Posted on 01/03/2015 9:21:33 AM PST by xzins
After the Washington Post reported that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) spoke at a 2002 event hosted by a white nationalist group, RedState editor Erick Erickson knocked Scalise's supposed ignorance about the organization.
According to the Post's Robert Costa, Scalise appeared at an event for the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, but didn't know at the time that the organization was a hate group.
Erickson was not willing to give Scalise the benefit of the doubt.
"How do you not know? How do you not investigate?" Erickson wrote on Monday. "By 2002, everybody knew Duke was still the man he had claimed not to be. EVERYBODY."
"How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?" Erickson asked.
The conservative writer then suggested that Scalise lose the support of House Republican leaders over his decision to speak at the 2002 event.
This will kill any inroads congressionally against anything Obama has done. Every time change comes up, we’ll be discussing the racism/anti-Semitism/Nazism of Knight/Duke/Scalise/Boehner. Levin knows it, Erickson knows it, Sarah Palin knows it.
Some hard-headed conservatives are refusing to admit the obvious. Boehner and his lieutenant, Scalise, must be replaced.
It is now evident that GOP Whip Scalise is the friend of neo-Nazi Kenny Knight, and that Knight tried to provide a bit of cover for Scalise by scheduling him a couple of hours before the neo-Nazi event in a different room at the same location. They have admitted, however, that the neo-nazis attended Scalise’s event, too, and that at a minimum, Knight, contributed $1000 to Scalise. Knight was KNOWN AT THAT TIME to be an organizer for David Duke, former grand wizard of the KKK turned neo-Nazi.
There’s an article in Human Events that says this never happened.
http://humanevents.com/2014/12/31/media-um-that-big-steve-scalise-story-probably-didnt-happen/
Well, now that we know it never happened, I suppose we can move on.
Why is the MenSeekingMen pushing this Scalise thing when we need it to rally against Boehner? The last thing the Left wants is us to oust Boehner & Co.
“Every time change comes up, we’ll be discussing the racism/anti-Semitism/Nazism of Knight/Duke/Scalise/Boehner.”
And is that different from now? Everything from onservatives is about “racism/anti-Semitism” anyway. Give an inch and they will demand a mile.
Even though he doesn’t work at Fox Erick Erickson is a Fox News Republican. He can come up with some strange, and disappointing assessments at times.
It did happen. In the room next door with the neo-Nazis attending. Read post #2
It did happen. Read post #2
So is this a warning to House RATS not to vote for Boehner if we get 29 conservatives to vote for somebody else?
Visiting Nation of Islam, New Black Panthers, La Rasa, Trinity Lutheran, NOW, CBC, and every single racial superiority group is no problem for politicians.
It can definitely help prevent that, can’t it.
With Boehner supporting Scalise, it would look racist/anti-Semitic for any democrat to jump on board their band wagon.
And neo-Nazi....which coincidentally is little different than crony capitalism.
I am perplexed about these white supremacist groups. If one studies the stats, one is apt to discover that Asians exceed whites scholastically in all prominent universities. Also, the highest net worth ethnic group is not American born whites. So, I have to conclude these white supremacist groups suffer from inferiority complex. People suffering from that particular psychological malady try to “act” superior.
This does not surprise me. I remember once being threatened by an activist who said very matter-of-factly that he would lie to people I dealt with to destroy me if I didn’t knuckle under. I’m just an average schmo, I had just met this corner office wannabe, and it was so random and incredibly trivial. Potomac fever is all I can say. I danced a very enthusiastic happy dance when his guy lost :)
‘Trinity Lutheran’
No such church. Obama has never been affiliated with the Lutherans. Ditto Jeremiah Wright.
Yes, but ... it is clear that Scalise was dealing with neo-nazi Knight who was in with Duke.
So the damage control that ‘Scalise wasn’t there’ fails.
You know what, I bet if you look at both this and Cantor’s very weird election loss you will find some of the same fingerprints.
Cantor’s loss wasn’t all that weird. He spent millions giving Brat name rec Brat never could have afforded, and the district jumped at the opportunity to hand the gope-STAB of their own’s head back on a platter to them.
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