{"id":217763,"date":"2017-01-17T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=217763"},"modified":"2017-01-18T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:24:03","slug":"trump-is-right-john-lewis-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/17\/trump-is-right-john-lewis-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Right: John Lewis Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This John Lewis business, Trump… I\u2019m telling you, folks, the guy… They just can\u2019t intimidate him, they can\u2019t scare him, they can\u2019t shut him up. He\u2019s back tweeting about John Lewis. Now, you would think that after the press barrage of the last couple of days their effort to shame Trump for, “How dare you attack this man who was beat up on the Pettus Bridge in Selma 50 years ago? How dare you attack him! How dare you?” Trying to shame Trump. “You attack John Lewis, civil rights icon?” So Trump tweets out, “John Lewis lied. He said mine is the first inauguration he\u2019s not gonna attend.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“He didn\u2019t attend the George W. Bush inauguration. John Lewis lied.” Can you say the media is having a cow? My gosh, “Trump doubled down on it!” And the John Lewis office had put out a statement: Yes, that\u2019s true. Congressman Lewis did boycott the inauguration of George W. Bush because he also didn\u2019t think that election was legitimate. Trump was right. So this is the Trump pattern. Do something, the press has a cow, and Trump doubles down. He doubled down. And then, do you know he had a meeting yesterday with Martin Luther King\u2019s son at Trump Tower?<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King\u2019s son entered Trump Tower, got in the elevator, went up, met with Trump. They prayed. And Martin Luther King III came out and talked about how it was very constructive. They prayed, they talked about Martin Luther King Jr. and his great work, and the left is having collective heart attacks. And now Martin Luther King III\u2019s a sellout. “How dare he! In the middle of this John Lewis conversation, how dare he side with Trump against John Lewis?” Who, again, was beat up on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.<\/p>\n

Yeah, beat upside the head, 50 years ago on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, by a bunch of Democrats. Bull Connor. It was Democrats who turned the fire hoses on John Lewis. It was the Democrats that beat John Lewis upside the head. It was Democrats turned the dogs loose on the protesters. It was the Democrats that made up the KKK and still do. Trump prays with Martin Luther King son to heal the nation. “President-elect Makes Peace Move After Spat with Civil Rights Icon John Lewis<\/a>.” Oh!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re led to believe that the only reason Martin Luther King III showed up was so that Trump could play CYA with him after the John Lewis flap. That\u2019s not what happened here. Martin Luther King III was scheduled to visit Trump anyway. The media is just choosing to present this as Trump trying to cover his rear end. “President-Elect Donald Trump prayed with son of Martin Luther King Jr. at Trump Tower on Monday just days after the president-elect went after civil rights icon John Lewis on Twitter as someone who was all…”<\/p>\n

See, “civil rights icon” Trump “went after…” By the way, Trump called him “all talk.” What is Lewis but all…? What has Lewis done in the last 50 years besides talk? (interruption) No, no. I mean besides be beaten upside the head, what has he done in the last 50 years since then? He\u2019s done nothing but talk. He\u2019s become a Democrat Party hack. Now, you\u2019re not supposed to say this, folks. You are not. Nobody is supposed to say things like that, but that\u2019s what he is. Yeah… (interruption) He\u2019s the conscience of the civil rights movement in Congress? That\u2019s…?<\/p>\n

Okay. Fine. (sigh) Anyway, “Trump ‘prayed with Martin Luther King III & discussed the legacy & work of his father … A source who was at the meeting said it had opened with a prayer about ‘healing the nation\u2019, the Washington Post reported. The prayer and reflection came on a day when Trump hailed the ‘wonderful things\u2019 that King stood for — following a nasty online spat with civil [sic] Lewis,” who was beaten on a bridge 50 years ago, and “who is skipping Trump\u2019s inauguration after saying his election was ‘not legitimate.'”<\/p>\n

Lewis, by the way, made a big deal out of the fact this was the first inauguration he was gonna miss, the very first one. He did. That\u2019s how bad Trump is. And then Trump said, “No, no. You lied. You didn\u2019t go to George W. Bush\u2019s, either.” And they caught him. You hear Rod Schneider, Saturday Night Live actor, comedian, the movie character named Deuce Bigelow? Have you seen that movie Deuce Bigelow? Years and years ago. It\u2019s like one of those Adam Sandler movies like the golf one. I\u2019m having a mental block on the name of the movie.<\/p>\n

(interruption) No, no, no, Caddy Shack, that\u2019s Bill Murray, Bill Murray and the badger. This is… I can\u2019t remember what it\u2019s called. Anyway, it\u2019s that kind of mindless just-humor filled slapstick kind of comedy, and Rob Schneider tweeted to John Lewis, and I\u2019m gonna read to you. This is the New York Daily News. The media is just savaging Schneider. They\u2019re just savaging him. He has no right to do what he did! He has no right to even talk to John Lewis, \u2019cause you know what he did? He preached and he deigned to teach John Lewis how to do something.<\/p>\n

And nobody teaches John Lewis thing. John Lewis teaches! John Lewis is the conscience. John Lewis is this or that. “Rep. Lewis,” begins the tweet from Rob Schneider. “You are a great person. But Dr. King didn\u2019t give in to his anger or his hurt. That is how he accomplished & won Civil Rights.” The New York Daily News<\/a> says, “The ill-advised comment came just days after a disagreement between Lewis,” who was beat up on the bridge 50 years ago, “and President-elect Donald Trump. The Georgia Democrat announced Friday that he wouldn\u2019t attend Trump\u2019s inauguration, saying he doesn\u2019t see this President-elect as a legitimate president.'”<\/p>\n

<\/a>So what\u2019s wrong with this tweet? “Rep. Lewis. You are a great person. But Dr. King didn\u2019t give in to his anger or his hurt. That is how he accomplished & won Civil Rights.” I\u2019m telling you, the left-wing community is just descended on Schneider and accused him of impertinence, ill-advised commentary, insulting behavior. “How dare he say this to the civil rights icon! Rob Schneider doesn\u2019t know the first thing about civil rights and discrimination and Martin Luther King compared to John Lewis.”<\/p>\n

I think what this indicates… You know what nobody is saying? There\u2019s an angle of this story that nobody is actually touching on. Let me just ask you, how many Democrats…? (interruption) No, seriously. How many Democrats have you heard about or seen or read about signing on with John Lewis on this? You haven\u2019t seen a lot of people join whatever crusade Lewis is on.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s out there by some with in the media, but you don\u2019t have a lot of Democrats joining him in this. And it\u2019s a telltale sign to me. Now, media, they\u2019re not covering that aspect of it, so you may not have even thought of it. But I look at things this way: Lewis comes out, calls Trump illegitimate. I mean, you would think that all of Hollywood would sign on and agree with it, and then Lewis would be on all the talk show saying it and then other Democrats in Washington would come out and echo it. Not happening. Not happening.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Media montage here.\u00a0 The Congressional Black Caucasians are leading the boycott of the Trump inauguration.\u00a0 And it is.\u00a0 I mean, there are many groups behind this, but the Congressional Black Caucasians are a driving force behind this.\u00a0 I wonder what could be motivating the Congressional Black Caucasians. (interruption) No, I mean, could it be…? Is anybody considered the possibility that maybe they\u2019re just not ready to accept a white president?<\/p>\n

The only reason I ask this is because I saw a graphic on Fox earlier today, and I don\u2019t know who said this, but — and I may get — it was something along the lines that the NAACP should have no white members or the DNC should not have a white… (interruption) That\u2019s right. It was some liberal Democrat saying the Democrat National Committee should not have any white people in leadership.\u00a0 That\u2019s what it was.\u00a0 So that\u2019s why I\u2019m asking.\u00a0 Could it be the Congressional Black Caucasians are just not yet ready for a white president?\u00a0 Here\u2019s the montage…<\/p>\n

MAXINE WATERS: (outdoor noise) I won\u2019t be a part of a ceremony or an activity that makes people think we\u2019re all together when we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

JOHN LEWIS: (whispering) I don\u2019t see this president-elect as a legitimate president. I don\u2019t plan to attend the inauguration.<\/p>\n

BARBARA LEE: I don\u2019t want to celebrate, y\u2019know, a president-elect coming in that campaigned on a campaign of bigotry.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That\u2019s Barbara Lee from California, noted communist, Maxine Waters (may as well be communist) from LA, and of course John Lewis.\u00a0 And here\u2019s John Lewis, Meet the Press, F. Chuck Todd.\u00a0 This is the lie he was caught in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>LEWIS:\u00a0 I don\u2019t plan to attend the inauguration.\u00a0 It would be the first one that I miss since I\u2019ve been in the Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 That\u2019s how important it is: “The first one I miss since I\u2019ve been in the Congress.”\u00a0 But it\u2019s not.\u00a0 He boycotted George W. Bush because he didn\u2019t think that election was legitimate, either. Trump tweeted that out that John Lewis was a liar. (chuckling) I love it.\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 I mentioned this yesterday.\u00a0 This is John Lewis. It was March 31, 1995, during the budget battle, school lunch cuts that didn\u2019t exist and all this, these phantom school lunch cuts. Republicans were gonna starve our children.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the Democrats said, “Republicans are gonna starve the children!” Kids are writing letters to Republican congressmen, “I can\u2019t learn when I\u2019m hungry! How can you take away our lunch? How can you do this?”\u00a0 All sponsored.\u00a0 And this was Lewis on the House floor during the school lunch debate…<\/p>\n

LEWIS:\u00a0 They are comin\u2019 for our children! They are comin\u2019 for the poor! They are comin\u2019 for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled!<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Eh, let\u2019s hear that again.\u00a0 I mean, it kind of went by there real fast here.\u00a0 John Lewis, civil rights icon, beat upside the head on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma 50 years ago.\u00a0 This is on the floor of the House, March 31, 1995, during the school lunch debate in which the Democrats were alleging that the Republicans wanted to starve America\u2019s school kids.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: They are comin\u2019 for our children! They are comin\u2019 for the poor! They are comin\u2019 for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to hear that again. Let\u2019s see… It\u2019s eight seconds.\u00a0 I want to hear that three more times.\u00a0 Just play three more times.<\/p>\n

LEWIS: They are comin\u2019 for our children! They are comin\u2019 for the poor! They are comin\u2019 for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled!<\/p>\n

LEWIS: They are comin\u2019 for our children! They are comin\u2019 for the poor! They are comin\u2019 for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled!<\/p>\n

LEWIS: They are comin\u2019 for our children! They are comin\u2019 for the poor! They are comin\u2019 for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled!<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019d be John Lewis, March 31, 1995, on the floor of the House.\u00a0 They asked him about it when it was over. “Do you might want to walk some of that back? I mean, that\u2019s what people said about the Nazis.”\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 He meant it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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