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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you know that I am very reluctant to talk about myself. Since most everybody else does, I try to mollify the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd and just stick to the issues. But today I\u2019m the issues. Today I am the news with my appearance on Fox News Sunday yesterday morning, a full 15 minutes uninterrupted. <\/p>\n

You should have seen this place yesterday. I walk in here, they asked me to get here an hour early to test the audio. But because I know how these things work, I got here two hours early. So I rolled in here at seven o\u2019clock and it looked like a bomb had gone off here. Both back doors were off their hinges. I had wires coming out of both back doors. The air-conditioning was off. I walk in here, there are eight people, there must have been an array of lights that would light up Wrigley Field and monitors all over the place. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s no big deal. They were great, they always are, the crew that Fox sends here. It\u2019s just that television just amazes me. All of that for 15 minutes. (interruption) Well, no — (laughing) they would have done it no matter who the guest was, Snerdley. Snerdley: “They had to do it right.” That\u2019s what TV has to do. <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, normally on something like this, I\u2019ll be honest with you, I\u2019d come in here and I wouldn\u2019t even talk about it \u2019cause it was yesterday\u2019s news and if you saw it you saw it, and if you didn\u2019t you didn\u2019t and time to move on. But it actually provides, you know, what we do here, we play audio sound bites and I react to \u2019em. And it\u2019s very rare that I get to react to me. Other people get to do that, but I never do. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m gonna react to myself as a news maker here, and I\u2019m gonna criticize what I said. Well, that may be a stretch, but I\u2019m gonna point out what could have been better, what I really meant, \u2019cause it was very constrained. I normally don\u2019t even get into a topic in the first 15 minutes, and here they wanted to do six of them in 15 minutes. So it was rat-tat-tat-tat, and it was, in some cases, brief and opportunity to extrapolate or expand just wasn\u2019t permitted by time. <\/p>\n

So playing the sound bites here and reacting to myself as a news maker provides abundant opportunity, and a lot of it is relevant to exactly what is the news. So let\u2019s just get to it. <\/p>\n

Up first was the question that Chris Wallace asked about all the protests going on, the race protests that are taking place. His question, “We\u2019re delighted to have you. Let\u2019s start with the protests across the country in the wake of the grand jury decisions not to indict those police officers. Do you think that those demonstrators have a legitimate beef with police and prosecutors?”<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: There is grievance politics in this country that\u2019s tearing the country apart, Chris. I think what happened in the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, and what happened here in Staten Island does not warrant this because the grand jury rendered a correct verdict in Ferguson. New York is a little bit different, but this would have happened I think no matter what the grand jury in Ferguson said. I think the real thing to note here is that this is tearing the country apart. It is literally ripping our fabric apart. And the president of the United States, one thing about him: He\u2019s a great orator. You put the right words on the teleprompter and this man can deliver soaring, inspiring rhetoric. <\/p>\n

I ask you to remember his 2008 campaign in front of the Styrofoam columns at Denver during the convention speech. If he wants to, he can inspire. And I think it\u2019s called for in this situation. This is not good for the country, what\u2019s happening here, because it isn\u2019t — I don\u2019t think — full-fledged legitimate. It\u2019s not based on real-world grievance. It\u2019s grievance that\u2019s being amplified and made up. The president, if you ask me, could do a lot to stop this by telling people to respect the criminal justice system. There\u2019s nothing here that\u2019s designed as they would have you believe to purposely get it wrong, to purposely screw people. It\u2019s not the case. And presidents are supposed to be uplifting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they\u2019re certainly supposed to be unifying and that\u2019s why Obama was elected. If you go back to his campaign of 2008, what was it about Obama that everybody found so appealing? Well, one was his race because that alone was gonna say so much about us. We elected a black president, why, wow, what a huge step our country had made beyond the racial divide. Added to that, Obama was portrayed as a great unifier. <\/p>\n

Now, you and I know that he wasn\u2019t any of that, but a lot of people at that time didn\u2019t. A lot of people at that time hoped Barack Obama was the greatest thing that ever happened to politics. They thought he was. We\u2019d never had anybody like this before, that the world was fawning all over. And people bought into the myth that was portrayed about Obama by his own people, that he\u2019s a great unifier, that he was uplifting and inspiring, and the politics of division that had popularized this country was going to be a thing of the past. He was gonna change Washington and all that\u2019s happened is it has gotten worse. <\/p>\n