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	Bucks Exton here on the EIB in Hour Three.
	Thank you so much for joining.
	Great to have you.
	Gonna talk to you about something tough now.
	Among the ugliest, most vile, disturbing things I've seen on the internet in a long time.
	Uh in months, it's it's horrific.
	It is tough to watch, it's tough to hear.
	Um a Facebook Live, so that's when they use Facebook, it can go to a live streaming video, and then the video is posted.
	Facebook live video of a man with uh disabilities who was tortured, and there's a 30 minute video of it.
	Uh he was tortured, they took a knife uh to his scalp, he was tied up.
	The torture went on, they believe for 48 hours.
	And there's a 30 minute video of it, and in that video, these four assailants are all heard saying things like F Donald Trump and F white people.
	We'll return to their statements uh in a moment here.
	But uh they kicked and punched him on video, he was cut, he was bleeding.
	This is somebody with uh with disabilities.
	Um this is somebody who was defenseless and who was tortured for 48 hours.
	I just want to play a a little bit, and we've we've bleeped obviously the profanity, but play a little bit of the audio so you understand some have some sense of what went on here, and then we're gonna talk about the way that the police, the media, politicians are are reacting to this.
	Uh but first we'll give you the audio.
	Play clip two.
	Donald Trump White people Black Black people Black people Black people Black people Goof Yeah My sister Went to Yeah The thing It's like My muscles to say this is not fine.
	Police said that the victim here was so traumatized that it took most of the night for him to calm down after he finally uh found his way to help.
	Um and most of them to calm down and speak to police.
	So this man was uh horrifically tortured, and you can hear people laughing on the video as they do this.
	So they were broadcasting this.
	Uh and the video is has been taken down by Facebook because of its community standards, but it's all over the internet now.
	So if you want to see the video, it's it's there.
	Um but of course this immediately then turns into a discussion about well, is this a hate crime?
	Um Chicago police spokesman uh according to CNN.com here, Anthony uh Goulier me, or Gulliel me, emphasized, emphasized today, that the investigation has so far not revealed a racial or political motive.
	That seems like a very strange place for anyone to be.
	When you have someone yelling, F white people and F Donald Trump.
	Uh no, there's a seems to be a racial motive and a political motive, in fact, established by the attackers, by the assailants themselves here.
	Uh they are uh four eighteen-year-olds, the alleged assailants here.
	They have not yet been convicted in a court of law, uh, but the alleged attackers are four eighteen-year-old African Americans, I believe two males, two females, and the victim here is a disabled uh white male.
	Um the way that the media talks about this is for me reminiscent of what you will often see from them in the aftermath of a Muslim jihadist.
	Now, I know all jihadists are Muslim, but I just say that to uh emphasize that that's the part of it they don't want to ever talk about.
	Um but a jihadist terrorist attack, so a terrorist attack committed by a radicalized Muslim, they spend the initial hours after one of those attacks saying that we don't want to jump to conclusions because the real fear that we should have is Islamophobia.
	And what we and so that that's and they wait and they stall, and also you'll see journalists who or television broadcasters or whatever you want to call various people that have media platforms that will rely on the fact that yeah, sure, the authorities, the police can be slower to make statements because if especially if we're talking about an ongoing Investigation and criminal charges.
	They have a process to go through, but they have established facts as well.
	And you would think that journalists who are supposed to be able to pull threads together and make sense, you know, connect the dots, make sense of things, could come to the most basic, the most obvious conclusions in the aftermath of either terrorist incident or this, a clear hate crime.
	And yet what they fall into is, well, the police haven't the police haven't necessarily said that they're charging it as a hate crime, so we don't want to jump to that conclusion.
	They wait until it falls a bit out of the headlines.
	They don't want there to be too much fury, too much passion around this, too much interest in this case.
	I leave it to you how much of this is a question of whether or not it furthers a narrative that the media has.
	We constantly hear, and you know this without me telling you, but I think it's worth reiterating.
	We constantly hear about how there are hate crimes perpetrated against uh, particularly with Trump's victory, Muslim Americans in this country.
	And a lot of them, a shocking amount of them, turn out to be complete and utter hoaxes.
	And when you go back, and I by the way, some of these I've actually called out on my show as they've happened, there's no way, oh yeah, people stood or people stood around this person, there's no video of it, they ripped her hijab off, they all yelled, we love Trump, we love Trump, you know, MAGA, MAGA, and they were waving their hats around it.
	No witnesses, though.
	And the suspect then all of a sudden, after posting this on Facebook, doesn't want to talk to police, or when they do talk to police, they and it, and then eventually the whole thing is recandidated.
	This has happened numerous times.
	And you get the Southern Poverty Law Center and MSNBC and other news outlets out there that are saying, Oh, the the rise of hate crimes on the point to the Huffington Post, which will point to Salon, which will point back to the Huffington Post, and there then they point to some posting on someone's Facebook page about how someone somewhere said something mean about a woman's head scarf who was Muslim.
	And this is national news.
	We all have to hear about it.
	And there will be over at CNN and MSNBC and other places, there'll be people who are brought on Trump supporters, brought on.
	What do you think of this horrific hate crime against this Muslim woman that occurred?
	And maybe it didn't even occur, but whatever, it's important.
	We're just raising awareness, they'll say.
	Just raising awareness, man, even if it's fake.
	I want to talk about fake news.
	Fake hate crimes definitely constitute fake news.
	So that's a thing that's been around for quite a while.
	But here we have people on video yelling, F white people, F Trump.
	They're engaged in horrific, unspeakable attack horrific unspeakable attack on a bound and defenseless uh mentally disabled man.
	And the media is playing the whole, just like after terrorists attack.
	Well, we don't want to jump to conclusions and this, this, it's complicated, and who really knows.
	And let's be sure we don't, you know, start to level any accusations about the climate in which this happens, the climate of media outlets across the country saying that Trump supporters are racist, that Trump's rises, right.
	I believe actually Vox.com, those of you may be familiar with that one, uh, which is doing the splainers, you know, they need to splain the news to their I call them splainers.
	Vox splaining, not to be confused with mansplaining, which is what I'm doing right now, I guess.
	Uh they say that racism and sexism are much better predictors of supporting Trump than anything else.
	And this has been so hammered home for such a long time that it can't be because Trump supporters want there to be more robust economy, want to end the political correctness.
	No, no, it's because they're racist, bigoted, xenophobe, anti-Muslim, anti-women, all of that stuff.
	Maybe there's a discussion to be had about how there are negative consequences to that sort of thing.
	Maybe it's worth talking about that there's a climate, and there are other, by the way, there have been some other cases.
	You do a quick Google search, you'll see.
	People have been attacked, been punched, kicked, assaulted for being Trump supporters.
	This has happened.
	And you'll say, and I know, and then the lefties, and they'll come after me on Twitter and Facebook.
	Uh oh, but look at this case of what was done to this person here or there.
	Well, you'll notice the disparity in frequency of these acts actually happening, particularly on the hoax side of things, right?
	Hoaxes are not entirely, but are overwhelmingly hate crime hoaxes, overwhelmingly a dysfunction of the left of Democrats, of progressives.
	Overwhelmingly.
	It's not all.
	And someone's going to send me a link to like the one guy who's a Trump supporter who something bad happened to, or that he said and it was a lie, whatever.
	But also in the media's treatment of it.
	So there's the frequency disparity, right?
	Meaning that there are hate crimes that are hoaxes that occur a lot on the left.
	And then when there is a hate crime, a real one, and by the way, I actually don't, I'm somebody who and people say, Oh, it's because you're white and male, in case you didn't know.
	Um, but I think that hate crimes are inherently politicized and problematic categorizations, right?
	I think that assault with a deadly weapon is assault with a deadly weapon.
	I think that you know you can look at these things as a function of the act itself without tearing it into, well, are you in a protected category or not?
	You see, the problem that the left runs into here is that are they going to admit that attacking somebody for being a Republican or for being a Trump supporter?
	Is that a hate crime or not?
	If that's not a hate crime, we'd like to know why.
	And as you look at the language of various statutes at the state level, there's some distinctions to be made between who's in a protected class and who's not.
	But this also becomes a federal issue.
	The federal government gets involved, they can become a civil rights case.
	Well, if there's no such thing as a federal hate crime against a white male, we would like there to be a more clear explanation as to why that is.
	And that should be more that should be a more open discussion.
	But they know they're going down that path.
	They also want to make sure that they can highlight those cases that further the narrative of a terrifying new America where racism and sexism and homophobia are and and I see even an anti-Semitism.
	Trump's son-in-law is Jewish and his daughter converted to Judaism, but yeah, let's just talk about how Trump's America is totally anti-Semitic.
	Uh this is all out there, and they want any story that fits into that, even if it's flimsy, even if it's scant on evidence, even if it any person reading it could tell that it's almost certainly false.
	They run with that story because it furthers the narrative and it raises awareness.
	But then we see this.
	We see a white man bound, brutalized, abused, and the attackers are just offering up from the get-go, why they're doing it.
	F white people, F. Trump.
	And you've got the Chicago police saying, hey, you know, we're not really sure what happened here.
	And you've got the media playing the games of, well, you know, let's not let's not jump to any conclusions.
	Just like after, you know, uh a car bomb goes up or a car runs through a Christmas market, murders a whole bunch of people in in Berlin.
	Well, let's not jump to conclusions.
	Pretty sure it wasn't an angry Unitarian.
	I'm pretty sure.
	I'm gonna put it out there.
	It wasn't there wasn't some Quaker behind the wheel who was mowing people down left and right in the Christmas market.
	Uh I I'm just gonna offer that up as a guest, but oh, they're jumping to conclusions.
	Wait till the facts come out.
	When it doesn't further the narrative, wait, wait, wait.
	Forget.
	That's how it goes.
	When it does further the narrative of the racist America, white people doing bad things because Trump is president now, jump on it right away, yell it from every megaphone.
	And if you have to offer a retraction, whatever, who cares?
	It's just raising awareness, as I said.
	We'll get into a little bit more of the media treatment treatment of this in a second.
	I'm sure some of you will have some thoughts on this too.
	800 282-2882, Buck InfoRush.
	I'll be right back.
	Buck Sexton here, InfoRush on the EIB today, got an update to that story I was just telling you about terrible story about torture of a white man in Chicago with assailants yelling, F. Trump, F white people.
	The four suspects, according to CNN.com here have been charged.
	And I believe they have been charged with uh hate.
	Yes, it's in the in the headline here, four charged with hate crime and kidnapping.
	Uh there they are three 18-year-olds and a 24-year-old, two men, two women.
	Um, all African American suspects here are all charged with hate crimes and kidnapping.
	Um this was pretty obvious, right, in terms of what the charges you would think that the charges should be.
	Um and yet when this was covered last night on some of the news stations, a lot of, well, you know, let's let's not jump to conclusions here about the motivation.
	Because, you know, just like after a jihadist terrorist attack, you know, we don't know.
	We don't want to get people all worked up for no reason, because the real thing is Islamophobia.
	Here, maybe the climate of anti-Trump hate is really a problem.
	Maybe that's a discussion that we should have.
	Uh but instead the discussions seem to go something like this.
	Please play clip three.
	There's certain things that we I can't say that it's a hate crime because Chicago police won't say it.
	They're saying they're still investigating it.
	They're not investigating they're not done with their investigation.
	But when you look at this, Simone, they're saying uh F white people, F Trump.
	How can you say it's not a hate crime against a white person?
	So first I want to say this is absolutely sickening.
	Uh it's unfathomable that so much hate and anger can fill up a person where they go out and they think that this is okay.
	And then it was stupid to do it on Facebook Live, but that's a whole nother story.
	So this is absolutely sickening, but I'm gonna say something that's probably not very popular.
	We cannot callously go about classifying things as a hate crime.
	Motive here matters.
	We cannot this was on CNN last night.
	This is a national news broadcast.
	First of all, Don Lemon, uh, I can't say it's a hate crime because Chicago No, you're not a law enforcement officer.
	You can say that you think it's a hate crime, and I'm sure if we change some of the facts around here, CNN wouldn't be so slow, or some CNN hosts, I should say, wouldn't be so slow to say that this is a hate crime.
	I I don't think anybody would be sitting there saying, oh well, you know, if this was an attack on a minority or a member of the LGBTQ community and their people were yelling, I'm doing it because that's what you are.
	I don't think they'd be so tepid on this.
	Oh, well, I'm not sure.
	I don't know if we can really go there.
	But then I also love this guest.
	I'm not sure what what her background or uh expertise is.
	I'm forgetting.
	I don't know.
	I think maybe a strategist of some kind.
	Saying that callously, I for I forget.
	I forget the guest that was on last night.
	Um, but nonetheless, uh callously throw around the term hate crop.
	Callus is tying somebody up for uh a long period of time and using a knife to cut them and brutalize them and cut their clothing and terrify uh and to do this all to a person who has uh mental uh disabilities in the first place uh uh that that is callous.
	I I don't think that throwing around the term hate crime is callous.
	Uh maybe she I maybe she meant a different word there, but I I that's it for me at least it seems like the real just like the real threat after a terrorist attack is Islamophobia, the real threat after this anti-Trump, anti-white person hate crime attack is that we're gonna throw around the term hate crime needlessly or something like that.
	I don't know.
	That's seems to be what's what's offered up there.
	Um but this goes counter the narrative.
	I just checked before that maybe this is this has changed or this will change.
	Um, but looking at what's trending on Twitter, which I know is a very imperfect and non-scientific way to get a sense of what people care about in the news, but people in the news are much more, usually much more ex interested in Twitter, I think, than most Americans are.
	Uh things that are trending right now.
	Planned parenthood, uh what else?
	National Bird Day, which I didn't know that was I didn't know that was a thing.
	Uh nothing about the Chicago attack.
	Nothing about this uh horrific 30-minute long video posted all over the internet that anybody can see.
	Uh I don't think you're going to see the White House making a statement on this.
	I'd I'd make a bet on that one.
	I I don't think you're going to see uh MSNBC or CNN running panel after panel on what we should do.
	How do we come together?
	How do we heal as a nation after this sort of thing?
	I'm just guessing that this is going to be a one and done news story, right?
	That's it.
	They're gonna come cover this today, hate crime charges, and then in three months or six months when these four individuals plead guilty or or not, maybe they fight the charter, who knows?
	Uh we'll see some page C seven news item about this.
	And we'll all be told to forget about it, and just give it a few days.
	Huff posts will have another breathless headline about the rise in Trump's hateful America.
	And then the story will be about how someone somewhere said something mean to a woman wearing a headscarf.
	And we're all supposed to think that this is, you know, we're we're at we're becoming like uh Nazi Germany or something.
	It's insane.
	All right, team.
	Uh we'll be back in just a few minutes.
	Buck here in for rush for more on me, you can go to the blaze.com/slash Buck Dash Sexton.
	Uh I just wanted to uh follow up a little more that soundbite we played from CNN last night.
	That was Democratic strategist Simone Sanders was the lady who uh I stumbled on the name.
	And she said, I'm going to say something that's probably not very popular.
	We cannot callously go about classifying things as a hate crime.
	Um and then she went on to say, if we start going around, we played that on air, but then she said if we start going around, and any time someone says or does something egregious or bad or sickening in sense uh in connection with the president like Donald Trump or even President Obama for that matter, because of their political leanings, that slippery territory, that is not a hate crime.
	Well, as we know, the Chicago police have charged it as a hate crime because there's also, I assume, the anti-white bias here, as some would say uh reverse racism, but perhaps worth pointing out that there's no such thing as reverse racism, there's just racism.
	Uh but it is interesting that this is now that there seems to be some debate on the left as the yeah, I I I I agree, Mr. Snerdley, that it it seems to me to be pretty obvious that when someone says uh F white people as they're attacking a white person on video and laughing about it, that that we should I feel like we know some stuff about why they're doing it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I I just you can call me crazy.
	Um, but that's where I am on that.
	I I assume I'm not the only one.
	800 2822 882.
	I want to get into some of the best uh I shouldn't say the best, the most egregious hate crime hoaxes of 2016, which Town Hall.com pulled together just to give a little add a little meat on the bones there of what I was talking about before.
	It's it's astonishing how many of these things happen.
	Um this is a real hate crime, and everyone's like, whoa, I don't know if it's a hate crime, but the fake hate crimes that get national headlines and media coverage for days and days, they all seem to have one thing in common, and that's that the target is a protected group by the left, or just considered a protected group in some cases under statute and under law.
	Kyle in Louisville, Kentucky.
	You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	You're speaking to Buck, what's up?
	Hey, Buck.
	I love you, man.
	You're my favorite guest host, not named Mark.
	Okay, sir.
	Thanks.
	So what's on your mind?
	I just want to say this whole concept.
	From the first day I heard about hate crime, I have hated the whole concept.
	If I get killed by somebody, I really don't care why they did it.
	And I mean, but somebody commits an act this heinous, and some of the other acts that have been labeled as hate crimes.
	The act alone should be enough for us to make punishment.
	I don't understand this concept at all of the signing harsher punishment because they did it for some particular reason.
	I don't care why they did it.
	Well, this is where you get into uh a point that uh and Kyle, thanks for calling.
	Um this is where you get into a point that I made before about how I I'm on the whole notion of hate crimes uh especially when you begin to bring into it the federal government and federal civil rights charges based upon what is not a shouldn't would not be considered under nor normal circumstances a federal issue, right?
	States all have laws about assault, about kidnapping.
	Well now, kidnapping, of course, can go across state lines, that's why the FBI gets involved, and it does become federal, but kidnapping within a state and and murder and torture, I mean the states have laws against this, and what you see here, and you see it because some on the left are talking about it,
	is that there are some out there who don't want to add to the classifications or the categories that are protected, so that they really would tell you that uh uh a white person who is attacked by minorities is for being white, as they if they're saying it as they're attacking him.
	That's not a hate crime because it's not possible for a person, and now I'm Sort of borrowing the verbiage and the constructs of the left.
	It's not possible for a person who has privilege, which all white people, that's why they call it white privilege are supposed to have to be the target of hate the same way that minority groups are.
	That's really what this boils down to.
	That's when you take this and sift through some of these sort of the, oh, well, we can all agree this is horrible.
	Maybe we should all heal as a nation.
	Okay, but why is this?
	This is on video.
	I mean, this is terrible.
	This will get less coverage than the fake story.
	This will get less coverage from the national news media than this they've the completely false, retracted fake story about a Muslim woman getting her hijab pulled off by Trump supporters here in New York City, which was like front page of the New York Post and front page of you know you name it.
	Oh the long dark night of fascism was upon us.
	But actually, no, it was all fake.
	I believe as it turns out, she says that she had to come up with a story.
	The woman who came up with this hoax had to come up with a story because she was outlaid and her strict father didn't want to allow her to, I think date or something, I don't know, whatever.
	Um, but she lied, and everyone covered it a lot.
	This is going to disappear from the headlines.
	By tomorrow, I don't think you're going to be hearing much about it, and by Monday it'll be like you're going to have to do your own Google searches on it because media's not going to be very interested in the story at all.
	Um they're certainly not going to run as they could if they wanted to, stories about how maybe the demonization of Trump supporters, the same way that we started to get into a discussion about the demonization of cops that was occurring at Black Lives Matter protests, including Black Lives Matter protests that I walked through and saw the signs, and they talked about murdering cops and killer cops and racist cops.
	That's what the placard said.
	That's what the chants were.
	You know, you got people marching in New York.
	That was for Black Lives Matter.
	Now you got people marching in New York City right after Trump's win.
	And they are saying, you know, they're saying that well, F. Trump, that was one of the chants that I heard here in the city, repeated by the four alleged assailants in this terrible Facebook hate crime video.
	Uh, but that also Trump supporters are inherently racist.
	There are pieces, think pieces, so-called quote unquote think pieces written about how Trump supporters are a bunch of uh racist redneck hillbillies.
	And that's the best way to determine whether somebody, whatever it was, 60 million people, somebody voted for Donald Trump is is how how racist they are, that that might have consequences beyond just allowing for a whole bunch of preening and chest thumping among the social justice warriors.
	That that kind of incendiary rhetoric that we need to oppose not just Trump's presidency, but need to really shout down and ostracize Trump's supporters, that this could result in bad things, should not be surprising to anybody, and maybe that's a discussion that we could have or should have.
	Uh maybe to sort of cool down the overheated rhetoric a little bit about how Trump is going, you know, you got these celebrities with the video of, you know, Congress, you must, we demand that you stand up against all the horrible things that we say Trump is going to do.
	They forget, by the way, for example, Trump standing up at a uh at one of his rallies completely unprompted and waving around the LBGTQ flag.
	You know, that sort of that never really gets talked about.
	Or some of the statements from the campaign trail, numerous statements from the campaign trail uh where Trump would speak about the contributions of the black community to this country and speaking in in in praise of diversity in this country, not just for diversity as the leftist concept that we have to always sort of bow down to, but real diversity, you know, Americans of all different kinds.
	Trump wanted Americans of all different ethnic backgrounds to vote for.
	No, no, you're not gonna hear much about any of that stuff.
	You're and you're not gonna hear much more about this this case in Chicago either.
	Contextualizing is the way they always make the story bigger, right?
	You just run with it.
	Let's have some panels on the context for this one incident.
	Is this one incident representative of a much broader trend across the country?
	Well, before you can answer that question, you have to answer this question.
	Does it further the leftist progressive, dare I say, Democrat narrative?
	If the answer to that is no, well, then no, this is an I this is an isolated incident, nothing to see here, move on.
	If the answer to that is yes, even if the incident is fake, worth Talking about.
	Worth getting everybody energized about it because, you know, raising awareness.
	Bob in Windsor, New York, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show speaking to Buck.
	What's up?
	Hi.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Thank you.
	There's uh a single issue, two points.
	Uh one is John Podesta is no fool.
	I believe he deliberately set that certain account up to be hacked so that it could be made to look like it was the Russians.
	And also Hillary, I think intentionally set her email server up in hopes that she could pay off some debts to some of those foreign countries that she's been receiving money from.
	Wait, Bob, why why would they I I'm I gotta be honest with you, and with all due respect, I'm I'm not buying either of these at all.
	Wait, what?
	Why would Hillary let's start with the Hillary one?
	Hillary did this because what?
	Uh Hillary is a global uh nation.
	And the best way to take the only thing standing in the way of a global order is America.
	One way to do it is to follow Obama's lead is to weaken the country as much as they can in subtle ways.
	You've seen it in recent days.
	Yeah, but wouldn't she want to be president and isn't that a much better doesn't she want to be at the levels of power?
	The email thing was a huge liability for her.
	I'm sorry?
	She thought she was going to be president of the new world government.
	But she's right, Bob.
	Thank you, Bob from New York.
	I I you know, there's I I do what I can I try to be polite.
	You know, I went to Catholic school, Jesuits in high school.
	I try to be polite to everybody, Mr. Snerdley.
	I I don't know what to say to it.
	That's why I didn't have anything.
	I try to be polite to the gentleman.
	He he was on hold.
	That Hillary would openly leave her email or wanted her emails to no way.
	Oh, just certainly saying no way.
	Uh yeah, I'm I'm too I'm too polite, I agree.
	I know I'm too polite to everybody.
	Uh all right.
	Steve in Springfield, Massachusetts.
	Uh I'm get ready, Steve.
	I'm gonna be less polite.
	What's up?
	Uh oh okay, I'm Megadiddles Buck, and thank you very much for taking my call.
	Of course.
	Um, that story that you were talking about about that poor disabled guy.
	Um I I am I have I am extremely appalled, thoroughly and utterly disgusted.
	Um, and I am sick of this whole hate crime thing being kicked around.
	Don't tell me it's not a hate crime.
	Um I have friends of all different nationalities, and I'm gonna tell you some minorities um that they'll they'll talk about like thirty different nationalities in the course of five minutes.
	Racism is you know, the liberals can't just pass laws for equality.
	They have equality of everything except accountability for their own actions.
	Yeah, hate hate crimes are a way of of adding additional protections to certain communities, and you can see that there are a lot of people that would will they'll openly come out and tell you that they don't think that there can be a thing of that there can there can be no such thing as a hate crime against a white person in America.
	That is plenty of people on the left believe that.
	Uh just as they believe there's no such thing as racism against white people in America.
	I'm sorry, Steve, I missed that.
	What?
	Uh it's a racist remark by the left to say that in the first place.
	Yeah, well, this is the kind of stuff that you hear from them.
	Uh Steve, thanks for calling in from Massachusetts.
	Buck Sexton here in for Rush.
	Gonna be finishing the show strong today.
	We'll be right back.
	I just want to add here, Buck Sexton in for uh Rush Limbaugh.
	Uh on this hate crime attack in Chicago.
	I didn't even know this.
	The Chicago police chief originally, he'd seen the video and everything.
	I mean, and this is what he says about the attackers.
	All right, who horrifically tortured and laughed as they tortured a mentally uh disabled I believe he was also a I think he's uh eighteen or nineteen himself, but uh might be wrong about his age.
	Um this is what the Chicago police chief said.
	Although they are adults, they're eighteen, yes, that makes them adults.
	Kids make stupid decisions.
	I shouldn't call them kids.
	They're legally adults, but they're young adults and they make stupid decisions.
	That certainly will be part of whether or not we seek a hate crime to determine whether or not this is sincere or just stupid ranting and raving.
	Doing a lot of intellectual gymnastics there, or you know, doing doing a a belly flop into the short end of the or the the narrow or the uh shallow end of the pool uh when it's so obvious what's happening here, but oh yeah, these are just kids doing stup No.
	You know, that they they weren't they're torturing a human being on video.
	I don't know.
	Chicago Police Department.
	And I didn't even get to talk about the numbers in Chicago for the last year.
	The number of shootings completely out of control, up like 50 or 60 percent, even over I think last year.
	Uh total gang uh gang warfare violence overtaking parts of uh South and West Chicago.
	And uh is Obama speaking there today, by the way, or is it I think he's speaking there tomorrow?
	I don't know.
	Obama's giving a speech in Chicago soon, which Democrats have been in control of that city a long time.
	Very strict gun laws in Chicago.
	Hasn't seemed to do very much to stop gun violence in Chicago.
	No surprise there.
	Uh but Chicago police looking really dumb here uh with the way they initially were sort of responding to this, or at least I shouldn't say Chicago police, some of the senior members of the uh PD in Chicago.
	Ben in California, if you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show, you're speaking to Buck.
	Hey, Buck, thank you so much for taking my call.
	Uh just real quick, let me back up.
	That commercial for the insurance was a crack up.
	And the reason I'm saying that is I I do uh financial planning, and I won't mention uh the company that I work for.
	It's the best in the nation, but we also tell insurance, so that cracks me up.
	And one of the things that I do is I work with families with special needs because my one of my my youngest son has down syndrome, and I am just livid.
	I don't care what color you're I don't care if you're green for crying out loud.
	This is such a heinous crime, the slime balls that can even think of taking advantage of somebody that does not have the mental capacity to defend themselves is the same in my eyes as rape.
	Well, it's a it's a heinous crime, and it does seem that the the police in Chicago are going to be treating it uh treating it that way in terms of the charges that are are being uh brought against the four uh alleged attackers here.
	Um but yeah, I I you I just think it's interesting that this is going to be a story for a this will be a story for a day.
	Um it will not be a story for longer much longer than that.
	Uh and that's because it's a narrative that the media doesn't want to tell.
	When they want to tell a narrative, oh man, they'll find they'll convene special panels and do special audience shows and you know that whatever whatever it may be, um, they'll stay on the subject, but on this one they're going to want to move on.
	And uh thank you, Ben, for calling from California.
	And I just offered you, I think it's because there's also a recognition that the really um uh toxic environment in this country right now, political environment, uh media's played a huge role in it.
	They haven't even haven't even waited until day one to tell us that the country is is in jeopardy of of complete and utter destruction uh and that community that people should be fearful for their safety because of a Trump presidency.
	They add this is offered up by major outlets across the country, and they treat it as though this is obvious and this is like gospel and it's just nonsense.
	Uh Buck in for rush, you're right back after this break.
	Buck Sexton here in for rush, uh closing out the show.
	Great to be here on the EIB.
	Appreciate it very much when Rush throws me the keys to his EIB Ferrari on radio, as always.
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