{"id":35823,"date":"2011-05-19T00:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:50:16","slug":"arizona_s_law_isn_t_controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/arizona_s_law_isn_t_controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona\u2019s Law Isn\u2019t “Controversial”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: We have a little montage here of all of the State-Controlled Media on the so-called controversial Arizona immigration law.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: (music) The US Justice Department suing to block Arizona\u2019s controversial new immigration law. <\/p>\n

KATIE COURIC: (music) …the federal government sues to block Arizona\u2019s controversial immigration law. <\/p>\n

SHEPARD SMITH: (music) the Department of Justice today sued the state of Arizona over its controversial new immigration law. <\/p>\n

SGT. SCHULTZ: The Department of Justice filed a suit over Arizona\u2019s controversial new immigration law. <\/p>\n

CHUCK ROBERTS: (music) The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Arizona\u2019s controversial immigration bill. (sic–law)<\/p>\n

CENK UYGUR: (sfx) …filing a lawsuit against Arizona over the state\u2019s controversial immigration law. <\/p>\n

RICHELLE CAREY: The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit today against Arizona\u2019s controversial immigration bill. <\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: The United States today sued the state of Arizona. It\u2019s about the controversial new immigration law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not ‘controversial.\u2019 Seventy percent of the country supports it. What\u2019s controversial is Obama. What is controversial is this lawsuit. What\u2019s controversial is the fact the federal government does not want to enforce its own law and protect the borders. That\u2019s the controversial. But the media is trying to make the controversy here the Arizona law. It\u2019s not. Seventy percent of the American people support it. Here\u2019s the governor, Jan Brewer, yesterday in Gilbert, Arizona (this is their 90th birthday celebration, by the way) and a portion of what she said.<\/p>\n

BREWER: There is a movement throughout the United States of people wanting some action from the federal government and so we would probably see these types of bills being enacted in other states. We need the federal government to do their job and if they don\u2019t do it then Arizona will.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And she made a further observation about this…<\/p>\n

BREWER: They attempted to scare people in responding to the initial presentation of the bill. Obviously today we found that the federal government did not address that issue of racial profiling into their lawsuit.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, a reporter had asked, ‘The lawsuit said the law is about ‘attrition,\u2019 that its sole purpose is to scare people out of the state. Do you agree with that?\u2019 And she said, ‘No. We\u2019re not trying to scare people out of the state. We\u2019re trying to enforce the federal law. We\u2019re trying to enforce immigration law! We\u2019re not trying to scare anybody out of the country.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Controversial immigration law\u2019 on Google gets over five million hits. If you search ‘controversial immigration law,\u2019 that\u2019s how many hits you\u2019ll get on a Google search. We\u2019ve had this drummed into our heads 24\/7, 365, ‘controversial immigration law.\u2019 What\u2019s controversial is this administration. What\u2019s controversial is the lawsuit. What\u2019s controversial is the law, the federal law is not being enforced. Now, Governor Jan Brewer makes the point here that we looked to the lawsuit the federal government did not address the issue of racial profiling, at all. Let\u2019s go back to May 19th in the Rose Garden. Obama and Se&ntilde;or Wences, the Mexican president: Felipe Calderon. They held a joint press conference. This is some of what Obama said.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: [M]y administration is taking a very close look at the Arizona law. We\u2019re examining any implications, especially for civil rights because in the United States of America no law-abiding person — be they an American citizen or a visitor or tourist from Mexico — should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like. … A fair reading of the language of the statute indicates that it gives the possibility of individuals who are deemed suspicious of being illegal immigrants from being harassed or arrested, and the judgments that are going to be made in applying this law are troublesome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Obama said he told the Justice Department to look at the law because it would lead to racial profiling, but his own lawsuit doesn\u2019t mention it. You know why his lawsuit doesn\u2019t mention racial profiling? It\u2019s because there isn\u2019t any racial profiling in the Arizona law. The regime has been lying about this aspect of the Arizona bill, the Arizona law ever since it first came up. There is no racial profiling in it, and that\u2019s why racial profiling is not part of Obama\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, to be clear, the lawsuit itself… This is actually kind of funny. The Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit against Arizona doesn\u2019t accuse Arizona of profiling or violating civil rights. But the same Justice Department which filed suit has also attached a brief in support of an injunction against the Arizona law, and it does suggest that it will cause ‘the harassment of aliens who are in the state,\u2019 whether legally or not. So the lawsuit itself does not mention profiling, but they\u2019ve attached a brief to it which does. Now, this is very important and very crucial. One of the reasons they may not have stressed the civil rights aspect is because the law still hasn\u2019t gone into effect, so there is no one they can point to as having been discriminated against. The law doesn\u2019t go into effect \u2019til the end of this month. They\u2019re trying to stop this thing before it\u2019s even gone into effect. Howard Fineman on MessNBC last night was asked the following question: ‘Would the best political argument against this law be to go ahead and let it be enforced, and would the worst argument against it have it stayed by a court during a midterm election period?\u2019<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: If they were to enforce that to the letter, the scene would be somewhere between, uh, the Keystone Cops and the World War II internment of the Japanese. I mean, they would be arresting people right and left. They would be stopping everybody at traffic lights. They would be overloading the federal system because they\u2019d be transporting the people that they captured to federal authorities. It would create mayhem, and the sight of that on national TV I think would be very damaging to the Republicans and to that cause.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, there\u2019s just one problem with this analysis, and that is you can\u2019t arrest people by stopping them at a traffic light. This is another misrepresentation of the Arizona law. You can\u2019t go up to anybody at any time because of the way they look or the fact they\u2019re stopped at a traffic light and arrest them. They have to commit some offense prior — from speeding, to robbery, to murder, running drugs, whatever it is. But you just can\u2019t randomly stop people under this law, and it is being misrepresented in toto by the schlubs in the slavish State-Controlled Media. There is no racial ‘profiling\u2019 in the bill, and there is no ‘random stopping\u2019 for somebody\u2019s who\u2019s not suspected of committing a crime. So you just can\u2019t go up to people at a red light when they\u2019re stopped and say, ‘Hey, are you an immigrant? Are you illegal? Let me see your papers.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t do it. The law doesn\u2019t permit it. And, by the way, when\u2019s the last time a Democrat complained about what FDR did with the Japanese? They never complain about that. National security! Democrats are not embarrassed by that at all. In fact, they tried to make it sound like the Republicans are the ones that do that. The Republicans don\u2019t do that. FDR interned hundreds of thousands of people, Japanese. ‘He was a man of his time, a great man! The greatest president ever.\u2019 Talk about civil rights violations! <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Suzanne in North Hills, California, as we go to the phones. We\u2019ll start with you today. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush Limbaugh, mmm, mmm, mmm. I have a question. That person that we laughingly refer to as the leader of this nation who is sticking his nose into the Arizona law referring to that as profiling.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: When you can stop somebody for probable cause, what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Maybe you should start a rumor and explain that to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Start a rumor? Yeah. My rumors end up being true even in the same story where the rumor is discounted.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. That\u2019s why we love you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, Suzanne. That\u2019s a good thought. Now, remember, there\u2019s no profiling cited in the actual suit. In an accompanying brief they talk about civil rights violations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, but he still doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, see, that\u2019s the rub.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Nobody seems to mind that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I think a lot of people do. You\u2019re just not seeing it. It\u2019s not reported in the media. I think you have an undercurrent of outrage throughout this whole country about this administration. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But nobody will say anything on the surface. They all grumble and whine about it behind closed doors or at work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who do you mean? Everybody. You said nobody will say anything on the surface. Who?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Besides you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know me but are you talking about elected Republicans or the media? Who you talking about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The media specifically. You\u2019ll hear somebody make a comment at a party or off the record, but they\u2019ll never admit it on the air or in print that one, you\u2019re right, two, they\u2019re wrong, and that Obama doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but see, he does know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s ruining the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is dividing this country into tribes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have always been a unified people. There\u2019s always been a distinct concept of an American. But we\u2019ve been hyphenating American for a long time. Look at this New Black Panther guy. The only way to get freedom is to kill cracker babies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ve got this kind of divisive rhetoric and anger that\u2019s popping up all over the country. The whole concept of American exceptionalism is under assault, and who are we pandering to? We\u2019re pandering to the lowest common denominator groups.<\/p>\n

CALLER: True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are redistributing the wealth from the achievers and the earners, the people that don\u2019t work, can\u2019t work, or what have you. We have an all-out assault on the things that define the greatness of this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Are you going to be the leader of our tribe?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I already am — <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the leader of our tribe, as evidenced by the fact that I am not nobody saying anything on the surface. I am a body. I am somebody. I am somebody. Wow. That sounds powerful. ‘I am somebody, speaking from the mountaintop,\u2019 and I am speaking on the surface. Great call, Suzanne. Thanks much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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