{"id":16166,"date":"2012-03-26T18:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:45:46","slug":"the_left_s_obsession_with_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/26\/the_left_s_obsession_with_race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s Obsession with Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t usually cover the local crime beat, but since it seems to be a popular topic this week, there is a bit of news.  A 21-year-old Mississippi State University student was killed over the weekend in his dorm.  He was the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. This is a quote, now: &#8220;Shortly after the incident, investigators said witnesses and security cameras observed three African-American males fleeing the scene.&#8221; The suspects were so thoroughly identified it was announced that they were not Mississippi State University students.  Now, this murder hasn\u2019t gotten very much coverage in the national media. <\/p>\n<p>There is an AP story on it here.  The headline to the story:  &#8220;Coroner Rules MSU Student Death a Homicide,&#8221; and a person of interest has been identified.  A weapon was discovered.  &#8221; John Sanderson, 21, of Madison died of multiple gunshot wounds in an incident at Evans Hall dormitory shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday  Shortly after the incident, investigators said witnesses and security cameras observed three African-American males fleeing the scene&#8221;.  John Sanderson, in case you\u2019re asking, is white. Yeah.  But there hasn\u2019t been much on this story from Saturday night.  So I just wanted to mention it to you.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jerry in Chicago, great to have you on the EIB Network.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Rush, it\u2019s an honor.  Quickly if I could I\u2019d like to just articulate a few facts that I determined relative to this shooting in Florida.  Also, as a retired police officer from San Francisco now residing in Chicago, I think I have an interesting perspective.  It\u2019s worth noting that Axelrod is based here in Chicago.  As a result, he was clearly aware of the fact that there were over 40 shootings in Chicago over the St. Patrick\u2019s Day weekend, ten of which resulted in murder, homicide, death.  These were predominantly on the south side of Chicago, which is, uh, a black neighborhood.  The current state Democratic chairman from the state of Florida, as I understand it, is a person by the name of Rod Smith. He was, in 2005, a member of the Florida state senate, which voted 39 to zero in favor of the Stand-Your-Ground law.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  The House voted 92 to 20 in favor of that law.  Now, Rod Smith &#8212; correctly, I think &#8212; is in defense of the law, but also agrees that an arrest should have been made in the case.  Now here\u2019s my personal observation as a police officer, former police officer.  Mr. Zimmerman, I think, fits the profile of somebody that we might refer to as suffering from the John Wayne syndrome.  He was a person equipped with a weapon and charged with certain responsibilities as a Neighborhood Watch person that overstepped his bounds.  I don\u2019t think, um, he was necessarily a racist, but he made poor decisions based on poor judgment.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Jerry, what I\u2019ve read is that Mr. Zimmerman &#8212; who, again, the New York Times refers to as a &#8220;white Hispanic&#8221; and the rest of the media has now picked that up, \u2019cause that fits the template.  You need white-on-black here to gin this up.  I understand. He wants to be a cop.  He just loves law enforcement, and he\u2019s a self-appointed Neighborhood Watch commander, and he wanted to protect his neighborhood, and he just got a little overzealous and so forth. But we still don\u2019t know what the real facts of this are, I don\u2019t think.  That\u2019s why this is&#8230; It\u2019s a month ago that this happened, and yet it\u2019s being portrayed as though it just happened last weekend or something, at least with the attention that\u2019s being focused on it.  But it really is troubling that there are people trying to fan the flames of this rather than cool it down.  I mean at the highest levels. I mean we know who the people trying to benefit from this are, but at the highest levels of our government, you would think &#8212; with a powder keg like this &#8212; that people would want to try to douse it, cool it off a little bit.  I just don\u2019t see any of that.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_60723\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" alt=\"original\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushJoinRush247.jpg\"\/><\/a>CALLER:  Well, it may be ultra-cynical on my part, but I did not hear the president interjecting himself into the argument or the controversy by saying that if he had a son, you know&#8230; That is that the ten people that were murdered on the south side of Chicago, that they would all look like his son as well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I know.  We talked about this earlier.  This is one of those things I can\u2019t relate to.  I don\u2019t look at people and see a race or a sexual orientation or whatever. I mean, I\u2019m a red-blooded American guy. When I see a woman, I notice she\u2019s a woman, but I don\u2019t see the political context.  I don\u2019t see feminist or a female victim of some oppressive society.  I don\u2019t see black-versus-white or anything. The left is the ones who do this.  For Obama to come out and say, &#8220;If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,&#8221; okay, fine. What?  What then?  What does that mean?  What are we supposed to infer from that?  I don\u2019t even want to answer that question.  It\u2019s a disconnect to me.  I don\u2019t get it.  The last thing I would ever think, if I were president or anybody else, when somebody gets shot is, &#8220;Whoa, that looks like my son!&#8221;  I don\u2019t have a son.  Neither does he.  I don\u2019t understand it.  But certainly, yeah, he\u2019s not saying it about any other murder victim. And he didn\u2019t call their parents, or the kids\u2019 patients, I don\u2019t think.  It\u2019s a mystery to me.  I just have no&#8230; Well, it\u2019s not a mystery. I mean, I know these people like the back of my hand, but I just can\u2019t relate to this way of looking at people and events, look at everything through a political lens.<\/p>\n<p>We have dead 17-year-old, and this being looked at through a political prism by people is just something that escapes me, just really does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Folks, I don\u2019t usually cover the local crime beat, but since it seems to be a popular topic this week, there is a bit of news. A 21-year-old Mississippi State University student was killed over the weekend in his dorm. He was the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. 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