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Idoru

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17. Are you serious?

Reply to Baconator (Reply #16)

Tue Mar 21, 2017, 05:53 PM

Mar 2017

Are you seriously turning this into a racist attack?

I've watched countless nomination hearings and those seats are almost always filled by family and friends, supporters of the nominee. WTF is some random aide doing there, rack your brain.

And as a black woman myself, it makes me sick.

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GOP cravenly uses black woman at Gorsuch hearings [View all] SunSeeker Mar 2017 OP

these tHings are usually done to get support from white moderates JI7 Mar 2017 #1

Of course. nt SunSeeker Mar 2017 #3

Thanks for sleuthing out the answer to a question I had. Stinky The Clown Mar 2017 #2

Say What? mzteaze Mar 2017 #4

It's all part of the GOP's cynical Gorsuch dog and pony show. SunSeeker Mar 2017 #5

I think it's messed up to lay that at someone's feet due solely to race... Baconator Mar 2017 #6

So you don't think the GOP is cynically using this woman because of her color? nt SunSeeker Mar 2017 #7

I think that she is a human being with free will and chose to be there... Baconator Mar 2017 #8

No one is suggesting she was "forced." I am commenting on the craven use of her. SunSeeker Mar 2017 #9

I guess I don't see it... Baconator Mar 2017 #10

Um, of ALL the people to put in every TV frame with Gorsuch, why do you think they chose her? SunSeeker Mar 2017 #11

I don't disagree that there was an attempt to portray a diverse supporting cast... Baconator Mar 2017 #12

Of course it is dishonest. Good grief, she is just being used to imply Gorsuch had AA support. SunSeeker Mar 2017 #13

It seems he does if she chose to sit there... Baconator Mar 2017 #14

It is inappropriate to put some random aide in the TV frame to deceive the public. SunSeeker Mar 2017 #15

She isn't just a random person who wandered in... Baconator Mar 2017 #16

Are you serious? Idoru Mar 2017 #17

She is an aide to Mitch McConnell... Baconator Mar 2017 #18

I may have the answer re: the point that the poster is making Orrex Mar 2017 #23

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2017 #19

shut the fuck up. Goodbye Troll. JHan Mar 2017 #20

Thank you! The GOP sure hates it when we call out their manipulation. nt SunSeeker Mar 2017 #21

I figured she must have clerked for him - but she's just a prop.* FenwayDonkey Mar 2017 #22