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RUSH: More audio sound bites. Martin Luther King Day offered an opportunity for civil rights leaders to engage in hate speech. The “FreeSpeech” segment last night on the increasingly little watched CBS Evening News with Katie Couric featured John Lewis, and this is part of what Lewis had to say in his exciting commentary.<\/line>LEWIS: If Dr. King could speak today, he would tell us to stop this madness and bring our young people home. He would say that war is an obsolete, ineffective tool of our foreign policy.<\/line>RUSH: Wow.<\/line>LEWIS: He would say that we must struggle against injustice; we must stand up for what we believe, but if peace is our goal, then peaceful ends can only be secured by peaceful means. He would say we must find a way for us to live together as brothers and sisters, or we will perish as fools.<\/line>RUSH: Well, this happened to be said the same day Hillary Clinton was calling for more troops to wipe out the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. John Lewis is telling us what Martin Luther King would have said about the Iraq war. Here\u2019s Representative Lewis, by the way, as we go back to our audio archives on the House floor. March 21st, 1995, during the Contract with America debate, specifically the school lunch debate, this is what Lewis said about Republicans.<\/line>LEWIS: They are coming for our children! They are coming for the poor! They are coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.<\/line>RUSH: Yes! He\u2019s trying to say Republicans wanted to wipe those people out, just get rid of them because they got in the way. Of course it\u2019s Democrats in Tiburon<\/a> and Chappaquiddick<\/a> who don\u2019t want these people anywhere near them and don\u2019t want their values and their property to be devalued by the presence of such “scum,” and yet Democrats claim it\u2019s people like you and me, folks, who wish to disrespect, dishonor, ignore, harm, hurt, damage the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the infirm, the dis-infirm, the dysentery, the elderly, and the disabled. But the pi?ce de r?sistance was last Friday in Washington at a forum on black leadership. Councilman Charles Barron, Democrat from Brooklyn, New York, said this.<\/line><\/p>\n

BARRON: We have such bad black people in power nowadays, I don\u2019t even call them Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas anymore because that\u2019s an insult to Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima. These folks are worse! It\u2019s not enough to get somebody in a powerful position that looks like you. Condoleezza Rice looks like you. She don\u2019t even look like us, but Condoleezza Rice looks like you. Clarence Thomas looks like you. These are people… Colin Powell looks like you. But we can no longer have people that “look like us in power.” We have to build a movement like we\u2019re doing in New York City to put people in power who think like us, act for us, and have our best interests at heart.<\/line>RUSH: Now, on that last part — just so there\u2019s no misunderstanding — I totally agree. If you\u2019re trying to amass political power, fine and dandy, get the people who agree with you and think like you, and then go out and try to win it at the ballot box, but I thought this first part of this… I thought the civil rights movement was based totally on race, which is skin color, is it not? I thought the whole objective was diversity in the way people looked. I thought the whole point was to get a certain percentage of every minority in every institution and business as possible, because that represented “fairness,” and it was all based on the quota of the color of the skin of people who held various positions and jobs. Now all of a sudden this guy is saying, “It\u2019s not enough to get somebody in a powerful position that looks like you”? Well, I thought this was what this was all about! I thought that\u2019s how we were going to say that we\u2019re getting rid of the original sin of slavery and discrimination and all the other evils.<\/line>Am I wrong about this? It has been about skin color. Now, I know, as a program matter for the longest time that leftists and civil rights leaders have no respect and in fact disdain for conservative blacks, and they\u2019ve made no secret about it. They tried to destroy Clarence Thomas, which is why I\u2019ve always said, the civil rights movement\u2019s not about race! They\u2019ve always wanted us to think it is. They\u2019ve always wanted us to say that if you don\u2019t let a minority of any color have the job, then you\u2019re a racist and sexist. But they weren\u2019t telling us what we thought of those person\u2019s views. All the while we were saying, “No, wait a minute. We\u2019re not racists; I just don\u2019t like liberals.”<\/line>“No, you\u2019re just a closet racist! You don\u2019t like black people!”<\/line>“No, that\u2019s not it!”<\/line>Now we\u2019re being told by Charles Barron, Democrat, Brooklyn, that it\u2019s not enough to have people who look like us or him or you? You gotta get people the way we think? So once again, El Rushbo on the cutting edge. The civil rights movement: it isn\u2019t about race, and it isn\u2019t about improving the lot of blacks. It\u2019s about liberalism, and it\u2019s about big government. It\u2019s about coalescing power among the elite. Feminism? It\u2019s not about women, not really. It\u2019s about liberalism. Otherwise every discriminated woman in the country would be a cause c?l?bre for the feminists, but go talk to Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky. They were nothing but trash. Particularly Paula Jones; she was from a trailer park! Feminism is as much elitism as liberalism is anywhere. “She was from a trailer park; she was trash.” They wouldn\u2019t let her live in Tiburon. Even if she were a liberal, they wouldn\u2019t want her because she moving in from a trailer park. These people are elitists. They are phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 rollers to the hilt. But thank you, Mr. Barron, for inadvertently (I\u2019m sure) letting us know that the civil rights movement has nothing to do with race.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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