Sunday - September 04, 2005

Rush Weighs In

It’s Ideological, Not Racial

The subject here is the media—well, the far-left fringe and their looking at what’s happening in New Orleans as a “holocaust of the black people.” Some Democrat websites are now referring to this as a holocaust—and, of course, you know, holocausts, those are manmade. Holocausts are caused by man. It’s almost like saying it’s a genocide here, and they’re asking, “Why doesn’t the mainstream press talk about this?” This piece by Jack Shafer at Slate.com. He wants to know why the media does not have the guts to talk about the fact that race and class are really what’s on display here, that all the people hurt are black and they’re poor. “I don’t recall any reporter exploring the class issue directly by getting a paycheck-to-paycheck victim to explain that he couldn’t risk leaving because if he lost his furniture and appliances, his pots and pans, his bedding and clothes, to Katrina or looters, he’d have no way to replace them. No insurance, no stable, large extended family that could lend him cash to get back on his feet, no middle-class job to return to after the storm.”

Okay, Mr. Shafer, who runs the city? The 67% black population has elected a black mayor for years. See, the thing that gets me about this is he sees all these things that I don’t see. He’s looking to be critical in the area of race. He doesn’t see human misery; he sees black misery. There’s plenty of human misery. The people that we’re not seeing on TV are as miserable in their own way as these people are, and these people continually say that it’s others other than them who are racist, but they’re the ones who constantly notice first who somebody is or what somebody’s skin color is or what their gender is. They claim to be clean and pure as the wind-driven snow in all this, and yet they’re the ones that first notice all these differences among us, and then they take what they’ve noticed and transfer the notice to people that have not made a big deal out of it and call them racists. Or in this case, they’re just scared. They don’t have the guts to bring it up. Well, race in this circumstance, folks, is a poisonous weapon, and it’s why the liberals are now gravitating to it. They’re blaming the media for not having the guts to mention race here which is the attempt to get them to open up and take the lead on how this is an unfairly damaging circumstance to people of color. The mayor is black; over half the city is black. That’s nobody’s fault. It’s statistical given that the crime will be committed by the residents, the majority of which are black. That’s not arguable. When 100,000 people, so said, remain and they’re all black and the looters come from those who remain, how can it be any other way?

I don’t get the point. I mean, it’s just more liberal hand-wringing from an age-old page of their playbook. What they’re doing right now, folks, with this Mr. Shafer piece begging, cajoling the mainstream press to pick up on this, they’re arguing among themselves at this point. Even David Brooks, New York Times, the last line in his column today, “Take a close look at the people you see wandering devastated around New Orleans: they are predominantly black and poor. The political disturbances are still to come.” Everybody got wiped out in New Orleans, folks. What the hell is this? Everybody got wiped out! Everybody’s wiped out, yet they still try to outdo one way or another, milking the anguish, hoping someone notices. It’s the cheapest and darkest side of journalism because, as I said, they are attempting to indict our society. What I see down there, contrary to what Mr. Shafer sees, I see people of all races help each other. I see people of all religions trying to help each other. I see all kinds of businesses gathering and trying to help each other. But here’s the bottom line. The New York Times and all these liberal elites, they are the least capable of understanding the American character at a time like this, my friends—and it also demonstrates what little they bring to the table in our society. What good is a story on all of this now? There is human suffering, and there are efforts to alleviate it as quickly as possible. People of color are not being left behind while others are being chosen and placed in front of the line. The rescuers know no difference. They are all colors. They are all sexes. They are all religions.

So we’ve got armchair quarterbacks who never offer solutions, who only complain and whine, now trying to drive a further wedge between all of us, in an attempt to indict the American society and the American culture. “We are no good. We stink because we are a racist culture.” Not all, but most of the organizations on the ground are religious. The others are military. I have seen American flags hanging from trees and from rooftops. This is just obscene for this kind of attention to be drawn to this now. The volunteers, the military, law enforcement, politicians of both parties are not doing everything possible to address this disaster because all these people are racists, is that what we’re to believe? All of these suffering black people that you see are being allowed to suffer because all of the people involved in helping them are racists? Is that the suggestion? They were allowed to suffer in the first place because somebody’s racist and they don’t earn enough money and don’t have cars and can’t get out, somebody else has to be racist in order for this circumstance to exist? Is the suggestion that millions and millions and millions of dollars are not being poured into this region now because the people there are black? I see all kinds of relief efforts going on. I see the US military there. Is the US military racist as well? You see, my friends, this is the liberal mind-set. I look at this and I see a nation once again as we were after 9/11 rallying to the aid of our fellow citizens and doing it the best we can, given the limitations we face. The armchair critics in the media—some on our side, too, but mostly on the left—can’t help but revert to see this country from 1800 to 1964, and do their best to indict this whole country as no good and racist, and wonder why the US media isn’t on that case.

Read the full transcript at RushLimbaugh.Com.

Posted by Ronald Reagan's Ghost     on 09/04/2005 at 12:54 PM   
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