{"id":12710,"date":"2013-04-10T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-10T18:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:25:02","slug":"melissa_harris_perry_mainstream_lib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/10\/melissa_harris_perry_mainstream_lib\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Harris-Perry: Mainstream Lib"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: We played for you a sound bite of Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a>. Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor at Tulane. She has a show at PMSNBC. She is a standard-issue leftist. There is nothing extraordinary about her, and by that I mean she\u2019s not extreme; she\u2019s not way, way far out there. She is a mainstream American liberal today. Folks, that\u2019s very important. This is the woman who thinks that the whole notion that kids belong to their parents is outdated. That idea is cockamamie.<\/p>\n

The government is really the parent.<\/p>\n

My point is she\u2019s out denying that she said it today. While saying the same thing, she\u2019s out denying it. She\u2019s trying to laugh it off and say that people like me only heard what we wanted to hear. But, in denying it, she\u2019s saying it again. I\u2019m not gonna play her denials or anything. I\u2019m not gonna go anywhere like that. Just trust me. She\u2019s out denying it and trying to make fun of or criticize the people who interpreted her literally, I mean, she said what she said.<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s a companion story with this now that makes my point that she is not out of the mainstream. This woman who thinks that your kids are not yours is standard-issue liberal. Gosh, if I could just make people see it! Look, I admit to you: It is frustrating, folks, \u2019cause it\u2019s so easy to understand who these people are. They\u2019re not a mystery. They\u2019ve just done such a good job of making people think they are what they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

They are the opposite of what they claim to be.<\/p>\n

This woman who thinks that your kids aren\u2019t yours? That\u2019s standard. That\u2019s Marx. That\u2019s what liberalism, leftism, socialism has always meant. There\u2019s nothing new about it. The only thing new is that people like her are saying it publicly as though it\u2019s just common sense. It\u2019s why they don\u2019t like school choice! You don\u2019t have a say-so where your kids go to school. It\u2019s not your right to determine where your kids go to school! It\u2019s not your responsibility. It\u2019s all of ours, it\u2019s the state\u2019s, and anything that promotes parental choice…<\/p>\n

Why do you think parents are not to be told when their daughters have an abortion? Why do you think parents are not to be given any say-so in that? It\u2019s because they\u2019re not your kids! That\u2019s what that\u2019s always meant. So many people think that that\u2019s a far-out, extremist idea — you know, only the real lollapalosers believe that — and it\u2019s mainstream. I know that\u2019s not what the people of this country believe. I know people voting Democrat don\u2019t think that.<\/p>\n

Your common, ordinary, everyday Democrat dupe, useful idiot voter doesn\u2019t… Now, there I\u2019ve gone insulting them. But they don\u2019t believe that. They think their kids are their kids. Some of \u2019em would love to get rid of \u2019em, but we\u2019ve not gone to the dark side in this country to the extent that people don\u2019t think their kids are theirs. But it is the mainstream liberal view, and if I could just — all of us, if we could just — somehow convey to people who these people really are…<\/p>\n

By the way, there are some very intelligent, bright people who do not understand this. Here\u2019s Melissa Harris-Perry\u2019s statement: “We do live in a nation where slaveholders took the infants from the arms of my foremothers and sold them for their own profit. We do live in a nation where the government snatched American Indian children from their families and ‘re-educated\u2019 them by forbidding them to speak their language and practice their traditions. But that is not what I was talking about, and you know it.”<\/p>\n

It was!<\/p>\n

So in denying what she said, she said it again. Here is what she originally said…<\/p>\n

HARRIS-PERRY: We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we\u2019ve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven\u2019t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it\u2019s everybody\u2019s responsibility, and not just the household\u2019s, then we start making better investments.<\/p>\n