White House Says Republicans Should Keep Scalise If They Love David Duke
So far, no video or audio have surfaced, but there has been extensive reporting on the ways in which people like David Duke factor into Republican politics. By Monday morning, most of the political buzz around Congress had shifted from Scalise’s job to another burgeoning revolt against John Boehner’s speakership, this time by the likes of Louie Gohmert and Ted Yoho.
At his first White House Daily Briefing of 2015, Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked about Scalise’s woes, and whether the White House felt he should step down as majority whip, and Earnest’s carefully-workshopped response was a masterpiece of Northern passive-aggression, noting that the decision to keep Scalise is the Republican Party’s to make, and all that that implies…READ MORE
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tracey marie January 5th, 2015 at 21:05
They, the goptp did tell us they hate the black man in the WH. They told us they would make the President fail, th?ey told us they were racist with all the birther nonsense, is anyone surprised?
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 07:17
True statement, everyone knows the only reason the GOP opposes Obama is because he’s black. Hillary Clinton, who is white and unquestionably born in the US, will likely be our next president and will enjoy unconditional support from the GOP.
cecilia January 6th, 2015 at 17:27
didn’t you get the memo?
the gop also hate women
Obewon January 5th, 2015 at 21:05
Jeb Bush / Steve Scalise teabaggeR House Majority Caveman Whip until 2016~
StoneyCurtisll January 5th, 2015 at 21:24
Leave the cavemen alone..:)
Tim Coolio January 5th, 2015 at 21:54
Republicans and cave men? that’s an insult to the cave men!
neworleans878 January 5th, 2015 at 22:00
Can always count of you to stick up for cavemen, Stoney :)
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2015 at 16:24
Somebody has to do it~!
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2015 at 16:24
Somebody has to do it~!
tracey marie January 5th, 2015 at 22:05
They, the goptp did tell us they hate the black man in the WH. They told us they would make the President fail, th?ey told us they were racist with all the birther nonsense, is anyone surprised?
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 08:17
True statement, everyone knows the only reason the GOP opposes Obama is because he’s black. Hillary Clinton, who is white and unquestionably born in the US, will likely be our next president and will enjoy unconditional support from the GOP.
cecilia January 6th, 2015 at 18:27
didn’t you get the memo?
the gop also hate women
Obewon January 5th, 2015 at 22:05
Jeb Bush / Steve Scalise teabaggeR House Majority Caveman Whip until 2016~
StoneyCurtisll January 5th, 2015 at 22:24
Leave the cavemen alone..:)
Tim Coolio January 5th, 2015 at 22:54
Republicans and cave men? that’s an insult to the cave men!
nola878 January 5th, 2015 at 23:00
Can always count of you to stick up for cavemen, Stoney :)
StoneyCurtisll January 6th, 2015 at 17:24
Somebody has to do it~!
StoneyCurtisll January 5th, 2015 at 21:23
Republicans bought him/voted for him..(Scalise)..
They own him.
Tim Coolio January 5th, 2015 at 21:53
How does it feel to be in the fallout from the
Scalise and Grimm controversies neocons!
StoneyCurtisll January 5th, 2015 at 22:23
Republicans bought him/voted for him..(Scalise)..
They own him.
Tim Coolio January 5th, 2015 at 22:53
How does it feel to be in the fallout from the
Scalise and Grimm controversies neocons!
Foundryman January 5th, 2015 at 21:40
If Obama would have played golf with a virtually unknown black community organizer from Chicago on his vacation last week, every single wingnut talking head and every elected republican in the house and senate in lockstep would be condemning it hundreds of times a day. It’s ALL we would hear about!
The dems should not let up and let this go, they should hound Scalise all the way back to the duck hunters swamp!
whatthe46 January 5th, 2015 at 22:35
BING to the fk’n O!
Foundryman January 5th, 2015 at 22:40
If Obama would have played golf with a virtually unknown black community organizer from Chicago on his vacation last week, every single wingnut talking head and every elected republican in the house and senate in lockstep would be condemning it hundreds of times a day. It’s ALL we would hear about!
The dems should not let up and let this go, they should hound Scalise all the way back to the duck hunters swamp!
whatthe46 January 5th, 2015 at 23:35
BING to the fk’n O!
Wayout January 5th, 2015 at 22:10
Funny how Obama can actually associate with a self admitted un-repentant domestic terrorist/anarchist known as Bill Ayres and not a peep is raised, but let a Republican give one speech in front of a European descent rights organization and all hell breaks loose. Can anyone say double standard?
Obewon January 5th, 2015 at 22:31
Unlike your Repub Klansman lynchers and GOP faux $6 T+ Iraq oil war killers of 4,500 KIA, Bill Ayers was found “Not Guilty” because his group never killed anyone. An M-80 (4th of July cherry bomb) was lit after midnight on Pentagon property, ensuring no harm and that nobody would be injured there.
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 07:04
Ayers was found not guilty due to a legal technicality, not because no one was killed.
He founded the Weather Underground who conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the U.S. Capitol Building, and the Pentagon).
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 07:30
Everybody knows that it was 24/7.
Meanwhile again, Obama has less an association with Bill Ayres than Republican and McCain supporter, AND Bill Ayres contemporary, Lenore Annenberg (who put Ayres on the board of the Annenberg Challenge.
And you had NO problem with Grover Norquist was fundraising for Bush with Sami Al-Arian,( under
investigation by the FBI for his associations with Islamic Jihad), Ramadan
Abdullah Shallah, the No. 2 leader in Islamic Jihad, and Hassan Turabi, the
powerful Islamic ruler of Sudan who had welcomed Osama bin Laden and helped nurture al-Qaida in the early 1990s.)
Not to mention the BCCI.
Either you didn’t know or you didn’t care.
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 09:40
Not guilty on a technicality. Ayres said publically that he wished he could have created as much mayhem as he could. I believe his close associate, his wife was duly convicted.
Ron Luce January 5th, 2015 at 22:31
>> self admitted un-repentant domestic terrorist/anarchist known as Bill Ayres
Ayres blew up a toilet for cripes sakes.
I’m sick of the right wings fake scandals.
cecilia January 6th, 2015 at 17:23
but but but….right wingers LOVE toilets!!!
they spend so much time making deposits in them!!!!
Carla Akins January 6th, 2015 at 04:45
I hadn’t realized Ayres was an elected official?
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 07:08
And don’t forget about Robert Byrd, democratic Senator and KKK Exalted Cyclops.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 07:22
Byrd renounced the Klan and eventually became a passionate
advocate for civil rights, and he was one of the most vocal supporters of legislation making the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday.
But I guess YOU would have been that profile in courage to have been the only one to stand against YOUR community, church, family, friends, coaches, teachers, police, scout leaders…
What’s the current GOP’s excuse?
It seems that now, the party of Lincoln and the Union has become the party of Lincoln’s assassin and secession.
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 07:28
Scalise spoke to a civic group in a hotel where white supremacists were holding their conference; Byrd was a KKK leader.
In the end, this is all about politics. People from both parties excuse the missteps of their favorite politicians while attacking opponents for equally repulsive behavior.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 07:36
Byrd was a KKK leader.
_______
So was MOST people in his state in those days.
He learned his lesson.
Meanwhile, each party has to do what the need to do.
The Republican party has not convinced most minorities that they have moved on.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 10:08
Hardly, Byrd is dead and controls absolutely nothing and yet Scalise will be a leader of the Republican party. You don’t see this problem Ray? And point to one policy Byrd presented where minorities where disenfranchised.
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 15:34
No, I don’t see a problem with that. Byrd and Duke were active members of the KKK. Scalise only gave a speech to a civic group in a hotel where white supremasist were meeting.
What happened years ago is only being discussed now to score political points. What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 15:38
What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
_______
That is also what people see as the difference between the parties as well.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 15:38
What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
_______
That is also what people see as the difference between the parties as well.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 17:06
What are you talking about? “Scalise only gave a speech to a civic group in a hotel where white supremasist were meeting”.
He didn’t just give a speech at the same hotel the white supremacists were meeting, he gave a speech to the white supremacists.
Then you add….”What happened years ago is only being discussed now to score political points. What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.”…………as you talk about Byrd? Byrd is dead, so what can he vote on at this time? And what vote do you think he made where minorities were disenfranchised?
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 17:23
“Scalise didn’t speak at the EURO conference at all, but instead addressed a gathering of the local Jefferson Heights Civic Association two and a half hours before the EURO event started.”
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 18:21
“House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) spent most of New Year’s week trying to crouch down and wait out the fallout from the revelation that he delivered a speech to the David Duke-founded European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) in 2002.”
Read more at http://thedailybanter.com/2015/01/white-house-gop-keep-scalise-love-david-duke/#y5bFaUhL7Hfm9umG.99
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 19:09
According to numerous, credible sources, Scalise did NOT speak at the EURO event.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/kenny_knight_and_barbara_noble_claim_steve_scalise_never_spoke_to_euro_did.single.html
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 21:09
According to numerous, credible sources, he did speak at the event and he openly admits this. http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Steve-Scalise-EURO-David-Duke-Mia-Love/2015/01/05/id/616446/
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 21:33
Your source notes his INITIAL reaction: “Scalise apologized, saying he was not aware of the organization’s platform when he spoke and he would not endorse the activities of such a “hate group,”
But now as more facts have come out (it was 12 years ago) he in fact did not speak at the EURO conference.
Steve Scalise Not Mentioned as Speaker in 2002 Press Release by White Supremacist Group
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/steve-scalise-not-mentioned-speaker-2002-press-release-white-supremacist-group_822604.html
Suzanne McFly January 7th, 2015 at 10:40
Not aware of what David Duke stands for ? And you admit you actually believe this? I have wasted 2 minutes of my day to respond to your comical statement and I will not respond again. If you are so blind to the truth, it is hard to have an actual thoughtful conversation with you.
Ray M. January 7th, 2015 at 12:10
“Not aware of what David Duke stands for?”
Who said that?
Scalise recently said that 12 years ago he was not aware of EURO’s platform (I would assume he is aware today). David Duke was not even at the conference.
Read more here:
Scalise didn’t know about white nationalists at 2002 event
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/30/duke-adviser-kenny-knight-scalise-didnt-know-about-white-nationalists-at-2002-event/
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 15:34
No, I don’t see a problem with that. Byrd and Duke were active members of the KKK. Scalise only gave a speech to a civic group in a hotel where white supremasist were meeting.
What happened years ago is only being discussed now to score political points. What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 09:38
But continued his racist thinking right up to the end and at times he would slip. See my response above.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 10:02
But continued his racist thinking right up to the end and at times he would slip. See my response above.
_______
What?
“There are white n…… out there”. Enough said.???
What is said????
Byrd;
In a March 4, 2001 interview with Tony Snow, Byrd said of race
relations:
“They’re much, much better than they’ve ever been in my lifetime
… I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely
behind us … I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create
somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me,
‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that. There
are white ni**ers. I’ve seen a lot of white ni**ers in my time, if you want to
use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better
country, and I’d just as soon quit talking about it so much.”
?????
The definition of racism is;
‘the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races’
Does the above quote apply?
Actions speak louder than words and how have his actions since he renounced his racist past demonstrated a belief in that definition?
Meanwhile, more interesting than David Duke’s anti-black belief are his anti-Semitic pronouncements, while Scalise said; “Another potential candidate, state Rep. Steve Scalise (R), said he embraces many of the same “conservative” views as Duke, but is far more viable.”, he is slated to replace the only Jew the Republicans had??
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 07:28
1) Obama has less an association with Bill Ayres than Republican and McCain supporter, AND Bill Ayres contemporary, Lenore Annenberg (who put Ayres on the board of the Annenberg Challenge.
2) Funny how YOU guys had no problem with Bush associating with Islamic terrorists;
Shafiq bin Ladin ,Salem bin Ladin, , James Bath and Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, Sami Al-Arian, Abdullah Shallah, and Hassan
Turabi.
( In 2000, Grover Norquist was fundraising
for Bush with Sami Al-Arian,( under
investigation by the FBI for his associations with Islamic Jihad), Ramadan
Abdullah Shallah, the No. 2 leader in Islamic Jihad, and Hassan Turabi, the
powerful Islamic ruler of Sudan who had welcomed Osama bin Laden and helped nurture al-Qaida in the early 1990s.)
Not to mention the BCCI.
Either you didn’t know or you didn’t care.
Budda January 6th, 2015 at 07:38
Facts and more facts. I don’t think cons understand them or else they just ignore them.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 07:40
That’s why David Frum said, “Republicans have been Fleeced, Exploited And Lied To’ by a Conservative Entertainment Complex”
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 09:37
I wasn’t a Bushie.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 10:03
I wasn’t a Bushie.
_______
Doesn’t matter.
There was nary a peep about his associations from the right.
anothertoothpick January 6th, 2015 at 08:45
Mr. Ayers is listed as a member of the nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an offshoot of the Woods Charitable Fund, founded in 1941 by a prominent lawyer and telephone company executive. According to the fund’s Web site, it has focused in recent years on “issues that affected the area’s least advantaged, including welfare reform, affordable housing” and “tax policy as a tool in reducing poverty.”
For a time, Mr. Obama was on the board with Mr. Ayers, though he no longer has a formal association with the group. At the debate, he described Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Mr. Obama said he was being unjustly linked to “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old.”
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 09:30
Mr. Ayres is the man Obama went to for his political coming out and I never heard of Obama repudiating his actions. And how this anarchist got anywhere close to being on any board anywhere is beyond me. This says volumes about the left and who they like to associate with. I guess I should probably not mention America hating Rev. Wright either, who Mr. Obama had a 20 year association with, before he (Obama) threw under the bus. And wasn’t Obama also big friends with some rich Chicago criminal from whom he got a sweetheart deal on property in the Windy City? The White House really shouldn’t talk. As for Mr. Scalise, he made one little speech, so why don’t you give him the same benefit of the doubt as you do Obama who had far longer associations with more nefarious people?
anothertoothpick January 6th, 2015 at 09:46
Obama has in fact condemned Ayers’ actions as “detestable.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 10:26
He did?
I thought he ran the whole operation when he was 11 years old.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 10:03
Please share one policy that would reflect President Obama supporting Mr. Wright and his “anarchist” beliefs. You people throw all this crap about the President associating with others, and yet you constantly fall short on tying his beliefs to theirs and yet the left constantly can show you how the right embraces multiple policies where minorities, poor, and women are disenfranchised.
William January 6th, 2015 at 10:23
Hey Skippy, how about we simply cut through the BS, and get right to your point.
You are a racist plain and simple.
For the benefit of some of the folks who tuned into the site recently, I’ll post that wonderful racist rant and link that reflects your opinion of people of color.
“Its also funny how those same people have no problem
getting to a government office somewhere to apply for food stamps, welfare, or
their social security benefits”
But tell me, why is it that black citizens are unable to
comply with the law?
http://www.alan.com/2013/08/13/92-year-old-who-faced-literacy-tests-sues-north-carolina-on-voter-id/
you’re welcome.
Aunt Pee January 6th, 2015 at 09:00
LOL. Still beating that dead horse?!
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 09:36
Look, we all know who the real Klansman was and he was embraced by every prominent Democrat of the last 40 years before his death. That’s right, the Grand Kleagle himself Sen. Robert K. Byrd, who continued his racist thinking right until the end. “Robert”, Mr. Byrd said his mother said to him : “There are white n…… out there”. Enough said.
William January 6th, 2015 at 10:17
” European descent rights organization ”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
Wayout January 5th, 2015 at 23:10
Funny how Obama can actually associate with a self admitted un-repentant domestic terrorist/anarchist known as Bill Ayres and not a peep is raised, but let a Republican give one speech in front of a European descent rights organization and all hell breaks loose. Can anyone say double standard?
Obewon January 5th, 2015 at 23:31
Unlike your Repub Klansman lynchers and GOP faux $6 T+ Iraq oil war killers of 4,500 KIA, Bill Ayers was found “Not Guilty” because his group never killed anyone. An M-80 (4th of July cherry bomb) was lit after midnight on Pentagon property, ensuring no harm and that nobody would be injured there.
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 08:04
Ayers was found not guilty due to a legal technicality, not because no one was killed.
He founded the Weather Underground who conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the U.S. Capitol Building, and the Pentagon).
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 08:30
Everybody knows that it was 24/7.
Meanwhile again, Obama has less an association with Bill Ayres than Republican and McCain supporter, AND Bill Ayres contemporary, Lenore Annenberg (who put Ayres on the board of the Annenberg Challenge.
And you had NO problem with Grover Norquist was fundraising for Bush with Sami Al-Arian,( under
investigation by the FBI for his associations with Islamic Jihad), Ramadan
Abdullah Shallah, the No. 2 leader in Islamic Jihad, and Hassan Turabi, the
powerful Islamic ruler of Sudan who had welcomed Osama bin Laden and helped nurture al-Qaida in the early 1990s.)
Not to mention the BCCI.
Either you didn’t know or you didn’t care.
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 10:40
Not guilty on a technicality. Ayres said publically that he wished he could have created as much mayhem as he could. I believe his close associate, his wife was duly convicted.
Ron Luce January 5th, 2015 at 23:31
>> self admitted un-repentant domestic terrorist/anarchist known as Bill Ayres
Ayres blew up a toilet for cripes sakes.
I’m sick of the right wings fake scandals.
cecilia January 6th, 2015 at 18:23
but but but….right wingers LOVE toilets!!!
they spend so much time making deposits in them!!!!
Carla Akins January 6th, 2015 at 05:45
I hadn’t realized Ayres was an elected official?
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 08:08
And don’t forget about Robert Byrd, democratic Senator and KKK Exalted Cyclops.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 08:22
Byrd renounced the Klan and eventually became a passionate
advocate for civil rights, and he was one of the most vocal supporters of legislation making the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday.
But I guess YOU would have been that profile in courage to have been the only one to stand against YOUR community, church, family, friends, coaches, teachers, police, scout leaders…
What’s the current GOP’s excuse?
It seems that now, the party of Lincoln and the Union has become the party of Lincoln’s assassin and secession.
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 08:28
Scalise spoke to a civic group in a hotel where white supremacists were holding their conference; Byrd was a KKK leader.
In the end, this is all about politics. People from both parties excuse the missteps of their favorite politicians while attacking opponents for equally repulsive behavior.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 08:36
Byrd was a KKK leader.
_______
So was MOST people in his state in those days.
He learned his lesson.
Meanwhile, each party has to do what the need to do.
The Republican party has not convinced most minorities that they have moved on.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 11:08
Hardly, Byrd is dead and controls absolutely nothing and yet Scalise will be a leader of the Republican party. You don’t see this problem Ray? And point to one policy Byrd presented where minorities where disenfranchised.
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 16:34
No, I don’t see a problem with that. Byrd and Duke were active members of the KKK. Scalise only gave a speech to a civic group in a hotel where white supremasist were meeting.
What happened years ago is only being discussed now to score political points. What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 16:38
What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.
_______
That is also what people see as the difference between the parties as well.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 18:06
What are you talking about? “Scalise only gave a speech to a civic group in a hotel where white supremasist were meeting”.
He didn’t just give a speech at the same hotel the white supremacists were meeting, he gave a speech to the white supremacists.
Then you add….”What happened years ago is only being discussed now to score political points. What really matters is how people vote today on the issues.”…………as you talk about Byrd? Byrd is dead, so what can he vote on at this time? And what vote do you think he made where minorities were disenfranchised?
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 18:23
“Scalise didn’t speak at the EURO conference at all, but instead addressed a gathering of the local Jefferson Heights Civic Association two and a half hours before the EURO event started.”
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 19:21
“House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) spent most of New Year’s week trying to crouch down and wait out the fallout from the revelation that he delivered a speech to the David Duke-founded European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) in 2002.”
Read more at http://thedailybanter.com/2015/01/white-house-gop-keep-scalise-love-david-duke/#y5bFaUhL7Hfm9umG.99
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 20:09
According to numerous, credible sources, Scalise did NOT speak at the EURO event.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/kenny_knight_and_barbara_noble_claim_steve_scalise_never_spoke_to_euro_did.single.html
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 22:09
According to numerous, credible sources, he did speak at the event and he openly admits this. http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Steve-Scalise-EURO-David-Duke-Mia-Love/2015/01/05/id/616446/
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 22:33
Your source notes his INITIAL reaction: “Scalise apologized, saying he was not aware of the organization’s platform when he spoke and he would not endorse the activities of such a “hate group,”
But now as more facts have come out (it was 12 years ago) he in fact did not speak at the EURO conference.
Steve Scalise Not Mentioned as Speaker in 2002 Press Release by White Supremacist Group
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/steve-scalise-not-mentioned-speaker-2002-press-release-white-supremacist-group_822604.html
Suzanne McFly January 7th, 2015 at 11:40
Not aware of what David Duke stands for ? And you admit you actually believe this? I have wasted 2 minutes of my day to respond to your comical statement and I will not respond again. If you are so blind to the truth, it is hard to have an actual thoughtful conversation with you.
Sting Ray January 7th, 2015 at 13:10
“Not aware of what David Duke stands for?”
Who said that?
Scalise recently said that 12 years ago he was not aware of EURO’s platform (I would assume he is aware today). David Duke was not even at the conference.
Read more here:
Scalise didn’t know about white nationalists at 2002 event
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/30/duke-adviser-kenny-knight-scalise-didnt-know-about-white-nationalists-at-2002-event/
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 10:38
But continued his racist thinking right up to the end and at times he would slip. See my response above.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 11:02
But continued his racist thinking right up to the end and at times he would slip. See my response above.
_______
What?
“There are white n…… out there”. Enough said.???
What is said????
Byrd;
In a March 4, 2001 interview with Tony Snow, Byrd said of race
relations:
“They’re much, much better than they’ve ever been in my lifetime
… I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely
behind us … I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create
somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me,
‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that. There
are white ni**ers. I’ve seen a lot of white ni**ers in my time, if you want to
use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better
country, and I’d just as soon quit talking about it so much.”
?????
The definition of racism is;
‘the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races’
Does the above quote apply?
Actions speak louder than words and how have his actions since he renounced his racist past demonstrated a belief in that definition?
Meanwhile, more interesting than David Duke’s anti-black belief are his anti-Semitic pronouncements, while Scalise said; “Another potential candidate, state Rep. Steve Scalise (R), said he embraces many of the same “conservative” views as Duke, but is far more viable.”, he is slated to replace the only Jew the Republicans had??
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 08:28
1) Obama has less an association with Bill Ayres than Republican and McCain supporter, AND Bill Ayres contemporary, Lenore Annenberg (who put Ayres on the board of the Annenberg Challenge.
2) Funny how YOU guys had no problem with Bush associating with Islamic terrorists;
Shafiq bin Ladin ,Salem bin Ladin, , James Bath and Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, Sami Al-Arian, Abdullah Shallah, and Hassan
Turabi.
( In 2000, Grover Norquist was fundraising
for Bush with Sami Al-Arian,( under
investigation by the FBI for his associations with Islamic Jihad), Ramadan
Abdullah Shallah, the No. 2 leader in Islamic Jihad, and Hassan Turabi, the
powerful Islamic ruler of Sudan who had welcomed Osama bin Laden and helped nurture al-Qaida in the early 1990s.)
Not to mention the BCCI.
Either you didn’t know or you didn’t care.
Budda January 6th, 2015 at 08:38
Facts and more facts. I don’t think cons understand them or else they just ignore them.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 08:40
That’s why David Frum said, “Republicans have been Fleeced, Exploited And Lied To’ by a Conservative Entertainment Complex”
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 10:37
I wasn’t a Bushie.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 11:03
I wasn’t a Bushie.
_______
Doesn’t matter.
There was nary a peep about his associations from the right.
anothertoothpick January 6th, 2015 at 09:45
Mr. Ayers is listed as a member of the nine-member board of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an offshoot of the Woods Charitable Fund, founded in 1941 by a prominent lawyer and telephone company executive. According to the fund’s Web site, it has focused in recent years on “issues that affected the area’s least advantaged, including welfare reform, affordable housing” and “tax policy as a tool in reducing poverty.”
For a time, Mr. Obama was on the board with Mr. Ayers, though he no longer has a formal association with the group. At the debate, he described Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Mr. Obama said he was being unjustly linked to “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old.”
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 10:30
Mr. Ayres is the man Obama went to for his political coming out and I never heard of Obama repudiating his actions. And how this anarchist got anywhere close to being on any board anywhere is beyond me. This says volumes about the left and who they like to associate with. I guess I should probably not mention America hating Rev. Wright either, who Mr. Obama had a 20 year association with, before he (Obama) threw under the bus. And wasn’t Obama also big friends with some rich Chicago criminal from whom he got a sweetheart deal on property in the Windy City? The White House really shouldn’t talk. As for Mr. Scalise, he made one little speech, so why don’t you give him the same benefit of the doubt as you do Obama who had far longer associations with more nefarious people?
anothertoothpick January 6th, 2015 at 10:46
Obama has in fact condemned Ayers’ actions as “detestable.
OldLefty January 6th, 2015 at 11:26
He did?
I thought he ran the whole operation when he was 11 years old.
Suzanne McFly January 6th, 2015 at 11:03
Please share one policy that would reflect President Obama supporting Mr. Wright and his “anarchist” beliefs. You people throw all this crap about the President associating with others, and yet you constantly fall short on tying his beliefs to theirs and yet the left constantly can show you how the right embraces multiple policies where minorities, poor, and women are disenfranchised.
William January 6th, 2015 at 11:23
Hey Skippy, how about we simply cut through the BS, and get right to your point.
You are a racist plain and simple.
For the benefit of some of the folks who tuned into the site recently, I’ll post that wonderful racist rant and link that reflects your opinion of people of color.
“Its also funny how those same people have no problem
getting to a government office somewhere to apply for food stamps, welfare, or
their social security benefits”
But tell me, why is it that black citizens are unable to
comply with the law?
http://www.alan.com/2013/08/13/92-year-old-who-faced-literacy-tests-sues-north-carolina-on-voter-id/
you’re welcome.
Aunt Pee January 6th, 2015 at 10:00
LOL. Still beating that dead horse?!
Wayout January 6th, 2015 at 10:36
Look, we all know who the real Klansman was and he was embraced by every prominent Democrat of the last 40 years before his death. That’s right, the Grand Kleagle himself Sen. Robert K. Byrd, who continued his racist thinking right until the end. “Robert”, Mr. Byrd said his mother said to him : “There are white n…… out there”. Enough said.
William January 6th, 2015 at 11:17
” European descent rights organization ”
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
Ron Luce January 5th, 2015 at 22:36
And never forget that Steve Scalise is a big fat liar right now.
There is no way in hell that he didn’t know, perfectly well, who David Duke was and what he stood for. Every Louisiana politician does.
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 07:22
Scalise’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Ron Luce January 5th, 2015 at 23:36
And never forget that Steve Scalise is a big fat liar right now.
There is no way in hell that he didn’t know, perfectly well, who David Duke was and what he stood for. Every Louisiana politician does.
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 08:22
Scalise’s chickens are coming home to roost.
bpollen January 6th, 2015 at 04:29
“I thought that David Duke was the Grand Wizard of the KKKiwanis! Imagine my chagrin when I learned that he was with the Klan! And learned that it’s not actually spelled Cu Cux Clan.”
bpollen January 6th, 2015 at 05:29
“I thought that David Duke was the Grand Wizard of the KKKiwanis! Imagine my chagrin when I learned that he was with the Klan! And learned that it’s not actually spelled Cu Cux Clan.”
Ron Jackson January 6th, 2015 at 09:40
As I keep on saying all right wingers are racist, and faux news is the media outlet for the white nationalist movement. The fun part is watching right wingers prove me correct time after time.
Ray M. January 6th, 2015 at 17:36
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
― Elbert Hubbard
Ron Jackson January 6th, 2015 at 10:40
As I keep on saying all right wingers are racist, and faux news is the media outlet for the white nationalist movement. The fun part is watching right wingers prove me correct time after time.
Sting Ray January 6th, 2015 at 18:36
“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
― Elbert Hubbard