{"id":11928,"date":"2013-07-16T17:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-16T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:42:43","slug":"were_george_zimmerman_s_civil_rights_violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/07\/16\/were_george_zimmerman_s_civil_rights_violated\/","title":{"rendered":"Were George Zimmerman\u2019s Civil Rights Violated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: You know, I hate to mention this folks. We\u2019ve had all this talk of the Zimmerman trial, and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press says that public interest in the Zimmerman trial (at least in the end of the Zimmerman trial) was very, very low. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press says that only 26% of the public followed the George Zimmerman trial closely. I wonder what the answer would have been if you\u2019da asked them, “How many of you followed the Trayvon trial?”<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

No, no, no, no. I\u2019m being serious. <\/p>\n

How many people thought it was the Trayvon Martin trial? Remember we\u2019re talking about low-information people here. It\u2019s like the Reverend Jackson said yesterday that Trayvon did not have “a jury of his peers,” and that would be right. Trayvon wasn\u2019t on trial. George Zimmerman was. But anyway, the Pew Research Center says only 26% of the public followed the Zimmerman trial closely, which is down 10% from when the story first broke in March. <\/p>\n

It was 35% cared about it then. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s sort of the opposite of the way these stories usually trend. The news media and the professional race-baiters really screwed this up. This is a big drop-off in the interest compared to Rodney King and the OJ trials, but the Pew Center doesn\u2019t mention the fact that there are a lot more viewing choices today than there were back in 1992 or 1994. But the gap between black and white interest has grown since then. <\/p>\n

The article says, “About as many blacks reported watching at least some live coverage of the Zimmerman trial as watched the OJ Simpson trial in 1995.” However, “Whites are far less likely to say they tuned into the Zimmerman trial than the Simpson trial. … Moreover, fully 67% of blacks say they watched at least some live coverage of the Zimmerman trial, compared with 38% of whites.”<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that despite the way it appeared in the Drive-By Media, there wasn\u2019t a lot of national interest in this. I actually think, folks, that it is reprehensible. It is journalistic malpractice, irresponsible, whatever you want to say for the media to continue to cover this as though it\u2019s an ongoing thing and still trying to gin up the racial angle, when, folks, we learned last night from Rachel Jeantel that race was not any part of this.<\/p>\n

This is gonna be real interesting to see. I fully expect to be raked over the coals for my interpretation today, because I have offered a viewpoint of what Rachel Jeantel said that the left does not want out there. “This is racial! It is racism,” is the narrative. “This country is still a slave state for all intents and purposes. Trayvon was killed because he\u2019s a black guy. This evil ‘white Hispanic\u2019 Zimmerman is an innate racist \u2019cause he\u2019s an American.<\/p>\n

“He went out there and just saw a poor black kid in the neighborhood and said, ‘I\u2019m gonna kill the guy because he\u2019s black!'” That\u2019s what they want you to think. And Rachel Jeantel last night, one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the case, was on CNN. Folks, I\u2019m just telling you: Based what she said, if anything frightened Trayvon Martin, it was the possibility Zimmerman was a gay male predator. Rachel Jeantel told a TV audience<\/a> last night that she told Trayvon to run, run, run; that he might be dealing with a rapist.<\/p>\n

She said you see some “creepy ass cracka” following you around, it could be a rapist. You\u2019ve been taught from when you\u2019re very young to be “creep out” by that, and you run, run, run. And then she pointed out that Trayvon did not want this guy following him home \u2019cause his little brother was at the house. She didn\u2019t say one thing about race, and neither did the jury. Yet the media can\u2019t let it go. <\/p>\n

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Now, pointing this out… I just want to warn you. I know you in this audience are the finest audience in all of media. Your loyalty to this program and to me, and your devotion to it, sustain me. You get me through all kinds of stuff, and I\u2019m just gonna tell you: It has popped up in other places now. There\u2019s PJ Tattler. PJ Media has a interpretation like mine, and so does a guy posting at Mediaite, and it\u2019s starting to pop up in other places.<\/p>\n

But my guess is that when the left finally hears about it tomorrow if not tonight, they\u2019ll blow a gasket, \u2019cause this is not at all what they have manufactured. And, believe me, they have manufactured this whole racial theme, when it never was there. It was not even a component, when you get down to the bare essentials. Well, I don\u2019t know that they\u2019d even considered it or if anybody had, until Rachel Jeantel spoke last night on CNN. <\/p>\n

She did allude to it at trial, under oath. <\/p>\n

She did allude to the homosexual aspect of this. <\/p>\n

But if I really wanted to stir it up, I would make the case that it was Zimmerman\u2019s civil rights which were violated. Here is Zimmerman, a properly accredited Neighborhood Watch captain or whatever his title was, patrolling his neighborhood, and the guy sees him and starts beating up on him \u2019cause he thinks he\u2019s gay. That sounds like a civil rights violation to me. That sounds like it almost might be a hate crime, to me. <\/p>\n

I mean, the way I\u2019ve been conditioned by the Democrats and the left in this country, that sounds like a hate crime: Trayvon Martin starts pummeling Zimmerman \u2019cause his gal on the phone, Rachel Jeantel, says, “Hey, the guy could be a rapist. You better run.” But Trayvon\u2019s no coward! He doesn\u2019t run away from stuff. So he starts pummeling on Zimmerman. What do you think the left will do with that when they hear it might have been Zimmerman\u2019s civil rights that got violated?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Kevin in Naples, Florida. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. I was calling because I heard what you were talking about earlier, Rachel Jeantel saying the definition “cracka” could be a cop or security person. If they\u2019re on the scene and they\u2019re being paid to provide security for that area, then Trayvon Martin was willing to commit a felony by turning around and starting a physical assault against someone in a position of authority in a law enforcement-type duty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What? Uh, what…? I\u2019m sorry. What is your point?<\/p>\n

CALLER: If he was willing to turn around and start a physical altercation with a “cracka,” which could be a cop or a security person who is being paid to provide security for that area, then he was willing to turn around and actually commit a felony by attacking that person.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you\u2019re saying that\u2019s okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, that\u2019s not okay. I mean, she just —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You\u2019re saying that she\u2019s saying it\u2019s okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s saying that he was willing to commit a felony on that night. If he thought it was a cracka, he was willing to commit a felony to attack that person. Which, you know, they\u2019re trying to make him look so innocent. But if you\u2019re willing to commit a felony, how innocent can you be?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re saying that she has inadvertently pointed out that Trayvon was committing a felony?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, he could have been. Yes. By her own definition of the word “cracka.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but you\u2019re saying it\u2019s a felony to do what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: To attack a police officer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he\u2019s not. He was a security guard. He doesn\u2019t have the same authority as a cop.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that, but by the definition of “cracka,” it could be a cop or a security person, and Trayvon did not know that. But he said he had a “crazy ass cracka” (sic) on him, which means he had a cop or a security person. So he\u2019s going to turn around and attack that person.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your point is that she didn\u2019t know it, but she was essentially saying that Trayvon committed a felony?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was willing to, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All right. Well, I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s gonna fly. Get Jesse Jackson on the horn. “By the way, Trayvon\u2019s the guy that committed the felony!” See what the reaction to that is. Kevin, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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