{"id":23003,"date":"2005-09-26T06:40:38","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T10:40:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-01-17T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:17:42","slug":"leftists_decry_ethnic_cleansing_in_new_orleans2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2005\/09\/26\/leftists_decry_ethnic_cleansing_in_new_orleans2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Decry &#8220;Ethnic Cleansing&#8221; in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>RUSH: Funny story here, and it is funny. There\u2019s no other way to look at this. This story first appeared in The Nation. Now, The Nation is&#8230; Well, it\u2019s a fringe bible of the Democratic Party base. The Nation used to be a Trotskyite publication; used to be way, way out there but now the base has caught up with it. So The Nation is the Bible of the Democrat base. That\u2019s right. Katrina vanden Heuvel, namesake of the Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor over there. She is the granddaughter of the famous Hollywood studio chief Jules Stein, by the way. People wonder who she is. She\u2019s an heiress. From what I was told, she\u2019s a granddaughter of the founder of MCA, Jules Stein. But those are diversions. The story first appeared in The Nation, and so excited about it were the socialists in the UK that The Guardian picked it up, and here is the headline: &#8220;This is Turning into the Ethnic Cleansing of New Orleans &#8212; There is empty housing for the tens of thousands made homeless by Katrina, but the white elites have other plans.&#8221; Here are the details from this magazine, the bible. Well, &#8220;bible&#8221; or not. We have the Bible, which do we say this is? Can\u2019t say the Dead Sea Scrolls of the left. That would upset them, too. Can\u2019t say &#8220;bible.&#8221; What is this? Manifesto, that\u2019s it, the manifesto of the left, The Nation. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftists_decry__ethnic_cleansing__in_new_orleans.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"217\"> &#8220;Outside the 2,000-bed temporary shelter in Baton Rouge\u2019s River Center, a Church of Scientology band is performing a version of Bill Withers\u2019s classic &#8216;Use Me\u2019 &#8212; a refreshingly honest choice. &#8216;If it feels this good getting used,\u2019 the Scientology singer belts out, &#8216;just keep on using me until you use me up.\u2019 Ten-year-old Nyler, lying face down on a massage table, has pretty much the same attitude. She is not quite sure why the nice lady in the yellow Scientology Volunteer Minister t-shirt wants to rub her back, but &#8216;it feels so good,\u2019 she tells me, so who really cares? I ask Nyler if this is her first massage. Nyler shakes her head no; since fleeing New Orleans after a tree fell on her house, she has visited this tent many times, becoming something of an assist-aholic. &#8216;I have nerves,\u2019 she explains in a blissed-out massage voice.&#8221; This is a serious news story from the manifesto of the left. &#8220;Wearing a donated pink T-shirt with an age-inappropriate slogan, Nyler tells me&#8230;&#8221; Naomi Klein, by the way, the authorette of the story, &#8220;tells me what she is nervous about.&#8221; She thinks New Orleans might never get fixed, &#8220;&#8216;Because the people who know how to fix broken houses are all gone.\u2019 I don\u2019t have the heart to tell Nyler that I suspect she is on to something; that many of the African-American workers from her neighborhood may never be welcomed back to rebuild their city. An hour earlier I had interviewed New Orleans\u2019 top corporate lobbyist, Mark Drennen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As president and CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc., Drennen was in an expansive mood, pumped up by signs from Washington that the corporations he represents were about to receive a package of tax breaks, subsidies and relaxed regulations so generous it would make the job of a lobbyist virtually obsolete. Listening to Drennen enthuse about the opportunities opened up by the storm, I was struck by his reference to African-Americans in New Orleans as &#8216;the minority community.\u2019 At 67 percent of the population, they are in fact the clear majority, while whites like Drennen make up just 27 percent. It was no doubt a simple verbal slip, but I couldn\u2019t help feeling that it was also a glimpse into the desired demographics of the new-and-improved city being imagined by its white elite&#8230; &#8216;I honestly don\u2019t know and I don\u2019t think anyone knows how they are going to fit in,\u2019 Drennen said of the city\u2019s unemployed.&#8221; So isn\u2019t it convenient, the left will use the term minority to convey skin color when they want to, but how often have you ever referred to them as the majority anywhere? Now they\u2019re the majority and they\u2019re still being pushed around by a 20% minority, the white elites. Ethnic cleansing is going on in New Orleans, ladies and gentlemen. This is the fear of the reasoned thought on the left.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftists_decry__ethnic_cleansing__in_new_orleans.Par.0007.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"215\"> &#8220;New Orleans is already displaying signs of a demographic shift so dramatic that some evacuees describe it as &#8216;ethnic cleansing.\u2019 Before Mayor Ray Nagin called for a second evacuation, the people streaming back into dry areas were mostly white, while those with no homes to return to are overwhelmingly black. This, we are assured, is not a conspiracy; it\u2019s simple geography &#8212; a reflection of the fact that wealth in New Orleans buys altitude. That means that the driest areas are the whitest (the French Quarter is 90 % white; the Garden District, 89 %; Audubon, 86 %; neighboring Jefferson Parish, where people were also allowed to return, 65 %)&#8230; Rather than rebuild ghettos, New Orleans should be resettled with &#8216;mixed-income\u2019 housing, with rich and poor, black and white living side by side.&#8221; That\u2019s called the managed community strategy here of The Nation. Now, you might think, &#8220;Well, Rush, come on, look at what you\u2019re reading from, this is not a mainstream view.&#8221; It may not be a mainstream view, folks, but I\u2019m telling you, we have become a Balkanized society. These are white liberals writing this stuff. These are white elite liberals writing this stuff about ethnic cleansing going on in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Funny story here, and it is funny. 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