In 1903, 20 years later, it was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty. It was not even put on display inside the exhibit, inside the pedestal until years later. It was a poem written in a contest to raise money to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. The Emma Lazarus poem, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry, huddled masses,’ blah, blah, blah, does not and never has appeared on the Statue of Liberty. He even had the audacity to say that Emma Lazarus devoted her life to health care. It was about the United States being a home to those fleeing oppression, not poverty per se. They also have told us that what Emma Lazarus meant was, ‘Give us your downtrodden, give us your disadvantaged, give us your poor, give us your wretches, and we will take them in and we will help them,’ and that’s not what it was all about. First of all, most people think that that’s part of the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty, which it’s not. That has been interpreted over the years. ‘Give me your tired, give me your poor, give me your huddled masses,’ blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. RUSH: Now, Obama did something else today in this speech that the left always does when they bring up the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus.
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