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Blumenthal Claims He Was Unaware Event He Attended Had Communist Party Ties
townhall.com ^ | 12/17/2021 2245 hrs et | Landon Mion

Posted on 12/18/2021 8:05:04 AM PST by rktman

Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Friday that, had he known that the awards ceremony in which he gave remarks last weekend was linked to the Communist Party, he would not have attended.

He made an appearance at the Connecticut People's World Committee Amistad Awards on Saturday to give three people special recognition certificates from the U.S. Senate. The CPWC is an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist People’s World news site.

"My understanding was that this ceremony was strictly a labor event," Blumenthal told the Hartford Courant. "If I had known the details, I wouldn’t have gone. … Let me just say very emphatically, I’m a Democrat and a strong believer in American capitalism. I have been consistently a Democrat and a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: blumenthal; communist; connecticut; cpusa; cpwc; dumbassery; landonmion; lyingliars; richardblumenthal
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To: rktman
Who could have known that the successor to the Daily Worker was a commie rag? Who could have imagined that people advocating state ownership of the means of production were Communist? That the bearded dude on all the signs was Karl Marx? I'll bet he was shocked to learn all that...sure he was...
61 posted on 12/18/2021 11:25:47 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: blueunicorn6

I would be willing to wager that the actual death toll of leftism as a whole from the French Revolution onward, factoring in all the abortions, is close to a billion people.

Considering that, never accept lectures on morality from a leftist.


62 posted on 12/18/2021 1:42:39 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: rktman

Anything left leaning these days is communist by nature.

Where has this putz been for the last 30-50 years?


63 posted on 12/18/2021 1:49:04 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a mental illness wrapped in a perverse ideology resulting in insanity. FJB)
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To: Boomer

Viet Nam?


64 posted on 12/18/2021 1:55:18 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

McCarthy and the Birchers proven right yet once again.


65 posted on 12/18/2021 4:38:57 PM PST by MachIV
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I was just thinking about the recent article from the wsws on the 1619 project and the lies therein.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/25/stei-n25.html
Long but boy does it tear the 1610 Project new one.
BLM won’t like it for sure


66 posted on 12/18/2021 6:52:57 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: rktman

So he’s an ignorant communist?


67 posted on 12/18/2021 7:31:43 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.How does that make me racist?)
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To: Berosus

Gus Hall is the last one I remember. When the RCP came out, the kids of that time (a bit younger than I was) reviled Gus as a tool and a stooge. Kinda funny, really, considering supporters of any commie BS are stooges and tools.


68 posted on 12/18/2021 10:12:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
...to apologize and distance himself from that event says something positive about the strength of the anti-leftist movement in this country.

You're right. Good catch.

69 posted on 12/19/2021 12:36:45 AM PST by GOPJ (Soon as white liberal elites had THEIR STORES looted - they called for crime control...)
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To: rktman
Blumenthal ("I didn't know") is a liar.

The following is from the People's World "About Us" webpage:

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People’s World traces its lineage to the Daily Worker newspaper, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists in Chicago in 1924. On the front page of its first edition, the paper declared that “big business interests, bankers, merchant princes, landlords, and other profiteers” should fear the Daily Worker. It pledged to “raise the standards of struggle against the few who rob and plunder the many.”
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People’s World continues to feature Marxist analysis and opinion developed by the Communist Party as well as voices from other currents of the labor and people’s movements.
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Link to website (if you dare):
https://peoplesworld.org/about-the-peoples-world

70 posted on 12/19/2021 4:19:14 AM PST by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes, Gus Hall was their last candidate.


71 posted on 12/19/2021 11:45:05 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: rktman

The word “people’s” almost invariably means commies.


72 posted on 12/19/2021 9:37:22 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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