Posted on 06/22/2015 2:01:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Folks, do you realize the Confederate flag flies because of the Democrat Party? Do people even care anymore about truth, objective truth, ontological certitude?
Do people care about this stuff anymore? Does it matter? Or is truth something so elusive that it's impossible to achieve because everybody has a bias and somebody's truth is somebody else's lie? And if a truth is a lie to somebody then it can't be the truth? Is this where we are now, facts are irrelevant? The Confederate flag in South Carolina.. There's a man. There's a name. There's a reason why that Confederate flag flies over the Statehouse in South Carolina.
You know the name, don't you, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Yeah, his name was Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, of (impression), "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there!" Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, well-known Democrat -- senator from South Carolina -- is responsible for the Confederate flag flying over South Carolina! When did this become a Republican problem? Who wrote the lyrics to the song Dixie?
When did all this become a Republican problem? If you go to Arkansas... You know, all these old racial segregationists, they're all Democrats. Bill Clinton's mentor from Arkansas, J. William Fulbright, was a proud segregationist! And Bill Clinton signed a proclamation authorizing the Confederate flag to fly over the statehouse in Arkansas. I've got the proclamation right there in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Where'd the Republicans get involved in this? But there they are, in full blame!
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RUSH: I have to make a minor correction -- and unlike most, when we make a correction, we make it prominently. I'm not going to say something today that's erroneous and wait until Friday at 2:55 in the afternoon to fix it. So here we go: The Confederate flag does not fly over the South Carolina state capitol. Only the United States flag and the state flag actually fly over the capitol.
The flag in question, the Confederate flag, flies separately on the state capitol grounds, and the controversy is whether it should be on the grounds of the state capitol at all. It does not fly over the actual capitol anymore. It once did. The point is not changed, here. Ernest Hollings, a Democrat, put the Confederate flag up! The old Dixiecrats were Democrats!
RUSH: This Confederate flag business, Hillary Clinton's now come out and she's demanding that the Confederate flag be removed in South Carolina, and really is a key point. It does not fly over the statehouse. It used to, resulting from the commandment, if you will, from Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings, Democrat Senator, South Carolina. He used to be the governor, he put it up.
It was a Republican, ladies and gentlemen, a conservative Republican governor who first tried to get the Confederate flag removed from atop the statehouse. And, by the way, that conservative Republican governor got no support from the local NAALCP. In fact, when that all happened, the Democrats used the flag against the Republican governor, and it may have cost him the election. That was not that long ago.
Now Hillary Clinton has come out and demanded the flag be removed. Never mind that while the Clintons were in Arkansas they presided over something called the annual celebration of Confederate Flag Day, which continues to this day. Oh, yeah. It does. Confederate Flag Day continues to this day in Arkansas, and when the Clintons lived there, they presided over the annual celebration.
Not only that, Governor Bill Clinton, 1987, signed into law an act that commemorated the Confederacy with a blue star in the Arkansas state flag. I know I'm spitting against the wind here. I know none of this is gonna matter an iota to anybody. But I have such reverence for you people in this audience, I have such respect that I want you to know the truth of these things. And this wave, this never ending wave of literal destruction that is just sweeping across our country is relentless. And whatever I can do to have those of you know the truth about this and the blatant hypocrisy, because the Democrats are never held to account for hypocrisy.
Meanwhile, some AP photographer released a photo. Ted Cruz making a speech somewhere, and the photographer probably waited and waited and waited 'til Cruz was in the right position. Cruz is positioned in such a way that a poster to his left on a wall to his left features a gun nearly as large as his head aimed right between his eyes. And that's the picture, Cruz's head, the left half of the picture there's a gun aiming right at his head.
And there's a caption, "Ted Cruz Addressing Second Amendment Advocates," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's clear that the photograph -- do you remember how ape everybody went after Gabrielle Giffords was shot and somebody found some sort of a view-finder target on Sarah Palin's website, and they tried to blame that? I mean, can you imagine if Barack Obama were in this picture instead of Ted Cruz? The media would be featuring it all over the place. Now they're just calling it ironic. You know, it's just ironic that Cruz happened to be standing right there when the AP guy snapped his shutter and took the photo.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t gonna resign.
I had not realized until recently the confederate flag at the S.C. Capitol was not a Civil War legacy but was put there in 1962 by Democrat segregationists. Pretty clear what their meaning was.
The real truth is forgotten, even by Rush, and that is the meaning behind the battle flag. And South Carolina was first in push back of Federal overreach into states rights. That overreach is happening again. It isn’t about racism or blacks vs whites, although many without the background of scholarly history lessons soon forget.
“Sheets” Byrd would agree.
If they taught history honestly in our schools today these same people would be demanding the Democrap party be abolished. That Donkey symbol has been around since 1837, through slavery, through the Democraps fight to keep slavery legal, through their rejection of Civil rights and now their current socialist Holocaust against the black community which has killed more blacks than slavery ever did. I believe the estimate is half a million blacks killed by slavery. Well the Democrap engineered socialist holocaust reached that number in only 35 years and that’s not even counting the millions of black babies murdered, and all so rich white liberals can get elected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3pRiw9aQk
I love this man .
H.K. Edgerton used to be the head of the NAACP in Asheville N.C. , until he saw the light .
Now he refers to the NAACP as “ the Klan with a tan” ...
God bless this good man
Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd was adoringly referred to as the "conscience of the Senate" by his democRAT colleagues.
What I see in the last hour is a cave in by Republican leaders to the emotions generated by the mass murder last week as if the Confederate flag were somehow responsible.
Reminds me of the emotional cave ins on Religious Freedom in March of this year by Republicans in Arkansas and Indiana.
Very convenient for Rush Limbaugh’s discussion to focus on Democrat connections to segregation and the flag.
Not all South Carolina segregationists remained Democrats, Strom Thurmond switched to the Republicans in 1964 and was welcomed by the likes of RIchard NixOn, whom Thurmond supported for President in 1968.
What will the next emotional wave Republicans cave into be about, gun ownership???????
Rush needs to have a talk with Walter E. Williams who has a Confederate flag on his desk and happens to be African American.
There’s also Walter E. Williams
This is so stupid.
The Democrats TODAY are the antiwhite party. What Democrats long dead did once is irrelevant.
Perhaps, but it is part of the history of America. Leave it alone.
Jim Crow = DEMOCRAT
To those on the Left trying to make something of the Flag I Say this:
lets deal with the Individual who had Evil in his Heart and Stop Blaming inanimate Things! They have no Soul and they Make no Decisions of Good or Evil, But the Murder did make those Decisions!
If I recall correctly Dr Williams has substituted several times for Rush
You’re only half right
Dems get 95% of AA vote, so flag hasn’t hurt them at all.
I hope pandering Haley get a backlash for pandering and gets her 1% extra AA vote but loses 30% of her GOP vote.
Turned out to be a Panda Rino
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