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RUSH: The NFL opened last night.\u00a0 This is not about Brandon Marshall taking a knee during the national anthem.\u00a0 This is gonna become a tired, worn-out story before long.\u00a0 You might have heard the Seattle Seahawks are planning a team protest on Sunday. (interruption) You didn\u2019t hear this?\u00a0 Doug Baldwin and the Seahawks players and a couple of other Seahawks players said they were toying with the idea of a total team protest against the national anthem on Sunday, which just happens to be the 15th anniversary to the day of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Now, supposedly they\u2019ve changed their minds about this, they say. The latest update about this is they\u2019re not gonna do that, but they were pondering it. We\u2019ve also learned that the Seahawks have a couple people, a player and a coach who are 9\/11 truthers, who believe the government flew the planes into the World Trade Center, and one of the people who believes it is the head coach, and got into an argument with a retired military man some years ago about this.<\/p>\n

People are now saying maybe — maybe — the head coach was just joking. Maybe he\u2019s really not a 9\/11 truther.\u00a0 But one of the players is, and the other players want to go along with this social injustice and all this.\u00a0 Anything could still happen.\u00a0 One of the things they like to do is… Brandon Marshall last night of the Broncos, nobody knew it was gonna happen. Come out sing the national anthem, the camera focuses on both teams and there\u2019s number 54 for the Broncos taking a knee.\u00a0 And nobody knew it was gonna happen.<\/p>\n

So the Seahawks could surprise me.\u00a0 We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.\u00a0 One of the late games on Sunday is a home game in Seattle.\u00a0 Well, the big story the NFL game last night, get… I don\u2019t know how to do the See, I Told You So on this, because I can\u2019t pinpoint in my memory exactly when something happened that made me realize the game of football is now been corrupted by the left.\u00a0 It\u2019s recently.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the past three to four years.\u00a0 Last night is an illustration of what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

The quarterback for the Carolina Panthers is Cam Newton.\u00a0 He\u2019s a big guy.\u00a0 He\u2019s 250 pounds.\u00a0 That\u2019s huge for a quarterback.\u00a0 It\u2019s huge for a running back! It\u2019s huge for a fullback. Somebody\u2019s gonna carry the ball.\u00a0 He is tough to bring down.\u00a0 Last night Cam Newton was hit in the head by mean players on the Broncos, four or five times, helmet-to-helmet strikes — which, in the NFL, are no longer allowed.\u00a0 You can\u2019t go helmet-to-helmet on anybody, particularly defenseless player, but you just can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to prevent as many concussions from taking place as they can, as they make efforts to make this game of violent collisions safer.\u00a0 Football is not a contact sport.\u00a0 Basketball is a contact sport.\u00a0 Football is a collision sport, violent collision sport.\u00a0 If you play in the offensive line or the defensive line, you and I couldn\u2019t last one play there, folks.\u00a0 The average human being would be on injured reserve for your career after one play.\u00a0 It\u2019s like being in a car wreck without the car every play.<\/p>\n

I mean, these are really tough people that play this game.\u00a0 And not everybody can.\u00a0 There\u2019s only 1600 \u2019em that are qualified to play in the National Football League, so the league is doing everything it can to pay attention to safety. Concussions. They made a movie about it regaling some doctor in Pittsburgh who had discovered the noted disease CTE, which can only be diagnosed in an autopsy.\u00a0 Anyway, Cam Newton. The hits were questionable last night.\u00a0 Only one of them was called as a penalty.<\/p>\n

However, the penalty was negated because in the same play Cam Newton was accused… I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 “Accused.”\u00a0 Football is not in a court of law. Cam Newton was penalized for intentional grounding.\u00a0 So those penalties offset, which in the NFL means it\u2019s as though neither happened; just replay the down.\u00a0 But it really is strange that an illegal hit to the head which leaves the quarterback woozy can be offset by an intentional grounding penalty, but that\u2019s what happened.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the upshot of it.\u00a0 Well, Mediaite…<\/p>\n

This is not from a sports page.\u00a0 Not any sports page that you would recognize.\u00a0 This comes from Mediaite.\u00a0 “NFL Under Fire for Violent Hits Taken by Cam Newton in Season Opener<\/a> — The NFL is drawing criticism from fans, from pundits, and even several players over its handling of the multiple vicious hits to the head taken by Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in Thursday night\u2019s season opener.”\u00a0 When was the last time can you ever recall seeing the day after any football game, a news story about the viciousness, about the violence?<\/p>\n

About how, “This can\u2019t be allowed to go on! We gotta step in and stop this. This is outrageous. This is impermissible!”\u00a0 Have you ever seen anything like this in postgame reporting outside of sports media?\u00a0 “Perhaps the worst…” I\u2019m reading from Mediaite.\u00a0 Nothing against Mediaite.\u00a0 Don\u2019t misunderstand here.\u00a0 This is cultural, folks.\u00a0 The game of football is never gonna be the same.\u00a0 This game is gonna be reviewed play-by-play within the context of our culture, social justice, political correctness. You wait. Every play…<\/p>\n

Lawsuits are not far.\u00a0 It is gonna totally change the way you watch the game, the way it\u2019s reported, and the way it\u2019s played.\u00a0 “Perhaps the worst of the repeated shots came during the Panthers\u2019 final drive, when Denver Broncos safety Darian Stewart launched himself into Newton headfirst, making helmet-to-helmet contact.\u00a0 Newton was facedown in the Denver turf, unable to move for several seconds before slowly getting to his feet and finishing the drive.<\/p>\n

“That play resulted in a penalty against Denver, but other violent shots did not — much to the dismay of Panthers tight end Greg Olsen. We\u2019ve got to treat Cam like a quarterback,\u2019 Olsen told CBS Sports. ‘I know he\u2019s the biggest guy on the field, but he\u2019s still a quarterback.\u2019 …<\/p>\n

Fans and critics were up in arms over the fact that Newton was allowed to continue playing after all the hits and not removed from the game as part of the NFL\u2019s concussion protocol.”\u00a0 You realize what\u2019s happening here?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m making no comment on it.\u00a0 I\u2019m just bringing it to your attention. \u00a0I\u2019m telling you.\u00a0 So what happened is, the NFL has this concussion protocol. Anybody… They\u2019ve got spotters in the press box that are not tied to any team.\u00a0 They got neurologists. They got doctors. They\u2019ve got all kinds of people out there making sure that if a player even appears to have gotten a concussion, they yank him out there and they give him the concussion tests and if he fails they don\u2019t put him back in there; he\u2019s done for the day.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re upset that that didn\u2019t happen to Cam Newton \u2019cause there were clearly a bunch of different times he could have very easily had a concussion, and nobody made a move to help him — the spotters up in the press box, the doctors, the neurologists, nobody — and it says right here: Fans, critics, pundits, reporters up in arms over the fact that Newton was allowed to continue playing after the hits.\u00a0 What do you expect?\u00a0 It\u2019s the final drive. The Panthers are down four. They need to get into field goal range.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the opening game. They lost to the Broncos in the Super Bowl.\u00a0 Can you imagine being the person to take the Panthers\u2019 starting quarterback out of the game in that circumstance?\u00a0 It isn\u2019t gonna happen.\u00a0 Nobody wants that, just like Comey didn\u2019t want to be known as the guy that took out Hillary because of the FBI thing.\u00a0 Nobody\u2019s gonna step in here.\u00a0 But now this is a huge news story. It\u2019s bigger than who won or who lost.\u00a0 It\u2019s bigger than the guy that took a knee during the national anthem.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just want to add one thing to \u2019em.\u00a0 I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s gonna happen here.\u00a0 In addition to all of this hand-wringing over every play now — you ought to see the social media on this. You ought to see the tweets on this by sportswriters outraged. Somebody needs to be suspended. The NFL needs to stop the game and throw some people out.\u00a0 It\u2019s just incredible.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s gonna happen. Quarterbacks are now gonna be taken out. There will be teams that will decide it\u2019s worth it to get a 15-yard penalty and maybe, maybe get kicked out of the game for an illegal helmet-to-helmet hit if it gets the opposing quarterback taken out of the game.<\/p>\n

Imagine this scenario.\u00a0 Pick any two teams you want.\u00a0 Pick a team that has a really — I mean, one of the best quarterbacks in the league.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a very meaningful game.\u00a0 The other team\u2019s coach, “You know what, we gotta get the quarterback outta the game,” and the simplest way to do it you assign a bunch of defensive players helmet-to-helmet.\u00a0 No bounty, no bounty, just helmet-to-helmet hit cause the concussion protocol to be implemented and the starting quarterback have to be taken out of the game.<\/p>\n

This is going to increase head shots.\u00a0 Head shots are going to become a strategic part of the game.\u00a0 And when this starts happening, you\u2019re gonna really see the sportswriter community explode. You\u2019re gonna see Twitter and social media and the rest of the media and everybody else wringing their hands. I don\u2019t want to predict when this is gonna actually happen, but it\u2019s not far down the line where you\u2019re going to be looking at football and remembering it the way it used to be.\u00a0 And you\u2019re going to be longing for it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Robert in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.\u00a0 Great to have you on the program, sir.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Rush, thank you, sir.\u00a0 First let me say I am grateful every single day that God gave you talent, because you know what to do with it.\u00a0 My comment is I was in the Pentagon on 9\/11.\u00a0 My office was 100 feet from the point of impact.\u00a0 You remember the iconic flag picture draped over the —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait just a minute.\u00a0 Before you go further, we need to explain something to people.\u00a0 When I say that there\u2019s a Seahawks player and a coach that are 9\/11 truthers, part of that is believing that nothing happened to the Pentagon, that no plane hit! “There\u2019s no evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon — no residues, no nothing,” and there are people that actually believe that plane didn\u2019t hit the Pentagon.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t have been in your office at the time if it\u2019s only a hundred feet away from the impact.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Well, Rush, if you would like to talk to my dead friends who perished that day, it might change his mind, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, no. They think something happened. They think the Pentagon blew it up itself, or that “the government” did. They just don\u2019t think that a plane hit it.\u00a0 I\u2019m… Don\u2019t misunderstand.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I\u2019m just saying people hold this belief, like the government flew the planes into the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Well, as I\u2019m sure you and I would agree, that\u2019s just simply hogwash.\u00a0 And for those who were around the Pentagon and inside it, they now know the truth.\u00a0 But I guess my comment was, if Mr. Kaepernick had been standing next to me on that day at that moment, would he view our national anthem any differently?\u00a0 Now, I know we\u2019ll never know the answer to that because it\u2019s a hypothetical question. But our national anthem, Rush, stands for a pathway to equality as our flag does.\u00a0 And it appears to me that Mr. Kaepernick does not want to follow that pathway to equality.\u00a0 Our country was not perfect when it was born —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Well, now, wait.\u00a0 Let me make one stipulation as far as what these people claim.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 The people that are sitting down and are taking a knee and their supporters are specifically claiming that it is the flag that gives them the right to sit down, to take a knee, to dissent — that that is the meaning of the flag, that patriotism does not mean required support for a country.\u00a0 Patriotism can be principled dissent from a country if it\u2019s doing things that you disagree with.\u00a0 And the flag permits this.\u00a0 This is how they\u2019re explaining it and rationalizing it.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 I understand their point.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that I necessarily agree with it because I think that there is a reverence that we give to those who created this nation and that flag.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That\u2019s true. There\u2019s another question needs to be asked about this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, on this 9\/11 truth stuff, there are two elements to it.\u00a0 The World Trade Center, nobody\u2019s denying the planes hit.\u00a0 The 9\/11 truthers believe that planes hitting high up in the building as they did are not enough to bring the buildings down.\u00a0 They believe the planes being flown into the building was done on purpose and then there were charges and dynamite, whatever it was, strategically placed inside each building that were then detonated after the planes hit to bring the buildings down.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t tell you why — well, maybe some of them can.\u00a0 But they can\u2019t deny the planes hit because there\u2019s video of that, but some of them do dispute who was flying the planes, believe it or not.\u00a0 I mean, the 9\/11 conspiracies are all over the place.\u00a0 They have various bits of evidence, claimed evidence, like certain people getting out of town the day before \u2019cause they knew what was gonna happen, this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

Now, in the Pentagon, since all there is, is a flash photo of the explosion, there\u2019s no pictures such as there were of the trade center towers of the plane actually hitting, there\u2019s just the testimony of the people on the ground. There\u2019s no question something happened there. The 9\/11 truthers believe that it wasn\u2019t a plane.\u00a0 They\u2019ll claim to you that there\u2019s no evidence.<\/p>\n

Look at this.\u00a0 I just happen to be talking about this and Fox is showing videotape of the towers blazing. If you\u2019re watching it by any chance, the truthers believe that just because the planes hit the top of the buildings there\u2019s no way that would bring down those two buildings, that something else had to happen.\u00a0 And then of course the government wanted it because the government wanted the people conditioned to go to war, all of this.<\/p>\n

Now, the Pentagon truthers — and the reason this has even come up is because there\u2019s a couple of people in the Seattle Seahawks who happen to be 9\/11 truthers, and they are planning, or were, to boycott the national anthem in the opening game on Sunday in Seattle.\u00a0 Supposedly an update\u2019s come down the pike, they\u2019re not gonna do that, so they say.\u00a0 So this has given rise to all of this discussion.<\/p>\n

Now, our last caller, clearly a lot of people believe that when you hear the national anthem, see the flag, you stand up because it is to honor America. In fact, many public address announcers ask you to stand and honor America while the playing of the national anthem.\u00a0 Now, the people that are sitting down or taking a knee, let me just remind you what Kaepernick said, Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49\u2019ers.<\/p>\n

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.\u00a0 To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t detect a freedom of speech issue in that statement, but what\u2019s happening, people in defending Kaepernick, this is classic. I\u2019ll never forget.\u00a0 You all remember back in the early nineties, it might even have been the late eighties, a huge public debate that might even involve Supreme Court over flag burning. There was a crowd that was all for it, that if you believed in America you have to permit people to burn the flag.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the flag stands for. The flag, they said, stands for your freedom to burn it, to rip it to shreds, to sit on it, to flush it, whatever.\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what this country means.\u00a0 You have your freedom to dissent and you can express this in nonviolent ways, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

And people are today in justifying the actions of Kaepernick and now Doug Baldwin, the Seahawks player.\u00a0 The Broncos player last night was Brandon Marshall, number 54, an outside linebacker sat down, or took a knee.\u00a0 And people are saying, “Well, that\u2019s what flag means.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the flag stands for.\u00a0 The flag means that you can dissent.”\u00a0 And this has given rise to the predictable subject matter of patriotism and what does it mean.<\/p>\n

So many people on the left want to define patriotism as dissenting.\u00a0 In fact, Hillary Clinton did.\u00a0 You remember that screeching, squawking sound bite we have of her where she\u2019s literally screaming?\u00a0 It\u2019s from 2008, it is in New Hampshire, part of the presidential campaign (imitating Hillary).\u00a0 Okay, fine.\u00a0 So patriotism\u2019s to the left means being able to criticize the country, burn the flag, what have you.<\/p>\n

I understand that.\u00a0 I just wonder, where does it end?\u00a0 At some point does it become patriotic to destroy the country?\u00a0 How far does that definition of patriotism extend?\u00a0 And some people say, “Well, yeah, it does, Rush. When Thomas Jefferson said at some point revolutions need new blood. At some point, to guarantee freedom, you gotta spill some blood.\u00a0 At some point it might be necessary for future populations of the country to overthrow the government and that the flag stands for your right to do that.”<\/p>\n

I understand all that intellectually.\u00a0 But I also intellectually understand the left, and in my mind, their changes they want to make to this country are not improvements at all.\u00a0 They don\u2019t like it and they want to tear it down and rebuild it into something that it was never intended to be.\u00a0 Now, does patriotism, do they have the freedom to do that?\u00a0 I guess they do.\u00a0 They have the freedom to try.\u00a0 But to sit around and applaud it and to honor it, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I remember getting into knock-down, drag-outs with friends over the flag burning thing, and my take on it was, yeah, you might be persuasive in that it\u2019s entirely legal and ought not be punishable.\u00a0 But where does it end?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always wanted to know about the motivations of people.\u00a0 I admittedly have a love for this country, and I\u2019m very frustrated at people that don\u2019t. But I know that they exist and I know what their grievances are.\u00a0 I just disagree profoundly with them.\u00a0 And I think the reasons they feel the way they feel, while they may think they\u2019re legit, I think they\u2019re immature and childish.\u00a0 If their ideas were to improve things, that would be one thing, but I don\u2019t see much of this leftist dissent as ending up improving things.\u00a0 That\u2019s where I\u2019ve always come down on this.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re clearly in the midst of a roiling debate over the very existence, foundation, structure of this country and what America is going to be, and there\u2019s a whole crowd of people, I don\u2019t know how big it is, we\u2019ll find out, that believes most of this country is unjust, that most of this country, that any aspect of this country that you can trace to the founding, is immoral. That any aspect of America today that you can trace to the founding is unjust and needs to be stripped. And of course I have a completely different view.<\/p>\n

I think the things that happened that resulted in the founding of this country are miraculous.\u00a0 And even though I intellectually understand the people that have grievances, emotionally I don\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s a real sore spot and it\u2019s been a constant source of concern of mine \u2019cause I don\u2019t know where else in the world that you could live that you would be afforded with the freedom, the opportunity. Even if you want to talk about things like equality, if that\u2019s a number one thing to you or nondiscrimination, I don\u2019t care where you go, there\u2019s no better place on earth.<\/p>\n

We are the luckiest people that have ever lived on this planet.\u00a0 And all it takes is a little perspective to realize that and then a mature admission that nothing\u2019s perfect.\u00a0 But one of the fallacies of the left is they believe that humanity is in its own existence imperfect, flawed, but that can be perfected, humanity can be perfected, but only with the power of a massive central government enforcing things, such as behavior and belief, on people. And in that way you make people perfect, even if you have to force them to do things against their nature and against their will.<\/p>\n

If you want to create this utopia, this perfect place, since there\u2019s gonna be natural opposition, you have to stamp that out and you have to have a massive command-and-control central authority which quote\/unquote “understands this desire for perfection, understands what the perfection is and then how to implement it,” which, of course, is totally fallacious.\u00a0 It simply isn\u2019t possible.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t the perfect, and there\u2019s no way to enforce it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been tried I don\u2019t know how many times.\u00a0 It\u2019s failed miserably each time it\u2019s tried.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 And we figure back to the phones, Clover, South Carolina.\u00a0 Stewart, welcome to the program, sir.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hello.\u00a0 Thanks for taking my call.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try and be brief and concise here.\u00a0 But my calls about a lot of what you\u2019ve been talking about, just everything around this false narrative of cops shooting unarmed blacks.\u00a0 It\u2019s just not true.\u00a0 We know that.\u00a0 The stats show that they\u2019re not using lethal force against blacks more so than whites, and even if it were true, the question —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 By the way, let me just intercede because a lot of people (shouts), “What do you mean it\u2019s not true? You\u2019re letting him get away with that?”\u00a0 DOJ, Department of Justice, statistics, folks. The caller is right.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 There is no proportionally greater number of them. The whole thing is so vastly made up that it\u2019s near criminal itself the way this whole belief has spread. Unarmed innocent blacks are not being wantonly murdered by the cops in this country.\u00a0 It just isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now, they are being murdered by other blacks in fair greater numbers, but we\u2019re not supposed to talk about that.\u00a0 That\u2019s a whole other subject and you\u2019re not qualified because you\u2019re not black so you can\u2019t talk about that.\u00a0 But, anyway, I just don\u2019t want people to think that I\u2019m letting you run off the rails here uncorrected because the DOJ stats back him up.\u00a0 Now, what\u2019s your point?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Well, even if it were true, the question would be if it were justifiable.\u00a0 I mean, if an unarmed person tries to arm himself by taking a cop\u2019s gun, that cop is justified in using lethal force.\u00a0 But regardless, I believe this whole false narrative was started and has been perpetuated by a fear of the left. They\u2019re worried that Hillary is not gonna get the votes that Obama got, especially in the context that Obama has done nothing for the African-American society and everything has gotten worse under him.\u00a0 I think they\u2019ve started and perpetuated this whole meme.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 Just want to make sure.\u00a0 Are you saying that Kaepernick sitting down during the anthem is because Hillary\u2019s sitting down during the anthem and they\u2019re worried?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 No, I think Kaepernick sitting down is his belief of this false narrative and it\u2019s now causing him to denounce the whole country.\u00a0 He\u2019s sitting down so the anthem and the flag and he now believes this.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Oh, I got you.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 It\u2019s something you mentioned recently about the cops that were killed in Dallas, he said something to the effect of these people really believe that cops are out there hunting them down, it might drive them to go commit some atrocity like that.\u00a0 And now you\u2019ve got people that really believe this that are… It\u2019s just a dangerous false narrative, and it\u2019s flooding through social media like wildfire, and it\u2019s causing a whole group of people among the sports fandom that may not be in the daily news or politics or anything like that, and they just get their news from social media.\u00a0 Now they see this high visibility sports star that\u2019s taken this —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 I got it.\u00a0 Got you.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the whole false story of Ferguson, “hands up, don\u2019t shoot.”\u00a0 It didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 It literally didn\u2019t happen — and no less than the Department of Justice, Obama\u2019s own DOJ, has said it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 But yet Colin Kaepernick, who knows what he knows? He might think it does happen, or did happen.\u00a0 He might think it\u2019s all a lie when people deny it.\u00a0 So the caller\u2019s point is that people are believing a bunch of myths.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re getting angry about it as though it were true, and they\u2019re taking action based on it.\u00a0 This is inciting social media and all of it\u2019s based on things that aren\u2019t true, which is dangerous.\u00a0 All of that is true.\u00a0 But there are people promoting this who know it isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 People you never hear of behind the scenes — people like George Soros and others funding it — they know it isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care.\u00a0 They want the chaos.\u00a0 They want the anger and what have you.<\/p>\n

Back in just a second.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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