Such Great News Out of Indiana

RUSH: Such great news out of Indiana. Memories Pizza shut down by a mob of probably 10 to 15, maybe at the outside 20 people, who have found a way to make themselves look like they are thousands. Not just thousands of people, but angry, outraged, and they happen to represent the majority of Americans, don't you know. That's BS squared.

Ten to 15 people toying around with algorithms available on Twitter that they actually created with the assistance of people that know Twitter well, and they're able to create tweets, Facebook posts, e-mails to make it look like thousands of Americans are outraged at this harmless, barely even noticeable little pizza shop in a town of 2,000.

And, again, the story, ladies and gentlemen, is not that an infobabe from an obscure ABC affiliate in South Bend has to leave South Bend 20 miles away, go knocking on doors shopping for bigotry, and finally they open the door and a young woman who is a devout Christian is there. She thinks there's a media person at the door who wants to really know what she thinks.

She's like everybody else with their first encounter with the media. Why, there's the media. There's a camera, a microphone, some guy holding it up, and there's the really pretty reporterette, and they must really want to know what I think. They must really be concerned with what I think. This young woman had no idea that what walked into her pizzeria was effectively the media mafia. She had no idea that the only reason they walked in that door was to find a way to destroy their business.

Nope. Instead, well, here comes this nice media woman, and she's asking me questions, and I know they want to know the truth, and so I'm gonna answer their questions honestly. She told them that she had never been asked to serve a gay wedding or cater one, but that if she were to be asked she wouldn't do it because she opposes gay marriage.

And so the honest, upstanding little reporterette from the obscure ABC affiliate, Channel 57, how obscure can you get, Channel 57. If it weren't for cable nobody'd be able to pick up that signal, 57 UHF, you'd have to be in an airplane 10,000 feet above it to get the signal straight up. Channel 57?

Anyway, she's in the store, and she's got this naive but just brazenly honest young Christian pizzeria owner telling her the truth and the apparently harmless infobabe from the obscure Channel 57 ABC affiliate in South Bend salivates. A-ha! I've been knocking on doors for two days looking for a stupid idiot, and I finally found one. She thought she was looking squarely at devil bigot in the case of this young woman, Crystal O'Connor.

So she got Crystal O'Connor on tape, and then she walks out and gleefully applauds, can't believe her good luck, all of her hard work knocking on doors looking for a bigot. And after 20 miles and who knows how many hours, she found one, and she's thinking, this is my ticket out of the obscure Channel 57 in South Bend. If I can destroy this woman, maybe I'll get noticed by the big network honchos in New York. She proceeded to report this little pizza shop, Memories Pizza, a home of open bigots, racists, homophobes, wouldn't serve a gay wedding even though they'd never been asked.

They had never denied. They had never been asked to do so. It had never happened. A totally made-up circumstance becomes the news of the day, but the real story is that in five minutes thousands of people want to burn the place down? Thousands, most of them not even in Indiana, want to burn the place down, want to burn Crystal O'Connor at the stake, want to make sure that pizza shop never, ever reopens. In five to 10 minutes thousands of insane lunatics, which are actually no more than 10 to 15 insane lunatics, that's the real story.

So, some people decide to help out and set up a donation fund at the website GoFundMe.com. When this program started yesterday they had raised $140,000 and I think their original goal was a hundred grand, then it became 200 grand. The last time I checked was about, let's see here, yep, about a half hour ago, 35 minutes ago, $546,842 pledged to the Memories Pizza shop and the O'Connor family.

They have now said they're going to reopen and they're going to remodel and they're gonna be bigger and better than ever, and the deadline for donations I think goes all the way 'til the end of business today. You can still help 'em out if you want to. I think it'd be great. I really do.

RUSH: As I was saying, I think it would just be fabulous if this GoFundMe donation number hit three-quarters of a million dollars. Right now, it's even more than I thought. It's $556,125. A total of about 19,000 people have donated in one day. Let me tell you: It's 19,000 people versus 10 or 15 that have caused all this trouble, and I am not exaggerating, folks. The 10 or 15 are the original number. They might have added to that by now because the left has plenty of hangers-on that will join the circus.

But the original set of tweets and outrage and anger, I guarantee you came from 10 to 15 people. And that's the one that counts. We're talking about people viscerally upset by the news by a pizzeria that had never, ever catered a gay wedding would not. I'm telling you, you do not live in a country where the majority of people who hear that news are gonna lose their cookies, become outrageously indignant, and try to put that company out of busy. We have not become that country yet.

They want you to think we have, but we have not. It takes a concerted effort rooted in lies and fraud and deceit sponsored by 10 people paid for by George Soros and Media Matters to gin something like this up and to make you get dispirited and depressed, and think that you are vastly overwhelmed and outnumbered. You are not. We're talking about a minority that's not even 5% of the population here. Eighty percent of this country claims to be Christian, which is its own interesting little factoid given what's happening here. But that's for another discussion.

It's GoFundMe.com. I didn't even give the Web address yesterday, and still you people went from $140,000 to over half million dollars. It's GoFundMe.com/MemoriesPizza. And they're at $556,000. Just ram it down these people's throats. Get them up to $750,000!

RUSH: But the GoFundMe campaign here for the Memories Pizza shop. Folks, this is all the evidence that you need that you have not lost your country. We're up to almost 19,000 people who have given to people you don't even know. They've given over $600,000, 'cause they see what's happening to them. They were not bothering anybody. They're in a town of 2,000 people.

They're a little pizza store, not bothering anybody, not threatening anybody, not doing anything but just living and breathing and trying to serve their community. The next thing you know, they are the focus of evil in a bigoted, homophobic country? Not so fast! The people of this country are rising up. By the way, this is not the first time for this.

There was an African-American arts and crafts store owner who had her store totally destroyed in one of the riots in another fake news story, "hands up, don't shoot," in Ferguson, Missouri. A GoFundMe account was set up, and that woman raised donations from people -- white people -- all over America, far more than she needed to rebuild and reopen her store. So it's still your same old righteous, God-fearing, God-loving country. And that is what so angers this small malcontent minority on the left.

They have found a trick way to make themselves appear to be much larger than they really are, and don't doubt me on this. We've investigated it because they've come after us -- and they continue to come after us and our sponsors -- for years now. We've researched them. We know their names. We know who the 10 people are in our case. We know where they live. We know the algorithm they're using.

We know exactly how they make this happen. So don't doubt me on this. If they can do it in one area, they can do it in any other area. I think all this stuff that happens, all these Twitter explosions, are fake. You have got to trust that. You have not lost your country. We have not lost our country. Now it's true we're in a defensive posture. We sit around and mind our business, and when we're attacked and assaulted we do on occasion stand up and defend ourselves.

We are very absent political leadership in Washington. That's also true, and I'm not saying that this is not a problem. It is. I'm just telling you that if you're running around thinking, "Oh, my gosh, we've lost the country," we haven't. Don't think that. Breitbart has a story today -- NewsBusters has carried it as well -- that the pizza store was asking for it. Breitbart: "Memories Pizza is an explicitly Christian business, which is probably what drew reporters in the first place. The store is festooned with religious sayings including this:

"'Every day before we open the store, we gather and pray together. If there is something you would like us to pray for, just write it down and drop it in the box and we will pray for you.'" Well, those hateful bastards! How dare they! Do you realize that's a direct assault? That's a direct assault from a majority bunch of Christians on people who aren't! That's hateful (in the cockeyed, perverted world of the left). Not only is that hateful, it's threatening.

So this obscure reporterette from the obscure Channel 57 in South Bend, Indiana, probably didn't have to hear anything from Crystal O'Connor. They just had to go and see that sign and say, "A-ha! I've got a Christian bigot here. Why this hateful Christian bigot wants to pray for me? Ha-ha. What a bunch of idiots." And then she thought that, "Well, I'm in this pizzeria and they want to pray for me? I am surrounded by hate!" That is the perverted way they look at it.

Daily Caller: "Salon: Pizzeria Closed After Death Threats 'Getting Exactly What It Deserved.'" Salon.com says this pizzeria getting death threats deserves it -- and now there are threats to burn it down! There are tweets from people asking to be joined in a mission to go to Indiana, find this place, and burn it to the ground. Salon is applauding this, saying the pizzeria is "getting exactly what it deserved." The tweet, by the way, is now deleted.

"Salon's Twitter account gloated over the closure of 'anti-LGBT' pizza shop: "'That anti-LGBT pizza shop in Indiana is getting exactly what it deserves.'" I think, frankly, I agree with them now: Over a half million dollars in donations. Memories Pizza is getting exactly what they deserve, an uprising and outpouring of support and love from a majority of the American people who are outraged at these never-ending, incessant attacks on decent, good people who threaten nobody. Some leftist dingbats have even threatened to steal the GoFundMe money.

There are people on Twitter who are hatching plans to figure out how to rob them of this money. I'm not kidding it. NewsBusters has a roundup: "A tweeted wish to organize a group to burn the store down... A separate threat to the GoFundMe organizer who has a [sic] orchestrated a campaign which has raised over [$500,000] ... and, to top it off, another threat, by someone who now laughably claims he was hacked, to steal from the O'Connors the money that has been raised."

People who have publicly encouraged donations to this GoFundMe account are also now being personally threatened. We are to believe that this is justified? The Drive-By Media tells us that this family, the O'Connor family, is "getting exactly what it deserves"? Threats to burn down the pizza store, threats to rob them of the GoFundMe money? They deserve it? This is exactly what they deserve?

There's a political party, folks, that inspires and encourages this hate. There's a political party that rewards it. There's a political party that encourages it and claims that it will be rewarded, and that's the Democrat Party. These are not Republicans doing this; these are not conservatives doing this. The people doing this are not the backbone of America.
The people engaged in this sick, perverted behavior, are not in any way, shape, manner, or form the people upon whose backs this country was built. Admittedly so. They're trying to tear it down. They're outraged. I just think it's fantastic. I love all of you who have donated. This is such a great statement. Over half a million dollars. I'm sure it's higher than that now. It was $556,000 about a half hour ago go.

RUSH: A couple of sound bites from Crystal O'Connor. This is last night with Cavuto on the Fox Business Network. Cavuto said, "You plan to open any time soon? You think it's not worth it, too much grief, too many threats, too much nastiness? What are you gonna do?"

O'CONNOR: When? We're not sure. I mean, I'm still shaken over this, and I'll be the one that's serving the customers and answering phones, and I'm not ready to face that yet, but it will be soon.

RUSH: Wow, she really sounds like a hateful person, doesn't she? Oh, man. I don't know if I'd walk in that store. This woman sounds like geesh, send me off to the ovens or something, man, oh, man, do you believe how hateful this woman sounds, how mean-spirited? You could just hear the bigotry dripping from her voice there, couldn't you? I'm being facetious. Snerdley thinks, "You better be careful here. People are gonna believe you." No, no, no, no, no. I'm being facetious here.

This is one of the most harmless human beings on this planet. That's the point. In terms of representing a threat to anybody, Crystal O'Connor, Memories Pizzeria offering to pray for anybody in trouble? Hateful bastards. How dare they. Cavuto then said, "Well, were you surprised that you got a lot of outrage? You also got a lot of support. You're getting donations from sympathetic people who thought you were getting maligned. What'd you think of all of that?"

O'CONNOR: We are very thankful. And we're not doing it -- it was never about the money. It was for our belief. And it's a blessing. And God has blessed us for standing up for what we believe and not denying Him.

RUSH: Of course it was never about the money. They had no idea this was gonna happen. This innocent looking infobabe walks in, and I'm sure Crystal O'Connor thought, "I have a chance to tell the truth, the media, they want to know the truth; the media is here to find out what I really think." That's the biggest learning experience. That story was already written and finalized before that reporterette walked in the door.

All she needed to do was to get that young woman to admit she believed in God, and that was it, go back to the studio and broadcast that they found a bigot in Walkerton, Indiana. And this is why this law is outrageous, because it's gonna allow this bigot to deny pizzas to gay people at their weddings. When you look at this for what it really is, it's just simply outrageous.

One aspect of this story that hasn't gotten much attention is that the Indiana law is actually very weak, and the burden of proof is still on the business owner to prove that they are not animated by "ordinary" bias, but by sincere religious conviction.

There are several problems with this.

First of all, it is expensive and time-consuming to defend yourself in court. Businesses may not have the financial means to protect their constitutional rights from intrusive government.

Second, many businesses - newspapers, law firms, ad agencies, entertainers, and many others - ALREADY have considerable discretion in what clients they will accept, and they do not need to go to court to justify their business decisions.

Thirdly, you should not need to prove a specifically RELIGIOUS basis for making your moral decisions. People of no religious belief should still have a right to decide what clients to accept.

The biggest mistake, and it is a HUGE one that will end in our demise, that Rush and his news entertainment fellows keep pushing is that the other side is “15 to 20 people with algorithms”. He is wrong and he knows it. They can put a couple hundred thousand people in the streets and have, frequently.

These people are going to keep telling us to ignore the man behind the curtain right up until the man behind the curtain throws us out of Oz.

Keep in mind how GOD blesses. These folks never knew what hit them.

GOD did. He blessed them 10000 fold, all for being honest.

Praise GOD for knocking out the haters of his gift.

"The biggest mistake, and it is a HUGE one that will end in our demise, that Rush and his news entertainment fellows keep pushing is that the other side is “15 to 20 people with algorithms”.

I agree. It seems like Rush was smoking something other than cigars before today's show. Although it was encouraging to see the show of support for Memories Pizza, as you say, the enemy is far more formidable than 20 people with algorithms. It includes most of the media, the Democratic Party, much of corporate America, and millions of other people. I would guess that in a nation of more than 300 million people, only about one in three or four is clearly on our side on this issue, and maybe another 20-30% are up for grabs. But at least 30-40% of the country is dead set against us on this.

Rush and his news entertainment fellows keep pushing is that the other side is “15 to 20 people with algorithms”.

He was getting bashed a lot. From what I understand, he put people on it to find out where these spams were coming from, because the wording of the "individual" e-mails and stuff were a little too similar. They tracked down about ten people. California, I think he said Vermont, and maybe the last was Ohio?
Yeah. Just a few people were mass producing thousands of various communications. If they were doing it to Rush, why wouldn't they be doing that to everyone else as well? Especially if it's Soros funded.

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the enemy is far more formidable than 20 people with algorithms.

Its an old Alinski tactic, but with modern day computers. The liberal left is only about 20% or less of the population. The homos less than 2% (because they count prison inmates). Even abortion supporters are a minority today. So why do all these groups SOUND like the majority?
Alinski said to make a huge fuss and make a lot of noise 24/7, because the more you make yourself heard, the more people will begin to believe there are more of you.

These algorithms are an illusion. In America, people have been led to believe homos are at least 50% of the population, yet in reality they're nothing but an itty bitty handful - but they make a lot of noise! Computers are a real asset to making noise, especially if you have the software to spam thousands of sites within minutes.

Yep.

Sounds like a threat enough to call the cops, and it’s a hate crime to boot (maybe even across state lines - it’s federal now). Demand police protection, file for a restraining order. Use their tactics against them.

And - Arm up. Sell the cloak and buy a sword. Mentally prepare to defend yourself.

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