Posted on 08/16/2017 3:43:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: As I said, CBS News devoted 100% of their broadcast to Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday — 100% — and, of course, that 100% was spent in total outrage, anger, disbelief. There is now a mad dash all across the country to take down statues. A Chicago pastor has asked Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, to remove a George Washington statue. Confederates were taken down in Baltimore overnight. A Brooklyn Army base has been urged to rename streets honoring Confederate generals.
The Dallas mayor called Confederate statues “propaganda,” and a Hollywood cemetery has succumbed to threats and has removed a memorial. And this is just a short little list of some of the events that are occurring now in what looks to be a mad dash to comply with the latest conventional wisdom and to make sure that you are seen on the correct side of it. Have to take a break here. We’ll come back, we will continue in mere moments.
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RUSH: Here’s Kathy in Providence, Rhode Island, as we kick off the phones today. Welcome. Great to have you here.
The Dallas mayor called Confederate statues “propaganda,” and a Hollywood cemetery has succumbed to threats and has removed a memorial. And this is just a short little list of some of the events that are occurring now in what looks to be a mad dash to comply with the latest conventional wisdom and to make sure that you are seen on the correct side of it. Have to take a break here. We’ll come back, we will continue in mere moments.
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RUSH: Here’s Kathy in Providence, Rhode Island, as we kick off the phones today. Welcome. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I listen every day. You have a lot of good stuff to say and original ideas. I get a lot of out of it. But today I have to censor (sic) you just a little bit — censure you, that is. For one thing, I think you’re kind of overdoing in your discussion the left and the right. We’re all just Americans, really, and I know some of us really identify with those as political parties or whatever. But for a lot of people, it’s just ideas and values that we cherish. So I think that one good idea if you don’t do that so much would be to understand that for a lot of people this discussion about taking down the statues and the whole racism thing.
It’s really about slavery, and that’s another thing I haven’t heard you mention very much, but probably I assume that you, like most Americans, are very, you know, sad and ashamed of years of slavery and considering human people as property and able to sell and buy and many of — most of them were of color. And so, you know, it’s come down through the centuries that, you know, these traits linger in the lives… I had a black friend in California — I had more than one, but — she was telling me that her family, her mother, and her mother knew their mother. This is about 20 years ago.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: They knew their parents, but they didn’t know their grandparents or their great parents, great-grandparents. They had no family from before slavery. Back then people weren’t people. Their births weren’t recorded at the local county office. You know, it was just a whole different world. So we today, we have this heritage of people being treated very, very poorly and horribly and killed in some cases and lynched in some cases, and I just think that when we talk about these issues that verge on slavery, I hope that we will be a little more direct in being honest about what it was really all about. That was a long sentence.
RUSH: Well, do you know that the Native Americans were slaveholders? Did you know that Christopher Columbus, the ostensible discoverer of America —
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: — it was the order… The United States was not in any way unique in this. In fact, what makes the United States unique is that we are the first serious major country, population that ended it. We went to war to end it, and 500,000 citizens of this country died in that effort. Nobody here denies slavery. Nobody’s denying it at all. But there’s a missing sense of proportion about this — and I have to disagree with you on one thing, Kathy.
This is ideological. Every bit of this is ideological. It is left versus right, centrist versus whatever. It is. And the fact that a lot of people don’t see that is, I think, what permits much of this to happen. Anyway, I’m glad you called. I appreciate it. I conclude our call in all sensitivity to you, but I must go because of the constraints of time.
This is exactly what these idiots are doing, and if you think they will stop at this. YOU BETTER THINK ABOUT IT.
You know how much the "progressives hate the Constitution, don't you?
They will not rest until they have declared the Constitution as unconstitutional.
There are plenty of these to be toppled
Before you liquidate a people you need to unhinge them from their sense of attachment to a SHARED PAST.
It’s like cutting the anchor chain.
A boat adrift is much easier to do away with.
Paid for by George Soros? —
We’ve been asking that for several days, here.
MLK’s pastor father was hugely enamored of Martin Luther after a trip to Europe.
He did legally change his OWN name to Martin Luther King but only TOLD his congregation:
Call me Martin Luther King Senior, call my son Martin Luther King Junior.
MLK junior did gain that appelation but legally his name remained MIKE KING.
He did sometimes beat the prostitutes he hired. And he plagiarized very many parts of his PhD thesis and a little less than half of his first book, Striding Towards Freedom.
It was all serious enough that Boston College looked into the matter but blanched at the thought of retracting his degree; the matter was laid to rest.
He did attend a commie training camp, though maybe unwittingly, and most of his speeches were written for him by a wealthy Jewish car dealer from the south, a political activist.
That’s how the FBI became interested in MLK; originally they were after this speech writer fellow, who was a big-time commie.
Well if Sessions wakes up, he should be subpoenaing this info as part of his investigation. Time to fight fire with fire.
“There are plenty of these to be toppled.”
If you like, you can walk onto the University of Texas campus, hold a rally, and attempt to tear down that statue of MLK.
I suggest a weekday at around noon, when there are around 50,000 Texas students walking around that statute.
Stanley Levison (not LeviNson), close associate of MLK.
This was the guy the FBI was really, really interested in.
You can find very few photos of them together.
Eleanor Roosevelt also trained here, as did Rosa Parks, who was a longtime political activist before becoming famous. They conducted seminars here regarding de-segregation, labor issues, literacy, voting rights.
You can see photos of MLK attending lectures inside Highlander.
Yep, what goes around comes around.
Do they REALLY want to go there? Friggin Marxists!
The future....kids playing in Leroy jones park, momy who was Leroy jones, oh he was the neighborhood pimp and drug dealer who was gunned down, town square shaniqua circle, mommy who was shaniqua, oh she was the town hoe who died of a drug overdose.
Taliban is exactly what I was thinking when this nonsense started.
Fascists, thugs, and terrorists are the same all over the world, regardless of what they call themselves.
History will mark a time when democrats try to distance themselves from this foolishness, just as they do for most of their past behavior.
You dems might as well start thinking up excuses and inventing alibis now.
I am a yankee! I was born in Pennsylvania. We have paperwork for several members of the family who were wounded during the civil war.
I object to the tearing down of statues from the period. It is foolish to think that this will revise history in any way. I think it would be better to leave them standing to remind us of the mindset of the men who fought the civil war.
Black people were slaves. Nobody can change that. Tearing down the statues won’t do it. Leave them. Leave them as a reminder of who they were and what they stood for. That is a better option.
You are such a shit talking contrarian prick. Every thread you’re on, you try to pick fights. Why are you even on this site?
“You are such a shit talking contrarian prick.”
How am I contrarian?
I have never advocated for the removal of a Confederate monument. However, I have said that the removal of any monument is up to the entity that owns that monument.
BTW-that is exactly the position that President Trump took on the Confederate monument issue.
I also indicated that I would oppose the removal of the MLK statue on the University of Texas campus.
Am I contrarian to oppose the removal of the MLK statue?
Do you support the removal of the MLK statue?
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