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RUSH: This cop that has been criticized by Obama is a police academy expert on racial profiling. Now, Obama\u2019s pulled back from the racial profiling. What we got from Obama at his presser on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction. We got the reaction of a community agitator. We got the reaction of a community organizer. We got the reaction of an ACORN leader, and everybody asking, ‘Is the president going to apologize?\u2019 ACORN members don\u2019t apologize for what they do. ACORN doesn\u2019t apologize, and the president was ACORN answering this question. He was not presidential. Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley has taught a class on racial profiling for five years at the Lowell Police Academy. Academy director Thomas Fleming says that sergeant James Crowley is a good role model who was handpicked for the job by former police Commissioner Ronny Watson, who is black, to run the profiling training program. <\/p>\n

In the class, Crowley teaches officers not to single people out based on their ethnic backgrounds. Obama has said the Cambridge officers acted stupidly. He has backed that up even though Gibbs said he didn\u2019t say it. A lot more has been learned about this, and one of the things to learn here is about that which happens right before your eyes rather than that which is spun by sharp political operatives and cooperating journalists. Take Obama\u2019s reaction to the Gates incident, his instinctive reaction. One event, three learning experiences. <\/p>\n

Lesson one. Obama\u2019s instincts are those of a community organizer, not a president. Don\u2019t bother me with the facts; I have to play to the crowd here. <\/p>\n

Lesson two: Obama can sound as if he knows what he\u2019s talking about even when by his own admission he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. It\u2019s not what he says; it\u2019s how he says it. <\/p>\n

Lesson three: When Obama is faced with a political setback, even one of his own makings, he plays the race card. This is something I have figured out watching ever since the campaign began. Anybody who wonders what Obama accomplished with that statement had better realize it reduced the focus on his failure before the August recess demand. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know that he was purposely trying to do that. I think he\u2019s genuinely revved up about race. You know me. I think he is genuinely angry in his heart and has been his whole life. And if any of you have learned that Obama cannot, will not ever acknowledge his mistakes, shame on you. In his world, he doesn\u2019t make mistakes. Cap and trade is not a mistake; stimulus wasn\u2019t a mistake. The health care is not a mistake. And I want to take you back. No, Bill Clinton said Obama played the race card on him during the campaign in South Carolina, and Bill Clinton was right. Bill Clinton said, (imitating Clinton) ‘Yeah, he played the race card on me. Here I am, the first black president, and that guy, son of a gun\u2019s out there and he played the race card on me.\u2019 They don\u2019t like it. You know, Boxer doesn\u2019t like it when blacks get uppity and don\u2019t follow along, and Clinton didn\u2019t like it when he had the race card played against him. This is Obama\u2019s secret weapon. I want to take you back to this program and me February 22, 2008. This is months before the election.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: ‘If Obama gets elected president, wouldn\u2019t it be good to just get it done, Rush, then we could end the civil rights squabbles that we\u2019re having.\u2019 It wouldn\u2019t do that. Folks, it wouldn\u2019t do that. It might even exacerbate them. Let me explain how. It takes somebody like me who can read the stitches on the fastball. Let us fast forward to January of 2009. Obama has been inaugurated president and he proposes his first bit of legislation. And let\u2019s say that it\u2019s — I don\u2019t know — some civil rights oriented thing and a bunch people start howling. You know that the race industry can\u2019t wait for this. Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton. It will make their race business all that much more prominent. It will operate on the premise that half of this country is seething, can\u2019t believe this has happened and they\u2019re going to fix this somehow, cannot believe there\u2019s a black man in the White House and a black woman in the residence! That will be the theme that the race business operates on. It will be full of presumptuousness and projection, but it will propel —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I was wrong about the incident. I was wrong about the incident, but I was right that the race problem is not going to go away simply because we\u2019ve elected the first black president. It\u2019s been exacerbated. Obama still smokes cigarettes and he\u2019s just thrown a lighted cigarette on a can of gasoline. And he did that at his press conference the other night and he\u2019s got this thing now — here\u2019s the important political significance of the event. And at this point I will talk about the precious moderates who vote and the precious independents who vote. Trust me when I tell you that all during the campaign these precious moderates and independents believed that we were genuinely getting over the racial hump. Post-racial, so many, so many guilty people voted for Obama just to get that legacy of sin due to slavery out of our system to be done with it. They thought the election of a black president would accomplish this. <\/p>\n

All of a sudden this guy that they elected who they thought was all of these wonderful, perfect things, is now behaving as a community organizer and is fanning the flames of race and is calling the police stupid, and I guarantee you those people — we\u2019ve all been waiting and asking the question, ‘When are these Obama voters going to wake up?\u2019 Well, this incident might be — I don\u2019t know yet, a little early to say — this incident might be the wake-up call for some of these moderates \u2019cause folks, don\u2019t doubt me. You know that there were a lot of people that voted for Obama out of pure guilt, hoping that his election would just wipe the slate clean, at least make them feel better about it. And this just destroys that. Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman when he doesn\u2019t know the facts of the case, admits he doesn\u2019t know the facts of the case. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a big police coalition press conference going on right now, and the police union, fed up, police officers, Fraternal Order of Police all over the country, they recognize the damage and the danger this puts them in when the president of the United States runs around and calls them stupid for just doing their jobs. It\u2019s bad enough for the cops in this country as it is. This just exacerbates it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ann Althouse has a very interesting blog post on this whole situation with Sergeant Crowley and Henry Louis Gates. She says the article — talking about the New York Times article about all this — she said, ‘The article starts out with genuinely sympathetic stories about another black man who was arrested twice, then ties it to the Gates story. ‘[B]lacks and others said that what happened to Professor Gates was a common, if unacknowledged, reality for many people of color.\u2019 … But that\u2019s not my question about this article. I have a question about this: ‘The police and Professor Gates offered differing accounts of what happened after officers arrived. The police said Professor Gates initially refused to show identification and repeatedly shouted at officers. <\/p>\n

‘Professor Gates said that he had shown photo identification to Sergeant Crowley but that the sergeant had not appeared to believe that he lived there.\u2019 There\u2019s a crucial, missing fact that the journalists, Susan Saulny and Robbie Brown, don\u2019t seem to have any interest in.\u2019 What Ann Althouse writes she\u2019d like to know is this: ‘is whether Gates\u2019 photo ID had the address of the house on it. Was it his University ID? My UW ID doesn\u2019t have my home address on it. I have read elsewhere, not in this article, that Gates rented the house. Perhaps he had a driver\u2019s license with a different address of his on it. If the ID did not show the address of the house that had been broken into, then Crowley\u2019s continuing investigation into whether Gates really lived there was perfectly reasonable. (Or do you — did Gates? — think that affiliation with Harvard University should end the matter?) <\/p>\n

‘Moreover, Gates\u2019s belligerence and presentation of himself as a person too important to be questioned should have heightened Crowley\u2019s suspicion that Gates didn\u2019t live there.\u2019 This next point, this is key. I try to put myself in the situation here. If I get caught, quote, unquote, ‘breaking into my own house\u2019 because somebody down the street\u2019s called it in and a cop shows up, and it\u2019s my house, I\u2019m going to do everything I can right there to prove it! I am not… You know, I know everybody has a different temperament and personality. But I remember being with my father when I\u2019m ten years old and my brother and parents were all in the car. We were driving back home from someplace in Arkansas and it was at night and we got pulled over by state trooper. <\/p>\n

And I remember the way my dad dealt with the guy. He just sirred the trooper out: ‘Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.\u2019 He didn\u2019t argue, was not belligerent. He was totally cooperative. And whenever I\u2019ve had any encounters like that, and there have been few, but, you know, I just don\u2019t start yelling at people. It just doesn\u2019t occur to me. It\u2019s not in my makeup, especially if everything\u2019s okay. I\u2019m going to do what I can to prove everything\u2019s okay and end the situation. Let the cops get on their way and let me get back in my house or whatever. This business of Gates continuing to yell as though he had some special privilege because maybe he\u2019s a teacher at Harvard or whatever? This whole thing is just… Especially when you learn that the cop is trained in racial profiling. None of this makes a whole lot of sense.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I know that the way I look at something like this and the reason something like this might not make sense to me, is not a universal mind-set in the country. I know that there are people in this country who think that just because of their skin color that the cops are out to get \u2019em. I\u2019m not denying that. I\u2019m just talking about the way it\u2019s dealt with. This kind of belligerence — and Ann Althouse makes a great point. Did this guy actually prove that he lived there? Journalists haven\u2019t figured it out, and I\u2019m also told that when all the brouhaha began the cop keyed his microphone and they have recordings of the incident. The cop turned on his microphone so everybody could hear what was going on, and they\u2019re debating whether or not to release this. There\u2019s no information about the words that were said. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just talking about the mind-set. If somebody comes into your house thinking you\u2019ve broken into it, you find ways to prove it and thank them for coming and get on the way. Now, I understand. Does Mr. Gates have a personal life history of the cops harassing him? Does he have an arrest record? Has he been falsely accused of things before? I don\u2019t know. Is his life experience something that would explain his belligerence? Has he been falsely accused a number of times and he just broke and wigged out? I don\u2019t know. All I know is that the way this kind of thing has been dealt with, the way Gates dealt with this is typical in many ways. And the aftermath is typical now. <\/p>\n

Call the cop a racist, call police racists, call the cops stupid, threaten to sue the cop — and cop\u2019s now threatening to countersue for defamation and so forth. All the talk on TV now about race. I guarantee you — I guarantee you, folks — that the moderates and independents that voted for Obama thought this was all over. That that\u2019s what his election would mean. And he\u2019s the guy that started this. You realize this would not be nearly the story it is had he not taken that question, had he not answered it the way he did? This is his story, and he wants it. He could end this story. But ACORN doesn\u2019t apologize. Community agitators don\u2019t apologize. I told you yesterday, this incident is lighting a flame. It\u2019s not really throwing it on the gasoline yet, but the flame\u2019s been lit, and it\u2019s a dangerous situation, and it\u2019s most unfortunate. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: we\u2019ve got some sound bites on this before we get to your phone calls. This is Obama last night on Nightline with Terry Moran. Moran says, ‘You were tough on the Cambridge Police Department. Do you regret saying that they ‘acted stupidly\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped-up): I\u2019m surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement, because I think it was, uh, uh a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don\u2019t need to handcuff a guy — a middle-aged man who uses a cane — who is in his own home. Now, what I do know is, as I said last night: I don\u2019t know all the details to the case. My suspicion is — is that words were exchanged between the police officer and Mr. Gates and that everybody should have just settled down and cooler heads should have prevailed. That\u2019s my suspicion. But I was asked, you know, did it make sense for it to escalate to the levels that it did (sic), and I said probably not and that uhhh, you know, it would have been more sensible for everybody to just, once it was established that Mr. Gates was in his own home, that, uhhh, we should just settle this thing down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Was he asked…? He wasn\u2019t asked if it ‘made sense for it to escalate.\u2019 Lynn Sweet didn\u2019t ask him that. You know, there\u2019s a character in recent news history that we could compare President Obama to. Does the name Nifong ring a bell? Mike Nifong. The prosecutor in the Duke rape case. This is the same kind of situation: Prejudging, without the facts, based on stereotypes, based on race, based on bias. The president of the United States may as well be Mike Nifong, folks. That\u2019s the best way to understand the way this whole thing is shaping out. Moran says, ‘You think the Cambridge police ‘acted stupidly\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA (sped-up): Terry, I think this is a classic example at a time when we\u2019re struggling about health care, energy, we\u2019ve got two wars going on, uh, that, um, issues like this get elevated in ways that probably don\u2019t make much sense. I — I think that it doesn\u2019t make sense, with all the problems that we have out there, uh, to arrest a guy in his own home if he\u2019s not causing a serious disturbance. It would have been better for cooler heads to prevail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, you know what? All of a sudden now all those things matter? You know, he did a big fundraiser in Chicago last night with a bunch of athletes and at the fundraiser — there were about 150 people there — he started whining and moaning about people who oppose his health care plans he\u2019s having a lot of trouble dealing with people lying about his plan and he doesn\u2019t even know what it is and doesn\u2019t care about it. By the way, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox whose name I don\u2019t know how to pronounce, Mark Buehrle, threw a perfect game. Obama called the guy after the game. Obama said, ‘You know what, I think some of the credit…\u2019 Remember, nothing\u2019s about him. (interruption) <\/p>\n

It\u2019s ‘burr-lee,\u2019 okay. Buehrle pitches the perfect game for the White Sox, one of the rarest things to happen in professional sports. Obama calls the guy and says, essentially, ‘You know what? I think the fact I wore a White Sox jacket throwing the first pitch out at the All-Star Game may be a factor here in your throwing a perfect game.\u2019 He actually said something like that to the guy! It\u2019s not about him. He did. He took credit, partial credit for the perfect game because he wore a White Sox jacket throwing out the first pitch — the girlie pitch, ceremonial first pitch — at the All-Star Game. Here\u2019s Sergeant Crowley on Channel 7 in Boston telling his side of the story.<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: I asked him if he could step outside and speak with me and he said, ‘No, I will not,\u2019 and again words to the effect, ‘What\u2019s this all about?\u2019 And I said, ‘I\u2019m Sergeant Crowley from the Cambridge Police Department, and I\u2019m investigating a break-in in progress.\u2019 And he responded, ‘Why, because I\u2019m a black man in America?\u2019 in very agitated tone and, again, I thought that was a little strange. My reason for asking that is twofold. First of all, there was a report that there was two individuals. I see one and it could be him, so where\u2019s the second person? Or there\u2019s two people in the residence that he doesn\u2019t know are there. Either way, I wasn\u2019t expecting his response, which was, ‘That\u2019s none of your business.\u2019 To me that\u2019s a strange response for somebody that has nothing to hide, is trying to cooperate with the police.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Crowley continued. He explained the details of the arrest.<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: I was leaving. As I reached the porch, I was aware that now he was following me because he was still yelling about racism and black men in America and that he wasn\u2019t somebody to be messing with. He was the one that was being provocative. This wasn\u2019t a back-and-forth exchange of banter or arguing. This was one-sided. That\u2019s how far Professor Gates pushed it and provoked and just wouldn\u2019t stop. I was a little surprised and disappointed that the president — who didn\u2019t have all the facts by his own admission — then weighed in on the events of that night and made a comment that, you know, really offended not just officers in the Cambridge Police Department but officers around the country. I\u2019m not a monster or the bigot or racist that he has portrayed me to be. This is me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. But not only that. Not only that, folks. What happened here, you know, Obama\u2019s sitting there saying, it ‘should not have escalated to the level that it did.\u2019 Well, what happened here? Gates didn\u2019t get shot. He didn\u2019t get hit. He didn\u2019t get kicked. Gates didn\u2019t have hate speech hurled at him. Escalate to what? Who did the escalating? Gates did the escalating! Obama said, ‘That shouldn\u2019t have happened. The police acted stupidly.\u2019 But nothing happened to Gates. He got arrested. But he wasn\u2019t treated in an abusive fashion. The cop was. He didn\u2019t get kicked. He didn\u2019t get hit. He didn\u2019t get shot. He didn\u2019t have any physical harm happen to him whatsoever — and he was not cooperative it sounds like when you listen to all this. One more Crowley bite before we go to the break, and this is… Well, let\u2019s see. Da-da-da. I guess this is yesterday on the radio.<\/p>\n

CROWLEY: What I did was right. I have nothing to apologize for. That somebody of his level of intelligence could stoop to such a level and berate me, accuse me being a racist or racial profiling and then speaking about my mother, it\u2019s just… It\u2019s beyond words. I treat everybody the same. I think, you know, that\u2019s what I try to do. That\u2019s what I have a track record of doing for the past 16-1\/2 years as a police officer. Again, I think it\u2019s just regrettable that the situation has gotten to this point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. It\u2019s been elevated by two people: Gates and Barack Nifong. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I left something out of the pattern that I have learned watching and studying Obama. We will know when the heat gets too much to take, we will know when their internal polling on this is disastrous, because at that point he will throw Henry Louis Gates overboard, just as he threw his grandmother overboard, just as he threw Reverend Wright overboard, just as he did a Judas on Bill Ayers. ‘I don\u2019t know the guy. He lives in the neighborhood.\u2019 Whenever the heat gets so hot, he\u2019ll throw these clowns overboard. He\u2019ll call Gates, ‘Look, I gotta throw you overboard, buddy, you know, I\u2019ll make it up to you somehow, but I gotta throw you overboard.\u2019 And Gates will go out and say, ‘I understand the president has to be a politician.\u2019 Just like Reverend Wright said, ‘Well, look, he had to throw me overboard, he\u2019s a politician, he can\u2019t be who he really is.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly right, except he is being who he is, except you just need somebody to translate it for you. So look for sometime next week Henry Louis Gates, distinguished professor, African-American studies at Harvard, to be thrown overboard by the White House, by Obama. <\/p>\n

All right, to the phones. Tom in Waynesboro, Virginia. Great to have you with us. You\u2019re up first on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Rush, when Obama spoke to the CIA a while ago, he pretty much told them explicitly that their job was going to become harder. Now, what he did last night, or what he did a few nights ago with the police officers in Cambridge was he made their job much harder. So why is he continuing to make our intelligence and law enforcement jobs harder?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why do I think?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s Open Line Friday. I\u2019m tired of being the answer man. You tell me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, here we go. Basically I think that you have foundations in society that in order to upend it or overturn it, they have to be chopped out. And that\u2019s what I see happening. I see this is an opportunity for him to chop out the foundations and to create more wedges between people and groups, because, you know, Rush, he didn\u2019t just mention blacks. He mentioned blacks and Latinos in that press conference.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Blacks and Latinos.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Latinos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Latinos. Latinas.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Lets get our pronunciation right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Latinos and Latinas. I think you\u2019re on to something. I think liberals in general have to destroy the institutions and traditions that made the country great and rebuild them. He resents what he\u2019s inherited. This is my whole point to Greta Van Susteren last night. He doesn\u2019t have admiration for this country. Put it on the table again. Do you ever hear him talk about the greatness of anything in this country? I guarantee you if you can think of him talking about the greatness of anything, it\u2019s something government\u2019s done. He doesn\u2019t talk about the greatness of our health care. He doesn\u2019t talk about the greatness of our military. He\u2019s apologizing for us all over the world. He doesn\u2019t talk about the greatness of anything. He doesn\u2019t talk about American exceptionalism at all. I think chaos is his friend. Chaos and uncertainty are exactly what a guy like Obama wants, getting the masses demanding more and more government action to stop the chaos, whatever it takes. So I think old Tom here from Waynesboro, Virginia, you gotta put yourself in his shoes. Here he is calling the world\u2019s foremost authority — me — he\u2019s got this theory, he wants to know what I think and what did I do? I turned it back on him, ‘You tell me what you think, I\u2019m tired of being the answer man.\u2019 And he stepped up. He was there. He had the answer. I love it. Way to go, Tom. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Haya in Brooklyn. Hi, Haya, nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, and I will say that ‘greatness\u2019 is an adjective that belongs to you and ‘chaos\u2019 to Obama, and I grew up in Boston, one of fourth generation going to Harvard, and I watched the decline of a great university whose symbol was truth and integrity, bring in people like Arthur Schlesinger and I took his course in modern American history in the 1950s, but he was extolling these socialist communes in the Berkshires, and degrading everything that was great about America. And this is why you now have a type of professor at Harvard who are socialist elites who consider themselves above the law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. You know, I\u2019m glad you said that. Because that\u2019s essentially the point she made without using those words, Ann Althouse, on her blog. This is somebody that acts like he\u2019s above the law: I\u2019m at Harvard, I\u2019m at Harvard, I\u2019m a black guy at Harvard, I\u2019m a black professor, who the hell are you to challenge me? It\u2019s all understandable. I appreciate the call, Haya. Thanks much. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Texarkana, Texas, Natalie, you\u2019re on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I hear fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m calling on a cell phone so I know you hate that. I just want to talk about the Gates-Crowley situation. Every officer that responds to a situation has no idea if they\u2019re running into somebody with a weapon. They\u2019re putting their lives on the line. I don\u2019t know if the officer was married with children but he\u2019s got a mother, possible sister. He\u2019s got somebody depending on him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s got three kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and our president has the audacity to stand up there and say that this man ‘acted stupidly,\u2019 simply because he was responding to a call. And I\u2019m just embarrassed about that. I\u2019m embarrassed for the rest of the world to see that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to know at the root level what I think this is really all about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll be happy to tell you, then. The cop shows up at the home of the ‘distinguished, highly respected, big, frequent guest of Oprah,\u2019 Henry Louis Gates.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the cop didn\u2019t know who he was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Henry Louis Gates is thinking: How dare you not know who I am! I am the distinguished Henry Louis Gates Jr. I teach at Harvard! I am loved by Oprah. I\u2019m a personal friend of the president, and you don\u2019t know who I am?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is what he\u2019s thinking. ‘And this dumb cop doesn\u2019t know who I am? How dare you?\u2019 He didn\u2019t say this, I don\u2019t think. Maybe he did. ‘Do you know who you\u2019re dealing with?\u2019 I think the root of it is that this guy\u2019s got this out-of-control ego and thought the cop, upon seeing him, should have said, ‘Oh, sorry, Mr. Gates. We\u2019re just trying to police the neighborhood,\u2019 and then the cop didn\u2019t know who he was. To these elites who think they\u2019re smarter than everybody else — they\u2019re liberals at Harvard types — that\u2019s a supreme insult. And then you throw the race aspect of it on top of that that Gates introduced. I mean, the cop didn\u2019t escalate this to anything. Gates single-handedly escalated it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Obama helped a lot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: True. You\u2019re right. You\u2019re right. All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If any local person — red, white, blue, or yellow — thinks that the officer thought he was responding to a white victim and that\u2019s the only reason he went in there gung-ho, then, you know… I mean, I don\u2019t know. They\u2019re delusional. He was responding to a crime victim. The man happened to be black. Someone also could have broken into his home and he didn\u2019t know they were there like he said earlier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the guy should be thanking him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not — not — I mean, I\u2019m just embarrassed at our president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but see, that\u2019s not the attitude of the elites. The elites don\u2019t thank their lessors! Elites don\u2019t respond to their lessors. See, this is 180 degrees out of phase. That cop shoulda gotten down on both knees and apologized, once he saw the distinguished and respected Henry Louis Gates — and that didn\u2019t happen. And of course then, ‘Well, it\u2019s \u2019cause the cops are racist,\u2019 and Obama said the cop\u2019s stupid and this is how black men are treated, and so forth. I don\u2019t know, but, as I say Henry Louis Gates wasn\u2019t shot. He wasn\u2019t kicked. He wasn\u2019t hit. Nothing happened. He was arrested. <\/p>\n

The charges were dropped, but he was not in any way harmed. Now he\u2019s running around complaining that he\u2019s got a mug shot and the mug shot is going to be all over. Well, join the club, pal! (laughing) You know, our local paper here… Do you ever go to the Palm Beach Post website? Well, you ought to one day. At the top of the website, before there\u2019s any news, before there are any pictures, just up there — you know, with the top headline ban with the weather forecast and current conditions — are two mug shots. The latest arrests at the Palm Beach County jail. And you can click on it and see the mug shots. It\u2019s everybody. I mean, before Obama\u2019s through, folks, we\u2019re all going to have a mug shot one way or the other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This cop that has been criticized by Obama is a police academy expert on racial profiling. Now, Obama\u2019s pulled back from the racial profiling. What we got from Obama at his presser on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction. We got the reaction of a community agitator. 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