Understanding Modern American Media & Democrat Power in Light of Ferguson:

RUSH: The situation in Ferguson, Missouri, is, I think, a great illustration of exactly where we are in this country in our politics on practically everything. Over the weekend I did a lot of thinking about where we are and the struggles that we have, the arguments that we have, the ability we have to try to turn things around in the country, and every day I'm reminded how insurmountable the task seems to be. Because something has happened. We all know this. I've been struggling with ways to actually verbalize it.

I'm not gonna say anything here anybody doesn't know, but I'm gonna put it in ways maybe I haven't put it before with words I haven't used before. I always say I'm the mayor of Realville, which means that the thing that matters to me most, is what really is, whatever it is on anything. Trying to find the facts, the truth, and then hoping that the facts and the truth carry the day and will end up be persuasive. But we're nowhere near that. In fact, we're getting farther and farther and farther away from that.

We're getting farther and farther and farther away from fact and truth having any meaning at all. And it just so happened what got me started on this was watching a British TV show from way, way back in the early years of this decade, 2002, 2003, a program called Wire in the Blood. I'm not recommending the program. It's a Brit show. You might be able to find it on Amazon Prime, but I'm not mentioning it to get people to watch it. If you wanted to find it, fine.

It's about a psychologist, a profiler working with the cops, and he's got all the answers on every criminal and nobody believes him until the end of the episode where he's right. And the point is, the guy's right all the time and nobody ever believes him. He's always a kook, he's always a nut, until the end of the show. No other cop believes him. None of his bosses believes him. He's thought to be an absolute stupid idiot weirdo quirky -- not stupid, but he's always right in identifying killers and their characteristics, and yet for six years this show ran and he was always an idiot.

He never persuaded them he was right. Maybe a couple of characters now and then would begin to trust him, but overall he was never trusted even though he was always right. In one episode he is explaining to the detectives in this mythical town in the UK what they're up against. He says, "We have a killer here who believes in power, not truth. We have a killer who believes that everything is relative including the truth, and that power will overpower truth every time it's employed."

In other words, it is power that defines the truth. The truth does not define itself. Facts do not define themselves. That power. And this immediately -- I don't know why, but that made a connection with me. All things are relative, and it is people with power who interpret events as they choose them to be -- in this case, reported. I think this is a great way to understand modern American media. The truth is what they say it is. They've got the power to define it. They have the power to implement it. They have the power to destroy the truth. They have the power to define it whatever they want it to be.

And I think when you watch the media, and one of the great sources of frustrations I feel and I'm guessing a lot of you do, too, is that the truth seems to have no power whatsoever. The truth seems to have no impact whatsoever with an entire political party in this country and everybody who buys into that political party. And then we're left with, "Okay, well, what do we do when the truth doesn't matter?"

You know, one of the problems that I think conservatives have with politics, politics is not about what is. Politics isn't about the way things are. Politics is about the way things seem. Politics is about the way things are perceived. And we have all of this on perfect display in the aftermath of what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.

We have a grand jury decision that is rooted and based on hours and hours and days and days of testimony and documents, and it's there. We know pretty much what happened. But because that truth is not acceptable and is not usable and is not productive, it is being ignored. And another truth is being created, and the people who have power to define truth seem to be overpowering the real truth with the truth that they want everybody to conclude. And that is that the grand jury was wrong; the grand jury was biased; the grand jury didn't get it right; the grand jury was racist; the country is racist and on and on and on. So the divide deepens between people in this country, the racial divide deepens and widens.

I don't know if you saw this. Yesterday the St. Louis Rams hosted the Oakland Raiders at the dome in St. Louis. Did you see this? Did you see videotape of this? Well, now, wait. Snerdley's out there ripping what happened. "Disgusting display." But this is all part and parcel of this. During the player introductions, we had five black players for the Rams come out with hands up, showing solidarity with Michael Brown and that side of the story, that he had his hands up and was surrendering.

He wasn't. His hands were not up. He was not shot in the back. He was not shot surrendering.

It doesn't matter. The truth doesn't matter. What the grand jury said doesn't matter to a whole lot of people. And this is all politics. It's all political.

And we're now being told that, "Well, the grand jury is one thing, but that's not what we need to be focusing on. We need to be focusing on the racial divide and why it exists and what we need to do to overcome it," which doesn't, in my mind, get us any closer to solving the problems that we have than anything else that that side is suggesting. The players -- and, by the way, I think the NFL has said there's not gonna be any punishment for this.

Let me set this up a little bit. The Rams hosted 50 business owners in St. Louis at the game yesterday. The Rams hosted 50 business owners. There was some people in cleanup crews from Ferguson. These were people who has had their businesses destroyed, like the cake lady. The Rams hosted them as their guests. The businesses had been destroyed or ruined in the aftermath of the grand jury announcement. Not prior, in the aftermath of the grand jury announcement their businesses had been destroyed. People that had nothing to do with the grand jury decision. People that had nothing to do with the grand jury, period, had their businesses destroyed, had their businesses ruined, had their businesses attacked.

So the Rams invite these people as guests, because the Rams are trying to promote community solidarity. They're in St. Louis and this is what sports teams in towns do. Five players during player introductions, or maybe it wasn't during introductions, maybe it was when the players showed -- I saw videotape of it. I don't know if it was introductions or when they just entered the field, the team in toto, but they had their hands raised. It was almost like an Olympic moment, the Mexico Olympics. Remember John Carlos with the raised fist in solidarity.

The players had their hands up showing solidarity or appearing to show solidarity with Mike Brown and the fact that he was gunned down in cold blood while surrendering, which didn't happen. "The St. Louis Police Officers Association is profoundly disappointed with the members of the St. Louis Rams football team who chose to ignore the mountains of evidence released from the St. Louis County Grand Jury this week and engage in a display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. ... It is unthinkable that hometown athletes would so publicly perpetuate a narrative that has been disproven over-and-over again."

That's the point, folks. It hasn't been disproven to people. The truth doesn't have the power to disprove what they want to believe. Maybe that's not the right way to say it, the truth doesn't have the power. I mean, it's what it seems. It's the way it seems to me.

The St. Louis Police Officers Association said that forensic tests did not support the claim that Brown held his hands up. After the game, one of the Rams in the demonstration, wide receiver Kenny Britt, said the players were not taking sides. He said (imitating Brit), "Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. We just wanted to let the community know that we support them." The officers said they would demand a very public apology from the Rams and the NFL today. Team had no comment. The NFL today said no action will be taken.

I think the NFL's got a bigger problem. Once again I think the NFL has a problem here that they are trying to sweep under the rug. I think this means there's a lot more to this. This incident is bigger than it looks in terms of what it indicates. You know, I remember the day when I was told, "No, no, no, no, we don't do politics in football. No, no, no, no, no, we don't do politics here at ESPN." Now politics has taken over everything, and the reason politics is taking over everything is because the purpose of politics taking over everything is to obliterate the truth. The truth has become relative. Those of us who live in Realville, those of us who expect the truth to be powerful and pervasive are finding -- let me give you another example of this.

Rich Lowry was on Meet the Press yesterday during the roundtable, and he recited what he thinks is the lesson of all of this. And he's being destroyed today! He's been ripped to shreds all over the media today for daring -- you've got the sound bite? Here it is. This is what he said. He was on Meet the Press yesterday. Andrea Mitchell, you should have seen her when Lowry was going through this. She couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She couldn't believe Lowry was saying it. She couldn't believe Lowry had the guts to say it because she lives on the other side of the truth. Here's what Lowery said.

LOWRY: Perhaps, but you look at Ferguson specifically, this is an area where the governmental structures haven't caught up to the demographic change over the last two decades or so, and that's something you take care of simply by organizing and voting. But what I really object to is you can discuss all these problems, but let's not pretend that this particular incident was something it wasn't. If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic: Don't rob a convenience store. Don't fight a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun, and when he yells at you to stop with his gun drawn --

RUSH: Did you hear Andrea Mitchell before he finished? "Whoa! Whoa!" Now, the reason it's controversial, Mr. Snerdley, is because he had the audacity to accept the truth of the grand jury finding. He recited what anybody could learn from the grand jury result. We have the video of Brown robbing the convenience store. There's no question that happened. We know that Brown tried to force his way into the cop's car, tried to get the cop's gun. But that truth is being obliterated by people with the power to make that truth obliterable.

And they're trying to construct another truth to overpower it, and that truth is that racial relations in America are such that no black can ever trust any cop and that you have to take time -- do you know Obama's conducting a seminar at the White House today, and among the things that are being discussed at the White House today are how to set up, in American classrooms, memorials to Michael Brown. I'm not kidding you. People on the other side of the glass are rolling their eyes, going, "Oh, my God." Oh, yeah, that's exactly what Obama is doing. That's just the tip of the iceberg of what's happening here.

RUSH: So Rich Lowry says, "If you look at the most credible evidence..." Evidence, not opinions. "If you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic: Don't rob a convenience store." That ticked 'em off. How dare you say that about the Gentle Giant! "Don't fight a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun." It's indisputable it happened.

Grand jury witnesses confirmed it, and everybody has pointed out how many people showed up and lied to the grand jury. I mean, there were lots of people called as witnesses that just openly lied, contradicted all the physical evidence. The grand jury had to weed through it, and did. "[A]nd when the cop yells at you to stop with his gun drawn, just stop.

Eugene Robinson was on the panel. He said, "We're not in the re-litigation business, so we won't go into the whole thing, but there was conflicting testimony. There were witnesses who simply were not believed who said otherwise, and there were witnesses..." Yeah, witnesses who came in and could not have what they said corroborated by the evidence, and that's who Eugene Robinson wants to focus on here.

This is all about the battle between power and truth and the truth being relative and the truth being up for grabs, because our politics is not about what is. Our politics is not about the way things are. This explains also why the Republicans have so much trouble in campaigns. They deal with the problems as they are, offer real world/real life solutions. The Democrats fake emotion, Democrats fake caring about all this stuff.

Facts are considered to be cold-hearted, insensitive, unfeeling, or what have you.

The Washington Post article that talked about all of this. "Perhaps the reason for the disinterest in the ballistics report, perhaps the reason for the disinterest in the autopsies, perhaps the reason for the disinterest in other similar information," in other words, perhaps the reason why the facts don't matter here, "is that for at least some of Brown's supporters, the facts are irrelevant because of what [the Gentle Giant] is metaphorically.

He's "a metaphorical 'symbol' of injustice regardless of what actually happened." The Washington Post is agreeing with this take on things. He's "a metaphorical 'symbol' of injustice regardless of what actually happened." He later wrote, "Based on my initial read, so far as I can see there are no significant inconsistencies between the physical evidence and Wilson’s grand jury testimony. Other reviews have likewise not identified readily-apparent examples of problems with Wilson’s testimony.

"For example, a review of the grand jury testimony by three Associated Press reporters noted numerous examples of witness statements inconsistent with the physical evidence..." Everybody knows that what the grand jury reported and came out with was as close to what happened as is possible to get, and the fact that that doesn't matter and is irrelevant is reason for unrest and further riots? I don't know. It just deeply troubles me. Maybe it shouldn't, but...

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RUSH: Okay, so now everybody's demanding that we have conversations about race. Do you remember when Eric Holder, way back in the beginnings of the Regime...? (interruption) Oh, yeah, I'm gonna tell you about the truth. (interruption) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just be patient. We're gonna get... Snerdley wants to know if I'm gonna unveil the truth about the Ray Rice situation. Yes.

I'll tell you exactly what happened there in mere moments. People are trying to wade through that, too. That's also not very complicated in terms of understanding why he won his appeal. It's gonna be... Once I 'splain this to you, it's gonna be very simple to understand. But we'll get to there in just a second. Remember when Eric Holder said that we were cowards because we didn't have the guts to talk about race?

Of course now, the left is demanding that we all engage in a conversation about race. Of course when this conversation takes place, there is something that must be avoided at all costs, and that's the evidence in the Ferguson case. As we discuss race, as we shed our cowardice -- as we get rid of the our fear and we openly embrace a conversation about race -- we must all agree to ignore the evidence in the Ferguson case and discuss it from an entirely different perspective.

And the perspective that they are demanding that we cowards accept is that the evidence of the case is irrelevant because the Gentle Giant is a metaphor for the symbol of injustice in America today between the cops and black citizens. Now, it's a total non-sequitur. It is taking the facts and ignoring them, establishing a new narrative that is based on accepting the lies that were told about the evidence here as real.

What we have here is a contest. We have a contest of power over truth. On the side of those using the power to define truth, we have the Drive-By Media. We have the White House, we have the Democrat Party, and we have the civil rights organizations. They are up against police officers, police officers and their organizations -- union representatives and so forth -- and citizens who might not have a voice much anywhere.

The truth is whatever they can end up making it, and every time the truth gets obliterated and destroyed and then redefined (if I had to guess), you get a little bit more dispirited. Because we've all thought, for the longest time, that the real key to reversing the destructive directions this country is headed in is the truth and the persuasive power of the truth and the ability of the truth to inform.

And there's a political apparatus in this country that just can't deal with it. The truth would rip them to shreds. The truth would literally destroy them. You know, the facts of the Trayvon Martin case ended up not fitting the claims of the media and others. So Trayvon Martin had to become a symbol and still is.

Just like the facts of the Duke lacrosse stripper case ended up not supporting the media's claim. So she had to become a symbol of past grievance, which didn't happen, either. They don't win each and every time they try, but they are hell-bent on this one. Grab audio sound bite number five. Here is Calypso Louie. Minister Farrakhan was in Baltimore on Saturday at Morgan State University.

FARRAKHAN: You might not wanna to fight, but you better get ready. Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can't bite!

FARRAKHAN: We're gonna die anyway. Let's die for something. As long as they kill us and go to Wendy's and have a burger and go to sleep, they gonna keep killing us!

FARRAKHAN (screaming): But when we die and they die, then soon we gonna sit at a table and talk about it! We tired. We want some of this earth or we're gonna tear this God-(bleep) country up.

RUSH: There you have it. Calypso Louie promising future actions if he doesn't get his way on whatever it is that he wants. Now, keep in mind... I hate to keep reminding people this, but this is all happening after the election of the first African-American president in this country. This is all happening in the midst of a genuinely historical event: The election of the first African-American president, which many people believed would bring to a screeching halt all of this.

Many people voted for Obama in the hope and dream that his election, whatever else it meant, would prove that there is no racism, that there is no racial hatred any longer in America -- certainly not anywhere near a majority -- and that we would begin the process of healing. And, of course, it has only gotten worse. It has only gotten worse, and the flamethrowers are in charge of the gasoline. (interruption) That's exactly right. What Obama is doing at the White House today is community organizing.

He's not acting as president. The official White House African-American education Twitter account, which is run out of the White House, has retweeted an article from the Huffing and Puffington Post on what they're discussing today. Community organizing is what they're discussing at the White. There's a panel of people. Holder's up there, Al Sharpton's up there, and what they are doing is coming up with five ways to teach about Michael Brown and Ferguson. Here they are.

"In the classroom, ask students what they know and what they want to know." Of course, after the students ask, then of course implied here is that you have the right answer, which is not what the grand jury said. "Number two: Help students make connections. Number three: Ask students to write letters," and become agitators themselves. "Number four: Create a classroom memorial to [the Gentle Giant]. Number five: Carry the theme for the rest of the school year."

This is what is being discussed and advocated today in a White House committee meeting on how to move forward, not from the Michael Brown incident, but from the grand jury announcement. How to move forward from that, because the story and the truth now is becoming the grand jury. Not the Gentle Giant and not what the Gentle Giant did. The story is becoming the symbol of injustice that has existed for centuries regardless of what actually happened here.

Let's forget and never, ever be reminded of what actually happened here and instead of saying what happened, we'll reconstruct a scenario that is symbolic of the injustice, no matter what actually happened. TIME magazine: "Ferguson protestors have gained the lead in TIME's Person of the Year poll, with seven days to go in the voting. Unrest in Ferguson and around the country focused attention on race and policing, helping to lift Ferguson protestors into first place in the TIME reader poll with 10.7% of the vote."

TIME magazine has their Person of the Year, Man of the Year, used to be Man of the Year, but can't do that anymore, so it's now Person of the Year. And they've opened it up for public voting as a PR gimmick. Leading, we are to believe -- leading, leading the public vote on Person of the Year -- are the Ferguson, Missouri, protesters. Don't be surprised if TIME magazine's Person of the Year is the Gentle Giant when this is all said and done. Do not be surprised.

‘Meet The Press’ runs a four liberal table - sometimes five - against one conservative. When the conservative speaks the thug gang of elite liberals starts kicking, punching and shouting him down.

It’s sickening.

Chuck Todd’s better than this crap. I assume Todd has the balls to allow two conservatives at the table. They’d still be outnumbered... but not as badly. He should try it sometimes.. Diversity of thought is important... Really.

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Rich Lowry Police Advice Stirs Up Panel of Democrats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEGxAcM0JcM&feature=youtu.be

Rush is very late to the party on this topic. The “false narrative” has been a major tool of Marxist radicals for years. What’s new IMO is the near-total co-option of the media. They’ve tilted strongly Left for years but now there’s no longer even a pretense of objectivity. Of course the main problem is the ignorance and gullibility of people who believe the media swill. Bread, circuses and a couple of generations of “educational” indoctrination have apparently done the trick.

The left has to promote the lie of black victimhood. Otherwise they would have to start looking at the failure of their socialist programs.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

But there are other versions of that. The humorous one is,

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll spend all his time in a boat drinking beer.

And here is the applicable version:

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to practice on the other man’s insecurity, and he will get fed for a lifetime without having to lift a finger.

You can prattle all day about “education” - and any liberal will - but the reality is that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. If everyone around him is demanding that he not “break the curve” by “acting white” then the chances are he will end up being proud of not knowing how to fish.

Rush Limbaugh:

Heard Rush today when he said that and he is right on target.

But what he's talking about didn't start in the US as recently as 2002 or 2003. Truth lost out to power consistently in the Clinton years, epitomized by the Democrats and media covering up the rubout of Vincent Foster as a "suicide."

Of course, things like that were going on in Arkansas during WJC's governorship there as one can infer by the introduction of the term "Arkancide."

On a less deadly level, for at least 100 years, leftists in power have been perpetrating lies to sell their otherwise unpopular government programs to a skeptical public. One of the most infamous of these instances was the New Deal's characterization of Social Security as "old age insurance."

I listened in to Rush today for about half an hour.

During that half hour he touched on Conservative truisms you won’t hear anywhere else. Rush has a great mind. To deliver what he does day in and day out over the decades, you’ve got to be on the top of your game.

I would urge folks to listen to him. I know he doesn’t always get it (see eye to eye with us), but it’s amazing to listen to him when he does.

And frankly folks, he gets it most of the time.

The part I listened to today was brilliant.

...the New Deal's characterization of Social Security as "old age insurance."

as compared to Onamas New Age ...Insurance.....

Nice little pun there. The two have more in common than "insurance": They are both unsustainable Ponzi schemes (unless they are significantly modified) and inevitably lead to government bankruptcy. Plus, individual freedom of the citizen is lost with both of them.

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