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'Lie, Lie, Lie': Scarborough Blasts 'Hands-up' Congressmen
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/02/2014 5:02:08 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Day Deux of Joe Scarborough's campaign against public figures making the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture to falsely suggest that Michael Brown was doing the same during his confrontation with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. As reported here, yesterday the Morning Joe host took to task the St. Louis Rams players who made the gesture, and the liberal media that has abetted their implicit allegation.

Today, while continuing his righteous rant against the Rams, Scarborough also castigated the three congressmen who took to the floor of the House yesterday to make the gesture. No fewer than five times, Scarborough called the notion that Brown had his hands up a "lie."

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: congressmen; ferguson; handsupdontshoot; stlouisrams
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1 posted on 12/02/2014 5:02:09 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Players’ free speech rights? What if they had taken to the field with signs saying “Goodell must go” or “pants up don’t shoot?” Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/02/2014 5:03:33 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Give Joe another week of these rants and then MS-LSD management will take him to the woodshed again and he’ll be back in line.


3 posted on 12/02/2014 5:07:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One cannot exercise every Constitutional right simultaneously - there’s no way to do so, without stepping on someone else’s rights. This issue is as simple as that.

These players have the right to work in the NFL if they are good enough. They have the right to free speech. That does NOT mean they can exercise both at the very same moment in the uniform of the NFL.

People don’t understand rights very well....(present company excepted).


4 posted on 12/02/2014 5:08:03 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Did Joe have a sex change operation and become a male?


5 posted on 12/02/2014 5:08:21 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Players free speech rights?

I will not do anything or purchase anything that supports the NFL or NBA. They've been taken over by black thug culture. This display definitely deserves a suspension. Is what it symbolizes any different from the KKK or NeoNazis? I don't think so.

6 posted on 12/02/2014 5:10:06 AM PST by grania
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The NFL, the Rams, and Coach Fisher have exposed themselves as spineless hypocrites of the first order in this matter.


7 posted on 12/02/2014 5:10:33 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nice shot of Mika, don't you think?


8 posted on 12/02/2014 5:12:19 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They should really not tempt people. Just saying.....


9 posted on 12/02/2014 5:14:04 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Scarborough also castigated the three congressmen who took to the floor of the House yesterday..."

A hasty 'misread' of the sentence fragment made me smile just a bit...

10 posted on 12/02/2014 5:15:07 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I missed the show this morning (or whenever) - because I ALWAYS miss the show... but: (they love colons)

THAT WAS AN AMAZING VIDEO!

Check out the look on the woman to the left --- totally amazing that someone would say the TRUTH! Just WOW!
SHE was so visibly uncomfortable by what the man was saying!! (I guess going off the reservation is just not comprehensible to her)

WOW!

11 posted on 12/02/2014 5:21:44 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Your post proves that you can’t go wrong on Wright street.


12 posted on 12/02/2014 5:22:39 AM PST by certrtwngnut (The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
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To: DJ Frisat

lol - you’ll have to wait for Joni Ernst to take her seat before that happens.


13 posted on 12/02/2014 5:23:09 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think it’s very nice of them to display to the y’utes of their constituency exactly how to comport one’s self when confronted with the business end of an officer’s service weapon.

Now, if we can just get the y’utes to watch C-SPAN...


14 posted on 12/02/2014 5:23:39 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: certrtwngnut

..hah...put the same thought out on Twitter and it’s getting some traffic....


15 posted on 12/02/2014 5:24:58 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Did Joe have a sex change operation and become a male?

Of course the answer is no, yesterday he supported the idea to remove anonymous commenting from the Internet in order to eliminate hate speech and death threats. Every comment would have to be tied to a real name. Hard to imagine a more idiotic or impossible idea.

Also, as always, he keeps doing the "Republicans are just as bad routine" - mentioning how the far right considered Zimmerman a hero.

And if I had a dollar for every time he mentions O'Donnell, Akin, or Angle...
16 posted on 12/02/2014 5:27:34 AM PST by warpsmith (Wake Me in 2016)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Yes, it was excellent. The woman refers to it as “the other side of the story”. Lol - there is no other side. There’s the lies that are being perpetrated, and then there’s the truth.


17 posted on 12/02/2014 5:29:13 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: warpsmith

Well yes, the question was hypothetical.

But as you can see, I’m not afraid of real names on internet forums. That rule wouldn’t bother me, though I wouldn’t necessarily advocate for it either. Lot of sites going to Facebook instead of Disqus or whatever for that reason. Sites doing it voluntarily is the way, and let the public choose.


18 posted on 12/02/2014 5:29:30 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

19 posted on 12/02/2014 5:32:02 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

We have a long time member here who has his name, address and phone number on his “about” page.


20 posted on 12/02/2014 5:34:33 AM PST by Graybeard58 (V.33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Corinthians 10:)
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