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When Virtue Signalling Goes Horribly Wrong
Information Liberation ^ | 12/21/17 | Chris Menahan

Posted on 12/22/2017 6:14:03 AM PST by x1stcav

On Wednesday, HuffPost writer Andy Ostroy attempted to virtue signal as a progressive liberal by attacking Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina as a token black man and a "manipulated prop" being used to sell the Republican's newly passed tax bill.

"What a shocker... there's ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop," Ostroy tweeted. "Way to go @SenatorTimScott."

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As has been the pattern for the last year or so, this didn't go as the leftard had planned.

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1 posted on 12/22/2017 6:14:03 AM PST by x1stcav
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To: x1stcav

HuffPo is too whitey and is decended from the KKK.


2 posted on 12/22/2017 6:16:39 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: x1stcav

GREAT STORY!!

Everyone should read the whole thing!


3 posted on 12/22/2017 6:20:18 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Paladin2

The left just can’t stand America.


4 posted on 12/22/2017 6:20:53 AM PST by taterjay
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To: x1stcav
You've made it into the high teens with your too clever by half intro comment.

If you make it all the way to 20, we'll have the Don Quixote "Tilting at Windmills" award bronzed for you.


5 posted on 12/22/2017 6:22:17 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Paladin2

Classic liberal apology.

His “dumbass” mistake was showing himself for the hateful racist that he is.


6 posted on 12/22/2017 6:24:43 AM PST by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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"Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you'd rather just see my skin color, pls feel free," Sen. Scott said.

What an awesome (and classy) response.

7 posted on 12/22/2017 6:45:25 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: shibumi
نفس هزاران نفر از اعضای شتر را دارید

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8 posted on 12/22/2017 6:47:25 AM PST by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

GREAT STORY!!

Everyone should read the whole thing!

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Here it is!

When Virtue Signalling Goes Horribly Wrong
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Dec. 21, 2017

On Wednesday, HuffPost writer Andy Ostroy attempted to virtue signal as a progressive liberal by attacking Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina as a token black man and a “manipulated prop” being used to sell the Republican’s newly passed tax bill.

“What a shocker... there’s ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop,” Ostroy tweeted. “Way to go @SenatorTimScott.”

Unfortunately for Ostroy, Sen. Scott saw his tweet and hit back.

“Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you’d rather just see my skin color, pls feel free,” Sen. Scott said.

Ostroy later deleted the tweet and half-apologized, saying “there were many other ways I should’ve and could’ve made my point.”

A couple hours later he basically doubled down, saying the Republican Party has a “diversity problem” because there’s too many white people in it.

If you want to know the type of oppression Ostroy has faced in his life, look no further than his column, “One Jew’s Take on the War on Christmas,” where he said he’s horribly oppressed by Christians celebrating the Christmas season:

Take note, people. Being attacked constantly as a “race traitor” for being a black Republican is nothing compared to the oppression of being told “Merry Christmas” as a liberal Jew in New York City.


9 posted on 12/22/2017 6:52:25 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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You should try

ممکن است کک های یک هزار شتر از زیر بغل شما سرازیر شوند

or maybe the one about the tent.

10 posted on 12/22/2017 7:03:48 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
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To: x1stcav

Classic loser...future powerless complainer...hate to see him age so gracelessly.


11 posted on 12/22/2017 7:05:34 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
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To: calenel

Du riechst schlimmer als eine tote russische Hure.

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12 posted on 12/22/2017 7:07:42 AM PST by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: shibumi

How long are we gonna have to put up with this dope’s hollier-than-though self importance?

Talk about annoying.


13 posted on 12/22/2017 7:09:37 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: WayneS

“”What an awesome (and classy) response.””

It really was. I was disappointed that the president didn’t include his name when he named others while winding up his speech yesterday...Orrin, Paul, Mitch, Rick (?) and I was wondering who Rick was...


14 posted on 12/22/2017 7:10:19 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

He had Rick speak as well.


15 posted on 12/22/2017 7:15:38 AM PST by Nateman (The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Americans who happen to have dark pallor MUST understand they are REQUIRED to behave and believe ONLY as their Democrat white privileged Liberal “owners” demand! If Senator Scott, or Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Star Parker, or any “white Liberal owned” minority person violate this command and seek escape from the “progressive plantation”, they shall be “Kunta Kinte-ed” sotospeak! (“what’s yo’ name boy?”).

No person of color must DARE disobey “white privileged Democrat Liberal massa”!!! It’s just NOT ALLOWED!!!


16 posted on 12/22/2017 8:08:40 AM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: FiddlePig

Andy Ostroy is a particularly obnoxious example.


17 posted on 12/22/2017 8:29:02 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Andy said the republican party does not have enough f=diversity because it has too many white people. I think the ‘rat party does not have enough diversity because it has too many idiots.


18 posted on 12/22/2017 9:07:26 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: Nateman

“”He had Rick speak as well.””

That was my quandary...I didn’t see the whole thing - only the wrap up and I can’t place the Rick....


19 posted on 12/22/2017 9:26:44 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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