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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have I told you that there is no news in the news? And how many times have I told you that what you see on the TV news you should always be suspicious of? You should always suspect that there\u2019s something else. You should always suspect that it may be entirely wrong. You should always suspect, with major network news, that there is a political agenda attached to everything they do. I use the term here “Drive-By Media.” It\u2019s been awhile since I offered the full-fledged definition of what Drive-By Media is. <\/p>\n

The true definition of the Drive-By Media is: They fly into a situation; they arrive on the scene of major breaking news; they make up stuff. They stir up emotions to a frenzied fever pitch. They spread lies, and then, after a few hours or a few days when the real facts emerge, they\u2019re gone. They\u2019re down the road doing it again on the next story, while everybody else is left in their wake with a mess that real Americans have to clean up. And that is exactly what has happened in Ferguson, Missouri. <\/p>\n

And before you start shouting at me, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Rush, the media didn\u2019t do anything wrong here because they didn\u2019t know about the video and the pictures at the convenience store with the cigar robbery.” Yes, they did. Don Lemon on CNN today actually admitted, “Some of us have heard rumors of a robbery involving the ‘gentle giant.'” Why didn\u2019t you tell us of those rumors? Rumors have never stopped you before. They had heard. <\/p>\n

Everybody asking, “Why did the cops hold this information all this time, why did they not release it?” I don\u2019t know. But I\u2019ll tell you, in one sense, they really set up the media well. I mean, they allowed the media to establish their narrative. In the process, a lot of violence took place at the same time. But, regardless, if you are just tuning in and if your station has not preempted us for the press conference that\u2019s going on now in St. Louis — by the way, we\u2019re gonna be repeating this, folks, when this press conference is over. Maybe not immediately but, for example, our affiliate in St. Louis is covering what\u2019s happening there and the audience there is not hearing the program, so I don\u2019t want them to miss this. So later on in the busy broadcast today there will not be a formal repeat of this. I\u2019ll just go through this all again. Because, of course, until I\u2019ve said something, it hasn\u2019t really been said. <\/line><\/p>\n

And in this case, all this time, what has been the assumption? And there was one eyewitness. The assumption has been that an 18-year-old ‘gentle giant,\u2019 Michael Brown, was walking down the street minding his own business, bothering nobody, much like I do this program, bothering nobody, minding my own business, and he was set upon by a police officer. Yes, the gentle giant was unarmed. Yes. Of course. Gentle giants, by definition, are unarmed. <\/p>\n

The gentle giant was unarmed, his friend was unarmed, and out of the blue here comes a cop, and the cop eventually shoots the gentle giant. The town erupts, thinking this is typical. The gentle giant hasn\u2019t done anything. The gentle giant hasn\u2019t provoked anybody, neither had his buddy. They were just walking down the street and as is typical, a white cop, black gentle giant, bammo. Shot with his hands up. Oh, yes, he was surrendering, he was surrendering. <\/p>\n

And this caused night after night of tumult and chaos in Ferguson, Missouri. You know the rest of the story. I don\u2019t need to go through the details, the timeline. But now what we have learned, as announced today, let\u2019s listen to the police chief, Tom Jackson. The police chief held a press conference to talk about the shooting death of Michael Brown. The purpose was to announce the name of the cop that shot the gentle giant with his hands up, surrendering. We have two bites. This is the first.<\/p>\n

CHIEF: I\u2019m going to be releasing information about a robbery that occurred on August 9th immediately preceding the altercation and shooting death of Michael Brown. What we\u2019re making available today are the dispatch records and the video footage of a robbery, a strong-arm robbery, with use of force that occurred at a local convenience mart. I cannot discuss the investigation about the attempted apprehension of the suspect in that strong-arm robbery.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Strong-arm robbery? Strong-arm robbery? What\u2019s this, video footage of a robbery, strong-arm robbery, use of force? Local convenience mart? What\u2019s this? Nobody heard anything about this, except the media had. There were rumors floating around, as it turns out. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from the chief.<\/p>\n

CHIEF: The officer that was involved in the shooting of Michael Brown was Darren Wilson. He\u2019s been a police officer for six years, has had no disciplinary action against him. He was treated for injuries which occurred on Saturday. I won\u2019t be taking any questions at this time but the packets will be handed out by my officers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he promised a press conference later today, which is going on now. And speaking at the press conference now is the governor who came in yesterday and took the county cops off case, which drew a lot of criticism from people. But the governor, Jay Nixon, pulled the county cops off and put the state police, the highway patrol, in charge. Captain Johnson is heading up that command. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s from Ferguson. He\u2019s African-American. He joined the protest march. He brought peace and tranquility to the streets of Ferguson last night. He is beloved there. He is now participating in actually conducting the press conference along with the governor, and I assume the police chief. But Captain Johnson did indeed bring peace and calm to the situation last night.<\/p>\n

And he said things like, “If people get scared of a person in uniform, that\u2019s not good and we\u2019ve gotta fix that. We cannot have just the sight of people in uniform scaring citizens. That\u2019s not good.” There\u2019s been a lot of talk, folks, about demilitarizing the police, demilitarizing the police force. Not just in Ferguson, but all over the country. Rand Paul has picked up on this movement to demilitarize the cops. <\/p>\n

We learned yesterday that the defense department distributes leftovers and hand-me-downs that they don\u2019t need anymore to local police all over the country. Armored personnel carrier-type vehicles, powerful weapons, and the ammunition go in those powerful weapons. I want to offer you an explanation for why this is happening, because I think maybe a lot of people have forgotten this.<\/p>\n

In the nineties, in California, do you recall the bank robbery in which the robbers were wearing vests? They had AK-47s, massive… They had hand grenades; they had mortars. They had all kinds of things, and the cops are firing with nine millimeter whatevers? And everybody was wringing their hands, “My God, look at this gang of crooks! My God, they\u2019re overpowering the cops! The cops can\u2019t even compete.” <\/p>\n

The cops were carrying, you know, pistols, basically, because that was all was thought that beat cops needed to keep the peace. Any more would be unnecessary show of force. The cops were overwhelmed and overrun by this one gang. It was a bank robbery in California. I forget specifically when and what the bank was. But ever since then there were calls that the cops had to have more powerful weapons. <\/p>\n

It was not just one incident. There were a whole bunch of them where the bad guys — and of course the left started using these events to advance their whole gun control agenda. “My God, look at what the bad guys got out there! Look at all the weapons the bad guys have. We gotta have gun control.” (laughing) I said, “Look, those are not the kind of weapons that you just walk in off the street and buy. <\/p>\n

“No matter what gun control law you pass, these kind of bad guys, if they want weapons like that, are gonna be able to find them.” So that began the rethinking of how the cops should be armed. It was actually real world. It was not a desire to militarize police departments. It was a reaction to the kind of weapons that bad guys were able to arm themselves with. It was the “AK-47 Bandits.” It was a Hollywood robbery.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Here\u2019s Don Lemon. I want you to hear this. He was on CNN today. He\u2019s on the scene in Ferguson, and he was reporting from the press conference after the police chief had announced (summary), “Hey, we\u2019ve got video inside the convenience store of the gentle giant essentially robbing the place of a box of cigars.” It turns out, Swisher Sweets. Do you know what…?<\/p>\n

Have you ever smoked a Swisher Sweet, Snerdley? (interruption) Well, I have. They\u2019re actually good for when you\u2019re 16 and 17 and just starting to smoke. They\u2019re sweet. It\u2019ll cigarillos and stuff. (interruption) Oh, yeah, I smoked them for real. (interruption) No, no, no. I didn\u2019t make blunts out of \u2019em. I smoked them for real. But the Swisher Sweet today is purchased by people that love marijuana. <\/p>\n

They get the Swisher Sweets. They\u2019re cheap, and they come in a number of different cigarillo shapes and lengths. The longer the better, and you take a razor blade, as I understand… I\u2019ve never done this. You take a razor blade, and you cut it open lengthways, put all the Swisher Sweets tobacco out of it, and then you refill it\/rewrap it with your marijuana. <\/p>\n

If you want to, you can mix the real tobacco, the Swisher Sweets tobacco, back in with the marijuana to add a sweet taste to it, and then it\u2019s not called a blunt. It\u2019s called a “split” or some such thing, as I\u2019ve been told, and they roll it back up. That\u2019s why people buy Swisher Sweets these days, or why some people do. That was the box of cigars being stolen from the convenience store. <\/p>\n

By the gentle giant. The video changes everything. Folks, it totally changes the story. MSNBC went to paid programming while they had editorial conferences to figure out how to deal with this! CNN almost decided to leave the story and go back to covering the missing airplane. It took the wind totally out of the media\u2019s sails. It totally, totally changed the template and the narrative. <\/p>\n

The template and narrative was, yet again, “A racist white cop in a racist white America had fired at a gentle giant harmless black man — with his hands up in surrender — for no reason whatsoever. And when are these horrible events going to stop? And when is Obama going to do something about it? And when is the governor gonna act? When are we going to love each other again?” and all of this. <\/p>\n

It turns out now, with the release of the video and the accompanying still shots of the robbery, that the police officer, whose name is Darren Wilson, was stopping the gentle giant, Michael Brown, because he was a suspect. The gentle giant made a move for the cop\u2019s weapon. That\u2019s not what you do.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re arrested, if you are ever stopped for a moving violation in your car, you do nothing but what the cop tells you to do — and you certainly don\u2019t try to grab the cop\u2019s gun. You do not. I don\u2019t care how big you are, there just certain things that you just don\u2019t do. So the entire complexion of this thing changed in a matter of minutes. Here\u2019s Don Lemon acknowledging they had heard a rumor of this.<\/p>\n

LEMON: Some of us had heard about it earlier, the possibility of a videotape of a robbery, and believed to be Michael Brown. We did not get confirmation from police on that, so it — it was not reported. That was just a rumor. But now we\u2019re finding out from the Ferguson police chief that they do believe that they have video, and they think that in that video that it is Michael Brown, um, stealing cigars, punching the store clerk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. No longer a gentle giant now. It just totally changes it. But they knew. They had heard about it, and they say (mumbling), “Well, it\u2019s unconfirmed. The police had an unconfirmed rumor; we can\u2019t report that.” They deal in rumors all the time, if they like what the rumor is. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The attorney for the family of the gentle giant. Now, let me read this as it\u2019s written by the Associated Press. This just cleared the wire. “The attorney for the family of an unarmed teenager fatally shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb says police are trying to assassinate the victim\u2019s character by saying he committed a robbery that day. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Friday identified Darren Wilson as the officer who shot 18-year-old [gentle giant] Michael Brown last Saturday.” (interruption) Well, the media called him the gentle giant, why can\u2019t I? The media did, over and over again. <\/p>\n

“The attorney, Benjamin Crump –” is this the same attorney that represented the Trayvon Martin family? I think it is. “The attorney, Benjamin Crump, says Brown\u2019s parents are ‘incensed\u2019 by what he calls ‘the old game of smoke and mirrors.\u2019 He says the family was blind-sided by Friday\u2019s announcement. Crump says ‘it\u2019s bad enough they assassinated him, and now they\u2019re trying to assassinate his character.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

So now the attorney for the gentle giant\u2019s family is, I guess, implying that the cops are committing character assassination. Is he denying the videotape? Is he saying that that\u2019s not a gentle giant on the videotape, or is he saying that pointing it out is character assassination? <\/p>\n

You knew this was gonna happen, too. And you know why you knew this was going to happen? Because nobody can figure out why the cops waited all this time. If they knew this four days ago, why didn\u2019t they have it and use it and say it? Why did they let all this time go by before they announced this? Did it take all this time to get the video, analyze it, and confirm it was the gentle giant? Why do it only on the day they announce the name of the cop? <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s kind of understandable here that the attorney for the family of Michael Brown would now say that the cops are trying to assassinate his character by saying he committed a robbery that day. Now, based on the story I have here, the lawyer is not denying that the gentle giant participated in a robbery. That\u2019s not what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re gonna get to the phone calls immediately here. Just one observation. I had a chance just now during the obscene profit break to listen to a little bit of press conference going on in St. Louis. And at the time I was able to listen to it, the highway patrol captain, Ron Johnson, was answering questions, and he was… I think the guy\u2019s great. He\u2019s done masterful job. <\/p>\n

This guy\u2019s gonna be the next governor. It\u2019s in the cards. Just wait \u2019til he announces that he\u2019s a fan of Jay-Z and Robin Williams and it\u2019s over. The Republicans don\u2019t even have to nominate anybody; it\u2019s over. He\u2019s the next governor. He\u2019s answering all these question; he\u2019s doing a great job. But the people asking them are really mad. They are really mad, folks. <\/p>\n

He was calm and cool and collected in answering the questions, and he wasn\u2019t saying anything more than what\u2019s already been said. He was assuring them that calm can continue, that there\u2019s no need to protest, that he\u2019s going to be there. As long as they stay on the sidewalks, everything\u2019s gonna be fine and dandy and cool and all that. But the people asking the questions were mad. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna attach a meaning to it. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even gonna make a prediction. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just an observation, and it\u2019s understandable. Look at what\u2019s happened here. For whatever number of days, the whole week, the people of that town have believed the story that\u2019s been out there. People generally believe what\u2019s in the media, sadly, and the narrative and template of this story is the narrative and template that always accompanies an incident like this.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“An entirely innocent young African-American male — who in this case was just walking the street, even attempting to surrender, had his hands up — was nevertheless shot in cold blood by a white cop. This is because of the ancient racism and discrimination and bigotry that was inculcated into this country from its founding and it\u2019s never gotten any better.” <\/p>\n

The people of Ferguson, African-American population, thought they\u2019d be jobbed again. It\u2019s the same old thing, and this was reported for days, and then all of a sudden at the press conference this morning and the chief says (summarized), “Well, you know, there was a strong-arm robbery that happened before this incident. We\u2019ve got video, and it looks like the suspect, Michael Brown, is in this video stealing a box of cigars.<\/p>\n

“And, by the way, he\u2019s got an accomplice. The accomplice happens to be his big buddy that was the sole eyewitness to what the cop did to Michael Brown.” So now the witness may be compromised in terms of credibility, and the people of Ferguson who thought that they had justice on their side — not in what had happened, but in what was going to happen — all of a sudden feel like they\u2019ve had the rug pulled out from under them. <\/p>\n

“Oh, no! What are you trying to tell us? The gentle giant was committing a crime?” and here comes the lawyer for the family saying that the family says the cops are trying to assassinate the victim\u2019s character by saying he committed a robbery that day. “The attorney, Benjamin Crump, says Brown\u2019s parents are ‘incensed\u2019 by what he calls ‘the old game of smoke and mirrors.\u2019<\/p>\n

“He says the family was blind-sided by Friday\u2019s announcement.”<\/p>\n

So was the whole community, and so they\u2019re all now… I\u2019m telling you, I heard anger in the questions being asked. I didn\u2019t hear any satisfaction at the answers. That\u2019s just an observation. Pure and simple. Here\u2019s Lieutenant Governor Missouri, Peter Kinder, who was on Fox this morning. Bill Hemmer said, “When you have people in the streets of Ferguson for the past six nights, why is this information about the robbery just coming out now? What explains that?”<\/p>\n

KINDER: That\u2019s a good question to put to the responsible law enforcement authorities on the scene. I assume… I have not asked them that question or spoken to them about that, but I assume they had their reasons. Their reasons can be questioned. It\u2019s a fair question to ask them, and it should be put to those folks who\u2019ve been there on the line the last six days.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nobody knows. The lieutenant governor doesn\u2019t know. He thinks he should know, thinks we all should know, but he doesn\u2019t know. He thinks he should ask and he\u2019s gonna ask \u2019em. He doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re gonna say when he asks but we gotta ask anyway because we should ask these questions. It\u2019s perfectly permissible to ask these questions. We don\u00c2\u2019t know the answers. <\/p>\n

Bottom line. <\/p>\n

So while the media is deflated — and they are. The media is just… I mean, you talk about the wind going out of a bunch of people\u2019s sails? It has, and you can see it. You watch MSNBC, watch CNN. Read some of the blog posts. I mean, they thought they had… I don\u2019t know what they thought they had here. But since everything to these people is political, they just think they\u2019ve had a setback in whatever political agenda they thought was gonna be advanced here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just… It\u2019s clear as day. <\/p>\n

But once they collect themselves, \u2019cause they\u2019re all saying… I mean, they\u2019ve got their legal analysts, “Oh, well! Oh, man! This totally changes the complexion of this case. Why, this just changes everything! Everything we thought we knew is out the window.” This is on CNN. MSNBC, like I said, practically went off the air for a while to have behind-closed-doors meetings to figure out how to deal with this new revelation. <\/p>\n

So I suspect the next focal point is gonna be, “Wait a minute. Why all this time before the cops revealed this detail?” Even though Don Lemon of CNN said (paraphrased), “Oh, no, no. It\u2019s been rumored all week long. We didn\u2019t report it \u2019cause it was just a rumor.” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is interesting. This is interesting. The highway patrol commander Ron Johnson, Ronald Johnson, he\u2019s saying that he wishes that the Ferguson cops would have consulted with him before releasing the name of the officer. So more drama here. That is very interesting. The guy now in charge of peace on the streets in Ferguson, the highway patrol commander, says he wishes the cops had consulted with him before the release of the officer\u2019s name. What does that tell you? That tells you he thinks maybe the release of the name is gonna give him some problems keeping the peace. <\/p>\n

I saw a bit of the video. I didn\u2019t see it all and I didn\u2019t hear anything accompanying the video, but if what I saw is what I saw, it was Michael Brown looking like grabbing a box cigars and giving it to his buddy, with no question that it was Michael Brown, no question it was the gentle giant. And if I saw what I saw, the family lawyer can say whatever he wants to say and it isn\u2019t gonna matter. <\/p>\n

Also, I got an interesting e-mail. “Rush, it sounds like you\u2019re defending rioting and looting.” Defending rioting? “Yeah, you\u2019re saying that they had a reason to because the cops didn\u2019t announce that they had the video of the robbery.” <\/p>\n

No, no. No. That\u2019s actually a good point. I\u2019m not justifying. I wasn\u2019t even trying to explain the looting and all of the violence that went on. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s ever called for. In fact, there could be a reasonable answer to the question, “Why didn\u2019t they release the video?” Because there\u2019s an investigation ongoing. Maybe they\u2019re gonna say, “Hey, this is what we do in every case like this. We don\u2019t release evidence piecemeal, under no circumstance.” I think it\u2019s a slippery slope, folks, if we start going down that street where we say rioting and looting is acceptable because it\u2019s understandable, because we must understand the rage. We don\u2019t want to go there. <\/p>\n

You never want to send a signal that that\u2019s okay. And I didn\u2019t mean to do that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what do we have here, folks? I tell you what we have. We have Drive-By politicians, we have Drive-By agitators, we have Drive-By Media, all trying to cash in on narratives and templates as opposed to facts. “You see, the facts weren\u2019t in yet, and we couldn\u2019t wait for the facts, so we had to advance our agendas based on our narratives,” and now they all look like fools.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now everybody involved in this thing looks like an agitator. The politicians that got all worked up look like agitators. The agitators don\u2019t have to look like agitators \u2019cause they were agitators. The media, the Drive-By Media look like agitators. All of that looting! Cashing in on a phony narrative, too. All of it was so unnecessary, and all of it serves to make Americans think their country is not so hot. <\/p>\n

What an absolute travesty this week has been. It was totally unnecessary. The looting was all based on a phony narrative. The violence was all based on a phony narrative. Drive-By politicians, Drive-By agitators, Drive-By Media, all trying to cash in on narratives as opposed to facts. “The facts weren\u2019t in yet, you see, and we couldn\u2019t wait for the facts. Do you know why we couldn\u2019t wait for the facts? <\/p>\n

“Because we didn\u2019t need them! We knew what happened. The media knew what happened,” because they know what a rotten place this country is. That\u2019s right. The media knew what happened. The agitators knew what happened, too, because they\u2019ve been told for all these years what a rotten country they live in. The politicians? They never wait for the facts. <\/p>\n

They act on narrative to advance the agenda whenever there is crisis on the scene. <\/p>\n

So a bunch of fools, agitators all — with looting and violence totally unnecessary — and that\u2019s what the president weighed in on last night. All of this just \u2019cause nobody can wait for the facts, because everybody thought they knew them. They didn\u2019t need to wait, because everybody\u2019s prejudice had already told \u2019em what had happened there and why it had happened and who was guilty and who was innocent and all of that. <\/p>\n

I meant to mention this yesterday. I had a friend send me an Internet page that he thought was brilliant. It was one of these websites that analyzes foreign affairs, foreign events. He said, “You know, I don\u2019t send you stuff.” Most of my friends know not to do that, \u2019cause they have learned I see it on my own. They don\u2019t need to send me stuff. So when they do, it\u2019s rare.<\/p>\n

When they do, they think they\u2019ve really spotted something and I\u2019m going to appreciate it. They\u2019re trying to be helpful, don\u2019t misunderstand, and I\u2019m not gonna identify the website. It\u2019s not the point. What was sent to me was gobbledygook. It was foreign policy analysis that didn\u2019t say anything. I\u2019m gonna tell you what it said, and I\u2019ll tell you what I wrote the guy back. <\/p>\n

I said, “You know what? This is brilliant! I agree wholeheartedly. Obama might do that. But he meant not — and if he does, we won\u2019t know why, and we won\u2019t know when. So we just have to wait for him to do or not do whatever he doesn\u2019t want to do. Things could go that way or the other way or the way over there, or some way we can\u2019t predict! It\u2019s really bad out there. There are some really mean, bad people out there — I mean, really mean. <\/p>\n

“We wish they weren\u2019t there, but they are there, or they\u2019re over there. Or maybe they\u2019re behind us waiting while we look over there. But while we wait — because that\u2019s all we can do! Because we don\u2019t know anything, except we think we know Obama doesn\u2019t care. But we know we care, but about what? And why? Well, who knows? No one knows except for the ones who do know.<\/p>\n

“But we don\u2019t know who they are, and neither do they, because they can\u2019t be sure that we don\u2019t know who they are, and what they\u2019re gonna do, or when, if ever. We just don\u2019t know. We wish we did, and we happily charge people hundreds of dollars a year for this.” So he wrote back, “Okay, okay! I get it. I get it. I get it.” I said, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I\u2019m just trying to be, in my own way, illustrative, \u2019cause we really don\u2019t know.”<\/p>\n

Yet the Drive-By Media tells us, and one of the things that I have often asked people to do is to just understand that there is politics and an agenda to everything that you see on the news. Folks, it is hard not to get sucked in by it. It\u2019s hard. It takes a daily application. It takes a seasoned veteran. Even Snerdley walked in to me today and he said, “You know, I got caught up in it, Rush. I actually believed it.<\/p>\n

“I actually believed what I was hearing on TV. I bought the whole thing. I just I did because, I mean, the way they made it look it was impossible not to.” Now look. The video has been released, the evidence so forth! Snerdley found out everything he thought had just been blown to smithereens, and he felt embarrassed that he fell for it. (interruption) “And betrayed.” Exactly.<\/p>\n

He felt betrayed because he had, by quirk of fate, believed what he had seen and been told in the media about this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the phones to somewhere in Illinois, parts unknown. James, welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. I\u2019m honored to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When I spoke to Mr. Snerdley a while ago, just before your first break, you were making the comment about all of the media and everything going on in Missouri and about how they only report on rumor when it serves their purpose. But up until this morning when they revealed the name of the police officer and a couple of other pertinent details, wasn\u2019t everything that they had been reporting on rumor except for the fact that a uniformed police officer shot and killed a person?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pretty much. That was it, yeah. They had a narrative, they had a template, and they ran with it. Everybody involved in it. The politicians had one, the media had one, citizens had one, and it was all absent fact. Everybody made up their own story based on what they wanted it to be. The media does this all the time. Does the Duke lacrosse case ring any bells?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not that I can recall, sir. No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Duke lacrosse?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh! Oh! Oh! Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Remember that story.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everything about it was right except for one thing: They didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. But everything that everyone else in the area and the media would be most culpable of, is they\u2019re the ones that injected race into it. They\u2019re the ones that provided that, “Well, it was a white officer and a black man.” Well, no, it was a police officer and a person. They\u2019re the ones that added the narrative to it, and it\u2019s just disreputable beyond belief.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They didn\u2019t have to, though. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The community knew that. The media… I mean, those flames are already there. The media fanned them and may have threw gasoline on \u2019em, but the community knew that before the media ever showed up, and that\u2019s part of the problem, too. There was no waiting for fact, and even now when the facts have arrived, they\u2019re not right. The facts are now being challenged. <\/p>\n

“Well, that video, that\u2019s Photoshopped! That\u2019s obviously Photoshopped. Why did they wait four days? ‘Cause they had to make that video! They had to stage it, just like the moon landing that never happened. They had to go in there and make that video \u2019cause it wasn\u2019t real.” We\u2019re hearing all this, because the cops waited for four days before they announced the video. <\/p>\n

So the templates, the narrative, everybody has theirs. They were off and running. And by the way, folks, again… Look, there\u2019s only one reason for a narrative. Political points. Political agenda. Why does someone, why can\u2019t anyone just patiently wait for the facts? The answer is, there\u2019s a group that isn\u2019t gonna believe them, because they think everything is lies in circumstances like this. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another group, the media, that doesn\u2019t want to wait for the facts because, by definition, what do the Drive-Bys do? They fly into a situation, they make things up, they stir up emotions based on what they want everybody to think about it, which is rooted in advancing their political agenda. They will spread lies, they will spread innuendo, they will do suggestion and so forth<\/p>\n

They will do everything they can to convince everybody that their version of what happened is what happened — and then, when the real facts emerge, they\u2019re gone. They\u2019re down the road waiting to hit up the next event and do it all over again. In their wake is a huge mess that people on the scene have to clean up. That is the textbook definition of Drive-By Media, and that is, for the most part, what has happened here.<\/p>\n

Now, there is one exception. In this case, the Drive-By Media hasn\u2019t yet left because the mess that they\u2019ve created still holds potential to be shaped and flaked and formed in such a way as to make their original version of this event be the one everybody believes. So the Drive-Bys have not fled the scene yet. The mess is all over the road, but they\u2019re trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again in the way they want us to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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