Limbaugh Confederate Flag is the Legacy of Democrats
Limbaugh: Confederate Flag is the Legacy of Democrats
Gov. Clinton presided over Confederate Flag Day, signed bill dedicating star in Arkansas flag to Confederacy
Saying he knew he was "spitting against the wind" by bringing it up, Rush Limbaugh said Monday that the Confederate flag is "the legacy of the Democrats, not Republicans." One of the examples he gave: Bill Clinton, who as governor of Arkansas repeatedly presided over Confederate Flag day with no objections and in 1987 signed a bill dedicating one of the stars in the Arkansas flag to "commemorate the Confederate States of America."
"Folks, do you realize the Confederate flag flies because of the Democrat Party?" began Limbaugh. "Do people even care anymore about truth, objective truth, ontological certitude?"
Limbaugh went on to explain that "there's a name" connected to the flying of the Confederate flag on statehouse grounds: former SC governor and Democrat Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, of "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there!" fame.
Asking "When did this become a Republican problem?" Limbaugh pointed out that while a Democrat had the Confederate flag first put up in SC, it was a Republican who first tried to get it removed:
LIMBAUGH: It was a Republican, ladies and gentlemen, a conservative Republican governor who first tried to get the Confederate flag removed from atop the statehouse. And, by the way, that conservative Republican governor got no support from the local NAALCP. In fact, when that all happened, the Democrats used the flag against the Republican governor, and it may have cost him the election. That was not that long ago.
For another example of Democrat Confederate flag hypocrisy, Limbaugh flashed back to the 1980s when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas:
LIMBAUGH: Now Hillary Clinton has come out and demanded the flag be removed. Never mind that while the Clintons were in Arkansas they presided over something called the annual celebration of Confederate Flag Day, which continues to this day. Oh, yeah. It does. Confederate Flag Day continues to this day in Arkansas, and when the Clintons lived there, they presided over the annual celebration. Not only that, Governor Bill Clinton, 1987, signed into law an act that commemorated the Confederacy with a blue star in the Arkansas state flag. I know I'm spitting against the wind.
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