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Sept. 21, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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In Charlotte, The New York Times is reporting that Chief Putney said that the perp there had a weapon when he exited the vehicle.
Officers were giving loud, clear, verbal commands.
The suspect exited the vehicle with a handgun threatening officers.
Now, family members of the man who was shot, Keith Scott, 43, family members said he was unarmed.
He was only holding a book.
This is part of the story.
He was in the process of turning his life around.
He was going to go back to school and he was turning his life around.
He got out of the car and he was holding a book.
But Chief Putney said at a news conference this morning that, quote, we did not find a book at the scene.
So already we have some controversy, if you will, over this whole thing.
As I say, folks, this is so, this and Tulsa, where I think the cop was white.
Two white female cops in Tulsa and an African-American cop in Charlotte.
But it just seems like rioting is instantaneous and automatic now.
It seems like the standard reaction.
It's becoming expected now.
I guarantee you, I'll bet you have this thought process.
The first time you hear of a shooting incident in a city, the first thing you think of, when will the riots start?
Or have they?
And this wasn't supposed to be the way it was supposed to be.
This is the way it was going to be.
Hope and change, first African-American president.
Unity, post-racial, post-political, post-partisan.
Hell, if it's post-American, if it's anything.
It certainly isn't post-racial.
After eight years of the Obama administration, racial tensions seem to have percolated, seem to have gotten worse when everybody thought that they were going to get better or even disappear.
Let me ask you, if you happen to be one of those people, let me just do a thought exercise here.
There's no way we're going to be able to talk about it because those of you I'm asking to think are not on the phone with me here.
But let's say you're one of the people who believed and maybe even voted for Obama on the premise with the hope that the election of an African-American president would say to everybody, would send a signal in this country and reverberate around the world that we are not racist in this country.
All these people running around saying America is racist and bigoted and all that.
Not true.
Look what we just did.
We just elected an African-American.
How could we possibly be racist?
If you're one of those people and then you further from that, you thought that the election of Obama, or maybe you hoped, combination of thought or hope, that you thought it actually would mean less racial friction, strife, confrontation, whatever.
If you thought that was going to happen because of the election of Obama, did you ever ask yourself how that would happen?
In other words, what would make it happen?
I'm not disputing anybody who thought that.
Don't misunderstand any tone of my voice.
But if you believed it was going to happen, did you think, okay, well, who's going to change then?
If the election of an African-American actually is going to mean the end of or a major reduction in racism, how is that going to happen?
Now, I don't have to answer the question because I never thought the election of Obama was going to mean less racism.
I never thought.
In fact, I thought it was going to mean more.
I have been proven right.
I thought the election of Obama was going to increase and exacerbate racial tendencies because I understand the race hustler business.
I understand the people who don't want there to be an end to racial strife in America.
This was, I mean, this was Tiddlywinks.
Figure this one out.
You have the election of the first black president.
If there is any criticism at all, which there will be, he's president for crying out loud.
It doesn't matter if he's Mars.
It doesn't matter if he's wherever, whatever looks like when he's the president of the United States, and there are going to be people who disagree.
But he's not the presidency.
He's the first African American.
And I knew that the Jacksons and the Sharptons and Utah and whoever else, the Black Lives Matter, any criticism of the first black president was not to be tolerated.
It was not to even be permitted.
See, part of the deal was the unspoken deal.
The election of the first African-American president also meant you shut up whenever he does anything you don't like.
Because if you don't, you are being racist.
And that's exactly what's happened.
And it worked in basically neutering the Republican Party.
The Republican Party became, didn't take long either, totally PTSD shell-shocked before they stopped any criticism of Obama and his policies at all.
Because here came the media, you racist slime.
They didn't say it that directly or forcefully, but it was clear that anybody disagreed with Obama.
They didn't really disagree.
They just, they just were harboring lingering anger over the fact that he won because they're still racist at heart, and that's why they can't get along.
That's the narrative they established.
And I knew it was going to be the narrative.
I knew that this was not going to mean a positive change.
And it wouldn't have, even if the first African American had been conservative, it would have been even worse then.
Imagine the leftists, the NAALCP, and the entire civil rights organizations.
Imagine if Clarence Thomas were president.
Imagine that whole group that now defends Obama and demands that everybody else shut up and criticizing him.
But can you imagine what they would be trying to do if it were Clarence Thomas or take your pick of any conservative who'd been elected president?
So in no case was this going to result in reduced or lessening racial tensions.
But for those of you who thought that it would, did you continue thinking about how that would happen?
If the election of the first African American as president is automatically going to mean, or hopefully going to mean a lessening of racial strife, a shall we even look at positively, that it's going to get better.
Did you ask yourself how it was going to happen?
And if you ask yourself how it's going to happen, you have to ask another question.
Who's going to change?
Who is going to change?
Because then you've got to start saying, well, who's to blame for it now?
Who is to blame for the if you want to acknowledge that there's racism in America?
Okay, fine.
The election of the first African-American president is going to end it.
Okay, fine.
How?
Who is going to stop being racist?
Because Obama was elected.
In other words, the act of magic has occurred.
The rabbit's been pulled out of the hat and the first president of African American Heritage is elected.
What next?
Who has to change in order for a healing and a lessening of racial strife to begin?
I don't want to go any further than that because I'm trying to get you to think independently here of where I'm going with this.
Because it isn't magic, but a lot of people thought it would be.
A lot of people thought, maybe hoped, that the symbolism of it all, that the photo op, that the reality that given our past, complete with our original sin of slavery, look now what has happened.
Okay, fine and dandy, but then that day and every day forward, there's going to be much less racial disharmony, shall we say.
Who is going to have to change in order for that to happen?
That gets kind of uncomfortable answering it this way, thinking about it this way, doesn't it?
If you're still with me.
I mean, if you still understand what I'm essentially asking here.
Okay, well, let me give you specific.
First African-American president elected.
Is the Ku Klux Klan saying, oh, well, it's over for us.
We quit.
Does that happen?
No, probably quite the opposite, right?
We have to ask Sheets Bird, but he's dead.
Well, you get my drip.
Okay, so let's go to the Reverend Jackson.
Reverend Jackson, we just have the first African-American president elected.
Does that mean you've accomplished your objectives and it's time to stand down?
Hell no.
What are you talking, fool?
No way.
Okay.
Yeah, well, Reverend Jackson did want to have on Fox News.
He actually stated he wanted to attack Obama's manhood and clip a piece of it.
So my point is, somebody is going to have to change.
It all boils down to who do you think are the racists in America that, by virtue of Obama's election, are going to automatically, okay, what?
I don't need to be a racist anymore because the guy won.
Well, who?
How was it going to happen?
You get where I'm going with this?
I hope you do.
In the meantime, my friends, we'll take a brief obscene profit time out here and continue with your phone calls and whatever else happens right after this.
Don't go away.
Charlotte Observer, recount of what happened in Charlotte.
Late last night, all lanes of Interstate 85 were reopened early Wednesday, but still littered with debris after a night of protests over an officer-involved shooting of an African-American suspect in the University City area.
A dozen cops were injured Tuesday night in a series of clashes, and reports were coming in early Wednesday of motorists on Interstate 85 being hurt and their cars damaged when protesters threw rocks and other debris off interstate overpasses onto traffic below.
One of the officers was hit in the face with a rock and among at least seven hospitalized due to injuries.
The Walmart on North Tyson Street was among the sites attacked and looted by protesters, and it was closed early Wednesday with wooden pellets piled in front of the doors.
Three or more tractor trailer trucks were stopped and looted.
And at least two fires were started on the interstate as the protesters burned items from the trucks.
This is why I opened the program by asking, is this now standard operating procedure?
We have law enforcement involved shooting automatic riots.
In this case, the officer was black.
Do you know where the officer went to school?
Liberty University.
No, he went to Jerry Farwell's University, Liberty University, played football.
Yeah, they have a football team.
It's not like...
And, oh, the NFL, by the way.
That's a whole other story.
The ratings are continuing to plummet.
But we'll get to that in due course.
So you have an African-American cop, Liberty University grad, and a black perp.
And the family is saying, hey, he was sitting in his car.
He was on the shade.
He's reading a book because he's changing his life.
Preparing to go back to university.
The police chief said, we didn't find a book.
The guy got out of the car with a gun.
But the family's denying that that all happened.
So the riot, nothing's real.
The riots are new normal.
Nothing is real.
Everything is what you can make.
If you can sell your narrative to hell with the facts.
You know, speaking of which, I didn't know this about Dr. Phil.
Pardon my interruption of myself here.
I'll get back to it in a second.
I watched a TV show last night called Bull, and it stars Michael Weatherly, who was late of NCIS.
And his character is Jason Bull.
And you know what Dr. Phil did before he does what he does now?
Not jury consultant.
He actually, as a psychologist, was able to help jury selection by identifying psychological character risk.
Look, cut to the chase.
The bottom line here, the facts, find it.
We don't care.
What narrative can we establish?
What story can we tell?
By the way, everybody's known this about trials.
You think it's all about the evidence and innocence until proven guilty, you are going to get convicted.
Trials are about, they're a show now, and the jury is human beings, they have to have a story.
It was a fabulous show.
I thought it was a great, great show.
Subject matter was a little bit worn out.
It was a plot line that's a little bit worn out, but it's a really great new way of doing a televised crime show.
It's worth giving it a shot.
Weatherly is great in this show, too.
No, I don't know Weatherly.
I've never met.
I know a friend of a friend, it's one of these.
A friend of mine knows Weatherly's dad, but I don't know Weatherly.
I'm as a powerful, influential member of the media.
I should know Weatherly, but I don't.
Now, I'm not saying everything in this show Dr. Phil did.
They just used his business as the model for the character they created.
It's on CBS, if you want to watch it.
But you're right.
It's the narrative.
So we have competing narratives.
That's what the police chief was talking about here in the soundbite we played in the previous segment.
He said the facts are the facts.
I mean, I see the narrative they're trying to create here, but that's not what happened.
Well, Chief, you had better get ready with your narrative because that's what Black Lives Matter is all about.
That's what the civil rights movement today is all about.
There is a narrative that existed before this event happened last night.
And the narrative is police forces nationwide are racists and they are run by racists.
And they love to kill black men.
Usually the police officers that do this are white because they are racists.
And they become police officers because it gives them a license to kill.
So that's the narrative.
Before you have a riot, before you have a crime, before law enforcement gets involved, that's the narrative that the civil rights movement in this country is attempting to establish in the minds of as many people as they can.
So that when you do have an event like that last night, first thing people are going to conclude, there go the cops again, shooting another black guy.
That's what they want you to conclude.
So that you will then already have made up your mind before you learn the facts.
And because it's been established that if you make up your mind before you learn the facts, the facts will not matter in changing your mind.
How else could you explain liberalism, by the way?
Facts simply don't matter.
They believe what they want to believe about, say, climate change or global warming.
You can doesn't matter.
The narrative has been in a process being built since the 1980s.
Black Lives Matter is establishing a narrative here.
And by the way, it predates Ferguson.
It may have been predated a little bit Tayvon Martin, but it really, really got focused with Trayvon Martin and intensified in St. Louis.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Didn't happen, but yet look how many African Americans to this day believe that it did.
And you've got all these clowns in the NFL.
You wonder why ratings are going down?
Taking a knee or raising a fist during the National Anthem.
I warned them.
I warned the NFL.
We're going to play that soundbite in the next half hour.
I warned them and pretty much predicted it's going to happen.
So, Chief, you're going to have to sad, sad, very sad reality is that facts, if they come in second place, they're going to stay in second place in somebody's mind.
That's what the BLM people know and the agitators and the organizers on the left know.
The brief timeout, my friends, sit tight.
We got much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
Okay, let's get back to the phones.
Because if we don't, I never will today.
I'm that loaded.
And I want to go back to Charlotte.
We got Josh.
It's great that you called, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, thanks for taking my call early.
You bet.
Go right ahead.
You're on the air now.
Okay, great.
So my question for you is: how do you think things would be different come November if we had one of these incidents again?
And depending on who's in the office, how the executive branch will handle the situation.
Oh, you're asking me if in either case, either Trump or Hillary wins, what will you, if these events will happen or how they will be different if they happen?
How they'll be handled mostly.
Okay, that is a fascinating question.
And the answer to that question actually would require maybe an op-ed of 750 to 1,000 words after a lot of research.
I'm not trying to skate out of answering it.
But let's stop and think of the question here.
You think it's simple that you gave me that call because you think this, okay, so we've got what happened in Charlotte.
We have what Demetrius.
Let's throw Ferguson in there.
It all happens with Obama in the White House.
So we move forward, and next year, by definition, I mean, we're going to have somebody that's not African-American in the White House.
So what effect is that going to have?
Look, this is a really good question in a whole lot of ways that Josh may not have even factored in his question.
For example, if either Hillary or Trump win, how much anger is there going to be that nobody's even anticipating in the African-American community that the first African-American president is gone?
Well, you might say that the Constitution tells you he's going to go, but still, he's gone.
And what is going to be, we have no idea what the landscape is going to be and the way news coverage, the media, are going to be dealing with the post-Obama America.
We don't know what Obama is going to do.
Well, we do.
I know.
I know what Obama is going to be doing.
He's going to be guarding his legacy out there.
But how many African-Americans are going to, even though it's all constitutional, still feel, I don't know, cheated?
Or, well, there's that chance and we blew it, or there's that chance and it's not going to happen again.
Or how many of them are not going to feel positively about it for whatever reason?
Then you add to the specifics.
So we have to go down: okay, if Trump wins and now there is something like Ferguson or something like, look, the first thing to say about that, I don't know.
This is one of these things I really don't want to answer because I don't want to create self-fulfilling predictions.
But let me just tell you this.
Let's take race out of this for a moment, Josh.
If Hillary Clinton loses this, Chicago 68 is going to look like romper room on PBS for four-year-olds and under.
The left is not going to accept Hillary losing.
It's not going to be a peaceful.
And I don't want to say this too much because I don't want to give people reason not to vote for Trump because of this.
You know as well as I do.
I mean, when John Kerry lost in 2004, all over Florida, psychiatrists set up satellite rooms where people could show up free of charge to deal with their depression.
South Florida Democrats who were convinced Kerry was going to win by Nate Silver, or whoever back then was assuring everybody that Bob Shrub that Kerry was going to win.
So that alone, even before you go anywhere else in the country with a police incident, just the result itself after the campaign of what?
love Trump.
Well, that's my point.
Whether there have I'm still not sure what you're saying about love, Trump, hate, but the bottom line here is that they're not going to accept being defeated.
They're already at the point where they resent that there's even an opposition.
They don't think there even should be an election.
I'm not exaggerating this.
I'm not making this up.
The left has devolved to the point now where I think they're finished and through with pretending that the country is up for grabs every four years.
They honestly believe that we, Republicans, conservatives, non-libs, are totally delegitimized and shouldn't even be allowed to participate in the process.
And they have just been entertaining us for the sake of the Constitution or whatever.
So if they end up losing, it's not going to be pretty.
And it's not going to be all related to Trump.
It's going to be related to the fact that they lost, that they will take it as a personal rejection.
They will take it as having been cheated.
They will take because they think they own the country right now.
They think they're in charge of everything.
And if they lose this election, they're going to find people to blame it on.
It isn't going to be pretty.
And I really hope I'm wrong about this, but I don't see it.
I see what I see.
I see the rabble rousing.
I see the anger.
Take a look at social media.
Social media is what it is now.
I don't think it's an outlier.
I think social media is an indication of just how unhinged, genuinely angry, deranged, and everything else you can think a sizable portion of this country is when they have anonymity.
I don't think it's a tiny few.
I think it's a huge number.
And I think all of them, you take a look at what they're doing to Matt Lauer for just being fair to Trump and what they're doing to Jimmy Fallon for just being nice to Trump.
So I may be exaggerating it a bit for effect, but not much in terms of what I really think is going to happen.
If Hillary wins, well, we're not through with if Trump wins, because at some point, even the post-election riots and protests or whatever they end up being, they will eventually end at some point and will start the Trump administration.
And I have to tell you, Josh, I really believe, based on what I'm saying, Trump was at another black church yesterday in Cleveland, suburban Cleveland.
I don't know if people are noticing.
Trump is engaged in serious and in-depth outreach to black churches and black political organizations, and he looks dead serious.
He's reaching out more than any Republican I remember ever having reached out.
And he's reaching out on the premise and the pretext that this strife can and should end and that he wants it to end and that he wants to be involved in whatever happens to make it end, that he wants to improve things for everybody.
That's what I hear Trump saying.
I see Hillary literally in a time capsule, stuck back in the 1990s.
I talked about this a little bit yesterday.
I really, I look at Hillary.
I listen to her.
I look at her campaign strategy, and it's old.
It's worn out.
It's predictable.
It comes from a playbook that was written when the Republican Party was content to exist but lose.
Republican Party was content to be the Washington generals.
Happy to be on the field, happy to wear the uniform, happy to lose, if that's what it took to stay on the field and wear the uniform.
But that kind of campaign doesn't wash with Trump.
It's not going to have any impact.
Trump's unpredictable.
Trump is not part of the establishment.
So all these usual bromides that the Democrats throw out against your average Republican are not going to frighten Trump supporters into abandoning him.
Might some would say that they would succeed in keeping new Trump supporters, potentially new Trump supporters, from signing up with him, but we'll see.
But I still think that she's running an antiquated, nothing is going to change.
If Hillary is elected, more of the same, only worse.
The riots, the racial discord is going to continue because she's going to promote it.
Because liberal Democrat Josh, I asked earlier, who benefits from this?
It's a good question to ask anything's going on that you don't like, don't understand, that seems unfair, that seems illogical, that seems to make no sense.
Why does it still happen then?
Well, somebody's benefiting.
So you have to ask yourself, with every Ferguson, every Trayvon Martin, every Charlotte, every Dallas.
I mean, look at how these events are adding up now.
Every Detroit.
Ask yourself, who benefits?
And I can tell you right now, one of the primary beneficiaries is the Democrat Party.
It defies common sense, but they are one of the beneficiaries.
Because the Democrat Party somehow has gotten away with by creating a narrative that they care about African Americans and poor people and other minorities more than anybody else does.
But it's fascinating.
Life doesn't get better for the people the Democrats care about.
It only gets worse.
And the people the Democrats care about keep supporting the Democrats.
They keep complaining while they keep losing ground and they keep turning to the Democrats to protect them and to fix it because they really have been coerced, trained to believe that the Republicans are their big enemy.
Or Christians are there in it, or white people, or conservatives, or whoever are their enemy.
So Hillary Clinton being elected, the Department of Justice will continue to take over more and more police departments.
Racism and racial aspects will be highlighted and promoted because the Democrats benefit from this.
There will not be any substantive serious attempts to solve any of these problems.
The Democrats will, in order to continue to curry favor with African Americans and minorities, will continue to blame and blame and blame and try to punish people that may have had nothing to do with any of these events at all.
They will continue to weaken police departments, weaken law enforcement.
They will continue to chastise and attack law enforcement as inherently racist and bigoted.
Whatever has gone on these last eight years, you're just going to get more of it.
And there won't be hardly any opposition to it because the Republicans are going to be just, well, half the Republicans, if Hillary wins, are going to be, yeah, we told you so.
See, it was the biggest mistake in the world.
And they're going to be applauding and they're going to be out there saying, and I deserve to be credited for being smart because I told you Trump couldn't win.
So they're going to be, in their own way, happy about it.
Other Republicans are just going to, oh, my God, we don't exist anymore.
And they're going to stop opposing anything because there's not going to be the strength of numbers to stop it.
You can say goodbye to Supreme Court.
You can say goodbye to a lot of the traditions and institutions that have in the past been the glue.
That is essentially the rule of law that has kept our society together and functioning in a forward manner.
Hillary Clinton doesn't know anything but this.
She doesn't, this is who she is, Obama, Alinsky, all this hyper-leftism is who she is.
But specifically to your question about these events, she's not, she doesn't know how to solve these.
What's she going to do?
She's going to go into Charlotte.
I ain't no way tart.
Right.
You take naps for two days in a row getting ready for debates.
Of course you're not tarred.
I got to take a break.
I'm a little long here, folks.
Back.
I want to thank Josh from Charlotte, Carolina, our last caller.
He may not even know what a great question that was.
I could do, I could do a full three hours answering his question.
His question essentially was, okay, these events happen, but what if Trump's president or Hillary?
What's different?
Whoa.
Just that question alone may, it does.
It provides the opportunity to be, if done right, extremely persuasive.
Now, everybody's asked, well, what if Hillary wins?
What if Trump wins?
But tying it to a specific event like this then opens up all of the things you have to consider.
Like Trump wins election night and the next day, I'm telling you, you had better start thinking about it now.
If you're not already, it's simply going to be unacceptable and intolerable to the people on the left.
Especially after they've told that Hillary's winning this thing in a landslide.
They've been told she's running away with it.
They've been told Trump's a buffoon.
Look at all they've been told that they believe.
You mark my words.
Here's George in Madison Heights, Virginia.
Great to have you with us on the program today.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
The thing is, everything you say sets off 100 thoughts.
It does with me anyway.
I was thinking, you know, how quickly Black Lives Matter got the rally together in Charlotte.
If only they could get themselves together to maybe clean up their community, get rid of the crime element, start jobs programs.
But what gets me, I was just reading the Ford Foundation and their reason for giving so much money to the Black Lives Matter movement.
It reminds me of Yasser Arafat when he died with a $2 billion estate.
Why didn't he use it to help the Palestinian people?
Why doesn't the Black Lives Matter charity, I mean, $100 million, that would do a lot of good towards joblessness, education, stemming the breakdown of the black family?
That money could be used elsewhere rather than just fomenting hatred.
Yeah, but look, you can answer your own question here, George.
You know damn well the Black Lives Matter people.
What do you mean, we?
You think we should spend $100 million?
We work so hard to have somebody donate to us?
It's a government's job to clean up neighborhoods.
It's a government's job to keep people out of jail.
It's a government's job to put the cops in jail.
What?
You want us to spend our money?
Screw you, dude.
That's their attitude about it.
Well, I'm 72 years old, and it didn't used to be that way.
Well, the idea of using other people's money has been around as long as I've been alive.
But I don't mean disrespect.
You're right, of course.
But his original question, I'm glad you have anonymity here, George.
You realize what you said.
Why did Black Lives Matter use some of their money to help clean up a neighborhood?
Who says they need to clean up their neighborhood?
It's racism right there, George.
You swerved into it and didn't even know it.
You insulted their communities by suggesting that there's anything to clean up there.
Easy for you to say in your picket fence, gated community is what they would say to you in response.
I mean, we're so screwed here.
You can't even speak honestly about stuff.
Oh, my gosh, look at that.
Just enough time here to say, hang on.
As you can tell, we are on a roll here today, folks.
And we will continue to be so and be back here before you know it.
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