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Charlie Rangel: I Only Cared About Dead Soldiers When They 'Looked Like Me'
Truth Revolt.org ^ | January 5, 2015 | Jeff Dunetz

Posted on 01/06/2015 11:17:05 AM PST by upbeat5

Congressman Charlie Rangel who is quick to slander the tea party with charges of racism, was a guest on Monday's "The Ed Show" on MSNBC, where he made a statement that appeared to be startingly racist: "I was in combat, and I’m telling you, I saw more dead people, but I never was moved until I saw dead people that looked like me in my uniform."

Rangel was on the show to discuss the police who turned their backs on Mayor De Blasio during Sunday’s funeral for slain New York Police Department officer Wenjian Liu. When asked to comment, Rangel gave a rambling answer calling the cops haters, talked about the war dead he saw, and finished by complaining about what he called the "blue wall of silence."

Schultz: Isn’t it important though to point out that not all the police officers turned their back? There's a few in the ranks that are saying you know, by respecting these officers, okay, we've got to move on, but there are some who say they don't want to move on. Your thoughts, Charlie.

Rangel: It's awkward, because no one wants to be in the position that you're not with your colleagues, right or wrong, but when the moral issue raises it beyond just being liked, and you have so much love and respect for the job, that you have assumed that you're not going to allow a handful of people who are blinded by hate to spoil the reputation. There’s a hell of a lot that’s has to do--I was in combat, and I’m telling you, I saw more dead people, but I never was moved until I saw dead people that looked like me in my uniform. And it does make a difference. So, yes, the blue wall of silence that has kept communities and minority communities apart for so long, so that even minority policemen don't want to break that silence. But it has to be done.

Rangel is quick to call others racist even when they aren't but it doesn't stop him from spewing racial divisiveness.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charlie; charlierangel; dead; liberalagenda; military; race; racebaiter; racehustler; racism; racist; rangel; rascism; soldiers; soliers; stolenvalor; yesterdayonfr
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To: upbeat5

I hate to waste my breath defending Rangel but there’s a much simpler explanation for what he’s saying: it’s understandable that cops are more moved when the see their fellow officers in the same uniform murdered, just as he was more moved in war when he saw his fellow soldiers in the same uniform dead.

This is the kind of article leftists write when a conservative says something that can be misconstrued as racist.


21 posted on 01/06/2015 11:32:57 AM PST by edwinland
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To: upbeat5

Unfortunately, I believe him. I believe his heart is that small, and always has been.


22 posted on 01/06/2015 11:36:15 AM PST by lee martell
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To: edwinland

You’re being gracious.

But when Rangel says “looks like ME” he is speaking code for “black”.

A white person saying such a thing would be rightly labeled a racist.

But Rangel gets a pass.

That being said, to me, this was one of the most disgusting things he or any other politician has ever said.

As far as I know, all of the soldiers and Marines he may have seen dead in the Korean War bled the same color blood—red.


23 posted on 01/06/2015 11:36:54 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: upbeat5

the statement epitomizes racism in the black community.

for many it’s too late to integrate them back into the country. they just have been so brainwashed and conditioned the best’place for them is mother africa. and never let’them come back.


24 posted on 01/06/2015 11:37:06 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: upbeat5

Pompous ass.


25 posted on 01/06/2015 11:40:30 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: PGR88

“Is there a coherent thought anywhere in his statement?”

No.


26 posted on 01/06/2015 11:44:04 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: upbeat5

His worth and words to me totals=
ZERO.


27 posted on 01/06/2015 11:58:00 AM PST by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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To: upbeat5



28 posted on 01/06/2015 12:06:56 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: upbeat5

Rangel is the prototypical black “Gimme mines!,” “I’m entitled because someone was once a slave” loser. Blacks are the most bigoted single race in America, and they are proud of their profound bigotry. They do not know shame.


29 posted on 01/06/2015 12:11:43 PM PST by Gargantua ("...Fee tine a mady..." ;^)
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To: upbeat5

Too bad it wasn’t you.


30 posted on 01/06/2015 12:12:24 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: upbeat5

Rangel is such a F-wad .....


31 posted on 01/06/2015 12:12:57 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: upbeat5

An admitted racist.


32 posted on 01/06/2015 12:13:42 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: upbeat5

Kinda wishing it had been one of those soldiers saying that about him.


33 posted on 01/06/2015 12:13:58 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

this man is the perfect example of what years of career in politics can do to an otherwise exceptional person .

ie: the Battle of Kunu-Ri


34 posted on 01/06/2015 12:21:28 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: upbeat5

I doubt those soldiers were wrinkled old men ....


35 posted on 01/06/2015 12:25:03 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: upbeat5

Charlie was in the Air Force in Korea, and not as a fighter pilot. Doubtful he ever saw combat. Maybe he’s referring to the sniper fire he had to dodge last time he landed in...Jamaica.


36 posted on 01/06/2015 12:43:02 PM PST by DPMD
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To: Gargantua

Just about every black urban democrat member of Congress is a “gibsmedat.” Andre Carson, the moslem who represents urban Indianapolis, openly campaigns on that platform.


37 posted on 01/06/2015 12:55:10 PM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: upbeat5

Our dead soldiers always looked more honorable and respectable than he has ever looked alive.


39 posted on 01/06/2015 1:14:51 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Post5203

Because they can get away with it.
When they can’t get away with it, they won’t do it.


40 posted on 01/06/2015 1:16:30 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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