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RUSH: We talked yesterday about Chris Dorner, the renegade former cop in LA. They think he mighta gone to Mexico. They\u2019ve also learned that he knows how to fly an airplane. So they may be droning the guy if they can find him. But you have to hear this. This is on CNN this morning on Newsroom with the anchorette Carol Costello, and she\u2019s talking to a satellite radio host about how some people are seeing Chris Dorner as a hero, as a vigilante hero, as a guy who was getting away with what needs to be gotten away with. He\u2019s a guy who\u2019s calling attention to the racial discrimination and discrepancies in this country, to the racial inequities. <\/p>\n

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He\u2019s got a cheering section on Twitter and Facebook. This guy\u2019s a modern-day hero. He\u2019s being called “a modern-day Django.” He\u2019s being urged on. He\u2019s being supported wildly by hundreds of thousands and it may number in the millions of people. So Carol Costello said, “Okay, Dorner fan sites with titles like ‘We\u2019re all Chris Dorner\u2019 and the ‘Christopher Dorner Appreciation Society\u2019 are popping up on Facebook, and on Twitter the hashtag GoDornerGo. Now, let\u2019s review: Chris Dorner, a disgruntled LAPD officer fired from his job, accused of killing three people. He taunted the father of one of his victims saying he shoulda done a better job protecting his daughter. Why do some see this guy as a vigilante hero? Where\u2019s this coming from?”<\/p>\n

PETE DOMINICK: It\u2019s coming from an exclusive ignorance, uh, for those of you who are born — privileged to be born — white in America. I mean, if you don\u2019t understand with some perspective the history of this country and racial violence, um, oftentimes perpetrated by those in law enforcement — or “the owner,” if you will. If you don\u2019t understand that history in this country, and if you don\u2019t understand specifically the history of the LA Police Department and black folks, uh, then you won\u2019t understand this. Black folks in America have been targeted by law enforcement. And I don\u2019t want to generalize here at all, but specifically by, of course, law enforcement for generations in this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you see?<\/p>\n

This is simply decades-old grievance finally being addressed — and the LAPD is the modern equivalent of the slave owner. That\u2019s what he said here. “[T]he history of this country and racial violence, um, oftentimes perpetrated by those in law enforcement — or ‘the owner,\u2019 if you will,” meaning the slave owner. “If you don\u2019t understand that history in this country, and if you don\u2019t understand specifically the history of the LA Police Department and black folks, uh, then you won\u2019t understand this.” So we\u2019re supposed to now understand now that the guy is smart. Yesterday what did we hear from Steve Roberts, former Newsweek reporter and now a professor of journalism somewhere? <\/p>\n

(paraphrased) “We have to understand this man. He\u2019s very bright. This guy is extremely smart, and he\u2019s black, and because of those two things, we can\u2019t make hasty judgments. We have to endeavor to understand.” Just like we had to understand the “art” that was present in all the books and movies about assassinating George W. Bush. Now, you know as well as I do that if this guy were white and had a list of conservatives that were his mentors and people who were inspiring him, there wouldn\u2019t be any sympathy at all. There wouldn\u2019t be hashtags, websites, Twitter, Facebook supporting this guy at all. There would be mad calls to end all talk radio, to get rid of Fox News. <\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re to sit here and say this guy is great?<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s like the Unabomber. He was called a fallen angel, a fallen liberal. This Dorner is finally doing what shoulda been done a long time ago. Before this is all over, somebody is going to make the demand that the LAPD apologize to Dorner and take him back with back pay. Mark my words. Roland Martin was also on this CNN show. Carol Costello said, “Roland, why at this particular time? This man\u2019s still out there. He\u2019s still so dangerous. Why bring all this history up? Why? I mean, sure there was racial segregation. Sure there was racial discrimination. Sure there was slavery a couple hundred years ago. Why in the world is this guy justified in what he\u2019s doing because of that?”<\/p>\n

MARTIN: In talking about Dorner, we can\u2019t act as if what he has to say should not be discussed. Why can\u2019t we talk about both? Why can\u2019t we condemn him? Why can\u2019t we say he is heinous for what he did, but then say, “Wait a minute. What is he talking about as it relates to police officers?” When you talk about the Ramparts Division, when you talk about the history of the LAPD, depending upon where you live you see them as being terrorists.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this guy\u2019s a vigilante here. <\/p>\n

The LAPD are the terrorists and they always have been, and this guy is totally justified. It is this kind of depraved immorality that is gonna cause all of this progressivism to collapse on itself. This stuff can\u2019t sustain. You can\u2019t build solid, functioning civil societies on this kind of belief system. You just can\u2019t do it. It will not support itself. This is corrupt, and it\u2019s grievance based, and that means it\u2019s filled with rage and anger. There\u2019s nothing civil about it. There\u2019s no decency here. There\u2019s no common sense being utilized whatsoever. This guy simply presents an opportunity for a bunch of grievance-filled leftists to take the occasion of his murder spree to use to their political advantage. It just goes to show that the left will take every event out there and politicize it in ways they think benefit them. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, Chris Dorner? Oh, yeah. We\u2019re supposed to understand him. Okay. Let me ask Roland Martin and any of you others: What kind of efforts are you making to understand all of the killers in Chicago? You know, there\u2019s a lot of black kids, young black kids being gunned down in Chicago in record numbers. Now, I didn\u2019t know that LA was such a racist place. It\u2019s been run by Democrats for so many years, I really didn\u2019t know that. Hollywood? I had no idea LA was such a hotbed of racism! I knew about Watts and this kind of thing, but I didn\u2019t know the whole place was. <\/p>\n

What about Chicago? I mean, this guy Dorner is a piker compared to some of the murderers in Chicago. Are we to understand them? Are we to dig deep to find the source of their grievance? Is Christopher Dorner ultimately exempted from the law here because of his much-needed grievance addressing? Is that where we\u2019re headed? I mean, this guy\u2019s taken care of 200 years of slavery and wiping it out, getting even for all of that. Does that mean he will not be held accountable to the law? Absurdity.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me ask you a quick question. Back in 2007-2008 during the presidential campaign, would you have ever believed that if we elected a black president, that the principal focus of the news would be race? Wasn\u2019t the election of a black president supposed to end that? Isn\u2019t that what many people who voted for Obama thought? Didn\u2019t a lot of people vote for Obama because, “Okay, fine! If we elect a black president, then we\u2019ve erased the original sin of slavery,” or as close to that as is possible? “We will demonstrate, if we elect a black president, that we\u2019re not a racist country anymore.”<\/p>\n

I know a lot of people voted for Obama on that basis. I guarantee you back in 2007-2008, if you\u2019da told people — and I did, by the way, and people told me they thought I was full of it. I said, “Racial problems in this country are gonna get worse.”<\/p>\n

People said, “What do you mean? How can you possibly say that!” I mean, I really got slammed. People reacted to me really angrily. “What do you mean? How can you say that?”<\/p>\n

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“Because any shred of criticism of the new black president\u2019s gonna be said to be racist. The race industry is gonna thrive,” I said. “People like the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton are gonna have field days. It\u2019s not gonna erase anything. It is going to give birth to brand-new racial discrimination. It\u2019s gonna amplify it, because that\u2019s what the race industry\u2019s all about.”<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, here we are in 2013, and the principal focus of the news is race.<\/p>\n

Now more than ever, the only issue we face in this country is race and our racist history. We haven\u2019t erased anything, and it\u2019s not even inner city unemployment. No! What we have is a former LA cop, who happens to be black, on a shooting spree, and people are coming out and not just encouraging him, but defending him, on the basis that we as a country deserve it because of our wretched, racist slave past. “It\u2019s about time we owned up to it and it\u2019s about time we faced it!” After decades of affirmative action, after decades of quotas, after decades of who knows what policy here and policy there to address these injustices of the past, it\u2019s like it never happened.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like we have not done one thing to make amends for the original sin of slavery in this country. It\u2019s the singular focus of the news. It is the singular most animating aspect of news coverage today. It\u2019s the single most animating aspect of journalists. The reason they are in the tank for Obama is race, pure and simple. Because they have grown up being educated and taught that this country is immoral, unjust, improper, ill-founded, and here we are. Just take yourself back to 2007-2008 in the midst of the campaign. We were on the verge of making history, electing the first black president, first black first lady.<\/p>\n

Would you have believed if somebody told you, “I guarantee you the singular focus of the news every day is gonna be racial matters”? If somebody predicted, “Yeah, in four years a black former cop will be running around shooting people, and we\u2019re gonna be told he\u2019s a hero,” would you have believed it? No. You woulda thought just the exact opposite. Now more than ever, the only issue we face is race and our racist history. We can\u2019t get past it. That and this spending. I still can\u2019t get over this Steny Hoyer. “We have a ‘paying for it\u2019 problem; we don\u2019t have a spending problem.” Steny Hoyer is one of the dolts that we\u2019re gonna have to watch tonight stand up and applaud.<\/p>\n

By the way, speaking of that, didn\u2019t Obama or didn\u2019t Jay Carney say yesterday — didn\u2019t the regime put out news — that we fixed the debt? The debt\u2019s been fixed. The debt\u2019s done. We\u2019ve addressed the debt problem, especially if the sequester happens. See, Dingy Harry said we\u2019ve had $2.6 trillion in spending cuts, budget cuts, and then the sequester\u2019s another $1.2 to $1.4 billion. That gives us a total of $4 trillion. The debt is done! Obama\u2019s gonna say that tonight. He\u2019s gonna say job creation\u2019s on the move. He\u2019s gonna say debt reduction\u2019s taken place and we got our spending in line. It\u2019s now in control, and everything\u2019s ready to roll.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s gonna be a standing ovation for that, and a Misstatement of the Union, and I have to watch it. No, I can\u2019t farm this one out. This, I have to watch. Kathryn and I are gonna bring the dogs in. We\u2019re gonna put GOP collars on the dogs and put them in front of the TV. We\u2019ll watch it as a family and we\u2019ll try to make it as enjoyable an evening as possible. Two more sound bites on Christopher Dorner. This is last night on The NewsHour, PBS. The coanchor Ray Suarez was interviewing the mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa.<\/p>\n