{"id":6483,"date":"2015-04-28T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-04-28T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:09:23","slug":"the_mayor_did_what_she_wanted_to_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/04\/28\/the_mayor_did_what_she_wanted_to_do\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mayor Did What She Wanted to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Donna in Frederick, Maryland. I\u2019m glad you called. You\u2019re up first and it\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Thanks for having me on. You know, we\u2019ve been hearing a lot about the theme “black lives matter.” But the sad reality is that the African-American community, if you take a good look at their progressive representatives who choose their party over their own citizens, and I feel that, to a certain degree, the mayor allowed too much time to pass, which allowed the situation to escalate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and they\u2019re gonna try and pin it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is what I wanted you to say. The mayor allowed too much time. I want to ask you a question about that. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you think the mayor allowed too much time \u2019cause she\u2019s incompetent?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I just think that perhaps she was maybe not as on top of it as she could have been.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think she was totally on top of it. You want to hear why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do. ‘Cause I\u2019m trying to process that thought.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One of the great unspoken things that\u2019s happening in police departments all over the country, in Ferguson, in Detroit, everywhere, the Obama administration is essentially taking over and rewriting police procedural manuals under the philosophies that Eric Holder and Obama have toward policing. <\/line><\/p>\n

Their attitude is the police are responsible for this. The police, particularly if they happen to be militarized in the way they look, their uniforms and the vehicles they drive around town. If it looks like a military operation, that\u2019s really bad. There\u2019s an unseen, an underreported effort by the Obama administration to totally take over local police departments. <\/p>\n

To illustrate, Obama — you were gonna mention, I know you were gonna mention \u2019cause Snerdley says here she was eventually gonna say that the theory she holds is that the governor of Maryland, who\u2019s white, is ultimately gonna be blamed for this. End up blaming the governor for not acting fast enough. That\u2019s a logical, by the way, thing to think, given the Obama administration, given the media, and given that\u2019s the closest Republican you can find is in the state capital. So blame him. <\/p>\n

Now, why was his response delayed? Because the mayor didn\u2019t call him and ask for the National Guard. The mayor waited. Why did the mayor not institute the curfew until tonight, while everything was going to hell yesterday? Why did she not institute the curfew until tonight instead of last night? Now she\u2019s out trying to explain what she meant when she said that we had to give the protesters space to destroy<\/a>. She\u2019s acting like, how could anybody have really thought that she actually meant that? She\u2019s trying to walk it back. I have that coming up, too. <\/p>\n

I think what\u2019s actually going on here — there are many things going on. I don\u2019t mean to focus on one thing as the key that unlocks every answer here. But this circumstance in Baltimore will and is providing yet another opportunity for Obama, who\u2019s not even there and doesn\u2019t even appear to care about it, doesn\u2019t even appear to be talking about it, his brand-new attorney general to take over the Baltimore police department. I happen to know, I have a news story here that says Obama called the governor, and he\u2019s urged the governor to exercise restraint against the protesters. <\/p>\n

What that means is: You keep control of your cops. Your cops will make this worse because your cops are the reason for this. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re black cops. It doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re white cops. The police force is the means of oppression. That\u2019s the message. The police force is how the oppressors keep the oppressed oppressed. Now, in Baltimore they can\u2019t make the case that it\u2019s racial or racist, because it isn\u2019t. So what they have to do in Baltimore is just make — this is a tough one for them because these are big government people. They believe in big government. Now they have to be seen criticizing it. It\u2019s very delicate for them. I\u2019m talking about Obama and Loretta Lynch and all these other libs who really want to rein in police departments. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Ferguson\u2019s been neutered, for all intents and purposes, and it\u2019s gonna happen to the Baltimore police department. I think it\u2019s 18 or 19 police departments now since Obama has been president that new federal guidelines have been issued after problems occurred in communities where the police departments were blamed. This police department\u2019s being blamed. The Regime is putting out the notion that the police department\u2019s what caused this and is responsible for it simply by virtue of a presence. If you want these agitators to get even more agitated, if you want these protester to get even more protestful, then you send the cops out there. <\/p>\n

What we must do is keep the cops away, otherwise you\u2019re gonna provoke the protesters even more. The benefit of the doubt is given to the protesters because that\u2019s where the sympathy is. The protesters are part of the grievance industry. The grievance industry is legitimate. They are African-Americans. They are minorities. They are oppressed. They have been oppressed since the days this country was founded. There\u2019s a commentator, professor at Columbia, Marc Lamont Hill on CNN last night saying<\/a> that that\u2019s all this is, is an uprising. It\u2019s not even a riot. It\u2019s an uprising of African-Americans who finally can\u2019t take it anymore, fed up with 230 years of oppression. <\/p>\n