Posted on 06/24/2015 3:25:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay, let's go to the audio sound bites, and that's CNN today. Again, look, I guess all this is occurring under an umbrella or a single theme today here, folks. And, you know, it was a throwaway comment yesterday, all this focus on the Confederate flag and trying to put this in perspective and tell everybody what the real focus is, which is not the flag, but everything the left wants you to think that flag represents.
It's about a way of life. It's about political conservatives. It's about the Republican Party. It's about wiping them out. It is about eliminating Democrat Party opposition. It's about clearing the playing field, clearing the decks with whatever mechanism and opportunity presents itself. And I said the next thing to happen, the next flag to come under assault is the American flag. Politico wrote about it and not with any snark, either, and it was discussed by our buddies over at Fox & Friends and they think I'm off my rocker with it.
But it is the theme or the umbrella, meaning this is not a singular attack on the Confederate flag. And, by the way, it's not the first either. It's yet just another opportunity as far as the Democrat Party is concerned. And the political aspects of it are really wrapped up in the fact that the Democrats think that the South is the last Republican geographic stronghold. I hate to be repetitive, but what I said in the first hour, which I've said on previous occasions, too, the biggest threat the Democrat Party faces is domestic. And it's their political opposition.
All this talk about bipartisanship and cooperation, getting along, the Republicans are demanded to act that way. The media, the Democrats come around, tell everybody, "You need to be bipartisan. You need to be cooperative. You need to work with us and show people that the government can work." They're not interested in any of that, folks. They want to eliminate all opposition. And that's what all this is. Now, you can believe me or not, but there is no question about it. All I'm doing is providing story after story here that suffices as evidence for my premise.
The New York Times did two stories in five days, essentially, on how the real threat in this country is right-wing extremism and terrorism. That's the real threat that Americans face, not homegrown jihadis, not people here that want to join ISIS, not left-wing anti-war protesters, not whatever the Wall Street bunch was, the name of that phony protest that they concocted to counter the Tea Party. What was the name of that? Occupy Wall Street.
Yeah, nothing to fear there. Nothing to fear from any left-wing extremists. Nothing to fear from the murder rate in Chicago, no, no, no. The fear that you need to be constantly aware of is right-wing extremism. Two stories in the New York Times in five days about this. On CNN today Ashleigh Banfield talking to Don "Black hole" Lemon about something that may need to happen in Washington, DC.
BANFIELD: Jefferson owned slaves. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, third president of the United States, and there is a monument to him in the capital city of the United States. No one ever asks for that to come down. Is it equal?
RUSH: Is it equal? What is that, "Is it equal?" Nobody ever asks if that should come down. Well, they have now. You did it. The bespectacled Ashleigh Banfield now wants to know if the Thomas Jefferson Memorial should come down, and if it should, what should we do with the Washington Monument, and wait 'til the feminazis weigh in on that, because to them the Washington Monument represents nothing but the highest, tallest, most oppressive example of the patriarchy.
You talk about phallic, Washington Monument, Washington, first president, owned slaves, Jefferson, all these guys, what have we done to our country, they will say. Here's how Don Lemon answered that question, should it come down, nobody's ever asked if the Jefferson Memorial should come down, should we?
LEMON: No, I don't think it's equal because Jefferson was a figure who was part of the entire United States, not just the south. And that doesn't mean that Jefferson was perfect or anyone was perfect and our history is perfect. There may come a day where we may want to rethink Jefferson. I don't know if we should do that, but when we get to that point I'll be happy to partake in that particular discussion. But right now I don't think the two are equal. It's not just, well, about this, and what about this, and what about this? We're talking about nine people who are dead, who were slaughtered. We're talking about people in the South who have been sick of that flag and living under the oppression of that flag for generations, and so now this is a time to talk about it.
RUSH: So Lemon's not down for the struggle yet in terms of getting rid of the Jefferson Memorial, but he might be open to talking about it later, after they've dealt with the flag. (imitating Lemon) "I don't think the flag and the memorial are quite equal out there, Ashleigh, but give me a moment. You know, give me some time to think about this and maybe we want to go there."
Anyway, it's been posited, and this is not the last we are going to hear of it. I'm not predicting we're gonna get rid of it. I'm telling you, they don't have to. All they've gotta do is have a serious series of discussions about it with a sufficient number of op-eds, a bunch of opinion pieces that run on Yahoo News. You get enough people discussing how hypocritical it is for this nation to even have a Jefferson Memorial, and you can accomplish the same thing, discredit it.
When you discredit the memorials, when you heap criticism and ridicule on all of these traditions and institutions, you don't have to tear them down in order to destroy them. And make no bones, do not misunderstand where we are with this. Now, yesterday, this is exactly what I said about the flag and it begot a back-and-forth on Fox & Friends today.
RUSH ARCHIVE: I'll make another prediction to you. The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag. Do not look at me that way. It makes perfect sense. If you take a look at the timeline of progressive of events, their speed and rapidity with which the left is conducting this assault on all of these American traditions and institutions, if you don't think the American flag's in their crosshairs down the road, you had better stop and reconsider.
RUSH: They just don't think there's anything to that over at Fox & Friends. They had a little discussion on it. We had a montage put together to show you what they said.
HENRY: Well, I hope he's wrong. I think he's --
HASSELBECK: Me, too.
HENRY: -- engaging in hyperbole a little bit. (cross-talk) And he's stoking people --
DOOCY: He's got a point. He's got a point (cross-talk) about the speed of the narrative. (cross-talk)
HENRY: Yeah, but the American flag is not next.
HASSELBECK: It's not next.
HENRY: People aren't coming after the American flag.
HASSELBECK: No one's gonna mess with the American flag.
HENRY: No, no.
HASSELBECK: We have too many people willing to defend it.
HENRY: He does --
HASSELBECK: Trust me.
HENRY: -- have a point about just how the political narrative can turn on a dime and --
DOOCY: Sure.
HENRY: -- suddenly things change so fast. Is that gonna happen? I hope not.
RUSH: Well, I hope it doesn't, either. But I also didn't want any of this stuff in South Carolina to be happening. I didn't want the borders to be open. I didn't want Obamacare to happen. I didn't want 93 million Americans to not be able to find work and not be in the labor force. I didn't want all these graduates from major American universities to be a hundred thousand dollars or more in debt. I didn't want any of this, but it happened in six years. I didn't want any of it.
You wait until they tell the right people, the White House was built by slaves for a slaveholding president, you wait and see what happens. Obama's already laid that marker down, by the way. At Selma. What are you laughing at in there? (interruption) Look at the what? (interruption) Oh, the imagery. Of what, slaves building the White House? What imagery? (interruption) Oh, you mean the imagery at Fox News on Fox & Friends?
There's all kinds of stuff that's happening more rapidly than I would have ever thought it could. You know, gay marriage, transgenderism as normal, natural, and as everyday as water in the faucet. I mean, you blink and there's major change taking place here. And it's happening overnight.
My only point is that the American flag stands for a bunch of things that are already under assault. Let me clarify what I mean by this. I don't mean that they're gonna make a move like they're making in South Carolina to actually pull the American flag down. I'm saying people are gonna start ripping it, people are gonna start criticizing it as a symbol of all that's wrong. I mean, the Confederate flag flew over slave states for four years. The American flag has flown over whatever they think is wrong in this country for 200-plus years. Just like you don't have to tear down the Jefferson Memorial to discredit it and to have people question that as a tradition, as an institution, as a symbol. You don't have to tear it down. You don't have to pull the American flag down in order for people to start questioning it.
I'm just telling you this stuff's already actually underway. It's very simple what we're talking about, the transformation of this country, which Obama telegraphed and is happening. Now, last night on CNN's tonight Don "Black hole" Lemon spoke with New York Times columnist Timothy Egan and satellite radio guy, Joe Madison, about the Confederate flag controversy and slavery.
And Don Lemon said, "You say that the president should apologize for slavery, and you said the first black man to live in the White House, long hesitant about doing anything bold on the color divide, could make one of the most simple and dramatic moves of his presidency, apologize for the land of the free being at one time the largest slaveholding nation on earth. So why now, Egan? Why Obama? Why, of all presidents, should Obama be the one to apologize?"
EGAN: We're having this awful week, this horrible tragedy, and we're also going through a lot of self-reflection right now. And at the root of a lot of this thing, a lot of the problems we've had, is America's original sin, which was slavery. As you mentioned, as I wrote, we were the largest slaveholding nation on earth. We did make blacks three-fifths of a person in the Constitution. We did codify racism into the Constitution in many ways. And I just think it could be so redemptive and so powerful and so moving, you wouldn't have any hassle from Congress, there would be push-back from people, of course, but for a man who's the leader of what was once the largest slaveholding nation on earth to say, "I apologize for what we did in America's original sin," other nations have done it, the Vatican has done it.
RUSH: There are a host of reasons why Obama would never do it. But, you know, here's the thing about this that gets me. These people are acting, talking, writing, pontificating, opining as though slavery is still the order of the day. It's still happening. And, in fact, we haven't done anything to correct it. We haven't made amend one. We haven't done anything. We haven't apologized. We haven't made any movements, taken any steps, no advances whatsoever. Which is flat-out poppycock.
That's the thing that bothers me about this. You know how ignorant people are of American history, it isn't being taught. I mean, how many people think that there hasn't been one thing done to make amends for it, to get past it. People want to create this mind-set that it is still happening and that we haven't done anything to fix it. That's what's being perpetuated here. Anyway, here's Hillary. Move on to audio sound bite number seven. She's in Florissant, Missouri, the Christ the King United Church of Christ, at a community meeting, and this is what she said about all of this.
HILLARY: I know it's tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident. To believe that in today's America, bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.
RUSH: Ah, you see, the struggle continues. You see, nothing's been done. It's exactly my point. For all practical purposes, for all intents and purposes, nothing's been done here. We have such a long way to go, we haven't done nearly enough. Getting rid of the Confederate flag, that's just the beginning, and then she said more.
HILLARY: I appreciate the actions begun yesterday by the governor and other leaders of South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse (applause) recognizing it as a symbol of our nation's racist past that has no place in our present or our future. It shouldn't fly there. It shouldn't fly anywhere. But you know, I know --
RUSH: All right, I'm out of time. Stop this. I gotta go to a break. I can't wait.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: We're gonna start in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hey, Ron, thank you so much for waiting and welcome. It's great to have you here.
Rush is right
Hassleback was a massive mistake. That show has turned into the feel good, fluffy puppies and cooking Today show.
Hardly watch the show anymore due to her and Trump on there tooting his own horn all the time disgusts me.
Never put yourself in the position of defending Democrat history. They are the party of slavery, slave economics, Jim Crow, KKK, race murder and repression, lynch mobs, truncheons and fire hoses, and all the rest. In the modern era they continue to be a party obsessed with race and dedicated to race politics and ethnic gerrymandering.
Thats their history, let them defend it. We’re the other guys.
The Republican Party is wiping itself out of existence and probably could care less: that way they call all be Democrat.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
I think there’s a bigger aim than a mere political one.
It’s about wiping out Republican opposition? They’ve been doing that for many years.
Btw, I think this goes a bit deeper than getting rid of the of that flag, or the party which more often supports them.
That’s one of the pickles of the Dixie flag situation.
At one point that flag and Democrats (with abysmal attitudes towards black people, by and large) might as well have been the same.
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Jim Crow ended. Republicans, who were the party that supposedly hated the south, began to appropriate Dixie imagery as the party swept the south, and some of it did fit Republican attitudes better than the Democrat attitudes it served as a fig leaf for. What puts the honesty in redneck? What puts the nobility in rebel?
But now we have a new ignorant generation upon us.
There are many in here who are helping the left without even realizing it
I assume Rush means those Republicans who oppose the Republican establishment, as both parties now seem hell bent on making sure the white middleclass becomes extinct (with Cousin Beauregard Middleclass getting the first "nudge" into the ethnic cleansing program).
Mr. niteowl77
More than you know.
I’ve never seen anyone burn a Confederate Battle Flag, but I have seen many Americans burn the American flag.
So I would have to say the Stars and Stripes days are numbered.
At least public display in federal buildings and especially public schools.
After all, it offends our enemies.
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No doubt about it
It must have worked.
I haven’t heard any Republican opposition for some time now.
This is about creating a new MSM Litmus test straw man.
She doesn't bother me. My favorite female Fox and Friends host was E.D. Hill. Gretchen Carlson was okay, but her giggling got on my nerves. Brian Kilmmeade is cute I think
E.D was mine favorite too.
I just can’t stand all this nicey nicey feel good crap and Hassleback is clueless
No matter how entrenched a part of The Establishment they become, the left continually has to cast itself as idealistic underdog battling some bugbear.
It can get ridiculous, and The American Spectator had a good article 3 years ago about it.
It was some UN sponsored Summit on the Rights of Women, and it went bizarredly like this:
Pakistani woman speaker: “My dowry wasn’t high enough, and my Mother in Law set me alight in heating oil, look at my burns...” (big gasp):
Saudi woman speaker: “They don’t let me drive, when I did they whipped me, look at my scars..” (big gasp):
Chinese woman speaker “They didn’t let me have more than one baby, when I conceived my second the bad nurse came with a big needle and forcibly aborted my baby...” (big gasp)
American woman speaker: “The Army academy at West Point won’t build a coven equal in size to the cadet church for the WITCHES on campus...”
(puzzled looks and silence all around)
I think you are correct. This is more than just “political.” It’s an attempt at erasing an entire history and an entire culture.
The Conservative, Christian South is the strongest impediment to total tyranny by the regime. That is what this is about. They must be destroyed.
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