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Does the left really think it can drag General Kelly into its mud?
American Thinker ^ | 10/21/17 | Monica Schowalter

Posted on 10/21/2017 8:22:21 AM PDT by markomalley

Maybe I spoke too soon. Far from recognizing the masterly statement of President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, in the wake of the brouhaha over President Trump's condolence call to the wife of a fallen serviceman, the left has doubled down on screeching attacks against Kelly, charging him with ever more outlandish epithets.

The congresswoman who horned in on the moment and tried to score political hay from it, Rep. Fredericka Wilson of Florida, has started yelling racism, the last refuge of today's scoundrels. She claimed that Kelly's use of the term 'empty barrel' to describe the contents of her unhinged mind was the same as attacking the color of her skin. The White House, she added, was "full of white supremacists."

The press, meanwhile has focused on calling Kelly a liar, saying an unearthed tape of Wilson's 2015 speech is proof positive that she never crowed about securing the financing for the building that was named after two fallen FBI agents. Actually, it's not proof - no one knows what she was crowing about in the before and after times of it, off camera to officials such as Kelly. Kelly has not backed down from his charge and just the inside-politics nature of it suggests it was not made up. Who would have thought of such a thing if it hadn't happened. It would be far easier to say Wilson was spitting in the punchbowl if things were going to be made up. But this isn't stopping the media from calling it story-over and demanding Kelly apologize.

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1 posted on 10/21/2017 8:22:21 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Anyone claiming “that’s racist!!” is de facto an empty barrel thus proving Kelly to be 100% on target.


2 posted on 10/21/2017 8:25:09 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: markomalley

Frederica Wilson is not the problem with tbe American political system. It’s the electorate that put her in office.


3 posted on 10/21/2017 8:26:31 AM PDT by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: markomalley

“Does the Left think it can drag General Kelly into its mud?

Yes, they do, and they will.

In the name of freedom of speech, they will spread the most scurrilous lies they can, whenever they can, as they endlessly denigrate him, insult him, lower him to the point of being a dirtbag in the press and among their followers in the electorate.

They will never stop until they destroy their enemies.


4 posted on 10/21/2017 8:27:20 AM PDT by ripley (ose who dis)
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To: markomalley

“Does the Left think it can drag General Kelly into its mud?

Yes, they do, and they will.

In the name of freedom of speech, they will spread the most scurrilous lies they can, whenever they can, as they endlessly denigrate him, insult him, lower him to the point of being a dirtbag in the press and among their followers in the electorate.

They will never stop until they destroy their enemies.


5 posted on 10/21/2017 8:27:20 AM PDT by ripley (ose who dis)
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To: markomalley

How can America be racist when just 6 months ago, Frederick’a Wilson was cleaning rooms at the Best Value Inn and today she’s an esteemed congressman from some slum district in (where else) Florida.

Is this the land of opportunity or what?


6 posted on 10/21/2017 8:29:20 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: ripley

IMHO


7 posted on 10/21/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by ripley (ose who dis)
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To: markomalley

Everyone should send Gen. Kelly a thank you note.


8 posted on 10/21/2017 8:29:49 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: markomalley

Fredericka Wilson and Francine Waters are now the spokespeople for the Dems.
It should serve them well in the next election cycle,


9 posted on 10/21/2017 8:33:56 AM PDT by CaptainK (No collusion.No obstruction.He's a leaker.)
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To: henkster

First and foremost, it’s the media’s fault. They take advantage of voters’ trust in the media. First presenting themselves as trustworthy, then going about their business portraying sociopaths as angels.


10 posted on 10/21/2017 8:36:09 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: markomalley

Wilson is now known to be a bald face liar when she claimed to have looked up “empty barrel” in a dictionary and saw that it was therein designated a racist term.

She should be compelled to produce this magic dictionary of hers.

Yet another democrap LIAR!


11 posted on 10/21/2017 8:37:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ripley

Meanwhile self-destruction is gaining ground on their normal agenda, and will ultimately be their greatest accomplishment.


12 posted on 10/21/2017 8:39:40 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: markomalley

My blood is pretty much “chop suey” with everything from black to Pacific Islander (broadly a mixture of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese and Hawaiian). As time goes on I am becoming more racist by the minute as liberals twist everything that they disagree with into fake acts of projection. At one time I was able to laugh off their stupidity but know I am not proud of some of the things I am thinking.


13 posted on 10/21/2017 8:41:35 AM PDT by Kahuna
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To: Kahuna

know=now


14 posted on 10/21/2017 8:43:04 AM PDT by Kahuna
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To: Kahuna

I don’t believe melanin has any direct influence on behavior.


15 posted on 10/21/2017 8:44:01 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Kahuna; Pelham

I actually looked it up and the data is pretty recent DNA wise

Polynesians in fact have little to no melanisian crossover

They are more directly descended from Chinese and East Asian archipelago peoples

I confess I never knew that

All the way to Pitcairn Norfolk and Easter islands

Serious travel in outriggers

Side note....the recent sexual stuff on Pitcairn is freaky

Girls under 16 can only visit the island under strict supervision and pre approval

Weird adjunct to the evolution of a genesis civilization attempt basically


16 posted on 10/21/2017 9:03:11 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: FES0844

My family certainly appreciate that Gen Kelly mentioned the movie TAKING CHANCE . We watched it on Amazon Prime last nite and I wish every American would do so as well. Very well done and it is a complete depiction from start to finish on how the fallen military are cared for. Gen Kelly detailed some of the procedure but there is more. My Brother in law was a military escort for awhile and the bodies are treated with respect and dignity from the time they are taken to the military mortuary, prepared for burial and taken home for the family to bury. It is not a maudlin movie but very touching.


17 posted on 10/21/2017 9:12:16 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: markomalley

Kelly is a fine person, and a terriffic general! criticizing him shows how barren and decrepit is the mind of the democrat party. They are obsessed with anger over Trump’s very existence. They are insane with rage and with hate. It would be very unfortunate if that rage caused them circulatory problems, aneurysms, or strokes, and led to their unfortunate early demise.


18 posted on 10/21/2017 9:21:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: mountainfolk

There are a couple of other good movies that touch on this.

GARDEN OF STONE with James Caan.

WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE with Mel Gibson.


19 posted on 10/21/2017 9:21:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
Thank you for the referrals. We are always looking for good movies to watch.
20 posted on 10/21/2017 9:52:10 AM PDT by mountainfolk
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