Hugh Hewitt on with Don Lemon, CNN Tonight:
HEWITT: “I think Donald Trump is not a bigot. I don’t believe he wants to spend his time talking about this issue. In fact, when I was on the stage, Don, with Jake and Dana and that enormously successful debate with 24 million people, there wasn’t one bigot on that stage. There isn’t one bigot in the republican field. Some are more artful than others about expressing what Article 6 of the Constitution says, which is, “Anyone born of American parents is eligible to be president.” But I like to remind people, thousands of Americans have gone and fought and died for the freedom of Muslim people in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and we’re now trying to figure out how to stop the savage murder of millions of Muslims and cops and others in the Middle East by the Syrian dictator Assad. So, I think it’s kind of a side-show issue. I interviewed Donald Trump yesterday, I didn’t bring this up. I did get some interesting…”
[crosstalk]LEMON: “But, Hugh.”
HEWITT: “Go ahead, Don.”
LEMON: “He seems to be saying in the 60 Minutes interview that there is a problem with Muslims.”
HEWITT: “I didn’t hear it that way at all. I think I heard him saying that the people who attacked the country on 9/11 all were Islamist radicals and that we have to be concerned about Wahhabis Islamist radicalism whether of the Shia or the Sunni variety. And I always ask my guests that, have you read The Looming Tower by noted liberal New Yorker writer, Lawrence Wright, because it traces the Genesis of the al-Khatib Muslim brotherhood radicalism that led to 9/11. But to call that out that as a problem is not to be anti-Muslim. And I believe — and I don’t believe…”
[crosstalk]LEMON: “My question is what does that have to do with the original question from the man in the audience that he did not — that he did not take on that the president — he is saying the president is a Muslim. Why doesn’t he just say the president is a Christian, let’s move on?”
HEWITT: “Well, I always say the president is a Christian, but I also say, Don, tonight people will tweet about your show. You will not be defined, Don Lemon is not defined, CNN Tonight is not defined, Hugh Hewitt is not defined by the craziest person or the most ill-liberal person who says they are on our side in any debate. We’re defined by ourselves and Donald Trump and Ben Carson and every republican is defined by themselves. You know, Jeb Bush said tonight he is not for a multi-cultural society. And some people are trying to make that into…”
[crosstalk]LEMON: “Let me read that to you. This is his comments.”
HEWITT: “Go ahead.”
LEMON: “He’s on a trail on Iowa. He said, ‘We should not have a multi- cultural society. When you create pockets of isolation, and in some cases, the assimilation process has been retarded, it’s wrong. It limits people’s aspiration.’ It seems kind of strange coming from him because he has a multi- cultural family himself. He has defended his use of Spanish language on the campaign trail and in ads. So, what is going on here, Hugh?”
HEWITT: “Something has been going on for a hundred years. Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to denounce hyphenated Americanism followed by Woodrow Wilson, his political rival on opposite who also denounced hyphenated Americanism. Both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson now up through the big-hearted — and nobody denies this either. Jeb Bush is a big-hearted man with absolutely zero bigotry in him. I mean, he’s really, he’s like Bergoglio, Pope Francis, he loves everybody. What he’s trying to say is America has to be about Americans coming together. John Kasich made this point on the debate stage as well and most of the republicans do. They’re not about dividing. They’re about bringing together. And I think what Jeb Bush was saying, and I haven’t heard all the remarks, is that Americans have to come together rather than stake their claims to separate ethnic and ideological and racial identities, so that we are first and foremost, bound together by the Declaration Independence and the Constitution. That was Lincoln’s vision, the republican or the party of Lincoln, the Cooper union speech, the second inaugural. These are all the things that I think Jeb Bush and all republicans stand for.”
LEMON: “But I think all census data and everything shows that America is becoming increasingly multi-cultural. So, what does it mean for the Republican Party when you have these issues coming up over and over again. When it comes to allowing people in, trusting people from other places or with different religions?”
HEWITT: “We’re all for it. I think Arthur Brooks at the American Enterprise Institute’s brand-new book ‘The Road to Freedom’ is about being for people. And I’m for everyone coming to this country who believes in free enterprise, who believes in liberty. Only 15 percent of this country are Germans. Six percent are Mexican descent, 1 percent is Swedish descent. I don’t care, Don. I don’t know what your ethnicity is. Mine is as mixed up as a Mongrel. My kids are a complete mix; they are, you know, 15 different ethnicities. This country isn’t about ethnicity. It’s about opportunity. And I think every republican wants to stress that point and they’ll succeed if they do. I do believe the Democratic Party has a vested interest in deepening divisions based upon racial and ideological fault lines in the country. Republicans should be opposite that. I think Jeb Bush was speaking to that today.”
More of the interview and video at Hugh Hewitt
Within 24 hours of Joe-the-Plumber embarrassing Obama by asking a question Obama answered with the admission that he intended to ”spread the wealth around,” we all knew all about old Joe.
But this man who tried to embarrass Trump is STILL a mystery!
Why?
Where are our investigative journalists?
A bit of background has been dug up:
He used to go to TEA Party happenings with embarrassing signs shirts and hats designed to make the TEA Party look bad…..maybe.