Posted on 08/29/2016 6:12:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
MSNBC host Alex Witt wanted to play a clip of Hillary Clinton accusing Donald Trump of being a racist, but instead aired a Kentucky Fried Chicken ad.
Witt was talking to Cornell Williams Brooks of the NAACP on Saturday when he teed up a portion of Clintons speech.
As you know, Hillary Clinton says that Trumps campaign is appealing to a fringe in the Republican Party that is racist. I want to listen to part of her speech with you and get your reaction. So here it is, Witt said.
Inexplicably, the KFC ad aired with the MSNBC graphics still on the screen.
#KFC commercial shown during interview with #NAACP head on MSNBCs Alex Witt Show. @lizzzbrown @rolandsmartin pic.twitter.com/fvVckzgtiN
Black Independent (@HoumanTX100) August 27, 2016
I am the extra crispy colonel, Colonel Sanders actor George Hamilton said in the ad.
Absolutely not what we were going to play, Witt said as they moved on...............
CNN you are racist assuming all felons are black.
Hang your head in shame you racist, disgusting, scum.
LMAO
Looks pretty good for his age......does a good ad job.
Cant imagine that the ad agency decided on him for the ads.
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!
Ha Ha!
Saw it on Drudge. aDruge also had link to comment by Dave Chappel that Black Lives Matter is the worse slogan he ever hear, but the story is gone or the lnk is bad. anyone have the link?
I know—he’s seems like such an unlikely choice.
Love the perpetual tan.
Yeah, there does seem to be a healthy dollop of irony in that tweet, along with a side-order of WTF?
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KKK Byrd
The Democrats made him leader of the Senate!
They referred to him as the 'conscience of the Senate'
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]
Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan.
According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4]
He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:
"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"
He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:
"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."
"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
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"They [his fellow democrats] refer to the Senate's senior Democrat [Robert Byrd] as the 'conscience of the Senate.' ..."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin030801.asp
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"Rather I [Robert C. Byrd] should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"
He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
Harry Crane would NEVER allow this to happen!
Clinton says in the video that Senator Byrd was her mentor and that he was the heart and soul of the Senate .
https://grandmageri422.me/2016/04/26/hillary-clinton-and-the-kkk-this-may-be-her-undoing/
If you’re going to pander with fried chicken, at least make it Popeyes, or offer a bottle of Olde English 800.
In the Cary Grant mold.
Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.
The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.
The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383
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And yet they are beating CNN in the ratings now
Lol!
Actually, I thought he was the perfect choice for the “Extra Crispy” chicken.
Hamilton has had a reputation as an over-tanned spectacle all these past 3-4 decades or so.
Didn’t he even win some Hollywood tanning contest years ago, too?
I mean, he’s a meme about an overly tanned person.
My take on this:
Some engineer in the MSNBC booth supports Trump.
And is looking for a job this morning.
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