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<\/p>\nRUSH: Andre Carson. Grab audio sound bite 13, and then we\u2019ll do 11 and 12. Andre Carson, proud member in good standing, Congressional Black Caucus, August 22nd, Miami during a Congressional Black Caucus town hall.<\/p>\n
CARSON: This is the effort that we\u2019re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens.<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: Yeah!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yep. Tea Party wants to see black people hanging on trees, i.e., being lynched. Last night he went on CNN The Situation Room and tried to explain what he meant.<\/p>\n
CARSON: I stand on the truth of what I spoke. My intentions weren\u2019t to hurt anyone or any group.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The only thing he didn\u2019t say was, that wasn\u2019t me. What do you mean, “I stand on the truth of what I spoke. My intentions weren\u2019t to hurt anybody or any group?” Of course they were! Then he continued.<\/p>\n
CARSON: My language was, of course, figurative, but having said that, I still — my intentions weren\u2019t to hurt anyone, but I want to see that we\u2019re one America, white brothers and sisters, black brothers and sisters, across the racial spectrum coming together to help create jobs, to help empower small businesses, to help bolster our educational system and move this country forward and reclaim the crown as the greatest nation on earth.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s not what you said. He didn\u2019t come close to anywhere saying that. “My language of was, of course, figurative, but having said that my intentions weren\u2019t to hurt anybody, but I want to see that we\u2019re one America.” How do you get from they want us hanging from trees to I want one America? How do you get there? You know, Andre, it would be better if you just stuck with it. You\u2019d get a lot more respect if you just stuck with it. The truth of the matter is that it\u2019s us conservatives who want to see all Americans become first class citizens. And, frankly, Mr. Carson, we look at people like you as a roadblock. I don\u2019t know what you have been doing, but the people that live in your district are not doing well. Nor are Maxine Waters\u2019 people, nor are John Conyers\u2019 people that you been looking out for \u2019em for who knows how many decades. You blame everybody else for it.<\/p>\n
You and your president have been schooled in radicalism, not Americanism. Radicalism, Americanism do not mix. I don\u2019t know about you, Mr. Carson, but I know that President Obama views the misery of others as a necessary step that must be taken to change this country. I look at the record, I look at what he\u2019s done, I look at his policies, no level of unemployment, homelessness, deficits, will deter him. He\u2019s gonna keep going. I\u2019ll tell you, when it comes to racism, I can\u2019t think of a single conservative I know who would not be thrilled to see the ability to detect skin color simply disappear from the human race. And I, frankly, as a conservative, and all the conservatives I know, can\u2019t think of a single one that would not be thrilled if there were a revival of economic triumphalism in the black community, because we want a great country, and we want everybody in this country loving it.<\/p>\n
We want an exceptional country, and we know that that can only happen with exceptional individuals, not exceptional government. I can\u2019t think of a single left-wing race-baiter who would want any of this. The left wing race-baiters that I know are comfortable with the status quo because it gives them their platform to exist. I think the only reason that race is still an issue in this country is the left keeps it as an issue. Real Americans judge each other on merits and they want to judge each other on merits. Real Americans are sick and tired of all this racial division. Real Americans are sick and tired of things like affirmative action, any other policy that separates and segregates people. We\u2019re tired of it, because it hurts the country. It does not advance anything other than the left-wing race-baiting industry, and government, socialism and these kinds of things.<\/p>\n
Look at this. “Worker productivity fell this spring in the United States at the faster pace than previously estimated while labor costs were rising at a faster clip.” And it says here, this is AP, “both developments could pose threats to a fragile economic recovery.” There is no recovery, and they do pose threats! “Productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.7% in the April-June period, a bigger drop than the 0.3% decline reported a month ago. Labor costs rose at an annual rate of 3.3%, faster than the 2.4% increase originally reported. Declining productivity, if it persists for a prolonged period, would represent a serious economic threat, while raising labor costs would cut into corporate profits.” Sounds like a perfect storm to me. The thing is I like rising labor costs. I like people earning more money as a result of greater productivity. I like it, because everybody wins.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Richmond, Virginia. Hi, Karen, great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, Rush, thank you so much for taking my call. Tea Partier dittos to you, and before I make my main point, let me just say what you were talking about earlier. The Black Caucus?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If any of these people had ever bothered to attend a rally, which I\u2019ve been to all of them, they would know that there were plenty of blacks in the crowd and plenty of Latinos.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It doesn\u2019t matter. They would beat \u2019em up!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh! (laughing) Well, they were there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s what happened in St. Louis: A poor black kid in a wheelchair got beat up by Obama union thugs.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, there\u2019s no convincing these people. We\u2019re not gonna convert them. They have to be defeated. Pure and simple, they have to be defeated — and it shouldn\u2019t be that hard. They represent 30% of the thinking in this country. They are not anywhere near a majority. Tea Partiers represent the majority of thinking — socially, fiscally, character, mortality, all that, the Tea Party represents the vast majority of thought — and they know it, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re threatened by it. They know that they\u2019re a minority movement. It irritates them to no end. But they have to be defeated. They\u2019re not gonna be converted. If they were to show up at a Tea Party thing… Andre Carson showed up at a Tea Party meeting, wouldn\u2019t change a word of what he said. He\u2019d call the blacks that were there Uncle Toms. They\u2019d be no different than Clarence Thomas or Condoleezza Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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