Posted on 01/02/2015 8:41:37 AM PST by xzins
Scalise Apologizes For Event He Didn't Attend
The venality and outright lies about House Republican Whip Steve Scalise’s association with David Duke’s racist organization, EURO, keep getting more obvious as Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy struggle to contain the damage keeping Scalise on the House leadership team is doing to the Republican Party.
None of what Scalise has said to try to explain away his association with David Duke, and Duke’s principle Louisiana political operative Kenneth Knight, has passed the smell test, and the more Scalise tries to explain it away, the deeper the lies get.
Scalise said in an interview Monday with The Times-Picayune that he did not know at the time about EURO’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
How could he not know?
In a recent interview with The Washington Post’s Bob Costa, where you’d think Kenneth Knight would be on his best behavior and be careful with his words, this is what he had to say about his relationship with Steve Scalise, “Steve was someone who I exchanged ideas with on politics. We wouldn’t talk about race or the Jewish question.”
“The Jewish question” is exactly the language Adolf Hitler used in a chapter of his Nazi manifesto “Mein Kampf.”
In Chapter II, on page 66 of the American English translation of “Mein Kampf” (if you can stomach it) you will find the subhead “The Jewish Question.” And thus begins Hitler’s tirade against Jews and the Jewish faith.
How can you not know who you are dealing with when the language of Adolf Hitler and Nazism creeps so casually into your next door neighbors’ conversation?
What’s more, in an old interview from 1999 in Roll Call —three years before the 2002 David Duke conference that Scalise is now facing fire for— Scalise admitted he knew who David Duke was, and seemed to support some of his policies.
Scalise is quoted by Roll Call reporter John Mercurio, as saying that he was someone who “embraces many of the same ‘conservative’ views as Duke” but painted himself as “far more viable.”
Let’s make one thing clear – there’s nothing “conservative” about racism and anti-Semitism, they are immoral perversions, not concepts that have any place in political discourse, especially conservative political discourse.
First Scalise apologized for attending and speaking at the 2002 EURO event, then his supporters said he actually only attended some sort of pre-event, then they said the event he attended was some sort of civic association event and was not connected with the EURO event at all.
Is it conceivable the congressman apologized for attending a meeting he didn’t actually attend?
More importantly, is it conceivable that Scalise, who was invited by his next door neighbor Kenneth Knight, with whom he had a long personal and political association, that included Knight phone banking and donating $1,000 to his 2008 congressional campaign, didn’t know what Knight and David Duke are all about?
As we said in our article, “Steve Scalise Must Go As House Republican Whip” Scalise is either too dumb to be Republican Whip, or just plain lying about his association with David Duke's despicable racist organization.
As far as we are concerned the evidence is in; make your own judgement, but to us it looks like Scalise is lying. Just like the Germans who claimed they didn’t know about the Holocaust, Steve Scalise is lying about his association with Kenneth Knight and David Duke – Scalise’s continued tenure as House Republican Whip shames every Republican member of Congress and is a disgrace to the Republican Party that can only be atoned for by removing Steve Scalise as House Republican Whip.
For more on House Republican Whip Steve Scalise's relationship with David Duke and Kenneth Knight see Matt Boyle's article "Scalise Pitch 20 Years Ago: I'm 'David Duke Without The Baggage.'"
Why would boehner have a complaint about a Democrat Machine. He is arguably a cog in the big Democrat Machine.
I have heard Duke speak on several occasions, perhaps C-Span, and you are right. Even a libtard reading the transcript, without knowing who was speaking would have found nothing more objectionable than the usual D-R policy differences. He disguised his racism well.
“in 1991, 60 % of the whites in Louisiana voted for him. Made me not want to go there for quite some time.”
When I see the people white New Yorkers vote for in every election, it makes me not want to go there for quite some time.
The true version is that the same man organized both events.
Do you think the word was not passed when it was the same guy?
Nope, Scalise was Boehner’s pick and shows Boehner is not wise in his choice of leaders, and it makes him vulnerable all through his tenure as Speaker.
Slate did not find that out.
The truth is that the same man set up both events...at different times, but in the exact same location and that members of the kkk group attended the first event.
My impression was that all we have is Scalise attending a troublesome event, knowing it was troublesome, and constructing plausible deniability ahead of time.
Dear Mr. Scalise,
Change your R to D join the KKK as a grand dragon and you’ll become a very powerful democrat leader.
Opie
I believe you have it right.
Scalise has to go. Boehner has to go.
Independently of this, Boehner needs to go, and Scalise for supporting Boehner. With this as icing on the cake, they both need to go times ten.
I’m truly surprised at the Freepers who are not seeing that it’s the same guy who organized both events, only hours apart, at the same location, and with kkk at the later meeting in attendance at the first meeting.
And...the organizer was Scalise’s good friend, regular companion, and neighbor.
I simply do not buy that Scalise was unaware.
This is an opportunity to demonstrate how terrible Boehner will be able to perform over the next 2 years, and conservatives should make clear he has shot himself and been rendered ineffective. (If ever he had been rendered effective.)
So what is it that Duke and this ERUO group is advocating for?
European-American Unity and Rights Organization at a hotel in Metairie, Louisiana. EURO is a racist and anti-Semitic hate group founded by the notorious neo-Nazi David Duke.
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Duke is a former grand wizard of the KKK.
Obviously by this point in history, that phrase ought to have set off some alarm bells, but it was quite common some decades back and Hitler wasn't the only person to use the phrase, nor was it restricted to anti-Semites.
Despite repudiation by the Republican Party,[65] Duke ran for governor of Louisiana in 1991. In the primary, Duke finished second to former governor Edwin W. Edwards in votes; thus, he faced Edwards in a runoff. In the initial round, Duke received 32 percent of the vote. Incumbent Governor Buddy Roemer, who had switched from the Democratic to Republican parties during his term, came in third with 27 percent of the vote. Duke effectively killed Roemer's bid for re-election. While Duke had a sizable core constituency of devoted supporters, many voted for him as a "protest vote" to register dissatisfaction with Louisiana's establishment politicians. During the campaign, Duke said he was the spokesman for the "white majority"[66] and, according to the New York Times, "equated the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany with affirmative action programs in the United States."[67]
Too complicated. More likely a time- and money-saving event for his neighbor and some of the attendees. I think we're making way too much of this. We have actual communists in political office (deBlasio, a large number of Democrats and the entire Congressional Black Caucus), and we're worried about a peripheral association Scalise had with his neighbor's hobbyhorse? While we may not want to adopt the conservative equivalent of the left's "no enemies to the left (of us)", engaging in a witch hunt over something like this is excessive.
I’m truly surprised at how desperate some people are to smear Steve Scalise and John Boehner.
It is not smearing to say that he was at a pre-event to a kkk get-together organized by his own friend and neighbor.
If that is a fact, then stating that fact is no more than mentioning that the sun comes up in the morning.
they are all socialist
Liberals lie about everything, then insist their lies are true just because they keep repeating them.
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