"Before we let you take over our city, we'll burn it down"

What's this "our city" crap? And where will you live after you've burned down "your city"?

RUSH: While we're on the subject of the New Black Panthers, I told you yesterday about the former NAACP leader from Garland, Texas. He's a conservative by the name of C.L. Bryant. We had the story yesterday. It was two guys that he was publicly very critical of: The Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton. He accused them of exploiting the Trayvon Martin case. And, by the way, our caller, Josh, had a good point. Have you seen much of the Trayvon Martin case lately compared to what it was earlier in the week? It must not have been going the way they wanted it to go because it kinda quieted down.

I know the Supreme Court oral arguments came along and maybe took precedence, but still. Anyway, Mr. Bryant -- the Reverend Bryant of the NAACP -- appeared last night on CNN with Erin Burnett on her program, Out Front. He appeared with Roland Martin, the African-American host of Washington Watch on TV One, and I think he's a commentator at CNN as well. So these two guys are on, and Reverend Bryant buried Roland Martin. And I want you to hear the sound bites. We have three of them. Erin Burnett said, "Reverend Bryant, you have made the comment that Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson -- both of whom now are involved in this situation -- are, quote, 'exploiting the tragedy.' What do you mean?"

BRYANT: Wherever there is something like this that occurs like Tawana [Brawley] or the Duke lacrosse team, you can guarantee you that two faces will show up in order to heighten the tension in this type of situation. And they're usually Reverend Sharpton and Reverend Jackson. Our hearts do go out to this mother because she's lost a son who is 17 years old. That, though, is an issue that I do believe justice will find its way to remedy.

RUSH: Okay. So after Bryant says that Sharpton and Jackson have "heighten[ed] the tension," Roland Martin steps in to say this...

MARTIN: I say, "As a pastor, where are you?" See, I get pastors who differ. I know that the Apostle Paul differed with the Disciple Peter. But where have you been? Are you leading marches? Are you leading rallies? Are you stepping up?

RUSH: So you see, the definition of an authentic African-American is leading marches, leading the rallies. "Are you stepping up?" So Roland Martin says to C. L. Bryant: Where have you been, buddy? I haven't seen you out on the march! I haven't seen you out at the rallies! Where have you been?

And so Reverend Bryant responds...

BRYANT: Your question is: What dues have I paid? I've had the Klan and the skinheads after me --

MARTIN: That's not what I asked!

BRYANT: -- over school busing --

MARTIN: That's not what I asked!

BRYANT: -- 20-some years ago. Just this past month here where I live in Shreveport, in Louisiana, the skinheads and the Aryan Nation was try to move into our area.

MARTIN: I asked --

BRYANT: I, along, with other pastors have in fact done that. What we're doing...

MARTIN: (interrupting)

BRYANT: What we are doing is, in fact, trying to deal with a powder keg here that we need to keep the top on.

MARTIN: Erin! Erin!

BRYANT: That's what we're trying to do.

RUSH: "Erin! Erin!"

Roland Martin wants some help there from Erin Burnett. Ronald Martin wanted Erin to stop the Reverend C.L. Bryant. But he was challenged on his credentials and on his authenticity. So he became back (summarize): "Okay, fine. I got the Klan. I got skinheads after me here. We got Aryan Nation here running around trying to move into our area." But apparently that's not good enough. And from the Examiner.com: "New Black Panther Leader Malik Shabazz Threatens to Burn Detroit Down -- Angry over steps being taken due to a financial emergency in Detroit, New Black Panther Party leader Malik Shabazz declared he would burn the city down.

"'This is white-on-black crime,' he said during public comment at the two hour meeting held Monday afternoon. 'This is white supremacy. Before you can take over our city, we will burn it down,' he added. According to the Detroit Free Press, Shabazz was one of about 100 angry and defiant Detroiters who attended the meeting. The Detroit Free Press reported: 'Detroit's financial review team this afternoon declared that the city is under a financial emergency and no consent agreement between the city and state has been adopted, a move that forces Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint an emergency manager within the next 10 days under state law. State officials, however, are hopeful that an agreement can be reached before an emergency manager is named.' ...

"[S]ome locals see the move as a 'hostile takeover of a predominately black city,' the Free Press added." The local newspaper said that some locals see the move to appoint a new manager to handle the financial situation in Detroit as a "hostile takeover of a predominantly black city." That makes sense to me. The city of Detroit has been run by black Democrats for a long time, and New Black Panther leader Malik Shabazz has threatened to burn it down, and he's black. He's threatened to burn it down if the manager appointed here by the governor to take over the finances of the city doesn't meet with his approval. Detroit's in a shambles as it is. What are the stories we've had?

Houses have been bulldozed. Neighborhoods have, too, where the houses have been abandoned and so forth. At the end of the story, the last line of the story -- you'll like this -- is: "Last December, talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered his advice for fixing Detroit: 'Get rid of every liberal in government.'" I did offer that advice last December, and I stand by it. If you want to fix Detroit, get rid of the liberals. Wherever they run the show... (sigh) Take a look wherever they run the show, wherever liberals are in charge unchecked with no opposition. I don't care what their skin color is. It doesn't matter. Liberalism doesn't know race or any of that. You take a look at any city dominated by liberalism for a long period of time, unchecked, and you will see major problems.

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RUSH: So let's put this in perspective. An unhinged nut goes crazy with a gun in Tucson, Arizona, and wounds a member of Congress, and for months after we get preached to by President Obama and the Democrats that Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh need to clean up their language, even though it was learned that that deranged lunatic in Arizona didn't even listen to talk radio.

Then we had an avowed, acknowledged Obama fan threaten to kill Joe Arpaio, and we get crickets. Now we got Malik Shabazz threatening to burn down Detroit, and we got crickets. The New Black Panther Party with a bounty on George Zimmerman in Florida, we get crickets. But this Malik Shabazz thing, his reaction, folks, it's a precursor. It's Greece. What Malik Shabazz is saying in Detroit: You put somebody in charge here who's gonna start cutting the budget; you put somebody in here who's gonna cut payments to unions; you put somebody in here who's gonna cut benefit payments, and we're gonna burn the city down.

That is exactly the kind of reaction the Democrats want. Isn't that how they intend to counter any Republican demands for budget cuts or fiscal responsibility? Imagine Romney or Santorum are elected president, the Republicans take over the Congress, start cutting the budget, here come the threats. Isn't that exactly what's gonna happen? This is the signal. So Malik Shabazz says we'll burn down Detroit. If you implement any kind of a financial austerity plan here, we'll burn down the city. It's a precursor. His reaction's exactly what the Democrats want. That's what Occupy Wall Street is. You better not start cutting our freebies. You do that and we're gonna start defecating on your cars, whatever else they did. Worse, of course.

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RUSH: It might be useful to remember that Spike Lee hosted President Obama in a fundraiser back in January. Obama raised $1.6 million at Spike Lee's house. The same guy who tweeted the address where he thought George Zimmerman was so the New Black Panther Party posse could go out. That's the kind of people raising money for Obama, and of course Obama is not giving the money back.