THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Shooting Death of NYPD Officers We are sadly mourning the loss of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos who were killed in cold blood over the weekend.  Their murder happened in an atmosphere that has been manufactured by politicians, community leaders and protestors who have stoked racial tensions over the last months. I am angry and heartbroken by this news. The uniformed officers were assassinated in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday in broad daylight.  I can't even imagine what their families must be going through.  While the rest of us are preparing for Christmas, they are burying their loved ones. The killer posted on Instagram on Saturday that he would be “putting wings on pigs today.”  He assassinated these officers in the crazed effort to avenge the death of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. About a week ago, protestors in New York City chanted, “What do we want?  Dead cops.  When do we want them?  Now.” Well now they got what they wanted.  Two NYPD officers are dead.  If you were part of that mob, in my mind, you have blood on your hands. And it's unbelievable that this charged atmosphere has been created and supported by people who are supposed to be responsible leaders.  From Barack Obama to Eric Holder, from NYC Mayor de Blasio to Al Sharpton, while they are not responsible for this man's actions they certainly have used the racial tensions to feed their own agendas. What's disappointing about that is the fact that the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner are being used a symbols of racial injustice, when no one can answer the question of how race played into their deaths.  These leaders have had to work hard to make these cases about race.  Barack Obama is 0 for 3 on prematurely commenting on cases involving race in America.  You'd think he would learn by now. Then there's comrade Bill de Blasio, who has taken opportunities to portray police in a bad light.  He recently commented that he feared for his son's safety “from the very people they want to have faith in as their protectors.”  It is reckless and irresponsible for Obama, Holder, de Blasio and others to work incessantly to make these cases about race when they simply weren't, based on the evidence. Again, I don't blame them for what happened, but they helped create an environment and perpetrated a false narrative that these cases were symbols of racial intolerance when that's simply not the case. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner represented an opportunity for these politicians and leaders to bring this country together.  But instead they took it as an opportunity to exploit the situation for other self-serving reasons.  It's truly sad to see this be the case and America will suffer as a result. Giuliani: Obama's 'propaganda' pushed people to 'hate the police'" President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two city police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car by a man who posted anti-police messages to his social media account. “We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police,” Giuliani said during an appearance on Fox News early Sunday. “The protests are being embraced, the protests are being encouraged. The protests, even the ones that don’t lead to violence, a lot of them lead to violence, all of them lead to a conclusion: The police are bad, the police are racist. That is completely wrong.” Giuliani said he did not agree with statements like those from Pat Lynch, the president of the largest police union in New York City, who said the current mayor, Bill de Blasio (D), had blood on his hands. “I think it goes too far to blame the mayor for the murder or to ask for the mayor’s resignation,” Giuliani said. “I feel bad for the mayor,” Giuliani continued. “He must be heartbroken over the loss of two police officers. I can’t believe this is what he wanted. I don’t think he’s a bad man in any way.” But, Giuliani said, de Blasio is “pursuing the wrong policies” and should not have given protesters demonstrating against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown as much leeway. “I don’t think it goes too far to say the mayor did not properly police the protests,” Giuliani said. “He allowed the protesters to take over the streets. He allowed them to hurt police officers, to commit crimes, and he didn’t arrest them. And when you do that, similar to what happened in Crown Heights, you create a great riot. He should have known better. For that he has to take accountability.”