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This morning Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer brought the Grand Wizard of Cynical Pronouncements Newt Gingrich on to explain how mean House Democrats are being to Donald Trump with all their impeachment nonsense.
First, he pulled the lynching card: "The whole thing is a joke," he declared. "Frankly the whole thing is very close to what Clarence Thomas once described as a 'modern day lynch mob.'"
Second, the projection card: "The Democrats have no interest in the facts." We all know Newt wouldn't know a fact in this case if it came up with a sign and smacked him in the ass with it.
Third, the Jonathan Turley card: "I think Jonathan Turley, the professor who voted against Trump, but who nonetheless came back and testified the other day that of the two impeachments that have occurred -- Clinton and Johnson back in the 1870s -- this is the weakest of the three," Gingrich claimed. "He said it is an embarrassment to the country, it lowers the prestige of the House and that it's the House which is abusing power."
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/12/newt-gingrich-calls-trump-impeachment
Staying true to Calista Newt? Probably because no other woman in their right mind wants to fuck you.
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(118,379 posts)By Gillian Brockell
Oct. 22, 2019 at 12:50 p.m. EDT
... Lynching is the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging. In the United States, 4,743 lynchings were recorded between 1882 and 1968, according to the NAACP. Of those murdered people, 3,446 were black men, women and children about 73 percent. Research by the Equal Justice Initiative, which created the lynching memorial, found a different number of black victims: about 4,400 between 1877 and 1950 ...
When Cleo Wright was lynched in Sikeson, Mo., in 1942, his wife was forced to identify his body by the white mob who murdered him. His corpse was then burned in front of two black churches full of worshipers.
The legacy of lynching echoes through to today. A sign marking the site where 14-year-old Emmett Tills body was found in 1955 was shot up so many times that the newest version was made out of bulletproof material ...
Bettie
(16,139 posts)Rich white men have to talk about things that were done to black people and women because they have no historical analogy.
Privilege in action: they think being held accountable for their actions is the same as powerless people being murdered.