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Politico Mag Implies George Wallace Was GOP, Blames Country's Divisions Entirely on Whites'...
Newsbusters ^ | September 30, 2014 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/30/2014 11:01:44 AM PDT by BeadCounter

A number of center-right and New Media outlets have noted Politico Magazine's disingenuousness in the opening photograph in its "Race and the Modern GOP" article.

At the item's top is the iconic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" photo showing onetime segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace "try(ing) to block the entry of two black students" into the University of Alabama. The aforementioned article title appears beneath the words "History Dept." The magazine is clearly trying to lead anyone not old enough to remember or anyone unfamiliar with U.S. history to believe that Wallace, who ran for president as a Democrat in 1964 and 1976 and as an Independent in 1968 and 1972, was a Republican. The writeup by Doug McAdam and Karen Kloos waits a dozen mostly long paragraphs before finally tagging Wallace as a Democrat.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democratscandals; georgewallace; goebbelswouldbeproud; lowinformationvoters; partyofracism; partyofsegregation; politico; politicobias; revisionisthistory; stalinisttactics; waronhistory
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This is so shameful folks, I had to post it. It is indeed, infuriating. I heard a TV host say it should be called "Propogando" not "Politico".

Please see picture, I will try to put it in the next post.

1 posted on 09/30/2014 11:01:44 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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2 posted on 09/30/2014 11:02:55 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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I think the Daily Caller had one of the first stories on this:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/30/politico-illustrates-race-and-the-modern-gop-with-photo-of-democrat-george-wallace/


3 posted on 09/30/2014 11:03:40 AM PDT by BeadCounter
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At this point they’ve dumbed down the population’s knowledge of history to the point where they could claim Calvin Coolidge used to lynch blacks on the White House lawn and get away with it.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 11:05:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BeadCounter

George Wallace...as a GOPer. What next, Eugene V. Debs as a radical libertarian?


5 posted on 09/30/2014 11:05:29 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BeadCounter
Not only was George C. Wallace a dyed in the wool DemonRAT but he was a socialist through and through. He was a strong supporter of Big Labor and Big Government. No wonder that Wallace and his fellow leftist Jesse Jackson were such close pals.

The only laudatory thing that this 'RAT did was put Curtis LeMay on his ticket in 1968. But Wallace arranged for General LeMay to undo that otherwise good move.

6 posted on 09/30/2014 11:06:12 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: GeronL; KC_Lion; SkyDancer; txhurl

Ping.


7 posted on 09/30/2014 11:06:44 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Prolly The Won as a Christian.....


8 posted on 09/30/2014 11:07:27 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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LOL!

The 1966 College debate topic was “Foreign Aid”, so in 1967 our 8th grade debate team picked up the subject.

The teacher made clear that using a quote from George Wallace was NOT a credible source.

For those not familiar with the nature of Debate, you are assigned a position to support and defend. You don't get to choose.

9 posted on 09/30/2014 11:11:24 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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At this point they’ve dumbed down the population’s knowledge of history to the point where they could claim Calvin Coolidge used to lynch blacks on the White House lawn and get away with it.

You said "White House" in the same sentence that you mentioned lynching of blacks. Is that racist? We should rename the "White House" so as not to be so offensive.

(while I am being cynical here, the day is comming when it gets changed to "The People's House". Mark my words.)

10 posted on 09/30/2014 11:15:04 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Tagline deleted at the request of an offended FReeper.)
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The MSM doesn’t care about things like facts


11 posted on 09/30/2014 11:17:06 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Army Air Corps

bump

nothing honest about today’s MSM


12 posted on 09/30/2014 11:18:37 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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What a bunch of lying SOBs. But we already knew that.
13 posted on 09/30/2014 11:19:23 AM PDT by dhs12345
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Not any worse than Republicans bringing back Jim Crowe laws.


14 posted on 09/30/2014 11:19:24 AM PDT by anoldafvet (Why would the White House send 3 representatives to a thugs funeral?)
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Wallace and his running mate Curtis LeMay actually ran as the `American Independent’ party in `68, but George was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
This article is just more hallucination and psychotic rambling from the Party of the (old rich white racist) People. We hates `em, Precious.


15 posted on 09/30/2014 11:19:35 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I did not know that about him.

Will you help me spread the word?


16 posted on 09/30/2014 11:19:36 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: re_nortex

George Wallace was not the only one. Who can forget Orval Faubus the Democrat Governor of Arkansas? It took a Republican President to call out the national guard to open up the public schools for black children.

And for all that, Ike and Lincoln, - the Democrats continue to spread the lie that they are the party of racial equality.


17 posted on 09/30/2014 11:20:08 AM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: BeadCounter
It's not a first. That fringe network with five letters also tried to rewrite history.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/12/MSNBC-Gov-George-Wallace-Was-a-Republican

18 posted on 09/30/2014 11:21:37 AM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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while I am being cynical here, the day is comming when it gets changed to "The People's House". Mark my words.)

Probably the same day they repaint it in the rainbow colors of that flag I see all over the place now...


19 posted on 09/30/2014 11:23:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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What I never understood is why the filthy hippies of the 1960s hated George Wallace so much. And he stated such things as:

If some anarchist lies down in front of my automobile, it will be the last automobile he will ever lie down in front of.

The only four letter words that hippies don't know are w-o-r-k and s-o-a-p.

Had the hippies analyzed Wallace's platform, they would have found themselves in total agreement. Both were strong advocates of socialism. And Wallace demonstrably carried out such a program while Governor of Alabama, being the heir apparent of the radical leftist and fellow DemonRAT, "Big" Jim Folsom.

A I think back on those decades, it now seems a sure thing that the leftists of the hippie movement were actually in cahoots with Wallace. It's plausible that were a false flag operation to rile up good Americans to vote for Wallace since he acted (and it was only that, a charade) as if he were opposed to them.

20 posted on 09/30/2014 11:28:58 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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