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Hillary Clinton’s KKK Smear
WSJ ^ | 8/29/2016 | William McGurn

Posted on 08/30/2016 7:57:06 AM PDT by Brilliant

Let’s get this straight. Calling Hillary Clinton a “bigot” has reporters asking every Republican in sight if Donald Trump has gone too far. But the Clinton campaign releases a video saying Mr. Trump is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan and it’s all okey-dokey?...

Mr. Trump has already been likened to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Small wonder there’s a collective ho-hum when Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says Mr. Trump is peddling “KKK values.”

This is what Democrats do.

It didn’t start with Mr. Trump... For years Democrats have portrayed the GOP as one giant hate group...

This year Democrats added a twist. Mr. Trump, they claim, represents a break with all those decent and lovable Republicans such as Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. Bush. Of course, this isn’t what they were saying back when these men were running for president.

• In 2000...an NAACP ad recreated the gruesome murder of James Byrd to imply that then-Gov. Bush was sympathetic to lynching black men... Mr. Byrd’s daughter says, “So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to support hate-crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.”

• When John McCain ran in 2008, Barack Obama warned that Republicans would scare people by saying, “You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents...” Funny thing: All those reporters always hearing “dog whistles” from Republicans somehow didn’t hear this one.

• ...When Mitt Romney went to the NAACP...the stories were all about how he was really just trolling for the racist vote. Vice President Joe Biden put it more explicitly, telling a largely African-American audience that if Mr. Romney were to win, he’d “put ya’ll back in chains.”

The only difference...is that Republicans now have a nominee giving as good as he gets...

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary2016; smear; trump; yadayadayada; yawn
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1 posted on 08/30/2016 7:57:06 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

This woman is a diseased psychopath.


2 posted on 08/30/2016 7:58:35 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Brilliant
She's projecting.


3 posted on 08/30/2016 7:59:33 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: WKUHilltopper; Brilliant

The queen B of the anti-truth, anti-individual, anti-freedom, anti-life collectives and their worker drones.

“Diseased psychopath” BUMP!


4 posted on 08/30/2016 8:01:50 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: MuttTheHoople

Well.....he wuz jess a country boy come up from the hills and hollers of West Virginny and he just hadda join that KKK so’s he could do some gud for evabody. He jes hadda do it!


5 posted on 08/30/2016 8:02:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Brilliant

https://exposingmodernmugwumps.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/byrd.jpg


6 posted on 08/30/2016 8:03:23 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (d("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson))
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To: Brilliant
KKK Byrd

The Democrats made him leader of the Senate!
They referred to him as the 'conscience of the Senate'

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan.

According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4]

He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
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"They [his fellow democrats] refer to the Senate's senior Democrat [Robert Byrd] as the 'conscience of the Senate.' ..."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp
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"Rather I [Robert C. Byrd] should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

7 posted on 08/30/2016 8:04:53 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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Clinton says in the video that Senator Byrd was her ‘mentor’ and that he was the heart and soul of the Senate .”

https://grandmageri422.me/2016/04/26/hillary-clinton-and-the-kkk-this-may-be-her-undoing/

8 posted on 08/30/2016 8:05:09 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman

by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383
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 photo Bill Clinton  Robert KKK Byrd 01_zpsaesq6xqt.jpg

9 posted on 08/30/2016 8:05:29 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Brilliant

Didn’t the KKK Grand Dragon Will Quigg endorse Hillary and state the reason why he is for her?


10 posted on 08/30/2016 8:10:37 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Brilliant

Projection; falsely accusing your opponent of your own behavior.


11 posted on 08/30/2016 8:14:59 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: MuttTheHoople

What’s a hotlinking?


12 posted on 08/30/2016 8:15:50 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Brilliant

I say run an ad with that KKK wizard endorsing Hillary. Don’t even mention her accusations, just throw it out there in the cities like she did.


13 posted on 08/30/2016 8:16:31 AM PDT by Williams (Make America Great Again)
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To: Brilliant
The only difference...is that Republicans now have a nominee giving as good as he gets...

We're calling out the press for who they really are... bigots, biased trolls, dishonest purveyors of democrat lies.

14 posted on 08/30/2016 8:17:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (George Will:fly-overs might not know Senators names, but we know a bribe when we see one...)
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To: apocalypto

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has received more than $20,000 in donations contributed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, a prominent member of the hate group said Monday.
“For the KKK, Clinton is our choice,” said Will Quigg, California Grand Dragon for the Loyal White Knights, Vocativ reported.
Mr. Quigg, the leader of the Klan’s California chapter, announced last month that he had abandoned supporting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in lieu of backing his likely Democratic opponent. The Klansman claims that members have raised more than $20,000 for Mrs. Clinton and have donated it anonymously to her campaign.
“She is friends with the Klan,” Mr. Quigg told Vocativ. “A lot of people don’t realize that.”


15 posted on 08/30/2016 8:20:02 AM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Brilliant

In the parlance here in the south. The Democratic Party ( which created the Klan...the Copperhead movement and all those hate groups) is going to get their long deserved ass whoopin’ ...it’s not that it could have been done years ago and should of...we just did not have a candidate with the “set” necessary to carry it out...I for one will be forever grateful for tis the only way to save the Republic at this point...then America can pray and go back to the values that made us great in the first place ....for those on the other side...maybe streisand will buy a huge boat an take them with her...


16 posted on 08/30/2016 8:28:04 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Well, SURPRISE. Two pro Trump articles in one day, one in NR and the other in the WSJ, both outspokenly anti-Trump publications. Maybe the work is finally getting through that Trump is the only responsible choice.
17 posted on 08/30/2016 8:28:53 AM PDT by libstripper
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Hillary’s desperation play on smearing Trump with nonsense back fired 6 to 7 points in the tracking polls. It was deeply resented by fair minded independents who are now in a full run towards Trump. Keep it up hillary!! By the way— WHERE ARE YOU? Come out and answer some questions!! You will need the practice before the debates because you will be answering from Donald J. Trump. Practice practice practice!!!And don’t give us “he is such a mean bully” Won’t work. It is game time.


18 posted on 08/30/2016 8:32:14 AM PDT by WENDLE (We will win together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_atgCKxL0NA)
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19 posted on 08/30/2016 8:34:43 AM PDT by RavenLooneyToon (Trump or Bust.If you don't vote then STFU and leave the country, non-voters =non-Republic.)
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To: Brilliant

Diamond and Silk, in their latest Table Talk, call out and list Clinton’s racist background, and call HER a racist.


20 posted on 08/30/2016 8:35:15 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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