{"id":217164,"date":"2017-01-13T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217164"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:46:02","slug":"rush-247-morning-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/13\/rush-247-morning-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Provocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is back in session. Confirmation hearings are ongoing. Scores of political fights are underway. One fight is especially awful. Naturally, Democrats are behind it.<\/p>\n<p>The fight is over a painting &#8212; by an 18-year-old Missouri student. Supposedly, it represents police and community relations in Ferguson. In the painting, police are depicted as pigs &#8212; who are shooting black people.<\/p>\n<p>The student is a constituent of Congressman William Lacy Clay \u2013 Democrat, Missouri, who had the painting hung in a public hallway in the Capitol building. Just steps away from on-duty cops protecting the building.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, various Republican Congressmen have taken the painting down. Brian Babin of Texas, Dana Rohrabacher and Duncan Hunter of California, and Doug Lamborn of Colorado took it off the wall and returned it to Congressman Clay. Each time, it\u2019s been rehung.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-216368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Large.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"137\" \/>The Congressional Black Caucasians got involved. When Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond was asked if a security detail was needed for the painting, he said: \u201cWe might just have to kick somebody\u2019s ass \u2013 and stop them.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Clay says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t disagree or agree\u201d with the message in the anti-police painting. He says he supports law enforcement. He says he\u2019s just fighting for the student to be able to express himself.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry. Doesn\u2019t pass the smell test. Democrats are looking for a fight. This is a deliberate provocation &#8212; and a vile insult to every law enforcement officer in the country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is back in session. Confirmation hearings are ongoing. Scores of political fights are underway. One fight is especially awful. Naturally, Democrats are behind it. The fight is over a painting &#8212; by an 18-year-old Missouri student. Supposedly, it represents police and community relations in Ferguson. In the painting, police are depicted as pigs &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"Congress is back in session. Confirmation hearings are ongoing. Scores of political fights are underway. One fight is especially awful. Naturally, Democrats are behind it.\r\n\r\nThe fight is over a painting \u2013 by an 18-year-old Missouri student. Supposedly, it represents police and community relations in Ferguson. In the painting, police are depicted as pigs. Who are shooting black people.\r\n\r\nThe student is a constituent of Congressman William Lacy Clay \u2013 Democrat, Missouri. Who had the painting hung in a public hallway in the Capitol building. Just steps away from on-duty cops protecting the building.\r\n\r\nOver the last few days, various Republican Congressmen have taken the painting down. Brian Babin of Texas, Dana Rohrabacher and Duncan Hunter of California, and Doug Lamborn of Colorado took it off the wall and returned it to Congressman Clay. Each time, it\u2019s been rehung.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-216368\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Large.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"137\" \/>The Congressional Black Caucasians got involved. When Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond was asked if a security detail was needed for the painting, he said: \u201cWe might just have to kick somebody\u2019s ass \u2013 and stop them.\u201c\r\n\r\nCongressman Clay says he \u201cdoesn\u2019t disagree or agree\u201d with the message in the anti-police painting. He says he supports law enforcement. He says he\u2019s just fighting for the student to be able to express himself.\r\n\r\nSorry. Doesn\u2019t pass the smell test. Democrats are looking for a fight. This is a deliberate provocation \u2013 and a vile insult to every law enforcement officer in the country!\r\n\r\n\u00a0","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[47,12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Provocation - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/13\/rush-247-morning-update\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rush 24\/7 Morning Update: Provocation - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Congress is back in session. Confirmation hearings are ongoing. Scores of political fights are underway. One fight is especially awful. 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