Posted on 08/03/2017 3:58:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. El Rushbo illustrating one of the most important, paramount teachable moments in the history of the EIB Network.
Here’s Jim Acosta at CNN. By the way, Jim Acosta, after having been humiliated by Stephen Miller, after having been exposed as an idiot, as an uneducated, maleducated putz, has continued to tweet the last 24 hours total error-filled disinformation about the Statue of Liberty and how Trump’s immigration policy is basically an attack on the Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty has nothing to do with immigration, folks. It had nothing to do with immigration. The Emma Lazarus poem did not appear on the pedestal for years and years and years after the Statue of Liberty was deployed in New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty does not point to the United States. The Statue of Liberty points outward, away from the United States. It is a beacon of liberty and freedom for the rest of the world. It has nothing to do with immigration.
But that Emma Lazarus poem has been taught as U.S. immigration policy. “Give me your tired, give me your thirsty, give me your hungry, give me your poor, give me your transgendered,” throw that in there. Give me everybody who’s a victim of the evil in the world and the United States will take them. That’s not immigration policy. That’s not what the poem was meant to do.
The poem and the Statue of Liberty are two separate entities. They were not created together, never intended to be deployed together. It is one of the most egregious examples of disinformation that is being taught throughout the American education system today. And one of the primary victims of this miseducation is Jim Acosta, who is a reporter at CNN. He got first crack at Stephen Miller yesterday.
Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Spars With CNN's Jim Acosta At Press Briefing
ACOSTA: What the President’s proposing here does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration. The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” It doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country, if — if you’re telling them, “You have to speak English”? Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?
RUSH: Now, there may be some bias in here and there may be some devotion to the liberal jeopardy, but folks, there’s abject — I’m trying to look for the polite word. It’s ignorance, abject ignorance here. Mr. Acosta, stupidity, it’s a qualitative thing. I’m talking about how little he knows, combined with the smug arrogance that he knows more than anybody.
Those two things are some of the most irritating personality quirks I ever run into. People that don’t know diddly-squat who think they’re experts. And this guy is the champion of this. In his mind, the Statue of Liberty, the Emma Lazarus poem, that’s immigration policy, right there. It doesn’t say anything about computer science, Miller. It doesn’t say anything about speaking English, Miller. Aren’t you turning immigration policy upside down? Immigration is not an entitlement, Acosta. Anyway, here’s how Miller dealt with it in the first phase.
MILLER: Right now it’s a requirement that to be naturalized, you have to speak English. So the notion that speaking English wouldn’t be a part of immigration systems would be, actually, very ahistorical. Secondly, the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world. It’s a symbol of American liberty lighting the world. The poem that you’re referring to was added later. It’s not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty. But more fundamentally…
ACOSTA: Stephen, I’m sorry…
MILLER: No, here, here…
ACOSTA: …that sounds like, that sounds like…
MILLER: Jim, let me ask you a question.
ACOSTA: …that sounds like some national park revisionism.
MILLER: No. What I’m asking you is… (laughter)
ACOSTA: The Statue, the Statue of Liberty…
MILLER: Jim.
ACOSTA: …has always been…
MILLER: Jim, let me ask you a question.
Acosta: … a beacon of hope to the world.
So, as I’ve told you, there isn’t any news. They’re not looking for news. These people are looking to destroy anything other than their agenda. But aside from the politics of this, folks, in the real world this ignorance — or if you don’t want to accept that it’s ignorance, this bias. Whatever you want to call it, it is paralyzing us. I cannot make this point too much. I can’t pound it too often. It is paralyzing us. This legislation probably doesn’t stand a chance.
It doesn’t stand a chance in Congress because there’s so much ignorance — and there has been so much misinformation and disinformation — that it’s gonna be very easy to characterize this as a discriminating, mean-spirited piece of legislation, when in fact it is the exact opposite! It is to benefit the United States of America. It is to benefit the people that we decide to let in and become citizens, and that is totally up to us. It isn’t an entitlement program. It’s not about benefits to anybody. It’s about how you earn the ability to come to and stay in the United States.
It is the antithesis of an entitlement.
But I fear it doesn’t have a prayer. This little debate in the White House press corps yesterday is enough to scare off your typical member of Congress who would rather not take the time — as I have here — to explain how false and erroneous this argument is. Rather than stand up for the bill, rather than stand up for the legislation — and because Trump has his fingerprints on it, that’s another reason. “We can’t let it happen! We can’t have Trump have a success! Oh, no way.” So something profoundly decent? Very, very progressive in terms of improving things?
Very, very good? Very, very substantial? It doesn’t stand a prayer because way too many people in our country are unable to accept, discern, and process common sense. And again, this arrogant smugness that accompanies this stupidity or ignorance is beyond frustrating. Now, to wrap this up (’cause there are other things plus your phone calls), I have just two more sound bites here of Jim Acosta and Steve Miller. Now, the media was saying, “This Acosta is great! He really took it to Miller. He showed Miller what he’s really all about. He exposed Miller as a fraud.”
Anybody with an open mind and a modicum of understand understands that Jim Acosta of CNN was yet again profoundly embarrassed. But he doesn’t have the sense to know how exposed he was yesterday as an illiterate. He’s running around puffing himself up on Twitter and trying to find Google searches that back up his belief that Statue of Liberty is immigration policy! That poem, the Emma Lazarus poem, was it appended to the Constitution? No. It was appended to the statue — and you can’t even see it unless you go inside.
It’s not even on the outside of the statue. There’s no way an arriving immigrant said, “Hey, I’m one of the hungry! I’m one of the thirsty! Hey, I’m one of the people that’s talking about,” ’cause that’s not what it’s about. You went through Ellis Island, right, when you wanted to come? That was one of the…? (chuckles) Well, never mind. A couple sound bites. I don’t… (interruption) Well, I just wondered something. “Are you thirsty?” I wonder if that’s one of the questions they were asked.
“Are you transgendered? Are you a victim? Are you a victim of wherever you come from?” Of course not. “Do you sleep with pigs? Do you hang around with pigs? What kind of person are you? “We’re looking for the dregs of society to let into our country, here.” It’s not what happened, and yet that’s what people want us to believe. That’s the kind of thing that determined whether or not somebody got into this country. (interruption) Wipe that expression… (interruption)
That express… (interruption) Snerdley thinks I’ve stepped over a line here. I haven’t stepped over any kind of a line here. I’m trying to illustrate. I keep going! I keep going until I think I have hit gold in the art of persuasion. (laughing) I saw how they reacted to Miller. Well, here’s more of that. We’ve just got two of these sound bites. It’s Stephen Miller and Jim Acosta again with the ongoing debate over the immigration bill.
MILLER: In 1970 when we let in 300,000 a year, was that violating or not violating the Statue of Liberty law of the land?
ACOSTA: (silence)
MILLER: In the 1990s, when it was half a million a year, was it violating or not violating the Statue of Liberty law of the land?
ACOSTA: (confused pause) Was it violating —
MILLER: When it was 700,000 a year…?
ACOSTA: Was it violating the Statue of Liberty —
MILLER: No, tell me what years. Tell me what years Jim Acosta’s definition of the Statue of Liberty poem law of the land? So you’re saying a million a year is the Statue of Liberty number; 900,000 violates it; 800,000 violates it?
ACOSTA: Y-y-you’re sort of bringing a “press one for English” —
MILLER: Jim?
ACOSTA: — philosophy here to immigration, and that’s never —
MILLER: Jim?
ACOSTA: — been what — what the United States has been about, Stephen. That’s just the basics.
MILLER: But you’re also… Your statement’s also shockingly ahistorical in another respect, too, which, if you look at the history of immigration, it’s actually ebbed and flowed. We’ve had periods of very large waves followed by periods of less immigration and more immigration.
RUSH: This idiot, Acosta, doesn’t even realize that he’s being mocked and humiliated. “The Statue of Liberty the law of the land? What is the Statue of Liberty law of the land? Is it 900,000? What’s the Statue of Liberty law of the land? Is it 700,000? What is it, Jim? Were we violating the Statue of Liberty law of the land when…?” “No. No, Stephen. We’re simply talking about how the United States has been a beacon, Stephen.” “Well, what’s the limit here? What’s the Statue of Liberty law of the land limit?” Acosta didn’t get it! So Acosta, desperate to get the last word in…
ACOSTA: The whole notion of, “Well, they could learn… You know, they have to learn English before they get to the United States.” Are we just gonna bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?
MILLER: I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It’s absolutely… It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind —
ACOSTA: (sputtering)
MILLER: No, this is an amazing —
ACOSTA: (sputtering)
MILLER: This is an amazing moment. This is an amazing moment. That you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hardworking immigrants who do speak English from all over the world.
ACOSTA: (sputtering) I — I — I —
MILLER: Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant, and foolish things you ever said.
RUSH: (laughing) That’s why casual observers think that Stephen Miller wiped the floor with Acosta. But Acosta still didn’t know what had happened to him there. He still didn’t know! At the moment Miller’s going through all of that, Acosta thinks that Miller is the idiot, that Miller is the impolite, brusque and rude Trumpist. Acosta doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s talking about.
In Acosta’s world the only people that speak English are other white people and they’re in Great Britain and Australia, and outside of that nobody else speaks English. And so Miller and Trump don’t want anybody but Brits and Australians to be admitted into the country. “Is that what you’re saying, Stephen?” And Miller is shocked at the limited worldview, which he called cosmopolitan. (laughing)
Acosta hasn’t the slightest idea what has happened here. He didn’t realize until I’m sure he started reading reviews of this and saw that many people thought the floor had been wiped with him that he started getting defensive and searching on Google for evidence that the Statue of Liberty is, in fact, immigration policy.
Yo Jim:
Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot.,.
No only that, but the statue itself was a trial run and a marketing gimmick for the sculptor because he wanted to build and even larger one similar in Egypt at the (then) new Suez Canal. He had a devil of a time getting France to sponsor it and even harder time getting NYC scions to pony up the location and the money to build the base ... nobody was much interested.
Not at all the glamorous stuff we were taught in grade school.
It’s a very interesting story to read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HWGLZ40/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Acosta still thinks you shouldn’t get into an argument with someone that buys ink by the barrel. Everyone can get as many electrons as they want these days.
That same year, a man named Gaget, one of the partners in the French company that had built the Liberty, conceived the idea of creating miniature statues to sell to Americans in Paris as souvenirs.
The Americans mispronounced “Gaget” and called their miniature Liberty's “gadgets,” and a new word for something small was born.
Yeah I read it in a link when I did a search of the history of the statue.
Rush did not need to discuss the history of the Statue of Liberty. The answer is simple. We do not have to pursue a self- destructive open borders policy just because of an inscription on a statue.
Emma Lazarus saw immigrants who wanted to become successful Americans ..... mostly of European and Jewish backgrounds like her own family .... people who (mostly, allowing for a few bad apples in any large group of course) people who were thankful to be admitted to USA and who worked very very hard once here to both succeed and contribute to our society
and there were NO welfare handouts in 1883, either. If you came to USA, you found work right away....and signed up for an English language class as soon as possible, too
I would guess that 95% of immigrants in 1883 made it successfully as American citizens. Today?
The Communist poem is thought by many to be part of the Constitution or Declaration. It needs to be removed from the statue. It is destructive, as it was intended to be.
I read somewhere that, before welfare entitlements, there was a significant return flow of people who couldn’t make it here. One of my own ancestors did this.
According to a poster in the thread Emma Lazarus was a communist
actually not. Lazarus was a follower of Henry George’s single tax (property tax) theory, whereby natural assets like minerals and oil would support government...without any additional taxes like income taxes, sales taxes, death/estate/inheritance taxes, etc.
And as an individual you would get to keep all the income you yourself earned .... no income taxes, no withholding of same, etc. You earn it, you keep it....and we would let the earth support our common needs and governmental operations.
Whether this approach would have been good or bad, I leave to your judgment.
But, Lazarus was not a communist. There’s no “from each according...to each according....” etc.
Best,
fhc
Since her family came to what would become the USA, well over 100 YEARS prior to that that remarkable occurrence ( they came in the mid 1600s !), and her maternal GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER was born in NYC in 1752, when N.Y. was just a Brit colony, it's best to not take some random poster's words as "gospel"!
OTOH...I have been posting factual history to FR since '98, cleaning up other's insane postings with FACTS, you can take such posts of mine to the bank! :-)
It is Apollos or the Sun God of Illumination, or Helios, same as the statue of Helios stood in the harbor at Rhodes.
These are depictions of Helios, Apollos, the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Note how the Statue of Liberty's arm is very masculine.
French Freemason sculptor, into the illumination thing. Weird gift for the USA because it was not a "gift" from France: we paid for it.
I can't vouch for this Jewish preacher guy, but it looks like he nails it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOquOm0Wlik
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES: HELIOS OR APOLLO:
History is being rewritten as we watch. Google “American scientist” or “American Mathematician”. The result will surprise you.
This is true. Many went back home when they found out the streets were not paved with gold and you had to work hard to become a real American.
Hah! She kind of resembles Elvis! She’s a man, baby!
You said it! And most of us here on FR are the very lucky descendants of such brave and plucky folks!
Interesting piece of trivia. And we paid France back, in spades! We pulled their chestnuts out of the fire in two World Wars!
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