{"id":317514,"date":"2019-07-31T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317514"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:11:37","slug":"elijah-cummings-used-the-word-infested-to-describe-baltimore-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/31\/elijah-cummings-used-the-word-infested-to-describe-baltimore-20-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Cummings Himself Used the Word “Infested” to Describe Baltimore — 20 Years Ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And also we dredged this up from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites. This is August of 1999. So this would be 20 years ago. Does it seem possible? Twenty years ago. Do you realize tomorrow is the 31st anniversary of the EIB Network? You don\u2019t have anything special planned, do you? Nobody does anything special for 31.<\/p>\n

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So 20 years ago on Capitol Hill during a House of Representatives government reform subcommittee hearing on U.S. drug fighting efforts in Colombia, we have the following little nine-second blurb from none other than ranking member the Congressional Black Caucasians, Elijah Cummings.<\/p>\n

CUMMINGS: This morning I left my community of Baltimore, a drug-infested area. This is only 40 miles away from here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. What? He just called Baltimore, he represents, a “drug-infested” area? That makes Elijah Cummings a racist. We could go back to the past, we\u2019re always going back finding people\u2019s previous tweets and emails. Well, here, “infestation,” he used the word “infested,” you\u2019re a racist. Talking about his own town 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, just to show I wasn\u2019t making it up, grab sound bite number 3. We have a media montage here insisting that infest, infestation, infested, is a racist word — and remember that Elijah Cummings used it 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

APRIL RYAN: (outdoor noise) Let\u2019s talk about the word “infested” when it was used against our Jewish brothers and sisters during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

KIRSTEN POWERS: (outdoor noise) The infestation, the way he talks about black and brown people — they\u2019re going to infest us; they\u2019re going to somehow contaminate us — it is racist language.<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: “Infest” is a loaded word throughout history.<\/p>\n

RASHAD ROBINSON: This is not as much of a dog whistle as is a[n] all-out bullhorn.<\/p>\n

BRITTNEY COOPER: This is both an overt call and a dog whistle.<\/p>\n

NICK MOSBY: No longer is this like a dog whistle! I mean, he\u2019s blaring sirens basically saying that he is a racist. You know, when you use terms like “vermin” for a city like Baltimore.<\/p>\n

VICTOR BLACKWELL: When he tweets about “infestation,” it\u2019s about black and brown people.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: We had a caller yesterday who make a brilliant point. If you hear the words “infested” or “infestation” and “vermin,” and you think “racist,” then you\u2019re the racist. When did this happen? When did this definition of “vermin” become racist? When did using the word “infestation” become racist? It isn\u2019t, except to these people. These people are the racists. The racists are the people in the media and the people on the left who are out there accusing everybody else of being racist. It\u2019s finally gotten to our old buddy Brit Hume. I don\u2019t think he can handle it anymore.<\/p>\n

Last night on Fox News, Sandra Smith said to him, “The media are saying the word infest, infestation, is racist.”<\/p>\n

HUME: Sandra, for Pete\u2019s sake he\u2019s talking about animals! He\u2019s talking about rodents! He isn\u2019t talking about people. Look, we cannot possibly be at a place now in America where you cannot criticize the condition of somebody\u2019s congressional district who happens to be African-American without being accused of racism. You know, for a long time if you were critical of someone who was of darker skin color — uh, black or brown — you were accused of racism. Now you\u2019re talking about the rodents in their districts and that\u2019s racism. My own view of that is it\u2019s positively absurd.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Brit Hume, you heard him say, “[W]e cannot possibly be at a place now in America where you cannot criticize the condition of somebody\u2019s congressional district who happens to be African-American without being accused of racism.” We\u2019re there, Brit! (impression) “We can\u2019t… We can\u2019t possibly be at a place…” We\u2019re there, Brit. We\u2019ve been there! We\u2019ve been there for years, Mr. Hume! We have been there. This is why so many people are outraged!<\/p>\n

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This is just one of the many things that people are livid about, that there hasn\u2019t been any pushback. Now we know that the Washington establishment finally has people that have reached their limit on this. But people out there — people outside Washington, people who make this country work — have been fed up with hearing in the media and from every Democrat that talks that they\u2019re racist for the last 20 years! We\u2019re fed up with it! We\u2019re tired of it! It\u2019s become a rote recitation. It\u2019s not even a reasoned accusation anymore. It\u2019s just something they throw out.<\/p>\n

And what? The people inside Washington haven\u2019t noticed it until now? Well, thankfully they have, but they\u2019re in shocked disbelief that this is even happening. Well, we\u2019ve been here for a long time — and I\u2019ll tell you one of the reasons why we\u2019re here and have been here for a long time. It is because the revered and the beloved Republican establishment shook their head and laughed when we tried to warn them that the culture was on fire, under assault, and that all of us were being marginalized in this way.<\/p>\n

“No, no, no,” they said. “There\u2019s no crisis! No, no, no. That\u2019s a bit extremist in your reaction. No, no, no, no, no,” because they couldn\u2019t possibly believe that anybody would think they (you know, conservatives, Republicans in Washington), “Nobody could think that we\u2019re racist.” But now you see it is starting to be said about them. So it\u2019s okay if you and I are called racist. It\u2019s okay if your friends across the country are called racists.<\/p>\n

As long as the Republican establishment types in Washington are not called racist, then there\u2019s no problem. But now this allegation has crossed the border and it\u2019s now inside the Beltway and every Republican is a racist just by virtue of his or her existence? Now they\u2019re fed up with it. Now they\u2019re saying, “You can\u2019t tell me… I can\u2019t believe that we\u2019ve arrived at a point where…” Hey, for many of us, we\u2019ve been at that point for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We're always going back to the past finding people's previous tweets and emails. Here, "infestation," he used the word "infested," you're a racist. 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