this guy?
In Dallas.
Oh, he's talking about Minnesota Bad Russian.
I'm getting them confused.
I thought he was talking about Dallas, since most of this is about Dallas, but he didn't say Dallas or any place else.
Mr. Obama also addressed what he views as his legacy on race relations as America's first black president saying he's speaking out about racial disparities to forge a country that is more just and more united and more equal.
If let me well, if that's if that's his if that's his goal, how's he doing?
If that's his goal, how's it working out?
Uh I don't know.
Obama brings Black Lives Matter to the White House and honors them as better organizers than he is.
Or was anyway, it's a lot to weed through.
There's just, I mean, there's lots of weeds out there, folks, and untangling this is a difficult thing because the truth can get you in deep trouble.
The truth can cause people that don't want to hear it because they've other motives, other agendas that can cause them to go ballistic on you.
And people hold back because they instinctively understand that, don't want to make themselves targets.
Here's another one.
Attacks on police, inspired or directed by militant groups.
This is the AP.
Let's let's dissect this one.
Police shootings of black men in Louisiana, Minnesota were followed by calls from black militant groups and others to seek vengeance against officers.
Almost immediately, several officers were attacked, including the five killed by Sniper in Dallas.
Now, authorities are investigating whether the Dallas gunman was directed by those groups or merely emboldened by them.
See, this is what the president meant by it's not as simple as you think.
We gotta take some time to untangle this.
But I'm just telling you that if Micah X Johnson, if it had been discovered that he listened to talk radio, the headline would not be a question, and it wouldn't be something they were investigating.
They would have already concluded that he was inspired by what he had heard on the radio.
But since it might be that he was inspired by what he heard from militant protest groups, well, whoa, whoa, well, back off.
We don't know for sure.
We must be very careful, take our due time to untangle this mess.
And they are still fit to be tied over Rudy Giuliani.
There's still Rudy Giuliani slams black lives matter movement amid calls for unity, unity, Ruly Giuliani sticks to his guns, Rudy Giuliani and controversial fiery comments.
Let me see something else that he said.
Rudy said, quote, if I were a black father and I was concerned about the safety of my child, really concerned about it, and not in a politically activist sense, I would say be very respectful to the police.
Most of them are good.
Some could be very bad, just be very careful.
And he's catching hell for that.
I I folks, I don't know about you.
That's exactly what I was taught.
I remember when I was a little boy, I had to be ten or under.
And we had to.
We were in Arkansas.
I forget, I don't know why.
We were all on in the car.
My great-grandmother lived there, so maybe it was that we're coming back, and my dad got pulled over by a um state trooper in Arkansas.
And the trooper walked up, my dad lowered the window, and every answer he gave, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
And when it was all resolved, and it took a while, and I it was speeding, I don't remember what it was.
I don't even remember if there was a ticket.
I just remember saying, why did you say yes, sir, so many times?
He said, son.
His exact phrase, sir them out.
Just say yes, sir, you to everything.
Just just say it.
Just say yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
There was no racial component to this.
There was no way, I mean, I saw it in action, and when I asked about it, that's how it was explained.
They are the authority.
The last thing you want to do is argue with them, son.
There's nothing to be gained by do it, doing it.
He also told me the same thing about judges.
He was a lawyer.
And his the the lessons involved were always about respecting genuine authority when you were faced with it.
If you're a lawyer and you're gonna go try cases in court, the judge is.
No matter what the judge does, the judge does something that you think screws you, there are mechanisms after court to deal with it, but the judge is the authority and you must conduct yourself.
It's just the way it is.
Now, that's that's not a similar situation to overthrowing an oppressive government, of course, and that's why I'm making a point not to confuse the two.
But in the case of the police, I don't know about you, but that's how I was raised, and it had nothing to do with race.
My dad didn't say if a white cop stops you, if a black cop stops you, if a black trooper just serve them out.
And his point was be respectful and be polite.
The objective here is to get through it and end it as soon as you can, and do not be confrontational with these bits.
All it was.
And I've never forgotten it, of course.
And of course, it's how I've behaved.
I can't remember the last time I was stopped, though.
It has to be decades ago, which of course that'll change today.
Since I just I'm just kidding.
But uh Rudy's out there saying the same essentially the same thing.
But see, that goes back to my first the perception is that being respectful and polite is not going to work.
Whether they are right or wrong, there are lots of black Americans who think that's bogus.
That's something that people who've never gotten in trouble with the cops say, but it doesn't work for us, and they really believe it.
And they might have instances where it hasn't.
The problem is this has all been blown up now to the point where people think it's every encounter with the cop ends up with somebody being shot, or v the vast majority of them, neither of which are anywhere close to the truth.
In fact, a black economist at Harvard is shocked at what he learned when he looked into this.
Details coming up.
You know, speaking of which, how are kids today learning how to deal with cops?
What are they seeing on TV being done by protesters?
What are they listening to lyric-wise in the music that they listen to?
How are kids today learning how to deal with cops?
What are they learning about cops?
What are they being told about cops?
All this stuff matters.
And I know from the Black Lives Matter groups to any of the protests, well, yeah, but it's it's organic, Rush.
The reason we say what we say about the cops, not because of anything other than how we are treated.
It's different than the way you're treated and so forth.
But it I don't know, folks.
I don't want to...
I'm not...
I don't want to...
There are ways to defuse situations.
And they're not being taught.
On balance, there are many, many ways to defuse situations, and in fact, the opposite, exacerbating them and blowing them up, seems to be a more easily learned lesson than the opposite.
Now, this I found this New York Times I couldn't believe.
Oh, by the way, do you know what CNN just ran?
I can't believe this.
CNN just, I didn't, I didn't have a chance to hear the story.
I just saw the Chiron graphic on the screen.
The uh the man that was shot in Minnesota last week, last name was Castille.
Had the video of him bleeding out.
You remember that.
It turns out that he was pulled over by the cops 52 times between 2012 and 2016.
That's all I know.
I don't know if the CNN story was designed to show, see, all this bias, see how the prejudice exists here.
This poor man who'd never done anything was pulled over 52 times.
Or I don't know if their angle was, hey, the guy had his run-ins with the cops.
There may be something else to learn here.
Given that it's CNN, I can't believe it's the latter.
But we'll see.
They're they're doing it right now, and I'll have to check when I have uh a moment.
But what is your reaction to that?
When you hear, okay, no excuse for the guy just being shot cold blood if that's what happened.
But what what police know.
Find out who somebody is in the car.
You know, okay, this guy's been pulled over 52 times in the last four years.
They should know probably what the reasons are it for.
Anyway, the story from the New York Times today.
Surprising new evidence shows bias in the police use of force, but not in shootings.
A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement.
They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground, or pepper sprayed by a cop, even after accounting for how, where, and when they encountered the police.
But when it comes to police shootings, the study finds no racial bias whatsoever.
The study was done by a Harvard economist, the youngest Harvard African American professor to ever be granted tenure.
His name is Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
He says it's the most surprising result of my career.
The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many Americans hold in the wake of the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Walter Scott, South Carolina, goes on and lists these shootings here.
The study did not say whether the most egregious examples are free of uh racial bias.
Instead, it examined a much larger pool of shootings, including non-fatal ones.
Official statistics on police shootings are poor.
James Comey, the FBI director, has called the lack of data embarrassing and ridiculous, even when data exists, the conditions under which officers decide to fire are deeply nuanced and complex.
Mr. Fryer, the Harvard professor, the youngest African American to receive tenure at Harvard, and the first one to receive a John Bates Clark Medal, which is a prize given to the most promising American economist under 40.
Mr. Fryer said his anger after the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray drove him to study the issue.
He says, you know, protesting's not my thing.
Data is my thing.
So I decided that I was going to collect a bunch of data and try to understand what really is going on when it comes to racial differences in police use of force.
So he and a group of student researchers spent about 3,000 hours assembling detailed data from police reports in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, Orlando, Jacksonville, and four other counties in Florida.
They examined 1,332 shootings between 2000 and 2015.
They systematically coded police narratives to answer questions like how old was the suspect, how many police officers had the scene, were they mostly white?
Anyway, the bottom line is they found it, and there's all kinds of graphics that go with this, which I can't share with you on the radio, charts and that kind of thing.
But the bottom line is that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement.
They're more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground, or pepper sprayed.
But when it comes to shootings, couldn't find any racial bias, could not find any i it's exactly what Heather McDonald says.
It just doesn't exist.
There is no data to support what is believed to be true by groups like Black Lives Matter, the new Black Panthers, the NAA L CP, you name it.
Jeremiah Wright, the data isn't there.
The cops are not randomly wantonly killing black suspects.
A black Harvard economic professor.
Ticked off after what happened to Michael Brown.
What do you think this professor thought happened?
Michael Brown, you think he believed hands up, don't shoot?
Here's a Harvard professor motivated to find out after Michael Brown.
Michael Brown was was everything about that that was reported from hands up, don't shoot, to the guy was surrendering, turned his back, shot none of it was true.
To this day, none of it remains true.
And yet, that and the Trayvon Martin episode are the reason black lives matter exists at all.
They formed when George Zimmerman was exonerated, and then it got exacerbated and grew after the Michael Brown situation at Ferguson.
It was a total lie that was spread by leftist activists is why I claim that there's a political party seeking to benefit from all of this.
Which again is undeniable.
That got me a lot of discussion over the weekend, but I don't care.
It happens to be the truth.
So right here, so we've got two sources now.
We got Heather McDonald and her research in her book, War on Cops.
And now Roland G. Fryer Jr., economics professor at Harvard.
Surprising new evidence shows no bias in police shootings.
What that means is the number of white people versus black white suspects versus black suspects, almost equal.
It's almost the same.
He could not find a preponderance of evidence to show that the overwhelming majority of shooting victims at the hands of the cops are African American.
It just doesn't exist.
So you have to ask yourself.
Why is the media so intent on portraying an opposite picture?
Why is the media so eager to try to convince the country that after the cops shoot a black suspect?
It's happened again.
It happens every day.
The media out there trying to make you think that it's an everyday, multiple times a day occurrence.
And they succeed in persuading a lot of people to believe it.
There isn't any evidence to back it up.
I know what some of you are saying.
Well, one time is too many.
Hey, it's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about a brand new soap opera narrative that has been created and invented and has been given life, and it's all based on non-factual data.
It's all based on lies.
And it's creating all kinds of havoc.
It's roiling our society, it's furthering this division that exists in our country.
You get so many different divisions now, you can't keep track of them.
We've got racial divisions, we have economic divisions, we have employed and unemployed divisions, male-female divisions, gay straight divisions, LBGT, great gay straight divisions, you name it, no matter where you go.
There's a division, there's a divide.
Somebody's benefiting from all this.
Or trying to.
Yeah, there's lots of other news besides this out there.
Uh a lot of it involving the presidential campaign, of course.
And some people have done some digging into the into the Bill Clinton uh what do you call this?
You've heard about rock groups and the demands they have when they go play a concert, all the like MMs but only one color, like a thousand MMs, only one color in the green room backstage.
Somebody has uncovered what Bill Clinton demands for one of his speeches.
And in it was in one case, he demanded a private jet to fly him from San Francisco to Davis, California.
It's 70 miles, demanded a private jet, but it's replete with crowd control, pre-analysis of questions in order to prevent the event from becoming a circus act.
But uh all kinds of things that uh you'll be interested to know.
So we'll have that.
We've got uh there's a story for but you know what Andrew Malcolm used to write for the LA Times and now works at a couple of blogs.
Headline, what if Trump's goal is really a Clinton victory?
The subhead Donald Trump is torpedoing his presidential campaign, Andrew Malcolm writes.
Even when Hillary Clinton gives him openings.
He talks about himself.
He's not making any serious effort at fundraising.
He's not spending any time at all criticizing or talking about Hillary, just talking about himself.
I've been waiting for this.
I've I've I've been waiting for somebody uh to raise This possibility.
So we got that, lots of other things coming up.
We also have a couple sound bites here from the police chief in Dallas, David Brown.
He held a press conference that occurred during the first half hour of the program.
We have two sound bites.
Here's the first.
We're asking cops to do too much in this country.
We are.
We're just asking us to do too much.
Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve.
Not enough mental health funding.
Let the cops handle it.
Not enough drug prediction funding.
Let's give it to the cops.
Here in Dallas, we got a loose dog problem.
Let's have a cop chase loose dogs.
Schools fail.
Give it to the cops.
70% of the African community is being raised by single women.
Let's give it to the cops to solve that as well.
That's too much to ask.
What was that stats?
70% of the African American community being raised by single women.
Let's give it to the cops to solve that as well.
That's too much to ask.
Does he have a point here on all this?
Now remember he's African American.
It shouldn't matter, but it does.
We have to point it out.
In a truly colorblind society, it wouldn't matter.
But because he's African American, the assumption is we can believe what he's saying, particularly if he happens to be critical of certain groups of people.
Uh until maybe they can find out he listened to talk radio if they want to discredit him, they can do it that way.
But the point is that he is, you know, society's got all these things going wrong, and they blame it on the cops.
The cops can't fix these things, and then who ends up getting blamed for it?
The cops get blamed for it when it's not the cops' job to track down stray dogs, loose dogs.
It's not the problem when your kid can't get along with anybody at school.
But we do call the cops.
Hell, we call the cops at 911 in Port St. Lucy when they run out of chicken McDougats at Mickey D's.
So I think I think he's got a point.
Here at this next one, Chief Brown is telling the protesters to get off the protest line and become part of the solution.
You won't see me walking past an officer without grabbing him and hugging him and shaking her hand and telling him how grateful I am for their commitment and sacrifice.
Become a part of the solution.
Serve your communities.
Don't be a part of the problem.
We're hiring.
We're hiring.
Get off that protest line and put an application in.
And we'll put you in your neighborhood and we will help you resolve some of the problems you're protesting about.
Wow, what an interesting and powerful suggestion that is.
Get off the protest line and help us out here.
We'll even send you to your neighborhood.
We're hiring.
We have openings.
Don't be a part of the problem.
That's not going to sit well with the protester community because the protester community, they don't think of themselves as the problem.
They think the cops are the problem.
The protester community, they think they are the solution, or whatever they think, but they don't think they're part of the problem.
And here's the police chief suggesting that they are.
To the phones we go.
We're going to start St. Louis.
Nick, great to have you, sir.
Hi, and welcome to EIB Network.
Uh mega retired IRS agent diddles Rush.
Well, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Uh two experiences from uh my childhood uh about authority, and I'm just a couple years younger than you.
Uh one time I got brought home by the police because I was out after curfew, uh, something which is not enforced anymore, by the way.
Uh my father uh thanked the police officer profusely, and for the next three months I was cutting that officer's yard and washing his car as my punishment for my offense.
And uh I never stayed out after curfew here again.
Right, you had to you had to wash his car and mow the yard.
My father made me do it.
The cop didn't make me do it, my father made me do it.
But the but the but the officer let you do it.
Uh the officer he could I I I think he uh agreed with my father, and uh he was, you know, if that's what my father wanted, he was you know only too happy to oblige.
Clearly a different time.
Yeah.
Uh another situation was one time I was acting up in school, uh, the principal, who was a nun, uh broke a yardstick over my head.
Uh sent a note home to my father about the incident.
Uh I was sent to the convent for a couple weeks to wash dishes as uh my penance for that offense.
So And you became an IRS agent.
I I respect authority.
Uh but to this day, uh I will not sass a police officer or a nun.
No, I hear you.
I hear you.
I had a piano teacher break a ruler over my hand once.
And you know, what with my with my with with my mom and dad, the principal, I don't care.
The authority figure, when I was a kid, the authority figure was always right.
Whatever my complaint, the authority figure was always right.
Yeah.
My grandmother, my maternal grandmother, actually tried to make me afraid of the cops.
I had to go visit her.
We had stopped in a it was a well, like a diner in Bloomfield, Missouri.
We're sitting in a booth.
I'm like eight or nine years old.
Highway patrolman walks in.
My grandmother says, He's gonna get you, he's gonna get you.
He's gonna get you.
Why what did I do?
He's gonna get you.
I said, Oh my God.
I saw those guys, I was scared for a while.
I mean, that's I'm not advocating that, don't misunderstand.
But the respect for authority, it was drilled into us our entire lives.
It's a brave man, Mike Police Chief David Brown in Dallas.
Just in two sound bites, a total of about 60 seconds.
Uh very brave and courageous things to say.
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