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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Steve Scalise's defense ...
... it's hard to tell a KKK rally from a GOP rally.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Vinca
(50,270 posts)Gothmog
(145,195 posts)The GOP is the party of angry white people
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)They plant it, nurture it, guard it, apply shit stenched fertilizer, protect it from the light, harvest it when it is at it's ripest, and force feed it to everyone in sight.
Whether the gardener wears a suit or a robe matters less than the product.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)what they manufacture is fear.
And they are very good at it.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)House Whip May Not Have Known He Addressed White Supremacists.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the third-highest ranked Republican in the House of Representatives, is under fire after he reportedly attended a civil rights workshop organized by a group of alleged white supremacists.
David Duke, the then-president of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard-turned-former Louisiana state representative, confirmed to ABC that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke at a civil rights workshop he organized in 2002, but says Scalise may not have known who he was addressing.
"Steve Scalise came in to speak on, I think, a tax issue and many of the people there were his constituents so you know whether he understood that it was my meeting or not, I don't know," Duke told ABC News in a phone call Monday night. "I can't, you know, I can't say that he did or did not."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/incoming-house-whip-addressed-white-supremacists/story?id=27890360
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)A politician in that unspoken in the article State says he had no idea at the time who then
President of the group he was speaking to on "tax issues" was....... fucking David Duke?
First question I would ask of the accused......
And notice the "official email response penned by not Scalise". A blanket "I do not recall this meeting, and if I did go to this meeting I had no idea I was surrounded by monsters who would probably not even have voted for MLK Day, nope not I.", followed by a clinging to his religion like a security blankee.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)is no reason to think that anyone would know it was a white supremacist event. And Scalise was a very busy man. Plus Obama.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)lastlib
(23,225 posts)Repeal Obamacare!
( for the humor-challenged........)
niyad
(113,302 posts)in any position of authority.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Someone had switched hoods with him as a prank.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)Gotta luv it!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)malaise
(268,987 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)The truth hurts...
marble falls
(57,081 posts)Laxman
(2,419 posts)it's the "Death to Smoochie" defense!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)appearance at the event proves he's a good Republican and the multitudes are no doubt wondering what all the fuss is about.
Mass
(27,315 posts)How could have he known?
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)karynnj
(59,503 posts)not 2014 - that likely would not happen.
There is something to be said for politicians to speak to groups outside their own part of the party -- and you know that he is pretty far to the right as his recent comment that he spoke to all groups that asked him to -- even the League of Women Voters, which he characterized as a pretty liberal group.
I think this will blow over if there is nothing more than what has come out. What it may have done is to expose how much to the right the Republican party has floated -- but that has been obvious for some time. (In fact, the loss in the primary by Cantor, for being not right enough alone should have signaled that. )
On things like this, I have often tried to think of what I would think of a Democratic equivalent action -- here I can't. There is NO left wing group that I can think of that is clearly a hate group. The closest equivalent is then an extreme group that is demonized that is so extreme that a high level Democrat would worry about his/her reputation appearing before them to advocate for legislation that they are working on.
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)underpants
(182,799 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)And now he is forced to appear to care publicly.
Life can be hard for the politically (absent) minded.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)That one will make the rounds.