Yeah, it's a stretch -- but not by much.
Incorrigible thought criminal Rush Limbaugh wondered aloud on his radio show yesterday whether President Obama will fasten onto the latest left-wing protest fad, the raising of one's arms aloft while chanting "Hands up, don't shoot!," preferably in proximity to heavily-armed police.
The phrase is based on dubious witness claims and inaccurate media reports that Michael Brown's hands were in the air when he was shot and killed by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson last August. Evidence in the case strongly suggests otherwise, leading a grand jury to decide against indicting Wilson.
Limbaugh doesn't see the president mimicking the gesture, not yet anyway. Instead, he envisions Obama possibly ordering a specific group of people to do so (audio) --
Well, that's just great, ladies and gentlemen, absolutely wonderful. You see where President Obama's finally come up with a strategery to fight terrorism after all of these years. Oh man, I am so comforted. He has announced that he's going to make the military more lean. What it means is, he's gonna gut it. But rather than say that, he's going to make the military more lean. He's going to slash the military budget even more, even though it has already been slashed considerably. But I don't know, I don't know how much the drones cost. I mean, clearly the terrorism method that we're using here is drones, which of course are not nearly as bad as torture, so-called torture.
Hey, folks, it could have been worse. I wouldn't have been surprised if he would have ordered the military to start walking around with their arms up, chanting hands up, don't shoot. It can always be worse with this guy, this is the way you have to look at it. ... You find that funny. Snerdly's (Limbaugh's call screener) practically on the floor. It could have been! Would you have been surprised? Hell, everybody else in the world is doing it! On CNN, did you see this?! Those four info-babes sitting there with their hands up, saying hands up, don't shoot. One of them had a sign said, I can't breathe. It didn't happen! Hands up, don't shoot didn't happen. And the truth is no longer a fact, the truth is not even objective, the truth is relative and it's, it's a mess.
So it wouldn't surprise me at all given Obama's trying to get in on the pop culture stuff if he'd had the military walk around with their hands up saying, hands up, don't shoot. So it could have always, it could always be worse.
Then again, isn't such a policy more likely to emanate from Hillary Clinton ...?
Not the only acerbic take on "hands up, don't shoot" this week -- over at Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak tells us why it's "the new Ice Bucket Challenge."
