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NAACP Blasts Santorum After He Denies 'Black People' Remark
The Root ^ | 01/05/2012 | Claudio E. Cabrera

Posted on 01/05/2012 2:57:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is now denying ever making remarks about "black people's lives" after receiving criticism for the comments.

The former Pennsylvania senator, who finished just eight votes short of an Iowa caucus victory, took heat this past Monday after saying, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."

The remarks brought criticism from NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, who called them "outrageous."

"He conflates welfare recipients with African Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level," Jealous told CNN.

Santorum appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last night and said the remarks were the result of "a little bit of a blurred word."

"I looked at that, and I didn't say that," Santorum told O'Reilly. "If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of -- blah -- came out. And people said I said 'black.' I didn't."

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To: bigbob
The new and improved White racist according to the goalposts
watched over by NAALCP leaders.



61 posted on 01/05/2012 4:21:27 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Responsibility2nd
I ran it over and over and it sounds like “I don't want to make ALOT of peoples’ lives better.”
62 posted on 01/05/2012 4:21:40 PM PST by Happy Rain ("The GOP establishment BELIEVE conservatives can't win--Liberals KNOW conservatives win.")
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To: Happy Rain
There's no "black" in the comment at all. Isn't even a word there.

What you are discovering is your brain supplementing the signal in a vain attempt to give it meaning.

It's a guess.

You must learn to overcome that.

63 posted on 01/05/2012 4:56:36 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Reminds me of the old Art Bell radio show.

He had a regular guest who would record people then play the recordings back in reverse resulting in some eerie situations.

There was one instance where the fellow's infant son came into the living room baby-talking while a shed outside soon caught fire.
The guy played the baby talk backwards after he told us that played backwards the child was saying, “the shed is on fire!”
Sure enough,that is what it “sounded like” the kid said. Of course if he didn't tell me what it sounded like I may never have figured it out.

64 posted on 01/05/2012 5:23:30 PM PST by Happy Rain ("The GOP establishment BELIEVE conservatives can't win--Liberals KNOW conservatives win.")
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65 posted on 01/05/2012 6:33:43 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (I prefer Crony Capitalism to Crony Judicialism...unless it's MY crony on the bench)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“We all know that welfare dependency is a crutch used by liberals to keep black people enslaved to a liberal lower class subpar existence.”

Well, now you’ve gone and done it. You’ll NEVER get elected president now! LOL!


66 posted on 01/05/2012 6:34:02 PM PST by Catholic Iowan
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