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RUSH: As you know, Eric Holder came out couple days ago and said that America is a ‘nation of cowards\u2019 on racial matters. We\u2019ve done pretty good integrating the workplace, but on Friday we go our own separate ways. Whites don\u2019t want to talk to blacks. Asians don\u2019t want to talk to anybody, whoever, whatever. This is a tremendous insult to the people of this country. But there\u2019s a great piece in the American Thinker today from somebody who says Holder is probably exactly right. (interruption) Yes, Mr. Snerdley, I said that. The American Thinker has a piece that suggests Eric Holder was exactly right in calling us a nation of cowards. Just wait \u2019til you hear it before you get frustrated. First, I want you to listen to Congressman James Clyburn. Yesterday WIS Television 10 Eyeball News, Columbia, South Carolina, held a roundtable meeting to discuss how the newly signed stimulus package would affect us.<\/p>\n

CLYBURN: The governor of Louisiana expressed opposition. Louisiana has the highest, eh, African-American population in the country. The governor of Miss\u2019ssippi expressed opposition. The governor of Texas and the governor of South Carolina. These four governors represent states that are in the proverbial Black Belt. I was particularly insulted by that. All of this, it was a slap in — in the face of African-Americans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, if I am a racial coward, then I don\u2019t play this bite and I don\u2019t talk about it and I don\u2019t comment on it and I don\u2019t allow you to call about it because I\u2019m afraid of what will happen to me if we talk about this. Somebody with courage, as I have, will point out how racist Clyburn is, because what he\u2019s just said here is that these four in Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas and Mississippi are racists; that they don\u2019t want to take this money because they don\u2019t want the money going to black people. Now, what I hear when I hear that is that maybe some of this stimulus is designed to go to black people. Is that not racist? I thought this was designed to spur the economy! But Mr. Clyburn here is letting us know that to some of his colleagues in the House that was intended to go to black people and if the governors aren\u2019t going to take it then they are racist.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, we\u2019d be very cowardly not to call this and not to talk about this and not to call it what it is. This just confirms for me what the aims of this stimulus package really are, because I will guarantee you this. In the eyes of James Clyburn, in the eyes of most liberal Democrats in Congress and in the Senate, when they look out across the population of this country and they see blacks — you tell me, Mr. Snerdley, what do they see? (interruption) Exactly. When James Clyburn looks out at the landscape of America — when Daschle, when Pelosi, when Reid, whoever — when they look out, when Obama looks out across the landscape of America, and they see black people, they see poor people. They see oppressed people. They see people some cases still enslaved. They see people who have been held down by The Man. <\/p>\n

They look out and they see their own people as enshrouded in poverty. That then tells us what they think of their own population, that tells us how they look at us. Liberals always look at average Americans with contempt. So they\u2019re telling us, Clyburn is telling us here that the Black Belt is the Poverty Belt and that therefore when these four governors don\u2019t want to spend their stimulus money, they are racist. Now, this is how racial cowards are created. This is how the race card is played by racial bullies to create racial cowards. But Congressman Clyburn needn\u2019t worry. I mentioned this to you last week. The Drive-Bys only got around to confirming this in the last couple of days in relationship to the Clyburn story. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said, ‘I don\u2019t want it. We don\u2019t want to be obligated to it.\u2019 Then he found out that it doesn\u2019t matter; he can be forced to take it. <\/p>\n

There is a clause inserted by James Clyburn — and I think if it ever got tested, it\u2019s unconstitutional, but there is a clause — in the stimulus bill that can force state legislatures to overrule or veto their governor\u2019s decision and take the money. And they\u2019ve got 45 days to do it. So it doesn\u2019t matter. Now, Sanford says, ‘Okay, I\u2019ll take the money. I\u2019ll look at it.\u2019 He coulda held out. He coulda held out on principle and the state still got the money. He could have occupied the right position while the state got the money. The pressure was too much to bear, \u2019cause now they\u2019re out there calling people cowards on race. So when Holder calls people cowards on race, it creates cowards on race; and it gets people to shut up, sit down, say nothing, when racial bullying tactics are utilized — in this case to get a stimulus package that\u2019s aimed not at economic growth, but just more welfare spending. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: From the AmericanThinker.com, Matthew May: ‘Of course, Eric Holder is correct.\u2019 We are a nation of cowards when it comes to race. ‘This cowardice was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today. As they are in so many other areas of life, chief among our American cowards are the representatives of the national political media. During the presidential campaign, there was a maniacal effort on the part of the national media to find whites who would not vote for Barack Obama, never mind the reasoning for choosing so. Whites who were not for Mr. Obama were automatically racist in outlook and action, you see. No major media network or national newspaper attempted to investigate the associations of Barack Obama with William Ayers and the Annenberg Project in Chicago. No major media network or national newspaper launched an investigation as to the release of Barack Obama\u2019s grades in college, the lack of legal scholarship that somehow landed him as president of the Harvard Law Review, or any other aspect of his mysterious academic record. Think back to how resolute and determined that same media were in smoking out the academic record of George W. Bush to prove he is a dolt.\u2019<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to sound bite number one at this point, shall we? We just had it demonstrated that the major media cared not to find out just who this guy is. It didn\u2019t matter. All that mattered was he represented the first black to possibly be president. That was historic, had to make it happen, doesn\u2019t matter who he is. Jeremiah Wright, forget it. Bill Ayers, no big deal. Terry Moran this morning on a web radio show. He\u2019s the host of ABC\u2019s Nightline. <\/p>\n

MORAN: In some ways, Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office, I mean from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he\u2019s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way, and I think the coverage reflects that.<\/p>\n

The only giant movement he\u2019s ever been a part of is ACORN. I don\u2019t know what other giant movement he\u2019s part of. But there you have it, Moran doesn\u2019t know anything about him! Terry Moran, you are embarrassing! You don\u2019t know anything about Barack Obama! You and your network and all the others purposely, studiously avoided any investigation to find out who he is. You manufactured phony stories based on no knowledge, and now you tell us he\u2019s so big, he has done so much, he is as important to this nation as was George Washington? I think that in itself is a racial comment my friends. But I\u2019ll leave that aside for a moment. That he has to take a step down from this grand perch, this leader of a massive movement, he\u2019s doing it for us. He\u2019s taking a massive step down. Why, Obama is throwing away all of his potential by being president of the United States. And the coverage, said Moran, reflected that. Good Lord. Every time I think I\u2019ve heard the piece de resistance of media capitulation, I hear something like this, and it\u2019s beyond even my imagination and perception of how in the tank they are. They don\u2019t know anything about him. Washington had unanimous — (interruption) I understand totally, Snerdley, Washington had unanimous support. I mean it\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s obscene. It is offensive, and it is based in race. Mr. Moran, your assessment is based in race, and you can\u2019t fool anybody that that\u2019s not it is what you mean. <\/p>\n

So Matthew May says, ‘What is the difference? It is the difference between the incurious or deliberate ignoring of the seemingly endless and disturbing associations and utterances of Barack Obama and the deliberate attempts at smashing anything and everything associated with Sarah Palin. Because Palin is white, she was fair game. Because Barack Obama is sort of black, anything said against him or an honest inquiry into his past was automatically deemed racist — literally no questions asked,\u2019 says Matthew May in ‘A Nation of Cowards?\u2019 at American Thinker. He says, ‘Too many of us are unwilling to respond to real racism perpetrated by the likes of Eric Holder, Barack Obama, and Jeremiah Wright by repudiating their bigotry in loud, bold language.\u2019 We\u2019re cowards; we shut up; we don\u2019t have the guts \u2019cause we are afraid of being called racists. ‘We Americans of goodwill must push back,\u2019 says Matthew May, ‘and declare that the sentiments of people like the attorney general are invalid, untrue, and unacceptable. We must stand up and demand that our president state clearly if he endorses the remarks of the attorney general who, it must be remembered, serves at the pleasure of the president. Anything else and we truly are cowards. Yet we know in our hearts that we are not. Let us prove it once and for all, no matter what anyone might say.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is why, Snerdley, Matthew May says we are a nation of cowards. The first three letters, cow, we\u2019re cowed. We\u2019re cowed. People are deathly afraid of opposing anyone or anything that stems from the race industry because they\u2019re afraid of being called racist. Not me. Since I do take the hit, people don\u2019t want to take the hit. They see what happens to people. Some of them get fired, some of them are impugned, reputations under assault trying to be destroyed. People don\u2019t want to go through that, so they shut up. So the race industry continues to roll people, and the whole concept of race in this country continues to be defined in erroneous ways, as though we\u2019ve made no progress. We need this massive stimulus bill because most blacks are still poor. Anybody that opposes it is a racist. ‘Oh, no, no, no, I don\u2019t oppose it for that.\u2019 Oh, okay, then you let it — yeah, we\u2019ll vote for him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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