{"id":8608,"date":"2014-08-15T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:08:34","slug":"captain_ron_johnson_future_star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/08\/15\/captain_ron_johnson_future_star\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Ron Johnson, Future Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, I don\u2019t know how to characterize this. I\u2019m watching CNN. They\u2019re not happy in Ferguson, Missouri. They\u2019re not happy. I just heard, I guess a resident say that every cop needs to wear a GoPro camera on the name tag, number one, and then have another one as a backup somewhere.<\/p>\n

The next thing that needs to happen is that any time there\u2019s an incident like this, the Feds need to come in immediately and tell the people in the community what happened. The Feds need to come in and do an investigation, because, as we all know, the Feds never get it wrong. The
\nFeds are totally fair and unbiased, and the Feds are totally competent.<\/p>\n

And then the next thing the guy said, that every police officer that\u2019s hired, they need to start background checking the guy from high school. They need to find the racists and the bullies, and they need to make sure that these guys don\u2019t get hired in precincts where the people that they are racist and biased against live.<\/p>\n

And Don Lemon said, “You know, buddy, if you keep talking, Anderson Cooper\u2019s gonna be out of a job,” and patted him on the back. And then he went to a female resident who said, “The truth of the matter is that this was an execution in this city, and we have to stop executions in this city.” And the crowd applauded and went right on and, “Yeah!” hubba hubba. And it kind of dovetails with what I saw when Ron Johnson, who\u2019s the highway patrol commander, did part of the press conference today earlier, just after noon Eastern, with the governor, Jay Nixon, and he was good. I mean, this guy\u2019s got command. He\u2019s got control of the circumstance, situation, but the people asking him the questions were angry.<\/p>\n


\nhe people asking him questions were not happy with his answers. And another person said, “That video has obviously been Photoshopped by the cops.” That was also on CNN. “That video was Photoshopped and the cops just plugged him in there,” and they\u2019re not believing it. So we have a couple of sound bites from the press conference, the highway patrol captain Ron Johnson doing the answering of the questions, and they\u2019re not interested in his message.<\/p>\n


\nNow, by the way, Captain Johnson, just to reiterate, also said — the crowd didn\u2019t like this — he said that he wishes they would have consulted him before naming the officer who killed the gentle giant.<\/p>\n

So we have two sound bites, unidentified person in the crowd says to Ron Johnson, the highway patrol captain that\u2019s now in charge of the streets in Ferguson, says, “I have a barbershop in the city of St. Louis. I see a lot of these young men, all different ages, they are wary this thing is gonna go way over just Mike Brown. They\u2019ve been oppressed for so long. What can we do today, captain, that we can assure these young folks that there is somebody here who\u2019s thinking about and caring about and want to protect you from the things that are going on in this world, whether it be the police or the military or what have you? What are we gonna do, captain, to tell these young folks, there\u2019s somebody out there thinking and caring about \u2019em and protecting \u2019em?”<\/p>\n

What is your first reaction, folks, when you hear that question in terms of an answer? (Interruption) Does nothing come to mind? (interruption) No. No, no. Now that\u2019s fascinating, Snerdley. “The ponytail guy came to my mind.” That\u2019s the guy in Perot-Clinton-H. W. Bush debate in 1992. I think that was in Raleigh, North Carolina. The ponytail guy stood up, “What are you going to do to take care of us? What are you gonna do?” He\u2019s an adult. “What are you going to do to take care of us and bring us together and protect us?” And man, you should have seen it. Clinton practically bowled over a couple of chairs to get to the microphone to answer it first. But that\u2019s not what I get from this. I mean, I can\u2019t say what my reaction is. I can\u2019t win in this stuff, folks, I can\u2019t win. Here\u2019s the answer. This is what Captain Johnson said.<\/p>\n