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muriel_volestrangler

(101,257 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2018, 08:50 AM Oct 2018

Google "GOP candidate said", or "Republican candidate said".

This being an election year, there's all sorts of interesting political fauna gamboling across the landscape at all points of the compass. (Don't believe me? Google "GOP candidate said," and be amazed yourself.) In Mississippi, for example, there's a guy named Chris McDaniel, an out-and-out Confederate apologist, who's running for the U.S. Senate. He had some thoughts he wanted to share about social programs and black folks. From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger via shamefaced USA Today:

An interview panelist asked McDaniel about his support for the controversial state flag, comments about hip-hop music contributing to gun violence and praise of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The panelist, Eddie Glaude, also asked McDaniel how he would speak to African-Americans in Mississippi, who make up 38 percent of the state's population and how he would convince them "you are not a danger to them."

McDaniel responded: "I am going to ask them, after 100 years, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today? After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?"...After the Clarion Ledger reported his comments, McDaniel sent a message to the newspaper, saying: "It was an 11-minute segment. And that one sentence is your primary focus? I easily clarified my position – that is, Mississippi being the dead last state of the Union in terms of wealth and economic prosperity, based on outdated economic models."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23726337/massachusetts-drug-lab-techs-scandal/

Yeah, try the Google search and the Republican results are appalling. Using "Democratic", however, just turns up normal speech.