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RUSH: On State-Run Media this afternoon, after the press conference held by Cambridge police officials who demanded an apology from Barack Nifong regarding the incident with Henry Louis Gates, CNN anchor Tony Harris called the police union conference ‘incendiary.\u2019 This is exactly… I knew it. I was so hoping this wasn\u2019t going to happen, but the flame has been lit. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to be torched here. I want you to listen to two sound bites from the press conference that was ‘incendiary\u2019 according to CNN. Up first, Steve Killian who is the president of the Cambridge Police Officers Association.<\/p>\n

KILLIAN: Cambridge police are not stupid. I\u2019m proud to represent the officers of the Cambridge Police Department. It is a great department. As far as the president\u2019s comments, the governor\u2019s comments — and comments that I did not hear that our mayor made — I think when the time is right, they should make an apology to us. I think the president should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country that took offense to this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Up next, the Cambridge police union\u2019s Alan McDonald added this.<\/p>\n

MCDONALD: First of all, he began his comments by saying he had a personal bias and that he didn\u2019t have all of the facts. The next sentence should have been, ‘So I\u2019m not going to say anything.\u2019 Unfortunately, he proceeded to say some things. He said that the Cambridge police ‘acted stupidly\u2019 in taking the actions they did. Second and more important, the president suggested that somehow, at least implied there was a link between what happened here and the history of problems between persons of color and law enforcement. And while that well is true in some localities, it isn\u2019t true in Cambridge. It wasn\u2019t true in this case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly! Cambridge is an idyllic liberal setting. These cops probably voted for Obama. But nevertheless, CNN anchor Tony Harris called those comments ‘incendiary.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So when Gibbs, the White House press secretary, comes out and says, ‘Well, of course those cops up in Cambridge want the president to apologize. I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain.\u2019 You know what? That\u2019s the same thing as saying, ‘Of course, those cops are white.\u2019 That\u2019s what Gibbs is saying. I\u2019ll tell you, we are finding out who they are. This White House now knows it is in trouble. The standard operating procedure for Obama whenever he has been in trouble is: Throw the race card. He\u2019s doubling down on it now. He started this. He started this, and I\u2019m convinced he did it purposefully. At his press conference on Wednesday night saying the police acted stupidly, refuse — and he also said that it was ridiculous to arrest a middle-aged man. <\/p>\n

Ridiculous to arrest a middle-aged man? How old was the guy who killed the people at the Holocaust museum? Close to 80, right? Would it have been ridiculous to arrest that kook because he\u2019s close to 80 years old? This guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. This guy, it doesn\u2019t matter to him. Whatever he says is right. He doesn\u2019t have to know what he\u2019s talking about. ‘Of course the cops endorsed McCain. Of course the cops don\u2019t like Obama.\u2019 Oh, let\u2019s turn this into something political now, and let\u2019s make it not just political; let\u2019s make it racial. I predicted this. I hate to say it. I predicted this. Not this specific incident but I knew that far from erasing a racist pass, far from eliminating or even watering it down, this election was going to end up exacerbating it — and here it is. We\u2019ve got a fire that started now, and the match was lit by President Obama. <\/p>\n

Well, we got the match lit. The Justice Department is still tracking down criminals from civil rights era crimes who are elderly, and when they can they arrest them and then they handcuff them. The Justice Department is still doing that, civil rights era criminals — who were adults in the fifties and sixties — and when they find \u2019em, they arrest \u2019em. ‘Baaaaah, Henry Louis Gates, he shouldn\u2019t be arrested. He\u2019s a middle-aged man!\u2019 So I guess in Obama\u2019s way of thinking, these cops are just typical white people, right? His grandmother was a typical white woman. Remember when he threw her under the bus? Remember? ‘It\u2019s just like my grandmother. I love her to death but she\u2019s a typical white woman.\u2019 Well, when Gibbs comes out here and says, ‘Of course of course of course the cops endorsed McCain.\u2019 Oh, yeah, typical white cops! Typical white cops! <\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking at a replay of the Duke lacrosse case here, folks, with Barack Nifong in charge. And this is from, let\u2019s see… Well, it\u2019s a blog, NewsRealBlog.com. ‘The brief arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates earlier this week … continue[ed] to provide fodder for cable talk shows and their seemingly shared Rolodex of reliably race-baiting guests. University of Pennsylvania professor and noted ‘gangsta rap\u2019 expert Michael Eric Dyson has proven to be particularly popular with show bookers, and he presumably hasn\u2019t disappointed them yet. During his Monday appearance on CNN\u2019s Situation Room, host Wolf Blizter didn\u2019t challenge Dyson while ‘he played precisely the song one would expect of him: [declaring that] America is a fundamentally racist nation and Gates was an innocent victim of racial profiling.\u2019 Then last night,\u2019 on MSNBC, Dyson ‘referred to Gates as ‘the Rosa Parks of racial profiling.”<\/p>\n

And of course CNN anchor Tony Harris, after a press conference by police union organizations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today said this.<\/p>\n

HARRIS: Here\u2019s my point. This is incendiary. <\/p>\n

MAN: Yeah!<\/p>\n

HARRIS: Race in this country —<\/p>\n

MAN: Yep.<\/p>\n

HARRIS: — is — iiis powerfully incendiary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Tony Harris, I guess, is suggesting here that after Obama calls the Cambridge cop stupid. He said they ‘acted stupidly.\u2019 They\u2019re just supposed to shut up. Their reputation is impugned. Their work ethic impugned. Hatred for cops gets ginned up all over the country by that comment and cops are just supposed to say, ‘Well, we know you\u2019re racist. Don\u2019t be incendiary. We\u2019re going to order him to stand down.\u2019 So the cops demanding an apology and defending their officer who trains officers in racial profiling, they\u2019re supposed to stand down while this guy takes all the heat brought on by Obama. I\u2019m telling you: Obama doesn\u2019t get criticized. <\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t get talked back to. Obama doesn\u2019t get laughed at. Obama… You\u2019ve got a combination here of an ACORN community agitator and Barack Nifong working on this — and now the media is getting guests claiming Gates is the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks in terms of racial profiling. And in the cop press conference in Massachusetts, they said, ‘There\u2019s no racial profiling.\u2019 This is Cambridge. Do you know what that means? I don\u2019t even want to have to translate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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