Rush:Democrats Are Using the Confederate Flag to Destroy the GOP Southern Stronghold (And the American Flag Is Next)

See, I Told You So: Democrats Are Using the Confederate Flag to Destroy the GOP Southern Stronghold (And the American Flag Is Next)

Thursday - June 25, 2015

RUSH: You know, this was quite humorous. Expected, predictable, quite humorous. Earlier in the week the mass movement was on to remove the Confederate flag from the state grounds in South Carolina -- and everybody got on that bandwagon said, "Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! We have to!" And I warned that what's coming next is the American flag, because there's an all-out assault on culture, and pointing out specifically -- and I think this is very important -- the Confederate flag is not what this is about in South Carolina. It's so classic of what the left does. They take an event -- a horrible, sad event, this kid killing nine people in a church -- and they turn that into something entirely different; they turn it into something that it is not about.

Confederate flag? The Confederate flag had nothing to do with this. Southern culture had nothing to do with this. The Republican Party had nothing to do with this. And yet that's what the left made it all about. The Confederate flag. And now look. Walmart gets rid of everything and Amazon gets rid of everything having to do with the Confederate flag. Now, Apple has removed every app, every game that has anything to do with the Confederate flag from the App Store. And this event in South Carolina was nothing about any of this. It wasn't about the Republican Party. The Democrat Party flew the flag.

It was a Democrat governor that raised the flag. The Confederacy was all Democrats. The segregationists in the old South were all Democrats. The slave owners were all Democrats. So you have this sad, horrific event of a deranged lunatic going into a church and killing nine people, and all of a sudden it becomes about slavery, the Confederate flag, and the Republican Party. And everybody, from Fox & Friends to you name it, gets on board and joins the race to remove the Confederate flag or condemn it or what have you. And somebody like me comes along and puts the brakes and says, "Wait, wait, wait, wait.

"This is not what this is about. You not see what's happening here." This is an all-out assault on two things. A, American culture, traditional, institutional American culture. The second thing it's an attack on is the last Republican electoral geographic stronghold, the South -- which, by the way, happens to be doing quite well economically and doing quite well politically. But because the Republican Party and the conservative movement represent the greatest threat to Barack Obama and the Democrats...

It isn't ISIS, it isn't the Iranians, it isn't Al-Qaeda. The greatest threat they face is us. And the reason is, we are the ones who could take their power away from them. ISIS isn't here running against them in elections. Neither is Al-Qaeda. Neither are the Iranians. But we are. So we have to be destroyed, we have to be discredited, we have to be eliminated as a legitimate opposition. And that's what's happening in South Carolina. It's an all-out assault on conservatism, the Republican Party, Southern culture, and the South as a whole. And here comes the bandwagon.

Everybody's going along with it, and I say, "Wait, wait, wait, wait. The next thing that's gonna happen is somebody's gonna say the American flag has flown over far more bigotry and racism and homophobia than the Confederate flag," and somebody's gonna make a move to replace it. They said, "He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's marginalized! Rush Limbaugh, he's an extremist. He's been marginalizing all of this stuff." Well, here comes Calypso Louie, in less than 24 hours, making my point.