Posted on 04/30/2021 6:58:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott gave a competent Republican response to Joe Biden's mendacious speech to congress this week. Considering the failed history of the opposition responses, being competent is no easy accomplishment. And boy, the contrived, hyperbolic outrage and derision we saw from liberal talking heads was something to behold.
Some of it was just farcical. Take MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, who argued that Scott's speech, in which the senator dared praise the Trump administration for its work on vaccines, was "delivered from a planet where facts don't matter." It's almost perfunctory at this point to make such claims, whether there is evidence or not. Operation Warp Speed, Wallace argued, "didn't do anything to get a needle in the arms, so a lot of disinformation."
Well, the effort did help boost the lifesaving innovation that flows through those needles -- not to mention, it also led to a million doses being dispensed daily by the time Joe Biden got his own shot.
But Scott's most controversial statement, allegedly, was to contend that, "America is not a racist country." All the usual suspects took to social media to mock the senator for simultaneously contending that the nation wasn't racist and pointing out that he had personally experienced bigotry. Of course, America is a racist nation, they wailed, before getting "Uncle Tim" trending on Twitter to try and prove it. The left's demeaning of any African American who strays from leftist orthodoxy is one of the ugliest acceptable smears in our political discourse.
Scott's two claims are wholly compatible. Bad actors and ugly ideas exist among people of all nations, and always will, and yet that does not necessarily mean the nation itself is fundamentally, legally, culturally or systemically racist. We can always do better, but by the world's standards, the United States is likely the least racist place.
Indeed, Scott never alleged that racism was nonexistent in America. To do so would have been absurd. Scott, in fact, wrote a police-reform bill that Democrats such as Harris, Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin had shut down using the filibuster, which they now call a "relic of Jim Crow."
In any event, at CNN, political analyst Van Jones maintained that Scott's message "was nonsense" and that the senator had lost African Americans "by the tens of millions" by denying what everyone knew was true about the United States. This was the tone across left-wing media.
Yet, the very next morning, when asked by ABC News about Scott's comments, Vice President Kamala Harris said: "I don't think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today."
It's one thing to see flagrant double standards in politics, and another thing to hear two people say the same thing within 24 hours and be treated completely differently. Is Harris spinning "nonsense" as well? Is Harris losing "tens of millions" of black voters for saying the obvious? If not, why not? Or are liberals simply trying to smear Scott as a quisling because they're worried about his appeal? (That last question is rhetorical.)
The Commies are above anything else RACISTS. Always have been. It’s in their DNA. Anybody who is “surprised” about this is totally and completely clueless.
Scott did better than Nikki Haley and better than Bobby Jindal, but that’s a pretty low bar to clear.
The Left’s ideology defines black people as victims. That mean it can never see black people to be victors over their circumstances.
Throw in low expectations as evidenced by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
... and how could they be anything but bigoted?
As I’ve observed for some months now, after nearly a century angry white Democrats are again active in riots where black communities are damaged ... only this time they claim to be helping. That’s 100 years of “progress” for you!
the small(ish) cabal of Freepers Who Hate Everything hate Tim Scott (RINO uniparty election stealer!) more than they hate the people who hate Tim Scott, so they probably agree with Nicole Wallace and Van Jones.
weird, I know. but that’s what hating everything gets you.
And water boy rubio. Scott can be a leader in the coming years. He needs to shed his establishment beliefs and embrace Trump MAGA conservatism.
It’s not personal against Scott, his speech was fine. But that being said, it’s still typical GOP Weak Sauce.
Scott is a Bush League Republican, they can’t shed that, they must be replaced.
We will never Make America Great Again bu re-electing Assistant Democrats.
Nicky Wallace work for a network where facts don’t exist unless they decide they are facts. Words no longer have meanings.
But Tim Scott is wrong by saying the same thing. Go figure.
The Left is racist, America is not.
Dems helping since 1828(when they were founded).......See how many blacks they can kill while they help the black community.....
I would love it if the USA had a black president who shares our values. I would love it if the VP were a Hispanic female that shares our values. In fact, anybody who shares our values would be good.
I don’t care about the color, or the language his/her grandparents spoke.
Yep. we need all the Roy Moore’s we can find. that’s the only thing that will make the Freepers Against Everything happy.
And then proceed to give the demonicRAT roots of slavery, The KKK, racism, segregation, Jim Crow, etc., etc., etc.
Tim Scott is a Marquess of Queensberry Republican. He will never fight fire with fire in a Trumpian manner. And that’s why he will never be POTUS.
Scott is ok but that’s tepid
Tim Scott went to the secret weekend meeting back in March 2016.
HuffPost: GOP Leaders, Silicon Valley Hold Secret Weekend Meeting to Stop Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gop-leaders-silicon-valley-trump/2016/03/08/id/718127/
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