{"id":214471,"date":"2016-09-22T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/22\/obama_and_hillary_want_these_riots\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:27:53","slug":"obama_and_hillary_want_these_riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/22\/obama_and_hillary_want_these_riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Hillary Want These Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So I got an email last night, “You better turn on the TV.  You won\u2019t believe what you see in Charlotte.”  So I turned on the TV, and my first thought, I looked and I thought it was an outtake from a Beyonce video. And then I figured out it was more rioting that was going on.  Ah, it\u2019s just amazing. <\/p>\n

The thing that amazes me about this is that it\u2019s predictable.  Like I said yesterday, these are not protests<\/a>.  These are riots.  Riots have now become the new norm!  We now expect them.  With expectation comes tolerance, and I don\u2019t know how far down the road we are on that.  But, folks, none of this — well, a lot of this doesn\u2019t make any sense if you don\u2019t have a foundational understanding of what\u2019s driving these things.  Some of this isn\u2019t gonna make sense.  We\u2019ll get to it all in due course. <\/p>\n

I want to make some observations here right off the bat.  Trump is in Pittsburgh, just finished making a speech. In fact, may still be making it, networks have bumped out of it.  But he was talking about a theme, he was speaking about a theme that he has been on a lot lately: We need to fix our wounded country.  That is very succinct; it\u2019s very true.  And it\u2019s even possibly a unifying message. <\/line><\/p>\n

Trump has been talking a lot about unifying lately.  Same time he talks about the need for law and order.  And I hope that he means that we have to unify on the need for law and order.  And of course unify means we all need to come together, but I don\u2019t know where the commonality is here.  This has always been my beef with people who say that we need to come together and work together.  Okay, well, what do I have in common with some of these people on the left?  Where does our different worldviews overlap?  Where is the commonality? <\/p>\n

You look at what\u2019s going on in Charlotte here.  A black police chief. You have a black cop. You have a largely African-American city council. They\u2019re all being hung out to dry by the civil rights community.  Well, now I should say the rioters, the protesters, the Black Lives Matter.  They\u2019re running around talking about how white people are the devil.  White people are not involved in this one.  This particular police shooting didn\u2019t involve white people. <\/p>\n

You see, it doesn\u2019t matter.  But it should because when this stuff first started, what they wanted us to believe, white cops were, in essence, murdering innocent young black men, like in Ferguson, don\u2019t you know, which of course now we know was a total lie. Everything about that was a narrative that wasn\u2019t true.  They even went so far as to have to call the guy down in Florida, what was his name, the “white Hispanic.”  George Zimmerman.  Yeah, in order to make it racial they took this Hispanic guy and called him a “white Hispanic.” <\/p>\n

So the narrative they have built is, this is a white power problem.  White power as exemplified in the police departments.  White power as exemplified, illustrated in city governments.  But we\u2019re talking about the South now where many of these states and large cities are run by African-American governors and mayors.  And in this instance, that has turned Charlotte into a — well, whatever you want to call it.  We now have no racial component at all.  So what is driving this? <\/p>\n

<\/a>Well, there you get to the real answer of what this is really all about, and you see that race is the pretext, but even when race isn\u2019t a factor, it doesn\u2019t stop any of this, does it?  So everybody pushing for racial harmony, well, there wasn\u2019t any racial disharmony here.  Not in this specific incident.  I\u2019m not denying that there is legitimate racial disharmony elsewhere, but in this specific incident, there wasn\u2019t.  So the ingredients necessary for Black Lives Matter to exist are not present here.  The ingredients for the angry civil rights coalitions to be fit to be tied and want to riot, they\u2019re not present here. <\/p>\n

These clowns even went in and they looted or raided the NASCAR Hall of Fame.  You know, according to Hillary, the people that go in there are the deplorables.  This is why I think this kind of thing is gonna end up backfiring on Hillary and the Democrats \u2019cause when you get right down to it, folks, we\u2019re in the second term of the first African-American presidency in the country. We\u2019re in the last year, so we\u2019re in eight years of the first presidency of an African-American.  And they are madder than I can remember them being since Watts in the 1960s.  How?  Why? <\/p>\n

Where\u2019s all the hope and change?  At some point do these people rioting not have to start asking their questions of different people?  Because, you see, folks, when you get right down to it, I can understand some of the rage these people feel.  I damn well can.  I can understand I can understand why a lot of these people are mad, but I think their anger is misdirected particularly as illustrated by this incident. <\/p>\n

If I were African-American in this country and if I lived in an inner-city neighborhood like a lot of these people, I would be fit to be tied, too, because I would have been voting Democrat all these years on the premise that those people are gonna help me outta here. That these people are gonna get even with the people that put me here. That these people, the Democrats, are gonna get even with the people that won\u2019t let me outta here.  And after eight years of the most power African-Americans have had in this country ever, it\u2019s worse, it\u2019s caused more anger, and it\u2019s understandable. <\/p>\n

You have to admit, folks, the anger in many cases is legitimate.  You\u2019ve been voting for the same people for 50 years and you are regressing?  You\u2019ve been voting for the same people for 50 years and you have the same complaints amplified and multiplied?  I\u2019d be mad too.  They\u2019re not mad for the reasons I would be mad.  They\u2019re mad for made-up reasons.  But it doesn\u2019t take away the fact that they\u2019re mad.  And it doesn\u2019t take away from the fact that in many cases the anger is legitimate.  What\u2019s Hillary Clinton done for anyone?  What has Barack Obama done? <\/p>\n

Did Obama even ask for calm yesterday?  If he did, I missed it.  Most presidents, in an event like this where day two or night two is thought to be potentially even worse, you try to do what you can to tamp it down.  I don\u2019t think Obama has done that at all.  It\u2019s just like we\u2019ve asked about Ferguson and elsewhere, we have to ask, “Where is Obama? Why hasn\u2019t Obama spoken out and actually told the facts about what actually happened in Charlotte?” <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, the president could have shut down Ferguson if he would have just come out and said, “Look, ‘hands up, don\u2019t shoot\u2019 didn\u2019t happen.”  Folks, I know he wasn\u2019t gonna do it.  I\u2019m making a point here.  I\u2019m not longing for what could have been.  I\u2019m trying to illustrate a point to everybody here.  Obama isn\u2019t interested, apparently doesn\u2019t show any, in stopping any of this stuff.  He doesn\u2019t show an interest in correcting massive misunderstandings which are easily disproved by existing facts. <\/p>\n

All Obama had to come out and do — there wasn\u2019t a white cop involved here.  Black Lives Matter, what\u2019s going on?  Who you mad at? You mad at cops? You mad at white cops? You mad at white people?  The brother of the victim in Charlotte claims all white people are devils.  There wasn\u2019t a white person involved here. <\/p>\n

The Nation of Islam guy came out yesterday and said everybody needs to start boycotting white businesses.  Well, fine, but they don\u2019t have anything to do with this.  There\u2019s not a white person involved in this incident.  Is turning out the black vote so important to Obama and Hillary and the Democrats that they are willing to sacrifice another city to do it? <\/p>\n

And therein, ladies and gentlemen, lies the answer.  Hillary Clinton\u2019s having trouble mobilizing the African-American voting constituency that has showed up for Obama.  The Democrats, particularly Hillary, can\u2019t win…  Is it…? How about Obama going out there and imploring black people to vote for Hillary for him? (impression) “You know what?  You gotta save my legacy.  My legacy\u2019s in deep trouble \u2019cause nobody likes it.  Well, you know what? <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m really worried that my presidency isn\u2019t gonna amount to anything in the history books if you don\u2019t vote for Hillary.  You gotta do it for me.” (scoffs) Really?  What has he done for any of these people whose anger is legitimate?  You see the black unemployment rate, the black teenage unemployment rate?  I mean, it\u2019s nothing to brag about here.  These are serious questions.  So another city on the ropes, another city\u2019s police department being gazed at from afar by the Department of Justice so they can go in and take over another one. <\/p>\n