Cuccinelli: Statue Of Liberty Poem Meant For 'People Coming From Europe'
Erin Burnett was not going to let Ken Cuccinelli off the hook for his despicable rewrite of Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty. Instead, she pinned him to the wall and watched him squirm like a worm on a hook.
There was a back and forth where he ultimately accused her of "twisting this like everybody else on the left has done all day today." That accusation simply prompted her to bring receipts.
"You're saying -- it's important -- you're saying it's important to stand your own own two feet," she said. Cuccinelli agreed with that.
Burnett then informed him (again) that the poem did not say that, and again he deflected, first blaming the NPR reporter for bringing it up (how dare they?) and then Burnett.
She was having no part of his little dance, coming back to bring her receipts, after repeating how he had bastardized the poem to be one for ugly xenophobes instead of an inspiring invitation.
"However it came up, you said, 'Give me your tired and poor who can stand on their own two feet, not become a public charge," she reiterated.
Again, he agreed, unapologetically.
"The poem reads, give me your tired your poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Wretched refuse. That's what the poem says America is supposed to stand for. So what do you think America stands for?" she asked.