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USA Today Twists Itself Into a Pretzel Trying to Deny Democratic Party Roots in Civil War and the KKK
townhall.com ^ | 7/7/2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 07/08/2020 8:05:26 AM PDT by rktman

Well, if you ever want to see linguistic gymnastics, just take a look at this USA Today’s fact check of the claim that the Democrats didn’t create the Ku Klux Klan or start the American Civil War. Are they really just low on material over there? Because this wasn’t even said by a major politician. It was an Instagram user. Yeah, so for USA Today to pull out the fact check guns on this is a tell-tale sign that the Left is fully aware of their racist past. And given how left-wing mob violence has grown and ‘woke’ crybabies taking scalps at major publications, best to just show you’re part of the team and strike back whenever you can, no matter how ridiculous:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assclowns; dnctalkingpoints; revisionisthistory; stalinisttactics; usaptooey; yellowjournalism
Well heck yeah. If you want to see the 'real' clan folks, just look for the 'maga' hat wearin' rednecks at a Trump rally. Then again, usaTwoday. Jess sayin'......
1 posted on 07/08/2020 8:05:26 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

More Lame Street Media GARBAGE!


2 posted on 07/08/2020 8:08:59 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: rktman
USA Today twisted themselves into a essentially a verbal Gordian knot. Ouch.
3 posted on 07/08/2020 8:10:29 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: rktman

The Democratic Party wants to Hide their Heroes


4 posted on 07/08/2020 8:11:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

No statues of Klan Kleagle Robert Byrd have been torn down yet.

No blackfaced klansman Virginia governor currently in office has been deposed yet.


5 posted on 07/08/2020 8:15:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: rktman

“the Left is fully aware of their racist past.”

Their racist present is also alive and well. Nothing has really changed about the violent, race-obsessed Democrats, in spite of their multi-culti masks.


6 posted on 07/08/2020 8:21:11 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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The current left the younger Democratic voters are completely ignorant of everything I mean utterly completely and totally ignorant all they know is that America is racist and to hate America


7 posted on 07/08/2020 8:41:35 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: rktman

Nice opening paragraph.


8 posted on 07/08/2020 8:43:37 AM PDT by Eddie01
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bkmk


9 posted on 07/08/2020 8:50:01 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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Southern states, primarily led by Democrats, initiated secession proceedings and launched the Civil War. But historians say the party is not to blame.

Not so much “fact check” as “smoke screen”... at least for Dems.


10 posted on 07/08/2020 8:57:06 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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Trump needs to say, “I agree that the statues of the democrat soldiers that fought for slavery during the civil war should be removed”.


11 posted on 07/08/2020 9:00:50 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: sauropod

This monument must be destroyed and then the grave pissed on


12 posted on 07/08/2020 9:02:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: rktman

USA Today is on a downhill slide. Every Hotel in the US had 10 - 20 copies of the Leftist Rag in their lobbies. Lat year, I noticed that the piles were untouched. This year with the Covid panic, most Hotels have cancelled USA Today. They will be reduced to giving away copies for free in Airports just to keep up circulation numbers.


13 posted on 07/08/2020 9:16:28 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Truthoverpower

Still astounded that they tore down US Grant’s statue. Bet only 1 in a thousand know that it was Grant who stopped the practice of patrolling soldiers because the South refused to accept blacks captured soldiers and either killer or enslaved them.


14 posted on 07/08/2020 9:24:59 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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Oh, ya, well, the culprits may have been democrats, but, "the DNC" didn't do it....

Cuz, the left would never tar an entire organization for the behavior of a single member.....

15 posted on 07/08/2020 9:30:19 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: rktman

bkmk


16 posted on 07/08/2020 9:37:06 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: bert

Having an American flag flying anywhere near KKKByrd’s grave is disgusting.


17 posted on 07/08/2020 10:02:34 AM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: Sergio

Not to mention the Jim Crow laws.


18 posted on 07/08/2020 10:59:09 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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I saw a post a couple of years ago that basically eviscerated the whole "the parties switched on the race issue" lie that has been spread by the media for years. Wish I had bookmarked it.
19 posted on 07/08/2020 2:46:28 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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