{"id":213967,"date":"2016-07-13T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/13\/what_would_america_be_like_today_if_president_obama_had_told_the_truth_about_what_happened_in_ferguson_\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:22:19","slug":"what_would_america_be_like_today_if_president_obama_had_told_the_truth_about_what_happened_in_ferguson_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/13\/what_would_america_be_like_today_if_president_obama_had_told_the_truth_about_what_happened_in_ferguson_\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would America Be Like Today If President Obama Had Told the Truth About What Happened in Ferguson?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is so predictable to me.\u00a0 You know, I didn\u2019t have a chance to really listen to it or study Obama\u2019s speech in Dallas yesterday because it happened while the program was on, so I had to bone up on it later in the day.\u00a0 And it was predictable. The reaction to it was predictable.\u00a0 The Drive-Bys just thought it was the greatest speech ever. It was just over-the-top great. I mean, it was so timely, and it was so presidential.<\/p>\n

Even some in the conservative media found it necessary to praise Obama\u2019s speech.\u00a0 And we know why this happens.\u00a0 It is because some in the conservative media don\u2019t want to be seen as constantly pestering the guy, so it\u2019s thought that it\u2019ll add to their credibility if they can acknowledge that the president did something well, did something good, presidential, even if it was only a portion of the speech.<\/p>\n

But my take on it was entirely different.\u00a0 I think the first half of his speech yesterday seemed to be high-minded and unifying, but he blows it all to smithereens because I think what the first half of the speech was was a setup for the political hackery that was to come.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t as if the speech suddenly and unexpectedly veered off course.\u00a0 Obama knew that he had to give the impression he was a healer and a unifier before he could pivot to what he really wanted to say.<\/p>\n

And I took it, you know, I\u2019m sitting there watching it like everybody else did, and I\u2019m absorbing it, and I felt like it was a political sucker punch.\u00a0 The second half of the speech is what Obama really wanted to say but couldn\u2019t unless he preceded it with the so-called unifying remarks beforehand.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about something while watching the speech yesterday.\u00a0 Did you know that he mentioned himself 45 times?\u00a0 I joked to the staff here when this speech began, I said, “Let\u2019s have a tally on how many times he says ‘I.'”\u00a0 And people counted 45 times Obama said “I.<\/a>”\u00a0 By the way, Loretta Lynch in her congressional testimony yesterday said, “I don\u2019t know” 74 times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And do you remember yesterday on this program, the first thing I told you was I just finished watching Hillary and Bernie Sanders and their so-called joint unification speech where Bernie was endorsing Hillary. And I said, “You know, Bernie\u2019s droning on like he always does and Hillary was standing there like a bobblehead doll, just nodding up and down and applauding and looking — I don\u2019t know — vacant.”\u00a0 And then when she got up to speech she indulged in the usual screech. It didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Somebody counted the number of times Hillary Clinton nodded.\u00a0 It\u2019s 406 times.<\/a>\u00a0 I knew I wasn\u2019t off the path when I kept noticing this bobblehead doll appearance.\u00a0 Actually 406 times during the Crazy Bernie endorsement speech.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing I was wondering as I\u2019m watching Obama, and we hear people on the left in the Drive-By Media talking about how Obama tries to unify and bring everybody together.\u00a0 “What a great effort! Ah, it was just stupendous.”<\/p>\n

Then why draw a moral equivalence?\u00a0 Here he was at a memorial service for five slain Dallas police officers.\u00a0 Why draw any kind of a more…? Why do you mention Alton Sterling and what went on in Minnesota?\u00a0 Why? You can mention it, but this effort to draw some kind of moral equivalence as though there is one and we can understand all of it happening?\u00a0 This inability to look at something and proclaim it wrong… (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, yeah, okay. So he knew he\u2019d get grief from the left.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he cares he get grief from the left.\u00a0 I think the guy\u2019s got his agenda and he\u2019s full-speed marching it down the path.\u00a0 I\u2019m just… When this year began, I warned everybody. I said, “Folks, this year coming up with the Republicans having given Obama a clear road signaling they\u2019re not gonna oppose anything, not even his policies…” You know, Mitch McConnell and Ryan announced they weren\u2019t gonna oppose Obama.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t want to appear to be opposing or creating any negatives for the Republican presidential nominee.\u00a0 So Obama knows he\u2019s got a free road. So why does he care that the left might come at him and say he wasn\u2019t left-wing enough or he wasn\u2019t pro-Black Lives Matter enough? I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt where Obama stands with people on the left.\u00a0 I want you to stop and think about something.\u00a0 I want to set it up by acknowledging something that we all know. Obama knows it; everybody knows it.<\/p>\n

The entire narrative of Ferguson, Missouri, is a lie.\u00a0 “Hands up, don\u2019t shoot” is a lie.\u00a0 The story that a racist cop went hunting and found an innocent Gentle Giant walking down the street — when he should have been on the sidewalk — contemplating excitedly… This is part of the story: He was eagerly anticipating his freshman year at college, was Michael Brown, and this racist cop went hunting, and he found a guy breaking the law, walking in the street!<\/p>\n

And he got up in his face and he all bullied him and so forth, and Brown was immediately deferential and put his hands up and said, “Don\u2019t shoot! Don\u2019t shoot!” and the cop shot anyway.\u00a0 That is the story that came out of there, and that story fed entire narrative of Black Lives Matter and whatever they\u2019re trying to do to create controversy and division.\u00a0 And it fed the New Black Panthers.\u00a0 It was a lie.\u00a0 It was a total lie.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Everything about that Ferguson story as repeated by the media and prominent Democrats and civil rights activists was a lie.\u00a0 What if…? I want you to think about it. What if, in the aftermath of Ferguson, Missouri, Barack Obama, as president of the United States — meaning president of the whole country, meaning president of everybody here — had scheduled a national address from the Oval Office, an address to the people of America and told them the truth about what happened in Ferguson?<\/p>\n

After the grand jury investigation was complete, after it was inarguably so — after we learned exactly what happened, that the Gentle Giant had robbed a convenience store, that he was looking for a mechanism to spoke some dope. He had bullied the clerk in the 7-Eleven, the convenience store, whatever. He was walking down the street. He had attempted to overtake the cop in his car. He had defied the requests and the orders of the cop. He had taken action which resulted in the cop shooting.<\/p>\n

Everything about that story was not true.<\/p>\n

What if Obama had gone on TV and simply told people? For the sake of national unity, for the sake of understanding, for the sake of promoting and acknowledged truth, what if Obama had been on TV and acknowledged what really happened and had told everybody that what they think happened in Ferguson didn\u2019t happen? What do you think the aftermath might have been?\u00a0 (interruption) Look… (sigh)\u00a0 Snerdley is telling me in the IFB…<\/p>\n

Snerdley\u2019s in New York today because he had to go up early to get ready for our guests. Who\u2019s guest hosting tomorrow? (interruption) Oh, yeah, Mark Belling tomorrow and Buck Sexton, late of the CIA, will be in here on Friday.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So Snerdley is saying, “If he\u2019d done that, then the left wing would have started impeachment proceedings and they would have started threatening and so forth.”\u00a0 Well, that would have been its own story.\u00a0 Everybody would have known that Obama was telling the truth. He had the truth on his side.\u00a0 Just imagine.<\/p>\n

This is what we expect of presidents, is the point.\u00a0 We don\u2019t expect presidents to further and promulgate lies and misinformation for the express purpose of creating and fomenting deadly anger.\u00a0 Presidents try to quell these situations.\u00a0 They try to get a handle on \u2019em and ratchet down the tension. Such an opportunity exists here because the truth was the truth, and the truth was not part of the narrative.\u00a0 Now, if that had happened — and I can\u2019t predict in the alternative future, but I have to think that the aftermath of that incident the lie would have been short-lived.<\/p>\n

And the anger would have subdued. Maybe it would have been redirected toward Obama; I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But, remember: It fed Baltimore, it fed Freddie Gray, it fed the situation in New York with the Eric Garner — who also died of a heart attack, not a chokehold.\u00a0 That\u2019s another lie that was told.\u00a0 This guy was selling knock-off cigarettes on the street of New York. He\u2019s telling… Because New York City taxes it so high that the guy could make a living selling black market cigarettes, selling black market cigarettes.<\/p>\n

For some reason, he came to the attention of the cop. They ended up applying a restraining hold on the guy, but he had a heart attack.\u00a0 It was not… The chokehold didn\u2019t kill. The cops did not kill the guy.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not the story.\u00a0 There are so many lies that have been created and then, if not promoted, they have not been quelled by the White House, which makes me question motive.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Of course, I know the answer to this, and you do, too.<\/p>\n

You know the answer lies in the president\u2019s agenda and is rapidly becoming the Democrat Party agenda.\u00a0 I was looking at the Democrat Party platform.\u00a0 You wouldn\u2019t believe, folks. The Democrat Party has been totally now taken over by the radicals.\u00a0 I mean, just insane lunatic radicals are now the mainstream of the Democrat Party.\u00a0 You look at the Democrat Party platform in \u201908 and look at it in 2012. They acknowledge the legitimacy of the Second Amendment, these platforms.<\/p>\n

Platforms don\u2019t matter much in terms of future governing.\u00a0 I mean, they\u2019re not binding on presidents if they win the election to implement the platform, whatever.\u00a0 What the platform basically does is tell you what the base of the party thinks about things, \u2019cause the base of the party dominates in primaries and they end up on the committee that writes the platform, so the platform gives you an indication where the base of both parties are.\u00a0 The Democrat Party is…<\/p>\n

Not only is it not John F. Kennedy\u2019s Democrat Party. It isn\u2019t Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton\u2019s Democrat Party.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton is a… Well, I don\u2019t want to… She\u2019s a radical in and of her own right, but she tempers her radicalness with enough proclamations or statements that make her to be mainstream in enough areas. But there isn\u2019t any mainstream anything in the Democrat Party platform.\u00a0 And I\u2019m telling you: It\u2019s what happens when there\u2019s no opposition.<\/p>\n

When there\u2019s no opposition, when there no guardrails, when there\u2019s nothing to stop people from descending to their extreme worst, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s gonna happen.\u00a0 And I\u2019m here to tell you: The extremism in America could be found almost exclusively on the Democrat side, and that extremism has been documented in their platform, and it was speaking in Dallas yesterday. This idea of finding a moral equivalence, and taking the occasion of a memorial service at a funeral for one of the cops to say it?<\/p>\n