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Politico Mag Implies George Wallace Was GOP, Blames Country's Divisions Entirely on Whites'...
Newsbusters ^ | September 30, 2014 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/30/2014 11:01:44 AM PDT by BeadCounter

A number of center-right and New Media outlets have noted Politico Magazine's disingenuousness in the opening photograph in its "Race and the Modern GOP" article.

At the item's top is the iconic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" photo showing onetime segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace "try(ing) to block the entry of two black students" into the University of Alabama. The aforementioned article title appears beneath the words "History Dept." The magazine is clearly trying to lead anyone not old enough to remember or anyone unfamiliar with U.S. history to believe that Wallace, who ran for president as a Democrat in 1964 and 1976 and as an Independent in 1968 and 1972, was a Republican. The writeup by Doug McAdam and Karen Kloos waits a dozen mostly long paragraphs before finally tagging Wallace as a Democrat.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democratscandals; georgewallace; goebbelswouldbeproud; lowinformationvoters; partyofracism; partyofsegregation; politico; politicobias; revisionisthistory; stalinisttactics; waronhistory
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Thank you for the detailed response. That is interesting and sounds like a topic to explore.

And thank you to everyone who posted.


41 posted on 09/30/2014 8:53:14 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

It sounds like Wallace used the race issue as an opportunist.

Also of course, he ended up running for the I believe “American Independent Party” originating out of California, all of this is off the top of my head. That was 1968.

Allen Keyes ran for that party decades later, 2008.

IMHO, the American Independent Party has a good platform largely I’d say, much like the Constitution Party.

Yes, here is their history: http://aipca.org/history.html


42 posted on 09/30/2014 8:59:44 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: mbarker12474

43 posted on 09/30/2014 9:24:12 PM PDT by Loud Mime (arguetheconstitution.com See if the video makes sense to you.)
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To: celmak

Being from Alabama....I would note that Wallace wasn’t really a Democrat, independent, or Republican. He mostly blended into anything you desired, promising just about anything, and was simply a guy with a flair for public speeches (my dad took me one episode around 1966).


44 posted on 10/01/2014 8:28:11 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Go Gordon

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6973372956.html

“I regret having said to a group of peers that my Uncle M. L. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) was a Republican. My Grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. was a registered Republican. Uncle M. L. was an independent. I assumed that since Granddaddy was a Republican, Uncle M. L. was too. “

—Alveda King


45 posted on 10/02/2014 12:00:52 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: wardaddy

fyi


46 posted on 10/02/2014 12:03:25 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: G Larry

“Wallace’s foreign policy positions set him apart from the other candidates in the field. “If the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days of his taking office, Wallace pledged an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. . . .

Wallace also called foreign-aid money ‘poured down a rat hole’ and demanded that European and Asian allies pay more for their defense.”[4] These stances were overshadowed by Wallace’s running mate, retired Air Force general Curtis LeMay, who implied he would use nuclear weapons to win the war.[5]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968


47 posted on 10/02/2014 12:06:13 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Pelham

Thanks!
Brings back other memories, as I later enlisted and became a Nuke Weapons Specialist and met Gen. Lemay (Ret), at VAFB, CA during the ‘72 “Olympic Arena”.

If the timeline seems tight, I graduated at 17 and enlisted a week later, in June of ‘71.


48 posted on 10/02/2014 3:04:15 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Pelham
Curtis LeMay, who implied he would use nuclear weapons to win the war.

To this day, I believe Gen. Lemay was correct.

49 posted on 10/02/2014 3:07:02 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
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To: G Larry

I also met Gen. Lemay about 1963 or 1964, I was an E.M.


50 posted on 10/02/2014 3:09:22 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
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To: G Larry

Oh, so you quoted Him Who Must Not Be Spoken Of. Thought crime No. 23, Citing the Unmentionable, and No. 12, Attempting Conflation of Established Liberal Truth. Bad, very bad! This is all serious Thought Crime — you could have gotten 25 years! So why are you running around loose? Did they make you swallow one of those HF DF pills?


51 posted on 10/05/2014 1:29:19 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Read “confutation” vice “conflation” in my last (courtesy of Android “Spell**cker”) ....


52 posted on 10/05/2014 1:39:21 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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