Posted on 10/21/2008 11:36:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rep. says 'Liberals hate real Americans' By: Ryan Grim October 21, 2008 02:26 PM EST
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.), has conceded that he did tell a North Carolina crowd that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," even though he initially denied making such a statement.
Now he says he didn’t mean it that way, and he was just trying to rev up a campaign rally.
“I genuinely did not recall making the statement and, after reading it, there is no doubt that it came out completely the wrong way. I actually was trying to work to keep the crowd as respectful as possible, so this is definitely not what I intended,” Hayes said in a statement for Politico.
The comments were first reported by the New York Observer. When Politico linked to the Observer story on Monday evening, Hayes' spokeswoman Amanda Little called and denied the report. Observer reporter Jason Horowitz told Politico he stood firmly behind the story. Politico left the quote in The Crypt blog but added the Hayes denial.
On Tuesday, two more reporters and two other witnesses confirmed the quote, but Little continued to deny it, calling the story "irresponsible journalism." Little said that she had just as many sources who would deny it, including Hayes staff and Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who spoke before Hayes.
But then Politico obtained an audio file of the Hayes quote from radio reporter Lisa Miller of WFAE. Little backed down, saying that Hayes must have misspoken.
There was one small difference between the actual quote and the Observer quote. The Observer had missed that Hayes had included "and accomplish" in his comment, reporting it instead as, "liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God."
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Robin is right, too.
Why is this guy backing off? It’s true!
There’s no controversy here. Both sides agree with the statement.
Losers hate winners. Didn’t used to be that way. We would root for an underdog and celebrate a winner. Not anymore.
So what’s the problem?
Liberals love America best when they’re hating it.
So please don’t question their patriotism.
What would you call it when a California film commision prohibits the US military from shooting a recruitment ad on the Golden Gate Bridge because they oppose the armed forces?
In an age of deceit, truth falls harshly upon the ears.
The writer, Thomas Wolff, I think he wrote Bonfire of the Vanities, anyway, he also said that the elites REALLY DON’T LIKE AMERICA.....they think America is BACKWARDS!! Geesh. Thomas Wolff KNOWS these elites....has dinner with them...listens to their converstaions....associates with them....so he KNOWS of what he speaks.
Also it was in San Francisco where Barack Obama told financial backers how they need to convince those people in flyover country who still cling to guns and religion (opposing gun control, abortion, and the homosexual agenda).
Liberals whine because the truth hurts.
However well-intentioned it was, the catastrophic and unpopular intervention in Iraq has served in some parts of the world to discredit the very idea of western democracy. The recent collapse of the banking system and the humiliating resort to socialist solutions in response, have done a great deal to discredit in many people's eyes the idea of free-market capitalism.
Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea.
To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune.
To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty stunning achievement for an American president and Bushbot politicians like McHenry and Hayes.
Anyone who discusses politics with liberals KNOWS they hate everything about America as presently constituted, they believe their version of the “real America” has been hijacked, and they worship only their leftist version of an America that does not exist.
I’ve had them tell me that’s why Americans have to pretend to be Canadians when they travel, because we are rightly hated by the World (not, of course, because there are evil terrorists out there).
Anyone who discusses politics with liberals KNOWS they hate everything about America as presently constituted, they believe their version of the “real America” has been hijacked, and they worship only their leftist version of an America that does not exist.
I’ve had them tell me that’s why Americans have to pretend to be Canadians when they travel, because we are rightly hated by the World (not, of course, because there are evil terrorists out there).
Patriot:
a person who loves his or her country and passionately supports its interests
To anger a conservative, lie about him.
To anger a liberal, tell the truth about him.
Tom Wolfe.
Wow, another back pedaling republican. I’m shocked.
Stop equivocating! Say it and STAND BY IT!!
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