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<\/p>\nRUSH: Now, I want to go back to some more sound bites that I have been collecting during the week because the day they came down the pike there were other things that deserved more attention, such as the aftermath of the shootings over the weekend in Dayton and El Paso. But these are highly worthwhile. They\u2019re extremely valuable. They are perfectly informative.<\/p>\n
Monday night on CNN\u2019s Fredo Prime Time — Fredo Cuomo has a show — it was live from El Paso. And Fredo spoke with the religion analyst for CNN. Every network how has a religion analyst. Many of them are former priests who gave it up because they couldn\u2019t handle the celibacy or they couldn\u2019t handle the pope or they couldn\u2019t handle something. They gave it up, the cleric, collar, so forth. But they gave it up so they could now go on TV and be openly liberal and get paid for it rather than chump change in a church.<\/p>\n
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And CNN\u2019s guy is named Edward Beck. CNN religion analyst speaking about the shooting in El Paso, Texas. Fredo Cuomo said, “These white nationalists say they are Christian.” Now, wait. Who do you know that identifies themselves as white nationalists? Who do you know? In your neighborhood, in your church, in your town, who do you know that when you introduce \u2019em to somebody, you say, \u201cHere is a white nationalist and friend of mine, Zeke Slobodnik?\u201d How many of you do that?<\/p>\n
How many of you run around saying, \u201cYeah, I am a proud white nationalist, boy, and I want you to meet me.” Doesn\u2019t happen! There aren\u2019t any! There aren\u2019t any white supremacists except way on the fringe in the dark web where most of us wouldn\u2019t know how to find \u2019em if we wanted to. Because they\u2019re hiding! They are not representative of anything. They are as despondent and out of it as wacko fringe leftists are. Except there are far many more wacko fringe leftists than there are white supremacists.<\/p>\n
By the way, could these people be called white apologists? Would they be offended if I called everybody at CNN a white apologist? What do you got against white people, I could say, to anybody working at CNN or MSNBC. What\u2019s your problem with white people? You can have all the problems with white people you want because white people are the majority, white people are the devils, white people are the reason there\u2019s so much unhappiness and angst in America from the founding \u2019til now, white people did it, white Europeans.<\/p>\n
So you can say about them whatever they want. The fact that they\u2019re Christians, why, that makes it even better to hit \u2019em. But who in the world talks about themselves or their friends as white nationalists? This is why Tucker Carlson this is a hoax. There isn\u2019t a group of people running around talking about themselves this way.<\/p>\n
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But nevertheless, here\u2019s Fredo\u2019s question to CNN\u2019s religion analyst, Father Edward Beck. “These white nationalists say they are Christian.”<\/p>\n
BECK: That is a contradiction in terms. You can\u2019t put \u201cnationalist\u201d and \u201cChristian\u201d together. Jesus was definitely not a nationalist. The very essence of Jesus is crossing borders, going to the Samaritan woman, going to the stranger. I mean, how can you put Christian and nationalism together? Nationalism says my country is better than yours, my race is better than yours. That flies in the face of everything Christianity teaches.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it does not! That\u2019s not what nationalism is! And these people, you know, they may not know that? I don\u2019t think we\u2019re dealing with the sharpest knives in the drawer when we\u2019re talking about anybody on the left. That\u2019s not what nationalism means. Nationalism doesn\u2019t mean my nation is better than yours.<\/p>\n
American exceptionalism doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m better than you. Nationalism means respecting and loving your country and standing up for it instead of letting people rip it to shreds and destroy it! Nationalism is simply something where you believe in the goodness of your country. It\u2019s not a zero-sum game! It doesn\u2019t mean because the U.S. is great that Cuba has to be bad. It doesn\u2019t mean because the U.S. is bad the Soviet Union has to be good.<\/p>\n
It has nothing to do with supremacy! Nationalism exists because we have a bunch of anti-Americans trying to retransform this country away from its greatness and founding. The nationalists want to preserve it. There\u2019s nothing about supremacy in this. And yet here\u2019s a man of the cloth, a man of God who doesn\u2019t even know the definitions of the terms that he is using. \u201cJesus was not a nationalist.\u201d Whoever said that he was?<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus is the very essence of crossing borders\u201d? Yeah, Christmastime, Mary and Joseph are the essence of homeless people. Mary and Joseph were homeless just like the people living in skid row in LA, and that\u2019s why you can\u2019t criticize them because you can\u2019t criticize Mary. Why, the next Jesus could be living in skid row. We don\u2019t know. These are a bunch of sick, sick puppies.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing to the stranger, going to the Samaritan. How can you put Christian and nationalism together?\u201d Well, does a Christian believe that he\u2019s better than the Islamist? These people, everything to them gets reduced to political combat. Everything. So they set out to destroy the word “populist.” They want to demonize that. Now they\u2019re trying to demonize “nationalism” by putting the word “white” in front of it to give it a meaning that nobody attaches to it.<\/p>\n
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And, by the way, what is wrong with thinking your country is great? What is wrong with wanting your country to be great? And what is wrong with recognizing the things in the way of it being great, even if they happen to be certain kinds of people? Like Democrats or leftists who do not want America to be great. Not the same way we do.<\/p>\n
Why is wanting America to be great again some kind of racist existence? Or racialist existence, or why is white supremacy attached to America being great again? The two have nothing together, unless you have a jaundiced, perverted view of this country to begin with, like these leftists and these clerics apparently do.<\/p>\n
You learn a lot listening to these dummkopfs, folks. “It\u2019s a contradiction of terms. You can\u2019t put nationalist and Christian together. Jesus was definitely not a nationalist. The very essence of Jesus was crossing borders and going to the Samaritan woman, going to the stranger. Nationalism says, ‘My country is better than yours.'” No, it isn\u2019t! It\u2019s not even close to saying “my country is better than yours.” It\u2019s not what nationalism is. So Fredo says, “Well, okay. Where is the spirituality right now in this country? What do we fall back on if we can\u2019t fall back on any of that stuff?”<\/p>\n
BECK: I think Pope Francis has said we do not build walls. Christians build bridges. You can\u2019t call yourself a Christian if you build walls. After the resurrection of Christ, Paul writes to the Galatians, \u201cthere is no longer man or woman, Greek or Jew, slave nor free. All are one in Christ Jesus.\u201d So all of those divisions we\u2019ve tried to create with our racism and our xenophobia, Paul says that\u2019s — can\u2019t exist with Christ.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The biggest wall in this world outside of the Great Wall of China surrounds the Vatican. Have you ever been there, folks? There is a gigantic wall around the whole place. It\u2019s a nation place, and the whole place has a wall around it with checkpoints, entry points, Swiss guards, security. It\u2019s where the Vicar of Christ lives, and there is a wall there! What would Paul say?<\/p>\n
“After the resurrection of Christ, Paul writes –” I\u2019m surprised CNN guy didn\u2019t get rid of the guy after that. “What do you mean, resurrection of Christ? What do you think this network is?” But they let him continue. “There is no longer man or woman, Greek or Jew, slave nor free. All are one in Christ Jesus.” Okay, I need to ask this. Who is it trying to run Christ out of America? Who is it trying to run Christ and God out of the schools and out of the public square? Who is it? It ain\u2019t us.<\/p>\n
The very people that say only with Christ can you have no Greek and no Jew and no man or no woman, only in Christ can we all be the same and identical and so forth. Also it\u2019s kind of distorted. The very people trying to get rid of Christ, trying to get rid of God make us wonder why, if he\u2019s this wonderful, if things would be this wonderful with God everywhere in America, why, imagine. If there were God, there wouldn\u2019t be man or woman and we wouldn\u2019t need feminism! There wouldn\u2019t be Greek or Jew, and we wouldn\u2019t need borders! There wouldn\u2019t be slaves or free people. Everybody would just be, if Christ were everywhere in America. But who is it that will not permit that?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s have a flashback of this guy, shall we? Edward Beck is his name. He was on CNN back in January. Whoops. Gotta take a break. Just saw the official program clock. Hang on, folks. There\u2019s one more. Wait \u2019til you hear what this guy said about the Covington kids.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Here we go back, January 22, 2019. Sorry. This is the CNN religion analyst, Father Edward Beck, who we just heard say that the very essence of Jesus is crossing borders, not nationalist, nationalism that says, “My country\u2019s better than yours.” This… You know, that enrages me. To be that wrong — purposely that wrong, that misleading about something — and that there\u2019s not a single person in journalism that can correct the guy.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a single person on CNN that can tell him he\u2019s wrong about it! Anyway, January 22, 2019, Brianna Keilar was the infobabe, asking Edward Beck, Father Edward Beck about the confrontation between the Covington kids and the Native American out there at the March for Life. She said, “You said that they shouldn\u2019t have allowed those boys to wear Make America Great Again hats on this field trip. They shouldn\u2019t have been permitted to wear those hats. Tell us why you think that, Father.”<\/p>\n
BECK: The students acted inappropriately. I was raised at a time when we were taught respect your elders. With regard [to] the hats, the hats that they were wearing \u2014 the so-called MAGA hats or \u201cMake American [sic] Great Again\u201d hats \u2014 come with a certain political agenda that, in my opinion, can be seen as anti-Catholic, anti-Christian —<\/p>\n
RUSH: What!<\/p>\n
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BECK: — \u2019cause abortion is not the only pro-life issue. What about immigration and the migrants? What about capital punishment? What about the environment and climate change? And so by wearing that hat, it\u2019s saying that you\u2019re aligning yourself with a political agenda. The students had no right to be wearing that hat. Wear a school hat.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a second! Who in the world is this guy to be able to determine who has the right to wear any hat at all? They were on a field trip with their school! They were minding their own business! They were accosted by that Indian guy beating on his war drum. They didn\u2019t attack anybody. To attach a political agenda? But who cares! You know, there\u2019s not a person that\u2019s gonna tell anybody in Black Lives Matter to stop wearing their T-shirts or caps. I mean, this guy\u2019s gonna applaud Antifa\u2019s rights to do whatever they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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