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Rangel Blasts Clinton as 'a Redneck'
Newsmax ^ | Feb 15th, 2005

Posted on 02/15/2005 8:39:59 AM PST by missyme

Rep. Charlie Rangel is blasting ex-President Bill Clinton as "a redneck" after New York Sen. Hillary Clinton refused for the second year in a row to support his bill to help the mother of police shooting victim Amadou Diallo stay in the country

"I don't have the slightest clue who Hillary really is," the dismayed Harlem Democrat tells New York Magazine this week. "All I see is a gal who knew she was as good as anyone else, and she saw this guy she could make something of, so she forfeited Illinois and went to Arkansas."

Rangel then added, "That's a hell of a move to make for a redneck, which is all he was."

Asked if he really thought Clinton was a redneck Tuesday morning, Rangel told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter, "Of course he is. He's from Arkansas."

Later in the interview Rangel tried to backpedal, telling Malzberg he thought the Clintons were "terrific people."

"You have to remember, you know, Lyndon Johnson was one of the best presidents we had and he was a redneck out of Texas," he explained.

The congressman's non-pejorative pejorative comes just days after Sen. Clinton stiffed him on the Diallo case, a move the New York Post described on Monday as "a slap in the face to Charles Rangel."

Without Sen. Clinton's help, Rangel's legislation to grant Kadiatou Diallo and her family permanent resident status crashed and burned in the 2003-04 Congress and has attracted no other support this year.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; rangel; rednecks; rerun
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To: marvlus

For Rangel LBJ is a great president, because LBJ created the so-called "Great Society" programs that Rangel and his cronies turned into endless cash cows - welfare, WIC, HeadStart, etc.


41 posted on 02/15/2005 9:21:24 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

thanks


42 posted on 02/15/2005 9:21:58 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: missyme

IMO, the leftist are all trying to help her by making themselves look more extrem, and trying to make her look "main-stream". Come election time, Rangle will cast his vote for her, and from the pulpits, he and his buddies will preach to vote for her. disgraceful


43 posted on 02/15/2005 9:26:28 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: missyme

This is hilarious! The democrats - what a screwed-up bunch of pathetic, lost, sad sack idiots!

Screamin' dean is the party leader; a self-admitted traitor ran for president and got 59 million votes; hollywierd is their staunchest advocate; now rangel calls clintoon a redneck!!! What a perfect formula for Republican success.

You just can't make this $h!t up.....


44 posted on 02/15/2005 9:28:03 AM PST by Don Simmons (Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)
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To: missyme
"You have to remember, you know, Lyndon Johnson was one of the best presidents we had and he was a redneck out of Texas," he explained.

Charlie, you mean the guy that got us into the Vietnam War?

45 posted on 02/15/2005 9:28:09 AM PST by Go Gordon
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To: cvq3842

There were alot of complicating factors. IIRC:

1. Undercover police looking for a suspected armed serial rapist.
2. Late evening.
2. Darken apartment entry vestible.
3. Probably due to his limited English skills, Amadou doesn't understand/react properly to the officer's commands.
4. Gets out his wallet (He probably thought he was being robbed). This act was interpreted by lead officer as going for a weapon.
5. Lead officer fires then slips on steps of vestible, falling backward. Interpreted by other officers as being shot. Sets off a barrage of "defensive" fire.
6. Vestible echos and re-echos officers' own gunfire giving impression that Amadou is continuing to fire back at them.
7. Black race of suspect and and white race of officers. Unpleasant to think about but probably a factor, at least subconsciously. (When incident originally ran, I recall a posting that four BLACK officers would probably have had a roughed up but very much alive suspect to take to the station vice a dead one with 19 holes in him headed for the morgue.

Nineteen hits out of 41 shots.

IIRC, all the officers had semiauto pistols, probably with high capacity magazines. Have never seen individual round count, but I suspect the officer who slipped only fired a very few rounds. Sounds like the rest just emptied the clip. Maybe 2-3 seconds rapid firing with say... 10 seconds for the entire incident.

Never heard if Amadou's mother received any compensation for his death.


46 posted on 02/15/2005 9:34:32 AM PST by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: hobbes1

I was thinking what would happen if he called just some "hoarse-talking brother" from Harlem...


47 posted on 02/15/2005 9:36:34 AM PST by Hand em their arse
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To: missyme
"You have to remember, you know, Lyndon Johnson was one of the best presidents we had and he was a redneck out of Texas," he explained.

ROFL, now I've heard it all. Even most lefties I know who are big fans of the welfare state couldn't bring themselves to call LBJ one the best presidents we've ever had.

48 posted on 02/15/2005 9:37:32 AM PST by jpl (Islam is a religion of peace, as in "Rest in Peace".)
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To: Captain Rhino

Interesting. I did think the actual shooting only lasted a very short time - a few seconds.


49 posted on 02/15/2005 9:48:50 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: cvq3842

"when its in the house, its a mouse...when its outside of the house its a RAT" (from SCARY MOVIE 3)

RAT FIGHT!


50 posted on 02/15/2005 9:56:35 AM PST by princess leah (\)
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To: cvq3842

A later post said 17 (vice 19) hits. Two less holes but just as dead.


51 posted on 02/15/2005 10:25:16 AM PST by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: Captain Rhino

Right.

And my point was just that the whole incident was over in a very, very short time. The oft-repeated "41 shots" were not fired by one person, reloading, on a firing range.

Negligent? Grossly negligent? Hey, a jury decided.

I have no doubt that these cops did not go looking to shoot anyone, and did not "enjoy" doing so. Just my opinion.


52 posted on 02/15/2005 10:58:25 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: cvq3842
Every time I have insomnia, I miss Malzberg on WABC too. If you ever find out what happened, please let me know. I haven't seen anything or heard anything since he left WABC and have been watching ever since.

You're probably right about Rangel trying to help make the Clintons look like what he thinks will help Hillary in the red states (Bubba the Redneck and his missus.) If Rangel says she's just some little lady married to a redneck, how dangerous can she be?

53 posted on 02/15/2005 4:30:27 PM PST by penowa
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To: missyme

Shouldn't he pronounce his name Ranhell?


54 posted on 02/15/2005 4:36:11 PM PST by csmusaret (Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
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To: littlelilac

A broken clock is right twice a day


55 posted on 02/15/2005 4:57:48 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: penowa

Good point.

You can find out info on Steve Malzberg's web site, www.malzbergtalk.com. About his new show, but not about why he left WABC.

I also noticed that the station did not have one of its "ask the program director" hours recently - or maybe I missed it. Maybe they just didn't want to have to deal with it. I don't know.


56 posted on 02/16/2005 4:35:14 AM PST by cvq3842
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