Here is a GOP Senator posing with, by far, America's most hate-filled, murder inciting racist.
Posted on 01/02/2015 8:41:37 AM PST by xzins
Scalise Apologizes For Event He Didn't Attend
The venality and outright lies about House Republican Whip Steve Scalise’s association with David Duke’s racist organization, EURO, keep getting more obvious as Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy struggle to contain the damage keeping Scalise on the House leadership team is doing to the Republican Party.
None of what Scalise has said to try to explain away his association with David Duke, and Duke’s principle Louisiana political operative Kenneth Knight, has passed the smell test, and the more Scalise tries to explain it away, the deeper the lies get.
Scalise said in an interview Monday with The Times-Picayune that he did not know at the time about EURO’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
How could he not know?
In a recent interview with The Washington Post’s Bob Costa, where you’d think Kenneth Knight would be on his best behavior and be careful with his words, this is what he had to say about his relationship with Steve Scalise, “Steve was someone who I exchanged ideas with on politics. We wouldn’t talk about race or the Jewish question.”
“The Jewish question” is exactly the language Adolf Hitler used in a chapter of his Nazi manifesto “Mein Kampf.”
In Chapter II, on page 66 of the American English translation of “Mein Kampf” (if you can stomach it) you will find the subhead “The Jewish Question.” And thus begins Hitler’s tirade against Jews and the Jewish faith.
How can you not know who you are dealing with when the language of Adolf Hitler and Nazism creeps so casually into your next door neighbors’ conversation?
What’s more, in an old interview from 1999 in Roll Call —three years before the 2002 David Duke conference that Scalise is now facing fire for— Scalise admitted he knew who David Duke was, and seemed to support some of his policies.
Scalise is quoted by Roll Call reporter John Mercurio, as saying that he was someone who “embraces many of the same ‘conservative’ views as Duke” but painted himself as “far more viable.”
Let’s make one thing clear – there’s nothing “conservative” about racism and anti-Semitism, they are immoral perversions, not concepts that have any place in political discourse, especially conservative political discourse.
First Scalise apologized for attending and speaking at the 2002 EURO event, then his supporters said he actually only attended some sort of pre-event, then they said the event he attended was some sort of civic association event and was not connected with the EURO event at all.
Is it conceivable the congressman apologized for attending a meeting he didn’t actually attend?
More importantly, is it conceivable that Scalise, who was invited by his next door neighbor Kenneth Knight, with whom he had a long personal and political association, that included Knight phone banking and donating $1,000 to his 2008 congressional campaign, didn’t know what Knight and David Duke are all about?
As we said in our article, “Steve Scalise Must Go As House Republican Whip” Scalise is either too dumb to be Republican Whip, or just plain lying about his association with David Duke's despicable racist organization.
As far as we are concerned the evidence is in; make your own judgement, but to us it looks like Scalise is lying. Just like the Germans who claimed they didn’t know about the Holocaust, Steve Scalise is lying about his association with Kenneth Knight and David Duke – Scalise’s continued tenure as House Republican Whip shames every Republican member of Congress and is a disgrace to the Republican Party that can only be atoned for by removing Steve Scalise as House Republican Whip.
For more on House Republican Whip Steve Scalise's relationship with David Duke and Kenneth Knight see Matt Boyle's article "Scalise Pitch 20 Years Ago: I'm 'David Duke Without The Baggage.'"
It is too convenient that this 'civic organization' meeting happened a few hours before the 'Duke' meeting. It's too convenient that Scalise's friend was running both. It's too convenient that they were at the same location. It's too convenient that the earlier event 'also' had those who would attend the 2nd event also in attendance.
The "Jewish Question" comment in this article I chilling. Especially so as we see Israel opposed by Obama with nary a word of consternation from Boehner's GOP establishment.
Truly, Boehner has to go.
Let’s make one thing clear – there’s nothing “conservative” about racism and anti-Semitism, they are immoral perversions, not concepts that have any place in political discourse, especially conservative political discourse.
I agree. But a given racist can otherwise hold conservative political opinions with which I agree.
BTW, I think this point doesn't get enough play. Racism and anti-semitism are inherently in conflict with the principles true American conservatism is trying to conserve.
That racists in America have often (usually) otherwise held conservative beliefs doesn't change that fact.
Right or wrong, an event that happened 12 years ago, by a first term state Senator trying to meet every single group in his district, gets asked to talk to a bunch of senior citizens, in the same tiny motel that other groups were using. He never gave it a thought, until some reporter says you were talking to a bunch of David Duke neo-nazis.
He probably could not legitimately remember a small event from 12 years ago and apologized because that happens to be the knee jerk reaction all Republicans give to this kind of attack.
Whether you like Scalise or not, if we allow the media to paint every single possible occurrence to nefarious motives, we will hamstring every single Conservative and Republican candidates.
My memory says that even the KKK was an arm of the democratic party, that the democrats favor socialist solutions, that Nazism is socialist, and that socialists ultimately have nothing in common with freedom loving people.
As we look throughout the history of race in America, those favoring the subjugation of others are invariably democrats.
And politicians who meet with the new Black Pahthers or the Louis Farrakhan?
Must they resign in disgrace?
Indiana Representative Andre Carson (D) took part in a major Islamic convention in Chicago last weekend. The convention was hosted and sponsored by the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America.
Carson was a featured guest on a panel discussing the events in Ferguson and beyond. He was joined on that panel by a man named Mazen Mokhtar, who is known for operating an Al Qaeda website and fundraising for the Taliban.
Here is a GOP Senator posing with, by far, America's most hate-filled, murder inciting racist.
I don’t care. There are numerous Congresscritters who wine and dine Islamic organizations whose philosophies are easily as ignorant and dangerous as those of the KKK. For that matter, there are plenty of racist organizations, black and Hispanic, that get plenty of play at the White House and in the halls of Congress. To attack a Congressman for an alleged acquaintance with David Duke, or the inconsequential organization the KKK has become, is petty.
At least with Byrd, we knew what he was, and we knew he hadn’t changed because of his associations with Islamists.
...or Sharpton
Whenever I see the scumbag Duke mentioned, I remember that in 1991, 60 % of the whites in Louisiana voted for him. Made me not want to go there for quite some time.
The most powerful KKK was that of the 20s. It was an entirely bipartisan operation.
In the South it was Democratic. Outside the South it was almost entirely Republican. The 20s KKK was strongest in the midwest, where it was Republican. Completely took over several states.
You did not catch the information: Knight, a Duke/KKK operative, and the organizer of the KKK event was a friend and neighbor of Scalise for a long time.
The so-called ‘civic event’ was ALSO organized by Knight. He scheduled both for the same day, at the same place, AND he invited members of the KKK event to the first, so-called ‘civic event’. It was all about building in plausible deniability.
Tell me that is accidental and that Scalise didn’t know what his close friend and neighbor stood for?
Now, we have John Boehner, the 2nd in line to the presidency, the Speaker of the House, an experienced politician with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal. This well-funded, well-resourced Boehner chooses as his Lieutenant a man who tried to concoct a plausible deniability scheme so he could get funding from some Duke supporters.
Boehner put Scalise in position anyway, despite all that.
Boehner needs to go.
Would you elevate them to chief Lieutenant if you were Speaker of the House?
Boehner must have felt the same. Why worry about elevating a guy who hangs out with the democrat machine known as the KKK?
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“But a given racist can otherwise hold conservative political opinions with which I agree.”
Yes, and remember, at that time Duke and his cronies were trying to infiltrate the Louisiana Republican party, so they were adopting stances (at least publicly) that were very close to standard Republican stances, and shying away from their crazier rhetoric.
I agree with your “Boehner needs to go” comment wholeheartedly.
However, I have read only that the KKK contingency wandered into the room early for coffee, not that they were invited.
Which version is right?
But Obama’s associations with Communists (Frank Marshall Davis), terrorists (Ayers) , Racists (Sharpton) are to be praised.
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