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Scalise Allegedly Spoke with White Supremacy Group [W:22, 100]

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Jack Hays said:
There's nothing to prove. It is my opinion based on a lifetime of experience.
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So, your posts are just BS then.

Thanks for playing
 
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jet57 said:
So, your posts are just BS then.

Thanks for playing
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Just reacting to the invocation of journalists' ethics. I've seen them lie on three continents.
 
Re: Scalise Allegedly Spoke with White Supremacy Group [W:22]

HenryChinaski said:
The greater good and what's right outweighs any economic excuses. This is just one more clear-cut example of Republicans being out of touch in regards to racial divisions.
Another is In 2002, Trent Lott’s praise for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform costing him his role as Senate Majority Leader. The Republican Party is nothing but angry out of touch white guys.
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Why you expanding the topic and trying to derail to make it about Republicans? " The Republican Party is nothing but angry out of touch white guys." Are the republicans who voted for the MLK Holiday angry out of touch white guys?

But since you opened the box, explain this one to me "A Mississippi Democratic Congressman says Clarence Thomas is an “Uncle Tom,” Mitch McConnell is a “racist,” and that Republicans are only anti-big government and anti-Obamacare because President Obama is black. Rep. Bennie Thompson made the comments over the weekend while appearing on a New Nation of Islam radio program. http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczy...es-shocking-racial-comments-about#.pjq9RnOrvn

Back to the OP.

The OP was about Scalise and his presentation 12 years ago. What evidence other than the MLK vote, do you have that he is a racist. Explain why the 12 year old presentation is relevant.

In closing what Democrat who served many years in Congress was a member of the KKK? I know, do you?
 
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HenryChinaski said:
Does that include Christmas and Jesus? Come on man, Dr. Martin Luther King was civil rights leader and a national hero. If anyone should be honored with a national holiday, it's him.
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Well now that's the rub. MLK Day has always seemed to me to be a gesture of atonement for the wrong done to African Americans, with MLK the vehicle. As an individual I'm not sure he deserves to be elevated above some others like Frederick Douglass or even W.E.B. DuBois. I'd rather go straight to the issue and have an Abolition Day or Freedom Day or Equal Rights Day.
 
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HenryChinaski said:
Does that include Christmas and Jesus? Come on man, Dr. Martin Luther King was civil rights leader and a national hero. If anyone should be honored with a national holiday, it's him.
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Agreed.

Christmas isn't so much about "it's some famous guy from centuries ago birthday" these days...more of a commerce-generating day - what with all the gifts and ****.
 
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HenryChinaski said:
The greater good and what's right outweighs any economic excuses. This is just one more clear-cut example of Republicans being out of touch in regards to racial divisions.
Another is In 2002, Trent Lott’s praise for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform costing him his role as Senate Majority Leader. The Republican Party is nothing but angry out of touch white guys.
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No contribution to racist divisions here, I suppose.
 
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Grant said:
The Democrats, the genuine party of racists, is trying to make something of this 12 year old incident. They deserve derision.
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Now Grant... I've attempted to educate you on this issue several times, giving you CLEAR information and data demonstrating that it has been Republicans, at least over the past 50+ years that are the party of racists. Must I humiliate you AGAIN by posting the information that demonstrates that you don't know what you are talking about?
 
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Scalise was invited to the conference by Kenny Knight, a long time adviser to David Duke. Scalise is either racist or utterly incompetent.
 
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I accept that he was unaware who they were (even though he might have investigated whom he was speaking for a bit better) and that he is sorry that he did it. If no other evidence surfaces supporting an underlying white-supremacist/racist mindset in him, I would say forgive the man/live and let live. Nobody is perfect, especially not a politician and people should not go overboard with heaping on blame/dislike on this guy based on this speech he gave.

Dislike/criticize him for the things he thinks and does in his political office (if that is the case, I do not know him) and not because of this one speech.
 
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rathi said:
Scalise was invited to the conference by Kenny Knight, a long time adviser to David Duke. Scalise is either racist or utterly incompetent.
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Why? Isn't it good to jaw things though? I always though talk was better than keeping mum.
 
Re: Scalise Allegedly Spoke with White Supremacy Group [W:22]

ModerateGOP said:
Read more: Steve Scalise office: Likely he spoke to white supremacist group - POLITICO

Well, the man who many have been looking towards as the future of the Republican Party and quite possibly a future President (See house of cards TV Show) seems to have more than a few skeletons in his closet. Not sure about the "rumor" however... It's a very interesting ripple.
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I really don't see any issue in holding a speech before friends or foes. Is it not better they vote for a Conservative than a radical? If the text were known and racist, the report would be interesting. As it appears here, it seems a stupid slur.
 
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ModerateGOP said:
Read more: Steve Scalise office: Likely he spoke to white supremacist group - POLITICO

Well, the man who many have been looking towards as the future of the Republican Party and quite possibly a future President (See house of cards TV Show) seems to have more than a few skeletons in his closet. Not sure about the "rumor" however... It's a very interesting ripple.
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Yeppers, politico is a very respectable credible source


Scalise, 49, who ascended to the House GOP’s third-ranking post this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO. But the adviser said the congressman didn’t know at the time about the group’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
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ModerateGOP said:
No, and no. European Americans also known as "white" people in most circles seem have been give a godly status from some groups which make it seem like we are all racist and bringing down other groups. Even as we are trying ever harder to appeal to these circles of minorities. Maybe as minorities become the majority within the next 10-15 years, we will begin to see some type of balance between these racial groups which seem to be dominated by not "white people" but in actuality, "black people."

I'm also not so certain as to the timing of this story. Why talk about it now? 12 years later??
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Mornin' MGOP. What I got it was pushed by the Conservative Hard Right.....naturally the left is looking to play off of it. As any shake up in Republican leadership is a problem for all Republicans. Just as it is for the Demos when they shake their tree.

But you are correct.....12 years ago. Why not brought out for the election. Because it wasn't the left.

The reason the Conservatives are making a hubbub about it is due to Scalise not being Conservative enough. The conservatives wanted Tom Graves Georgia Republican as the Whip.

Any of the left really don't want to make a big deal about it with Sharpton visiting this White House 61 times. Or BO peep meeting with Ayers.

This is a one and done if no other dirt comes forth. Leadership released a statement yesterday and circled the Wagons around Scalise. Who assured Boehner there is no other dirt. If there is any other Dirt. He is done as Whip!
 
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rathi said:
Scalise was invited to the conference by Kenny Knight, a long time adviser to David Duke. Scalise is either racist or utterly incompetent.
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Kenny Knight has publicly stated that Scalise spoke to a small community group BEFORE the conference, not during it. According to Knight, Scalise spoke for about 15 minutes on tax issues. The American Red Cross also spoke before the group, as well as the Sheriff's Dept. on forming community watch groups.
 
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Given that the Republican party has shifted to the right and some far to the right over the last 20 years or so, it is probably to be expected that skeletons like this will come rattling out of the closet from time to time. What is the old saying..... When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.

This is really not at all shocking or even surprising.
 
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haymarket said:
Given that the Republican party has shifted to the right and some far to the right over the last 20 years or so, it is probably to be expected that skeletons like this will come rattling out of the closet from time to time. What is the old saying..... When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.

This is really not at all shocking or even surprising.
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Only if you are on the media's "correct" side.

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Re: Scalise Allegedly Spoke with White Supremacy Group [W:22]

haymarket said:
Given that the Republican party has shifted to the right and some far to the right over the last 20 years or so, it is probably to be expected that skeletons like this will come rattling out of the closet from time to time. What is the old saying..... When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.

This is really not at all shocking or even surprising.
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So, let's see if we have this right....A Republican gives one speech over a decade ago, and comes out front and admits that it was a mistake, but A Demo can be in leadership of the Senate for literally decades after being a Grand Klegele in the KKK, and we are all supposed to not think that liberals are a sick bunch of hypocrites?
 
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ModerateGOP said:
Read more: Steve Scalise office: Likely he spoke to white supremacist group - POLITICO

Well, the man who many have been looking towards as the future of the Republican Party and quite possibly a future President (See house of cards TV Show) seems to have more than a few skeletons in his closet. Not sure about the "rumor" however... It's a very interesting ripple.
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I don't care if he spoke to them, I want to know what he said.
But I also wonder if we want to go down this road given our current POTUS and his associations.
 
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j-mac said:
So, let's see if we have this right....A Republican gives one speech over a decade ago, and comes out front and admits that it was a mistake, but A Demo can be in leadership of the Senate for literally decades after being a Grand Klegele in the KKK, and we are all supposed to not think that liberals are a sick bunch of hypocrites?
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that little rubber hammer just hit you in the patella and elicited the predicted reaction.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Knee+jerk+reaction
 
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rathi said:
Scalise was invited to the conference by Kenny Knight, a long time adviser to David Duke. Scalise is either racist or utterly incompetent.
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That's not true. It would be, if you could produce a second and third time that Scalise went back and or buddied up to Duke or any others like him.
 
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j-mac said:
Bounced off me, and knocked you out....;)
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you just admitted yours was a predictable knee jerk reaction.
 
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haymarket said:
you just admitted yours was a predictable knee jerk reaction.
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It's obvious hypocrisy displayed by liberals like yourself...My question is why don't you see that?
 
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