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RUSH: This from the New York Sun today: “Responding to statements made last week by Rep. Charles Rangel, the Republican National Committee urged Democratic leaders yesterday to denounce the New York congressman\u2019s comparison of President Bush to the late Theophilus ‘Bull\u2019 Connor, the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner who came to symbolize Southern racism in the 1960s. The Republican request for repudiation, however, met with expressions of support for Mr. Rangel\u2019s statement, particularly from black Democratic leaders in New York. The Reverend Al Sharpton came out in support of Mr. Rangel\u2019s analysis, and another member of the city\u2019s congressional delegation, Major Owens, a Democrat of Brooklyn, denounced Mr. Bush as ‘even more diabolical\u2019 than Connor. At a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus held in Washington last Thursday, Mr. Rangel, a Democrat of Harlem, faulted Mr. Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina. Lambasting the president for being insensitive to blacks affected by the storm, Mr. Rangel said, to an appreciative audience: ‘George Bush is our Bull Connor.'” Well, just to remind you, Bull Connor in 1963, “turned attack dogs and fire hoses on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating for equal rights. Yesterday, Mr. Rangel, reached by phone, elaborated on his comments, saying he made the comparison because Mr. Bush, like Connor, had become a rallying point for America\u2019s blacks.” <\/line>Well, you know, let\u2019s go back to the Times-Picayune of yesterday and the LA Times today. We found out that all this reporting of what was going on down there was absolutely bogus. None of it happened. No anarchy, no rapes, no murders, none of this stuff. It didn\u2019t happen at the Superdome or the convention center, and Mike Brown testifying at FEMA today has essentially said, “Hey, I believed the media reports of what was going on. We had buses ready to evacuate the Superdome, but I\u2019m not law enforcement. FEMA doesn\u2019t carry guns. We\u2019re not armed. We\u2019re volunteers. We\u2019re bus drivers. We\u2019re not going to go into that circumstance.” If anybody is responsible for this delayed response, folks, let\u2019s point the finger where it deserves to be pointed and that is at cable television news networks, all of them, every one of them, spreading rumors, amplifying rumors, compounding them. No filter. No double sourcing, no triple sourcing. Just like Dan Rather, they wanted the story to be true. <\/line>They thought it had to be true. Bush is president, and Bush is hateful, and Bush is insensitive and Bush is Republican. Therefore Bush is a racist. Therefore it had to be true. There was not even any doubt. There wasn\u2019t any speculation. You know where the real racism comes in? Can I tell you where the real racism comes in? The real racism is when you have a bunch of white reporters down in New Orleans who are hearing all this that black people are doing and they believe it. That\u2019s the racism, folks: when a bunch of so-called better-than-everybody-else white people, white liberals who think they\u2019re a cut above, that they\u2019re the elites, when they hear about all this mayhem and anarchy going on in primarily a black neighborhood, they believe it. They\u2019re the ones who think this is possible. They\u2019re the ones who think blacks are doing this, but they will not blame the blacks. They will blame Republicans for making this circumstance possible. That\u2019s why this happened, because the people on the ground reporting this, “Wow, you hear about this? Rapes in the Superdome! Hear about all this? Well, you know how those people are. This is Bush\u2019s fault.”<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the real racism is, folks, with a bunch of white liberal plantation owner elitists believing stories, rumors like this are true. Let me ask you a question. You\u2019re down there. You\u2019re reporting this, or maybe you\u2019re not reporting it. You\u2019re watching it on television, and you hear all this. You don\u2019t see it. You haven\u2019t seen one rape. You haven\u2019t seen video of a victim of a rape. You haven\u2019t seen video of a victim of a murder. You haven\u2019t seen a murder take place. You don\u2019t even have cameras inside the Superdome telling us what all we\u2019re seeing. We heard horror stories of all that was going on in there, but we didn\u2019t see any pictures of that. We just heard the stories and we saw these people streaming out of there after awhile. Somebody tells you all this is going on. How many white liberals do you think said, “I don\u2019t believe those people are capable of that?” How much doubt do you think there was on the part of white liberals? No, there was excitement, folks! I am telling you there was glee. There was happiness this was happening, because this allows them to continue to point the finger of racism at Bush and Republicans. “Yeah, they don\u2019t care. Republicans have set this circumstance up. Republicans have kept these people poor. It\u2019s understandable they would be acting this way in the Superdome. Bush has made them this way. The Republicans, conservatives, have made them this way all these years.”<\/line> That\u2019s the underlying thought that allows this story to happen. That is the mind-set that allows it to happen. “Oh, yeah, these people are capable of this, but it\u2019s not their fault. They\u2019re frustrated after 60 years of being ignored, 60 years of being forgotten, 60 years of being discriminated against, and it\u2019s all the Republicans\u2019 fault. Who can blame them for acting this way?” That\u2019s the mind-set. That is the template that white elitist liberals have when they hear that this is going on, even though they haven\u2019t seen it. They\u2019ve got no proof, have no pictures, but they believed it. You have to ask why. You have to ask why — and I just did, and I\u2019ll tell you now you\u2019ve got Rangel out there furthering all this, and yet it didn\u2019t happen, Chuck. There were no Bull Connor tactics being used in New Orleans, and of course the white liberals will look around and they\u2019ll believe all these stories because, yeah, the Republicans have led these people to this life of frustration and dismal gloom and doom. Well, the Democrats have been running this state 60 years. The Democrats been running that city for just as long, so I don\u2019t know where the curiosity is. Yes, I do. There isn\u2019t any. There isn\u2019t any curiosity at all. So… <\/line>“A spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, Amaya Smith, responded: ‘I think the bigger issue here that the RNC is not addressing is that the president and his administration – that their policies made life harder for African-Americans. And not just African-Americans, but working Americans around the country as well.\u2019 When asked whether the [Democratic National] committee repudiated Mr. Rangel\u2019s comments or stood by them, Ms. Smith declined to comment, referring the Sun to her previous statement.” Well, this previous statement kind of proves what I just said. “The bigger issue here is the RNC is not addressing that the president and his administration and their policies have made life harder for African-Americans.” So you see what they did? Whatever it was that they did that we know now they didn\u2019t do, but whatever it was they did at the Superdome and the convention center, it\u2019s President Bush\u2019s fault. Their policies have driven them to this, folks. It\u2019s the underlying theory, and so the DNC refuses to repudiate Rangel. You tell me these people are not cracking up? You think they\u2019re not imploding? “Support for Mr. Rangel\u2019s comparison was explicit among Democratic leaders in New York City as the party\u2019s nominee for mayor, Fernando Ferrer, weighed in. ‘George W. Bush and the conservative Republican policies he champions have consistently hurt working people throughout our country and our city.\u2019 Rev. Sharpton, also supported Mr. Rangel\u2019s Bush-as-Connor comparison. ‘I think that the statement clearly says that if there is a person that is a symbol that many blacks organize around and organize against in this generation, it would be Bush – as it was with one generation and Connor,\u2019 Rev. Sharpton said. “In that sense I agree with him,\u2019 he said of Mr. Rangel. ‘Clearly Bush has become that, especially after Katrina,\u2019 Rev. Sharpton said. ‘We\u2019ve gone from fire hoses to levees.'”<\/line>How\u2019s your radio show doing, Al? You got any listeners? You got any stations with garbage like this? “We\u2019ve gone from fire hoses to levees”? What do we know about the levies? We know that the corrupt Louisiana government down there took all this federal money. Bush gave more than Clinton gave and it never got to the levees.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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