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To: SeekAndFind
He said that it was "insulting" that the family of Rick Perry owned a hunting camp with a racially charged name well into the 1980s and possibly even later.

The facts are, Perry's family never owned the property in question and when they found the rock with the offending language, they painted it over and eventually turned it over so it couldn't be read. And they did that back in the 1980s.

to call something like that "insulting" at this point in time is nothing more than race-baiting, particularly since it expressly ignores the fact that they did what they could to get rid of the offending word. It's not the same calibre of race-baiting as that engaged in by Sharpton, and it's possible that Mr. Cain was intentionally fed partial facts in order to goad him into making a statement like this - which is why he needs to learn to think first, speak second, more often - but it is still, as it stands, race-baiting.


62 posted on 10/02/2011 8:18:09 PM PDT by Oceander (abo 2012 - anyone but obama in 2012)
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To: Oceander

No, what he said was that the name of the place was “insensitive”. That’s it... And everyone who keeps pretending he was the one who even brought it up - instead of as a response to a race-baiting question by Christine Amanpour - are frankly acting like imbeciles.


101 posted on 10/02/2011 8:53:44 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Oceander
Listen to the interview with Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour says to Cain, "On the front page of the Washington Post today, there is a story about Rick Perry, and a hunting lodge that belonged to his family, bought in the 1980s."

Where is the anger toward Amanpour for misrepresenting the story?

130 posted on 10/02/2011 9:14:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("This Is Hermain Cain!" has moved up to #44 in Amazon books. Release date: Oct 4)
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