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RUSH: Breaking news. Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen. John King, CNN\u2019s Newsroom, Wolf Blitzer says, “I assume you don\u2019t know the suspect, if it\u2019s an American, if it\u2019s a foreigner, anything along those lines.” Apparently there\u2019s some department store video, Lord & Taylor, department store video the authorities have seen that has given them a lead. Here\u2019s John King at CNN.<\/p>\n

KING: A physical description was given to me of the suspect. Wolf, I want to be very careful here because this is very sensitive information, but the description given to me, once again, it\u00c2\u2019s a dark-skinned individual. And I want to just stop there. Further descriptives were given by this source —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

KING: — but it was a background conversation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

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KING: They\u2019re not willing to discuss it on the record right now. Given the sensitivity, while they to get into these things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

KING: You heard Governor Patrick saying yesterday it\u2019s so important that the people of Massachusetts, and the country for that matter, in his words, turn to each other, not against each other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

KING: It was described to me as a dark-skinned male individual that was shown in the video.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-oh. Did you hear what John King said? Folks, he said here: “A physical description was given to me of the suspect. Wolf, I want to be very careful here because this is very sensitive information, but the description given to me, once again, it\u2019s a dark-skinned individual.” Well, I guess that\u2019s it for amnesty. That\u2019s it for gun control. We beat \u2019em back, folks. The perp is a dark-skinned individual. The Salon.com writer, remember, he was hoping, liberals are hoping the perp here is a white guy, \u2019cause if it\u2019s not, immigration and gun control are in trouble. Well, it\u2019s a dark-skinned suspect. (gasping) So I guess we beat back gun control and amnesty, hmm? According to the left.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Grab sound bite 27 again. I don\u2019t want to play the whole thing, but I want to take it to just shortly after “the dark-skinned individual.” Remember, we had earlier today the columnist at Salon magazine, a guy named David Sirota. Liberals were just hoping, praying that the perp was a white guy. It had to be a white guy! If the perp in Boston wasn\u2019t a white guy, that would imperil every item on the liberal agenda — and, oh, no! It doesn\u2019t appear to be a white guy.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Stop the tape. We\u2019re not profiling here! We\u2019re talking about a murderer. Could you liberals get rid of all of this prejudice and profiling guilt that you\u2019ve got? Just for 30 seconds, could you get rid of seeing people by skin color? How absurd! This guy at Salon magazine (paraphrased), “It better be a white guy! Gosh, we hope it\u2019s a white guy, otherwise the liberal agenda is imperiled”? You claim that it\u2019s conservatives who are racists, and you dare write a piece like that, David Sirota, hoping it\u2019s a white guy?<\/p>\n

Because if it\u2019s a “dark-skinned” perp, your agenda is imperiled? And we somehow are the racists? Here\u2019s John King saying, “Well, it\u2019s a dark-skinned individual. Ah, ah! But I — I — I\u2019m gonna stop there. It\u2019s very sensitive information.” We\u2019re talking about a murderer here. It\u2019s very sensitive information? “Further descriptions were given by this source, but it was a background conversation. I\u2019m not willing to discuss on the record right now.” Ah, somehow I suspected this.<\/p>\n

Remember I asked the question, “If some liberal finds out that it\u2019s not a white perp, will they withhold the information?” Folks, this is sick. This is just sick. John King said that a reputable law enforcement official told him the suspect was “a dark-skinned male,” and he added, “Some people will take offense at that, so we\u2019ve gotta be very careful, Wolf.” Some people are gonna take offense that it\u2019s a dark-skinned male? We\u2019re talking about a murderer here! We\u2019re not talking about profiling somebody who\u2019s innocent. Jeez!<\/p>\n

All right. All right. To the phones. We\u2019re gonna start Charleston, South Carolina. This is Chris. I\u2019m glad you called. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. I read the Salon.com article, and I was so frustrated. But what that showed me was the mainstream thinking of the left in a nutshell, and that combined with the Benghazi attack — in which they did everything they could to not have it be a terrorist attack and push it off on a video, which we all know wasn\u2019t true — gives me zero confidence that they are really looking for the right person.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I know what you mean — “If they find out that the perp was not a white guy, are they gonna be reluctant to take it any further?” — and you\u2019re right. In Benghazi they went backwards and forwards<\/a>. They bent themselves into pretzels!<\/p>\n

CALLER: They even told the victims\u2019 families during the funeral, “We\u2019re gonna get the guy that did this video.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s how far they would go!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I recall. I know exactly what you\u2019re talking about. It is just flat-out absurd.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s so frustrating. I look at that Salon.com, and at the time that I saw that article they even had, like, a soft-focused picture of Osama Bin Laden in the upper right-hand corner, like it was almost like a dedication to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was really strange.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, you\u2019ll remember this when I jog your memory on it. Whenever they rolled videotape, B-roll of Osama — whenever there was discussion of him — it was always of him walking with his walking stick like a shepherd with his sheep, with his flock in the field. He\u2019s just an innocent little guy!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m just gonna tell you: How are we supposed to find somebody if we can\u2019t be told what he looks like? If we\u2019re gonna be scared to death of what the perp looks like, how are we supposed to find these people? They\u2019re out there. Look, I don\u2019t want to mischaracterize what authorities tried to go, but they\u2019re asking people for tips. They\u2019re begging people for tips, and then the media is making it look like you gotta be very careful if a perp is dark-skinned.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s anything other than a white guy, we got a problem here. So while they\u2019re begging for tips, they\u2019re also frightening people against coming forward with information which might offend people. We\u2019re not talking about profiling somebody who\u2019s innocent here. We\u2019re trying to catch a murderer. <\/p>\n

RUSH: An arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon bombing. The latest information, it was a dark-skinned — (whispering) — dark-skinned individual. Now, David Sirota at Salon. Headline: “Let\u2019s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is A White American.”<\/a> By the way, this guy Sirota, he\u2019s not a lone wolf. His piece here, I\u2019m sure, is echoed by many leftists. He has captured their feelings as well. Leftists are leftists, they believe certain things. This is something they would hold in common. They\u2019re all hoping the Boston Marathon bomber\u2019s white. They\u2019re all hoping he\u2019s Tea Party. They\u2019re all hoping he\u2019s an extreme conservative. But it looks like he\u2019s dark-skinned. <\/p>\n

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And the author claims — here\u2019s why they hope he\u2019s white — the author claims that if the bomber turns out to be anything but white, it\u2019ll set back the cause of liberalism, that is, amnesty, gun control, national security. If the perp is a person of color, it\u2019ll set back liberalism, that\u2019s what this guy is saying. So let me make a prediction to you. If indeed John King\u2019s reporting at CNN is correct, if the person who\u2019s been arrested is dark-skinned, the left is going to have to make a quick move here, a quick adjustment. What they\u2019ll have to do is still find a way to blame a white group, conservative group, for what the dark-skinned guy did, no matter what happens. Since we\u2019ve got this piece, “Let\u2019s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is A White American.” I guarantee you, if they can write that, they can come up with some convoluted explanation of why a white American is actually to blame for it. <\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

If the dark-skinned individual is Al-Qaeda, how are they gonna blame a conservative or white group? All of the defamation of Islam that conservatives do, all of the insulting of the Koran, Club Gitmo, Bush, white guy. There\u2019s any number of ways. Remember, they don\u2019t have to make any sense, and they don\u2019t have to be logical. Their audience is low-information. I\u2019m telling you, don\u2019t ask me. I know these people like the back of my hand, but I\u2019m telling you here that they\u2019re hell-bent on the perp being a white guy. So if the perp\u2019s not white, they\u2019re gonna have to find a way to say that some extremist conservative group nevertheless is ultimately to blame for what the dark-skinned perp did. <\/p>\n

If he\u2019s a journalist, even more, frustrated, conservative media. I can come up with any kind of scenario you want to throw at me, where they\u2019ll come up with a way to blame the Tea Party or some other conservative group that they think is extremist for inspiring or pressuring via frustration or whatever the perp for doing what he did. And don\u2019t forget the Limbaugh Theorem. Obama is not attached to anything that happens in this country. So even if the perp comes out and says, “I don\u2019t like what Obama\u2019s done in the Middle East,” doesn\u2019t matter, they\u2019ll find a way to distance this. Look, I don\u2019t need to go there with Obama. The point is they were hoping desperately that the perp is white, conservative, Tea Party. That means they will find a way to make that case. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. The suspect has been arrested. He was ID\u2019d in videos. One of the videos came from the Lord & Taylor department store in Boston. Now, Fran Townsend is a former Bush administration national security official. She now works at CNN. Fran Townsend is essentially the person who broke the arrest story. Fran Townsend says that she got the information from a law enforcement official. The arrest was based on two videos. Wolf Blitzer asked her if she knew anything at all about the arrested guy, and she said, “We have to be very careful.” And she refused to tell him anything more. She says that she\u2019s got information that she is refusing to share. Now, these people are supposed to be reporters. There is a fear or a reluctance to identify who this is. John King let the cat out of the bag, dark-skinned individual, gotta be very, very careful. What are we doing here? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There may be some hope for Salon.com. There may be some hope for Salon. Remember David Sirota at Salon wrote, “Let\u2019s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber is a White American.” Let\u2019s go to Fran Townsend at CNN with Wolf Blitzer this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Blitzer said, “You yourself,” Fran Townsend, CNN, “at least you can\u2019t tell us, or maybe you know information that you don\u2019t want to share right now.” All we are is a news network, but there\u2019s no reason that you should tell us what you know. We\u2019re a news network, after all. We\u2019re a network of reporters, and you\u2019re out there, Fran, and you know things that I know you can\u2019t tell us. I don\u2019t even know why we\u2019re on the air here at CNN.<\/p>\n