Everybody Thinks Obama Called for Calm

RUSH: Oh, yeah. I'm gonna get to Obama last night. Oh, man, am I gonna get to Obama last night. Everybody thinks Obama called for calm last night. That's what everybody thinks.

RUSH: So the president of the United States, Mr. Hope and Change, appeared somewhere in the White House (looked like the briefing room) last night shortly after ten o'clock after the DA in St. Louis had finished his announcement and explanation and taken a few questions. Obama came out and... Well, he called for calm. But then he went on and spoke for 20 minutes about all the things he thinks are wrong in America, all the things he thinks are bad in America in terms of race relations and police departments.

For 20 minutes, maybe longer, in what was supposed to be an appeal for calm. So he started out appealing for calm, and then kind of fed the rage. At least that was our take, watching it. The president said, "There are Americans who are deeply upset, even angry. It's an understandable reaction." See, here's the thing: If you look at this case with what is now known, there are facts.

If you look at this case with the facts measured against the law, what happened could have had and should have happened two months ago. This only played out as long as it did because of the fears that the emotional would explode in Ferguson. But the facts of the case and the law do not matter to those who are deeply upset and even angry, because it isn't about that. And I think it's... I don't know.

I think it's sad, and I think it's a continuing sign of deterioration in certain elements of the country where what "is" -- the facts and the law -- don't even matter, don't even make an impression. Now, I know it's not new. I know here in 2014 there's nothing new. Everything that's happening today has happened many times before. But at some point, you want to stop it. At some point you want to make progress.

At some point you want to have it stop happening. You want to move forward. Everybody wants to be the agent of that kind of positive change. I know I'd like to be. And it's very frustrating that the facts of what happened don't matter. It's very frustrating that the facts of what happened measured against the law don't matter a hill of beans. As I watched the president last night, it sounded to me like he was disappointed with the grand jury decision.

He made his call for calm and then fed the rage. He sounded like he was disappointed by the grand jury decision. He said, "It's tragic when a young man loses his life, but it was avoidable. What happened in Ferguson needn't have happened, but it did, and that's where the great divide begins." No fact about what happened in this incident that is in any way negative toward the gentle giant will even be processed, much less believed.

It will be immediately rejected and cast aside as bogus BS, and it will not even penetrate. The grand jury system... I was kind of surprised. I know the legal beagles that I have listened to, a lot of legal people for whom I have great respect, said, "TRush, this is a slam dunk. The evidence, as much as we've seen and as much as we've heard about testimony, there's no way this cop gets indicted."

I said, "Yeah, but that he isn't the way things happen in the country anymore. Episodes like this need sacrificial lambs, and everybody's gonna be focused on keeping the peace and everybody's gonna be focused on just make the problem go away." So I was surprised. The grand jury system worked, despite enormous pressures exerted by the president's representative, Eric Holder, the attorney general.

The police officer was not indicted, and the president let it be known last night that if some people don't think justice was done, he understands. If some people are deeply upset, and they don't think justice happened last night, or the last two months, then he understands 'em being upset. I think the president missed a golden opportunity. I can't tell you how many golden opportunities this man has missed.

He missed an opportunity last night. If he really cared about unity, he could have done a lot for it last night. If he really cares about bringing people together -- if he really cares about a functioning, orderly society, even if he wants to transform it -- he had a golden opportunity last night, and he punted. He had 20 minutes of inane ramblings that were designed subtly to feed the rage. And he could have done so much.

You do have to admit that he is, when he applies himself, a very pervasive and talented speaker and orator. When he applies himself. If it's on the teleprompter, and the words he wants to use are there, then he can do it really well. He didn't even try. Didn't even try. It was just the exact opposite. It was so disappointing to me. But then I had to stop and realize that's not what Obama's about.

Obama's transforming America. He knows it gonna be messy, and he knows it's gonna be filled with strife, and he knows there gonna be a certain amount of chaos. That's unavoidable, given the scope of the change he desires. He knows people aren't just gonna sit idly by and let it happen. They're gonna fight it, those who don't agree with it -- and that is what community organizers do. They agitate.

That's what Obama, sadly, did last night was agitate. He had a chance, he had a golden opportunity to do the exact opposite, and he didn't even try. You see, to me, what happened in Ferguson last night... If you say, as the president did that it's an understandable reaction; that there are Americans deeply upset, even angry. It's an understandable reaction...

What if it's the product of...? This is my whole point. The Democrat Party, the American left has created, in its base supporters, a degree of anger and rage that borders on the irrational, and they do it about everything! They do it about the Iraq war, the do it about the War on Terror. They do it about virtually everything. And they keep their base supporters in a fevered pitch where their base supporters think virtual everybody is out to get 'em.

The deck is so unfairly stacked that they don't even have a chance even with a man who is historic as president, the first African-American. That doesn't even matter. You create this hopelessness. You create a circumstance where the foregone conclusion is disaster. But why should the reaction last night be understandable, when it isn't, really? We have to define "understandable" in the way Obama meant it.

He meant it in a way of justifying it, and that's where he missed a golden opportunity.

But this is unnecessary, and it's not going to change anything. It's not gonna improve circumstances for anybody. It's gonna make them worse for practically everybody involved, other than the people that benefit from this. Who benefits from this chaos? Who benefits from this strife? Who benefits from the continuing racial strife in America? Who benefits from this? If you answer that question, you'll find out who's responsible for it.

RUSH: Let's listen to a little bit of President Obama last night. Grab audio sound bite number 14. This is where, remember, now, he starts out by asking for calm. And then he could have quit. He could have done a short appeal for calm. He could have done so much. He could have appealed to unity. He could have appealed to the best. He could have. He didn't even try. After asking for calm, he then fed the rage. And I know some of you are saying, "That's a little bit extreme, don't you think, Mr. Limbaugh, feeding the rage? What exactly are you talking about?"

Well, if you know how to listen to these things, and if you know how to hear these things as Obama's audience heard him, you listen to Obama with your feelings intact, and you hear him ask for calm, and that's it. "Okay, cool." And you relax, and you watch the rest of it and you hear this smooth talking guy sounding intelligent, not really paying much attention. You think at best he sounds like he's rambling. But he wasn't rambling. And so for you doubting Thomases out there, let me give you an illustration of that which I am expertly talking about.

OBAMA: The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country, and this is tragic because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates. The good news is we know there are things we can do to help. That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference.

RUSH: Now, does this sound like he's appealing to calm? This man's reciting what he considers to be ongoing problems in this country. I mean, even after six years of him being in charge, it's still happening, it still exists. "The fact is, in too many parts of this country a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color." Right. So this is all understandable, what's happening in Ferguson, after you call for calm. "Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country." What do you mean, the legacy? Do you mean when it used to be real bad back then, or do you mean as it is today? 'Cause that's how it was heard. The legacy justifies the present. If you know how to hear this stuff.

He knows who his audience is, and he knows how they're gonna hear it. You think he's appealing for calm and making these intellectual observations about the status of law enforcement in our community. And then he went on to parrot what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday. Rudy Giuliani on Meet the Press on Sunday said to Michael Eric Dyson, "We wouldn't be," the white cops, "we wouldn't be in the neighborhoods if you weren't killing each other." Giuliani said that to Michael Eric Dyson, who then blew his gasket. Obama said the same thing. And this is tragic, Obama says, "because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates." Well, the reason a lot of cops are in there is because there's a lot of crime in there.

And then, signifying that all that was bad news, the president then said, "Now, the good news is we know there are things we can do to help." Well, we're six years in, pal. What have we been doing to help? The split screen. Here's this guy calling for calm and asking and talking about it, and Ferguson's burning on the other half of the screen. It was ironic. It was uncanny. I mean, if you weren't in full control of your faculties, you'd find it funny. Here's Obama somber, cool, calm and collected, just like he did in the faculty lounge when he was talking to Jonathan Gruber about health care, thinking how stupid the American people are, and appealing for calm and explaining and justifying.

And on the other half of the screen Ferguson's in flames, under a "Season's Greetings" sign. Did you see that, Snerdley? How did it happen that the original protests occurred under the Season's Greetings? The same kind of sign that you see in It's a Wonderful Life, the Jimmy Stewart movie, Season's Greetings? (interruption) Monday Night Riots? No, no. There are some who might like that as a regular show, Monday Night Riots, but I don't know.

And then "There are things that we can do to help. That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference." Meaning, we got too many white cops in Ferguson, is what that means. That means there are too many white cops in Ferguson. That means if we're gonna have more policing we gotta have more black cops in there because they understand and might behave differently than white cops. You never know.

So Obama was admitting that the races really can't work together because they don't understand each other, and one of the reasons why there's all these problems in the poor communities is the cops are not representative of the people who are committing the crime. If we would change that, then we know that makes a difference. And then in typical Washington bureaucrat liberalism solutions, he said that he has instructed Eric Holder to immediately have meetings and make phone calls with law enforcement officials all over the country to fix this.

That means problem solved. In liberalism, you just say we're gonna have a meeting, and the problem's solved. Be it jobs, deficit, call a meeting, or you instruct an underling to call somebody else and have a meeting. Problem solved. All of this is designed to comfort people and let them know that POTUS is on the case. Meanwhile, on the other half of that screen, Ferguson, Missouri, was in flames.

OBAMA: I also appeal to the law enforcement officials in Ferguson and the region to show care and restraint in managing peaceful protests that may occur.

OBAMA: -- to distinguish the handful of people who may use the grand jury's decision as an excuse for violence --

OBAMA: -- distinguish them from the vast majority who just want their voices heard around legitimate issues in terms of how communities and law enforcement interact.

RUSH: So he's basically asking the cops, just stand aside. You're gonna make matters worse if you show up here. And these are peaceful protests, just let 'em happen, and they did.

He said, “It’s tragic when a young man loses his life, but it was avoidable.”

Yep...avoidable. Starting with almost 400 years ago.

Well, I’m one of “everybody” and I don’t think or believe for one minute that odumbo wanted “calm”, he wanted chaos and he go it from his trained Street Rats who ran around more like wild monkeys with their pants around their knees.

The Gov called up the National Guard but didn't station them in Ferguson?

Did Obama have the Gov keep the National Guard out of Furguson last night?

I understand they are there today. ..why not last night?

The pissed off Obama called for calm.

His body language and facial expressions did not match his words.

He was visibly angry.

I thought he was rambling.
And the general left wing reaction was about the same as mine.
So I have to disagree with Limbaugh, which is a rare thing.

RUSH: If there had been a big police presence on West Florissant, then the agitators would have said, "See? Look, you bring all these white cops in here, and you're just provoking us. This is our neighborhood." Okay, so the cops stay away because they don't want to be provocative, they don't want to provoke, they don't want to get in the way, and then they say, "Where were you? You weren't out here protecting. Ferguson burned, and you weren't here. You let it."

Exactly, so who gives a crap what it looks like, the Governments Job (one of their few legitimate functions) is to protect property. They failed.

The screenshot is a keeper. The First Black President on the right... The Hope of racism problems solved and on the left black rioters burning down a town. It was all a lie and there’s the proof in full color.

He was pissed, but I think thats because he has an idea that this stuff is bad for him/them. This was not ending well.
And thats so.
He and the left were playing with dynamite here.
They wanted to stir up black people with a cause that can be used and amplified for the next elections. Thats what they were after, quite transparently, pre-election. Its all about turnout.
Once done with that they were hoping for something that would keep them stirred up without, conversely, helping the other side. So there had to be an endgame that retained the resentment and kept the bloody shirt fresh, without a riot.

A riot would be fodder for conservatives, and it is. Its this stuff that elected Nixon in 1968 and 72.

I think they miscalculated badly.

He was visibly angry.

Yes, that is exactly how I read him.

Rush is right. He was telling the rioters that all their grievances were right and was telling the police to back off. That's why Nixon didn't deploy the Guard.

Hope everyone understands thugs in the hood or even among Muslims words spoken have a different meaning, as in coded words, code speak.
Obama Obola, Obama’s sons ( punks, thugs ) and his co horts in the media think whitey is stupid.
Rather ? He thinks whitey heard his word “ claim “ but most likely when he had private meetings face
to face with the leaders of the community agitators; what he really meant ? Was ? to cause as much pain for whitey, trouble, riot, mayhem as much as they can get away with because he has their back.
I feel sorry for those National Guard troops who have to face those trouble makers, protestors.
What is going to happen when those National Guard troops fire on unarmed protestors ? We have Kent State all over again ...... And ? Obola will persecute to the fullest extent of the law with Eric Holder’s Unjustice department those National Guard troops.

Doubt it. Put me down for a bet on a quiet night.
Its all looted/burned out now.
60+ arrests last night I believe, including some of the “outside agitators”.
Few are going to complain about militarized law enforcement after last nights spectacle, so I doubt there will be many complainers.

Rush is right with this statement: "So he started out appealing for calm, and then kind of fed the rage." That's the bottom line and that's how the people in Ferguson took it. My God, what has happened to this country that we have a President doing this? At least the silver lining is many people are starting to wake up.

Once a community organizer, always a community organizer.

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