Tony Timpa<\/a> out of Texas, none of this stuff would have happened.<\/p>\nRUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know. In the first place, how are you gonna change the media? How are you gonna punish them for being too emotional?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I — I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s beyond me. But I just feel that the media is very corrupt, and they control the way that the American people (garbled) those that rely on it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re right. And I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s something else that you have swerved into the truth on. I have learned very, very painfully over the course of the many years of doing this program that it is much easier to reinforce or change anybody\u2019s opinion on anything if you do it via their emotions — and I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I try to change people\u2019s minds with the power of reason, thinking, intellect. Most people are never gonna be open to that. But if you can reach their emotions, you can change their minds. It\u2019s human nature, in a sense. And the media and a bunch of people on the left understand it. They know exactly how to tweak people\u2019s emotions, particularly guilt — a big one. So let me ask you. Are you still there, Terry?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If they would have done what differently where George Floyd\u2019s concerned, you think it might have been different? Done what differently?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If… Because they focused on it being a race thing. And law enforcement, you know, there are more people that have died the same exact way that George Floyd died that were other races, and they didn\u2019t bring any attention to that. I feel that, you know, if they had said that law enforcement, there is people that use too much force — and that\u2019s what this was, is a excessive use of force and there\u2019s no evidence to prove that it was a race issue, which has caused all this disruption —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly my point. You don\u2019t need the evidence. You just need to connect with people\u2019s emotions. And that\u2019s exactly what they did. And by the time… Look, the Floyd example may not be the best because I don\u2019t think anybody watching that for eight minutes can be persuaded of anything about it other than what they originally see.<\/p>\n
White cop.<\/p>\n
Black victim.<\/p>\n
No reason for this guy to be dead.<\/p>\n
Whether it was racist or not, when the media comes in, there\u2019s already a movement on to play the race card and to divide the country by race. That fit perfectly. I\u2019m like you. I don\u2019t think there was a racial component to it at all, from the cop\u2019s standpoint. I think there was of a bunch of other stuff that\u2019s of reprobate status, but I don\u2019t think it was primarily racist.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter what I think. Most people who saw it will conclude that it was \u2019cause the cop was white, the victim was black, and they “know,” quote-unquote, “that the cops are murdering black people every day.” You remember the police union guy…? (They\u2019re not. Don\u2019t misunderstand.) Remember the police union guy in New York who blew up?<\/p>\n
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