{"id":241618,"date":"2017-07-21T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=241618"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:41:22","slug":"game-of-thrones-showrunners-to-portray-america-as-slave-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/21\/game-of-thrones-showrunners-to-portray-america-as-slave-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Showrunners to Portray America as Slave State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I just heard about it this morning. I mean, the details of it. There are two people that are primarily responsible for the TV show Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss &#8212; and they are, admittedly, great at what they do. They are the showrunners for Game of Thrones. Well, we\u2019re in the penultimate season for Game of Thrones, season 7. There\u2019s one more season, 8, which will air in about a year from now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_241638\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241638\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-241638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Thrones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Thrones.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Thrones-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-241638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Benioff and D.B. Weiss<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, their fans were hoping that they would do spin-offs of surviving characters in Game of Thrones &#8212; or maybe, you know, go back and do prequels of existing and new characters and basically continue the franchise. But they\u2019re not gonna do that. They instead have contracted with HBO to do a new show called Confederate. No date yet. I mean, they can\u2019t even&#8230; I don\u2019t think they can even get to it until after 2018, after season 8 of Game of Thrones, at least whenever that finishes production.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not imminent, and anything can change. How many of you have seen or heard of an Amazon Video series called The Man in the High Castle? You heard of that? The premise of that show is that the Germans won World War II and that America is under the control of the Nazis, and so is the U.K., and so is all of Europe. I tried to watch the show. I couldn\u2019t get into it. Even though I knew the premise, I couldn\u2019t get into it. There is a British TV show that&#8230; I don\u2019t even remember the name of it. It tackled the same subject.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hzz_6dmv03I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine, if you will, that Hitler won. It was a little bit better to watch, but I still didn\u2019t think it made any sense with the premise. Well, this show is called Confederate, and you know what its premise is? That the South won the Civil War and that the United States has been a slave state ever since and is at this point in time. To this day, we\u2019re a slave state. &#8220;The story,&#8221; HBO said, &#8220;follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone &#8212; freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate and the families of people in their thrall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, what do you think the impact of this show is gonna be? Why are they&#8230;? (interruption) &#8220;Stir up trouble?&#8221; That\u2019s not even the half of it. Stir up trouble? How about causing trouble? Why in the world would anyone do this? This is why I have gone so deeply into trying to convince people who liberals are and trying to spot them from the first notice, the first moment that you can spot them and then understanding what you\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>Why would somebody want to do this? What would be the point? And there is one, and it\u2019s political, and you can\u2019t say it\u2019s not. I\u2019ll tell you what I think is driving this, and it\u2019s in front of us every day. Black Lives Matter epitomizes this. The premise is that the United States never ended slavery. It\u2019s always been with us. It\u2019s with us now. The cops are racist. This is a white Christian nation still wishes for slavery. The American left believes this country is rotten, that it is pond scum, that its founding was unjust, illegitimate, immoral, and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>And they believe there hasn\u2019t been any reformation; there hasn\u2019t been any growth. We didn\u2019t really end slavery because look at life today. Look at Ferguson, look at Baltimore, look at&#8230; They\u2019ll cite all these examples. They run around&#8230; The left runs around and to this day believes that the United States still holds to many of the vestiges of slavery. And this program, this show is intended to demonstrate it by taking it to an extreme. What can the value of this possibly be? Well, let\u2019s examine. Let\u2019s give the benefit of the doubt. Let\u2019s play with this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-241622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/game-of-thrones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/game-of-thrones.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/game-of-thrones-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>Maybe they want to show how important the Civil War was in the effort of the United States to end slavery, how horrible it was. Maybe this is the way they tend to try to illustrate how horrible it was for those of you who weren\u2019t alive during the era to actually have witnessed it or experienced it, and so it\u2019s a testament. But somehow, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the objective. Because when you have leftists behind this, the objective has to be&#8230; I mean, there\u2019s nothing factual about Black Lives Matter, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter and all of these extremist racial civil rights &#8212; the extremist ones &#8212; special interest groups, are all about trying to make the case that nothing\u2019s really changed. And yet the United States was among the first nations in the history of the world to actually end slavery. Five hundred thousand-plus Americans died in the process. This has been trending. This shouldn\u2019t&#8230; Really, if you pay attention every day to the left&#8230; If you\u2019ve been paying attention since Ferguson, take your pick of any event prior to it.<\/p>\n<p>Go to Baltimore. Take a look at the Democrat Party\u2019s open-endedly excusing all of this. The media is still the constant sympathy understanding, there is never any condemnation for looting or property rights damage or any of the sort. We\u2019re all told we have to understand it. There\u2019s lingering rage. There\u2019s been increased talk of reparations, for example. So this is just the next step in the progression of committing to film the liberal vision of what the United States really is. It\u2019s not just an entertainment objective here.<\/p>\n<p>And it shouldn\u2019t surprise anybody that HBO would get behind it and endorse it. But nothing good can come of this. Pshhh! I mean, this is&#8230; Let\u2019s hope that between now and then there\u2019s some things change in this. Is still a long way off. And after the green light it, then of course there\u2019s casting and production. Things on HBO take years to actually get made and ready for air.<\/p>\n<p>So we shall see. But it\u2019s a slavery series. They\u2019re openly admitting everything I just told you. Confederate. I\u2019m told that there\u2019s already massive attention being paid to this, pro and con, on Twitter. People are weighing in on it. But again, the premise is: Imagine the South had won the Civil War and that slavery was the order of the day nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m being inundated, &#8220;Hey, hey, this is not new. People have already done this.&#8221; No, they have not done this. There was a mockumentary. It was a fake doc. It was a parody &#8212; not sure how you would describe it. It was not a documentary. It\u2019s being described as a mockumentary. Confederate states of America some years ago, it was picked up by IFC, which is a U.K. distribution outfit. The fact that you haven\u2019t heard of it should tell you that this is not a factor.<\/p>\n<p>But when HBO does something, folks, you\u2019re gonna have to go to Wikipedia to find out about the Confederate states of America. I\u2019m gonna tell you, if they do this, what ends up on screen is gonna be of secondary &#8212; Imagine the red carpet parties. Imagine the casting party, and then you\u2019re gonna have the wrap party, then you\u2019re gonna have the premier party. The whole cast is gonna be rotating guests on every television show in America as new experts on the current state of slavery in America.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is gonna be, &#8220;What if the South won?&#8221; Well, the premise is gonna be, &#8220;Really, we haven\u2019t gotten rid of slavery. Look at the way the world is in America.&#8221; That\u2019s gonna be the point of this. You\u2019re not gonna be able to escape it. You\u2019re not gonna have to go to Wikipedia to find out about this. You\u2019re not gonna be able to escape it if they do this. I know these people. Snerdley said, &#8220;Do you think they don\u2019t understand this could really cause &#8211;&#8221; Have any of them really expressed shock, anger, disappointment that a madman picked up a gun and tried to assassinate a bunch of Republicans? Where is the stated outrage over that?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/310-DC-Shooter-James-Hodgkinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/310-DC-Shooter-James-Hodgkinson.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/310-DC-Shooter-James-Hodgkinson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/310-DC-Shooter-James-Hodgkinson-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>Imagine if the shooter had been someone aiming at Democrats, it would still be the lead headline all over the media and it would have been used to cause every Republican in Congress to resign. And maybe Trump. They would have never let up. But this guy, a lunatic Bernie Sanders supporter, grabs a gun, tries to assassinate a bunch of Republicans in Arlington, Virginia, at a softball practice, or baseball practice. And they report it on a couple of days, and then they do a couple stories on the guy, &#8220;Yeah, you know, it\u2019s kind of understandable why this guy was outraged. It\u2019s a sad thing he was driven over the edge,&#8221; and then it was dropped.<\/p>\n<p>What do you mean, &#8220;Do they not understand what this is going to do?&#8221; They know full well what it\u2019s gonna do. They\u2019re not just doing this to have a little cocoon over here called entertainment. That\u2019s not what the people that are gonna be involved in this are gonna do. I mean, to even conceive of this project, what must be going through your mind frequently?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it\u2019s not even in production yet, folks. It\u2019s an idea and it\u2019s titled and it\u2019s got The Game of Thrones writers, producers, the show runners and so forth, but it\u2019s still a year or two away from production, I think. I mean, look, I\u2019m guessing about that. I\u2019m guessing they can\u2019t get this started \u2019til they finish Game of Thrones and that\u2019s not gonna be over for a year. Maybe they could do it side by side. Who knows. Time will tell. It won\u2019t be long.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Graham in Medford, Oregon, as we head back to the phones and Open Line Friday. I\u2019m glad you waited. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Absolutely, Rush. Dittos. I\u2019ve been with you since the beginning. Early childhood memories are your voice coming out of the radio. So it\u2019s a huge honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Talking about the Confederacy [sic], that HBO show. And, you know, regardless of their intent, you know, whether or not it will backfire or not depending on creating some sort of, you know, hyped-up situation, contrast is just kind of the way you can see reality better. And, you know, fiction is oftentimes the best way to kind of set up a hypothetical. So I think the contrast of setting up, you know, particularly if they maintain that the Union exists on the other side of a demilitarized zone. You set up this contrast and you show people what an actual tyrannical slave state would look like, and you can\u2019t possibly expect that it\u2019s gonna any way reflect reality or particularly if they even have a Union on the other side, you know, that\u2019s still, like, running underground railroads and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. I want to see if I understand what you\u2019re saying. You\u2019re saying that the way they have to do this show is gonna make slavery look&#8230;? Is gonna make who look bad?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, it\u2019s gonna make slavery look horrifying. It\u2019s gonna make slavery look, you know, so clearly wrong and evil. I mean, there\u2019s no other way to make it look. (chuckles) You can\u2019t glorify, and they\u2019re not gonna try to do that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00-EIB-Callers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00-EIB-Callers-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/00-EIB-Callers-1-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>RUSH: I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna try to glorify it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna soft sell it. I think their definition of slavery is gonna be current status race relations.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I mean, they can\u2019t show like an ordinary town, you know, the way &#8212; the way it rolls today. Sike, you know, have slavery, you know, they\u2019re gonna have to have, you know, maybe chain gangs. So maybe it will look like a prison or &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No! No, no, no, no, no. No, they\u2019re not gonna do that. I will weigh you a dollar to a doughnut that aren\u2019t gonna be chain gangs and it\u2019s not gonna be plantations and all that. That\u2019s not what they\u2019re gonna do. They\u2019re gonna the South&#8230; The premise is the South wins in the war just like for The Man in the High Castle, Hitler won, and now America is under the control of the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, in this show, the South won, and America is now being run by the Robert E. Lees and Confederates and so forth. But it\u2019s gonna be modernized.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They weren\u2019t fighting for the whole shebang. They were fighting for separation, so you\u2019re still gonna have, like, other people on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If they do that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: There\u2019s some people on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ll have to wait and see on that. I mean, obviously you can\u2019t deny this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I mean, part of the Civil War was the genuine Southerners called a &#8220;war of northern aggression,&#8221; and they claim it wasn\u2019t about slavery. But that\u2019s kind of a skimpy claim. But, no, no, you\u2019re right in the sense that they will portray the South as being been victorious. But I don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna do slavery dated back to the plantation days. I don\u2019t think gonna portray it&#8230; They might. I mean, look, what we\u2019re gonna get is what these people think of as America today. Why even&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: If it was just America today, it wouldn\u2019t be called the Confederacy [sic]. They\u2019re gonna have to change it somehow. They\u2019re gonna have to make it look different than our life today. They\u2019re gonna have to say, &#8220;Well, what if?&#8221; If it\u2019s just what it is today, well, then it\u2019s not a (crosstalk).<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me just clarify. Did you think they\u2019re doing this for the express purpose of&#8230;? Obvious they don\u2019t want to make slavery look good. You don\u2019t think I mean that, do you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Game-of-Thrones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Game-of-Thrones.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-072117-Game-of-Thrones-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>CALLER: No. No. I\u2019m just saying that you\u2019ve got that contrast. Like, all right, here\u2019s a hypothetical world that\u2019s clearly worse than ours. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re inevitably gonna have to portray. They\u2019re gonna have to portray a world that\u2019s worse than ours. So by contrast, hey, at least we\u2019re not the Confederacy [sic]. So regardless of their intent it will backfire on them by creating that contrast.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you think at the end of the show the audience is gonna say, &#8220;Wow, it\u2019s a good thing the North won because we don\u2019t want to live in a country like this&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, otherwise they\u2019re gonna say, &#8220;Hey, wouldn\u2019t it be better if the Confederacy [sic] had won,&#8221; and there\u2019s no way it\u2019s gonna go down like that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I think you\u2019re gonna see the Republican Speaker of the House with slaves and I think they\u2019re gonna &#8212; I do not have a good feeling about this, is my point. You do.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve been on the cutting edge of thought all the way back &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. In fact, you are very, very courageous in taking issue with me on this.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have to applaud you for that. Okay. He thinks that it can\u2019t possibly hurt because it isn\u2019t gonna make anything look good, that the end result is gonna be, &#8220;Ew! That would have been horrible if the South won, that would have been horrible. We wouldn\u2019t want that.&#8221; There\u2019s no news in that premise. There\u2019s no, &#8220;You gotta watch this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look, I could be wrong, but I think what\u2019s driving this is a belief that we haven\u2019t abolished slavery, that it has just taken a different form. And the reason I say this is I listen to civil rights activists. They are telling us that it is not over. They\u2019re portraying this, the cops, police departments, law enforcement, you name it. What is the impetus of civil rights? Black Lives Matter? What is their point? It\u2019s still a nation filled with racism and bigotry, it may as well still be a slave state. I think the premise is gonna be that we didn\u2019t defeat it. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the South didn\u2019t win, they have to go fiction there. But it provides them, I think, the vehicle or the transition to portray current-day America as not much different than if the South had won. Well, why was your gut reaction nothing good can come of this? Snerdley is telling me what he\u2019s envisioning, gonna be real slaves getting beaten &#8212; (interruption) You think there are gonna slave chain gangs and so forth? Okay, well, then if that\u2019s the case, if we get a portrayal of slavery like that and no attempt to compare slavery, then, to what exists in America today, then they will fail in their effort to make America look like it\u2019s still a slave state. Why else would they do this? I\u2019m telling you, the left in this country does not think slavery\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Here is the synopsis. And it\u2019s early. This show is not in production yet, and it\u2019s, again, coming from the creators, the show runners for Game of Thrones, which doesn\u2019t end for one more season. They still have to make the final season of Game of Thrones, which will air probably next summer or fall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HollywoodLeftywood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HollywoodLeftywood.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HollywoodLeftywood-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>It\u2019s only gonna be six episodes, the final season. But each episode\u2019s gonna be about anywhere from 80 minutes to an hour and a half. &#8216;Cause they\u2019ve run out of story. The guy that writes the books hasn\u2019t written any books in years, so they\u2019re inventing things in the plot, which is okay. Neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the synopsis of the show says. &#8220;Confederate,&#8221; not Confederacy, &#8220;Confederate will imagine slavery as a modern-day institution in America, exploring an alternative timeline if the South successfully seceded from the Union.&#8221; In other words, if they had won the Civil War. The story, said HBO, will follow, quote, &#8220;a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have demilitarized zones here. They have those in places like Korea and in Vietnam. &#8220;A broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone &#8212; freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate &#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See, you gotta have corporate America as a slaveholding institution. Corporate America has slaves, a giant conglomerate of \u2019em, &#8220;and the families of people in their thrall.&#8221; Meaning all the people affected by the freedom fighters, the slave hunters, the politicians, the abolitionists, the journalists, and the executives of a slaveholding conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think the bad guys are? The execs of a slaveholding conglomerate. And what do you bet their logo is a giant red T? Hm-hm. Logo is gonna be a giant red T. And they\u2019ll own golf clubs. And every employee at the golf club is going to be a slave. Now, the theory is if they really do it this way, there\u2019s no way that it could look good, so there isn\u2019t gonna be anybody clamoring for slavery when this is over. It\u2019s not like that. I think that misses the point here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-225956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-006.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-006-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-006-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>There\u2019s no reason HBO &#8212; this premise, folks, you talk about wide open &#8212; a wide open potential. Look, we know the left does not particularly like America. We know the left wants to transform it. We know the left considers the founding unjust and immoral because of slavery. We know that left-wing civil rights groups do not believe that slavery is over. They actually conduct themselves on that basis. And here comes the primary cable network, entertainment pop culture network advancing the liberally agenda.<\/p>\n<p>I think the point here, even though the South lost the war, the objective here is &#8212; and I\u2019m prejudging it, I admit, but I think the objective here is to not make modern-day America look good. If they want to do a movie on slavery, if HBO really wants to do a movie on slavery, I got the title for you: Venezuela and the Life of Human Beings Under Socialism. You want to talk slavery, well, it still exists. It exists in every communist country on this planet. Slavery is still big in Asia, and it is still big in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do an expose on slavery, you do not have to focus on the one nation that ended it. And yet that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to do. And the premise is that it didn\u2019t end. So you tell me what the objective is here. Remember Roots? That was Alex Haley, right? Am I correct, is my memory correct on this, was Alex Haley exposed as he made all that up? Well, there\u2019s something about Roots that you better &#8212; I think I saw a story that there was maybe plagiarism or he made it up, that he didn\u2019t have all those actual connections. Something about Roots was proven to be not &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019ve got another thought on this movie that HBO\u2019s working on called Confederate. If it is to be historical accurate, if this movie is to be historical accurate, the slaveholders in it must be Democrats. Who were the slaveholders in the Confederacy? Who did not want to let go of it? They were Democrats. They were segregationists, and even into the early and mid-1960s they were Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dem-Logo-cONF-fLAG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dem-Logo-cONF-fLAG.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dem-Logo-cONF-fLAG-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>They were Bull Connor. They were Lester Maddox. They were George Wallace. They were any number of leftist governors and police chiefs and senators and members of Congress, J. William Fulbright from Arkansas. These people were segregationists. They were Democrats. They were for the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>If the HBO movie, Confederate, which portrays an America after the South wins the Civil War, the slaveholders had better be Democrat if they\u2019re gonna be accurate, because that\u2019s the way it was. If they\u2019re gonna portray corporate conglomerates as slaveholding entities, they better be located in the South, because that\u2019s where it all happened.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t doubt me on this, folks. This is the thing about the civil rights movement that has forever irritated me. The segregationists and the people that opposed the Civil Rights Act back in the 1960\u2019s were all Democrats. Who was it that kept the university doors at the University of Georgia shut down to African-Americans? They were all Democrat governors. Bull Connor, a Democrat police chief in Selma turning the fire hose on the protest marchers.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I spent the break here doing a little bit more examination of some of the reaction to this HBO upcoming show, Confederate. You know what the biggest backlash is? That\u2019s right. The biggest backlash is from blacks who are ticked off that the people doing this are white! Of all the Twitter backlash, all of the Facebook whatever, wherever you go to find this on social media, you\u2019ll find that the largest push-back on this is from people who claim to be African-American livid that a couple of white guys are helming this thing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if I may, you African-Americans, what makes you think you\u2019re in charge anyway? The Democrat Party\u2019s white guys run everything that you supposedly are interested in. You have ceded your interests to the Democrat Party, which is run by a bunch of white people! That\u2019s why I say, if they\u2019re gonna do a movie on slavery the slave owners in this movie had better be Democrats because that\u2019s who they were.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is great, the backlash against this from African-Americans ticked off that white guys are doing it. White liberals are the biggest know-it-alls on the face of the earth. White liberals are trying to dictate to everybody what they should think every day. Why are you frowning at me? What don\u2019t you understand? (laughing) They don\u2019t have the power to write their own. That\u2019s the point. HBO doesn\u2019t have anybody to turn to but a couple liberal white guys to do this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-233388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DemocratSHORT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DemocratSHORT-1.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DemocratSHORT-1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/>Now, you might say, if this premise exists, why don\u2019t it originate in the African-American community with African-American producers, writers, directors? I couldn\u2019t tell you. I\u2019m just telling you &#8212; (interruption) Tyler Perry? Tyler Perry? Well, I know, but he doesn\u2019t do that stuff. Tyler Perry, look, I may be out of my bailiwick, doesn\u2019t he do horror movies? Well, who am I thinking of?<\/p>\n<p>Well, anyway, I know they\u2019re out there, but don\u2019t make me say this. This so obviously &#8212; (interruption) The mockumentary that was made. I know, look, the white liberal establishment will let them do things like The Butler and will let them do things like those other &#8212; but when it comes to a concept this big, they\u2019re not gonna surrender this. The white liberal head honchos are gonna take total control of this thing.<\/p>\n<p>You want to go make The Butler, you want to cast Oprah in a movie, fine, here\u2019s the money, go do it. But when it comes to something big and important like this, we\u2019ll cast you, and we may give you director credit now and then, but we\u2019re running the show. It\u2019s just like white liberalism everywhere. This is not hard to understand. 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