{"id":313076,"date":"2019-06-20T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=313076"},"modified":"2019-06-21T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:46:48","slug":"biden-doubles-down-on-love-for-segregationists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/20\/biden-doubles-down-on-love-for-segregationists\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Doubles Down on Love for Segregationists"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Joe Biden has doubled down on his love for and appreciation for the segregationist senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge. Now, this is another exercise in a point that I make. There is a host at MSNBC whose name is Kasie Hunt, and she\u2019s talking about this<\/a>. She\u2019s reporting this story yesterday. Except when it came time to identify the party of the two segregationist senators that Joe Biden was telling everybody he loved, she called \u2019em Republicans.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kasie Hunt called segregationist Democrats “Republicans” yesterday when referencing Joe Biden\u2019s remarks about civility with segregationists in the Senate. She said, “Still to come, Joe Biden references his relationship with two former Republican colleagues at an event in New York City.” Now, I don\u2019t know how old Kasie Hunt is. I never heard of her until I saw this story. I don\u2019t watch MSNBC, and that\u2019s not because I am getting lazy with show prep. It\u2019s more (chuckles) I just don\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of those networks you know exactly what\u2019s gonna happen without turning it on. You know exactly what kind of inanity and insanity you\u2019re gonna get without turning it on. So there\u2019s one of two things at work here, maybe three. Either this woman, Kasie Hunt, knows these segregationists are Democrats and is just lying, or she doesn\u2019t know that they\u2019re Democrats. But because they are segregationists, that automatically makes them Republicans. Now, not long ago, this is the kind of mistake that would get you an F in journalism school.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of mistake that would really be a difficult one to overcome. In the old days of journalism, this kind of glaring mistake could get you fired. But not in today\u2019s journalism, because the calculation here is, “Well, if some people think they\u2019re Republicans, that\u2019s okay, because the Republicans are racist.” The third option is: She knows they\u2019re Democrats, but because the conservative dis-branding has been so successful over the years — the labeling of conservatives as racist or Republicans as racist, sexist, bigots is so complete — that she just automatically assumes.<\/p>\n

She sees the word “segregation” and it has to mean they\u2019re Republican. And that\u2019s equally possibly too. But you\u2019re saying “Rush, she\u2019s a journalist. She\u2019s supposed to be educated. She\u2019s supposed to know the difference!” Not anymore. That doesn\u2019t matter. That isn\u2019t what journalism is anymore. You think it\u2019s journalism that\u2019s being used on Joe Biden on Good Morning America, and now the New York Post Page Six? It is not journalism. They\u2019re not doing journalism, reporting these scandals on Biden. Journalism would have been reporting it the minute you find out about it.<\/p>\n

But they didn\u2019t and they couldn\u2019t because it would have been bad for Obama. If they were actually doing journalism, they would have reported on Biden and his kid and the ChiComs and Ukraine years ago when it was discovered, like when Hillary was running for president for a third Obama term in a regime that “did not have a whiff of scandal,” remember? Obama and Biden are both out there saying, “The one thing we\u2019re most proud of is the Obama-Biden administration didn\u2019t have a whiff of scandal.”<\/p>\n

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Oh, that\u2019s how the window now! Now we\u2019ve got a gigantic scandal. But the point is, this is not journalism. This is raw activism. This is the media deciding that Biden is not good enough to be the Democrat nominee. This is the media deciding he\u2019s gotta go. It is not journalism, and by the same token, this babe, Kasie Hunt, calling these two Democrat senators Republicans? The odds are she doesn\u2019t even know they\u2019re Democrat. That is my guess, because I think education today is so — and especially in journalism. You know, journalism education has to have a heavy emphasis on history.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t convince me that any of these people practicing journalism today have the first understanding of history, unless it\u2019s Watergate, unless it\u2019s some scandal they were able to get rid of Republicans in. They\u2019ll know that one backwards and forwards. But otherwise, it\u2019s irrelevant. So my vote is that she either doesn\u2019t know that these two segregationist senators were Democrats, or she does know but she\u2019s just so used to and so accustomed to racists being Republicans because that\u2019s what she\u2019s heard growing up that they must be Republicans.<\/p>\n

Herman Talmadge was a big-time Democrat in Georgia from 1957 to 1981. James Eastland was from Mississippi from 1943 to 1978. Herman Talmadge was a critic of the civil rights movement. In fact, we\u2019ve got him. We went back. I want you to hear Herman. (Southern accent) “Some of you in this audience may not be old enough or may not\u2019ve been payin\u2019 attention back then to remember old Huh-min Talmadge.”<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re gonna flash back here to Joe Biden\u2019s good buddy. This is April 14th, 1954. The name of the show on CBS was Longines Chronoscope. (Longines. They made clocks and watches. They were the sponsor.) On Longines Chronoscope, then-Governor Herman Talmadge said this about his desire to keep Georgia schools segregated…<\/p>\n

TALMADGE: White people in the South — and also the Negroes in the South — want it left alone just like it is. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt but what my state would do so if they had to maintain segregation. We intend to maintain separate schools in Georgia one way or another, come what may. If the Supreme Court of the United States suddenly handed down a decision that you could no longer worship your god in these United States as you saw fit, you can imagine the consternation, chaos, the turmoil, the excitement that that would create. Any decision to outlaw segregation in the common schools in the Southern states would amount to about the same thing in our area.<\/p>\n