Posted on 07/17/2019 5:37:09 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
...Mitch McConnell held a brief press conference Tuesday afternoon and addressed President Trump's controversial tweets telling progressive Congresswomen to "go home." McConnell opened the media availability with a statement and then took questions, including one about his immigrant wife and current Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao from CNN's Manu Raju.
"The president is not a racist, and I think the tone of all of this is not good for the country, but it's coming from all different ideological points of view," McConnell told reporters.
"We've seen the far-left throw accusations of racism at everyone, anyone who disagrees with them on anything including the Speaker of the House," he said.
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MANU RAJU, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER: You're married to an immigrant that is a nationalized U.S. citizen. If someone were to say to her she should go back to her country as a criticism of federal policies, wouldn't you consider that a racist attack?MCCONNELL: Well, the Secretary of Transportation came here at age eight legally, not speaking a word of English, and has realized the American dream. And I think all of us think that this is a process of renewal that's going on in this country for a very long time and is good for America. We ought to continue it.
RAJU: Was it racist for him to say go back to the country of (INAUDIBLE)?
MCCONNELL: As I said, the--the immigration has been a fulfilling of the American dream, and new people who come here have a lot of ambition, a lot of energy, tend to do very well and invigorate our country, and my wife's a good example of that.
REPORTER: Would you ever use the words go back to where you came from?
MCCONNELL: ...I'm obviously a big fan of legal immigration.
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REPORTER:You’re married to an immigrant that is a nationalized U.S. citizen. If someone were to say to her she should go back to her country as a criticism of federal policies, wouldn’t you consider that a racist attack?
Would you ever use the words go back to where you came from?
(truth be told...)
If she was a hateful, foul-mouthed, anti-American I’d buy the ticket, pack her bags, and drive her to the airport.
Evidently this a##wipe reporter does not know the difference between legal and illegal or just doesn’t want to know, Im sure its the latter
Who cares where they go if they’d just GO!
O brother. The ignorance runs strong in that one.
The Orange Orangutan is racist. There is nothing else.
My reply would have been:
“I’d punch anyone who said that to my wife right in the snot locker. Having said that, no, I don’t believe it was a racist comment. I think he is frustrated with what the left is pushing in this country and he’s not alone. What happened to, “America, Love it or Leave it? That wasn’t so bad back in the day and it was something all Americans could understand whether you were born here or naturalized. Shoot, I’d have to imagine some illegals even believed it. After all, they took a pretty good chance by breaking the law just to get here... and one other thing, F(ck you.”
If someone moves to a new place then proceeds to constantly piss and most about it spewing all sorts of hateful comments about its people then telling them that if they’re that unhappy with it they should leave is not at all the same thing as telling every immigrant they should go back to where they came from. The Left/MSM completely ignores Omar’s behavior.
His wife doesn’t slime this country, lie about law enforcement and laugh at terrorism. If she did, she should be told to leave, fix the country of origin and then she would be in a better position to tell us how to “fix” America.
BTW, the same with Brit, Aissies, French and many others. Nothing racist about it.
Say what you want Reporter, but if it insults my wife I may punch you in the nose.
Has anyone told his wife to go back?
“This is just like assigning the race card to the citizenship question of the census. If that’s racist, then why aren’t the questions about ethnicity struck from the census? These questions are intrinsically more racist than attempting to discern citizenship.”
I really hadn’t thought of that. It’s really a good idea. Wish there was some group who would file a lawsuit, like the ones against the citizenship question, to remove any questions about or indications of ethnicity. I’m sure the Dem/Lib/socialists would scream about those being removed was “racist” too.
Ya really can’t win with them, but I sure wish someone would file a lawsuit about it. Just so we could get more popcorn and watch.
What is a “nationalized citizen”?
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