RUSH: Whoa is right. (laughing) There\u2019s no other way to interpret this. Now, there are people trying to put a smile on this by saying, “No, no, no, you\u2019re misunderstanding what Tillerson was saying. Tillerson was saying the president speaks for himself on these issues, not that he speaks differently.” Look, here\u2019s what\u2019s happened in a nutshell.<\/p>\n
Trump does his three different statements on Charlottesville. The first statement, you know, the media had a cow, they did not particularly like it. So Trump went on and in the second statement specifically condemned neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists because that\u2019s what everybody in the media and his administration was demanding that he do. Because he had screwed up in the first one by not signaling them out as the lone bad guys.<\/p>\n
Trump never thought they were the lone bad guys. Trump knows that the leftist protesters are the agitators and the bad guys and there are just as many creeps in that group, if not more, as there are over here in these extreme so-called — I think all these groups are leftists, but that\u2019s another discussion. I don\u2019t believe that the KKK and the Nazis — the KKK was a bunch of Democrats when they were founded. They\u2019re not a bunch of right-wingers and neither are the neo-Nazis or these white supremacists.<\/p>\n
These people are people that want the federal government to be big as hell to take care of the their enemies for \u2019em. That\u2019s exactly what leftism and liberalism is. But these people get tagged over here on the right by the media and by the Democrats. And Trump in his second press conference officially condemned and called out by name the KKK, the white supremacists, and of course the Klan, the neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n
Then the media said, “Not good enough! Not good enough! You don\u2019t really mean it, because you only did it because we egged you on. You didn\u2019t do it from your heart. You don\u2019t mean it.” That ticked Trump off even more. So the next day he goes out, and he just unloads on what he really thinks, that there are bad actors on both sides and that there are good people on both sides. And that just sent everybody into an absolute tizzy, apparently including Gary Cohn and Tillerson.<\/p>\n
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Now, Gary Cohn, the economic guy, actually said that it is a mistake to equate citizens standing up for equality and fairness with these neo-Nazis and right-wingers. I looked at that and I about came out of my gourd because that\u2019s not who these people are. And if people in our administration do not have a proper understanding of who these leftists are, then where are we?<\/p>\n
Trump does. He knows exactly who they are, but he\u2019s now got two people in his administration undercutting him. Now, I need to find something out. I raised a question yesterday, and I\u2019m gonna ask it again in relation to these two guys. When I raised this question, I\u2019ve already seen people have responded to it elsewhere in the media. You know the CEOs of Apple and JPMorgan Chase both announced massive million-dollar donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center sometime during the last week.<\/p>\n
Now, the Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps one of the biggest hate groups on the left. They tar and feather and slander right-wing groups and call them hate groups. They\u2019ve got a map on their website, and whenever a right-wing group that says or does anything that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a bunch of leftist freaks, all you have to do is disagree with them and you are called a hater.<\/p>\n
For example, if they support gay marriage and LGBT and all these other things and you happen to disagree with it, you are the hater, you hate. You are a hate-filled person that is the bordering on the use of violence. And that\u2019s how they characterize these groups, and it led to a deranged leftist walking into the office of the Family Research Council and actually shooting at somebody. It\u2019s what contributes to this deranged guy shooting up Republicans at a baseball practice in Virginia.<\/p>\n
The Southern Poverty Law Center and other left-wing groups actually inspire their dope members to violence while claiming that the right-wing groups that they\u2019re identifying — and they point \u2019em out on a map. They identify where these groups\u2019 headquarters are on a map, and their deranged supporters end up there protesting so forth.<\/p>\n
Basically all you have to do is be a prominent conservative or run a prominent conservative 501(c)(3) fundraising organization, if your conservative group raises money, then the Southern Poverty Law Center is out to destroy you. So I asked the question, do these CEOs not know this? And it was a legitimate question because if all they do, if their total source of information happens to be CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and maybe the Washington Post, it is entirely possibly they don\u2019t know the truth about the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n Just like they don\u2019t know the truth about me, just like they don\u2019t know the truth about conservatism. Because they never expose themselves to it. Because they\u2019ve already been convinced it\u2019s just a bunch of kooks and fringe, and it\u2019s abnormal, and they are normal, and so they don\u2019t need to pay any attention.<\/p>\n But these CEOs are in the business of selling products to everybody. And so when they go public with their million-dollar donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and then say that they will match their employees\u2019 donations up to a certain amount to this group, you think every employee at Apple or JPMorgan happens to agree with the CEOs? The number of people we\u2019re talking about it simply can\u2019t be. There cannot be universal agreement. I guarantee you the people that don\u2019t agree with the CEOs at these companies probably have to stay pretty much hidden, have to keep their thoughts pretty much to themselves, if they know what\u2019s good for them.<\/p>\n By the same token, does Gary Cohn, who is the top ranking economic adviser the Trump White House, does he really not know what Antifa is? Does he really not know that they are a group that is devoted to violence, that they are a hate group. That they are not devoted to equality and liberty and fairness. They are devoted to exactly the opposite, does he not know it? It\u2019s a legitimate question. I think it\u2019s entirely possible that a left-wing Democrat would not know what the Southern Poverty Law Center is.<\/p>\n You know what they say about us? They say that we do nothing about confirm our biases. That\u2019s why we watch Fox News. We\u2019re not interested in the other — BS. We watch all of their crap! We read every bit of idiocy they say. They do not consult us. Their biases and their prejudices prevent them. I know liberalism better than they do. I know what they\u2019re thinking before they\u2019re thinking. I know what they\u2019re gonna do before they do it because I have taken the time to study them and understand them, what makes them tick, why they think the way they are. They\u2019re the ones closed-minded. They\u2019re the ones who are ignorant. They\u2019re the ones who are not curious. They\u2019re the ones who live in this dream world where we are Satan incarnate.<\/p>\n My question is, is that what we\u2019ve got in the White House? Do we have an economic adviser who really doesn\u2019t know that Antifa is not devoted to equality and fairness and is that why he decides to diss the president and go out and suggest the president is siding with people — let me know put it a better way. He went out and basically implied the president is opposed to citizens standing up for equality and fairness.<\/p>\n And then Tillerson (paraphrasing), “Well, you know, we in the administration here at the State Department, the U.S. government, we advance those values, we defend those values, commitment those values.”<\/p>\n “What about the president?”<\/p>\n “Well, you know, the president speaks for himself, Chris.”<\/p>\n Oh, really? Cannot include the president here. Gary Cohn is Trump\u2019s National Economic Council director. He said what he said in an interview with The Financial Times, and he was openly critical of Trump\u2019s comments about the violence in Charlottesville. He said citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacist, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. But Trump didn\u2019t. Trump did not equate the two sets of people. He said that more than one side was responsible for the blame for the violence. Which is true!<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t fall for the usual tack of blaming only one side, which is what the media demanded and apparently what Gary Cohn did. Gary Cohn (paraphrasing), “Yeah, the right-wingers, they\u2019re the problem, supremacists, the neo-Nazis, the KKK.” And there\u2019s no equivocation between them and citizens standing up for equality and freedom. Don\u2019t forget, we had this New York Times reporter who was out there at Charlottesville when this happened who was witnessing the violence on the left and wrote about it and then had her tweets canceled or deleted by the New York Times because it was so against protocol.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DemPlaybookhRACISM.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, my question yesterday was, do the CEOs of Apple and JPMorgan not know this<\/a>? And it was a legitimate question, because in the mainstream media, the Southern Poverty Law Center is treated as the Vatican. The Southern Poverty Law Center is treated as one of the most worthwhile, fair, enduring organizations devoted to equality and fairness, and that\u2019s the last thing they\u2019re devoted to. These are the people that want to shut you up if you say something they disagree with. You don\u2019t even have to be saying it about them.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/650-082917-Rex-Tillerson-Gary-Cohn.jpg\")
The other side of it is that they do know, they know exactly what it is and they support it anyway and they know exactly what Antifa is, and they support it anyway, while lying about who they are. Which is easier to believe here? I must tell you, folks, before you start cackling at me, one of the many things that I have learned over the course of my career is how genuinely ignorant and in some cases stupid people in our media are. And when I say ignorant, I really mean they are closed off. They do not expose themselves to anything other than what they already believe.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>What was her name? Mental block. It\u2019ll come. Prominent reporter at the Times who was there and tweeting when it happened. So my question, does Cohn really not know? Do the CEOs of Apple and JPMorgan really not know about the Southern Poverty Law Center. Or do they know and simply hate right-wingers so much that they will support the Southern Poverty Law Center because they\u2019re nothing more than dyed-in-the-wool leftist activists themselves? What do you think?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/310-Gary-Cohn-1-300x300.jpg\")
We don\u2019t need somebody in this administration — put him in the Obama administration, but not this one. We don\u2019t need somebody who doesn\u2019t see the threat of leftist violence, somebody who looks at a bunch of leftists and automatically concludes that they are devoted to equality and fairness. You know, if this guy doesn\u2019t see who these people are, I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n