How Ken Cuccinelli made his Statue of Liberty comments even worse | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
On Tuesday night, CNN's Erin Burnett interviewed Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and asked about the Emma Lazarus poem that adorns the Statue of Liberty, a poem Cuccinelli had controversially tweaked earlier in the week.
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In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Here's the relevant part of their exchange : BURNETT: I just played it. The poem reads,"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of the teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-toss to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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